Chapter 338: The Soft-Waisted Educated Youth Is Spoiled Rotten by Her Boyfriend 01

【Congratulations, Host, mission completed, earned 1800 points, total!】

【Starting transmission……transmission successful.】

「No wonder your son is also good-for-nothing; your family has no decent people! 」

Jin Chen heard a curse beside his ear, and it woke his consciousness.

He opened his eyes and first saw the woman blocking his way, her hair coiled behind her head, her clothes somewhat worn but clean.

The cursing came from the woman opposite, who was an old lady in coarse cloth, hands on hips, red-faced, spewing foul and sharp language; behind her stood a handsome young man, clearly protected by the old lady, looking somewhat pitiable, yet his gaze at Jin Chen held provocation.

The old lady continued, her voice extremely loud.

「Do you know how expensive that thing is! It was bought by my son from the city to honor me! Your little beast ruined it! 」

「Pay up! Must pay! This cost my son 15 yuan to buy! 」

Jin Chen's ears rang from her shouting; he shook his head and walked forward from behind.

【Host, this old lady is framing you for breaking her radio; hurry and drive her away!】

Jin Chen looked around, then squatted and picked up a brick, quickly walked a few steps to the old lady's face, the still-crumbing red brick aimed at her: 「Don't go crazy here! Get lost! 」

He was tall and sturdy; his fierce look at that moment genuinely startled the two opposite, the old lady's face changed in shock, she hurriedly stepped back, yet her mouth showed no mercy.

「Pah! You bastard born of a mother but no father! Not paying and still want to hit people! 」

「Get lost. 」

Jin Chen repeated it again, his aura terrifyingly intimidating.

The old lady was indeed afraid he'd strike, so she cursed and left with her grandson.

Only then did Jin Chen realize their house was actually next door, separated merely by a broken wall.

「Chenzi, tell Mom, did you really break Xu Pozi's radio or not? 」

The woman's eyes were red-rimmed; her gaze at Jin Chen held disappointment and doubt.

「No. 」

Anyway, 0731 said no.

Jin Chen tossed the brick back to the ground, deciding to first receive the memories before speaking.

「Mom, I'm tired; I'll go back to my room to sleep a bit. 」

「You child……you never let me relax. 」 She sighed, rubbed her hands on the whitened clothes, sat on the edge of the bench, and continued to pick the beans clean from the basket.

Jin Chen waited a moment, seeing she had no intention to keep speaking, he turned and walked into the house, entering his room as guided by 0731.

Very dilapidated.

He guessed that a radio costing twenty yuan was a huge sum here, probably from the early days of reform.

【Transmitting plot……transmission successful.】

As Jin Chen had guessed, this is a rural society of the 1970s.

The villain Mo Zhinan, assigned as an educated youth to Fengshu Cun, was thin and often sick, unable to do heavy work, a type most disliked by rural folk, and inarticulate, so he was unpopular; other educated youths also intentionally or unintentionally ostracized him.

He didn't live with the other educated youths in the dormitory, but was assigned a dilapidated abandoned house in the village; his work points for labor propaganda were often seized, and he remained silent.

The turning point came when, during the harvest night helping villagers dry grain, Mo Zhinan got soaked in rain, fell ill with fever that night, had no medicine at home, and to buy medicine at the clinic he needed work points or money.

But Mo Zhinan had neither; both were taken by the protagonist's attack, Zhang Zhishuai, and when he went to Zhang Zhishuai for money, he was instead framed for theft and suffered a counterattack.

Even though Zhang Zhishuai's family was in the city, they had connections; many educated youths wanted to curry favor with him, so after hearing this, they directly sent Mo Zhinan to the countryside for a struggle session, delaying treatment, and his health grew ever weaker.

The villagers looked down on him even more and wouldn't let him work, fearing his unclean hands would steal their belongings.

This matter blew up; Mo Zhinan became notorious, and was even taken a liking to by an old ruffian from the neighboring village, who harassed him repeatedly. Unable to endure it, Mo Zhinan plotted to make the ruffian tumble down a cliff; unexpectedly, the ruffian came away unharmed, but had secretly seen Zhang Zhishuai and the protagonist receiving affection from Xu Lin. The two flew into a rage, seized the ruffian, and accused him of stealing vegetables and tools.

Seeing the matter blow up, the ruffian directly claimed Mo Zhinan had coerced him, producing some miscellaneous evidence; Mo Zhinan was badly beaten by Zhang Zhishuai, filed a complaint, but it was intercepted, and he was then charged with rumor-mongering, fighting, absenteeism, and theft, sued by the villagers to the district office, and even imprisoned.

Meanwhile, Zhang Zhishuai, after the college entrance exam was restored, returned to city life; Xu Lin followed him and became one of the first villagers to grow rich.

The protagonist receiving affection from Xu Lin is precisely the youngster who stood behind Xu Pozi just now.

The original self and he were neighbors, also classmates at the village school, but the only link to the protagonist's plot is today's radio incident.

The original self's father died early, leaving his mother Gui Fang to raise the children alone; her family also had a lame younger brother living with them, and lacking labor power, the three lived in dire straits.

The original self also knew the family's situation was poor; as a child he was obedient and sensible, yet he saw too many who, lacking a father's backing, constantly bullied his mother and uncle.

Gradually he realized that being well-behaved was useless; to keep others from bullying his family, he had to make them fear him, and thus became the good-for-nothing thug in everyone's eyes—tall and strong, indeed frightening those who had once bullied them.

But soon after, his reputation sank even lower.

After smashing Xu Pozi's radio, the family couldn't pay, and no one believed he was innocent; the original self went with several villagers overnight to town to look for work, was deceived, and when he returned to the village only his corpse remained.

Plot and memories have been fully received.

Jin Chen snorted: 「This isn't even a villain; the original self and Mo Zhinan are just cannon fodder in their love story. 」

That radio was in fact broken by Xu Lin himself by accident; Xu Pozi saw it, but because the original self happened to pass by, she felt sorry for the money and feared her son's scolding, so she shoved all the blame onto the original self; Xu Lin even directly accused the original self of not only smashing the radio but also beating him up, making Zhang Zhishuai feel sorry for a while.

【In the protagonist's view, anyone not on their side isn't a villain?】0731 already knows the protagonist's ways.

【Hey Host, do you still want to exchange your previous 500,000? That's a huge sum!】

Jin Chen kept a doubt in mind: 【Really, only points are needed?】