Jiang Ruyu and her grandmother waited at the hospital for another half hour. Jiang Hui and Jiang Lin went back and found two bicycles to take their sister, grandmother, and their belongings home.

The hospital was the steel plant's staff hospital, not far from their large courtyard. As soon as Jiang Ruyu and her group arrived at the gate, Grandma Sun, Grandma Yang, and Grandma Li all came out of the courtyard and asked about Jiang Ruyu's condition with concern.

"How is Ruyu? Oh dear, look at her head wrapped up like that, she must be suffering. Go inside and rest."

"Oh, look how pale her little face is. Aunt Jiang, you must make some chicken soup for the girl to drink and help her recover."

Grandma Jiang nodded with a smile, "I know, thank you for your concern."

Seeing that Jiang Ruyu's face had turned pale, none of them said anything, and Jiang Hui carried Jiang Ruyu into the house.

In the east, only Jiang Ruyi and Fang Meili were at home with their child at Jiang Jianguo's house. Jiang Ruyi had been beaten again by Jiang Jianguo when he came back yesterday and had also had a fight with Wang Shuhua. This morning, Jiang Jianguo went to the street office to register his troublemaking daughter for a rural assignment. Although Wang Shuhua was angry that her daughter had caused such a mess and gotten herself into trouble, she was still her own flesh and blood, so she tried her best to stop it. In the end, she saw the anger that Jiang Jianguo was trying to suppress in his calm expression and dared not say anything more. She could only think about preparing more things for her daughter to take to the countryside so that she wouldn't have a hard time there.

At this moment, Jiang Ruyi was unaware that her father had already signed her up to go to the countryside. She had been beaten by her father again in the middle of the night the night before, and was both angry and scared. She was afraid that her grandmother would beat her again. She had never been beaten more than she had been in the past two days. When she heard noises outside, she didn't dare to go out and just pretended to be dead in the room.

Hearing the commotion, Fang Meili carried her child out and went to her sister-in-law's room. Seeing that her sister-in-law's originally rosy and fair face was now deathly pale, she cursed her mother-in-law and sister-in-law in her heart for their inhumanity: "How is Ruyu? Why is her face so pale? Grandma, I have some red dates in my room. I'll have Jiang Hui go and get them for Ruyu to replenish her blood and qi."

Grandma Jiang had no problem with her eldest granddaughter-in-law. Although she had some ulterior motives, she was still acceptable when it came to important matters: "Alright, then you'll have to spend the money. Once this girl is better and takes over the job, she can repay your favor."

"What's with all this talk of personal feelings, Grandma? We're all family. Ruyi went too far this time, but we can't let a little girl cause us to become estranged, don't you think?"

"Yes, okay, that's enough. I made some chicken soup. I'll leave a bowl for Yangyang to have later, so he can get some nourishment too."

"Okay, sure."

After drinking the chicken soup, Jiang Ruyu felt drowsy and wanted to sleep. Grandma Jiang called everyone out, closed the door, and told her granddaughter to rest well. Just as Jiang Ruyu was about to fall asleep, the mechanical voice from the hospital came out again.

"The Time-Space Check-in System has been bound to the host. Given that the host's era is too poor and backward, a newbie gift pack is specially presented."

Jiang Ruyu's drowsy mind suddenly cleared up. There really was such a system. Just as she was wondering how to open it, she saw a transparent light screen, about the size of two palms, appear in front of her. It read "Transcendental Sign-in System," "Host: Jiang Ruyu," and even included her very detailed information, some of which she herself didn't know.

Curious, she clicked around to take a look, and after half an hour she figured out how to use the system.

She has one regular sign-in opportunity every day. By signing in, she can obtain resources from her era. The system also has a backpack to store these resources. In return, she has to give up the resources and information that the system can access in her era, which are then used by the people of that era who produce the system. It's a kind of equivalent exchange.

After understanding the function of the system, Jiang Ruyu was delighted. Because it was a planned economy, many things could not be bought without tickets, and some things could not be bought even with tickets. With this system, she had a channel to obtain supplies, which was really great.

In the past, she would have thought she was dreaming, but after seeing that book, she accepted these novel things very quickly. After all, her life was in a book, so what was this system?

With anticipation, she opened the newbie gift pack. Upon seeing what was inside, Jiang Ruyu's eyes widened immediately. Was the newbie gift pack really that amazing? It was way too much!

There was a Type 26 bicycle, a Butterfly brand sewing machine, a radio ticket, and a lady's watch—she had gotten all the "three turns and one sound" (referring to a bicycle, a sewing machine, a radio, and a watch). Good heavens! There were also fifty catties of refined rice and fifty catties of refined flour. This was truly a wonderful surprise.

Jiang Ruyu was so excited about receiving the gift package that she couldn't fall asleep for a long time. She was physically exhausted, but her mind was too excited to sleep. She just lay there with her eyes open, staring at the roof beams and occasionally chuckling to herself.

Grandma Jiang returned safely after a close call. Grateful, she took the gifts to the Zheng family's house to the east and insisted on leaving the fruit and biscuits she had bought, no matter how much they refused.

"Your Zheng Yang did save my Ruyu, and I'm very grateful. This is just a token of my gratitude, so please accept it." He waved his hand and left without waiting for Zheng Dali to say anything.

When Jiang Jianguo, Wang Shuhua, and Jiang Kai returned from get off work around 5 p.m., they all knew that Ruyu had been discharged from the hospital. Jiang Jianguo went to see his niece and felt both guilty and heartbroken when he saw her pale face, the bandage wrapped around her head, and her red eyes.

His younger brother and sister-in-law had both passed away, leaving behind three children. Not only had he failed to take good care of them, but he had also allowed his children to be bullied like this. This fact filled the honest, upright, and kind-hearted Jiang Jianguo with a strong sense of guilt. He took out a bag of milk candy and a pack of walnut shortbread and gave them to Jiang Ruyu: "Ruyu, your uncle is sorry for your parents and for you. I failed to educate the children well and caused you to suffer so much. Your uncle apologizes to you."

Jiang Ruyu was so frightened that she got out of bed. However, the aftereffects of her concussion had not yet subsided. She felt dizzy and her legs went weak as she got out of bed, and she almost fell. Jiang Jianguo quickly helped her up: "Are you alright? Don't move. Lie in bed. I'm going home. You should rest. I've already signed that wretched girl, Ruyi, up for a rural assignment. Don't worry about her causing any more trouble. Your uncle's family is the one who wronged you in this matter."

Jiang Jianguo wiped his face and turned to leave. Children are all debts. No matter how wicked Jiang Ruyi is, she is still his daughter. Jiang Jianguo felt bad about signing her up to go to the countryside, but he couldn't keep this girl at home causing trouble any longer. Otherwise, this family would be torn apart sooner or later by her.

On the other side, Wang Shuhua had already told her youngest daughter about signing her up to go to the countryside, and Jiang Ruyi immediately exploded: "Mom, what are you saying? Are you crazy? Am I not your own daughter? How could you do such a thing? Is the countryside a place for humans to live? Aren't you pushing me into a fire pit?"

Wang Shuhua initially felt a little guilty, but after being scolded by her own daughter, she got angry: "Jiang Ruyi, are you out of your mind? How dare you shout such things out loud? Do you want to be called in for a 'moral education' session by the neighborhood committee? You brat, if it weren't for you, would I have fought with your father? Look at the bruises on your mother's face, isn't it all your fault, you heartless brat?"