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

　　Jiang Youtao was in a particularly good mood and was humming a song on the way back.

　　When she entered the village, Xia Heyu also came out of the village. She wiped her tears as she walked. When she saw Jiang Youtao looking at her, she glared at Jiang Youtao fiercely: "What are you looking at?"

　　Xia Heyu's words reminded Jiang Youtao of a popular joke on the Internet, and she smiled and asked back, "What's wrong with you?"

　　Jiang Youtao changed her stance, waiting for Xia Heyu to rush over and hit her so she could hit her back. She had read a joke on the Internet that in the Northeast, most people would end up fighting if this line of dialogue occurred.

　　Xia Heyu glared at her fiercely again and turned away. Jiang Youtao felt that she was being lonely and somewhat disappointed.

　　She walked towards the village. As expected, Xu Dazui, aunt Jiang Si and the other two were sewing shoe soles under the big willow tree at the entrance of the village. When they saw Jiang Youtao coming over, they immediately greeted her: "Youtao, where have you been?"

　　Jiang Youtao and Xu Dazui hadn't seen each other for a while since she stopped working. She missed them a little when she saw them all of a sudden. She immediately went over, put the basket at her feet, squatted down and chatted with them: "I've been in the county town to do some work. What are you guys gossiping about here?"

　　Fourth Aunt Jiang rubbed the hemp rope in her hands and said, "We are talking about the old Su family. Oh, you don't know, this Su family is so lively now." Fourth Aunt Jiang's house is close to the Su family, and she has first-hand information.

　　It was the busy farming season recently and no one had much to talk about. Aunt Jiang was really bored. Even though she had just talked about it with Xu Dazui, she was still very interested when she talked about it with Jiang Youtao.

　　"Youtao, did you see the young wife Xia Heyu who just ran out?" Aunt Jiang kept it a secret.

　　Jiang Youtao nodded her head like pounding garlic: "Yes, I saw it, she ran over crying. I stared at her twice and she asked me what I was staring at. I said, 'what's wrong with looking at you?' I thought she would rush over and hit me, but she ran away without saying a word."

　　Aunt Zhang sneered, "What's wrong with staring at her? If she can do it, she must be a mountain pao. Can a normal person do such a thing?"

　　"Mountain Pao" is not a nice word in Northeastern dialect. Jiang Youtao roughly understood what it meant. It refers to the kind of people who are not smart, are single-minded, are extremely stubborn once they have made up their minds, and cannot stand provocation.

　　There is only one person of this kind in the village, his name is Xu Dashan, and Jiang Youtao has never had any contact with him.

　　Aunt Jiang Si was immediately displeased when she saw that the two of them had strayed off topic, and she quickly said, "Didn't she want a divorce the day after her wedding? But Sun Xiaojuan made up some other excuse and fooled her. After everyone left and closed the door, I don't know what the Su family said, but she screamed. We thought the Su family had beaten her, so we were scared and rushed over immediately. When we asked her, she said it was because of Su Changshan's demotion."

　　"Do you think this girl has a mental problem? Didn't her family know about Su Changshan's demotion a long time ago? Why did they only let her know after she got married?"

　　Jiang Youtao and the others really didn't know about this. After watching the excitement that day, they went up the mountain to pick mushrooms out of guilt in the afternoon. As a qualified spectator, Jiang Youtao played the role of supporting actor: "What happened next?"

　　Fourth Aunt Jiang said: "That's how it was. Everyone thought she was crazy, so they went back. Then it was harvest time, and her family was in a commotion. She didn't want to do anything at home. Not only did she not go to the fields, she didn't even want to cook for the family. She just didn't know how to do it, which made Zhu Yuemei and Sun Xiaojuan very angry."

　　The Su family has had so many dramas during this period that Fourth Aunt Jiang is too lazy to talk about them: "She didn't come back after three days. Xia Heyu came back by herself, but as soon as she got home, the Xia family sent her back. She threw and hit people everywhere, which became a big joke."

　　"It was quiet for a few days, but today it's getting noisy again." Aunt Jiang said with emotion: "They say you have to look carefully when choosing a wife, not just family background. Look at the Su family, what kind of people they marry."

　　Jiang Youtao was driven crazy by Fourth Aunt Jiang's inconsistent way of speaking: "Fourth Aunt Jiang, you haven't told me why she made such a fuss today."

　　Fourth Aunt Jiang realized that she had gone off topic and said, "Oh, it's because the Su family wants to split up."

