strictlysupreme Chapter 123: Lost in the book
Chapter 123: Lost in the book
After returning from the small commodity city after collecting things, Grandma Rong's originally pale face became rosy.
This made Tong Jia sigh: "Sure enough, women of all ages love shopping."
Thinking of this, Tong Jia quickly asked, "Grandma Rong, have you given money to every family?"
Grandma Rong nodded while playing with the "bride" corsage in her hand and said, "Of course, are you the kind of person who takes things from others without paying?
Don't just blame me, have you paid me yet?"
Tong Jia paused, then nodded and said, "Of course. Except for my aunt's shop, I left gold in the counter drawers of all the other shops."
"Your aunt's family? The shameless one who saw that you were the only daughter in the family and had to ask your mother to reimburse the money for even a single onion?
That's not the right thing to pay, but it's a pity that she's definitely not someone who sells genuine goods, so she won't lose much." Grandma Rong, knowing what's going on in Tong Jia's family, commented with regret.
When Tong Jia's grandmother was still alive, Tong Jia's mother, out of filial piety and the principle of not wanting to make the elderly angry, never cared about small amounts of money that were not a big deal.
Later, when the old man passed away, Tong Jia's mother completely broke off relations with those people in her hometown.
But the money that was given out before cannot be taken back.
This time, by buying out her shop, I can recover some of the interest, so that I won't lose too much.
After talking about this topic, Grandma Rong put out all the things she had collected as if she was showing off her treasures.
Just as she was about to pull Tong Jia to talk, Tong Jia grabbed Grandma Rong's arm and asked, "Grandma Rong, although the ability to regenerate is only possessed by the refrigerator in the RV, the things stored in the entire space, whether it's the RV or the bun shop, won't spoil, right?"
Tong Jia, who has collected a lot of meat, vegetables and fruits, is most concerned about this issue now.
When she was packing up her things, she thought that she had been so excited that she forgot to ask such an important question.
But time was tight, and she couldn't go back to ask Grandma Rong before deciding whether to accept it or not. In the end, she decided to accept it first and ask later.
Fortunately, after hearing Tong Jia's question, Grandma Rong nodded and said, "It definitely won't go bad. If it did, I would have told you directly and not let you take the food.
Don't worry about that, but if a living creature that hasn't been inside before enters, it's game over."
"That's good! That's good! Oh, I'll sit down and rest for a while. I'm so tired." Tong Jia patted his chest in relief and sat down on the ground.
She had just sat down when Grandma Rong grabbed her arm.
Grandma Rong pulled Tong Jia up from the ground and said to her proudly, "Jia Jia, don't worry about taking a break. You will have time to rest later. First, take a look at these things I collected. They are so festive!
Apart from the red wedding dress I wore when I got married, I have never seen a complete piece of red cloth again in my life.
There are so many now, take your pick first, and take whatever you need, just leave a little for me."
Because Grandma Rong's husband ran away from home on their wedding night, she remained a girl until her death. Families in the surrounding villages who were getting married would not ask her for help because they thought she was unlucky.
Looking at the now excited Grandma Rong, Tong Jia suddenly felt that her previous attitude towards Yang Jixia was a little too nice.
Grandma Rong didn't hear Tong Jia's response for a long time. She turned her gaze to Tong Jia and guessed what she was thinking from her expression.
Grandma Rong patted Tong Jia on the back and said, "I've let it go a long time ago, and you've helped me vent my anger.
I don’t care about anything that happened in the past, I just simply like these things.
Hurry up and pick your things, and then pack up, because then I'll have to send you off."
Tong Jia nodded and walked forward to take a look.
There were "囍" characters of various materials and sizes; red envelopes, balloons, tissues, cigarettes, matches, wedding candy boxes, place cards, and sign-in books printed with "囍" characters and auspicious phrases such as "百年好合" (happy union for a hundred years); silk and cotton bedding, four-piece sets and quilts, and even mats; artificial flower bouquets, flower baskets, and ceremonial flowers; suits, wedding gowns, toast dresses, Xiuhe dresses, wedding shoes, and phoenix coronet and bridal veil; fake hardware sets, lace decorations, and bulk wedding candies, firecrackers, bright red paper, and fabrics.
Just build a dragon gate and you can hold the wedding banquet right away.
