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In fact, Ye Min was not completely unprepared for what was said on the screen.

Since she first saw the barrage, it has popped up over her daughter's head from time to time in the past month, and the content of each discussion is varied.

Sometimes I would give some popular science about the living conditions in the 1970s, such as how you needed a ticket to buy everything because of the scarcity of supplies, or what the three major items were;

Sometimes I would compare the technological gap between the 1970s and the era in which the audience of the bullet screen lived. So Ye Min knew that technology would be very advanced a few decades or even hundreds of years later. You could eat food in a restaurant without leaving your home, and you could travel across the country in two hours. At the same time, environmental pollution was very serious, and natural green food was scarce and expensive.

Sometimes the people on the barrage would also reveal the development of the next few decades. After summarizing the information, Ye Min learned that it seemed that people could do business freely in the 1980s, and there would be large-scale demolitions in the future, so buying a house in the 1980s and 1990s could make you rich.

Oh, the college entrance examination seemed to have been restored in the 1980s and 1990s, but it was not easy to get into university. It will be easier to get into university in 30 years, but college students will be less and less valuable, and a fresh graduate with a salary of three to five thousand will be considered good.

And most importantly, the currency will depreciate.

Ye Min was stunned when she saw the message on the screen saying that a salary of NT$3,000 to NT$5,000 was not high. However, after learning about the rate of increase in commodity and housing prices in the next few decades, she couldn't help but sigh:

It seems that young people of any era have a hard time!

In addition to the above topics about the changing times, the barrage will occasionally mention the content of the original work. Perhaps because An An is the protagonist, the most talked about topic on the barrage is her life in the Xu family.

Meng Zheng is occasionally mentioned. There is not much information, but it basically outlines his first half of life.

In the original novel, Meng Zheng was very smart and was admitted to university, but because of his poor family conditions, he gave up going to university and went out to work hard to support the daughter of the Xu family to study.

During those years, Meng Zheng's career was quite successful and he made a lot of money. The Xu family's daughter was also quite capable and successfully entered university, and life seemed to be getting better day by day.

But after going to college, the daughter of the Xu family accidentally met a gangster and got entangled with him. She had no choice but to ask Meng Zheng for help.

Meng Zheng was young and hot-headed at the time, so he asked someone to block the opponent and started a fight with him. However, he lost his balance and seriously injured the opponent, and was sent to prison.

I won’t go into the subsequent story, but when Ye Min first saw the barrage of comments mentioning these things, she felt a little strange.

In these major turning points in Meng Zheng's first half of life, she and Meng Cheng seemed to be absent.

She didn't know how much it cost to study in the 1980s, but no matter how high it was, it was impossible for one person's tuition to crush the entire family, not to mention that her and Meng Cheng's salaries were not low.

Needless to say, Meng Cheng is now a deputy battalion-level cadre and is serving in a remote area. His salary and allowances add up to over a hundred yuan per month.

She started working at the age of sixteen and has been doing this for eight years. Her salary has increased from over twenty at the beginning to over forty now.

Even if people's lives would change dramatically after the 1980s and businessmen would once again stand at the top of society, she and Meng Cheng should not be so destitute that they could not afford to send their children to school.

What's more, even in the era of the bullet screen audience, they still took pride in being admitted to a government agency.

Therefore, the original plot became irrational from the moment Meng Zheng gave up on further studies. And there is only one possibility to make it reasonable, that is, something happened to their family.

Maybe Meng Cheng changed his job, or one of them fell seriously ill and the family fell into hardship.

But when people are happy, they don't want to think about the ups and downs. Ye Min always felt lucky and didn't think about it carefully.

So when Ye Min learned from the barrage that Meng Cheng was dying, he was completely stunned.

After being stunned for a while, she seemed to hear the sound of boots hitting the ground, and the confusion that had accumulated in her heart was finally resolved.

But she would rather the original work be contradictory.

Seeing Ye Min's eyes suddenly turn red, Meng Cheng hurriedly asked in a low voice: "What's wrong?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Min could no longer control the sourness in her nose and tears fell like rain.

When she cried, everyone in the studio was stunned and the photo shoot had to be stopped. The photographer and the apprentice left, leaving the room for Meng Cheng to coax his wife.

