Chapter 1 Time Travel
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"Oh my goodness! The chubby girl from the Gu family has bumped her head!"
A sharp scream shattered the midday tranquility of Qinghetun.
Beside the stone mill under the old locust tree at the village entrance, an old woman wearing a patched blue cloth shirt was slapping her thigh.
Pointing at the clump of shadows on the ground, his voice was so loud that the sparrows in the treetops fluttered away.
There was a person lying on the ground, or rather, a girl.
A floral print blouse covered her round, chubby body, and two thick braids hung loosely.
His head slammed against the protruding bluestone on the edge of the millstone, and dark red blood gushed out, seeping into the yellow soil—a horrifying sight.
It was none other than Gu Baobao, the precious darling of the Gu family.
"Get out of the way! Everyone get out of the way!"
"Daughter—!"
A thunderous roar came from afar, and a man as strong as a black iron tower pushed through the crowd. It was Gu Baobao's father, Gu Jianqiang.
Seeing the pool of blood on the ground and his daughter's deathly pale face, this man, who could carry two or three hundred pounds without breaking a sweat,
My legs went weak on the spot, and my soul almost flew out of my head.
He lunged forward, his large hands trembling as he hesitated to touch his daughter's face, but finally steeled himself.
He carefully scooped up that soft body and pulled it into his arms, then turned and rushed out of the village.
"Jianqiang! Wait! Hitch the car! Hitch the car!"
Gu Jianguo, the second son of the Gu family, who followed behind, was so anxious that he stomped his feet.
The Gu family courtyard was in an uproar.
"My darling—!"
With a piercing wail, Wu Guixiang, the old lady of the Gu family, rushed out of the yard with her bound feet, almost tripping over the threshold, but was held firmly by her eldest daughter-in-law, Liu Xiuying.
The old woman watched her son run away carrying her granddaughter, who looked like a blood-soaked gourd, and her vision went black. She couldn't catch her breath and fell straight backward.
"Mother! Mother, you can't be hurt!"
The wives were terrified and tried everything from pinching their philtrum to calming their breathing.
"Quick! Boss, go to the team and borrow a donkey cart! Shuguo, you're fast, go to the commune clinic first to report the news!"
Old Master Gu, Gu Dahe, remained relatively composed, but his hand holding the pipe trembled violently, and his voice cracked.
"Everyone else, follow Jianqiang! Quickly!"
A chaotic scene ensued.
Finally, Gu Jianqiang sat on the bumpy donkey cart with his daughter in his arms, next to Wu Guixiang, who was wiping away tears and trying to hold on, and Gu Dahe, whose face was ashen.
The driver was Captain Li Guoqiang, his whip cracking loudly, but his heart ached terribly.
This donkey is the team's prized possession; we mustn't let it get too tired from running so fast!
But seeing the murderous looks on the faces of the Gu family, he swallowed his words and instead lashed the whip even faster.
The donkey cart clattered along the dirt road, kicking up a trail of dust.
Gu Jianqiang felt his daughter's body growing colder and colder in his arms, and his heart sank with her. He kept calling out softly:
"Baby, baby, Daddy's here, wake up, look at Daddy..."
At this chaotic moment, when people's hearts were in their throats:
Gu Baobao, no, now Gu Yubao, suddenly opened her eyes.
A splitting pain shot through my head; my vision went completely red, then the world spun around me.
Countless unfamiliar images and sounds were forcefully crammed into her brain:
Low mud-brick houses, dim kerosene lamps, wild vegetables being dug up all over the mountains, honest, dark-skinned faces, and... countless older brothers?
The smell of eggs?
A chubby, dark-skinned girl was surrounded by a group of teenagers calling her "little sister"?
"hiss--!"
She couldn't help but gasp.
"Awake? Baby's awake!"
Wu Guixiang was the first to notice, and rushed over with a mixture of surprise and delight.
But Gu Yubao had no time to pay attention to the noisy concern around her.
A cold, emotionless electronic voice suddenly echoed in the depths of her mind:
[Buzz—!! Stable vital signs detected. Hello host, welcome to the parallel world, China, 1965 AD, Qinghetun, Qingshan Commune, Liaoning Province.]
I am the merit system bound to your soul, codename: Defu.
Transmitting your current dimension's identity memories and basic survival guide... Transmission in progress.
An even more intense wave of dizziness washed over me!
Gu Baobao felt as if her brain was a tattered sack forcibly stuffed with goods, throbbing painfully.
The original owner's short but beloved nineteen-year life flashed before my eyes like a revolving lantern:
Grandpa Gu Dahe, Grandma Wu Guixiang, five uncles, five aunts, fifteen cousins...
She was the sixteenth grandchild of the Gu family and the only girl, and was cherished by the whole family.
During a time of widespread famine, she managed to become the famous, plump, dark-skinned girl of Qinghetun by relying on the food rations saved by her whole family and the bird eggs and mountain produce that her brothers had gathered.
This morning, she got into an argument with Zhang Pandi from the same village at the village entrance. He shoved her hard, and her head hit the stone roller squarely on the head...
The memory was received, and the intense pain subsided slightly.
Gu Yubao, a genius in his past life and an unlucky wretch from a family of doctors, was sent away by his jealous cousin with a bomb. Now, he finally understands his predicament completely:
She transmigrated into the body of a chubby girl named Gu Baobao in a rural area of Liaoning Province in the 1960s, who had just been murdered.
Before she could even process this surreal reality, the electronic voice came again, its tone seemingly... a little bit more lively?
[Memory transfer complete. Host, listen carefully to your newbie mission—no, your lifelong mission: Strive to survive in this world and actively accumulate merit points!]
Merit points can be exchanged for all items in the Merit Shop!
The online store's medical section includes lost acupuncture techniques, effective ancient prescriptions, and simplified blueprints for future medical devices—a comprehensive collection at affordable prices. Don't miss out!
Gu Yubao: "..."
Isn't this system a bit unorthodox?
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