"Yes, Dad, I'll go right now."
"Sir, that Wang Xuewen is too young to be convicted." After all, Qian Xiao was a graduate of a prestigious university in his previous life, so he had some knowledge of legal provisions.
Wang Xuewen looked to be about thirteen or fourteen years old, which was far below the age for sentencing. At most, he would just receive a verbal warning and be released.
"Even if they can't get a verdict, they'll still suffer a lot. Just focus on recovering from your injuries and don't worry about the rest. We adults are here for you."
"Okay."
It's said that her grandfather was the most ruthless of his generation, yet also the kindest-looking one—the two extremes of appearance and action. Apparently, her father inherited this trait from her grandfather; otherwise, a common soldier from the countryside wouldn't have risen to his current position as deputy battalion commander.
Perhaps the injury was really serious this time, or perhaps the bleeding was too much, because after opening her eyes for a short while, Qian Xiao felt her eyelids drooping.
The old lady touched her granddaughter's face, which had become noticeably thinner in just two days: "Go to sleep if you're tired. We can talk when you've woken up."
Before Qian Xiao could answer, she felt herself suddenly enter a dream. The people in the room looked at Qian Xiao's pale face. In just two days, she had become so thin that her eye sockets were sunken, and her lips were pale and dry. She looked pitiful.
The main problem is that our current circumstances are what they are. The children at home are already quite thin, and this ordeal will only make them thinner. It's heartbreaking to see them like this. To be fair, their family is considered well-off in the village. Their eldest son is in the army and sends money home every month, and their other son and daughter-in-law are both capable of working.
I don't know what's wrong with them, but their Erdan never gains weight no matter how much he eats. To outsiders, it looks like they've never fed him enough; he's so thin it's heartbreaking.
The group quietly left the house, thinking that the children should get some rest. These past two days, the boys hadn't been making a fuss at all, and they were behaving very well, as if they knew something had happened at home.
As Li Guizhi stepped out of the house, she saw her two sons looking at her expectantly. She went over and squatted down, saying, "Your eldest sister is awake. She'll be fine after a few more days of rest. Don't be afraid."
The eldest of the twins was nicknamed San Dan (三蛋), a name given to him by Qian Xiao when he was two years old. She said that the younger brother would definitely be called Dan (蛋), just like her, but he absolutely could not be older than her. So, the remaining boys in the Qian family were all named Dan in order.
"Mother, can my brother and I go see our eldest sister?"
"Yes, once your eldest sister wakes up, you can come in to see her."
San Dan nodded very sensibly: "As long as I can see my older sister, that's fine."
Their eldest sister treats them so well; she always shares any good food with them, unlike other older siblings who sneak food away.
Qian Xiao, who had fallen into a deep sleep, heard that sudden voice again and frowned slightly. If she wasn't mistaken, the voice had a metallic quality; it was a unique mechanical sound, not a human voice.
Could it be that she really has a cheat code like other transmigrators? Does that mean she won't have to go hungry every day anymore?
Yes, she felt like she was never full. It wasn't that her family wouldn't feed her, but that she controlled herself, only eating until she was about half full at each meal.
In those days, every family had little surplus grain. If she ate to her heart's content, the adults in the family would have to save food for her, since they all had to work in the fields and couldn't afford to go hungry.
Given her father's position, he wouldn't be unable to support the family, but the problem is that it's not easy to always go out to buy food.
Nowadays, everyone is poor. If your family buys a lot of grain, people will talk about you and you'll become a target. So she thought she should eat less, since she didn't need to do any hard work anyway.
She was precocious and can still clearly recall memories from when she was about one year old. It seems like she was born with a big appetite. Even now, her mother sometimes says that when she was breastfeeding, she always seemed to be hungry, but her appetite became normal as she grew older.
That is because after she became sensible, she began to consciously control her food intake so that she looked about the same size as the other children. This is why she has always been so thin. Among the children raised in the same way, her six younger brothers all look much stronger.
Of course, she is strong and has a lot of strength. She is not superhuman, but she is stronger than the average person. For example, at the age of seven, she can easily take on an adult with her bare hands. Otherwise, she would not dare to go into the mountains alone to get meat to eat.
Getting off-topic: "Who are you? A deity? A system? A spirit?"
The system... has so many settings!?
"Hello, I am the system, a system from interstellar space. I encountered some trouble while traveling through time and space and lost some things. Right now, I can only communicate with you. Of course, you can make any requests you have, and I'll see if I can fulfill them."
It dared not say anything, because it had accidentally lost most of its functions while traveling through time with its host who was already a soul, and it didn't have much energy left. It was afraid that its host would despise it.
Their system cannot survive independently of its host, and with its current energy, it is not enough to leave the host and find a new host.
"System? When did you bind to me? I have no recollection of it at all. Wait, you're the little bright spot that suddenly hit my soul?"
If we're talking about unexpected events, that one time was definitely the one.
"Uh, yes, because we were accidentally bound together when we met, the host was already in a soul form. I could only take the host's soul form with me and travel through time and space to find a new body."
"So, did I reincarnate, or did I take over this body?"
This is very important to her, as it represents how she will survive in this family in the future. If she is reincarnated, then everyone in this family will be her true blood relatives.
If she were to take over someone else's body, she would live with a sense of guilt for the rest of her life. She doesn't like that, but if it's true, she has no choice but to make amends for the guilt of taking over someone else's child's body.
"It was reincarnation. I originally wanted to take you to find a suitable adult body, but halfway there your soul seemed to be attracted by something and was directly reincarnated into your mother's belly." At that time, it couldn't stop it and could only follow into the woman's belly to sleep.
"So you chose this host from interstellar space because there's a mission required for it?"
That's what novels say: a good system is all about missions, while a bad system is all about luck.
"No, I accidentally ended up in space. My father was killed in a spaceship explosion, and I broke away from him and accidentally landed on Earth, where I unexpectedly became connected to you."
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