Getting Married on Chronology (Quick Wear) ~ Chapter 2

Arc 1. Little widow in 1970s ~ chapter 2

Qiu Xiaochan is very satisfied with the master of luck that selected by the system. It is now in 70s, and in a few years he will be able to remove his "Black Five" hat. Such a person will definitely do something in the future, the most important thing is. Yes, his appearance is the type that Qiu Xiaochan likes, the kind of masculine handsome.

Since you are going to spend a lifetime in the task, naturally you have to find someone who is pleasing to the eye, otherwise, wouldn't it make yourself feel uncomfortable for facing a disliked face every day?

Now that the candidate has been determined, the next step is how to marry him. In the current hard-to-fight environment, it is definitely not feasible to openly fall in love.

Qiu Xiaochan was thinking, and the system sounded again, "Your thinking is right. As the master of luck, Gu Wenqian is by nature firm, and ordinary means can't deal with him."

"I know this too, but you are talking about it. What kind of means can be used to deal with him?"

"Sorry, I refused to answer the core questions related to the mission.”

Qiu Xiaochan rolled her eyes in her heart, and said nothing.

After thinking about it for a long time, Qiu Xiaochan didn’t come up with a reason. She decided to take advantage of the work of picking pig grass in the afternoon to make a detour to explore the reality. The opportunity is reserved for those who are prepared. If there is no contact, there will never be progress. Fight every battle.

In midsummer, the countryside is beautiful, surrounded by green mountains and green waters. In the afternoon, the sun was so strong that Qiu Xiaochan went out carrying a bamboo basket and quickly hit a basket full of hogweed.

This body is really delicate. With only a basket of grass on her back, she has a thin layer of sweat on her body, and her breathing rhythm is also a bit disordered. She sat in the shade of a tree and rested for a moment, no rush to return to the production team to raise pigs. Instead, relying on memory, she detoured in the direction of the cowshed at the entrance of the village.

Two buffaloes were raised in Shangyao Village, so the cowshed was built on the edge of the paddy field. Gu Wenqian didn't really sleep with the cows, but lived in the grass shed next to the cowshed.

Because it is summer, the children are on vacation, and along the way she saw many children swimming and fishing, as well as villagers working in the fields. Usually the original owner hides when she sees others. The big guys can’t easily see her. Today, she walked on the road generously, and everyone was amazed when they saw her, and they whispered in the field, "Isn't that Xiaochan?"

"Yeah, it should be for pigweed."

"I haven't seen her for a long time. Don't say, this girl is really good, no wonder she is so worried."

"The two mothers-in-law and daughter-in-law of Qiu's family are quarreling again today, after Chen Guilian receiving the money from the Li family, she want to tell her sister-in-law to the blind Li. Hey, she is also the one who only recognizes money but not people. She is cruel."

"Hey, blame their family, at the beginning they using their daughter as pāngāozhī^[1] and making engagement with the landlord's family. Who knows that the sky will change within a few years? Wishful thinking can only admit fate if you make a mistake, so people can’t be greedy.”

At that time, everyone envied the girl, now she became a poor creature who couldn’t get married. It was really feng shui take turns.

Qiu Xiaochan knew that others were talking about herself, but she turned a deaf ear to it. She walked along the river bank and quickly arrived near the cowshed. After turning a corner, she saw a tall figure in a shirt with long sleeves rolled up to her elbows and buttoned at the top, bending over is doing carpentry.

He has bronze skin and smooth side face lines. Because of his bowing head, the hair on his forehead blocks his eyebrows and eyes. Even when he is doing rough work, he is full of inexplicable literary temperament, as if he is not doing a simple carpenter, but like a high-end model. It is very different from the shirtless man in the village.

This is the goal of her upcoming strategy, Qiu Xiaochan is more satisfied after seeing it, and even the blue veins on his arm look particularly attractive.

Perhaps he felt Qiu Xiaochan's sight. Gu Wenqian, with his head down, looked up suddenly, his eyes sharp and deep, his lips were slightly pressed, Qiu Xiaochan's heart trembled, pretending to be calm, smiled, and turned and left with the bamboo basket on her back. .