The quality of the phoenix coronet and bridal bridal gown was not good, so Tong Jia did not want it. She chose two formal three-piece suits and four wedding dresses and toast dresses. She packed the other things into a suitcase according to different categories and did not ask for more.
Then he took out all the unused suitcases and asked Grandma Rong to pack things in them.
Grandma Rong’s suitcase was small, and after putting all the things into it, it was basically full.
There were more than ten suitcases left, and Tong Jia put them all back into the space.
Now the spoils have been divided.
Grandma Rong looked at Tong Jia and didn't speak for a long time.
She knew that this time she had no ability to interfere with where Tong Jia was going, nor could she give Tong Jia any hints.
Touching Tong Jia's hair with some sadness, he said, "Jia Jia, you have to walk the road ahead on your own. Grandma Rong won't be able to see you anymore.
I don't even have the ability to send you a message in your dream about the place you want to go.
The only way we can meet again is after your life in that world ends.
So, Grandma Rong hopes to meet our Jia Jia later and later.
I hope that no matter where Jia Jia goes, she can live the good life she wants.
It’s getting late, I have to see you off.
If we delay any longer and someone finds out, it will be hard to explain to many people.”
Tong Jia nodded, hugged Grandma Rong, closed her eyes, and calmly waited for Grandma Rong to take her to her future destination.
After closing her eyes, Tong Jia had many people flashing through her mind, including her parents from her previous life and all the friends she met when she was "Rong Xintong".
She was still curious in her heart. Isn't it said that a revolving lantern will only appear when a person dies?
Why didn't this happen before she died twice before? Instead, she had to travel through a book and experience a kaleidoscope.
Well, it allowed her to fully experience everything that death should experience.
It also officially means that she has to say goodbye to the past.
After closing her eyes for a long time and not feeling any changes, Tong Jia wanted to open her eyes and take a look.
As a result, what I saw was the goose yellow bed curtains, and my whole body was pink.
I wanted to raise my arms, but found that my brain could not control my limbs at all.
Before I could react to what was happening, I fell into a state of weightlessness.
Then, a large face as dark as the bottom of a pot appeared in front of him.
The facial features on that face were all distorted. There was a scar on the left eye, revealing a small gap. I don’t know whether his vision was normal. At least the eye on the right side was normal, but there were many pockmarks on the face.
After picking her up, he showed an evil and cruel smile. Tong Jia didn't dare to look at him again.
Tong Jia wanted to ask for help, but before she could open her mouth, her mouth and nose were covered with a smelly and dirty handkerchief.
Tong Jia, who felt that something was wrong, also took out the sleeping pills from the space and used all her strength to hit the nose of the big black face directly.
After that, Tong Jia lost consciousness.
When the big black-faced man was carrying little Tong Jia to the door, the drug took effect.
He fell to the ground, and because he failed to hold Tong Jia, he also fell to the ground.
Fortunately, Tong Jia's parents in this life were wealthy and had many servants at home. Her current situation was soon discovered and her parents were notified in time.
Perhaps because she hit her head when she fell to the ground, Tong Jia could understand the conversations of adults after waking up, but she had no memory of her past life and of her experiences as "Rong Xintong", becoming a precocious child in the eyes of adults.
His father, Tong Sihe, was from a famous gentry family in southern Jiangsu, and was also one of the last batch of overseas students to receive the Boxer Indemnity. His mother, Qin Hanyi, was from Beijing and was also a top student at Fu Jen Catholic University.
The two met in the second year after the founding of the New China. They dated for three years before getting married. Tong Jia in this life was born in the early winter of 1954.
Before she was five years old, her parents were loving and her family was happy.
Her father always carried her on his broad and strong shoulders, and her mother would look at them both with the most loving and doting eyes.
When my father and mother were working, they would remind me to be careful when they saw me playing in the yard.
When my mother was taking care of the flowers and plants, my father would take the initiative to help fertilize and water them.
When other families were not able to eat enough, her father would always bring back some delicious food every now and then to improve their lives. Smelling the fragrance wafting from the kitchen made her feel that her current life was very warm and happy.
But this beautiful picture came to an abrupt end when she was seven years old.
That day, five-year-old Tong Jia was playing at the doorstep of her home when a colleague from her father's unit suddenly came to look for her mother, saying that her father had an accident on the way back from a business trip. Her mother quickly picked her up and ran out.
