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

　　Jiang Youtao and the other two suddenly no longer felt how cold it was outside, and they all found a place sheltered from the wind to lean against. Jiang Youtao naturally took out some melon seeds from her pocket and gave some to Gu Nianwei and Zhao Yonglan.

　　The three of them started to crack melon seeds in unison.

　　Su Zhengtang didn't expect that he would be stopped by Xia Heyu, and he didn't expect Xia Heyu to ask such an embarrassing question: "Xia Heyu, you are married now. According to seniority, you are my niece-in-law now. What's the point of telling me this now?"

　　So have some shame. Why ask these questions? There is no point at all.

　　Xia Heyu simply didn't listen. She was a very stubborn person. Once she made up her mind, nothing could change it.

　　Just like she was rescued from the water by Su Zhengtang in her previous life, but she unilaterally believed that the person who rescued her was Su Yang.

　　"If you weren't so cold to me, how could I be good to Su Yang?" Xia Heyu still felt aggrieved when talking about this matter.

　　She and Su Zhengtang started dating during the second semester of their second year of junior high school. She thought that since they were dating, Su Zhengtang would be more enthusiastic towards her, but it turned out that Su Zhengtang loved to read books on weekdays and spent very little time with her.

　　Xia Heyu was the type who particularly needed attention. Su Zhengtang's various actions made her particularly dissatisfied, so not long after they got together, she planned to break up with Su Zhengtang.

　　She started to make trouble for Su Zhengtang, including but not limited to snatching Su Zhengtang's pen and tearing up Su Zhengtang's books and notebooks.

　　The two months that Su Zhengtang and Xia Heyu were together were the most tiring time in his life. When Xia Heyu broke up with him after entering high school, Su Zhengtang felt a little disappointed, but more of a relief, because Xia Heyu was really hard to please.

　　The two had no contact after Xia Heyu went to high school, but sometimes when he was in the county town, he would always see Su Yang taking Xia Heyu out for fun. Su Zhengtang didn't feel anything extra about it.

　　Su Zhengtang really couldn't understand why Xia Heyu, claiming to be his niece-in-law, said such things to him today.

　　Su Zhengtang was too lazy to argue with her, so he turned around and left: "Xia Heyu, everything that happened yesterday is in the past. You were the one who proposed the breakup, and it was your own choice to date and marry Su Yang. You were not forced to agree. You don't have to argue with me here. I believe that I did nothing wrong to you during the two months we were together. Now that our statuses are different, I hope you respect yourself, otherwise I will tell Su Yang what you said to me."

　　Xia Heyu didn't expect Su Zhengtang to be so ruthless. She stood there with tears falling. Watching Su Zhengtang walk away, she immediately chased after him.

　　Jiang Youtao, who had been hiding in the corner and watching a good show, walked out from behind the eaves.

　　Jiang Youtao's melon-eating system sounded at the right time: [ Ding ~~ Watching the second male and female protagonists entangled in the scene, and eating melon seeds, the host will be rewarded with YouXmei milk tea powder x10 and garlic melon seeds 2kg. ]

　　Gu Nianwei clicked her tongue and said, "Xiao Xia's tactics are not very good. She is now the wife of Su Zhengtang's nephew. She asked such a question so carelessly. Even if he has some ulterior motives, he cannot reply to her openly."

　　Jiang Youtao said mysteriously, " When a man pursues a woman, it's easy for her to resist. Once a woman takes the initiative, it's very rare for a man to resist. Maybe Su Zhengtang refused on the surface, but he's actually ready to make a move. After all, he's a former lover. First love is the most unforgettable."

　　Jiang Youtao's eyes fell on Zhao Yonglan from time to time.

　　Isn't it the case in the book? Didn't Su Zhengtang treat Xia Heyu coldly at first? But in the end, under Xia Heyu's passionate pursuit and flirting regardless of the occasion, didn't the two of them get together?

　　If we remove the filter of the male and female protagonists, Su Zhengtang got involved with Xia Heyu before she got divorced. If not a third party, what else could he be?

　　Jiang Youtao's moral standards are not that high, but she looks down on mistresses who destroy other people's families, regardless of whether they are men or women.

　　And weren't all the things that Su Zhengtang encountered later all his blessings?

