Chapter 18: Long Planned, Ill-Intentioned

　　Jiang Youtao went out and called the system: [ What's the situation? Tell me more. ]

　　Jiang Youtao remembered it very clearly. There was no such part in the book where Gu Nianwei and Lin Jianzhong met before the blind date. In the book, their first meeting was at the blind date at Lin Weihong's house.

　　Melon-eating system: [ The book has been published. This plot is a sweet extra chapter specially added by the author when it was published. It is not available in the online version. If you want to read it, you can only buy the physical book. ]

　　This was an answer Jiang Youtao had never expected. She cursed: [ How can such a crappy book be published? If the publisher's eyes are not working well, donate them to people in need. ]

　　[ Comrade, the time has come, please download the extra chapter and show it to me. ] Jiang Youtao wanted to see how sweet this little cookie was.

　　The melon-eating system trembled: [ No... no authority... I have to place an order first, I can't find it on the Internet. ]

　　Jiang Youtao: ..... If you fail at the critical moment, what's the use of you!

　　The melon-eating system was about to cry, and it quickly assured: [ Host, don't worry, I will definitely find the extra chapter as quickly as possible. ]

　　Jiang Youtao no longer planned to read the extra chapter of that damn sweet story . No matter how sweet it was, it was over after they broke up. It was simple and rough, so cool.

　　The rain had not stopped yet, and Jiang Youtao was walking quickly on the muddy country road with an umbrella. Before she reached the commune, she heard the roar of a car. She turned around and saw that it was a bus from the neighboring Wangjiatun commune heading to the county town.

　　Jiang Youtao was overjoyed. She waved to stop the bus. After the driver stopped the bus and opened the door, she got in immediately.

　　There were not many people on the bus, mostly young people. Judging from their clothes, most of them should be educated youth.

　　Jiang Youtao had just sat down when a round-faced girl behind her leaned on the seat and started talking to her.

　　"Comrade, are you also an educated youth?"

　　It was still raining outside. Jiang Youtao had brought an umbrella with her when she went out, but she still got wet when she put the umbrella away and got into the bus. The rain was heavy and her hair was wet.

　　Jiang Youtao reached into her pocket, actually taking out a handkerchief from her backpack to wipe her head and face. When she heard the round-faced girl's question, she replied, "Yes, I just joined the Liushugou Brigade this year. Are you the same?"

　　The round-faced girl smiled and said, "We went to work in the Liujiayingzi section of Wangjiatun Commune. I went there in 1972. My name is Zhou Lingling. What's your name?"

　　After she finished talking to Jiang Youtao, she turned around and said to her neighbor, "I've already told you that she must be an educated youth. If you insist on making a bet with me, you must treat me to wontons at noon. I want meat-filled wontons."

　　As soon as she finished speaking, Jiang Youtao heard a man's pretend wailing voice: "Hey, Zhou Lingling, how come I lost to you again? Let's make a deal. Can we eat some vegetable stuffing?"

　　"No, it must be meat. Otherwise I won't let you." Zhou Lingling pretended to be unruly in her words.

　　Jiang Youtao heard the man's compromise again: "Okay, okay, I'll give you my pocket money for this month again."

　　Jiang Youtao heard Zhou Lingling's happy laughter. She didn't even care what Jiang Youtao's name was, and she was happily bickering with the male educated youth.

　　Jiang Youtao also smiled. This was not a bet at all. It was clearly the male educated youth looking for an excuse to treat Zhou Lingling to a meal, and Zhou Lingling was just using the bet on whether she was an educated youth as a raft to go with the flow.

　　Zhou Lingling talked to Jiang Youtao again: "How is Li Yunying from your educated youth camp doing recently? We haven't seen each other for a month or two. We were too busy to spare any time. The last time we met, she had a cold. Is she feeling better now?"

　　Wangjiatun'er Brigade was not far from Liushugou Brigade, and during the winter break after the autumn harvest, the educated youth would visit each other. Li Yunying had a good personality, and Zhou Lingling was warm and generous, so the two got along very well.

　　"She was already well when I went to the countryside." Jiang Youtao chatted with her casually.

　　Zhou Lingling was also familiar with several other educated youth in Liushugou Brigade. After talking about Li Yunying, the topic naturally turned to them. The two of them chatted and laughed along the way, and other educated youths interjected from time to time, so the journey was not boring.

