【I'm warning you, you'd better live well for at least forty years, or we'll go down together. Goodbye.】
After saying this, no matter how Lin Yuexi poked it, the system no longer responded, leaving behind a familiar yet unfamiliar sign-in screen that looked awkward no matter how she viewed it.
Familiar in that it was still the old computer display mode; unfamiliar in that the content displayed had changed.
Address: VI369 Gulan Star, September 1972
Host: Lin Yuexi
Age: 17 years old
Height: 158cm
Weight: 78gm
Health Value: 12【std: 50~100】
Special Ability: Spiritual Power【Beginner】
There was also a book lying in the corner.
And then, nothing more.
It was no longer the same sign-in as before, and the Special Ability section only showed Spiritual Power, not space.
What did this VI369 mean?
She remembered that in her previous life, Gulan Star didn't have a numerical code before it. Could this be the 369th parallel world?
Or the 369th world derived from a book?
Never mind, these profound questions weren't for someone like her, who goes with the flow, to ponder.
Alas, what a pity. If there were still sign-in opportunities, she could have earned some 'extra money' at the hospital today.
From her past life's sign-in experience, Lin Yuexi knew that signing in at a certain location would yield the 'specialty' of that location. For example, signing in at a bank would yield money, gold bars, or jewelry, while signing in at a hospital would yield medicine or medical supplies.
The 1970s, even if it's a parallel world with a different historical process, the general development would still be roughly the same.
Technology was backward, medical care was backward, and all industries were correspondingly temporarily behind foreign countries.
Especially for going to the countryside, medical care was even more crucial. At this time, it was extremely difficult to treat an illness in the rural areas, let alone the fact that her current body had a congenital deficiency.
No, even though she had stockpiled a lot of medicine in her space, the times were different. She still needed to find an opportunity to get some medicine from this era, just in case.
Feeling extremely tired, Lin Yuexi didn't touch the book for now. After taking a pill, she soon fell into a deep sleep.
Whether it was because her soul had been replaced or because of the pill, Lin Yuexi slept very soundly. Although there were still occasional coughs from her room at night, she slept through to morning without realizing it.
When she woke up, everyone in the compound had either gone to work or had already bought groceries and returned.
Due to the original host's poor health, she couldn't do strenuous exercise from a young age, and even dared not make slightly larger movements. Gradually, she developed a slow-motion behavior pattern for everything she did.
After Lin Yuexi took over this body, she unconsciously adopted this behavior pattern: slowly getting up, slowly putting on shoes, slowly standing up, slowly walking, and slowly opening the door to go out.
The entire process was like a movie playing at half speed. Honestly, if she didn't have her looks and innate ethereal temperament to support her, anyone else acting like her might have a yellow paper pasted on their forehead by onlookers.
But with her, she looked like a fairy, dreamlike, ethereal, and exceptionally elegant in every posture and movement.
Having taken care of the sickly original host for over two months, Ren Yan had gotten used to it. Seeing Lin Yuexi emerge slowly, she naturally put down the vegetables she was washing, wiped her hands with her skirt, and went to help Lin Yuexi to the bathroom to wash up.
Lin Yuexi's body couldn't climb stairs every day, so she had always lived on the first floor.
Although frail, she wasn't disabled. The original host was also someone who would do things herself if she could. Washing her face and brushing her teeth, of course, didn't require Ren Yan's help.
However, Ren Yan was still shaken by what happened yesterday and stayed by the door, worried, waiting and gossiping with her.
"The Wang family next door was quite lively today. They were noisy from early in the morning until you woke up."
Lin Yuexi slowly brushed her teeth, remaining silent. She knew the plot was starting.
The female lead, Wang Qin, was the eldest daughter of Wang Hanzhong's first wife, who gave her life for him. Unexpectedly, Wang Hanzhong was a scoundrel. While his wife was pregnant, he had an affair with Widow Li from the neighboring village and she quickly became pregnant. When Wang Qin was six months old, he had an illegitimate child, Wang Yue.
Wang Hanzhong was the son of Director Wang's first wife. He was raised in the countryside and only moved to the compound a few years ago. Perhaps it's because one craves what they lack, but after moving to the compound, Wang Hanzhong's family placed great importance on appearances, publicly claiming that Wang Qin and Wang Yue were twins, both born to Wang Hanzhong's current wife, Li Hehua.
With a stepmother, there's a stepfather. The so-called twins were just a story for outsiders. Wang Qin was always a pitiful creature in the Wang family, whose birth mother died early and had to live under her stepmother's care.
Perhaps to highlight the satisfying rise of the female lead after her rebirth, Wang Qin's life for the first nineteen years was truly pitiful. Her father was unkind, her stepmother was vicious, and her younger siblings were greedy vampires.
For nineteen years, she did all the housework. If she didn't work, she wouldn't get food and would be beaten. She ate leftovers, but at this time, people struggled to have three meals a day, so where would leftovers come from? She slept on a beggar's bed made of straw on the floor, even though there were spare rooms in the house.
The commotion next door today should be the beginning of this book—the female lead's rebirth.
It was currently the peak of the Educated Youth Go to the Countryside movement, though this "peak" didn't refer to young people voluntarily going to the countryside.
The period of voluntary rustication had passed. Now, everyone knew that the lives of educated youth in the countryside were difficult and opportunities to return to the city were slim. Apart from complete blockheads, no young people would voluntarily go to the countryside anymore.
It was now the semi-coercive period after voluntary rustication, with clear, strict regulations. Once a household had a young person suitable for rustication, if they were unemployed and unmarried, they wouldn't volunteer; instead, the Educated Youth Office would notify them to go to the countryside.
If they were notified three times and still couldn't find a way to stay in the city, they would be forced to go to the countryside, but then they wouldn't have a choice of where to go.
Logically, this matter had little to do with the Wang family. Old Man Wang was the Director of the Committee, and the Committee was very influential now. It wouldn't be difficult for their director to find a job for his granddaughter.
But the problem was, no one in the Wang family thought about Wang Qin not having a job yet, or perhaps they thought about it but no one cared.
The book stated that in her previous life, not only did no one in the Wang family care for Wang Qin, but her stepmother also took Wang Qin's Educated Youth Subsidy. When Wang Qin went to the countryside, she wasn't given a single cent or ticket, nor was her luggage prepared. Her stepmother even said that the Wang family had raised her for nineteen years, and the sixty yuan subsidy was just enough to repay the Wang family for nineteen years of upbringing.
In the end, Wang Qin only took her two thin, worn-out sets of clothes and a hard, worn-out bedding that she had been using.
The place Wang Qin was sent to was Heilongjiang Province in the Northeast. Heh, coincidentally, it was the same place Lin Yuexi and the others were going.
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