　　He was the mistress of Xia Heyu and Su Yang, so there must be someone to be the mistress of him and Xia Heyu. Isn't there a saying that goes like this? If there are three people, there will always be three people.

　　When she first read the novel, she felt that Su Zhengtang was quite pitiful. He was cuckolded during his marriage. When the company encountered a financial crisis, Xia Heyu added insult to injury, divided the property and ran away. Later, their child was also abducted and lost.

　　How tragic! But if you knew the whole story and thought about it carefully, you would feel that all of this was done by Su Zhengtang. If he had been more resolute and not tempted by Xia Heyu, would he have come to this point today?

　　And in Xia Heyu's previous life, was Su Zhengtang really good to Zhao Yonglan? Would a man who could not resist temptation really be devoted to Zhao Yonglan? In the book with Xia Heyu as the protagonist, is the description of Su Zhengtang and Zhao Yonglan really correct?

　　Jiang Youtao is reserved.

　　Zhao Yonglan cracked a melon seed and said, "I heard from those aunties that men are the most vulnerable to temptation. As long as a woman takes the initiative, they will sleep with her even if she is not good-looking. After all, they are not at a disadvantage. Su Zhengtang and Xia Heyu are first love and has an uncle and nephew-in-law relationship. Isn't the excitement doubled?"

　　The aunties and sisters in the village spoke without any discrimination. Ever since Zhao Yonglan had a fight with Zhu Yuemei, she had lost some of her city dweller sense of superiority and could now interject a few words when the aunties and sisters in the village were talking.

　　There was nothing more exciting to watch, so the three of them went back while talking.

　　After spending the whole morning slacking off on the hemp stalks, the group headed towards the educated youth site.

　　As soon as they got out of the dam, they saw Zhao Chunhua, wearing a dark grey dress and carrying a large basket, looking for manure on the street. Since she was labeled as a whore, Zhao Chunhua's life became miserable.

　　Lin Jianhua, whom she once doted on, publicly refused to acknowledge her as his mother, and Lin Lao Zhuang even dissolved his marriage with Zhao Chunhua on the day she was taken away.

　　The two big backers she relied on fell together, and she had no place to live after returning to the village, so she could only live in the brigade's animal shed. Lin Jianzhong was busy fighting with Lin Jianhua for houses, and he successfully won three houses, but he never thought of bringing Zhao Chunhua back to live.

　　Zhao Chunhua was deserted by her friends and family. At this moment, she was walking in front, and the brothers Lin Wenping and Lin Wen'an were behind her with sticks, hitting Zhao Chunhua from time to time. If Zhao Chunhua dared to get angry, Lin Wenping would pull out the banner of supervising her labor reform. Zhao Chunhua was afraid of being paraded through the streets, so she dared not say a word.

　　The three saw Jiang Youtao and the others. Lin Wen'an grabbed a stone and was about to throw it at Gu Nianwei, but was stopped by Lin Wenping: "What are you doing?"

　　Lin Wen'an pointed at Gu Nianwei and said, "Beat her. Didn't you tell me? Our family is in this state because of her. If she had known better and married our father, our family wouldn't be in trouble."

　　Lin Wen'an hated Gu Nianwei. On the day his father came back, he was wearing a military uniform and walking with dignity. Lin Wen'an suddenly became the most envied person by the children in the village. Because he was the son of the People's Liberation Army and the descendant of a hero.

　　His father also brought them delicious food and beautiful clothes. However, before they had even had two days of good life, the friends in the village stopped envying him and instead said that his father was shameless, that he had taken a fancy to the educated youth, and that he used his power to force her to marry him when she didn't want to. They were not good people.

　　During those days, Lin Wenping would scold Gu Nianwei at home whenever he had nothing to do, and Lin Wen'an also hated Gu Nianwei very much.

　　"We can't fight. They have more people and we can't defeat them. Let's go quickly, let's go quickly." Lin Wenping pulled Lin Wen'an and walked away. After they walked away, he turned back to look at Gu Nianwei and smiled at him, just like before anything happened.

　　Zhang Huihui said, "These two kids are annoying. The younger one is okay, he doesn't have much brains, but the older one is full of twists and turns. Look at his behavior just now, how can he look like an eight-year-old kid? He has so many tricks that they are like a sieve."

