Chapter 1: Waking Up

The August sun was like fire, and the ground was like a steamer. It was so hot that it was difficult to breathe.

The leaves on the mountain drooped listlessly.

The grass by the field was also withered from the sun, like an eggplant that had been frosted.

The Cicadas sang what they thought was a pleasant symphony tirelessly on the branches.

However, it made everyone extremely annoyed.

In the muddy water that burned their feet, villagers in tattered clothes were working in full swing.

Some were picking seedlings, while others were planting seedlings. Sweat dripped down from their foreheads and fused with the mud.

A female comrade who was planting seedlings in the field raised her hand to wipe her sweat-stained eyes.

She looked up in the direction of the village with a trace of worry in her eyes.

“Sister Li, Zhou Yi’s wife is back, right? What did the doctor say? Can she recover?”

A female comrade beside her said curiously. She didn’t mean anything else. She was just curious.

“What does it have to do with you? You only know how to ask about others. Anyway, your son won’t be able to marry such a cultured person. Go ahead and be jealous!” Aunt Li rolled her eyes at her unhappily.

She only knows how to worry about other people’s family matters all day long. Does she even understand her own family matters?

“I’m just asking. Why can’t I say it? I didn’t say anything bad about her.”

The female comrade beside her could not help but complain.

She had heard that Zhou Yi’s wife was seriously injured. The old doctor in the village said that she had no chance of survival and they should prepare for her funeral.

That Zhou Yi went around borrowing money and sent her to the commune hospital.

After that, she was brought back. It was unknown if she could be saved.

Aunt Li looked up at the village again. She was also very worried.

Zhou Yi’s wife had not woken up since she was seriously injured. Even the old doctor said that she had no chance of survival.

She wondered if the doctors at the commune hospital had the ability to save her.

She had never seen Zhou Yi’s wife and did not know what kind of person she was.

However, Zhou Yi spent so much money to marry her. She did not want anything to happen to that girl.

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Song Xi endured the pain on the back of her head and the bitterness in her mouth and slowly opened her eyes in discomfort.

Suddenly, she felt a sharp pain. A memory that did not belong to her instantly appeared in her mind.

The short life of a little girl called ‘Song Xi’ flashed through her mind like a movie clip.

The little girl called ‘Song Xi’ was the unfavored youngest daughter of the Song Family.

It was very hard at home. She had to wash clothes, cook, and farm. Her life was more bitter than that of an old cow.

When she reached the age, she was ‘married’ into a distant mountain by Grandma Song.

She got married just like that without any dowry or new clothes.

When she first entered the mountain, ‘Song Xi’, who wanted to escape, used the excuse that she had diarrhea and needed to relieve herself in the forest.

Grandma Song was very guarded. Less than two minutes after ‘Song Xi’ entered the forest,

She sent the Song family in to call her.

After discovering that ‘Song Xi’ had escaped, after a chase, ‘Song Xi’ accidentally rolled down the hill.

Just like that, ‘Song Xi’ ended her short life as a seventeen-year-old.

Slowly, the two memories fused and Song Xi understood.

It turned out that she had transmigrated to the body of this girl called ‘Song Xi’.

However, she did not understand why she had transmigrated.

She was fine. Why did she suddenly transmigrate?

Song Xi, who could not understand, lay motionless.

Her lifeless eyes did not intersect, and she did not know what she was looking at. Actually, she could not move even if she wanted to.

Because when Little ‘Song Xi’ fell down the hill and rolled, she hurt the back of her head and bled a lot.

She was sent here again. The journey was bumpy and she did not receive treatment in time.

As a result, her body was so weak that she could not even move her fingers.

Song Xi’s mouth was dry and bitter. She wanted to drink water and get rid of the bitterness in her mouth.

However, her body was limp and she had no strength at all. She looked like she was on the verge of death.

She did not know if she could survive this ordeal.

Now, she could only place her hopes on the Host’s ‘new husband’ whom she had never met before. She hoped that he would be kind and save her.

She would remember this favor and think of a way to repay him in the future.

Suddenly, she felt a soft touch on her dry lips.

Then, the warm water slowly flowed into her body through her mouth. Gulp, gulp, gulp.

Song Xi greedily swallowed the source of life.

After drinking the hot water, Song Xi felt a little better, but she still did not have any strength.

Song Xi wanted to continue drinking some hot water, but the shadow in front of her disappeared.

A masculine face appeared in front of her.

Seeing him put down the bowl and wipe his mouth with his hand, Song Xi felt nauseous.

She did not expect that he would feed her the hot water in this way.

Song Xi was so disgusted that she wanted to vomit, but there was nothing to vomit because her stomach was empty.

She did not know how many days she had been lying down. In short, Zhou Yi had fed her some water and medicine in this way for the past few days.

However, every time Zhou Yi fed her, he would brush his teeth and wash up. He tidied himself up.

He was afraid that his wife would despise him after she recovered.

However, looking at his little wife’s frown and aggrieved expression,

Zhou Yi knew that his wife despised him.

He felt that he looked average and was not as fair and delicate as the men in the city and he could not get a wife.

In addition, this place was located in the mountains and there were few paddy fields. There was little land that could be planted and everyone’s income was low. Very few girls were willing to marry here.

There were many bachelors in the village. The village chief was wise and agreed to let everyone borrow money to get married.

He borrowed money from the village and got a wife. However, he did not expect that his wife would fall sick before she entered the house.

He found an old doctor in the village. The old doctor was not good at medicine and said that his wife could not make it without even looking.

Zhou Yi was very angry. After that, he borrowed money from the villagers to take his wife to the commune’s hospital for treatment.

After the doctor examined her, he told him that his wife had hurt her head and lost too much blood. She was not sick.

Only then did Zhou Yi realize that he had been tricked, but he had no intention of giving up on her.

Since she had entered the door, she was his wife. If she was alive, she was his person. If she died, she was his ghost.

He would save her at all costs.

The hospital told Zhou Yi that they could not treat his wife.

An old doctor probably felt that they were pitiful, so he asked him to look for an old Chinese doctor. Perhaps there was still a chance of survival.

Zhou Yi brought his wife to look for the old Chinese doctor.

The old Chinese doctor did not want to treat her because he did not want to be responsible for someone’s death.

However, Zhou Yi said that as long as he was willing to treat her, he would give him two stalks of ginseng.

For the sake of the ginseng, the old Chinese doctor prescribed medicine for Song Xi. He only prescribed medicine to nourish her body.

Therefore, Zhou Yi still owed the old Chinese doctor two ginsengs.

However, he had been taking care of Song Xi for the past few days and did not have the time to go up the mountain to look for ginseng.

He did not know herbs, but he knew ginseng.