"Grandma..."
Tong Huaqiong slowly regained consciousness, still confused as to why she wasn't in the lab but in a mud-walled house, she was startled by a timid call for grandma.
"Grandma..."
"You're calling me?"
Tong Huaqiong lifted herself up to face a pitiful little face, covered in tears, which nodded frantically, adding a trembling note, "Grandma, you're awake."
Tong Huaqiong couldn't handle the shock, her eyes rolled back, and she fell back onto the pillow.
"I told you to watch grandma, how are you watching? How did you let her faint again just after waking up?"
"Your mother is a whore, you're a worthless girl, your mother knocked grandma out, and now you've made grandma faint in anger."
"Just wait, I'll call dad to come beat you."
Tong Huaqiong, in her daze, heard a half-grown boy yelling chaotically.
"I didn't..."
A timid little voice carried a sob.
"A whore's daughter."
An ear-piercing male voice accompanied a flurry of chaotic footsteps into the room.
"What did you do to your grandma?" The male voice barked sternly.
The little voice burst out crying.
"Second brother, don't waste words with her! Beat her first, talk later!" A lazy female voice urged on.
"I'll beat you to death, you little whore's daughter."
Tong Huaqiong barely opened her eyes and saw a dark-skinned young man about to take off his shoes to hit someone, but he spent a long time failing to remove them. Meanwhile, the little face she saw upon waking was petrified with fear, big eyes like dark grapes spilling over with tears.
The urging girl leaned sideways against the doorframe, her hefty figure blocking the light, plunging the room into darkness.
What kind of family is this, Tong Huaqiong thought in chaos, watching the dark-skinned young man go for the poor little face, unable to bring herself to intervene.
At this moment, she wished only to die!
"Second uncle, we haven't figured things out yet, don't hit her just yet."
A young woman squeezed past the hefty girl, who gave her a hard shove, nearly toppling her. The woman stumbled but rushed into the room, gathering the little girl into her arms.
"I saw it with my own eyes, grandma woke up, saw the worthless girl, and fainted again."
"If my dad won't hit her, who should he hit?"
The yelling half-grown boy was holding a stick as thick as an arm, handing it to the young man.
The young man took the stick, about to swing it at the young woman.
The urging heavyset girl egged him on: "Second brother, hit her! Hit her hard!"
The young woman held the child, begging for mercy while dodging, the little girl in her arms wailing in terror.
So one was hitting, one was dodging, accompanied by the egging cries of the hefty girl and the half-grown boy, mixed with the little girl's cries, the room was in utter chaos.
Tong Huaqiong squinted her eyes in bewilderment.
"Second uncle, let's first see how mother is, then we can deal with this." The young woman pleaded in a tearful voice as she dodged.
Tong Huaqiong quickly closed her eyes and pretended to be dead.
What sort of person was the original host, raising such unreliable children?
Despite knowing the mother had fainted, instead of checking on her, they caught a child to beat and scold.
"Oh mother, mother did you really wake up just now?"
"Mother, say something, say something."
Prompted by the young woman's reminder, the young man finally acted humanely, dropped the stick, and rolled to the bedside, wailing.
"Mother, mother, you've been unconscious for two days and a night, wake up, mother." The shouting exploded beside Tong Huaqiong's ear.
Tong Huaqiong felt a weight on the bed, the hefty girl plopping down by the bedside, her large figure suffocating her.
"Mother, what will I do if you die, I'm still unmarried."
Tong Huaqiong thought, just hurry and crush me to death, who wants to be your mother!
"Grandma really woke up just now, I saw it clearly."
"She just opened her eyes and was scared out by the worthless girl."
The half-grown boy continued fanning the flames by the bedside.
"Yaozu, you can't speak nonsense, how could Man Er, being so little, scare grandma." The young woman argued with a trembling voice.
"If mother doesn't wake up, I'll finish you both off with one stroke." The young man threatened.
The room fell into chaos once again!
"Mother, you can't die. I already lost my father, I can't lose my mother too."
The fire-tending girl cried out loudly, and her shouting finally gave Tong Huaqiong the courage to open her eyes.
Scared me to death!
Being a pain-free mother and nursing is manageable, but what she feared most was having to share a bed with an old cucumber.
That's why the word "grandmother" almost made her faint.
Luckily, luckily, the old cucumber of this family was already gone!