　　When they parted in the county town, Jiang Youtao had already made an appointment with Zhou Lingling and others to get together after the autumn harvest.

　　After Zhou Lingling and the others walked away, Jiang Youtao looked around blankly at the station entrance. This was her second time in this county town. The last time was when the educated youth had just arrived here.

　　The melon-eating system was immediately launched. It placed a floor plan of the county town directly in front of Jiang Youtao. There were three points on the floor plan. The red one was Gu Nianwei, the blue one was Lin Jianzhong, and the green one with an arrow was her.

　　It seems quite realistic, and she don't know which game the melon-eating system got the inspiration from, and she don't know whether it has paid the copyright fee.

　　The watermelon-eating system: ... I always feel like I'm being looked down upon again.

　　Jiang Youtao looked at the floor plan carefully. She saw the system that clearly marked the big rocks in the corners of every alley. She really wanted to take this broken system to the mountain city in the future. It was said that the city was the nemesis of all navigation systems.

　　She had no other intention, she just wanted to try out which system was better between hers and those navigation systems.

　　The melon-eating system that detected Jiang Youtao's thoughts: .... it's too difficult.

　　On the map, the red dot representing Gu Nianwei was moving rapidly, while the blue dot representing Lin Jianzhong was desperately chasing after her. Then Jiang Youtao watched the blue dot go around from an alley and come in front of Gu Nianwei, and the two finally met.

　　The place where they met was near Jiang Youtao, and Jiang Youtao ran away.

　　When Jiang Youtao arrived, Gu Nianwei was leaning against the wall. The man in olive green clothes was squatting on the ground, holding Gu Nianwei's feet with his hands, and occasionally looking up to talk to Gu Nianwei.

　　In this scene, the girl is pretty and the boy is handsome. Who wouldn't feel pink bubbles flying all over the sky when seeing this scene, and shout out "a tiger in my heart sniffing the rose"? Who wouldn't look at this perfect couple with a sidelong glance?

　　However, Jiang Youtao only felt it was dazzling.

　　She rushed towards the two of them: You bastard, put your dirty hands down!

　　"Weiwei."

　　Gu Nianwei's feet were held in the palm of an adult man's hand. She could clearly feel the calluses on the man's hands rubbing against the back of her feet, with an indescribable itchy and tingling feeling. She felt very uncomfortable.

　　Hearing Jiang Youtao's voice, Gu Nianwei suspected that she was hallucinating. Jiang Youtao called again, and she immediately looked in the direction of the voice. Seeing that the person coming was really Jiang Youtao, she breathed a sigh of relief and showed a happy smile on her face: "Taotao, I'm here."

　　Jiang Youtao walked a little faster.

　　Gu Nianwei looked at the man who was holding her feet tightly and moved her feet uncomfortably: "Comrade, my friend is here to see me, so I won't bother you to take me to the hospital."

　　The squatting man hummed when he heard this, and his eyes turned cold in an instant. But after a moment, he returned to normal, put down his feet, stood up, looked at Gu Nianwei deeply, and whispered: "In that case, I will leave."

　　This man was not handsome, and he had just grabbed her feet in a domineering manner despite her objection. But for some reason, Gu Nianwei just couldn't feel disgusted with him.

　　Hearing that he was leaving, Gu Nianwei felt a little anxious for some reason. She took a deep breath to calm herself down: "Comrade, thank you for helping me again. What is your name?"

　　After hearing this, Jiang Youtao almost blurted out "Fuck!"

　　This progress is really fast. It's only been a short while and they've already exchanged names. If she had come a little later, wouldn't the two of them have been lying on the bed?

　　The man paused, said nothing, and strode away in the opposite direction of Jiang Youtao.

　　"Weiwei, what's wrong with you?"

　　Gu Nianwei suppressed the disappointment in her heart and cheered herself up to talk to Jiang Youtao: "I accidentally sprained my ankle."

　　"Then I'll help you go to the hospital."

　　Gu Nianwei didn't act pretentiously. She leaned on Jiang Youtao's shoulder and followed her to the hospital: "Why are you here?"

