Has she returned? What about her three darlings?
She was alone in modern times, without any ties, but in the 1970s, she had three little darlings she couldn’t bear to part with.
Just as Ruan Tinghe was worrying, a flash appeared before her eyes, and she was back in her simple mud house in the 1970s…
“Is this a space? The legendary golden finger that’s essential for time travel?”
Ruan Tinghe almost cried. Four years after time travel! She finally had a golden finger!
And this golden finger was found for her by her three darlings! Her three darlings were simply her lucky stars!
Ruan Tinghe returned to the space again, opened the refrigerator, and it was still full, and nothing was broken.
She turned on the TV, but there was only static. She opened the tablet, but there was no internet, although all other functions worked.
After some testing, Ruan Tinghe confirmed that time was frozen in the space, there was no internet, but the water and electricity were working normally!
“Mom! Dinner’s ready! Are you awake?”
Da Bao’s voice rang out. Ruan Tinghe quickly left the space, opening the door to find Da Bao looking up at her with his hands on his hips, like a little adult.
“Mom, don’t go to work at night anymore, it’s dangerous, Da Bao will worry about you.”
“Okay, Mom promises!”
Ruan Tinghe readily agreed, after all, the job of transmitting important information for the country wasn’t something you could easily come across.
“Mom, can you continue telling us the story of ‘Bright Sword’ tonight?”
Da Bao’s expectant eyes stared intently at Ruan Tinghe. Ruan Tinghe was somewhat helpless; she wondered whose genes Da Bao inherited to like stories about fighting the Japanese invaders!
Erbao peeked out from behind the door, pulling his younger sister along. “Mommy, my sister and I both want to listen to Snow White!”
Dabao put his hands on his hips: “Listen to ‘Bright Sword’ first!”
Erbao made a face: “Snow White!”
“Why would a boy like you listen to Snow White!”
“My sister likes it, are you going to fight her for it?”
“Hmph! Snow White it is, I won’t let you eat the food I made! My sister can eat it!”
“No, big brother!”
…
The two brothers bickered as usual, and Sanbao was amused but couldn’t make a sound.
Ruan Tinghe’s nose stung, and tears welled up in her eyes.
It was all her fault for being useless. If she had studied fashion design, food, or scientific research in her previous life, she wouldn’t be in such a bad situation in this era!
She wouldn’t be unable to earn enough money in this small county to take Sanbao to the big city for medical treatment!
Ruan Tinghe pinched herself hard. That scumbag who abandoned his wife and children, who started something and then abandoned it, who was heartless, who said he would marry her but then disappeared the next day!
Ugh!
She’d been thinking about him constantly these past two days!
How pathetic of her!
She’d only eaten meat once, why was she so hung up on it? What a glutton!
It’s not like all the men with good figures are dead; Tiger was pretty good!
Suddenly, she remembered that night she and Tiger were acting together. Ruan Tinghe shook her head.
Tiger was nice, but his job was too dangerous, and he seemed to be lacking in that area…
“Mommy, do you have a fever? Your face is so red.”
Erbao tugged at Ruan Tinghe’s finger in confusion. Ruan Tinghe snapped out of her reverie, feeling both embarrassed and annoyed. She forced herself to shut up and went to eat.
Dinner was simple: steamed pork belly, peanuts, and green beans with rice. Easy for Dabao, and a balanced meal for the whole family, and most importantly, it tasted really good!
Usually, when Ruan Tinghe wasn’t home, Dabao would cook like this or buy food from outside.
When Ruan Tinghe was home and had time, she would cook something more elaborate.
After dinner, having put the three babies to sleep, Ruan Tinghe was just about to go back into her spatial dimension to continue her research when she heard rustling sounds outside. Someone had climbed over the wall!
Ruan Tinghe quickly took out her stun gun from her spatial dimension. If she had carried this thing with her in her previous life, she wouldn’t have died so quickly!
“Are you sure that brat Ruan Tinghe isn’t home?”
