After being reborn, I have seven older sisters.

"Ouch, it's so cold!"

Song Chunsheng slowly opened his eyes, trembling, and found himself in complete darkness.

He turned his neck, and something brushed against his nose and cheek, followed by a faint smell of hay.

Reaching out, I pushed away the covering on my face, and in the moonlight, a thick, dilapidated roof beam suddenly appeared overhead.

He suddenly sat up and stared wide-eyed at his surroundings.

Just then, the voices of two men with thick Northwestern accents came from behind a wall on one side.

The voice sounded somewhat familiar.

"My parents finally had this one son, and now he's gone just like that. How will they manage to live from now on?"

"Sigh! My child is almost an adult, excelling in both academics and character. Just thinking about it makes my heart ache! By the way, Brother Jin Suo, what exactly happened today? Chun Sheng was perfectly fine in class at school, how did he end up falling into the dam..."

"It's Seventh Sister Chunmiao! Your eldest sister told me that today the production team was irrigating the fields, and all the members were busy in the fields. Only Seventh Sister and a few other girls were sent to watch over the dam. When Chunsheng found out, he asked the teacher for leave, saying that he was worried about his Seventh Sister and wanted to go help. Who could have imagined that something like this would happen!"

"If I had known he would ask for leave to go to the dam, I would have stopped Li Yufeng from approving the leave no matter what..."

At this moment, Song Chunsheng realized that the people speaking were his eldest brother-in-law Feng Jinshuo and his second brother-in-law Zhang Yuejin.

But I'm perfectly fine, so why are they saying I fell into the dam and saying all those other strange things?

In his surprise, his gaze fell on a pile of plowing tools inside the house.

Meanwhile, in a corner not far away, piles of animal droppings were scattered around a heap of weeds, and a stench of livestock could be smelled with just a sniff.

This is the livestock shed of the production team. He knows this place very well because his grandfather worked there.

When he touched his clothes, he was instantly startled, because all his clothes were wet and clinging to his skin.

Dam, production team's animal shed, wet clothes...

Just as Song Chunsheng was trying to connect these words and figure out their relationships, a flood of memories suddenly rushed into his mind like an out-of-control tide.

This finally reminded him why he was there!

Just as my brother-in-law Feng Jinshuo said, this afternoon, he took leave to help my seventh sister guard the dam. A large section of the road next to the cliff on the side of the dam suddenly collapsed. He happened to be standing on it and was instantly dragged into the deep water.

The area around the scene was full of girls who couldn't swim. When Sister Qi Chunmiao arrived with the village militia, he had already been buried under the yellow mud for at least twenty or thirty minutes and had stopped breathing.

According to village rules, the body of someone who has died suddenly outside the village cannot be brought into the village.

So, after he was pulled out of the water, he had to be temporarily placed in this feeding room in the north of the village.

The scenes flashed before his eyes like a movie, some of which he had personally experienced, but many more of which he had not participated in, yet which were directly or indirectly related to his parents and sisters!

From those images, he could clearly see:

On the night he passed away, his mother's hair turned white overnight, and her mental state became unstable.

After all her sisters got married, her mother would sit blankly at the door every day, her head full of white hair, staring blankly at everyone who passed by the village entrance, as if waiting for something!

Besides tending to the family's two or three acres of land every day, the father also had to search for his mother, who had run away from home but couldn't find her way back.

Aside from sympathizing with the parents, the neighbors could only lament about it over tea and after a while, and eventually they stopped mentioning it altogether.

With the only male heir gone, in the eyes of outsiders, the seven married sisters were as if their maternal family had no one left!

Not only is there no one to help you when you encounter trouble, but you are also bullied by your in-laws and don't even have the courage to speak up!

From the day he got into trouble, his seventh sister, Song Chunmiao, became an accomplice in her mother's eyes for killing her son, and every time they met, it was as if she were seeing an enemy.

That's how Seventh Sister's unfortunate marriage came about. After the divorce, she raised her child alone for many years, which eventually made her sick. She was diagnosed with late-stage stomach cancer when she was just over forty.

In order to escape poverty as soon as possible, the sixth sister, Song Chunzao, and her brother-in-law borrowed money from all sides to contract the village's orchard. Just when a bumper harvest was in sight, the whole family of four was killed in a pesticide leak accident.

……

Song Chunsheng stared blankly at the images, his ten fingertips already digging bloody marks into the wooden board beneath him.

In just two or three minutes, he quickly reviewed all the memories related to his family over the next 50 years after his death, like a high-speed movie.

At this moment, he remembered that he had never actually left all these years; he had simply been watching them as an observer.

He knew all the obstacles and difficulties each of them encountered, and he even knew how to overcome them, but he just couldn't successfully intervene.

As opportunities brought about by the changing times slipped through his family's fingers time and time again, he was helpless except for feeling anxious.

With their wisdom and hard work, the parents and seven older sisters could have lived a better life in this great era full of opportunities.

Because of a chance accident, he not only lost his life, but also affected the fate of his family of more than ten people. All kinds of misfortunes and hardships in the world entangled them like maggots clinging to their bones!