I ran all the way to the hospital and only saw the doctor covering my father with a white sheet.
The mother's legs went weak and she fell to the ground. Fortunately, her father's colleague helped her up, and Tong Jia avoided falling to the ground again and hitting her head.
I followed the adults in a daze and handled my father's funeral.
She began to depend on her mother for everything, but only two months later, people from her hometown came and tried to take her away in a very forceful manner.
Her mother was alone and powerless, so she couldn't snatch the money. Tong Jia could only follow those strangers to her hometown in southern Jiangsu, hundreds of kilometers away from the capital. It was also the place where she kowtowed and forgot everything that happened before.
The next day after she came back, her head made gorgeous and intimate contact with the ground again.
This time, she was unconscious for a long time, so long that the so-called relatives who rescued her were worried that someone might die, so they sent someone to notify her mother who was far away in the capital.
Tong Jia, who was unconscious in bed, was actually dreaming rather than unconscious.
The things that happened in her previous life and her time as "Rong Xintong" appeared in her mind in the form of dreams. When she woke up, her original memories were restored.
The first thing to do when restoring memory is to check if the space is still there.
Because of her amnesia, she has not used the space in the past five years.
The things in the space were still the same as when she had urgently collected them.
Since people often come in to check on her, she cannot enter the space by herself and can only use her consciousness to enter the space and organize the items inside.
It took her a whole day just to organize her things.
The space was originally full, but after she packed some small items into boxes and put them into cabinets, and then put the various boxes and bags into the two cars brought in from the auto show center on the basement floor, she basically emptied out the yard and the two private rooms on the second floor.
Packing things with the mind is also a very physically demanding task. Tong Jia, who was about to take a good nap and rest, suddenly heard the door of her room open, and then several people came in from outside.
Judging from the voices, it should be Tongjia's grandmother and uncle.
Grandma said, "Simin, are you sure you left all your father's things to Sihe?"
"Mom, Dad only has two sons, Si He and I. If he didn't give it to me, he must have given it to Si He.
Although we live in a new society now, I am the eldest son and grandson of our Tongjia. It is my responsibility to inherit the family business and provide for you in your old age.
Before, Si He was still there, and for the sake of our brotherhood, I didn't mention it.
Now Si and the others are gone, and the new society no longer emphasizes the Three Obediences and Four Virtues.
Si and his wife are still young, so it is a foregone conclusion that he will find another husband and remarry.
But before she remarries, our things must be left behind." Uncle was talking and suddenly paused.
Tong Jia felt someone touching her fingers. When she was wondering, she felt something sharp touching her fingertips.
She thought she was about to be exposed, but her grandmother stopped her uncle.
Grandma slapped the needle out of her uncle's hand and yelled, "Jia Jia is still so young, she can't pretend, and she doesn't know how to pretend. The doctor said she hit her head, and it might have touched an old injury, which is why she didn't wake up for so long.
Simin, you can even do this to your own niece, a five-year-old child.
Can I really count on you for the rest of my life?"
After yelling, the old lady started crying, and her pain was truly from the bottom of her heart.
Come to think of it, this old lady is quite pitiful. Her husband passed away, and she has two sons. The elder one is by her side, but he has bad intentions, while the younger one is a good person, but he died early.
What her eldest son asked her to do might go against her conscience, and she didn't want to do it, but she still had to rely on her eldest son for support in the future.
The daughter-in-law is a good person and the granddaughter is innocent, but they are both outsiders.
After a mental struggle, the old lady decided to stand on her son's side and try her best to protect her granddaughter's safety before her daughter-in-law arrived.
She sighed and said, "Simin, mother is on your side, so don't treat Jiajia as a thorn in your side.
When her mother comes, I will go talk to her.
As long as she hands over all the things your father left to Sihe, I will let her take Jiajia away, and then the mother and daughter will have nothing to do with our Tong family.
Do you think this will work?
At least leave a trace of your brother's bloodline!"
The uncle probably nodded, Tong Jia didn't hear him speak.
Then grandma said, "Jia Jia hasn't woken up yet. Her mother will be here around tomorrow afternoon. There's no point in us staying here, so let's go back first.
You must remember what you promised me..."
As the door opened and the footsteps and voices became weaker and weaker, Tong Jia knew that the two people had left her room, and then she opened her eyes again.