In my 40s, the trading system took me flying

[This is a fictional account of the Anti-Japanese War period, so don't compare it to the timeline! Any similarities are purely coincidental!]

Huaishu Village!

The howling north wind came into the house through the cracks in the wall. The whole family of Old Xu huddled on the big earthen kang, and the only pigskin cotton shoes in the house were worn by Old Xu.

He had just come back from outside and was using a broom to sweep the snow foam off his cotton shoes. The snow foam that fell on the ground did not melt quickly, which showed that the temperature in the room was not very high.

Xu Dazhu poked his head out from under the covers and called out, "Dad!"

Old Man Xu hummed, shook off the snow foam on his body, and then came to the fire pit next to the kang, opened the wooden board blocking the stove and started to warm himself by the fire.

"What did the village chief say?"

As these words were spoken, dozens of heads, big and small, popped up on the kang.

Don't blame them for crowding on one kang to keep warm. It's really that cold this year, so cold that it's not possible to light a kang. In order to save firewood, they all gather in one room.

Before Old Man Xu could say anything, the door curtain of the inner room was lifted and Old Lady Xu came out wrapped in a cotton jacket.

"How's it going? Did his uncle say when we can go into the city?"

It's so cold, and there are so many mouths to feed at home. As the twelfth lunar month is approaching, I have to go to the city to earn some money and buy some meat so that the whole family can have some meat to eat during the New Year.

Old Man Xu sighed, "The snow is already up to our thighs. How can we get into the city? I guess there's a snowstorm in the city too!"

It had been many years since he had seen such heavy snow. Old Man Xu sighed and was about to reach out from his belt to take out his pipe and take a puff, but he remembered that there was not much tobacco left, so he had to retract his hand.

Old Mrs. Xu used an iron hook to take out a sweet potato from the stove and handed it to Old Man Xu.

My rumbling stomach smelled the fragrance of the sweet potato. I didn't care about the heat, so I patted the ash on it, broke off a piece without peeling it, and put it in my mouth. The heat went up my throat and into my stomach, and my frozen body instantly warmed up.

It feels so comfortable.

The curled up bodies also stretched out.

"How about I go into the city with Erzhu tomorrow morning? The snowstorm is even more devastating, and if we go in and help people shovel snow, we can earn some money to buy some meat!"

Xu Dazhu still wanted to go to the city, but he couldn't just lie on the kang every day.

Xu Erzhu echoed: "Yes, even if you can't find a job, you can go find the youngest one. He should have returned from the provincial capital with his uncle!"

Before Old Man Xu could make a decision, he heard some noise in the yard, and soon there was a knock on the door.

Because of the snowstorm, the door was bolted from the inside to prevent it from being blown open by the wind, so it could not be opened from the outside.

"Dad, it's me, the youngest!"

The sounds mixed in with the wind and snow came in through the crack of the door. Old man Xu hurriedly opened the straw felt hanging on the door frame and opened the door, letting his little son outside come in.

What Old Man Xu didn't expect was that the youngest son they had just been talking about did not come back alone, there was someone standing beside him.

Xu Laoyao did not rush into the house immediately, but pushed the person next to him into the house first, and then went in.

After entering the house, he didn't bother to explain to Old Man Xu. He took down the broom hanging behind the door and started to sweep the snow foam off the people he brought with him. After sweeping it clean, he swept himself.

After a busy period, everyone in the room stretched their necks to look at the extra person.

The women in the inner room also put on their clothes out of curiosity and came out.

"Whoa whoa-"

Before they could be surprised, a child's cry was heard from the stranger's arms.

"Little girl is awake!"

When Xu Laoyao heard the noise, he was very worried. Without bothering to introduce the person next to him to his family, he took the child out of the person's arms. It was a chubby little baby.

The little girl Zou Ran was of course a little uncomfortable after leaving the warm embrace of her mother, but she did not continue crying. Instead, she turned her big black eyes around and finally reached out to Old Lady Xu.

Is this okay?

Old Mrs. Xu is a powerful old lady. She is very confident because she has given birth to five sons and has twelve grandchildren. No one in Huaishu Village dares to provoke her.

Although she has many sons, she also worries about them, which leads to her bad temper. Her grandchildren are afraid of her and no one dares to get close to her. Her daughters-in-law are even more afraid of this mother-in-law.

So much so that the wrinkles on Old Man Xu's face were piled up together, which made him look particularly scary.

But even though the old lady was so scary, the little baby was not afraid at all and even reached out to her for a hug.

Not only did Old Mrs. Xu not react, no one in the house reacted either.

"hug!"

The little baby might be a little tired of stretching out his hands, and he uttered a clear word in his milky voice.

This shocked Old Mrs. Xu. She took the child stiffly. The little baby got what he wanted and grinned.

"Tsk, this little girl is really a snob. She knows that my mother is the head of the family, so she tries to please her the moment she meets me!"

Xu Laoya whispered to the woman beside him.

The woman smiled shyly, but didn't say much. She just looked at her daughter with some concern.

Old Mrs. Xu held the child in her arms and stared at him for a while before she remembered to ask Old Youngest Xu what had happened and why he brought back a woman and a baby.

