Entering the Literature of Misery

In the most expensive private hospital in Beijing, in a ward that looked like a five-star hotel, a wealthy and beautiful couple stood in front of the bed holding a pair of twin boys.

The man gently touched the slender waist of the graceful woman next to him and introduced her to the pale-faced patient, "Rou Delicate. This is my wife, the famous ballet dancer Jiang Mei." After he finished speaking, he gently kissed the woman's slender swan neck with deep affection.

The beauty in my arms smiled, tilted her head slightly, and said in a soft voice, "Husband!" Her voice was long and delicate.

"Yue!" Vomited.

Shen Roujiao, who had not been able to eat successfully for more than ten days, vomited all the rice soup she had just drunk in the morning, staining the white bedding and hospital gown.

She was so sick that she was unrecognizable. Her once round cheeks were sunken, her cheekbones were prominent, her eyes were empty and filled with dark shadows, and her face was pale and lifeless.

Shen Roujiao tried hard to raise the corners of her mouth and gave them a contemptuous sneer.

"Don't get excited." The man covered his nose and walked to the bedside. He pulled the oxygen mask on her face, slowly leaned down, and whispered in the patient's ear. His voice was very light, very cold, and very ruthless. "Wife, look at these twins. Don't they look like me? Haha, they are twelve years old this year!"

The dry hand with the IV needle inserted in it suddenly clenched the bed sheet. Shen Roujiao's eyes were filled with resentful anger. She wanted to curse a lot of dirty words, but she was too weak to make a sound.

The hard is easily broken.

Just one step, she had led her company to a successful IPO; the next step, her husband spent a large amount of money and publicly expressed his love for his new lover, which made her so angry that a blood vessel burst in the office.

After finally saving her life, this bastard couple still comes to her from time to time to show their affection, trying to piss her off to death as soon as possible.

Today, he even brought his child here without any scruples.

Twelve years old!

They have only been together for fifteen years.

Damn, scumbag——————————

Close your eyes and then open them again.

She found herself lying on the river bank, soaking wet, with memories of another Shen Roujiao flashing through her mind. She slapped her head hard, but the images continued to flash until they became a dot and disappeared.

At this moment, Shen Roujiao suddenly sat up from the ground and shook her head vigorously. Her face was hurt by the two wet braids. Then she realized that she was reborn!

As far as I can remember, it is now 1979.

Depend on!

No system, no space, no cheat codes, nothing you want, it’s like hell starting from scratch.

Shen Roujiao raised her middle finger to the sky with disdain, "Why don't you let me go back to before the company went public? I'll fucking kill that couple."

Good, good, good!

Good people shouldn't be deceived by God, right?

Good things come to those who are lucky, right?

Good things will eventually come to good people, right!

Now that you are here.

Then raise your hands and make a “YAY” gesture to the sky, “Happy rebirth!”

I squeezed the water off my body and cheered up my tired spirit. There may be bumpy roads ahead, but I have lofty ambitions in my heart...

She raised her hand and touched her chest.

Haha, it’s great to be young.

From today on, I am also a person with breasts.

Following the memories of this life, Shen Roujiao returned home in a daze, changed into clean clothes, and lay on the wooden bed for a long time, unable to calm down.

In her previous life, she started from scratch and started with wholesale clothing with her boyfriend. She worked her way up to acquiring well-known foreign brands and successfully led the company to go public.

But not long after her success, her husband cheated on her with a famous ballet dancer, and she was so angry that she almost died.

God favors us, and there is a flash of light in the sky.

She traveled through time and space into a period novel that begins in the late 1970s when everything was in short supply. The Shen family is simply another version of the misery literature "To Live".

From now on,

Half a year later, an epidemic broke out in Xiaonanchuan City. Shen's father and third brother Shen Tiannan were infected with the plague and died.

Two years later, the second brother Shen Tiancheng, who worked in a factory, was hit by a cement slab and was rotten beyond recognition.

Three years later, Shen Roujiao married her classmate Duan Baisheng, but she became pregnant and had a miscarriage, and has been unable to have children since then.

Five years later, the hot-tempered fourth brother Shen Tianyou clashed with the factory director's son and was beaten to death by the other party.

Six years later, the eldest brother Shen Tianhua died of exhaustion in a mine in another place and was buried on the hill behind the coal factory. Shen Roujiao went to take care of the funeral of the eldest brother and ended up contracting tuberculosis in the mine.

