A five-year-old child's brain is not fully developed and cannot carry the memory of an adult male.

Ji Mian had a high fever and his memories kept merging. He had a fever for a day and a night before he got better.

Seeing that he was feeling better, Lin Minzhi, as usual, collected the sharp knives in the house, sealed the windows and doors, locked Ji Mian in the small bedroom, and went out to set up a breakfast stall to make pancakes to earn money.

She sets up a stall at the construction site in the morning and at the night market near the factory. When business is good, she can earn seven or eight yuan a day and more than two hundred yuan a month.

After she left, Ji Mian took out the note from his arms.

It contained his origins, reminding him that he was a soul from another world, and three rows of shocking words:

Stay away from Fu Chenyu!

Stay away from Fu Chenyu!

Stay away from Fu Chenyu!

Fu Chenyu.

This name is like a lever, prying Ji Mian's memory.

He sighed with difficulty and outlined the story outline of "Tenderness on a Stranger's Road".

In the original novel, Ji Mian was a cannon fodder with the same name and surname as him. After looking at his own face, he found that he looked the same as the cannon fodder.

The original owner was a substitute for the protagonist Su Luoyu. He had good looks but no brains. He was a fool and willingly became the lover of the protagonist Gong Lijue.

The two had been entangled for four or five years. Finally, the original owner jumped into the sea and died in a business war, taking all the evidence of Li Jue's crime with him.

The ending mentioned that the original owner's death by jumping into the sea was arranged by the villain Fu Chenyu.

In other words, Fu Chenyu was the culprit who killed him, and Li Jue and Su Luoyu were accomplices.

Ji Mian's solar plexus hurts.

However, the original owner was really "stupid".

He was born with intellectual disability and only finished high school before going out to work. He is gentle, timid, naive and easy to be manipulated by others.

It was precisely because of this that he was abducted by Li Jue and locked up at home as a canary for men's amusement.

He naively thought this was love.

So for Li Jue, he would give up everything, go through fire and water, and love without hesitation.

Six years of true love ended up with a mutilated body.

He didn't know until his death that he was just Su Luoyu's substitute.

Ji Mian sighed and wrote down everything he remembered on paper.

Children's hands are delicate and it is difficult for them to hold a pen, so their thumbs turn red after writing for a while.

Ji Mian reminded himself: Li Jue and Fu Chenyu, both of them are not good people in "Stranger Tenderness".

One is a beast that eats people without spitting out bones, and the other is a cunning and inhuman old fox.

Now that he has traveled through time and space and become the cannon fodder substitute in the original novel, he must stay away from these two scumbags.

After writing this, Ji Mian hid the note deep in the cabinet.

Fatigue came over him, but Ji Mian didn't resist and fell into a deep sleep again.

In the evening, Lin Minzhi returned home and Ji Mian's fever had subsided.

There were a lot of people on the construction site today, and her pancakes sold well, earning her ten yuan a day. In 1997, this was a good daily income.

Lin Minzhi was in a good mood when she thought that Ji Mian could go to kindergarten. She took Ji Mian with her when she went to set up a stall near the factory in the evening.

Because Ji Mian has insufficient intelligence, Lin Minzhi rarely takes him out. She is afraid that Ji Mian will have a stress reaction in an unfamiliar environment, and she is also afraid that the neighbors will laugh at her.

She lives on this street, where the rent is cheap. The residential buildings and the cheap restaurants are together, so there are many people and the conversation is noisy.

At night, everyone comes out to enjoy the cool air and chat.

"Mianmian, sit on the stool. Be good and let mommy make pancakes for you."

Ji Mian sat obediently on the plastic stool, showing the curiosity of a five-year-old child.

After traveling back to the book, without understanding the plot and time period, Ji Mian decided to sit tight and observe for a while to adapt to the identity of his own child.

He didn't dare to appear too smart, for fear that Lin Minzhi would find out that he had usurped her position and impersonated her son.

