"There are only two buckwheat buns left. My mother and I will run out of food tomorrow. If he still can't wake up, we can only find a strong man to support your family."
"I don't want it. If Lian Ge'er dies, I will die with him."
"You are so cute, you are dead. There is no strong man to work and earn food for your family. Who will take care of me in my old age? You are such a heartless ungrateful bastard!"
In a daze, Xu Lian heard an old woman cursing and a young woman sobbing.
What's going on
The amount of information is a bit overwhelming.
Xu Lian felt sore all over. He struggled to open his heavy eyelids and saw the dim light of the oil lamp.
This was a low old earthen house. He was lying on a simple wooden bed, covered with a quilt full of patches.
In the corner of the room, there was a black earthen stove with some pots, pans, and utensils on it.
In the middle of the room, there was a tattered wooden table and several wooden stools.
An old woman with sallow, wrinkled skin and a thin figure, and a young woman with a pale face and a slender figure, were sitting at a wooden table. Both of them had their heads lowered, holding strips of cloth and needles and thread in their hands, as if they were making shoes.
What was strange was that both women had strips of cloth wrapped around their wrists, with faint traces of blood visible.
"Cough, cough, cough."
Xu Lian felt his throat dry and sore, and he coughed a series of times.
Hearing the noise, the young woman's face showed surprise and she quickly put down the cloth and needle and thread in her hands. She wiped her tears, picked up a bowl of water on the table, walked to the bed, helped Xu Lian sit up and drink water.
The old woman raised her head and looked at Xu Lian with a frown, "He is awake, but he looks like he is hanging on to his last breath and is half dead. He can't go out to work and earn food. He still has to open his mouth to eat. Did we owe him something in our previous life?"
The young woman pleaded, "Mom, Lian'er has just woken up, please stop complaining."
The old woman moved her lips and cursed twice, then lowered her head to continue mending shoes.
"What's going on?"
Just as Xu Lian was guessing, a memory suddenly emerged in his mind like a fountain.
pain.
It hurts so much!
It made his head swell and his whole body break out in cold sweat.
After receiving this memory, he understood.
This is a chaotic world where rituals and music are in ruins, weird things are rampant, and bandits are rampant.
The superiors indulged in luxury, cruelty, and pleasure;
The lower-class people are unable to get enough food, are insecure from day to day, and live in dire straits.
The family he is with now is located in a small town in Youchao.
The head of the household is Li Jinshui, his wife Wang Cuiyun, and their daughter Li Xiya. Originally, the family of three could barely make ends meet. However, a few days ago, Li Jinshui went missing on his way home from working in a mine. Without the pillar of the family, the family suddenly fell into a difficult situation.
The bachelor next door named "Xu Lian", the original owner of this body, was childhood sweethearts with Li Xiya. He moved in and took over Li Jinshui's job in the mine to earn a living for the family.
Good fortune never comes alone, and misfortune never comes singly. After all, Xu Lian was only fifteen or sixteen years old and did not have enough strength. In addition, he was new to the work and not familiar with the heavy work in the mine. He was hit by a falling rock on his first day at work and died.
"I... obviously traveled through time."
Xu Lian's heart sank and he felt something was wrong.
How can a "lying-down master" like him, who can only play games, watch videos and order takeout in modern civilized society, survive in this chaotic world full of weirdness and bandits
He was afraid that he would not survive more than three chapters. Fortunately, he had read many online novels and mastered a supreme secret spell.
Immediately, he closed his eyes and recited silently in his heart.
"system... "
"dad."
However, there was no response.
Could it be... Could it be that the system doesn't understand modern terms
"father!"
It’s still useless, the secret spell is ineffective!
Xu Lian was disappointed. What should he do without a system
"Brother Lian must be hungry."
Li Xiya took out two black steamed buns from a clay pot and gave one to Xu Lian. She broke the other one in half and she and Wang Cuiyun each took half.
Wang Cuiyun ate it in dissatisfaction, "My mother and I spent the whole day here sewing shoes and only ate half of it, and he just lay there doing nothing but eating one, and you are so generous even though you are poor!"
