Rebirth of the Cannon Fodder in the Entertainment Circle-Chapter 616: Liu Ling became cannon fodder in someone else’s life (1)

Chapter 616: Liu Ling became cannon fodder in someone else’s life (1)

Luo Ning returned to the System Space once more.

This time, not only did she receive the points for her original body’s repayment, but she also obtained five thousand Merit Points.

Her charity work in the Republic not only saved many people but also changed the destinies of many others, hence the significant amount of Merit Points.

She had successfully brought out the items collected and stored from the Republic Era in the space.

The system’s voice rang out, "Would you like to rest, or continue?"

Luo Ning replied, "Let’s continue."

Soon, she was enveloped in darkness and lost consciousness.

When she awoke once more, she found herself in an earth-walled room that seemed to have seen many years.

The house was not large, and the roof even had some leaks.

Luo Ning opened her eyes and discovered that although her entire body felt scorchingly hot, she was shivering with cold under the thin blanket covering her.

She lifted her weak arm and touched her forehead; the original body had a severe fever.

She took out an antipyretic from the space and swallowed it.

Then she heard a series of pleading and cursing coming from outside.

A feeble female voice, "Grandma, please, take sister to the clinic, she has a high fever."

An acerbic and powerful old woman retorted, "Does it cost nothing to go to the clinic? Is a girl worth spending that money on for treatment?"

A middle-aged woman’s grating voice chimed in, "Exactly, when has anyone in our family not gotten over a fever by simply drinking water? Only your sister is so precious."

"You ask for money, but you don’t ask for life." fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm

The old woman then yelled at the girl who was pleading, "What are you standing here for? Hurry up and go to work. If your work points get deducted, you sisters can forget about eating tonight."

"Two debt-collecting demons, harbingers of doom..."

After another round of curses and complaints, Luo Ning heard the girl’s quiet sobbing.

Soon, she saw a frail girl in a patched cotton-padded coat enter the room.

Seeing Luo Ning awake, the girl asked with concern in her eyes, "Sister, you’re awake. Do you feel better?"

Luo Ning had not yet assimilated her memories and did not speak much, but gave her a comforting smile, "Much better."

The girl brought over a bowl of water, "That’s good. Drink some water. I must go to work now or Grandma won’t let us have dinner."

Having said that, she came over to help Luo Ning sit up.

Luo Ning didn’t refuse and, with the girl’s help, she took a few sips of warm water before lying down again, "Off you go."

The girl nodded, tucked in Luo Ning properly with the blanket, and then hurried out.

After she left, the old woman continued to curse in the courtyard until everyone else had left for work, and only then did the bickering slowly cease.

Luo Ning did not wait for the outside cursing to stop before she began to absorb the memories.

This was the 1960s of Huaxia, and although the famous names from history were different, the major events and timelines were quite similar.

This must be a parallel 1960s Little World to the world Luo Ning originally belonged to.

The original body had no name and was simply called Luo Sanya.

She was born into a rural family and it was now 1963; the original body was fifteen years old.

The Luo Family was a large family, and the earlier quarreling old woman was the original body’s Grandma.

Her Grandpa had died over a decade ago.

The old couple had four sons and one daughter; the sons were all married and had children.

Among the four sons, besides the third son who had become a worker, the rest were toiling in the village.

And the original host’s father was exactly that lucky and capable man who had become a worker, the third son.

He was currently working in the county’s machinery factory, even became a team leader, considered quite accomplished in the entire village.

The original host’s mother had been arranged by her father to work as a temporary worker in the machinery factory and would only return home at the end of each month and during the holidays.

The emaciated little girl who had just entered was the second and youngest daughter of the couple.

The parents lived in the county town with their eldest son and third son, but left their two daughters behind in the countryside, living with the extended family.

From the fact that the suffering grandma wouldn’t even spare money for a visit to the health clinic when sick with a fever, one could tell that not only did the family favor sons over daughters, but that the two sisters were also having a hard time.

However, the favoring of sons over daughters was only relative. The original host’s young aunt was the beloved darling at home, completely unlike the other girls.

The young aunt, a year older than the original host, had always been the apple of the grandma’s eye, and was greatly adored by her four brothers as well.

Even more so, their affection for their sister surpassed that for their own daughters.

From memory, it was known that in this family, not just the original host and her younger sister were treated poorly, but the other girls were not much better off.

From a young age, they had to start doing chores, and after the age of ten, they also had to accompany the adults to work.

Gathering pig fodder or picking up wheat ears, they could make four or five cents a day, which the grandma would not overlook.

The original host’s younger sister, Wuya, was eleven years old this year and had been working for a year, yet she appeared no different from a modern child of eight or nine.

From memory, the reason the original host had developed a fever was that she had been pushed into the river by her young aunt.

In that life, after being pushed into the river, she developed a high fever for three days before it subsided, and because she did not receive timely medical treatment, she suffered brain damage, reacting slower than the average person.

As a result, she never revealed that it was her young aunt who pushed her into the river.

In fact, everyone in the family knew because the fourth sister had seen it and had told the family upon returning home.

But she was slapped by the grandma, who told her not to falsely accuse the young aunt.

Not only that, but the grandma, reluctant to spend money and fearing that if the original host recovered, the scandal of her granddaughter being pushed into the water by the aunt might get out and tarnish the aunt’s reputation,

So no matter how much Wuya begged, she refused to send the original host to the health clinic.

After the original host became somewhat simple-minded, the grandma and the young aunt Luo Zhu both breathed a sigh of relief.

The grandma, far from feeling guilty, became even more relentless in exploiting the original host, who didn’t quite know how to resist.

When the original host’s parents learned of their daughter’s mental decline upon returning home, they didn’t sympathize much and even felt some disgust, thinking it disgraceful.

They didn’t bother to investigate why she had fallen into the river or why the fever had damaged her brain.

In this family, the grandma was the authority.

The four sons had always thought that it was not easy for their widow mother to raise them, and so they were exceedingly filial.

The grandma claimed that the original host was playfully running to try to catch fish and fell into the river, and the original host’s parents actually believed it.

The original host wasn’t really foolish, just slower to respond and had been conditioned to be timid, so she neither understood nor dared to resist.

At home, the days were tough as the young aunt Luo Zhu particularly disliked the original host, enjoying picking on her and ordering her around.

Especially when Luo Zhu’s fiancé visited, she became very wary of the original host.

When Luo Zhu’s fiancé came to ask for her hand in marriage, he glanced at the original host several times.

After he left, Luo Zhu actually accused the original host of trying to seduce her fiancé, instigating the grandma to beat and scold the original host.

Not only was she beaten, but she was also locked in the firewood room and left to starve for two days.

Had it not been for her younger sister sneaking food and drink to the firewood room, the already frail original host might have just perished.

The original host had served as the old ox at home for ten years.

At twenty-five, through Luo Zhu’s introduction, she was married off by the grandma to a forty-year-old man from the next village.

And became a stepmother to four children.