Chapter 4 You'll help me, right?
When Gu Yin woke up again, it was already dark outside.
After a series of tests during the day, all the other children were fine, but she had to have three stitches in her head. After the surgery, she fell into a deep sleep and only woke up now.
After sleeping for most of the day, she had almost recovered. At this moment, she was not only very hungry, but also had a great urge to urinate. After checking her physical condition, she found that apart from a headache, she was fine, so she slowly sat up.
There were people talking quietly inside. When they saw her get up, they rushed over to help her.
"Awake? Is there anything else that's bothering you?" Li Mengxin placed two pillows behind her daughter's back and asked softly.
Gu Yin wanted to shake her head, but then she thought of the injury on her head and said softly, "It's okay, Mom, I want to go to the bathroom." She still had an IV drip in her hand, so she couldn't go by herself.
Upon hearing this, Li Mengxin lifted the thin blanket for her, straightened her shoes, and helped Gu Yin up.
After taking care of her physiological needs, Gu Yin sat back down on the bed.
Li Xiang, who had just been chatting with her sister-in-law, picked up a two-layered plastic lunchbox from the table after Gu Yin got into bed and said with a smile, "Grandma said you should wake up around this time, so she asked your uncle and me to bring some meat porridge. The doctor said you need to stay in the hospital for three days, and we also brought your clothes. Are you starving? It's hot, so this porridge is just right. Let your mom feed you."
Gu Yin was indeed hungry, and she said honestly, "Hungry."
The four adults in the room laughed. "It's good that you know you're hungry!"
After eating a few bites, Gu Yin felt much better and then asked, "Where are my brother and the others?" There were only her aunt and uncle, her parents, and no one else in the room. There were three beds in the ward, but she was the only one staying there.
While feeding her, Li Mengxin explained, "Your grandma and grandpa took him back. There are so many people coming and going at the hospital. We were all looking after you and were afraid that if we couldn't take care of him, he might be kidnapped again. So we let him go back first. The other children are still in the next ward, where there are police officers guarding them. The doctor said they are all fine. They will be fine after taking their medicine and sleeping. Don't worry. Your dad and I will stay with you at the hospital tonight. After you finish your porridge, you can sleep for a while longer."
Gu Yin nodded. After finishing her meal, she checked the time and saw that it was already past nine o'clock at night. She looked at her uncle and aunt and said, "It's already late, and it's not safe to go back. There are still empty beds in this house. Why don't you and your aunt stay here for the night before going back?" The road from the town back to the village is actually not very safe.
Uncle Gu Qingming smiled and looked at his younger brother: "Ayin has suffered a lot this time, but she still cares about us. When she grows up and is discharged from the hospital, we'll stew a chicken every day to nourish the two children!"
After saying that, he looked at Gu Yin and said, "We know. We won't go back. Your aunt and I will go back tomorrow at daybreak. The rice harvest at home is not finished yet. We are afraid that if it rains, all our hard work will be for nothing. Your grandparents will not come either. Let your parents stay at the hospital with you. I asked the doctor, and you can be discharged in about three days. You can go back to get the medicine and change it yourself. You can come back to remove the stitches in about half a month!"
Gu Yin quickly said, "I'll have my dad go back to help tomorrow. My mom can stay with me. The injury is on my head, but my hands and feet are fine. My grandparents are getting old, so let them do less work."
“You really have grown up. You don’t need to worry about things at home. If your grandparents heard you say they’re getting old, they’d definitely give you a good scolding!” Li Mengxin smiled and patted Gu Yin’s head, but her eyes were full of heartache.
Gu Yin momentarily forgot that she was only 12 years old, not the adult she used to ask her uncle to take care of her every time she left home in her previous life.
Teased by her family, she smiled shyly and lay down.
Listening to her family members talking about things in the fields, Gu Yin closed her eyes, her thoughts drifting back to her past life.
In 2005, which is this year, their family was torn apart and they lost everything, leaving only three children and an adult with a leg disability.
That same year, she learned the coldness and cruelty of the idiom "when people leave, the tea cools."
The Gu family's village, Lijia Village, is a small mountain village in the southwest. Sixty percent of the villagers are surnamed Li, and the rest are surnamed other.
Grandpa Gu's name was Gu Jianguo. He was from the north. Because of the war, he and a small group of people fled here. He met the old lady on the way. When they arrived in the southwest, the old lady became pregnant. So Grandpa Gu took the old lady from the city to the countryside. In those days, the countryside and mountains were much safer than the city.
Because they were migrants, even when the land was distributed to individual households, the two of them only received two mu of paddy fields. They didn't have any dry land; if they wanted dry land, they had to cultivate it themselves, as the team didn't care. So even now, the Gu family only has two mu of paddy fields, which they mainly use to grow rice.
