Chapter 22 The last wish of the unlucky father and daughter in the 60s 1
My father put down the teacup, straightened his back, and replied in a gentle voice: "My name is Shen Yifan. I want to know the reason why our fourth branch is unlucky and how to completely break away from the Shen family."
He couldn't find the answer, and couldn't bear to sever ties with his parents, so he asked someone else to fulfill his last wish.
Dayi nodded slightly and said, "It will require two-thirds of your merits to exchange."
"Can"
Gu Laoliu and Chang'an woke up at the right time, and 996 immediately presented the plot.
Fortunately, it is not a small world derived from the eunuch novel, and the plot is complete.
Shen Yifan was the fourth child in the family. He married and had a pair of twins, a boy and a girl. His wife and children died in the summer of 58. His wife was killed by a wild boar while digging wild vegetables in the mountains, and his son accidentally fell into the river while playing by the river and drowned.
The father and daughter also died in the summer of 60. How did they die? I don’t know.
Take a good sleep, and oh wow, a lifetime has passed.
Shen Mingbao is Shen Yifan's third brother and Shen Yicheng's youngest son. The fourth branch of the family began to have bad luck since he was born. At first, they were all trivial things, such as dropped chopsticks and overturned stools.
As Shen Mingbao grew older, the fourth roommate's bad luck turned into extremely bad luck. He would get scalded by boiling water, break his legs for no reason when falling on the ground, cut his legs while cutting rice, and so on.
In contrast to their bad luck, the third family has had incredibly good luck since Shen Mingbao was born.
Shen Mingbao is only one year older than the twin daughters of Shen Laosi. On the night he was born, a wild boar was killed at the door of his house. Since then, pheasants and rabbits have automatically entered the house every few days.
After he learned to walk, he started running to the mountains and always brought back something. The old Shen family built a large brick house and yard with the ginseng picked by Shen Mingbao.
Shen Mingbao is the lucky treasure of the Shen family and is doted on by the whole family. However, the twin brother and sister from the fourth room are the unlucky ones who are hated by everyone in the Shen family.
The plot unfolds from the perspective of the male protagonist. In Shen Mingbao's own account, his fourth uncle's family is a top-notch group of people.
The family of four is lazy and gluttonous. They never leave anything left over after eating and are incapable of doing anything. They are all supported by the three brothers of the Shen family. Even so, they still make a mess at home every day.
The fourth family was killed off too early, and there wasn't much plot.
Shen Mingbao's life went smoothly. He married a powerful woman who gave birth to triplets for him. He went to college and did business. Anyone who opposed him would be eliminated in seconds.
It would be strange if he and the heroine were in love and lived together till old age.
After becoming rich thanks to the heroine's family, he kept countless lovers outside.
Later, he became disgusted with the heroine's old age and ugly appearance. If it weren't for the pressure from the heroine's family, he would have taken the mistress and the illegitimate child home.
This scumbag lived a long life and lived to be 120 years old.
From the male protagonist's perspective, regardless of your values, this is a male-oriented and enjoyable novel.
The death of Shen Yifan's family was an accident in the plot.
Gu Laoliu glanced at Shen Yifan and his daughter indifferently. Both of their souls had a faint layer of golden light of merit, which was really not easy to come by.
Merit is not easy to accumulate. Most people accumulate blessings rather than merit, but everyone has his or her own destiny.
Tsk, even with the protection of merits, he is still in such a miserable state?
Gu Laoliu picked up his dazed daughter and disappeared in the courtyard in the blink of an eye. Dayi and the others also left with him.
996 is confused, has it been abandoned?
Only it and Shen Yifan and his daughter were left staring at each other in the yard. Oh, 996 has no eyes, it is just a small flower-shaped cloud.
The time when Gu Laoliu and Chang'an arrived in the small world was exactly the day when Gu Yifan and his daughter died.
"Old Four, Old Four, look at what time it is now? You slept until noon and couldn't even get up. Why don't you just die of laziness?"
The old woman with a hunched back stood in the middle of the yard with her hands on her hips, cursing loudly.
The neighbors were extremely envious. From the sound, they knew they had eaten their fill. They were not like them, who were so hungry that they had to lie in bed to save energy.
There's no point in being envious, because their family doesn't have a lucky baby.
When Old Mrs. Shen saw that her fourth son and his father would not wake up no matter how she called them, she ran to the corner of the yard, picked up a bamboo stick, and angrily came to the door of the fourth room.
"Bang, bang, bang." The door was shaken by the old woman's pounding, but it stubbornly stood still.
