Famine Bride: Marry into the best in-laws and win

Although it is now 1961, it is the end of the three-year Great Famine.

But in fact, this famine lasted far more than three years. It can only be said that these three years were the most severe period.

After three years, the famine eased somewhat, but people still starved to death.

After the famine finally passed and life became a little better, another special decade of storms and turmoil was about to begin.

Not to mention doing business, even if you want to buy something, you need money and tickets. Just having money and tickets is not enough, because things are supplied in fixed quantities.

There is only a limited amount of food every month, and once it is eaten and used up, it is gone. You can’t buy it even if you have money or tickets.

She thought that it would take almost twenty years for life to get better, until the reform and opening up, but by that time, she would be almost forty years old.

The more Shen Minghua thought about it, the paler her face became. She bit her lip and her whole body couldn't stop shaking.

When she first discovered that she had traveled through time, she had searched her body thoroughly, but there was no golden finger at all.

In this era, you can’t do business, let alone run around.

In other words, she is no different from ordinary people and can only rely on herself to survive in this era. Now she is in the dark and doesn't understand anything.

The first step to survival is to stay in this family and have a place to eat and live.

Xu Manyue had been silently paying attention to Shen Minghua's actions, and knew what she was looking for and what she was thinking.

Perhaps because Shen Minghua is closely related to the Shen family, her information appeared in the system from the very beginning.

Clearly and without reservation, she knew everything about Shen Minghua's origins and where she was going.

Shen Minghua, who came from a book, doesn't have a golden finger, but she is very capable and good at cooking.

But because she wanted to find a place to live and survive in this place, after much thought, she could only find a man to marry and live with.

In the end, Shen Minghua found Lu Huaiyuan and successfully replaced Xu Mingyue as the heroine of this book. From then on, she became the heroine of the stepmother novel who married first and fell in love later.

Xu Manyue thought about it and decided not to alert the unexpected new heroine.

Let them earn their own money and make their own troubles. The plot has nothing to do with her anyway.

Shen Minghua sorted out everything and spent an afternoon finally accepting the current situation.

But she didn't know she was in a book yet;

The old lady only agreed to let her stay at home for five days, and after five days, she had to leave the Shen family.

Moreover, during these five days, she could not eat white rice. She had to go to work when the Shen family went to work. After work, she had to help the whole family wash clothes, fetch water, cook, and clean.

Not long after Xu Manyue returned to the house and rested, she heard a knock on the door.

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, where are your dirty clothes? I'll wash them for you."

The person who came was for food, so Shen Minghua had no choice but to accept her fate and work. Now she has to wash clothes for the whole family.

In fact, Xu Manyue has never been used to others washing her clothes, and she usually washes her own clothes.

But her belly is so big now that it is difficult for her to bend down to wash clothes, so she has to ask others to help her wash them.

Xu Manyue picked up the clothes she had just changed today, walked over to open the door, and put them into Shen Minghua's basin, "Minghua, thank you for your help."

Shen Minghua smiled and shook her head. "It's okay. I'm not working for nothing anyway."

Suddenly she remembered something else. "Oh, sister-in-law, I just checked. There seems to be no water in the well in the yard, and there is no water anywhere else in the house. So... where should I go to wash clothes?"

Xu Manyue was slightly stunned, "Didn't sister-in-law tell you?"

It shouldn't be like this. Wang Zhaodi wouldn't make things difficult for someone in this regard.

Shen Minghua avoided her gaze uncomfortably and said, "Yes, but I didn't hear it clearly."

Apart from anything else, Mrs. Shen is very harsh. She had just woken up at noon today and had already been scolded many times by her.

Xu Manyue showed her the way. "There's drought everywhere right now. Our brigade only has one well in the back mountain. We go there to fetch water for washing clothes, cooking, and watering the fields."

"If you want to wash clothes, you must go to that place and fetch water first."

Shen Minghua's pupils shrank slightly. Ah, I have to run a long way to fetch water?

She just looked at her small body, which was thin, with sallow and rough skin, dry and yellow hair, and she looked malnourished.

How can you carry water back from such a far place? You will be exhausted to death.

She hesitated for a moment and said, "Sister-in-law, can't you take the clothes and go to the well in the back mountain to wash them?"

Xu Manyue shook her head. "That well is the only one in the brigade. The entire brigade depends on it to survive. If you go there to wash clothes, what if you dirty the well water?"

"Anyway, the captain personally gave the order that we can't wash clothes or take a bath in that place."

Shen Minghua was silent for a moment, and finally picked up the shoulder pole and two wooden barrels and left.

Xu Manyue was worried, so after thinking about it, she asked Shen Qingqing to go with her.

"Qingqing, catch up with her and keep an eye on her. Don't let anything get into trouble."

Shen Qingqing was a little confused, but didn't ask any more questions. "Okay, Third Aunt, I'll go first."

Mrs. Shen walked out of the house and saw Xu Manyue asking Shen Qingqing to look after Shen Minghua. She was also confused.

"Third sister-in-law, why do you care about that damn girl? She can't even fetch water to wash clothes. I think she is just pretending to be so, trying to win your and mother's sympathy, so that she can stay and follow you to join the army in the future."

"Don't be fooled by people like this."

Xu Manyue actually hoped that Shen Minghua was still the same Shen Minghua, but unfortunately, she was no longer that person.

"Sister-in-law, what if Minghua really loses her memory and doesn't understand anything, and gets into trouble? It's better to let Qingqing take care of it."

Mrs. Shen curled her lips and said, "Alright, I don't know what amnesia is anyway. Let's wait until the autumn harvest is over in two days and send him away as soon as possible."

She suddenly changed the subject and became excited.

"But, Third Sister-in-law, you haven't seen that the crops in those plots of land in our brigade are growing very well."

"We originally thought we would barely be able to harvest a small amount of food, but it looks like this year will definitely be the first bumper harvest since the famine."

"Just looking at the fields now makes me so motivated. I can't wait to go to work and harvest the crops."

It’s called autumn harvest, but it’s not really harvest time.

Because the crops were planted late this year and matured late, the autumn harvest was also much later.

However, the fact that so much grain could be grown in the fields this year really made everyone in Qingshan Brigade very happy.

Although this amount of grain would have been considered a poor harvest in the past, it would definitely be a bumper harvest in a famine year like today.