The youngest Xu didn't keep the secret and said directly, "Mom, I went to the provincial capital with my uncle for two years. I got married when I went there, and then we had this little girl. She was born a year ago. Because the city was too chaotic at the time, I couldn't send you a letter, so I only brought them back today!"

Huaishu Village is too far away from the provincial capital and deep in the mountains. If they don't leave the mountains, people outside the mountains will probably forget that there is an isolated village here.

So the information is severely blocked.

Although the youngest son did not tell them about his marriage, the old couple of the Xu family were not angry.

Nowadays, anyone who can marry a wife without relying on his family is considered capable. They were so happy that they couldn't contain themselves, not to mention that the wife the youngest son married was quite pretty.

Worth it!

"Little girl?"

Xu Laoyao thought his parents would be angry that he didn't go home for the wedding, but then he heard his mother exclaim, and then she pulled open his daughter's clothes. After confirming that it was a girl, the wrinkles on her face seemed to bloom.

"My daughter, it's really my daughter!"

Not only was Mrs. Xu excited, the whole family was excited.

You should know that the Xu family has not had a daughter in five generations. At one time, it was thought that the Xu family was not destined to have a daughter. Who would have thought that the most unruly youngest son actually gave birth to a daughter.

Xu Xiaoya covered her trouser pockets with her hands, her face flushed red. She had thought that there was no so-called gender shame for infants, but she still couldn't accept having her gender checked in public by her grandmother.

After all, she is not a real baby.

"Our Xu family finally has a daughter!"

Old man Xu was also rubbing his hands excitedly. If he wasn't afraid that his calloused and cracked hands would scratch Xu Xiaoya, he would probably have snatched Xu Xiaoya from the old woman and held her in his arms.

The twelve grandchildren on the kang didn't care about the cold and got off the kang and surrounded them.

"Is she my sister?"

"Is it really my sister?"

"A sweet and soft sister?"

Xu Xiaoya was surrounded by her twelve brothers and for a moment she couldn't see enough.

These are her future twelve guardians. Whether she can walk sideways in the future depends on them.

No matter what, they can't all die.

It turns out that Xu Xiaoya was reincarnated with the memories of her previous life. However, when she was almost kidnapped three days ago, she accidentally learned that the world she lived in was actually a book, and she was the unlucky cannon fodder.

The heroine is not her, but the goddaughter adopted by her mother after she was kidnapped. She used her identity to contact her grandmother's family after she grew up, and with the help of her grandmother's family, she settled down in the city. However, she was not grateful to her grandmother's family, but instead hooked up with her grandmother's family's mortal enemy.

Not only did she successfully marry the male protagonist by stepping on her grandmother's family, but in order to obtain resources, she actually betrayed her twelve cousins who loved her wholeheartedly.

She is worse than pigs and dogs, yet she became the heroine.

After Xu Xiaoya learned the plot, she was unable to do anything due to her small body of less than one year old. She thought that as long as she was not snatched away, the heroine would not become her mother's adopted daughter.

But the plot was too powerful. Within three days, she was either choked by milk, buried in snow, or locked in a small dark room by her disgusting aunt and her family.

It was as if he was going to let her die to make way for the heroine.

In her previous life, Xu Xiaoya lived to be eighteen years old. She finally survived the difficult college entrance examination. Before she could experience the carefreeness of college, she was choked to death by a cup of milk tea and reincarnated here. As a result, she didn't have a single good day, and now she is going to die again?

Not reconciled!

In order to fight against fate, Xu Xiaoya rose up in resistance and finally found a loophole, which was to go home.

Let her father take her back to his hometown. As long as she is alive, her father will not die in the snow looking for her, and her mother will not hurt herself to atone for her sins and eventually adopt the heroine who is full of calculations.

Even if the heroine is her cousin who is far away from her, it won’t work.

But how can a baby convince his parents to return home?

Xu Xiaoya really exhausted her new brain and finally came up with a solution. In addition to calling her mother, she finally called out a second word - Grandma!

At first, Xu Laoyao and his wife thought that the grandma Xu Xiaoya was talking about was the grandma she ate, but later they found out that it was not her. She kept sticking her head out and stretching her neck, calling grandma outside.

In addition, he had not been home for more than two years, and his aunt and uncle were increasingly dissatisfied with him. After once again experiencing the anger of Xu Xiaoya being locked up in a dark room, he simply packed his luggage and returned to his hometown with his children.

Fortunately, the snowstorm only occurred in the Huaishu Village area, and there was not such heavy snow in other places. There were still many donkey carts and ox carts available for rides along the way.

It took them three days to get home. When they saw Xu Xiaoya taking the initiative to look for Old Lady Xu without any introduction, Xu Laoyao and his wife realized that the grandmother Xu Xiaoya was talking about was really Old Lady Xu.

This is simply unbelievable.

After hearing about her granddaughter's behavior, Old Mrs. Xu liked the granddaughter she had just met even more from the bottom of her heart. She took out a small jar of sugar from her dowry cabinet and made a bowl of sugar water for Xu Xiaoya.

This is a rare thing. None of the twelve grandchildren in the family have ever drunk this white sugar water. At most, they drink some brown sugar water.

"Opening the ancestral hall, worshipping our ancestors, and seeing their spirits appear, our Xu family is finally not destined to be monks!"

Old Man Xu slapped his thigh excitedly and made a decision that was beyond everyone's expectations!