NABC Chapter 108 The Lazy Man of the Era 1
Chapter 108 The Lazy Man of the Era 1
The autumn harvest had just ended, and every production team was bustling with activity.
It turns out that this family is about to hold a happy event.
However, this has nothing to do with the lazy Zhang Pingzhu, and even less to do with Jiang Ping who transmigrated here.
Outsiders only know that this person is so lazy that even his own family can't stand him, but in reality, the original owner was genuinely lazy.
Zhang Pingzhu, nineteen years old, is a well-known lazybones in the Dagang Village Production Brigade.
Let alone young women and wives, even the village's most notorious deadbeats would avoid him.
When the original owner was nine years old, his biological mother, Wang Huan, passed away. His biological father, Zhang Beiguo, immediately sold everything he owned and used his savings to marry his childhood sweetheart, the widow Hua.
The entire Zhang family lived together, and Old Man Zhang and Uncle Zhang didn't stop them at all. Grandma Zhang and Aunt Zhang had their opinions, but they didn't say anything.
The old house caught fire, the original owner's biological father was devoted to his stepmother, and the small bed was taken by the widow's son, so the original owner could only sleep in the kitchen, woodshed, or main room.
No one in the Zhang family spoke up for him, and they even started cutting back on his food rations. He could only eat a certain amount of food and do a certain amount of work, and he wouldn't listen to anyone's advice. If they said too much, he would ask them for more food.
Widow Hua discovered that even her husband couldn't do anything with this kid. He wasn't afraid of being beaten or scolded, so she had to take matters into her own hands. Outside, she would hesitate to speak, but then spread rumors about the original owner of the body not doing any work.
The intention was to make people feel embarrassed and go back to being good laborers.
Actually, everyone knows a little about the inside story, but that doesn't mean they don't want to see the Zhang family make a fool of themselves. As for Zhang Pingzhu, let him be lazy, he's not their own son.
Anyway, Widow Hua relentlessly plotted against the original owner for almost ten years, and Zhang Pingzhu went from pretending to be lazy to actually being lazy.
Sleeping in the kitchen was out of the question. He slept in his father's and grandfather's beds in turns. If he didn't get food after doing chores, he would dare to steal eggs, smash cupboards, and eat Old Zhang's food all by himself. If he had no clothes to wear, he would wear other family members' clothes...
Last year, the original owner made an outrageous demand for money from his family to get married. His family felt it was a bad deal and kicked him out.
This person is shameless and has a terrible reputation. He only wants to earn enough to eat when he works, and now it seems he's not even willing to earn enough for that...
If he were to marry another lazybones, the family would be doomed.
The original owner's wish was to be a lazy bum, stay away from the rotten Zhang family, and secretly take care of his cousin from his maternal uncle's family.
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When Zhang Pingzhu saw the words "Be a lazy bum," he lay back down on the tattered bed, took out his pillow, blanket, and fried chicken, and gestured for Tongzi to turn on the TV to play some background noise for him.
A confusion array was set up at the entrance to prevent anyone from suddenly coming to find him, since he had nothing to do today anyway.
The original owner had asked the captain for leave yesterday, and Zhang Pingzhu's arrival meant he could lie around like a corpse for a day.
How could there be such an amazing mission? Hahahaha!
After receiving the original owner's memories, he carefully read the detailed plot sent by the system.
The original owner's stepmother, Widow Hua, was a ruthless woman. Three generations of the Zhang family had illicit relationships with her, no wonder Old Man Zhang and Uncle Zhang didn't stop Zhang Beiguo from remarrying.
"Tong'er, do the men of the Zhang family have some kind of fatal attraction? Is it that sleeping with a man who doesn't like to bathe will grant you immortality? This isn't some kind of online post, is it?"
"There's nothing to do tonight except for those things in bed, right?"
Zhang Pingzhu felt that the locust-related novels he had read before were nothing special, mainly because even the most immoral ones he had read weren't as bad as this old man's...
Tong'er lazily flipped through a few stories about Dagang Village without offering any rebuttal.
