When Song Zhehao opened his eyes, he saw himself lying on a kang. The sheets on the kang were very old, and there was an old quilt neatly folded, as if someone had just slept next to him.
At the other end of the kang, there was a little girl sleeping. She was sleeping soundly, her face was a little thin and yellow, and she looked like she was malnourished. The way she curled up in a ball was really pitiful.
Song Zhehao couldn't help but feel a little pity in his heart as he looked at her.
Looking at the house and its furnishings, it was an old house in the countryside. The few pieces of furniture were also very old, making the house look bare. Fortunately, the house was very clean.
Song Zhehao guessed that the hostess of this house must be very hardworking and clean, and he couldn't help but feel a temporary liking for her.
At this time, the system transmitted the original owner's story background into Song Zhehao's head.
This world is a parallel world that exists at the same time as the original world. Its overall social outlook and characteristics of the times are very consistent with the 1980s in China in the original world.
In that era, social atmosphere gradually relaxed, several coastal cities had gradually opened up, and most rural land was transferred from collective land to family contract system. Society was about to usher in earth-shaking changes.
The heroine An Cai's family lives in a small mountain village in the north. She got married at the age of 18 without even getting a marriage certificate.
The original owner's husband was also from the same village. He lost his father at an early age, and when he grew up, his mother also died.
With such a background, he should be more hardworking and cherish his family more, but the reality is just the opposite.
An Cai's husband was spoiled by his mother when he was growing up. He has high expectations but poor skills. He has great ambitions, but he is unwilling to start with small things.
In that rural village where people still depended on the land for food and production technology was backward, he left all the farm work and housework to his wife An Cai. He would wander around with his hands behind his back every day, a veritable rural lazy man.
Normally, such a person should look very hateful, but the original owner was fair and handsome. He had studied in a rural area with a low literacy rate and had attended high school. Later, he failed to get into university, so he got married and had children.
If the original owner could get rid of his lazy, selfish and hateful character, his conditions would be really good.
Therefore, this also caused An Cai, who had never been educated and was not good-looking, to always feel that she was not worthy of the original owner after marrying her.
An Cai's sense of indebtedness caused her to tolerate the original owner for so long, and also led to the final tragedy.
Although the original owner had a hateful personality, she was eloquent and had a good appearance. So no matter how hard An Cai worked, even if she had complaints in her heart, when she got home and saw her husband smiling, asking about her well-being, pinching her shoulders, and pouring her water, her anger would disappear.
Later, An Cai gave birth to a daughter. In that relatively conservative village, it seemed that having a daughter was a shameful thing. Both boys and girls had such a bad idea.
So when her daughter was born, An Cai burst into tears and felt that she had let her husband down. Although the original owner had some grudges, she kept her sweet nature and comforted An Cai, saying that it was okay and that she loved both sons and daughters.
Seeing her husband's magnanimity, An Cai worked harder and no longer dared to complain to him.
When his daughter An Miao'er was seven years old, the first group of young people in the village went out to make a living, and the original owner was among them.
It’s just that everyone else went out to work, while the original owner went to do business. As for the capital for the business, it was all taken out by An Cai.
But An Cai is just an ordinary peasant woman. She usually works hard in the fields and has no extra income.
The only valuable thing was the dowry left by An Cai's mother, who had passed away long ago, when she got married.
An old-fashioned gold bracelet.
The moment the original owner had the idea of going out to do business, the gold bracelet appeared before his eyes.
But he knew the significance of the gold bracelet. An Cai valued it more than his life, so how could he use it as capital for the original owner?
But without the gold bracelet, the original owner's dream would be shattered, which the original owner could not accept.
So, the original owner came up with a despicable idea.
After a party, the original owner pretended to be humiliated by others for not having a son. When she got home, she got angry with An Cai and told her that she must have a son if she wanted to have a second child.
Because at that time, rural areas only allowed two children. If An Cai gave birth to a daughter, he would give his daughter Song Miaoer away. If no one wanted her, he would drown her in a water tank.
Although this was not the original owner's true words, An Cai did not know it, and a similar thing had indeed happened in the countryside.
An Cai was very scared. It was not her turn to decide whether to have a boy or a girl. What if she really gave birth to a daughter?
Seeing Song Miaoer, who was smart and lively but also looked pale and thin due to malnutrition, An Cai couldn't stop crying.
Seeing An Cai's sad face, the original owner began to feel proud and gradually started talking about going out to do business. Relying on his eloquent tongue, he tried hard to promote his ideas in An Cai's ears.
The original owner excitedly stated his ideals, and then changed his expression to frustration, saying that doing business requires capital, and where can he find so much money?
And he stopped talking about wanting a son, and intentionally or unintentionally, whispered in An Cai's ear, "Hey! As long as you have money, it doesn't matter whether you have a son or a daughter. In the countryside, you need a son to support the family. If you have money, you can move to the city. Who cares whether it's a boy or a girl?"
As the original owner expected, when he said this, An Cai's sad expression gradually disappeared, and a light of hope burst out in his eyes.
