Chapter 001: Traveling through the 1970s
The seventh month of the lunar calendar is the end of summer, when rice blossoms. The hot air is filled with the fragrance of rice.
Outside the house, bees were buzzing and cicadas were chirping, and the sounds were a little annoying.
Wen Jiajia in the clinic of Jinbu Commune opened and closed her eyes nearly a hundred times, and finally accepted her fate before her eyelids were about to give up.
She had a long dream.
In the dream, I died suddenly, and my soul left the body and floated away to a strange place.
Then one after another people grabbed her hands and talked to her cryingly. Wen Jiajia felt like her head was going to explode.
When I opened my eyes again, I found that not only had I come to a strange place, but my body had also changed.
What else could Wen Jiajia not know? She had just achieved financial freedom, but before she could enjoy a happy and beautiful life, she caught up with the trend and traveled through time.
She was biting her teeth, cursing this damn fate in her heart. She was a very pragmatic person, but she had never dreamed of traveling through time and space to become the pinnacle of life, because no matter what era she traveled to, it would not be as good as the modern era.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but be thankful that she only traveled back a few decades. If she had traveled back to ancient times, she would have strangled herself to death.
Her memory told her that it was 1972.
Looking around, there was an incandescent lamp hanging overhead, beds against the walls, and a row of medicine cabinets against the inner wall. Wen Jiajiajia sat up slightly and sighed.
Well, she was only 30 years away from being born. She had to live well, maybe she could see who dumped her at the gate of an orphanage in the snow, and she almost died of pneumonia.
Wen Jiajia was an orphan in her previous life, but she was not lacking in love.
She was adopted by foster parents when she was three years old and lived a happy life ever since.
When she was fifteen, her adoptive parents died one after another due to illness, and left her a house.
But she was not well off. After her adoptive mother passed away, she sold her house and gave all the money except for tuition and living expenses to her adoptive mother, her grandmother. From then on, Wen Jiajia lived a life of working part-time to pay for her studies.
Maybe she was born with fortune. She caught the trend before short videos became popular. By the time they became popular, she had already been regarded as a treasured up-loader by many surfers.
The four years in college were also the four years when her career took off. In the summer after graduating from college, she successfully bought a large flat in the provincial capital.
Wen Jiajia, who thought she was already a winner in life, had unprecedented confidence. Just as she was preparing to start her own media company and continue her journey towards a luxury car and a small villa, she traveled through time and space here.
How did she die?
He died suddenly at three in the morning while editing a video.
How did the original owner die?
He was scared to death by a room full of dead people.
Thinking of this, Wen Jiajia sighed again.
The people who held her hand and told her various things in the dream were the original owner and her family.
Now that she recalled it a little, she actually understood what the original owner and her family were telling her.
The original owner asked him to live well for her, because her death was too miserable and she was afraid that she would be laughed at by her adoptive parents.
The original owner's parents told him where the money in the house was and where the food was hidden.
As for the original owner's sister, she wanted her to help take care of her two daughters, so that at least they would have enough food to eat and would not be bullied.
The original owner was called Wen Jia, nicknamed Jia Jia, which was the same name as hers, and even her upbringing was somewhat similar to hers.
She was adopted, and the original owner was adopted.
The difference is that she met a very good pair of adoptive parents, but the original owner did not.
The original owner was born in 1953 and lived with his parents in Fuyang Brigade since childhood.
In 1959, she encountered the riots and her life was extremely difficult. A relative came to adopt her, so her parents sent her to a relative who worked in a food factory in the county town and ate public rations.
After her adoptive mother became unexpectedly pregnant seven years ago, she became a wilted cabbage in the field, a hard-working ox in the farmland, and a babysitter at home.
If her adoptive mother had not had a mortal enemy working in the Women's Federation, the original owner would probably not even have been able to go to school.
Not long ago, the original owner's adoptive parents got in touch with the newly appointed factory leader, and the original owner, who had grown up to be beautiful and pretty, also had a new role in their eyes, which was to marry the original owner to the factory leader's stupid son to pave the way for themselves.
The original owner was a smart and intelligent girl. She felt that her hard work over the past seven years was enough to repay her parents for raising her, so she started a big business in the food factory.
She managed to find an opportunity when a superior leader came to inspect the factory and revealed the entire transaction between her adoptive parents and the factory leader. In the end, she broke off all ties with her adoptive parents, and even the factory leader was punished.
Can she still stay in the city under such circumstances?
Can't stay a moment!
That night she took her long-packed luggage and ran to the Women's Federation office to stay. The next day, which is today, she returned to Fuyang Brigade with her luggage.
The original owner was smart and resourceful. She would have no problem living a bad life if she followed her imagination. However, accidents in this world can happen at any time.
Recently, it is the mushroom season. Many villagers go to the mountains to pick mushrooms in the early morning. If you are lucky, you can pick up half a basket, which will provide you with food for the next few days. Maybe you can even dry some mushrooms and stew them with meat during the Chinese New Year.
The Wen family’s misfortune is all because of the mushrooms!
It is unknown who picked the poisonous mushrooms, but five of the seven members of the family were killed, and the original owner was frightened to death. The remaining two were children, and they survived because they did not eat the mushrooms.
Recalling that scene, Wen Jiajia instantly broke out in a cold sweat and got goosebumps all over her body, thinking that it was no wonder that the original owner was frightened to death.
