Chapter 1 Crossing Over to a Farmhouse

  A man in magnificent attire stood with his hands behind him at the edge of a cliff shrouded in mist.

  Behind him stood a shabbily dressed frail girl, desperately suppressing the low sobbing sounds that kept escaping from her mouth.

  The man's face was filled with impatience, he turned around and looked at the girl with disgust: "I've said all I need to say, I'm leaving."

  The girl reached out and grabbed his sleeve, choking back tears: "I don't want to..."

  The man glanced at the sleeve that was being grasped, his eyes filled with even more disgust. He struggled to control his emotions which were on the verge of erupting: "Nowadays we are not compatible, Fangzi, just let me go."

  The girl looked at him incredulously as he turned his back on her and said, "Let me go."

  But now except for him, I have no one else to rely on, who can give me a way out?

  Tugging at his sleeve, she burst into tears: "Don't, Fan'er, don't annul the engagement. In just one more year, Fan'er can become your wife. You promised to help me take care of Grandma and Mother."

  The man fell silent for a moment, took out a small bag of silver coins, turned around and handed it to her: "These silver coins are for you, they should be enough to support you until your mother gives birth. Just promise me one thing - dissolve our engagement."

  Without waiting for the girl to respond, the man reached out and pulled down from her neck the token of engagement that had been given to her family since she was a child. As long as he got this back, outsiders would believe him, their marriage contract would be dissolved, and he could marry into the Prime Minister's family, from then on rising to prominence.

  The girl came to her senses and grabbed his hand: "Yun Song Ge, you can't do this. If the engagement is dissolved, Fang Er's life will be over."

  The man could no longer suppress the disgust in his heart and forcefully waved his hand to push her away, but unexpectedly used too much force...

  "Brother Yun Song, save me..." The girl who was pushed to the edge of the cliff by him grasped a plant at the edge of the cliff with all her might, and her whole body was already suspended in mid-air.

  The man's handsome face flashed with anxiety, and he took a big step forward, wanting to pull her up, but stopped just as he was about to touch her thin arm. He understood her, even if he had taken back the engagement token, she would definitely make a scene that everyone would know about, which would be disadvantageous to him.

  After a moment of contemplation, he stretched out his hand and grasped hers. As she revealed her joy and loosened the plant, he ruthlessly let go of his own hand, watching with open eyes as she fell into the mist-shrouded valley.

  “……”

  Suddenly startled, Su Xiaomu sat up with a start.

  Glanced at the tattered and patched quilt covering his body, he blinked in confusion. He should be dead, falling from such a high rooftop without being smashed to pieces was strange.

  But what's going on?

  Just as she was puzzled, a memory that didn't belong to her surged into her mind, and she rubbed her temples with a headache.

  Just then, the door creaked open and Su Xiaomu looked up to see a woman standing in the doorway, holding a broken bowl and wearing a tattered linen shirt, her face filled with surprise and delight.

  "Finally, you've woken up. I was worried to death. Quickly lie down." The woman entered the room and put the bowl on the bedside table, helped her lie down, covered her with a quilt, and wiped away tears from her wrinkled face due to excitement.

  Su Xiaomo furrowed her brow as she looked at her, receiving that memory, and realized that she might have transmigrated into the body of Su Xiaofan, who had fallen from a high place just like herself.

  The woman in front of him at this moment was Su Xiaofan's mother, Madam Jia.

  "Uh..." Su Xiao Meng opened her mouth, wanting to say something to comfort her, but found that her voice was unusually hoarse and her throat hurt.

  "Stop talking, you've been unconscious for four or five days, with a high fever that wouldn't subside. Now that it's finally gone down, rest well. I'll go get some porridge for you." Mrs. Jia got up and hurriedly ran out.

  Su Xiaomo's heart was in her throat as she watched, wondering how someone with such a big belly could walk so fast without any problems.

  I remember when my sister was about to give birth, she had to be supported by others when walking.

  After she left, Su Xiaomeng sat up again and looked around. The uneven mud wall made of pitiful mud, the only things in the room were the bed she was sleeping on now, plus an old broken cabinet, there were no other objects.

  She turned her head to look at the broken bowl placed beside her, which was emitting hot air. It was called a broken bowl because it had several missing pieces around its mouth. The bowl contained dark, unidentified water with some residual dregs floating on its surface.

  Just as she was staring at the bowl in a daze, Mrs. Jia returned with a smile and said: "Look at my memory, I forgot to give you your medicine, come on, hurry up and drink it before it gets cold."

  Su Xiaomo thought to herself, so that was medicine after all.

  She obediently took it and drank it down, feeling a bit astringent, but didn't taste any medicinal flavor, probably because it had been boiled many times already.

  After hesitating for a moment, Su Xiaomu stuttered out the words "That... mother, you're not feeling well, I'll just go get something to eat myself."

  Although she said so, Su Xiaomu also knew at this moment that there was probably nothing edible left at home.

  "You'd better rest well, your grandma has gone to buy things and will be back soon. The pot already has boiling water." Jia's face showed guilt, hesitated for a long time before saying: "Fang'er, don't blame your mother and grandma, it's just that we really have no money to get you medicine or food, so..."

