Widow Sun was panicked and scared. In those days, there was no way to survive if she was driven out of the village. What should she do?

"No! No! We will pay for the medical expenses. We will send Wu Wangnan away tomorrow. Please have pity on us, an orphan and a widow! Wuuuuu..."

The foolish son grabbed Widow Sun's shoulders and shook her hard, howling loudly:

"No compensation, no compensation. I want to eat meat and marry a wife. Drive that bitch away. We didn't push anyone away."

He let go of Widow Sun and kicked Wu Wangnan again, "You money-loser, useless thing, troublemaker, get out of here!"

Wu Wangnan was worse off than dead. His resentment burned her so much that she forgot the pain. He thought that when she got better, he would make all of them suffer.

Widow Sun quickly hugged her son's waist and said, "Bao'er, stop kicking. If you keep kicking, you'll really die. Butcher Zhang is here to break off the engagement, and the five taels are gone. How can we compensate the Gu family?"

He wept bitterly before the village chief and the villagers, "For the sake of decades of living together, the Wu family only has one child left. I will definitely take good care of the child and keep him out of trouble."

When the villagers saw that Widow Sun had driven her daughter away and offered to pay compensation, they all tried to smooth things over.

The village chief was not a cruel person. After discussing with Grandpa Gu for a while, he glanced at Widow Sun with annoyance and said:

"Since you have a good attitude in admitting your mistakes and have offered to compensate, I will forgive you for now. I will punish you by paying Ran Yatou five taels of silver for her medicine and medical expenses, and Wu Wangnan must marry off quickly."

Widow Sun hesitated and didn't want to pay so much money. It was more painful than cutting her flesh. She bargained with a flattering face:

"The patient is awake. Doctor Guo said it's nothing serious and he just needs to take care of himself. Why would he need five taels of silver? Even one tael is more than enough. I'll compensate him."

Grandpa Gu was anxious to take his granddaughter home. He had no patience to argue with her and glared at her coldly: "Five taels, give it and it's over. If you don't, get out of the village!"

The village chief also has the same attitude.

Seeing that there was no room for negotiation, Widow Sun could only lift up her clothes in disappointment, pull out an old purse, take out the only five-liang silver ingot, and reluctantly handed it to Grandpa Gu.

Grandpa Gu took the silver and turned to walk towards his granddaughter.

Village Chief Li sighed, "Yuchen, quickly take your sister back. She's soaked."

Gu Xinran was confused and watched a big drama of "herself". Oh my god, bad peach blossoms can kill people. Cherish life and stay away from men!

The young man gently picked up Gu Xinran and walked towards home step by step with his family.

Gu Xinran was too weak now, and she fainted again after being shaken.

Countless images flooded into his mind during his dream, representing the original owner's short life.

This is a fictional dynasty with no historical records. It is located in the western part of Su State, Qingshan Village, Datian Town, Gaofeng County, Chengzhou.

The original owner of this body was also called Gu Xinran, a thirteen-year-old peasant girl.

The original owner's mother was called Taoyuan, the woman who was holding her and crying. Her father was a scholar named Gu Junyuan, who died accidentally three years ago when he went to the provincial capital to take part in the provincial examination.

The original owner had an older brother, Gu Yuchen, who was fifteen years old this year and was the boy who carried her home; a younger brother, Gu Yuxuan, who was six years old this year and was the little boy who knocked down Wu Wangnan; and a younger sister, Gu Xinting, who was only three years old this year.

The original owner's grandfather Gu Dalin and grandmother Zhao only had one child, Gu's father, so they had few offspring and their grandchildren were their treasures.

There is a large courtyard with six blue brick and tile houses, four acres of fertile farmland and two acres of mountain land, which is just enough to eat when the harvest is good.

All these were built by Gu's father when he worked as a private school teacher in the town, copying books for bookstores and writing petitions and letters for others.

Since Gu's father passed away three years ago, the family's conditions have been getting worse and worse, and life has been difficult for the old and the young.

Especially this year, there was little rain, and the harvest of sorghum, wheat, beans, etc. in the fields was only half of that in previous years. After paying taxes, there was not much left, and people could only survive on two meals a day of wild vegetable steamed buns, black flour flatbreads, and brown rice porridge.

The villagers of Qingshan Village are having a hard time, so some people have evil intentions.

Widow Sun was lazy and greedy, favored boys over girls, and doted on her stupid son. The family relied on the 15-year-old Wu Wangnan to support them. She often didn't give her food or drink, and beatings and cold were commonplace.

The harvest was poor this year, and Widow Sun was afraid that her stupid son would starve, so she sold her daughter to Zhang the butcher in town for five taels of silver.

The butcher was ferocious and ugly, and he was a wife beater. His first two wives had died tragically, and no daughter from a good family would marry him.

The original owner and Wu Wangnan were friends, and out of pity for her, he gave her a black flour steamed bun today and a bowl of brown rice porridge tomorrow. Wu Wangnan was not grateful, but felt that she was being given charity and mocked.

As a fatherless child, why is she loved by her grandparents, pampered by her mother, and united by her brothers and sisters? Even her favorite Shunfeng brother only takes her and her siblings to play.

After being rejected by the village chief's grandson Li Shunfeng, her jealousy reached its peak and she planned to push the original owner into the river, which led to the scene at the beginning.

It was a day later when she woke up again. She caught a cold and developed a fever in the middle of the night, and slept for a whole day and night.

Gu Xinran opened her eyes again. There was a wooden bed, old curtains, dry lips, a sore throat, and hunger.

As the sun sets, a thin woman with a haggard face sits by the bed, clutching her hands and crying silently.

In his mind, he thought of this as Gu's mother's paradise. Perhaps because of the memory of his original body, he felt very familiar and gently moved the hand that was held by Gu's mother.

When Mother Gu saw her daughter wake up, she wiped away her tears and excitedly shouted towards the yard, "Yuchen, quickly bring the hot millet porridge over here!"

He turned around and gently helped Gu Xinran sit up, touched her forehead, picked up the cup of water beside the bed and handed it to her, "The fever is finally gone, Ranran, how do you feel? Are you feeling better? Drink some water first, you've really suffered a lot this time."

Gu Xinran gulped down a large glass of water and felt alive again. She replied in a hoarse voice, "Mom, I'm much better. Don't worry."

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