Countdown to Awakening

Hearing this conversation, Qi Rongfeng felt a little guilty. If he had worked harder back then, he could have eaten more fish now, and his daughter wouldn't have lost track of fish...

"The fish with sixteen legs you mentioned... I seem to have heard of it. People in the city call it octopus. Alas, that's not right. The octopus that people in the city refer to only has eight legs. How can there be a fish with 16 legs? Are you dreaming?" Qi Rongfeng was puzzled.

Qi Yuanyuan grew up with her grandmother. Her family wasn't well off, and fish was hard to come by, so it was expensive. She only ate it a few times a year. Then, when she was ten, she was told she couldn't eat seafood anymore.

Although there are freshwater farmed ones, they are afraid to buy them.

That was the one time, during a faculty dinner at the school, everyone had a sudden whim and ordered a braised fish with 16 legs of varying lengths, nearly bulging eyes, and a colorful body. After everyone's persuasion, she ate it too. Later, she fell ill...

Even now, she couldn't believe the fish she saw. They were completely different from any fish she had ever seen. Even octopuses in their area had at least a hundred legs...

She didn't dare eat it for fear of getting sick again...which was an incurable disease.

"Yuanyuan, who told you about the fish with 16 legs?" Qi Rongfeng asked.

Qi Yuanyuan was choked by this. What should she say? Say she came from the future? She chewed her food calmly and replied, "Well, I heard it from my classmates one time. They told me..."

Qi Rongfeng was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

"That's what I was saying. How could a normal fish have 16 legs? Even octopuses don't have 16 legs. Your classmates must be talking nonsense. If a normal fish has 16 legs, it's definitely not normal."

Really? So those weren't normal. She'd thought the fish she'd seen were what fish really looked like.

"Eat it, Yuanyuan. This fish is hard to find. It's delicious."

Qi Yuanyuan looked at the fish in the bowl and felt sick. She didn't dare to pick it up. "Dad, I don't like fish. You guys eat it."

She put the piece of fish into Qi Rongfeng's bowl.

In her original world, fish and shrimp were mutated and could not be eaten. Eating them would make her sick, which undoubtedly left a psychological shadow on her.

Qi Rongfeng thought Qi Yuanyuan was being polite. "My daughter, our family isn't well off, but don't worry. We still have to eat what we need. Dad won't mind if you eat too much."

"No, Dad. I really don't like eating fish. You guys eat it. I'm afraid the fishbone will get stuck in my throat and make me uncomfortable." She said embarrassedly.

Qi Rongfeng didn't think much of it. His daughter had indeed eaten a fish bone when she was little, and it got stuck in her throat. At the time, they'd heard that giving children vinegar would help them vomit it out, but who would have thought it wouldn't work? She finally went to the village clinic, and it finally worked... Qi Rongfeng and Liang Xiaocui had always remembered this incident.

"It's my fault too. Look at my memory. Okay, if you don't want to eat fish, then drink more chicken soup." Qi Rongfeng smiled foolishly after he finished speaking.

Qi Yuanyuan nodded.

On the other side, Sun Pandi did not receive such good treatment——

Chen Juan pulled her into the house. After entering the house, Sun Degui raised his hand and left a red, swollen and glaring slap mark on her face.

Sun Pandi's face was hit and tilted to the other side.

Immediately, Chen Juan started cursing, "Well, you, you money-loser, you've become so powerful! You're even asking people to help you fight us, right? I'm your mother! And you want to use our family's money to go to college! I'm telling you, no way! Our family's money is meant to be left at home for your education! And you took away five thousand yuan in one go! Five thousand yuan! You wasted it all! You damn money-loser!"

After a pause, Chen Juan continued to yell at the top of her lungs, "Your grandfather left you money, how come we didn't know about it?! You're such a good loser, you're actually quite good at hiding things! You didn't even tell anyone about such a big thing, and you acted pitiful in front of the villagers! Not only did you bring up the village chief, but you even helped outsiders! You're acting as if we've treated you unfairly? How have we treated you unfairly with the food and clothing we've provided you over the years? Do you still have a conscience?!"

Sun Degui glared at her and continued, "You are a jinx! You killed your grandparents, and now you want to make our family lose money! Letting you marry Ma Hui is a compliment to you! What are Ma Hui's conditions? If you follow him, what do you want?! You still don't know how to appreciate it! You are so despicable! Our Sun family is defeated by you! Why didn't you just throw you into the tower?!" He patted his face as he spoke.

Sun Pandi reached out to cover the side of her face that had just been hit, and tears began to flow as they insulted her.

She didn't dare to speak, because she had no status in this family.

Sun Jiacai, who had been watching the fun from the sidelines, also stepped forward. "It's all your fault! I was going to a key high school and get into the best university! Now you've taken all my money, what am I going to do?! The fortune teller said I'd be a government employee, a high-ranking official! You just don't want me to be one! You're so cruel! You don't deserve to be in our house!"

She still didn't say anything, thinking that she could just bear with it for a while. This wouldn't happen again once she got to college.

Chen Juan was furious just looking at her, so she twisted her arm. "Why am I so unlucky to have given birth to a money-loser like you?!"

"Mom, I'm hungry." Sun Jiacai touched his stomach and interrupted Chen Juan with his words.

Hearing this, Chen Juan immediately changed her attitude: "Son, do you want to eat? Mom will make it for you. What do you want to eat?"

After she finished speaking, she glared at Sun Pandi fiercely. She and Sun Degui didn't dare to make any big noise, for fear that their neighbor Aunt Zhang would find out that they were treating this money-loser harshly again, and if she told the village chief, it would be troublesome.

I don't know what the village chief is thinking. He's so concerned about that money-loser. Isn't it just a college entrance exam? What's the big deal? She's just a girl. What's there to brag about? Maybe her son will do better in the future! Then the whole village will come to curry favor with her! Let's see if the village chief will regret it!

"What are you still standing there for? Go and make a fire!" Sun Degui looked at Sun Pandyi and said viciously.

Only then did Sun Pandi walk to the stove and light a fire.

After she entered the kitchen, Sun Degui spat. "Bah! What bad luck! How could I have given birth to such an unlucky thing like her?!"

Then he moved a stool out and sat in the yard, basking in the sun while waiting for his meal.

Sun Jiacai also came out.

"Dad." Sun Jiacai called out.

After Sun Degui agreed, he felt that this was a good opportunity, and then he advised earnestly: "Jiacai, you are the only male in the Sun family. When you find a wife in the future, you must find an obedient and sensible one who can give birth to a son. So that our Sun family can continue the incense!"

Sun Jiacai nodded.

"Dad, Mom has already taught me these things. I will definitely find the wife you mentioned in the future."

Sun Degui nodded.

That's the right thing to do. You should find an obedient daughter-in-law. It's hard to handle one who's too smart.

Just as I was thinking about it, a voice came from inside: "It's time to eat!"