Chapter 147: Compensate
The next day Jiang Youtao got up very early and opened the system screen as soon as she got up.
The melon-eating system broadcasts the situation of the Zhang family in real time.
The three members of the Zhang family took turns watching Zhang Linxi at night, for fear that she would run away while they were asleep.
Zhang Linxi was fearless. She ate when she was supposed to, slept when she was supposed to, and even insisted on eating pork wontons the next morning. Zhang Linnan was also very greedy.
He was at Zhang Ziqiang's friend's house. Zhang Ziqiang's friend's family didn't abuse him, but they didn't treat him preferentially either. There were many children in his family, so Zhang Linnan ate whatever they ate. He hadn't eaten fresh pork wontons like this for many years.
Zhang Ziqiang touched his head, took his hand and walked in. They were going to the suburbs, and it would take several hours to transfer by bus, so they had to eat well. Zhang Linnan didn't have any requirements along the way, he just wanted to eat wontons, it was not a big deal.
Lin Shufeng followed Zhang Linxi all the time, and even had to watch her go to the toilet to make herself feel at ease.
When Lin Shufeng thought about Zhang Linxi carrying a child in her belly, she felt sick and uncomfortable.
The small wontons are fresh and tender, and the soup also contains leeks, seaweed and dried shrimps, and a spoonful of chili oil. It tastes really good.
After eating, the Zhang family dragged Zhang Linxi into a car that went to a not-so-famous temple on the outskirts of the capital.
This temple was built at the foot of the mountain, and not far from it, there was also a Taoist temple. When Zhang Ziqiang and his friends arrived, the sun was already shining overhead, and Jiang Youtao had finished her lunch and continued to watch them while lying on the bed.
A young monk in his teens opened the door for them. Zhang Ziqiang explained his purpose and the young monk put his hands together and said, "Four donors, please follow me."
Lin Shufeng and Zhang Linnan each held Zhang Linxi's hand.
Zhang Linnan has grown up, and Zhang Ziqiang did not hide Zhang Linxi's affairs from him. Zhang Linnan was brought up by Zhang Linxi, and the two siblings have a good relationship. He was particularly angry when he knew that Zhang Linxi had taken over her sister's body and caused her sister's body to suffer so much.
He and his parents agreed that even if his sister couldn't come back, there couldn't be such a person living in her body!
Zhang Linxi had visited many temples in her previous life, so she was not afraid at all. However, she didn't know if it was an illusion. The further she walked into the temple, the more uneasy she felt.
Just when Zhang Linxi hadn't decided whether to back out, they finally arrived at where the host was.
The four followed the young monk in. The young monk left the room and closed the vermilion wooden door with a snap.
The host sitting under the Buddha in the front turned around. He was very thin, over seventy years old, with a gray beard. He opened his eyes and glanced over the family of four, finally stopping at Zhang Linxi.
The hairs on Zhang Linxi's body stood up. She felt as if she was seen through by the host. The look the host gave her just now seemed to fall into her soul.
Zhang Linxi's heart skipped a beat.
Zhang Ziqiang knelt under the futon and said, "Master Mingwei, my daughter encountered some problems. My friend Zhu Zhen asked me to come to Fajue Temple to find you."
Zhang Ziqiang's family is in Gan Province. He used to be a government employee. One year, his good friend Zhu Zhen's son had some strange things happen to him. It was Master Mingwei who happened to pass by Gan Province that day and solved the problem. Zhu Zhen trusted him very much. After hearing Zhang Ziqiang's story about Zhang Linxi, he strongly recommended them to go to Fajue Temple to find Master Mingwei.
After waking up this morning, Master Mingwei looked at his fortune for the day as usual, and then calculated that someone would come to see him today.
So he didn't go to the meeting today and waited in the temple. Master Mingwei nodded: "I have expected that you will come to me. Don't worry, this matter is not difficult to handle."