　　These words made the old women working under the big willow tree prick up their ears. Just now, Fourth Aunt Jiang had not mentioned this when she talked about the Su family.

　　Xu Dazui is even more anxious than Jiang Youtao: "The Su family is splitting up, why is she so anxious?"

　　Fourth Aunt Jiang chuckled and lowered her voice: "You don't understand this, do you? I went back to my mother's house to visit relatives yesterday, and I heard from my mother's nephew that Xia Heyu had a relationship with Su Zhengtang!"

　　This sentence immediately made the people under the willow tree burst into laughter. Several people with poor hearing moved their stools and moved towards Aunt Jiang Si.

　　Xu Dazui's eyes suddenly lit up: "What about this? Isn't it just that the nephew robbed his aunt?"

　　Xu Dazui loves to hear this kind of taboo gossip the most.

　　Aunt Zhang slapped her thigh and said, "That's right. I said that Xia Heyu was calling Su Zhengtang "Zhengtang" in a way that was a bit intimate, but I didn't think much about it. After all, they are classmates, so it's normal to call him that in a more intimate way. But now that you say so, this matter is not simple!"

　　Fourth Aunt Jiang raised her eyebrows and said, "Just listen to me and continue."

　　"Today, the Su family wants to split up. It was Su Zhengtang who proposed it. As you all know, Su Zhengping has blamed Zhu Yuemei since Su Changshan was sent to the farm. He has not said a word to Zhu Yuemei since then."

　　"If you ask me, this Su Zhengping is really a piece of shit. Zhu Yuemei raised him with all her heart and soul. Let alone Zhu Yuemei, even if she was wrong, he shouldn't do this, right?"

　　"He treats Zhu Yuemei badly, and his children follow suit. Last time, I heard that little girl Su Guixiang scold her grandmother for being an evildoer. Do you think Su Guixiang would dare to say that if no one was around to encourage her? In the past, would she dare to say that to her grandmother?"

　　Aunt Zhang said firmly: "Sun Xiaojuan must have said something to Su Zhengping, otherwise Su Guixiang wouldn't dare to say that."

　　"Of course not. After the autumn harvest was finally over, Su Zhengtang proposed to split up the family. He and Zhu Yuemei went out together. Su Zhengping agreed. No one else in the Su family had any objections, except Xia Heyu, who slammed the table and disagreed. Su Yang scolded her a few times, and she started crying and ran away. You see, she has been out for a short time, so who from the Su family came to look for her?"

　　Everyone sighed. In those days, newly married young wives had no say, and even those who had been married for decades could not participate in major matters such as whether to divide the family or not.

　　Xia Heyu really take herself too seriously.

　　Jiang Youtao didn't comment on this. Anyway, she felt that some things in this era were really disgusting, such as the fact that the new daughter-in-law had no say.

　　After eating almost the whole melon, Jiang Youtao planned to go back.

　　"Auntie, I'm going back. When you have time, come to our room and play for a while." Jiang Youtao stood up, picked up her things and left.

　　Aunt Jiang quickly put the soles of her shoes into the sewing basket, grabbed the stool and ran after her: "Youtao, walk slower, I have something to tell you."

　　"What's up?"

　　Fourth Aunt Jiang caught up with Jiang Youtao and whispered to her, "Tell Comrade Zhao, one of your educated youths, to be careful recently. It's better not to keep so much money. When I came back from my mother's house yesterday, I saw Xia Heyu gossiping with the people in Linjia Store, and she mentioned that Comrade Zhao had money."

　　The people of Liushugou were quite honest and simple. Zhao Yonglan had so much money in her hands, but no one had any bad intentions. At most, they would think of borrowing money from Zhao Yonglan. But it was different in other villages, especially in the neighboring Linjiadian Brigade, which had many bachelors and second-rate people.

　　Jiang Youtao's face darkened. Thinking of Zhao Yonglan's ending, she immediately thanked Fourth Aunt Jiang solemnly: "Thank you, Fourth Aunt Jiang. If you hadn't told me, we wouldn't have known about this."

　　The news that Zhao Yonglan was rich had spread throughout the village, but during this period of autumn harvest, everyone was busy as hell. After finishing the work on the production team's fields, they had to work on their own fields. They simply didn't have the time to travel around the village. Jiang Youtao knew only a limited number of people from other villages, and she had no idea about the rumors outside. The only thing she could do was to try her best to prevent Zhao Yonglan from being left alone.

　　She didn't expect that Xia Heyu had revealed this news to the people of Linjiadian Brigade. As someone who had lived a second life, how could she not know what kind of village Linjiadian Brigade was? What did she want to do by specifically looking for the people of Linjiadian? Jiang Youtao could guess it with her toes.

