After the Filial Fool of the Seventies Heard Their Thoughts

Song Huayang is famous in Hongxing Village for being a dutiful son. He's always believed that taking care of his parents is only right and proper.

But one day, he suddenly discovers that he can hear the thoughts of his entire family.

The village assigns its residents the task of building a reservoir. In past years, Song Huayang always represented the Song family in doing this hard, exhausting work, while his older brother never once had to go.

This year, Mother Song wants to send Song Huayang again, but he hears her thinking, "Anyway, Song Huayang isn't my biological son, so he deserves to be worked like an old ox!"

Song Huayang: "?!"

The blindly filial Song Huayang wakes up and declares, to hell with being an old ox! From now on, no one is taking another penny's worth of advantage of me!

His nephew graduates from high school and wants to buy a job in the city, but doesn't have enough money. So he comes to his uncle Song Huayang for a loan. But Song Huayang hears him thinking, "You don't even have a son, so sooner or later I'll inherit all your property anyway. What's wrong with borrowing a little money from you now?"

Song Huayang grins. You need money to buy a job? No problem. But since I'm paying for it, isn't it only right that the job goes to my daughter?

Song Huayang's change of attitude sparks heated discussion around the village.

A nosy old man berates him for being unfilial to his parents, calling him a heartless ingrate.

After hearing the old man's thoughts, Song Huayang says, "What? So it isn't that your daughter-in-law can't have children. Your son is the one who's broken!"

The villagers stare in shock. "Oh!!!"

The busybody no longer has any time to criticize Song Huayang, because his daughter-in-law has run back to her parents' home, saying she wants a divorce!

After gaining the ability to hear people's thoughts, Song Huayang realizes that Hongxing Village is full of hidden secrets.

There's a married man carrying on with a widow, a two-timing scumbag secretly seeing a female educated youth while also discussing marriage with a village girl, and even a cruel man who wants to starve his own mother to death.

Song Huayang can't stand these scumbags, so he quietly exposes their true colors.

The villagers: Good heavens, the scandals in our village just keep getting more explosive!

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After being reborn in the 1970s, Song Xiaoman's greatest wish is for her mother to dump her blindly filial father, Song Huayang.

But gradually, she realizes that something about her life seems a little off.

Song Xiaoman had thought that separating the household would be impossible, at least until her grandparents died.

Yet her father suddenly proposes splitting up the family, and even manages to wrest most of the family property from her biased grandparents.

She's just graduated from high school and is worrying about how to find a job in the city when her father suddenly announces that she can start tomorrow at the best-paying food factory in town.

Song Xiaoman is baffled. What's going on? I haven't even started working hard since I was reborn, so how have all my problems already been solved?

And my foolish dad actually seems pretty decent. He dotes on my mom and is officially the best man in the village. Maybe I should stop urging Mom to divorce him.

Song Huayang, hearing her thoughts, secretly wipes the cold sweat from his forehead.

Good heavens, that wasn't easy. His daughter has finally stopped trying to convince her mother to divorce him.

When the national college entrance exams are reinstated, Song Xiaoman gets into one of the country's top universities, and Song Huayang is elected head of Hongxing Village.

After graduating from college, Song Xiaoman decides to return to the village and help build her hometown. She has just arrived at the village entrance with her luggage when she sees a reporter from the national television station interviewing her father, Song Huayang.

Reporter: "Village Head Song, Hongxing Village is now famous nationwide as the country's richest village. How did you lead everyone to prosperity and make every household in the village a ten-thousand-yuan household?"

Song Huayang answers honestly, "I didn't really do much. The most important thing is understanding your customers and knowing what they're thinking."

Song Xiaoman is dumbfounded. She thought she was returning to the village to share the hardships with everyone, but it turns out she's sharing in their good fortune instead.

In later generations, anything about Hongxing Village is guaranteed to trend online.

Someone posts on a Q&A app: "What's it like to be born in Hongxing Village?"

[Thanks for the invite. There's not much to say. Healthcare, education, and housing are all free, and you get a job assigned to you after graduation.]

[Exactly. Hongxing Village really isn't as exaggerated as you think. It's just that rich people are everywhere and luxury cars are as common as dogs.]

[Put it this way: if a brick fell in our village and hit ten people, nine of them would probably be millionaires, and the last one would be a billionaire.]

The day this post appears, Hongxing Village inevitably shoots to the top of the trending topics nationwide once again.

Netizens all say, "The country owes me a village head like Song Huayang! Please make it happen already!!"

Theme: Cherish the family who are truly there for you.