Master Mingwei looked at Zhang Linxi and said, "Donor, you have been staying on this young donor's body for a long time. Don't you plan to leave?"
Zhang Linxi was shocked. She had never told anyone that she was a time traveler, not even Wei Jianfeng, whom she loved deeply. How did this old monk know this?
Jiang Youtao outside the broadcaster was also amazed. Otherwise, how could he be called a true cultivator? Whether he had the ability or not could be known after just one encounter.
Look at them, he get straight to the point and don't fool people at all.
Zhang Ziqiang and his family closed their eyes. Lin Shufeng lay on the mat devoutly, tears streaming down her cheeks. Her little Xi.
Zhang Linnan clenched his fists tightly and dared not say a word.
Zhang Linxi took a step back: "I don't understand what you said."
Master Mingwei smiled and said, "You don't need to understand. You just need to come out of the body of the little donor."
After Master Mingwei finished speaking, he closed his eyes, struck the wooden fish in front of him, and recited scriptures that Zhang Linxi could not understand.
Zhang Linxi felt very scared. She turned around and ran, but when she reached the door, she wanted to open it but it wouldn't open. She knocked on the door desperately. The little monk who had just led them was standing at the door, but no matter how she knocked, he couldn't hear her.
The sound of the old monk chanting scriptures became louder and louder, repeating in Zhang Linxi's ears on a 3D loop. Zhang Linxi felt a splitting headache and hugged her head in pain.
Many things that she had deliberately forgotten appeared in her mind, such as this was not her first rebirth. Before this, she had been reborn three times, and her ending was tragic every time.
She loves Wei Jianfeng, but in every life, Wei Jianfeng hurts her all over. And every time she is reborn, she only has the memory of that life.
The images in her mind flashed through, and finally stopped at the life she traveled through. She died on the hospital bed, and her funeral was grand. Wei Jianfeng cried very sadly at her funeral, recounting all the bad things he had done to her over the years.
Got the title of a good man.
However, just three months after her death, Wei Jianfeng remarried and married a woman with a son. What made Zhang Linxi most devastated was that this woman was the one Wei Jianfeng had an affair with many years ago.
It turns out that they have never been apart for so many years, they have always been in contact privately, and they even have a daughter who is only four or five years younger than her's.
For a long time, Zhang Linxi relied on her love with Wei Jianfeng to survive. When Wei Jianfeng cheated on her, she felt very uncomfortable and miserable. But she felt that Wei Jianfeng had only made a mistake that an adult should make, and as long as he broke up with the person outside, it would still be a good thing.
They can still live together for a long time.
Especially Wei Jianfeng's promise and confession in front of the hospital bed made Zhang Linxi feel extremely warm. It was not until now that she realized that it was all a lie to her. Wei Jianfeng did not love her at all. Wei Jianfeng loved the woman he later cheated with.
The reason why Wei Jianfeng didn't leave her was because she had a high salary, was stupid, could support the family, and had a courtyard house in the capital.
It's not that Wei Jianfeng won't refute her brother, he just won't refute his brother for Zhang Linxi. For his true love, he took a big stick and a knife and drove away his brothers and sisters.
She gave birth to a son and a daughter. They turned against Wei Jianfeng for the house. They were angry because Wei Jianfeng had an illegitimate child outside who came to share their property. When they thought of her as a mother, they didn't feel sad at all.
Zhang Linxi fell to the ground with a thud, and soon something shocking happened. Zhang Linxi's body changed visibly. Her dry and messy hair became black and smooth.
The skin on her face, which had been tanned over the years, became fairer, and the calluses on her hands, which had grown from overwork, disappeared. She looked like she did when she went to the countryside.
Lin Shufeng had long forgotten to cry. She looked at Master Mingwei in surprise. Master Mingwei had stopped beating the wooden fish. He raised one hand to his chest and with the other hand he was rapidly turning the rosary. He was reciting scriptures faster and faster.
