Accompanying Each Other (Book Review Collection) Episode 1: The Legendary Noble Son Episode 2: She's Not Crazy

  As the sun sets in the west, this small city in central China quietly becomes lively.

  It's just after work hours, people buying vegetables are buying vegetables, chatting are chatting, and some energetic ones are discussing where to go for a night out.

  Moonlight Community is a mid-range residential area in the west of the city. The overall condition of the community has become somewhat old, with seven-story standard high-rise apartment buildings showing signs of wear and tear from sun and rain. Many families' balconies still have some flowers and plants, but unfortunately, most are neglected, either wilting or overgrown with weeds, making them look even more desolate.

  But that's life, with its moments of decay and prosperity, neglect and refinement.

  Although this residential area is old, there are many people living in it.

  Like the big banyan tree opposite the security room at the entrance of the community, it is now older and more spirited, with a longer and more luxuriant canopy, which has withstood the test of time. Now it does not show any signs of decline, but instead has gained a sense of grandeur and serenity.

  Under the big banyan tree, some people set up a chessboard and started playing, while others pulled out chairs, cracking melon seeds in their mouths as they chatted idly about family matters.

  As they were talking, Aunt Hu from next door suddenly sighed: "Oh my, you guys say that the old Qin family has done something evil! A good girl who was normally well-behaved and sensible, how did she become so confused after getting burned?"

  The gossiping souls of the aunts around her suddenly burst into flames, among them Liu Rong's aunt, who was knitting a sweater, said in a mysterious tone, pressing her voice down: "I heard she's gone crazy, always thinking she's some kind of ancient noble prince, every day either complaining about this or scolding that, making a big fuss! Now her family is considering dropping out of school for her, and whether to send her to a mental hospital for a while..."

  On the other side, Zhang's wife swept a handful of melon seeds with her plump fingers and said with half-closed eyes: "This matter, I'm most clear about it. Our family member is teaching at Municipal Third Middle School, and Qin's daughter is also in her first year of high school there."

  Hu Erniang and Liu Rong's wife were excited and hastily asked questions.

  Zhang Jia's wife put on a pretentious air and began to speak in a leisurely tone: "That Qin Miao girl, for example... she used to be quite well-behaved, although her grades weren't the best. But being able to get into No. 3 Middle School is still not bad, even if she's at the bottom of the class."

  Wasn't she having a fever two months ago? Qin Yatou had a high fever of 39 degrees and took two days off. Who knew that after returning to school, she went crazy, during the Chinese class, it seemed like she was reciting a poem or something, and even scolded the teacher, and was kicked out of the classroom on the spot!

  The old Qin couple rushed to the school to pick her up, but this girl didn't even recognize her parents and scolded people loudly. She said that everyone was a demon or ghost, and that someone wasn't following etiquette, and kept calling herself "Ben Gongzi". Tsk, what arrogance... Later, the Qin couple and several teachers took her to the hospital, where the doctor said she had brain damage from fever!

  "Our family's that mouth and Qin Yaotou's head teacher have a good relationship, they also helped send her to the hospital together. Then I saw Yaotou pointing at the nurse and scolding her as a killer, when the nurse was giving her an injection, she actually raised her hand and snatched the syringe, and even broke it! At that time, it was chaotic, you guys didn't see it!"

  Zhang Jia's wife said with a shake of her head, her expression was as if she were watching a hilarious comedy movie.

  "What happened afterwards?" Hu Erniu hastily asked, "Was she sent to a mental hospital? How did the school handle her?"

  "Alas..." Zhang's wife sighed again, "What can be done? It's all like this now. If we don't send her to a mental hospital, what else can we do? Poor old Qin's family had such a good daughter and she ended up with a burnt brain. Luckily they still have an older daughter and a young son, or else the couple wouldn't know how to live!"

  Liu Rong's sister-in-law also shook her head and sighed: "It's really pitiful that they've encountered such a thing."

  "How did that school handle her? Is this child going to be ruined for the rest of her life?" Hu Erniu asked again with a look of unbearable sympathy.

  "Anyway, what can be done? Who let that girl's brain not clear up by herself. However, the school also left a way out for her, saying that as long as she wakes up before September 1st of next semester, they will allow her to re-enroll and retake her first year of high school."

  "It's already the end of May......" Liu Rong's wife stared with wide eyes.

  "Yes," Aunt Huer said, no longer cracking melon seeds, just sighing. "What a pitiful child, she's been so seriously ill since the end of May until September, three months' time, will she be able to regain consciousness? Alas, but these three have done their best..."

  "Enough!" A white-bearded old man who was playing chess under the tree suddenly shouted loudly, "Don't meddle in others' affairs, they're already pitiful enough, what more do you have to say?"

  Several women were initially silent, then quietly turned their eyes in that direction, but ultimately didn't say anything more.

