After living a new life for my neighbor's grandmother, I traveled through the book again

After Tong Jia had tried all the prayer methods she had seen on TV and in books, the sedan chair she was riding in finally reached the shore.

She could feel that after getting ashore, the sedan chair bearers were lifting the sedan chair with greater force.

She quickly said, "Mrs. Xi, Mrs. Xi. Didn't you say you would unlock the sedan door after we got ashore?"

The matchmaker chuckled and said, "It will open, it will open. It's not the right time yet. Wait until the sedan bearers have made three trips back and forth, and then I will open the door."

Then, the matchmaker said loudly to the sedan chair bearers: "Everyone, we've got off the boat and are almost at the man's house. Let's use all our strength and rock it!"

"Okay!" The four sedan bearers responded at the same time.

"The guests have not left, and the table has not been dispersed.

I looked for my lover everywhere, but couldn't find him.

I searched for it but couldn't find it.

Anxious monkey, the groom has a letter. ..."

As the sedan bearers sang, Tong Jia once again felt the sedan's bumps.

With her previous experience, Tong Jia also found the pattern of the sedan chair bearers shaking the sedan chair, and her own body also changed with the shaking of the sedan chair. At least it felt better than when she first came through.

After hearing the same song three times, the sedan bearers began to gradually slow down the pace of carrying the sedan.

After a burst of rustling sounds, the matchmaker's voice came in: "Miss Rong, the door is open. Wait a minute, the sedan chair bearers will sing a few more lines, and then you can kick the ashes out of the incense burner."

Immediately afterwards, before Tong Jia could react, the sedan chair, which had calmed down, began to shake again.

When Tong Jia heard the sedan bearers singing "can't find it", she couldn't wait to kick the incense burner away.

The moment the incense burner was kicked out, she heard the sedan door being locked again.

The matchmaker's high-pitched voice came: "Everyone, now that we see the ashes from the incense burner, we have to carry the sedan chair to Pingshun.

If there is another bumpy ride, the bride will have a hard time when she arrives at her husband's house, and then everyone will blame you for not carrying the sedan properly."

The sedan bearers smiled and replied, "Po Wang, we all have experience, so we don't need your reminder!

As long as you go to your husband's house, you just need to give us all the red envelopes that we should give!"

The matchmaker said: "When you get to the man's house safely, you will definitely receive a big red envelope.

The Yang family has never treated anyone unfairly when marrying a daughter-in-law!"

"Okay!" The sedan bearers all agreed happily.

For the rest of the journey, the sedan chair was carried very steadily.

Tong Jia took this opportunity to try out several methods of opening space in the sedan chair that she had seen in novels before.

Even when the sedan chair was carried to the man's house, Tong Jia still found nothing.

Soon, Tong Jia was welcomed into a hall amidst the commotion.

Through the veil, she could only see the pair of red embroidered shoes and the pair of black cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles on her feet.

After being manipulated by the matchmaker like a puppet to pay homage to heaven and earth, she was sent to the bridal chamber.

The noise in the yard seemed to have nothing to do with her.

At first she tried to bear it, but later she was so hungry that she couldn't bear it anymore, and no one from the Yang family came to bring her food.

She lifted her veil and looked around the new house.

The doors and windows were closed, and on the table in the middle of the room lay a wine bottle, two glasses, and three plates.

There were plump white dumplings, steamed buns made of two kinds of flour, and cornmeal flatbreads on the plate.

They are either white or gold, and from a distance they look like plates of gold cakes and silver bars.

Tong Jia muttered to herself, "I don't know where this custom comes from. Why are all the meals so substantial? There aren't any other fruits or snacks at all."

Alas...it's better to be realistic than to starve to death. I have to hold on until I see the groom, make my stance clear, and have him set me free."

Thinking of this, she was about to pick up the chopsticks and start eating the dumplings.

As soon as her hand touched the chopsticks, she thought of the TV dramas she had seen before where the bride was deliberately made to say "shui jiao sheng" (dumplings born) to indicate that she would have a baby in the future.

Tong Jia felt that the dumplings might be half-cooked, so she withdrew her hand that had already touched the chopsticks.

His eyes wandered between two plates: steamed buns made with mixed flour and cornmeal pancakes.

There were five steamed buns neatly placed on the plate, and suddenly one was missing, which seemed very abrupt.

