cold.
It's so cold.
Ye Xiaoxiao opened her eyes with a shiver. Through the dim light, she saw a house with shabby decoration and dim environment. The exposed wooden beams could be seen on the roof, and the surrounding walls were covered with yellowed newspapers.
The north wind howled outside the window, making the thin paper of the window rustle.
"Cough, cough, cough..." Ye Xiaoxiao opened her mouth to speak, but ended up with a series of rapid coughs.
The door was immediately opened, and a short-haired woman in her forties walked in, her voice filled with anxiety: "Ni'er, you finally woke up. Old Liu from the village said that if you have a fever again, your brain will be damaged. The mountain is covered with snow, and the road to the hospital is not easy to walk..."
Ye Xiaoxiao was confused and did not respond.
In this dim environment, the woman took the hot pot and teacup by herself, poured a cup of hot water and brought it over.
"Mom knows that we are sorry for you. If you hadn't been taken away by mistake when you gave birth in the military hospital, you wouldn't have come to our house in such a state. The conditions in the city are good. If you are willing to go back to the Hao family, wait for good weather and let your father and brother take you back. Don't run away.
You are lucky that your fourth brother saw you falling into the ice hole and was able to rescue you. If you were a step later, you would have died. "
The teacup filled with hot water was stuffed into Ye Xiaoxiao's hands, finally restoring some temperature to her body.
"Where is this...you...what's your name..."
Miao Cuifang was a little surprised that she had forgotten even her surname. As for her own name, this young lady who had come from the city to look for her relatives asked her this question for the first time.
"Xiaoxiao, this is Baishi Village, Songlin Town, Baichuan County, Changling City, Heiyun Province. I am your mother Miao Cuifang. Also at home are your father Ye Jianguo, your brother Ye Changqing, and your sister-in-law..."
Ye Xiaoxiao felt her head hurt even more after hearing the beginning, so she said that she was not that lucky. Sure enough, she was not a survivor of the plane crash, but was simply reborn.
She was also reborn in the 1980s. The heroine of this book, Hao Yanyan, was a reborn person. The first chapter of the book wrote that in order to get rid of her last miserable life, the reborn Hao Yanyan set out on the journey to the capital to find her relatives in advance.
The Hao family quickly accepted this reality and, according to Hao Yanyan's wishes, swapped the surnames of their adopted daughter and biological daughter.
Ye Xiaoxiao, the fake daughter adopted by the Hao family, was unwilling to face reality. She took her exchanged identity certificate and traveled through mountains and rivers to the Ye family in Baishi Village. However, she could not stand staying in this poor home for only seven days and prepared to leave.
Because of the heavy snow, the Ye family's good intentions to stop them were taken by Ye Xiaoxiao as ill intentions, so she sneaked out of the house and fell into an ice hole that was artificially dug on the river surface and was not frozen solid.
Fortunately, Ye Changsheng followed her silently and rescued her in time after the accident, so she survived.
Ye Xiaoxiao drank the hot water and then she found that brown sugar was put in it. It tasted sweet between her lips and teeth and warmed her heart.
"Thank you, Mom. I understand."
Ye Xiaoxiao slowed down her confused thoughts and spoke in a hoarse voice.
Miao Cuifang was even more shocked, because this was the first time the child called her "Mom" after coming home.
Although the other party came with an identity certificate of "Ye Xiaoxiao", he always thought that his surname was Hao and he was a member of the Hao family, and that their family was just poor relatives living in the countryside.
Miao Cuifang sighed, thinking that this child was really confused and even his temperament had changed.
Ye Xiaoxiao drank only a few glasses of water before she couldn't swallow any more. Her throat was terribly sore and her body was weak, so she could only lie down again.
Miao Cuifang took the teacup, tucked in the quilt for Ye Xiaoxiao, and walked out of the room.
Ye Xiaoxiao felt sad. She traveled through time and space and came from a medical family. Her elders and brothers and sisters were all doctors. Her mother was also a medical student. Although she had not graduated yet, she was influenced by the family environment since she was a child and was able to prescribe medicine independently.
