Reborn in the 80s, Get Rich by Eating Melons
作者: Yin Family's Sixth Child© WebNovel
章節 1: Chapter 1 Rebirth
"Wow! Si was so handsome when he was young, with superb medical skills and adoring his wife so much; he was the epitome of a man!"
"His wife, Tong Yao, was a rare beauty. I heard she even turned down offers from big movie directors."
"No wonder the head of Hengfei Group remains unmarried for her."
"The head of Wanqing Group also spoke very highly of her in an interview."
As Tong Yao was waiting for her milk tea, she overheard the girls nearby talking about these things on social media. She secretly sighed at the irony of fate; her name was also Tong Yao, but her life was so different from hers.
"Your milk tea is ready."
Tong Yao, holding her milk tea, walked out of the store. Suddenly, the sky showed unusual signs. The originally hot air suddenly turned cool, wild winds blew, and dark clouds blocked the sun.
Tong Yao looked up, only to see a bolt of lightning coming straight at her from the clouds. A deaf naturesound rang in her ears, her body went numb, and she collapsed.
Before losing consciousness, she seemed to hear screams.
"Oh my God! Someone was struck by lightning."
...
"Ouch."
Tong Yao muttered, her head buzzing with pain as though it was about to split open. A barrage of memories that weren't hers came flooding into her mind, leaving her dazed.
Before she could gather her thoughts, she heard a woman's anxious voice next to her.
"Your second brother has been gone for so long to fetch the doctor, why isn't he back yet? You go to the entrance of the village and check."
Then another girl's voice chimed in, "Why bother getting a doctor? She's just pretending! I'm going to call my brother now and have him divorce her. She dared to steal money and elope with another man, utterly disgracing the Si family!"
"We don't know the full story yet, don't talk nonsense."
Listening to the dialogue between the two, Tong Yao was stunned for a while before finally coming to terms with the fact that she had actually traveled back to 1985.
Is this some kind of sick joke?
According to the memories in her head, the original host was also named Tong Yao. Her family was wealthy, and her father, Tong Yaohui, was the head of a state-owned factory and had just retired this year.
Because he had a daughter in his middle age, he doted on her immensely. The only drawback was that he was stubborn. Back then, Si's father saved Tong Yaohui's life and died early from a resulting illness. Tong Yaohui was gratefully remembered and not only provided for Si's eldest son to study medicine and become a doctor, but insisted on marrying his daughter to him as well.
The original host didn't have the ability to resist and married Si Chen - someone she's never met - amid tears. Coincidentally, her husband was called away for an emergency at the hospital on their wedding day. The original host completed the wedding ceremony alone without even seeing her groom's face.
Half a month into their marriage, the original host still didn't know what her husband looked like.
Interestingly enough, the original host's husband and the elderly Si share the same name, Si Chen, and both are doctors.
"Who's talking nonsense? We've caught them red-handed. How could there be any doubt?"
The voice of a young girl rang out by her side again.
According to the original host's memories, the speaker was Si Xiaohui, her sister-in-law, and the other voice belonged to Lin Fengying, her mother-in-law.
"Mother." Tong Yao opened her eyes. Seeing the bare, dilapidated room, she almost broke down crying.
What sort of rotten luck was this? Before time-traveling, she was just a fatherless, motherless, unfortunate university student. After time-traveling, her husband's family turns out to be so poor.
"Yaoyao, you're awake!" Lin Fengying was stunned when Tong Yao suddenly woke up. She seemed unsure if Tong Yao had heard their conversation and looked a bit awkward. "Does your head still hurt?"
"It hurts a bit." Tong Yao reached up to touch her head, sucking in a sharp breath from the pain.
Lin Fengying quickly grabbed her hand and said with concern, "Don't move around. Your brother went to fetch the doctor. He'll be back soon."
Si Xiaohui rolled her eyes and snapped, "What's the point of getting a doctor? All our money has been stolen by her. How can we afford to treat her injuries?"
"Stop talking nonsense." Lin Fengying scolded sharply. "Go and make your sister-in-law a bowl of chicken egg soup."
"I won't. After stealing our money, she still expects us to wait on her. You can keep spoiling her if you like!"
Si Xiaohui glared at Tong Yao resentfully and stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind her. Tong Yao could even smell the dust that was stirred up in the air.
The Si family had three rooms. This one was the largest. In principle, it should have been for Lin Fengying. But Lin Fengying gave it up for the newlyweds' bedroom, fearing that it would be unfair to the original host. She moved to the other room to live with Si Xiaohui. The second son lived in a small shed built under the eaves.
Not wanting Tong Yao to be upset, Lin Fengying quickly tried to comfort her, "Yaoyao, don't be angry. Xiaohui is spoiled. I'll talk to her about it later."
Tong Yao looked embarrassed, "I'm not upset."
The original host was exceptionally beautiful and the daughter of a city factory director. She was a university graduate who married into the countryside, which naturally made her the focus of attention. Adding to that, her experience of being left alone in her bridal chamber on her wedding day was known to people in several neighboring villages. Naturally, it also attracted some undesirable suitors.