　　Zhang Huihui hated Lin Jianzhong, and naturally she also hated his three children. The youngest one was okay, as he was very young and you couldn't tell anything, but the two older ones could be seen through at a glance: the younger one was brainless, while the older ones were as cunning as a sieve.

　　Gu Nianwei didn't look at them much. Ever since she had a falling out with Lin Jianzhong, she no longer felt sorry for the three Lin Wenping brothers. In her eyes, these children were no different from other children in the village.

　　And she is no longer as generous to the children in the village as she used to be.

　　"Let's go quickly. The wind is so strong that it hurts our faces." said Gu Nianwei.

　　Zhao Yonglan touched her face and said, "Do you still have any vanishing cream? Mine is almost gone. I have to go to the commune to buy some."

　　The north is dry and they are not used to the weather. They use a lot of vanishing cream and a bottle of it is used up in less than a month.

　　Jiang Youtao's cream was gone too: "Mine is gone too. Let's go together one day when the wind is not so strong. I have to buy some loose ones. I won't feel bad about using them to wipe my hands and feet."

　　The system mall has a wide range of items. There are countless skin care products from later times, and the prices are very cheap. Jiang Youtao bought a set in the space and used it every morning. But next year, she will still use the vanishing cream of this era. The quality of the vanishing cream of this era is not bad. It is very good as a hand cream and body lotion, and it is very moisturizing.

　　Gu Nianwei also has a lot of skin care products and cosmetics in her space. Like Jiang Youtao, she only does superficial work and always buys a bottle every one or two months.

　　"Then let's go together. Otherwise, the weather will get colder after a while and we won't want to go out." Three of the five girls wanted to go, and Zhang Huihui and Li Yunying also decided to go.

　　When Wang Shanxi and other male educated youth heard about this, they also decided to go together. They would not be able to let go if they did not go with Jiang Youtao and other female educated youth.

　　When the group returned to the educated youth site, they saw a man standing at the entrance of the site from afar with a bicycle parked next to him.

　　Jiang Youtao recognized Fu Shaohua at a glance. She quickened her pace unconsciously. After walking a few steps, she felt a little embarrassed. Gu Nianwei came over and put her arm around Jiang Youtao's shoulder.

　　"It is said that a gentleman desires a beautiful lady, but the same is true in reverse, right?" Gu Nianwei said with a snicker on her face.

　　Everyone lived in the same courtyard, and no one could hide anything from others. Everyone knew that Jiang Youtao had some feelings about the new postman in the commune. Jiang Youtao turned around to look at Li Yunying and the others, and sure enough, they all looked a little teasing.

　　Zhao Yonglan continued, "Yes, yes, Comrade Fu is so good-looking, who wouldn't be moved when seeing him?"

　　Who doesn't have a love for beauty?

　　Everyone laughed.

　　Seeing them like this, Jiang Youtao also stood up and said, "Yonglan is right. I'll just take a closer look. Is there anything wrong?"

　　"Nothing wrong, nothing wrong." Everyone chatted and laughed, and then they arrived at the entrance of the educated youth site.

　　No one spoke, and tacitly gave the chance to talk to Fu Shaohua to Jiang Youtao.

　　"Comrade Fu, have you been waiting for a long time?"

　　"I have just arrived not long ago. Your youth cadre site has several letters, and I have delivered them to you." Fu Shaohua took out the letters from the youth cadre site in Liushugou and gave them to them, five letters in total, which meant that most people had received the letters.

　　Jiang Youtao's letter was placed at the front: "Comrade Fu, it's quite cold, come in and have a drink of water?"

　　Fu Shaohua wanted to refuse, but facing Jiang Youtao's sparkling eyes, he agreed for some reason. When he came to his senses, he was already sitting in the kitchen of the educated youth center used to entertain guests, holding a glass of water poured for him by Jiang Youtao.

　　The warm water flowed into his hands through the enamel cup, warming his whole body.

　　Everyone was very interested in Fu Shaohua's transformation from a farm worker to a commune postman, and since the real person was here, everyone started asking about him.

　　Fu Shaohua has answered this question hundreds of times. He glanced at Jiang Youtao secretly and said, "It's nothing. One of my classmates was assigned to Zaoxiang Commune. He didn't want to come, so he switched with me. After I arrived at the commune, I couldn't adapt to the work in the fields, so I thought of a way and became the commune's postman."

