readsfreenovel Chapter 32 Surviving in a Cataclysmic World (Part 1)
Chapter 32 Surviving in a Cataclysmic World (Part 1)
When she opened her eyes again, it was still night. Feeling no one beside her, Liu Yuxi asked Xiao Liu to transfer the original owner's memories to her. Opening her eyes again, Liu Yuxi felt she wanted to go back and didn't want to continue this transmigration. Why? This had to do with the original owner's memories.
It's the summer of 2000. The original owner, Liu Yuxi, was 12 years old. She was from Hefei, Anhui. Her parents died in a car accident a week ago, and everything has been taken care of.
The village she is in now will become the administrative district in about ten years. Her grandmother and her uncle's family live in the next courtyard. Both her uncle's family and her family have a courtyard of about one acre.
They are all two-story bungalows, with six rooms on each floor. There are two bungalows on the east side of the front yard, one for the kitchen and one for the storeroom. There are also two bungalows on the west side, which are used to store grain during the autumn harvest.
There were two peach trees planted in the front yard, and a grape trellis was built. A vegetable garden was planted in the back, and a toilet was built near the northwest corner. At that time, rural houses did not have indoor bathrooms!
Her parents' savings and compensation money were all in the new bank card her grandmother opened for her. Since her uncle's house was nearby, and the original owner insisted on living in her own home, her grandmother and uncle agreed.
However, she still had to eat at her uncle's house. Their house was demolished in 07, and both families received compensation for their demolished houses, so they became wealthy together. Therefore, she and her uncle's family have always had a good relationship. Her uncle has two sons and a daughter, while her family only has one daughter because her father is weak-sperm.
The anomaly occurred in 12. The world entered the apocalypse, not the zombie kind, but with various torrential rains, droughts, extreme cold and heat, and earthquakes. By then, they had moved into a new home. The houses they both chose were adjacent to each other. She was single, so she lived next door to her uncle's house and could often get free meals from him.
In this kind of apocalyptic world caused by natural disasters, food shortages are the biggest problem. In the early stages, the country manages the situation and things are relatively stable. However, in the middle stages, crime rates begin to rise, and even though the country has implemented military intervention, it is still unable to restore social stability.
After all, everyone's going to starve to death anyway, so why not choose to let others die? Every extra day is a day more, isn't it?
It wasn't until 2022, after the country developed and popularized various drought-resistant, flood-resistant, high-temperature-resistant, and low-temperature-resistant high-yield seeds, that society finally stabilized again. However, the food grown from these seeds was only enough to fill one's stomach, and it was completely incomparable to the delicacies available before the apocalypse.
Because of the harsh climate, many species have gone extinct. So, since the end of the world began, only a very few people have been able to taste delicious food, and the common people can only pray that they don't starve to death.
The original owner had no other hobbies but loved to eat. After being reborn from the apocalypse, the thought of the miserable decades that followed made him unwilling to relive that life, so he voluntarily reincarnated after communicating with the system. Yes, this original owner was also reborn.
After all, who would want to let someone else use their body for a lifetime when they haven't lived enough yet? As for the original owner's wish, it was to ensure that his grandmother and uncle's family could have enough to eat during the natural disaster and not die so soon.
After all, back then, the elderly would squeeze food out of their own mouths so that the children could eat even a little more. She hoped that Liu Yuxi could help her take care of her grandmother and uncle and aunt. Since her parents passed away, not to mention her grandmother, her uncle and aunt treated her no differently than their own children, even during natural disasters and apocalyptic times.
After receiving the memories, Liu Yuxi could only sigh. How could she possibly live like this? When she didn't know, she could endure it, but now that she knew, she could only enjoy herself for ten or so years before having to endure decades of hardship. Who would want to continue like this?
"Sigh!" "Little Six, according to the timeline, shouldn't we have traveled to the 1950s or even earlier? How did we end up in the 20th century, and in a world of natural disasters and apocalypse?"
"Host, because the system received your wish to learn writing and enrich your cultural knowledge, it was unable to find a suitable native to possess in modern times. Although this world is a post-apocalyptic world of natural disasters, the host has a lifetime to learn writing. Apart from the poor food, the original owner was safe throughout his life. As for food, the host has it in his space. Therefore, this world was chosen."
"Fine!" To paraphrase a wise saying, "Since we're already here!" what else can we do? If we can't change it, we just have to adapt!
Thankfully, it's only the year 2000, and the apocalypse is still twelve years away. How can I make myself more comfortable after the apocalypse arrives? Oh well, I'll go to sleep first and think about it when I wake up tomorrow.
The next day, after Liu Yuxi woke up, she went to her uncle's house for a meal. Her uncle's eldest brother, Liu Yong, was 29 years old. He was married to Wang Li and they had two children: a 7-year-old girl named Liu Xuan and a 4-year-old boy named Liu Yu.
The second brother, Liu Xiang, is 25 years old. He is married to Li Wen and they have a 3-year-old son, Liu An. The third sister, Liu Lihua, is 22 years old. After graduating from university, she married a classmate from Hefei and now lives in Luyang District. They do not have children yet.
My elder brother and sister-in-law farm at home. They have contracted a lot of land in the village to grow fruit trees and some cash crops, and they also run a fishpond to raise fish.
The second brother and sister-in-law leased a mountain to set up a pig farm, and also raised some chickens and ducks. The family's meals were very good during this period, with chicken, duck, fish, meat and eggs at every meal. As a result, the Liu family's children were all tall and strong because of the good nutrition.
Liu Yuxi's parents had a difficult time having children, so there is a large age gap between her and her older siblings. Before the younger generation was born, she was the darling of the whole family. The little girl was raised to be delicate and quiet, so even after the younger generation was born, she was still favored.
Now that her parents are in trouble, her family feels even more sorry for her. Even 3-year-old Liu An insists on giving his eggs to his aunt when he eats. It can only be said that the Liu family are people who value family ties, so the child has been influenced by what he sees and hears.
After the family finished eating, no one asked Liu Yuxi what she was thinking. Things remained the same as before, just as her uncle had said when her parents had just passed away:
"From now on, you'll live with your uncle's family. Just think of your parents as someone who's gone abroad to work and won't be able to come home for a while. It's okay, your uncle will take care of everything!"
So the family members unanimously agreed not to mention Liu Yuxi's parents in front of her. Even if they did mention them, they would try to do so in a normal tone. After all, Liu Yuxi is only 12 years old, and they were afraid that it would have a bad psychological impact on her and that something bad would happen to the child.
Since it's summer vacation now, and Liu Yuxi is about to enter junior high school, she doesn't have any summer homework. She also doesn't feel like going out to play, so she wants to go home and figure out how to deal with this apocalyptic disaster.
Fearing that her family would worry, she told them that she was going home to preview the first year of junior high school. Fortunately, the original owner had indeed borrowed the first year of junior high school textbooks in advance, and her family did not suspect anything. They just reminded her to come over for lunch.