"Mother, your son is unfilial and has let you down!"
“Mother, if you hadn’t snatched Er Gou, Xiao Yun wouldn’t have pushed you. If Xiao Yun hadn’t pushed you, you wouldn’t have been hit and killed. Mother, we’re sorry. Xiao Yun and I can only apologize to you when we’re on our way to the underworld!”
Tao Wan was somewhat bewildered by the chaotic commotion around her, the cries of men and women, and the whimpers of children.
"Mother, I'm sorry, it's all my fault. If you want to take my life, I won't complain. But Er Gou is still so young, he can't live without his mother!" A woman's voice was choked with sobs.
What's going on?!
Tao Wan was about to open her eyes to see clearly when a sharp pain shot through her head. Immediately afterward, a memory about the original owner of the body appeared in her mind.
Ah, Tao Wan was both amused and incredibly heartbroken.
She was originally a diligent interdimensional traveler, and after finally completing the various tasks given by the main god, she could retire with honor!
After the system's screening, her retirement status should have allowed her to transmigrate into the body of a duchess, enjoying a life of plenty with filial children. But now, she has transmigrated into the body of this exceptional old woman, Tao Wanniang!
She couldn't be sure if this was a prank by the Supreme God or a system error.
Why did she obediently hand over the wealth she acquired after traversing countless dimensions?!
Fortunately, she wasn't that foolish as to actually retire in the new world without taking anything with her. Before leaving, she also took one of the system's ports.
A simple interdimensional trading module allows you to exchange existing items for certain resources.
As expected, neither the system nor the main god can be trusted; we cannot let our guard down until the very last moment!
After complaining about the unreliability of the system and the main god, Tao Wan began to sort out the current situation.
The area where the original owner, Tao Wanniang, lived has been suffering from drought since last year, and this year, nothing can grow in the fields of the village.
People from all around started fleeing the famine.
But Tao Wan's mother refused to leave, and she wouldn't allow her son and daughter-in-law to leave either.
Tao Wanniang was still waiting, hoping for her husband, who had been conscripted, to return. She was afraid that if she left, her returning husband would not be able to find his way home...
But now that everyone is running out of food, Tao Wan's mother complains that her grandson is too young and wastes food.
Today, she became so wicked that she decided to throw her grandson out.
As a result, the young wife Zhou Xiaoyun discovered this, which led to the incident of snatching the child and knocking out the original owner of the body...
"Sigh!" Tao Wan sighed heavily. What a mess this is!
"Did you... hear a sigh?"
"What are you crying for? Are you mourning? Do you really think I'm dead?" Tao Wanniang sat up abruptly, her slightly gloomy eyes sweeping around, her face cold, a large red and swollen bump on her forehead, looking quite unsightly.
This sudden outburst seemed to stem from both the original owner's own emotions and Tao Wan's dissatisfaction with the system and the main god.
She was going to live on with Tao Wanniang's body, which was as withered as tree bark...
"Mother, Mother, don't come any closer!" The original owner's eldest son, Ling Dahu, was so frightened that he fell to the ground, crying as he said, "Mother, if you want to leave, just leave in peace. We...we don't need you to worry about us..."
"Hongyu, quick, take the children out of here! Mother has come back to life!"
Despite being terrified, Ling Dahu still scrambled towards his wife, Wang Hongyu.
Unlike the eldest son Ling Dahu's reaction, the second son Ling Dapeng and his wife Zhou Xiaoyun immediately kowtowed to Tao Wan's mother while holding their six-month-old son.
Ling Dapeng: "Mother, please have mercy and let us go!"
Lithuania: ...
So these two brothers were actually hoping the original owner would die.
Tao Wan instantly felt a surge of grievance and anger welling up inside her, and couldn't help but berate her two sons:
"I've raised two ungrateful wretches! The adults aren't even getting enough to eat, how am I supposed to raise these little kids? Who am I doing this for?!"
"You've forgotten your mother now that you have a wife. I raised you all with my own hands, and now you wish your mother were dead!"
"Get out! All of you, get out of here!"
As the curses subsided, Tao Wan felt the grievances and anger within her gradually dissipate. Once she could fully control her body, she stopped talking.
Tao Wan's mother's string of bean-spitting curses stopped, and Ling Dahu shakily got up, seizing the opportunity to ask, "Mother, you...you're not dead!"
"I'm incredibly resilient. Even when I went to the underworld, the King of Hell said that my lifespan wasn't over yet, so he let me come back!" Tao Wanniang replied irritably.
If it weren't for a system glitch, would I have been sent here to clean up the mess left by the original owner?!
"What, aren't you going to come and help your old mother up?" Tao Wan's mother glared at her son and daughter-in-law and shouted.
Seeing Ling Dahu help his wife up first before helping her up, Tao Wanniang rolled her eyes and continued sarcastically, "If we weren't really desperate, would I abandon Er Gouzi?!"
"If I still had any food in my house, I wouldn't even think about throwing the baby away!"
"You two, either search this house inside and out, and if you find anything to eat, I'll kowtow to you! If not, then get out!"
Ling Dahu and Wang Hongyu looked at each other, they really didn't dare to search their mother's house, and Ling Dapeng and Zhou Xiaoyun were even less willing to do so.
Just then, the baby Zhou Xiaoyun was holding tightly in her arms started crying again because he was hungry, and Wang Hongyu's youngest daughter, Huani, also started whimpering.
"Mom, we'll go out now, please calm down."
Ling Dahu immediately pulled his wife and children outside, afraid that his mother would become angry again.
Ling Dapeng immediately protected Zhou Xiaoyun and the child and retreated.
For a moment, the room fell silent, but the noise outside still annoyed Tao Wanniang.
Looking around the room, besides a wooden bed, there was a worn-out wardrobe, a chest of drawers by the door, and several ceramic jars piled up in the corner.
Although they weren't destitute, they still couldn't find many coins even after searching the entire house.
Thinking of the surrounding famine and the uncertain and bumpy future, Tao Wanniang kicked the dresser next to the door in frustration.
"Crackling and popping!"
Looking at the chest of drawers she had kicked apart, Tao Wanniang paused for a moment, then, as if struck by a sudden thought, decided to try and snag a bargain.
"Let me see how many items the original owner had that could be exchanged..."
The system scanned the entire room, and finally, its target fell on the chest of drawers scattered all over the floor.
[Ancient huanghuali wood chest of drawers, originally valued at 500 taels, severely damaged, now 50 taels; missing parts, now 5 taels. Host, would you like to exchange?]
Tao Wanniang blankly confirmed the exchange.
How ironic...
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