But she didn't expect that she was now powerless to deal with her fever and cold.
Maybe she would burn out her brain, and then her chance at rebirth would be wasted.
Thinking that she was already dead in the real world, she couldn't stop crying.
It would be better if she died. On the contrary, after her parents remarried, few people cared about her anymore.
Ye Xiaoxiao was feeling dizzy and had all sorts of wild thoughts until someone lifted her torn quilt and began to untie her cotton shirt.
grass……
As Ye Xiaoxiao was struggling, she heard Miao Cuifang's voice.
"Nier, don't move. I'll get you some warm wine to wipe your body. If your fever still hasn't subsided, I'll have to take you to the town's health center tomorrow."
Warm alcohol baths do have a fever-reducing effect, but alcohol needs to be diluted. Ye Xiaoxiao doesn't care whether the dilution standard is up to standard or not. She just feels like a salted fish being tossed over and over again, and then tightly covered under the quilt.
After a while, a younger woman was heard talking outside the house.
"Mom, I put some hot water in the bottle and stuffed it into the quilt for Xiaomei."
Miao Cuifang took it and put it away for Ye Xiaoxiao. She didn't leave the room until she saw her fall into a deep sleep.
After closing the door, Miao Cuifang asked her daughter-in-law, "How is the fourth child?"
Zhang Xue looked worried: "It's still burning. If it doesn't go away by tonight, I'll have to go to the town to check it out, as Old Liu said."
Old Liu is the barefoot doctor in the village. Although he has no medical problems, the villagers always go to him for help if they have any headaches or fevers.
In addition, Baishi Village is remote and poor, and unless there is a disease, no one is willing to go to the town's health center.
"Let's see tomorrow."
What Miao Cuifang is most concerned about now is not the illness of the two children. She is worried about what will happen if Xiaoxiao recovers and then makes a fuss and leaves again.
Even if they are willing, would the Hao family be willing to raise a child who is not related by blood?
Miao Cuifang decided to have a serious talk with her old man about this matter.
…
Ye Xiaoxiao had a very uneasy sleep that night. In the morning, she heard several rooster crows, which pulled her from the sky of the new century to the kang in Northeast China in 1983.
Ye Xiaoxiao moved her body and felt uncomfortable and wet, but the high fever had subsided.
She exhaled, no longer a fool.
After picking up the clothes on the kang and putting them on, she finally had time to look around the room carefully. Although it was shabby and cramped, it was very clean. Last night, except for someone occasionally coming in and touching her forehead, no one slept with her.
This family knows the rules and has good character.
She leaned against the window and looked at the yard outside. It seemed that the location was a room in the west wing.
Smoke was rising from the yard and figures were walking back and forth.
Ye Xiaoxiao got up. There was a mirror on the wooden cabinet in the room. She looked at the person inside.
It turns out that she has a pretty face, bright eyes and white teeth. Her facial features on her oval face are in very good proportions. Her eyes are as moist as spring lotus flowers. Her black hair hangs on her shoulders, smooth like a waterfall.
What surprised people was that this face was 90% similar to her original appearance, just younger.
And she is worthy of being the vicious female supporting role in the book, the white moonlight of the boys in the courtyard. Her pitiful good looks can easily make people overlook her arrogant and vicious nature.
In the original book, this vicious female supporting character's true identity was revealed near the end of the story. She was hated by everyone and ended up spending the rest of her life in prison.
But all this has nothing to do with Ye Xiaoxiao anymore.
She figured it out. If she wanted to live a decent life, she had to stay away from men and women.
If he didn't want to die, he wouldn't have returned to the capital to cause trouble for Hao Yanyan as the book originally planned, nor would he have competed for the unreliable fiancé.
"The girl was reborn, and I was in a book. We both have a bright future!"
Ye Xiaoxiao pressed her heart and said firmly.
Squeak...
Suddenly, the wooden door opened and a chubby kid poked his head in from outside.