Grudge Breaker

Chapter 197 Reverse Ending
The two spent a short but very pleasant time in the fantasy world.

Just as Song Weichen had promised when he was trapped in the Well of Time, Mo Tingfeng got up to draw her eyebrows, took her for a walk in the mountains, and fished in Mian Lake. Once he even went hunting in the mountains and brought back two guinea pigs for her to keep company. Song Weichen picked fresh alfalfa and plantain for them to eat every day, and they were like two shiny little suckling pigs.

They also became more familiar and close with all the men, women, young and old in the village, especially the village chief Song Weichen, who had become the new top star in Huangjia Village. She danced square dance with the elderly, played hide-and-seek with the children, held tea parties with the women, and even made her own poker and cards, playing throwing eggs and werewolf with a group of young men and women of the same age. In her own words, she was the king of Huangjia Village every day.

Their small courtyard has become a fixed place for villagers to gather every evening. Every day, different neighbors bring various foods to "barbecue" and "hot pot" under the acacia tree, and the gathering only disperses at night, making it very lively.

Mo Tingfeng was a person who didn't like strangers and who liked quietness and disliked noise, but he didn't dislike days like this - not only did he not reject it, he even developed some unexpected liking for it.

He liked to see her surrounded by the crowd, laughing like a carefree child, liked to see her healthy and full of energy, liked to see her so hungry that she secretly ate the prepared dishes that he had not yet had time to season, liked to take her to the lakeside in the dead of night to sit for a while and listen to the murmur of the water - Mo Tingfeng couldn't help but laugh at himself. He was probably sick. He felt that the fireworks in this fantasy world were so charming, even more so than the reality.

As Song Weichen got along better and better with everyone, she couldn't bear to see their ending after the war in the southern border. Even in the illusion, she couldn't bear to see it.

In fact, her enthusiasm for getting along with everyone in the village was not only due to her personality. Song Weichen had a strong and clear purpose, which was to rewrite the ending in reverse.
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Uncle Liu, who gave Song Weichen half a piece of precious brown sugar when she fell into the water, is the current village chief of Huangjia Village. He has difficulty walking, so she goes to his house every day to "chat" and lobby, talking to the old man about the "necessity of fire drills" - although the village faces the lake on the south, it is surrounded by dense forests on the other three sides, and there is a meadow connected to the forest on the north. If a forest fire occurs and the north wind blows, the consequences will be disastrous.

After much persuasion, Uncle Liu agreed to establish village rules, with each household taking turns to monitor forest fire risks. He also appointed her as the "fire safety propagandist" of Huangjia Village, specifically responsible for going door to door to promote fire prevention and disaster prevention awareness.

Relying on the good popularity he had gained through the "barbecue parties" and "hot pot parties" in his own yard, and with the identity of being appointed by the village chief, Song Weichen successfully made every household have two large water tanks in the yard that were always filled with water, specifically for fire prevention.

Having achieved this, she felt more at ease. There might be a chance to avoid the disaster caused by thunder and lightning.

Ever since this happened, Song Weichen, who was once full of energy, began to suffer from intermittent tinnitus and nosebleeds. She suspected that her body in the ghost market could no longer bear it.

But the Yellow Tiger of Chaos Soul had not yet appeared, and it was obviously not the time to end the illusion. She was afraid that Mo Tingfeng would forcefully break through the illusion after knowing it, and after all, it was not a big problem, so she chose to keep it a secret.

Next, she had one more important thing to do: to persuade Huang Yingyun's family to live somewhere else for a while. If they left before the conscription and moved back after the war, she didn't know if they could escape the disaster.

She didn't know what was the point of doing all this. She was already in a fantasy world and everything was just an illusion created by Grandma Huang. But even so, Song Weichen couldn't convince herself to watch things go to that step - watch the war break out, watch the village reduced to ashes...especially if she had to watch Mo Tingfeng go to war as Huang Hu's "accomplice". She couldn't do it.

She had to change all this, she had to!

If she could do it again, I believe Grandma Huang would do the same.
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It was almost the end of summer, and the yellow velvet flowers the size of rice grains were gradually withering. The acacia tree had grown many small green pods. Song Weichen stood under the tree with a worried look on his face.

According to the time calculation, the conscription order for the war in the southern border will be issued to Huangjia Village in the next two months. We can't delay any longer.

"Meiyun, what are you thinking about?"

Huang Yingyun was already pregnant, with a slightly bulging belly of about five months' pregnancy. She leaned in from the courtyard gate. She had been looking at her for a while and found that Song Weichen had been frowning and looking at the acacia tree, sighing from time to time, and it was obvious that he had something on his mind that he couldn't solve.

When Song Weichen saw her coming, he picked up a small brick-like object wrapped in oil paper beside him and walked towards her. The two of them had made an appointment in advance to go for a walk by the lake.

"This is the hot pot base that Brother Tiger made using wild boar oil according to my instructions. It has your favorite wild pepper flavor."

Huang Yingyun took it and thanked him repeatedly. After hesitating for a moment, she finally expressed her doubts.

"Meiyun, I always feel like you've become a different person since you fell into the water this time."

Song Weichen didn't respond. This was not the first time Huang Yingyun had said this. Seeing that she didn't say anything, the latter started muttering to herself.

