Chapter 001: Accidental Travel to Become a Happy Mother

"This is terrible. The woman is about to die. When will Doctor Liu come?"

Lin Yue opened her eyes amidst the noise. Her mind was in a mess and she couldn't remember anything.

The noisy sound continued, making it even harder for her to think clearly. She listened carefully and heard someone giving birth not far away. There was a faint baby crying sound, which was quieter than a kitten's cry.

The woman in labor seemed to be in poor condition. She heard a loud and angry voice saying, "Hey, why hasn't her mother-in-law come yet? Didn't I just call her? She's almost dying, and there's no one in her family who can take charge. Who will be held responsible if something goes wrong? If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have taken this job!"

"Don't say these useless things. Auntie, look at why Xiao Hui's wife's lips have changed color. Could she be dead?" The voice trembled even more, as if she was frightened.

Is this going to kill someone? Lin Yue was shocked when she heard this. This shock also made her mind gradually clear. She suddenly remembered her past. She was a social animal who had worked hard for six years in the new era. She finally had a vacation. When she was shopping, she was hit and killed by an out-of-control truck.

Lin Yue was sure that she was really dead. After all, the pain before death was still deeply engraved in her soul. Her body should be cold now. How could she wake up now?

She looked around, but unfortunately she could not see anything except the thick fog. Fortunately, Lin Yue could feel that the fog was full of vitality. She was wrapped in the thick fog and felt warm all over, which at least made her feel a little relieved.

Is this the afterlife? The underworld? Where is King Yan? Where are the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons? Why isn't there a guide to show her the way?

Moreover, she was a little confused. Can a dead person give birth to a child?

Lin Yue tried hard to look towards the only source of the sound. He didn't know what triggered it, as if a window was opened, and the scene outside suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

Outside was a low, dimly lit room. Three women were gathered around a brick bed. On the bed was a thin woman who looked like she had just been through a life-or-death experience. Her hair was wet and stuck to her face. Her eyes were tightly shut. She lay there motionless, and no one knew whether she was dead or alive. Next to her, three other middle-aged women were discussing something fiercely.

Lin Yue found it a little curious, and leaned forward to take a closer look. Suddenly, a suction force came and sucked her over.

She was startled, and before she could even close her eyes, she heard the loud-voiced woman say in panic, "Auntie, I really can't do anything about this. I'm just a midwife. Look, this person is dead. I'm not a god, how can I save him?"

Another older voice said hurriedly, "Why can't you do anything about it? A midwife is also half a doctor!

I heard from my son that this person was not really dead when he just died, and if there is some emergency method to save him, he might be able to be saved!

"Little Gray's wife is also a miserable person. If she really dies, these two little babies will definitely not survive! Why don't you try it? Just think of it as doing good deeds, just kissing her breasts..."

"Oh, auntie, why do you still believe this? It's all caused by the young people nowadays. They are shameless. I wouldn't do that! Besides, what kind of doctor is a midwife? Why don't you do it yourself?"

"I can't do it. How about I give it a try first? After all, there are three lives at stake!" Seeing that the midwife was unwilling to save anyone and the other one remained silent, the woman had no choice but to rush on the shelf.

Lin Yue didn't know what was going on. She wanted to hear some more information from the conversation between the few people, so she didn't dare to close her eyes. But suddenly, she felt a pair of trembling hands pressing on her chest.

Lin Yue was a little confused. After being pressed a few times without any reason, he remembered the words "press the chest and kiss the lips". He shuddered with fear and quickly opened his eyes.

Her action startled the woman in front of her, who jumped up high. The other two women were also frightened. Lin Yue just opened his eyes and saw three people running around the room, shouting "It's alive, it's alive, it's really alive again!"

She felt something was not right, and thought of something. She raised her hand with great effort and looked at it. The hand was skinny, black and thin, with old ulcers and cracks all over it. It was not her own hand. She had lived for more than 20 years and had never seen a pair of hands like this before.

Lin Yue felt it was unreal, and was not that scared or panicked. She just wanted to hold her forehead and sigh. Unfortunately, she was too weak at the moment, and the movement of raising her hand had already used up all her strength. She let her hand fall down powerlessly, and lay quietly on the kang with her eyes half closed, not wanting to say anything.

The three women heard the sound and looked at each other. Two of them said sincerely, "Auntie, you are really good. You really saved the person!"

The auntie who had made the move was also very excited. She rubbed her hands, and gathered around Lin Yue with the other two. She first asked about her health, then carefully helped her up, fed her some water and porridge, and finally hurriedly pushed her down to let her have a good rest.

Lin Yue let these people manipulate him, his eyes scanning this gray, dark and cramped room, and the few aunties in front of him who were pale and thin and dressed in old clothes. No matter how reluctant he was, he had to admit that he had traveled through time.

She was eager to sort out the memories in her mind, and her body, which had just given birth, was in urgent need of rest, so she followed the advice of the aunts and closed her eyes. But she didn't expect that her body was too tired and she fell asleep quickly.

Before she closed her eyes, she seemed to see a few aunts turn around and say something to someone outside the door. She didn't know if she was blurry, but she seemed to see her father. But her eyes were too heavy and she didn't have the strength to look carefully.

This was probably just a dream, and everything would be back to normal when she woke up. She told herself this and closed her eyes with peace of mind.

Lin Yue slept until noon the next day.

Last night she had a very long dream, in which she watched a girl's short life from the perspective of a bystander. She lay on the bed, wiped her face with her hand, and powerlessly acknowledged a fact: everything she had experienced did not seem to be a dream, she had really traveled through time.