　　Jiang Youtao had already thought of the answer to Gu Nianwei's question: "My menstrual belt is no longer usable, and the supply and marketing cooperative happened to be out of stock, so I came to the county to buy one. I took the bus from Wangjiatun Commune. I have never been to the county before, so I walked a little slowly. Just now at the entrance of the alley, I saw someone who looked like you, so I called out, and I didn't expect it was really you."

　　Jiang Youtao heard about the sanitary belts in the supply and marketing cooperative being used up from an old lady who got on the bus later at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative. Her daughter had reached the age when she would have her period and was in urgent need of one. But by coincidence, the sanitary belts in the supply and marketing cooperative were used up.

　　She had to go to the county town to buy it, and the old lady was so upset. She started yelling in the car, not caring at all about being recognized.

　　After hearing this, Jiang Youtao immediately decided to use this reason as an excuse. Anyway, both Gu Nianwei and she attached great importance to privacy. In addition, she had not had her period since she traveled through time, so Gu Nianwei had no idea whether she had a menstrual belt or not.

　　Moreover, since it was a well-founded matter, even if Gu Nianwei had doubts afterwards, she wouldn't be able to find out anything by going to the supply and marketing cooperative.

　　Jiang Youtao took the opportunity to ask her: "What's wrong with you? Do you know that person just now?"

　　Jiang Youtao couldn't help but ask about Lin Jianzhong, because in this situation, anyone with a clear conscience would ask about a man next to their best friend. If she didn't ask anything, Gu Nianwei would become suspicious.

　　"Isn't it raining? I didn't pay attention to the road when I came out of my aunt's house, and I sprained my ankle." She paused and said, "The man who just left saw that I was having difficulty moving, and said he would take me to the health center."

　　Jiang Youtao nodded: "This comrade is quite nice. Do you know his name? If we see him again in the future, we must thank him."

　　Gu Nianwei shook her head: "I asked, but he didn't tell me."

　　The two of them supported each other and walked out of the alley.

　　The county town is called Yangping County. It is not very big, with only three forks in the road. The hospital and main buildings are in the middle of the county town, not far away. Jiang Youtao supported Gu Nianwei and walked slowly, and they arrived in more than 20 minutes.

　　The hospital in Yangping County is not big, with only two buildings in total. The one at the back is the inpatient department and doctors' dormitory, and the building outside is the outpatient department.

　　Jiang Youtao took Gu Nianwei to the emergency room. When she came back after paying the fees, an old doctor in his sixties was pushing Gu Nianwei's feet and talking to her about some irrelevant things.

　　Jiang Youtao's arrival distracted Gu Nianwei, and the old doctor took advantage of this opportunity to straighten her sprained foot with force, so fast that Gu Nianwei didn't have time to react.

　　The old doctor walked back to his desk and wiped his hands with a wet towel: "It's no big deal. Go back and be careful. Take good care of yourself for a while, at least a week."

　　Gu Nianwei got off the hospital bed and tentatively walked two steps on the ground with her injured leg. The pain was indeed gone.

　　She found it miraculous.

　　Gu Nianwei had also sprained her ankle in her previous life. She went to the hospital for a checkup, an X-ray, and a blood test. After going back and forth for quite a while, she finally came to the conclusion that her bones were not injured. However, she was prescribed a lot of medicines for treatment.

　　Gu Nianwei had seen people straighten dislocated bones with just a little effort, but that was in various short videos. She had never encountered it in real life.

　　Jiang Youtao also found it miraculous: "It's fine now?" She was a little overwhelmed.

　　"Yes. Go back now." After the old doctor said this, he called out the next number.

　　Jiang Youtao and Gu Nianwei walked out together. When they came here, Gu Nianwei had to rely on Jiang Youtao as a human-shaped crutch. Now she walks by herself, and except that she walks a little slower, there is no problem at all.

　　The two of them talked as they walked, and after leaving the hospital, they went straight to the department store. The department store was still packed today, and they squeezed in and lined up. It took her half an hour to buy what she wanted. When she came out of the department store, Jiang Youtao was sweating all over.

　　Gu Nianwei was afraid that her feet would be injured again, so she didn't follow her in. However, she gave Jiang Youtao the chili powder that she asked her to buy yesterday before Jiang Youtao entered the department store.

　　"There are so many people here, let's go." Gu Nianwei handed Jiang Youtao a bottle of soda, which she took out from her space. It was exactly the same soda as in this era, and she bought it in a nostalgic store of that era.

