Chapter 1: Find a man to date and marry, so that you can get your household registration
In the winter of 1949, the light of New China had not yet completely dispelled the darkness in the corners. A new order emerged, but the old order was unwilling to leave. On a deserted road, the fleeing people encountered bandits and robbery.
A beautiful and resolute woman pushed the two children down the steep slope, covered them with dry grass, and warned them desperately: "No matter what you hear, don't make any noise. You must wait until dawn. When it's dawn, the bad guys will run away, and then you can climb out!"
The brave woman ran in another direction and led the bandits away.
The target of several bandits was the woman, but they didn't expect that the woman was very fierce. After one gangster had his eyeball gouged out by her, he screamed in agony, swung his sickle hand wildly, and cut the woman's neck.
"You damn bitch, you killed one of our brothers before you died. You can't let go of the body. You have to carry it back, strip it naked and hang it up. Only then can I relieve the hatred in my heart."
"Old Five, you go back and heal your wounds first. The rest of you, come with me to find those two brats. We have received the money from their employer, and we must kill them all."
Seeing that the inhumane bandits were about to find the place where the child was hiding, Jiang Zhen rushed towards the mirage while wielding cold weapons to chop the mutant animals.
According to legend, as long as you can jump into the mirage before it disappears, you can leave the end of the world. Jiang Zhen actually waited for this legend to come true.
The bandits have found the child and are raising their butcher knives. The mutant beast behind them has already reached the back of Jiang Zhen's neck with its sharp claws. A mirage is hanging in the air at the edge of the cliff. She jumps into the mirage without hesitation. Either she falls to her death or jumps into the world in the mirage. Both are better than being eaten into a pile of bones by the mutant beast behind her.
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"Mom, you can never leave us again." Jiang Tangtang hugged Jiang Zhen's neck and burst into tears.
Jiang Zhao hugged Jiang Zhen's arm tightly: "Mom, I will never make you angry again. If we have to die, we will die together."
"Okay, I heard what you said. Mom just hit her head and I can't figure out a lot of things. Let me rest for a while."
The two children immediately fell silent, not even daring to cry. They silently wiped their tears with their hands, for fear of upsetting their mother.
After calming herself down, Jiang Zhen sorted out the memories of the woman who was submerged in the sinkhole. She came out of the mirage and only had time to grab the woman's hand that was trapped in the pit. She couldn't pull her up, but she read her memories and gained a comprehensive understanding of this world and the woman's life.
This world had experienced a long period of turmoil before. Just after the unification and liberation, a woman came to Qingcheng to join her husband. According to the bandits, the woman was killed by hired killers.
In the memory of the woman who was read, she had a lost twin sister. Jiang Zhen was not sure if it was himself, but she looked very similar to the dead woman. Before coming to find the children, she changed into the clothes in the cloth bag left by the woman and combed her hair into the same braids as hers. The two children were so frightened that they did not recognize the difference.
In addition, the deceased woman was extremely harsh and unkind to the children when she was alive, and the children were very scared, so Jiang Zhen had the final say at this moment.
The bundle also contained identity documents, household registration certificates, and travel certificates. The girl's name was Jiang Zhen, with the same surname, homophonic names, and similar looks. Jiang Zhen was trembling with fear. She was taken back to be raised by the base's nursery, with the name "Jiang Zhen" embroidered on the swaddling clothes. This was the origin of her name.
But now, she can no longer use the name Jiang Zhen. From now on, she will be "Jiang Zhen" with legal identity proof on her documents.
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Soon, the PLA soldiers who came to suppress the bandits arrived, rescued the panicked people who were fleeing famine, and took out the dry food they brought with them and distributed it to everyone: "Don't worry, there is everything, everyone take your time to eat."
Jiang Zhen took the sweet potato handed over by the People's Liberation Army and put it directly into her mouth to chew. She had not eaten for several days before coming. This sweet potato was such a delicacy, crispy and sweet. While chewing, Jiang Zhen broke the second sweet potato handed to her and handed it to the two children, asking them to eat it.
Gu Liancheng handed over the third one and opened the kettle for her: "Don't worry, drink some water first."
Jiang Zhen almost snatched the kettle from the People's Liberation Army and drank half of it. The water here was too sweet. She couldn't help but let the tears roll down from the corners of her eyes.
