Chapter 1

Tao Yuan Village is a very backward village in Yangping County, Zhejiang Province, Huaxia. It is famous for the large number of peach trees planted there. Of course, this fame is only limited to the area around Yangping County. Outside of Yangping County, probably few people would know about this dilapidated poor mountain village.

Tao Yuan Village is located at the foot of Kuocang Mountain, the largest mountain range in southern Zhejiang. Its geographical location is very remote. The road from the village to the town was built ten years ago under the Huaxia government's policy of providing roads and electricity to every village. Due to the village's remote location, to save costs, only a narrow, winding cement road was built, which is quite dangerous. Normally, only electric scooters are driven on it. If cars use this road, they generally do not drive fast. On rainy or foggy days, few cars dare to drive, for fear of accidentally falling off. Below is a steep drop of twenty to thirty meters to a rocky beach. Falling there would likely result in death or serious injury.

The entire Tao Yuan Village is inhabited by people of the Ye clan, all surnamed Ye. The Ye surname is one of the Chinese surnames, originating from the Mi surname, with Zhuanxu as their distant ancestor and Ye Gong Shen Zhuliang as their founding ancestor.

Originally, Tao Yuan Village had two hundred households and about seven hundred people, making it one of the larger villages in the surrounding area. However, over the past fifteen years, as many young people from the village gradually went out to work, the population has steadily decreased. Many of those who did well outside moved their families away from Tao Yuan Village. In just fifteen years, a village that once had over two hundred households now has fewer than fifty households and about two hundred people. To put it bluntly, most of the people who remain are elderly, with very few young people, especially young men, who are almost all gone from the village.

Of course, there are exceptions. Ye Rongyao, who lives in the southern part of Tao Yuan Village, is a genuine young man, only twenty-eight years old. Young men of his age in the village generally do not want to stay in this dilapidated village and go out to make their way in the world.

Ye Rongyao is not unwilling to go out and make a name for himself, to return to the village with honor. The main reason is that he is too lazy and cannot endure the hardships outside.

Three years ago, Ye Rongyao, full of ideals, went out with a group of peers from the village to start a career. He worked as a mover, a security guard, a waiter, and other jobs, but none of them lasted long. He was fired by his bosses within three days each time.

The reason was that he was too lazy. He wouldn't get up before nine in the morning, was picky about the work he did, and refused to do heavy or tiring tasks. He often slacked off, and no boss was willing to keep him. After all, bosses pay people to work, not to be served.

Thus, after less than two months of trying to make it outside, Ye Rongyao returned to the village in disgrace. He had no choice but to come back, as the two thousand yuan his family had given him was almost gone. If he didn't return home, he would likely starve to death. Ye Rongyao was very clear about this and had no choice but to return home.

Perhaps Ye Rongyao's parents also understood their son's character. When he returned in disgrace, the two elders sighed but did not say much more.

Parents' love for their children is boundless. Ye Rongyao's parents knew their son's character and no longer expected him to support them in their old age. They even doubted that after they passed away, their extremely lazy son would struggle to even feed himself.

Therefore, Ye Rongyao's parents could only place their hopes on their grandson. To have a grandson, they first needed a daughter-in-law. Through various connections, Ye Rongyao's parents bought a wife for their lazy son from a human trafficker.

Ye Rongyao's parents were honest farmers. Although they did not understand the law, they knew that buying a wife in Huaxia is illegal and could result in imprisonment if the government found out.

However, the two elders had no choice. After all, who in the surrounding area did not know their son's character? Who would marry their daughter to such a lazy man, condemning her to a lifetime of misery?

Even if they looked further afield, no one would be foolish enough to marry their daughter to Ye Rongyao. They would ask around and find out about Ye Rongyao's character, and no one would marry their daughter to such a lazy man.

Of course, there were a few girls who were willing to marry Ye Rongyao, but Ye Rongyao's parents did not approve. For them, no matter how bad their son was, he was still a normal person. Marrying him to a mentally challenged or disabled girl was unacceptable to the two elders.

Thus, Ye Rongyao's parents took the risk and spent eighty thousand yuan to buy a beautiful young girl from a human trafficker. If she were not a virgin, a seventeen- or eighteen-year-old girl would cost only five to six thousand yuan in Yangping County. However, for the conservative Ye Rongyao's parents, they were willing to spend more to ensure their son married a virgin, so they could face their ancestors with dignity after they passed away.

Fortunately, Ye Rongyao's father, Ye Kaifa, had saved a considerable amount of money from his earlier years of hard work. After buying a beautiful wife for his son, he also purchased about thirty acres of land in the southern part of the village, adding to the twenty acres they already owned and the fifty acres of mountain land behind the village, leaving a substantial inheritance for his son and daughter-in-law.

In Huaxia, private land ownership is allowed, and the land is held for life. Even if the parents pass away, the land can be passed down to future generations.

Ye Rongyao did not expect much from his son, hoping he could leave this dilapidated village. With over a hundred acres of land, even if he did not farm it himself, he could rent it out and earn seven to eight thousand yuan in rent each year, ensuring his lazy son would not starve.

Sadly, Ye Rongyao's parents did not live to see their grandchild. They died in a car accident while shopping in the county town, leaving Ye Rongyao and his beautiful wife behind.

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"Who cares who loves who; who cares who makes who wither. The happiness we had was a fleeting beauty, and after the happiness, we come back to suffer. Right or wrong, we no longer speak so absolutely; good or bad, we no longer say I regret. Broken is broken, what perfection do we need, let it go..."

At night, a terrible song echoed through the village, sounding particularly grating in the quiet night. To put it nicely, it was a song; to put it bluntly, it was a drunkard howling.

Under the moonlight, a man in his twenties, about 1.8 meters tall, could be seen staggering down the village road, drunk. The barking of a few startled village dogs made the scene even more disharmonious.

This drunk man staggering down the village road was the protagonist of this novel, Ye Rongyao, the famous lazy man of Tao Yuan Village.

Today, he had played cards at the village store and had good luck, winning a hundred or eighty yuan. Feeling particularly pleased, he invited his card friends to drink at the store. They drank for most of the night, and after drinking more than a liter of "Da Shaomai," he realized it was time to go home and sleep.

Since his parents died in a car accident last year, Ye Rongyao, with no one to discipline him, became even lazier. He not only stopped doing farm work but also became addicted to playing cards and drinking, returning home drunk every night.

His beautiful young wife could not control him. If she said too much, Ye Rongyao would even hit her, making her fear him and not dare to discipline him.

"What is that?"

The drunk Ye Rongyao was terrified to see a meteor falling towards him from the sky. Although he was quite drunk, he knew that if he were hit by a meteor, he would either die or be seriously injured. He tried to move quickly to avoid the meteor.

However, a drunk person's reaction is always slow. Ye Rongyao could only watch helplessly as the meteor struck his head, and he immediately fainted.

As he lost consciousness, a series of electronic sounds echoed in his mind.

"Ding, system detected a primate, subject meets the conditions for ownership."

"Ding, language detection... Chinese language generation successful."

"Ding, system implantation in progress, 10%... 20%..."

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