Looking at Lin Minzhi's busy back, Ji Mian's heart ached. His memory was integrated with the original owner's, and he had an instinctive attachment to Lin Minzhi.

The pancakes Lin Minzhi made for him were plump, stuffed with ingredients, and smeared with thick sweet sauce.

Jimian doesn't like sweet food, but kids do.

He could feel that there was an invisible force in the book suppressing him, making him unable to resist everything that a child of his age liked.

Is this the will of the world in the book?

The next second, Ji Mian felt heavy-hearted.

He was determined to break free from his restraints, otherwise, according to the plot development, he would definitely die at the hands of Fu Chenyu.

Ji Mian took a bite of the pancake, and the taste of the sweet sauce spread in his mouth. It was so delicious that he squinted his eyes.

Lin Minzhi was filled with affection. Looking at Ji Mian, she felt energized and made pancakes much faster.

She counted the money at home and found only two hundred yuan left.

Ji Mian’s kindergarten tuition, buying groceries, buying rice... each expense made her brows gradually furrow.

At nine o'clock, the nearby factories got off work and the workers left one after another, and Lin Minzhi's business entered its peak period.

There are many more stalls around Lin Minzhi, selling clothes, shoes, fried chicken racks, and barbecues, and they are bustling with activity.

Female garment factory workers walked over in groups of three or four, arm in arm, and said familiarly, "Minzhi, mine is the same as yesterday."

“I don’t add onions or garlic.”

"Give me more eggs. I'm exhausted today. Hey, Team Yang, what are you eating? It's my treat!"

"Just give me the same one."

Lin Minzhi agreed to all of them.

The female workers saw a snow-white, well-behaved and delicate child sitting on a small stool, and they looked at her in surprise.

"Minzhi, this is your son, right?"

"Oh, yes."

"Oh, she's really pretty, not at all like you. I heard she's just not very smart. Oh, what a pity. Haha, Minzhi, I'm a straightforward person, don't take it to heart!"

Lin Minzhi smiled awkwardly but didn't stop making pancakes.

She had heard such ridicule so many times that she was used to it.

As a woman without a proper job and from another place, she has always been looked down upon by the female workers in the factory.

The woman, called "Yang Zu" by the female workers, suddenly said, "By the way, pack one more. Luo Yu is home alone, so I won't go back to cook tonight."

The female worker changed the subject and flattered, "Ah, what's the point of being pretty? People on TV say it's just a vase, good-looking but useless! Our Yang group's son is really smart. He can be home alone at such a young age, and his grades are also good. Yang group is really lucky. Not only did he marry well, but he also gave birth to a good son!"

Ji Mian raised his head and his gaze fell on "Group Yang". The plot related to this woman instantly unfolded in his mind.

Yang Chaoying, the mother of Su Luoyu, the protagonist in "Stranger Tenderness," worked as a team inspector in a garment factory in her youth, managing a small team. Her husband, Chen Jiangang, worked as a small manager in a boiler factory. In 1997, both of them had respectable jobs and good incomes. Although they were from other places, they were well-received by the locals.

However, the good times didn't last long. Later, Chen Jiangang had an affair with a female worker at the boiler factory, and was hacked twice by her husband, leaving both hands disabled. Yang Chaoying also became unemployed after her garment factory closed down.

Looking at Yang Chaoying who is now in great glory, Ji Mian feels indifferent.

Yang Chaoying squatted down, intending to touch Ji Mian's head, but Ji Mian turned her head away fiercely, leaving her hand awkwardly frozen in mid-air.

Seeing this, Lin Minzhi felt secretly happy. Although her son was not very intelligent, he knew how to care for his mother, which touched her deeply.

After returning home, Lin Minzhi coaxed Ji Mian to sleep and started counting money under the street light.

At home, she is reluctant to turn on the lights in order to save electricity.

Including the money she earned today, she had a little over 300 yuan on her. Ji Mian's kindergarten tuition was 400 yuan. She was working alone in Tongcheng, with no one to rely on, and her only support was Ji Weiguo.

