Time Travel: My Comfortable Life After Going to the Countryside

"I love Beijing Tiananmen Square, the sun rises over Tiananmen Square..."

Amidst the broadcast, at the Liu family home, two men and two women were munching on cornbread with pickled vegetable shreds.

"Mom and Dad, I'm going to the countryside. Let my sister go to the supply and marketing cooperative."

Liu Xiangyang swallowed the two mixed-flour steamed buns in his mouth and said to Liu Jianguo and Wang Weihong.

Upon hearing Liu Xiangyang's words, Wang Weihong said anxiously, "Xiangyang, your father and I are looking for someone to help you find a job. There's no rush for you to go to the countryside."

Liu Xiangyang: "Mom and Dad, I've been thinking about this for a long time. You and Dad are both employed, and now you have a job at the supply and marketing cooperative. Can you find me another job?"

"What will other people think of our family? A family of four workers?"

"This means that either my sister or I have to go to the countryside."

"Now a lot of news is coming back. In the countryside, all sorts of strange and monstrous things can happen. If you're not careful, your reputation will be ruined. How will my sister ever get married?"

"But I'm different. As a grown man, enduring hardship is not a problem for me, and I'm doing this in response to the country's call."

Liu Xiangyang finished speaking while munching on a steamed bun, and all three pairs of eyes were on him, especially Liu Xianghong, who looked at Liu Xiangyang with gratitude.

Wang Weihong: "You? Is this your first day in this house? You've never even picked up a fallen broom in your life! And you think you can endure hardship?"

Liu Xiangyang: "I've been practicing the military boxing that my Uncle Wu passed down to me. It's been almost ten years now, and even Uncle Wu says I can endure hardship."

"Besides, once my sister gets a job at the supply and marketing cooperative, there will be three people in our family receiving wages. Do you think you can just watch me go hungry?"

Liu Jianguo interrupted, "Don't be so hasty. Let's wait until there's a resolution to the supply and marketing cooperative's matter in the next couple of days before we talk about it."

Liu Xiangyang: "Mom and Dad, why aren't you worried? Now that my sister's classmate has told her this news, we have to spend the money wisely and hurry up to her classmate's house to ask her father to help my sister get a job. Otherwise, once her classmate's father agrees to someone else, my sister and I will both have to be sent to the queue."

"The most important thing right now is for Mom and Dad to get my sister a job and then find me an easier place to cut in line at the neighborhood committee."

"I think the Northeast is pretty good. I heard that winter there lasts for 5 or 6 months a year, and everyone has to stay at home and not have to work in the fields."

"Isn't it said that in the Northeast, you can catch roe deer with a stick and scoop fish with a ladle, and pheasants fly into your cooking pot? With my skills, those silly roe deer, pheasants, and wild deer are easy prey. Maybe I can eat meat every day and even send some home."

"My silly son, if the Northeast were so great, wouldn't everyone flock there? How could it be your turn?" Wang Weihong said.

Liu Xianghong: "Dad, Mom, let Xiangyang go to the supply and marketing cooperative. I'll go to the countryside. I can endure hardship."

Hearing Liu Xianghong say this, Liu Xiangyang felt both touched and unfamiliar, as he had never experienced being loved in his previous life.

Liu Xiangyang transmigrated here half a month ago. His real name is Liu Yang. He is from Hunan Province and is an old man from the 21st century. He lost both his parents when he was young and worked hard to get a job as a writer in a big company.

I collapsed after working through the night for three consecutive days to meet a deadline, and when I opened my eyes again, I found myself in the capital city in 1975.

He has both parents, and an older sister who is two years older than him and is 19 years old. His father, Liu Jianguo, is a fourth-level worker in the factory, earning 56.87 yuan a month. His mother is a staff member of the street office, earning 30 yuan a month. If Liu Xianghong can get a job at the supply and marketing cooperative, she will also earn 30 yuan a month. Then the Liu family will have a monthly income of 117 yuan, and life will be too good.

In his previous life, Liu Xiangyang practically died from his own misfortune, without even managing to get a wife. Since transmigrating, he vowed to simply lie down and let the rest of us have our way.

His foresight alone was enough to allow him to live a leisurely and carefree life.

Moreover, in the past two weeks, my parents have already started to grumble about how many of my habits are different from before. If this goes on for any longer, they will eventually find out.

Going to the countryside in Northeast China is a different story. Liu Xiangyang will be 18 years old this year. In two or three years, he won't have to worry about his parents noticing anything amiss.

Liu Xiangyang said, "Mom and Dad, Sister, please stop talking. This is the decision. I'm a grown man; if my sister suffers for me, how can I ever face anyone again?"

"Mom, just pick a good place in Northeast China for me. If you don't help me, I'll go there secretly by myself."

Wang Weihong and Liu Jianguo exchanged a glance: "If you dare to sneak off like this, your dad and I will break your legs. I'll go to the neighborhood committee and ask them about it for you."

Liu Xiangyang: "Mom and Dad, you need to hurry up with my sister's job situation. It would be best to finalize it in the next two or three days."

Liu Jianguo: "Now that Xiangyang has graduated from high school, he's an adult, so let's listen to him."

When Wang Weihong heard Liu Jianguo say this, she thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll ask for leave later and take Xiang Hong to her classmate's house. You don't need to run around. Just heat up your cornbread for lunch."

After the family finished breakfast, Liu's father went to work, while Liu's mother took Liu Weihong to her classmate's house to finalize her job at the supply and marketing cooperative.

Liu Xiangyang washed the dishes, lay down on the kang (a heated brick bed), and scratched his pants. "It's good to be young. You change every day. I've grown taller again. My pants are a bit tight now."

With a thought, Liu Xiangyang entered a space of about 500 cubic meters. In addition to storing things, Liu Xiangyang had also tested three abilities in the past half month: storing and storing items, fusion and decomposition. The maximum distance for decomposition and fusion was 15 meters.

Over the past two weeks, Liu Xiangyang has tested the space with birds in the trees in the yard and stray dogs he encountered on the roadside. When the living creatures are put into the space, it's like time is stopped. When they are released, they come back to life, but there will be a period of weakness. It takes about 1 minute for birds to recover, while dogs recover in about 40 seconds.

Fusion is the process of combining different things into something new. It can synthesize different substances into new substances, which should be quite useful. However, Liu Xiangyang wanted to try it but didn't have any materials for him to test.

Decomposition can break down items into smaller ones, and Liu Xiangyang's current ability is only able to break down items to the centimeter level.

Liu Xiangyang can no longer use the fusion and decomposition functions more than ten times at a time; exceeding that number will cause him severe headaches.

It can be used again after resting for an hour.

Both abilities have a progress bar, so they should be able to be upgraded.

The items that are broken down or merged will be automatically categorized and placed in the space.

With this magic touch, Liu Xiangyang no longer had to worry about not having meat to eat when he arrived in Northeast China.

The only thing Liu Xiangyang couldn't get used to for the past two weeks was the lack of meat. Every day it was just steamed buns, cornbread, and pickled vegetables, and his mouth was getting so bland.

In the two weeks since he transmigrated, Liu Xiangyang has only gone out to practice military boxing every morning, and spent the rest of his time at home experimenting with his cheat abilities.

"Liu Xiangyang, are you home?"

Just then, a pleasant voice came from outside the door.