I Became Rich by Eating Melons in the Era of Literature (1970s)

　　The matter between Zhao Yonglan and Su Zhengtang was very simple.

　　"He is a very filial man. Every time he comes back, he is in a hurry. Although he is an apprentice and doesn't have much money, he still buys things for his parents and nephews. I think he is very kind. Once I went there for dinner late, he even saved some rice for me and secretly added an egg to it."

　　Zhao Yonglan ate the same food as the Su family, but she seldom ate eggs in the past month or so. Whenever she ate them, they were cooked with other things, and the eggs were fried until they were very finely scrambled. She couldn't get any to eat, and this was the first time she had eaten a whole egg by herself.

　　Maybe it's because she's been living in bad times for too long, so if you give her a little bit of goodness, she'll be particularly touched.

　　Jiang Youtao and the others were speechless for a moment after hearing this, especially Zhang Huihui: "Are you crazy? Do you think that people are good just because they give an egg for you? Which of the men in our courtyard gave you something that is not more valuable than an egg? You sold yourself out for an egg?"

　　Zhang Huihui was very excited: "He is good-looking, but no matter how good he is, he is just a junior high school student and doesn't even have a proper job. His father has had such an incident, and his family members are all troublesome, especially the new wife he married in. Don't be confused."

　　Zhang Huihui really hated Zhao Yonglan, but she couldn't bear to watch Zhao Yonglan fall into the fire pit: "With your brain, if you really live with the Su family, you will be schemed against by them."

　　Jiang Youtao and Gu Nianwei actually understood Zhao Yonglan's mentality to some extent.

　　She did eat poorly during the time she was at the Su's house, so she would be particularly touched when she suddenly ate something good. This feeling was like when a person has lived alone for a long time and suddenly someone appears in her life to accompany her for a while, and this person is not bad in any aspect, so she cannot help but develop a kind of dependence on this person.

　　Jiang Youtao thought more.

　　She know that in the book, Zhao Yonglan is Su Zhengtang's original wife. Zhao Yonglan is a person who hates everyone and dogs. Su Zhengtang married her and treated her very well, so he must really like her. Zhao Yonglan is also very arrogant. Her family background makes her always look down on people whose family background is not as good as hers. She has never liked any of the men in Liushugou.

　　But she married Su Zhengtang, and it would be hard to justify this if it wasn't love.

　　Jiang Youtao is a bit obsessed with the pairing of the two. The combination of a proud young lady and a poor rural boy is always popular in any era. However, this kind of pairing only looks good on the surface. The two live in different environments, so it is inevitable that they will have to adjust to each other.

　　Zhao Yonglan must have suffered a lot in her battle with that group of cunning people from the Su family.

　　Jiang Youtao is now particularly interested in Zhao Yonglan's previous two lives: [ Comrade, come, purify the content about Zhao Yonglan for me to read. ]

　　The reason why the melon-eating system is called the melon-eating system is that there is something fishy in the system. The saying "follow the master" makes sense. It was also curious about Zhao Yonglan's past life, and it moved as soon as Jiang Youtao finished speaking.

　　In a short while, it stuffed all the information about Zhao Yonglan into Jiang Youtao's mind.

　　Zhao Yonglan's first life was no different from this life. She was still stupid and naive. She couldn't get along with anyone at the educated youth center and didn't want to work. Under Zhu Yuemei's sweet talk, she went to live with the Su family. Zhu Yuemei still borrowed all her money. But unlike this life, she didn't make a fuss with Zhu Yuemei, but insisted on asking Zhu Yuemei to pay back the money.

　　This was known to Su Zhengtang who returned home by chance. He promised Zhao Yonglan that he would pay back the money she had borrowed. He kept his word and from then on he would pay back a few dollars to Zhao Yonglan every week, sometimes five or six yuan, sometimes one or two yuan, which he had secretly obtained on the black market.

　　In less than half a year, he repaid Zhao Yonglan's money and the tickets that Zhu Yuemei had borrowed. During this time, the two of them had more contact, and Zhao Yonglan developed some affection for Su Zhengtang, and so did Su Zhengtang.

　　The two of them had been in a lukewarm relationship for more than a year. During this period, Zhou Zhenfeng, this wretched man, was like a fly that would disgust Zhao Yonglan from time to time. Finally, one time, he owed money outside and asked Zhao Yonglan to borrow it. When Zhao Yonglan refused to lend him the money, he became so evil that he wanted to force himself on Zhao Yonglan.

