Chapter 4 Daiyu Knows About the Existence of Space
The heavy snow lasted for three days, and almost all the vegetation in the yard was covered by snow.
Most of the plants have been damaged and killed by the frost, with only a small number of cold-resistant northern varieties showing any signs of life.
But now, there is no snow in the yard, and everything is lush and green, with fruit hanging from the branches of the fruit-bearing plants.
Yuan Hongqu thought she was seeing things, so she blinked hard.
Yes, that big, golden pomelo is still there, and the tree full of lychees isn't fake either...
She rubbed her eyes again, but nothing had changed.
Yuan Hongqu pushed open the door and ran out.
All sorts of flowers were blooming vibrantly around the small building, and she bent down and grabbed a handful of soil.
wrong!
This wasn't the planting soil she had bought before; the soil here looked more like the incredibly fertile black soil from Heilongjiang Province.
But does black soil really have that much fertility?
Yuan Hongqu got up and walked straight to a small patch of chives.
The leek roots that were buried in the snow just a few days ago have grown into rows of little guards, standing tall and straight.
Yuan Hongqu picked up the sickle next to her and cut down two clumps of chives.
Before she could even put the chives down, the area she had just cut sprouted new chives as if on fast-forward, and in about five minutes, the new crop was ready to be harvested again.
Yuan Hongqu's heart was pounding. She quickly cut off the chives that had just sprouted and grown.
As she expected, the chives sprouted again within minutes...
She took a deep breath, silently thinking, "Go back."
Sure enough, she was back in the bedroom provided by the Lin family in a second.
She still time-traveled!
Although Yuan Hongqu had experienced imprisonment, the excitement of meeting Daiyu for the first time, and the brief bewilderment of suddenly being transported to the world of Dream of the Red Chamber, she was still alive today.
But at this moment, she really wanted to laugh out loud three times and thank God again:
God, you have truly been kind to me!
In fact, she did just that.
Yuan Hongqu returned to the small building and stood in the open space in front of it, looking up at the sky.
The sky here is no different from the real sky, except that the clouds don't move, you can feel the sunlight, but you can't see the sun.
She knelt down respectfully, kowtowed three times devoutly, and after expressing her gratitude, solemnly said:
I don't know who this great deity is, but I've given me such a wonderful opportunity. Now I have no desire to die anymore.
Now that you have brought me to the world of Dream of the Red Chamber, to Lin Daiyu's side, I will be her destiny, her guardian angel, and she will be my motivation to live.
After saying that, she stood up and began to take stock of the inventory in her space, while also checking how many other wonders she didn't know about.
The small house and the farmland together cover a total area of more than five acres. It's not big, but it's enough.
Nowadays, the various crops scattered in the fields seem to ripen all at the same time, regardless of the season, time of year, or region.
Next to the watermelon patch was a strawberry field, and lychee and apple trees were laden with fruit...
After spending the night getting acquainted with her, Yuan Hongqu had a general understanding of her space.
All crops in the field, depending on their size, can be harvested in just a few minutes from flowering to fruiting and ripening, and at the slowest, it takes no more than an hour.
The surrounding fruit trees grow a little slower, but compared to the normal growth rate, their fruit growth rate is still phenomenal. After all, no fruit can be picked and then immediately start blooming again...
Aside from fruit, other crops will remain in their best condition for up to three days if left unharvested; they will not age or spoil.
If three days have passed in space and the mature crops are still not harvested, they will then flower and bear fruit.
If the seeds are not harvested, then after another three days, the original plant withers, the seeds will automatically fall to the ground and begin a new growth cycle.
Even if Yuan Hongqu isn't diligent, the space will have its own growth process, so she basically doesn't need to take care of it.
Once the vegetables are harvested, they will spoil in a few days, just like ordinary vegetables, unless they are stored in a small building.
Inside the small building, time seemed to stand still; the fruits and vegetables she brought in remained as fresh and delicious as if they had just been picked.
The building occupies more than 300 square meters, with one basement level and two floors above ground.
The largest area on the first floor is the kitchen, which occupies one-third of the space, and is filled with a dazzling array of kitchen utensils.
In modern times, Yuan Hongqu's main profession is a nutritionist, but after becoming a self-media creator, she has learned a lot of random things on her own. Knowledge that would normally be discarded after use seems to have a place in the world of Dream of the Red Chamber.
