Chapter 23 The last wishes of the unfortunate father and daughter in the 60s 2
While acquiring information about the world, they also collected hidden plots.
Changan "tsk tsk" twice, shaking his head, "The scam behind the fake group pet article?"
Gu Laoliu was still showing off his porridge and responded with a couple of perfunctory “hmm”s, which was considered as paying attention to his daughter.
He didn't care whether this body would feel uncomfortable if he ate too much. He was hungry anyway, so he had to eat. If he felt uncomfortable, he would take a pill that could cure all diseases.
This sound made Chang'an imagine his second senior brother eating.
Changan might be used to it, so he didn't take it seriously and just drank milk with his legs tilted up.
Shen Mingbao is a reborn male protagonist with koi luck, and his koi halo is very strange. Whoever he has ill will towards, that person's luck will automatically flow to Shen Mingbao.
People who have no luck will naturally be plagued by bad luck and all kinds of misfortune.
Changan has read stories about female koi fish protagonists who are loved by everyone, but he didn't expect that this one would be a story about a bad koi fish protagonist who is loved by everyone. It's quite fresh.
In his previous life, Shen Mingbao was called Shen Jianping. The third wife had two daughters and a son. When Shen's third wife gave birth to the youngest son, she was injured and lost her fertility.
So in his previous life, Shen Jianping became the only son of the third wife. He was spoiled and pampered by his parents, and then he was raised in a wrong way.
And because his parents fed him a lot, he became over 200 pounds. He was lazy, greedy, and had a bad temper. He was in his thirties and still hadn't found a wife.
When he was 36 years old, his mother arranged for him to marry a widow with three children.
In contrast to her are the twin brother and sister from the fourth room. In their previous lives, the twin brother and sister were the most beloved grandchildren of Old Man and Old Lady Shen.
The twin brother, Shen Jianming, married an educated youth from Shanghai. After the college entrance examination was resumed, the couple both were admitted to university and went to Shanghai to develop their careers.
After graduating from university, Shen Jianming went into politics. With the help of his mother's family, he was promoted all the way and finally entered the center of power in Beijing.
Of course, this was also inseparable from the support of his twin sister's husband's family. His sister was admitted to Beijing Medical University and dated a man who was from a powerful family and was the third generation of a powerful family.
The brother and sister's lives seem to be on a roll, forming a control group with Shen Jianping's life.
What Shen Jianping envied the most were the twin brother and sister. They were also children of the Shen family, so why should he live a poor life? The brother and sister became rich and didn't even think of helping him.
He was unwilling to give up, so after he was reborn, he made up his mind that when the twin brother and sister grew up, he would ask their grandmother to sell the younger sister to an old widower in the next village, and also let Shen Jianming marry a widow with a child.
Unexpectedly, he used too much force and caused the twins to die. The entire family of the fourth room was killed. They had not planned for the twins. Shen Mingbao always felt that there was something wrong in his heart, which made him very uncomfortable.
"It turns out that we can't judge a thing by its appearance," Chang'an casually fed her father another corn, and then continued to watch the hidden plot.
Gu Laoliu felt that the plot was too long-winded, so he took a quick look and gave Changan a summary.
"Shen Laosi's wife was killed by a wild boar led by Shen Mingbao, and his son was also pushed into the river by Shen Mingbao. Old Man Shen and his wife discovered that there was something wrong with his luck.
The old couple alerted the whole family as soon as they found out. Now the Shen family appears to be doting on Shen Mingbao, but in fact they are using him to gain benefits, especially in this year of famine. With him in the family, no one will starve to death.
However, they did not alert Shen Laosi's family. They thought that Shen Mingbao had already set his sights on Shen Laosi, so there was no need to alert them. This was just the right way to attract Shen Mingbao's attention and protect the rest of the Shen family.
In the previous life, the family of Mr. Shen Si was also a tool for Mrs. Shen to gain benefits. All her favoritism was fake. In fact, she was most partial to the family of Mr. Shen Da. It was just that the family of Mr. Shen Si was capable, so she could only support them and let them be the stepping stones for the eldest wife.
There is also a book-crosser in this world who thinks she is the girl of luck and does all kinds of evil things. As long as she is sent out of the small world, the cracks will automatically repair themselves. "
"We don't need to look for her. In a few years she will come to Qinghe Brigade as an educated youth. We just need to wait for her to come."
The prey will come to your door, so there is no need to hunt it yourself, just wait patiently.
"Dad, we came too early."
"The timeline is right here. From now on, there will be no Shen Laosi and his daughter. How can we make extra money?"
"It seems to be the case."
The father and daughter had a full lunch, and they started eating only after all the Shen family members outside, except Gu Laoliu and other people from Chang'an, had arrived.
