Shoushan Village is a very large village.

Houses of varying heights are densely packed in the grove, with black tiles and yellow walls that stand out from a distance.

Hua Shi sat under the shade of a tree beside the ridge of the field, waving a large palm-leaf fan in his hand. Sweat kept coming out of his neck and back, and soon he was sweating profusely.

"When it comes to flowers, bring the water over. What are you daydreaming about?"

The lame young man limped up from the edge of the field and shouted angrily at the lazy Hua Shi.

"Hey, here I come." Hua Shi wiped the sweat from his forehead and responded. He walked down the ridge of the field under the scorching sun, carrying the bamboo tube.

Li, who was busy harvesting rice, saw Hua Shi coming from afar and shouted at him, "Hua Shi, what are you doing here? Go back! Do you hear me?"

Hua Shi followed behind his younger brother Hua Yu, lowering his head, looking at his limping ankle and his own overlapping shadow.

The scorching sun made the delicate skin on the back of her neck hurt.

She felt dizzy and had tinnitus from the sun, so she didn't hear her grandmother Li shouting from afar.

She followed Hua Yu and walked carefully along the edge of the field.

A one-meter-wide canal was dug on both sides of the ridge, and the stream flowed clearly along the endless ravine.

"Bang!"

A shadow flashed before her eyes, and Hua Yu, who was originally walking in front of her, was knocked into the ditch by someone with a hoe, splashing water.

Hua Shi was stunned when he heard Li's sharp and harsh scolding. "You little bastard! I told you to get some water, but who told you to bring someone here with you? You're trying to be clever under my nose, aren't you?"

Li rolled up his trouser legs, looking fierce and tough. He raised the hoe and tried to hit Hua Yu, who was still in a daze.

The hoe is made of iron. If it hits someone directly like this, it must be very painful.

Hua Shi quickly went over to stop her, "Grandma, what are you doing? I was the one who said I wanted to help. It's none of Hua Yu's business!"

Li was afraid of hurting her, so she loosened her grip on the hoe, tilted her head and glared at her fiercely. She glanced at Hua Hua's sunburned face and cursed, "Who told you to come here? Put the water here, and get back here!"

As Li spoke, she reached out and snatched the bamboo tube filled with water from her hand. She stared at her with a pair of stern eyes, and her wrinkled face looked a little fierce.

Hua Shi felt uneasy being stared at, so he responded and then turned away under Li's close gaze.

Li behind him was still cursing Hua Yu in a vicious tone.

Hua Yu stood silently in the middle of the stream, the water covering his waist and his hair dripping with water.

The stream looked shallow, but when he fell in, the water was over his head. He choked on the water several times before he stood up. His lame left leg was broken by the stones in the stream and was sprained.

Grandma was scolding him again. The hoe she had just hit him on the back of his spine hurt. If he hadn't dodged quickly, the hoe might have broken the back of his head.

Hua Yu climbed out of the stream, his eyes sinister as he watched the bright red blood seeping out of his trouser legs. He listened to Li's vicious curses and pinched the wound hard, staining his hands with blood...

Hua Shi left the ridge of the field and returned to the shade of the tree where she had rested at the beginning. After such a short distance, sweat had already soaked her clothes on the back.

A month had passed since she came into this world. The original owner went up the mountain to pick wild fruits, rolled down the mountain, hit the back of her head, and died from excessive blood loss.

And she just slept and turned into the original owner.

She had no memories of the original owner, and only knew that this was a large village called Shoushan Village. The village was closed and remote, guarding a mountain called Linhai Mountain, and the people there farmed and hunted, and were self-sufficient.

When the original owner was a beggar, she had the same name and surname as her. Her father was a scholar who had studied for over thirty years but never passed the imperial examination, a fact often ridiculed by the villagers. The original owner's mother died during childbirth of her youngest brother, Huaying.

The Hua family is a small family with a small population. Grandma Li is the head of the family, and grandpa suffers from hemiplegia and is bedridden.

Grandma Li was also the main labor force in the family. The original owner also had four siblings, three younger brothers and one younger sister.

Of the five children in the Hua family, Hua Shi was the most favored. No, it should be said that Li was only partial to Hua Shi. In Li's eyes, the other siblings were no different from chickens in a chicken coop. She would either beat them or scold them. When she was in a good mood, she would give them a meal. When she was in a bad mood, the four siblings would become Li's punching bags...

Because of Li's favoritism, the original owner developed an arrogant, domineering and selfish character. As the eldest daughter in the family, she often bullied her four younger siblings.

Stealing food, framing others, beating people when unhappy, etc.

The relationship between the original owner and his younger brother and sister-in-law can be said to be incompatible.

The sun was setting in the west, and the scorching sunlight gradually faded. From time to time, a hot wind blew through the trees, and the dense branches and leaves on the trees rustled.

Estimating the time, Hua Shi wiped the sweat from his face and walked home under the setting sun.

It was hot and stuffy in June. Even through the thin soles of my shoes, I could feel the scorching heat of the sandy road that had been exposed to the sun all day.

During the busy farming season, there are few people strolling on the village roads. From the elderly in their sixties to children as young as three or five, everyone is busy harvesting rice in the fields.

The thatched roof of the house, with walls made of yellow clay, has become somewhat blackened due to the passage of time...

"Meow……"

As soon as he pushed open the gate, Hua Shi looked closely and saw a nimble black cat with a green snake in its mouth rushing out of the yard.

Hua Shi was so frightened that he took a big step back.

When I looked over again, the black cat's nimble figure had already jumped out of the short wall in the blink of an eye, and disappeared...

The Hua family's courtyard is right next to the forest of Linhai Mountain, and occasionally some poisonous snakes and wild beasts appear.

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