In truth, among the entire Gu family, Gu Shiye’s branch contributed the most when it came to earning money. Gu Shiye himself was smart and capable, and by the age of fifteen he had already become the tractor driver for the production brigade.
Wang Lihua also knew that the third branch of the family had never been petty enough to demand repayment for the money spent on buying the job position, so this time she decisively stepped forward and loudly agreed, “That’s right, then let’s split the family.”
The eldest brother Gu Shizhu and the second brother Gu Shinian also immediately moved to stand in front of their own wives.
This time, all three families had to unite against the outside together. Otherwise, with that lazy and spoiled younger sister still around, who knew how much more money this family would continue throwing away in the future.
Gu Shiyu instantly panicked. She was still in her second year of high school, and if the family split apart there would no longer be spare money to support her education.
She hurriedly reached out to grab her Fourth Brother, only to miss completely. That was when she realized that sometime earlier, her fourth brother had quietly slipped away.
How could he do this?
Left with no choice, she could only say to herself, “Father, Mother, our family has been doing perfectly fine together, we can’t split the family.”
Father Gu shot her a glare. How could he not know that this family could not be divided?
Mother Gu had already been frightened into complete helplessness and could only look anxiously toward her husband beside her.
After taking a puff from his dry tobacco pipe, Father Gu finally said, “None of you are allowed to bring up splitting the family again. As for Old Fourth’s bride price, I’ll have him negotiate properly with them again.”
Now that the old man had personally spoken, things could only remain this way for the time being.
Neither Li Wenxiu nor Gu Shiye had expected that just the few of them alone could successfully force a family split in a single attempt anyway. They only needed to hold the line on the bride price issue, because sooner or later someone else would become even more desperate for the split than they were.
The family dispersed unhappily and each returned to their own room.
The moment Gu Shiye shut the door behind them, Li Wenxiu suddenly reached out and twisted his waist hard.
“Ow! Wife, are you trying to murder your husband?”
Li Wenxiu truly had not expected that he would still be in the mood to joke around at a time like this. “Do you realize that the two of us have transmigrated into the 1970s, and we’re even inside a novel?”
The Rough 1970s Man and His Lucky Koi Wife.
Clearly, in the novel, the fourth son Gu Shicheng was the rough male lead, while the female lead was Lin Baozhu, the woman demanding the outrageous bride price tonight. As for the two of them, they were cannon fodder characters destined for miserable endings, not only forced to hand over their golden finger to the female lead but also reduced to human blood bags for the protagonists. In fact, all three Gu brothers and their wives existed merely as blood bags for the male and female leads.
Most of the short dramas on a certain streaming app nowadays were adapted from Tomato Novel stories, but the drama adaptations were nowhere near as detailed as the original novels. If they had known they would transmigrate here, they should have read the original novel beforehand.
Gu Shiye lifted his arm and pulled his wife into his embrace. “Wife, don’t worry. No matter where we are, as long as I’m by your side, I’ll never let you suffer any grievances.”
Li Wenxiu raised her fist and lightly punched his chest. “You really are just as arrogant as ever.”
Still, honestly speaking, although they had not been especially rich in their previous life, Gu Shiye had always seemed to possess a bit of natural luck. The two of them had both come from rural backgrounds. They dated throughout university, and after graduation neither of them could find work, so Gu Shiye brought her back to his hometown to raise free range mountain chickens and sell them online. The videos they filmed about their married life and chicken farming unexpectedly went viral on the internet. By now, the couple had already become somewhat famous internet celebrity entrepreneurs back in their hometown. Whether in work or in life, Gu Shiye had always been the one shielding her.
They had watched the short drama together only last night when Li Wenxiu had been bored and dragged him into watching it with her, so both of them remembered the plot very clearly.
Li Wenxiu suddenly recalled the extremely important spatial golden finger from the novel, the one hidden inside the only piece of furniture in their room, the chest of drawers.
In the original story, the original host couple had no idea about the golden finger. The chest of drawers had been forcibly taken away by Mother Gu to help make up the forty-eight legs, and the jade token carrying the spatial golden finger inside the cabinet had then been gifted to the female lead Lin Baozhu in an effort to curry favor with her.
But this jade token had originally belonged to Li Wenxiu from her maiden family.
The original host’s maternal family was a blended family, and her biological father had once been a wealthy landlord. That was why a jade token had been passed down all the way to her generation.
Li Wenxiu opened the cabinet, and only after holding the jade token in her hand did she finally let out a sigh of relief.
“Husband, do you think the two of us can really activate a space like the ones in those wish fulfillment novels?”
Gu Shiye nodded at her. “Since we’re already here, we might as well boldly give it a try.”
Li Wenxiu raised her finger to her lips and bit it open before smearing blood onto the jade token.
“We’ll face it together,” Gu Shiye said as he reached out and grabbed hold of his wife’s hand.
Li Wenxiu lifted her head and smiled at him.
The very next second, the two of them appeared together inside an entirely new space.
Just like the one depicted in the short drama, there stood a large brick house with black tiled roofing, surrounded by several acres of fertile black soil and a spiritual spring. There was even a sign in the shop where all they needed to do was sign in once each day to open a blind box reward. In the original novel, the female lead always received astonishing treasures from her daily sign-ins.
Now the husband and wife stood together in front of the shop counter, and today happened to be their first chance to sign in.
Li Wenxiu looked toward the man beside her. “Your luck has always been better than mine. Why don’t you go first?”
Gu Shiye replied, “This is your space. You should do the first sign in.”
“Then I won’t stand during the ceremony.”
Li Wenxiu picked up a slip of paper nearby, wrote the words “sign in” on it, and stuffed it into something resembling a coin bank.
The couple stared eagerly at the shop counter, waiting to see what sort of surprise would appear.
In the end, it was only a plate of braised pork.
Li Wenxiu remembered that when Lin Baozhu signed in for the first time, she had received two gold bars and a twenty jin sack of white flour. The important thing was that she seemed to get gold bars almost every time afterward.
So why didn’t she get any gold bars?
Gu Shiye rubbed her head comfortingly. “We’ll keep opening them tomorrow.”
Li Wenxiu immediately said, “Tomorrow you do it.”
“Alright.”
Still, for bodies that had not tasted even a single piece of meat in years, this glossy plate of braised pork was genuinely an unrivaled delicacy.
Gu Shiye had already gone to fetch two cups of spiritual spring water. “From now on, we’ll just treat this as our daily drink,” he said, making up for the compensation of being inexplicably thrown into this world.
Li Wenxiu had already eaten a piece of braised pork, and now after taking a sip of the spiritual spring water, she felt as though she were tasting heaven itself.
Not only did the spiritual spring water wash away the greasiness, it also possessed healing effects. The moment Li Wenxiu drank it, she instantly felt every part of this body slowly being repaired.
“Husband, hurry and drink some too.”
Although these bodies were currently only twenty and twenty two years old, years of hard farm labor and poor nutrition had already aged them to look like people in their thirties.
At that moment, Gu Shiye suddenly frowned as though realizing something. He grabbed the woman’s wrist and carefully checked her pulse.
Back in their previous life, Gu Shiye’s grandfather had been the village’s barefoot doctor, so he knew a little traditional Chinese medicine himself.
Li Wenxiu also remembered the plot from the short drama. “Don’t tell me I…”
Gu Shiye nodded at her. “You’re pregnant.”