Siheyuan: Walking the Path of Qin Huairu

In the early spring of 2020, the rain fell gently, like cow hair and flower needles, silently moistening the dry land.

Crystal clear water drops hang on the branches that have been dry for a winter. Under the infiltration of rain, the trees are rejuvenated, and the tender green spores can't wait to show their heads.

On the lawn, little bits of green seemed to connect into one piece overnight, conveying the message of spring to people.

At this moment, Xu Huizhen was lying on a hospital bed. The lively scene outside was incompatible with her mood at the moment. She was nearly sixty years old, suffering from a terminal illness, and resignedly waiting for the call of death.

Ostrovsky said in his literary works: "A person's life should be spent in this way: when he looks back on the past, he will not regret wasting his time, nor be ashamed of his mediocrity."

Xu Huizhen's life was not wasted. She was hardworking, strong and independent, and worked hard to live. But her life was mediocre. She was not rich, let alone successful in her career. Of course, most people in this world are like this. They come to this world and leave no name behind.

At this time, people like to look back on the past.

Xu Huizhen recalled her life and realized that she had stood at a crossroads in life several times but she did not make the right choice and missed the opportunity to change her destiny.

She was born in 1963, when life was very hard. As the eldest daughter in the family, her childhood was miserable. After she became an adult, her marriage was unhappy. It is said that marriage is a woman's second life. It can only be said that she had a bad fate and was unlucky in both lives.

After getting married, she found her husband lazy, bad-tempered, and unfaithful. The marriage lasted only three years. After she caught her husband in bed with another woman, she divorced him without hesitation. Her mother-in-law would not let her take her two-year-old son away, and she was not able to raise the child alone at the time. So she could only leave her son behind with tears in her eyes.

In the 1980s, divorce was a rare thing in the countryside, and most people would just make do with whatever was not going their way. It can be seen that Xu Huizhen was a person who would not tolerate any injustice and had a stubborn temper.

After leaving her husband's family, she did not return to her parents' home. Firstly, she and her mother had different tempers, and secondly, divorced women had a bad reputation, and she was afraid that it would affect the marriages of her younger brothers and sisters.

She chose to go to the city alone to work hard. There were too many familiar people in her hometown, and she felt it was too embarrassing to meet acquaintances, so she went to Yushui City, which was not far from her home.

In 1986, the wave of reform and opening up had swept across the country, and there were already many people running small businesses in the cities.

Xu Huizhen didn't have any special skills, so she started by selling vegetables. She went out alone in the wind and rain, braving the severe cold and the scorching heat. Although it was hard and tiring, she earned real money, which was much better than farming in the countryside. It also opened a window for her original thinking.

Later, one of her cousins ​​had a telephone booth for sale. The location of this telephone booth was quite good, at the east end of the largest free market in Yushui City, with a particularly large flow of people. The two public telephones were busy every day, and newspapers, magazines and drinks were also sold.

After observing the phone booth for three days, Xu Huizhen was almost shocked. The net income per day was about 150 to 200 yuan. She didn't expect that the income from this small business would be so amazing. So, she took over this small business without hesitation. At least it was much easier than selling vegetables.

She saved some money and put it in the bank to earn interest, and was too stingy to buy a house. She remembered that in 1991, yuan could buy a two-bedroom apartment.

When the housing prices started to rise, she spent 1999 yuan to buy an 36-square-meter apartment in 83. She built a home for herself in the city. At that time, she regretted not buying a house earlier.

In 1994, her best friend in her hometown, whose husband was a chef with ancestral skills, wanted to open a restaurant in the city, but she didn't have enough money and was afraid of risks, so she asked Xu Huizhen to be her partner. So the two families opened a restaurant together.

In those days, running a restaurant was still very profitable. After finally saving up some money, he encountered financial fraud and lost most of his wealth. He spent his whole life either making money or on the way to make money. His only son was not close to him because he did not grow up with him. It was not until he went to college that his father came to him because he had no money to pay for his tuition.

Not to mention her marriage life. After the divorce, she also wanted to start a family again. After all, there are many inconveniences for a single woman. However, in the words of her mother Hu Yingzi, if you can't find a good one in your first marriage, it will be even harder to find a suitable one in your second marriage. So she was neither high nor low, and she was always alone.

Now, I am not even sixty years old, but my days are numbered.

She often thought that if she could live her life over again, she would definitely seize the opportunity to rewrite her life.