She stayed in the space for about four hours, then returned to the world of the Red Chamber, where she could vaguely hear the sounds of the old women on watch changing shifts outside.
The old women seemed to change shifts every hour, meaning that for every four hours she spent in the space, two hours of time passed in the world of the Red Chamber.
While familiarizing herself with the operation of the space, Yuan Hongqu also took care of little Daiyu. She has been in this world of the Red Chamber for some time now.
She realized that the plot of Dream of the Red Chamber was still developing step by step along the original timeline, and she couldn't change it.
All she can do now are minor details.
However, Yuan Hongqu was not discouraged at all.
She's only been here a short time, so there's not much she can do.
Given her current status and position, she can only start with small things.
With enough small acts of kindness, who says we can't accomplish great things? Who says we can't save Daiyu?
She also considered whether she could avoid going to the Rongguo Mansion.
If they don't want to go, there are ways to stop them.
However, weighing the pros and cons, this is a feudal society, and that is Jia Min's maternal home.
Now that Jia Min has passed away, it is both reasonable and emotional that Daiyu should leave the Rongguo Mansion.
As for what happened afterward, she'll shield and protect him!
She wanted to see who could make Daiyu suffer "three hundred and sixty days a year, beset by wind and frost"!
Before stepping into the Rongguo Mansion today, Yuan Hongqu had done a lot of research and finally managed to fan away the stories of Baoyu smashing the jade and giving Daiyu the nickname "Pinpin" with her butterfly wings.
The fact that Baoyu smashed the jade did not happen thus prevented Lady Wang from becoming dissatisfied with Daiyu.
The absence of the characters "颦颦" is a subtle detail from Yuan Hongqu.
Yuan Hongqu is somewhat superstitious.
She had previously read some analyses of these two characters, and all those interpretations were about sorrow, dissatisfaction, and being preoccupied with worries...
None of those explanations used a positive word; they were all just descriptions of depression!
She absolutely did not want Daiyu to have any connection with these things!
Besides, it's not Jia Baoyu's place to give a girl a nickname; he's just a cousin!
If Jia Baoyu really suggested giving Daiyu a nickname, Yuan Hongqu would have a way to do it!
Besides being Daiyu's governess, she was also Daiyu's teacher. There was no need for Master Bao to trouble himself with the matter of choosing a courtesy name; she would naturally choose one for Daiyu when the time was right.
Fortunately, Lin Daiyu's entry into the Rongguo Mansion was uneventful and passed without incident, which can be considered a satisfactory conclusion.
Yuan Hongqu's biggest concern right now is how to openly display the food from her space in the Rongguo Mansion so that Daiyu can eat properly.
Most of the food Daiyu eats for her three meals a day is produced in the space.
Having grown accustomed to food from her spatial dimension, Daiyu became extremely picky about ordinary food...
One morning, not long after Yuan Hongqu fed Daiyu food from her spatial dimension, she had just set out breakfast when she heard Daiyu's voice:
“Granny, I dreamt of you last night. I saw you making layered cakes in a very bright room.”
She pointed to a plate of pastries on the table, cut into diamond shapes and arranged in the shape of a lotus flower, then pointed to the next one:
"And these shrimp dumplings, I also heard you say that if you use wheat starch, it might be hard for people with weak stomachs to digest, so you use wheat flour to make the shrimp dumpling wrappers. Granny, what is wheat starch?"
Yuan Hongqu was shocked and speechless for a moment. Just as she was thinking of how to smooth things over, she heard Daiyu say:
"Granny, I also saw a huge garden. There were so many things in it that I'd never seen before. But those red pears you gave me last time, there was a whole tree over there with them. I'm so hungry just looking at them..."
Daiyu seemed to be just saying it and didn't seem to want to find out more. After saying that, she started eating.
Yuan Hongqu secretly rejoiced that she had escaped a calamity:
These are the things she made in the space last night, and the red pears are ripe red pears from the space.
What Lin Daiyu dreamed of was the scene in her own space.
After that, Lin Daiyu had several more dreams, which she found strange. She wondered why the food that Granny Yuan made in her dreams every night would always appear on the table the next day.
Although Lin Daiyu was intelligent, she was still just a child. She never imagined that Granny Yuan had such a place, and that the food she ate came from there...
Yuan Hongqu let it be, and as long as Daiyu didn't ask, she wouldn't explain, and the two maintained a strange tacit understanding.
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