"Jiuyi! Come here, let Mother hug you. Mother has just forgotten what happened before."
Cen Xi waved to him, suddenly feeling a pang of sympathy for his precocious maturity. It's said that children from poor families mature early, and that's certainly true.
"Mother! You're finally better. Jiuyi was so scared."
The little boy's feigned strength finally crumbled on his innocent face, revealing his longing to hug his mother.
"Come up here, Mother will be alright, and I will never leave you again. Mother will take good care of you."
Although Cen Xi disliked the identity Buddha had given her, she was always very responsible. Now that she had become the mother of these two little ones, she would take good care of them for the original owner.
Anyway, she can't go back.
So what if she time-traveled? Although she didn't have an armory, a spatial ring, or any cheat codes, she was talented.
Ms. Li has been pushing her to excel since she was a child for over twenty years. She has attended every training class imaginable, including piano, violin, guzheng, swimming, Sanda (Chinese kickboxing), traditional Chinese painting, and calligraphy.
Ms. Li is very strong-willed. As her daughter, how could she let her off the hook if she didn't achieve something in her studies?
So what does she have to be afraid of?
Being poor is no big deal, as long as you make money.
She simply refused to believe that she, a college graduate from a prestigious university, couldn't survive in this ancient world where nothing was yet developed.
However, there is one advantage to this time travel: it finally allows me to escape Ms. Li's clutches.
How many times has she rebelled since she was a child, and when has she ever succeeded? When she went to university, she finally managed to fill in a city far from home, but after being threatened by Ms. Li, she had no choice but to obediently change it back.
Things got even worse after she started working. She remembers it clearly: in the year she graduated, she went on 58 blind dates, and by the end, she was green with envy at those successful men.
Now, she can fly freely in the sky and boast as much as she wants.
How wonderful! And those two bosses who were fighting can no longer find excuses to have her relay messages.
Has she been freed in some way?
"Waaaaaah, Mother! Jiuyi is so scared, so scared that we'll become orphans!"
Cen Xi's thoughts were pulled back by the two little ones who were hugging him and crying on either side of him.
"It's alright, Mother is fine, isn't she? I'm not sick anymore. Jiuyi, Xiaoyu, are you hungry? Is there anything else to eat at home? Mother will go and cook for you."
Cen Xi felt a little hungry. Their priority now should be to fill their stomachs.
"Waaah, we have nothing left at home. Aunt Li gave Xiaoyu and me some leftovers for lunch. Jiuyi isn't hungry!"
The little boy stopped crying and blinked at Cen Xi.
"Oh! Where's the little fish? Are you hungry?"
Cen Xi couldn't stand the rumbling in her stomach any longer. She was so hungry; she could eat a whole cow.
"The little fish is hungry, but there's nothing to eat at home."
The little girl blinked her lips, her eyes filled with longing as she looked at Cen Xi.
"Jiuyi, is our family really so poor that we don't even have a single grain of rice?"
Cen Xi never expected that her transmigration would start like this, without even enough food for a meal.
“Mother, we had everything before, but when Aunt Li saw that you were sick, she said we didn’t know how to cook, so she moved all the food from our house to her house. She said she would use that food to take care of me and my sister.”
The little boy thought for a moment and then explained earnestly.
"What?"
Cen Xi originally thought that Aunt Li was a kind-hearted neighbor, but it turns out that this is what a good neighbor is like.
"Mother, what should we do?"
The little boy looked at him expectantly; clearly, at five years old, he could distinguish between good and bad.
"What was our family like before? What did your father do? Did we own any land?"
Cen Xi felt she needed to understand the situation of this family so she wouldn't be completely clueless.
"Alas! It seems you really don't remember anything, Mother. My father was the only scholar in the village, and we still had two acres of fertile land. But my father is dead. I'm afraid we won't be able to keep any of that."
The little boy looked at Cen Xi and explained helplessly.
"Oh, I see. So, what's my name?"
Cen Xi pointed to herself.
"Your name is Su Nianniang! Mother, are you still sick?"
The little boy looked at her with concern.
"Never mind all that for now, let's go! Let's go to Aunt Li's house for dinner, and talk about it after we've eaten and drunk our fill."
After learning the basic situation, Cen Xi decided to take the two little ones and solve their food and clothing problems first.
"Mother, but she's very fierce. Can we get our food back?"
The little boy asked with some concern.
"Don't be afraid! With Mother here, she won't dare to act recklessly."
Cen Xi got out of bed, picked up the little fish sister hanging on her, and took Xiao Jiu Yi's little hand as they went out the door.
Which way is Aunt Li's house?
"Over here!"
Jiuyi pointed to the mud-brick houses next to him and said.
"Okay! It's dinner time now, let's go get something good to eat."
Cen Xi strode to the door and knocked hard.
"Who is it? Are you in a hurry to be reincarnated? Why are you banging on the door like that?"
The sounds inside grew closer, revealing obvious impatience.
"I am! Madam Liu!"
Cen Xi replied from outside the door.
"Madam Liu?"
The man inside opened the door, and after a moment's reaction, he realized it was the scholar's wife from next door.
"What brings Lady Liu here?"
The man asked.
“I heard from Jiuyi that while I was unconscious for the past few days, your wife emptied all the food in my house, so I brought my whole family here for a meal.”
Cen Xi smiled and looked at the man in front of her.
"Nonsense, how could my wife do such a thing? I advise Lady Liu to stay out of trouble."
The man's expression changed instantly upon hearing Cen Xi's words.
"Jiuyi, what should we do if there's nothing?"
Cen Xi deliberately looked at her adopted son and asked.
“It was Aunt Li who moved it. Everyone around saw her when she moved it that day, including Uncle Wang and his family next door who were watching.”
Jiu Yi looked anxious, as if afraid that others wouldn't believe him.
“Brother, you say your wife didn’t move the grain? Then call her out and ask her in person. If she admits in front of the neighbors that she didn’t move our grain, I’ll immediately take my two children back home.”
Although Cen Xi felt very hungry, she still had some strength to argue or fight.
"You damned woman, come out and explain yourself! Madam Liu insists that you emptied her house of grain and that someone saw you doing it."
The man yelled angrily into the house.
"What are you yelling about! So what if I move? She's almost dead. I'm taking care of her kids, so naturally I have to move some things to my place."
Not to be outdone, Aunt Li inside shouted loudly and then came out menacingly with a kitchen knife in her hand.
Her voice was louder than her husband's, and it immediately drew all the neighbors out to watch the commotion.
"So, you're admitting you emptied our house of grain?"
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