If only the groom came in, it would be fine. She was planning to confront the groom anyway. She was just afraid that if someone else came in, it would be not appropriate to leave one less steamed bun.

There are quite a lot of pancakes, and if you put them all together you won’t notice a shortage.

So, Tong Jia decisively reached out for the cornmeal pancake.

I wolfed down one, and when I was about to get the second one, I realized that I had eaten too fast and was a little choked.

She clenched her fists and pounded her chest hard, but it didn't relieve the feeling of being blocked in her chest.

After jumping a few times, it still didn't work, so he just picked up the wine jug on the table and started drinking.

After finishing a pot of wine, the cornmeal pancake that was blocking his chest finally went away.

Tong Jia finally escaped the fate of being choked to death by the pancake, but before he could catch his breath, he felt something heavy hitting his head.

He didn't even have time to look back to see what hit him. He didn't know whether he was knocked unconscious or the bottle of wine he had just drunk took effect, and he fell to the ground.

Before she completely lost consciousness, she heard a voice.

It was a somewhat pleasant male voice.

The man said, "Ms. Rong, marrying you is not my wish. For the sake of my freedom and faith, I have no choice but to offend you today.

I am leaving today and don’t know when I will be back. I only hope that Miss Rong can take Yang’s place and fulfill her filial duties to her parents.

If Yang dies on the battlefield tomorrow, Miss Rong can return home and marry freely."

Tong Jia cursed "stinky man" in her heart and then completely lost consciousness.

But even though she had lost the consciousness to perceive the outside world and her brain was in chaos, she still scolded Yang Jixia harshly.

"Yang Jixia, you stinky man, why do you have to sacrifice the life of an innocent woman just because you want freedom and faith?

Your freedom is freedom, but other people’s freedom is not freedom?

If you don't want to marry, then don't agree to it.

If you agree to the marriage but still want to run away, then tell the bride clearly and openly.

What's the point of playing dirty tricks behind people's backs?

I'm still being filial to you, bah! I'm your grandma's leg.

Selfish, unfaithful and unfilial... No, you could barely consider him loyal, but he's an unfilial and unkind bastard.

Don't let me see you. If I do, I will pull out your tendons, skin you alive, and cut you into pieces.

If you don’t hit me on the head and cheated me, I won’t be called Tong Jia..."

"If you really meet him, can you really let go of this anger?" An old voice interrupted Tong Jia's curse on Yang Jixia.

Tong Jia, who was cursing enthusiastically, was suddenly interrupted by the voice, and her consciousness suddenly fell into confusion.

While she was unconscious, she saw herself at the age of four or five in her grandmother's old house, doing needlework with her grandmother and her neighbor, Grandma Rong.

After a moment of trance, the scene slowly became real from unreal.

It’s just that the self who should have been four or five years old has become the one wearing a wedding dress.

It made her feel like it wasn't her consciousness that had returned to her childhood, but her current body that had returned to that time. She was in a daze.

Grandma Rong, who was drilling into the soles of her shoes with an awl, saw that she was confused and asked again, "If you really were to meet Yang Jixia, could you really let go of this anger?"

Grandma brought her a bowl of soup from somewhere and said, "Drink it to sober you up."

Tong Jia instinctively took the bowl and drank the soup in it obediently. Only then did her grandmother smile and go back to sit next to Grandma Rong and continue her needlework.

After finishing the soup and putting down the bowl, Tong Jia asked confusedly, "Grandma, what's going on now? I can see you and Grandma Rong. Does that mean I'm dead?"

Grandma paused what she was doing, looked at her with kind and distressed eyes, and said, "Jia Jia, answer your grandmother Rong's questions well. Maybe you can have another chance to live."

"Am I really dead?" In fact, Tong Jia had this thought in her mind after she woke up from the bridal sedan, otherwise she would not have wanted to confront Yang Jixia.

But there was still a glimmer of hope in my heart, and I felt that I must be in a dream.

Now that her dream was shattered, she had to face reality.

She looked at her grandmother, then at Grandma Rong, and did not answer Grandma Rong's question. Instead, she raised a question of her own: "Let me live again, wouldn't it be to let me live again for Grandma Rong?"

Grandma Rong and grandma both stopped what they were doing and looked at each other.

Grandma said, "See? I told you this kid has always been someone who won't tolerate any loss. If you don't explain things to her, she won't help you vent your anger."