But there is no regret medicine in the world, so it is useless to think about it. She simply stopped thinking about it. When she had nothing to do, she would open her phone and listen to novels on Tomato to kill time. Occasionally, when she saw an infuriating plot, she would post a comment and complain about it, just to satisfy her urge to talk.

That day she was listening to a novel and fell asleep in a daze.

When she woke up, she felt very cold and shivered uncontrollably. She opened her eyes and found that she was not in the ward. But where was she? She looked around and saw that there were empty fields all around her. The sky was gloomy and the ground was covered with a layer of white snow.

Is this the underworld? Is she dead? Maybe, maybe? She had been prepared for death, but this underworld was really dark, it could freeze the dead alive. We, who had just arrived, really couldn't enjoy it.

Dear readers, if there is such a day in the future, you must wear a Bosideng down jacket to suffer less, right?

She stood up, holding onto the tree behind her, and stamped her frozen feet unconsciously. You wouldn't know until you looked at her. What kind of outfit was she wearing? She was wearing handmade cotton shoes, bulky cotton pants, and a sky blue cotton jacket. Oh my god, this was how her grandmother dressed, a typical 1960s style: a big cotton jacket and two cotton pants.

Alas, it must be my unfilial son who inherited my big house but was reluctant to burn paper money for me, leaving me to live a poor life in the underworld. This child has not grown up by my side since he was a child, so I don’t have deep feelings for him! I didn’t spend a penny on your treatment, and I still have some savings in the bank. You bastard, just wait and see if I don’t come to your dream to settle the score with you tonight!

As she was daydreaming, she suddenly felt dizzy and quickly held onto a bare tree nearby to prevent herself from falling. At this moment, a wave of memories that did not belong to her came rushing into her mind.

Xu Huizhen thought, this is probably the time for reincarnation. Lord of the underworld, please let me have a good reincarnation this time. Let me tell you what I want first.

First, she is not the eldest daughter in the family. In her previous life, she was the oldest child in the family, the one who suffered the most, and she never had the chance to eat or drink. Her mother always told her to give in to her younger brothers and sisters. Don’t you think it’s infuriating?

Second, please give me a beautiful face. I can make a living with my face, and I don’t have to work hard to get a comfortable life. In her previous life, her facial features were good, but her skin was dark. She was nicknamed the Black Rose. Even her own mother didn’t like her. She didn’t enjoy the great maternal love. She had a miserable life!

Third, the starting point cannot be too low, at least you have to own a courtyard house in the capital...

Forget it, I can’t ask for too much. What if the King of Hell dislikes my greed and doesn’t accept my request?

After she passed out from the dizziness, she sorted out the extra memories. What? Her name was Xu Huizhen, which was the same pronunciation as her name in her previous life, but with different characters. What? She also had a husband named He Yongqiang?

Why is this a bit like the plot in the TV series "The Little Woman of Zhengyang Gate" that I watched? Isn't it said that reincarnation is to be reborn as a baby just born from the mother's womb? How can this be a middle-aged woman? Not really a middle-aged woman, this body is only 20 years old.

It seems that this is not reincarnation, but the rhythm of time travel. There is such a plot in Tomato's novel, and she is familiar with it.

Searching the memory of this body, it is now winter of 1955, and she just went to her husband He Yongqiang's hometown. He Yongqiang, this scumbag, abandoned her and her unborn child when she was about to give birth some time ago, and eloped with her cousin Xu Huizhi! Isn't it infuriating?

Xu Huizhen came this time to persuade He Yongqiang. If he turned back and went home to live with her, she would give him a chance to reform. Unexpectedly, the two bitches were already living together in love, openly and secretly, and He Yongqiang refused to admit his mistakes and spoke in a way that was infuriating. He said righteously, "I won't go back. I like gentle and kind women like Huizhi. Just give up on this idea."

If this man doesn't have you in his heart, then his attitude towards you is harder than a rock. Don't try to win him back. The more you try to win him back, the less he will take you seriously. That's asking for trouble.

He Yongqiang's words made Xu Huizhen so angry that she turned around and left. Halfway through the journey, she became so angry that she fainted on the side of the road. Then, Xu Huizhen in 2020's soul traveled into this body.

It was confirmed that she had traveled through time to a TV series. At the beginning, because the heroine had the same name as her, she watched the entire TV series with great interest.