"Today is September 16, 1978. Comrade Deng made a speech, pointing out: 'The key to the problem now facing us is to seek truth from facts, combine theory with practice, and proceed from reality in everything. This is a political issue, an ideological issue, and also an issue of our realization of the four modernizations...'"
Fan Hua fell into a deep sleep, her mind filled with the period novel she had read before going to bed, titled "The Ascetic Old Cadre Stops Pretending".
As Fan Hua fell into a coma, she kept thinking about the plot of the novel and could vaguely hear the announcer's voice...
Suddenly, Fan Hua woke up from her sleep and looked at the unfamiliar scene around her in a trance...
The radio outside the door was still broadcasting the news clearly, but Fan Hua could not hear anything...
She looked at the black cloth shoes beside the bed, then looked at her wrinkled coarse cloth shirt that had been washed countless times, and her blue overalls that were still patched.
I have a bad feeling coming over me...
She immediately put on her black cloth shoes and looked around, her eyes gradually focused on the small bundle on the wooden table beside the bed.
Fan Hua did not hesitate at all. She took two steps at a time and quickly stepped forward to open the package.
In the bundle was a set of clothes, two food coupons, a cloth coupon and several Chinese second-generation RMB notes with a face value of cents and dimes, totaling four yuan, twenty-five cents!
Fan Hua continued to rummage through the bundle with a heavy face, and took out two dry biscuits, a boiled egg, and a folded piece of paper.
She opened the paper and saw a few words clearly written on it:
Name: Fan Lihua
Gender: Female
Nationality: Han
Date of Birth: March 20, 1960
Education level: Junior high school
Birthplace: Fanjia Village, Yuanshui County, Baodu City, Hebei Province
This is actually a household registration book!
Fan Lihua from Fanjia Village... isn't this the short-lived cannon fodder female supporting role in "The Ascetic Old Cadre Stops Pretending"?
Fan Hua held the household registration book in her hand, and her pupils dilated rapidly as if she suddenly realized something...
She touched her clothes, pulled at the pigtails hanging on both sides of her chest, and her heart was pounding!
She had the same haircut as Qin Lan two days ago, cut it flush with her jawline! How did her hair suddenly grow so long? ! Or real hair!!!
Look at this shabby environment again, a simple single bed and a small table, on the table there is a kettle and an enamel water tank with the words "Serve the People" written on it...
It looks like we are in a hotel.
Could it be that...
She is now Fan Lihua, whose name is only one letter different from hers? ! ! !
Could it be that...
Did she really travel back in time to the body of a cannon fodder female supporting role who was deceived into being a prostitute in the south and died of cervical cancer at the age of 26? ! ! !
How could she accept this!
She is about to graduate from graduate school, and the design company she opened with her classmates has already started to make money. Her wonderful life has just begun!
…
She remembered that in this period novel, the original owner, Fan Lihua, was lazy and stupid, her parents were greedy and never satisfied, and her two brothers were also scoundrels who always caused trouble...
In short, she had a very bad reputation. Although she was very beautiful, respectable families in the surrounding villages did not dare to marry such a girl.
It doesn't matter that she has a bad reputation. Fan Hua thinks she can slowly save it. The most important thing is that Fan Lihua's life is too difficult to describe...
When Fan Lihua was eighteen years old, her parents set a trap and lured He Siyan, a well-off educated youth who had been sent to the countryside, back home. They got him drunk with laced wine and had sex with him. That night, Fan Lihua became pregnant.
Fan's parents wanted to wait for He Siyan to sober up and catch him in adultery, forcing him to marry Fan Lihua. But He Siyan jumped out of the window in the middle of the night and ran away, and there was no news from him since then.
Unable to find He Siyan, Fan's parents had no choice but to force Fan Lihua to abort the child and marry an old man in exchange for the bride price. Fan Lihua finally escaped from the village, but was deceived by a young widow from the same village and taken to the south to become a prostitute. A few years later, she got cervical cancer and died at the age of 26...
Fan Hua tried hard to recall the plot about the original owner in the book, to see if she could find some useful information.