The son of the village head from the neighboring village, Jia Qing, had his sights set on Tong Yao. His appearance as a literary youth deeply attracted the original host. Unfortunately, the original host was infatuated with romance. She stole some money intending to elope with him. However, she was caught red-handed just as she left the house. The original host did not admit it and even resorted to crying, making a scene, and attempting to hit her head against the wall.
Sigh! How embarrassing.
Lin Fengying discreetly observed Tong Yao, noting that she seemed a bit off. Usually, Tong Yao would be making a fuss already. It was the first time she had seen her so quiet.
And also, she had just called her 'Mom'.
"Mom, how is YaoYao?" Si Boyi, accompanied by a doctor, hurriedly entered the room, looking concerned.
"She's awake." Lin Fengying gave the doctor space to do his work, "Doctor, please examine my daughter-in-law. She hit her head."
The doctor that Si Boyi brought was in his fifties and was a well-known traditional Chinese doctor based in the neighbouring village. Everyone in the village would go to him for small illnesses like colds and minor injuries.
He carefully examined the wound on Tong Yao's forehead and concluded, "The skin was cut but it's not serious. I'll apply some medicine and wrap it. Remember not to get it wet in the next few days."
Tong Yao felt so embarrassed that she curled her toe. The original host had only pretended to hit her head hard. Her arrival was unexpected.
The old doctor applied some medicine to Tong Yao's forehead and covered it with a bandage. He only charged one yuan. Lin Fengying rummaged through her pockets for quite a while before she managed to find one and a half cents. Seeing the financial hardship of the family, the old doctor said in an unchanged tone.
"She'll need to change the bandage, you can give me the money next time."
"Thank you."
Lin Fengying saw the old doctor to the door.
Left alone in the room, Si Boyi felt awkward and didn't know where to put his hands. Flushing, he offered, "Are you hungry? I can cook something for you."
Tong Yao was very beautiful, with fair skin, a slim waist, and bright, intelligent eyes. Before he met Tong Yao, he had no idea that there were women in the world who were so beautiful.
Especially considering Tong Yao had almost become his wife, he felt even more at a loss about how to face her. He dared not make eye contact with her, and his face would turn red every time he saw her.
In hindsight, he was a bit spineless. He was close to Tong Yao's age and they would have been a good match, but Lin Fengying felt that he wasn't as educated as his brother and it would be a pity to marry him, so she had Tong Yao marry his older brother.
章節 2: Chapter 2 Donation
"I'm not hungry." Tong Yao lifted the blanket and got out of bed, "I'm going to the toilet."
"Oh, okay."
Si Boyi's face turned red all the way to his neck, and he scurried out in fluster.
Tong Yao didn't notice Si Boyi's unusual behavior. His skin was tanned from years of labor, so even when he blushed, it was hardly noticeable. Plus, he was quite burly, with the look of a farmer, so he didn't seem like the kind of person to be bashful.
The countryside toilets were built behind the houses and the conditions were extremely poor, swarms of mosquitoes and flies were present. Tong Yao avoided the wiggling maggots in the excrement pit, and endured the stench to finish her business. Just as she stepped outside, she heard a conversation overhead.
[Everyone is donating money to the poor student at the village head's house, so no one's drying their grains today.]
[We can't dry any grains anyway, it's going to rain tonight.]
But the weather was sunny and bright, how could it rain at night?
Wait, who was speaking?
Tong Yao looked around and noticed two little birds on a branch overhead. Their sharp beaks opened and closed as they chatted about gossip.
[Why is this woman staring at us? She's not planning on catching a bird, is she? We should get going!]
After speaking, the two birds flapped their wings and flew away. Tong Yao was dumbstruck on the spot, she could understand the birds' conversation.
[Mmm, this is delicious.]
Another voice came from nearby, she looked down just in time to spot a mosquito on her arm, feasting on her blood, all while humming contentedly.
After having experienced time travel, Tong Yao quickly accepted the fact that she could understand animal speech. When she returned to the courtyard, she overheard a conversation between Lin Fengying and her son in the kitchen.
"Mother, Hongwei got admitted to university. The village head has summoned everyone to help finance Hongwei's education. We should also show our support, right?"
Lin Fengying hesitated, cradling the one and half cent in her pocket. It's not that she didn't want to contribute, but she only had a little over two hundred yuan in savings, all of which had been taken by Tong Yao.
Her elder son started working less than a year ago and had already given all his earnings to the family, so she felt bad about asking him for more money.
"Those new shoes I made for you and your brother, you guys haven't worn them yet, right? After dinner, why don't we go give them away?"
"….." Si Boyi felt that offering only two pairs of shoes was insufficient, but remembering how Lin Fengying couldn't even scrape together a single yuan earlier, he could only nod in agreement.
After listening to their conversation, Tong Yao quietly returned to her room.
Hongwei, Gu Hongwei, Si Chen, Tong Yao, doctor, impoverished university student.
Linking these keywords together, Tong Yao's eyes widened in realization. She had time-traveled into the body of Si Chen's wife!
Tong Yao felt even more dumbfounded than when she was struck by lightning.
