Chapter 60: Transmigrators Recognize Each Other

Jiang Dai: 【No way, they’re all knocked silly. If it doesn’t hurt, why would she cry like this?】

Bai Tian: 【Juanjuan is really too well-behaved. She must be pretending nothing’s wrong!】

Bai Yunqi: 【Are children really this fragile? I’ve had my ribs broken before and was fine.】

Bai Yunxing: 【Juanjuan really is… if this were my cousin, he’d already be making a huge fuss and demanding we call a doctor.】

Bai Yun’an: 【Children are resilient. What could really be wrong? You should know that kids who survived the apocalypse went through much worse than this.】

Several people complained simultaneously again.

And so.

The child’s crying grew even louder. She was already crying to the point of oxygen deprivation, and now with all these voices ringing in her head at once, her head hurt even more.

As she cried, she also let out all the worry and fear she’d been holding in these past days.

A four-year-old child who had been living in constant anxiety these past days, harboring secrets in her heart and exhausting her spirit—as she cried and cried, she fell asleep.

The others: …

Jiang Dai: 【Wait, this child just falls asleep like that?!】

Bai Tian: 【Youth is wonderful—out like a light.】

Bai Tian sighed and was about to bend down to pick up Juanjuan and carry the child to the bed in the inner room.

But Jiang Dai stopped him.

“Let me carry her! Look how badly your hands are shaking!”

Bai Tian looked down and only then realized that with his emotions running high and low, his hands had begun trembling uncontrollably.

“Alright…”

Bai Tian worked to calm his emotions while trying to control his shaking hands.

Watching as Mother carried his sister into the inner room with Father following behind.

Bai Yunqi asked quietly, “Why are Father and Mother so excited?”

He truly didn’t understand.

Was it because of that “heavenly shit” thing?

But what was there to get excited about?

Bai Yunxing was equally confused: “I don’t know.”

He only knew that Father and Mother were acting very strange!

Especially Father—just how excited could he be to forget he was still holding his sister?

Bai Yun’an tilted his head, showing a confused expression: “I don’t know either. It’s really strange…”

As an excellent white lotus with a dark heart, Bai Yun’an hid his intense inner emotions beneath his exterior.

Even sharp people like Bai Yunqi and Bai Yunxing hadn’t noticed.

Bai Yun’an’s gaze fell on the inner room.

He now had a bold hypothesis!

In the inner room.

Bai Tian sat upright with a nervous and uneasy expression as he looked at Jiang Dai.

Meanwhile, Jiang Dai, who had long confirmed that Bai Tian was a transmigrator and very likely someone of her own age, was relaxed and unhurried—if she had sunflower seeds, she might even want to crack some.

There was no helping it; this was the composure of an intelligent person.

“You… also transmigrated here?”

Bai Tian swallowed nervously and carefully confirmed once more.

Jiang Dai tucked the yellowed old quilt around Juanjuan: “Mm.”

Very nonchalantly.

Bai Tian asked hesitantly, “Then when I was giving you code words these past few days…”

Jiang Dai: “I’m not stupid. When I encounter a transmigrator, why would I rush to confirm their identity? What if that person wanted to harm me?”

Bai Tian: “Huh?”

Wait, sister, this makes him look really dumb!

Jiang Dai: “Don’t you know? In female-oriented novels, when fellow countrymen meet fellow countrymen, it’s tears in both their eyes, and given our situation, they’d probably fall in love directly, but…”

“In your male-oriented novels, when transmigrators meet fellow countrymen, the first one they stab is their fellow countryman! After all, you all have grand ambitions to change dynasties and be the only transmigrator.”

Little Boss Bai, who rarely read web novels and only knew about gaming and going out to play: “Huh?”

Jiang Dai looked at Bai Tian’s dazed expression, only knowing how to say “huh.”

She couldn’t help but click her tongue softly.

“Seeing your not-too-bright appearance, plus the fact that our family is about to start a new map, I decided to tell you my identity!”

Bai Tian: “That’s not exactly a compliment.”

