When Lan Shuang returned to the system space, she was still a little dazed. Looking at the electronic screens around her, she felt as if time and space were being torn apart.
She stood there for a while, and suddenly found a little cutie beside her legs, looking at her with big watery eyes.
Lan Shuang raised her hand and touched his head, "Let's go, to the next world."
Cutie 888 shook his head. "Host, the next world is the last one of your mission. If you succeed, your quick travel mission ends here. But if you fail, you will have to continue traveling through time and space. Therefore, this last stop is very important. You must stay awake at all times."
Lan Shuang raised her eyebrows in confusion: "Stay awake? I'm usually very awake. Why did you say that on purpose? Is there something going on?"
888 nodded. "Well... you'll know when you get there. If you're ready, let's start teleporting now."
"Then let's get started. I'm ready. Let's finish quickly and go back to rest. This mission is really long and tiring."
Lan Shuang yawned as she walked towards the teleportation array.
888 looked at her back with a very subtle mood, but still pressed the send button.
The moment Lan Shuang disappeared, he whispered, "Host, come on."
…
"Haven't you woken up yet? The sun is already shining on the mountaintops. Is this girl slacking off?"
"It seems she came home late last night and caught a cold. Go find some medicine for her later. Don't let her get seriously ill, or there will be no one to do the housework."
"The medicine is so expensive, but you don't feel bad at all..."
The woman's cursing voice gradually faded away.
Lan Shuang opened her eyes and felt a splitting headache. She pressed her temples and tried to sit up, but suddenly the head was spinning and she lay back down.
The wind brought a stale smell. She turned around and saw that the quilt covering her was bright red and green, with early patterns of big koi and big lotus flowers printed on it. It was obvious that it was quite old.
The material used in the quilt is not very good. The cotton is compacted, making it heavy and stuffy.
She kicked off the quilt, and the smell immediately dissipated a lot.
"Xiao Baba, did you send me back ten years ago?"
"Host, how do you know? According to modern time, it should have been fifteen years ago, but this world is not the same as the modern world. It is another parallel world, which is quite different from the modern world."
Lan Shuang frowned and looked up at the room. It was very small and old, with a pile of messy old newspapers on the wall. The window was wide open. It was the kind of glass window that opened from the inside, with a layer of screen on the inside, which barely kept out flies and mosquitoes.
"Pass on the memory of this world to me."
888 whispered, "Host, this world has no memories. You have to dig them out yourself, but I can tell you some basic information."
Lan Shuang's doubts grew even stronger. "Hmm?"
"Your current body is also called Lan Shuang. You are eighteen years old. You have two younger brothers. Your second brother, Lan Wei, is sixteen, and your third brother, Lan Mao, is five. You are the eldest sister in the family. Above you are your father, Lan Yaowu, and your mother, Fang Yinan."
"You are now in Lanjia Village. There are many people with the surname Lan here. If a tile falls, eight out of ten of them will be your relatives."
Lan Shuang: “…”
That's not necessary.
She pressed her eyebrows together. "Why do I feel like they don't care much about me, their eldest daughter? They even think the medicine is too expensive. Is this what my own mother said?"
888 said sheepishly, "This is another issue that must be discussed. Their family favors boys over girls, and it's quite serious."
Lan Shuang raised her eyebrows, "I'm really not surprised at all."
"What was the original owner's wish?"
888 said in a heavy tone, "The original owner's wish was to change his fate and escape from this mountain."
"Walk out of this mountain?" Lan Shuang was stunned. "Is that a literal meaning or does it have a deeper meaning?"
888: "It literally means, get out of this mountain."
"Okay, I understand—"
"Bang--"
Before he could finish his words, the door was suddenly pushed open. From the force with which the door was pushed, it could be seen that the person was in a very bad mood.
"It's troublesome. Even a breeze can catch a cold... Hey, you're awake."
Fang Yinan walked in and met Lan Shuang's gaze. She was embarrassed and guilty because she was heard saying bad things behind her back. Her tone became even worse. She looked at the quilt that was kicked aside and started to make a fuss.
"Didn't you close the window when you went to bed last night? Don't you know how cold it is in the mountains at night? Are you stupid? You didn't cover yourself with a blanket when you were sick, are you waiting to get a fever? Do you know how expensive the clinic in town is? How much does it cost to go there? I've raised you up and you don't feel sorry for me at all!"
Fang Yinan kept on complaining about Lan Shuang, and she was so moved that she wiped away her non-existent tears.
Lan Shuang watched her act quietly, then spoke in a hoarse voice, "I understand, Mom."
"What do you know? Take the medicine, then get up and chop the firewood. After chopping, remember to make lunch for your brother. Your dad and I are going to the fields, so you watch them. If anything happens, watch your skin!"
Fang Yinan threw the worn medicine box on the kang.
Lan Shuang looked down and realized that the medicine would expire in one day.
It really wastes time.
"888, can I take this medicine? Is it not spoiled?"
888 tested it and said, "It's an edible host, don't worry."
"That's good."
However, they told Lan Shuang to take medicine, but they didn't even give her a cup of warm water. Was she going to swallow it dryly?
After a moment of silence, Lan Shuang looked down and saw that she was wearing a blue short-sleeved shirt that was washed to a pale color. The style looked like Fang Yinan's.
The pants were black and loose, made of some unknown material, and they felt cold against my legs.
But fortunately, she was not left naked.
She got up from the kang and found a pair of dark blue plastic slippers with cracks on the sides on the floor.
Lan Shuang fell silent again.
It had been a long time since she had experienced such harsh conditions in a world. Even in ancient times, she wore better clothes than now.
When she pushed open the wooden door that couldn't be closed tightly, she was shocked by what she saw.
There was a pile of unwashed bowls in the unwashed large iron pot on the stove, sticky with brown soup of unknown origin. There were no tiles on the floor, but cement. Over time, the cement turned dark black and looked like soil at first glance.
There are pieces of liquid on the left and right, and I don't know what it is.
Lan Shuang didn't know what to do for a moment.
888 was silent as he watched this scene. After a long moment, he sighed, "Host, you have suffered."
Lan Shuang: "...It's not hard work, it's a hard life."
888 fell silent.
Lan Shuang searched for a long time and finally found a bowl in the cupboard that looked relatively clean. But then the problem came: there was no water.
She went to the well in the yard and pumped for a long time before she finally got out a bucket of water. She opened the gas tank and boiled a pot of water with gas. While it was cooling down, she sat at the table in a daze.
Unexpectedly, the door opposite suddenly opened, and a sleepy boy with messy hair walked out. He was wearing a large vest and shorts, and slippers. When he saw Lan Shuang, he asked in a stern tone, "Hasn't dinner yet?"
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