Lin Shufeng didn't dare to disturb her. She looked at her daughter's body lying by the door, as if she had returned to more than three years ago, when her daughter was so cute. She was completely different from the haggard, emaciated, and old Zhang Linxi yesterday.
Tears welled up in Lin Shufeng's eyes again. If a normal person encountered such a thing, they would be scared to death, but the Zhang family was not afraid at all. This kind of Zhang Linxi was the one they were familiar with.
After an unknown amount of time, Master Mingwei opened his eyes and said to Zhang Ziqiang, "Take your daughter back. She will wake up after a while."
Zhang Ziqiang and Lin Shufeng looked at each other, and they quickly knelt down to Master Mingwei. Zhang Linnan didn't quite understand what Master Mingwei said, so he asked, "Master, who woke up again, is it my sister or the previous person?"
Zhang Ziqiang and Lin Shufeng also wanted to know, so they did not stop him.
Master Mingwei said, "Of course it's the one you think of."
Of course, what Zhang Linnan was thinking of was his biological sister.
"What about the person before? Where did she go? Will she come back to possess my sister?"
"She has gone to where she should go. She won't come back. Don't worry, little donor."
"Okay, you can go back now." Master Mingwei said, "I know you have many questions, and your daughter will tell you one by one. Go back now."
Zhang Ziqiang and his family kowtowed to him again, and Zhang Ziqiang carried Zhang Linxi's body back.
After he left, Master Mingwei sat there and sighed, then suddenly looked up into the sky, as if he was looking at Jiang Youtao. Jiang Youtao was shocked, but Master Mingwei just faced the sky and put his hands together, as if to say hello.
The perspective of the melon-eating system can only be bound to the original characters in the book. As Zhang Ziqiang and others went down the mountain, she could no longer see the temple in the mountain.
After Master Mingwei no longer felt the prying eyes, he stood up, picked up a transparent object that looked like a glass bead from the ground, and went to where he lived. He pressed his hand on an inconspicuous wall, and a tunnel appeared at his feet.
Master Mingwei walked down the steps and the bedroom returned to its original state. Master Mingwei used his light body skills and soon walked out of the tunnel and ran fast in the mountains.
An hour later, he arrived at a secret research institute and submitted his identity documents to the layers of checkpoints. After going through more and more stringent inspections, he finally entered the institute.
When Captain Xu learned that he was coming, he was already waiting for him in the office. Hearing footsteps from afar, he immediately stood up and went out to greet him: "Master, have you discovered anything again?"
Captain Xu was so worried. Ever since he took charge of this place called the research institute, which was actually a prison, his hair had been falling out in clumps. First, an officer in the army came to the leader and revealed his rebirth, and then not long after, he found a No. 2 who wanted to restore the dynasty and make the leader his subordinate.
Soon after, another reborn girl was sent over and became number three. The fourth one was a thing that was said to be the reincarnation of a koi fish.
Since then, everything has come out. His prison is now not only home to top talents from all walks of life, but also masters from Buddhism and Taoism. There are even a few monsters.
Xu Tuan was originally a staunch atheist, but after encountering these monsters, his worldview completely collapsed.
He is no longer afraid of encountering a reborn woman or a time-traveling man. What he fears most are these Buddhist and Taoist metaphysical people. When they attack, they are either demons or ghosts. Who the hell can withstand this?
Captain Xu is a tall man of about 1.8 meters, and the hairs on his body are almost falling off.
Master Mingwei looked at him and smiled: "Don't be nervous, it's not a monster or a ghost. They are just here to find Taoist Qingyan to send a sinner who has come into this world into reincarnation."
Captain Xu relaxed immediately.
Although he was a little scared, he still followed Master Mingwei to find Taoist Qingyan, if for no other reason than he was purely curious.
When Zhang Linxi opened her eyes again, what she saw was the old monk who made her jump out of her body, as well as a soldier and a Taoist priest.
After becoming a soul, she remembered all the past memories.
