Chapter 1 The Torn Fishing Net
Xiahe Village, 1980.
The sky was overcast, and the morning star hung on the horizon in the east. The village was quiet. Suddenly, a dim candlelight shone from a house at the far end of the village, and then, with a creak, the front door of the house opened a crack.
At the entrance of the She family's house, She Ning carried a bamboo basket filled with corn seeds on her back, held a hoe in one hand, and turned back to give instructions to little She Ni, who had come up with her.
"Nini, stay home and behave. Your sister has cooked breakfast and put it in the pot. Eat first if you're hungry. Remember to watch over Mom and don't let her get out of bed or go out."
Clutching her little Abebe pillow, the little girl stood obediently by the door, her face slightly yellow. She nodded earnestly. She Ning closed the wooden door and headed towards the fields in the moonlight.
She Ning is not the She Ning of this era.
She transmigrated here two days ago. When she arrived, this body was running a high fever. If it weren't for the mother and seven-year-old sister of this body taking turns to take care of her day and night, she probably would have died from the fever like the original 13-year-old girl.
Thinking about the cause of this high fever, even two days later, She Ning was still very angry, feeling sorry for the original owner's sensible little girl.
The She family now consists only of women across three generations. Ironically, Old Man She was a soldier who fought against the Japanese and amassed an enviable fortune. Because his original father, a scoundrel, abandoned his wife and daughter, Old Man She felt guilty for misjudging people and ruining his daughter's life. In a fit of anger, he passed away. To make matters worse, Old Mrs. She also suffered a stroke from the shock.
Now, the only one truly in charge of the She family is the original owner's mother.
The She family is now plagued by old age, young age, and illness; wouldn't they immediately attract unwanted attention?
Aunt She, a member of the same clan, repeatedly visited the original owner's mother, who was only in her early thirties, to persuade her to adopt her 18-year-old son. She said that she had to give up her beloved son, and that the She family would be bullied if they had no men, and that no one would be there to burn the fire pit if the man died.
Three days ago, this same Aunt She grabbed the original owner of the body while she was washing clothes by the river and started pestering her. Seeing that the original owner was not going to listen to reason, she started saying increasingly harsh things, such as that she would not have any family to support her when she got married, and that her mother would have to remarry and that she could not be relied on.
The original owner of this body, a girl who was not good with words, got angry and started arguing with the other party. The second aunt's youngest son pushed the original owner into the river. The original owner was already premature and weak, and now she was even more shocked and angry, and burned to death!
So, when she opened her eyes again, She Ning had returned to her original form.
She Ning didn't know where the original owner had gone, but the original owner looked exactly like her when she was a child, even the location of the small red mole behind her ear was the same. If it weren't for the fact that they lived in different eras, she would have thought that the original owner was herself.
She Ning was picked up from the roadside and raised by her childless grandparents. She grew up in the countryside. After graduating from university, she worked as a programmer in a big company. After earning money for a few years, she brought her grandparents out of the village. After her grandparents passed away one after another two years ago, She Ning also resigned and became a food blogger.
Just moments before transmigrating into the book, She Ning was thinking about making crab roe oil for her next video. When she opened her eyes again, she had become this 13-year-old girl, She Ning. At the same time, she had gained something called the Blind Box System.
"Dear host, hello. The blind box system, Little A, will show you the system manual."
A white halo flickered and danced around her. In mid-air, visible only to her, a parchment scroll slowly unfurled, black characters leaping across the paper before transforming into a beam of light imprinted in her mind.
She understood the words on the parchment scrolls that she couldn't read without any instruction.
"The blind box system emphasizes freedom and democracy, and will not interfere with the process. Players are free to do as they please. Little A will now step aside. Please explore the rest of the journey at your own pace. Have fun." The flashing little circles gradually disappeared, and the lively voice gradually turned into a stiff, mechanical voice.
Regarding the rules of the blind box system that comes with you, She Ning roughly summarizes them as follows:
1. The system is a welfare system; there is no penalty for not completing it. The system will automatically unbind her after she dies in this world.
2. Blind boxes contain all sorts of items, such as food, daily necessities, weapons, medicine, etc. The items are divided into different levels, such as common, medium, and high-level. What you get depends entirely on luck.
