This time, two mu of corn, one mu of wheat, half a mu of sugarcane, and half a mu of cotton were planted in the space. The remaining land was still used to grow various vegetables.
More than four hundred jin of cotton produced earlier in the space had already had the seeds removed and been dried. Li Ruolan took part of it to a small workshop to be carded into thick cotton quilts.
There were four quilts weighing twelve jin each, four weighing eight jin, and four weighing six jin. All of them were plain cotton batting without quilt covers.
As for quilt covers and the like, she planned to buy them after transmigrating. What if things were different between now and then, and someone noticed something unusual? That would be hard to explain. Everything had to be handled with extreme caution.
After everything in the space was sorted out, Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao checked it again and added quite a few more items.
Inside the small wooden house, they added two large six-door wardrobes, along with a desk and drawer cabinets. The bed was also replaced with a two-meter-wide one.
Outside the wooden house, they even built two stoves that could be used for boiling water and cooking.
After all, once they got there, both of them would be going to the countryside. With how biased Li Ruolan’s parents were, they definitely would not give her anything good.
Deng Minghao’s treatment at home was a bit better than Li Ruolan’s, but it was only enough to keep him fed. The Deng family did not lack sons. Deng Minghao had an older brother and a younger brother.
So when the two of them went to the countryside, their families probably would not give them anything decent. If they wanted to eat better food in the countryside, they would definitely need their own kitchen.
After adding all sorts of miscellaneous items, another month passed in the blink of an eye.
“Do you think we guessed wrong? If we were really going to transmigrate, why is there still no movement at all?” Deng Minghao said to Li Ruolan.
In fact, half a year had already passed, and Li Ruolan was also starting to doubt whether her original judgment had really been wrong.
“Then let’s wait another month. If after a month we still haven’t transmigrated, then we probably guessed wrong. With the space as a cheat, maybe we can just open a big estate,” she said.
They waited another two days, but there was still no sign of transmigration. Deng Minghao was so bored that he took Li Ruolan to the river to go fishing.
However, Deng Minghao’s luck was not very good that day. After fishing for most of the day, he still had not caught a single fish.
“How long has it been? If we still can’t catch any fish, let’s just go back,” Li Ruolan said, feeling bored as she squatted beside her hubby Deng Minghao and stared at the float in the water.
Deng Minghao looked completely justified. “Going back would be boring too. It’s boring no matter where we are. We might as well fish here.”
That made sense. During this period, Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao had been keeping their nerves stretched tight, waiting and waiting for the transmigration that never came.
It might as well be better to let Deng Minghao relax a bit. Li Ruolan sighed, took a small net, and played by herself at the riverbank.
“Do you think we should dig a pond in space and raise some fish, crayfish, or hairy crabs?” she asked.
Deng Minghao replied, “If it doesn’t leak water, then it should be possible. I’ll try it when we get back.”
Li Ruolan hummed in response and stopped talking. Suddenly, she felt as if something flashed in the water. She quickly scooped at it a couple of times with her small net, and ended up pulling out a round bead.
It was made of pebble material, but it was perfectly round.
Li Ruolan felt that it was pretty interesting for a pebble to grow into such a shape. She ran back to Deng Minghao and said, “Minghao, look. I found a round pebble.”
Just as she reached Deng Minghao’s side, Li Ruolan felt her foot slip, and her body immediately lost control and fell toward the water.
Seeing this, Deng Minghao hurriedly threw his fishing rod aside and reached out to grab Li Ruolan.
Their hands clasped together, with the round bead right between their palms.
Splash!
Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao fell into the water together.
Luckily, Deng Minghao knew how to swim, and the spot they had chosen for fishing was not deep. Holding Li Ruolan, Deng Minghao quickly surfaced.
“Wife, you almost scared me to death. Next time you really can’t be this careless anymore,” Deng Minghao said as he put the soaking-wet Li Ruolan down on the ground.
Li Ruolan had swallowed a couple of mouthfuls of water and was coughing badly. Still, after hearing Deng Minghao’s words, she nodded repeatedly. She really had not done it on purpose.
Deng Minghao patted her back, hoping she would feel a bit better.
“I really didn’t mean to. Next time I’ll be more careful… You! Hubby! Why do you look younger?”
Li Ruolan was apologizing when she suddenly noticed that her husband seemed much younger, at most eighteen or nineteen years old.
Deng Minghao was also staring wide-eyed, because he had noticed that Li Ruolan had become younger as well.
The two of them were high school classmates and got married after graduating from university, so they were naturally very familiar with what each other looked like at eighteen or nineteen.
“So we’ve already transmigrated? Just falling into the water and coming back up, and we’ve already transmigrated?” After saying this, Li Ruolan looked around.
This looked like a park. They were lying by a lake in a park, surrounded by lush green trees and a shimmering lake surface.
It was completely different from the place where they had been fishing before. It seemed they really had transmigrated.
Just as Li Ruolan finished thinking this, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her head. Deng Minghao was not doing any better. Both of them clutched their heads in pain.
Before, they had only dreamed of some of the past, like scattered fragments that were not very coherent.
But now, both Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao received all of the original owners’ memories.
The reason the original Li Ruolan had appeared here was because she had come to seek death.
As for the original Deng Minghao, he happened to see Li Ruolan jump into the lake, so he jumped in to save her. In the end, neither of them made it ashore. They both died in the lake, and their bodies were then taken over by the modern Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao.
Previously, based on what she had seen in her dreams, Li Ruolan already found the supporting character Li Ruolan’s family situation unbearable. But she had not expected reality to be a hundred times uglier.
The supporting character Li Ruolan had just graduated from high school. Her father, Li Hongjun, never planned to let her go to the countryside.
Instead, he wanted to marry Li Ruolan off to the factory director’s son, in exchange for a job position for his precious son.
The factory director’s son was almost thirty years old. He had already beaten two wives to death and had two sons and one daughter, three burdens dragging behind him.
Li Hongjun wanted to marry Li Ruolan to such a beast, completely disregarding Li Ruolan’s life or death. All he cared about were the job position and a large bride price.
This was the difficulty Li Ruolan was now facing. She really did not want to marry such a man, so in a moment of despair, she jumped into the river.
Deng Minghao’s situation was not much better.
The Deng family was not biased toward sons over daughters, but they had many sons. Three sons in total, with Deng Minghao ranked second.
People often say the eldest son, the youngest son, and the middle one are stuck in between like a fool. Deng Minghao was exactly that middle child who was almost invisible in the family.
His eldest brother, Deng Minghai, had been a soldier. After retiring from the army, he transferred to a steel factory and became the captain of the security department.
Everything in the family relied on the eldest, Deng Minghai, which made Deng Minghao even less valued in the household.
It was the kind of attitude where as long as you do not die in front of me, anything goes.
In order to attend school, Deng Minghao unloaded goods for others, glued cardboard boxes, and did all kinds of dirty and exhausting jobs. Only then did he save enough money to finish high school.