She is dead in the 21st century. Her husband in the 21st century is her college classmate. They got married after graduation. After working hard together for 20 years, they finally bought a house in a small county town near the capital. They drive three hours to work every day.
When she was 40, she found out that her husband was cheating on her. During an argument with her husband, she was beaten to death by him. When she was dying, she found that her soul could hurt her husband, so she killed her husband and his cheating partner.
But she was not happy, because what she wanted was her husband's wholehearted love. She thought that if her husband had not beaten her to death, she would have forgiven him. After all, they had loved each other so much, didn't they?
One day, Zhang Linxi, who was feeling empty inside, suddenly passed through the time tunnel and came to the 1970s. The moment she saw Zhang Linxi, she felt that this beautiful girl had a strong connection with her, so she followed Zhang Linxi for two years, and finally took over her body when her soul was the most unstable.
At the same time, she lost her memories of the second half of her previous life and some of her memories when she was a ghost. All she had were memories of when she was twenty-five years old. She felt like she had just slept and turned into Zhang Linxi.
Jiang Youtao had already learned the whole story from the melon-eating system, and she felt goosebumps all over her body. As a human being, she instinctively felt afraid of the soul creatures in this world.
Jiang Youtao hugged herself tightly, feeling helpless and weak, and felt that there were people everywhere: [ Tongzi, tell me, are there other people in this room besides us? ]
[ No, host. Not everyone becomes a spirit after death. The conditions for becoming a spirit are very strict. Zhang Linxi's specialness is specially given to her by the 'author'. ]
[ And the reason why the No. 15 small world keeps restarting has just been found out in the big world. After Zhang Linxi's body was robbed, her soul has not dissipated. Because her obsession has always been there, and she and Zhang Linxi share the heroine's aura, plus her obsession is extremely strong, so the No. 15 small world keeps restarting. ]
[ Her obsession was to see her parents. Unfortunately, Zhang Linxi controlled her body, and she had been reborn so many times, but she still hadn't seen them. This time she saw them, and her obsession disappeared. In addition, there were cultivators from the big world around, so this kind of dual soul in one body was actually the easiest to deal with. ]
[ Just drive away the one who has taken over the nest, and leave only the original real person. ]
Jiang Youtao understood, and thinking of the changes in Zhang Linxi's body after Zhang Linxi left her, she asked: [ Is it because Zhang Linxi is gone, so the harm she caused to Zhang Linxi during her years in Zhang Linxi's body also disappeared with her departure? ]
The melon-eating system said: [ Host, you are right and wrong. After the one who occupied the nest of the two souls in one body was kicked away, the original owner's body did recover a little, but it recovered to Zhang Linxi's level because the No. 15 small world dissipated part of its energy and compensated her for it. ]
[ As an ordinary family, the Zhang family will forget all their memories of the temple after leaving Fajue Temple. The memories of people in the world about her will also be reorganized. ]
Jiang Youtao was silent for a moment: [ What about the baby in Zhang Linxi's belly? What about No. 15? What will happen to it? ]
[ The child in Zhang Linxi's belly has disappeared as time goes back. Zhang Linxi's body is now the same as when she was seventeen years old. All the damage Zhang Linxi received while using her body is gone, including the child. No. 15 has been incorporated into the big world and has become an inseparable part of it. ]
Only a small world that has completely collapsed and can no longer function normally will be merged into the big world and use the energy of the big world to maintain the basic operation of its own small world.
Jiang Youtao is quite melancholy. After all, there are not many small worlds with conscience. Although the heroine of No. 15 has a distorted outlook and is a love-brained person, and the hero is a scumbag who eats soft rice and cheats on his wife,
Jiang Youtao recalled the last move of Master Mingwei: [ Tongzi, did the memory erased by No. 15 include those cultivators? ]
[ As long as they are still human and conscious, that includes them. ]
Jiang Youtao was relieved. She was really scared of these metaphysical things. She hoped that she would have less contact with those things in the future. If it happened again, it would be really scary.
