The Beginning of the World: Going to the Countryside as an Educated Youth

PS: I am a newbie, so please forgive me for some mistakes, omissions, and inaccuracies. Thank you so much!!!

Another: Rob and leave your brain behind!!!

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At seven o'clock in the morning, the streets and alleys of Shanghai were already bustling with activity.

The whole city has awakened.

There were a lot of people coming and going and the traffic was heavy.

It was a normal day and both were used to the morning rush hour crowds.

Zhao Dongchuan rode an electric bike, wearing a helmet, and weaving through the traffic. (Warm reminder: Wear a helmet when riding a bike!!!!)

He was riding an electric scooter, wearing headphones, listening to Jay Chou's "Night Chapter 7" and humming the tune.

Today is the day Zhao Dongchuan reports to the new company.

Along the way, Zhao Dongchuan was full of anticipation. Uh, what was he looking forward to? Thinking of the charming and fierce receptionist of the new company, he couldn't help but speed up.

The traffic light ahead is red.

Zhao Dongchuan followed the crowd and stopped.

Watching the traffic light countdown, ready to sprint to grab a spot!!!

Suddenly, Zhao Dongchuan felt that the light from the traffic light in front of him became extremely dazzling, and with a whoosh!!!

Then there was a sudden brake sound!!!

Noisy!Noisy!Noisy!

Zhao Dongchuan felt a black screen before his eyes...

The last thing he saw in the blur was the fierce-looking receptionist waving at him, and then he completely lost consciousness.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhao Dongchuan vaguely felt a splitting headache.

After Zhao Dongchuan adapted for a while, he began to regain consciousness.

Slowly opening his eyes, he looked at a shadow in front of him with blurry vision. He felt as if there was a figure in front of him, talking to him. The figure gradually became clearer, and the voice also became clearer.

"Baby, are you awake?"

In front of me was an old man dressed in typical northern Shaanxi peasant attire. He was wearing gray clothes full of patches, and it was unclear what style they were. He was holding an old pipe in his hand, puffing on it.

Zhao Dongchuan opened his eyes and looked around, and found that he was lying on an earthen kang. He was wearing tattered clothes, which were all dusty. The walls were covered with dirt, and it seemed that he was in an earthen cave.

There was almost nothing in the room except a kettle and a small table with sloping legs. It was a bare house.

Zhao Dongchuan didn't react for a while, and looked at everything in front of him in a daze. Seeing that he didn't speak, the old man seemed to know that he didn't want to talk, so he accompanied him silently, talking to himself.

Zhao Dongchuan learned from the old man that when the old man was returning home from work in the morning, he saw him fainted on the side of the road, so the old man carried him back home.

In those days, with material scarcity and no one having enough to eat, it was not uncommon for someone to faint from hunger on the road. The old man was experienced and could tell from a single touch that the kid had fainted from hunger.

Listening to the old man's story, the confused Zhao Dongchuan's mind slowly played like a movie, with many first-person perspective scenes appearing. Only then did he realize that he had actually... actually traveled through time, and had traveled to a TV series he had watched before, "Ordinary World". The owner of this body was also called Zhao Dongchuan, and the old man in front of him was Sun Yuhou from Shuangshui Village.

He actually became a member of the time-traveling army!!!

Think of Zhao Dongchuan, a "social animal" from a rural area in Jiangxi Province.

Zhao Dongchuan’s parents are the first generation of migrant workers in Shanghai, so after graduating from university, he naturally became the second generation of migrant workers in Shanghai.

From childhood to adulthood, Zhao Dongchuan has been an ordinary person all the way. From elementary school, middle school, to college, he has always been hovering at the middle level in the class, and was admitted to a third-rate major in a third-rate school in a certain province.

There is no such thing as youth. Only those with good looks or even good academic performance have youth. A loser is just a passerby, a background board, watching people show off their affection!!!

I didn’t expect that he would actually travel through time one day. It really fulfilled the netizens’ complaints: “Poor people rely on time travel, and rich people rely on technology!”

Zhao Dongchuan retracted his scattered thoughts, returned his attention to the present, digested the information in his mind, and learned about his original body's life experience.

His original name was Zhao Dongchuan. He was an educated youth who went to the countryside to work. He was eighteen years old this year and had graduated from high school. Due to a special period, the college entrance examination was cancelled and he could not go to university. There were not so many jobs in the city, so he stayed at home and wandered around with his friends all day long.

His family was afraid that he would drift away, so they had no choice but to respond to the country's call and follow the large group of educated youth going to the countryside. He was assigned to Shuangshui Village in Shigeji Commune.

Since he grew up in the city and had never suffered hardship since childhood, he was unwilling to humble himself and learn from farmers how to do farm work. He was lazy and did not earn many work points. He often did not have enough to eat, and his body became thinner and thinner. Finally, on this day, he starved to death on the side of the road. Then Zhao Dongchuan took advantage of the opportunity and brought him back to life. Finally, he was carried back home by Old Man Sun.

Whether it was reincarnation through taking over another's body or resurrection through borrowing another's corpse, there was no way to tell.

The old man Sun Yuhou's home is not far from here. This small broken kiln is an idle kiln in the village and no one can live in it. The village renovated it a little and made it barely habitable. It was then used to accommodate the educated youth in the village. Currently, he is the only educated youth in the village, and he lives here alone.

Zhao Dongchuan silently sorted out his thoughts and said to the old man Sun Yuhou:

"Thank you, Uncle Sun. It's a good thing I met you. Otherwise, I would have frozen to death outside and no one would have known."

Old man Sun took a puff of his pipe and said, "Kid, you are talking too seriously. If I don't help you, there will be someone else who will."

As he spoke, Old Man Sun looked hesitant, touched inside his clothes, took out a yellow flour steamed bun wrapped in paper, handed it to Zhao Dongchuan, and said: "Baby, this is for you, eat it, fill your stomach."

Although Zhao Dongchuan had only been here for a short time, he had already realized the importance of food these days. Although he had never eaten this kind of yellow flour steamed bun, it did not prevent his body from honestly telling him that he urgently needed to eat to survive.

Zhao Dongchuan silently took the steamed bun and said, "Thank you, Uncle Sun!"

Old man Sun sighed softly, his dark face revealed a trace of helplessness mixed with some numbness, and said: "You have a good rest, I'm leaving first, I have something to do at home." Then he stood up and walked out.

Zhao Dongchuan looked at Old Man Sun's receding back and was speechless for a moment.

Zhao Dongchuan took a bite of the steamed bun. It was a bit dry and hard to swallow, but the hunger in his body forced him to eat the bun eagerly to soothe his hungry stomach.

He ate it bite by bite, and even though his throat was very dry, he finished it quickly.

After resting for a while, Zhao Dongchuan felt much better. He stood up and stretched his body. When he felt that there was nothing wrong with his body and he had no disabilities, he sat on the kang and began to think.

The most urgent thing at the moment is, since Zhao Dongchuan has joined the army of time travelers, what about the "golden finger", a standard feature that protagonists who travel to another world usually have?

How come he didn't notice anything? The answer to this question directly determines whether his future survival will be in easy mode or hell mode.