Shen Shujiao felt a surge of delight and quickly opened the book. The first page introduced what parents needed to prepare before trying to conceive, in order to welcome a healthy, adorable child.
After finishing it, Shen Shujiao’s face darkened slightly. The first time she met Huo Zhoubai, they had slept together—and there had even been an aphrodisiac involved. That clearly didn’t meet the very first condition for conceiving a healthy baby.
The following pages described how a baby’s shape changes week by week inside the mother’s womb. Shen Shujiao calculated the timing—she was one and a half months pregnant. At this stage, the baby should be about the size of a fuzzy soybean.
But she was carrying quadruplets. Would they be even smaller—maybe the size of mung beans?
After reading about fetal growth, she turned the page again and saw the specific steps for nourishing the fetus.
One cup of spirit spring water every day would help the fetuses develop more healthily. Eating foods grown inside the space could make the children even better.
For example, eating fish raised in the space’s river would promote better brain development.
Eating grapes, carrots, and pumpkins grown in the space would give the fetuses dark, bright eyes and good eyesight.
Eating oranges, strawberries, and tomatoes would make their skin fair and delicate.
Reading the contents of the book, Shen Shujiao decided to arrange everything beneficial for fetal development inside the space.
Putting the book down, she walked further inside. Next to the reading area was a huge play-and-entertainment zone—clearly a paradise for children.
The ground was covered with a layer of soft leather carpet; stepping on it felt plush and even. Inside were a carousel, swings, slides, multicolored ball pits, and many toys Shen Shujiao had never played with before.
Without exception, all the play equipment was exquisitely made. Forget children—even Shen Shujiao felt tempted to play.
Since there was a place arranged for children to play, did that mean this space wasn’t only for her to enter? Could her children come in to play after they were born?
If that were true, it would be wonderful.
With four children to raise, Shen Shujiao didn’t need to think to know it would be exhausting.
If there were such a fun place to occupy them and free her hands, that would be better than anything.
Shen Shuman continued forward and arrived at the door of a nursery labeled on a glass door.
Pushing the glass door open, she saw a large glass sphere. Inside it were four smaller spheres, and within each small sphere was a tiny flesh-colored form, connected by a flesh-colored cord. Looking closely, it was actually the shape of an undeveloped baby.
This place was called the nursery—could these four little ones be what the babies in her belly looked like?
Would she be able to watch their daily growth and development inside the space?
As she was thinking this, a blue text panel appeared before her eyes, displaying several lines of words.
【Lucky Koi Quadruplets: Fetal development—46 days. Size comparable to a soybean; length approximately 5 mm; weight 2 grams. A primitive heart has formed and has begun beating regularly. The outlines of the head, trunk, and limbs have initially appeared.】
【Maternal Notes: According to the Lucky Koi Quadruplets Parenting Manual, consume nutritious foods in a timely manner and maintain a pleasant mood during pregnancy.】
After Shen Shujiao finished reading, the blue panel disappeared.
Good heavens—these four tiny soybean-like specks really were the growth status of the babies in her belly.
Ever since becoming pregnant, Shen Shujiao had been curious about what her babies looked like. She never imagined that one day she could realize her dream of face-to-face parenting.
After being happily surprised for quite a while, she went to the first floor to get seeds and plant crops.
Looking at the grains in front of her—now reduced to palm-sized portions and placed in a bag—Shen Shujiao was stumped as she held the rice seeds.
With seeds becoming so small inside the space, how was she supposed to take just the right amount to plant in the fields?
As she was pondering this, another blue panel appeared before her eyes.
【Do you want to plant rice?】
Below the text were two small boxes labeled “Yes” and “No.”
Shen Shujiao reached out and tried pressing “Yes.” The blue panel immediately displayed new text.
【Space Fertile Fields: 100 mu. Space crop growth cycle: 21 days. Please choose the number of mu to plant.】
Below were four options: 1 mu, 5 mu, 10 mu, and 20 mu.
In her previous life, while by Huo Zhoubai’s side, Shen Shujiao had seen that he was responsible for 20 mu of farmland.
Even then, she had thought 20 mu was astonishingly vast. This space had a full 100 mu of fertile land—no wonder she couldn’t see the end at a glance.
Fortunately, planting here was magical and didn’t require her to do it by hand.
Since Shen Shujiao wanted to exchange items from the department store on the second floor, she decisively chose 20 mu.
She then saw the rice in the granary decrease by a tiny amount.
Next, just like planting rice, Shen Shujiao planted wheat, corn, and sweet potatoes as well, leaving five mu unused to buy vegetable and fruit seeds at the market tomorrow.
After finishing the planting, Shen Shujiao soaked in the space’s hot spring pool.
Although the bedroom on the third floor also had a bathtub, she preferred the feeling of soaking in an open-air hot spring outside.
As she soaked comfortably, Shen Shujiao thought about her next plans.
Her sister’s family hadn’t been sent down to the countryside—it had all been lies concocted by her eldest uncle’s family.
To make the lie seem real, her uncle had even arranged for someone to go work at her sister’s home far away in Jiangsu Province, damaging the phone line so that when Shen Shujiao called that day, no one answered, leading her to believe her sister’s entire family had been sent down.
Later, after she became a wandering spirit, she saw her sister’s family actually being sent down—but that happened more than a year later.
It was all because her brother-in-law, the youngest professor at a university, had spoken recklessly and brought disaster upon himself.
Before that happened, she would find time to visit her sister and remind her to have her brother-in-law watch his words and actions.
Right now, the most important thing was the babies in her belly.
She would soon be heading to the island to follow the army. In her previous life, her soul had followed along and lived on that island for nearly two years.
The island was remote. Although the military district had a supply and marketing cooperative, it was still a military camp, and supplies were limited to the bare essentials.
She was carrying quadruplets and would need a great deal of nutrition, as well as supplies for after the babies were born.
During the few days Huo Zhoubai was here, she would gather as many supplies as possible.
Soaking in the comfortable hot spring, Shen Shujiao thought and thought—until she drifted off into a peaceful sleep.
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