But things are different now, because he has really returned, not only holding the life scripts of each of his relatives in his hands, but also storing in his mind all the important information related to this era of change for the next 50 years.

He had to make up for it and help them resolve all the troubles and hardships that his absence had caused in their lives.

We must also support them, lead them to seize every opportunity in the coming era, and let them live a happy life completely different from that in the script!

Thinking of these things, Song Chunsheng instantly became excited and immediately tore off the straw curtain covering him.

For him, the most important thing right now is to get home as quickly as possible and see his mother.

To prevent the tragedy of "turning white overnight" and "emotional distress" that could happen to the mother at any time.

Just as he was about to get down to find his shoes, the moment his feet touched the ground, he suddenly heard a "creak" sound from beneath him.

It turned out that the bed board was under uneven pressure, and he almost tipped it over!

But when he looked down and looked closely, he realized that it was not a bed board at all, but just half a door panel placed on two long benches. No wonder it was so unstable!

What's that noise?

"Is there any noise? I can't hear anything!"

"Yuejin, didn't you really hear that 'creak' sound just now!"

"No! Bro, don't scare me, I'm a scaredy-cat..."

Clearly, the noise they had just made had alerted their two brothers-in-law next door.

Thinking of this, Song Chunsheng immediately stood up. He wanted to go and tell them that he was still alive.

But he only acted on the impulse for a moment before abandoning the idea.

From the memories he had just recalled, he knew clearly that his second brother-in-law, Zhang Yuejin, had a heart condition.

Moreover, he died of a sudden heart attack in the lecture hall when he was forty years old, leaving his second sister, Song Chunxing, a widow. From then on, the whole family suffered greatly.

My second brother-in-law is only 33 this year, so he has seven years left.

He also planned to find an opportunity to tell his second sister about this, and together with her, he would take his brother-in-law to the county or provincial capital to find a big hospital to get him properly examined!

After all, the outcome of such chronic diseases can be completely different if prevented early and medication is taken consistently.

If I were to rush out now, my brother-in-law would surely send me to my grave ahead of time.

Therefore, the best approach is to leave quietly without alerting them.

Fortunately, the back window of the enclosure isn't very high, and with his height of nearly 1.8 meters, it shouldn't be a problem for him to easily climb over it.

However, he still couldn't find his old pair of shoes.

So, I could only wander around the breeding shed in front of me.

Soon, he saw a pair of straw sandals hanging quietly on the roof beam by the window.

Looking at the straw sandals, he almost burst out laughing. They were his own creation, hung up by his grandfather the winter before last.

Stepping out of the feeding room, gazing at the familiar farmland under the moonlight and the yellow dirt road shining brightly in the moonlight, Song Chunsheng was so moved that he almost burst into tears.

I never imagined that I would be able to stand on this land that gave me birth and nurtured me again.

After crossing the wheat field and reaching the middle of the road, I looked up at the familiar earthen city wall in the distance. Once I entered the city gate, the first house with a stone millstone at its door was my home.

Sometimes, all I had to do was shout outside the city gate, and my mother and sisters would run out of the house.

That scene feels like it happened yesterday.

Soon, he arrived at his doorstep. Looking at the familiar gate, Song Chunsheng was immediately at a loss.

If we just go and knock on the door, it might startle the neighbors, and even more likely frighten our parents and two older sisters.

After all, at this point, they no longer considered him to be part of this world.

Just as he was wondering where to climb over the wall without making a fuss, he suddenly discovered that the gate was not locked, but only slightly ajar, and could be opened with a push.

Without further hesitation, he gently pushed open the gate and slipped into the courtyard.

Everything in the courtyard was clearly visible under the moonlight. The two side houses (a type of tiled house with a unique structure in rural Northwest China) were pitch black, and my mother's loom still stood steadfastly under the eaves of the main room.

The light inside the main room flickered erratically, and there were shadowy figures moving about. Suddenly, he heard a soft female voice, and he immediately recognized it as the voice of his sixth sister, Song Chunzao.

To avoid startling them with his sudden appearance, Song Chunsheng deliberately took heavier steps, hoping to create some noise to attract his family's attention and remind them that someone had come in.

But even when he reached the door of the main room, he didn't attract anyone's attention. Clearly, the whole family was still immersed in the grief of losing their son and brother.

As his gaze followed the dappled light and shadow into the main room, he saw his mother sitting with her head drooping in the same chair she used to eat in every day, next to the eight-immortal table.

Sixth sister Song Chunzao held her mother's hand tightly, constantly whispering words of comfort.

A soft sob suddenly came from a corner. On a low wooden stool in the cramped corner, a thin figure sat alone as if she had committed some terrible crime, wiping away tears with both hands. It was her seventh sister, Song Chunmiao, who had been her closest friend since childhood.

Because of his accident, Seventh Sister's future suffered a lot.

Just then, Song Chunmiao, who had just wiped away her tears, looked up and her eyes met Song Chunsheng's. She was startled at first, but after only two seconds of stunned silence, she immediately jumped up from the small wooden stool and rushed towards her younger brother.

As soon as she got close, she hugged Song Chunsheng tightly and burst into tears!