After expressing his gratitude, Jiang Zhen gave the kettle to the two children to drink water. The two children were obviously not thirsty and stopped drinking after taking a sip. Jiang Zhen continued to swallow the remaining half of the kettle of water. While returning the kettle, he memorized the appearance of this soldier.
"My name is Jiang Zhen, thank you."
Jiang Zhen? Is this the “true” one? Gu Liancheng remembered this beautiful young woman who was moved to tears by a sweet potato and a pot of water.
"The ferry is ahead. Just follow this road. After crossing the river, you will reach the base where you can settle down." Gu Liancheng pointed the way for them and turned around to follow the anti-bandit force.
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"The ferry capsized. I heard there were PLA children on it. The troops came to salvage them, but with the turbulent water, I'm afraid they won't even be able to find the bodies."
"Look for them. There are four children and a woman. I heard that the woman came here to find her husband after escaping from disaster. She didn't know that her husband had already married into the family. What's the point of her pretending to cry?"
Jiang Zhen is now in her personal space under the water, with four children. Two of them are the children of the woman whose identity she replaced, and they all have the woman's surname, Jiang.
There were two other little passengers on the same boat, one named Gu Pan and the other named Gu Hui. They were twins, children from the PLA family compound. They happened to be on the same boat by chance, and when they saw the boatman, they shouted, "Why isn't he the uncle who rowed the boat yesterday?" Jiang Zhen immediately noticed the boatman and got on.
When the boat reached the middle of the river, the boatman suddenly exerted force, overturned the small wooden boat, and tried to dive to escape. Jiang Zhen could not swim, but she had space. She grabbed the boatman at the moment the boat capsized and read his memory.
She had the ability to read memories, and once she used it, the opponent would die. In the boatman's memory, she saw the face of the woman who hired the murderer, and the tone of her voice when she ordered the boatman to kill someone was as emotionless as if she was ordering him to kill a chicken or a duck.
The boatman also asked, "What if there are other people on the boat ferrying us?"
"That can only be blamed on their bad luck, being on the same ship with Jiang Zhen."
The moment the memory was read, the captain of the ship had lost his breath. At the same time, the two children of the woman whose identity she replaced must be rescued. The two children on the same ship were so innocent that Jiang Zhen fished them into the space together.
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"Aunt Jiang, our secret little space is great. Can I come in tomorrow? I want to raise my two chicks here."
Gu Pan explored the space like a curious baby. In fact, the space was not very big. It was a wooden house of 60 square meters with an open space of more than 100 square meters outside, a well, and a small pond. Jiang Zhen did not expect that the space could move with him.
It is difficult for children to keep secrets. Jiang Zhen took out four secret beans from the space and asked the four children to eat them: "This is called the secret bean. If you eat it, you can't tell the secret of the space."
Gu Hui was honest and swallowed the secret bean in one gulp.
Gu Pan covered her mouth: "Aunt Jiang, I won't tell anyone. I don't want to eat it."
Jiang Zhen smiled. The children in this world were so innocent. Perhaps it was because the environment was so good that they thought they could negotiate conditions.
"It's okay if you don't want to eat it. I'll erase your memory of this. You'll just be a little bit stupid, so it won't affect you."
Gu Pan didn't want to lose her precious memory. If she forgot, Aunt Jiang would definitely not play with her. She swallowed the secret bean in one gulp.
Jiang Zhao was particularly worried: "Mom, how did you get such a space?"
The children were naive, and they would believe whatever she said. Jiang Zhen said, "This space appeared after we encountered the robbers and escaped by luck. The situation on the ferry was urgent, and only the space could save the four of you, otherwise Mom would not have taken it out."
Jiang Zhao nodded immediately, fed a secret bean to his sister, and ate one himself.
The space has a time limit and the time spent at one time cannot exceed the limit. Jiang Zhen let the space drift farther along the water flow, wet the children's clothes, and took them downstream for a while, where they met the People's Liberation Army who were searching and rescuing.
"Found it, here, all five alive!"
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"Jiang Zhen, there are so many people in emergency, come and help!"
"Here I come." Jiang Zhen came out of the infusion room of the pediatric department and followed the large group to the emergency room. More than a dozen injured soldiers were rushed in, and Jiang Zhen assigned them to suture the wounds of the soldiers with external injuries.