　　It tasted really good. She put it in the refrigerator in the space to keep it cold. When the weather got hot, she would have a bottle. Jiang Youtao could feel the bubbles dancing on her tongue again. It was really refreshing and exciting!

　　After finishing a bottle of soda every day, Jiang Youtao touched the cold glass bottle and sighed: "I don't know when I can drink soda freely."

　　In her previous life, Jiang Youtao didn't like drinking carbonated drinks. Compared to carbonated drinks, she preferred to drink tasteless mineral water.

　　When her classmates and colleagues were praising carbonated drinks, she refuted them, and now she is getting the retribution.

　　She drinks the village's natural, pollution-free spring water and well water every day, and it is harder than climbing a mountain to get a sip of carbonated beverage.

　　Realizing something freedom was what Gu Nianwei had said to Jiang Youtao a few days ago. Jiang Youtao didn't feel uncomfortable when she used it now. She smiled and said to Jiang Youtao: "Maybe one day you really achieve the freedom to drink carbonated drinks, and you will start to think that carbonated drinks are unhealthy."

　　Jiang Youtao smiled when she heard this: "That day can come sooner."

　　Only by truly traveling back from the 21st century, when people had no worries about food and drink, to the 1970s, when people were short of food and clothing, can one truly appreciate the strength of the motherland. Jiang Youtao is always looking forward to the motherland's take-off.

　　To this world, she is nothing but a tiny speck of dust. The butterfly effect caused by her time travel can only change the fate of the people around her, and her contribution to the country is not that great.

　　But she has the Melon-eating System, which contains many technologies beyond this world. Maybe one day she will be able to save enough Melon Coins to buy those high-tech products and donate them to the country?

　　Who among those born in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s who grew up in her generation doesn't have a patriotic heart?

　　Gu Nianwei looked at the rainbow that appeared in the sky at some point, with a determined smile on her face: "I think this day will come soon."

　　Neither of them had eaten breakfast, so they went to a state-owned restaurant together.

　　The state-owned restaurant was not big, only about 50 to 60 square meters, with several square tables neatly placed in the room, and two large pillars in the middle of the room. It was not yet dinner time, and there were not many people in the state-owned restaurant, only one table of guests.

　　In front of them was a plate of cold dishes, a plate of peanuts and a bottle of wine. The two of them ate the cold dishes, drank the wine and chatted, feeling very comfortable.

　　The two walked to a table farthest from them and sat down. The waiter put down the sweater he was knitting and came over to take the order.

　　Jiang Youtao was a southerner in both of her lives, and Gu Nianwei was a southerner in her previous life, but in this life she was wearing the shell of a northerner. They unanimously decided to eat rice.

　　They also ordered some side dishes like braised pork and stir-fried vegetables.

　　The chef served the dishes very quickly and soon two dishes were delivered to them.

　　The two dishes were generous in size, and the chef's cooking skills were excellent. The braised pork was ruddy in color, the fat was not greasy, and the lean meat was not dry. It melted in the mouth with a light sip. The stir-fried vegetables were Chinese cabbage, which was crisp and sweet. The soup with rice and peaches was enough to make three bowls.

　　Jiang Youtao hadn't eaten meat and rice for a long time, but Gu Nianwei often ate secretly. She didn't crave rice or meat, but seeing Jiang Youtao eating so happily, she also ate a lot. In the end, they both felt a little full when they came out of the restaurant.

　　It happened that the state-owned restaurant was quite far from the station, so the two of them walked slowly, just to digest their food.

　　After getting on the car back to Liushugou, after the car started, they both closed their eyes and began to doze off at the same time.

　　The darkness and the roar of cars beside her ears made Gu Nianwei's thoughts clearer.

　　She came to the county town today mainly to gather information, but as soon as she approached the house she rented, she keenly felt that someone had entered the house. She was a cautious person and would make a mark every time she left the rental house. Every time she came back from the countryside, the marks on the rental house were intact, but this time the marks were gone.

　　Combined with the previous accident, Gu Nianwei immediately became alert. She pretended to walk into the wrong door and left the rented house, but after taking a few steps, she found someone following her. After walking quickly for a few minutes, she jogged away, and the person following her pursued her relentlessly.

