Reborn in the 60s, I hunt to support my family and even seduce the village beauty.

Twenty li north of the city walls lies Kaoshan Village.

July 23, 1959, the Great Heat.

It was already close to evening.

The cicadas outside were chirping loudly, but they couldn't drown out the arguing inside the small house.

"If you don't raise the bride price, I'll go to the security team and report your Chang Kun for indecent assault!"

"If you have someone to blame, blame Chang Kun for being expelled!"

He's just a country boy who can't even get government-subsidized food rations. How could he possibly be worthy of our Meiru!

The bride price must be increased!

"If it weren't for the fact that the surrounding villages already knew about our marriage, I would never have agreed to this marriage!"

Adding a little extra dowry is already considered lenient with you!

Chang Kun lay on the hard earthen bed, and vaguely heard a fierce woman's voice, which made him uneasy.

Who is speaking? Aren't I lying in the old Taoist temple?

The two of them, Lao Dao and I, drank a bit too much Erguotou (a type of Chinese liquor) and peanuts, and talked all night about missing our deceased parents and relatives.

Did he fall asleep after drinking too much?

The sound outside is so clear and sounds very familiar. What's going on?

"Meiru's mother, about Chang Kun's job, nobody wants it to be like this. We'd be heartbroken if he lost his job."

"We've already given the eight yuan dowry; it wouldn't sound good to say we're adding more now!"

This!

It's Mom!!

It's my voice!!!

Upon hearing that voice, Chang Kun was incredibly excited. Was he dreaming? How many years had it been since he had dreamed of his mother?

His throat tightened, and he wanted to call out "Mother," but the sound stuck in his chest and he couldn't utter it.

I wanted to roll over and get up to see my mother, but I felt like my body weighed a ton, and I could only turn my neck slightly.

What's going on?

A dream within a dream? Sleep paralysis?

He turned his neck slightly and, with the light streaming in through the window, discovered that he was lying on a kang (a heated brick bed), the beams above the kang already blackened.

This is?!

Why does this look so familiar!

Then he mechanically turned his head to look to the left.

The newspapers pasted on the wall were slightly yellowed, and the small print was blurred, with only some large print remaining relatively clear.

"Xi Ning Tong? Six Records of a Floating Life?...and they're all in traditional Chinese characters..."

He silently read the large print on the newspaper.

"This!!! Isn't this the old house I've been dreaming of?!"

So much time has passed that my childhood memories have become blurred.

Upon seeing the scene inside the old house again, Chang Kun's eyes welled up with tears.

"Chang Kun's mother, go and ask around. Our Meiru is the most outstanding girl in all the surrounding villages."

"Chang Kun had a job in the city before, which is why Meiru agreed to marry him."

Now that I've lost my job, I'll definitely try to make up for it with the bride price!

"I'm putting my words here: if the bride price isn't increased, I'll sue Chang Kun for indecent assault!"

boom!

A loud bang was followed by a hoarse voice.

"Add another ten yuan to the bride price, and also add ten jin of pork!"

Go ask around, even in the city, I've never heard of such a high bride price!

"Are you marrying off your daughter? You wouldn't even sell your daughter for this much!"

Chang Kun's heart skipped a beat again; it was his father Chang Dashan's voice.

Losing your job? Increasing the bride price? Pork?

I was reborn?

I remember now!

This happened the year I got married when I was eighteen!

In 59, I was eighteen years old.

My father used his family connections to get me a job as an apprentice in a mold factory in the city. After I became a full-time employee, I could transfer my household registration to the city.

In those days, being able to become a worker and transfer one's household registration to the city to receive government-subsidized grain rations was a huge deal for rural people.

After all, being a worker meant not only receiving a ration of food, but also a monthly salary.

Compared to rural people who had nothing to eat after paying their grain tax and could only dig for wild vegetables and peel tree bark, life here was much better!

It can be said that a household registration is like a city wall, clearly separating the city and the countryside, making them two completely different worlds.

Chang Kun, who worked as an apprentice in the city, was once the envy of everyone in the surrounding villages.

Even Qin Meiru, the village beauty from the neighboring Qin Family Village, was eager to get a household registration in the city with Chang Kunga's girlfriend.

The Qin family has already accepted the eight yuan betrothal gift.

Qin Meiru was indeed quite beautiful, with alluring eyes, rosy cheeks, and fair skin.