But Meng Cheng was also confused. He didn't know why Ye Min was crying. He could only hurriedly take the girl from her hands, while trying hard to recall what happened in the past few days, and asked her about them one by one.

After hearing him even confess that he was drunk and kissed her without brushing his teeth yesterday, Ye Min finally stopped crying and covered his mouth with her hands, saying angrily, "The children are here!"

Meng Cheng turned to look at Meng Zheng who was sitting next to him. The latter very tactfully blocked his ears with his fingers and emphasized, "I didn't hear anything!"

[Hahaha! This father and son are so funny! ]

[Look at Minmin's face, tsk tsk! But she just cried too suddenly. She burst into tears during such a beautiful family photo. Could it be that she knew Meng Cheng was dying? ]

[How is that possible! She can’t predict the future]

[It’s not impossible, right? I thought it was weird that the heroine’s mother guessed Li Wenxiu’s plot in advance, but if you imagine that she can predict the future, it makes sense.]

[Could the heroine's mother be a time traveler? She previously called the woman surnamed Wei a white lotus. I was wondering at the time, didn't white lotus simply refer to plants in the 1970s?]

[Ah, I remember this! Since the heroine's mother might be wearing it, do you think the heroine's father will die later? ]

[I think so! Anyone who has read the original novel will know that the heroine is wrong, but the original novel does not describe in detail how the heroine's father died, so even if the heroine's mother is a transmigration, she can protect the heroine, but she may not be able to save the heroine's father]

[I don't think so. Transmigrating into a book is just speculation. What if the heroine's mother has other golden fingers that can predict the future? And at the beginning we all thought that the plot would not change, and the heroine would definitely be replaced, but what happened? ]

[Stop talking, my face hurts]

Seeing the content on the bullet screen, Ye Min felt relieved, but couldn't help feeling worried.

The reason for the relief was that after the barrage reminder, Ye Min realized that after she predicted her daughter's fate, she successfully prevented the baby swap and sent Li Wenxiu and her husband to prison, thus changing the original plot.

In this case, after knowing in advance that Meng Cheng would not live long, could she have taken precautions in advance to change his fate of dying early in the original novel?

The reason why I was worried was that someone in the barrage had said the truth. Although she was not a person who traveled through the book, her golden finger was the barrage. And the audience who sent the barrage obviously didn't know how Meng Cheng died in the original book.

In other words, she only knew that Meng Cheng would die in two years, but she didn't know the cause of his death. In this way, she had no way to prevent it in advance, and whether she could successfully change Meng Cheng's fate in the future became an unknown.

But she need not despair.

There are many reasons for death, but they can be summarized into three: suicide, sudden illness and accidents. Considering that Meng Cheng was a soldier, there may be a fourth reason - death in the line of duty.

Meng Cheng lost both his parents when he was young. He had been through a lot of hardships and had a strong character, so the probability of him committing suicide was low.

As for sudden illness, she can take him to the hospital for a full body check-up as soon as possible, and have him go for regular check-ups in the next two years. If any problems are found, they can be treated in time.

As for accidents and deaths in the line of duty, there are many factors that lead to death. Prevention is useless. The best way is to let Meng Cheng find a way to transfer out of Yun Province. If the transfer fails, he can transfer back to Jiangcheng.

However, it is only May of 1972, and Meng Cheng's incident happened in 1974. Although the season and month are unknown, even if it happened in January, they still have one year and eight months, so there is no need to rush to transfer or change careers.

And through the barrage, Ye Min made another discovery.

Although most of the viewers who posted the comments have read the original novel, some people read the book hastily, some people like to think carefully after reading it, some people think they have finished reading it after just one reading, and some people will read the book over and over again if they come across a story they like.

So even if someone in the barrage said that the original novel did not describe in detail the cause of Meng Cheng's death, and other people did not raise any objections after reading it, this is not necessarily true.

And it is not written in detail. Maybe it was written, but it was just a bit obscure, or the length was not long. The person who posted the barrage probably read the book hastily and has no impression of it, so he said that.

Ye Min felt that she should wait a little longer until someone who had read the book carefully or read the original work over and over again appeared. Perhaps they would know some information that others did not know.

