“Mom!! Please wake up, don’t scare Sanya…”
A burst of wailing woke Su Yunxi from her sleep, her mind still foggy.
The pain of being torn apart by zombies was still vivid in her memory. Logically, she should be dead, but why? Why was someone calling her Mom?
Su Yunxi slowly opened her eyes and saw two little girls beside her, their faces stained with tears. Next to the pillow was a sleeping baby, undisturbed by the sisters’ cries.
The two little girls, perhaps not expecting Su Yunxi to actually wake up, were stunned for a moment before reacting and excitedly hugging her.
“Mom! You’re awake! That’s great!!!”
Su Yunxi paused, realizing she was lying on a dirt bed covered only with a straw mat. The house was made of adobe and leaked air everywhere.
There was no furniture in the house, not even a table or bench. The only cotton quilt was covered in patches.
With such a simple living environment, the children’s lives couldn’t be good. Their clothes were almost entirely made of patched fabric.
Su Yunxi frowned, wanting to get up and ask what was going on, but a sharp pain shot through her head. Many familiar memories flooded her mind, quickly merging with her soul.
Seeing Su Yunxi in pain, the children panicked, but they couldn’t do anything except worry.
Even if they told their grandparents, they wouldn’t care.
Fortunately, Su Yunxi recovered quickly. Looking at the two young children and the baby in swaddling clothes, her lips twitched.
She had indeed transmigrated, back to 1975, a difficult era.
Su Yunxi sighed. Although this period was not much better than the apocalypse, at least she didn’t have to worry about constant life-threatening danger.
Seeing the children crying uncontrollably, Su Yunxi could only awkwardly offer comfort.
“Mom is okay, I’m sorry for worrying you.”
Seeing that Su Yunxi was really alright and could speak, the two children managed to force out an ugly smile.
Seeing the children calm down, Su Yunxi wanted to get up, but her body was too weak. Just the act of sitting up made her dizzy.
“I don’t want to marry Old Man Zhou, Grandma, please, I have strength, I can do a lot of work, I can serve Grandpa, Grandma, and my uncles and brothers!”
Just as Su Yunxi recovered, she heard crying from the yard.
“Mom, it’s Grandma. Grandma wants to sell Eldest Sister to Old Man Zhou from the next village. That Old Man Zhou is the same age as Grandpa and Grandma, how can Eldest Sister marry him, Mom!”
Erya, hearing her Eldest Sister’s cries in the yard, remembered the most important thing.
They had come to find Su Yunxi to stop their grandparents from selling Eldest Sister, but as soon as they entered the house, they saw Su Yunxi lying quietly on the bed, her face pale, with rat poison scattered around.
Hearing the children’s words, although Su Yunxi was still having trouble accepting that she had become a mother without any warning, and a mother of four children, buying and selling women was a serious crime in any era.
Su Yunxi herself was a woman, so naturally she couldn’t stand such things.
“Let’s go, follow Mom to save your Eldest Sister!”
Su Yunxi didn’t care about her weak body and rushed out of the room. Their house was in the backyard. As she ran to the front yard, she grabbed the hoe leaning against the corner of the wall.
Erya and Sanya, following behind Su Yunxi, saw her holding the hoe with a fierce look and tried to pick up a shovel or hammer like Su Yunxi.
The two children were twins, now ten years old, but because they were malnourished from not having enough to eat, they looked like seven or eight-year-olds.
They couldn’t lift the heavy farm tools at all. Helpless, the two children could only pick up two firewood sticks and run to the front yard with Su Yunxi.
Su Yunxi ran to the front yard and saw Daya kneeling at the old lady’s feet, crying her heart out. Beside Daya stood an old man holding a tobacco pipe, looking at Daya with a lewd and greedy expression.
The old lady Li kicked Daya away.
“Crying, crying! Old Man Zhou works at the slaughterhouse in the commune, and his family is much better off than ours. You’ll have meat to eat if you marry him, why are you still crying!”
After the old lady Li finished speaking, she winked at Old Man Zhou standing next to her. Old Man Zhou received the signal and rubbed his hands excitedly, reaching out to pull Daya.
“Let go of Daya!”
Seeing this, Su Yunxi became anxious, picked up the hoe, and struck at Old Man Zhou’s pig hand. Su Yunxi swung with all her might, without holding back.
With one hoe, Old Man Zhou’s hand was deformed, obviously broken.
Old Man Zhou was stunned by the sudden change for a moment, before feeling the stabbing pain in his wrist. He let out a scream and fell to the ground, rolling around while clutching his wrist.
Su Yunxi quickly pulled Daya behind her to protect her. Everything happened so fast that everyone was stunned in place and didn’t react.
Erya and Sanya, who ran slower, happened to see Su Yunxi hitting someone and stared at her with wide eyes.