After receiving the doctor’s definite approval, Su Heping and Old Madam Su carefully supported the weakened Su Mingyue as they walked out of the clinic.
Once they were outside, Uncle Su saw that the ox cart was quietly waiting for them. Su Heping and Old Madam Su gently helped Su Mingyue into the cart, and Old Madam Su even had her lie down, resting Su Mingyue’s head in her lap.
Uncle Su sat at the front of the cart, flicking the whip and urging the ox to move forward slowly. Just as he had on the way there, Su Heping walked alongside the ox cart as they made their way home.
Looking at the peacefully sleeping Su Mingyue in the cart, Su Heping’s heart was filled with affection and concern. He wanted to know what had happened. Why had Su Mingyue accidentally fallen into that remote mountain hollow?
But seeing how utterly exhausted she was and how she had fallen into sleep again, the words that had reached the tip of his tongue were forcibly swallowed back.
“Forget it, forget it. I’ll ask the child after she wakes up…” Su Heping sighed softly, his brows slightly furrowed as he secretly wondered what exactly had happened.
Had it been an accident? Or had someone done it deliberately?
The thought made his mood even heavier.
Once Mingyue woke up, he would definitely have to question her carefully.
At last, the group arrived at Su Mingyue’s home. Su Heping and Old Madam Su first carefully carried Su Mingyue inside.
Then Old Madam Su gently supported Su Mingyue as they slowly entered the bedroom and helped her lie down on the bed. Only after seeing that Su Mingyue had fallen safely asleep did Old Madam Su quietly leave the room.
At that moment, Su Qingfeng returned to his own home from Su Heping’s house. He was standing in the courtyard, looking toward Su Mingyue’s room.
Old Madam Su came into the courtyard and called out, “Qingfeng, come here.”
Su Qingfeng immediately came over when he heard her.
With a serious expression, Old Madam Su instructed him, “Qingfeng, stay here and keep an eye on your sister for now. Don’t leave her side for even a moment. I’ll go home and pack some things, then I’ll come back shortly. I have to stay here tonight in case your sister develops a fever during the night.”
Hearing what his grandmother said, Su Qingfeng hurriedly nodded.
“Don’t worry, Grandma. I’ll definitely take good care of my sister.”
Only after hearing this did Old Madam Su feel reassured, and she hurriedly left.
Night fell, and everything became utterly silent.
Sure enough, just as Old Madam Su had feared, Su Mingyue suddenly developed a high fever. Her face was flushed red, and from time to time she would mumble incoherently in her sleep.
Seeing this, Old Madam Su was frantic with worry. She quickly got up, found some fever-reducing medicine, and poured a cup of warm water. Then she helped Su Mingyue sit up and slowly fed the medicine into her mouth.
Afterward, Old Madam Su used a damp towel to gently wipe Su Mingyue’s forehead, carefully avoiding the wound there. She also wiped her cheeks and neck, trying to help bring her temperature down.
Old Madam Su did not sleep at all that night. She stayed by Su Mingyue’s side, periodically touching her forehead and checking her temperature.
It was not until dawn that Su Mingyue’s temperature finally began to return to normal.
By then, Old Madam Su was already utterly exhausted. But when she saw that her granddaughter’s temperature had returned to normal, the deep crease between her brows finally relaxed.
Thus, Old Madam Su lay down beside Su Mingyue, intending to rest for a little while. That night’s ordeal had nearly worn the old woman out.
After an entire night of her soul and body merging together, Su Mingyue’s soul finally finished integrating with the body, and she woke up.
Although she had briefly awakened at the clinic the previous day, her mind had actually been barely conscious at the time. So when Su Mingyue opened her eyes this morning, the first thing she saw was the low ceiling beams above her.
She shifted her eyes slightly, and in the corner of her vision she saw the dim, yellowish wall.
Su Mingyue had no idea what was going on. Her head hurt terribly, especially her forehead, where a sharp throbbing pain came in waves.
The pain in her forehead was caused by the wound, while the pain in her head was because her soul was receiving the original owner’s memories.
The original owner’s memories came rushing in like a tide, swift and violent. Su Mingyue couldn’t help closing her eyes and silently absorbing them.
After she finished receiving the memories, Su Mingyue went through what she had seen and finally understood her current situation.
She had known it—after self-destructing together with the Zerg Queen and dying alongside her, there was no way she should still be alive!
It turned out that, for some unknown reason, her soul had somehow traveled through time and arrived in the ancient era of China, at the end of the 1950s.
Back in the interstellar era, she had studied this period of history. According to what she remembered, from 1959 to 1961, China entered three years of severe famine.
There was too little food and too many people. Disasters occurred everywhere, resulting in the deaths of countless people. Some died because of the disasters themselves, while others starved to death.
At that time, China had only been founded nine years earlier. There were still many countries eyeing China covetously, harboring ambitions to divide it up and annex it. As a result, there were many spies operating in the shadows and causing trouble, and countless people lost their lives.
Why had they studied this period of history in the interstellar era?
It was because the humans on the planet where she lived were descendants of the ancient Chinese people. Although, in the interstellar era, they no longer referred to themselves in terms of countries and instead identified themselves by their planets, there were still people from certain other planets who were truly annoying.
They were just like certain countries in this era—equally detestable.
Whenever they didn’t have something themselves, they were always trying to snatch it from someone else.
Tsk, tsk, tsk!
Back in the interstellar era, she had secretly dealt with those people more than once. She especially enjoyed watching them become furious while being completely unable to do anything about her.
That feeling was incredibly satisfying!
When she arrived here, the original owner’s soul was already gone. As her own soul passed through the original owner’s body, she was sucked inside.
Her soul had already become extremely weak from traveling through time and space, and the original owner’s body was weak as well. That was why she had immediately lost consciousness.
The reason the original owner’s body was so weak was because her father, Su Zhenhua, had suffered an accident in a mine tunnel toward the end of last year.
While digging for coal deep inside the mine, the tunnel suddenly collapsed.
The original owner’s father was a righteous man. In order to make sure that the people he had brought with him could be rescued first, he chose to be the last person to leave.
But because he had been buried for too long, they ultimately failed to save him.
All that remained was three hundred yuan in compensation for his death.
The original owner’s mother had already been in poor health. When she suddenly heard the news that her husband was gone, she fainted on the spot.
Afterward, when she regained consciousness, she forced herself to hold on and, despite her poor health, took care of all the funeral arrangements.
Once the funeral was over, the breath she had been forcing herself to hold onto finally dissipated.
And along with that breath, she passed away as well.
The original siblings had only just endured the grief of saying farewell to their beloved father. Before they had even recovered from the pain of losing their closest family member, their mother followed him to her death.
From that point onward, at some unknown time, some unpleasant rumors began circulating throughout the village.
Although everyone was wary of Su Mingyue’s eldest uncle, Su Heping, because he was the captain of the production brigade, and therefore did not dare openly bring those malicious words directly before the siblings, there were always one or two people who were foolish, reckless, or simply unable to read the situation.