Chapter 23: Crossing
Xie Jiaqi didn't expect that he would really become someone else as he opened his eyes as written in the novel. She remembered that she had just gone downstairs to throw out the garbage, the hallway light was broken, she stepped on the air, and then in the next second, instead of rolling down the cold and hard steps, she fell into the water.
She struggled in the water, and there was a panicked crowd on the shore, only a little girl in red, holding on to the lake rocks on the shore, trying to reach out to her, trying to save her.
She couldn't figure out the situation at the time, she didn't understand where she was, and after waking up from a coma again, Xie Jiaqi found that her memory had become confused. The setting is unfamiliar, with antique shelf beds hung with ornate bed tents, more beautiful than museum exhibits.
There were many people around the bed, dressed in gorgeous period costumes, and the faces of those people looked strange and familiar at the same time. Xie Jiaqi didn't know what would happen to the other crossing parties, but it did take some time for her to figure out the situation, she had encountered the legendary crossing party! Completely and completely became a different person.
After understanding the current situation, Xie Jiaqi's mental condition did not improve, but became more panicked and desperate. She really couldn't figure out why she encountered such a thing.
Xie Jiaqi, who couldn't accept the facts, was emotionally broken, she couldn't even listen to others call her new name "Rou'er", such a broken name of the White Lotus was not hers! Her name is Xie Jiaqi!
She inexplicably became another person, what about Xie Jiaqi? Is it no longer there? Will she be able to return to her original world? Where's Mom and Dad? When she arrives here, what will Mom and Dad do? She wants to go back, she misses Mom and Dad, she doesn't want to be here!
Xie Jiaqi, who was frightened and desperate, said a lot of "nonsense" at the beginning of her wake-up, and she actually didn't remember what she said very clearly. All she knew was that when she was crying "gibberish", the beautiful woman who had been sitting in front of her bed, dressed in gorgeous clothes, was crying miserably.
Later, she was tired of crying and fell into a coma, and developed a high fever, and now she couldn't "talk nonsense" because she was so sick that she couldn't open her mouth.
Later, she woke up, but she never spoke nonsense again, because she finally accepted the facts. After all, you can't necessarily go back if you die, so in that case, let's try to live.
From that day on, Xie Jiaqi became Xie Shurou, began to obediently open her mouth to drink medicine, and became an extremely obedient and cooperative patient. She is still lucky, in this backward era of feudal superstition, the "nonsense" before her was automatically found a reasonable reason by the distressed Xie family, they said that she was "bumping" and possessed by evil spirits.
Grandma Xie invited someone to come to the house to recite the scriptures to exorcise evil spirits, and personally went to Daxiangguo Temple to ask for incense ash runic water, and came back to irrigate Xie Shurou.
It's good, she already fell into the water and caught a cold and fever, plus she drank fragrant ash charm water and made her stomach upset, Xie Shurou was really sick this time, she couldn't move when she lay on the bed, and she had to ask someone to move out of bed and help her to the clean room when she went to the toilet.
In ancient times, when the sanitary conditions were backward and there was no flush toilet, it was really a torture, but Xie Shurou at that time couldn't care so much. Even with fever and diarrhea, she was so sick that she was groggy, and the bitter Chinese medicine was poured into her stomach bowl by bowl, and her tongue was numb.
For more than ten days, Xie Shurou quickly lost weight, her originally white and tender little face became sallow, and the smell of medicine in the boudoir could not be dispersed, which made people have a headache. When she was most sick, Xie Shurou was lying on the bed, with a high fever, intestinal colic, headache and nausea, she even thought pessimistically, she might not have to worry about how to live in this strange era in the future, maybe she would die of this disease.
But Xie Shurou is still young after all, and she has survived such a serious illness, she gradually got better, began to wake up, at least she could see the people around her clearly, and she also began to have the strength to sort out her chaotic memories.
Yes, just like it is said in the novel, Xie Shurou's memories of the previous ten years, she has. It's just that many of these memories are very vague, so she doesn't have any sense of substitution, even if she has memories, she still feels strange and afraid of everything around her.
She knew that the beautiful grandmother Xie was her current mother, but she didn't have any affection for this new mother who loved her daughter very much, on the contrary, she was a little scared. Grandma Xie is so kind to her daughter, what if she finds out that she is not her daughter, but a strange soul from another world?!
Because of fear, Xie Shurou became more and more silent, she tried to imitate the original Xie Shurou's words and deeds, but helplessly found that it was not as easy as imagined to become another person completely, she wanted to try to get close to Xie Shurou's previous appearance, but she was always unable to do so.
Fortunately, she is still sick, and she can still use illness as an excuse to lie in bed silently, comb through those unfamiliar memories, and try to simulate and practice becoming another person in her mind.
She closed her eyes and thought about it, thinking about these strange family members, thinking about this strange world, thinking about the flower viewing banquet when she had an accident, and the only little girl in red in the world who made her feel kind.
Now she knows that the little girl in red is Mu Hongsheng, the eldest lady of Anguo Mansion, who is the person she "should have known", and she has met once at the Qujiang Spring Banquet "before", although she has not said a few words, but she does "know". In Xie Shurou's memory, there is no one in the entire Jingzhong family who does not know Mu Hongsheng, although this Miss Mu rarely participates in the social activities of the Jingzhong family.
Mu Hongshang is actually really not familiar with the original Xie Shurou, I have met twice at the banquet, and the total has said two sentences, as their respective mothers say hello to each other, there is no friendship at all, but now Xie Shurou has a good impression of Mu Hongshang, probably because the first person she saw when she opened her eyes was the little girl in red, right?
The first time she recalled the scene she had crossed over, Xie Shurou still had palpitations. But she still carefully recalled every detail of that time, she was in the water, the few people on the shore...... It's all familiar, who is coming, think about it carefully......
One is her current third sister Xie Shuyi, a family. On the side, it seems to be a young lady surnamed Wen, and it seems that Xie Shurou is not familiar with her before. Then there is Miss Wang, who is a little more familiar, and then there is Mu Hongsheng in red clothes.
There are two young ladies next to Mu Hongsheng, it seems to be Miss Gu's family, they have met a few times, and they have some friendship, and their names are ...... It seems to be Gu Yilan and Gu Yizhu......
Gu Yilan?? Xie Shurou frowned slightly, this name is really familiar, and she is also very familiar with Gu Yilan. But...... In the past, Xie Shurou and Miss Gu had such a deep friendship?! Really......