Chapter 7: Gu Nianwei
The only change in the melon-eating system at this time compared to before is that there is an additional bookshelf button on the side of the backpack.
Clicking on the bookshelf, she found a purple book of hand-painted beauties already there, and touching the cover, the contents of the novel appeared before her eyes.
Jiang Youtao spent half a night reading the novel and then summarized it.
The heroine Gu Nianwei was only 24 years old when she traveled through time. She had just graduated from university and inherited the property left to her by her grandmother - two five-story buildings in the urban village in the center of Pengcheng City, and became a young landlady.
After she turned 23, she would often dream about her hard-pressed survival in the 1970s. At first she didn't intend to care about it, but after having the dream for half a year, her mood began to become delicate.
Once she was accidentally injured while cutting vegetables, and blood flowed onto the ring her grandmother gave her before she died. Then she appeared in a space as large as four or five football fields combined.
The emergence of space made Gu Nianwei alert. It happened that the urban village was being demolished, and Gu Nianwei's two buildings could be chosen to exchange between several million in cash and more than 20 resettlement houses.
Gu Nianwei thought about it for a long time, compromised, and asked for three houses and several million in cash.
After getting the money, Gu Nianwei started shopping, and the things she bought covered all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation.
On her 24th birthday, she traveled through time to the year 1973 and became an 18-year-old educated youth from the capital who had the same name and surname as the one who went to the countryside.
According to the timeline in the novel, it has been more than half a year since Gu Nianwei traveled through time.
The story line takes place after this group of educated youth arrived. Before the autumn harvest, Gu Nianwei would be introduced by the village women's director to her nephew, a veteran with three sons, and she become his wife and the stepmother of the kids.
Jiang Youtao tilted her head and looked at the sleeping Gu Nianwei in the dim moonlight outside the window, with an expression that was hard to describe.
This little girl who has no shortage of money or material things and is also very graceful and charming, how could she be so desperate to become a stepmother to someone else's child!
Since ancient times, it has been so difficult to be a stepmother. If you do well, there is no benefit. At most you will get a useless compliment. If you do badly, you will be criticized by people all over the world. The most terrifying is the kind of good stepmother. If one day you did not do as well as others want, then all the good things you did before will be wiped out. It is simply a thankless job and you will be unpopular both inside and outside.
According to the plot of the book that Jiang Youtao read, after getting married, Gu Nianwei spent every day around the stove, her husband and her children. Most of the people she made friends with were elderly people with children. Her circle of friends became narrower and narrower, and the materials in her space became the capital for the male protagonist Lin Jianzhong to climb up.
After summarizing, Jiang Youtao only wants to express the following six points:
She finally remembered to ask the melon-eating system: "Why do you want to eat melons in the historical text?"
It has been ten days since the melon-eating system was bound to Jiang Youtao. Jiang Youtao would not actively contact it except when she was trying to get some money from it. The rest of the time, she would block it. As a system that lives on the host, it would not be able to break through the host's shielding range unless it triggered a key figure like the protagonist.
Thinking back to the experience of being locked in a small dark room these days, the system feel very depressed.
When it heard Jiang Youtao ask it this again, a feeling of sadness rose up.
Before binding to the host, it copied a lot of online novels. Which of those lucky people who were bound by the system was not grateful to the system and obeyed its orders?
What sin had it committed to let it encounter such a host? She didn't even ask why it was called the Melon Eating System!
The Melon Eating System suppressed the bitterness in its heart and spoke with a flat electronic voice: [ The Melon Eating System, also known as the Fusion Small World Detection System. Those who can be detected by this system are those who have independently developed consciousness after the book is completed, causing the world to collapse. ]
This answer sounded a bit official. Jiang Youtao understood it but also seemed not to understand it.
The melon-eating system said: [ In plain words, the main characters of the small world died abnormally, and the resentment was too great, which led to the collapse of the small world. After the collapse, the small world merged with this world for some reason. For the stability of this world, this system was born. Because this system cannot perform the detection task alone, it selected you, the host, who loves to eat melons and lost her life for eating melons, from among thousands of worlds. ]
The melon-eating system said this, puffing out its chest with pride.
Jiang Youtao felt sad when it mentioned this incident. If she could go back on time, she would not close the window of fate even if it rained knives from the sky that night.