Not long after, An Cai gave the original owner a sum of money, the amount was so large that the original owner was shocked. An Cai said that she asked someone to sell the bracelet and asked the original owner to use the money to do the business he wanted to do.
The original owner was overly excited and thanked An Cai profusely, saying that he would definitely be successful and asked An Cai to wait for him to enjoy the good life with him.
However, An Cai did not want to enjoy the good life with the original owner, nor did she think the original owner's ideas were reliable.
An Cai had only one idea: to use this money to hold the original owner back, so that he would focus on making money and not have time to worry about having a son. After a few years, he would quickly marry Song Miaoer off.
This way I can save my daughter.
The original owner took the money and rushed to the coastal city of his dreams, but because he was overambitious and incompetent, he lost most of the money. However, after seeing the charm of the city, the original owner would never go back to the backward mountain village.
So relying on the little money he had left, the original owner stayed in the city to struggle, working while continuing to do business. Although he couldn't get rich, he wouldn't starve to death.
In the mountain village of her hometown, people who went out to work came and went, and their families built houses; but An Cai was still guarding the three dilapidated houses, raising her daughter alone, and had never received a penny sent by the original owner.
Although life was difficult, An Cai never complained. As long as she could see Song Miaoer grow up, An Cai was satisfied.
But things happen unexpectedly. An Cai unexpectedly developed lung disease. After doing heavy farm work in the fields during the day, she would cough all night. After coughing for three months, An Cai could not get out of bed, and the sputum she coughed up was red.
An Cai went to the county hospital for treatment, but the hospital was short of equipment and had limited treatment conditions, so it could not cure An Cai's illness at all. The hospital only prescribed a few Western medicines and told An Cai to go to the provincial hospital for a check-up.
An Cai also wants to go, but she has no money?
For this reason, An Cai spoke to the original owner for the first time, explained her illness, and wanted to ask him if he had any money.
Unexpectedly, as soon as An Cai opened her mouth, the original owner started to complain, saying that his difficulties were more than ten times greater than An Cai's. He lived on two steamed buns every day and was sick all over. He had never thought about going to the hospital for treatment.
The original owner's words were a bit exaggerated. Although he didn't have any extra savings, it was more than enough to support himself. He didn't have any illness at all, and his complexion was even whiter than before.
Hearing this, An Cai hung up the phone helplessly, lay in bed for several months, and tried her best to find a husband for her daughter An Miaoer, hoping that she could see her daughter get married in her lifetime.
But unfortunately, before she found a husband, An Cai passed away with a lot of grievances and reluctance.
Half a year after An Cai passed away, the original owner met a good partner. Relying on his partner's strategic vision, it only took him three years to become rich by wholesale clothing, and his career began to flourish.
It was then that the original owner remembered his deceased wife An Cai, felt a little sorry for her, and shed a few tears.
In order to make up for the guilt in his heart, he took his daughter Song Miaoer to live with him, but problems arose after he took her in...
At that time, the original owner had a new love, named Chu Hong. She was a typical strong woman who devoted herself to her career. She had no plans to have children for the time being, and she had no plans to let other people's children destroy her world of two people.
Therefore, Chu Hong looked down on Song Miaoer, who came from the countryside, and made things difficult for her and criticized her everywhere. Song Miaoer was like a frightened little white rabbit, and hid everywhere when she saw Chen Hong.
As a father, the original owner was more loving to his daughter Song Miaoer at first because of his guilt towards An Cai. However, when Chu Hong frequently attacked him because of Song Miaoer, the original owner's fatherly heart was long gone.
The original owner disliked Song Miaoer more and more, so he simply sent Song Miaoer back to the countryside. After he could no longer see Song Miaoer and his ears were clear, he felt sorry for Song Miaoer, so he bought a lot of home appliances and sent them to his hometown in the countryside.
Unexpectedly, the batch of home appliances were not produced by a regular manufacturer, and due to the wiring problem, the home appliances caught fire. Song Miaoer was the only one at home, and she happened to sleep soundly that night. The house was an old one, so the fire soon broke out.
When Song Miaoer woke up, she found that she could no longer escape.
A fire took away this poor girl.
Song Miao'er died in the fire, and the original owner was sad for a while, but his sadness was diluted by his marriage soon after. After Chu Hong gave birth to a son for him, the original owner completely forgot about An Cai and her daughter.
Not long after, a road was being built in their hometown, and the graves of An Cai and her daughter happened to be on the road, so they needed to be moved. When the village chief called the original owner and asked him to move the graves, the original owner said he couldn't come to their hometown to move the graves, saying that he had to take his son on vacation and let them handle it!
In the end, the village stepped in and moved the graves of An Cai and her daughter. However, due to heavy rain and floods, the graves of An Cai and her daughter were washed away. Their bodies were eventually left exposed in the wilderness and became food for wild dogs and foxes. The story ends here.
Seeing this, the host Song Zhehao sighed. He didn't expect that there would be such a scumbag. At this time, the system issued a task!
"Ding! This world's mission is to protect An Cai, protect Song Miao'er, and change the original ending."
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