Because Gu Qingming is disabled, he can't work in the fields, so he has to rent out his land to villagers, paying them 200 jin of grain as rent each year.
Gu Qingming was a good carpenter. With his craftsmanship and the money his family had saved up, he was able to barely support his three children and help them finish junior high school.
When Gu Yin finished junior high school and entered high school, Gu Hua was in her first year of high school, and Gu Shu was in his second year of high school, Gu Shu ran away with the tuition fees borrowed from his uncle. He left a letter saying that he would not study anymore and would go out to work. He promised to pay for his sisters' tuition fees and that he would definitely find Gu Le. His uncle was so worried that he couldn't sleep every day. It wasn't until he received letters and wages from Gu Shu every month that the whole family was relieved to know that he was doing well.
When Gu Hua was in college and Gu Yin was in her final year of high school, Gu Shu called one day to say that he had some information about Gu Le and was preparing to go see him with someone. However, after that day, there was no further news from him. His uncle searched for a while but could not find him, and he returned home in a sorry state, dragging one leg.
Gu Yin has a roommate who is a fan of celebrities. Her roommate's grades are not good, and after the college entrance examination, she does not plan to continue her studies. Instead, she plans to become an extra, saying that she can not only get close to celebrities, but also travel all over the country. When Gu Yin heard this reason, she was tempted, because her own grades were not necessarily very good either, and she could only go to a junior college at most. So she made a decision to become an extra with her roommate!
She went home and told her uncle about her plans. She had already gotten her ID card and even went to drop out of school on her own. Her uncle beat her while she was crying, but she still didn't give up. She felt that her older brother and younger brother were waiting for her somewhere, and she was determined to go!
Seeing her stubbornness, her uncle ignored her for several days. On the day she was about to leave home, her uncle gave her a new cell phone and told her to report that she was safe every day. At that time, the cost of the cell phone was equivalent to half a year's food expenses for them. It was money that her uncle had worked hard for more than two months to earn. Gu Yin cried and hugged her uncle, took her things and left her hometown without looking back.
Because she was good-looking, obedient, hardworking, and never complained, the extras agency thought highly of her and recommended her to several extras organizations, introducing her to many jobs. She finally had the opportunity to travel to various corners of the country, during which time she helped many abducted children return to their families. However, her younger brother and older brother were never found.
On the day of her car accident, she still hadn't been found. She couldn't imagine what her uncle would think when he heard the news of her death, nor could she imagine how he would spend the rest of his life alone.
It's so bitter, so incredibly bitter. Every one of them suffered so much in their past lives! She hated all the injustices. Why did it have to be their family? Why did all the bad luck befall them?
"No, it's not that your family is unlucky~"
Suddenly, a child's voice rang in Gu Yin's ears.
Gu Yin snapped back to her senses, looked around, but didn't see any children.
Gu Yin froze. This was a hospital! Could it be...?!
"What are you thinking! I'm not a ghost! I'm Super System 001 from an alien civilization! I'm inside your brain, you can't find me."
Gu Yin paused, thinking of the web dramas she had filmed before. She pursed her lips and remained silent, but in her mind she was thinking, "Is it one of those systems written in the script? An omnipotent system?"
001: "Yeah! I helped you get reborn, aren't you happy?"
Gu Yin blinked and nodded, "Thank you!" Regardless of whether the system had other motives, she should be grateful for the chance to start over, so she sincerely said again, "001, thank you!"
Seeing her like this, 001's resentment at being thrown out to work overtime by her owner during her vacation disappeared by more than half. This little girl is so well-behaved!
Remembering what 001 had said before, Gu Yin asked seriously, "So everything our family experienced in our past life wasn't an accident?"
001 took a bag of potato chips from the system space and munched on them while explaining to her, "That's right, it wasn't an accident, it was a conspiracy, a huge conspiracy."
Gu Yin gripped the bedsheets tightly with both hands: "Did it start from when my brother went missing?"
001 paused for a moment: "I guess so. You don't need to ask anymore. Even if you did, you wouldn't be able to solve it in your current situation. You'd only get yourself into trouble. You're too weak right now! If there's even the slightest change in your situation, your hard-earned new life will be gone in a flash!"
Gu Yin bit her lip and took a deep breath. After calming herself down, she spoke again: "You will help me, right? Give me a chance to start over. And my head injury, if the bleeding hadn't been stopped in time, I definitely wouldn't have woken up, let alone chased after it. So you helped me stop the bleeding at home and even controlled the infection of my wound, right? So, what is your purpose?"
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