In modern terms, she had naturally fair skin, completely unlike a girl from the countryside who was exposed to the elements.

Her figure, hidden beneath her clothes, was even more explosive; her large breasts and plump waist were so alluring that Chang Kun couldn't resist taking one look.

Because she had a job in the city and her household registration could be transferred to the city, the Qin family hurriedly came to her door wanting to arrange a marriage.

But now, after being fired from the mold factory, Qin Meiru's family has changed their minds!

They wanted to break off the marriage but dared not, because if they did, their reputation in the surrounding villages would be ruined, and who would dare to marry them then?

The Qin family came up with the underhanded trick of increasing the bride price, raising it from eight yuan to eighteen yuan, and adding an extra ten jin of pork!

You should know that during this period, rural people don't see a single bit of meat all year round!

Ten pounds of pork can be sold in the city for more than twenty yuan. If it were replaced with cornmeal, it would be enough to feed a family for more than a month!

Eighteen yuan, ten jin of pork, could buy seven or eight rural wives!

The Qin family is asking for an outrageous amount!

In his past life, he was so infatuated with Qin Meiru's beauty that he made a bold statement to his parents that he would not marry anyone but Qin Meiru.

To get more dowry from the Qin family, Chang Dashan, the old man, spent four days staking out the mountain and managed to shoot down a wild boar weighing forty or fifty pounds with a broken bird gun.

To hunt that little wild boar, my father risked his life, fracturing his leg and taking several months to recover. After that, his leg would ache terribly whenever it was cloudy or rainy.

Finally, they managed to raise the dowry demanded by the Qin family, and Qin Meiru and her husband registered their marriage and held their wedding.

Qin Meiru lived up to her name, being both beautiful and alluring. Chang Kun was deeply captivated by her, and they enjoyed several wonderful months together.

No one expected that 59 would be just the beginning of the difficulties.

Even though their village was near Beijing and there wasn't a large-scale starvation like in other places, almost no one in the village could get enough to eat.

Life goes on like this, tough but bearable.

Sixty years after the Qingming Festival, life became even more difficult, with each person in the family only able to eat a bowl of wild vegetable porridge each day.

At that moment, Qin Meiru suddenly absconded with all of the Chang family's food and money, and fled to Northeast China with her family to escape famine.

For the Chang family, this was a complete shock!

Back then, food was life! It was human life!!

Qin Meiru stole all the family's food, which drove them to the brink of despair and ultimately led to their deaths!

Having learned the route the Qin family took to escape to the Northeast, Chang Kun pursued them relentlessly, hoping to reclaim the grain and seek justice.

Fleeing famine is not easy. He didn't bring any food with him and relied on begging along the way, along with wild vegetables and tree bark.

After going through countless hardships to reach the Northeast, they could not find a trace of the Qin family.

He had no choice but to return to his hometown, and several months had already passed by then.

For the past few months, we haven't had a single grain of food at home.

The whole family dug for wild vegetables, picked locust flowers, and plucked tree buds.

When there was absolutely nothing left to eat, they could only peel tree bark and boil it to make water to drink!

Even these unpalatable foods were too much for my mother to eat, and she starved herself until she became swollen.

He passed away in just over a month!

At that time, Chang Kun was still on his way to the Northeast and didn't even get to see his mother one last time!

After that, my father and my three-year-old sister Xiu'er also failed to survive that damned 60 because there was no food at home!

The Chang family is now only left with the eldest sister who is already married, the second sister who is 10 years old, and the third sister who is 8 years old.

This is truly a tragedy that has led to the destruction of families and the loss of loved ones!

The eldest sister took her second and third sisters away and raised them with great difficulty.

Although the sisters did not blame Chang Kun.

But Chang Kun always knew that it was all because of him that his parents and younger sister suffered such a tragedy.

For most of the rest of his life, he lived with guilt.

Now that I've been reborn back to the most important moment of my life at age 18, what else is there to say!

A gentleman takes revenge from morning till night! He doesn't discriminate between early and late!

Let's wipe out the Qin family!

Avenge myself and my family!

"Brother Chang, what do you mean by selling your daughter? Don't put it so harshly!"

Chang Kun has already said that he will marry no one but Qin Meiru.

Last time in the village, they were seen pulling and tugging at each other; tell me, isn't that indecent assault?

"If you don't add a bride price, don't blame me for losing face and suing Chang Kun for indecent behavior!"