Before too long, Lin Fengying entered the room to call Tong Yao for dinner. Lunch was hand-rolled noodles made by mixing soy flour with wheat flour. Being from the 21st century where food was abundant, where she was used to eating rice and steamed buns, these noodles presented a whole new flavor to Tong Yao.
She ate a big bowl of noodles and found an egg at the bottom of the bowl. She glanced at Lin Fengying and Si Boyi's bowls and instantly understood what was going on.
This special treatment was for her alone.
Si Boyi and Lin Fengying were puzzled to see how pleasantly surprised Tong Yao was by the meal and how she wasn't picky. Had there been a change in her attitude?
Usually, Tong Yao would only eat noodles made from pure wheat flour. But due to a shortage of wheat flour at home and no money to buy more, Lin Fengying had to mix two types of flour together to make hand-rolled noodles.
Meeting their surprised glances, Tong Yao smiled and asked, "Mom, why hasn't Xiaohui come home for dinner?"
Lin Fengying paused, startled. Did Yaoyao just call her 'mom' again?
Initially, she thought Tong Yao had slipped up, but when she used the word again, Lin Fengying happily replied, "Don't worry about her, she's probably gone to play at Lijuan's house."
Si Boyi looked at Tong Yao again. She was now willing to call someone 'mom', had she accepted his big brother?
For some reason, Si Boyi felt a bit uneasy.
Noticing Tong Yao glancing at him, he quickly lowered his head to slurp his noodles, but Tong Yao, preoccupied with her thoughts, did not pay him any attention.
The reason behind Si Xiaohui's strong aversion to the original owner had to do with her fondness for Gu Hongwei. With the money now stolen, Si Xiaohui found herself unable to financially support Gu Hongwei's university studies.
"Yaoyao, let me get you some more rice," Lin Fengying could see that Tong Yao's appetite was not yet sated, and offered to help her to another bowl.
Tong Yao shook her head, "No need, Mom, I'm full."
Lin Fengying was left dizzy from the unexpected title of 'Mom' thrown at her by Tong Yao and happily cleared the dishes to the kitchen.
Having never called her 'Mom' before, the sudden change led her to believe that Tong Yao must have had a change of heart and was now willing to live a good life with her eldest son.
Good, how great it was. The loss of more than 200 yuan was worth it after all.
A mix of emotions surged inside Si Boyi. He got up from the table and headed out of the house with his head hung low.
Tong Yao returned to her room. Shortly after she heard Lin Fengying calling out that she was stepping out and would return soon. She knew Lin Fengying was going to make a visit to the village chief's house. As soon as she heard the voice, Tong Yao started rummaging for the money after removing her clothes.
Two flies buzzing overhead conversing, seemingly discussing whether it would rain tonight.
Animals were indeed more sensitive. Was it really going to rain tonight?
But right now, she needed to retrieve the money first.
For fear of the money being discovered, the original owner had sewn it into the hem of her pants. It took her a while to remove it.
The entrance to the village chief, Liu Huayi's house, was crowded with people. After dinner with nothing better to do, all the villagers had gathered to watch the commotion—almost every household had shown up with a donation.
"Why hasn't anyone from Fengying's household turned up yet?"
Among the crowd, someone asked this question, sparking immediate discussion among the villagers.
"Fengying's family should at least donate ten yuan. After all, her eldest son now earns quite a bit as a doctor."
"We didn't contribute when her eldest son was studying. It's not right to coerce them morally now."
"That's because her son met a great benefactor."
The last speaker wore a mocking smile at the corners of his mouth.
Obviously, word would spread quickly in such a small village. Any news, big or small, would spread through the villages in less time than it would take to finish a meal.
Who else could you call the village's communication representative if not the elderly?
Lin Fengying, widowed at a young age, was often bullied in the village. Who would have thought that her eldest son, against odds, managed to study medicine at a university and become a doctor.
Over the past decades, their village had only ever produced one university graduate. How precious was that?
Of course, with admiration came envy, especially as Si Chen married Tong Yao. There were plenty in the village who enjoyed nothing more than to gossip about them.
A golden phoenix in a chicken coop was bound to attract attention and judgement.
As the villagers conversed, only when they saw Lin Fengying and her son did they stop talking.
One outspoken villager bluntly asked, "I heard your daughter-in-law took the money this morning and ran off with another man. Do you still have enough funds to donate?"
Lin Fengying's expression changed instantly. Before she could speak, Si Boyi scolded with a stern face. "What are you folks blabbering about? All you do is sit around and spread gossip."
Silenced by his rebuke, the chattering women fell quiet.
Lin Fengying was soft-spoken, too timid to argue with them. She placed her shoes on the table in front of the village head. The village head did the registration and looked up to ask, "How much are you donating?"
"We won't donate." Lin Fengying responded, her eyes downcast and face red, either from heat or embarrassment; as red as the setting sun.
"Fengying, your family is doing so well now, and Si Chen is a doctor at the hospital. It's unreasonable not to donate anything. I, an old bachelor, donated five yuan." The man was Li Guigen, a bachelor in the village who once considered marrying Lin Fengying. Still, she rejected him despite her three children, leaving him bearing a grudge. He took this chance to further humiliate her in public.
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