Jiang Yue suddenly woke up, sweating profusely, and felt like she was sleeping in a furnace.
A white wall appeared before her eyes, and beneath her was a soft mattress. She lowered her head, covering herself with her own small floral air-conditioning quilt. Still in her rented house, she sat up.
The cell phone was on the bedside table, she took it and opened it.
It's 10:00 AM on Saturday, 2024, and the temperature is 35°C. The air conditioner turned off automatically, which is why I'm sweating all over.
The remote control fell to the ground. Jiang Yue picked it up, turned on the air conditioner, and then went into the bathroom to wash her face.
As usual, she brushed her teeth and cooked a bowl of noodles with eggs and vegetables.
Bring the noodles to the living room and take out a can of ice cola from the refrigerator.
I choose a TV show that goes well with my meal and watch it while I eat. Afterwards, I lie on the sofa and play with my phone.
This was Jiang Yue's most ordinary weekend, no different from any other.
At five in the afternoon, the temperature dropped slightly. She changed into a dress, grabbed her phone and keys, and headed to the nearest market to buy groceries.
The market was bustling with people and hot. Jiang Yue had been inside for ten minutes, her back already drenched in sweat.
When she got home, she made braised fish, stewed pig's trotters, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and stir-fried vegetables.
After working for more than an hour and serving the dishes on the table, Jiang Yue was a little dazed.
She usually only cooks one dish and one soup, but today she's already seriously exceeded the limit. She bought these dishes subconsciously, not knowing why, but she suddenly wanted to eat them.
She took a bite of each and found it delicious, but she didn't feel any pleasure. She only ate a third of it before wrapping it in plastic wrap and refrigerating it for tomorrow.
This is what it’s like to live alone. If you cook too little, the food won’t taste good, and if you cook too much, you won’t be able to finish it.
She lay in bed, trying hard to recall what she had forgotten.
But no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't remember.
She placed her left hand on her heart, feeling empty.
She spent the entire weekend trying to figure out what was wrong, and she chalked it up to her own idle thoughts.
She decided to sign up for a gym next weekend to make her life more fulfilling.
A new week began, and as a social animal, she put on her mask and worked diligently in the company to earn money. She went to work, went home, ate, slept, and occasionally went to the gym and went shopping alone.
It was very free and safe, everything was peaceful, except that she would always be in a daze from time to time.
......
"Yueyue, Yueyue..."
She heard a familiar voice in her mind, but she couldn't remember who it was.
The voice kept calling her, but she couldn't open her eyes no matter how hard she tried.
At this moment, someone pushed her.
"Yueyue, you finally woke up!"
Jiang Nian brushed back the sweaty hair on her forehead, worry in his eyes.
"Yueyue, you slept so soundly today that I couldn't wake you up. Are you feeling unwell? Or are you just too tired?"
Jiang Yue didn't say anything or respond, just looked at Jiang Nian.
"What's wrong? Huh? Why aren't you talking? Still want to sleep? I'll stay with you."
Jiang Yue reached out and hugged him tightly, burying her head in his chest.
"Are you having a nightmare?" Jiang Nian was originally sitting sideways on the bed, but when she pulled him, he fell down.
Worried about crushing her, Jiang Nian placed his hands on her ears.
Jiang Nian was stunned when he suddenly felt a wetness on his chest.
In the more than two years they had known each other, he had only seen Jiang Yue cry once, which was when they met in Changle Village.
He pursed his lips, a little anxious, wanting to see what was wrong with her, but she held him tightly and he couldn't move.
Jiang Yue said with a nasal voice, "It's okay, just let me hug you."
She had a dream, a dream of modern life. Everything was normal, she had lost nothing, only Jiang Nian.
If she had known from the beginning that there would be a chance to go back, she probably wouldn't have poured her emotions into it like this.
She returned to her peaceful life, no longer having to rush around for her life, no longer having to face natural disasters. But she still had to work hard for a few coins to buy a house, and the pressure of money kept her going. Without Jiang Nian, she was just surviving.
Here, there might be difficulties of all kinds, and one could lose their lives if they weren't careful. But she had money now, so she just had to survive. Home is where the loved ones are.
Life is a life of sacrifice and gain. No matter which path you take, there will always be regrets. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
"Yueyue, what's wrong with you?"
"It's okay. I'm tired and don't want to work anymore. You'll have to do it from now on. I want to be a hands-off boss."
Since the decision has been made, Jiang Yue thinks there is no need to tell the other party and increase his worries.
Jiang Nian chuckled, his chest shaking, and touched her hair. "What you said is unreasonable. When did I ask you to work? I was the one doing all the work."
Jiang Yue decided to try a different approach to make herself feel better and eliminate any possibility of regret.
She sat up suddenly and said firmly, "Come! Count the belongings!"
The easiest thing to count was money. She had more than 40 taels of gold, 120 gold cakes, 24 gold ingots, and more than 300 taels of silver.
Most of the treasures in Madam Lotus' warehouse and the box of antiques collected on the mountain were taken away by the space, and one-fifth was left for her, mostly some exquisite clothes, precious fabrics and some jewelry.
She definitely has all her jewelry. The three pieces she gave her as a gift are still there, and she can pierce the pearls to make her own jewelry. So beautiful!
Two of his cotton-padded jackets were ruined, but he also made two or three extra ones, leaving him with over eighty kilograms of cotton. He also had the animal furs he'd traded for in the trading town, and three carts of Jiangnan cloth he'd gotten from Butler Wang.
As for food, there were still several large buckets of cooked food and hundreds of steamed buns left in the space, which they could digest first.
I'd used up half the seasonings I'd bought at the market, but I still had a few dozen packets of salt and sugar left. I had two large barrels of lard from earlier, and a dozen or so barrels of peanut oil left—all of these were "critical wartime supplies," and the more the better.
The remaining 45 chickens, 12 ducks, 5 pigs, 5 geese, half a sheep, a deer and 20 rabbits, more than 400 eggs and more than 90 breeding eggs.
A total of more than 2,300 kilograms of fresh fish and more than 1,000 kilograms of dried fish were collected.
Carefully fed with good food, the two pairs of piglets were lively and active in the space, adapting well to it. She even felt that they had gained a lot of weight.
Because she couldn't finish all the food and vegetables, she decided not to continue planting, just to take care of the land. But the fruit trees, which she had been tending for two years, couldn't stop growing. This year, they were so abundant in fruit that they had no choice but to harvest and store them...
After taking inventory of his belongings for two hours, Jiang Yue's mood turned from gloomy to cheerful.
She lay down with her arms and legs spread out, feeling delighted. "Oh, I finally understand what it means to count money until my hands are tired. I can never count it all! From now on, we can just lie down and eat and drink!"
In front of her, Jiang Nian was just a robot who could only say "yes", and he would hit wherever Jiang Yue pointed.
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