This stepmother does have rather unusual tastes, but the old man can actually eat her food.
The widow's two children had no relation to the original owner's father, Zhang Beiguo. The first child, a burden, was the child of Zhang Beiguo's short-lived cousin, whom Zhang Beiguo considered his own.
The second child was born to the Zhang family during her second marriage; she's only five years old now, and Widow Hua can't even say which generation of the Zhang family the child belongs to...
Anyway, three generations of the Zhang family all thought it was theirs, and Zhang Beiguo once again firmly accepted the cuckold's horns.
Zhang Pingzhu checked for them and found that Zhang Baozhu, the original owner's nominal younger brother, was actually the son of Zhang Jinzhu, the original owner's older cousin.
This time it's not someone else's child; the original owner's father didn't raise them for nothing!
Grandma Zhang disliked the old man for not taking baths and was concerned about his affair with Widow Hua. Since it didn't cost her anything, she didn't know what Widow Hua was after.
As for Aunt Zhang, she only knew that her husband and Widow Hua had an ambiguous relationship and were flirtatious, but she didn't know that her eldest son was also involved.
Whether she could remain calm after finding out her grandson was already out is another matter...
What the two didn't know was that Old Man Zhang, Uncle Zhang, and Zhang Beiguo had dug up quite a few silver dollars and silver ornaments and divided them among themselves; Widow Hua was only after these.
In his previous life, after the resumption of the college entrance examination and the freedom of movement of people, Widow Hua squeezed the Zhang family dry and ran away. Zhang Jinzhu took his younger brother Zhang Baozhu to work elsewhere and never returned to the village.
Zhang Beiguo was heartbroken and insisted on being cared for in his old age by Uncle Zhang. He even revealed that his wife had cheated on him, but unfortunately, those involved either had left the village or denied it...
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Xiao Yi has arrived at Xikou Village and gone to "secretly" take care of Zhang Pingzhu's cousin, Wang Dahao.
My cousin, Wang Dahao, is 23 years old this year. He is the only son of the original owner's uncle, Wang Xi. He lives in his own small, dilapidated house at the end of Xikou Village, with no neighbors in any direction.
Xikou Village is not too far from Dagang Village. When the original owner's mother passed away, her brother and sister-in-law had already died. Only Wang Dahao, a half-grown child, remained in her mother's family. That's why Zhang Pingzhu's biological father dared to be so shameless.
I don't know when, but the sayings "Wang family is unlucky" and "Wang Dahao brings bad luck to people" started to circulate. Now we're not allowed to talk about feudal superstitions, but people's actions speak louder than words, and they avoid people when they meet them.
This rumor actually made it easier for the child to manage his own life. After all, Wang Dahao had raised himself and could still squeeze out some wild vegetable soup to help his cousin.
When the original owner was kicked out of the family after the division, Wang Dahao, upon hearing the news, even brought a broken kitchen knife from his home to make a scene.
In short, the two brothers have a decent relationship, but they are too busy supporting themselves to see each other often.
...
Unlike his cousin's laziness, Wang Dahao worked diligently, but he was assigned to a corner, and only the newly arrived educated youth dared to talk to him.
The older educated youth realized they couldn't fool this person, so they stopped bothering to bother.
While the man was still at work, Xiao Yi buried a few small yellow croakers for him. When he returned, Xiao Yi pasted a lucky charm on his clothes and gave him some tonics for a few days before he left.
Where did the little yellow croaker come from? It was stolen from the commune's head of the household reform committee, of course...
A few days later, Wang Dahao dreamed in the middle of the night that Old Man Wang came to him and said that he had buried a small jar next to the latrine and told him to dig it out and share it with his cousin.
It was...quite sudden.
Wang Dahao woke up before he could ask his grandfather if he was really a jinx.
In a moment of impulsiveness, the man tied a strip of cloth around his nose and started digging at the spot Old Wang had mentioned, only stopping when he found a small jar.
The moonlight was bright and clear. Wang Dahao suddenly woke up, tiptoed out the door, and headed towards Dagang Village.