Reborn in a virtual world, before the house was taken away

"Mom, I know your concerns. How about this? I'll pretend I'm going to the countryside and ask her to come with me. Then I'll ask her to register first, and I'll say I forgot my household registration book. By the time she finds out, it'll be too late."

Jiang Yun quickly shared her idea, looking at her mother with hopeful eyes.

"Will this work?" Feng Damei was still a little hesitant. In her opinion, she should get a job and a house first, and deal with the rest later.

But seeing his beloved daughter looking at him so expectantly, and knowing that she was watching over him, he figured everything would be alright, so he nodded in the end.

At the dinner table that evening.

At the Jiang family's dinner table, you could hardly hear any talking. By the time you finished speaking, half the food might be gone, and no one had time to listen anyway. Rice was the priority; everyone was short of food these days.

But tonight is different.

Jiang Yong, the patriarch of the Jiang family, was also there. It was probably Feng Qingqing's first time officially staying at his house, so to show his respect, he gave her a warm welcome before dinner. Of course, what really happened was anyone's guess.

Jiang Yong is a man in his forties who looks honest and unassuming. Judging from his current handsome features, he must have been a dashing man in his youth, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to captivate Feng Damei.

But Feng Qingqing knew that the family's rise to prominence in the previous life was due not only to Jiang Yun's inexplicable sense of good fortune, but also to Jiang Yong's management behind the scenes. It could be said that without either of them, the family would not have been able to succeed.

Therefore, Feng Qingqing never dared to look down on any of them.

By this time, Jiang Yong had already learned about the rural assignment from Jiang Yun, and he basically supported it. Based on his understanding of this young girl over the years, he figured there shouldn't be any major problems.

So they deliberately staged this whole thing, and sure enough, Jiang Yun spoke up right after Jiang Yong finished speaking.

"Dad, Mom, since you're both here, I have something to say." After she finished speaking, she looked around at everyone present, especially Feng Qingqing, and lingered there for two extra seconds.

“Director Wang from the neighborhood office has come to our house several times. Our family is the only one in this area without any children going to the countryside. This is not good for Dad’s job. For the sake of this family, and since I’m a girl, I’m thinking of going to the countryside myself.” After saying that, she gave everyone a pleading look.

"But after I go to the countryside, Mom and Dad and my brothers can't forget me. They have to think of me as before when there are good things to eat and fun things to do." She then looked at her brothers in a deliberately coquettish manner.

The older brothers still loved their only sister very much, and they were debating whether to go to the countryside in her place. It was the 1970s, and everyone knew that going to the countryside was not a good thing.

Before the brothers could even come up with a plan, Feng Damei, fearing her sons might ruin things, immediately slammed her hand on the table and made the decision.

"That's settled then, but you all better remember how good your sister is."

After saying this, seeing that his sons didn't think of refuting him, he felt relieved. Thankfully, those brats hadn't ruined things.

"But Yunyun is a girl after all, and I'm really worried about her traveling alone. She hasn't been far from home in all these years. I would feel much more at ease if she had someone she knows well traveling with her."

After saying that, he deliberately sighed and glanced at Feng Qingqing.

At this moment, the eldest brother, Jiang Hongbing, also noticed something amiss and tentatively spoke to Feng Qingqing:

"Qingqing, you're a girl too. Why don't you go to the countryside with Yunyun? That way you'll have company. Don't worry, you're like my own sister. You won't be shortchanged from anything Yunyun has to offer."

“That’s right, how come I didn’t think of that? Qingqing, you and Yunyun are the same to me. I will also send half of your older cousin’s salary to you on time. Speaking of which, you are going to the countryside, but you are just staying in the countryside. With money and ration coupons, you can go anywhere without any trouble.”

After Feng Damei finished speaking, she looked at Feng Qingqing with anticipation.

Feng Qingqing had been waiting for this moment. She had already settled her work and housing arrangements, and all that was left was to go to the countryside.

Although it's highly likely to be the same as the previous life, it's not really confirmed yet, so I still feel uneasy.

