Bang!
Tang Zhen, who had shown almost no expression since entering the room, slammed his palm down on the coffee table.
The soup bowl on top rattled violently, making a loud clanking sound.
Tang Yue was startled.
She clenched her hands and looked firmly at Tang Zhen.
She hadn’t lied.
If she married into the Qin family, the fate of her previous life would repeat itself.
The Qin family wouldn’t help.
Half a month later, the Tang family would be investigated and punished. Grandma would be forced to separate from her parents and take her younger brother with her.
Her brother was still young and had always been the little tyrant of the family. Even with Grandma protecting him, he couldn’t withstand such a drastic change in circumstances.
He resisted again and again, only to be beaten by those people.
Then, half a month later, on a dark and windy night, he abandoned Grandma and tried to escape.
He never expected to step into empty air and fall off a cliff.
“Oh, heavens! Oh, heavens! Zhen’er, did you hear that? Your father is warning us! Your father is warning us!”
After hearing what would happen to her beloved grandson, Cai Jinhe patted her chest.
Once she recovered from the shock, she clasped her hands together and kept bowing toward the surroundings, muttering things like, “Heavenly Lord, please protect us,” and “Old man, please protect us.”
Tang Zhen stared intently at Tang Yue.
He couldn’t detect anything unusual in her eyes, but he still couldn’t quite believe something so supernatural.
Even so, wariness had already begun to creep into his heart.
Tang Yue took a deep breath.
She knew Tang Zhen wouldn’t easily give up such a prestigious marriage alliance with the Qin family.
Otherwise, five years ago, he wouldn’t have gone to such lengths to take it away from Tang Youyou.
But that didn’t matter.
She would make him give it up willingly.
“Grandpa also said that Zhao Yunzhou joined the army six years ago and is already a company commander. In another couple of years, he’ll keep rising through the ranks. In less than ten years, he’ll be a senior colonel and hold a regiment-level command.”
“What?”
This time, Tang Zhen couldn’t sit still.
The Tang family and Qin family were both century-old clans.
Yet now, the Tang family was facing investigation and liquidation, while the reason the Qin family had remained standing all this time was because the Qin family’s aunt had married into the Huo family, a family with three generations of military service.
The son of that Qin family’s aunt, Huo Mingxuan, was only twenty-six years old, yet he was already a regiment-level officer.
It was precisely because of the Huo family’s support that the Qin family had continued to prosper.
Unlike the Tang family, which had no powerful connections behind it and was suppressed wherever it went.
If…
If Zhao Yunzhou really was a company commander and could eventually rise to become a regiment commander, then…
Then perhaps the Tang family could rise again in the future.
Not to mention, if Ruitian had a brother-in-law like Zhao Yunzhou to help him, his future would be limitless.
Tang Zhen suppressed the excitement in his heart and pondered for a moment.
“I’ll have someone look into this. Until then, don’t do anything rash.”
Tang Yue let out a long breath.
She knew that with her father’s response, the matter was practically settled.
The Tang family would be investigated and punished in half a month.
She had to use this time to make as many preparations as possible.
Perhaps…
She could use the excuse of Grandpa’s warning to discuss with Grandma selling off the antiques in her room.
Tang Yue looked around, concealing the gleam in her eyes.
A lot had happened that day.
It wasn’t until nightfall, when Tang Youyou finally lay down on her bed, that she could catch her breath and carefully think about what she should do next.
The Tang family’s downfall was practically a certainty.
Her father had already confirmed the news.
So how could she keep the main branch of the family from being implicated?
And if there was no way to avoid it, how could she make sure the entire family could remain in the capital?
If her luck really was that bad and she ultimately had no choice but to be sent down to the countryside, how could she ensure that her parents could still live comfortably?
These were all problems she had to consider.
She had no idea how to solve the first two problems for now.
As for the third…
Was marrying Zhao Yunzhou really her best way out, just as Tang Hao had said?
No!
Tang Youyou rolled over in bed, hugging her silk quilt.
She had lived for twenty-two years and had never spent a day in the countryside.
And this was rural China in 1968.
She couldn’t even begin to imagine what life there would be like.
As for marrying into the Qin family?
If they could really help, she wouldn’t even mind taking care of the mistress’s confinement after she gave birth.
But according to what her father had said, the Qin family had already split into five different factions.
The apparent peace was merely superficial.
There was absolutely no way the other branches would watch the eldest branch exhaust itself and pay such a heavy price to save the Tang family.
As for her original plan—
Get married first. If things go badly, just get divorced.
