Chapter 32: Plans

So, after repeated disappointments and just when she was about to give up, the apocalypse arrived. In the six months since the apocalypse, apart from indifference, she hadn’t learned anything else because you never knew when others would abandon you to save themselves.

As a result, it happened.

Luo Qiao returned home, locked the door behind her, and then entered the house. She didn’t want to be disturbed unexpectedly while eating later, and besides, she didn’t want anyone to see her eating so well.

She feared she wouldn’t be able to live peacefully in this village anymore. Some people just have that kind of mentality—can’t stand to see others doing well. So, it’s better for her not to unnecessarily seek trouble.

She picked up a dumpling. It was really delicious, despite the lack of seasoning. These were all natural foods. She managed to eat all twenty-something dumplings herself and felt quite full.

After boiling the remaining dumplings from the other cover, she scooped them out and directly stored them in the space with her mind. Whenever she wanted to eat them, they would taste freshly cooked.

She poured herself a bowl of dumpling soup to cool down, then proceeded to tidy up the kitchen.

Sitting in the courtyard, drinking dumpling soup and pondering the events of what happened today, she decided to postpone the idea of buying a house. After all, she had only recently arrived in the village, and it would be better to wait until the matter of going to school was settled.

Once the busy spring planting season passed and everything about school was arranged, she planned to ask the captain for a certificate to go out for a while. Saying she wanted to visit her parents. This would also make Gao Suhua a bit nervous.

In reality, Gao Suhua didn’t know where the original owner’s biological parents were from. She only knew that after the birth, the mother fell into a coma and needed to be transferred to another hospital for treatment. At that time, the family was busy arranging the transfer and finding a vehicle.

There was only one friend’s wife left in the house to take care of things. Gao Suhua took advantage of the moment when that person went to the bathroom to switch the two babies.

Gao Suhua was quite capable. In order to save time, she directly found a set of baby clothes in the pregnant woman’s bag and dressed her own daughter in them, swapping the babies directly.

Perhaps it was fate—the original owner’s parents had prepared several outfits all in the same pattern, so in the rush, nobody noticed that the baby in the swaddling clothes wasn’t the original owner.

However, Luo Qiao couldn’t forgive them for their negligence towards this child. She couldn’t believe that the two children would grow up looking the same.

Gao Suhua’s daughter was premature, likely weaker due to poor nutrition in the countryside. With a little bit of attention, it wouldn’t have been difficult to notice. The original owner’s life was already lost, so Luo Qiao had no intention of acknowledging them.

However, she wouldn’t let the girl who, though innocent, took the original owner’s identity, live an easy life. This was the only thing Luo Qiao could do for the original owner.

During these days, her health had improved, so now she needed to find a way to enrich her space. She planned to wander into the mountains and see if she could find some wild chickens, rabbits, or similar small animals to keep in her space.

Luo Qiao couldn’t stand days without meat. She looked up at the vast Daqing Mountain and wondered if she should take a trip deep into the mountains when the team rested again. After all, with the space and her skills from her past life largely recovered, it was a shame her abilities hadn’t improved.

In the center of the village, Zhao Pulin punished Zhao Xiaomei severely upon her return, demanding that she apologize to Luo Qiao in front of the members of the commune the next day.

Zhao Xiaomei was reluctant at first, but Zhao Pulin said that this was the intention of the captain, who wanted to use her as a model to scare the monkeys and warn the villagers not to engage in illegal activities. It heard that the captain’s idea was decided by Director Wang of the commune.