"Grandma, it doesn't matter if Fourth Uncle and Fourth Sister can't afford it, but we can save some food. There's not much food left at home, and we can't buy food outside. We have to eat frugally."
The chubby six-year-old boy's words and deeds were the epitome of an adult. When he looked at the fourth room, there was undisguised malice in his eyes.
Mrs. Shen came out of the kitchen carrying a large bowl of sweet potato porridge and echoed her youngest son's words, "Mom, Mingbao is right. We don't have much food at home. We should save as much as we can. Anyway, my brother-in-law and his son don't work, so it doesn't matter if they skip a few meals."
Old Mrs. Shen thought this was reasonable. Other families also saved food for those who worked in the fields. Those who didn't work just lay at home and wouldn't get hungry so quickly if they didn't work.
There wasn't much food at home to begin with, and except for Shen Mingbao, everyone else only ate until they were 60% full. With two less people eating, they could eat one more bite.
In order to have more food, everyone in the Shen family chose to ignore the father and son from the fourth room.
There were two beds in the dim room. It’s not quite right to call them beds, but just two wooden boards made of mud bricks with a torn straw mat on top.
On the small bed was sleeping a skinny little girl with a big head and thin neck, and on the other bed was sleeping a tall but unrecognizable man.
When the door was smashed, the father and son woke up at the same time.
But the ones who woke up were Laoliu and Changan.
The first thing they felt when they regained consciousness was the burning pain in their stomach. It was the first time that the father and son experienced hunger.
"Dad, I'm hungry. I want to eat."
"My daughter, Daddy is hungry too, let's eat~".
The father and daughter lay motionless on their respective beds, each wanting the other to feed them.
Upon seeing this, Dayi immediately brought out the porridge he had cooked in the space.
Of course, he fed Chang'an first. The 'old' master wouldn't die if he starved for a while, so he could also choose to eat by himself.
Gu Laoliu lay down for a while, and when he was sure that no one was paying attention to him, he got up by himself, trembling. Perhaps because he was too hungry, his hands were shaking like he had Parkinson's disease, and some of the porridge in his hands spilled all over his body and bed.
Gao Yi probably couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so he came out of the space, took the bowl of porridge, made sure the temperature was just right, and poured it into his 'old' master's mouth.
Gu Laoliu was forced to drink a bowl of white porridge, "Gao Yi, I can eat by myself, so there's no need to bother you."
Is he too easy to talk to? Otherwise, why are they all so disrespectful to him?
Seeing that he was not shaking as much, Gao Yi nodded, brought out half a bowl of porridge from the space, then got a box of milk for Gu Laoliu and returned to the space.
Changan was fed two bowls of porridge by Dayi, and finally recovered, "Dad, we can't live with the famine, right?"
“You can publish a book in the future, titled ‘My Inextricable Bond with Famine’”, Gu Laoliu was also a little confused.
The father and daughter immediately obtained the world information of the small world. This small world derived from the novel was created by the author based on the historical background of the big world.
However, most of the content has been changed, but the main timeline has not been changed. For example, the famine and that decade, as well as the college entrance examination that was resumed in 77, are all on the same timeline.
There were signs of the great famine in the second half of 59, and the disaster began to expand in 60, with severe droughts continuing to break out in the north.
61 years later, the drought spread outward, and wheat production in the main grain-producing areas of the three provinces dropped by 50% from the previous year's lowest level.
The Qinghe Brigade is located neither in the south nor in the north and was also affected by the disaster.
People in the village starved to death one after another, mostly the elderly. In order to save food for their children and grandchildren, they starved to death.
The team leader has an unshirkable responsibility. When the team was first established, he falsely reported production in order to gain the honor of being an advanced team. Two-thirds of the grain was used to pay the public grain tax, leaving very little grain for the villagers.
It was not just the Qinghe Brigade. There were many brigades that reported inflated production figures. The most exaggerated one was a brigade that reported a yield of 30,000 jin per mu, but all the grain stored in the warehouse was not enough to pay the public grain tax.
Another thing is that everyone wastes food when eating from the same pot. Then some idiots, in order to prove that their village has abundant grain production, actually carry millet and rice and throw them on the road for people to snatch.
After the big pot meal was cancelled, every household had no surplus food, and the villagers relied on wild vegetables to survive. The edible wild vegetables and tree roots and bark on the mountains had been eaten up.
Father and daughter: ...
(Off topic: Those who want to know more about that period of history can read the "China Disaster Report 1949-1995" compiled by the National Bureau of Statistics and the Ministry of Civil Affairs. I will not explain it in detail here.)