Traveling through time and space, wanting to lie down, but being forced to move forward

"No, don't do anything stupid."

Liu Jingxue screamed and woke up from her dream.

Everything that happened in the dream was so real, as if it was her own experience, making it difficult for her to distinguish between reality and illusion.

Even now, Liu Jingxue seemed to see the girl huddled in the corner, tears of sadness falling silently down her pale cheeks like beads with broken strings.

Liu Jingxue clutched the chest of her pajamas tightly with her hands, feeling her heartbeat like a drum, trying hard to control herself from thinking about everything in her dream and calm herself down.

After finally calming down, Liu Jingxue felt her whole body was sticky.

The feeling of the cold air caressing her face clearly told her that the sweat she was sweating from was caused by that dream.

Liu Jingxue picked up the mobile phone beside her. It was 2:35 in the morning.

Liu Jingxue lifted the duvet and took out another set of pajamas from the closet. She ran to the bathroom at the speed of a 100-meter sprint, closed the doors and windows, turned on the heater, took a quick shower, and then returned to bed.

"How come I have the same dream for two consecutive days?"

"This dream is a little too real."

"Don't we usually forget things in dreams after we wake up? But why do I remember this dream so clearly?"

What made Liu Jingxue feel even more incredible was that the girl in her dream was also called Liu Jingxue.

Judging from the situation in the dream, the girl and she should belong to different time and space.

Although the language and culture there are similar to those here, her country is called Xia.

The girl's side should correspond to the 1960s and 1970s on my side. This can be seen from the Revolutionary Committee, Red Guards, and demotion mentioned in the dream.

The girl is the child of a martyr. Her only relative, her uncle and his family, were sent down to the countryside, and she is left alone to guard a large yard.

Liu Jingxue, who has read many period novels and watched TV shows, knows very well that the girl's situation is like a child carrying gold through a busy street. It would be strange if those people with bad intentions did not do bad things.

As expected, the girl was married off, and after the marriage the family moved into her family's large yard in a dignified manner.

The girl, who was the original owner of the yard, was forced to serve that family like a slave, but did not get any good results.

Not having enough food to eat and not having warm clothes to wear are just small matters. She also has to endure beatings from her husband, mother-in-law, and even sisters-in-law all day long.

The girl thought about resisting, but the family threatened her with her uncle's family who had been sent down to work.

If she doesn't listen, I won't help her find out the whereabouts of her uncle's family.

They also wanted to report her, saying that she was in league with the demoted elements. They wanted to send her down there as well so that they could seize her house.

Although the girl was protected by her status as a martyr, it was not safe after all.

My uncle's family were all soldiers, and they were all sent down to the countryside. Her status as a child of a martyr was not a golden ticket to immunity from death.

She also called her uncle's army unit to inquire about where his family was sent, but no one told her.

Some people even threatened her and told her not to call again.

In that era when it was difficult to get anywhere without a letter of introduction, and without any clues at all, the girl had no way of finding out the whereabouts of her uncle's family on her own.

The family she married into had some connection with the Revolutionary Committee, so they were more likely to find out the news than she was.

The girl had no choice but to serve the family, hoping that they would fulfill their promise and help her get information.

But what the girl didn't know was that the family only agreed verbally but did not put it into action.

Fortunately, the girl did not put all her hopes on that family, and asked her parents' comrades-in-arms to inquire about the matter.

Fortunately, her hard work paid off and she finally found out the whereabouts of her uncle's family.

But what she received was bad news.

My uncle's family was sent down to the Northeast, where it was freezing cold.

In the winter of the year she was sent down to the countryside, her nephew, who was less than two years old, fell ill due to lack of food and clothing and the cold.

Although the aunt was a military doctor and could help with the treatment, there was no medicine and no one to turn to, so her nephew was unable to receive treatment and died on that cold winter day.

My eldest sister-in-law was the daughter of a military family. She was spoiled and had a smooth life. Suddenly, she was demoted and suffered a lot of criticism, which made her depressed. Coupled with the pain of losing her son, she became mentally abnormal.

My uncle and aunt had been through the hail of bullets, and had suffered many injuries and hidden diseases. After being sent down to the countryside, they were overworked, hungry, and cold, and all those injuries flared up.

The aunt felt guilty that she was a military doctor but could not save her grandson. She was exhausted both physically and mentally and fell ill.

The eldest brother suffered a great blow because of the grief of losing his son, and his parents and wife fell ill one after another. If he had not had to take care of his relatives and hold on, he would have collapsed long ago.

But even though my uncle and eldest brother tried their best to take care of their wives, misfortune often finds the unfortunate. A hemp rope tends to break at the thinnest part. After a series of heavy snowfalls, the cowshed where they lived was collapsed, and the people were trapped underneath.

The cowshed was built far away from the village. It was snowing heavily, and the villagers were only concerned about their own families or fellow villagers. How could they go all the way to check on the situation of these relocated elements?

After the team leader coordinated with the villagers to rescue people from the collapsed houses and arranged people to help the elderly and widowed people in the village and clear the snow on the roofs, he finally remembered the demoted people far away in the cowshed.

By the time he arrived, the cowshed had collapsed for a long time and the demobilized personnel had been trapped underneath. No one knew how much time had passed.

The villagers finally dug the people out, but those who were trapped under the cowshed had already frozen stiff and no one knew how long they had been dead.

The girl who got the news was heartbroken.

Liu Jingxue, a bystander, was amazed when she saw the light in the girl's eyes when she learned the news about her uncle's family.

After learning about the fate of her uncle's family, the dead silence in the girl's eyes made Liu Jingxue feel cold in her heart.

After returning home like a zombie, the girl was beaten and scolded by her mother-in-law, who blamed her for abandoning her household chores and running around, not knowing which strange man she was looking for. So the girl decided to fight back.

Since her parents died and the girl was sent back to her grandparents by the army, she has been learning Chinese medicine with her grandfather.

I have some Chinese medicine herbs stored at home, as well as quite a few finished medicines, some of which are even highly toxic.

After her grandfather passed away, and because of the suppression of traditional Chinese medicine in recent years, the girl hid the things in a secret room at the instruction of her grandmother, and never revealed to outsiders that she knew traditional Chinese medicine.

While the family was not paying attention, the girl sneaked into the secret room, took out some arsenic, and put it in the food when preparing it in the evening.

The girl didn’t know whether her uncle’s family was sent down to the countryside because of this family.

But she herself was plotted against by this family, her reputation was ruined, and she was forced to marry in. All her miserable life since then was caused by these people.

If they could fulfill their promise and help her find out the whereabouts of her uncle's family as soon as possible, could she help them and prevent them from ending up like that?

Thinking about the things buried under her house, the girl couldn't help but smile sadly.

Now that the person is gone, what's the point of keeping those material possessions?

Seeing those evil men lying there, accusing her in a harsh voice, the girl responded indifferently.

If they want to seize my yard and my property, I will never let them do so, even if it means they are reduced to ashes.

Late at night, after making sure that all the neighbors were asleep, the girl used kerosene to light a fire in her yard and threw herself into the sea of ​​fire.