Chapter 1 001 On the Train
The train entered the tunnel, and a crowded crowd of faces was reflected on the glass.
Shu Jinyue was awakened by the sound of the wind. He wrapped himself tightly in his thin old cotton-padded jacket. The coldness on his body once again proved that this was not a dream.
"Ouch, my waist hurts." A middle-aged woman in her forties was standing in the aisle, leaning her whole body on the back of Shu Jinyue's chair, rubbing her waist and pounding her legs from time to time.
Jin Yue knew what she meant, but didn't move.
"Oh, the young comrades nowadays don't know how to respect the elderly and love the young. When we were young..."
However, the woman did not hear the condemnation from everyone, but instead -
"Come on, they paid for their tickets, why should they give it to you? If you wanted to sit in a seat, why didn't you buy a seat ticket earlier?"
"That's right, the little girl is so young and doesn't look well. Why don't you ask others to give way?"
"Keep your voice down, it's too noisy."
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Shu Jinyue remembered that there was such a thing in her previous life. She gave up her seat out of kindness, but she could never sit back. No matter how she begged, the woman turned a deaf ear. When she got angry, she even asked her why she was so stingy. It was just one seat. What was wrong with letting the "old man" sit for a while... She was shy and could only stand to the terminal with swollen legs.
Yes, she was reborn and returned to the third year after going to the countryside, on the train back home.
In his previous life, as the only unemployed child in the Shu family, Shu Jinyue, who had just graduated from junior high school, was sent to the remote northernmost part of Shilan Province to work as a sixteen-year-old educated youth.
At that time, her third sister Shu Wenyun promised that they would find a way to get her a job or retire due to illness within a year at most. She waited and waited, but the money she received from home became less and less, and the phone calls became less and less frequent. Even ten years later, when a large number of educated youth returned to the city, she still could not go back.
If he just settled down in the countryside and relied on his medical skills, he could actually live a good life, but... Shu Jinyue thought of his experiences in his previous life and tightened his toes.
As soon as she arrived at the village where she was sent to work, she was targeted by the son of the production team leader. From then on, she was pestered by the man for more than a year. Later, the man finally got married. She thought she was liberated, but the family hated her because she had reported them before. The commune recommended workers, peasants and soldiers as students, and she was clearly the most popular candidate, but the team leader tampered with the votes, and she missed the opportunity to go to university for the first time.
It would have been fine if she was assigned the heaviest and most tiring work and the fewest work points in daily production labor, but when the college entrance examination was resumed, she worked hard for two years to prepare, but the production team deliberately prevaricated and dragged their feet when it came to issuing letters of introduction and supporting documents, until she finally missed the registration time and missed the chance to go to university once again.
The girl had no job opportunities, could not go to college, and had lost contact with her family. She was like a lonely weed. Finally, one night of hunger and cold, she died in a fight with a second-rate man who intended to violate her.
However, something even stranger happened—
After his death, Shu Jinyue did not reincarnate, but turned into a ghost. Only then did he realize that he was living in a period novel.
"What's wrong with the little girl?" A kind voice brought Shu Jinyue back to his senses.
Opposite her sat a ruddy-faced middle-aged woman wearing a cadre uniform inside and a thick military coat outside, which made her look warm. Next to her sat another "patient" who was older than her.
I couldn't stop coughing since I got on the bus, and I couldn't breathe because of the coughing.
Although the two people's clothes and complexions are different, their facial features are 70% similar, so they must be sisters.
"Ahem... ahem... little girl, are you feeling... unwell?"
"Sister, please stop talking. The doctor said you can't breathe cold air anymore."
The coughing lady sighed, "I'm afraid my illness won't be cured."
"Why are you so discouraged? I'll take you to a big hospital. You will definitely get better."
"Everyone in the village said... ahem... that I had tuberculosis. Some said I had a heart disease... ahem... that it would kill me."
When the people around heard the word "tuberculosis", they immediately turned their bodies to the side, and some even covered their mouths and noses, as if there were germs floating in the air.
