An Eighties Millionaire Marries a Sweet Young Wife

Please add "The Ice City Beauty Among the Educated Youth of the Seventies" to your reading list.

Yu Lulu is reborn at eighteen, just as her parents are urging her to meet a potential match.

After going on a string of blind dates, she chooses Qin Cheng, a man from Qin Village who is worth ten thousand yuan.

More accurately, it's Qin Cheng's father who is worth ten thousand yuan, and Qin Cheng has three siblings.

To get Yu Lulu to marry him willingly, Qin Cheng gives the matchmaker plenty of favors and curries favor with Yu Wenhai, his future brother-in-law.

With the matchmaker and her younger brother putting in a good word for him, Yu Lulu meets Qin Cheng a few times and finally agrees to marry him.

But on her wedding day, Yu Lulu remembers that she has been reborn.

In her previous life, she gave birth to three children after marrying Qin Cheng. But when Qin Cheng went to the provincial capital to set up a factory, he got involved with another woman.

She wants to call off the wedding, but that very night Qin Cheng kneels on a washboard before Yu Lulu and promises he won't go to the provincial capital again or say another word to any other woman.

He even says that if Yu Lulu doesn't want any more children, he'll get a vasectomy right away.

Yu Lulu is puzzled. "When did you become so willing to go that far?"

Qin Cheng suffers in silence. If he doesn't go to such lengths, he'll never get to marry a wonderful wife like Yu Lulu in this life.

Though Qin Cheng gives up on opening a factory in the provincial capital, he and his brothers join forces to lease quite a few plots of land.

They grow fruit trees, dig fishponds, plow in spring and harvest in autumn, and raise silkworms, chickens, and ducks. Before long, they become the village's second household worth ten thousand yuan.

In fact, both of the village's wealthy households are from his family.

To make Yu Lulu happy, Qin Cheng even has a phone installed at home so she can call her distant relatives.

With nothing much to do, Yu Lulu opens a little shop and spends her days at ease. She keeps thinking that if she carries on being this lazy, she'll upset her mother-in-law.

Little does she know that Qin Cheng has smoothed things over, and his mother-in-law adores her. She even hands Yu Lulu the keys to the household's money and grain stores.

Just when Yu Lulu starts feeling restless, she gets pregnant.

Qin Cheng is overjoyed. He's already calculating through the night how many diapers he'll have to wash in the future.

When their little one is born, it's the daughter Qin Cheng had hoped for. He feels sorry for Yu Lulu and says, "We won't have any more children."

Yu Lulu thinks so too, but after having two children in three years, she realizes Qin Cheng is a big liar.

Blurb for "The Educated Youth Beauty of the Seventies and Her Childhood Sweetheart Husband":

Zeng Linyu is born into the body of a baby in a story set in the seventies, on the Gobi Desert. She's a lovely girl whom everyone praises, with a bright, beautiful face, and she grows up cherished by her parents.

Her mother's hometown is the freezing Ice City. She never expects that in 1968, when she's sixteen, she'll have to go there as an educated youth.

She expects life to be hard, but the second son of the family next door, Lu Aiguo, is going with her as an educated youth too.

Lu Aiguo has been bullied by her since they were little. His family's camel is always the first one she gets to ride, and he always brings her grapes and melons from their garden to taste first.

Of course, Zeng Linyu returns the favor. Lu Aiguo is a poor student, so she does everything she can to tutor him and give him extra lessons.

Then the two of them head to the production brigade in Zeng Linyu's maternal grandparents' hometown to join the educated youth in rural labor.

Zeng Linyu thinks she knows the area and has relatives here, so she'll definitely be the one looking after Lu Aiguo, that crybaby.

Lu Aiguo leaves his home on the Gobi Desert and follows Zeng Linyu to Ice City.

He thinks that from now on, they'll have to live on wild vegetables and split sweet potatoes every day. At worst, he'll eat only wild vegetables and leave all the sweet potatoes for Zeng Linyu.

But Ice City's forests are full of blueberry preserves, wild pears, frozen pears, and all kinds of wild fruit.

There's also a bounty of local specialties, from hazelnuts, goldenberries, and round dates to sour fruit, walnuts, and wild greens.

In summer, they gather wild fodder to feed the brigade's livestock, and pick medicinal herbs and tree seeds to sell at the purchasing station.

In autumn, they gather acorns to feed the pigs and make wine. Lu Aiguo walks dozens of miles just to bring her frozen grapes from the Ice City's growing trenches.

They eat popsicles on snowy days and sit on the heated kang eating a whole basin of pork stewed with cabbage and vermicelli.

Lu Aiguo: "Life here is so good. I'm never leaving."

Zeng Linyu: "Dream on. The college entrance exams are about to be reinstated. You're taking them with me."

Lu Aiguo: "Then what about our kid?"

Zeng Linyu: "Keep dreaming. I'm not even pregnant yet."

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