After she left, Gu Wenqian continued to work. He was not used to getting along with the opposite sex since he was a child, and he hadn't dated a girlfriend until college.

When he was first transferred to Shangyao Village, even though the composition was not good, but with excellent external conditions, many girls still expressed their favors euphemistically, saying that they did not care about his "Black Five" status, and they would marry him as long as he nodded, Gu Wenqian rejected them one by one.

At that time, he was suffering from great misery and frustration in his heart, and he was unwilling to deal with those so-called "favorites."

Today she is still a family, and tomorrow she will turn her head like stranger. He has seen so many scenes like this, and he no longer believes in love.

It took two years for this trouble to gradually disappear. In addition to raising the two buffaloes, he also helped the villagers do some work such as carpentry and mason.

"To eat people with soft mouths and short hands"^[2], his hard work finally paid off. The days in the village were generally good except for the barrenness. At least the heart was peaceful, compared to the parents who were constantly suffering from spiritual devastation thousands of miles away. He was much more peaceful.

Gu Wenqian could not have imagined that the high-achieving students in the Department of Architecture of National Tsinghua University can only apply what they have learned to such a place.

Qiu Xiaochan sent the grass back to the pig farm. Aunt Zhu from the pig farm saw her panting and sweating and asked her to sit down and rest quickly.

"Your body is really bad, which of our rural girls is not strong?"

Aunt Zhu has more contact with Qiu Xiaochan than others, and she still feels very sorry for this girl. In her opinion, people in this life depends on their fate, nothing can be done if their fate is bad, Qiu Xiaochan is obviously the one who has bad fate.

Qiu Xiaochan smiled and didn't say anything. She sat aside and watched Aunt Zhu mixing pig food. After a break, she helped the aunt to clean up the pigsty and waited for the sun to set before returning home.

When she got home, Zhang Daying had already prepared supper, sweet potato porridge with cold cucumber shreds. The cucumber shreds were only seasoned with salt, and nothing else. Naturally, the taste was not very good. Qiu Xiaochan couldn’t be fussy and drank a bowl of porridge. She deciding to get up early tomorrow morning. She can see it, if you want to eat something delicious, you must occupy the kitchen by yourself. Even if you can't change the ingredients, you can at least work hard on the seasoning. The taste of the same ingredients is also heavenly different.

With nothing to do at night, Qiu Xiaochan took a shower and went to bed early, thinking about how to tackle Gu Wenqian's problem.

First of all, he is a person with a wealthy family background, higher education, and suffering from life. Such a person is wary and not easy to approach. Not to mention that he definitely has no intention of getting married. People with cultural heritage are more inclined to find a partner who fits in with their hearts.

As for herself, her current identity is a village girl with a bad composition. The only advantage is that she is not bad at appearance, but Gu Wenqian is obviously not a lecherous person, otherwise he would not have grown up so much, but he has never been in relationship before, with his identity and background before decentralization, casual shot is Bái fùměi^[3] level.

In addition, contact is also a problem. In an age when holding hands can be condemned as hooliganism, there is no way to cultivate feelings. The only way is to get directly to the topic. She recalled the scenes of women chasing men in romance novels.

She asked the system, "What do you think of the 'hero save the beauty'? After saving it, I will 'accept my body'?"

The system mechanically said, "I'm just a machine with no emotions. If you have to ask my opinion, the following answer it’s what I found, and I hope it’s helpful to you.”

Qiu Xiaochan was happy when she saw it, and saw that the system’s screen reads about cheats for chasing man, such as “Selling her body to bury the target”, “I want to catch my target”, “Incidentally” and other secret codes. The two ways Qiu Xiaochan said are also impressively listed.

"Okay, just do that. I fell into the river and pretended to be drowning. He will definitely not keep quiet. When he saves me, I will have a hundred reasons to rely on him."

The scheming báilián^[4] in the novel is like this. The also happened that cowshed was surrounded by water.

