Chapter 1: Transmigrated Back to Year 1960 - Enchantress Translations

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Zhao Xiulan felt a pain in her forehead. She woke up and found herself lying in a dilapidated room with yellow muddy walls and a dull color.

There is a small cabinet beside the bed. The bed is made of wooden planks with a thatch underneath it, and it is covered with a thin dark and moldy quilt.

There is also a strange smell that lingers, which makes her head dizzy and heavy. She wanted to get up, but her body was so weak.

Where am I?

Her forehead suddenly hurts again and the memories that did not belong to her emerges in her mind.

She has transmigrated! The owner of this body is also named Zhao Xiulan. It is now in the year 1960, just in time for the famine happening across the country.

The original owner lived in an ordinary family in the countryside, with a total of five family members — father Zhao Weiguo, younger sister Zhao Xiuzhu, stepmother Ma Yumei, stepsister Li Lijuan, and a baby in the womb of the stepmother, who has not yet been born.

In this era of scarcity of supplies, the Zhao family, like most other families, needs to work and earn work points. Every year, the brigade distributes the provisions according to the accumulated work points. However, since the beginning of the Great Famine of China in 1959, the harvest of foodstuffs has declined sharply, and there is not much foodstuffs that can be distributed every year. In addition, the Zhao family has a large population but little labor, so her life was not good.

The original owner had a very difficult life in this family. Her own father has rake-ears1耙耳朵 – Rake Ears – henpecked / to be under one’s wife’s thumb. Speaking of being afraid of wives, the first reaction of many people is to rake their ears. “Rake ears” is a Sichuan dialect, which means that a man is afraid of his wife and he was being controlled strictly by his wife. and her stepmother doesn’t like her. Most of the time, she couldn’t have enough meal and was enslaved to work. The original owner was 17 to 18 years old, but because of frequent starvation, she seemed to have not grown up yet. Her whole body is thin and skinny, and has no flesh on her body. Long-term malnutrition has caused her complexion to be sallow, her hair to be dry, her head to be big but her body to be small, and her eyes to be sunken.

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Even so, Zhao Xiulan is still happy because of this transmigration.

Compared with the turmoil and hardships of the 1960s and 1970s, and the suffering of the original owner after being bullied, the apocalypse she lived in before was even more hopeless.

The apocalypse does not only have the shortage of water and food, but you also have to defend against the attacks of various zombies. Compared with the danger that the apocalypse may put you in at any time, this era is at least safe. You don’t need to worry about the danger of zombie attacks, so you can sleep peacefully.

Suddenly, after thinking of these things in general, Zhao Xiulan quickly took a look at her space.

All right, fortunately, her space is still there.

This space suddenly appeared in her body before the apocalypse. The time inside is static, so the things she puts inside would stay exactly in the same condition, and it would not change no matter how long it has been there.

At that time, the rumors about the apocalypse were also raging online. With the sudden appearance of the space, Zhao Xiulan made preparations in advance and spent half a year hoarding supplies all over the country.

The space not only stores enough foodstuffs for 20 people to eat for decades, such as rice, flour, and cornmeal, but also some daily necessities, clothes, quilts, various fruits, vegetables, stewed vegetables, and cooked food.

Beef, lamb, pork, chicken, and other meats are also stored in large quantities in the space.

She also went to the countryside to buy hundreds of thousands of catties of native eggs; and she also went to the seaside cities to buy hundreds of thousands of catties of fish, shrimps, and other seafood.

Being afraid that some delicacies will not be available due to the approaching apocalypse, various kinds of barbecues, hot spicy foods, rice casseroles, and fried skewers are stored in hundreds of thousands of servings.

Snacks and milk teas are even more essential, so she has bought thousands of servings as well.

Oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, daily necessities, et cetera, everything that she can think of has been purchased and stored in large quantities in the space.

The environmental sanitation in the apocalypse is extremely poor, so some self-defense tools and medical supplies have to be prepared.

In this way, Zhao Xiulan basically has everything in her space.