She looked relaxed and her technique was skillful. In a short while, she disinfected, sutured and bandaged the wounds of seven or eight soldiers.
Gu Jiaoxia took the time to glance at the stitches on the wound. They were so quick and beautiful that she couldn't help but nod secretly.
That day, the team that went to suppress the bandits rescued a group of people who were fleeing, but the last boat at the ferry capsized. Fortunately, Jiang Zhen, the only adult on the boat, rescued the two children of her eldest brother.
In order to repay her gratitude, she temporarily arranged for Jiang Zhen, who had nowhere to go, to stay in the hospital.
No one would question the decision to take in Jiang Zhen, a temporary worker, and provide her and her two children with a dormitory to stay in, just based on Jiang Zhen's beautiful and skilled suturing skills.
The batch of wounded soldiers sent down today were to suppress bandits. Fortunately, there were no major casualties, and the soldier who was most seriously injured is out of danger.
Fortunately, her brother Gu Liancheng was not injured. He had to rush to get married as soon as he came back from the battlefield to suppress bandits.
When it comes to that frustrating marriage, Gu Jiaoxia doesn't want to go. She had made a vow long ago that if her second brother doesn't cancel the engagement and insists on fulfilling the marriage contract, she will not recognize him.
The more I thought about it, the angrier I got. I realized that there were only a few nurses in the department. They must have all been hiding in the toilet, gossiping about other people's families.
Her brother is getting married today, and he is marrying the younger sister of Jiang Zhen’s ex-husband’s wife. Such a big gossip must be about the cricket.
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"Have you heard that our head nurse wanted to introduce Dr. Qi from the obstetrics and gynecology department to Nurse Jiang Zhen, but Dr. Qi refused."
"Nurse Jiang is pretty, but she's married for the second time and has two children. Her ex-husband and Doctor Qi were colleagues. Our head nurse is too whimsical."
"But I also hope that Jiang Zhen can stay in the hospital. Our department is already short of nurses, and adding one more person won't be enough."
"We are also short of staff in the obstetrics and gynecology department. Why don't you come to our obstetrics and gynecology department..."
"Wouldn't it be better for me to work with my ex-husband if I went to the obstetrics and gynecology department? That won't work. You'd better stay in our pediatric department."
"You guys have been in the toilet for too long, why don't you go back!" Gu Jiaoxia ran over to catch people and asked them to go back to work. When she heard the young nurses talking about Jiang Zhen's private affairs behind his back, she immediately interrupted them and scolded them harshly.
The young nurses all ran away. Gu Jiaoxia was thinking about her second brother Gu Liancheng. She was stunned for a moment and muttered to herself: "He's getting married, I can't really not go. I'd better take a leave and go there."
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After a while, when Gu Jiaoxia, who had taken her in, left, Jiang Zhen came out of the cubicle.
She turned on the faucet and rinsed her face, calmly recalling the incredible experiences of the past few days.
On the day she traveled through time, she encountered bandits. On her way to escape, she met the People's Liberation Army who were suppressing the bandits. When she was crossing the river, her boat was overturned by the boat captain. She knew that among the family that Jiang Tang and Jiang Zhao's father married into, there were people who did not want to see her alive.
Jiang Zhen was instilled with the rule of survival of the fittest since she was a child. In the hospital, she immediately found an opportunity to stay. There was a shortage of medical staff. She was not a doctor, but she was faster at surgical bandaging than the best nurse here, so she stayed to help.
Without a permanent residence, she couldn't stay there for long, but there was a way, which was to find a man for a blind date and get married, so that she could get a permanent residence. Jiang Zhen seriously considered Gu Jiaoxia's suggestion in his heart.
After finishing her night shift, she returned to the hospital's family building in the morning sun. The building where she lived was decorated with lights and decorations. Gu Jiaoxia's second brother, Gu Liancheng, was going to marry his new wife, who lived in this building.
The man she was going to marry was a battalion-level non-commissioned officer stationed there. He was young and promising, with a bright future ahead of him. She should have been very happy, but as a girl who was about to get married, she was like a madman and didn't want to go out.
"No, I don't want to marry Gu Liancheng. I want to cancel the engagement!"
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