　　She still overestimated the moral bottom line of this so-called second female lead.

　　This is a scum who will do anything to achieve her goal and is extremely stupid and vicious!

　　Fourth Aunt Jiang waved her hand and said, "Don't be so polite. We have been free for a while now, and more people have been traveling around the village. I guess this news will reach Linjiadian in no time. I just want you to be more cautious. I'm leaving first, I have something else to do at home."

　　Aunt Jiang left in a hurry.

　　After she left, the melon-eating system came online: [ Ding ~~ Congratulations to the host for completing the daily melon-eating task and eating the heroine's melon: Reward: 200g of rice, a bowl of black chicken soup, 100g of braised pork, 2kg of cream melon seeds. The reward has been sent to the host's backpack, please check it. ]

　　Jiang Youtao immediately opened the backpack and saw the delicious food in the backpack. She felt that the system upgrade worth one hundred melon coins was really worth it.

　　Now, not only will there be rewards for eating passers-by's melons, but there will be even greater rewards for eating the heroine's melons.

　　Before Jiang Youtao could finish being happy, the system sent another task: [ Ding ~~ Please lead Zhao Yonglan to uncover Xia Heyu's conspiracy. If you complete the task, you will get 5 melon coins. ]

　　Jiang Youtao raised her eyebrows: [ Comrade, in the story of the second female protagonist, is there anyone controlled by the consciousness of the small world?]

　　Melon-eating system: [ Beyond the authority of this system, please explore on your own. ]

　　Jiang Youtao stopped talking. The system did not give a direct answer, which meant that there were still characters in this book who were controlled by the consciousness of the small world, but it's absolutely not Xia Heyu. Looking back at her previous life and the life in the book, she had always been brainless.

　　So could it be Su Zhengtang?

　　When Jiang Youtao returned to the educated youth center, she saw Zhao Yonglan playing the accordion under the fruit trees in the private plot in the yard.

　　She was wearing a goose yellow shirt with a beige woolen vest on the outside, and her hair was tied into a side ponytail.

　　The song she played was a piece of music that Jiang Youtao had never heard of before. The tune was lively and melodious.

　　Apart from Zhao Yonglan's personality and temper, she was actually a pretty good girl. According to Zhang Huihui, she once had the opportunity to join the art troupe.

　　The selection criteria for the Wen Gong Tuan at that time were very strict. If you didn't have some skills, you really couldn't get in. The fact that Zhao Yonglan was able to go shows that she is talented in this area.

　　And according to the trajectory of her previous life, the reason why Zhao Yonglan fell in love with Su Zhengtang was because she felt that he was a good man with a sense of responsibility, and their interactions were every time Su Zhengtang paid back the money.

　　So the question is, two people who are not familiar with each other, in the process of repaying the money, at most they exchanged a few words, how could Zhao Yonglan fall deeply in love with a man in these few words? In this life, Zhao Yonglan is not an ignorant person. As Zhang Huihui said, there are countless people who gave her gifts. Which of those things is not more precious than an egg nestled in a bowl?

　　Would a person who has seen the world, even if she has poor food and clothing, really be moved by an egg and develop a good impression of this man?

　　When Zhao Yonglan finished the song, she put down the accordion, and the autumn wind blew her hair at the right time.

　　There were bursts of applause. Jiang Youtao looked over and saw that the people applauding were the female educated youth led by Li Yunying.

　　Jiang Youtao also clapped: "It's so beautiful. I was stunned by it."

　　Zhao Yonglan smiled shyly.

　　Zhang Huihui said: "The leader of the art troupe who came to our school for the selection said that Yonglan played the accordion very well. If she hadn't fallen and injured her hand on the day of the interview, she would have been a glorious soldier now."

　　Zhao Yonglan walked towards the dormitory holding the accordion: "What's the point of talking about this now? The opportunity has been missed."

　　The art troupe only came to her school to select people once, and missing out would be a lifelong regret for Zhao Yonglan. The next year, she heard that the art troupe was recruiting, so she went to participate in the selection, but unfortunately she was never selected.

　　Every time Zhao Yonglan heard about this, she felt particularly sad.

　　Jiang Youtao took the food and put it at the home where she and Gu Nianwei lived, and walked towards the educated youth dormitory.

　　Gu Nianwei was there too.

　　Ever since Zhao Yonglan stopped making trouble, the atmosphere among the female educated youth became harmonious. Gu Nianwei also liked to come here when she had nothing to do.

