People who eat melon are in 70 - Chapter 20

When Lin Wenping saw Gu Nianwei, his eyes turned red instantly.

“Gu Youth, Sister Gu, my younger brother has a high fever, and my grandmother won’t take him to the health clinic. I heard you have fever-reducing medicine. Please, help my brother,” Lin Wenping said, and with a thud, he knelt on the stone slab at the dormitory door, making a muffled sound.

“If you don’t help my brother, he won’t be saved. Please, I beg you.”

The sound made everyone shiver. Jiang Yutao’s expression darkened, and she glanced at Gu Nianwei, who pressed her lips together.

According to the book, Lin Wenping was smart from a young age, already thinking about how to eat well and dress well while his peers were still playing in the mud. His twin brother, Lin Wen’an, was simple-minded and always relied on Lin Wenping. It was common for him to be deceived, fooled, or taken advantage of, and yet still be grateful to Lin Wenping.

As Lin Wenping grew older, he became more adept at using schemes and tricks. After Gu Nianwei became his stepmother, she was very worried about him going astray and tried her best to steer him onto the right path.

She spent a lot of energy on him, but unfortunately, no matter how much time and patience she invested, Lin Wenping only became a superficial gentleman under her guidance, while remaining hypocritical at his core.

Jiang Yutao never underestimated any child. She never looked down on Gu Nianwei’s stepson, nor did she despise them just because she knew the future plot. On the contrary, her level of caution towards them grew higher and higher.

She had known from reading the book that these children were not to be underestimated, and now she was even more certain.

Look at them—just seven or eight years old, and they are already so skilled at moral coercion.

It seemed like he was truly at his wits’ end. But Jiang Yutao had read the entire book and knew that Lin Wenping’s mother had secretly given all her savings to him before she died.

Previously, when Zhao Chunhua didn’t provide them with food and they didn’t use the money, it was one thing, but now that it’s a matter of life and death, he still refuses to use it. Instead, he places his hopes on a young intellectual who has no connection to them.

Isn’t this selfish? In this era, where medical resources are scarce, how many people die each year from high fever? And how many end up with disabilities due to fever?

Lin Wenping is so smart. Liushu Gou is not without cases of people becoming idiots or blind from fevers. Does he not know the severity of this situation? He does, but he doesn’t care. He only knows he doesn’t want to spend his money.

He came to plead only because he was relying on Gu Nianwei being influenced by the little world’s consciousness to be exceptionally kind to them, and because they were certain that Gu Nianwei would become their stepmother.

After all, in the book, Lin Wenping and his brother worshipped their father, Lin Jianzhong, as if he were a deity. They did not believe that Gu Nianwei would not want to marry their father. Since they wanted to marry their father, isn’t it normal for them to try to win over the brothers in advance?

The rain continued to pour, cascading loudly onto the roof tiles and flowing down the exposed grooves to the ground. The edges of the corridor’s blue bricks had already formed numerous shallow and deep puddles.

It felt like the rain was falling on their hearts as well.

The eyes of the female intellectuals, including Zhang Huihui, were all focused on Gu Nianwei. Everyone was waiting for her response. Lin Wenping was still crying, and his delicate, childish sobs mixed with the sound of the rain, making it especially heart-wrenching.

Gu Nianwei took a step forward, but Jiang Yutao immediately grabbed her wrist. Despite her burning anxiety, Gu Nianwei stopped in her tracks.

Jiang Yutao looked at Lin Wenping, who had partially risen from the ground: “Wenping, right? I don’t think you should come to us about your brother’s high fever. Although your grandmother isn’t a good person, you have your grandfather, your great-aunt, and the brigade leader. Any of them is closer to you brothers than we are.”

“Moreover, even if your Gu sister has medicine, she’s not a doctor. We don’t know anything about your brother’s condition. If we give the medicine and something goes wrong, who will be responsible?”

Lin Wenping’s crying expression suddenly froze.

Gu Nianwei was struggling internally. She wanted to follow Lin Wenping to see Lin Wenrong, but her inner voice told her she shouldn’t and couldn’t go. She came from the future and had seen numerous cases of various complications from taking the wrong medicine. She wasn’t a doctor and hadn’t studied medicine.

Her entire medical knowledge came from information she had found online and from doctors she had seen when she was sick.

She had a complete set of medicines, but were they 100% safe? What if Lin Wenrong happened to be particularly unlucky and allergic to a certain medication?

As Jiang Yutao said, if something went wrong, who would be responsible?

Furthermore, Jiang Yutao was right; considering their relationship, Lin Wenping shouldn’t be coming to her.

But the more rational she tried to be, the more anxious she felt inside. She wanted to follow Lin Wenping, her desire clawing at her heart, making her restless and uneasy.

Gu Nianwei started to struggle, and Jiang Yutao tightened her grip on Gu Nianwei’s wrist.

She specifically pressed on the bones in Gu Nianwei’s wrist, a particularly painful spot.

Indeed, after the pain, Gu Nianwei’s struggle began to lessen.

Jiang Yutao ignored Lin Wenping’s sullen expression and said to Li Yunying, “Sister Yunying, could you please take this child back? It would be best to take him to his great-aunt’s house or the brigade leader’s house. We are unable to help with this matter.”

Li Yunying glanced at Gu Nianwei, and seeing no objections, she grabbed the umbrella by the door and stepped forward to guide Lin Wenping along, pushing him gently. “A child’s high fever is a serious matter; it must be taken seriously. Let’s go, I’ll take you to find the brigade leader.”

