Chapter 645: Virtuous Wife and Good Mother Way System (2)

The old spouse was right; in any case, the son lives in Beijing and won't come to the old home often.

Even if one day he brings his city wife back to visit, couldn't they just say she was a foster daughter they took in, and not mention she's a Child Bride? Anyway, the son has been away from home for many years, so he surely wouldn't recognize his former Child Bride anymore.

Just like that, the original body remained in the Old Zhuang Family. Although she knew her husband was a Cadre in Beijing, Qiu Caohua often gaslit her with words like, "Mingcheng has finally been promoted and hasn't yet gained a firm foothold in the city; we mustn't hold him back. Wait a few more years, and once he has a firm foothold, he will definitely come to pick you up to the city, and then you can go with Mingcheng to enjoy a good life."

She was never allowed to know that her husband in name had long since established a new family in Beijing and was living a happy life with a wife and children, while she waited in hope, serving the old couple through thick and thin until they were in their coffins.

The first child born to Zhuang Mingcheng and his city wife suffered from congenital cerebral palsy. Finding the child a disgrace and unwilling to spend money or time caring for him, they simply threw the child back to the old home for the two elders to look after.

But the two elders relied on the original body for their own care, so how could they take care of anyone? Thus, they made the excuse that this was the child of their son's superior, and that if they took good care of him, their son would be able to gain a firm foothold in the city. After another wave of gaslighting, this responsibility fell onto the original body.

In short, the original body spent her whole life working like an ox or a horse for the Old Zhuang Family; after serving the old, she served the young, and after serving the young, her life had withered away to nothing.

Thinking that death would finally bring release, she never imagined that when her soul drifted to her husband's home in Beijing, she would discover he had long since gained a firm foothold in Beijing and had married the daughter of a leader, with his eldest child already fifteen...

No! That's not right! The eldest child was the one she had raised with her own hands; by the time she closed her eyes, he was already eighteen!

She had been the one to clean up his filth and feed him, raising the son born to Zhuang Mingcheng and his city wife—the one with congenital cerebral palsy—to adulthood!

And she had been completely unaware!

From thirteen to forty-three! The best years of a person's life had all been sacrificed to the Old Zhuang Family.

She was so angry and hateful that she fainted from the sheer rage.

When she opened her eyes again, she had actually returned to the day the husband, who had been away from home for years without a word, sent a letter home.

At the thought of repeating the life of working like an ox or a horse from her previous existence, the original body's vision went black.

No!

In this life, she would absolutely not stay in the Old Zhuang Family to work like an ox or a horse!

She wanted to strive to live out her own life!

But before she could pull herself together and find a way to leave the Old Zhuang Family, a strange thing suddenly appeared in her mind. It claimed to be the "Virtuous Wife and Good Mother Way System." As long as she followed the Tasks it issued, the System would reward her with various daily necessities she needed; otherwise, she would be erased by the System.

She glanced at the two main Tasks issued by the System:

One, accept the mother-in-law's proposal: stay in the Old Zhuang Family and care for the two elders until they pass away.

Two, accept the son born to her husband and his registered wife, and carefully care for him until he reaches adulthood.

The original body completely lost the will to live, and thus came the arrival of Xie Yang.

Xie Yang: "..."

She didn't want to do such bizarre and brain-dead Tasks either; just recycle it back to the factory!

The moment Xie Yang bundled up the "Virtuous Wife and Good Mother Way System" and sent it back to the factory, her sea of consciousness suddenly shook—

【The Smart Farm System is at your service!】

【Respected Host, I am Ace, the universal assistant of the Smart Farm System. Scanning shows that the Host possesses extremely high aptitude for farming, so I have specially unlocked the Farm Owner qualification for the Host.】

【Smart Farm module downloading—】

【Smart Farm module download complete!】

【Smart Farm basic module—Smart Vegetable Garden is waiting to be deployed. Please choose a reasonable location, Host, to confirm the deployment of the Smart Vegetable Garden.】

【Host? Host? Please confirm the deployment of the Smart Vegetable Garden, Host!】

Xie Yang: "..."

Didn't she just send one away? How did another one come? Could it be that this plane has two Sub-systems that need to be recycled?

The Main System was even more confused than her; where did this system come from? But in any case, it was not from the same civilization as it.

【It's not that, Host. This Smart Farm System is not under the jurisdiction of the System; it should be a peer from another line.】

Xie Yang: "..."

You have so many peers.

Seeing that Ace was still calling out "Host," "Host," Xie Yang sighed and replied, "I'm here."

【Thank goodness, Host, you've finally come back to your senses! Please choose a reasonable location to deploy the vegetable garden!】

Xie Yang: "Can I choose another plane?"

She had already recycled the Sub-system of this plane back to the factory, and her next step was to write a letter to Zhuang Mingcheng's unit to expose the fact that he had committed bigamy.

Wasn't he worried that his city wife would make a scene and cause him to lose face if she found out he had a Child Bride in the countryside? Then she would make sure to spread it well for him.

At the same time, she would also write a letter to the local Women's Federation to properly recount the shameless behavior of the Old Zhuang Family, starting from when Xie Yun gave them two gold bars and had them hire a matchmaker to propose, all the way to Zhuang Mingcheng's letter and the old couple's shameless scheme to hide it from everyone and keep her in the Old Zhuang Family to work like an ox or a horse and perform filial piety on Zhuang Mingcheng's behalf.

Once this family was disgraced and lost the face they cared about most, and she had retrieved the equivalent currency of the two gold bars as well as the compensation the original body deserved for working like an ox or a horse in the Old Zhuang Family all these years, she would activate the "Set Off Immediately" Prop she hadn't used yet and go directly to the next plane.

She never expected that just after sending the Sub-system back to the factory, she would be bound by this Smart Farm System that was on a completely different line from the Main System.

And it even wanted her to choose a location to deploy a vegetable garden; was this the rhythm of making her farm in the fifties?

Ace: 【That won't work, Host. The unbinding module of the Smart Farm System was lost during the jump. Once bound, it cannot be unbound unless the maximum level is reached.】

Xie Yang rubbed her forehead: "Why did you choose me?"

Ace: 【Because the Host is the Air of Fortune of this plane! When I jumped to this plane, I saw that everyone had a gray base tone, and only the Host was a dazzling interstellar Silver.】

Main System: 【... Ahem, that might have been the Virtuous Wife and Good Mother Way System.】

Xie Yang: "..."

She had been completely screwed!

The Main System was terrified that the Host would vent her anger on it, so it hurriedly advised: 【Host, the Smart Farm System sounds quite interesting; why not just treat it as an experience? You can also save one 'Set Off Immediately' Prop.】

Xie Yang glanced at it sideways.

What else could she do?

She couldn't leave even if she wanted to.

Unless she leveled the Smart Farm System to the maximum.

【Host, please choose a reasonable location to deploy the vegetable garden!】

Ace was still persistently urging her to complete the Task.

Xie Yang could not help but roll her eyes: "I don't have any land."

It was already 1952, and land reform had long since ended; the Old Zhuang Family had indeed been allocated land, but it would not be long before the People's Commune system was implemented, meaning all private land would be converted to public ownership, and farmers would rely on earning work points to obtain grain.

Where was she supposed to get land to deploy a vegetable garden?

Come to think of it, does the Smart Farm not require one to till the land themselves? You just select a plot of land to deploy it on, and you have a vegetable garden?