In front of Shen Mingbao there was a bowl of steamed eggs and a bowl of pure white rice porridge, while the bowls of others contained rice porridge with sweet potatoes.
The men in the family each got two mixed-flour steamed buns the size of an adult's fist, and the five grandsons each got one. The three granddaughters and three daughters-in-law each got only one-third, less than half.
There were only two slices of sweet potato and some water in their bowls, clearly showing the preference for boys over girls.
But compared to other daughters-in-law in the village, she and her granddaughter went hungry for nine meals in three days.
Thanks to Shen Mingbao, the women in the Shen family were able to get something to eat during those years of famine.
Shen Mingbao always secretly went up the mountain to pick pheasants and rabbits, and Old Man Shen and his three sons were responsible for taking them to the town to exchange for money and food.
Why don't you eat it yourself? People are dying of starvation during the famine. If you still eat meat, be careful that you will end up on someone else's plate.
The villagers wanted to target Shen Mingbao, hoping to use his luck to help Qinghe Village overcome its difficulties.
But Shen Mingbao thought of the villagers' ridicule of him in his previous life, and a bad idea came to his mind.
Don't you want him to help? Then help him.
He led the villagers with hunting experience into the mountains and lured them to a herd of wild boars when they were off guard.
Ten men went into the mountains, four were killed, six were injured, and they only killed one wild boar.
The older generation are all talking about Shen Mingbao in private. He must be an unlucky guy.
The four families whose family members had died didn't know that Shen Mingbao did it on purpose, but that didn't stop them from coming to the Shen's house to make trouble. But after the trouble, their families started to have bad luck, and now some of the four families have died or are disabled.
Because it was so weird, the villagers were scared and dared not ask Shen Mingbao for help anymore, let alone cause trouble at the Shen family.
Chang'an rolled his eyes and said, "Dad, the Shen family is still eating."
Gu Laoliu understood immediately and fulfilled the original owner's first wish, starting with snatching food.
The original owner was not really a very good person. He was a smart person and did not rely on work points to support his family.
The original owner hid it very well, even his parents and brothers didn't know about it, and thought that they were the ones supporting the lazy fourth room's family.
In fact, if they pay some attention to the fourth family, they will find that the two children only eat two or three bites at each meal, and the fourth child and his wife also eat a little symbolically.
The amount of food a family of four eats in a day is not as much as Shen Daya eats in one meal.
Every day Shen Laosi would bring food back from the town to feed his wife and children. The family had developed picky appetites and looked down on the coarse grain steamed buns and sweet potato porridge that was as thin as pot washing water at home.
Just from what they ate at the table, the work points that Shen Laosi's wife earned from collecting pig grass were enough to feed a family of four, and she didn't take any advantage of her brothers at all.
If he is so powerful, why is he so hungry now that he is just skin and bones?
This is because during the famine years, even if you had money and tickets, you couldn’t buy food, and state-owned restaurants were almost unable to operate.
Then there was the fact that Shen Laosi was rich, which was somehow discovered by Shen Mingbao. He instigated Shen Laotai to make a scene, and all of Shen Laosi's money was confiscated.
Mr. and Mrs. Shen couldn't cook for themselves, so they could only drink the water used to wash the pot and eat steamed corn bread with everyone else every day. That would have been fine, but they couldn't even eat enough. How could they not become hungry and thin?
In the main hall of the Shen family, everyone was eating the coarse grain steamed buns in silence, choking and rolling their eyes.
Thinking of the almost empty grain jar, Old Lady Shen's face was filled with worry. "Old man, you and the eldest brother should go to the town tonight to see if you can buy some food. It doesn't matter what. As long as it can fill our stomachs."
Old man Shen also sighed, "I'm afraid it's hard to buy. Half a month ago, both the black market in the county and the black market in the town were out of stock."
"If we really can't buy food, we can eat meat. Mingbao, please go up the mountain more diligently and bring back more game." Shen Laoer didn't care whether he could buy food or not, as long as he had meat to eat.
"Every household is starving, but we are eating meat? I think you are mentally ill. People who are extremely hungry can do anything. If you don't want to be condemned by the whole village, don't be the first one to stick your head out."
Old Lady Shen slapped Old Man Shen on the back of his head, and then warned the others, "You too, if you don't want to die, stop thinking about eating meat all the time."
The others nodded obediently. Shen Mingbao pouted his lips indifferently. With him here, why would he be afraid of others making trouble? He was so cowardly.
However, he just thought about it in his mind and did not refute what Old Lady Shen said. Anyway, he had enough food to eat every day and she was not the one who was hungry. If they wanted to starve, then let them starve.