　　Jiang Youtao saw that Zhao Yonglan was still in a bad mood. After thinking about it, she told Zhao Yonglan what Aunt Jiang had said to her.

　　Zhao Yonglan was stunned: "No, what is Xia Heyu's purpose in doing this? I have no grudge against her in the past or in the present, and we have never even spoken to each other."

　　"When she got married, I had already stopped living with the Su family. Besides, when I was living with the Su family before, Su Yang and I had never met each other." Su Yang claimed that he was a city man and rarely went home. Even his marriage was arranged by Zhu Yuemei and Sun Xiaojuan.

　　Zhao Yonglan really couldn't understand why Xia Heyu wanted to harm her. She had no idea at all.

　　Jiang Youtao reminded her as she had prepared: "I just heard from Aunt Jiang Si that she had a relationship with Su Zhengtang when she was in junior high school. Maybe she still misses Su Zhengtang, and she just happened to know that Su Zhengtang made an egg for you?"

　　Zhao Yonglan's face suddenly turned green.

　　Gu Nianwei's eyes widened: "Xia Heyu had a relationship with Su Zhengtang? Now she is married to Su Yang? My goodness, they are trying to catch the uncle and nephew of the Su family in one fell swoop."

　　Gu Nianwei felt that she still had little experience. She had only seen articles about a woman who became an aunt/stepmother to her ex-boyfriend after breaking up with him when watching short videos. This was the first time she had seen an article about a woman who became his niece/nephew's wife after breaking up with him.

　　This series of actions made Gu Nianwei more aware of how stupid Xia Heyu was.

　　What's going on? There are no more men in this world? Can she only hang around between the uncle and nephew of the Su family?

　　"Isn't the most outrageous thing that she married her nephew and is hostile to girls who are related to her uncle?" Zhang Huihui felt that she had lived in Chengli for sixteen years, but had not seen as much as she had since coming to Liushugou.

　　Zhang Huihui was so excited by the excitement that followed one after another. Look at the excitement now, how exciting it is. If she wrote back, her sisters wouldn't believe it!

　　"Of course, she's a little sick, right?" Li Yunying also complained.

　　Then she said to Zhao Yonglan, "You just arrived, so you don't know what Linjiadian is. Linjiadian is much poorer than our Liushugou. Their village is in the mountains. I heard that fifty years ago, they didn't know how to farm and relied on hunting for a living."

　　"Later, they started to cultivate the land, but they were lazy and felt that they could not earn as much as hunting by working hard in the fields for a year. As a result, there are more land than people in their village. Now the village is very poor, with many second-rate people and bachelors. No woman is willing to marry into their village."

　　Li Yunying's expression became more and more serious: "Yonglan, from now on, you'd better not be alone. It's best if you stay with me all the time. I know some martial arts and can help you when necessary."

　　Gu Nianwei also said: "You can follow me, I can do it too."

　　Jiang Youtao and Zhang Huihui looked at each other, they were both rookies.

　　At this time, the system went online: [ Breaking news, breaking news, the system mall has a big sale, special price for a powerful pill for only 10 melon coins, do you really not need a powerful pill that can lift a tripod and punch through a wall? The price is not a thousand, it's not five hundred, or even a hundred. The original price is two thousand yuan. Do you really want to miss it? ]

　　The broadcast melon-eating system played this sentence over and over again, making Jiang Youtao's head hurt. She opened the product content and read the product introduction, and then bought it decisively.

　　After all, something that originally costs two thousand yuan a piece can be bought for 10 melon coins. Isn't it the same as free if you round it up?

　　Who can resist the temptation of discounted goods?

　　Jiang Youtao can't.

　　She bought it.

　　Li Yunying had already formulated a plan to protect Zhao Yonglan. Jiang Youtao suddenly remembered Wang Yuan who asked her to convey a message.

　　"Sister Yunying, I saw Wang Yuan when I went to the county town this morning. She asked me to tell you something, asking you to go to her house tomorrow morning to see her."

　　Li Yunying's expression changed immediately: "Did she say that? She told me to go find her tomorrow morning?"

　　Jiang Youtao nodded. Li Yunying asked about Wang Yuan's condition and expression at the time, and then ran out the door: "Wang Shanxi, Wang Shanxi, something happened, something happened."

　　Wang Shanxi ran out with her clothes on: "What's the matter?"

　　Li Yunying took his hand and walked out: "I don't have time to tell you in detail, let's go to Wang Yuan's house quickly."