Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 39

Chapter 39: Chapter 038 Get Out of Here

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Rural areas always eat early and go to bed early. Now in mid-September, with over half a month until the harvest next month, Qingyun Team’s households usually have dinner around four o’clock. After dinner, those who love to visit others do, while those who don’t keep their doors firmly shut.

In the Lin Family, Mrs. Lin had worked too hard in her earlier years and generally went to sleep shortly after dinner. It’d be no earlier than ten o’clock the next day before anyone looked for her because she had to gather baskets of pig feed early every morning before she could even eat breakfast.

It definitely wouldn’t be until eleven or twelve o’clock the next day that Mrs. Lin would notice her absence.

As Lin Aiguo was a well-known bachelor in the village, he would gather with other bachelors in the evening for small bets—a leisure activity to pass the time for this group of men deemed undesirable for marriage.

Because the bets were small and it was among familiar people, they were just for a bit of fun to pass the long nights. How else would these men, considered third class disabled, spend their time?

Usually, as long as it wasn’t the busy farming season, there were always people in the bachelor group. Lin Aiguo was a regular, known for his punctuality.

Lin Aimei took advantage of her irresponsible brother and mother, who wouldn’t notice her missing in a short period of time, daringly seeking out Zhang Dongliang.

The sky was now dark; Zhang Dongliang took advantage of his mother’s bath time to sneak into his parents’ room. He searched the usual spot where his mother kept her silver, finding the 300 coins given by Xie Jingchen and even took half of the little over sixty coins available at home. After finding the household registration book, he quickly slipped back to his room.

He knew his mother’s temperament. Now as it was dark, after his mother finished her bath, they would try to save a bit of the silver by not using kerosene, especially since his father would be home soon. She surely wouldn’t check the secret spot for storing the silver in front of his father.

So, the earliest she could notice the missing silver would be tomorrow!

Zhang Dongliang and Lin Aimei took advantage of their family members’ habits and nature. After spending half the night in intimate embrace, they got up around four o’clock, stealthily left the Zhang Family and Shanglin Village while avoiding areas with dogs.

When they reached the town, it was nearly seven o’clock; after a quick bite of noodle soup, they headed straight to the civil affairs office. With household registration books and IDs in hand, proving they were lower middle class, they swore in front of the staff to marry voluntarily and naturally obtained their marriage certificate.

After acquiring the marriage certificate, they asked a fellow villager from Shanglin Village to wrap their registration books in oil paper for safe transport and carrying only the newly separated book with just their names, they took the first bus towards the county town.

At this time, societal norms were more open, and the government had relaxed policies, allowing a portion of the rural population to seek work or engage in small businesses to prosper.

The political and economic conditions of this era, relatively advanced by about ten years from 1988, encouraged Lin Aimei to coax Zhang Dongliang into eloping.

Mrs. Lin didn’t see her young daughter by twelve o’clock and started feeling something was off, while Lin Aiguo, who had overslept, was alarmed by his mother’s panic and then realized that Lin Aimei really had run off with their household registration book!

Immediately, Lin Aiguo, accompanied by Mrs. Lin, went straight to the Zhang Family.

This was the moment Lin Zhaodi, seeing that Zhang Zhiguo was finally not at home, considered the sudden appearance of 300 big silver coins at home and felt a rush of excitement. Meanwhile, her first and second daughters almost simultaneously arrived at their mother’s house. Zhang Yunni and Zhang Baonni, both shrewd, engaged in a non-verbal showdown under their mother’s gaze and reached a peaceful agreement.

Hearing both daughters crying about their intolerable lives and asking for her help, Lin Zhaodi, having just gotten the silver and with some surplus grain, genuinely loved her daughters and immediately agreed, giving each of them a fair share of thirty yuan.