  "When they carried you back, your mother was almost scared to death. There was no money at home to buy medicine for you, and there was nothing to eat. Later, the Zhang family sent over some silver coins, saying it was compensation money for breaking off the engagement. Cloud Pine has already gone to the capital, and it's said that he's decided to marry into a noble family. It's all because your mother and father misjudged Cloud Pine when he was young."

  Su Xiaomo suddenly understood the whole story, and was just wondering how Grandma could afford to buy food, thinking that Zhang Yuncong knew she wasn't dead yet and could leave with peace of mind, wasn't he afraid that Su Xiaofan would go out and cause trouble for everyone to know?

  "It's fine, since it was given, just accept it." The silver that was given for nothing wouldn't be taken back for nothing. Anyway, at present her family didn't even have rice to cook, and now she wasn't Su Xiaofan anymore, so she wouldn't get hurt in the first place.

  "Ah, Fang'er has grown up and become sensible." Mrs. Jia smiled to herself and carried the bowl out of the room.

  Su Xiaomo only felt her whole body was weak and numb, anyway there was nothing to do, fortunately she lay down to rest, before long she fell asleep.

  She had slept for a long time, dazed and confused, and vaguely smelled the fragrance of rice. Su Xiaomu slowly opened her eyes to see an old woman standing beside her bed. This person was Su Xiaofan's grandmother - Ye Shi.

  "Fan'er woke up, come and drink this bowl of porridge." Ye Shi saw her wake up, smiled lovingly, and handed over the bowl in her hand.

  "Hmm." Su Xiao Miao was indeed hungry, according to what they said, she had been unconscious for several days, so it had been several days since she last ate. She sat up and finished a bowl of porridge in just a few mouthfuls.

  "Do you want more? Grandma will go get you another bowl." Ye took the bowl and, with trembling hands, prepared to turn around and walk out.

  After eating something and sleeping for a while, Su Xiaomu felt much more comfortable. She quickly got out of bed and supported her: "Grandma, you're old, so why don't you rest for a bit? I'll go get it myself later."

  Ye's family heard this and didn't say much more, sat down on the bed to rest, having been busy all morning, she was really exhausted.

  "Where's my daughter?" Su Xiao Meng was worried about Jia Shi, who was about to give birth. She thought of her severely malnourished complexion and her overly thin body, wondering how she could safely deliver the child in her womb.

  "What about outside the hospital?" As soon as this was mentioned, Ye got up in a hurry again and said to Su Xiao Meng: "Fang'er, you rest well, Grandma is going out to see your mother."

  Su Xiaomo nodded inexplicably, and if she hadn't seen it wrong just now, she saw a hint of panic in the eyes of that old woman.

  After seeing her off, Su Xiaomeng prepared to lie back down and rest some more. Her body was the capital of revolution, after all. She would take care of it first, then think about what came next later. Since she had come, she might as well be at ease.

  "What are you doing?" Just as Ye stepped into the courtyard, she saw two women grabbing Jia's hands and rummaging through her body.

  "Daughter." Jia struggled a few times but couldn't break free from their grip.

  Ye looked at her and walked over, saying softly to those fierce women: "Erwa's mother, Sixi's mother, what are you doing? Ziyuan is now pregnant, as a woman, how can you make things difficult for her?"

  Upon hearing this, the two women looked at each other and hesitated for a moment before loosening their tight grip on Jia's hand.

  "Mother, it's Eldest Sister who didn't keep her promise earlier. We agreed to lend money to help with Big Brother's funeral, and now that you have the money, return it to us." Second Son's mother, Li, had a sturdy build and was quite plump, making her appear even larger than an average man, with a coarse and rough voice to match.

  "Zi Yan did say that, but now we can't come up with the money..." Ye's face showed a hint of shame. This was all her own fault. When Yi Fu passed away, she had insisted on buying him a coffin so he could leave this world with dignity, which led to them owing such a large sum of money. For a family that had lost its sole breadwinner, Yi Fu, it was an astronomical amount.

  "Didn't the Zhang family give Xiao Fan a sum of money to break off the engagement? Why didn't Elder Sister take it out and return some to us?" Fourth Joy's mother, Meng Shi, had a similar build to Li Shi, but her voice was slightly sharper. Seeing Ye Shi's displeased expression, she continued, "Mother, it's not that we're rushing you, we also need to make a living."

  "Support the family? The money earned by Er Ye and San Ye is not enough to support the family? When do you need to worry, are you trying to drive Yuyan to death? That little silver is Fan'er's life-saving money!" Ye Shi helped Jia Shi forward, this child has been getting thinner since Yi Ye left, coupled with Fan'er's affairs this time, really afraid she can't hold on.

  "......" Mr. Li and Mrs. Meng knew they were in the wrong, but still didn't want to leave empty-handed. They caught sight of Su Xiaofan slowly walking out of the house and Mr. Li loudly called out: "Mother, isn't Xiao Fan awake now?"

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