After finishing her tour of the courtyard outside, Xu Shuning walked into the little house.
From the outside, it looked completely ordinary, but the interior was surprisingly spacious. The house had four rooms in total, including two bedrooms. All the necessary furniture was already there, making it feel like a complete little home.
Another room was something like a workshop, filled with all kinds of tools.
The last room was a study. Its bookshelves were packed with medical prescriptions and books on traditional Chinese medicine.
There was also a chest in the corner. When Xu Shuning opened it, she found rows of bottles and jars, each carefully labeled.
They contained pills, medicinal liquids, powders, and all kinds of different medicines.
Xu Shuning remembered that in the novel, Xu Siyao had found a chest full of medicine in the space. She had used those medicines to build a reputation for herself as a miracle doctor.
Xu Shuning immediately realized that the medicine in front of her was the very same chest described in the book.
She guessed that the prescriptions on the bookshelves were probably related to these medicines.
There weren’t that many medicines in the chest, but their effects were remarkably good. Some of them were even more effective than modern medicine.
It really was incredible.
The space was supposed to be a spiritual-spring space, but Xu Shuning felt that it was more like a medical space.
And as luck would have it, she had been studying medicine since she was young.
Wasn’t this a perfect match for her expertise?
The author of the original novel had clearly prepared this cheat for Xu Siyao, the female protagonist. Yet at this moment, Xu Shuning felt as though the entire space had been carefully designed specifically for her.
Xu Siyao was merely a layperson. She could only make use of whatever was already available inside the space. Once all the medicines were used up, there was nothing more she could do.
That was why, toward the later part of the novel, she claimed that her health was failing and stopped treating other people.
She said she wasn’t feeling well, but most likely, she’d simply used up nearly all the medicine in the space and could no longer show off.
Given Xu Siyao’s personality, she certainly wouldn’t have been willing to give up that easily.
She had probably spent plenty of time studying the books and prescriptions as well, but her knowledge was limited. She simply couldn’t figure out how to reproduce the medicines.
Xu Shuning looked at the bottles in the medicine chest, then glanced at the open land outside.
Once she settled down in Heilongjiang, she would definitely find a way to collect medicinal herbs and see whether she could make these medicines herself according to the prescriptions.
Xu Shuning closed the medicine chest and looked around the space with satisfaction.
This time, Xu Siyao had lost her cheat.
Xu Shuning was curious to see how the supposed female protagonist would maintain her status without it.
She drank several mouthfuls of the spiritual spring water and immediately felt energized from head to toe.
With a thought, she left the space and returned to her bedroom.
After dinner that evening, she went back to her room, locked the door, and began studying her space again.
The space could also store other objects. In the novel, the female protagonist had kept plenty of valuable things inside it.
Xu Shuning reached toward the fruit knife on the table.
With a single thought, the knife vanished from where it had been.
She closed her eyes and sensed its location.
Sure enough, the fruit knife had appeared inside the space.
She focused again, and the knife instantly returned to the table.
Actually experiencing the space herself was completely different from simply reading about it.
Only after trying it firsthand could she truly understand how miraculous it was.
Xu Shuning smiled happily.
This space really was a treasure.
And it could definitely be useful for getting things done.
She spent the entire night inside the space, soaking comfortably in a bath filled with spiritual spring water before lying down on the bed and getting a good night’s sleep.
The next morning, when Xu Shuning came out of the space, there was no one else at home.
Her scumbag father and stepmother had already gone to work, and her stepsister wasn’t home either.
Xu Shuning’s eyes immediately lit up.
How should she put it?
No one was home.
Wasn’t this exactly the perfect time to cause some trouble?
Xu Shuning walked out of her bedroom and stood in the middle of the living room, looking around.
With a casual wave of her right hand, half the things in the living room instantly disappeared.
Xu Shuning closed her eyes and sensed them.
Sure enough, everything had been transferred into her space.
She gave a mischievous little grin.
Not bad at all.
She waved her hand again.
Everything else in the living room disappeared into her space.
Useful or useless, expensive or worthless—she took everything.
She didn’t leave a single thing behind for the Xu family.
After completely stripping the living room bare, she headed into her scumbag father’s and stepmother’s bedroom.
The door was locked.
Xu Shuning couldn’t be bothered picking the lock, so she simply stored the entire door in her space.
Most of the valuables in the house were kept in this room.
Xu Shuning casually waved her hand again, storing everything she could see into her space.
She remembered that the novel had mentioned Xu Hongtao hiding some valuables underground beneath the wardrobe.
Xu Shuning took a shovel out of her space and began digging.
How should she put it?
When someone was doing something bad, they didn’t seem to feel tired at all.
Xu Shuning kept digging with the shovel, and the more she dug, the more excited she became.
Before long, she uncovered a buried chest.
She opened it.
Good grief!
It was filled with treasures.
There were gold bars, antiques, and a thick stack of large-denomination banknotes.
Some of these things had been brought into the marriage by the original owner’s mother, while others were things Xu Hongtao had acquired from unknown sources later.
Now, they all belonged to her.
After storing the chest in her space, Xu Shuning continued searching the room carefully.
She didn’t miss a single corner.
Eventually, she noticed several loose bricks in the wall.
She applied a little force and pulled them out.
Something wrapped in cloth had been hidden inside.
When she opened it, she discovered that it was another stack of large-denomination banknotes.
Just by looking at it, Xu Shuning estimated that there were probably more than two thousand yuan.
She thought carefully.
If she remembered correctly, Cui Wenzhou and his grandfather had given the original owner two thousand yuan.
Could this be that very money?
Xu Shuning curled her lips and shook her head, once again marveling at how messed up the original owner’s thinking had been.
Cui Wenzhou was handsome, tall, well-built, and came from a good family. He was also the youngest regiment commander in the military.
In what way was he inferior to that short, poor, and unimpressive Zhao Yang?
And most importantly, Cui Wenzhou was generous.
In this era, it was already extremely rare for a family to give two or three hundred yuan as a bride price.
Yet the Cui family had not only prepared the traditional three major items and one major appliance for the marriage, they had directly given two thousand yuan as the bride price.
And the only reason they had given “only” two thousand was because the wedding had been arranged so hastily.
Otherwise, with only Cui Wenzhou’s grandfather present at the time, they would have given even more.
Back then, Cui Wenzhou’s grandfather had gone to Nancheng to visit Xu Shuning’s grandfather.
Cui Wenzhou had also come to Nancheng to visit his grandfather.
Somehow, the two old men ended up talking about the marriage of the younger generation.
After discussing it, they realized that Cui Wenzhou would soon have to return to his military unit, and no one knew when he would next be able to take leave.
So they decided they might as well have the two young people get married while he was there.
Cui Wenzhou’s parents and his uncle’s family couldn’t get away because of work, while Xu Shuning had no desire to go to Beijing.
So Cui Wenzhou quickly submitted his marriage application to the military.
With his grandfather working behind the scenes, the application was approved very quickly.
And just like that, the two of them got married in Nancheng, with both grandfathers there to witness the ceremony.
They had agreed that when Cui Wenzhou got his next leave, the two of them would bring members of both the Xu and Wen families to Beijing and hold another proper wedding celebration so everyone could celebrate together.
That time, everything would be done according to the traditional customs for a new bride.
The two thousand yuan already given had come from Cui Wenzhou and his grandfather. His parents’ share would be added later.
In short, they would never have treated the original owner unfairly.
The Cui family respected her.
They valued her.
But the original owner couldn’t see any of it.
All she could focus on were the things about Cui Wenzhou that didn’t meet her expectations.