The 1950s: Using My Skills to Marry Off My Eight Younger Brothers

[Married into the Family] [Ensemble Cast] [Building Wealth] [Raising Kids] [Self-Interested and Practical] [Everyday Family Life] [Slow Burn]

Song Liangyu takes one wrong step and wakes up as the eldest sister of a broken family in the 1950s. From the start, it's hell mode:

Her mother has vanished, her father died of illness, her grandmother is a fiery shrew, and her uncle and aunt are watching them like hawks.

Worse, she has eight younger brothers to feed, all gaunt and starving. Their whole family is on the verge of being devoured alive, freezing or starving to death in this impoverished backwater.

Thankfully, a [Talent Development System] drops from the sky:

Anyone related to her by blood can be bound as a “development target.”

As long as she guides them in studying, working, and growing,

the System gives her supercharged rewards!

And so she sets out on an unconventional child-rearing journey:

[Encourage a brother to try farming for the first time. Reward: cash ×50, eggs ×20, a pair of live chickens, and five jin of pork!]

[Teach them the right values. Reward: 12 Intelligence Pills, ten meters of fine cotton cloth, and three industrial coupons!]

[Have a brother cook a meal. Reward: 12 Fertility Pills, 15 apples, and 12 Beauty Pills.]

[Ding! A marriage-luck critical hit! The bride price and dowry are doubled, and useful connections are made automatically!]

Song Liangyu scoffs: Raising a wife and kids is too expensive? Then the Song men can all marry into their wives' families. They can just find only daughters or families without sons and live off their wives!

Her younger female cousins have no talent? Marry them off! Officers, officials, technicians... wherever people are needed, that's where they'll go!

Years later, they have protectors in the military, connections in government, ways to move goods through factories, and resources for scientific research.

Song Liangyu counts the “live-off-the-wife dividends” her younger siblings hand over, smiling as she takes it easy:

“Finally, I've got this family back on its feet.”