Su Ruyi stayed in her hometown of Haicheng until the day the twins celebrated their one-month birthday.

The hospital where Chen Yuanyuan gave birth extended a warm invitation to Su Ruyi to provide them with a one-month short-term training program.

This training program directly made this hospital the pinnacle of medical standards in Haicheng for a considerable period of time.

At the full moon celebration, Su Tong announced the names of the twins—the older brother was named Su Fuyi, and the younger sister was named Su Xinru, a combination of characters from Su Ruyi's name.

This was something Su Tong and Chen Yuanyuan came up with after much thought during her postpartum period. It was to express their gratitude to Su Ruyi for manually repositioning the baby, saving their mother from surgery, and for saving them from countless dangers.

Holding those two sweet and soft little babies, Su Ruyi was overwhelmed with emotions—

In his previous life, Su Tong, who collapsed during a harvest in Dingjiatun at the age of 17, now has a happy family and two children.

In his previous life, Su Tie was killed by Ding Xiuling at the age of 19 without any explanation. Now, he has the capable and clever Wu Lili by his side. Moreover, Wu Lili is about to go to the army, and Su Tie's life will be on the right track from now on.

However, what Su Ruyi didn't know was...

A few days before the New Year of 1975, Su Dazhi died silently in a stinking ditch behind Sujiazhuang.

It was only because Sun Qiaomei was unwilling to accept that he still secretly kept a sum of money for himself every month and refused to give it all out.

After Su Dazhi died, Sun Qiaomei found his secret stash of money hidden under the chicken coop.

That thick stack of unpaid bills drove Su Xueshu, who had endured Sun Qiaomei's tyranny for too long, completely insane.

Su Xueshu lunged at him to grab the money, and the two began to fight.

Before Su Xueshu could react, the knife in his hand slammed down on Sun Qiaomei's head again and again...

Sun Qiaomei was splattered with blood on the spot, and this scene was clearly witnessed by her four sisters-in-law...

Instead of reporting it to the police, they tacitly picked up rolling pins, door bars, and stove hooks, and started hitting their father-in-law on the head...

After the Spring Festival, the Su family courtyard returned to peace.

The people of Sujiazhuang were all deeply saddened—the two elders of the Su family and their favored son, Su Dazhi, had all died because they ate a sick pheasant out of greed.

These sisters-in-law, who couldn't get meat, shed tears several times when talking about it.

Sun Qiaomei, Su Xueshu, and Su Dazhi were all hastily buried in the back mountain.

The Su family closed the gates of their courtyard and continued to collect Su Dazhi's medical retirement pension from the steel mill, beginning to establish a completely new order...

However, that's another story.

This Spring Festival, the inmates in Haicheng Women's Prison all received a serving of vegetarian dumplings.

There weren't many dumplings; each person only got three.

In cell number 702, there is a mother and daughter.

They are Guan Yumei and Su Zhenzhu.

Although Su Zhenzhu's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, she behaved well and showed no violent tendencies.

Because the prison authorities knew they were mother and daughter, they took special care of them and kept them together.

However, the prison authorities were unaware that they were not just a mother and daughter, but also mortal enemies.

Since Su Zhenzhu went to prison, she finally understood that her tragedy lay in her marriage.

Guan Yumei has kept her unmarried all these years just for her temporary worker wages.

As for her happiness and her life, Guan Yumei had no intention of taking responsibility.

Once she understood this, Su Zhenzhu hated Guan Yumei to the core.

Guan Yumei, on the other hand, absurdly blamed all the failures in her life on Su Zhenzhu.

If... if Su Zhenzhu hadn't run off to tell her on June 9th that Su Yin had stolen money from the house, none of this would have happened...

Su Manao's pendant will not be lost, and the Su family will not fall into ruin...

Everything, everything, is because of that meddlesome brat!

Both mother and daughter harbored the intention to kill each other, but in the end, Su Zhenzhu succeeded.

After all, she had already killed two people, so she was quite experienced in this area.

On the night they ate dumplings, Su Zhenzhu used a sharpened toothbrush head to stab Guan Yumei in the carotid artery.

The red liquid gushed out and shot up to the ceiling.

Meanwhile, in the Haicheng Juvenile Detention Center, just across the street from the women's prison, the emaciated Su Manao was ridden like a horse for half an hour by an older boy in her cell just to get an extra vegetable dumpling.

Finally, the older child got tired of riding, took the dumplings out of his pocket, and threw them into the corner.

Su Manao rushed over.

She ate the dumplings, but immediately spat them out.

Because inside that dumpling wrapper was a lump of dirty mud that had been shoved off the child's body—the dumpling filling—which the older child had already dug out and eaten.

Su Manao spat, and the older children surrounded her, bursting into laughter.

Su Manao didn't cry. Instead, she lowered her head, her eyes filled with resentment: "If my agate pendant hadn't been lost..."

...

After attending the full moon celebration, Su Ruyi sensed something unusual in the soft sleeper carriage on her way back to Beijing.

Once she got home, she immediately locked the door and entered the space.

Su Qiushi was standing on the edge of the field, gazing into the distance.

Su Ruyi stood beside him: "Grandpa, what's wrong?!"

Su Qiushi pointed into the distance: "Something's not right there."

Su Ruyi released her divine sense and probed downwards into the black soil.

At that moment, she was suddenly startled—her divine sense could only penetrate about a meter into the depths of this black soil!

In other words, something is blocking her divine sense!

What could it be?

Su Ruyi reached out, and a shovel from the tool shelf appeared in her hand.

She jumped down from the ridge and started digging.

They dug down to a depth of one meter, and sure enough, they couldn't dig any further.

"Ruyi, not this place, it's where I'm pointing!" Su Qiushi said, "I saw it when I came to pick peaches this morning, there was something strange there!"

"What is it?"

"I don't know... I can't explain it... It's not like I saw it, but rather like something was calling to me..." Su Qiushi found it difficult to describe her feelings.

Su Ruyi walked to the spot Su Qiushi pointed to and began to dig.

Although her divine sense could not penetrate deep into this place, she could still dig into the soil!

Su Ruyi and Su Qiushi took turns digging for seven days. Finally, in a pit as high as three or four people, Su Ruyi found a perfectly round, cool black bead.

I don't know what its texture is, but it's so black it seems to absorb all light.

Su Qiushi took the beads, weighed them in his palm, and exclaimed, "They're so heavy!"

“It’s heavy because of what’s inside…” Su Ruyi clutched her chest, tears welling in her eyes, “Inside, there’s not only all the merit of my entire life, but also… and my beloved Xiao Yao…”