Acai's Sky

"A Cai, your parents don't want you anymore. Are you going to your grandma's house? Are you selling this place?"

"A Cai, you're already a grown-up girl at 16. How can you let Old Madam Su support you? She's almost supporting her in her old age. Selling the place will just be enough for living expenses!"

: "Oh, you guys are so annoying. Acai is only 16 years old, and you have no sympathy at all. You only think about this place."

"If you have compassion, take her home. She's going to move to her grandmother's place. Who wouldn't want her to live here?"

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Ah Cai was having a terrible headache. These people were chattering so loudly that it was really annoying. There were only a few of them, yet they had so many different minds.

He opened his eyes with difficulty and glanced at the people around him. "Can you please leave first? I have a terrible headache and don't want to argue."

The people around looked at Ah Cai's pale face and quickly dispersed, running away without any explanation.

Didn’t you see that the child is pale? He’s about to die. It’s so scary. It’s better to stay away from him.

"Huh, it's finally quiet. Where is this?" Looking at the unfamiliar environment, Acai was dumbfounded.

This is a beautiful homestay with a two-and-a-half-story brick-concrete structure in the shape of a U, and colorful tiles on the exterior walls.

The windowsill, the front of the house, and the surrounding walls are all planted with various wild flowers. They are wild flowers, but she actually doesn't know what they are.

There are two gray eight-person wooden dining tables in the yard, with long chairs of the same color on both sides. They are made in a simple and elegant style, and the ground is paved with blue bricks.

I was half leaning on a swing, a large cradle with space for two.

Ah Cai thought about what those people had said just now, and pondered it carefully in her head. "Hiss," she felt an unbearable headache. It turned out that it was the past memory of this 16-year-old girl who was the same age as her.

The little girl is also called Acai, but her surname is Ning, so her name is Ning Acai.

Her parents had just divorced and neither of them wanted her. They had both started their own families and were about to have a new baby.

This B&B is the product of the couple's joint efforts, but when they have money, they seem to have new ideas.

After the divorce, they left this B&B to Ning Acai, as well as their own large orchard behind the B&B, 30 acres of land under contract for 25 years and 1000 years, and a reservoir contracted for 50 years to raise many kinds of fish.

It was clearly written that all these were for Acai, and that I would no longer give Acai any money and cut off all ties.

The little girl also didn't understand what she had done wrong because her parents broke off relations with her. She didn't want her anymore and she refused to take medicine when she had a fever and died.

Now it is Tong Acai who comes from 40 years later who replaces her. Tong Acai is dumbfounded, she is working hard on the experiment, how did she get here?

Tong Acai is a high school senior in 2050 who is about to take the college entrance examination. Because she has cancer, she is preparing to work as a clinical trialist for a new drug in a hospital.

Now that I have the little girl's memory, I know that I have traveled through time, and I feel very happy. Although we are the same age, this one has a healthy body.

The village where the little girl lives is called Taibai Village, which is also a small fishing village in the northeast. Over a small hill in front is the beach.

It's not peak tourist season here, so there are almost no tourists, and naturally, the guesthouses are also empty. The remaining villagers can be counted on two hands.

The villagers are so concerned about Acai's homestay because it's located near the village entrance and boasts a spacious five-mu (approximately 5 acres) of land. The homestay has over en suite rooms and is adjacent to the road leading to the beach.

She also has a grandmother, Old Mrs. Su, who lives in the city with her eldest son Ning Zhaoqi and has a little grandson.

Acai's father is the second son Ning Zhaolin, who currently runs a large travel company. He used to be a peasant in the countryside, but in just 5 years he has become a decent city dweller.

Acai did not go to the city with her parents because she was going to school. Her parents did not transfer her household registration and were unwilling to pay for her tuition.

Usually, it is her neighbor Grandma Teng who takes care of her. In recent days, Grandma Teng has gone to the city to take care of her daughter-in-law during the postpartum period and has not been at home.

A Cai thought that since her surname was Tong and the girl's surname was Ning, there shouldn't be anything dramatic happening.

Although she is in her third year of high school, she has a good deskmate who reads online novels to her whenever she has nothing to do.

But Ning Acai had already been admitted to the Chinese Department of university. It was a crime to ask a science student to study Chinese...

Fortunately, the university I applied to this time is in the provincial capital. I still have a month to go to school anyway, so I can relax for a while and adapt to the environment.

Without thinking too much, she got up and closed the door. The villagers didn't close the door for her when they left.

I went to the big kitchen of the B&B and found something to eat and drink. It was hard to have a healthy body, so I had to cherish it.

Walking into the kitchen, I was like, "Wow!" It's so big. This isn't a gas stove, but a real rural stove with a large pot.

There are stoves in the middle of the room. I counted them and there are six stoves of different sizes.

On the side facing the entrance, there is a multifunctional wall cabinet with a marble countertop.

Anyway, it's surrounded by cabinets, wall cabinets, cupboards, and cupboards. There are also large steamers, noodle machines, meat grinders, juicers and other modern kitchen appliances.

On the right side of the entrance is a whole wall of shelves, which are used to store seasonal vegetables, cooking oil and other vegetables.

There is a door next to the shelf. When you open it, you will see a warehouse of about 500 square meters. There are several large refrigerators and freezers installed against the wall.

There are all kinds of food on the shelves, which is probably enough for her to eat for a long time. There are still a lot of meats in the refrigerator.

Acai's parents divorced and immediately closed the B&B. The chefs also resigned. How could a young girl manage such a large B&B?

"Oh, I also have clumsy hands, what should I do?" Tong Acai is in a difficult situation.

I had no choice but to remember that there was a small warehouse next to the cashier with instant rice, so I'll just use that for now.

"I usually eat in the cafeteria and I can't cook. It's really painful to look at so much food." A Cai sighed and walked to the cashier.

While eating instant rice, I thought about how miserable Ah Cai was. Her parents didn't want her, her grandmother didn't want her because she favored boys over girls, and her grandfather's family ignored her.

It's just that it's temporarily under my father's name, and I'll move out when I reach adulthood. It's not bad to have such a large homestay, orchard, and farmland. At least I won't starve to death.

After a good meal, I finally recovered some energy. I returned to my room to check Ning Acai's personal belongings.

Acai's room was converted from a B&B suite, and she didn't have a proper room of her own.

On the desk were a student ID card and a Bank of China card. I checked on my phone and saw three million on the card. It was in her mother Li Shumei's name, but it was linked to a secondary phone card, the same one Ah Cai was currently using. What a strange family.

Looking back on Ah Cai's memories of the past sixteen years, it feels like she simply cannot fit into this family, even though this family is relatively well-off and never treats her unfairly.

In this family, my grandmother favored boys over girls and believed in guardian spirits. My father didn't care about anything except the company and the family, and my mother never gave her a parent-teacher conference.

Even good children can suffer from depression over time. Acai's life is really not easy.

"Alas", I still have to find a way to survive.