The question is when they will show up, and when they do, will the comments discuss topics related to Meng Cheng's cause of death?

If there is no discussion, how can she steer the conversation to the information she wants to know?

Ye Min had no idea for the time being, but there was still more than a year before Meng Cheng's death. She had enough time to come up with a safe solution and then dig out the information she wanted bit by bit.

About Meng Cheng's death, about her own life or death.

After sorting out her thoughts, Ye Min stopped crying completely. She took the handkerchief from Meng Cheng, wiped the tears from her eyes and explained: "It suddenly occurred to me that if Li Wenxiu's conspiracy succeeded, our family might never be able to take a family photo again, so my emotions got a little out of control."

Meng Cheng was a little confused when he heard this. In his opinion, Li Wenxiu was caught on the spot, and the situation where their family could not take a family photo after the switch was successful would never happen.

But he quickly found an excuse for Ye Min, thinking that she must still be afraid, so he picked up his daughter and said, "It's all in the past. Look, An An is smiling so happily today."

It turned out that An An, who was sleeping soundly when the photo was taken just now, woke up at some point and was now staring at the couple with her big eyes without blinking.

Meeting her daughter's eyes, Ye Min reached out and held her in her arms, saying, "Let's take a few more photos today."

Meng Cheng asked: "We originally planned to take three photos, do we want to increase the number?"

"Well, take a few more photos," Ye Min looked up at Meng Cheng, "I'm with you, you take Zhengzheng and An'an with you, take a few more photos."

She hopes she can save Meng Cheng like she saved An An, but if not, she will continue to live with her two children.

…

After An An was one month old, Ye Min went to work before Meng Cheng.

Although confinement was comfortable, Ye Min was used to being busy, and wanted to return to work as soon as possible in the later stages of confinement. So when she talked about this with Meng Cheng the night before, she was very happy.

But the next day after breakfast, when I was getting ready to go out, I was overwhelmed with reluctance to leave my daughter.

Seeing that there was still half an hour before he had to go to work, Ye Min, who had just walked out of the house with one foot, turned back, went into the house, picked up his daughter, and kissed her again and again.

It was not until Meng Cheng reminded him, "It's seven forty," that he put his daughter down and hurried back to work.

The health division where Ye Min worked was not far from the family compound but not too close either. It was about two or three miles away. At Ye Min's speed, it would take about twenty minutes to walk there.

After leaving the house, Ye Min walked and ran all the way and finally arrived at the health center before eight o'clock so as not to be late on the first day back to work.

Because of this, Ye Min was a little upset when she arrived at the pharmacy. Feng Aiyun, who had already arrived at her post, saw this and said pointedly, "Here is a person who is usually so positive, but shows his true colors at the critical moment. He was almost late for work just after he started. Tsk tsk tsk tsk."

There were only two of them in the pharmacy. Ye Min knew who Feng Aiyun was talking to without thinking, so she pretended to be surprised and asked, "You're not on vacation?"

Feng Aiyun was confused and asked, "Why should I take a vacation?"

"When I return to work, you will take a long vacation to rest, isn't that what you said?"

Feng Aiyun remembered that she did have this plan, but when she mentioned this to the director, he not only did not agree, but also said that her thinking and attitude were wrong, and asked her to focus on her work and not always compete with her colleagues.

Feng Aiyunqi wanted to quarrel with the director at that time, but he held back when the words came to his lips.

Although her uncle was the deputy division commander, he and her aunt were married later in life and had children, so their relationship was not that deep. When her aunt sent her to the health center, she told her to get along well with her colleagues, especially not to offend the leaders.

So no matter how angry she was, Feng Aiyun did not dare to act rudely in front of the director, so the matter of asking for leave was left unresolved.

Because she was embarrassed, she didn't want to tell anyone about this matter, but she didn't expect Ye Min to bring it up directly. Her face suddenly turned bad and she asked angrily, "What do you mean?"

Sometimes Ye Min was quite annoyed with Feng Aiyun. She wasn't a bad person, but she was a little arrogant and wanted others to flatter her.

This is also the main reason why their relationship has become strained. Ye Min just wants to work hard and doesn't want to spend time trying to please others, while Feng Aiyun thinks that if she doesn't praise her, she looks down on her, so she always looks at her with disdain.

