Chapter 1 Rebirth
  "Qing, work harder, we'll get off work in five minutes!"

Gu Ya, who drank a whole glass of iced Americano, rubbed her bloated belly, looked at Xiao Qing who was still typing away and cheered her up while handing her a glass of water.

Xiao Qing has worked overtime for five days in a row.

The energy from her whole body seemed to have been sucked away. She sat in front of the computer every day, and her pupils were almost dilated, but her hands were full of energy, and she could still type every word flawlessly even under such circumstances.

"I seem to have seen the dawn of destiny...calling me."

Xiao Qing suddenly said something like this without any end. Before Gu Ya had time to reply, she saw Xiao Qing's head hit the keyboard with a "bang". The sound was so loud that Gu Ya felt a faint headache.

But now it's not a matter of having a headache. Gu Ya pushed Xiao Qing tremblingly with trembling hands, but didn't push.

"120, 120, help! Someone is dead!"

The ambulance arrived very quickly. Gu Ya slumped in the chair and watched the medical staff carefully move Xiao Qing to the stretcher. She didn't dare to move. The phone in her hand fell to the ground, causing a crack on the tempered film. .

After a long time, Gu Ya burst into tears looking at the empty office. While crying, she turned on her computer and typed the first word of her resignation letter tremblingly.

Xiao Qing feels very good now. She is in a good place with green mountains, green water, birds singing and the fragrance of flowers. However, her consciousness is light and she cannot feel the specific objects or her own body.

She felt that she must have fallen asleep due to exhaustion.

It wouldn't be like this for anyone who works overtime for five days in a row, works fast in front of the computer every day, sleeps only four hours a day, and loses appetite after only a few bites of food.

So is this a dream?
  Then this dream is really good. It would be better to have it for a while.

I don't know how long Xiao Qing had been wandering on the grass, but he suddenly discovered an open-air hot spring.

The slightly yellowish pool water is slightly steaming, and you can tell that it will be very comfortable to soak in.

Xiao Qing did not hesitate, and with a thought, she appeared in the middle of the hot spring. The warm spring water healed her fatigue these days, allowing her to relax in a rare way.

It's just...it seems a bit too relaxing and makes people sleepy.

She didn't know how long she had slept. Xiao Qing only felt that the spring water was getting shallower and shallower, and the hot springs were gradually shrinking. There were also vague voices in the distance with strange tones. Xiao Qing calmly listened for a long time, and finally determined that this did not belong to any of the ones she knew. A type of language.

Is this going to wake you up?
  But she hasn't had enough sleep yet.

Forget it, just wake up, go to work with peace of mind, and work hard to make money.

With a little bit of disappointment, Xiao Qing floated out of the water unsteadily. Before he floated very far, his ankle was held by an invisible hand. Xiao Qing was startled. Before he even shouted for help, He heard the loud cry of the baby coming from his own mouth.

The world was spinning. When Xiao Qing escaped from the wonderful dream and was ready to face the cruel reality, a pair of calloused hands supported her body.

"It's a girl."

Po Wen gently put the baby into warm water, washed away the blood on her body, wiped the baby's body with cotton cloth, and wrapped her in a small quilt.

The newborn baby was still crying loudly, with a loud voice and a rosy complexion. It looked like a healthy and beautiful child. The woman lying on the bed looked at Granny Wen with tired eyes: "Grandma Zhang, can you let me take a look?" My daughter?"

"Be careful. Come on, take a look. What a healthy baby. I can tell by just weighing it with my hands. This is the heaviest baby I have delivered in the past few years."

Granny Zhang coaxed the child to sleep and placed the child next to the woman's pillow: "Xiu Niang, you can go to sleep. I will take care of the rest."

After everyone in the house fell asleep, Grandma Zhang brought another basin of warm water next to her and busily packed it away.

After a long time, she carefully squeezed out from the crack of the door with a basin in hand. As soon as she went out, she was stopped by two men, one large and one small. She was so frightened that she almost poured dirty water on them.

They are naturally Xiu Niang's husband and son.

Granny Zhang calmed their nervousness and talked about the new little girl. Xiao Lan's eyes lit up when he heard it. He happily picked up the little cat meowing next to him and cheered while spinning around: "I I have a sister!”

Xiao Yi took out a few pieces of broken silver from his arms and gave them to Granny Zhang - Xiuniang started giving birth last night and ended at noon today. Although Xiuniang was in good health, Granny Zhang brought The medicinal materials and her experience are the fundamental reasons for the safety of mother and daughter.

"Thank you so much, Granny Zhang, just take these. I really don't know what I would do without you."

The Xiao family are immigrants from Zhangjia Village and live in a more remote place. Xiu Niang was supposed to give birth in three days, but for some reason her amniotic fluid broke early. He helped Xiu Niang go to bed, while Xiao Lan stumbled and ran to ask for Wen Po. , met Granny Zhang who was coming back from the town on the way. After Granny Zhang heard about it, she took the medicinal materials from home without saying a word, and hurriedly came to Xiao's house to help.

"What are you talking about? Xiu Niang has helped me a lot..." Granny Zhang only took half of it and gave the rest to Xiao Yi, "With the money, you can go to the town and buy some chicken, duck, fish, etc. for Xiu. Mother, please recuperate and take the little girl to my place to play, so that I can keep you company for this old woman."

Granny Zhang poured the water aside, put the basin back under the eaves, and walked outside while telling the Xiao family father and son what to do next and how to take care of the confinement child.

After seeing off Granny Zhang, Xiao Yi asked Xiao Lan to look after the house, while he went to a restaurant in the town to buy meat and vegetables, and waited for his wife to replenish her body after she woke up.