　　He thought that as long as Zhao Yonglan became his, she would have to marry him, and then wouldn't Zhao Yonglan's money be his? At the critical moment, Su Zhengtang appeared and saved Zhao Yonglan, and their relationship progressed by leaps and bounds.

　　After the college entrance examination was resumed, Zhao Yonglan failed the exam twice and married Su Zhengtang. Su Zhengtang, who had been in the black market for a long time, also had some assets at this time. The two bought a house in the county town and lived there by themselves. They rarely returned to Liushugou, and Zhao Yonglan rarely spent time with Zhu Yuemei. After all, according to the current custom, when brothers split up, parents usually lived with the eldest son.

　　Things were simpler for Xia Heyu in this rebirth. Zhu Yuemei had just borrowed her money and hadn't said anything to drive her away, so Xia Heyu became the villain who drove her away. She didn't return Zhao Yonglan's money, and then she spread rumors in the village that Zhao Yonglan had a lot of money. This rumor attracted an old bachelor and hooligan from the next brigade. The hooligan followed Zhao Yonglan for a long time, and once when she was alone, he knocked her out and carried her away.

　　Zhao Yonglan disappeared without a reason. Zhang Huihui and others were extremely anxious and mobilized many people to search for her. The search lasted for a year. When they found Zhao Yonglan, she was about to give birth. After that, Zhao Yonglan's ending was never written in the book again. When the heroine Xia Heyu heard about this, she just breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Zhao Yonglan's threat to her was finally lifted.

　　She finally removed a stumbling block in her love relationship with Su Zhengtang.

　　Jiang Youtao was speechless: [ How stupid must one be to write such a plot? To suppress the love rival, she must be abused? It would be fine if the female supporting role did something wrong, but what did Zhao Yonglan do? She didn't do anything! Just because she was Su Zhengtang's wife in her previous life, she has to suffer these things? ]

　　The melon-eating system didn't dare to speak, so Jiang Youtao just vented for a while, and then she asked the melon-eating system for a reward.

　　The melon-eating system then remembered that the reward had not been distributed to the host, so it hurried to work. It would never tell the host that it was too engrossed in chatting about melons on the forum and forgot about it.

　　Now the post it posted has become a melon-eating post. The well-informed systems have written down all the weird people and weird things they have encountered. The melon-eating system is immersed in the joyful atmosphere of eating melons. If it weren't for Jiang Youtao's summons, it wouldn't have wanted to show up at all!

　　The reward arrived, and the melon-eating system disappeared. Jiang Youtao had nothing to say. But she couldn't support the couple Zhao Yonglan and Su Zhengtang anymore.

　　Xia Heyu is a pretty stupid person, and stupid people can be very destructive when they think they are smart. Although Zhao Yonglan is a bit annoying, she is getting better now. She won't and shouldn't fall to the level in the book, which is too cruel and insulting.

　　And there is Zhou Zhenfeng. In the past, she just thought that this guy was a little bit vulgar, a little bit hypocritical, and a little bit annoying. I didn't expect that he would dare to force women. Jiang Youtao became more defensive against him. She decided to buy a mini electric baton when she got home and keep it in her pocket at all times, just in case.

　　Zhao Yonglan remained silent in response to Zhang Huihui's preaching, but she was quite unconvinced in her heart. She really thought Su Zhengtang was a good person.

　　Jiang Youtao thought about it, and out of sympathy for Zhao Yonglan in the book, she advised: "Yonglan, Su Zhengtang does look good now, but look at his family, what has become of them now? Besides, isn't it natural for him to cook an egg for you? You pay the Su family every month, isn't it natural for him to give you an egg from time to time?"

　　Jiang Youtao felt that there were many reasons for a girl to be attracted to a man, but it shouldn't be such cheap favors.

　　"Our hearts are so precious. We shouldn't give them away just for an egg."

　　Seeing Jiang Youtao's persuasion, Gu Nianwei also followed suit. Everyone talked back and forth, successfully suppressing the little bit of excitement that Zhao Yonglan had just felt. Now when she thought of Su Zhengtang, her mind was full of thoughts of trying to trick her away with an egg.

　　After returning to the educated youth center, Jiang Youtao went to cook. After moving out, she lived with Gu Nianwei. They agreed to take turns cooking, and today it was Jiang Youtao's turn.

　　Gu Nianwei was not short of money. She had really had enough of coarse grains, so she took out a bag of white flour: "This is what I brought back from my aunt's house last time. Let's make some dumplings."

　　Eating whole grains every day is healthy, but who can stand it for a long time? In the past, when Gu Nianwei wanted to eat good food, she could only hide from others and eat in secret. To be honest, the taste was good once or twice, but it didn't feel good after many times. On the contrary, she lost her appetite even for the best food.