But no matter how troublesome it was, deep down, Ye Min didn't want to conflict with Feng Aiyun.

Not to mention that Feng Aiyun has an uncle who is the deputy commander of a division. They work in the same department and see each other every day. Their relationship is really strained and it will definitely affect their work.

Therefore, Ye Min did not say anything that would excite her anger. She just smiled insincerely and said, "I care about you."

Feng Aiyun, who had already prepared for a fight, froze in her expression, showing an expression of wanting to be angry but not being able to. On the one hand, she felt that Ye Min's words were mocking her, and on the other hand, she did not find any point of argument from the three words "I care about you".

After hesitating for a while, Feng Aiyun said firmly, "Stop pretending!"

Ye Min shrugged, picked up the inventory book and started working.

…

One month is not a long time, not enough for Ye Min to feel unfamiliar with the job, so she had a smooth first day back at work, except that she couldn't help thinking about her daughter.

So as soon as it was time to get off work, Ye Min quickly packed up her things, ran to the locker room first, and hurried home.

It was around 6:15 when they got home. Meng Cheng was finishing cooking in the kitchen. Ye Min heard the noise, turned in and talked to him for a few words, then went back to see her daughter.

When I walked into the room, Meng Zheng was playing with An An.

Although he wakes up from time to time at night because he has not established a normal day and night rhythm, compared to when he was just born and slept all day, An An is now awake for quite a while during the day.

Meng Zheng's seedling raising class ends at 4:50. He used to play outside with his friends after school, but now he rushes home as soon as school is over because he is worried about his sister.

When he was lucky, he could play with his sister for a while before dinner, but when he was unlucky, he could only watch her sleep.

Of course, he was very willing to watch his sister sleep.

Meng Zheng was facing the door, so he quickly noticed Ye Min's voice and shook the rattle and shouted, "Mom! Are you back?"

"Well," Ye Min put her bag on the bedside table, sat down next to the crib and asked, "Is my sister good?"

Meng Zheng said: "Sister is very happy today."

As if to prove what he said, the little girl lying in the nest opened her mouth and giggled, while stretching her hands high as if she wanted to play wave drum.

Ye Min looked at her daughter, her heart seemed to melt. She reached out and squeezed her little hand, and asked in a low voice, "An An, do you miss your mother?"

As if she heard the sound, An An turned her head slightly and continued to smile at Ye Min. She couldn't help but smile too, and bent over to get into the crib, kissed her daughter twice, and touched her diaper, which she felt was quite dry, so she didn't change it.

Because she is young, An An's time is fragmented, and she always gets sleepy after playing for a while. Just like this time, she yawned after playing with her mother and brother for a while, and fell asleep with her eyes closed in less than three minutes.

An An had just fallen asleep when Meng Cheng had finished preparing dinner and came to call them.

Although May had just begun, the meat coupons at home had started to become tight because of the full-month banquet, so dinner was simple, with the only meaty dish being fried ham with bait.

The vegetarian dishes included braised eggplant, old potatoes and vegetable soup. Overall, it was quite rich and tasted good. Ye Min almost couldn't stop eating. Fortunately, she remembered that she needed to lose weight, so she stopped and got a second bowl of rice.

Compared with Ye Min, Mr. Meng Cheng and his wife don't have so many concerns.

Meng Cheng has always been self-disciplined. Even when he was on vacation at home, the first thing he did in the morning was to run exercises. So although he is 185 cm tall, he weighs only a little over 140 kg.

Meng Zheng is still growing. No matter how much he eats, he is still as thin as a bamboo pole, and his hands and feet are long and thin.

Ye Min is not actually fat. She is 1.62 meters tall and weighs around 90 pounds all year round. Although her weight increased to 110 pounds last year due to pregnancy, she quickly started to lose weight after An An was born.

Ye Min weighed herself at work today and now she weighs 94 kilograms.

Considering her height, 90 kilograms is not heavy, and she doesn’t look fat. The most common question she heard on the first day back to work was: How did you lose weight?

But there is always a difference between before and after giving birth. For example, she doesn't look much fatter, but the fat accumulated around her waist is a lot more than before.

