Transmigrated into a Farmhouse: The Stepmother Spoils Her Child to the Heavens

"Ershi, pry open her mouth and put the medicine pot in."

"Brother, let's just forget about it and wait for her to die..."

"Bullshit! We don't have a father anymore. If she dies, we won't even have a stepmother."

With a splitting headache, Lin Cai felt as if a mouthful of bitter liquid had been forced into her mouth, making her feel as if her soul was leaving her body.

"Cough cough, it's so bitter!"

Inside the fenced house, a figure suddenly sat up on the dusty bed.

Several frail figures, startled, stepped back a few paces from the bedside, timidly watching the person who had just woken up.

"Mother, you're awake."

A bitter taste filled her mouth, accompanied by a splitting headache. Lin Cai groaned as unfamiliar memories flooded her mind.

After sorting out my thoughts, I was shocked to realize that I had actually traveled through time...

The original owner was a young widow who caused her husband's death on their wedding day, and she also became the stepmother of four children!

Lin Cai's brow twitched wildly. If it weren't for the bitter taste of the medicine in her mouth that prevented her from speaking, she would have thought she was dreaming.

After a long pause, she turned her head and stared at her brothers huddled together not far away.

"water…"

The voice was very soft, but Da Chui, who was standing in front of his younger siblings, heard it clearly and turned around to get a bowl of cold boiled water.

Lin Cai didn't care about anything else. She drank a bowl of water, which finally relieved the bitterness in her mouth.

"I'm fine now, you can all go out."

The four siblings, including Da Chui, were overjoyed and ran out of the room in the blink of an eye.

"Big brother, why didn't Mother hit us?"

"Hmph, he's sick and doesn't have the energy to deal with us."

The question was directed at the youngest maid, Chunhua, but the answer was coldly given to the second son, Ershi.

Upon hearing the voices outside the door, Lin Cai immediately recognized who they were.

"Keep your voice down. Ershi, take Sanhu to the river and catch some fish. If you can't catch any, see if you can catch a few rats."

"Hmph, I'd rather be beaten to death by her than go hungry." Ershi muttered, "Big brother, why bother brewing medicine for her and letting her die..."

"Shut up!" Big Hammer scolded in a low voice, "She is, after all, our mother in name only..."

Inside the house, Lin Cai overheard a few words before they went about their own business.

"Sigh~"

Rubbing her temples, Lin Cai couldn't help but recall the original owner's memories, and her head began to ache slightly.

Four years ago, the original owner married into the Gu family. On their wedding night, Gu Tieniu and Erchun welcomed their "beautiful wife". They drank with the guests until dark, and just as they were about to enter the bridal chamber, Gu Tieniu suddenly fell ill and died on the spot.

On her wedding night, the original owner became a widow who had "cursed" her husband to death and a stepmother to four children.

Gu Tieniu got married and started his own family at a young age, separating from his parents and living independently.

I learned blacksmithing at a blacksmith shop in the county town and have saved some money over the years.

With his death, all his belongings returned to their original owner.

If it were any other woman who caused her husband's death after marriage, she would probably be bullied to death.

But the original owner's family was a real handful. Not only was the mother a shrew with a fierce temper, but there were also several ruthless street thugs among the brothers.

The original owner was spoiled since childhood, and was known for being selfish, mean, and shrewish in the surrounding area.

The original owner had difficulty getting married, but the Lin family agreed to the marriage because Gu Tie Niu had some wealth.

During those four years, the original owner of this body was in charge of 'raising' her four stepchildren, and she squandered almost all of the family fortune left by Gu Tieniu through her laziness and gluttony.

The four siblings, including Da Chui, were subjected to either verbal abuse and hunger, or physical abuse and hunger for an entire day.

For the past four years, the four siblings have had bruises all over their bodies and have never had a full meal.

As for the Gu family's old house, the old lady is a kind-hearted and charitable person.

But at most, they would secretly give the four brothers some food. They had separated from their family early, and with the original owner's troublesome family, the old family didn't want to get involved.

The original owner of this body was used to being arrogant and shrewish. This time, while wandering around the village, she saw a hunter carrying his prey back to the village and went up to snatch it. When she couldn't overpower the man, she falsely accused the hunter of molesting her and tried to extort money from him for carrying the more than 200-pound wild boar on his shoulder.

As a result, when the hunter let go, a dead pig crashed down on him.

Recalling the original owner's many bizarre deeds, Lin Cai's lips twitched slightly.

Despite her headache, Lin Cai got out of bed and walked out of the house. The relatively clean yard was surrounded by a fence, and a few hens were lazily looking for food.

"Hey~"

Blue skies and white clouds, the air so fresh it seems to wash away the haze in people's hearts.

The pressure of workplace competition in my past life seems to have been swept away in this new time and space.

"I'm already a mother of four before I'm even married..."

Moreover, the original owner had been lazy and good-for-nothing for the past four years, and had spent almost all the money left by Gu Tieniu.

Gu Dachui had reached the age to get married, and everyone in the village was waiting for the excitement, wondering if the original owner's stepmother would find Dachui a wife. The gossip even reached the original owner's mother's ears.

Lin Cai was quite overwhelmed; this wasn't like modern women who could go out to work and earn money.

She stood in the courtyard in a daze until the courtyard gate was pushed open. Ershi, carrying a mouse by its tail, saw Lin Cai in the courtyard and went into the house with his head down and no sound.

Lin Cai sighed silently. Of the three brothers, Ershi was the most assertive.

Therefore, he was the one who was abused the most by the original owner. Even when he was beaten to the point of vomiting blood, he gritted his teeth and neither cried nor admitted his mistakes.

Ershi, barely 11 or 12 years old, walked into the courtyard, his nerves on edge.

His thin, short body was covered by a dirty, patched-up hemp garment that looked loose and empty, and his small face was tanned dark from years of sun exposure.

He didn't dare look at Lin Cai, bracing himself for a beating, and hung the rat up to deal with it.

The river is so small, and all the fish in it have been caught by the adults.

They usually have to be lucky to catch one or two small fish.

Looking at the skinned rat, Lin Cai swallowed hard, almost vomiting.

It's not surprising that they went to catch mice; the original owner often threatened them to bring back food from outside, including bird eggs and frogs, which the original owner accepted without hesitation.

If the two men with the big hammer couldn't find food to return, the original owner would beat them for being unfilial.

Suppressing her nausea, Lin Cai went into the kitchen and used the key hanging around her neck to open the cabinet.

"About half a pound of millet..." Lin Cai said, lifting the bag and tossing it.

It's just enough for one person, only a few meals, let alone the food for Da Chui and his three siblings.

Lin Cai couldn't help but recall the night before she transmigrated, the supplies she had stocked up on in her double-door refrigerator due to the pandemic, including several bags of expired rice and flour that she had thrown away.

Just then, Lin Cai's eyes widened as the double-door refrigerator in the two-bedroom apartment she had paid for with her down payment appeared faintly in front of her.

"This is……"

She reached out and opened the refrigerator door, which was crammed full of various vegetables, fruits, milk, eggs, and other foods.

Did her refrigerator travel through time with her?!

Tentatively, Lin Cai picked up a carton of milk. The milk, which was barely visible, was now in her hand as she withdrew her hand, and its icy texture was a little cold to the touch.

Lin Cai then opened the lower refrigerator door, which led to the freezer compartment, filled with various kinds of meat.

These items were all stock she bought gradually during the pandemic.

Lin Cai thought for a moment and took out a bag of rice weighing twenty jin from the middle layer.

He took out another piece of frozen pork belly and put it in water to thaw, so that at least Da Chui and the others could have a full meal today.