"What if he doesn't save you?"

Qiu Xiaochan asked back, "Will the system choose such an uncaring person to be the master of luck?"

Anyway, she can swim and will not drown. There is a one in ten thousand probability that if he doesn't save it, it's a big deal to swim up by herself.

However, the system reminded her that she had to be fully prepared before falling into the water.

After thinking of a way to solve the problem, Qiu Xiaochan fell asleep in peace. The next morning, she got up just after dawn, steamed sweet potato, and also made two bowls of egg drop soup. The egg drop soup was added with olive oil and pepper. The taste is not bad.

Zhang Daying drank the egg drop soup and asked suspiciously, "Our hen lays eggs so often recently, and we have eggs for these two days."

There is only one hen in the family, who can usually pick up one egg in day or two. Since Qiu Xiaochan’s cooking yesterday, she has used several of them in a row.

Qiu Xiaochan's face was not red and heartbeat, and said nonsense, "Yes, I heard that there are many eggs laid by hens when it fed with insects. It seems that this method is really useful. Our chickens have been working hard in the past two days."

Zhang Daying believed in her daughter's words, and smiled on her weather-stricken face, "That feeling is good, but you can leave the egg for you in the future, don't need to make it for me, I'm so old, and it's a waste to eat it.”

“Mom, you don’t always say frustrating words, you should eat more when you are old. If you don’t have nutrition, your body will be overwhelmed."

Zhang Daying comforting smiles," I know you are filial, but life is difficult, if you can save it, you can save it. You can go to the supply and marketing agency to exchange something for the eggs you save."

Qiu Xiaochan didn't explain too much, but said, "Mom, I will work hard in the future, and our days will definitely get better and better."

After eating, Qiu Xiaochan carried a bamboo basket and went out to hunt pig grass. This time she went to the riverside of the village and saw Gu Wenqian from a distance, driving the cows out of the shed to eat grass. She didn't get close to Gu Wenqian, but picking hogweed far away from him.

The system saw that she did not act, and asked in confusion, "Are you not ready to act?"

Qiu Xiaochan shook her head, "No hurry, I have to master his work and rest."

Only in this way, she can made more detailed plan. After all, the trick of falling into the water can only be used once, and it must be guaranteed to be credible.

What's more, "sharpening the knife and not chopping wood by mistake"^[5], makes her accustomed to appearing in this area, so that it will be convincing even if she falls into the water.

Imagine, if a woman suddenly appears, she suddenly falls into the water, and after she is rescued, she will rely on himself, even if he does not use his head, he knows that the other party has a plan, right?

The system is a combination of programs and data. It is similar to the AI system. It cannot handle complex human emotions. Otherwise, it does not require the traverser to complete the task. Therefore, it can only play a supporting role in many cases. The real decision-making still has to be made by Qiu Xiaochan.

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Notes:

[1] Pāngāozhī, means people who cling to power and wealth status, refers to making friends or forming relatives (E.g. marriage) with people whose social status is higher than their own. They want to climb to high position or choose a better job, position, etc.

[2] "To eat people with soft mouths and short hands", means if you get benefits of others, you have to do things for others. It also logically understood that there is no free lunch in the word, so don’t have greedy heart. Actually in society now, not many people practice it. But in Chinese culture, there is etiquette that there is no impoliteness in coming and going. Whoever accepts kindness of others must be kept in mind.

[3]  Bái fùměi, literally means white, rich, and beautiful. It was social evaluation of girl with pale-skin, wealthy and gorgeous appearance. Many young people nowadays like to use this kind of standard to choose spouse. This criteria become sought after majority of netizens and successfully become fashion benchmark for woman in new era.

[4] Báilián or white lotus, which mean someone with pure appearance.

[5] "Sharpening the knife and not chopping wood by mistake", means preparation beforehand will not only not affect the work but also can speed up the process; to accomplish a thing, you don’t have to start immediately, but you must first make some planning, conduct feasibility demonstrations, and arrange steps, make full preparations, and create favorable conditions, so you can greatly improve work efficiency.

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