Chapter 4 004 The System That Appeared Suddenly
For lunch, the Song family ate corn porridge, stir-fried greens, steamed salted fish, and stewed eggs.
In Songshan Commune, this kind of food was considered quite acceptable.
“Wanxia is going to raise this child. Our family has officially gained a baby, so we have to have a ceremony,” Zhang Lian said, taking out a small bottle of Shuang Gou liquor. “We’ll have a little something for lunch. This steamed egg is for the baby.”
Song Xiaoli glanced at the steamed egg; there were probably three eggs inside, which was quite a lot.
Just as she was thinking this, her aunt scooped out more than half of the steamed egg with a spoon and put it in her son's bowl, saying, "It's a pity that Shijia lives at school, so there are definitely no eggs to eat there. Shiyi, eat more, and eat your brother's share too."
Song Xiaoli was speechless for a moment.
However, my aunt has always been the kind of person who doesn't like to suffer losses, and overall she's not a bad person.
Besides, she's only three years old and doesn't have a big appetite. She just ate some porridge and can't eat too much steamed egg anyway, so she doesn't care about her aunt's behavior.
The eldest uncle couldn't bear to see his wife like that, so he scooped a big spoonful of steamed egg into Song Xiaoli's bowl and said, "The child is named Song Xiaoli, right? Carp is auspicious, so this name is quite good."
"Yes, I just happened to see a carp when I found her," Song Wanxia replied, and began to feed her daughter steamed eggs with a spoon.
The people at the table watched as Song Wanxia fed the child. One moment there was only a tiny bit of egg in the spoon, a seemingly pointless effort; the next moment there was too much egg. The little baby's mouth wasn't big, and even with its mouth wide open, it could only swallow a large portion, the rest smearing around its mouth…
"Sunset Glow," Zhang Lian couldn't bear to watch any longer, "You eat your own food, give me the child."
"It's okay, Mom, I can take good care of her." With her daughter's cooperation, Song Wanxia felt that she was quite adept at being a mother for the first time.
But everyone else could see that it was because the child wasn't fussy. If Song Wanxia continued to feed him like this, the perfectly good steamed egg would be ruined.
Ignoring her daughter's reluctance, Zhang Lian insisted on taking Song Xiaoli out of her arms, saying, "Alright, look at her, if you keep feeding her, she'll be eating the same corn porridge as before."
Song Wanxia then noticed that her little girl's face was dirty again, and she felt a little discouraged.
"Mom, I want Mom!" Song Xiaoli couldn't bear to see her mother looking so dejected. She struggled in her grandmother's arms, wanting to go back to her mother.
Zhang Lian was both amused and annoyed. "Alright, you two, mother and daughter, just don't mind each other!"
As she said this, Zhang Lian didn't let Song Xiaoli struggle free. She fed her all the eggs before returning her to Song Wanxia. The family's old hen only laid a limited number of eggs, and it would be a waste to let them go to waste.
After finishing the steamed egg, Song Xiaoli was full. She returned to her mother's arms and immediately used her dirty little mouth to kiss her mother's face several times, calling out, "Mommy, Mommy!"
His tone was full of affection.
Song Wanxia was instantly healed. She hugged her little daughter tightly with one arm, ate with chopsticks in the other, and occasionally glanced at her mother with pride, showing that this child loved her the most.
Apart from his aunt and cousin, everyone at the table had a happy expression on their faces as they ate and drank while watching Song Xiaoli act silly to please her mother.
The weather in May wasn't hot. After dinner, everyone in the family had to go to work unless they had asked for leave, except for Song Wanxia, who had a town household registration. The Song family had already taken a lot of leave because of Song Wanxia's divorce and return home, so it wasn't appropriate to ask for more. Therefore, Zhang Lian handed over the chores of washing dishes and wiping the table to her daughter and hurriedly went to do her own work.
"Little Carp, why don't you sit in the main room and play for a while? Mommy needs to wash the dishes."
"Okay!" Song Xiaoli answered obediently, but instead of sitting properly, she followed her mother everywhere.
With her constantly under Song Wanxia's watchful eye, Song Wanxia felt even more at ease and didn't say anything. She focused on cleaning the table, washing the dishes, and also tidying up the house, both upstairs and downstairs.
After finishing all that, she went to her parents' room and glanced at her father's watch; it was almost two o'clock in the afternoon.
Song Wanxia yawned.
She and her older brother got up early this morning to go to town. Her brother took her there on his bicycle, and it was quite tiring going there and back. Now that she'd finished her work and had nothing to do, she felt a little sleepy.
"Little Carp, do you want to go to sleep?" Even though she was sleepy herself, Song Wanxia carried her daughter back to the room, wanting to coax her to sleep together.
Song Xiaoli knew that her mother was just clinging to her and felt safe only when she was with her, so she nodded and said, "Okay, I'll put Mom to sleep!"