Eight years later, Shen Roujiao died of tuberculosis and coughing up blood.

That year, Shen Roujiao was 25 years old.

The kind and miserable Shen family died cleanly at this point.

…

And this year, Shen Roujiao is only 16 years old.

There are still opportunities, many, many opportunities!

The ancients all said: At fifteen you become an adult, and at sixteen you become a mature man.

If I were to live my life again, I must live it to the fullest, otherwise I would be unworthy of the three words "Shen Roujiao".

In this life, she will take 1979, a year full of opportunities, as a starting point to change her destiny and lead the Shen family and the entire village out of the predicament and towards a well-off life.

In this life, she wants to stand on the shoulders of giants, look at the world, go higher and further.

…

Just do it.

Shen Roujiao immediately got out of bed, opened the door, and walked back and forth in the rooms of the Shen family. This era was really poor. Although the family was not completely destitute, they basically had nothing.

If you want to change your fate, it seems you can only start with those bags of soybeans in the corner.

......

"Tofu pudding?" Aunt Xu was stunned. Isn't this something only sold in the county?

Shen Roujiao saw the woman's suspicion and opened the wooden barrel beside her. A clear bean aroma wafted in the air, and a piece of white and tender tofu pudding appeared before her eyes.

Aunt Xu glared at him, "You did it?"

This thing is not easy to make. With this skill, why did the eldest brother of the Shen family come to them to borrow money? Aunt Xu curled her lips and asked, "How much did you say per serving?"

"Four cents." Shen Roujiao smiled, revealing her fangs on both cheeks. Her two braids rested on her shoulders, making her look charming and adorable.

Unexpectedly, the other party just waved and left, still muttering along the way, "It's too expensive. You made this thing to make money from the villagers. You are such a wicked family."

The sound of her mumbling was quite loud and reached the ears of the three people, causing their expressions to change.

The fourth son of the Shen family was a man with a bad temper. He was used to bullying his peers and didn't care about the elders or the younger ones. He shouted, "If you don't want to buy it, then don't buy it. Why are you scolding us?"

"What's the point of coming here if you have no money?"

"Ugh." Aunt Xu turned around and said, "You guys have money, you guys have money, but you guys are still asking us to borrow it? You're only paying four cents for a bowl. I won't take it even if you give it to me for free."

After saying this, Aunt Xu rolled her eyes at the three of them and left.

Shen Tianyou rushed forward in anger, but was held down on the left arm by the third son of the Shen family. "We are all from the same village. It will be embarrassing if we make a big fuss. We came here without telling Dad and the others today."

"Can someone from the same village scold us like this? When did Dad go to her to borrow money?" Shen Tianyou said this angrily, but he no longer had the same impetus as before and sat down awkwardly in the corner.

"Little sister, if it really doesn't work, let's go back." Shen Tiannan's gaze fell on Jiaojiao again.

The little girl was obviously not affected by the turmoil just now. She smiled brightly on her smart little face, "Brother, wait a little longer."

It was not easy to make money in the 21st century, let alone the 1970s when supplies were scarce. Such a small setback could not discourage Shen Roujiao, "Third and fourth brothers, you got up so early to accompany me. There is no one here now, let's have breakfast first."

As she spoke, Shen Roujiao served two servings of tofu pudding, one with hard candy powder and the other with salted vegetables.

This time, Shen Tiannan and Shen Tianyou did not refuse and started eating with their bowls. At first, they thought it was sold out, and they were reluctant to eat it because they felt sorry for the four cents.

"Little sister eats too."

"Um."

Shen Roujiao made herself a salty dish with some sesame oil in it. She liked it this way. Then she thought of something and took out a bag from her pocket. Inside was a few sweet potato cakes.

She made it at home in the morning.

Father Shen, the eldest brother and the second brother stayed up all night in the factory last night. This was the breakfast she made for them before she came out: sweet potato cakes and tofu pudding.

"Third brother, fourth brother, give it to you." Shen Roujiao handed it to the two of them.

The sweet potato pancakes were baked to a crisp on the outside, soft and glutinous on the inside, and had the sweet smell of eggs. Shen Tianyou was a greedy person, and he had been thinking about it since he smelled it in the morning. He took two pieces from Shen Roujiao without hesitation.