Note: Blind box tier colors: Common (green), Intermediate (yellow), Premium (orange), Rare (red), Legendary (gold), Epic (rainbow).
3. Tasks are divided into daily tasks and time-limited tasks.
Daily tasks: These tasks are randomly assigned daily and have no time limit. Completing them will grant you a chance to open a blind box.
Limited-time missions: Touch to activate, missions are time-limited, and completing them will grant you double the chance to open blind boxes, limited-time draws of rare blind boxes, and more.
4. You can earn points by opening a blind box each time. The points increase with the level of the blind box.
Note: Common level: 10 points; Intermediate level: 20 points; Advanced level: 50 points; Rare level: 100 points; Legendary level: 500 points; Epic level: 10,000 points.
Points can be used to upgrade your character's level or redeem blind boxes. (Items obtained from these boxes can be recycled for points, but the points will be discounted by 30%.)
5. System items can be taken out or stored in the system storage slots, and can be stored repeatedly.
Meanwhile, through the blind box system, She Ning learned that she had transmigrated into a period novel called "Getting Rich in the 1990s".
The original owner's family was just a stepping stone for others.
Liu Jianguo, the scumbag father, was among the first batch of educated youth sent to the countryside. Later, due to his status, he set his sights on the She family, whose members were of impeccable revolutionary lineage and three generations of poor peasants. For some reason, only She Hongmei and her elderly parents remained in the She family. In order to save his life, Liu Jianguo married into the She family. Although the She family elders were not very satisfied with him, they still agreed for this reason.
After the college entrance examination was reinstated in 1977, the scumbag father abandoned his wife and children, changed his identity and returned to the city. Through an introduction, he married the daughter of the factory manager of a clothing factory. The female lead is their daughter.
The book mainly tells the story of how the female protagonist's family is loving and happy, and how she meets the male protagonist. The two of them work hard together to accumulate capital in the mid-1990s and gradually become the richest people in the country.
In the original novel, the original protagonist's family didn't even have a single background character. They only appeared briefly in the memories of her dying, scumbag father, followed by the elderly female protagonist sighing and realizing that she had two half-sisters who died young.
Yes, she died young. In the original course of events, Xiao She Ning could not survive this ordeal and lost her relatives one after another. She's mother could not bear the blow and her body, which had been holding on for so long, collapsed. She was bedridden for a long time. Seven-year-old Xiao She Ni supported the family with her small body. However, on a day of heavy rain, the dilapidated house suddenly collapsed, and they were unable to escape.
After reading the ending, She Ning felt a strange pang in her heart. She took a few deep breaths to suppress those strange emotions. Although she didn't know why she had transmigrated here or where the original owner of the body had gone, now that she was here, she would definitely not let the ending in the book happen.
These past few days, because of She Ning's illness, She Hongmei has been busy taking care of both her and her sister, as well as working in the fields and doing housework. Perhaps due to overwork, she fell ill immediately after She Ning's fever subsided and she woke up the day before yesterday. Even when she was ill, she was still thinking about spring planting.
Having lived in the countryside with her grandparents since childhood, She Ning knew that spring planting couldn't be delayed.
Especially for plants like corn that are sensitive to time, insufficient time can easily lead to poor development. Moreover, the chances of corn getting diseases and pests increase significantly when hot and rainy weather arrives.
As soon as her fever subsided, She Ning immediately put the corn planting project on her schedule.
"Task triggered: Complete corn planting." The mechanical voice suddenly rang in her ears, startling She Ning, who was walking on the edge of the field, so much so that she almost fell into the ground.
"Have you finished planting the corn?" She Ning shook the bamboo basket on her back; it was more than half full of corn seeds.
What a coincidence? This task must be a deliberate act of kindness towards her.
It truly lives up to its reputation as a welfare system.
This job might be difficult for the original owner, who had small arms and legs and had little experience working in the fields, but it was no problem for She Ning, who had been doing farm work for more than ten years.
She's mother was always strong-willed and, unlike others who favored sons over daughters, always gave her two daughters the greatest love she could afford.
She had never allowed Xiao Shening to do any farm work, especially after the implementation of the household contract responsibility system in 1978. At most, she would stay at home to take care of her younger sister and do some housework.
These days, although she is busy at home and in the fields, She's mother has already deep-plowed, loosened the soil, dug ridges and prepared drainage ditches. Now, She Ning only needs to dig holes and plant corn.
