I used rebirth to bury his captivating gaze.

Chapter 5 Cornfield

It was getting dark, and a few dark clouds hung in the sky.

The other villagers who had been harvesting corn and their horse-drawn carts gradually returned to their homes in the village.

At the entrance to the Yang Family Compound, a middle-aged woman wearing a dark blue hand-knitted sweater stood shivering as she looked westward.

The woman muttered to herself, "That wretched girl Yuqiu, everyone else has gone home after harvesting corn, it's already dark, why hasn't she come back yet?"

The woman turned to go back into the house, but then noticed a small figure that looked like she was riding a bicycle not far away.

The little figure drew closer and closer until it rushed towards the woman.

"Mom, are you looking for Third Sister to come back? It's cold, wear more clothes, why are you still wearing a sweater?"

"Yuhan, why are you only coming back now? Have you seen your third sister? All the villagers who were harvesting corn have gone home, why hasn't she come back yet?" Liu Shulan asked anxiously.

"Mom, I didn't see her, but I have something to tell you..."

"Speak quickly if you have something to say. Where have you been? What are you doing running around like that, a young lady?"

"In the morning, my third sister got into Uncle Niu's white horse-drawn cart in front of the brigade gate. There were a few other people, including Brother Li Feng."

“In the afternoon, when I was accompanying Liu Ying to practice riding a bicycle on the school playground, I saw Uncle Niu walking from the west of the village with his back bent. I asked him what was wrong, and he said that his lumbar disc was acting up and the pain was so unbearable that he had to come back. After saying that, he went home.”

"So, I know Uncle Niu's back problem. When it flares up, it can be really bad. Your dad and I even went to his house to persuade him to go to the hospital for surgery, but he said that his family didn't have that kind of spare money. He only had a little money left for his youngest son to get married. You can ride a bicycle, why are you practicing?"

"It's Liu Ying who can't ride, not me. I spent the whole afternoon practicing with her, but she's too clumsy and still not proficient."

“If she can’t ride, you should teach her. You’ll ruin your own bike if she practices on it. The bicycle belongs to your second brother. What if she falls and breaks it? Just now, your third aunt saw that the bicycle wasn’t in the yard, and she was cursing and swearing in the yard.”

"Hurry up and take the bicycle back to your third aunt, then go to the kitchen for dinner. You're skipping lunch to accompany her while she practices riding?"

"I ate at Liu Ying's house for lunch. Liu Ying's mom made delicious sweet beet grits and corn grits."

"What's so good about sweet beet and corn porridge? Has Liu Sanbao brought the corn home yet?"

"Yes, I'm back. The sweet corn porridge was delicious. Mom, can you make it for me sometime? I want to eat it again."

"We'll talk about it another day. Everyone else has gone home, but she's still stuck in the fields. Why can't she work more and earn more work points? The brigade is the same. They insist that only able-bodied people earn work points, leaving the housewives who can work at home to eat idle food."

Liu Shulan grumbled and continued, "Alright, hurry up and push your bicycle out to eat. I've kept the food warm in the big pot for you."

"Okay. Mom, I'll listen to you from now on. But I have something to do tonight, and I need to use this bicycle. Mom, please tell Auntie that I'll return it to her later. I'm in a hurry, bye!" After saying that, she rode off towards the west of the village.

"You brat, come back here! I'm not going to waste my breath talking to that woman. She's stingy even when she borrows a bicycle, and she forgot who paid for it. She's the kind of person who forgets the pain once the wound heals."

A woman grumbled as she looked toward the dirt road to the west of the village, only to be answered by the small, dark figure of Yang Yuhan riding her bicycle away into the distance!

Liu Shulan's temper has changed for some reason. In the past, she would greet everyone in the compound with a friendly smile, and she would always consider others first and avoid getting into disputes or arguments with anyone, since they were all family and would see each other all the time!

She felt a tightness in her chest tonight, as if something bad was about to happen!

She paused for a moment, but still couldn't see Yuqiu appear! Then she turned around and prepared to go back to the courtyard.

"Second Aunt, what are you doing pacing back and forth at the gate? Did Yu Han take my Da Zhi's bicycle? Where is Yu Han? Why is she back in the yard so late? Where did she take my Da Zhi's bicycle?"

"I don't know where she went, or that she rode Dazhi's bicycle."

"She can ride a bike, so what is she practicing? Could it be that she secretly sold my Forever brand bicycle, which cost me 50 yuan, to raise money for school?"

"Third Aunt, Yu Han would never do such a thing, why do you think of her like that?"

"Alright, I'm not going to argue about this anymore. Anyway, if I don't see the bicycle tomorrow, you have to pay me 100 yuan."

"I'll pay you back my ass. Don't think that just because I usually give in to you, you can bully me. The bicycle only cost fifty yuan, and you want me to pay you a hundred yuan back? The bicycle was earned by my men working day and night as carpenters."

"Oh my! Second sister-in-law, I never realized you had such a strong personality, you have quite a temper..."

