He had transmigrated. Wang Lu Fei was certain he had transmigrated.
He had been an orphan since childhood. After graduating from middle school, he entered society and struggled to make a living. He couldn't say he had achieved nothing, but he had merely managed to get by in a second-tier city.
But he never expected that while watching TV at home, the TV would explode.
When he regained consciousness, good heavens, the blazing summer had turned into the depths of winter, and he himself had transformed from a 30-year-old, foot-scratching man into a baby.
Fortunately, a tattered cotton coat provided some warmth.
Looking at the surrounding buildings, they were low, old, and exuded a sense of age.
With this situation, if it wasn't transmigration, was it a dream?
But dreams and reality were still different.
Right now, it felt very real.
The cold wind pierced his bones, and Wang Lu Fei felt his body about to freeze.
“This is going to freeze me to death!” Wang Lu Fei couldn't help but curse, but all that came out was a series of wails.
From a foot-scratching man to a baby, he couldn't accept it for a moment.
“Whose child is this?”
An auntie was attracted by Wang Lu Fei's cries.
This auntie was only under 40.
Seeing the baby wrapped in a tattered cotton coat, the auntie was surprised.
In this freezing weather, who was so heartless to abandon a child?
Picking up the baby on the ground, the auntie lifted the tattered cotton coat and saw that it was a boy.
This made her even more surprised.
If it was said that a family with many children couldn't afford to raise them, they would usually throw away the girls. The kind-hearted ones would leave them at someone else's doorstep. As for throwing away a chubby boy, that was too rare.
This was a certain alley in Nanluogu Xiang.
The auntie was still familiar with this neighborhood. She knew which families had children, and what kind of children they had, but none of them matched this baby.
So, this baby's family wasn't from Nanluogu Xiang?
If she didn't take care of the baby, it would freeze to death or starve to death.
She didn't have any children. The doctor said she was weak and couldn't get pregnant. Thinking that she was a childless woman who had also made her husband childless, her heart ached. Now that she had found a child, it must be fate.
“If this child's parents come back to look for him, I'll return him to them. If no one wants him, I'll adopt him,” the auntie thought to herself.
She couldn't bear to see the child left alone.
Wrapping the tattered cotton coat tighter around the baby, the auntie carried him home.
Passing by several courtyards, they arrived at the entrance of Courtyard 95.
“Courtyard 95, Nanluogu Xiang?” Wang Lu Fei caught sight of the house number and couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.
This was a three-section courtyard with a traditional Chinese architecture.
Entering the courtyard, he saw few people inside.
After all, who would hang out in the courtyard on such a freezing day?
However, Wang Lu Fei still saw a few people. In the front courtyard, he saw Third Auntie and Yan Jie Cheng. In the middle courtyard, he saw Jia Zhang Shi and Qin Huai Ru, who was holding a baby.
Qin Huai Ru was holding… Bang Geng?
So…
Was this the world of "Love in the Courtyard"?
He Da Qing ran away in 1951, and Qin Huai Ru married into the Jia family after He Da Qing left.
If Bang Geng was a newborn baby, then now was… 1952?
Oh, my god.
Wang Lu Fei was completely shaken.
This was an era of hunger!
A few years later, the rationing system would begin, and everything would require tickets. You needed food tickets to buy food, cloth tickets to buy cloth. The reason for this was the shortage of supplies.
The rationing system would be followed by the difficult period. Just thinking about it made Wang Lu Fei's scalp tingle.
However, if he was adopted by First Uncle and First Auntie, life shouldn't be too bad, right?
In the TV series, First Uncle was an eighth-level worker.
If it was 1952 now, he didn't know if workers in the capital had been graded yet.
Wang Lu Fei only remembered that grading began in the early 1950s.
But the time when different regions started grading was different. It seemed like some region began grading in 1950 with the document "Regarding the adjustment of wages and… for workers and technical personnel in state-owned enterprises."
The capital was in category 6.
Now, either the capital hadn't started grading, or it hadn't been long since it started.
And Yi Hai Zhong wouldn't be an eighth-level worker right away. Maybe he was currently a fourth or fifth-level worker.
A side room in the middle courtyard was much warmer as soon as he entered.
He saw a coal stove placed in the room.
Back home, First Auntie wrapped the baby in the quilt on the kang bed and then brought the coal stove next to the bed.
Now, Wang Lu Fei didn't feel cold anymore, but he was hungry.
At the same time, a few people came to visit: Third Auntie, Jia Zhang Shi, Qin Huai Ru holding baby Bang Geng, as well as Second Auntie and the deaf old lady.
“Shu Fen, who is this child?” The old lady looked at Wang Lu Fei and asked First Auntie.
“I found him outside. I don't know who was so heartless to throw away a child in this freezing weather,” First Auntie said and sighed. She wanted a child but couldn't have one, while some people had too many children and couldn't afford to raise them, so they either gave them away or secretly abandoned them. It was truly a sin!
Qin Huai Ru’s eyebrows furrowed slightly. She didn't want First Uncle and First Auntie to adopt a child.
The old lady also frowned.
As for Third Auntie and Second Auntie, they didn’t think anything of it.
They all knew that First Auntie was in poor health and couldn't have children. She was essentially a childless woman. What was wrong with a childless woman adopting a child?
“This child is a boy, right?” Third Auntie took a closer look at the baby on the kang bed.
Seeing First Auntie nod, Second Auntie was also puzzled. Who would throw away their son?
Could it be that the parents were gone, and the relatives were unwilling to raise him, so they secretly abandoned him?
It could be confirmed that the baby wasn't from Nanluogu Xiang.
And if someone wanted to secretly abandon a child, they wouldn't do it near home.
Perhaps he was from a rural area and was abandoned in the city.
“Could this child have some kind of contagious disease?” The old lady suddenly said.
Immediately, Second Auntie and the others stepped back a few steps.
Even First Auntie's face changed slightly.
However, First Auntie still picked up the baby on the kang bed: “I'll take this child to the hospital for a check-up.”
No one stopped her.
As First Auntie carried the baby away, the old lady leaned on her cane and went back to the back courtyard. But her brows were furrowed.
First Uncle didn't want to adopt a child, but First Auntie had always wanted to adopt one.
Suddenly finding a child, First Auntie would definitely want to keep him.
“It's not a good thing,” the old lady sighed in her heart.
The Jia family.
When Qin Huai Ru returned home, her mother-in-law questioned her.
Jia Zhang Shi was white and plump, with a pair of triangular eyes that looked somewhat sharp.
“Mom, it seems like First Auntie wants to adopt that child,” Qin Huai Ru said.
“Your First Uncle won't agree.” Jia Zhang Shi squinted her eyes and said with certainty.
The Yi family in the middle courtyard and the old lady in the back courtyard were both childless, and the Jia family had them under their control.
…
At the hospital, after a series of examinations, it was confirmed that the baby was healthy and had no diseases, making First Auntie relieved.
On the way back, Wang Lu Fei was truly starving.
First Auntie knew that a baby's cries were usually due to hunger or a bowel movement.
Soon, First Auntie determined that the baby in her arms was hungry.
“I can only borrow some milk from Dong Xu’s wife,” First Auntie mumbled.
Wang Lu Fei: ???