  "Hey! Qin Miao is back! Qin Miao is back!" Suddenly a loud shout came from outside the neighborhood gate, and two security guards rushed out of the guard room to greet him.

  "What's wrong? What's wrong? You're making a big fuss, what are you like!" A security guard shouted to stop him, "Who are you? Hey! Don't rush around!"

  The people chatting under the big banyan tree stopped talking, and those playing chess also stopped playing. They all looked towards the gap in the electronic iron gate of the residential area.

  Suddenly, a slender figure seemed to bring a fierce gust of wind as she rushed past the opening of the iron gate. Several men behind her stretched out their hands to grab her, but none of them could catch up with her.

  A thin figure ran along the road in the residential area, shouting loudly: "I want to go home! You bastards! Why can't I go home?"

  Those with good eyesight could even see that she was wearing a blue and white striped long gown and pants, which were clearly hospital clothes!

  "It's Qin Miao's wife!" Hu Erniang exclaimed in a low voice.

  "Has this girl run back from the mental hospital?" Liu Rong's sister-in-law's voice was somewhat tense.

  Immediately afterwards, some doctors, nurses and security guards rushed into the compound, causing a commotion in the compound. Onlookers also gradually gathered around.

  "Quickly grab her! Hold onto her!"

  Some people said: "This girl was knocked out by a nurse at Xiping Hospital and sneaked out."

  Some people said: "Look, she doesn't seem to be mentally ill at all. After knocking out the nurse, she still knew how to sneak away and run. It's said that she ran through the vegetable market and was almost at the entrance of the residential area when she was caught by hospital staff!"

  "It's really strange, a mentally ill person can have such logical thinking, it seems that her brain is not very confused after all."

  "Cut! What kind of place is Xiping Hospital? Even if a normal person goes in, they'll come out as a mental patient!"

  Hu Erniang hastily pulled Liu Rong's wife with her left hand and Zhang Jia's wife with her right hand, and the three of them quickly took a few steps to catch up and take a look.

  Someone in front shouted: "This girl is like a flying person, running so fast!"

  Someone else shouted: "Faster! Faster! She's already upstairs!"

  Suddenly the sound of a bicycle bell rang out, and when Aunt Hu turned her head, she saw a middle-aged woman riding on a bicycle, rushing in with a look of anxiety.

  "It's Qin family's sister-in-law!"

  Behind them, someone shouted: "It's Qin Miao's mother who has come back! Make way! Let her go inside to catch people!"

  Hu Erniang suddenly stopped in her tracks, and Zhang Jiashu beside her sighed: "With a daughter like this, how can the Qin couple live?"

  Some people watched the commotion, while others donated money. Qin Wei's mother seemed to have burst into action and soon rode her bike to the No. 6 apartment building where she lived, climbing up the stairs in twos and threes.

  But people outside the building could no longer see all the chaos and sorrow inside.

  A door closed inside and out.

  Outside the door is the living room, inside the door is the bedroom.

  The bedroom was very small, barely enough to fit a double-decker bed frame, a desk with two drawers, and two small stools. The desk was right next to a window that opened only slightly, the bed was on the left side of the desk, and on the right side was a simple wooden wardrobe, on one of whose doors was embedded a mirror over a meter high.

  Qin Miao leaned against the bed frame, her eyebrows tightly furrowed.

  Only she herself knew, she was not crazy.

  The sun had completely gone down, and the window only let in a faint dim light. But Qin Miao didn't turn on the lights, because he needed the darkness to help him think more clearly.

  She wasn't crazy and the world wasn't crazy either, so there was only one conclusion: she had encountered the legendary corpse-reviving soul-returning technique and had returned to a strange and bizarre world.

  Qin Miao, originally named Qin Mo, male, was the eldest son of the Qin family, a prominent clan in Bianjing during the Jia You period of the Northern Song Dynasty.

  When it comes to Qin Mo's early years, he was indeed a handsome young man, riding horses on Zhangtai, unparalleled in elegance. Qin Gongzi lived a carefree and contented life, with a few hints of recklessness and extravagance. That's how the trouble gradually brewed.

  Because of a pity for a song girl, Qin Mo fought with others and was pushed into the Bianliang River, drowning to death. To be honest, before his death, Qin Mo had already prepared himself mentally to meet King Yan. What he never expected was that when he opened his eyes again after being drowned, what he faced was not rescue or the underworld's Yan Luo.

  But it's a strange and wonderful world!

  At first, Qin Mo really thought he was in a country of demons and monsters! Looking around at the people, although they looked like humans, they were all dressed up in ancient and strange attire, without any knowledge of etiquette. They would also use strange tools, say strange words, and do things that Qin Mo couldn't understand.

  After a series of frights, Qin Mo was somewhat nervous. At first, someone told him to go to school, so he arrived at a strange school. The school had co-education, which was not bad, but what was even more frightening was that the teacher recited a Han Dynasty poem with wrong tones and incorrect words, which made Qin Mo unbearable.