"Why shouldn't I have a temper? I've always been submissive and let others bully me. When my Yuhan went to school, the old lady wouldn't pay the tuition. She had to cry before she would pay. The money in the old lady's hands is for your Dazhi to spend. Isn't the money in the old lady's hands earned by my Zhannan as a carpenter?"

Liu Shulan felt uneasy because Yuqiu hadn't come home from harvesting corn yet. Her family members always treated her and her two daughters like thorns in their side, so she took this opportunity to vent her anger. Once she had said everything, she felt much better!

"What are you all calling 'change'? You fight day and night, this courtyard has become your battlefield." Yang Wei stood at the door of the east wing, puffing out his pipe.

When Liu Shulan saw Yang Hong come out, she hurriedly turned around and went back to the south wing.

"Dad, Yuhan rode Dazhi's bicycle, and she hasn't ridden it home yet. What if she breaks it? Dazhi has to go to school at the commune tomorrow."

"Dazhi's bicycle wasn't bought for him by the second brother with the money he earned from his carpentry work, but it ended up being yours. How many times can that girl Yuhan ride it?" Yang Wei finished speaking, turned around and went back into the house with his long pipe in his mouth.

"Mom, let's go back inside. Grandpa is right. It was my second uncle who earned the money to buy me this bicycle. If it weren't for this bicycle, it would take me an hour to walk to the middle school in the far-away commune."

"What do you mean your second uncle bought it? Your grandma bought it for you. Last time, that brat Yuhan fell off this bicycle while selling vegetable scrubbing boards and broke it. She has no shame or temper."

"Mom, forget about bicycles. I can buy as many as I want if I earn a lot of money tomorrow. Mom, I want to learn carpentry from my second uncle."

"You want to learn carpentry, but you're not his biological son. Do you think he can teach you?"

"If he won't teach, he'll have Grandpa teach. Haha!"

"Can your grandfather teach you anything at his age? Alright, you should study hard, get into university and you'll have a secure job. Why go to the city to work and learn that rubbish?" She forced a smile and went back to the west wing with her son.

Village West

By the faint moonlight, three small figures could be clearly seen pushing a large bicycle along the dirt road west of the village. A large sack and a bundle of thick hemp rope were placed on the back seat. The three little figures were moving quickly toward a certain destination.

Before long, the three little figures arrived at the edge of a field where withered yellow corn stalks lay fallen. In the field, the sharp roots of corn cobs, cut off by sickles, remained in the black soil.

Piles of dark yellow corn cobs, illuminated by the dim moonlight, lay quietly waiting for the old farmer to come and harvest them.

The nights in Northeast China in October are still chilly, and the sudden cold can send shivers down your spine. Yu Han forced herself to endure it and instinctively covered her sore nostrils with her fingers!

A small, dark cloud hung on the horizon, beyond which lay a clear, bright night sky.

Clearly visible in the distance, in the cornfield, are the dark shadows of two adults, one tall and one short, working quickly to load white wooden carts full of corn cobs.

The three children parked their bicycles under an old elm tree on the dirt road at the edge of the cornfield.

Blind Song took a large sack and a bundle of thick hemp rope from his bicycle, and the three little men bent down and carefully entered the middle of the cornfield to lie in ambush.

"Something terrible has happened..."

"Liu Ying, what are you yelling about? Keep your voice down. What's wrong with you?" Blind Song said in a low voice.

“Look at that person over there in the white carriage, he’s so tall. We’re too short, even if we jump, we can’t reach his head,” Liu Ying said to Yang Yuhan.

"Boss Yang, what she said is somewhat right. That guy is really tall, at least 1.89 meters. He looks kind of familiar."

"What do you mean, 'familiar'? Maybe it's a distant relative of the shorter woman who came to visit and saw that she hadn't finished her work so late, so she came to help."

"OK."

"Yang Yuhan, do you know them?" Liu Ying asked.

“I don’t know them at all. I had a dream last night. A woman appeared in my dream and said that she had been bullied by this tall man and asked me to avenge her.”

"Ah! Really!" Liu and Song exclaimed in unison!

"Isn't it fake? Why would I be here in the middle of the night instead of sleeping at home?"

"Wow! Boss Yang, you're really loyal. It was definitely the right decision to befriend you. You're so great, actually avenging the woman who was the victim in my dream. I need you too, and you'll never refuse!"

"I'm so touched. How about the three of us do what the Three Kingdoms' Oath of the Peach Garden does right here at this moment?"

"Sworn brotherhood my ass! You're a boy, and you're always bullying us. We almost dropped out of school because of you."

Liu Ying became bolder at this point. Perhaps because they had worked together for a long time, they had become familiar with each other. Back in school, she would even say that Song the Blind fart smelled good.

"Alright, you two, stop talking nonsense and get down to business."

She hurriedly interrupted Liu Ying's rebuttal to Song the Blind, fearing that if it caused internal strife, the hostile elements would be in chaos before they could even deal with their own internal situation.

