Chapter 8: Golden Finger Appears, Am I from the Nara Clan?

That night.

In her sleep, Su Jinyan felt very uncomfortable.

She always felt like she was floating on water or walking on clouds, a vague and unreal sensation that was very unpleasant.

She turned over, suddenly falling straight down from a high place, wanting to wake up but unable to.

‘Plop!’

Startled, she suddenly opened her eyes and finally woke up, only to see water all around her. She quickly moved her limbs upwards, and after a moment, she broke the surface.

She wiped the water from her face and looked ahead, realizing she was indeed in the water.

The place she was in was a river more than two meters wide, with crystal-clear water where fish weighing three or four catties swam back and forth. Su Jinyan looked at the unfamiliar surroundings and, after a moment of thought, swam towards the shore.

Once ashore, she looked around in surprise and suspicion.

Just a dozen meters from the riverbank stood a large mansion. It looked like it had blue brick and glazed tile roofs, and tall red wooden doors, simple yet exuding an air of nobility.

In front of the mansion were four small plots of land, currently planted with rice. The golden ears of rice had already bent low, waiting to be harvested.

Su Jinyan walked slowly, discovering that the rice paddies were covered by chicken coops, duck coops, goose coops, pigsties, sheepfolds, and cattle pens.

Getting closer, she saw that there were many poultry enclosed in the chicken coops, duck coops, sheepfolds, etc.

There were four each of chicken coops, duck coops, and goose coops, and two each of pigsties, sheepfolds, and cattle pens. In the meadow beside the rice paddies, a black horse and a yellow horse leisurely grazed on the green grass.

Judging by the quality of the horses, they were not ordinary.

The poultry were all quiet, and she noticed that there was food and water in the troughs.

Could there be someone here?

Su Jinyan turned back and stared at the mansion for a while, then looked at her own wet autumn pants and white vest, unsure of what to do.

How could she have suddenly ended up here while sleeping soundly?

Had she transmigrated again?

After a long while, no one appeared around. Su Jinyan walked all around the house but didn’t encounter anyone. Moreover, apart from this mansion, there were no other houses.

Helpless, she had to knock on the door.

She had to find out how to leave, right?

She knocked on the door several times, but no one answered. She pushed it gently, and the door opened.

Su Jinyan leaned half her body inside, looked around, and still saw no one. She called out, but there was still no response.

For some reason, she felt a little uneasy. Could this be a… haunted house?
All of this was too strange.

After a moment, she finally mustered her courage and slowly walked inside.

The house was a three-courtyard siheyuan (a traditional Chinese courtyard house). She walked around the courtyard but didn’t find anyone, so she pushed open the door of the front hall and entered.

As soon as she entered, her eyes were drawn to a conspicuous two-meter-high portrait of an empress. Beside the empress’s portrait and on both walls hung various other portraits.

Su Jinyan recognized it was an empress because the woman in the painting was wearing a phoenix crown.

The empress in the painting stood amidst peach blossoms, her face still very youthful, looking less than twenty years old, with a gentle appearance and playful, lovely eyes.

However, as she looked at it, Su Jinyan couldn’t help but feel confused.

The more she looked, the more she felt that this face looked ninety-five percent like her face in her previous life!

Could it be that after transmigrating for two days, she had forgotten her own appearance?

Even more striking was the bracelet on the girl’s hand, which was exactly the same as the one Zhao Yuanyi had given her!

Su Jinyan couldn’t help but guess that this dream was because of this bracelet?

After looking for a moment, she suddenly noticed a piece of paper on the low table in front of the portrait. She inexplicably went over and picked it up to read.

Hello, I am Nara Lina. If you can enter this space and see this paper, it means you are my reincarnation, or a direct descendant, or a reincarnation of a direct descendant.

Whichever it is, I am very happy that this space can continue to be passed down, which means that our Nara clan has not died out.

But there is one prerequisite: apart from the direct female descendants who can receive the inheritance, you must not tell anyone, including your husband and your son. The space will close the moment you speak of it.

This space is the inheritance of the Nara family. In my hands, it has been passed down for thousands of years. Now, I will explain it to you.

The space is three thousand zhang (a Chinese unit of length, approximately 3.3 meters per zhang) in size, with eight mountains, one river, a three-courtyard house, and four mu (a Chinese unit of area, approximately 667 square meters per mu) of farmland.

The peach orchard behind the house and the poultry were all developed by me. The poultry do not need to be fed or cleaned. The supplies in the warehouse will replenish themselves. If you don’t want them, you can slaughter them.

For the crops in the farmland, you can mentally command them to be harvested, husked, ground into flour, planted, weeded, watered, etc.

There is a well in the courtyard. The well water is spiritual water that can preserve youth, cure diseases, heal sword wounds, and nourish the body. You must not tell others about it to avoid attracting fatal disasters.

In addition, our Nara clan has devoted ourselves to the study of medicinal cuisine throughout our lives, healing the sick and saving lives. You must learn the medical classics and medicinal cuisine recipes in the study. There are several times more medicinal herbs planted by our ancestors on the mountains. I hope you can carry on the medical inheritance of our Nara clan and also teach it to others to promote it, but this is not compulsory.