No matter how reluctant Lin Wenping was, he could only be pushed along by Li Yunying, as a child’s strength was no match for an adult’s.

After a few steps, he looked back at Gu Nianwei with a pitiful gaze and then shot a fierce, resentful glare at Jiang Yutao from the doorway.

The look in his eyes was as venomous as a snake in a gutter, sending a shiver down one’s spine.

Jiang Yutao unconsciously tightened her grip on Gu Nianwei’s wrist.

She dragged Gu Nianwei towards the firewood shed next to their dormitory.

Inside the shed, the firewood was neatly stacked in two piles along the wall. Jiang Yutao stopped between the two piles.

She let go of Gu Nianwei’s hand and looked at her with a serious expression. “Weiwei, tell me, what’s going on with you? Why is it that every time you see the Lin brothers, you seem like a different person?”

“Are you really trying to win them over in advance because you want to become their stepmother, just as the villagers say?”

The village had few secrets, and everyone had seen how well Gu Nianwei treated the Lin brothers.

They might not speak openly, but behind the scenes, everyone was speculating about Gu Nianwei’s motives.

Although Xu Dazui and the others, who had a good relationship with Gu Nianwei, had not mentioned this to her, others had not hesitated to gossip.

Gu Nianwei looked at Jiang Yutao and suddenly gave a wry smile. She leaned back against the firewood behind her and said, “Taotao, you are my best friend, so I won’t hide anything from you.”

For the past few days, Gu Nianwei had been trying to figure out what was wrong with her, but she hadn’t come to any conclusions.

The urge that drove her to go with Lin Wenping had been so intense that it still unsettled her when she thought about it now.

“I don’t even know what’s happening to me. Every time I see the Lin brothers, I feel an overwhelming sense of sympathy and a strong desire to be kind to them. Whenever they encounter any problems, I feel extremely distressed.”

“It was just like earlier. Hearing that Lin Wenrong was sick and his grandmother refused to take him to the hospital made me extremely anxious. I even had this overwhelming feeling of wanting to take his place,” Gu Nianwei said, gripping her chest in terror.

Her eyes were filled with fear.

Jiang Yutao saw this and felt some pity. However, the situation involving the Lin brothers, including Lin Jianzhong, was like a ticking time bomb. If they didn’t handle it carefully, Gu Nianwei might end up in trouble.

She stepped forward and hugged Gu Nianwei, gently patting her shoulder.

They were of the same height, both around 1.7 meters. With Gu Nianwei resting her head on Jiang Yutao’s shoulder, she felt the warmth coming from her, which helped her relax. Tears began to flow down her face.

She was only twenty-five before crossing over, and despite having a relatively complex life experience, she still found such supernatural events frightening.

She had been tormented internally for a long time.

She wanted to confide in Jiang Yutao, but she feared being thought of as crazy. She was even more afraid that if this issue accidentally spread, people would accuse her of promoting superstitions and outdated social elements.

In this peculiar era, Gu Nianwei really couldn’t afford to take that risk.

But today she simply couldn’t hold on any longer. The feeling of being out of control was too frightening.

In the moment she decided to reveal everything, Gu Nianwei couldn’t bring herself to look at Jiang Yutao’s face. She was afraid of seeing disbelief or an odd look in Jiang Yutao’s eyes.

Gu Nianwei was scared, just like when she was a child and feared seeing the expressions of other children when they learned about her parents’ divorce.

She thought Jiang Yutao would respond with mocking words, but instead, she received a sincere hug.

Gu Nianwei’s heart relaxed instantly, and her tears began to flow uncontrollably.

Compared to the uncontrollable emotions she had just experienced, Gu Nianwei felt much better.

Jiang Yutao sighed softly in her heart, “I believe you.”

Gu Nianwei didn’t speak. After silently crying for a while, she eventually emerged from Jiang Yutao’s embrace.

Jiang Yutao glanced at Zhao Yonglan, who was still peering in at the dormitory door, and rolled her eyes. “Let’s stay here a bit longer. It’s better to talk things out calmly. If we go back now, Zhao Yonglan might say something again.”

Zhao Yonglan was quite the troublemaker at the youth commune, always meddling in things to make her presence known.

Jiang Yutao still remembered the gloating expression Zhao Yonglan had when she brought Lin Wenping over just now.

Gu Nianwei’s eyes were still red. Being someone who prided herself on strength, she didn’t want others to see her tears, so she nodded and remained silent.

The two of them found a slightly larger piece of wood to sit on. “Weiwei, since you don’t want to be a stepmother to the Lin brothers, just keep your distance from them in the future. I refuse to believe that if you don’t see them, they can still control you.”

In the past, Gu Nianwei would have confirmed things a few more times, but after today’s events, she was scared.

Today, it was just driving her to check on Lin Wenrong. But what if in the future she was asked to do other things for the Lin brothers? What if those things were harmful to her?

Even though Gu Nianwei liked children, she was not willing to sacrifice herself for them.

She looked seriously at Jiang Yutao and said, “Tao Tao, if one day I start acting irrationally, like I did today, then hold me back. If necessary, you can take forceful measures, even hitting me is fine.”

Under Gu Nianwei’s intense gaze, Jiang Yutao nodded firmly.

At the moment Jiang Yutao nodded, the gossip system quietly came online.

【Ding~~~ Detected a change in the female protagonist’s mindset, awakening progress +20. The current awakening progress of the female protagonist is 100%. Reward: Host receives 10 Melon Coins. Please continue to work hard.】

Jiang Yutao was stunned when she heard the system announcement.

What’s going on?

What happened?

What exactly is happening?