She Ning carried the pre-treated corn seeds, bundled and packed in burlap sacks, in a bamboo basket and steadily headed towards the field.
Their home is at the far end of the village, which is quite remote, and the farmland they were allocated is also in a remote location, but it's not far from where they live, only a ten-minute walk away.
Upon arriving at the field, She Ning untied the bamboo basket, deftly picked up a hoe, and dug a hole. Then, skillfully, she placed corn seeds into the already dug hole while covering the hole with soil with her feet.
Summer always arrives earlier in Jiang City than elsewhere. Just after Qingming Festival, the weather was already unbearably hot. The weather was still cool in the morning, but as soon as the sun came out, the temperature rose rapidly. She Ning walked and stopped frequently, her face under her straw hat flushed red, and sweat kept sliding down her forehead.
Her family uses a small-row planting method with equal spacing between rows. They need to plant at least 9,000 corn plants on three acres of land. Even the simple action of planting corn is exhausting when repeated mechanically.
After working diligently all morning, looking at her own field with only one row left to be finished, She Ning straightened up, rubbed her aching back, and wiped away the sweat with the towel hanging around her neck.
"The seeding task is 90% complete. Please keep up the good work, host." The mechanical voice announced on time, in a monotonous and emotionless manner.
She Ning misses the smart little system from the beginning. Unfortunately, it was too busy and only appeared when introducing the rules. After that, it became the simple, user-friendly system that came with the blind boxes.
In the azure sky, the sun gradually rises.
She Ning placed the seed in the last small pit, covered it with soil, and stood up straight. At the same time, the mechanical sound began to play.
"Corn planting task completed! Reward: Open a blind box! Blind box opening countdown: 3, 2, 1!"
If there's anything wrong with this system, it's that it doesn't give you the chance to accumulate boxes; once the task is completed, you have to open it immediately.
After the countdown ended, an "Open" button appeared in the lower right corner of the panel. She Ning pressed it, and the interface began to rotate and spray fireworks. A gift box appeared on the screen and opened with a "bang," revealing a yellow light inside.
Intermediate gift box.
Obtain the tattered fishing net
Note: This fishing net comes from the Magic Forest. Legend has it that this net can catch any fish you want to catch.
Uses: 3 times
There was a ball of rope coiled in the middle of the panel. It was grayish and similar to the hemp rope commonly found at home. Although she didn't understand why the Magic Forest would produce fishing nets, or how a rope could catch fish, She Ning still put it away.
The tattered fishing net was inconspicuous, and She Ning didn't put it back into the storage compartment of the interface. Instead, she put it into the sack along with the remaining excess seeds. She wiped her sweat and stretched her stiff waist and neck.
As She Ning walked to the big tree by the edge of the field, she picked up her worn-out military water bottle with its paint chipped off and started gulping down water when a hoarse, raspy voice drifted into her ears.
The man with the hoarse voice, wearing blue bell-bottoms, a jacket and vest, and sporting the trendy center-parted hairstyle popular in the city, was a decent-looking fellow. He was chewing on a blade of grass when he approached her with a sleazy air, and said in a sarcastic tone, "Hey, weren't you almost burned to death? Looks like you're alright. Your grandma even went to the clan elder to complain. What a family of whiny complainers! Girls are just cheap; they don't die easily."
This person is She Yaozu, the wicked cousin who pushed the original body that day.
She Ning slowly tightened the lid of the canteen without any unnecessary words or movements. She picked up the heavy military canteen and shoved it at the other person's smug, grinning face.
"ah!"
"She Ning!" Covering the spot where he had been hit, She Yaozu's smile froze, and he looked at her in horror.
She Ning remained silent with a cold face, then raised the kettle and smashed it on his head again. She Yaozu's face was quickly bruised, and although he tried to fight back, She Ning beat him so badly that he couldn't retaliate.
"You just wait! I'll tell my mom you're dead!"
Bullying the weak and fearing the strong, unable to gain any advantage, She Yaozu covered his face and retreated while crying, still uttering harsh words.
She Ning only replied with three words: "You tattletale."
Tch, it's impolite not to reciprocate.
Smash him a couple of times as interest, but the original owner of this body, that little girl, would be dead.
We'll settle this score later.
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