"You silly girl, it's already so late and you're still not up. Hurry up and get ready, we're going to be late for work. Do you hear me, silly girl?"
Xia Jin opened his eyes in confusion, and listened to the banging on the door outside and thought confusedly: "Where am I? Shouldn't I be dead?"
The noise outside the door continued. Xia Jin got up, put on her clothes and prepared to open the door. Suddenly, Xia Jin opened the door and the person outside was unable to dodge and almost fell down. The woman outside the door was so angry that she cursed: "You stupid girl, what are you doing? Do you want to die?"
Xia Jin wondered why these people were still haunting him even though he had been dead for so long, so he said, "Who are you scolding? What are you yelling about?"
Seeing Xia Jin still dared to talk back, the woman was so angry that she stepped forward to hit Xia Jin. Xia Jin quickly grabbed the arm that was about to hit him. The moment he grabbed it, he felt the warmth in his palm. Xia Jin thought to himself: "No, I'm dead, how can I still feel temperature?"
So she shook off the arm and pinched her leg hard. Feeling the pain in her leg, Xia Jin pushed the woman at the door and ran outside to look at the calendar in the living room. It was September 15, 1982. Xia Jin thought excitedly, "Am I reborn? September 15 is the day when Xia Qingqing asked me for the jade pendant. Since God has let me come back this time, I must make you pay back for all the humiliation and calculations in my previous life."
After finding the jade pendant, Xia Jin quickly ran to her room. It would not be accurate to call it a room, but just a deformed storage room with a bed installed in it. Xia Jin walked into the room and slammed the door shut. The sound of the door closing brought Xia's mother, who was in a daze, back to her senses. Looking at the door closing again, Xia's mother slapped and scolded, as if the person inside was not her own daughter.
Xia Jin didn't have time to care about her now. Her mind was full of the jade pendant. She wanted to sign the contract before Xia Qingqing. Besides, it was originally left to her by her grandmother. In her previous life, she was stupid enough to give it away for the so-called family affection. In this life, if she couldn't open the space, she would rather smash it into pieces than give it to Xia Qingqing.
Xia Jin thought of her past life when Xia Qingqing accidentally cut her hand and her blood stained the jade pendant, only to discover the space. Xia Jin used a small knife in the house to cut a hole on her index finger and dripped blood onto the jade pendant. Fortunately, she succeeded.
The moment the blood dripped onto the jade pendant, it turned into a streak of light and flew to Xia Jin's heart. Xia Jin looked at the disappeared jade pendant and asked in confusion: "Xia Qingqing's jade pendant in the previous life didn't disappear, so how come mine is gone? Forget it, I'll go in and take a look first."
Xia Jin concentrated on going in, and in the blink of an eye, he was already standing inside the jade pendant. Xia Jin looked at the seemingly endless spiritual spring in front of him, the vast land around him, and the small wooden house next to him. Xia Jin thought: "In my previous life, after I died, I followed Xia Qingqing. Her spiritual spring was not like this at all. There was only one drop a day, and she should have only spiritual spring and no land. Could it be that it is because I am the descendant of the owner of this jade pendant that this is the case."
Xia Jin thought about the function of the spiritual spring and did not drink it without permission, fearing that he would change too much and be discovered by the family. After reading it, Xia Jin did not delay and left the space, planning to buy some seeds and plant them later.
After Xia Jin came out, she heard the scolding and banging on the door outside. She cleaned herself up and walked to the door. Suddenly, she opened the door to avoid them. Looking at her good mother and stepfather's mother standing by the door, she said, "So early in the morning, you are sick."
The old woman outside the door heard Xia Jin talking like this and pointed at Xia Jin's nose and said, "What are you doing, you little bitch? Why are you hiding in the house instead of getting up to cook in the morning? You do nothing all day and just eat white rice in our house."
Xia Jin retorted: "I didn't eat white rice. You are not dead yet, so you can't cook."
When the old woman heard Xia Jin curse her to death, she was about to slap her. Xia Jin grabbed her hand and pushed her away, saying, "Old woman, I've tolerated you for a long time. Don't make trouble for no reason."
Xia Jin pushed her and she almost fell, but fortunately her mother caught her. The old woman wanted to continue scolding her when she heard her precious granddaughter shouting, "Why are you making so much noise so early in the morning? It's so annoying."
When Mrs. Xia heard this, she instantly became quiet and pointed at Xia Jin, not knowing what to say. Xia Jin ignored her and said to her mother, "If you have nothing to do, just get out of the way. I'm going to school. And from now on, you can cook for yourselves. Don't think of ordering me around."
After saying that, he pushed away the person blocking the door, walked downstairs, and left the furniture factory's staff building. Looking at the street in his memory, Xia Jin felt particularly familiar.
In the early 1980s, with reform and opening up just beginning and the economy in its infancy, Xia Jin figured that if he dared to work hard, he could make money. He dug out the twenty yuan he'd hidden away, a stash of cash his grandmother had left him, along with some small change. He counted it all, and found a dollar, all saved up. He bought two steamed buns, eating them while pondering his future plans.
Now I have five days until I turn eighteen, when I can get my own household registration. Now I have to find a way to make money, and then turn the Xia family upside down so that they will take the initiative to separate me. Otherwise, with the character of the Xia family, they will not easily give up such a laborer like me.
After eating the buns, Xia Jin went to school. No matter what, studying is the most important thing. In her previous life, Xia Jin had good academic performance. Out of jealousy, Xia Qingqing deliberately gave Xia Jin a laxative during the college entrance examination, causing Xia Jin to miss the exam. The Xia family did not want to pay for her to repeat the exam, so Xia Jin missed the opportunity to go to university.
It's only September now and there's still almost a year left before the college entrance exam. Xia Jin's academic performance is okay, but he has never felt the love of his family since he was a child. He longed for family love too much and ended up becoming like that.
Xia Jin came out early and was the first to arrive. She resembled her mother's beautiful face, but because of her withdrawn personality, she often hid her face with her hair, so few people knew what she looked like. Xia Qingqing, who was in her class, constantly spoke ill of her. Since she was also quite pretty, she was very popular. Xia Qingqing took the lead in isolating Xia Jin, so she had no close friends in the class and kept to herself.
Xia Jin read the book for a while and familiarized herself with the content. Then her classmates gradually came in. However, no one paid any attention to her, as if she was invisible. After a while, Xia Qingqing came in. As soon as she entered the door, she smiled and greeted all the classmates. Xia Jin ignored her, but Xia Qingqing didn't want to let Xia Jin go.
Xia Qingqing walked over to Xia Jin's seat and said, "Xia Jin, why did you push Grandma this morning? She's old and in poor health. If Grandma did anything wrong this morning, I'll bring her to apologize to you. But you can't sneak away anymore in the future. Mom and Dad are very worried about you."
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