Chapter 002: Resurrection

After a while, Shi Qiu Shui finally opened his eyes again.

Just now, the memories of a six-year-old girl's entire life flooded into her mind.

Through these memories, she guessed that she might have been reincarnated into a six-year-old girl in the 1990s, hundreds of years later.

The little girl's memories are mostly of delicious food, fun things, beautiful clothes and skirts, and her friends. She doesn't have many useful memories. She can only speculate based on sporadic fragments and the quarrel she just heard that the little girl and her father died of poisoning after eating a bowl of food called shredded potatoes sent by others.

For some unknown reason, after the little girl died, she came back to life through the body of the Dayu Dynasty.

Shi Qiushui wondered if it was because of her name? The little girl she had resurrected was also named Shi Qiushui. She searched her memories again, and was surprised to discover that, like her, this little girl had lost her grandfather at a young age, lost her mother at birth, and was raised by her grandmother. When she was three, her grandmother also passed away, leaving only her father in the family. Even more coincidentally, this little girl's father was also named Shi Yue. In her memories, the little girl's father looked somewhat like her father.

Thinking of this, Shi Qiu Shui suddenly felt a surge of hope in her heart. Maybe, her father had also come back to life in Shi Yue's body like her?

Shi Qiu Shui turned her head to look to the right. There were three beds to the right of her bed, but two of them were empty. Only one bed had someone lying on it. The person lying on it was the little girl's father, Shi Yue.

She looked the man up and down. Unlike her memory, she could feel the similarities between Shi Yue and his father's facial features. The only difference was that her father was thin, while Shi Yue was muscular. Moreover, her father was not as tall as Shi Yue. She roughly estimated that Shi Yue must be more than seven feet tall.

But this is normal. In her memory, Shi Yue in this world was a soldier before, so there must be a gap between him and her scholar father.

"Xiao Qiu——"

A faint cry interrupted Shi Qiu Shui's thoughts. She looked up and her eyes met Shi Yue who had just woken up.

"Dad?" she whispered hopefully.

When Shi Yue, who was lying on the hospital bed, heard her voice, he said excitedly and thankfully: "It's Daddy, Xiaoqiu, don't be afraid, Daddy is here, Xiaoqiu..."

As he was speaking, he suddenly paused and frowned in confusion. How could his daughter, who had already reached the age of marriage, become the size of a child again?

Shi Qiu Shui was feeling happy because she found out that her father had returned to the dead with her. She didn't notice Shi Yue's puzzled expression at all, and she didn't notice that Shi Yue's brows were getting tighter and tighter, and his expression became painful.

After a while, Shi Qiushui finally came back to her senses from her excitement. Only then did she realize that her father had been silent for a long time. Looking at Shi Yue's serious expression, she softly called out, "Dad."

When she called out to him, Shi Yue's expression remained solemn. If you looked closely, you could detect a hint of disbelief in his solemnity.

Shi Yue: "Xiao Qiu, are we...returning to life through a dead body?"

Hearing him ask this, Shi Qiu Shui immediately understood that her father also had the memories of another Shi Yue.

She nodded and replied, "Dad, you're right. We really have been resurrected."

Shi Yue's expression was dazed, but his eyes were filled with obvious excitement: "Oh my God, reincarnation, this kind of thing that only appears in storybooks, actually happened to me, Shi Yue!"

Shi Qiushui whispered, "Shh, Dad, be quiet! We can't let anyone else hear about our resurrection!"

Shi Yue nodded: "Yes, yes, you are right. I was careless. If such a bizarre thing were to be known by others and reported to the emperor, the emperor would surely kill us as monsters. I must speak quietly and not let anyone else hear it."

Shi Qiushui blinked and reminded: "Dad, there is no emperor here anymore."

Shi Yue was stunned for a moment, then his eyes shone with surprise. The memories of his original body just now flooded into his mind. He just went through them briefly, and some of them were not noticed by him at all. It was only through Shi Qiu Shui's reminder that he realized that there was indeed no emperor in this world.

Shi Yue was surprised, excited, and thrilled.

"There's no emperor anymore! From now on, no one will be confiscated and exiled just because they offend the emperor!"

Shi Qiushui: "Yes! We no longer have to worry about being exiled by the emperor!"

The ancient father and daughter from hundreds of years ago were extremely ecstatic because there was no emperor in the 1990s.

After the ecstasy, Shi Qiushui spoke: "Dad, my memory is not complete. Can you tell me about your situation here?"

"Okay, I'll tell you about it," Shi Yue said, reminiscing. "This Shi Yue is like me, an only child. But unlike me, after his father passed away at the age of eighteen, this Shi Yue didn't marry and have children like me. Instead, he enlisted in the army. He worked hard in the army for a few years and was fortunately promoted to deputy company commander. At the age of twenty-two, he fell in love with a female artist in the army and married her. Two years later, they had a daughter, who is now in your body. Because Shi Yue's wife was an orphan and had suffered hardships as a child, she was in poor health. She died of complications during childbirth, leaving this Shi Yue a widower. Because he and his wife had a good relationship, he never remarried. He raised Xiao Qiushui by himself and his mother until he was three. After that, his mother passed away, so he took on both roles, raising Xiao Qiushui himself, successfully raising her to the age of six. Over the years, he worked very hard, and now he has been promoted to company commander."

