Late at night, a series of urgent knocks on the door woke up the entire Song family.

Qiao Guilan lit a kerosene lamp and rushed over to open the door, thinking something terrible had happened.

"Is Yinhua home?" Aunt Liu asked distraughtly as she ran into the inner room. "Yinhua? Yinhua!"

"What do you want with my Yinhua?" Qiao Guilan pressed. "Are you trying to introduce her to someone? Then why are you here in the middle of the night..."

As soon as she entered Song Yinhua's room, Sixth Aunt grabbed the person on the bed and asked, "Did you take my grandson's amulet? Give it back to me right now!"

Qiao Guilan followed in, carrying a kerosene lamp. "That's her sixth cousin, that's Xiao Si'er Cai Xing, and Yin Hua is sleeping over there."

The Qiao family had only three tiled houses: the main room in the middle and two bedrooms on either side.

One room is for adults, and the other is divided into two smaller rooms.

The three daughters slept in one room, and the son slept in another.

At that moment, Song Yinhua and her fourth sister, Song Caixing, were sleeping on the wooden bed.

Sixth Aunt threw aside Song Caixing and went to grab Song Yinhua, shouting, "Yinhua, where is my grandson's talisman? Where did you hide it? Give it back to me right now! It's my grandson's life-saving item. If anything happens to my grandson, I'll hang myself in your house!"

The Song sisters were both woken up.

"What kind of amulet?" Song Yinhua asked sleepily.

"It's the jade pendant my grandson was wearing!" Aunt Liu said anxiously. "My grandson said that he went to your room to play this afternoon and dropped the amulet there. Tell me quickly, where did you hide it? My grandson can't be without that amulet."

Seeing how anxious her sixth cousin was, Qiao Guilan urged, "Yinhua, if you've taken it, hurry up and return it to your sixth cousin."

"Jade pendant?" Song Yinhua seemed to suddenly realize.

“Yes, yes, it’s the jade pendant.” Sixth Aunt quickly chimed in, “Quickly return the jade pendant to Sixth Aunt, and Sixth Aunt will introduce you to a good young man later.”

"Is it the one on the cabinet? Your grandson bumped into me this afternoon and it accidentally fell to the ground. I just put it there when I saw it."

There was indeed an object emitting a faint glow on the cabinet.

Qiao Guilan held the kerosene lamp up to the chipped paint on the cabinet, and Sixth Aunt grabbed the jade pendant, looked it over from all angles, and then examined the light it emitted in the dark before saying with relief, "That's right, it's this one!"

After the jade pendant was found, Sixth Aunt's attitude returned to its usual arrogance. "Yinhua, it's not that I'm criticizing you, but you found my grandson's amulet in your room, didn't you hurry up and return it? Are you trying to steal my grandson's amulet? A girl like you, so sly."

Qiao Guilan also scolded Song Yinhua, "Yinhua, you found that Erbao's amulet was left in the house, didn't you go and take it to him? What were you thinking?"

"Second cousin-in-law, you really need to keep a close eye on your Yinhua. If she continues like this, she'll be a jinx. Not only did she bring death to her grandparents, but she's also so dishonest. She'll end up in jail sooner or later. And she still thinks she can marry into a good family?"

Qiao Guilan echoed her apologies repeatedly, and together with her sixth cousin, they began to criticize Song Yinhua.

After seeing off Sixth Aunt, Song Caixing, who had been hiding behind Song Yinhua, finally dared to speak up for her older sister, "Mom is really something. Sixth Aunt called you a jinx to your face, and not only did Mom not protect you, she also joined Sixth Aunt in criticizing you. Even if Sixth Aunt's family is rich, Mom doesn't need to be so eager to please them."

“It’s okay, we’ll work hard and have a good life in the future,” Song Yinhua said.

Song Caixing was instantly discouraged. "My sixth cousin's family is the richest in our town. We can barely afford to eat. How long will it take for us to be able to have enough to eat and drink like my sixth cousin's family!"

The two sisters, disturbed by their sixth cousin's antics, lost their sleepiness and started chatting idly in bed, one after another, until it was already past midnight.

"Cai Xing?"

"Cai Xing?!"

Once Song Yinhua was sure her fourth sister was asleep, she took out the package that was under the cabinet, unwrapped it, and a jade pendant emitting a faint light appeared in her palm.

She guessed that her sixth cousin would definitely come looking for the jade pendant, so she went to the small market in town and bought several identical fake jade pendants.

Song Yinhua lay back on the bed, wondering why the jade pendant she had found in the cave years ago had ended up at her sixth cousin's house.

Thinking back to my childhood, every family was very poor, including my sixth aunt's family.

It seems that not long after she found the jade pendant, her sixth cousin's family gradually became wealthy.

In just a few years, he became the richest person in town.

In her previous life, after she married Han Zhiyuan, she was so poor for more than ten years that she didn't know where her next meal would come from.

Han Zhiyuan's father's illness was like a bottomless pit, and with three stepchildren needing to eat and go to school, the family was so poor that she had to go back to her parents' home to borrow money.

At that time, she went to her sixth cousin's house, which had already moved into a small villa. Not only did she not borrow a single penny, but she was also ridiculed and told that if she didn't have money, she could sell herself. Then she was sent away.

After that, I had no further contact with my sixth cousin's family.

Judging from how much Aunt Liu cared about the jade pendant, it's very likely that her family's wealth was related to it.

Song Yinhua closed her eyes, then opened them again, and found herself lying in the space.

The stream beside her was gurgling, and she casually scooped up a handful and drank a few mouthfuls. The sweet and cool stream water flowed down her throat and into her stomach, making her feel refreshed.

The sun was high in the sky, but the temperature inside the room didn't feel particularly hot.

Song Yinhua strolled along the stream, passing through vibrant rice paddies and tall fruit trees, many of which she had never even seen before.

I picked a fruit at random and took a bite—

"So sweet!"

Song Yinhua had never tasted such delicious fruit before.

My mouth was filled with a rich fruity aroma.

She strolled through the orchard while eating fruit, eventually following the stream that meandered through it to a natural circular lake, where several whirlpool-like bubbling spots continuously overflowed water.

This should be a naturally formed spring pool.

The water is crystal clear, and this entire area of ​​fields and orchards is irrigated by this spring.

The rooster crowed at dawn.

Song Yinhua glanced around. There was an endless expanse of blue sky, white clouds, and land, along with lush vegetation, but no roosters.

Can you hear your own rooster crowing here?

In the blink of an eye, Song Yinhua was back in her room, and the sky outside the window was just beginning to brighten.

Then another rooster crowed.

A new day has begun.

She got up and went to make breakfast when something fell off her. Looking down, she saw it was half a fruit she had left in her spatial dimension.

Can things from inside this space really be brought out?!

—

Han Family Village.

"Waaaaah...waaaah..."

"Ahhh...ahhh..."

"Ahhh..."

The cries of babies and toddlers mingled together, irritating the neighbors.

"The Han family's?"

"Wang Naiyun, are you home? Is anyone home?"

The neighbor, Wang Erniang, called out a few times, but when no one answered, she pushed open the door and went in to take a look.

The moment she pushed open the door, a stench of excrement and urine assaulted her nostrils.

"Oh my, this smell..."