Baozi Xishi's Struggle

Yesterday, after drinking, I rushed to the bathroom. There was water on the floor and I slipped...

and then?

Oh God, oh earth, I have only enjoyed my new house for less than a day, and now it’s over?

Shen Yu closed his eyes but pricked up his ears to listen carefully to the conversation between the mother and the daughter. He sorted out his thoughts and wailed as he confirmed the fact that he had traveled through time.

Why is my brain blank? Why don’t I have any memories of the original owner?

Pretending to have amnesia or be dumb?

My head was throbbing with pain and my stomach was growling.

Shen Yu carefully moved his stiff body.

Yutao heard the noise and hurried over. Shen Yu pretended to have just woken up and looked at the girl in front of him who was about eight or nine years old.

"Sister, you're awake. Do you want to drink some porridge or eat something before going to sleep?"

Shen Yu nodded and sat up with Yutao's help.

Enduring the uncomfortable dizziness, Shen Yu fumbled out of bed and put on a pair of cloth shoes placed beside the bed. At a glance, the rough black uppers were still stained with some dried mud.

Shen Yu got off the bed, but his feet went weak and he almost fell down again.

The woman complained, but a pair of strong hands supported her and helped her sit on the wooden stool beside the table.

In a large coarse porcelain bowl, half a bowl of porridge was steaming.

Shen Yu didn't care about the heat, he just wanted to eat something to replenish his energy and figure out the current situation.

After eating a bowl of hot porridge, Shen Yu felt a little stronger.

He was thinking about how to ask some tricks, but was afraid of giving away his true identity. He was hesitating when the woman said impatiently, "Yuzhi, you can't work in the fields now. You should just lie down on the bed for a while."

The woman complained, and then reached out her hand to help her walk to the bedside: "We have discussed with Uncle Li next door. While the sun is down and it's cooler, the two families will work together to water the plants. You should take good care of yourself and don't cause trouble with the farm work."

Yutao tucked the corner of the quilt for Shen Yu and smiled at her mother: "Mom, didn't you say you wanted me to go to the fields to water the plants? Why are you reluctant now?"

"You're the only one who talks too much, you little girl"

The woman raised her hands in mock anger, but she couldn't help laughing.

"I'm not going to bother with you two sisters anymore. I have to burn some incense to the Bodhisattva and pray that our Yuzhi will get better soon and find a good husband."

The woman turned and walked out of the door, then turned back and reminded him, "Hurry up and eat your meal, we'll have to leave soon. This is not embroidery, so you're not allowed to light the lamp, save some oil money."

Yutao shook her head helplessly, cleaned up the dishes and went out.

Shen Yu lay silently on the bed, watching the mother and daughter walk out the door.

After a while, I heard an old voice in the yard shouting, "Sister-in-law Shen, let's go now. It's cool so we can water more."

"Hey, Uncle Li, I'll be right here."

The woman agreed and shouted, "Yutao, let's go."

After a burst of footsteps, the yard became quiet.

Shen Yu waited on the bed for a while. When he heard no more sound outside the door, he supported his dizzy head, slowly groped his way down and walked out of the room.

At dusk, the moon had not yet risen. In the dim light, everything in the yard looked like an old photo, blurry and blurry.

This is not a small yard, with a stone wall half a person's height, three small houses in the middle, and two shorter houses on one side, which look like kitchens for cooking and storing sundries.

The yard was empty. There was a stone well platform and dirt ground in the corner. On the other side was a vegetable plot where onions and leeks were planted, as well as a row of cucumbers growing on a trellis.

Shen Yu slowly walked to the gate of the yard and looked out. There was a dirt path with a stone wall on one side, the same as the yard he was in. There were houses that looked similar, but nothing could be seen further away.

This is definitely not the world I am familiar with. There is nothing familiar, let alone the small apartment that I have been looking forward to for a long time and have just moved into and lived in for one day.

Shen Yu felt confused. Where was he? What era was this?

When I think about this, I feel a headache and nausea.

When I touched it, I found a piece of cloth wrapped around my head, and the back of my head was in severe pain.

Shen Yu was afraid that he would faint in front of the courtyard gate, so he gave up the idea of ​​going out to take a look and slowly walked back to the house.

Lying back on the bed, Shen Yu stretched out his hands and looked at the unfamiliar pair of hands that obviously belonged to an immature girl. He thought to himself: The original owner should not have been an adult yet. Now that I have traveled through time, did the poor original owner die from a broken head?

Shen Yu was lost in thought, with the rustling of wind through leaves in his ears. He fell asleep again in a daze and didn't even know when the original owner's family would come back.

I don’t know how long I slept, but there was a faint light in the room.

As soon as the sky was getting light, there was movement in the yard.

Although no one called her to get up, Shen Yu had no way of pretending to sleep any longer and had to get up reluctantly.

Fortunately, the original owner was injured and had a cloth tied on her head. She just gathered her hair casually and tied it into a bun with a hair tie, so there was no need to tie her hair into a bun.

Shen Yu, who has always had neat short hair and has never had long hair, was really afraid that she would be exposed as soon as she got out of bed.

After getting up, she still had no strength and dared not look around, for fear that the original owner's family would find out that she was no longer the daughter she once knew. She had to try not to speak and just sit quietly by the bed.

Yu Tao walked in and saw that her sister had gotten up and was sitting by the bed. There was joy in her eyes: "Sister, you are up. Are you feeling better? Are you still dizzy?"

Shen Yu shook her head silently, she didn't know how to respond.

Yutao looked at Shen Yu with a happy and relaxed expression.

She pulled Shen Yu to sit at the table and said, "Sister, don't move. I'll change your bandage. Doctor Sun said that the bandage must be clean and the medicine must be changed frequently before the wound heals."

Yutao carefully untied the cloth band on Shen Yu's head, and gently sprinkled medicine powder on it before replacing the cloth band.

While changing the bandages, Yutao kept muttering, "Sister, don't be sad, and don't listen to those nagging aunties and ladies. They just believe the fortune tellers' nonsense. Our mother fell down because of you, and she scolded them a few days ago when she was stuck on the way back to the village."

Yu Tao chuckled and said, "You didn't see that, those aunts and sisters-in-law usually look powerful, but none of them dared to talk back when my mother scolded them. When you get better, you can go out without worry, and no one will say anything about you anymore."

Shen Yu waited for her to tie the bandages, nodded and said, "Don't worry, I will be fine."

Yutao was stunned when she heard this, probably because she didn't expect her sister to react so calmly this time. She neither shed tears like usual nor looked sad.

Yu Tao muttered to herself, "Sister, something seems a little different. What happened to her?"