A courtyard house, equipped with a fishing system, living in an era.

For dinner, we had cornmeal porridge with pickled vegetables.

In the evening, I eat dinner and then go to sleep, maybe going out for a walk once in a while.

They didn't have to do any work; they basically just drank some thin porridge.

While drinking cornmeal porridge, Xu Pingan didn't experience any throat discomfort or anything like that.

After all, the porridge we drink has softened even the coarsest grains.

However, the food was really unpleasant.

He did not transmigrate into this world.

If it's a soul transmigration, even if the mind and will are not yet adapted, at least there is a body that can adapt to this kind of simple food.

Xu Ping'an's backpack contained quite a few good things.

He didn't need to worry about others questioning his identity if he took out these things.

The key is that all these things need to have a source, and that will need to be arranged gradually over the next few days.

You can't expect people to see you coming down from the mountain carrying three pounds of sliced ​​beef, can you?

That's ridiculous!

Anyone who didn't know better would think they'd gotten involved with some bandits in the mountains.

If someone were to actually do that, they'd be asking for trouble.

Even if we keep it a secret and don't let the villagers know, it wouldn't be good if my two younger sisters at home found out!

During the meal, the younger sister, Xu Fang, chatted with Xu Ping'an.

Xu Lian took a sip of porridge and looked up at Xu Ping'an.

There was doubt and confusion in his eyes!

Unfortunately, Xu Ping'an couldn't read minds. If he could, he would have known that there was something wrong with the little sister the system had arranged for him!

What happened? What happened?

[In the dream I had this afternoon, it seemed like my sister and I were each other's only family! There's no brother in the dream!]

I tried hard to recall everything from the dream!

The Xu family has never had a brother... not because he died suddenly or anything!

But what exactly is going on?

A storm seemed to be raging in Xu Lian's mind.

At only six years old, she didn't understand what was going on!

After lunch, her older sister took her to eat and then told her to go to sleep, as her sister was going out to chop firewood.

Xu Lian felt as if she were in a dream, a dream that seemed incredibly real.

In my dream, it was also in the spring of that year that my mother, having suffered too much, passed away.

Although the family had a few acres of poor land left,

But expecting two little girls, one 11 years old and the other 6 years old, to manage those few acres of barren land is simply wishful thinking.

In addition, Ma Ergou, a local hoodlum, saw that there were only two orphaned girls left and set his sights on their few acres of land.

Indeed, Ma Ergou wouldn't dare to openly transfer the land allocated by our Party to his own name!

But he could find a way to rent it!

As long as it can be proven that the family is indeed unable to work, or is working outside, they can rent out a portion of their land... (This information is from research, I don't know how accurate it is!)

How could young Xu Fang and Xu Lian possibly be a match for the village hooligans?

Even with the help of village secretary Zhao Changshan and work team leader Zhou Ming, the two sisters still lost their family's few acres of meager farmland.

Having lost their land, the Xu sisters lost their source of livelihood.

Although most of the neighbors in the village had watched Xu Lian and her sister grow up, the times were really not wealthy; even the landlords didn't have any surplus grain!

The two sisters have eaten everything from tree roots to grass. During the most difficult times, Xu Fang even went to the back mountain to dig up a kind of white soil, made it into steamed buns, and ate them with Xu Lian.

I ate that steamed bun and I was no longer hungry, but I couldn't poop.

The two sisters could only squat in the outhouse and cry together!

After the autumn harvest, there are fallen ears of grain and corn kernels in the fields.

It's unclear whether the villagers didn't pick them up properly or deliberately left them for the two sisters.

Her sister led her, searching inch by inch in the harvested field.

Once, Xu Lian picked up a small piece of sweet potato that had fallen on the ground, and put it in her mouth without even wiping off the dirt.

My sister snatched it away, and I cried in my dream.

She cried, and her sister cried too.

While crying, she wiped the dirt off the sweet potato and broke it in half.

I gave myself the small portion, and I also gave myself the large portion!

And so, relying on a meal from one neighbor here and another there, the two sisters occasionally went out begging for food, and survived for three or four years.

