Unlimited estates for rural beauty-Chapter 49

After dinner, Feng Xi and Feng Xuxu went to the foot of Nameless Mountain for company. Both of them remained silent until it was finally Feng Xuxu who broke the silence.

"Big brother, do you believe that I am still Feng Xuxu?" Feng Xuxu stopped hiding her true nature and spoke up directly and to the point.

"I don’t know. Sometimes you seem like her, and at other times you don’t. It’s a hazy feeling," Feng Xi said as he looked at the Feng Xuxu before him.

"Well, big brother, let me tell you a story. Maybe you’ll find it incredible, or perhaps you’ll think I’m crazy, but it’s real," Feng Xuxu said calmly.

"Alright, I’m all ears." Feng Xi sat on a slope, and Feng Xuxu took the opportunity to sit down as well, thinking it best to start from the beginning.

Struggling to begin, Feng Xuxu spoke, "The truth is, Feng Xuxu, your sister, has died. To be precise, your sister Feng Xuxu passed away while ill in bed, and at that time, I too died in another world. Somehow, my soul ended up in this body. In the other world, my name was also Feng Xuxu. I was afraid of making you sad, and I feared you would take me for some demon or monster, so I never told you the truth," Feng Xuxu explained quietly while Feng Xi listened silently. She looked at Feng Xi, who didn’t seem as sad as she had imagined, which puzzled her.

"Are you wondering why I’m not very sad?" Feng Xi turned to look at Feng Xuxu.

"Yes, considering how you felt about your sister, you shouldn’t have this kind of expression," Feng Xuxu mumbled as she traced patterns in the dirt with a stick.

"Do you remember the monk from the Gao Family that our family spoke of?" Feng Xi looked up at the stars, as if recalling the past.

"Yes, I remember," Feng Xuxu recalled the first time she went to the market. The village women had even called her a jinx!

"Actually, a monk really did come to our home to beg for alms. At that time, we had only one bowl of porridge left, which we gave to the monk. Seeing how simple and honest our family was, the monk watched you (Feng Xuxu) playing in the courtyard for a long while. He told dad and me that the girl might face a calamity. If she overcame it, she would be destined for glory and wealth. If not, she would perish like a flickering flame at the age of twelve. And it turned out to be true—you fell seriously ill this year and laid unconscious for two days. I even checked your breath; you had stopped breathing. But not long after, you woke up. At the time, I thought the heavens were playing a joke on me. I never imagined that my little sister..." Feng Xi paused, trying to prevent tears, but they ultimately broke through, streaming down his cheeks like pearls slipping off a string.

"Big brother, you can think of me as your sister. After all, this body is still Feng Xuxu’s. I’m just occupying it, living on in place of your sister," said Feng Xuxu, not knowing how to comfort her big brother.

Feng Xi, with tears blurring his vision, looked at the Feng Xuxu before him. Indeed, since his sister could not escape her fate, it wasn’t necessary for him to dwell on it too much. At the very least, the body in front of him was still his sister’s. With that thought, he brushed away his tears roughly.

"I’ve been too conservative in my thinking," Feng Xi said, looking at the distant moon, pondering the words his sister had just spoken. "Did you say you come from another world?"

"Yes, I was originally a professor of agriculture and biology in the 21st century. I also owned a hotel. Overwork led to my demise, but to my astonishment, when I woke up, I found myself here," Feng Xuxu slowly recalled her life in the modern world.

"So that’s how you grow rice?"