She was a widow!
Otherwise, just thinking about that scene where a pear flower crushed the begonia would truly make her want a bowl of rat poison to kill the whole family.
"I'm not dead yet, why are you wailing like it's a funeral?"
Tong Huaqiong widened her eyes.
As soon as she spoke, the original owner came to life.
"Mother!"
"Mother!"
The big fat girl and the dark young man immediately stopped, their faces showing genuine surprise rather than acting.
"Mother, you're awake!"
"Boohoo, I thought Mother was going to die, scared me to death."
The big fat girl excitedly lay on Tong Huaqiong, crying and laughing, her whole body shaking with fat, almost suffocating Tong Huaqiong.
"Gu Taohua, can you say something nice? If Mother doesn't die, you'll curse her to death."
"It's not cursing to death, it's being smothered to death."
"You fat old thing, get up quickly, you're crushing Mother to death."
The young man roughly pulled the big fat girl off, and Tong Huaqiong instantly felt the air flow freely.
"Mother..." The young woman saw her mother-in-law awake, clearly relieved, hesitantly wanting to come closer to see, but her feet were frozen under the fierce gaze of the fat girl and the young man.
The young man fiercely said to the young woman, "Hurry up and bring Mother's medicine. I'll settle the account of you knocking Mother out later!"
The young woman, with tears in her eyes, quickly pulled the little girl away to get the medicine.
...
A modern woman in her prime turns into an ancient rural old woman with sons, daughters, and grandchildren, who can accept such a thing?
Tong Huaqiong tried to accept reality and get into the state, but she just couldn't.
Even the original name of the owner, Tong Dajiao, gave her a sense of rural love hallucination.
The only thing she felt thankful for was that the original Tong Dajiao was a widow.
Although she was already a grandmother, Tong Dajiao was only forty years old.
As she gradually recovered, the memories of the original owner took shape in Tong Huaqiong's mind.
Tong Huaqiong realized something important, it wasn't just a simple time-travel, but reincarnation within time-travel.
The previous owner of this body had a terrible character, combining the worst traits of an evil stepmother and mother-in-law, favoring boys and spoiling her own children.
She utterly deserved to die.
Indeed, she met her just deserts in the previous life!
The original owner was married into the Gu Family at fourteen as a stepmother, having a stepson and stepdaughter, and gave birth to two sons and a daughter.
As a stepmother, she treated her stepson and stepdaughter horribly, either beating or scolding them, refusing to feed them, and often locking them up in the cowshed.
The stepson, Gu Dahuan, took on all farm work during busy seasons and was sent to the dock to carry sandbags in his free time, every penny earned went into her pocket.
After the stepson married, she immediately became a wicked mother-in-law, putting all household and farm work on her daughter-in-law Chen Sufen, not sparing her even during pregnancy, sending her to the fields the day after giving birth.
The stepdaughter, Gu Baishuang, was treated even worse. She accepted the bride price from a wealthy family in town, marrying off the fourteen-year-old to a man three years older than her son as a concubine.
Meanwhile, she doted excessively on her two biological sons and daughter.
With such a rotten mother, her biological children were all bad bamboo shoots.
In the past life, her eldest son Gu Dashu was lazy and gluttonous, exploited the villagers relying on his younger brother who later became an official, committed too many crimes and the entire family male members were executed.
The son in the dragon-phoenix twins, Gu Jingzhe, was indeed promising, excelled in studies, became a top scholar, and became an official. After arriving in the capital, he ingratiated himself with the powerful, abandoned his wife and children, plotted to marry the Duke Mansion lady, wielded power, formed factions, engaged in corruption, spoiled his concubines, neglected his wife, and condoned his brother and nephew's crimes, ultimately losing his position and beheading.
The daughter in the dragon-phoenix twins, Gu Taohua, was pampered into a capricious and love-brained person, became infatuated with the Scholar from the next village, causing a scandal of premarital pregnancy. The Scholar repeatedly failed the exams, relying on the Gu Family's youngest son to buy a county magistrate position. After taking office, the couple ravaged the county like locusts, almost extinguishing the livelihoods, ultimately being tied up and burned to death by refugees on the city wall.
The original owner experienced confiscation of the property, heard of her daughter's death by burning, and finally died from fright witnessing her sons and grandsons' execution and their heads rolling.