"It's like you got some advice from an immortal. You suddenly know a lot of strange and interesting new things. You also talk and act differently. I feel like you can see what will happen in the future, so you asked everyone to prepare in advance... I'm not good at talking, so I can't say for sure. Maybe you're just suspicious because you're pregnant."

Song Weichen pursed her lips, then suddenly stopped and looked straight at Huang Yingyun with an extremely serious expression, which was very different from her usual playful appearance.

"Yingyun, do you believe me?"

Huang Yingyun didn't understand why she suddenly asked this question, but there was no point in asking, "Of course I believe you."

"How much do you believe?"

How to answer this? Huang Yingyun thought for a moment and pointed to the lake in front of her.

"Even if you suddenly pushed me into the lake right now, I still believe that you didn't do it to hurt me. There must be other reasons that forced you to do this."

Song Weichen sighed. The more Huang Yingyun said this, the more she couldn't sit idly by and watch the tragedy happen.

"Do you remember the question I asked you the day I woke up from the water? I said there was a war in the southern border?" "If I told you that a fierce battle would break out in the southern border this winter, with countless casualties, and many men in Huangjia Village would be conscripted by the state government to go south, and no one would return home alive... would you believe me?"

"If I tell you that this winter, the weather will be dry and the meadow in the north will be ignited by thunder and a wildfire will break out, burning the entire Huangjia Village, will you believe me?"

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Huang Yingyun was frightened by Song Weichen's words. She subconsciously took a step back to protect her stomach, and layer upon layer of fear gradually formed in her heart.

"Meiyun, you...you scared me."

Song Weichen felt a severe headache and staggered, almost falling. Her ears began to buzz and her nose was wet. She wiped it with her hand and found it was indeed a nosebleed.

Could it be that he had leaked the secret and suffered backlash? Song Weichen smiled bitterly in his heart, but wasn't this an illusion created by Grandma Huang? Where did the punishment from heaven come from...

Seeing that she suddenly had a nosebleed, Huang Yingyun hurriedly took out a handkerchief and went forward to wipe it carefully for her, temporarily putting aside the intense anxiety caused by Song Weichen's words just now.

"Do you believe me?" Song Weichen looked at Huang Yingyun, his eyes filled with unspeakable sadness.

Huang Yingyun lowered her head and said nothing after hearing this, not knowing what she was thinking. Song Weichen did not urge her. Huang Yingyun had great trust in her for hearing her "crazy talk" and not running away or calling her a lunatic.

"If all this is bound to happen, what difference does it make whether I believe it or not?"

After a long while, Huang Yingyun touched her belly and finally spoke, with a hint of tears in her voice. If the child was born without a father... She didn't dare to think about it, but her eyes were already red.

"There is a difference."

"If fate is a precise mechanism with a mortise and tenon joint structure, if we change one part, the whole mechanism will change. As the saying goes, a single move can affect the whole body. Yingyun, you are the key link."

"If you believe me, then listen to me. At least Brother Yang and Brother Hu can live in peace. People want a lot in life, but if you carefully sort out the priorities, you will find that there are very few. All I want is for the person I love to be safe and sound and live a stable life."

Huang Yingyun finally raised her head and looked at Song Weichen with burning eyes.
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Huang Yingyun and her family left very suddenly, packing up almost all their valuables and leaving. The villagers only knew that she was pregnant and very tired, so she wanted to stay at her parents' home for a while so that she could be taken care of. Brother Yang and her mother-in-law would go with her and come back when the child was one year old.

On the day they left, Song Weichen got up before dawn, but stood blankly at the gate of the courtyard looking at the sparkling lake in the distance. She did not go to see them off - she hated parting the most, and just kept urging Mo Tingfeng to go with the prepared hot pot base.

It was on the day that Huang Yingyun and her family left Huangjia Village that the trunk of the acacia tree in the yard cracked.

A small crack appeared along the root of the tree, but the sound was as loud as thunder. Mo Tingfeng heard it before he reached his own door when he went to the village entrance to see him off.

He hurried back to the yard and looked closely inside the tree trunk. It was just normal wood grain texture, nothing unusual, but he could clearly see with the naked eye that the crack was slowly extending upwards.

If you listen closely, you can hear the crackling sound like sparks coming from the branches at the top of the trunk. The crack is still some distance away from there - but at the current rate of cracking, it won't be long before you can see what's in the heart of the tree!

Mo Tingfeng suddenly realized that Song Weichen, who stayed in the house, did not come out to "join in the fun". It was impossible for her to not notice such a big noise.

Feeling suddenly uneasy, I rushed into the room and saw her supporting her shaky body with one hand on the table, with the other hand lightly covering her mouth and nose - her hands were covered with blood from her nose, which was flowing through her fingers.

"Weiwei, what's wrong with you?"

It has been a long time since he saw her so weak and pale. Mo Tingfeng was even a little overwhelmed. In this illusion, she had always been extremely healthy, so how could she suddenly become so weak?

Song Weichen could no longer stand, her eyes slightly closed, and her body fell limply. He hurriedly hugged her and put her on the bed.

"Weiwei, Weiwei, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me... Can you hear me?"

Mo Tingfeng's faint voice seemed to come from far away.

Song Weichen only felt a splitting headache, as if something was trying to drill into her brain. Her temples, Baihui acupoints, and Shencong acupoints all hurt!

It was as if a kaleidoscope had opened up in her mind, with countless faces and voices rushing in like huge whale waves, seemingly trying to drown her.

"Head, head hurts..."