I sold grilled fish in the 70s!

Chapter Four

Jianmei said with a smile, "Zhuzhu and I are discussing what delicious things to buy for Yingying."

Before long, the mother and her three daughters returned home. Zhuzhu and Jianmei together poured a bucket of loaches and snails into their laundry tub.

Zhuzhu said, "Looking at this pond full of loaches and snails, I feel like rolling up my sleeves and getting to work!"

At this moment, Old Man Yang walked up behind his two daughters and said sternly, "You two brats, what are you still doing? Go take a bath! You've caught a cold, and you'll have to go to the hospital for treatment and medicine. You'll become a burden on my wallet again, and I'll really find fault with you."

Yingying was very unhappy to hear her father saying that her two older sisters were a waste of money again. She wanted to talk back, but she was afraid of her father's scolding. So she burst into tears.

Old Man Yang turned around and glared fiercely at his youngest daughter.

Longzhen shook her head helplessly, picked up her youngest daughter, went to the stove, lit a fire to boil water for Zhuzhu and Jianmei to take a bath.

At this moment, only Old Man Yang was left standing by the washing basin, lost in thought. Suddenly, as if remembering something, he picked up his straw hat and raincoat and headed towards the border crossing. Oh, it turned out that Old Man Yang wanted to invite his relatives from the border crossing over for drinks, and the snails and loaches that Zhuzhu and Jianmei had caught would be the perfect accompaniments.

Pearl's Heavenly Dream

"Longzhen, Longzhen, put aside what you're doing for now! Process all the loaches and snails those two girls caught."

"What are you doing? You're really allowing those two daughters to take snails and loaches to the market to sell?"

"I think you're getting a little senile! How could I possibly let my two daughters do such public things!"

"So you mean, while they were taking a bath, you threw away all the loaches and snails they had worked so hard to catch?"

When Old Man Yang heard Longzhen say that he was going to throw away the loach and snails, he stomped his feet in anger.

"What are you saying, you old woman? How can you throw away such a good thing? I'm going to Jiekou to invite some relatives and friends over for drinks."

"You just dealt with those two sisters smuggling goods like that? Won't they cause trouble for you if they find out?"

Old Man Yang glared at them and said seriously, "I'm going to finish off all the loaches and small fish those two brats caught! I want to see if they'll cause any trouble for me."

Longzhen shook his head upon hearing this.

"Besides, if you don't tell and I don't tell either, how would those two girls know about this?"

Jianmei, who had just finished showering, overheard this. She was furious when she heard that her father was going to offer the snails and loaches to others to eat.

Jianmei said, "Dad, how could you do this? Do you know how much effort Zhuzhu and I put in to catch so many loaches and snails? And what was our purpose in doing this? Wasn't it just to earn a little more money to supplement our household expenses? Did we do something wrong?"

Old Man Yang was furious when he heard his daughter talk back to him like that. So he picked up a stick and lashed it hard at Jianmei. When Longzhen saw her husband hitting their eldest daughter, she pulled Jianmei into her arms to protect her.

Jianmei closed her eyes in fright. One minute, two minutes, three minutes passed, but the expected pain still didn't come. So Jianmei opened her eyes and looked around.

He saw his mother holding him tightly in her arms, and he was completely unharmed, while his mother's back was covered in red marks.

Shake! Shake! Shake! Are you alright? Should we take you to the hospital?

Zhu Zhu, who had just finished taking a shower, saw this scene. Just as Zhu Zhu was about to run to Long Zhen's side, she suddenly felt dizzy.

Longzhen heard a thud and saw Zhuzhu lying unconscious on the floor. Ignoring the injury on his back, Longzhen rushed to Zhuzhu's side.

Zhuzhu, Zhuzhu, Zhuzhu! Wake up! Don't shake me!

As Zhuzhu slept, she naturally couldn't hear Longzhen's cries. Zhuzhu had a very long dream. In the first part, she had grown into a young woman and married Jianlin, having five beautiful daughters. However, due to the one-child policy, she had to give away her second, third, and fourth daughters. Because she hadn't given the Yang family a son, Old Man Yang forced her to divorce Jianlin.

The second dream was that shortly after her divorce from Jianlin, she heard that Old Man Yang had passed away, and Jianlin had remarried to another woman with a son. A few years later, another piece of bad news came: her favorite sister-in-law, Jianmei, had breast cancer. Jianmei passed away in late autumn when she had just turned fifty. Overwhelmed with grief, she developed high blood pressure.

The third dream was about the passing of his kind mother, Liao Longzhen, and how his soul went to heaven with her.

"Zhuzhu, welcome to the Western Paradise! Please don't be afraid! This is the place all spiritual practitioners yearn for. Your mother, Ms. Liao Longzhen, has passed away and been reborn in the Western Paradise. The reason your soul has been summoned here today is because she has an important mission to entrust to you. An unprecedented famine is about to occur in your hometown, even more severe than the one that struck China from 1958 to 1962. You must have great compassion and help all your relatives and friends in your hometown overcome all the difficulties."

"I'm willing to do this! I'm just a teenage girl, I don't have the ability to help the whole village get through this disaster!"

"Good child, please don't be impatient! I will give you a treasure right away."

"What is it?"

As soon as Zhuzhu finished speaking, a rumbling sound was heard, and a merciless bolt of lightning flashed across the dark sky.

Because her fate hadn't yet reached its end, she was banished to the mortal realm by celestial soldiers. Due to the rolling thunder, a temporal distortion occurred, preventing Zhu Zhu's consciousness from returning to the modern era. Instead, she was transported to the 1970s by a bright white light, her consciousness inhabiting the body of a 13-year-old Zhu Zhu. Meanwhile, a bizarre tornado inexplicably struck the modern world. This giant tornado caused no harm to people, but all the goods in a giant supermarket vanished along with the strange tornado.

However, these vanished goods all emitted a white light and entered Zhuzhu's head, forming a powerful business system. Zhuzhu could freely extract whatever she wanted from this system.

This time, Zhuzhu wasn't the only time traveler; Jianying also traveled to the 1970s when she was five or six years old. Inside Jianying's little head was a giant, modern-day library, a system that would automatically activate when she turned ten.