So when Meng Cheng asked her if she wanted more rice, she struggled for a long time before finally shaking her head, and then watched the father and son eat up all the food.

I am very jealous.

Alas~

…

In the first week after returning to work, Ye Min was scheduled to rest on Saturday.

The holiday in Mengcheng had not yet ended, so the two agreed to go to the city for a check-up while they had time. The reason she gave was very simple. She just said that she always felt that her health was not as good as before after giving birth to An An, so she wanted to go for a check-up.

Meng Cheng was very concerned about her health and agreed without much hesitation.

After the two of them agreed, Ye Min began to think about having Meng Cheng have a physical examination. However, Meng Cheng was a good person in every way, except that, like most people in this era, he didn't like to go to the hospital for examinations.

When soldiers in the camp were injured during training, he would persuade them to go to the clinic to see a doctor, but when it came to him, he just tried to be strong. He had bruises on his legs twice, both of which were caused by the medicinal wine Ye Min applied to him.

Knowing that persuading him to get checked in the usual way would not work, Ye Min came up with an idea. She took her own pulse twice on the pretext of going to the hospital for a check-up, then pretended to be unsure of the result and wanted to try taking his pulse again.

When Meng Cheng stretched out his hand, she placed her fingers on it and her eyebrows gradually wrinkled.

She frowned and didn't tell him the result. She placed her hands flat on symmetrical positions on both sides of his chest and let him speak in a low voice while palpating him. Then she percussed him. The more she listened, the more serious her expression became. She looked at Meng Cheng twice as if she wanted to say something but still didn't say anything.

Meng Cheng originally thought that there was nothing wrong with his body, but after seeing the change in her expression, he couldn't help but feel worried and asked, "Is there something wrong with my body?"

Ye Min frowned and said, "A little bit. The percussion sound is not right. It may be a problem with the lungs."

This was a lie. According to her simple examination, Meng Cheng was in good health and had no problems with his lungs.

Although Ye Min had treated patients when she was in Jiangcheng, most of her medical knowledge was acquired from books and she had no one to teach her. So even though she had a wealth of theoretical knowledge and the results of her previous medical treatments were pretty good, she always believed that she was still a novice in traditional Chinese medicine.

Considering that in the original novel Meng Cheng only had less than two years to live, and that illness could not be ruled out as the cause of death, Ye Min was skeptical about the results of his own examination and still wanted him to go to the hospital for a more accurate examination, so he found some problems for him.

In fact, what she said was not entirely nonsense. Nine out of ten men in the army are addicted to smoking, and the conference room is often filled with smoke during meetings.

Meng Cheng himself also smokes, although not often, only one pack a month, and he might have given a few of his cigarettes to others. But being in that environment, he would be exposed to a lot of second-hand smoke.

He had a regular schedule and was diligent in exercising. If he died of illness in the original book, lung cancer was more likely the cause.

This time when he went to the hospital, Ye Min hoped that he could focus on checking his lungs.

Ye Min feels that she is only a mediocre medical professional, but Meng Cheng still trusts her more.

Because he knew that when the children in their compound were still only able to play in the mud, Ye Min could already recite the "Tangtou Gejue" by heart.

At that time, when the children in the compound played house, she was always the one who played the doctor.

Once when we were playing house, there was a child in the compound who had been coughing for almost half a month and acted as a patient. He had been to the health room before and was prescribed some Chinese medicine, but he didn't get better after taking it.

His parents didn't take it seriously because he didn't have a fever or a runny nose, until that time when they were playing house. Ye Min diagnosed him with bronchitis after a consultation and prescribed him a proper medicine. After the game was over, she advised him to go to the hospital for a check-up.

The child who played the patient took the prescription to his family. His parents did not believe him at first, thinking that even if Ye Min could recite a few medical books, he was still a child and did not know how to treat a disease. They could not stand being pestered by their son and were very unhappy before taking him to the hospital. They said to everyone they met that Ye Min was making a fuss.

After going to the hospital for a check-up, it turned out to be chronic bronchitis. The prescription the doctor gave was almost the same as the one Ye Min gave.

After that, Ye Min became famous in the compound, and everyone thought that she would inherit her mother's family tradition and become a doctor.

