Chapter 44: Relocating the Household Again

 

**In this year, Tang Ailian's father, Tang Dalong, was promoted to deputy factory director at another factory. After his promotion, Tang Dalong came back for a visit.

This time, Tang Dalong specially talked to his father, "Dad, I'm going to a faraway place with the factory this time, and I might only be able to come back once a year from now on. I want to move Xiujuan and the kids to follow me into the factory. All our coworkers' families have moved with the factory, except for me."

Tang's father frowned for a moment but agreed, "Since it's like that, let your wife and children come with you."

He didn't want his son to be alone, and he understood the hardships of having a wife far away.

However, before he could move the household registration, his wife scolded him, "Are you trying to abandon your mother now that you have a wife? Our family relies on your wife's hard work to earn a living. If you take your wife and children away, it'll be over my dead body!"

"Mom..."

His wife sat on the ground and burst into tears, pounding her thighs. "I raised a son through thick and thin, and now that you have a wife, you don't care about me and your old mother anymore!"

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The sound of quarreling echoed through the house, and Tang Ailian covered her ears. She looked up and saw her mother's eyes turning red as she struggled to hold back tears. She hurriedly ran to her mother and hugged her thigh, saying, "Mom, hug me."

Liu Xiujuan sighed and picked up her daughter. Tang Ailian kissed her mother's face and said, "Mom, when I grow up, I'll take you to the city to enjoy life."

Liu Xiujuan's heart was quickly comforted. "Alright, in the future, I'll rely on my Ailian."

Since Tang's old mother still vehemently disagreed, the filial Tang Dalong had to give up on the idea of taking his wife and children to the factory.

All of this was the same as in her previous life.

In this year, Liu Meilan came to borrow food twice again, and the first time, Liu Xiujuan gave her ten catties of sweet potatoes, and the second time, she gave her five catties of dried sweet potatoes.

Still bringing her son, Li Xinye, whom Tang Ailian didn't like, Liu Meilan immediately handed her son over to Tang Ailian and asked her to play with him.

"Here, cultivate the relationship between the two little ones."

Tang Ailian was annoyed. She knew that Liu Meilan still had the intention of arranging a marriage between her and her son, Li Xinye. Every time she saw Li Xinye, she showed a disgusted expression, firmly refused to play with him, didn't allow him to touch her toys, and even, when adults weren't looking, she would grab and hit Li Xinye. This made Liu Meilan realize that Tang Ailian truly disliked Li Xinye.

As the year went by, her father finally returned after staying for about a month.

During the summer harvest, Liujia Village also harvested a lot of sweet potatoes, and Liu Meilan didn't come again.

At the end of the year, Tang Ailian's psychic power had reached 6,000, and her witch-doctor body refinement had reached the fourth level. This was due to Tang Ailian being too young, so she didn't dare to work too hard.

What made her most happy was that her Sexual Light had finally advanced!

Tang Ailian knew from the memories of her previous life that among the witch-doctors, body refinement was the easiest to advance, followed by psychic power, and the most difficult was Sexual Light.

Because the advancement of Sexual Light depended on the accumulation of merit. This had nothing to do with cultivation techniques, as anyone could advance their Sexual Light from white, to yellow, orange, red, green, blue, and purple by accumulating merit.

Now, Tang Ailian's Sexual Light had finally advanced from white to bright yellow.

In this year, Tang Ailian took great risks. She impersonated a master to warn Long Jiusheng of the coming drought, and she used spirit water to stimulate the growth of sweet potato vines for the Longtou Production Team's seedlings. When people realized that their grain harvests were poor but the sweet potatoes flourished, they were grateful to her, and her Sexual Light began to turn pale yellow.

Later on, the sweet potatoes from the Longtou Production Team were redistributed and sent to various teams as seedlings. Although this was not something she did herself, it was still considered her merit because of her involvement. As a result, her Sexual Light gradually deepened its color, and it had finally turned into a bright yellow circle.

She knew that this change in Sexual Light color would make it easier for her to condense the source energy of heaven and earth and improve her effectiveness in healing. Therefore, she was happy to accumulate more merit and change her Sexual Light color.

However, in a year with a major disaster like this, it was easy for her to accumulate so much merit because of her good deeds. It wouldn't be as easy in normal times.

She had to accelerate her learning as soon as possible. With the witch-doctor's divine techniques, she planned to help more people with their illnesses in the future.

A midwife had managed to turn her Sexual Light pale yellow, and she had inherited the witch-doctor's legacy. She had every reason to work hard to accumulate more merit and change her Sexual Light color.

The difficult year of 1960 came to an end, and at the end of the year, the Longtou Production Team finally stopped providing meals for a year. During the Chinese New Year, everyone had to cook for themselves.

As the Spring Festival approached, there were almost no New Year goods, but Tang Dalong sent back his monthly salary and a little New Year's gift from the factory.

Longtou Village still slaughtered a New Year pig, but unlike previous years when they slaughtered more than ten cows and pigs, they only slaughtered two this year. Tang Ailian's family received just over four catties of meat, which was far from enough for the New Year feast.

The prices were particularly high this year. Fish, which used to cost only three or four cents per catty, now cost over two yuan, and chicken was even more expensive, selling for ten yuan per catty. With the twenty yuan that Tang's father brought back, they couldn't even afford a chicken.

Although they had only twenty yuan, Tang's old mother and Liu Xiujuan went to the market to buy New Year goods. Before leaving, Tang's old mother and Liu Xiujuan took half a sack of dried sweet potatoes to sell at the market.

Tang Ailian thought about her precious items stored in the space, and she wanted to exchange them for money. However, how could she use them, and even if she did, could she actually exchange them for money?

The ginseng and lingzhi mushrooms were no longer soaked, and the ginseng had grown into a large

 patch, while the lingzhi mushrooms had grown into piles. The space had also expanded by more than five mu.

One of the yarrow plants had finally mutated into golden yarrow. These plants had become invaluable treasures, but they were difficult to exchange for money.

As for the sheep tallow jade bracelet and the emerald dragon and phoenix jade pendant, even if she took them out, no one would dare to buy them.

The only usable thing was gold, but the thought of a two-year-old child taking out a gold ingot was shocking, so she worried.

Just as Tang Ailian was struggling with her decision, Little Grass suddenly ran over crying and said to Tang's old father, "Second Uncle, please go save my dad quickly! Someone came to our house and is beating up my dad!"

(End of this chapter)