Chapter 2

Ning Shu snapped out of her thoughts from her phone. “Okay, I’ll go to the hospital first. If there are any other issues, I’ll come find you. If there are no issues, I’ll return the extra money to you later.”

“No need, no need,” Zhang Fujun heard her say that and felt that she probably wasn’t someone who would cause trouble. “If there’s extra, consider it as nutrition expenses for you, comrade.”

Seeing the comrade’s fair and plump appearance and noticing her new clothes, he thought her family conditions were probably good, so someone with such conditions probably wouldn’t come back to hassle him later.

As Zhang Fujun spoke, he quickly took out money from his pocket and handed Fifty-yuan bills to Ning Shu. “Comrade, I’ll leave first.” With that, without waiting for Ning Shu’s response, he rode off on his bicycle.

Ning Shu didn’t have time to respond either. She watched as the money Zhang Fujun gave her went through her phone, and it seemed that Zhang Fujun hadn’t noticed that she still had the phone in her hand.

She understood. Others probably couldn’t see the phone in her hand.

Thinking of this, Ning Shu knew that this was probably her ‘golden finger’ after transmigration.

Ning Shu remembered that before transmigrating, she was bitten by a snake with a triangular head while picking oranges on the mountain. At the time, she knew it was a venomous snake just by looking at its appearance.

Despite being scared, she calmly took a photo of the snake for evidence and called 120. Then she waited for 120, but she didn’t make it in time and lost consciousness.

So, did she die from the snake bite without being rescued?

This time, she went to pick oranges because it was the season for them. She went to check the quality and take photos on-site, but she didn’t expect to encounter such an incident.

However, Ning Shu’s mindset was good. Since she had transmigrated, she would focus on her current life first. Moreover, she had a premonition that she couldn’t go back, especially now that she had a ‘golden finger.’

However, this time, the original owner had returned to her parents’ home to take advantage of something. Ning Shu didn’t want to get involved with the original owner’s family.

She planned to go to the hospital to check on her head. If everything was fine, she would buy a train ticket and hurry back.

Ning Shu never considered divorcing Lin Guodong. She always approached things from her own advantage. Her husband rarely came home, but he handed over money on time every month.

She didn’t have to worry about her in-laws’ opinions, and her three in-laws were easy to deal with, so she could do whatever she wanted. Plus, her identity as a military spouse provided her with protection, which was influential for her descendants.

She would be foolish to divorce.

As Ning Shu walked towards the hospital following the original owner’s memories, she also examined her phone. If she had felt a bit excited when she first saw the phone, that excitement had now faded.

Because there was only one app on the phone’s screen: the YouTuanMeishi app. It was the app she used for group purchases. Every day, she would upload the products for the next day’s group purchase to the app for pre-sale to customers. Then, on the following day after pre-sale, she would deliver the goods to avoid overstocking.

However, now there was nothing in her YouTuanMeishi app store. She remembered checking the sales volume of today’s pre-sale products while picking oranges.

Sixty percent of the products had already been sold. But now, there were no products in her store. Even the total transaction amount for this month was gone.

She used to withdraw profits once a month for easy profit calculation. Now, the balance showed a big fat zero.

After examining the YouTuanMeishi app on her phone, Ning Shu also found that she could still upload and sell her own group purchase products on the app. However, she couldn’t purchase other people’s group purchase products because the app reminded her that she had no money.

Soo… she needed to upload and sell her own products first to earn money before she could buy other people’s group purchase products on the YouTuanMeishi app.

With this thought in mind, Ning Shu wasn’t in a hurry to verify it. Right now, she needed to go to the hospital to check her head. She didn’t want to die just after transmigrating because she broke her head.

Hospital

“Doctor, are you sure there’s nothing wrong? Don’t I need to stay in the hospital for observation? Could there be any hidden issues in my head? I lost consciousness for a while after being knocked down,” Ning Shu said.

By now, her head was wrapped in a white bandage, and her voice sounded hoarse because there was a cut on the back of her head.

The doctor had to stitch it up without anesthesia, shaving the hair around it before stitching. The pain made her feel like dying on the spot.

Her cries at the time attracted many people, who thought the hospital was slaughtering pigs.

“There’s nothing wrong, as long as there’s no inflammation. You need to apply the ointment every day and change the bandage every three days,” the doctor said calmly.

“Doctor, will 50 yuan cover my medical expenses until I recover?” Ning Shu thought, if it wasn’t enough, she would have to ask someone to cover the remaining medical expenses.

“If there are no complications like inflammation, then it should be enough,” the doctor replied vaguely.

Ning Shu had one last question: “Doctor, can I stay in the hospital for observation?” She didn’t know where else to go.

