Jiang Xiaoxiao felt inexplicably agitated.
Then suddenly, she realized that she had seen a place.
Yes! She had seen a place.
She saw an empty space, not very large, about ten square meters, surrounded by mist, unclear, as if she were trapped somewhere and couldn't see her own body, just simply seeing.
There was no sun, yet she could see this place very clearly for some reason, though it wasn't dark.
But there were no lights.
Then there was a small creek right next to it, a small plot of land, with dark oily soil, looking like a vegetable plot.
Where was this?
Jiang Xiaoxiao was confused.
Is this... is this one of those spaces from the novels?
Spaces where one can farm, she had read quite a few web novels later on.
All the spaces could be farmed, and there was a Spiritual Spring.
This really fits the description well, you have land and water, isn't this just a space with a Spiritual Spring for farming!
Could it be my fortune!
This was 1976, having money was not as good as having food.
If I have a piece of land, that's a lot more food.
But how did these things come about?
Jiang Xiaoxiao pondered dazedly, she hadn't discovered this thing in her past life.
This was truly a golden finger.
How come she didn't have it in her past life?
Could it be because she didn't faint in her past life, so it was gone?
But a space always requires specific conditions, doesn't it?
Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't figure it out and didn't want to think about it anymore.
Then she discovered she was seeing the space with her spiritual power; at least she couldn't sense her body being in the space.
Which means she was in the hospital bed while her spirit was in the space.
After a few experiments, she truly mastered how her spiritual power could operate in the space.
She opened her eyes.
Her third brother was still beside her snoring.
No difference from just now.
Jiang Xiaoxiao looked at her watch.
This watch was a famous brand from Hai City, see how extravagant her parents were, letting such a troublesome kid wear a brand name watch; one could imagine how much her parents loved her.
It seemed not even a minute had passed.
No one around noticed any disturbance here.
Jiang Xiaoxiao lay still, closed her eyes, and meditated on that space again.
Then she was back in the space again, in the same exact spot, a piece of empty land, a small creek, some impenetrable fog barriers.
No one communicated with her, nor was there any manual or anything; anyway, she had to figure it out herself.
Jiang Xiaoxiao meticulously searched the entire space; indeed, it was at most a ten square meter space, very small.
But the soil quality was very good; it was visibly dark.
According to her experience growing crops in rural areas, this land should be fertile.
The creek was very small, hardly could be called a creek, seeming more like a dry creek.
Luckily, there was still water; Jiang Xiaoxiao tried drinking a sip.
No feeling, except for a sweet taste.
Nothing else.
Wasn't it supposed to be a Spiritual Spring?
She remembered in those web novels she read, people said drinking from a Spiritual Spring could cure all diseases, cleanse the physical body, change the constitution, and such.
Even bring back the dead.
But why didn't she feel anything?
She touched her head.
The bandage was still there, pressing it hard.
Ouch, ouch, ouch!
Apparantly, it couldn't cure all diseases.
Does the creek have no effect?
Judging by this, it doesn't seem like there's much utilization of space, but generally, spaces like this can be planted.
Just don't know if that plot can be planted.
Jiang Xiaoxiao suddenly had a bad feeling.
Could she have gotten a fake space?
Nothing else was found for now.
Jiang Xiaoxiao could only come out.
Looked at the time.
Still less than a minute had passed, seemingly space-time was different from the outside world.
She was dawdling inside for a long time, at least half an hour or close to an hour, yet after coming out, surprisingly it's less than a minute.
Probably the most surprising discovery so far is the advantage of time.
Jiang Xiaoxiao lay down honestly without moving.
The place she wanted to go to would actually be good with such a space.
Think of ways to try again after going back!
If it can grow things, that's truly surprising.
In the current era!
Lacking clothes and food, having money still couldn't buy stuff.
Having land was better than anything.
Hope it won't disappoint her.
In the afternoon, Jiang Xiaoxiao was discharged from the hospital.
The doctor was very clear.
Just go home and rest well.
The cut on her head didn't even need stitches, it probably won't leave a scar if nothing unexpected happens.
No need to lie in the hospital.
So Jiang Laoshi and Fan Xiuying, along with Jiang Shitou, took Jiang Xiaoxiao home from the hospital.
Riding the number eleven bus, their factory district was remote, getting off, they still had to walk three stops to reach home.
Passing by the vegetable market along the way, met quite a few acquaintances.
Jiang Laoshi greeted people while motioning them to hurry.
Mainly because people asked about the injury on Jiang Xiaoxiao's forehead, they found it hard to explain.
Jiang Laoshi wasn't good at lying, but the truth couldn't just be blurted out either.
Jiang Xiaoxiao was relieved to be home.
"Mom, I'm hungry!"
She was really hungry.
She fasted, didn't eat a thing for three days.
Yesterday in the hospital, the doctor gave her some nutritional fluids, but the hunger in her stomach was still there.
Fan Xiuying was overjoyed.
"Starving, aren't you? If you want to be stubborn with mom here, don't fast again! Is there anything you can't talk to your parents about properly? Don't mess around with your body. Go, go, go, quickly lie down, mom will make you something tasty."
Looking at her daughter's pitiful little face, Fan Xiuying's heart ached.
This was the child they had raised tenderly.
Thinking about it reminded her of Fang Xiaohui, really, there's someone in the world who looks exactly like her.
Sigh.
Don't think about it; her daughter is hungry.
Fan Xiuying went to the kitchen and pulled out the sack of flour from the cupboard.
Only two bowls of white flour left.
The rest was only cornmeal and black flour, the white flour was entirely saved for the little daughter's nourishment.
This child's health was poor, they worried always.
Thinking of it, if she indeed had to go to the countryside, even the white flour would become inaccessible.
Fan Xiuying steeled her heart.
Mixed a bowl of porridge with white flour, put some tomatoes in the pot for red color, added water, stirred in the flour paste, broke in two eggs, chopped some spinach leaves, and a fragrant bowl of white flour egg soup was ready.
Drizzled a drop of sesame oil on it from the pot and it was done.
Jiang Xiaoxiao happily ate a big bowl of the white flour paste.
Her stomach felt comforted immediately.
Fan Xiuying watched her daughter eat with sweat pouring down.
Fanning her with a palm fan on the side.
Now in July according to the solar calendar, the weather was still hot.
"Mom! I'm full; I want to go to the street to sign up."
Jiang Xiaoxiao felt it was best to strike while the iron was hot!
Or else, after her parents sleep, who knows, they might change their minds.
I absolutely cannot let my third brother go to the countryside.
There was nothing friendly about it for him.
She absolutely couldn't let her third brother face destiny's arrangement again.
She wished for her third brother's blissful and peaceful life.
She couldn't monopolize everything belonging to the Jiang family.
This time, she's going to the countryside for her brother.
For her beloved and caring brother, she's going to the countryside.