　　Jiang Youtao didn't think she couldn't pay back the bag of flour. She said, "I brought flour coupons with me when I came back. I'll go to the commune and buy flour later."

　　Jiang Youtao was right. Ying Caixia had indeed exchanged national food coupons for her. The flour coupons were worth two or three kilograms, enough for her to eat for a long time. Together with the food she had obtained from previous missions in her system backpack, it was enough for her to have free access to fine grains.

　　Gu Nianwei felt that this was the most comfortable part about getting along with Jiang Youtao. When you took out something good to share with her, she would not refuse or be timid, but would accept it generously and then exchange it for something of the same amount.

　　If it is beyond her tolerance, she will speak out frankly and then refuse.

　　There is no one who doesn't like to get along with such people.

　　"Okay. The squash in the yard is ripe. I'll pick one and we'll make dumplings with squash and egg filling." Meat-filled dumplings have the deliciousness of meat filling, and vegetarian fillings have their own deliciousness. Gu Nianwei's mouth was watering just thinking about it.

　　Jiang Youtao was also craving for it. She knew how to make dumplings. When she was young, the orphanage organized dumpling-making activities twice a month. She started making dumplings at the age of six and rolling the dough at the age of ten. In high school, she worked part-time in a dumpling shop to earn a living.

　　When Gu Nianwei came back from picking squash, Jiang Youtao had already kneaded the dough.

　　Seeing this, Gu Nianwei consciously went to cut vegetables and chop stuffing. As a single woman, Gu Nianwei has excellent survival ability.

　　The two of them worked together, and soon, a pot of plump white and vegetarian dumplings was out of the pot.

　　Gu Nianwei poured out half a cup of dumpling vinegar, and the two of them ate happily with the vinegar.

　　After the meal, Li Yunying came to call them up the mountain.

　　The four seasons in the north are distinct. When autumn comes and the White Dew passes, the mountains begin to turn yellow.

　　Autumn is a harvest season. This year, there was plenty of rain and there were a lot of mushrooms. Li Yunying has lived in Liushugou for eight years. She knows which mushrooms are edible and which are not, and where there are a lot of mushrooms. Jiang Youtao and others followed her in the mountains for a whole morning, and when they came back, the buckets they carried were full.

　　When they were going down the mountain, they came across a hazelnut tree. This was a good thing. They could go home and dry it, and they would have snacks for the winter. Everyone was very excited and ate all the hazelnuts from the tree. On the way back, they talked and laughed, and they were very happy.

　　When they reached the bottom of the mountain, a group of people ran into Lin Jianzhong head-on.

　　Lin Jianzhong was no longer the high-ranking veteran and director of the supply and marketing cooperative. He had been brought down by his competitors, and the man who had protected him was reported by Zhao Xiaotao for corruption and bribery, and he also followed Luo Xuemin to the farm. Now, not only the commune, but even the county town avoided Lin Jianzhong.

　　He had no way to give gifts, and he had no money. In order to make a good impression on the leaders of the army, and because he knew that Luo Xuemin would protect him when he returned to the village, he gave his retirement pay and previous bonuses to the widows of his comrades.

　　After he was discharged from the army, he did not even complete a full month's shift and was now penniless. He could not even raise the start-up capital to sell supplies on the black market.

　　Seeing Gu Nianwei, those ambitions that he had forgotten grew up again. He also knew clearly that he was different from the one a month ago. He no longer had the capital to be superior. He had suffered the loss of looking down on women once. He also knew that these educated youth who seemed to have no capital were actually very tough.

　　There is no perfect plan, and it is simply a fantasy for him to marry Gu Nianwei now.

　　Gu Nianwei felt Lin Jianzhong's gaze and saw the greed in his eyes clearly. She felt extremely disgusted.

　　She still remembered Lin Jianzhong's arrogant and cowardly attitude when they met last time. She also remembered that when he failed to achieve his goal, he did whatever it took. Gu Nianwei's favorability towards Lin Jianzhong kept decreasing, and now she felt annoyed and disgusted when she saw Lin Jianzhong.

　　As the two passed each other, Li Yunying sighed twice: "He has changed a lot. Before, when he came home on vacation, he was very proud. The village cadres would go to his house to have dinner with him. When he walked on the street, everyone would greet him. He is very reserved now. He never smiles at anyone. When people greet him, he just says "hmm" at most."

　　When Lin Jianzhong was in power, his behavior could be explained by his special job, poor communication skills and lack of understanding of other people's ways. But now that he has fallen on hard times, his previous behavior has become impoliteness and contempt for others.

