"Guo'er, your brother and I are going to work. You watch over your sister, and if anything happens, go call us in the field." Let me know if you have other text you'd like translated! ?

　　Cheng Manli put the faded towel she had washed over her shoulder and, without waiting for Lin Guo to respond, hurriedly walked out carrying a hoe. A tall and thin young man silently followed behind her, also carrying a hoe. Unlike Cheng Manli, he was missing a towel but carried a forest green water bottle.

A nine-year-old girl named Guo'er raised her head, watching the two figures disappear quickly. She pursed her lips, responded with a grievance, and continued squatting by the well. However, she chopped the feed for the duck with such force that it made a deafening sound.

"Lín guǒ, are you going to catch crickets?"

A boy of about seven or eight years old crept in from behind the door, peering around and standing beside Lin Guo with a sly grin. He whispered mysteriously, "There's something delicious."

The boy was tanned, but even so, the grayish dirt around his neck was unmistakable.

Lin Guo gave him a disdainful look and said in an unpleasant tone, “No!”

With the answer falling, a louder thud followed.

A boy, with a cheeky grin on his face and teeth bared, looked at the hefty cleaver and chopping board making a loud noise. “Your sister is slacking off again,” he giggled mischievously.

“What’s it to you!” Lin Guo kept chopping the fodder, sending pieces flying everywhere. Seeing his greasy face, she put on a stern expression and sneered, “Look at you, you’re so dirty! You could use your bathwater as ink! Tomorrow I’ll tell Grandpa about this, and we’ll just use your bathwater to write with!”

"That's how it is, but my eyes were fixed on the movement in the west. Seeing no response over there, I suddenly stood up and snorted as I continued firing at the little boy, 'Are you going to leave or not? If you don't, I'll hit you!'"

"No big or small!"

The boy threw a word and vanished in an instant.

Lin Guoxian envied Lin Shuohao's happy back, and lowered her head dejectedly. Her toes scraped the ground, pouting with tears in her eyes, filled with infinite grievance. Lin Shuohao was a few months older than her, but he didn't have to do anything at home. His sister did all the chores. Her sister was doing well now, still sleeping soundly in the room! Just like their aunts, they were both lazy!

"Go have fun."

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A dry, raspy voice sighed, tinged with a hint of disbelief.

Lin Guo looked up.

As soon as she saw the person coming, she snorted and immediately turned her head away. Her pretty face was full of anger. "You'd better sleep more! There isn't much money at home. You spent money going to town for an injection a few days ago! I saw it that day. You are torturing yourself into being sick!"

Deliberately bathing with well water! Deliberately drinking well water!

Don't think she didn't see!

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"I'm fine now," Lin Wei assured him. "I won't get sick like this again. Go play."

After decades of life, she was accustomed to the cunning and deceit. To scheme against her own kin and weigh the worth of family ties in such a way, she would never commit this grave error again in her lifetime!

In fact, think about it, in a past life——

Well, there's not much to say. She brought this on herself, she deserves to deal with it alone!

Let's just not mention it!

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Lin Guo remained unmoved and wouldn't even look at her. After all, who doesn't get sick?

Lin Wei thought for a moment and tentatively said, "It's hot, why don't we go give Mom some water?"

This time should be work time, right?

"My brother brought some."

Lin Wei was taken aback. It had been too long; she could hardly remember what he looked like anymore.

It's not a matter of time, nor of memory. She is afraid of weakness, so she buried this man, this brother who devoted himself wholeheartedly to his family, deep within her heart during her years of living.

Just waking up, her reaction wasn't quick. Some people, some things, require tearing through memories to cope. The term mentioned by her sister Lin Guo, gave her an instinctive urge to escape. She was afraid to face this ugly side of herself.

If her brother's early death in the past life was a consequence, then she was the cause!

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In what year was she reborn?

Will heaven have mercy on her, allowing her to return to the turning point of her family's fate? Will she be able to hope to repay the decades of piercing guilt that weigh upon her soul?

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The fever left her weak, dizzy for a few seconds. She steadied herself and spoke with difficulty: "Big brother, are you alright?"

“Can you do some work on the ground?”

Lin Guo curled her lips and let out a snort.

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Brother, it's okay!

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The sentence was like a ray of morning sunlight piercing through the dewdrop, and Lin Wei's face suddenly lit up with a brilliant smile. Her entire being seemed to be filled with boundless energy and vitality, bursting with strong emotions."Come on, come on! I'll do this. You can go do whatever you want!"

She swiftly snatched the kitchen knife from Lin Guo's hand, deftly chopped the remaining fodder, gathered it into a dilapidated wooden basin, scooped in half a ladleful of barley bran from the western side, mixed it well, and put it in the duck pen.

Their duck pen and chicken coop were actually together, just separated in the middle by closely spaced thin bamboo poles. There were six chickens at home, one rooster and five hens. Lin Wei counted and found there were exactly five eggs in the nest made of straw. This was when she opened the door to the chicken coop and let them go out to find food on their own. There were four ducks, but only three eggs in their nest because they were worried that the ducks would lay their eggs outside, so they had to feed them first and wait for them to lay their eggs before letting them out.

Lin Guo saw the round eggs and cheered. She ran into the chicken coop and carefully picked them up with a scoop, then carefully carried them and gently placed them in the bamboo basket where they usually kept eggs in the kitchen.

Lin smiled, watching Lin Gu run away, a hint of a smile playing on her lips.

It's great, my sister hasn't grown apart from me yet, and my brother is still alive. Everything's still in time!

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After taking a look around, she rolled up her sleeves and picked up the broom beside the wall, starting to sweep the yard.

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As long as the family is fine now, what year does it matter? She won't let this family fall into ruin and misery again!

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Lin Guo stood at the kitchen doorway, watching her sister Lin Wei busily working. Her eyes reddened, and after a while, tears began to fall.

Lin Wei heard the sobbing and her heart skipped a beat. She turned sharply to look at Lin Guo.

Lin Guo's glistening tears on her face made Lin Wei's heart pound erratically. It seemed like something had been overlooked just now, a feeling that sent chills down her spine and left her breathless with alarm.

Thinking of that possibility, Lin Wei's face paled, and the broom in her hand fell to the ground with a "pa da" sound.

Though the sound was not loud, it echoed in my ears with a deafening roar.

She trembled slightly and stammered, "W-why are you crying?"

At this question, it was as if a sluice gate had been opened. Lin Guo cried even harder. Lin Wei's face grew paler and paler, the strength in her body seemed to be suddenly drained, she could no longer support her body weight and collapsed to the ground. She covered her face, the desolation in her heart was beyond words, large tears rolled down her cheeks.

Heaven gave her a second chance, wasn't it to make amends?

"What are you crying about so early in the morning! You're making it impossible for me to sleep! People aren't dead yet, why are you wailing like this!"

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A furious female voice, accompanied by the sound of a door slamming, suddenly pierced through the ears of the two people...

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