Before Su Qingwan completely lost consciousness, Song Houdong and the others finally arrived at the moat.
At a glance, they saw the three children lying on the riverbank and Su Qingwan floating motionlessly in the water.
Su Tongyu let out a scream. She immediately jumped off the bicycle and stumbled forward, crying, “Wanwan! My Wanwan! Hurry and save her!”
Song Houdong and Song Hongjun threw their bicycles aside and jumped straight into the freezing river. The two of them desperately swam toward Su Qingwan.
Song Qingzao stayed on the riverbank and performed CPR on the three children who had been rescued. She couldn’t let Su Qingwan’s efforts go to waste.
Song Houdong and Song Hongjun each grabbed one of Su Qingwan’s arms.
“Wanwan, hold on! Dad is here!”
With that, they desperately swam toward the shore.
“Come help! Little Su has been rescued!”
Workers from Hongxing Garment Factory had also arrived at the moat. Together, they pulled Su Qingwan onto the riverbank.
Song Houdong didn’t even have time to worry about being soaked from head to toe. His trembling hand reached for Su Qingwan’s nose.
Thankfully, she was still breathing, though faintly.
He shouted, “Quick! Get her to the hospital!”
Everyone hurriedly carried Su Qingwan and the three children onto a factory truck.
Along the way, Su Tongyu stared at Su Qingwan, who had been lively and energetic just half an hour earlier but was now unconscious. Tears streamed down her face as she kept murmuring, “Wanwan, you can’t let anything happen to you.”
Everyone admired heroes who risked their lives to save others, but no one wanted that hero to be their own family member.
“SCREECH!”
A large truck came to an emergency stop in front of the Municipal People’s Hospital. The sharp sound immediately attracted the attention of the people nearby.
“Doctor! Doctor! Please save her!”
Before the truck had even fully stopped, cries for help could already be heard.
Song Houdong carried Su Qingwan in his arms and rushed into the hospital while shouting for a doctor. Behind him, three Hongxing Garment Factory workers followed, each carrying one of the children.
Hearing the commotion, nurses and doctors rushed out with a stretcher and immediately began treating Su Qingwan.
By the time Song Hongjun and Song Qingzao helped Su Tongyu inside, Su Qingwan had already been taken into the emergency room.
After examination, the three rescued children were no longer in serious danger and had been transferred to ordinary wards.
Song Houdong’s family of four, along with the workers from Hongxing Garment Factory, anxiously waited outside the emergency room.
Su Qingwan had no idea that a group of people was praying for her outside.
At that moment, she was busy examining the system that had suddenly appeared in her mind.
After eighteen years of transmigration, she had finally received her golden finger.
Justice System?
Was that the name of her system?
Su Qingwan browsed through it. There were only four categories of food: chicken, duck, fish, and eggs. Each type could be broken down into individual parts.
There were eggs, chicken heads, chicken feet, chicken liver, chicken necks, chicken legs, chicken wings, chicken carcasses…
Each item had the number of coins required to purchase it displayed underneath. An egg cost one coin, while a whole chicken or whole duck cost ten coins.
At the very bottom, she saw:
Account Balance: 1,000 coins.
Huh?
Where had these coins come from?
The system interface also had a real-time notification section. There was an unread message:
April 1971. Seven-year-old Li Aiguo, eight-year-old Zhang Shaowei, and eight-year-old Chen Dongdong were playing beside the moat. The three accidentally slipped and fell into the water.
Passerby Sheng Molly immediately jumped into the water to rescue them. Because Sheng Molly was not a good swimmer, all four ultimately drowned.
Because the host prevented Sheng Molly from jumping into the river and died as a result, while successfully rescuing Li Aiguo, Zhang Shaowei, and Chen Dongdong, the host is awarded 500 coins per person.
Total coins: 2,000.
The system activated Host Protection Mode. 1,000 coins consumed. Deducted.
Well, it really did live up to its name—the Justice System.
So basically, she just had to follow Lei Feng’s example and do good deeds.
Fine by her. At least she wouldn’t lose out on the benefits.
Huh?
Why was there a novel in the system?
Su Qingwan opened the book titled You and Me in the Era.
Song Qingzao?
Hey! The female protagonist had exactly the same name as her second older sister.