　　Postman was a very popular job in these days. There were so many people eyeing it, and you couldn't get in without some connections. Fu Shaohua, an educated youth from outside the country, could become a postman, so his family background must be good.

　　After chatting for a while, Fu Shaohua decided to leave. Wang Shanxi wanted him to stay for dinner, but he refused.

　　Jiang Youtao walked him out. As soon as she opened the kitchen door, the wind blew into her face and she coughed twice.

　　Fu Shaohua smiled, his eyes narrowed into crescents, and the dimples on his cheeks were faintly visible: "You are from Shencheng, right? The autumn over there is not that cold, right?"

　　"Yes, the wind is not that strong. The wind in the north is really strong, it almost scratches my face." Jiang Youtao replied casually.

　　Fu Shaohua's eyes fell on Jiang Youtao's face, but he quickly looked away: "It's easiest to catch a cold during the transition from autumn to winter. Wear more clothes and don't get sick. It's painful."

　　Fu Shaohua's voice is the clear voice of youth, somewhere between maturity and immaturity. His pronunciation is clear and melodious with a hint of Beijing accent, which makes it particularly pleasant to hear.

　　Jiang Youtao smiled and nodded: "You too, you run outside all day, so wear more clothes and a hat."

　　"Okay." As they were talking, they went outside and Fu Shaohua got on his bicycle: "I'm leaving."

　　Jiang Youtao waved at him and watched him go away.

　　Jiang Youtao turned back after he could no longer be seen. After taking two steps, she saw Zhu Yuemei coming out from next door.

　　Zhu Yuemei looked gloomy and said, "Hey, isn't this Comrade Jiang? Who are you talking to?"

　　Zhu Yuemei was in a particularly bad mood because she was despised and criticized by her eldest son and two daughters. She was even more disgusted when she saw Jiang Youtao and other educated youth.

　　She had thought about it carefully during this period of time. The reason why she and Su Changshan had such a quarrel was because of Zhao Yonglan. If she hadn't asked her to pay back the money and hadn't fought with her, Su Changshan wouldn't have scolded her. If he hadn't scolded her, she wouldn't have revealed the matter between Su Changshan and Zhao Chunhua in anger.

　　If she didn't expose herself, she would not be able to fall into the trap set by Zhao Xiaotao.

　　She figured it all out. Zhao Xiaotao did it on purpose that day. She took advantage of her anger and dragged her into reporting it.

　　Jiang Youtao has no good feelings towards Zhu Yuemei at all.

　　She deserves sympathy for having been cheated on for many years, but the fact that she cheated Zhao Yonglan of her money is a fact that has been passed down for three lifetimes. She reported Su Changshan on impulse, and now she has come to her senses and regrets it, and she is blaming them for the mistakes. Is she sick?

　　Jiang Youtao didn't indulge her at all.

　　"What does it have to do with you?" Jiang Youtao walked into the educated youth center and slammed the door shut.

　　Zhu Yuemei was so angry that she went back to the room cursing. Su Zhengtang was carving something with a carving knife. Judging from the shape, it was a hairpin for women.

　　Seeing Zhu Yuemei coming in angrily, he didn't put down the carving knife: "Mom, what's wrong with you?"

　　Zhu Yuemei sat down on the kang and said, "What else could it be? I am mad at the educated youth next door. I don't know what you were thinking. There are so many residential plots in the village, but you had to build a house here? You know your mother gets a headache when she sees those educated youth."

　　"If it weren't for that bitch Zhao Yonglan, your father and I wouldn't have gotten to that point. She is the troublemaker, the jinx. Whoever she goes to suffers misfortune."

　　Su Zhengtang's eyes flashed with impatience, and he finally put down what he was holding: "Mom, I've told you so many times that you were wrong in that incident. You should find a chance to apologize to Comrade Zhao."

　　"I won't apologize!" Zhu Yuemei will never apologize to Zhao Yonglan in her life.

　　Su Zhengtang completely ignored her and went to the kang in the west room with his things.

　　He lay on the kang, leaning against the pillow, and recalled the extremely clear and coherent dreams he had had at night during this period.

　　In the dream, Zhao Yonglan was his wife.