Divorced woman with child travels through time

Chen Wenfang stared blankly at the clear blue sky seen through the drafty thatched roof of the house.

Am I dreaming? Yes, yes...

But this coldness is all too real.

The sky is so blue! When did Wuhan have such a blue sky? It's so beautiful, the white and blue colors are so lovely.

"Mom, why are you ignoring me?" Chen Xuanyu's voice startled her awake.

Oh, my son still has a fever.

Suddenly realizing what was happening, Chen Wenfang looked at her son.

"Baby, why are you dressed like this..." This...

Why is my son dressed in such tattered clothes, and why does he have such long hair with little tufts?

Looking around, Chen Wenfang saw mottled mud walls, a thatched earthen bed, two legless wooden benches, and a chest of drawers with a half-broken door. Fallen leaves and ashes littered the ground. She struggled to sit up, only to realize how weak she was.

I finally managed to sit up and catch my breath for a while. I looked at my son and myself, dressed in clothes that resembled those of poor peasants in ancient times, clothes that looked like a mix of hemp and cloth. I didn't recognize them. The clothes were old and short, like three-quarter sleeves, with fuzzy edges that looked like they were about to break.

Her hands were jet black, thin and bony, with sharp fingernails filled with yellow mud. Her son was slightly better; his extremely thin body had two large eyes, and he looked inexplicably pitiful.

Chen Wenfang thought to herself, "This is time travel! I wonder if my 21st-century self is gone. That illness must have been quite severe. I wonder how many lives COVID-19 has taken. Being able to time travel is one way to live."

Chen Wenfang perked up; it seemed the baby was hungry. "Sweetie, Mommy will find you something to eat in a bit."

After a while, Chen Wenfang slowly got up, not daring to get up too suddenly for fear of falling. As a professional single mother with no one to rely on, she had thought more than once about how to avoid injury or death. She still had a baby, and as a mother, she was strong and could not fall down.

After slowly standing up, Chen Wenfang walked along the wall for support, and looked around the house again. The house was not small, with a main house, two side rooms and a courtyard in the middle. There was a shed next to the courtyard, which was probably a cowshed. There was also a kitchen. The house was covered in dust and there were no other odds and ends. It looked like an old house that had been neglected and lived in.

Could this not be the house of this body? Chen Wenfang wondered.

"Baby, stay on the kang and don't move. Mommy will go find you something to eat."

"Okay, Mommy," the baby replied obediently.

"My darling is so good," Chen Wenfang thought to herself as she slowly walked out of the yard.

Her stomach growled again. Chen Wenfang was so hungry she felt dizzy. The house was nestled against a mountain, next to a small pond, with a few acres of wasteland not far away, and a river further on. It was a good place, with mountains and water, but she was just too hungry. Chen Wenfang thought to herself, "I have to find something to eat."

Chen Wenfang looked around; there was grass everywhere. What kind of grass was this? She didn't recognize it, and she didn't know if it was edible. She couldn't just eat anything. She looked around some more, and then she saw thatch grass on the roof of the cowshed in the middle of the yard. Oh, thatch grass! That's right, the roots of thatch grass are edible, they're sweet. Suddenly, she felt a surge of energy. Chen Wenfang walked a few meters and found a few stalks of thatch grass by the eaves of the house. She didn't have any tools to dig them up, but she didn't care. Her claws were sharp, and after a while, she found that the thatch grass wasn't growing very deep on the slanted side, and the roots were pulled out in no time.

Chen Wenfang didn't care about cleanliness. She rubbed the dirt off with her hands, wiped it on her clothes, and put it in her mouth to chew. After chewing for a while, a sweet taste slowly appeared in her mouth. She chewed and picked at the grass roots, grimacing as she chewed. She swallowed the grass roots with her neck stiff, knowing that she had no other food. Although this body was much younger than her body before she transmigrated, it was very lacking in nutrition. She had to eat as much as she could to get her body back in shape.

After eating a few cogon grass roots, which filled her halfway up, Chen Wenfang dug out all the cogon grass roots from the nearby eaves. She slowly walked to the small pond, intending to wash the cogon grass roots and take them to her baby to chew on.

Approaching the pond, Chen Wenfang saw many fish and almost drooled; she was truly hungry.

Chen Wenfang slowly walked to the edge of the pond and squatted down, washing her hands, which were covered in mud, and cleaning the grass roots. Then she slowly stood up. To be honest, if the baby wasn't so small and couldn't eat anything too dirty, Chen Wenfang would have fed the baby without washing them. With this baby's physical condition, washing things by the water was too dangerous. She was worried that she would fall headfirst into the water.

They slowly walked home, and Chen Wenfang took out some cogon grass roots for her son, saying, "Baby, slowly put this in your mouth and chew it until it's mashed, then you'll have sweet juice to drink." "Okay, Mom, what is this? Where are we?" Chen Xuanyu may be small, but he has a lot of questions.

She took the white root from her mother and started chewing. "Mom doesn't know either, but this is edible. Let's have something to eat first."

"Oh, okay, Mommy, there really is sweet juice!" The baby obediently ate it.

"Spit it out when you can't taste it anymore, baby."

"Yeah"

Chen Wenfang fed the child until he was about half full, then said, "Take a nap, baby."

Both of them, feeling weak, ate some sugar and finally fell into a deep sleep. Luckily, the weather wasn't too cold, so they were warm enough without needing to be huddled under the covers.