Chapter 1

“Tang Huan, go get some vinegar and mix some cold dishes so we can start eating!”

“Okay, Mom.” Tang Huan responded sweetly towards the kitchen.

He closed the book in his hand and returned home, then ran to the kitchen to get the vinegar bottle and walked out of the yard.

This area is full of small courtyards, and every household is close to each other. The grain and oil store is near his home. Tang Huan can get there in five minutes if he walks fast.

On the way, they met their neighbor Aunt Wu. Aunt Wu looked at Tang Huan’s fashionable appearance with a flash of disdain in her eyes. She asked with a smile, “Where are you going, wife Zeyu?”

“I’m going to get some vinegar.” Tang Huan smiled at Aunt Wu, replied, and walked away quickly.

Aunt Wu doesn’t have a very good relationship with her mother-in-law, and she always likes to say things that are offensive. Tang Huan didn’t like her, but she was not good at talking and couldn’t beat her. So she went back home jealous and complained to her mother-in-law, but her mother-in-law was very strong!

In fact, Aunt Wu was right to call her that. She was indeed Meng Zeyan’s wife, but Meng Zeyan died the day after their marriage.

The neighbors all call her Tang Huan, but Aunt Wu seems to be afraid that she is not sad, and always tries to annoy her.

To be precise, Tang Huan is not from this world. She traveled through time and space. She was in poor health and suffered from a terminal illness. She spent more than half of her twenty-one years lying in bed, and the rest of the time in a wheelchair. When she came, Meng Zeyan had already passed away. Her original body wanted to sneak away, but tripped over the threshold and fell to her death.

Perhaps God saw that she had a miserable life in her previous life and gave her a good home in this life. Although her husband passed away, her parents-in-law doted on her and raised her like their own daughter.

The month after coming here was the most relaxing time she could remember. She didn’t have to endure physical pain, there were people who cared for her, and she could do whatever she wanted.

A bottle of vinegar cost seven cents. The dark brown aged vinegar had a very strong smell. Tang Huan even held the bottle close to his nose and sniffed it.

When I smelled the sour taste, a lot of saliva automatically secreted from my mouth. Thinking of my mother-in-law’s cooking skills, I quickened my pace.

Carrying the vinegar bottle, I turned into the alley and saw a car parked at the door from a distance. It was a military green jeep. This car looks like a military vehicle?

Many neighbors nearby were standing at their doorsteps looking towards their house. These days, few people can drive a car, and even fewer can ride in a military vehicle!

Seeing Tang Huan coming back, someone urged her: “Tang Huan, go home quickly to check, Meng Zeyan is back.”

Meng Zeyan, the uncle she had never met?

My mother-in-law said that he had been serving as a soldier in another place for many years and had not been back for many years. When Meng Zeyan died, his family wrote to him, but he was unable to return for various reasons.

Tang Huan moved back slowly. She was not very good at dealing with people, and it took her a long time to get used to her in-laws.

Moving to the front door, she took a deep breath and walked into the yard carrying the vinegar.

Meng Zeyan’s elder brother is her elder brother, there is nothing to be afraid of, right?

“Zeyan~” Xing Cui was crying in the yard while hugging her eldest son. It had been eight years since Meng Zeyan left, and they had only been in touch through a few letters in the past eight years. Sometimes she dreamed that he had an accident, and her pillow was wet when she woke up in the morning.

Meng Zeyan hugged his mother, his eyes a little red. The home is still the same home, but things and people have changed.

He had a lot of questions. How did Zeyu die? How can you go to work right after getting married? Doesn’t he have a week’s wedding leave?

These questions are not appropriate to ask now.

Meng Zeyan was standing facing the gate. He noticed Tang Huan as soon as she walked into the gate and his scrutinizing eyes fell on her.

Being looked at like this, Tang Huan stopped and nodded slightly at him. After hesitating for two seconds, he picked up the vinegar in his hand and walked towards the kitchen, not intending to disturb the reunion between mother and son.

