Chapter 4 In Zhao Family Village

  "Brother, what are you doing? Why are you dazing off again?" Little Duan'er bounced and jumped to Zhao Fei's side, blinking her big sparkling eyes curiously as she asked the deep-in-thought Zhao Fei.

  Zhao Fei sat on a stone in the courtyard, his right hand dragging on the ground, his head lowered in silent contemplation. His hesitant and introspective gaze, tightly closed lips, revealed his complex inner world. Just like a thinker, motionless, he didn't even hear Xiaoduo's call.

  "What to do? What should I do? How can I help my parents with household expenses? How can I make money? If only I had known about the time-travel, I would have searched for methods of making paper and gunpowder on Baidu and memorized them. That way, I wouldn't be so worried now. At least I would have a skill to rely on. And how can I strengthen my physique? What if I faint like this again? Do I have to drink that tonic water again?"

  The day after I traveled back, my father and mother brought over a wooden bowl with great hope, insisting that I drink the contents. Looking at the black lump, um... it was barely a lump. Zhao Fei felt a wave of chilliness. They wanted me to drink this stuff, wasn't that attempted murder?

  "Mother, I'm fine now, don't need to drink this anymore, do I...?" Zhao Fei's expression flickered, and he muttered, not daring to face his kind mother directly.

  When Zhao Fei said that, Li was not satisfied. Pretending to be fierce, he stared at our classmate Zhao Fei and said: "No way, drink it all up! This is the symbol water your father went through great trouble to get from the city, you must drink it all up. Otherwise, how can your body recover?"

  "But..." Zhao Fei still looked very hesitant, with an indescribable bitterness in his heart.

  But looking at his parents' expectant eyes, no matter how unwilling and bitter Zhao Fei was in his heart, he could only suppress it. In the end, Zhao Fei calmed down, gritted his teeth and thought: "Forget it, I'll endure, even if I die. Can't let my parents worry about me anymore. It's just drinking some paper ash."

  Zhao Fei carefully took the bowl from his mother's hands. He looked at the disgusting black lump in the bowl again, then tilted his head and swallowed it down.

  As soon as he drank it, he felt a severe stirring in his stomach. "Ugh..." He almost spat out what he had just drunk, Zhao Fei hurriedly covered his mouth and clenched his teeth to endure it.

  Now thinking back, Zhao Fei can still feel the uncomfortable squirming in his stomach. This life, I'll never touch this stuff again. It's really not something for people to drink, and it's supposed to cure illnesses? I think it's more likely to take lives away. Feudal superstition is killing people! Zhao Fei felt that he had never had such a deep feeling before, but now he has deeply realized it.

  "Brother, brother, what are you doing?" Seeing that Zhao Fei was ignoring her, Xiao Duo'er pouted and shook his arm vigorously while hugging it.

  "What? Duer, when did you come here? What's wrong?" Zhao Fei was startled awake from his thoughts by Duer, and found that his lovely little sister was pouting her small mouth, asking anxiously.

  "What's wrong, I've been here for a long time. I saw my brother resting here, so I came over to take a look. My brother didn't even see me." The lovely Duo'er gave Zhao Fei a beautiful and disdainful glance.

  "Ah..." was electrocuted by a sudden tremble, this ancient little loli's electricity was too overwhelming. "Achoo! This is my sister, what am I thinking about?" Shaking his head, he shook off the chaotic thoughts in his mind, Zhao Fei made an effort to put on a warm and friendly smile as he said to Duer: "Duer, good girl, brother was just thinking deeply and didn't notice your arrival. Why don't you go play for now, brother still has some things to figure out."

  "Hmph~~~~ I'm not going to talk to you anymore, bad guy." After saying that, Duo'er pouted and left with a huff.

  Looking at that small and delicate back, Zhao Fei could only smile helplessly.

  Zhao Fei has been here for nearly twenty days. In the first few days, due to Li's strong demands, Zhao Fei could only lie in the house. His originally pale face became even more bloodless. Recently, the situation has improved a bit, and Li allowed Zhao Fei to stroll around the yard. Basking in the sun and all that.

  During this time, looking at his busy parents, looking at the white hair of his parents, those wrinkles like scars. Zhao Fei's mood was very uneasy. He was just an idle person in the family. Not only could he not help with anything, but he also needed his parents to take care of him. Even Xiaodou could help with some household chores that she could handle. Zhao Fei fell into deep self-blame.