Song Hongjun?
Oh, her eldest brother’s name was pretty common.
Su Qingwan didn’t initially think there was anything strange about her older brother and second sister having the same names as characters in the novel.
But the further she read, the more something felt wrong.
The characters and events described in the novel were extremely similar to her own family. The only difference was that the events involving the character Su Qingwan were different from what had happened in reality.
Ha!
So they weren’t just sharing the same names.
She hadn’t merely transmigrated.
She had transmigrated into a novel.
Her sister, Song Qingzao, would secretly take the household registration book and marry a divorced older man with a child just because she had fallen for him.
And Su Qingwan, in an attempt to stop the male and female protagonists from getting together, would be framed by the male protagonist and sent to the countryside. Her job would also be sold off by him.
To prevent her from ever returning to the city, he would team up with educated youths and scheme to have her marry a violent rural man.
She would suffer at his hands every day. In the end, when she tried to take the college entrance examination, her husband would beat her so severely that she would die.
When her family learned of her death, her maternal grandfather, Su Linqiang, couldn’t bear the blow and died not long afterward.
After losing both her daughter and father, Su Tongyu became bedridden.
Song Hongjun became distracted while driving because of the troubles at home and died in a car accident.
After Su Tongyu received the news of Song Hongjun’s death, she also passed away.
Her younger brother, Su Jianguo, encountered criminals on his way home to attend the funeral and was stabbed to death.
Unable to withstand one devastating blow after another, Song Houdong eventually hanged himself.
And in the end, the male protagonist moved into Su Qingwan’s home with his entire family and lived a happy life.
By the time she reached this part, Su Qingwan was so furious that her teeth hurt from clenching them.
Ha!
So her entire family was nothing more than a group of cannon fodder whose sole purpose was to give the male protagonist money and a house.
Su Qingwan couldn’t help wanting to slam her fist against the ground, but suddenly, a brilliant flash of light appeared.
The door to the emergency room opened, and an exhausted doctor walked out.
“The patient has regained consciousness. She’ll be transferred to a regular ward now and will be monitored while she recovers.”
Song Houdong tightly clasped the doctor’s hand, his eyes red.
“Thank you. Thank you!”
Hearing that Su Qingwan was no longer in danger, Su Tongyu slowly regained her composure. She turned around and instructed her two older children, “Hongjun, Qingzao, you two go to work. Ask for leave for your father and me while you’re at it.”
“Mom, why don’t we stay here and watch over her? You and Dad should go home and rest.”
“No need. If anything happens, you two won’t know what to do anyway. Go on.”
At that moment, Chen Defu, the deputy director of Hongxing Garment Factory, stepped forward and patted Song Houdong on the shoulder reassuringly.
“Old Song, it’s good that the child is all right. Su Qingwan is brave and kind. She saved those three children’s lives. She’s a pride to our factory. I’m sure she’ll pull through.”
Song Houdong nodded gratefully.
“Director Chen, I haven’t even had a chance to thank you. If the factory truck hadn’t taken Wanwan to the hospital, I don’t even want to think about what could have happened.”
Chen Defu waved his hand dismissively.
“Su Qingwan is a hero who saved lives for our factory. What’s the big deal about lending her a truck?”
Seeing that the couple wasn’t in the mood to talk and that Su Qingwan had already been transferred to a regular ward, Chen Defu took his leave.
He still had to return to the factory and report the outcome to the factory director. He also needed to go to the police station to locate the parents of the three children.
They had to make sure everyone knew about what had happened. Su Qingwan of their factory had nearly lost her life trying to save others.
“Mom, is Little Sister still not awake? I brought some porridge and steamed buns. There’s food in the lunchbox for you and Dad, too. Go eat first. I’ll stay here and watch over her.”
Song Qingzao handed the lunchbox to Su Tongyu, then pulled a chair over and sat beside Su Qingwan’s bed.
She had no idea when her little sister would wake up.
Earlier, when she had gone to the state-run restaurant to eat, the man from the textile factory had looked quite handsome.
The moment Su Qingwan opened her eyes, she saw her second older sister wearing an unmistakably lovestruck expression.
Unable to stop herself, she blurted out,
“Second Sis, did you start dating that old man from the textile factory?”