At this point, he pursed his lips and said, "Just a while ago, Shi Yue here was accidentally injured during another mission. His arm was permanently damaged. Although it didn't affect his life, he could no longer hold a gun, so he had to retire. The leaders over there were very kind to him and helped him transfer to a machinery factory in his hometown as deputy chief of the security department. In my memory, the security department in those days was a very good place to be, not to mention that the deputy chief was also an official."

"As for how the original father and daughter died..." Shi Yue deliberately lowered his voice when he said this: "Yesterday, Shi Yue just returned to his hometown of residence with his daughter from the army. In order to build good relationships with old neighbors who he hadn't seen in more than ten years, he went door to door to deliver cakes to the neighbors, and the neighbors also gave him various foods in return. One of the neighbor ladies gave him a portion of freshly fried shredded potatoes. He didn't think much about it and took it home and ate it with his daughter. Not long after eating, he felt unwell, so he took his daughter out for help. As a result, he fainted as soon as he reached the door. In the original body's memory, he and his daughter seemed to have died on the way to the hospital. Then we, father and daughter, came here."

What Shi Yue said matched Shi Qiushui's memory, but she still had some doubts. She asked, "Dad, what's going on with that neighbor who sent the shredded potatoes? Why did she send poisonous shredded potatoes? Does she have a grudge against the original Shi family?"

No matter what, she and her father were reincarnated into the bodies of the original Shi family father and daughter because they received the favor of the original Shi family father and daughter. If the Shi family father and daughter were killed maliciously, they would definitely take revenge.

Shi Yue thought about it and said with a complicated expression: "It seems not."

Without waiting for Shi Qiushui to ask, he took the initiative to explain: "The neighbor who sent the shredded potatoes is a well-known stingy person in the Shi family's neighborhood. She doesn't care about spending a penny. She doesn't care about the quality of the food she eats. So the poisonous shredded potatoes she sent over might have been because she used rotten potatoes to save money..."

Shi Qiushui: ...

Shi Qiu Shui fell silent. If what Shi Yue said was true, then the death of the Shi family's father and daughter was an accident.

Moreover, because Shi Yue and Shi Qiu Shui were resurrected, even if she wanted to seek justice for the original father and daughter of the Shi family, there was only so much she could do.

Thinking about it this way, the original Shi family father and daughter were really too unlucky. Shi Qiushui couldn't even tell whether she and her father were more unlucky, or the original Shi family father and daughter were more unlucky...

Shi Qiushui chose to skip this topic for the time being. She said, "Dad, according to what you said, none of our original body's acquaintances are here?"

Shi Yue nodded. "Yes, all my acquaintances are in the army. The only people here who know me are some old neighbors and friends, the kind I haven't seen in nearly ten years."

Shi Qiushui: "Then even if our personalities are different from our original selves, others won't notice any abnormalities?"

Shi Yue: "Yes, no one will find out."

Shi Qiushui: "Great!"

If you stay with acquaintances for a long time, there is an inevitable risk of being discovered to be abnormal. Although others may not immediately associate it with reincarnation, it is better not to let others discover such mysterious things if possible!

Shi Yue also thought of this, and he reminded me: "Xiao Qiu, don't call me dad anymore. As far as I remember, everyone here calls me mom and dad. You should call me dad too."

Shi Qiushui: "Okay, Dad, I understand."

"By the way, Dad, when I woke up, I vaguely heard a few people arguing here. Then someone came and took them all out." Shi Qiu Shui told Shi Yue about the quarrel he heard when he woke up.

Shi Yue: "Those who are arguing should be the neighbors who sent the original body here. The one who came to call for help should be the nurse working in the hospital, that is, the doctor in our clinic."

Shi Qiushui: "Doctor? It seems that here, both men and women can freely become doctors."

Shi Yue: "Yes, here we emphasize gender equality. No matter what profession it is, both men and women can do it. There are many women officials."

Shi Qiushui's eyes flashed with surprise: "Really?!"

"Really, I..."

Just when Yue was about to say something else, the sound of a door opening interrupted him. He and Shi Qiu Shui raised their heads nervously and looked towards the door of the ward.

The person who pushed the door open was a square-faced, medium-sized woman. When she saw Shi Yue and Shi Qiu Shui awake, she said in surprise, "Shi Xiao, you two are awake? How are you feeling now? Are you feeling unwell? Oh, forget it. I'll go find a doctor first and have him come over to check you out."

As she spoke, she pushed open the door of the ward and walked out at a rapid speed.

Shi Qiushui turned around confusedly: "Dad, what was that just now?"

Shi Yue remembered that auntie, and he introduced her to his daughter: "That's our neighbor, Auntie Ma Yulan, who's also the auntie who manages the compound where we live."

Because of the previous experience of Aunt Ma pushing the door open, he became much more careful when speaking, and replaced the easily exposed words such as "original self" and "the original father and daughter of the Shi family" with "we".

Shi Qiushui: "Oh, oh, it turns out to be the housekeeper."

But what is the housekeeper?