Chapter 398: Ninety's Contrast System (1)

"Xie Yang! Why are you spacing out! Take the luggage and hurry up and put it on the rack!"

"Xie Yang, hurry up! The train is about to leave!"

"Don't just stand there like a wooden post! Sigh, I should have gone up first if I'd known."

"She's thin and agile; she was the one who went up first last time. What's going on today? Standing there for ages without moving..."

"Quick, quick, quick! Stop just talking, hurry and get on the train, it's really leaving now!"

"Woo—"

After a long whistle, the green-skinned train with its mottled paint slowly pulled out of the noisy and bustling Shencheng railway station, clattering as it headed north.

Xie Yang was squeezed into the middle of a three-person hard seat that was occupied by five people.

Inside the carriage, the smells of smoke, sweat, foot odor, the halitosis of people who had eaten green onions and garlic, and the pungent stench drifting from the direction of the toilets were all mixed together; holding back from vomiting was the greatest respect one could pay to a green-skinned train carriage packed like sardines.

She had just transmigrated, and her head was already dizzy; now, her brain felt even more swollen.

This time, she had transmigrated to the mid-1990s, a period when China's economy was on the rise.

It felt as if there was a seamless connection to the previous plane.

On the previous plane, she had left in the year 2000.

At that time, Shuisheng had already graduated from university and started working.

He had studied law, which was the most popular major at the time.

As soon as he graduated, he passed the bar exam and joined the most famous law firm in Mingjiang City.

In his first year, to gain experience, he took on any case, but economic dispute cases and criminal cases with higher commissions were generally handled by senior lawyers at the firm, so the cases he was sought out for were mostly small civil disputes.

Things like divorce squabbles, private loan debt collection, accidental injury compensation claims, and so on.

Fortunately, he was meticulous and put his heart into every case, gradually building up a reputation.

Just at this critical juncture, Xie Dani's relatives back home saw Xie Yang on a talk show for private entrepreneurs and learned that after Xie Dani ran away all those years ago, she not only survived but had become a local tycoon. Even though her name had changed, they would recognize this face, which had inherited the looks of the old Xie Family's great-aunt, even if it were turned to ash!

The Xie Family, young and old, were both shocked and delighted, and subsequently began to inquire about the richest person in Mingjiang City, Xie Yang.

Learning that she had become a "ten-thousand-yuan household" back in the eighties by running a snack bar, and that once the market economy fully opened, the snack bar had expanded into a luxurious five-story restaurant with branches all over major cities, it would be no exaggeration to say she made a fortune every day.

The people of the old Xie Family laughed until their cheeks ached, as if they were the ones who possessed all that money; before they had even reunited with her, they started having pipe dreams.

While dreaming their sweet dreams of living off someone else, they came to Mingjiang City to rely on Xie Yang.

How could Xie Yang possibly pay them any mind? She reported them to the police for harassment.

The people of the old Xie Family didn't get any benefits from Xie Yang and were so angry their mouths went crooked.

They also found out that Xie Yang hadn't married all these years, but treated her two stepsons as her own.

Thinking that the property that clearly belonged to the Xie Family would eventually go to these two stepsons made them even angrier.

One day, seeing Shuisheng walking with a mother and daughter, they assumed they were his wife and child, so they hatched a wicked scheme.

The families of Xie Laoer and Xie Laosan teamed up and deliberately staged a scene; while Shuisheng was reporting them to the police, they seized the opportunity to kidnap the four-year-old girl.

Xie Laosi found a public telephone booth and called Xie Yang, forcing her to put one million at the abandoned pier by the Mingjiang River.

Otherwise, they would kill her step-granddaughter.

Xie Yang spent points to track these people to their hideout.

She could have originally saved the child and escaped unscathed, but unexpectedly, the desperate Xie Laosi had even planted a bomb.

If she used the Interstellar Protective Shield, how would she explain it afterward?

Moreover, there was a big difference in the sentencing of the Xie Family members depending on whether someone died or not.

