Diary of the Army in the 1970s

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Wen Jiajia crossed into the 70s, opened her eyes, and found herself happy to be an aunt.

The original owner, as the youngest daughter of the family, was given to city people as a daughter due to the poverty of her family. Little did she know that her adoptive parents would have a younger son of their own, and from then on, the pampered daughter became a nanny and a workhorse.

When her adoptive parents forced her to marry for profit, she rebelled and ruined their plans. To avoid further trouble, she broke off relations with her adoptive parents and returned to the countryside.

However, her unlucky life didn’t end there. On the day the original owner returned to her hometown, her father, mother, and sisters all died from eating poisonous mushrooms. The family was left with only the original owner and two children.

The original owner stood at the door of the house, fainted from fear in the face of death, and when she woke up again, she had become Wen Jiajia.

Wen Jiajia thought, “To be honest, I want to die too.”

There were many well-wishers in the village, all concerned about the aunt and her nephews.

They said, “You are an aunt and an elder. You can’t ignore your two sisters’ children.”

Wen Jiajia hesitated and replied, “Okay, I’ll take care of them.”

They said, “How can you survive now that your family is dead, and you have no savings or strong labor to support you?”

Wen Jiajia nodded, “Yes, how will we live?”

They said, “The soldier who took you to the hospital is kind to you. Maybe you should marry him!”

Wen Jiajia was shocked, “What? Repay kindness with enmity?”

A few months later, Wen Jiajia, burdened with money, followed the unlucky soldier to the army…

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七十年代随军日记
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Goodreadsonly
Goodreadsonly rated it
August 13, 2024
Status: c85
It's okay. There's not enough character development to make me like any of the characters. The romance between the ML and MC is sweet and brief. I wish there was more.

I've read so many of these back in the 60s, 70s, and 80s novels that I'm pickier. If this is one of the first ones you've read it's not bad. If you've read a lot, there's nothing that really stands out.

The two nieces don't add much to the plot or drama. They're just there.

The MC is realistic in that she's... more>> a complainer and knows she can't farm. Farming is rough and I'd act the same way.

There was an interesting tiny side plot about a tomb but nothing really happened. <<less
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User.948761 rated it
February 16, 2025
Status: c101
It's not bad. Decent for a slice of life period genre.

The focus is definitely on the MC. We do get some sweetness of her raising her nieces and her romance with ML. But they're more of a sidenote rather than the main plot. At times, it almost feels like the author wants to do more with the novel plot - perhaps more profound writing? - But ultimately it goes back to what it is.

The first section of the story is soon after MC transmigrated and returns home to her biologically... more>> family. Then she needs to raise her nieces and try to survive. There are some obvious time skips to get things moving. We simply get a few scenes of her adapting to the farming life. She ends up trying all sorts of tasks.

The second portion is after she joins the army and how she adapts to life. It's not so much as in the army setting but in her factory job. And some snippets of raising her daughter. Then she gets into college and I dropped this novel. There wasn't much left anyways.

I feel like the title should include something about food to be more accurate. Most (I mean specifically the percentage of words) of the novel actually covers food and cooking and related tasks/actions/descriptions for food and eating. A lot is of MC cooking herself which are skills she's gained in her OG world. We also get a lot of food content from eating from the state restaurant or someone else's cooking. Gathering or purchasing ingredients to make food. Preparing ingredients. And the meals are explained in detail. The romance felt quite brief in the beginning before they get married. Then we get sporadic small clips of it. But otherwise the romance portion doesn't feel to strong.

I expected more of the golden finger. By halfway through the novel, MC had only used it few times in written detail. Otherwise, once can assume she's been trying to use. But we don't know all the details on how's and why's. Not sure if something is lost in translation or what. Also it's irrelevant for most of the story. Any time the MC has the typical ideas we see in other MC's of this type of novel (selling on the black market or trying to make up a lie to her husband take the foreign language exam), she reality checks herself that it's unrealistic. Which is good and different I suppose but lowkey kills off anything interesting from happening. One positive is that her successes tend to be from her actual effort at least. Pacing is a bit off in this story. The "slice of life" is key genre for this story but author also wants to keep some story of plot moving. So pacing gets thrown off with the time skips. Some parts of the story is described in less detail than desired so there's some degree of confusion.

The translation reads essentially like mtl with footnotes. At times the grammar is so off that the meaning is ambiguous. It's better than straight up using mtl but only slightly better imo. But it's parsable.

Overall, not a bad way to scratch the 50s/60s/70s/80s transmigration itch. I wouldn't tout it as the higher level ones. But it's certainly not the worst. Minus a star for the pacing and slight randomness of the writing. Minus another star for not indicating in the summary that this would primarily be a food focused novel. <<less
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