My uncle doesn’t look much like Meng Zeyan. Meng Zeyan is the honest and dull type, and he looks more regular, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, just like my mother-in-law.

Meng Zeyan’s facial features are more three-dimensional and harder, and he is also taller, probably around 1.9 meters. He looks like a kind person, but there is no warmth in his eyes.

Meng Zeyan roughly guessed her identity. She should be Meng Zeyan’s wife.

Meng Zeyan wrote him a letter before getting married, saying that she wanted to get married. The letter did not describe the marriage partner in detail, only saying that the person was a nice one.

Watching his sister-in-law walk into the kitchen, Meng Zeyan was a little confused and asked his mother, “Mom, is my sister-in-law an adult?”

Xing Cui had almost vented her emotions and was wiping her tears with a handkerchief. She became unhappy when she heard what Meng Zeyan asked.

“What nonsense are you talking about! How could she marry Zeyu before she reached adulthood?” After saying this, she felt unhappy. “It was Zeyu who delayed her. She became a widow right after getting married.”

Good looking and good personality, but unlucky.

Seeing that Xing Cui was about to cry again, Meng Zeyan helped her sit down on a small stool beside him and whispered to her about himself: “I have been transferred to our military region. I will report in a few days and come back to accompany you when I am free.”

“Really?” Xing Cui couldn’t believe it. She had already made preparations for Meng Zeyan to settle down in another province, but he was transferred back without a word?

“Really.” Meng Zeyan sat down next to his mother and assured her with a faint smile.

He had not made up his mind until he received the news of Meng Zeyan’s death, and then he decided to come back. After his younger brother passed away, it was his turn to come back to support and accompany his parents. Meng Zeyan has been the one fulfilling his filial duty for so many years, and he is not qualified to be the eldest brother.

Xing Cui stood up happily, wiped her eyes quickly with the back of her hand, and hurried to the kitchen.

“Put the food in the house and come out to eat. Mom will cook two more dishes.”

Tang Huan was cutting vegetables in the kitchen. She couldn’t cook and wasn’t very skilled at cutting vegetables. She cut the potato shreds like potato strips and almost put the knife on her nails.

Xing Cui walked in and was shocked to see Tang Huan cutting vegetables, “Tang Huan, put the knife down!”

Turning back to see her mother-in-law, Tang Huan put down the knife with a smile, looking at the fruits of his labor with some embarrassment, “Mom, I cut it too thick.”

“It’s okay. Mom will fry the potatoes. You don’t need to help. Go out and play.”

Xing Cui especially liked Tang Huan, a petite and cute girl with a fair complexion, sweet voice and a gentle personality. When she gave birth to her second child, she wanted a daughter, but ended up giving birth to a son.

After much difficulty in raising him, he lost his life saving others, leaving behind his newly married wife and elderly parents. After Meng Zeyan passed away, the old couple treated Tang Huan as their own daughter, treated her well and transferred all their affection for their son to Tang Huan, otherwise they would not have been able to get through it.

Tang Huan knew that his help was equivalent to making trouble, so he obediently left the kitchen, went home, took out the high school textbook and continued reading.

In her original world, she graduated from high school but did not get into college. In another world, she also graduated from high school. It was not that she did not get into college, but her physical condition did not allow her to go to school. When she was in high school, the time she had to attend classes was limited.

She wants to learn some more high school knowledge and try to take the college entrance examination next year, just to fulfill her dream.

Meng Zeyan put his things back in the room, changed his clothes and walked into the yard.

Their yard is large. Half of it was reclaimed by Xing Cui to grow vegetables, and the other half has a grape trellis made of bamboo poles. There is always a table and a few benches under the trellis, where they usually drink tea and eat.

Tang Huan was now sitting under the grape trellis reading a book. She was so absorbed in reading that she didn’t notice anyone coming over until someone sat down opposite her. Then she looked up.