Quick Travel: Crazy Literature

Chapter 226 The King of the Era (1)

On the companion tree, all the previous flowers condensed into companion fruits and were swallowed up, and now a new small flower is blooming.

He Shan took a look, sat down cross-legged, and poured the energy liquid he had obtained into the roots of the tree.

Now, the energy liquid has little effect on her. The rules contained in it are more suitable for the companion tree. She has obtained many things in the world of cultivation. She has swallowed and refined a part of it before. Now she has completely digested it and can absorb it again.

Time is difficult to measure in the void. No one knew how long it had passed before Heshan opened his eyes and excitedly chose to set out for the new world again.

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The original owner, Li Cuihua, lived in a rural area in the early days of the founding of the new country. She was a genuine poor peasant and died in a cold ditch at the age of sixty.

Due to the times, the original owner lived in a family that favored boys over girls. When she was just sixteen years old, she was married off to the Fang family in the same village in exchange for a dowry for her brother to marry a wife. She gave birth to her first child in the third year of her marriage, and then gave birth to three more children one after another.

In this way, although the family grew in number, the already poor family became even poorer.

Unfortunately, when Li Cuihua's husband's youngest son was just two years old, he was stealing firewood in the mountains and fell into a ditch and died.

To make matters worse, the family was immersed in the sorrow of the husband's tragic death, and the youngest son had a fever and was not taken good care of, and he became a fool due to carelessness.

At this time, the old Fang family had not yet split up. The other brothers of the Fang family felt that Li Cuihua and so many children had to feed too much food, so they clamored to split up. The two old men of the Fang family were also worried that Li Cuihua would abandon the children and remarry, so they agreed immediately.

In this way, the burden on Li Cuihua's small family increased linearly. At this time, people from the old Li family also came, wanting to take her back to marry again, but Li Cuihua, who had always been weak in character, did not obey this time. It was not because she was worried that her parents would sell her again, but looking at the hungry children, maternal love overcame everything.

For the sake of her children, Li Cuihua was not afraid of hardship or fatigue, and supported the family through difficulties.

In that era of work points, she worked very hard. Most women could only get eight or nine work points, but she always got ten. Whenever there was any back-breaking work, she would always be the first to rush forward, just hoping to get more food.

Among the children in the family, she valued her eldest son the most, because he was the first one and was born after two years of waiting after marriage. Therefore, she loved him very much and had high hopes for him. She never let him do any farm work and sent him to school, hoping that he would have a bright future.

As a result, after finishing high school, the country issued a policy to stop the college entrance examination. Now there was no hope of going to college. Just when Li Cuihua was worried that her son would have to return to farm, he found a lesbian in the city and wanted to marry her.

Li Cuihua was not unhappy about this. She used up her family savings to hold a wedding for her eldest son. She thought that all the hard work had paid off. However, who would have thought that her eldest son acted like a daughter-in-law and did not come back often. Instead, he always asked his family to send him food and vegetables.

The second son was only two years younger than the eldest, but Li Cuihua valued him less. He grew up like an ordinary country kid and naturally had no education. The family was poor and could only afford to support one son. For this, the second son often blamed her.

The second son worked as a laborer for many years. He was not good-looking and had no education. His family was not well off either. He did not settle down until he was 22 years old.

But the marriage he entered into was a very bad one. The other party was an educated youth who had gone to the countryside. She came to him because she could not stand the hardship there. They stayed together for three years. Then the country resumed the college entrance examination, and she was admitted to university immediately. She left, leaving behind her two-year-old child and her second child.

The third child was a girl, born after Li Cuihua had two boys. Thinking of the suffering she had endured when she was young, Li Cuihua cherished her very much and was reluctant to let her live the same life as herself.

Later, a marriage was arranged for the third child. She fell in love with a gay man from the city and got married. However, the man's family was not that good either. He only had a city hukou, lived in a cramped 20-square-meter room, and looked down on them in every way.

The fourth child... is a fool. Li Cuihua has been doing farm work for many years and has devoted her limited energy to the first few children. She is not interested in this one enough, so the only thing he needs to do is to keep him alive.

Later, with the reform and opening up, the eldest son's family and the daughter's family in the city were laid off due to bankruptcies, and their lives and food immediately became tight.

At this time, Li Cuihua in the countryside had been working hard for a living and her health was almost broken. Most of the things saved in the family had been given to her sons and daughters in the city over the years. Now they were asking for more. The second son was dissatisfied with the fact that he had worked like a slave for his eldest brother and third sister for many years, so he forcefully divided the family property.

Li Cuihua had spent her entire life taking care of her eldest son and youngest daughter, so naturally she was unwilling to leave them alone. She worked tirelessly in the countryside farming, raising chickens and ducks, and sucking their blood. Thanks to her hard work, both families no longer had to worry about food, and they successfully responded to the trend of the times and made a lot of money.

Later, Li Cuihua fell seriously ill due to overwork. After she was sent to the hospital, the eldest son and three daughters only gave her 20 yuan symbolically, saying that the second son was the one who lived with her and should take care of her in her old age. They were unwilling to give out more money. The second son was silent for a while and gave out 100 yuan.

Li Cuihua was shocked and angry. She never expected that her eldest son and youngest daughter would be so indifferent to her. Instead, her second son, who had ignored her for several years, came as soon as he heard that she was sick. And her mentally retarded youngest son walked all the way from the village to the town, a distance of almost ten kilometers, to find her in a foolish manner.

Seeing this contrast, Li Cuihua was filled with remorse and tears. But she was old and in poor health, so she had no choice but to take her stupid son to go through the discharge procedures after her children left, and she was reluctant to spend the little savings she had left.

Later, she forced herself to go home and divide the old yard into two parts, giving one to her second son and her stupid son, because the eldest and third sons had received some news and both asked her to give them the house.

In fact, even if this had not happened, Li Cuihua had no intention of giving the house to them. She knew that she was being unfair to her second son and her stupid son, so she was unwilling to treat them unfairly in this regard.

As soon as this was done, the other two got wind of it and thought she was not keeping her word, so they came back and made a fuss all day, smashing everything in the house and demanding that she change it back.

Li Cuihua refused to do so. She was extremely disappointed with the two men. However, she didn't expect that they would do anything but search the house and steal her passbook. Although there was only 200 yuan in it, it was most of her current wealth.

That night, Li Cuihua was afraid that they would come to rob again, so she threw the other passbook with 300 yuan and her stupid son to her second son's house, and set out for the city to get the passbook back.

Who would have thought that in the cold winter, she was in poor health and twisted her ankle on the road, fell into a ditch, and froze to death soon after. Her body was finally found by her second son who went to check on her after daybreak.