A Family That Fights and Scrambles in the Seventies

Zhao Luo transmigrated to the 1970s as a dim-witted girl who had nearly been kidnapped. She had four older brothers and two older sisters, and not one of the nine people in her family was easy to deal with.

× Her mother went mad searching for her after she went missing.

× Her eldest brother kept tracking the criminals and died alongside them.

× Someone stole her second brother’s chance to join the army.

× Her third brother planned to use his looks to marry into a city family and live off his spouse.

× Her fourth brother was a layabout, and someone had already set their sights on him, planning to pin the child in their belly on him.

× Her eldest sister gave away her chance to attend a workers’ university.

× Her second sister stole meat from home to feed a cold, aloof educated youth, and in the end could only sing, “Beautiful Xishuangbanna, you can’t keep my father here.”

Zhao Luo beat the person who had tried to kidnap her until they were black and blue, then dragged the swindler to the police station.

Her mother came rushing over, took off her shoe, and whacked the culprit with the sole before beating them up some more.

Zhao Luo understood. Her family loved her so much, so she must have been given a redemption-story role.

Was she supposed to be like other transmigrators, finding jobs for the whole family and going up the mountain to dig for medicinal herbs so they could get rich?

But she was just a dim-witted girl who couldn’t think straight. Did someone like her need to save anyone?

Unexpectedly, her family had plenty of strength and means of their own. They fought and scrabbled for what they wanted, and Zhao Luo wasn’t needed at all.

√ Her mother didn’t want to farm, so she got herself a job as the women’s director.

√ Her eldest brother traveled far and wide chasing down criminals, and ended up working at the police station.

√ Her second brother proudly joined the army.

√ Her father found her third brother a job at the meat processing plant. The smell of meat wafted from their home now and then, making everyone in the production team green with envy.

√ Her fourth brother became the direct disciple of a professor sent down to the countryside.

√ Her eldest sister started dating a doctor who had been sent down to the countryside.

√ Her second sister refused to give up her worker-peasant-soldier student placement and went to school herself.

Once she learned she didn’t have to save anyone, Zhao Luo settled down to lie flat, becoming a mama’s girl and a devoted little sister.

Her daily routine was running around with her mother, gossiping, collecting antiques that had fallen into private hands, pretending to be a top student, and matchmaking for her older siblings:

“Look, Sis, my eldest brother, third brother, or fourth brother is so handsome. Want to consider one of them?”

“Brother, so many people are trying to set my eldest sister up. You’d better hurry.”

Her mother even helped Zhao Luo, who was happily lying flat, stake her claim: “Tell me what you want, and I’ll get it for you.”

√ Zhao Luo was the best at arithmetic in the whole production team, so she became the record keeper!

√ Her mother took a liking to a professor’s son. He was handsome and erudite, and would become a professor himself one day. He was good enough for her daughter, so she hurried to push him into Zhao Luo’s arms.

Theme: Bloom amid adversity.