In a flash, Xie Yang chose to sacrifice herself.

She used her own physical body to protect the girl, and also helped the Shuisheng brothers completely resolve the hidden threat of the Xie Family.

Fortunately, the year Shuisheng turned eighteen, she had used a Prop to unbind him from the Gourmet System and successfully retrieved the Sub-system to send it back to the factory for repairs.

That same year, she had also found a lawyer to draw up a will and have it notarized.

If she were to pass away, half of her remaining assets would be donated to welfare organizations, allowing more children who had lost their parents and families to have enough to eat and go to school; the other half would be left to her two stepsons to help them start their own families and careers.

If she hadn't done these two things, she would have died of frustration.

She hadn't expected that upon closing and opening her eyes, she would be back in the nineties.

And the family environment of this body was even more distressing than Xie Dani's original family.

The marriage of the original body's parents was so dramatic it could be made into a forty-episode rural soap opera—

The original body's mother, Zhou Ru, was the daughter of a brigade Cadre, and the original body's father, Xie Lei, was an Educated Youth sent to the countryside.

After three years in the countryside, he hadn't waited for a chance to return to the city, and he couldn't bear the hardship of working in the fields, so after much deliberation, he married Zhou Ru, who was obsessed with his looks, and became the son-in-law of a brigade Cadre's family.

After marriage, Xie Lei got his wish and was transferred to teach at the brigade's primary school, no longer needing to endure the wind and sun to do farm work.

In the first year of marriage, the couple was still quite affectionate.

But in the second year, the College Entrance Examination was reinstated, and Xie Lei was ecstatic, wanting to sign up to test his way back to the city.

Worried that he would change his heart after returning to the city, Zhou Ru tried every possible way to sabotage him, guarding against him strictly and refusing to let him take the College Entrance Examination.

She didn't stop him from signing up, so on the day of the College Entrance Examination, she fed him a sedative, letting him sleep for an entire day, which caused him to miss the most crucial exam of his life.

After that, Xie Lei completely hated Zhou Ru.

In front of others, he would still cover it up a bit, but in private, he never gave her a good look, ignored her, slept in separate rooms, and in short, used all kinds of cold violence.

Zhou Ru had hoped to wait for him to have a change of heart, but who knew that policies would loosen and Educated Youth could return to the city; she panicked, and in order to keep her husband, she used some tricks to conceive his child.

But once a man hates a woman to the core, how could he stop for the child in her womb?

What's more, this child was conceived while he was drugged and delirious; it was neither a crystallization of love nor was there any anticipation, so it was already good enough that he didn't force Zhou Ru to abort it—how could she dare to hope for anything else?

Xie Lei abandoned everything in the countryside without nostalgia and returned to the city.

Even if Zhou Ru cried until she went blind, she couldn't change the fact that she had been abandoned by her man.

It wasn't that her maiden family hadn't thought about finding her another one, but since she had a daughter in tow, it was difficult even to find a divorced man to remarry.

Moreover, at that time Zhou Ru still could not let go of Xie Lei and kept thinking of him, and she also looked down on those country bumpkins with dark, rough skin whose looks didn't even reach one-tenth of Xie Lei's, so she just dragged it out like that, living in a daze for five years.

In fact, less than three years later, she herself wanted to find someone else to marry.

What could she do alone with a child? After the land was divided among households, she had to rely entirely on her maiden family to help with the farm work just to avoid running out of food.

Her parents and brothers were fine, but her sisters-in-law looked at her with nothing but disdain.

Although they didn't mistreat her openly, the sarcasm in their words was enough for someone as proud and arrogant as her to endure.

But even if she wanted to remarry, she wanted to marry someone with good circumstances; at the very least, he couldn't be too ugly, and his family couldn't be too poor.

In the year the original body turned five, Zhou Ru finally took a fancy to a man—

Zhu Weiguo, the youngest son of the Zhu Family in the neighboring production brigade, whose wife had died not long ago and who wanted to find a kind-hearted stepmother for his daughter, whom he had raised with doting care.