Hearing them urge her to go to the countryside as scheduled, in order not to show her eagerness, she deliberately glanced at them somewhat nervously:

"But I heard that many people are unwilling to go to the countryside now, and it's easy to go but hard to come back. Aunt, cousin, if I go to the countryside, you won't abandon me, will you?" Feng Qingqing's pitiful expression was very convincing.

Hearing this, everyone felt relieved and began to offer their assurances.

After finishing their meal, both parties returned to their rooms satisfied.

But there was only one person whose desire to get Feng Qingqing's mother's necklace remained strong: Jiang Yun.

For some reason, the urge to possess it was particularly strong this time, which made her feel inexplicably uneasy.

From childhood to adulthood, she relied on this intuition to get along very well at home and at school. Even her initiative to get close to Feng Qingqing's family was something she had been urging her mother to do; otherwise, given her mother's personality, she would have given up long ago.

So, after returning to her room, she thought about how she was going to sign Feng Qingqing up for the rural assignment the next day, so she patiently spoke to Feng Qingqing in a kind and gentle manner.

After going around in circles, the conversation finally returned to the necklace that had been mentioned before. Feng Qingqing had a premonition that Jiang Yun wouldn't give up. If Jiang Yun gave up so easily, she wouldn't have been able to thrive under various circumstances in her past life.

Unfortunately, this time he ran into Feng Qingqing, who had been reborn and was deliberately pretending to be asleep:

"What necklace? Oh, you mean my mom's necklace? It's not worth much, who knows where it is."

After saying that, he turned around and went to sleep, no longer responding to Jiang Yun's attempts to speak to him.

Seeing her like this, Jiang Yun knew she wouldn't get any more results from her, so she angrily lay down and went to sleep.

Originally, this matter should have ended there, since Jiang Yun couldn't find the necklace and Feng Qingqing had to go to the countryside, so the matter was left unresolved.

But something happened that evening that quickly changed Jiang Yun's mind.

She had a dream.

It's quite a mystery. If Feng Qingqing knew, she would definitely give the middle finger to the heavens and say, "Is Jiang Yun not your biological daughter?"

This dream is about Jiang Yun achieving what she did in her previous life: after receiving the necklace from Feng Qingqing, she opened up a spatial dimension and thus reached the pinnacle of her life.

Ultimately, it was just a dream, and she wasn't really God's favorite daughter. But for Feng Qingqing, who had been reborn, the fact that Jiang Yun from her previous life still had this precognitive dream in her second life was quite special.

The dream wasn't very clear, but she vividly remembered her meteoric rise to fame and the happy life that followed after obtaining the space; it was so blissful that she didn't want to wake up.

Therefore, she made a decision, a decision she didn't tell anyone, not even her parents.

She had a deep feeling that the necklace was crucial and could determine the trajectory of her life; if she didn't get it, she would regret it for the rest of her life.

Therefore, when she returned from the neighborhood office and told her parents about her decision, one can imagine their incomprehension and uncontrollable anger.

The next morning, Jiang Yun got up and acted completely differently from before. She greeted Feng Qingqing with a smile and even served her a bowl of corn porridge. Even Feng Damei looked at her in surprise, thinking that she had come to her senses.

After dinner, Jiang Yun took the initiative to pull her mother into her room and said that she and Feng Qingqing would go to the neighborhood office later to take care of the matter of going to the countryside.

Jiang Yun had initially thought it wouldn't be necessary to go to the countryside, but considering that none of his many children had gone, it was indeed a problem. Also, he worried that Feng Qingqing might become more dependent on them in the unfamiliar countryside, and might give her the necklace willingly.

Yes, to this day, Jiang Yun still believes that Feng Qingqing is unwilling to give her the necklace because it was her aunt's keepsake.

So, after much thought and deliberation, Jiang Yun decided to go to the countryside with Feng Qingqing.

In Jiang Yun's current view, nothing is more important than getting that necklace, not even going to the countryside.

With space, even in the countryside, Jiang Yun could live a prosperous life.