  Although he is called an unlearned and untalented young master, what is the old profession of a young master? That's literary elegance!

  That bald-headed man who claims to be a teacher actually misrecites even one poem of the Yuefu style. How can Qin Mo, this young master accustomed to indulging in romantic pleasures and composing poetry with elegance, possibly tolerate it? With such a person as a teacher, isn't it misleading students?

  The young master was also proud, Qin Mo couldn't bear it anymore, and immediately scolded that group of people who were neither teachers nor students.

  And so this curse brought about an even greater disaster.

  Two people claiming to be his parents appeared - at that time, Qin Mo did not understand what "dad and mom" meant, until many days later, he roughly understood that it was "father and mother".

  His parents took him to a strange place called "hospital", where the people were even more bizarre than those in school. There were women in white clothes holding long needles to prick him, and some men in white clothes pushed him into many weird machines. Once when he was pushed into a machine that looked like a coffin, Qin Mo almost thought he would be buried alive!

  He rebelled; he had had enough of these demons.

  Some people thought he was mad, while others thought he was seriously ill and beyond medical help.

  There was a place in this world specifically for locking up madmen, and they had him transferred to a psychiatric hospital called Xiping Hospital. Of course, Qin Mo now understood that mental illness was actually madness.

  What it's like to live with a group of lunatics for two months, probably very few normal people can experience. But Qin Mo was actually treated as one of the lunatics and experienced it!

  Although two months was a difficult time, it also made Qin Mo understand many things.

  For example, this world has its own rules. If you don't want to live with madmen forever, you have to adapt to the rules of this world. At least, don't directly show all your doubts and inconsistencies. For another example, those people who appear in front of him are not actually demons or monsters, but their way of life is just different from what he understands, so they seem so strange.

  In addition, Qin Mo also understood the truth that silence is golden. He thought to himself that he must restrain his temper, otherwise he would never be able to leave that terrifying "Xiping Hospital"!

  The greatest gain is that Qin Mo understood many common sense of life through a strange iron box called "TV". He also vaguely understood that he might not have borrowed his body to return to a strange alien world, but had traveled from the Song Dynasty to the future!

  At that time, when he was a young master, Qin Mo had many unorthodox and rebellious ideas, but he could never have imagined that after the Song Dynasty's thousand years, it would be like this! This is already beyond what can be described as unbelievable, and those who have not experienced it will never understand.

  Qin Mo had experienced it, but this extra segment of life, for him, was really hard to say whether it was good or bad.

  Thinking of this, Qin Mo's forehead started to ache again. Perhaps crossing over into the future wasn't the greatest disaster; the greatest disaster was that he had transformed from a refined and elegant young master into an extremely mediocre ugly duckling!

  Perhaps at this time, Qin Mo should lament that he has changed from a majestic seven-foot-tall man to a weak and delicate woman, rather than changing from being elegant and handsome to being mediocre and ugly. Pitiful, Qin Gongzi was originally a spoiled and pampered son who only knew about romance and luxury, it's really hard for him not to care about his appearance.

  In other words, appreciating beautiful women has already become this young master's instinct. Although the transmigration brought him endless confusion, it was still not enough to cover up this instinct of his...

  Alright, to be honest, Qin Miao is not that ugly nowadays. But what kind of eyesight does Qin Gongzi have? How many stunning beauties has he had in his arms before? For someone as ordinary as Qin Miao, he only gave her an unflattering evaluation, didn't say she was extremely ugly, and this is already "leaving some mercy".

  Letting out another sigh, Qin Mo didn't know whether he should be worried about crossing over, or worried about changing from a man to a woman, or worried about becoming ugly...

  "Alright!" He gave himself some encouragement, "I'll just be kind and not say that you're ugly, at most, at most you're just plain and ordinary..."

  Muttering to herself like this, Qin Mo's mouth still curled up slightly, with a look of disdain.

  The conversation in the outdoor living room gradually became smaller, Qin Mo quietly walked to the door and listened carefully.

  Mr. Qin said, "Dr. Luo, my daughter has really caused you a lot of trouble. Let her mother take a few days off and teach her well at home. If she can be taught, that's the best. If it's really not possible... His voice carried a hint of determination, "then send her back in! Even if we have to lock her up tightly, we absolutely cannot let her out to cause trouble again!"

  Qin Mo's heart skipped a beat, and he secretly thought: "This time I must be obedient and well-behaved, silence is golden, absolutely cannot get locked up again! That place is simply not fit for humans to stay!"

  Then there was Qin's mother Pei Xia's stifled sobs, as well as the doctor's sighs and promises.

  In the dimly lit hut, Qin Mo's eyes gradually turned dull, and she let out a sigh in her heart: "From now on, I'll have to be Qin Miao, this fifteen-year-old little girl..."