The face that was twisted by Aunt Xu's anger was healed, and Shen Tiannan smiled and patted his shoulder.

The three siblings ate their fill and made the people around them dizzy.

There weren't many breakfast vendors in the small village, most of them were selling daily necessities or vegetables and fruits grown in their own fields. Most of the people who came at this time hadn't eaten at home, and when the three of them were eating, many of them also took out the breakfast they had prepared at home.

There were mixed-grain steamed buns and pickled vegetables, the better ones were cornmeal buns, but none of them were as delicious as the sweet potato cakes in the hands of the three siblings.

Some people couldn't wait to ask, but when they found out that the tofu pudding was only four cents a bowl, they gave up the idea. The price was not expensive, but it was not cheap either. They could afford it with a little effort, but they were there to make money, not to spend it.

"Little sister, can we lower the price?"

After sending away the eighth person who came to ask for the price, Shen Tiannan couldn't help but doubt his younger sister's pricing.

Shen Rou shook her head tenderly, "Third brother, wait a little longer."

In the 1970s, there were not as many roads as in the 21st century. This was the only way for several villages to get to the county seat.

It’s a little past six now, almost...

Not knowing what Shen Roujiao was planning, under her insistence, Shen Tiannan leaned obediently against the wall, and he and Shen Tianyou guarded the girl on both sides.

There were people around who were also watching the show.

"Little girl, no one will eat breakfast soon, so why don't you lower the price and sell it to us." The lady who was selling vegetables nearby said.

"It's four cents a portion, no bargaining. If you're not full, you can refill it." Shen Roujiao seemed not to hear the joking in her aunt's voice. She showed her fangs and smiled at her.

The auntie said "tsk tsk" twice, "You don't know how to be kind."

After saying this, he moved the stall a little further away from Shen Roujiao and the others.

"Ding-a-ling~~"

Hearing the sound of a car bell coming from a distance, Shen Roujiao's eyes lit up. The customer she was waiting for came.

"Third brother, open the wooden lid." Shen Roujiao said, and took out the remaining sweet potato cakes, "Fourth brother, give it to you."

"ah?"

Shen Tianyou was stunned.

"There's also this." Shen Roujiao filled a bowl with tofu pudding and smiled at Shen Tianyou.

Shen Tianyou was confused. He pointed at himself and then at the tofu pudding, "Are you not going to sell it, little sister?"

He was still confused about the situation. When Shen Tiannan saw the group of young men riding 28-inch bicycles not far away, he understood immediately and patted Shen Tianyou on the back of his head. "I told you to eat it, just eat it."

"good."

Shen Roujiao pushed Shen Tianyou and asked him to sit on the stone in front to eat.

The girl also started to shout, "Tofu pudding for sale, sweet and soft tofu pudding. A bowl of sweet tofu pudding on a hot morning will keep you in a good mood for the whole day."

"Eating a bowl of this salty and fragrant tofu pudding is like being a living god." When these words came out, not only the vendors around them, but even Shen Tiannan and Shen Tianyou were stunned.

"Tofu pudding for sale. Sweet tofu pudding, salty tofu pudding... A bowl of tofu pudding starts a day full of energy."

Amid the simple shouts of the vendors around, Shen's gentle, sweet, soft and refreshing advertising slogan instantly attracted the attention of the group of young men riding 28-inch bicycles.

"Hey, little girl, how much is a serving of tofu pudding?" A bicycle stopped in front of Shen Roujiao. "It's four cents a serving. You can have more if you're not full."

"Four cents?" It's one cent more expensive than in the county town.

"Um."

"Have a bowl and try it." The visitor pointed at Shen Tianyou again, "Is that person eating your tofu pudding?" Seeing Shen Roujiao nod, he asked again, "Do you still have the thing he was holding in his hand?"

While talking, the other party licked the corner of his lips.

"Sorry, sweet potato pancakes are temporarily unavailable."

"ah?"

After hearing this, the visitor lost interest.

Fortunately, the other party saw that Shen Tiannan had already served him tofu pudding, so he didn't say anything. He parked his bicycle aside and sat on the pony that Shen Roujiao and her two siblings had prepared early in the morning.

"Do you want your tofu pudding sweet or salty?"

"It tastes salty."

After getting the answer, Shen Roujiao poured some salted vegetables and a little sesame oil into the other person's tofu pudding, and took a piece of sweet potato cake.