“She’s definitely not home. I found out yesterday that she went to draw portraits of the dead and won’t be back anytime soon. I came by twice today and only saw three good-for-nothings playing in the yard.”
“Then how about we take a few?”
“Nonsense, of course we’ll take all three! Ruan Tinghe treasures these three good-for-nothings the most. As long as we threaten her with the children, I don’t believe she won’t obediently get married!”
“Hmph, once she gets married, we’ll sell the three little ones and get a lot of money!”
“That’s right! Anyway, we can’t let Jiaojiao’s husband see Ruan Tinghe with these three bastards! Once Jiaojiao becomes a military wife, we’ll be rich! I heard her husband earns over a hundred yuan a month in the army!”
Two familiar voices rang out. Ruan Tinghe recognized them immediately; they were the original owner’s biased mother, Li Qiumei, and father, Ruan Dashan.
The Ruan family had no sons, only two daughters, but Ruan Dashan and his wife doted on Ruan Jiaojiao. Ruan Jiaojiao had never done any hard labor, while Ruan Tinghe served the entire family like a slave.
The reason was simple: Ruan Tinghe wasn’t their biological child.
Ruan Tinghe was too beautiful; having painted for many years, she could confirm through bone structure and genetic analysis that she wasn’t a biological daughter of the Ruan family.
Ruan Tinghe didn’t plan to find her biological parents. Firstly, information was scarce in this era, making it too difficult to find them.
Secondly, she wasn’t the original owner of this body, and even if she found her biological parents, she wouldn’t know how to get along with them.
Thirdly, she was pregnant and raising a child, so she simply didn’t have the time or money to find her biological parents.
Ruan Dashan and Li Qiumei might know who her biological parents were, but getting them to talk wouldn’t be easy.
“I heard there’s a capitalist in the next county whose child died, about the same age as the girl. If we send her to a ghost marriage…”
Ruan Tinghe, who had only retrieved a stun gun from her spatial storage, immediately switched to a kitchen knife after hearing this.
“You want to sell my child, and you want to sell me to a ghost marriage, huh! I’ll kill you both! ”
She burst from the darkness and slashed at the two men.
“Help! Help! Murder!”
Ruan Tinghe screamed as she wildly slashed, chasing after Ruan Dashan and Li Qiumei’s arms, slashing left and right until they cried out in pain, kneeling and begging for mercy.
The neighbors, hearing the commotion, had already come knocking on the door.
Ruan Tinghe gritted her teeth, picked up the club Ruan Dashan had brought, and struck her right arm. It wasn’t a hard blow, but she was prone to bruising, and her skin was delicate and fair; it quickly turned a gruesome purple.
Not content with that, Ruan Tinghe disheveled her hair and clothes.
Then, limping, she ran to the door, opened it, stumbled out, distraught, tears streaming down her face.
“Help! Help me and my child…”
The next day, at the police station.
Officer Chen, having finished taking statements, faced the three soft, sweet-voiced children.
“Grandpa Chen, my mother did nothing wrong. She was just protecting us.”
“Grandpa Chen, can you not make Mommy stand in the fence? Mommy is still so young; she can’t live without us.”
The three children, unable to speak, simply ran to Officer Chen, raised their two pink little fists, and put them into the handcuffs hanging around his waist, looking up at him with tear-reddened eyes.
“Ah…ah!”
Erbao translated, “My sister said to grab her if you want, she eats very little.”
Old Chen’s heart melted. He picked up Xiaobao, these three little ones were practically grown up under his watchful eye, and he knew Ruan Tinghe’s family situation very well.
“Xiaobao, be good, your mom is alright now, she can go home with you in a little while.”
Sanbao’s eyes lit up immediately, and she gave Old Chen a kiss on the cheek.
Dabao and Erbao also hugged Old Chen’s legs, their faces full of excitement.
“Really? Grandpa Chen, is Mom really alright?”
“Of course, Grandpa Chen wouldn’t lie to you, she can come out after writing a guarantee.”