Jiang Youtao didn't think about this topic that upset her, and continued to ask the melon-eating system: [ Then the question is, why did Gu Nianwei's little world collapse? ]
The light screen in front of Jiang Youtao changed, showing several lines of bright red characters.
It turned out that Lin Jianzhong made his fortune with the supplies in Gu Nianwei's space. Success came too easily, and he didn't know how to cherish it at all. He behaved like a decent human being in front of Gu Nianwei, but when Gu Nianwei couldn't see him, he was proficient in eating, drinking, whoring and gambling.
When something goes wrong, he will go to Gu Nianwei in order for her to clean up the mess. His sons grew up in a honeypot, taking Gu Nianwei's kindness to them for granted, becoming less and less respectful to her and demanding more and more from her. When Lin Jianzhong's lover came to Gu Nianwei, they all chose to stand on Lin Jianzhong's side.
The previous love between mother and son, and the happy marriage were all illusions. Gu Nianwei's decades of grievances and resentment erupted at that moment. She used the space knife to kill Lin Jianzhong and his three sons, and did not spare Lin Jianzhong's mother who had tortured her for many years.
After stabbing everyone with the knife, Gu Nianwei chose to surrender herself. She told everyone the secret of the ring, the supplies in the space, etc. Gu Nianwei was executed by firing squad. After the execution, the small world was on the verge of collapse, and at the critical moment it was merged into the world where the original owner was.
Jiang Youtao sighed after reading it.
You choose your own path, and you have to bear the consequences, good or bad. But the price that Gu Nianwei has to bear is too high. There are many ways to take revenge, but she chose the most tragic one.
Jiang Youtao thought that there was still some time before Gu Nianwei was introduced to Lin Jianzhong. During this time, she would try to persuade her as much as she could. If she couldn't persuade her, then there was nothing else she could do.
As the old saying goes, it's hard to persuade a damned ghost with kind words.
After finishing the melon, Jiang Youtao contentedly hugged the quilt, turned over and fell asleep in a second, which made the melon-eating system, which was still waiting for her to ask questions, very upset.
The next day Jiang Youtao was awakened by the noise outside. Gu Nianwei beside her had already gotten up and the bedding was neatly folded and placed on the cabinet at the foot of the kang. She tilted her head to look at the kang. Zhang Huihui and Zhao Yonglan were sleeping with their arms and legs together, and Li Yunying's bed was also made clean.
Jiang Youtao put on her clothes, folded her quilt, got off the kang, and went outside to wash up with the washbasin, towel and soap.
The weather in the Northeast is very cool in the morning, and the well water drawn from the ground is also cool. Jiang Youtao wiped her face with a wet towel, and the last bit of sleepiness disappeared.
Gu Nianwei heard the noise and came out of the kitchen and said to her, "The captain asked me to take you to the team headquarters to find him later. Aren't they awake yet?"
Jiang Youtao shook her head: "Not yet, I'll go call them."
Jiang Youtao put the toiletries on the wooden table in the room and woke up Zhang Huihui and Zhao Yonglan. They both looked very unhappy.
Zhao Yonglan also said, "I've been traveling for so many days, I'm exhausted, and I'm not going to work today, so what's wrong with sleeping a little longer? Are you trying to hurry me up?"
She and Zhang Huihui got up, put on their clothes and went to wash up, banging things around.
The smile on Jiang Youtao's face suddenly faded. When Zhao Yonglan said this and Zhang Huihui did not refute, Jiang Youtao knew that she would not get too close to Zhang Huihui and the others in the future.
She is not a real teenager, she doesn't need friends, and she will not swallow her anger for the sake of so-called friendship.
Zhang Huihui saw that Jiang Youtao looked unhappy and pulled Zhao Yonglan's sleeve. Zhao Yonglan also glanced at Jiang Youtao, pouted and said nothing.
Jiang Youtao took out some cold cream from her system backpack and applied it on her face, then went out to the kitchen.
Gu Nianwei watched the lawsuit between the three people and handed her a steamed bun made of two-grain flour.
Jiang Youtao looked at Gu Nianwei, who winked at her and said, "Eat it quickly. Consider it as a loan from me. Return it to me when you buy food on credit from the captain."