Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

This story is purely fictional and any similarity is purely coincidental!

Shuijing Hutong, Dongcheng District, Beijing.

Chen Hong stared with her big round eyes, staring blankly at the top of her head. The old cotton mosquito net top had been used for who knows how many years and was grayish yellow.

Looking around, I saw two large contrasting patches on the cotton yarn of the two mosquito net curtains. The color was khaki, and it looked like old coarse cloth woven by hand.

Where is this? Wasn't I dead? How come I'm alive again?

She was stunned! Is there another miracle happening?

She remembered that she was already 98 years old this year. Her husband passed away yesterday. More than ten years ago, they no longer had anyone of their age around them. Fortunately, they still had each other!

There is a generation gap between them and their children and grandchildren. They can't even talk to each other. They talk at cross purposes every day. The children have to find ways to make the two old people happy. They can't really concentrate on enjoying the happiness of being around their children and grandchildren.

Yesterday her husband passed away, and she immediately felt empty inside. She had thought about this day a long time ago, and had been prepared for it. Rather than living with an empty and lonely heart, and letting her children worry about her old age, it would be better for her to go with her husband!

She has lived enough! No regrets!

If she passed away at this time, the children would be able to do what they were supposed to do. They would not have to go through the grief again after a few years, nor would they have to go through the trouble of holding another funeral twice.

She happened to ride in her husband's hearse, and the two funerals became one. The old couple had the funeral and were buried together, which saved their children and grandchildren some trouble, after all, they were very busy at work.

The old couple were one hundred years old and the other ninety-eight, so it was a happy funeral! She was very content in her heart, this was the most perfect ending in life!

Besides, she can't bear to leave her husband. Maybe she will pursue him closely. If there is an afterlife, she will have the chance to marry him!

She thought to herself that she had done a lot of good deeds in her life, so God should help her make good arrangements!

Chen Hong smiled and closed her eyes peacefully, hoping that God would take her soul away as well.

She didn't know how much time had passed, but it seemed like she had had a very sweet sleep.

It was as if her soul had become lazy, extremely comfortable. She hadn't slept so long and so deeply for more than two years. As she got older, her sleep time became shorter and her energy became weaker.

It's really boring to live too long. It's a luxury to sleep till dawn! It's better to be young. No matter how tired or busy you are, you can close your eyes at night and sleep all night. The next day you will be full of energy and work without delay. You can also enjoy the simple meals three times a day.

What a sweet sleep! Moreover, she even had a very interesting dream while sleeping.

In her dream, she became the only daughter in the family. Her parents were both soldiers and were away from home all year round. She grew up with her grandmother.

My grandmother is a tall and strong rural woman with dark skin and a hot temper. The most important thing is that she smells like corn when she opens her mouth. It seems that her hometown is in a rural area in Northeast China.

My parents lived near the capital city, and my mother's parents' hometown was in this ancient city. My grandmother brought her to live in my mother's dowry courtyard.

Suddenly, a child with a runny nose, an old lady with bound feet and a bun on her head, young men and women in military uniforms, and a strong woman who walked as fast as the wind, all came into her mind.

"Han Zhaozhao! Come out and play! Xiaolian is waiting for us to jump rubber rope!"

"Zhao Zhao, you are such a good kid, unlike the crazy girl in the alley who only knows how to play, you also know how to help grandma with work.

Your parents should be relieved in the army, and you two can live a good life at home."

"Zhao Zhao, now that mom and dad are gone, listen to grandma. Next time I'm on vacation, I'll take you to buy a little skirt. Our Zhao Zhao is the prettiest!"

"Han Zhaozhao!"

"Han Zhaozhao!"

"Zhao Zhao! Zhao Zhao!"

Her head was buzzing, and she was almost dying of anxiety. She wanted to refute, she is Chen Hong! Her name is not Zhao Zhao, not Han Zhao Zhao!

But the more anxious she became, the clearer she became that this "Han Zhaozhao" was calling her!

Chen Hong struggled hard, trying to wake up from this dream that felt so real.

Chen Hong woke up from her dream, sweating profusely.

The moment she opened her eyes, she looked around and found that she was still surrounded by the old cotton mosquito net that had turned yellow due to exposure to the sun and the moon.

The tent door still had the two large, foot-long khaki patches, hung on a mosquito net hook made of wire, with the door half-closed.

Under the window next to him, a sturdy figure was sitting with his back to the bed. His back was hunched and he looked lifeless. The room was dead silent and filled with sadness.

There was a buzzing in Chen Hong's head, and along with the dizziness came a series of strange images that did not belong to her.

At this moment, she was sure that a miracle had happened and she had traveled through time!

Traveling back to the year 1957 in the capital, Han Zhaozhao, a seven-year-old girl whose mother had just died and whose father was missing...

The name of her body is Han Zhaozhao!

As for where the original owner went after she came, she didn't know. She guessed that there were only a few destinations. One was that she missed her parents and followed them there; the other was that after she came, God arranged for the original owner to go to a time and space with a better living environment; of course, it was also possible that the child's soul completely disappeared in the long river of time and space, as if it had never appeared.

Chen Hong doesn't want to be a robber and take over other people's bodies.

But now she knew very well that she was Han Zhaozhao. God had asked her to take over Han Zhaozhao's body, and as a modern soul, an ordinary member of the time-traveling army, she had no choice but to accept it!

Whether it is reasonable or not is not up to her to decide, but she probably won't be able to go back anyway.

What's more, any normal person would make the right choice between going back to be a 98-year-old widowed old woman or staying to be a 7-year-old socialist flower. She decisively chose to stay, treating it as just a game and starting a new life.

She thought timidly in her heart that coming and going was not her own choice, it all depended on God's arrangement! At worst, she would try her best to shoulder the original owner's responsibilities, live a good life, do more good deeds, and pray that the original owner's soul would not be extinguished and be reborn in a good way in the next life!

Chen Hong was also afraid of being affected by the cause and effect, so she prayed secretly in her heart and made several wishes in succession. Only then did she feel less panicked and gradually calmed down.

Feeling relieved, she began to think about the current environment she was facing. The new identity God gave her had a good start, at least the living environment of the original owner she traveled to was not hellish.

He is a descendant of a soldier, and his ancestors were poor peasants for eight generations; his family has a house but no land, and some savings; it is not a family that favors boys over girls, and the population is simple, without any top-notch people.

Very good, very good! With these few conditions, it is not difficult to live a safe and healthy life.

In Tomato novels, many authors use their works to illustrate that the social environment during this period was not very stable, with a shortage of materials and the establishment of a new order...

There were many spies who had lurked during the Japanese invasion, and there were also veteran spies who had been planted before the Japanese surrendered. It was said that some civilians still had guns in their hands...

Danger! Very dangerous! It is said that Han Zhaozhao's parents died while hunting down enemy spies, and one of them went missing.

While Chen Hong breathed a sigh of relief, she was shocked at the same time. Oh my God, this year is 1957!

According to various documents and records in later generations, the country would soon face a three-year severe drought, and no one would have enough to eat. The difficult period when every family would have to eat tree bark and grass roots was coming!

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