Grandma Rong smiled and said, "Jia Jia, you can live your life again, but... you need to change my fate of being ruthlessly abandoned after working like a slave for the Yang family for decades.

I also need to ask Yang Jixia why he never even sees me no matter whether we are getting married or getting divorced.

Even if he doesn't like me, he should give me a clear explanation instead of making me wait in confusion and then leaving me helplessly.

When the higher-ups sent someone to divorce me on his behalf, that person said that he was a meritorious official and that if I didn't divorce him, I would be unworthy of his contributions.

But isn't it his fault that I wasted my life because of him and his family?"

By the end of her speech, Grandma Rong was already in tears.

Tong Jia, who originally planned to have a good talk with Yang Jixia but was inexplicably knocked unconscious from behind, can be said to understand Grandma Rong's feelings very well.

He said very straightforwardly: "Okay! Grandma Rong, I promise you.

No matter if I go up to heaven or down to hell, I will definitely catch that heartless and ungrateful man Yang Jixia and ask him for justice."

After hearing Tong Jia's words, grandma pushed Grandma Rong, who was still crying, and said, "Xintong, Jia Jia agreed. Stop crying and talk to her first."

Grandma Rong was also persuaded. She wiped away her tears immediately, stood up and pulled Tong Jia to sit next to her.

Holding Tong Jia's hand with one hand and stroking the back of her hand with the other, she said, "Jia Jia, grandma knows that you are a good child and a person with a plan in mind. Otherwise, grandma would not give you this opportunity.

Actually, your grandmother and I have been watching over you ever since your parents passed away.

I'm afraid you'll be cheated by your father's relatives who are obsessed with money.

Fortunately, you are a smart person, unlike me when I was young, who would really ruin my whole life just because of a few nice words from others.

In fact, I wanted to go home on the second day after my wedding.

But my mother-in-law coaxed me by calling me her dear daughter and her good child.

Not only did she give all her dowry to her brother-in-law and sister-in-law unconditionally, she also gave up her entire life.

So, Jiajia, when you go back, you must never really believe anything that old lady Yang says.

When she was alive, she promised me so many things, but in the end, not only did she not give me anything, she also left a message to her descendants early on, asking them to send me back to my parents' home after the seventh day after her death.

Otherwise, if I stay, it will hinder Yang Jixia from bringing his wife and children back to visit her grave.

When her youngest son and daughter got married, they used my dowry to show off, but they didn't give me any benefits at all. When they kicked me out, they didn't give me anything.

The Yang family members are really all heartless and ruthless.

Then there was a capable Yang Jixia, and when one person succeeded, everyone around him would benefit.

Even his niece, who could barely read and write, was arranged a good job and a good partner.

I really hate it in my heart..."

Grandma Rong took Tong Jia aside and talked a lot about her life in the Yang family, which gave Tong Jia a clearer understanding of the Yang family.

After talking about the people and things of the Yang family over and over again like the wheels of a wheel, Tong Jia's grandmother interrupted Grandma Rong.

She said, "Don't just tell Jia Jia those cruel things, tell her about your family too.

If Jia Jia really escapes from the Yang family, this den of wolves, don't plunge headfirst into the fire pit of your mother's family again."

"Yes, yes, yes. Jiajia, if you really leave the Yang family, you should find a place to live without war, but don't come back to my parents' home.

I have two younger sisters and two younger brothers in my mother's family. Except for my youngest brother who gave up writing to join the army, the others did not go astray and died early.

The other brothers and sisters are nothing but good-for-nothings. My parents were angered to death by them.

The reason why the Yang family sent me back to my parents' home was actually because of these people.

I have a brother-in-law. Although I have never met him, I heard that during the war, he worked as an interpreter for Xiao Zisheng and gained a lot of benefits, which means he must have harmed a lot of people.

When the Yang family drove me away, they also said that they were worried that my brothers from my mother's side would be implicated when the matter was settled later.

"Child, listen to me. Find a place where there is no one to live. When you die, you can start your own life all over again." Grandma Rong reminded Tong Jia in a roundabout way.

She didn't say much about her mother's family.

In addition to not wanting to say bad things about her own brothers and sisters, the main reason was that she never met those people again after she got married, and all the information she heard from the Yang family.

And she didn't trust the Yang family.

Tong Jia listened quietly to Grandma Rong talk about these things, thinking about what she should do in the future.