After seeing how much this family genuinely loved her, she couldn’t bring herself to be that ruthless anymore.
She could get married.
But what she wanted was for Tang Hao and Zhou Ping to remain in the capital too.
And that brought her right back to the second problem.
No solution for now.
Tang Youyou tossed and turned.
For the first time in her twenty-two years of life, she couldn’t sleep.
After lying awake for a long while, she simply entered her space.
Shennong Space
This was an inheritance passed down through the Tang family.
It was only given to the child with the greatest talent in each generation.
There was only Tang Youyou in her generation.
And since her father had no particular talent for traditional Chinese medicine, her grandfather had directly passed it down to her.
The space was enormous.
The moment she entered, the first thing she saw was an exquisitely decorated house with green-tiled roofing.
And this wasn’t something that had simply appeared out of nowhere.
Generation after generation of ancestors had purchased building materials from outside and personally constructed it, brick by brick.
Of course, that had nothing to do with Tang Youyou.
Whatever the space had looked like when she inherited it from her grandfather was exactly how it remained.
Standing at the entrance of the little green-tiled house, she looked out.
Dozens of mu of medicinal herb fields stretched before her.
Each plot had been cultivated into an area of roughly one hundred square meters, with paths paved with bluestone running between them.
Time inside the space flowed ten times faster than outside.
That meant many annual medicinal herbs only needed one month to mature.
Before Tang Youyou transmigrated, she had just harvested a batch of medicinal herbs and donated them to hospitals in mountainous regions.
Now, only one or two plots in the space were planted with perennial medicinal herbs.
The rest were completely empty.
Around the outer edge of the herb fields was a row of fruit trees.
Apples, pears, grapes, durians, jackfruit, and all kinds of other fruits she loved.
To the right of the little green-tiled house was a crescent-shaped spiritual spring.
It was roughly the size of half a soccer field.
A ring of small white stones surrounded it, and walking barefoot across them was incredibly comfortable.
The spring’s source itself had been built up with bricks.
That was the part used for drinking.
As for the rest, Tang Youyou used it for swimming, bathing, and irrigation.
The spiritual spring had the effects of refreshing the mind, whitening and nourishing the skin, and shortening the growth cycle of plants.
In particular, the whitening pills, acne-removing pills, and energy-boosting pills made with spiritual spring water had consistently ranked among the top three best-selling products at the medical clinic.
Many wealthy people came from far and wide specifically to buy them.
Every so often, the spring would also produce colorful medicinal jade.
Wearing them for extended periods could help remove impurities from the body and promote longevity.
Behind the little green-tiled house was an entire lush mountain.
Tang Youyou still had no idea how large it was.
She only knew that it was filled with many rare wild medicinal herbs.
Wild ginseng.
Lingzhi mushrooms.
Tianshan snow lotus.
Even deer antler.
Of course, she had no idea why medicinal herbs that normally grew in completely different places and at different elevations, each with entirely different environmental requirements, could all appear on the same mountain.
Just like she had no idea why there could be wild deer antler when she had never even seen a wild deer.
Anyway, if she had it, she’d use it.
If she didn’t have it, she’d find a way to get it.
The only regret was that she had never imagined she would transmigrate.
As a result, there weren’t many supplies stored in the space.
Aside from some clothes and quilts, there were only a few bags of rice, a few bags of flour, more than a dozen roast chickens and roast ducks, some canned fruit, and a few other things.
Don’t be surprised.
All of these had been gifts for the elderly men and women in the nearby village.
Because the Tang family’s ancestral medical clinic was located on the outskirts of the city, her reputation as “Little Divine Doctor Tang” and the countless patients who came knocking on her door depended heavily on the tireless promotion of the village elders.
Every time she went into the city, she would bring them gifts.
Her grandfather had always said she was too lazy.
She had inherited such an incredible treasure but didn’t know how to make proper use of it.
Back then, she had simply waved her hand like a lazy salted fish and said that modern society was so advanced that there was nothing she couldn’t buy.
She’d said too much.
And now she’d been slapped in the face.
After transmigrating, she was completely broke.
Looks like I need to find an opportunity to fill up this space.
Tang Youyou entered the little green-tiled house.
Using her mind, she controlled the various medicinal herb seeds stored in the medicine room and planted them in the soil.
Then she controlled the spiritual spring water and used it to irrigate them.
Only after she saw tiny medicinal seedlings poking their heads out of the black soil did her mood finally improve.
She left the space.
After being exhausted all night, she could finally hug her quilt and get a good night’s sleep.
What was she exhausted from?
Hmph.
Controlling things with her mind was exhausting too, okay?