There is a two-thousand-square-meter storage warehouse in the backyard. It contains various supplies stored by several generations of the Nara family. In case of famine years, you can take them out to help the victims. Time is frozen in the warehouse space, so the supplies will not be damaged…

The flowing small characters of regular script wrote a long passage, and she finally understood.

Although she didn’t know how she had become a member of the Nara family, she was still very grateful to have such a space.

She knew it! Such a miraculous thing as transmigration had happened, so the golden finger should also arrive, right?

Looking at the prayer mat in front of her, Su Jinyan put down the paper, knelt on the mat, and sincerely kowtowed three times. “Whether I am your reincarnation or the reincarnation of your direct daughter, I am very happy to have this space.”

“Please rest assured, I will not tell anyone the secret of this space, and I will certainly not use such an important thing to test people’s hearts.”

“As for the medicinal cuisine you mentioned, I will go and learn it, but I don’t know if I have the knack for it. I can only try my best, after all, I have never been exposed to it.”

After kowtowing, Su Jinyan got up and left the space.

After all, there was still Zhao Yuanyi beside her.

Zhao Yuanyi had hardly slept all night and hadn’t slept during the day either, so he was sleeping very soundly.

Fortunately, she had worried too much. Just now, her consciousness had entered the space, and her clothes weren’t wet. After leaving the space, she was so tired that she had no energy to continue exploring the warehouse and fell asleep directly.

With this space, she would hardly have to worry about food and drink.

Early the next morning.

Su Jinyan was sleeping soundly when she was awakened by a commotion.

“Second son, you silent blockhead, say something! A grown man, letting a woman ride roughshod over you, you’re useless! What’s the point of me raising you?!”

“There are no parents who are always wrong. Even if we did things wrong in the past, your father and I brought you up with our own hands, feeding you and cleaning your messes. You can’t just abandon us and go to the city to enjoy a good life!”

“Wuwu, you unfilial son! You were a soldier in the army for more than ten years, the country educated you for more than ten years, is that what they taught you? To be unfilial? I’m going to go to your unit and ask, where is there a child who doesn’t provide for their parents?!”

“Zhao Li Shi, have you forgotten the severance letter written for fifteen hundred yuan?”

“And my dad’s eighteen years of subsidies?”

“If you’ve forgotten, the village leader has it.”

“Bah, you little bastard! It’s you who instigated your parents not to provide for us! What severance letter? That was something I wrote in a moment of confusion! Besides, shouldn’t my dad’s subsidy money give me, his mother, a share?”

“Our house is small. You and your elder brother were going to get married and had no place to live, so we let you move out! There are no such thing as severing ties and dividing the family!”

“Second son, you’re going to university. You wouldn’t want people to know you’re unfilial, would you?”

“That’s right, Yuanyi. No matter what, your grandma raised you and your brother until you were fifteen. Your aunt even took care of you for several years when you were little, sharing her porridge with you. Now that you’re going to be successful, you want to abandon us?”

“Your aunt doesn’t ask for anything else, just wants to go to the city with you to see the world. Isn’t your wife’s family very powerful? Let her find a job for your aunt and maybe a good husband.”

“If your aunt marries a good man, won’t you have a connection in Beijing too?”

The shouts came into the room through the windows. After listening for a while, she understood what was happening.

These people were right about one thing.

They were about to go to university and couldn’t have a reputation for being unfilial, otherwise, if there was anything good at school, they wouldn’t pass the political review.

Having figured this out, Su Jinyan quickly got dressed. While getting off the kang, she re-tied her hair and went out the door.

“Yuanyi, Grandpa, Grandma, and Aunt are right. No matter what, we can’t be unfilial to the elders.”

“Yan’yan, why did you come out?”

When Zhao Yuanyi saw Su Jinyan, he quickly took off the large cotton hat with ear flaps he was wearing and put it on her head. “It’s cold.”

Su Jinyan glared at him. “Ugly.”

Zhao Yuanyi stopped her from taking it off. “Be good, it’s cold, wear it properly.”

Su Jinyan grabbed his arm and squeezed it, then looked at the others in the courtyard and the villagers gathered at the door to watch the commotion.

Ugly was ugly.

“Grandpa, Grandma, Aunt, since you’re here, come inside and sit down. Arguing here will only make outsiders laugh at us.”

“Humph, we’ll just say it here. Let the people in our village see. Educated Youth Su, now that you’ve come out, I’ll ask you, are you planning to take your in-laws to Beijing to enjoy a good life?!”

Su Jinyan sneered inwardly. They were truly incredibly stupid.

She smiled and said gently, “Grandma, you’re really joking. Yuanyi and I are both going to university, so naturally someone has to look after the children.”

“If we don’t take the children and the elderly, how can the children bear not seeing their parents for a year or two? Also, Dad and Mom’s illnesses are getting worse, and I want to take them to Beijing for a check-up, to have my dad’s leg looked at.”

“However, Grandma, let’s not talk about these things. I really agree with what you just said. There are no parents who are always wrong, and how can children be unfilial to their parents?”

“Don’t worry, my parents and Yuanyi are definitely filial. When you and Grandpa are too old to move, we will be the ones to provide for you.”