Several years have passed, and Xiao Qing has grown from an adult in her twenties to a five-year-old girl.

Xiao Lan was admitted as a scholar when he was sixteen years old and was praised by the county magistrate. Zhangjiacun also accepted them and gave his family several pieces of land so that Xiao Yi would no longer go to the town to work as a coolie to earn money. “Mom, what shall we eat today?”

Xiao Qing lost her mother when she was young in her previous life, and her father gradually neglected her after remarrying. Although she did not have a distorted personality because she was not loved by her parents since she was a child, she would always feel sad when watching other people's families reunite.

This life is different. She has a gentle and kind mother, a hard-working and honest father, and an older brother who although often bullies her, always brings her all kinds of food and toys from the town, so she doesn't resist much. Her previous life has been like a cloud of smoke. Dissipate like this, this life is what she wants to seize.

Therefore, as a child, Xiao Qing acted like a coquettish child in the arms of her parents, which made her parents almost treat her as their jewel. They loved her so much that almost every household in Zhangjiacun knew about her.

"I'm going to eat roasted pork with bean sprouts today. I can eat it when my brother comes back from school."

Lin Xiuniang touched her head and took out a small sweet potato from the pot: "Are you hungry? Then eat something to fill your stomach first."

Xiao Qing took the potato, broke it in half, gave half to Lin Xiuniang, and stuffed the other half into his mouth.

Apart from the language barrier, this world is the same as Earth, except for the fact that the names of some things are slightly different.

The productivity was also much stronger than the ancient times she knew. In addition, the name of the dynasty was "Dayan", which made Xiao Qing, who had read many novels, determined that this was an imaginary dynasty.

Well, it has nothing to do with ordinary people like Xiao Qing, as long as it doesn't affect her life.

During meals, Xiao Lan would always talk about what happened in the school. In the few words he occasionally revealed, Xiao Qing pieced together a new dynasty. The current emperor was young and strong, and he was a good emperor. The civil servants were good civil servants, and the military generals were also good generals. , all the surrounding countries surrendered, so there is no need to worry about any war or rebellion in the next hundred and eighty years.

Xiao Qing has already dreamed of Xiao Lan becoming a Jinshi, and following his dream of becoming a successful person.

In the evening, the family sat together. Xiao Qing put porridge in her mouth. Xiao Lan asked her to pay attention to her eating habits so as not to get it all over her face. Xiao Yi gave Xiu Niang the biggest piece of meat in the bowl. Xiuniang smiled and divided it into two parts and gave one to Xiao Yi.

The family was enjoying themselves as if nothing in the world could separate them.

People in ancient times always went to bed very early. Just after eating, and before Xiao Qing had even taken a walk, Xiu Niang hugged her and took her to wash up and go to bed. Xiao Yi went to bed early because he had to work in the fields tomorrow. bed.

As a student, Xiao Lan couldn't go to bed early, so he lit a candle and started writing furiously.

The moon rose higher and higher until it was hidden in the clouds. Xiao Lan rubbed his sore wrist, looked at the short candle next to him with its wick almost falling into the oil, and used the wooden stick next to it to pick the wick.

The originally big candle flame became brighter again, until it got bigger and bigger, bigger and bigger...

Late at night, Xiao Qing suddenly woke up, kicked his shoes, and screamed: "Fire! It's on fire! It's on fire! Mom, dad, brother! It's on fire!"

She rushed out of the room and stood in the middle of the yard. Even if the surroundings were intact and there was no spark, she could not see anything as if her eyes were covered.

But no matter how she screamed, ran around the hospital, or even knocked on her parents' door until her hands swelled, no one responded.

After a long time, Xiao Qing fell to the ground as if exhausted. A twisted figure appeared behind her and stretched out his bloody hands to her...

"Ah! Ha..."

Xiao Qing suddenly sat up from the bed. She was sweating profusely, and even the quilt underneath her was soaked with cold sweat. Xiu Niang looked at her worriedly, and there was still fragrant white porridge on the small table next to her.

"Bao'er, lie down quickly, don't let the wind blow."

With Xiuniang's comfort, Xiao Qing's mood finally stabilized.

Is it a dream?
  Xiao Qing stretched out his hands, which were white, tender and chubby, not at all swollen and bruised like when he hammered on the door in his dream.

Then this dream is too real...

Xiao Qing was lost in his own thoughts, but Xiu Niang was still mumbling something: "Last night you suddenly started crying, crying and shouting at the same time, which frightened us. Then I touched it with my hand and it all started to burn. It’s red carbon.”

"Eat some porridge and then have a good sleep."

The fragrant white porridge enters the mouth, but Xiao Qing always feels that there is a fishy smell lingering at the tip of his nose, if it is there or not, it dissipates after a careful sniff.

Xiao Qing gradually relaxed under Xiu Niang's comfort. She tugged on Xiu Niang's sleeves and said in a soft voice, "Mom, I want you to sleep with me."

Xiu Niang touched her girl's red face lovingly: "You, I'm going to wash my hands, and I'll be with you right away."

Xiao Qing then closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

The dream was full of strange things, and Xiao Qing was trapped in it, unable to escape. Just when she was about to sink into this psychedelic world, a soft call pulled her back to the real world.

"Bao'er, mother is here to sleep with you."

Xiu Niang lay next to Xiao Qing and held her in her arms. Xiao Qing was sleeping soundly, but her stomach was turbulent. In the end, Xiu Niang carried her to relieve herself and gave her a lot of medicine to treat abdominal pain.

(End of this chapter)

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