Song Wanxia chuckled, patted her daughter to remove the dust, and then hugged her as they lay down on the bed. "Mommy doesn't need to be coaxed to sleep," she said, tucking them both in before closing her eyes and falling asleep instantly.
Song Wanxia had been under a lot of psychological pressure recently, but her little daughter comforted her today, and she immediately relaxed and fell asleep with sweet dreams.
However, Song Xiaoli, whom she thought was sleeping with her, was not asleep.
Song Xiaoli quietly got up, got out of bed and put on her shoes. Then she felt something was wrong, so she took off her shoes, turned her pants around (which were on backwards), and then quietly went out.
"Luckily, my mom has no experience taking care of children, otherwise it would have been difficult for me to sneak out." Song Xiaoli patted her chest and sighed as she slipped out through the fence gate of the side yard.
Truly experienced women, when caring for children alone at home, will lock all the doors leading out, and will only go to sleep after making sure the child is asleep. How could someone like Song Wanxia, who only locks the main gate from the inside and leaves her bedroom door ajar, dare to fall asleep first?
The reason she lost her memory in her past life was because she went to the back mountain and secretly took out a fat pheasant from the small world, intending to take it back to her family to eat. However, her cousin next door, who was on vacation at home, saw her and not only snatched the pheasant away, but also pushed her hard, causing her head to hit a rock.
She was merely a human created by the small world, possessing no other extraordinary abilities besides that small world she carried with her. Then, by sheer bad luck, she injured her head and lost her memory.
This time, instead of bringing back pheasants, she brought back ducks with eggs, and she made sure that her cousin saw them.
Egg-laying ducks lay a lot of eggs, but the smell of these ducks is both fishy and foul, which is a bit unbearable.
Having made up her mind, Song Xiaoli slipped away to the back mountain as quickly as possible. This was the territory of Songshan Commune, but apart from a few families living up there, hardly anyone else went up there.
After confirming that there were no outsiders, Song Xiaoli waved her hands continuously, and with her control over the small world, she instantly dispersed a large number of egg ducks to different locations on the back mountain, and even spread them to the mountains of other communes, as well as to the deeper and more distant mountains that no one could reach.
"Quack quack quack!" Several ducks, like fools, circled around Song Xiaoli before looking for a place to settle down.
Song Xiaoli put her hands on her hips and said, "Hmph, in this life I'm a prophet, I won't be bullied anymore, and I won't lose my memory again."
She wants to protect her mother and make her happy for the rest of her life, so that her mother can live as easily as a child.
As for that annoying cousin...
With a casual wave of her hand, Song Xiaoli caught a duck that hadn't run far and landed in her hand.
"Today, let's see how I stage an accident to extort money!"
Clutching this duck, which was smaller than a domestic duck but much fatter, Song Xiaoli was about to head home. She deliberately shouted loudly at her doorstep, "I caught a wild duck!" to attract her uncle's attention.
But before she could take more than a few steps, her vision blurred, and a strange text interface suddenly appeared in front of her.
[System Notification] "Song Xiaoli, you have been selected as the master trial participant of this world. This world is a holographic world replicated by the 'Eternal World' using special means, based on you and the people and things related to you."
Your mission is to restore this timeline to its original state, allowing everyone you come into contact with to regain their full human cognitive abilities.
If the mission is not completed, this world will be sealed away, awaiting the next human with the potential to dominate it; if the mission is completed, you will become the master of this world, able to control the holographic world of the century between 1949 and 2050, and can generate parallel worlds that meet the required standards.
"A holographic world?" Song Xiaoli froze, her initial excitement vanishing instantly. "So I wasn't reborn? So there was no chance to start over? My mother..."
The system seemed to sense Song Xiaoli's negative emotions and explained, "Although this is a holographic world, most of the historical figures here are real. Just like you, their brainwaves and memories that lingered in the world after death were captured and replicated in this world. Your mother, your other family and friends are the same."
Song Xiaoli was a highly skilled professional in her previous life, so it wasn't difficult for her to understand the meaning of the system. "When did you develop this system? Is it really that advanced?"
"This system was developed after the birth of the 'Eternal World,' and details cannot be disclosed. It can only be said that it was developed in a technological era long afterward."
"The Eternal World? Does it refer to the holographic Second World? A technology that allows life and death to no longer be a limitation for humanity?" Song Xiaoli pressed.
The system remained silent for a moment before replying, "As expected of a chosen trial participant, your reaction was quick. The Eternal World was originally developed to prevent people from being separated by life and death and to allow people to coexist equally with other species. Later, the monotonous holographic environment needed to be changed, so we initiated the Replication Project to replicate the years recorded in human history. Each time period of the holographic world needs a manager. After you pass the trial, you will become the manager of this time period."
“I see,” Song Xiaoli breathed a slight sigh of relief. “Then, my mother is still my mother. I can change the world even if I don’t follow the path of my past life, right?”
"Of course, this is your right as the trial participant of the Sovereign."
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