Li Xiya said, "Lian'er is injured, he needs to eat more. Only when he recovers can he work to earn food."
Wang Cuiyun cursed, "Look at other men. If they get hurt, they should leave home on their own initiative and let capable men come in to support the family. This is the principle of survival! How can we talk about feelings? Can feelings be eaten?"
Original owner, did you hear me? I’m talking to you, be more self-conscious... Xu Lian was chewing the black steamed bun silently.
He is also a man of integrity and really doesn't want to endure this humiliation. If this happened in a modern civilized society, he would have immediately retorted a few words and left... to go to the hospital to heal his injuries.
But this is a chaotic world with weird things and rampant bandits, and his injuries have not healed yet, so leaving here would be tantamount to seeking death.
Between being bullied and losing one's life, life is more important. A man should be able to bend and stretch... Be patient before making any plans.
certainly.
There is another reason.
Li Xiya was pretty and treated him well. If he left, Wang Cuiyun would immediately hire a strong man to come to her house and bully Li Xiya. He couldn't bear it, and he was worried and unwilling to accept it.
For something like bullying Li Xiya, it would be better for him to do it himself... It is such a simple, easy-to-understand truth.
"clatter!"
"Da! Da!"
The strange rhythm of the bamboo clappers knocking came from far away in the streets of the small town, "Night Watch (First Sound)."
The three of them changed their expressions.
Li Xiya quickly took a kitchen knife and a small ceramic cup, removed the cloth strip on her wrist, cut a small incision on the original wound, let the blood drip into the small ceramic cup, opened the wooden door, placed the small ceramic cup filled with blood at the door, and then closed the door.
After she finished this, Wang Cuiyun blew out the oil lamp fire in the room with a "whoosh", and the old-fashioned house suddenly became dark.
If Xu Lian did not have the original owner's memories, he would definitely feel confused. Fortunately, he had the original owner's memories and knew everything clearly.
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This world is full of weirdness, and I'm not just saying it casually. "Night Watchman" is one of the weirdnesses.
Whenever night falls, the "night watchman" will wander from house to house like a ghost. Every household must prepare a cup of blood and place it at the door to ensure safety.
If there is no cup of blood placed at the door, the "night watchman" will break in and suck all the blood of the whole family.
No one has ever seen what the "Night Watchman" looks like, because everyone who has seen it is dead.
There are two rumors in the market. One is that the "night watchman" has a green face and fangs and is over ten feet tall; the other is that the "night watchman" has no entity, but is in a black mist-like state.
Wang Cuiyun is not even forty years old, but her body is thin and shriveled, and she looks like she is in her fifties or sixties, because of years of bloodletting; Li Xiya's pale complexion is also caused by this reason.
In addition to the strangeness of the "night watchman" that appears every night, there is also a strangeness that appears during the day. Women cannot appear outdoors for a long time, otherwise they are likely to be contaminated by ominous things.
This is why every household needs strong men to work and support the family. Women cannot appear outdoors for a long time. Only when there are strong men in the family to go out to work and earn food can they survive.
"I'll give you one more night to rest at the latest. If you're not feeling better tomorrow morning and can't go out to work and earn food, I'll have to find a strong man to live with Qiuya."
Wang Cuiyun glanced at Xu Lian in the dark, said this lightly, and pulled Li Xiya into the inner room.
On the wooden bed in the outer room, Xu Lian lay silently, lost in thought.
The world is so cruel. A man who is unable to earn food will cause the women in his family to starve to death and will be abandoned.
If a man is injured, disabled, or unable to earn food or support his family, he must leave on his own accord.
If the man is unconscious and wants to be a "lazy old man", the women will directly recruit a strong man to move into the house and forcibly drive the "deadbeat" away.
If things really get to this point, it will be embarrassing for everyone, so it's better to be more self-conscious.
Damn... Xu Lian could only pray in his heart that his injuries would get better soon, and at the same time greeted the women of this world.