At 35, Jiang Xiaoli went wild skiing with friends, only to die in an avalanche. She woke up to find herself back at 16, a year when her beloved mother was still alive!
Given a second chance, ...
The packed burlap sack was huge. She stretched her arm over the handle, gathering all her strength to lift it up.
I tried once, but I couldn't lift it.
He tried again, but not only could he not lift the snakeskin bag, he also sat down on the ground with a thud.
"Hahaha!" Xu Feng, who was right next to her, quickly reached out and pulled her up. "Xiao Li, don't waste your energy!"
Jiang Xiaoli reached out and wiped non-existent sweat from her forehead. "Hehe, I wasn't prepared just now."
She wanted to try again, but Li Guizhi grabbed her and pulled her aside, saying, "Just calm down already."
She dragged the burlap sack to the entrance of the tailor shop. "Boss lady, can I borrow your cart? We need to transport it to the outside of the market."
The proprietress patted the man next to her, "Don't just stand there daydreaming, go help them out!"
The man then got up and helped them carry the two large bags to the entrance of the fabric market.
Jiang Xiaoli hailed a taxi on the roadside and asked the driver to help them put their things in the trunk.
She sat in the passenger seat, turned her head and asked, "Mom, are we going to the new house?"
Li Guizhi nodded. "Master, we're going to 'Champs-Élysées Residence,' do you know the way?"
The driver smiled and nodded, "Of course I know! Oh, these must be things you bought for your new home. That's great, this neighborhood is really nice!"
The driver was very talkative throughout the journey, eager to share all the interesting things he knew.
Once they arrived at the residential area, the taxi drove off, and Jiang Xiaoli patted her chest dramatically, exclaiming, "My goodness! This driver was even more talkative than me!"
Li Guizhi laughed heartily, "So there are times when you can't keep up with the conversation?"
She nodded, still shaken. "Yes! That was terrifying! Mom, Auntie, wait a minute, I'll go borrow a cart from the security guard."
When the security captain of "Champs Elysees Residence" heard that the residents had come to borrow the car, he not only lent it to them, but also sent a security guard to deliver their belongings all the way home.
Li Guizhi thanked the young security guard repeatedly as she entered the room. "Wow, this young man provides pretty good service."
"It's really great!" Xu Feng praised, then complained, "Unlike my current neighborhood, the security guard is an old man. Forget about helping me move things, it's hard to even talk to him, he's a bit hard of hearing."
Jiang Xiaoli thought back to the security guard at her apartment complex and couldn't help but laugh.
She explained, "The property here belongs to Manager Han's own company, and I hope they can keep it up."
There were bottled waters inside, and Li Guizhi gave each of the three of them a bottle. "If the property management can maintain the safety and cleanliness of the community, then it's worth paying this fee."
Jiang Xiaoli wandered around the house, looking around. It was now ready for her to move in at any time.
She went into the bedroom and threw herself onto the soft mattress. "Ah, this feels so good!"
Li Guizhi stuffed the bed sheets and duvet covers into the washing machine to rinse them.
After finishing her work, she walked to her daughter's bedroom door. "How is it? Not bad, right?"
"That's great!" Jiang Xiaoli sat up with a jolt. "Mom, I'm off these two days, so let's start moving today?"
Li Guizhi thought for a moment and said, "Okay, let's go back today and start packing."
Xu Feng, who was in the living room, couldn't sit still after hearing the two of them chatting. "Oh dear, I need to go back and tidy up too. I have so much stuff in my house, it's going to be a hassle!"
Jiang Xiaoli helped Li Guizhi and Xu Feng up at the same time, saying, "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!"
Li Guizhi pushed her away, saying, "Wait a minute, let me hang the sheets and duvet cover out to dry before we leave."
Back home, Li Guizhi assigned her a task: "You just need to tidy up your room."
She went into her room and started rummaging through drawers and cabinets. She tidied up the wardrobe quickly, but it took her a long time to tidy up the desk.
Li Guizhi tidied up her things and called out to her daughter, but received no response. She walked to Jiang Xiaoli's door and saw her holding a pile of notebooks and laughing like a little fool.
"What are you looking at, laughing so happily?"
Hearing the voice, Jiang Xiaoli shook the notebook in her hand. "Mom, I don't remember ever writing a diary when I was little?"
Li Guizhi became interested upon hearing this, "I don't know either, what did they write?"
She spread out the notebook. "Look at this. September 1, 1983. School started. I was unhappy because Xiaohua didn't have to go to preschool."
Who is Xiaohua?
Li Guizhi laughed so hard she almost fell over. "You forgot? Xiaohua was the stray cat you loved so much when you were little. You would sneak out all the time to feed it, but Xiaohua would only eat your food and ignore you."
"Haha, I really forgot."
She turned to another page, "February 28+1, 1984. Mom said today is February 29th. Why wasn't there a 29th in February last year?"
"Hahaha, was I an idiot when I was a kid?"
She flipped through a few more pages of her diary, filled with her childish ramblings, which made Li Guizhi laugh until tears streamed down her face.
“I’ve never heard you keep a diary before. These are so interesting. You must keep them.”
Jiang Xiaoli carefully put away the three diaries. "Hmm, these are records of the early growth of human infants. We should keep them."
Li Guizhi smiled and stood up. "You go ahead and tidy up. I'll go cook."
She then emptied everything out of the small cabinet under the main table and found quite a few more trinkets.
Colorful rope bracelets, glass marbles, origami cranes, tin frogs...
"Haha, I have quite a lot of these treasures."
Her room wasn't big, but everything was tidied up before the meal.
After washing her hands and eating, she picked up her bowl and said, "Mom, we don't need to move any furniture or anything. We don't seem to have much stuff. How about we move to the new house tomorrow?"
Li Guizhi nodded, "Okay, the old house is right here anyway, we can come back and get anything we need anytime."
Jiang Xiaoli looked around the house and said, "Actually, our house is in a really good location. It will definitely be very valuable in the future."
"Hahaha." Li Guizhi put some food on her plate. "You little money-grubber, all you think about is money. Everyone else is trying to move into apartments, how can our little bungalow be worth anything?"
She didn't explain much, saying, "Mom, just you wait and see."
In her previous life, her family's house was demolished in 2006. At that time, she had already built a successful business in Lin'an by doing clothing business. When she received the notice, she only hurriedly returned to sign the demolition agreement and left in a hurry.
But she clearly remembers that the compensation given at that time was very substantial.
Li Guizhi is optimistic: "We don't lack houses to live in now. Whether this old house is valuable or not, it's just something we cherish. We can come back and visit it whenever we want."
Jiang Xiaoli nodded, "Okay, that's fine. We can find someone to tidy up the place later, otherwise the house will easily deteriorate if no one lives here for a long time."