　　After running for several blocks, she finally got rid of the person who was following her, but she accidentally sprained her ankle. If she hadn't met Jiang Youtao, she might have been caught up. As for the man in military uniform who wanted to help her straighten her ankle, after leaving him, when she thought of him again, the joy and shyness she felt disappeared completely.

　　Gu Nianwei frowned, her mind full of thoughts.

　　In contrast to her, Jiang Youtao was happily waiting to receive the task reward.

　　[ Successfully completed the watch and messed up the first meeting between the male and female protagonists. The task rewards are 3 meat buns, 500g beef jerky, and 1kg butter melon seeds. The rewards has been issued in the backpack. Please accept the reward. ]

　　[ Ding~~ The host successfully completed the task and prevented the male and female protagonists from deepening their feelings. The female protagonist's awakening progress reached 5%. The reward is 5 melon coins. Please keep up the good work. ]

　　Jiang Youtao did not expect that Gu Nianwei's awakening progress would soar to 4.5, but after careful thought, she felt that the progress bar had not risen enough. After all, according to the system, this extra chapter also supplemented some bugs in the original book, such as why Gu Nianwei's intelligence dropped when she saw Lin Jianzhong, and why she was so obedient to him and had a great impression of him.

　　She directly disrupted the meeting between Gu Nianwei and Lin Jianzhong, which was equivalent to cutting off part of the logical chain. Without the previous context, it was normal for Gu Nianwei to awaken a little.

　　She looked at the things in the system with great pleasure. Not to mention the meat buns, the beef jerky and melon coins were really delicious. With the melon coin she got before, she now had 6 melon coins!

　　A full six melon coins! Jiang Youtao felt like he had become rich in an instant.

　　Why are there so many melon seeds? She hasn't finished the two kilograms of melon seeds she was rewarded with before. Jiang Youtao discussed with the system: [ Tongzi, I haven't eaten the melon seeds I was rewarded with last time. There are so many melon seeds rewarded again. Can you see if you can change them for me? ]

　　Jiang Youtao was thinking: There are so many things in the system mall, how can I exchange the butter melon seeds for something cheaper?

　　[ Sorry host, once the reward is issued, it cannot be returned or exchanged. ]

　　Jiang Youtao don't know if it's her illusion, but she always feels that this broken system is gloating over her misfortune.

　　For the sake of the melon coins, meat buns and beef jerky, Jiang Youtao decided not to argue with the system over such a trivial matter.

　　Unable to fall asleep, Jiang Youtao, who was really bored, asked about the extra sweet cookie. The melon-eating system was ready and waiting for the host to ask. As soon as Jiang Youtao had the idea, it pushed the extra chapter in front of her.

　　In order to save some face, Jiang Youtao knew the principle of giving a small reward after a beating, and she followed the melon-eating system's wishes and praised it a few words, praising it until it felt elated and happy.

　　Jiang Youtao couldn't bear to look at the artificial little idiot, she clicked on the extra chapter, and after just a few glances she felt her blood boiling.

　　In the extra story, Lin Jianzhong's identity at this time is not yet the director of the commune supply and marketing cooperative, but he is assisting the supply and marketing cooperative and the public security bureau in the county town to track down the source of a batch of refined grains that had recently flowed out of the black market.

　　This was not the first time he met Gu Nianwei. He had seen Gu Nianwei once before. That time, Gu Nianwei ran away and bumped into his arms in a hurry.

　　According to the logic in the book, Lin Jianzhong had long suspected Gu Nianwei's identity, but he did not speak up or report it. Instead, he chose to conceal it for Gu Nianwei, which inevitably led to a lot of psychological entanglement.

　　He helped Gu Nianwei fix her bones and sent her to the hospital for a check-up. During this time, the two exchanged names. He behaved in a gentlemanly, upright and kind manner, which made Gu Nianwei very fond of him and paved the way for their subsequent blind date.

　　Jiang Youtao: ..... It makes sense, the logic is also smooth, Lin Jianzhong is even more than an idiot, this also proves that his marriage with Gu Nianwei was completely dominated by him with bad intentions, this also explains why he could take Gu Nianwei out to live but still did nothing.

　　The first thing this dog targeted was the supplies in Gu Nianwei's space!!!!!