The Cycle of Reincarnation in the Four-Courtyard House: A Journey Through the Heavens

(A place to store your brain!)

(Due to the author's limited ability, some parts of the novel may contain logical inconsistencies. We hope our readers will understand!)

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At this moment, Li Xiao felt as if light and shadow were intertwined around him, and his vision was filled with a series of fantastical scenes.

He keenly sensed that some kind of magical energy seemed to be constantly flowing into his body from within this mysterious space.

At the same time, he also felt that his mental strength seemed to be increasing significantly, and his perception of his surroundings was becoming clearer and clearer.

"Where am I? Wasn't I dead?"

Thanks to his rapidly increasing mental strength, Li Xiao quickly snapped out of his daze.

Li Xiao was originally a top special agent in China. A technician in an important position in the country was turned and stole important technical data from the military, and then fled to the United States.

The relevant departments immediately dispatched his elite team, ordering him to kill the traitor and retrieve the data.

After careful planning, Li Xiao finally killed the traitor in a heavily guarded villa in Los Santos, a major city on the west coast of the United States, and retrieved the important information.

During the operation, Li Xiao learned from the traitor through various means that, in order to maximize profits and for his own safety, the traitor had not handed over the information to the US intelligence agency immediately and was still negotiating with them.

This gave Li Xiao an opportunity, allowing him to successfully retrieve this extremely important technical document and hand it over to his colleague, who then brought it back to China.

The reason Li Xiao didn't personally bring the information back was because he had already been exposed.

Under relentless pursuit by the CIA, Li Xiao traveled thousands of kilometers, fleeing from the West Coast to the East Coast, finally perishing alongside more than thirty elite U.S. agents who had been tracking him in a Walmart supermarket in New York.

At this moment, Li Xiao had finally finished organizing the last memories of his past life, so he was very curious about the space he was in now.

When he looked at his hands, his eyes widened in surprise and uncertainty.

Because at this moment his hands were not physical entities, but rather illusory and transparent.

"Holy crap, did my soul leave my body?!"

Just as Li Xiao was about to further examine his current situation, a golden light suddenly appeared in his eyes, and his entire body was involuntarily sucked into that light.

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"Xiao'er... Xiao'er, what's wrong? Don't scare your mother!"

"Big brother, big brother, wake up... please wake up!"

"Waaaaah~ Big brother... I don't want big brother to die..."

After an unknown amount of time, Li Xiao heard the cries and shouts of a child, mixed with the voice of a young woman.

Li Xiao struggled to open his eyes and saw a boy and a girl, both dressed in rags and with unkempt hair, and a woman who looked to be about thirty years old.

"Big brother, you're awake! How are you feeling?"

"Waaaaah, brother~ brother~!"

"Xiao'er, you're finally awake! Waaaaah~~"

Just then, a massive amount of memory suddenly appeared in Li Xiao's mind. This memory was transmitted in just three seconds. If Li Xiao's mental strength had not been greatly enhanced during the transmigration, he probably would have fainted immediately.

Li Xiao took a few more seconds to process the memory.

The original owner of this body was also named Li Xiao. Because he was born in the Year of the Horse, his father named him Xiao, which means fine steed. His ancestral home was Handan County, Hebei Province.

The woman in front of him was the mother of this body, named Wang Xia, who was 33 years old this year.

The two children are a boy and a girl. The boy is named Li Feng, who is 9 years old and is his younger brother. The girl is named Li Qian, who is 6 years old and is his younger sister.

According to the memories implanted in him, Li Xiao learned that he was 12 years old this year, born in 1930, and was the eldest son in his family.

In his previous life, Li Xiao was born in 1990, also the Year of the Horse. Unexpectedly, the age difference between himself in his previous life and the owner of this body was exactly sixty years.

It is now November 1942. This year, due to the severe drought in Henan Province, the drought has also affected Handan County in the neighboring province.

The Li family owns a small plot of land in the countryside of Handan County. It's only about 20 mu (approximately 3.3 hectares), but it's more than enough to support the family.

This year's crops have been reduced by 90% due to a once-in-a-millennium drought.

The officials of the puppet regime supported by the Japanese invaders also ran out of food due to the severe drought, so they used the pretext of providing disaster relief to forcibly requisition the Li family's stored grain.

Li Xiao's father had no choice but to take out most of the family's stored grain, hoping to spend money to avoid further trouble.

Who would have thought that these traitors would steal all the grain stored in the Li family's granary, as well as all their savings, and then leave without looking back.

After having all his belongings stolen, Li Xiao's father, Li Mingyuan, was so angry that he vomited blood and fainted on the spot.

Since all the valuables in the house had been stolen and the family had no money to treat Li's father, Wang Xia had no choice but to go to the mountains to collect some medicinal herbs to prolong her husband's life.

However, things didn't go as planned, and Li Mingyuan passed away after lying in bed for half a month.

The Li family had run out of food, and the father had already passed away. Staying at home would only lead to their death.

As the eldest son in his family, Li Xiao, after some deliberation, decided to lead his entire family north to Beijing to escape the famine and see if they could find a way to survive.

So Li Xiao, along with his mother, younger brother, and sister-in-law, embarked on their journey north.

Thinking of this, Li Xiao sighed softly.

"In my past life, because of the special nature of my work, I could only choose to be loyal to my country and not to be filial to my parents."

"Now that I've been given a second chance at life, I will lead my family in this world to live well through these war-torn years!"

Li Xiao had already made plans for his life.

According to the original owner of this body's memories, his family had already arrived near Baocheng in Hebei Province.

Just half an hour ago, several vagrants took a liking to Wang Xia, who was quite attractive, and planned to do something indecent to her.

Li Xiao used his only weapon—a rusty woodcutter's knife—to fight the three refugees to the death.

During the fight, Li Xiao was struck on the back of the head by a wooden stick from one of the refugees. Despite the intense dizziness, he managed to use his machete to slash the neck of another refugee, killing him instantly.

The other two refugees, seeing that things were not going well, immediately turned tail and ran away.

Seeing that his family was finally safe, Li Xiao completely fainted, his body taken over by a soul from the future.

The memory that had been implanted into him was long to write down, but in Li Xiao's mind, it only took two or three seconds to understand everything.

"Memory transfer complete. Detection indicates the host's head has suffered a severe blow; repairs are now in progress..."

Just then, a sweet female voice appeared in his mind. Before he could even exclaim, a cool sensation rushed into his head, and the dull dizziness that had been nauseating in his mind quickly disappeared.

Three seconds later, the female voice sounded in his mind again: "Head repair complete, system initiating relocation..."

A second later, the woman's voice seemed to carry a hint of emotion.

"Uh... Oh no! I think I've gone to the wrong location!"

Li Xiao was initially incredibly excited, as the scenes from those online novels were actually happening to him.

Who wouldn't want a life with cheat codes? He had envied his peers who could travel to parallel worlds with a system more than once, and now it was finally his turn!

But after he heard the system's next sentence, he started to feel terrible!

"I...I mean, system, what do you mean...what do you mean by 'the wrong travel location'?"

At this moment, Li Xiao felt as if he had fallen from heaven to hell.

Just when she was feeling smug about having transmigrated to a parallel world and acquired a system, she encountered a seemingly unreliable guy.

"Since we're here, we might as well make the best of it!"