Jiang Youtao closed the system screen. It was time for lunch break. She got out of bed, put on her clothes tremblingly and went to bed. The bunk above Gu Nianwei's bed was empty and all the things related to Zhang Linxi were gone.
Gu Nianwei got up after seeing her get up, followed her gaze to look at the bunk above her, and then said, "In addition to He Shuangxi who went to live with his classmates in our dormitory, there are still two classmates who haven't come yet. I don't know what's going on."
Jiang Youtao nodded and suddenly asked her, "Do you know Zhang Linxi?"
Gu Nianwei was stunned: "Zhang Linxi? Who is that? I don't know her." After a pause, Gu Nianwei asked: "Is she from our class?"
Jiang Youtao said, "Yes, she is from our class. Did you forget when the teacher called the roll? One is Zhang Linxi and the other is Gu Yu. I just woke up from a nap and was so sleepy that I felt like I had heard the name Zhang Linxi somewhere before. When you asked if they were from the class, I immediately remembered them."
Gu Nianwei said "oh", she had often encountered this kind of thing and she felt it is really familiar, so she didn't take it seriously: "Wash your face, drink some water, let's go quickly. Have you done the big questions the teacher left?"
"I've done it." Jiang Youtao replied to Gu Nianwei while sighing in her heart.
As expected, this was the memory that Small World No. 15 had spent all its energy to erase. Except for her, the bug who knew everything, no one else remembered it at all. Even the heroine, who belonged to the same small world, had never remembered this person.
[ What about Zhang Linxi? How is she? ] Jiang Youtao felt that Zhang Linxi had really done a lot of harm to others. Just because Zhang Linxi was pretty and her name was only one letter different from hers, she stole her body and tore her family's life apart.
[ Her soul has been captured by the Big World Consciousness. From today on, she will sink into the dungeon with the author who wrote the Small World Consciousness No. 12. She is a love-brained person. The dungeons prepared for her by the Big World Consciousness are all about her getting all the love from her husband in the early stage, but then being abandoned and hurt. Anyway, let it be as painful as it can be. ]
The melon-eating system felt quite aggrieved when talking about this. It was it that came up with the idea of creating copies and capturing souls for infinite reincarnation in the copies. As a result, the consciousness of the big world took it away shamelessly without giving it any compensation.
As expected of the big world consciousness, this system has a really dark heart.
While Jiang Youtao was getting dressed, she opened the live broadcast window on Zhang Linxi's side. Zhang Linxi was carried to the foot of the mountain by Zhang Ziqiang. They rested for a while and then continued to walk down. At the beginning, the three members of the Zhang family would discuss the incident involving Zhang Linxi, but as they got farther and farther away from the Fajue Temple, they stopped talking about it.
When they arrived at the guesthouse, the staff did not show any abnormality to Zhang Linxi, who had changed her appearance. The family of four returned to the room and fell asleep. When they woke up again, they had forgotten everything about Zhang Linxi. (TL's Note: They are referring to the one who occupied the body.)
The first thing Zhang Linxi did when she woke up was to hug her mother and act coquettishly: "Mom, I feel like I had a very long dream. In the dream, I was not myself anymore. I was someone else. I got married and had children for someone else, and was disliked by many people."
Lin Shufeng said, "Dreams are all fake. Get up quickly, wash up and go out to eat. Our tickets are for the evening, so we have to hurry. We haven't even entered the house yet when we went to Liao Province to pick you up. When we get home, your father and I will go to work, and Lin Nan will go to school. You can concentrate on preparing for the exam. If you can get into a good university next year and enter a good public institution after graduation, your father and I will be satisfied."
Zhang Linxi clung to her: "Don't you want me to marry into a good family?"
Zhang Linnan came over and said, "Sister, it's okay if you don't want to get married. When you are old, my children will take care of you and see you to the end of your life."
Zhang Linxi patted him on the head: "Thank you."