Thinking of the dream she had last night, she half leaned on the kang, lost in thought for a while, until she heard a loud voice that startled her and woke her up all of a sudden.

"Xiao Hui's family, you finally woke up. The two children have been crying beside you for a long time, but you didn't wake up. I was so scared that I thought you were..."

The man probably felt that his words were unlucky, so he slapped his legs several times and said repeatedly: "Look at my broken mouth, oh! It's good that you woke up, it's good that you woke up! Come on, get up and have some millet porridge first!"

This is the wife of team leader Zhang Zhiqiang, named Su Ximei, who is also the village women's director.

There were three people who delivered her baby last night. One was a village midwife, everyone called her Auntie Liu Wu. The other was Auntie Wang San, whose name was Wang Meiqin. Because she was nearby, she was the first to discover that the woman was about to give birth.

And there is Aunt Su in front of her, who was the one who "rescued" her last night.

Lin Yue hadn't completely come out of his own thoughts yet. Seeing Aunt Su taking such good care of him, he was touched. He took the bowl and forced a smile.

This was not acting. If someone discovered that her identity had changed, she didn't know what would happen. Lin Yue could only force herself to get into the role quickly.

She imitated the original owner's tone, half-raised herself, and thanked Aunt Su: "Aunt, last night I... I really couldn't hold on. I'm so grateful to you for taking care of my two children. You even saved my life last night. I don't know how to thank you!"

Aunt Su was a little embarrassed by her words of thanks, but she still said generously: "Why are you still saying so many polite words! I also watched Xiao Hui grow up. He was in the army and couldn't go home all year round. We are close relatives, so of course I can help him as much as I can. Alas, you have such a cruel mother-in-law, you are also miserable..."

As he spoke he wiped away his tears, which made Lin Yue feel a little helpless, not knowing what to say.

She thought of the dream she had last night, in which the timid girl waved goodbye to her tenderly. For some reason, tears began to flow uncontrollably.

It is the winter of 1960, and famine is raging everywhere.

The original owner's name was Lin Yue, and her mother's family lived in Donglinjia Village, three miles away from Xiaotian Village.

She was adopted and raised by foster parents. When she was young, her foster parents were nice to her because they had no children of their own. But when she was eight years old, they gave birth to a son. From then on, they beat and scolded Xiao Lin Yue. If she had not been able to work at that time, she would probably have been thrown away.

The misfortunes of her childhood also shaped the original owner's weak and easily bullied character. Her adoptive parents passed away one after another a few years ago. Because of famine, she was soon exchanged for half a bag of food by her second uncle and married to Xiaotian Village.

The original owner's husband, Zhang Yuandong, was a soldier. After marriage, he quickly returned to the army, and not long after that, the original owner discovered that she was pregnant.

My mother-in-law, Sun Hongmei, had given birth to twins. When the original owner was a little older, she could tell that she was pregnant with two babies.

Sun Hongmei was well-known in the village for not liking her eldest son. After Lin Yue became pregnant, she could not do much work and could not earn many work points. Sun Hongmei was unwilling to support the original owner for nothing, so she soon separated from her and drove Lin Yue out.

As a result, when grain was distributed after the autumn harvest this year, their commune changed its system from "four workers per day, six hours of labor" to "six workers per day, four hours of labor". Sun Hongmei was unhappy again. She used filial piety as an excuse and asked Lin Yue to take care of her parents-in-law, and she came over and took away a lot of grain.

The original owner was pregnant, without the support of her family, and could not stand up on her own, so she could only be bullied. In order to earn a living, she soon wore out her body, and in the end, she gave birth to two children, but she did not survive, which was also pitiful.

Thinking of this, Lin Yue sighed again. Aunt Su saw her like this, patted her gently, and advised: "The past days are all in the past, we won't say anything. Now that you have a child, you have to stand up for yourself and can't let others bully you like before."

Lin Yue nodded. The original owner was indeed too good-natured, which was why he was bullied like this.

Seeing her nod, Aunt Su was not very relieved, she just felt that she was perfunctory. But she was not her relative after all, so some things could not be said too bluntly.

She changed the subject and continued, "You don't have any milk at all. What are you going to do with the two children? You can't let them drink rice soup all the time."

Lin Yue was stunned for a moment, looked down at his two flattened grain bags, and then looked up at Aunt Su in confusion. Her body was a little flat, but how could he know that she had no milk without even trying it?

As if she could see what she was thinking, Aunt Su waved her hands nonchalantly: "Hey, Aunt Liu Wu, who delivered you, and I tried to suck out the two babies last night. We tried for a long time but couldn't suck them out at all. We cried in panic. You were sleeping so soundly that you were not woken up by such a loud noise!"

Lin Yue had never experienced this before. Thinking about the three aunts surrounding her and studying her after she fell asleep last night, her face suddenly turned red with embarrassment.

She just wanted to get back on, even if she got hit by a car again, as long as she didn't die here...

Aunt Su didn't feel her embarrassment at all and held the two wrinkled little children to her side.

It was not until this time that Lin Yue had the opportunity to observe the two children carefully and discovered that they were actually a pair of dragon and phoenix twins.

Aunt Su pointed to them and said that the older one was the brother and the younger one was the sister. Both children were red all over, tiny and without any beauty at all.

She was at a loss as to how to receive it, so Aunt Su taught her and carefully held the two babies in her arms.

Feeling the softness of the two little guys, she said in her heart: "You two little guys, you are so ugly, but when I hug you, my hands become soft and my heart becomes soft. Don't worry, I will be your mother in the future, and I will love you as my own children."

She used the original owner's body, and even if it was to repay the favor, she had to take on the responsibilities left by the original owner.