"Mom, let's put things in perspective. We were brothers before, and I'm grateful for his help.
But now that he has become a traitor, I must draw a clear line between myself and him in time.
Your eldest grandson, Zhang Dabao, is about to graduate from high school. If he has an uncle like this, it will be difficult for him to find a job, let alone find a wife in the future."
The old couple tried to persuade and scold Zhang Xiangdong, but they could not stop his determination to break off the relationship.
All previous relationships, including the money he borrowed from Zhang Xiangnan, were written off.
Before leaving, he even threatened Su Hong that he would not give her a penny and that if she was not satisfied, she could go to the township to file a complaint.
In this way, the old couple Zhang Qingchun, along with a group of orphans and widows from their second wife, suffered for three years under the exclusion and bullying of the villagers.
Seeing that no one was helping her, the old lady had no choice but to return to the ravine and come to her grandson.
"Zhang Shuguang is back!"
"Zhang Shuguang, come back soon!"
"Zhang Shuguang, the three souls and seven spirits will return to their places as soon as possible!"
The old lady had no other choice but to use the folk method of calling back the soul of her grandson to save him.
Hey, a knife cuts the butt, Zhang Shuguang has finally opened his eyes today.
Can you call back a wandering ghost by calling it back?
Wait! Zhang Shuguang? This boy actually has the same name as me?
Zhang Shuguang was not surprised for too long. The old lady's necromancy was much more powerful than that of the Jia Zhang family in the courtyard.
The young man lying on the ground seemed to have a magnetic field on his body, and Zhang Shuguang's soul floated towards the young man uncontrollably.
The moment the soul entered the body, the boy's sixteen years of memories came flooding back like a tide, allowing Zhang Shuguang to understand the boy's short life.
It turns out that this is not the underworld, but the Blue Planet, a parallel world to the Earth. I am here to be resurrected as a ghost!
Why are the people on the hillside so pale and thin, and wearing tattered clothes? Because it is 1960 on Blue Planet.
How could they be forced to dig weeds as punishment? They were searching among the weeds for wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger.
Zhang Shuguang is a college student of the 21st century on Earth, a typical post-00s generation. Although he was born in the countryside, he really doesn't know any wild vegetables.
The boy lying in his grandmother's arms felt his chest rise and fall, and he slowly regained his breathing.
Zhang Shuguang was still adapting to his new body and accepting his new identity and memories, so he did not open his eyes immediately.
Zhang Shuguang did not find it difficult to accept his new identity and the new era.
As a failed author, he not only read time-travel novels and period novels, but also wrote his own.
According to the setting, time travelers generally have a standard golden finger.
Travelers are usually the protagonists of this world. Since God allows them to travel through time, there is no reason for them to live a cowardly life.
So even though he was living in a time of famine and came from a family of traitors, Zhang Shuguang was not afraid at all.
"Zhang Shuguang is back!"
Grandma's cry was hoarse with fear and sad with despair.
A tear fell heavily on Zhang Shuguang's face, forcing him to open his eyes.
The intense hunger and pain in his back almost made Zhang Shuguang faint again.
Hungry, so hungry!
Zhang Shuguang felt his stomach cramping with pain.
As a parallel world to the Earth, the development trajectory of Blue Planet is not much different from that of the Earth.
The commune was established in 1958, and canteens were implemented in 1959, ushering in a brief period of glory when eating for free.
The canteen has deviated from the correct development path of distribution according to work and more work, more pay.
When the members heard that the meals were free, how could they, who had been hungry for years, be polite to you? Wouldn’t they eat as much as they wanted?
In just one year, canteens across the country went bankrupt.
The time point when Zhang Shuguang traveled through was the beginning of the three-year famine, 1960.
Each family was given 50 kilograms of corn flour, and the canteen was immediately announced to be disbanded.
Cornmeal is not the golden cornmeal that everyone imagines, but cornmeal that is crushed with corn cobs. It is white with gray in color and makes your throat burn when you eat it.
Not only was there a shortage of grain, but every household didn't even have an iron pot. All the grain had been collected during the steel production campaign in the past two years.
Smart people can hide a kitchen knife and scissors, while those who are more aware will even remove the iron nails on the door and hand them over.
Zhangzhuang is backed by mountains, so Zhang Shuguang shouldn't have been so hungry. His bad luck was all because of the original owner's traitorous father.
It had only been ten years since the victory of the war, and everyone's hatred for the enemy was deep, especially for traitors and collaborators, who were wanted by everyone.
The disaster did not affect his wife and children, and allowing Zhang Shuguang's family to continue living in Zhangzhuang was already a pardon from the law because they were of the same clan.
Leaving the family to fend for themselves in the village was already the biggest concession the villagers had made. Cold words, exclusion and isolation were inevitable in their interactions.
The members of the cooperative would not allow Zhang Shuguang and his family to get close to places where there were abundant wild vegetables and mushrooms.
Zhang Qingchun and Su Hong had to go to work to earn work points, and Zhang Shengli and Zhang Wanwan were still young, so Liu Guixiang could only take her eldest grandson Zhang Shuguang to some remote mountain valleys to try their luck.
"Grandma, I'm fine."
Zhang Shuguang had no external injuries, he just lost his breathing and died without catching his breath.
The old lady was calling for souls, and by some coincidence she called the soul of Zhang Shuguang on Earth.
"It's good that you're okay, it's good that you're okay, Xiaoguang, we won't climb trees to pick leaves anymore. Get up and move around to see if you're hurt anywhere!"
Liu Guixiang finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her grandson wake up.
With the help of his grandmother, Zhang Shuguang endured the dizziness caused by hunger and managed to stand up.
"Xiao Guang, how are you? Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"
"Grandma, don't worry, I'm fine."
Zhang Shuguang moved his limbs.
"That's good, let's go home now."
The old lady didn't plan to dig wild vegetables anymore. Her eldest grandson had scared her just now.
In fact, there are two other sons in the eldest son Zhang Xiangdong's family who are older than Zhang Shuguang. However, because of Zhang Xiangnan's incident, the two grandsons didn't even say hello to him when they saw him in the village, and treated him as a class enemy.
Since they don't care about grandparents and are determined to sever ties, let's just pretend that those two grandchildren don't exist.
"Okay, let's go home."
Although my bones were fine, it was really painful from the fall. I definitely couldn't climb the tree anymore, so I decided to just go back.
Along the way, Zhang Shuguang silently called out to the system in his heart, but there was no response at all. Zhang Shuguang's heart kept sinking.
No way, there really isn't a system, is there? With this kind of devastating start, if there's no system to help, people will really starve to death.
Although the grandfather and grandson did not walk very fast, their family lived at the foot of the mountain, so they arrived home quickly.
"Grandma, big brother, you're back? I've already fed the chickens at home, and my sister is very well behaved and didn't cry or make a fuss."
Through the fence gate, the two children in the yard came forward happily to greet them.
The older one is a boy, eight years old, named Zhang Shengli.
The younger one is a girl, only three years old this year, and her name is Zhang Panpan, which means she is looking forward to Zhang Xiangnan coming back soon.
When Zhang Xiangnan disappeared, Zhang Panpan was still in Su Hong's belly.
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