Shu Jinyue did not hide. Out of professional instinct, she took a few more glances. From the conversation just now, she learned that the old lady had been coughing for several years. She had seen many doctors in the countryside and tried both Chinese and Western medicine, but not only did the cough not stop, but it became worse. Now her body began to swell, and her lips and nails turned purple.
This is clearly cyanotic.
She remembered that the two ladies had just helped to scold the woman who wanted to grab the seat. Jin Yue paused and said, "Auntie, your illness is not serious. It's just that you have been coughing for a long time and it has become a swollen lung, also known as emphysema. You can't just treat the lungs, you also have to nourish the kidneys..."
Unfortunately, the two ladies did not take her words to heart. After all, they had seen so many diseases that no doctor could cure. What logic could a half-grown child like her have? It was nothing but hearsay.
But they didn't argue with the child, "Little girl, you must be sleepy. If you are at ease, you can take a nap first, and we will help you take care of your luggage."
Shu Jinyue looked at his "luggage": a dark grey patched cotton jacket, a pair of green rubber shoes with worn-out seams, an enamel washbasin with peeling porcelain, and a yellowed towel... no one should be interested in it.
Of course, judging from the way the lady dressed as an official and her conversation, she must have come from a good family and would not covet her luggage.
Shu Jinyue forced herself to smile despite her discomfort. When the conductor passed by just now, she remembered someone asked about the time. It was now past ten o'clock in the evening, and there were still eight hours to the final stop, Shucheng Station.
Keep going for another eight hours. "Is the little girl going home to visit her relatives?" The two old ladies couldn't sleep, so they chatted with her in a low voice. When they found out that she was a young educated youth who had been sent to the countryside to work at the age of sixteen, they couldn't help but sigh and thought that she didn't look like a nineteen-year-old girl at all. If you didn't know her, you would think she was a teenager of fourteen or fifteen years old.
The cadre bent down and pulled out a brown suitcase from under his chair and took out an aluminum lunch box.
As soon as it was opened, the eyes of everyone around lit up. It turned out to be half a white steamed bun without any impurities!
You know, these days, being able to eat a mixed flour steamed bread is considered a good condition, and even working-class families would not afford to bring white flour steamed buns on the train.
The old lady passed the lunch box to Shu Jinyue and said, "My daughter, if you don't mind me breaking off half of it, then you can eat it."
The coughing lady explained: "I... cough cough... didn't touch it. I ate from another... cough cough... another lunch box. I won't infect you."
Before Shu Jinyue could even give in or express disdain, his stomach rumbled in protest like thunder.
A few days ago, I received a telegram from my mother Zhao Wanqiu. She asked for leave from the team, but the team leader was very difficult for her. It was not until the second urgent report from home that she took advantage of the fact that the commune cadres came to inspect and made a fuss that the team let her go. She walked in such a hurry that her rations were only enough to last until the next day, and today was already the fourth day.
"Thank you, ma'am."
Of course, she didn't eat for free. Food was too precious in those days. She took out a two-liang coarse grain coupon and bought half a steamed bun, which was too much, but at that time she had no time to calculate carefully.
The cadre pretended to be an old lady and tried to refuse it but finally accepted it.
The steamed buns had been left out for too long and were cold and hard. Every time he swallowed them, his throat hurt. But Shu Jinyue felt more satisfied than ever before. It was too real, the feeling of being alive was too real!
Having been a ghost for so many years, she can neither smell nor eat, and her imagination of "food" can only come from text descriptions combined with the pitiful amount of memories from her twenty-plus years of life.
"Eat slowly, don't choke. The conditions in the place where you are sent to work are tough. There is also a child from our neighborhood who has gone there. Every time his parents receive a letter, they cry."
"Yes, ahem, that place is older than ours... ahem, it's even harder back home. The water from the well is all yellow mud... ahem... when it snows... I can't get out for ten days or half a month. What a sin..."
She had spent more than ten years in such a difficult place in her previous life, and has spent three years in this life.
She went to bed hungry every night. When there was less farm work to do, she could only drink some thin soup. At the end of the year, when the old grain was eaten up and the new grain had not been distributed, she could not even drink some thin soup and could only fill her stomach with water... She had had regular menstruation for two years in the city, but in the three years since she went to the countryside to work, she had only had two menstruations in total.
