That night, not only Zhang Xuemei had these worries, but Xu Mingri and Zhou Nianmei also dreamed of things that were completely different from their lives, so much so that they woke up in a cold sweat.
The couple looked at each other, then said in unison, "You go first?"
Zhou Nianmei turned on the bedside lamp, took a tissue and wiped the sweat from her face. "I'm covered in sweat. I'll go take a shower first, and we'll talk when I get back."
"Okay, hurry up, I'll take a shower too."
Half an hour later, after they had both showered and returned to bed, Zhou Nianmei tentatively looked at her husband, "Mingri, did you have a dream just now? What did you dream about?"
Xu Mingri had already recovered. When his wife asked him about it, he organized his thoughts and said, "In the dream, it seemed like we weren't living like this, or rather, we didn't have a house and money like we do now. Anyway, it was very different from how we are now."
Zhou Nianmei's eyes widened in surprise, "You dreamed about it too?"
"Could it be you too?" Xu Mingri instantly turned to look at his wife. One person dreaming about it doesn't mean anything, but if both of them dreamed about it, then...
"Oh, no, that's not right. We didn't have a daughter in the dream, but we have a very well-behaved daughter now."
"So we're overthinking it?" Zhou Nianmei looked at her husband in confusion. They say you dream about what you think about during the day, but she hadn't thought about anything so outrageous during the day.
“We’re just overthinking it. We’ve been exhausted because of Xiaowen lately, so it’s normal to have strange dreams,” Xu Mingri comforted his wife, which was also a way of comforting himself.
"Yes, yes, I was just overthinking it. Let's go to sleep now, so we don't have such terrible dreams. My money is going to disappear in my dreams." The couple comforted themselves and fell asleep peacefully again.
Xu Minghui and Chen Fengjuan, on the other hand, were more astute. Chen Fengjuan smirked, "Do you think this is what they mean by 'past life and present life'? The dreams we have are about our past lives..."
"You might as well say it's a parallel world. I've seen quite a few of those terms online. Many people say that parallel worlds exist. Maybe we just accidentally traveled to a parallel world." Xu Minghui has become obsessed with surfing the internet lately and has learned a lot of new words online.
Chen Fengjuan shook her head. "Your argument doesn't hold water. Rebirth is more plausible, but it might not be us who are reborn. When did our Xu family start its upward climb? Was it with the help of the third son and Xuemei?"
Xu Minghui stroked his chin. "What you said makes some sense, but it doesn't prove anything."
"Actually, now that I think about it, Xuemei had changed a lot when she came back from Shilitou pregnant with Linlin. Putting aside everything else, at least she dared to talk back to her sister-in-law, and she even won that time. The third brother was the same. He was supposed to go to another province to do business, and he even borrowed money, but then he woke up after a nap and said he wasn't going anymore. He went straight to Tianshui City to buy a house. Don't you think that's like he knew something in advance?"
Chen Fengjuan and Xu Minghui are indeed a perfect match; one is addicted to the internet, and the other is addicted to novels. They've recently been reading a rebirth novel, and she immediately started applying it to her own life.
"That's because Xue Mei is about to give birth, and the couple knew in advance that it was a girl in her belly. They didn't want to give her away, so they came to Tianshui City to hide. As for buying a house, Lao San said it would be safer in his own house."
"Really not? Then what do you think our dream just now meant?"
"What do you mean by 'can'? You've been reading too many novels. I've told you to stop reading those mindless things. You're so old, why are you reading novels like a little girl?"
"What's wrong with me reading novels? You even try to make random comments online like young people do, and you get chased and scolded for it. You still have the nerve to criticize me." Chen Fengjuan looked indignant. He wasn't much better than her, so why was he talking to her?
"At least I'm keeping up with current events, and the novels you read are all fake."
"Everyone says it's all fake, I..."
"Mom and Dad, what are you arguing about in there? Aren't you going to sleep?" Xu Dingkai, who was getting up to get some water from the kitchen, heard a noise as he passed by his parents' room. He stood at the door and listened carefully. It sounded like the two of them were arguing, so he shouted.
Chen Fengjuan immediately quieted down, cleared her throat and replied, "It wasn't noisy, I just spoke a little too fast. You should go to sleep too, we need to sleep."
After saying that, she turned off the light and lay down with her back to her husband. She was still angry!
Xu Minghe didn't know what he ate tonight, but he dreamed about Li Xiufen. In the dream, they got married and had two children, a son and a daughter. Although they often quarreled, they were still getting along well.
But for Xu Minghe, who now has a happy and fulfilling life, this is unbearable. So he struggles to wake up, but it's as if he's trapped and he can't wake up at all.
"Wake up, Minghe, are you dreaming? Wake up!" Xu Yanhong was still asleep when she was suddenly awakened by the noise beside her. She turned her head and saw her husband next to her covered in sweat, his brows furrowed, looking like he wanted to wake up but couldn't. So she quickly reached out and pushed her husband.
"Hoo, ha," Xu Minghe suddenly opened his eyes and sat up.
"Minghe, what's wrong? I called you but you wouldn't wake up, you scared me to death."
Xu Minghe smiled and reassured his worried wife, "It's nothing. I just dreamt that a bear kept knocking on the door, almost breaking it down. I was stuck on the bed and couldn't move, so..."
"Ha, that must be from watching TV during the day. I told you to watch less of those animal documentaries, but you wouldn't listen. You must have been dreaming about it tonight. Okay, it's alright now, go to sleep." Seeing that her husband was alright, Xu Yanhong lay down and went back to sleep.
Xu Minghe also gently lay down, closing his eyes and thinking about the scene in his dream. He felt that it didn't seem like a dream, but more like something he had actually experienced. Now that he thought about it, if his third brother hadn't asked him to come to Tianshui City, he might really have ended up with Li Xiufen, and the scene in his dream might have become reality.
So we have to thank Third Brother for all of this. He'll go to thank him tomorrow.
The fifth brother, Xu Mingjiang, was even more direct. He dreamt that the factory director's daughter, who had previously shown him kindness, had cheated on him with her. She said that her family treated him like a farmhand, looked down on him, and rarely interacted with his family. He was furious.
He was so angry that he sat up straight in bed. The more he thought about it, the more real it seemed. If it weren't for some unlucky guy taking his place, he might really be wearing this green hat now. No, he had to go and find out about Yao Qinglin as soon as it was light tomorrow. If it was really like in his dream, he would go and thank his third brother. This was truly a life-saving grace.
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