Three or four years have passed in the blink of an eye.

In the past three or four years, what hardships haven't the two sisters endured?

Winters in the outskirts of Beijing are bitterly cold, and the mud-brick houses at home offer neither protection from the wind nor from the rain.

My sister's cotton-padded jacket was made by my mother when she was alive, and later she altered it for herself.

As the two sisters grew up, survival had exhausted all their strength.

New clothes and new shoes are things I wouldn't even dare to dream of.

Originally, the two sisters were on the verge of collapse, but at this time, a primary cooperative was suddenly established in Dongying Village!

This brought a glimmer of hope to the two sisters who were already in dire straits.

In a cooperative based on work points, even if you don't have enough to eat, you can still manage to get by.

Unfortunately, fate is unpredictable. Three or four years later, a famine swept across the country!

In my dream, my sister starved to death just as the famine was about to end!

After handling her sister's funeral arrangements, 16-year-old Xu Lian married a 45-year-old widower from the neighboring brigade.

There was no other reason than that the old widower was willing to pay a dowry of 20 yuan and promised to help bury Xu Fang.

Although Xu Lian was beautiful, her family was too poor, and ordinary families wouldn't dare to propose marriage to her.

What's more, there's also Ma Ergou, a good-for-nothing who has been hindering the two sisters from achieving a better life for so many years!

Over the years, as Ma Ergou watched the two sisters grow more and more beautiful, his heart was filled with greed mixed with fear!

They're afraid that if they marry well, they'll turn around and settle scores with their family...

He wanted to marry the two sisters, but they refused to comply even at the cost of their lives!

Helpless, Xu Lian just wanted to escape from here, as far away as possible!

Her husband wasn't bad to her, but he wasn't good to her either!

There was endless chores to do at home, and countless hardships to endure, with only two meals of coarse grains a day.

Compared to childhood, the only difference is that I no longer have to go hungry for long periods of time.

I don't want to live well, but I don't want to die!

Over the next 20 years, Xu Lian gave birth to a son and a daughter.

Xu Lian has suffered too much in her life.

In her forties, a common cold took Xu Lian's life.

The nearly seventy-year-old widower never imagined that he would become a widower again, even though he was already buried up to his neck.

The dream was so real that Xu Lian's tears soaked the sheets in her sleep!

Upon waking, Xu Lian quickly snapped out of that immersive experience!

It felt as if I hadn't just experienced a tragic life, but rather watched a movie in which I starred...

When you're immersed in a dream, it feels like you're living your real life.

But when he woke up, he found that he was still 6 years old and still sleeping in the three mud-brick houses at home.

Wait... three rooms?

Xu Lian remembered that her family had two mud-brick houses. How come there was an extra one out of nowhere?

As Xu Lian stepped out of the room, she saw her sister, whom she hadn't seen for 20 years.

An 11-year-old sister!

A vibrant older sister!

My sister's hands and feet haven't developed chilblains yet!

Overjoyed, Xu Lian hugged her sister who was cooking.

"Alright, stop being naughty. My brother's coming back soon, and I still need to cook!"

Xu Lian was stunned!

"Big brother? What big brother?"

"Are you still half asleep? I'm warning you, don't mess around with me! You think I won't spank you?!"

A dazed Xu Lian was kicked out of the kitchen.

When I think back to the dream I just had, it feels like I've witnessed someone else's life story!

But the story was too bitter for young Xu Lian.

……

Xu Pingan and Xu Fang looked at each other, somewhat at a loss, watching their little sister who was sometimes happy and sometimes crying.

"Da Ya, has she gone mad? Should I go find a doctor to take a look at her?"

Xu Fang was now uncertain!

He reached out and ruffled his sister's hair!

This woke Xu Lian, who was lost in thought.

"Er Ya, are you alright?"

"N-nothing!"

As Er Ya spoke, she raised her timid eyes and glanced at Xu Ping'an.

"Hey Er Ya, what's wrong with you today? Do you have a problem with your older brother?"

Xu Pingan suspected that the girl was trying to cyberbully him, but unfortunately he had no evidence!