After she took out the sweet potato pancake, the other person stared at her closely, "What is this?"

"Free gifts for new customers, limited to the first ten customers."

Shen Roujiao just counted and found that there were ten sweet potato cakes left. It would be better to make them into small gifts instead of selling them.

While she was talking, Zhang Qingjie had already taken a bite.

My taste buds exploded instantly! The taste was absolutely amazing.

"All the top ten?"

Zhang Qingjie asked back, then looked around for the 28-inch bicycle flying by on the road. Not knowing who he saw, he shouted, "Old Xu!" as if he was afraid that the other party couldn't hear him.

"Brother Zhang? Why are you here?" The other person was startled by him and almost hit a pedestrian with his bicycle. Fortunately, he was an experienced rider and braked in time.

"Come, I'll treat you to some tofu pudding." Just now, Zhang Qingjie took another bite of the sweet potato cake. It tasted even better than the breakfast sold in the county town!

The Zhang family is well-known for their abilities in the surrounding villages.

Zhang Qingjie's elder brother is in the army, and his family is also well-known in the county. However, he made some mistakes and was thrown into the countryside by his father to gain experience.

"Ah?" Xu Shan was stunned, but he still obediently parked the car aside. He saw that the young man who was originally in a hurry was now like nothing, looking at the little girl next to him in a flattering manner.

"Young boss, look." Zhang Qingjie looked at Shen Roujiao with a smile.

Shen Roujiao had no choice but to take another sweet potato cake. Zhang Qingjie's plan succeeded, and he called a few more people over one after another, and he seemed to be ready to take all the sweet potato cakes.

Four cents means nothing to them.

The two buckets of tofu pudding were soon empty. Zhang Qingjie finished eating five or six sweet potato cakes and drinking a bowl of tofu pudding. He said, "Little boss, will you come again tomorrow?"

Not only him, but everyone who had eaten the sweet potato cakes and tofu pudding looked at Shen Roujiao eagerly.

Being stared at by dozens of young men, Shen Tiannan and Shen Tianyou were a little panicked. Shen Roujiao was not in a hurry and smiled, "I will definitely come tomorrow morning."

......

After seeing off the last guest, Shen Roujiao stretched her back and asked, "Third brother, how much is left in the bucket?"

Shen Tiannan estimated, "Three or four bowls." He was a little uncertain, "Are these still for sale?"

"Take it home. Dad and the others should be off work by now."

Shen Roujiao stretched her body and helped the two of them clean up the stall. The three siblings cleaned up quickly and left the morning market amid the envious and jealous gazes of the crowd.

The village where the Shen family lives is some distance away from Zaoji.

After walking for about half an hour, the three of them saw a big locust tree at the entrance of Hedong Village. Several old people were sitting under the tree, and some village women were gossiping. At this time, most people in the village were awake.

"Hey, isn't that the Shen family's?"

Those who were familiar with the Shen family would call out from a distance.

Shen Tiannan and Shen Tianyou recognized him immediately. They both frowned, and Shen Tianyou went even further and complained out loud.

"I was really unlucky this morning. How come I kept running into the Xu family?"

The Xu family is a domineering family, gossiping and stirring up trouble. In order to raise money for his daughter's tuition, Shen's father went to their house to borrow money, but in the end he not only did not get the money, but was also scolded and kicked out.

"Okay, he is the elder after all." Shen Tiannan stopped Shen Tianyou from continuing to complain, "My little sister is still here, be careful."

Shen Tianyou turned around and saw Shen Roujiao smiling, and curled his lips, "It's only for my little sister's sake." He snorted coldly.

Some people have no special abilities, but are good at being evil. To deal with villains like the Xu family, the most direct way is to crush them with your own strength and turn yourself into the "evil guy".

There are no villains around evil people, only villains around kind people. But the Shen family does not have the power to do so at present.

Shen Roujiao didn't want to be tough, otherwise she wouldn't have asked Aunt Xu if she wanted to buy a bowl of tofu pudding.

But knowing that this was not the time to talk, Shen Roujiao quietly sandwiched between her two brothers, pretending like they didn't hear anything, and walked straight out of the village.

There were more harsh curses coming from behind. Shen Roujiao clenched her fists silently, remembering those unbearable words firmly in her heart.

The three siblings ran towards the house, but the cursing behind them became farther and farther away, while the cursing in front of them became louder and louder.