You are my golden finger

Lin Xijin's soul was led by the Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demons to the Naihe Bridge. Just as she was about to take the Mengpo Soup from Mengpo's hands, suddenly a Sanskrit voice came from the air, "Wait a minute." Then she saw Guanyin in the air coming with a boy stepping on the lotus.

Guanyin held the bottle in her hand, sprinkled the willow twig water, and said to Lin Xijin: "You have saved countless people in this life, taught sentient beings, accumulated merits for many lifetimes, and you still have unfinished love. There are still disasters in the world that need your rescue. Now I will give you a chance to go back to your previous life and save the people from the water and fire. Go."

Guanyin raised her whisk, and a lotus mark sank into Lin Xijin's forehead. The waves of the Wangchuan River surged, dragging Lin Xijin into the whirlpool.

Lin Xijin felt dizzy and didn't know whether water had entered her stomach or her brain.

In a daze, I heard a burst of shouting and crying.

"The bitch is already dead. We can't leave her behind."

"Sister, sister, ... Sister is not dead. You can't push her into the river. You can't send her away."

Lin Xijin woke up slowly amid the heart-wrenching cries of the child, and the river gurgled.

I found myself lying on a rotten door panel, and an old woman with sharp cheekbones was pushing me into the river. Two children, as thin as bean sprouts, were crying and shouting, trying their best to stop me.

"What are you doing?!" Lin Xijin shouted hoarsely. The old woman heard the voice and looked at Lin Xijin who had opened his eyes. She was shocked and fell to the ground. "It's a ghost!" Lin Xijin's step-grandmother got up and ran quickly. In her hurry, she lost one of her shoes, but she didn't bother to pick it up.

When the younger brother and sister saw Lin Xijin wake up, they were overjoyed. They wiped their tears and shouted, "Sister, sister!" Lin Xijin raised her hands with difficulty to help them wipe their tears, and said to her younger brother and sister, "Sister is fine, don't cry, come and help me up, let's go home."

With the help of their younger brother and sister, the three of them walked tremblingly towards their home at the entrance of the village. When the villagers on the roadside saw them, they talked about it. Some said in fear that Lin Xijin was resurrected, and some said that Lin Xijin's stepmother Jiang was vicious. Just because Jin wanted to protect her younger brother and sister who were slandered by Jiang for cheating, she was pushed against the door by Jiang, her head was bleeding, and she suffocated to death.

Later, her grandmother removed the broken door panel and threw her into the river. Her younger brother and sister tried their best to hold her back, and thus Lin Xijin was saved and her soul returned.

When they were almost home, Grandma He from next door came up to help, sighing and saying, "Oh, poor woman, God will punish that vicious woman." She quietly stuffed two steamed buns into her sister Lin Xijia's hands, and said to her brother Xihui, "You are the boy in the family, take good care of your sisters. Go back and boil some hot water for your sister." Xihui nodded in agreement.

The three siblings finally returned to their home at the entrance of the village. It was just a dilapidated thatched house, with two long wooden benches and a few wooden boards covered with straw. A black, hard, torn quilt was placed on the bed, and the original color of the sheet could no longer be seen. The younger brother and sister helped Lin Xijin lie down on the bed and turned to boil water.

Soon, her younger sister came in with a bowl of porridge with steamed bread in it and said to Lin Xijin, "Sister, eat it. You will have strength after eating it." Lin Xijin looked at her dark and thin sister. Although she had lived a lifetime and her heart was tough enough, she still felt bitter in her heart. She lowered her head and drank two sips, then handed the bowl to her sister and said, "Sister, I can't drink it anymore. I will take it and drink it with you." Xijia took the bowl and went out.

Lin Xijin closed her eyes and felt everything about her original body. Her frail body was so thin due to long-term hunger and malnutrition that only skin and bones were left. Her stature was only that of an eight or nine-year-old girl in her previous life. How could she be as tall as a twelve-year-old girl who grew up drinking milk in modern times.

Thinking of milk, Lin Xijin felt a burning sensation between her brows, and a lotus mark appeared in her mind, which was exactly the lotus that Guanyin had struck into her brows. Lin Xijin saw a clear spring in the pistil, and wanted to drink a few sips. Unexpectedly, clear spring water oozed out from her fingertips, and she quickly put her hand into her mouth, and the sweet spring water immediately entered her mouth.

Lin Xijin drank a few sips of water and suddenly felt refreshed all over and had the strength to look back.

She lay down for a while and decided to solve her current predicament starting today. The most urgent task was to take her younger brothers and sisters away from her step-grandmother's family.

Lin Xijin called her brother in and told him to call the clan leader and elders. After hearing what his sister told him, the brother ran away quickly.

Lin Xijin asked her sister to help her to her step-grandmother's house next to the thatched cottage where she lived.

This is a five-room adobe house, with the main room in the middle and two bedrooms on each side. In addition, there is a large kitchen on the side. This house was built with the salary of Lin Xijin's father in the army.

Lin Xijin's father, Lin Dashan, died during a mission before his younger brother and sister were born. The sad news came that his mother, who had exhausted all her energy to give birth to the twin brother and sister, also passed away soon after because she did not receive good care.

Lin Xijin looked at the house without any emotion. Her sister beside her was shivering all over. She said to Lin Xijin tremblingly: "Sister, let's go. Grandma will beat us."

Lin Xijin touched her sister's head and said softly to her, "Jiajia, don't be afraid. We will only come here once today, and we will never come again in the future."

Lin Xijin's step-grandmother Jiang was sitting at the door. When she saw Lin Xijin and her sister coming, she thought they were looking for food. She picked up the broom at the door and hit Lin Xijin, cursing: "Bitch, why don't you just die? What are you doing back here!" Lin Xijin fell to the ground and opened her arms to protect her sister.

The beatings left Lin Xijin's hair in disarray, and her shabby clothes were even more tattered, with no intact parts. While beating her, Jiang continued to curse her: "You bitch, why don't you just die? Why don't you go see your short-lived parents? You only know how to look for food."

Grandma He from next door heard the scolding and ran over, snatching Jiang's broom while scolding: "Jiang, you really want to beat her to death, your conscience has been fed to the dogs! You live in the house built with the money that Dashan earned with his life, and you use Dashan's pension money. If you treat his children so harshly, God will punish you sooner or later!"

While Jiang was fighting with Grandma He for the broom, she scolded Grandma He: "What does this have to do with you, an old hag? I'm disciplining my family, why are you meddling in my business?" Then she pushed Grandma He hard.

Grandma He was caught off guard and was pushed by Jiang and fell to the ground.