Not to mention the curvy figure that a girl of this age should have, she is just a flat surface, with dry and yellow hair fluttering in the wind, looking just like a little chick. No wonder she didn't get along with him on the blind date.
Yes, the reason she returned to the city this time was because her mother, Zhao Wanqiu, sent a telegram asking her to come back for a blind date, claiming that she was seriously ill. In her previous life, she was young and had been harassed by men in the countryside. She was very disgusted with this kind of thing and would rather die than go.
Later, her mother threatened to commit suicide, so she went. But when she heard that the man came from a poor family, she said some hurtful words without thinking... Of course, even if she didn't say those words, the man still wouldn't like her.
But Shu Jinyue, who was given a second chance to live her life, knew that this was her only chance to change her fate. If she stayed in the countryside, with the captain's family's local clan power and omnipotence, it would be impossible for her to return to the city through recruitment or the college entrance examination, and she couldn't even marry a normal man. She remembered that this family completely fell two months after her death. They offended a big boss of the book city who came there for inspection, and this family hit a wall.
She didn't think that if she lived again she would be able to immediately fight against heaven and earth and overthrow the big family that had been entrenched for hundreds of years. She had to take revenge, but she had to make sure she wasn't trapped to death in that small place first.
The night is long and the journey is difficult. Seeing them chatting casually, another older sister from the opposite side also joined in, "Are you 45 this year, elder sister?"
The question was about the cadre uniform, and the coughing lady had fallen asleep.
"I'm fifty-three now. My grandsons are all in the army."
"Oh, I can't tell. The elder sister looks like a little girl."
Although it was a bit exaggerated, Shu Jinyue still took another look at the old lady's face. Normally, women of this age wouldn't have such a rosy complexion, especially under the dim light of the train.
Shu Jinyue noticed it as soon as she got on the train. She glanced at her lips and hands inconspicuously and felt about 80% sure.
During the three years she lived in the countryside, she had the good fortune to meet an old Chinese doctor in the cowshed. She learned a few tricks from him and was able to treat basic common and frequently occurring diseases. In addition, being a ghost in her previous life was too boring, so she audited many medical school courses and read a lot of professional books hiding behind medical students who stayed up late.
Apia's memory seems to be terrifyingly strong. Her mind is now filled with all kinds of medical knowledge, especially traditional Chinese medicine.
"Auntie, have you been sweating at night, unable to sleep, suffering from back pain and tinnitus in recent years?"
The old lady was stunned. "Really? How did you know?"
Shu Jinyue said something casually, reminding her: "Go to the hospital as soon as possible."
To be precise, the coughing lady's disease is not difficult to treat. "Your condition may be more serious than that of the other lady." It is a strange disease.
The older sister across from me was surprised. "My mother-in-law also has these symptoms, but the doctor said they are menopausal and will be fine after two years. Everyone has gone through this, so there is no need to go to the hospital and spend money, right?"
When the old lady heard this, she remembered that these symptoms seemed to have appeared the year her period ended, and had lasted for three or four years. She usually didn't feel any discomfort.
He can eat and sleep well, he is full of energy and has a rosy complexion. Isn't this normal? On the contrary, her elder sister was coughing so badly, but the little girl still said it was not serious and that she who was not sick was "more serious". Isn't this nonsense!
Thinking of her son's position, she was not uncommon to see all kinds of flattery and win-over tactics, but this little girl's trick was "unique". Haha, next, as long as she showed that she believed in her words, should she recommend the "miracle doctor" to her?
"I'm fine, no need to look." The sympathy that the old lady had for her at the beginning faded away, and she closed her eyes to rest.
Seeing this attitude, Shu Jinyue didn't know how to persuade her anymore. It was enough for her to remind her. After all, she was too weak to care about other people's affairs. Now there was one top priority - how to stay in the city.
She couldn't help but think of the blind date. To be precise, according to the plot of the original book, that would be her third brother-in-law.
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