Yang Yuhan chuckled to herself at these two fools. She could easily win them over with a simple dream. Blind Song was being far too naive. Who would want to become sworn brothers with someone of such character, especially someone who was the original owner's enemy from her past life?

This dream wasn't something she made up randomly; it had actually appeared in her mind multiple times. It was Yang Yuqiu's nightmare from her previous life!

"We'll sneak up to that guy in a bit, I'll knock the tall guy down with one slap, and then you two will put the big sack over his head."

The two scoundrels from Liu and Song exchanged glances, then nodded to Yu Han. Yu Han then gestured with her eyes for them to slowly advance towards their target while bowing.

Suddenly, the tall man stopped what he was doing and looked over at the three little people.

The three little people were so frightened that they quickly lay down on the ground.

"Ouch! That hurts! My palm got crushed by a corn stalk and it's bleeding."

"Blind Song, keep your voice down."

"Yang Yuhan, you dare call me by my nickname? Believe me or not, I'll kick you to death."

"Oh dear! What kind of time is this for internal strife? I'll apologize to you on her behalf, okay? I'm sorry, Lord Song, just put some dirt on your wound and it won't hurt anymore."

"Don't call me 'Song Overlord' nonsense. Is it really okay to just release the soil?"

"If you're not the boss at school, then what are you? Why would I lie to you? You'll need your help later."

"I think you're getting a little too cocky with me! My finger injury will get really bad when I get back to school. Just wait until I get back, I'll teach you a lesson."

How could you be so clueless?

"Shut up, everyone."

"Damn, my palm hurts so much and it's bleeding... I got pricked by a corn stalk. It's all because you two were arguing that I got distracted and pricked my hand."

"Ah! Your hand is really bleeding. Blow on it with your mouth and it won't hurt so much." Liu Ying whispered as she walked closer to Yu Han.

To alleviate the pain, Yang Yuhan had no choice but to believe her. She put her mouth close to her bleeding palm and gently blew on it. The pain did indeed lessen!

She looked at the injured palm of her hand and was stunned by what she saw!

She almost screamed, then immediately stopped herself!

At this moment, Liu Yingsong, the blind man, walked up to her and was very disappointed to see her perfectly intact palm!

"Boss, where did you prick your hand? It's still the same as before. Why did you yell so scary? If you yelled any louder, you would have attracted all the wolves over there." Blind Song complained in disappointment.

"I saw that her hand was bleeding from a prick. Who knows how it got better? It's good that it's healed, isn't it? Did you really want her hand to get injured like yours?"

"Alright, stop arguing. A mosquito just bit one of my fingers. How could it not hurt when all ten fingers are connected to the heart?"

"Yu Han, I see your hand is bleeding."

"Can you see clearly in the dark?"

Blind Song grinned at Liu Ying, who was scratching his head!

"But Liu Ying, you just asked me to blow on my finger, and I tried it. I didn't expect my finger to get better right away."

“I often do this when I see my mother injured at home. She says that blowing air onto the injured area can relieve the pain. Yuhan, have you also seen your mother blow air like this?”

Yu Han shook her head and ignored her, so Liu Ying shut up as well.

Blind Song glared at her, "Serves you right for being ignored by the boss! What a load of rubbish! You're just spouting nonsense about how a breeze can heal your wounds; you're just trying to comfort yourself!"

He thought it was indeed the right thing to do.

Later, Yang Yuhan realized that she had unexpectedly gained a superpower, "Soothing the Divine Wind." This power could only be used on herself!

To put it bluntly, this special ability is Yang Yuhan's self-healing remedy!

It won't work for anyone else, not even your dearest family members!

The three of them fell silent!

The two white carts, one tall and one short, continued to be busy loading cargo.

Yu Han looked up at the dark cloud in the sky, eager to pounce! It seemed to be waiting for a certain moment to arrive before it would seize the opportunity to strike!

She turned to look at Liu Ying, the original owner's childhood friend, who might have accidentally discovered the strange phenomenon on her palm. If they were to reveal this and it hurt her, she would show no mercy!

At this time, around 10 p.m., the strange rainy night in her dream happened around 2 a.m. that same night.

It's estimated that the tall guy won't lay a hand on the short woman in the first half of the night; he has to deliver the two cartloads of corn cobs back to the grain threshing yard of the production brigade in Bencun Village.

He was preparing to make his move on Yang Yuqiu before he delivered the last truckload of corn.

Although Yang Yuhan knew when he committed the crime, she arrived early. In order to ensure her third sister's reputation was intact and to give her family a peaceful life, she had no choice but to do her best!

Let's not touch him yet. Let him finish his task and deliver the corn to the granary. Yang Yuqiu can also earn work points so that the Yang family compound will have food to eat.

Then she first comforted the two children and gave them the popcorn and fried soybeans that their mother had prepared beforehand.

The two little figures lay in two separate corn stalks, eating and then falling asleep.

But she stared intently with her big eyes, discerning every enemy move!