Chapter 4: Wedding Night – Emptying Out the Gu Family

“Alright, time to eat. Don’t talk about such mood-killing stuff!” Gu Dakai frowned. Only then did Bai Cuiyan stop focusing on Gu Siqing and turned to Gu Ruizhuo, explaining, “Son, once that tramp gets married in a couple of days, Mom will buy you some meat. Then we can eat it every day! If I buy it now, she and her two little bastards will get to eat it too—no way I’m letting her have that!”

“Okay, Mom, you said it! I’ll eat lots of meat then!”

Just thinking about how the family was about to come into money and that he could eat meat every day made Gu Ruizhuo beam with joy!

Gu Siqing spent the next two days getting familiar with the use of her space. The wedding was held in the evening, and she began preparations that very afternoon.

Because the groom had difficulty walking, the wedding was kept simple. A small group of people were invited for the dinner—some of the Gu family relatives and a few of the Shen family’s old army buddies. There were only six banquet tables, but the food was quite lavish for the times, with seven or eight meat dishes—considered excellent fare in that era.

The wedding was in traditional Chinese style, and the bride only needed to appear for the initial bowing ceremony. After that, Gu Siqing and the groom went straight to the bridal suite.

The room was set up in the best nearby hotel. As soon as Gu Siqing walked in, she raised her hand and knocked the man beside her out cold.

Just entering the bridal suite, Shen Qingyan was knocked out. His last thought before fainting: “Damn! My wife might be a spy!”

After knocking him out, Gu Siqing immediately transferred him into her space. She’d already mastered how to use it—if she had the location fixed in her mind, she could transport people directly into the hospital wing inside.

The hospital area was equipped with a medical assistant robot. As soon as they entered, the robot lifted Shen Qingyan onto a cart and, under Gu Siqing’s command, performed a full-body examination.

In one of the ten worlds Gu Siqing had traveled through, she had been a doctor. She spent thirty years in that world mastering medicine. Knowing that completing all her missions would let her return and possibly reunite with the man from this life, she hoped learning medicine could one day heal his legs.

The medical standards of the 1980s were poor, but with her advanced future techniques, maybe—just maybe—she could cure him.

After a full-body scan, she checked Shen Qingyan’s legs: nerve compression, slight muscle atrophy, and fractures in the femurs.

With the resources in her space, she could treat it!

Time for surgery.

She quickly changed into surgical scrubs, had the assistant robot dress him in a hospital gown, administered anesthesia, and began the operation.

The surgery went very smoothly and was completed within an hour. To aid recovery, she stitched up the wounds and poured spiritual spring water into his mouth to promote healing.

With the anesthesia still effective for about an hour, Gu Siqing changed into a black outfit and put on a face mask.

It was 8:00 p.m.

In the 1980s, most households were not well-off and went to bed early. Even if they had lights, many wouldn’t use them to save electricity. The streets were already quite dark by this time.

The hotel was very close to the Gu residence, chosen for the groom’s convenience. It only took Gu Siqing ten minutes to run home.

The Gu family members were still at the hotel, eating and drinking. Since the Shen family paid for the banquet, they were trying to get as much out of it as possible.

At home, only Gu Siqing was present.

She first went to the kitchen and took everything she could into her space—pots, pans, bowls, plates, chopsticks, spoons, eggs, vegetables, cured meats. Then she thought, why not take the fridge too? Done!

Next, she went to her bedroom and moved the bed, small wardrobe, books, and everything on her desk into the space.

Then to Gu Wanrou’s room.

According to the original novel, Gu Wanrou secretly saved money under her bed because the family favored sons over daughters. Sure enough, under the bed—which had a broken wooden piece—was a small box.

Gu Siqing moved the whole bed into the space, and the box appeared. Inside were scattered coins and bills, mostly dimes and twenty-cent notes—adding up to over ten yuan. Not bad! Into the space they went.

Opening the wardrobe, she found that after Gu Wanrou stole her chance to attend college, she had been treated better at home. Bai Cuiyan had bought her pretty clothes to help her attract a fellow student boyfriend.

College students were highly valued in this era—job offers lined up after graduation.

Although Gu Siqing was also a high school graduate and could have found a decent job, after her college admission letter was stolen and her reputation ruined, the family made her stay home doing chores so she wouldn’t “embarrass them.”

Back then, her mindset was just like any average person. Without those ten world experiences, she wouldn’t have dared to fight back against her uncle’s family.

She moved Gu Wanrou’s wardrobe and all the clothes into the space, then emptied out everything else she could carry.

Then she moved on to Gu Ruizhuo’s room.

As the most pampered child, Gu Ruizhuo had lots of good stuff—brand-name clothes that cost ten yuan each and shoes that cost even more. Gu Siqing moved everything she could, but hesitated at the shoes.

Ugh… they stank so bad…

Putting them in her space might ruin the air quality! Disgusted, she decided to leave them. But she also couldn’t let him wear them again!

They were living in her parents’ house, after all. The Gu family had sold their own house and used the money for living expenses. She did all the housework so Bai Cuiyan and Gu Dakai could go out and work.

Everything in the house partly belonged to her—including her scholarship money, which had all gone to fund Gu Ruizhuo.

Why should he enjoy her money?!

She pulled out scissors from her space and snip-snip-snip! destroyed those nasty shoes!

After that close contact with the foot funk, the scissors were basically trash. Her hands were filthy too, so she grabbed disinfectant wipes from the hospital area and cleaned up.

Next: Gu Dakai and Bai Cuiyan’s room.

It was the largest in the house and had a small storage room, where they kept all the family’s savings. Back then, bank deposits had monthly service fees, so Gu Dakai thought it better to keep the money at home.

It was hidden well—the book hadn’t said exactly where, only that even Gu Wanrou didn’t know.

Gu Siqing began by moving the bed, wardrobe, nightstand, and desk—all of which yielded nothing. Then she entered the storage room. Many of her parents’ valuables were here, though most had already been sold.

The rest she took into her space. Finally, she noticed something off about a floorboard—it wasn’t level.

She crouched down, dug her fingernails into the gap, and lifted the plank. A locked iron box lay underneath.

She remembered a key from the nightstand—retrieved it, and click! Opened.

Inside: cash. Lots of it. Large bills, small change… over two thousand yuan!

Surely part of it was the 1,888 yuan bride price the Shen family gave.

Without hesitation, she shoved it into her space.

Then she went to the grandparents’ room—also emptied.

Finally, the bathroom. She took the usable toilet paper and slashed all the towels, destroyed toothbrush cups—if she wasn’t taking it, they weren’t using it either!

“Flip the table! Let it all burn! Let them buy new stuff if they can!”
She’d come back to plunder again if they could afford it—sustainabledevelopment plan!

Once everything movable was stashed, she walked out and saw the locked bike at the door. She thought about taking it, but it was locked—probably on Gu Ruizhuo. Tch.

No matter, she’d come back for it next time.