It's a pity that there are not many descriptions of Fan Lihua in the book, and they are all fragmentary. After all, she is an insignificant cannon fodder character who only appears briefly in individual chapters. Fan Hua can't remember much at the moment.
In short, Fan Lihua's existence is purely to promote the development of the plot. She is a complete cannon fodder and tragic character!
Fan Hua scratched her hair and stopped reminiscing.
She had already been in the book, and she didn't know how to go back. She just wanted to know what stage she had reached. Had she slept with He Siyan? Had the twins been born? Had she started selling her body? Did she have cervical cancer...
She begged, please let her travel back to the innocent and lively period of a young girl, and not to the advanced stage of cervical cancer which is beyond cure!
She really doesn't want to be ready to die right from the start!
She can only go back if she dies!
Fan Hua took a deep breath, calmed herself down, listened to the radio outside, and decided to go out and see what was going on.
Following the corridor, Fan Hua followed the sound of the radio and came to the entrance of the hotel.
The innkeeper saw her coming out and asked with a smile, "Comrade, are you staying at the hotel tonight? If so, please pay the fee."
Fan Hua was stunned for a moment before she came back to her senses. She laughed dryly and replied, "Stay put, Madam Boss, how much is our hotel per night?"
"Comrade, you have already lived here for two days, why are you still asking me the price?"
The proprietress lowered her voice and continued, "Because you don't have a letter of introduction, you need to pay 10 cents more per day than others, but it's only 70 cents a night!"
"Oh, yes, yes. I'll bring you the money in a minute."
After saying that, Fan Hua clutched her clothes and asked nervously, "Madam, what year, month and day is today?"
"September 16, 1978! How come you're still confused after taking a nap?" the proprietress joked with a smile.
"No, no...I just forgot, hehe...I'll go back to the house and get you the money now!"
Fan Hua finally calmed down a bit. It was September 1978, so she was only eighteen years old. That was the year when Fan’s parents designed her to have a relationship with He Siyan. Fortunately, fortunately, everything was still in time.
But is she sleeping with He Siyan now or not?
The original book did not mention the exact date when the incident occurred, and she did not have the original owner's memory, so she could not really say where the plot was at now.
Fortunately, she still had a few dollars and could stay in this small hotel for two more days. She had to stay there first and then find out what the situation was outside and see if all the educated youth had returned to the city.
Just as Fan Hua was about to go back to the house to get money, a young woman's voice suddenly called her from behind.
"Lihuaer, you are Fan Lihuaer, right?!"
Fan Hua subconsciously turned her head to look at the person who came, only to see a young woman in her twenties. Fan Hua looked at her for a moment, her eyes full of confusion. Does this person know her?
"Oh, it's Lihua. I knew it. You're the only pretty girl like this that I've ever seen. I really didn't recognize the wrong person."
As the visitor spoke, he stepped forward and warmly took Fan Hua's hand.
Fan Hua mechanically raised the corners of her mouth and smiled, and asked politely: "Who are you?"
"I'm Geng Ailing, and I live in the same village as you. Sister Geng! Don't you remember me? When we were in Fanjia Village, we always ran into each other when we went to the river to wash clothes!"
Fan Hua was searching for any reference to Geng Ailing in the novel, and suddenly her alarm bells went off...
It turned out to be her!!!
It was the woman who took Fan Lihua to the south to be a prostitute!!!
In the original book, after Fan Lihua became pregnant, her parents, who loved to get a bargain, saw that the educated youth with a prominent family background had no hope, so they could only find another husband for Fan Lihua. In the end, for the high bride price of 500 yuan, they planned to let Fan Lihua abort the child and marry a forty-year-old divorced man in the county.
Although Fan Lihua was stupid, she couldn't bear to abort her own child, so she did the most daring thing in her life and ran away from the village...
After escaping from the village, she was confused about her future life. Coincidentally, she met Geng Ailing, a widow from the same village, and was persuaded to go to the south together. In the end, the two of them became shameful prostitutes together.
Thinking that this was the young widow Geng Ailing who had taken the original owner to the south, Fan Hua quickly pulled her hand back, her expression instantly becoming cold and distant.
"Why is Sister Geng here?"
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