　　During this period, when everyone was talking about the gossip of the day, Lin Jianzhong's attitude towards everyone in the past was often brought up. Everyone was not stupid. Lin Jianzhong was not willing to talk to them. In the final analysis, wasn't it because he looked down on these farmers who worked hard in the fields? How could someone who could get to the level of battalion commander in the army really not understand the ways of the world?

　　The competition in the army is so fierce that there are people who are extremely capable and outstanding, but Lin Jianzhong is obviously not one of them.

　　To be honest, Li Yunying had always felt that this man was hypocritical, but she didn't say anything because he used to be a soldier and they had nothing in common. Now she could finally speak freely with Jiang Youtao and the others.

　　"His ex-wife Wang Lili was actually a very nice woman, very gentle and considerate, always smiling at everyone, and always looking proud and adoring when she mentioned him. I had just moved to the countryside at that time, and I thought they had a very good relationship. But later I found out that it wasn't a good relationship at all, it was Wang Lili who was only good to him unilaterally, and he took Wang Lili's kindness to him for granted, and then treated her like a worn-out shoe."

　　"At that time, Wang Lili was not pregnant yet, and they had just been married for a short time. One time I went to see Wang Lili, and they were holding hands. After Wang Lili was called away by me, I looked back at him and saw him wiping his hand that hold Wang Lili's hand with a handkerchief. His expression and attitude were particularly serious and careful. If you really didn't know, you would think he was wiping blood off his hands."

　　Li Yunying still shudders when she thinks of that feeling: "Tell me, what kind of man would be so disgusted with his wife's closeness? He disliked Wang Lili so much, but he let Wang Lili bear him three children. It's like he came back to visit his family twice, and both times he made Wang Lili pregnant."

　　Li Yunying was particularly confused.

　　Li Yunying's complaints were not over yet: "This man seems to have no humanity at all. He knows how Zhao Chunhua treats him. He also knows how Wang Lili lives in the Lin family. I don't believe that Lin Weihong won't write to him. But whether it's Wang Lili or the children, did he take care of them?"

　　"He is not Lin Laozhuang's son. Lin Laozhuang would not care about those children. What have they become? Look, Lin Jianzhong has been back quite a lot. Has he ever taken care of them? The commune is so close to the village. How many times has he been back? I don't know why Wang Lili liked this kind of man in the first place."

　　Li Yunying had a good relationship with Wang Lili. She felt very sad when she thought of the gentle woman who died shortly after giving birth.

　　A chill rose in Gu Nianwei's heart. She didn't dare to think about what kind of person she would have to face if she was pushed forward by that unknown force and really became a couple with Lin Jianzhong.

　　[ Ding ~~ Gu Nianwei's awakening progress increased by 10%, and the host was rewarded with 20 melon coins. The reward has been sent to the system backpack. Please accept the reward. ]

　　Jiang Youtao glanced at Gu Nianwei.

　　Her awakening progress has reached 60% so far. She has asked the system that when her awakening progress exceeds 50%, the consciousness of the small world will not be able to control Gu Nianwei, and Gu Nianwei will no longer do stupid things.

　　She completely broke free from the plot of the book.

　　The system said that Gu Nianwei's awakening level would steadily increase, and she no longer needed to do anything. She just needed to lie down, watch the show and wait for rewards.

　　Jiang Youtao hopes there will be more good things like this.

　　After returning to the educated youth center, they hung up the mushrooms they had picked that day. While Jiang Youtao was washing her face, a postman came. He parked his bicycle at the entrance of the educated youth center, got off and walked into the yard, carrying a military green shoulder bag on his back.

　　"Who is Jiang Youtao? Who is Jiang Youtao? There is a letter for you."

　　Jiang Youtao stood up and said, "It's me, it's me. May I ask who wrote this?"

　　The postman took out a letter from his bag and handed it to Jiang Youtao. The two stood opposite each other. The postman was more than ten centimeters taller than Jiang Youtao, at least 1.8 meters tall. He said, "It's from Shanghai."

　　Jiang Youtao took the letter, flipped through it, and was stunned when she looked up. The reason was that the postman in front of her was too good-looking.

　　Delicate facial features, fair skin, eyes that seem to sparkle in the sun, and dimples on both cheeks when she smiles.

　　It perfectly hits Jiang Youtao's XP. Oh, God, who doesn't like a handsome boy who seems to have walked out of the second dimension?

　　Jiang Youtao's LSP heart was ready to make a move, and she blurted out: "Comrade, what's your name?"