Quick Transmigration: I Actually Became a System Bug

In the third month of the first year of the Tianqi reign, in Gutang Village, Linshui Town, Mengzhou Prefecture.

Early that morning, the usually peaceful and quiet village was thrown into chaos by screams.

"Third brother, third brother, hurry and call Granny Zhang, your wife is about to give birth!"

The taciturn Ji Laosan gave a muffled reply, but quickly ran towards the Zhang family's house in the middle of the village. However, when Ji Laosan arrived at the Zhang family's house, he found it empty.

"Brother Ji, my mother was called away early this morning by the Shi family at the east end of the village. They said that the scholar's wife also started labor this morning. Why don't you go and take a look now? Maybe the scholar's wife has already given birth, and you can take my mother directly to your house."

Anxious and frustrated, Ji Laosan could only turn around and run towards the village school again.

"Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang! Is anyone home? Scholar Shi? Little Anzi? Open the door!"

Ji Laosan knocked for a long time, and just as he was hesitating whether to barge in or turn back, the door was finally opened, revealing Xiao Anzi with red eyes.

However, at this moment, Ji Laosan was in no mood to care whether Xiao Anzi's eyes were red or not.

"Xiao Anzi, is Aunt Zhang here with Scholar Shi? Has Scholar Shi's wife given birth? My wife is about to give birth, could you please ask Aunt Zhang if she can come over right now?"

Xiao Anzi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then thought of something scary, shuddered, turned around and ran into the yard.

Watching that receding figure, Ji Laosan also started running after it.

"Master, master, Aunt Ji from the village is about to give birth, and Uncle Ji has come to invite Grandma Zhang!"

Just then, Granny Zhang finished cleaning up the delivery room and came out with an apologetic look on her face. Before she could say a few words, Shi Xiucai waved his hand and she was dragged out of the Shi family home by Ji Laosan from the village.

Old Man Ji dragged and pulled Zhang Pozi to the Ji family home at breakneck speed. Zhang Pozi nearly fainted. She gasped for breath and was about to start cursing when...

"Ah...ah...ah..."

Painful screams came from inside the room. Okay, stop cursing now. She quickly stepped into the delivery room next door.

Inside, Ji Laosan's wife was already drenched in sweat. The usually tidy woman's hair was now disheveled and her clothes wrinkled. An older woman was encouraging her, and when she saw Granny Zhang enter, the older woman breathed a sigh of relief.

"My dear sister, you've finally arrived! Come quickly and help me check on my third daughter-in-law. How much longer until she gives birth?"

Granny Zhang forced a smile and responded. She then carefully washed her hands twice in the wooden basin next to her before going over to check on the pregnant woman's condition.

Granny Zhang carefully felt the pregnant woman's belly and checked the dilation of her cervix.

"Sister, judging from your wife's condition, she should be giving birth soon."

Turning to Ji Laosan's family, she said...

"Hey, how are you feeling? Still have the strength? Your baby is in the right position, let's push harder, the baby will be out soon."

Ji Laosan's wife nodded, panting heavily, then gritted her teeth and suddenly exerted all her strength. Finally, before she was exhausted, something slid out.

"It's born! It's born! It's a son!"

Upon hearing this, the third child's wife fainted with a smile. However, when she woke up, she was greeted not by the joyful smiles of her family, but by a pair of huge red circles under her eyes.

"Honey, what's wrong with you? Are you crying from joy? Look at you, so pathetic. You weren't like this when the first baby was born!"

Ji Laosan forced a smile, but it only made him look worse. Even his family sensed something was wrong.

"Honey, what's wrong? Oh, and where's our son? Where's my newborn baby? Why isn't he in the house?"

Ji Laosan tried to calm himself down and comfort his wife, but after holding back for a long time, this honest man finally couldn't hold back anymore.

"Wife...our son..."

When the third son's wife saw the tears falling from Ji Laosan's eyes, a sense of foreboding washed over her. Ignoring the fact that she had just given birth, she crawled up and sat up.

"Tell me! What exactly happened to our second son?"

"You're really driving me crazy, Mother! Mother!..."

Ji Laosan quickly helped his wife, who was about to get out of bed.

"Wife, wife, I'll talk! I'll talk!"

"Our son... was already dead at birth!"

The third son's wife was so angry that she almost fainted. Ji Laosan quickly pinched her philtrum.

After finally managing to save the person, they seemed to have gone mad, constantly muttering to themselves.

"How is this possible? How is this possible?..."

In his haste, Ji Laosan forgot about his recently deceased son and rushed to find the village doctor to see his wife.

As darkness fell, the entire Gutang Village returned to its usual tranquility. At the same time, two shivering figures, each carrying a small bundle, walked from one end of the village to the dilapidated temple on the back mountain.

I don't know if the person in front was walking too slowly or the person behind was walking too fast, but the distance between the two people kept getting closer and closer.

"Whoa whoa whoa whoa!"

"Whoa whoa whoa whoa!"

Two distinct baby cries rang out, especially clear in the quiet night. The two people stopped in their tracks and opened the swaddling blankets in their arms.

The person behind was very excited. He quickly picked up the child and started walking back, but after taking only a few steps, the child in his arms suddenly stopped crying, and at the same time, another cry also disappeared.

The person took two steps back, and the crying started again at the same time, and then stopped moving forward again.

Several times in a row, the two of them discovered the problem at the same time. They moved closer to each other in perfect unison. In the quiet night, Ji Laosan and Shi Xiucai listened to the cries of the babies in their arms, and were filled with mixed feelings.

From that day on, Ji Han, the second son of Ji Laosan, was fostered in the home of Shi Xiucai. It was said that the scholar's wife had calculated that the two children's fates were incompatible; if they were together, they would suffer, and if they were apart, they would fail.

The third son's family also returned to normal after visiting the Shi family the next day. In the woman's heart, the child's survival was more important than anything else. As for where the child would be raised, she no longer dared to insist. Besides, the scholar's family was much better off than theirs.

The two children who finally realized they wouldn't be abandoned were Ji Han and Shi Shaoyu, who were still infants who could only communicate through the system.

The system task was issued early on: Please spend all 100 tons of gold in this world.

When Ji Han received the mission, he did the math. In this era, a box of gold usually weighed about 100 jin (50 kg). So, that's... 2,000 boxes!

Putting aside how much wealth this amount represented in this era, given their current state, let alone completing the mission, with the mortality rate in ancient times, they should just try to survive for now.