Jiang Dai nodded: “It’s fine, I’m praising you for being innocent and pure-hearted, a good man!”

Bai Tian: …

Jiang Dai: “I’m not lying to you. If I didn’t think you were kind-hearted, I absolutely wouldn’t tell you my identity.”

Bai Tian: “Fine, I’ll take it as a compliment.”

Jiang Dai extended her hand: “Let me reintroduce myself. Jiang Dai, 25 years old, from xx, Hebei, a third-tier celebrity—you probably don’t know me. As for why I transmigrated…”

At this point, the smile completely disappeared from Jiang Dai’s face.

“I don’t know either. Maybe I stayed up too late and slept myself into transmigration.”

Bai Tian: “Pfft…”

But he didn’t finish laughing. Under Jiang Dai’s gaze, he forcibly suppressed the smile at the corner of his mouth.

“Bai Tian, 25 years old. Originally a small rich second generation, started a small company after graduation, doing internet stuff, so after transmigrating, I don’t have any practical skills.”

Jiang Dai’s mouth twitched: “I really don’t know what we’re supposed to accomplish by transmigrating here!”

Bai Tian asked puzzledly: “Don’t novels often have transmigration cheats? Can you activate any cheats?”

Jiang Dai: “No cheats, don’t even think about it!”

“All those common transmigration things—plot foresight, systems, spatial storage, and the recently popular mind-reading, controlling wind and rain, plus the transmigration staple of being imperial relatives—none of it.”

Bai Tian: …

“I really want to go home!” Jiang Dai relaxed and flopped down on the bed with a “thud”: “I had just finished being busy and was planning to lie flat with my salary when I ended up here.”

Bai Tian sighed: “Who isn’t the same! I don’t want to be here either. Back there I had everything, and even if I lost money, my parents would bail me out.”

Jiang Dai flipped him the middle finger: “Stop showing off your wealth!”

Bai Tian touched his nose: “This is just bro’s daily life.”

“Tch…”

Though Jiang Dai’s words were dismissive, her heart felt a sense of stability.

This casual back-and-forth, speaking in tones familiar to both of them, talking about things young people knew well—it was like returning to the modern world.

It was like drifting on an endless sea and suddenly encountering another person equally adrift.

Even without knowing if they’d be rescued, at least psychologically, she no longer felt that panicked helplessness, that self-frightening spiral of wild thoughts.

Jiang Dai sighed: “Actually, I really wish I could open my eyes and be back in the modern world. I wonder if my parents are worried about me.”

Bai Tian also sighed: “Probably only my grandparents would worry about me. My mom’s always busy with her career, and my dad… he’s busy chasing young girls.”

Jiang Dai suddenly froze: “Your dad’s name wouldn’t happen to be Bai Manghuo, would it?”

“Huh? How do you know that?”

Jiang Dai took a deep breath: “Your dad once tried to pursue me.”

Bai Tian: …

“Wait, the last time my dad offended the ancient martial Jiang family—was that because of you?”

Jiang Dai sneered: “That’s probably it.”

Bai Tian: …

What to do about feeling embarrassed and awkward?

After the two of them bickered for a while, Jiang Dai began discussing serious matters.

“The problem now is, I think Kang An will definitely cause trouble, especially after Sweet Potato gets planted. Since he could chase Liang Tian’er here, he’ll surely figure out where Sweet Potato came from.”

“Even if not, he’ll still suspect us—you can tell he’s naturally suspicious! If we stay in the village, he probably won’t bother coming to find trouble with us.”

“Plus, we’re surrounded by neighbors who would definitely help each other out if something happened. From what I’ve observed, aside from some gossipy aunties, the village is pretty united.”

“But since we’ve transmigrated here, we definitely can’t stay in the village forever. You don’t know how to farm, neither do I—we’d starve ourselves to death in the village unless we keep finding silver.”

“The four children the original owner left behind definitely need to go study and learn to read. Even though I used to hate studying, they really do need to go to school.”

“In conclusion! We definitely have to go to town, and once we go to town, there will inevitably be trouble.”