  Actually, Zhao Fei was also very helpful to his parents, but the problem was that he couldn't think of what to do. Should he go help with farming? First of all, his parents wouldn't agree, and even if they did, what if he got dizzy again? Zhao Fei was very perplexed to find that although he had some knowledge from his transmigration, it was completely useless. He found it hard to imagine how others who had transmigrated could be so capable, while he himself was unable to accomplish anything. There were examples of people successfully transmigrating and rising to prominence, but why did things turn out this way for him?

  "Brother, mother is calling you to eat." Xiaodou ran over and said a sentence before running away again. It can be seen that she was still angry with her brother Zhao Fei for ignoring her.

  "Haha, this little girl still holds a grudge." Zhao Fei shook his head helplessly. He got up and walked into the house.

  After dinner, Zhao Hu took the farm tools and went back to work in the fields. Xiao Duo'er jumped around Li Shi, occasionally sticking out her tongue at Zhao Fei, looking exceptionally cute. Looking at this little cutie, Zhao Fei was also helpless. Looking around, he found himself idle again.

  "Mom, I want to go out for a walk. Being cooped up at home for so many days makes me feel like my bones are going to stop moving." Zhao Fei found himself with nothing much to do either and thought about going out for a stroll. Since crossing over, Zhao Fei hadn't even left the yard yet.

  "Alright, but remember to come back early, don't make your mother worry about you." Li thought for a moment that it's also good to let the child go out and play in the village, it's not good to keep them cooped up at home all the time. Going out is fine as long as they don't leave the village, there will still be someone to take care of them.

  "Don't worry, mom, I'll just take a walk around the neighborhood and won't be gone for long." With that, Zhao Fei smiled and walked out the door.

  "After the child fainted, he became much quieter than before. He doesn't like to move around even when there's nothing wrong, and I don't know what he's thinking about every day as he sits there. The fact that he can proactively ask to go out for a walk is already a big improvement compared to before."

  Li did not think much of it and certainly could not have imagined that the soul in her son's body had become someone else.

  Zhao Fei walked out of the yard, along the rural road, walking slowly, admiring the scenery of the small village.

  Alas... what scenery. They are all earth walls, thatched cottages and bamboo fences. What scenery is there? The more Zhao Feiyue looked, the more disappointed he felt. He couldn't even find a decent house.

  "How did it become so poor." Zhao Fei muttered to himself.

  Zhao Fei slowly arrived at the village entrance, where several elderly people were sitting under a big tree with a man in his twenties, chatting leisurely. When they saw Zhao Fei coming out, one of the oldest old men asked: "Ah Fei, I heard you fainted recently, how are you now?"

  Zhao Fei hesitated for a moment before saying: "Thanks to Village Chief's concern, I've recovered a lot."

  "That's good, you child have been weak since childhood, pay more attention to yourself in the future. You children are all grown up by me, I don't want anything to happen to you." The village chief said kindly.

  "Village head grandfather, don't worry, I will be more careful. I also want to exercise and improve my physique, but it's not working out." Zhao Fei said, I'm actually very helpless too.

  "I told you to exercise before, but you kept putting it off. Now you suddenly want to start exercising?" The village chief didn't speak, it was the young man who said this.

  "Through this faint, I also deeply realized that my physical condition is really too poor. If I continue like this, who knows how much worry it will bring to my parents? So I want to exercise and improve myself." In fact, the young man didn't know that Zhao Fei was secretly complaining in his heart, "How can this Zhao Fei be so stubborn? His physical condition is already poor, yet he doesn't even want to exercise. Someone wants to help him exercise and he still pushes them away."

  "Alright, come to my place tomorrow and I'll help you work out. You can't keep going on like this. This time you've finally thought it through and are willing to exercise, so I'll make a sacrifice for you. Helping you out won't be of much use to you, but at least it will improve your physique."

  "What's the point of no great help?" Zhao Fei was very entangled in his heart, but also promised: "Okay, Wind Brother, I'll go early tomorrow."

  "Alright, I'm glad to see you're making some progress. I'll be waiting for you at home tomorrow morning." The young man replied cheerfully.

  "Village head grandfather, Wind Ge, you continue to rest, I'll go for a walk somewhere else."

  "Uh-huh. Go ahead. Don't come home too late."

  "Don't worry, Village Chief Grandpa, I know."

  Looking at Zhao Fei's receding back, Zhao Feng turned to the village chief and said: "This kid used to have no ambition, but this time he got sick and his ambition was cured. It can also be considered a good thing."

  "Yes..." The village chief said with a profound meaning, "This child has been worrying people since he was young. Since he wants to train, Xiao Feng, you can properly train him."

  "I know the village head, I will go."