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It was noon, and the sun was at its highest, while walking Li Jin felt a little dizzy.

He held the wooden board with the other hand, and it took a while before the dizziness passed.

Suddenly there were more broken fragments of the memories in his mind.

Li Jin slightly closed his eyes, and suddenly the image of a skinny woman with short stature appeared in front of his eyes.

He knew that the person was the original owner’s mother.

In the memory that he just recalled, the short woman seemed to have endless energy every day, but even so, she still couldn’t finish so much farm work alone.

In the memory, Li Jin could see the original owner was around seven or eight years old, black and thin, like a malnourished child.

At that time, the Li family had many people. Li Jin’s father, grandfather, and grandmother were all in the house, and the family was allocated a lot of fields.

But even if the family was big, no one was willing to do a little farm work.

Eight acres of land were planted by the short woman, and while gritting her teeth, she even had to water the field afterward.

The young Li Jin stood on the ridge, and when his mother finished pouring a bucket of water, he took the empty bucket and after a while, he returned with a bucket of water.

The eight-year-old boy was very strong, but he had no skill in lifting a water bucket.

Even if he filled the bucket full of water when he arrived at the field, only half of the water remained in the bucket.

Seeing that, his mother couldn’t really laugh or cry, so she touched the eight-year-old boy’s head and asked him to play with his friends.

But Little Li Jin shook his head and said, “Mother, don’t be so tired.”

He was still young, he had never been to school, and his vocabulary was limited. If he was a little older, he might say, ‘With my help, your work will become easier, Mother’.

Although the short woman in the memory was tired every day, she still smiled when she saw the original owner.

Occasionally some villagers gave her eggs, and she hid them secretly and left them for the original owner to eat.

At that time, the original owner would divide the egg into half, and the two would eat it together.

The woman would smile softly, and refuse to eat more, leaving it for the original owner.

Li Jin opened his eyes and discarded the distracting thoughts in his mind.

Almost every time Li Jin came into contact with Li Zhuzi, this person would mention the original owner’s mother, saying ‘Your mother was a poor person’ and ‘Your mother let me take care of you more’.

After listening to those words, Li Jin didn’t have many feelings before. After all, he was from another world, and he really couldn’t understand the deep meaning of Li Zhuzi’s two sentences in a few words.

Li Jin thought it was enough that he was able to recall some of the original owner’s memories of the past two years.

Unexpectedly, there were some early memories too.

Li Jin suddenly said, “Brother Zhuzi, my mother…”

He opened his mouth and suddenly felt a lack of words to describe what he wanted to say. Even though he felt deeply after seeing that memory just now, he still lacked the sense of substitution.

Besides, the original owner’s mother had been away for two years. Mentioning it now would only add to grief.

Li Zhuzi said, “If your mother knows that you are so promising now and even have children, she will be very pleased.”

Li Jin held his back basket, his eyes fell on the cultivated field not far away, and slowly said, “I hope.”

Li Zhuzi said, “You have become very polite now, I am embarrassed to talk to you.”

Li Jin bitterly smiled, “I just thought of my mother, and I feel a little lost.”

Li Zhuzi scratched his head and said, “I’m all to blame, I shouldn’t mention this to you.”

“…But your mother was really good, it was just ten years ago when you were young, I married a wife, and you ran wildly around the village bare-bottomed.”

Li Jin, “…”

Li Zhuzi continued, “I still remember that you were very good at that time. When your mother got tired from farming, you went to fetch water for her.”

“Even when your father refused to let you help, you would secretly help her. Once in a hot month of June or July, when you were helping your mother to carry the water you fell into the well.”

“Your mother looked for you in a hurry, and seeing that you haven’t returned for so long, she became worried. Your father just said you might have gone somewhere to play.”

“As a result, your mother said it was impossible, and finally found the well where you fell. At that time, her face was pale and she begged the people in the village to go down and help you up.”

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