HCB Chapter 2 Space
Chapter 2 Space
"System, system, are you there?"
"Space, space, is there any?"
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Wen Yuxia, as if possessed, kept calling out softly. Unfortunately, she neither heard the system's questions and answers nor discovered the existence of the space.
"Ugh, I'm so hungry," Wen Yuxia thought to herself. "I want to eat mooncakes, sob sob." For her, sweets were a good medicine to heal her pain. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, she exchanged all the shopping vouchers given to her by her company for mooncakes.
Suddenly, something appeared in her hand. Wen Yuxia looked down and saw a pea-green dragon-shaped mooncake lying quietly in her hand. This was the box of dragon-shaped mooncakes with mung bean skin and red bean paste filling.
Excited, Wen Yuxia silently chanted, "I want to go in." Ha, she really went in. It was a two-story villa, the new house she had built for her grandparents. Haha, the standard equipment for a transmigrator: a spatial ability!
Wen Yuxia rushed to the kitchen immediately, turned on the tap, lights, and stove. Water, electricity, and gas—great!
Next, I opened the double-door refrigerator and checked the food inside: 18 eggs, 3 round radishes, 2 lettuce shoots, 1 bag of baby bok choy, 1 block of soft tofu, and 1 bag each of old ginger and garlic.
Two frozen pork bones, one bag of chopped pork ribs, two pig trotters, and 50 various ice creams and popsicles.
Wen Yuxia deeply regretted not filling the refrigerator to the brim, but something was better than nothing, so she didn't dwell on it and turned to the pantry, where her grandparents usually stored their food.
There are three vacuum-sealed bags of rice, each weighing 10 jin (5 kg), totaling 30 jin (15 catties); two bags of flour, each weighing 5 jin (2.5 kg); a small bag of mung beans, weighing about 2 jin (1 kg); and half a bag of soybeans, estimated to weigh 2 or 3 jin (1.5-1.5 kg).
Wen Yuxia smiled, scooped out two spoonfuls of rice, washed them, put them in the rice cooker, added water, and then pressed the cook button.
Remembering that Wen Yunhong said he would come into the room to keep her company, she didn't dare to stay in the space for long and planned to come in and check the other supplies when she had time.
As soon as he emerged from the spatial dimension, he heard the door creak open. Wen Yunhong peeked through the crack in the door at the bed, and seeing that Wen Yuxia wasn't asleep, he excitedly ran into the room.
"Sister," Wen Yunhong said, then suddenly crawled under the bed, quickly crawled out again, and pulled two books from his pocket, handing them to Wen Yuxia.
With a look of seeking praise, she said, "Sister, this is what you brought back from the foot of the mountain. Grandma wanted to give it to my eldest cousin, but I wouldn't let her, so I secretly hid it."
Wen Yuxia was a little confused. The original owner of this body knew how to read, but not many words. Where did she get these books? While looking down at the titles, she said softly, "Hong'er is really amazing."
How did the original owner come to have these books, such as "Lightness Skill Techniques" and "Powerful Fist Techniques"?
At this moment, someone whispered in my mind, "Sister, please, please take care of Hong'er for me. A month ago, I met a strange old man on the mountain. He said he would give me sixty years' worth of internal energy... Goodbye, sister!"
The voice in her mind came from the original owner of the body. Receiving internal energy was a good thing, but the original owner was terrified when she saw the old man dead beside her. This fright sent her away.
Wen Yuxia was speechless. The original owner of this body was far too timid; she was scared to death by a windfall.
Sixty years is a full cycle. Having gained sixty years of internal energy for no reason, Wen Yuxia happily smiled. Martial arts and spatial abilities were her foundation.
"Hong'er, these two books were given to me by the old man. They contain information on lightness skills and fist techniques. Would you like to learn them?" The techniques were given to the original owner of the body, and Wen Yuxia didn't mind bringing the little one along to learn them.
"Yes," Wen Yunhong said firmly.
When the original owner left, she left her memories to Wen Yuxia. From the memories, she learned that Wen Linshi favored the eldest son's family the most and often secretly gave the fourth son's food to the four boys of the eldest son's family.
Wen Dashan genuinely loved the two sisters. After a day's work in the fields, he would take time to go to the river to catch fish and shrimp to improve their meals.
Considering that the cousins of the first, second, and third wives are all Wen Dashan's biological grandsons, and the way Wen Zisong and his associates behaved after Wen Ziyang and his wife's death,
Wen Yuxia decided that the matter of learning martial arts would be a secret between the siblings, and they would not tell anyone. Wen Yunhong nodded his little head seriously, indicating that he agreed with his sister's decision.
Wen Yuxia smiled and gently rubbed her younger brother's cheek. She took out the dragon-shaped mooncake from earlier, broke it in half, and said, "Grandpa gave it to me. Eat it."
Wen Yunhong took a deep breath. It smelled so good. Hesitantly, he said, "Sister, can we save some for Grandpa?"
Even at such a young age, he could tell that Wen Dashan was genuinely good to the two sisters, and that Wen Linshi's favorite grandson was not him. Therefore, when there was something good, the first person he thought of was Wen Dashan.
Wen Yuxia picked up a small, loose mooncake and said with a grin, "This one has egg filling; I'll give it to Grandpa later."
Fearing that the mooncakes she took out were too big, and that Wen Dashan would share them with others, Wen Yuxia stingily took out a small mooncake.
Wen Yunhong happily took the small mooncake and put it in her pocket. "Thank you, sister!"
Seeing Wen Yunhong chewing slowly with a satisfied look in his eyes, Wen Yuxia couldn't help but laugh out loud. She instructed him, "Hong'er, Grandpa gave me a lot of food, but you can't tell anyone, not even Grandpa, understand?"
Wen Yunhong reluctantly took the small, unwrapped mooncake out of his pocket and said, "Sister, you should put it away!"
Although he really wanted to give Wen Dashan some mooncakes, Wen Yuxia said he couldn't tell anyone, including Wen Dashan.
Wen Yuxia said slowly, "Give the small mooncake to Grandpa. Just say that the old man who died on the mountain asked you to be his apprentice. The mooncake was a gift from the old man. There were only two. We shared one, and we'll keep the other for Grandpa."
When the original owner was unconscious, her master, who had passed on his internal energy to her, was lying next to her. He was the old man that Wen Yuxia mentioned. It was estimated that the villagers had already buried him. Wen Yuxia planned to take her younger brother up the mountain to pay their respects when she had time.
Upon learning that Wen Linshi had gone back to her parents' home, Wen Yuxia took Wen Yunhong to the kitchen to cook.
It's hot, so I'll prepare the food early and leave it there so that Wen Dashan can eat it when he comes back from the fields. The food will be warm, which will prevent him from being unable to get into the kitchen at mealtimes.
The Wen family's kitchen has three stoves, shared by all four branches of the family. Every day, the eldest aunt, second aunt, and third aunt would arrive at the kitchen right on time to cook, and Wen Yuxia and the others would either cook earlier or later.
Dinner was simple: brown rice porridge, cold green bean salad, and two dark brown pancakes made separately for Wen Dashan.
Even a clever housewife can't cook without rice. All the grain was locked in the cupboard by Wen Linshi. Before returning to her parents' home, she scooped out half a bowl of coarse rice and a bowl of dark flour and placed them on the cupboard.
This amount of food was probably enough for several days, and Wen Yuxia didn't dare use too much, since Wen Linshi would stay for three to five days each time she returned to her parents' home.
The aunties had picked all the vegetables in the garden except for the green beans, so Wen Yuxia didn't stand on ceremony and picked all the green beans as well.