If someone hadn't passed by and sent her to the infirmary, Wen Jiajia, who had come back from the dead, would have been frightened to death again after seeing this scene.
However, fortune and misfortune are unpredictable. Her sudden death was a misfortune, but her unexpected time travel and resurrection was a blessing.
And it must have been a blessing for the original owner's family to go to another world through the time tunnel that was opened when she came.
Wen Jiajia thought about it, threw off the quilt and got out of bed. She had to go and deal with the funeral arrangements for the original owner's family.
But before she could get out of bed, there was a noise at the door. Then the door was pushed open and a girl wearing a blue top, black pants, and two braids hanging on her chest walked in.
She exclaimed in surprise: "You're awake!"
Without waiting for Wen Jiajia to ask, his face changed and he continued, "How are you now? Before his uncle left, he said that you were shocked and fainted. If you feel uncomfortable, tell me. Don't worry, my uncle will be back soon."
Wen Jiajia asked hurriedly: "Where are my family members?"
The little girl looked embarrassed and hesitated for a moment before saying, "They are all parked at your house."
Wen Jiajia: "Then I have to go back."
The little girl hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll take you back."
After saying that, he slung his backpack over his shoulder and walked out with Wen Jiajia in his arms.
Wen Jiajia really needed someone to support her, as the original owner had twisted her foot when she fell.
Outside the house is a large yard of several dozen square meters. There are many high wooden racks on both sides of the yard. Round bamboo sieves are placed on the wooden racks, layer by layer, drying a lot of herbs. So as soon as you open the door, the whole yard is filled with the fragrance of herbs.
There is a one-meter-wide path at the entrance of the courtyard, and beside the path is a ditch with gurgling water. Next to the ditch are layers of terraced fields, stretching for hundreds of meters until the river blocks its extension.
If you can't extend forward and backward, then just go left and right.
Looking along the path, you can see endless terraced fields. In this season when the rice is about to mature, it is like a long yellow-green dragon flying across the land, bringing hope to this place.
Wen Jiajia was not overwhelmed by the stunning scenery. She had lived in the countryside for some time in her previous life for video shooting and even had a house in the countryside. Her most-played videos were the ones she shot in the countryside.
The girl in the infirmary is named Fang Lan.
Wen Jiajia thought to herself that it was no wonder that she could work in the medical office. Look at the name, it is the name of a traditional Chinese medicine. She must have been exposed to it since she was a child and has acquired some skills.
Fang Lan stared at Wen Jiajia for a few seconds and said carefully, "Don't be too sad. The villagers have already gone to help. Your two nieces are accompanied by their school teachers. You have to make the decision on what to do next."
Wen Jiajia nodded, her face full of sadness.
The big apartment was gone, and the million-dollar luxury car was also gone. How could she not be sad?
So when Wen Jiajia came to the Wen family, the expression on her face was no different from when her parents had died.
The Wen family's house was at the head of Fuyang Village, more than ten minutes away from the commune's medical clinic.
Fuyang Brigade belongs to Jinbu Commune and is the closest brigade to Jinbu Commune. It has a good geographical location and the living conditions of the team members have been gradually improving in recent years.
Wen Jiajia observed as she walked. She first passed the residential area of the commune, then the main street of the commune, then passed the commune primary school, and then saw a vast field.
Unlike the terraced fields we just saw, this field is relatively flat and surrounded by a river. A two-meter-wide straight path in the middle divides the field into two parts.
And by passing this straight path which is more than 500 meters long, you can reach Fuyang Brigade.
When she got home, the villagers had already helped to set up the mourning hall. Although it was a special period and feudal behavior was not allowed, several members of the Wen family died overnight, leaving only a 19-year-old girl and two 3-year-old girls, so no one would hold on to this incident.
If we really compare ourselves with this family, we find that they are so immoral.
"You are the third child of the Wen family, right?" An elderly man in his seventies walked towards her and said, "I am the Party Secretary of our village. Oh! Don't be afraid, the village will help to arrange your parents' funeral affairs in a dignified manner. You just need to take good care of Chunchun and Xuanxuan."
There was no other way; this time their team was severely criticized.
Because the Wen family got into trouble after eating poisonous mushrooms, this shows that their team did not do a good job in routine publicity and is now trying to make up for the loss.
Wen Jiajia rubbed her still dizzy head and nodded, "Okay, Secretary. Are my two nieces at home?"
"Yes, they are in the room. Lao Fang fed them medicine. They were frightened and hysterical just now. They are sleeping now." said the village party secretary.
He even asked his wife to secretly collect the souls of the two children, for fear that something might happen to them.
Although the Wen family were not natives of Fuyang Brigade, they had lived together in the village for so many years, and they couldn't let the old couple from the Wen family die in unrest.
"Wen's third son, stop standing there and kneel down! The drum and music band is here, you'll have to cry!"
Before Wen Jiajia could continue asking questions, she was pushed to the front of the hall by a slightly fat lady, and she bent her legs and knelt on the ground.
Wen Jiajia covered her thigh, and for a moment she didn't know whether her knee or ankle hurt more.
It was not until the funeral music started and men and women all around knelt down and cried that she realized what was happening. She felt that her heart was still hurting more.
Suddenly tears fell like rain.
Oh, my car, my house, my company and the handsome men at my fingertips...
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