Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start....
When Han Guangjia ran to the mouth of the bay and the fork in the road leading to the depression, Wan Feng happened to drive here.
Wan Feng stopped the car, got out and handed the steering wheel to Han Guangjia. He went to the back seat and Zhang Xuan stood on both sides to protect Luan Feng.
"Does your stomach still hurt?"
"Lighten up."
"Don't be afraid! It will be fine in a moment."
"Then tell me a story and my stomach will stop hurting."
"Only children rely on stories to comfort them, we are adults..."
"Ah! My stomach hurts."
"Okay, tell me a story. Once upon a time, there was a mountain..."
It turns out that the storytelling trick really worked. Luan Feng's stomachache immediately stopped, but she looked at Wan Feng fiercely and gritted her teeth.
"Okay, let's not talk about the mountain once upon a time. Let's talk about something else."
What story is this?
Luan Feng had heard many stories and had told all the stories he knew, otherwise he wouldn't always use the story "Once Upon a Time There Was a Mountain" to fool people.
Wan Feng remembered a book called "My Lord, Spare My Life" that he had been reading before his rebirth. It was very interesting.
It’s a pity that I was reborn after reading only one thousand chapters. I didn’t get to read the ending and I don’t know what it was about.
"Today I'm going to tell you a new story, a very long story. Be prepared to hear it until the year 2000."
"You're bragging again! There are still six or seven years until 2000."
That depends on how much I say in a day. If I say a small part every day, I can talk until the year 3000 without any problem.
When Wan Feng started talking, he had no idea that he had dug a huge hole for himself.
So Wan Feng started from the first chapter of "The King Spares Me" and Zhang Xuan started interrupting him after just a few minutes.
"Feng'er, that guy called Lu Xiao or something is eating candied haws. Are you craving it?"
Luan Feng glared at Zhang Xuan. Isn't this just tempting the greedy bug in her stomach? Zhang Xuan must have done it on purpose.
Wan Feng continued to talk for a few more sentences before Luan Feng started to interrupt: "Nonsense, how can a child's hands emit blue light? How could the old lady disappear out of thin air?"
"Don't interrupt! Do you want to listen? If not, then forget it."
"Listen."
Wan Feng relied on memory for 50% and made up the other 50%. It was impossible for him to remember everything clearly, he just remembered the general idea.
Just when we talked about the part where the protagonist went out to buy instant noodles and was hit by a car, the car arrived at the county hospital.
"What happened next?"
"Then I went to the hospital for a checkup. Get out of the car!"
Only then did Luan Feng and Zhang Xuan realize that they had arrived at the county hospital.
The two women were probably addicted to listening. After getting out of the car, they pulled Wan Feng's clothes and told him to continue after he finished checking.
After entering the hospital, the doctor gave Luan Feng a quick checkup and said, "It's okay. You won't be able to give birth for half a year. Stay in the hospital first."
Wan Feng and Han Guangjia ran around to register Luan Feng and arranged a single room for her.
Next, Luan Feng needed a comprehensive examination, so Wan Feng specially found two female doctors to examine Luan Feng.
Although the doctor does not differentiate between men and women, his wife cannot be seen by other men.
As she was about to enter the examination room, Luan Feng suddenly turned around and shouted, "Don't tell Zhang Xuan the story first. Wait until I come back."
Wan Feng is speechless. His poor spirit is wasted.
"Third brother! You can drive back. There might not be anything to do in the next two days. Zhang Xuan and I can stay here. Come when I call you."
Han Guangjia thought about it and nodded. Luan Feng couldn't give birth for a while, so there was no use for him to be here.
"Alright! I'll go back and help you prepare and find a few people to serve Luan Feng in a couple of days."
Han Guangjia left.
"Be a good reporter, so you can be mentally prepared when you come next time."
Zhang Xuan smiled slightly, feeling sweet inside.
More than ten minutes later, Luan Feng came out alive and well.
The doctor told Wan Feng that the pregnant woman was in very good health, the fetus was normal, and the birth was expected to take two or three days.
Wan Feng and Zhang Xuan helped Luan Feng back to the ward.
"Tell me a story quickly." As soon as she lay down on the bed, Luan Feng couldn't wait to hear the story.
"Talk to your sister! It's getting dark now. I'm going to buy some food. We'll talk after we eat." Zhang Xuan looked at her.
"Buy me some candied haws, sour ones."
"Where can I buy candied haws at this time? I can eat them tomorrow."
Buying candied haws after dark? That's nonsense.
Wan Feng went out, downstairs and to the street to buy food.
The maternity and children's hospital is surrounded by restaurants and snack bars.
Wan Feng bought two bowls of millet porridge and a few boiled eggs, a pound of beef dumplings, and four side dishes, and carried them back to the ward in a convenient lunch box.
A certain woman was very unhappy when she didn't see the candied haws and insisted that Wan Feng feed her, otherwise she would not eat.
Damn Luan Feng is now the boss of the Wan family. No one dares to offend him, and someone can only bow and scrape.
Wan Feng had no choice but to feed Luan Feng a bowl of millet porridge mouthful by mouthful, and then gave her water to rinse her mouth, and finally propped up her bed so that she was half sitting and half lying on it.
Finally, I helped this girl to lie down.
Luan Feng was full and watched Wan Feng and Zhang Xuan eat with satisfaction.
"Xiao Zhang! Get ready, you're the next one."
Zhang Xuan rolled her eyes at Luan Feng and continued eating without saying a word.
After dinner, it was time to tell stories. The two women stopped watching TV and kept pestering Wan Feng to continue telling stories.
That night alone, he said more than a hundred sentences.
It's already half past nine, and the two women still want to listen.
It was only at this time that Wan Feng realized that things were bad. He had originally come here to divert Luan Feng's attention by telling stories, but he didn't expect that she would become addicted to listening to them.
A book of nearly three million words will take forever to finish!
This time I have dug a big hole for myself. Should I just jump over it and end it badly?
"No more talking. It's already past nine o'clock. Feng'er needs to get enough sleep. I'll talk about it tomorrow. But where are we going to sleep? I'm going to rent a bed."
There are mobile beds in the hospital, but they are for patients, not nurses. However, there are folding beds for rent in stores outside the hospital.
Wan Feng ran to a store outside the hospital and rented two beds, which he placed on both sides of Luan Feng's bed, one for him and one for Zhang Xuan.
Make the bed, close the door, turn off the lights and go to bed.
Wan Feng's eyelids began to feel heavy as he lay in bed, but just as he was about to wake up a little, a claw reached out and pinched his nose.
"Stop it! I'm sleepy." Wan Feng spread his claws, turned around and patted Luan Feng on the back.
Luan Feng had work to do this time. She poked Wan Feng on the left and Zhang Xuan on the right.
Wan Feng felt tired. Which pregnant woman who was about to give birth would look like this?
"Zhang Xuan, stop messing around with her and go to sleep."
Zhang Xuan is just like Luan Feng. The two of them enjoy gossiping with each other.
Wan Feng roared and then the situation quieted down.
"Zhang Xuan! Are you watching TV?"
Their ward is the best in the hospital, with a color TV.
"Don't look at it, he will hit you."
"Haha! Anyway, I'll hit you instead of me."
Wan Feng had no idea what the two women were doing next, because he fell asleep very quickly.