Now, Ji Weiguo has run away with his mistress and is living in her house.

Lin Minzhi counted the money silently several times before putting the wrinkled and greasy money into the iron box.

Ji Mian turned over and interrupted her thoughts: "Mom..."

Lin Minzhi was overjoyed, tears welling up in her eyes, and she hugged him tightly: "Mianmian, can you call for help now?"

Ji Mian buried his head in the woman's thick chest, and his nose felt sore.

His mother died young, so he never felt maternal love.

It turns out that this is the mother's arms. It has a smell of food, greasy and not pleasant, but it is the most indestructible harbor in the world.

Lin Minzhi looked at Ji Mian and suddenly felt brave enough.

Ji Weiguo could ignore her life or death, but he could never ignore his son.

Their eldest son Ji Yao was the victim of their marriage, and she couldn't let Ji Mian make the same mistake.

Lin Minzhi thought to herself: If Ji Weiguo dares not to pay the tuition, I will kill myself in front of him.

She was a woman from the countryside, with no one to rely on, so she could only fight hard.

She also wanted to be as respectable as the people in the city, but in the face of life, respectability was worthless.

Ji Mian grabbed Lin Minzhi's rough long hair and refused to let go. He vaguely remembered that Lin Minzhi had the bad habit of counting money at night without turning on the lights. When she was 43 years old, she got cataracts.

Later, when he learned of Ji Mian's death, he cried his eyes out.

Now that he has become her son, Ji Mian will never allow such a scenario to happen.

The next day, Lin Minzhi found out Ji Weiguo's current residence, and knocked on the door of Xiao San's house with Ji Mian in her arms with mixed feelings.

The person Ji Weiguo cheated with was a local girl named Hongxia whom he met when he was working as a security guard in a disco.

She has an apartment and a car at home, and she is an only child. Her conditions are much better than Lin Minzhi's.

Hongxia opened the door and saw Lin Minzhi. She immediately frowned: "Are you done yet? Weiguo is going to marry me, why are you still pestering him?"

Lin Minzhi looked at the fashionable and beautiful young woman in front of her, and her heart shrank back. Seeing Ji Mian's innocent face, she immediately plucked up the courage, "Ji Weiguo and I haven't divorced yet. I'm here for his son. Please ask him to come out and see me."

Ji Weiguo came out when he heard the noise. Lin Minzhi looked at the tall man and couldn't help feeling sour in her heart.

This was the man she had loved for seventeen years. She had given all her youth and beauty to bear children for him, but now this was his fate when she grew old and ugly.

She was blind and married the wrong person.

Ji Weiguo said impatiently: "What are you doing here? Didn't I tell you not to bother me with anything other than divorce?"

Lin Minzhi said calmly: "Do you care about your son's affairs?"

Ji Weiguo looked at Ji Mian and felt a moment of pity in his heart, but when he thought that his son was a moron, that pity disappeared instantly.

He even looked at Lin Minzhi with disgust.

Lin Minzhi said, "Mianmian's kindergarten costs 400 yuan, and you can give me an extra 600 yuan for his living expenses, a total of 1,000 yuan."

When Ji Weiguo heard this, he flew into a rage: "Are you crazy about money? Impossible!"

Although she had expected Ji Weiguo's reaction, Lin Minzhi couldn't help but burst into tears when she heard it: "He is your son! Ji Weiguo, I have sacrificed so much for you, and you want to divorce me and not give me a penny?!"

Seeing this, Hongxia rolled her eyes and said sarcastically, "Lin Minzhi, you've been married to the Ji family for so many years, and you gave birth to two sons for Weiguo—but one is a perverted homosexual, and the other is a mentally retarded idiot. You still have the nerve to talk about sacrifice? You've almost wiped out the Ji family, haven't you?"

In an instant, Lin Minzhi's face turned pale and she almost fell to the ground.

Hongxia spat and said, "Why send a mentally retarded child to kindergarten? What a waste of money."