Chapter 3: Home Was Gone

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Gu Nian was not really a child. She blushed guiltily. “I was dreaming about eating a peach, and then Brother Xiaohu cried.”

Mrs. Jiang couldn’t help but burst out laughing. “It’s nothing. Go to sleep, little sweetheart. I will take him to sleep in that room.” Mrs. Jiang thought Gu Nian was cute. She must be hungry.

After the two of them left, Gu Nian looked at Lin Sanhu, who was lying inside the room, with envy. The loud noise didn’t wake him up. It seemed he was really in a deep sleep.

In the main room, Lin Sanshui opened her eyes drowsily, “What’s wrong? Did Xiaohu have a nightmare?”

Mrs. Jiang laughed again. “That girl is dreaming about eating. She ate your son’s arm like a peach!”

Lin Sanshui laughed as well. On the other side, Gu Nian lay on the bed and closed her eyes again.

Gu Nian didn’t know if it was because he had become a child, but she had also become childish. Her mind kept unconsciously replaying the scenes from her dream.

The night passed peacefully.

When the rooster crowed three times, the sky was slightly bright. Mrs. Jiang woke Gu Nian up.

“Auntie.” Gu Nian rubbed her eyes. She had never woken up so early in her life.

Mrs. Jiang looked at her asleep third son and said softly, “Hurry up and get up. It’s not easy to travel at night, so you should set off early.”

“Okay.” Gu Nian hurriedly got out of bed.

Lin Sanshui was eating cornbread with pickled vegetables when Gu Nian walked out of the room. When Gu Nian was done, Lin Sanshui had already finished eating and left the room.

Mrs. Jiang took some cornbreads and stuffed some salted vegetables into Gu Nian’s hands. Mrs. Jiang then put two eggs in Gu Nian’s pocket and said, “These two eggs are for you. You can eat them when you’re hungry on the road.”

After taking care of Gu Nian for two days, Mrs. Jiang felt a little reluctant to see her leave.

“Auntie, thank you. You’re a good person,” Gu Nian said as she hugged Mrs. Jiang.

Gu Nian realized that she had become more emotional.

She concluded that this was due to the fusion of the original owner’s memories. In Fenglai, other than her mother and brother, everyone else wished they were dead.

That’s right, didn’t they already kill her mother?

Lin Sanshui borrowed a donkey from the villagers. Not long after the two left, Lin Xiaohu came out of his room barefooted. “Mother, has sister left?”

“Yup.” Mrs. Jiang sighed and walked over to rub Lin Xiaohu’s messy hair. She said, “It’s still early. Go and sleep a little more.”

Lin Xiaohu was a little disappointed.

The road was filled with potholes and was not easy to walk on. They traveled on a donkey cart from morning to afternoon. Gu Nian’s butt was almost broken into two halves before they finally arrived at the edge of Fenglai Village.

Lin Sanshui did not see the joy of returning home on Gu Nian’s face. Instead, the closer they got, the gloomier Gu Nian’s face became.

“Little girl, are you feeling unwell again?” Lin Sanshui asked with concern.

“I’m fine.” Gu Nian shook her head and suddenly pointed to the side of the road. “Uncle, let’s go this way.”

“That way is heading out of the village.” Lin Sanshui looked at the path that Gu Nian was pointing. It was the path that led to the hill ahead.

“My home is there.”

“You live on the hill?” Lin Sanshui’s eyes widened in shock.

Gu Nian nodded. “Yup.”

Lin Sanshui had not expected Gu Nian’s house to be so old and shabby.

There were two thatched cottages without even a small courtyard. The thatched cottages were in a mess, and the pots and pans inside were all thrown outside. It did not even look like a home.

Upon seeing this, Gu Nian immediately ran into the house.

The scene in the room was even more tragic than the outside. The table with only three legs had turned into pieces of wood. The only wooden bed had also been flipped over. It was a mess everywhere, and the house was wreckage.

“Girl, did your house get robbed?” Lin Sanshui stood at the door and asked with a frown.

Ever since Gu Nian entered this place, she had integrated with the emotions of the original owner. The anger in her heart had become more and more intense.

Those people were evil. They destroyed her family and sank her mother into the river!

Most importantly, where was her brother?