Rebirth: The Comeback of the Girl
Chapter 221 - 220: Time Waits for No One

Chapter 221: Chapter 220: Time Waits for No One

On Saturday morning, Mrs. Zhen borrowed the reversed tricycle from the Fu Family, and the mother and daughter together loaded the packed washing machine and some clothes and luggage onto the cart. Taking a long detour, they went around the crossing where cars pass the railway tracks to the bus station at the town center.

After unloading the items, Zhen Yu waited in place while Mrs. Zhen pushed the cart to the Han Family Clinic to ask Han Youliang to help return it to the Fu Family.

The mother-daughter pair caught the midday bus and didn’t arrive in Qi City until after three in the afternoon.

Getting off the bus, there were quite a few rickshaws waiting for passengers at the station exit. Mrs. Zhen haggled with one of the drivers and hired two rickshaws; Mrs. Zhen rode in one with the luggage, and Zhen Yu rode in another with the washing machine and some miscellaneous items. They headed to their family shop one after the other.

This time, the two planned to stay in Qi City for at least a week. Fortunately, at Zhen Yu’s suggestion, they kept the heating on in the shop.

This was still the era of centralized heating. To have the heat turned off individually, one would still have to pay half of the heating fee.

If the heating was off for many years, it might be more cost-effective. But for the Zhen Family, who only suspended the heat for one year, it was completely unnecessary.

Because when the heating is resumed next year, they would have to pay a fee again. The cost of suspension and resumption added together was nearly the same as just paying the heating fee.

Mrs. Zhen took out the keys to open the door, and with the help of the rickshaw drivers, moved the washing machine and luggage to the second floor.

Mrs. Zhen went downstairs to see off the drivers and settled the fees. Zhen Yu stood in the empty second-floor hall, filled with emotion.

Finally! Finally settled in Qi City! Next year, once the household registration is completely transferred over, Mother and brother can break away from Laha Town once and for all!

If possible, she hoped that these two people would never return there in their lifetimes, far away from that river, far from the Zhen Family courtyard!

Zhen Yu had mixed feelings about Laha Town. She was nostalgic for those wonderful childhood memories, but also greatly shadowed by the past life’s death of her brother and mother.

She felt she could go back for a visit, but it was best for her brother and mother to stay as far away as possible!

In the future, when her brother gets into university, she would definitely encourage her mother to move far away with her brother. She wanted to steadily urge the two people she cared about most away from their homeland, away from the northeast land.

In the past life, the two only stayed on that small piece of land. Her brother didn’t even get to visit Qi City before he left this world.

This life, the world was so big, he should go out and see it! The same goes for Mother!

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When Mrs. Zhen came upstairs, she saw her daughter standing dazedly in the middle of the floor and couldn’t help but push her gently, "Hurry up and sort out the stuff! You don’t want to sleep tonight?"

Zhen Yu came back to her senses and upon seeing the open doors of several rooms, all of them empty, she exclaimed in surprise: "Oh no! How could I not have thought of buying the beds in advance!"

Mrs. Zhen laughed, a teasing look on her face: "Finally remembered this, did you? Looks like my daughter isn’t all-capable after all!"

Zhen Yu made a pouting face, "Mom! Stop joking! At this rate, we’ll have to sleep in a guesthouse tonight..."

"No need!" Mrs. Zhen turned and started walking downstairs, gesturing grandly as she spoke, "Quickly help me clean up! We’re sleeping here tonight!"

"Mom! Although the heating is on, sleeping on the ground in the middle of winter might make us catch a cold! We can’t just save money..." Zhen Yu followed closely behind her mother, trying to persuade her to stay out.

"Hey! Who’s sleeping on the ground? We have beds!" Mrs. Zhen led Zhen Yu to a small storage room under the stairs and flipped on the light switch.

Zhen Yu, somewhat puzzled, asked, "Where are the beds?"

Mrs. Zhen opened the door and bent slightly to enter, "Right here! Come help me lift!"

Zhen Yu obediently followed inside and discovered that aside from the pile of brooms, mops, buckets, and other tools in the corner, there were also two folding steel wire beds leaning against the wall on the other side!

"When did you buy these?" Zhen Yu asked while helping her mother lift the beds.

"I asked Zhang San to buy them over the phone! Otherwise, where would they stay when they come back!" Mrs. Zhen answered without looking up, "Didn’t you want Zhang San and Li Si to come work as internet café administrators and even do night shifts! This is just perfect for them, they can lie down if there’s nothing to do on the night shift."

"You really are my mom! Always so thoughtful!" Zhen Yu praised generously.

"Go on, stop flattering!"

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Today is Saturday, and Zhen Yan is still in school attending classes. Mrs. Zhen had already told him on the phone that they would be there today, and that he would come to find them in the evening.

The mother and daughter had some bread for lunch to fill their stomachs, and spent the afternoon cleaning up and putting everything away in its place. After that, they went out to buy groceries.

As long as you have money, it’s easy to buy whatever you lack.

What they bought was a restaurant’s premises, so natural gas, water, and electricity were already available. During the renovations, they kept only a double burner gas stove, so there was no need to worry about the ability to cook in the kitchen.

But it was impossible to bring the big iron pot from home; even if they wanted to, it would be too heavy to carry...

So whether it was an electric rice cooker or a frying pan, they had to buy everything new! And then there were grains, oils, seasonings, meat, eggs, vegetables...

After three or four trips, the mother and daughter had almost finished buying everything they needed, and they started preparing dinner together.

As the aroma of the dishes wafted out from the kitchen, the door downstairs was pulled open.

"Mom! Little sister! I’m back!!!" Zhen Yan’s excited shout came from the first floor up to the second, his voice brimming with joy.

Zhen Yu walked from the kitchen to the stairwell and waved at her brother, "Come up! Time to wash hands and eat!"

"Great! I’m starving!" Zhen Yan bounded up the stairs in just a few steps, tossed his backpack onto the floor in the corner, and then dived straight into the bathroom.

"Wow! Did you guys bring all this?" Zhen Yan’s surprised voice came from the bathroom, "I remember the last time I came here, it was as empty as a haunted house!"

Hearing her brother’s description, Zhen Yu’s mouth twitched, "Some were brought over, some we bought today! Can you not talk nonsense!"

"Are you scared?" Zhen Yan poked his head out, "At our dormitory, we listen to ’Wang Zhen Tells Ghost Stories’ every night, it’s made me braver now!"

"Which Zhen?" Zhen Yu wondered if she had heard wrong.

"Wang Zhen! This program is so popular! Loads of people in our school are listening to it! I heard that some of the girls get terrified but still insist on listening! Isn’t that masochistic?!"

Zhen Yu silently listened to her brother, not saying a word. In her previous life, her roommates were like that, clearly scared enough to want company to go to the bathroom at night, yet they still had to listen.

But the storyteller’s last name was Zhang, not Wang...

And this program became popular when she was in high school, not when she was in middle school...

Another one! Another butterfly fluttering its wings appeared!

With every butterfly she discovered, Zhen Yu’s heart grew more urgency. She clenched her fists tightly and thought to herself, time waits for no one!