"Grandma, you can't leave."
"Grandma..." Four babies shouted one after another.
"Hu Zi's mother, please don't leave for the sake of these children."
"That's right, your newly bought daughter-in-law can't even handle it."
"Aren't you worried about people stabbing you in the back for doing this?"
…
There were a lot of people gathered in the yard of a house at the foot of the mountain at the entrance of Shizai Village, chattering and arguing.
"It's so noisy..." Xia Manni was awakened by the argument.
There was also an inexplicable headache, and she guessed it was because she had worked overtime for too long last night.
When she slowly opened her eyes, she thought she would wake up at her workstation, but what was the scene in front of her?
What caught my eye was a group of middle-aged women talking to an old woman, with a younger woman standing next to her.
What made Xia Manni a little puzzled was why their clothes were so strange?
Wait, that’s not the point either.
The point is why was she sitting on the ground?
She remembered that she was called by the company leader to work overtime last night and worked until very late.
Before she lost consciousness last night, she seemed to have a lot of heart pain.
She doesn't have heart disease and started working after graduating from college. She grew up with her grandparents, who both passed away due to old age before she graduated from college.
In order to live a better life, she started working early.
She doesn't want to miss any overtime work at the company, after all, there is overtime pay.
She slowly got up from the ground and looked at the small courtyard where she was.
This yard was even more dilapidated than the one she had lived in with her grandparents before, and even worse than the ones where the homeless people in their village lived.
It's a different era now, where are the mud houses? Not far away there are many bamboo houses or simple thatched houses.
She blinked hard. This place should be at the foot of the mountain.
When you look up, you can see a big mountain.
"Hey, Manny, you're awake. You're too stubborn."
"Yeah, you're still young and you can't commit suicide just because of this."
"That's right, that's right. Go talk to your mother-in-law."
"And your sister-in-law, she doesn't have any good intentions."
"Why are you still standing there? If you don't go and tell me, your life will be over."
…
Suicide? Mother-in-law? Sister-in-law?
What is going on?
She doesn't have a partner yet. All she cares about is money. How can she have time for a relationship?
How can there be such species as sister-in-law and mother-in-law?
As for committing suicide, that was out of the question. She valued her life very much and needed to earn money to retire early.
There was no way she could have traveled through time, she was shocked by the thought.
But everything in front of her was silently slapping her in the face.
The group of strangers in front of her clearly knew her.
Moreover, the clothes they wore were from ancient costume dramas. She hadn't seen anything modern since she woke up.
"Are you women ever done yet? When you have nothing to do, you like to meddle in other people's affairs. You can't even take care of their men and children properly." The young woman put her hands on her hips and cursed.
"Daxiu, you are so evil-hearted and vicious-mouthed that you will have no good end sooner or later." An aunt who was standing next to Xia Manni just now said angrily.
"A married girl is like spilled water. Don't think we don't know what you're thinking."
"You bought her here just to let her go today, didn't you?"
"Hu Zi's body is still warm, and you, my sister, are trying to kill him. You have no conscience."
"Aunt, which eye of yours saw us leave? I said I just took my mother to stay at my place for a few days." The young woman faced the dozen or so aunts with the same imposing manner.
"How many days will it take to take all your things? How many days will it take to scare the children like that? How many days will it take to make Manny commit suicide?"
"She committed suicide because she didn't want to live anymore. What does it have to do with me and my mother?"
…
The noise around them grew louder again.
It was only then that Xia Manni noticed four children sitting at the door of the house. They looked like three boys and one girl.
The oldest one looked like he was about five or six years old, and the two youngest ones were probably only two or three years old.
The older boy was holding the smallest girl, and the slightly older one was holding another little boy with one hand and pulling the corner of the oldest boy's clothes with the other.
If Xia Manni guessed the plot correctly, the story should be like this.
That Tiger's mother should be the original body's mother-in-law. The old woman bought the original body to be her daughter-in-law. It looks like she was bought not long ago.
The one named Hu Zi should be the original body's nominal husband who has passed away, and the one named Da Xiu is Hu Zi's sister, who is also the original body's sister-in-law.
It is very likely that the original body only realized that he had been deceived when he arrived here. Daxiu wanted to escape with her mother, but was probably discovered by the original body. In the end, the two sides were in a stalemate.
The original body may have known that it was useless, so he thought of dying.
Unexpectedly, the original body was freed, but the unlucky girl came through it.
It’s not entirely true to say that she was unlucky. After all, theoretically, she should have been cremated in modern times.
Alas, it’s a pity about the salary in her bank card.
She had originally planned to save enough money to buy a house in a cheap area near her workplace. She only had enough for the down payment, but that didn't matter, after all, she was the type of person who could feed the whole family.
Who would have thought that I would have such an absurd luck of traveling through time.
Time travel is fine, after all, it's been told in novels and TV series. But how could she, a brilliant young woman who had just graduated from school two years ago and had never been in a relationship, be transported to the body of a widow?
It would be fine if she dressed up as a widow, but why did she encounter such a hot scene as soon as she got here?
When women fight or quarrel, they don't care about life or death. Of course, there are also people watching the fun. She looked at the dozens of people standing outside the yard, pointing and talking at her mother-in-law and sister-in-law.
That's how it is in the village; news of any incident spread quickly. After all, there wasn't much entertainment, so after dinner, all they did was gossip about other people's affairs.
When she was a child, she was always ridiculed by her classmates because she had no parents, so she would beat up anyone she saw.
When the teacher found her home, the first thing he said to her grandparents was that this child was difficult to manage and probably had violent tendencies.
What kind of violence is that? If someone is bullied, you can't even talk back or fight back?
"Hey, Manni, where are you going?" Xia Manni ignored her aunt's enthusiastic voice calling her and kept walking towards the kitchen.
When Daxiu saw Xia Manni return to the house, she stopped arguing with the aunts in the yard.
Instead, he grabbed her mother and ran out.
"stop!"
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