Returning to the original owner’s parents’ home was impossible, and her current condition wasn’t suitable for taking a train back.

After thinking it over, the hospital seemed the most suitable and safest option.

The doctor had never seen someone so afraid of death. If it weren’t for the slow healing of the cut on her head, people in rural areas wouldn’t have cared about such wounds.

“There are no available hospital rooms. If you’re really worried, you can stay at a guesthouse near the hospital. If you have any problems, you can come back to the hospital at any time.”

Ning Shu thought it over and agreed. Staying at a guesthouse would be fine. “Thank you, doctor.”

Across from the hospital was a guesthouse. After registering with a referral letter, Ning Shu carried her luggage back to her room.

The original owner didn’t have much luggage, just some changes of clothes and a shoulder bag. In the bag were her marriage certificate, military spouse card, referral letter, a small pouch of money, and a passbook. She brought everything she owned with her.

Ning Shu first opened her passbook and was surprised to find two hundred yuan inside.

For the past five years, Lin Guodong had been giving her 30 yuan every month. Since she didn’t work, she used the work points to buy food.

Suddenly becoming rich overnight, she felt like a poor person who had turned things around and was now singing songs of joy.

Most of what she exchanged was for high-quality grains. Besides using the money to buy work points for grains, she also spent the remaining funds mostly on herself, buying clothes, snowflake cream, and snacks.

It was as if she wanted to make up for all the years of deprivation she had suffered at her parents’ house.

However, the 200 yuan she had saved was not from the money Lin Guodong gave her for living expenses. It was the subsidy the original owner received when she registered her four brothers and sisters for the rural work program before going to the countryside.

So, the skinny person who looked like a monkey when she went to the countryside had become plump and prosperous after these five years, so much so that even her own mother wouldn’t recognize her.

Besides the passbook, there was also a money pouch with over 20 yuan and various types of vouchers. The 20-odd yuan was what Lin Guodong had recently sent her this month, and she hadn’t spent it all yet

There were various vouchers, but there were relatively fewer grain and meat vouchers. Lin Guodong had just sent them over this month. The cloth vouchers were saved up from the past year.

The original owner had brought them this time intending to buy nice clothes in the big city, as well as soap vouchers, industrial vouchers, and so on.

There were many industrial vouchers since the original owner had bought things like a water heater that required industrial vouchers. The remaining industrial vouchers were kept unused by the original owner.

A sudden inspiration struck Ning Shu. With nothing better to do, she decided to experiment with the YouTuanMeishi app. While the app could only be used for purchasing food products, Ning Shu couldn’t access products for group purchases right now.

However… she could use industrial vouchers to exchange for them.

In this era, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn were abundant, all grown by ordinary people without pesticides. They were genuine agricultural products, perfect for group purchases. So, could she exchange industrial vouchers for agricultural products?

With this idea in mind, Ning Shu set her target and went to exchange them right away.

Top of Form

Ning Shu’s target was the administrator of the guesthouse. The administrator, a middle-aged woman, was cracking sunflower seeds when Ning Shu approached the counter. “Hello, Auntie,” Ning Shu smiled.

The administrator had already lifted her head by the time Ning Shu approached. This comrade left a deep impression on her. After all, people like her, with a white bandage wrapped around their heads, coming to rent a room were quite memorable.

However, since the guesthouse was located next to the hospital, “patients” like her weren’t uncommon. There were often a few of them around.

“Hello, Comrade. Is there something I can help you with?” The administrator asked with a friendly smile, looking very amiable.

Ning Shu had rehearsed what she wanted to say several times in her mind, so now she spoke clearly, “Auntie, I’m a married woman from another village. I came back this time because my mother is ill. However, I was hit by a bicycle on the way here, and everything I brought was damaged, including my head. To avoid worrying my mother, I’m not going to visit her for the time being. I thought I’d spend a few days recuperating and preparing some things for my mother. So, I wanted to ask you if anyone here wants to exchange goods. I have industrial vouchers to exchange.”

The administrator was no stranger to this kind of exchange. As the manager of the guesthouse, she dealt with a variety of guests, and when they had various needs, they often came to inquire.

Over time, such exchanges became common, and everyone was genuine and not afraid of trouble.

So, she wasn’t surprised by Ning Shu’s words. In fact, she didn’t even care about Ning Shu’s reasons. Hearing that Ning Shu wanted to exchange with industrial vouchers made her happy since there was a high demand for them.

For example, you could use industrial vouchers to buy pots, knives, and water heaters. “What do you plan to exchange for with your industrial vouchers?”

Ning Shu replied, “I want to exchange for sweet potatoes, potatoes, or corn.”