But with the passing of Ye Min's mother, such voices gradually disappeared. The little girl who was once described by adults as "audacious" also became gradually taciturn, and there was no trace of her outstanding youth.

Although she is only a nurse now, Meng Cheng knows that Ye Min has never given up her dream. Before she joined the army, she often treated patients when the doctors were not busy.

So when Meng Cheng heard Ye Min say this, he really felt worried and agreed to go for the check-up with Ye Min.

After breakfast on Saturday, the couple sent Meng Zheng and An An to Yang Mei's house.

Yang Mei was one of the military wives who came to visit Ye Min on the first day after Ye Min was discharged from the hospital.

Her family lived in the first two buildings. Because they followed the army early, the house was built with red bricks and it was not very old, so it looked very new. The only drawback was that it was not big enough. Originally, there were only two rooms. There were five people in her family, so after moving in, they added two small rooms on the side, so that the family could live more spaciously.

Although Yang Mei joined the army early, she never went to work because she had three children, the oldest was seven years old and the youngest was only two years old, and her husband was a coward who would not even help when he fell.

But she has a good personality and is very warm. Ye Min always passes by her house when she leaves the family compound, so she often runs into her on her way to and from get off work. Every time she meets her, Yang Mei will take the initiative to greet her. Sometimes when her hometown sends food, Yang Mei will share some with the neighbors around her, and she never leaves Ye Min behind.

However, Ye Min was pregnant at that time and seldom went out except for work, so apart from going to and from get off work and returning gifts, she had little contact with Yang Mei.

Moreover, although she looked gentle, in fact, there was always a layer of distance between her and others, and it was difficult for them to open up to each other, so she never felt that she and Yang Mei had become good friends.

It was not until she was discharged from the hospital after giving birth that neighbors, whom she normally thought were just nodding acquaintances, came to visit her one after another. Only then did she realize that she could not always draw a line between herself and others in her interpersonal relationships.

Although this can prevent herself from getting hurt, it can also easily hurt people who are truly kind to her. So she is slowly adjusting the way she interacts with others.

The adjustment period was short, but the effect was significant. In just one month, her relationship with Yang Mei became much closer.

Because of this, Ye Min felt comfortable and at ease handing her daughter over to Yang Mei and asking her to help take care of her for a day.

The place of residence is not far from the city, but there is no direct bus in between. If you want to go to the city, you have to take a bus to the county first, and then take a shuttle bus from the county. If you are lucky, you can arrive in an hour and a half.

But the troops have cars going to the city to purchase supplies every day, and people in the compound who want to go to the county can hitchhike, so the travel time can be shortened to about 40 minutes.

The Disadvantages of Hitchhiking The comrades in charge of purchasing supplies did not stay in the city for long. They set out at around 7:30 in the morning and returned at around 3:00 in the afternoon.

If you get lost in the city for too long, you might miss the bus.

But even so, people in the compound are more willing to hitchhike to the city, firstly because it is free, and secondly because it takes less time to get there. Besides the young people you are dating, most people don’t spend that much time in the city anyway, so it won’t waste time.

Ye Min and his family of three also hitchhiked to the city. Because their destinations were different, they got off the car shortly after arriving in the city and took a bus to the hospital.

Pingcheng City, to which Donghe County belongs, is actually not much more prosperous than the county. Most of the houses on the roadside are one or two stories high, with only a few high-rise buildings occasionally. It is located in the city center, so you can tell at a glance that it is a commercial district.

The hospital is much larger than the county hospital. The main building has four floors, and there is a three-story inpatient department in the back. In addition, the staff cafeteria and logistics department also have two floors. Behind these buildings, there is also an enclosed family courtyard.

When you enter the hospital, register first.

Because Ye Min wanted to rule out the cause of death, she checked all the departments when she registered them. When Meng Cheng asked about it, she gave a reason, saying, "Since we are here, we might as well check everything."

This reason was not very convincing to Meng Cheng, but he could accept it reluctantly. It was okay for other departments, but what did it mean to get a number for the men's department?

Ye Min laughed dryly and said the same thing: "Since you are here, you might as well hang up for a while."

Meng Cheng: “…”