C1 (1/2)
”Get up, quickly get up! We must rush to Guest House today!” difference person shouted at the people resting by the side of the road to get up and hurry up. As long as there was a slight delay, difference person would lift his leg and kick them.
These people were all criminals sentenced to exile, of course the difference person would not be courteous with them, those who had money and money would look out for them a little, those who did not have money and were pretending to be rich would think of themselves as noble people, they would not be courteous at all, they were people who did this kind of thing all year round, and their hearts were hard.
The weather had just turned into autumn, and although it wasn't as hot as summer, the might of the autumn tiger was still there. After travelling for several months, some elderly, women, and children were unable to continue on in the heat.
Someone could not help but plead, ”Master Fu, it's almost noon right now. Let everyone take a break and rest before we continue on our journey, shall we?”
What answered him was the merciless whip in difference person's hands. Seeing the bloodstain on the man's shoulder from the whip, no one dared to make a sound, as they all lowered their heads and walked forward.
An old difference person sighed. They had no choice but to rush to Guest House to report in the future!
Besides, he was going to be exiled, so naturally he had to suffer. This level of heat was nothing to him. Otherwise, wouldn't he have wasted this punishment for nothing?
”Qiao Jieer, can you still hold on?”
Xu Hui raised her head and looked at her father Xu Jingan who was full of concern for him. She forced out a smile and nodded, ”I'm fine. Let's go!” At this point, even if she couldn't hold on any longer, she still had to!
Xu Hui still did not understand why she was here so well. It was not that she did not think of a way to die, but she had thought of a way to go back. However, there was a faint pain on her forehead. She ruthlessly reminded her that it was only a delusion. Since she couldn't die, she could only grit her teeth and live on.
Her current identity was a young lady from a branch family of Jiang-Nan city's Jiang Prefecture's Xu family. The Xu family was a large clan of the Jiang Prefecture, and her father, Xu Jingan, was the mountain president of the Yun Lu Institution in the Jiang Prefecture's Yun Lu Institution. Although she was from a branch family, she was very talented in books and was a High Scholar before she was even twenty years old.
The original owner's name was Xu Qiaohui, her nickname was Qiao Jieer, her birth mother was from a rich background, and she was extremely skilled in weaving and weaving. She had even used her delicate hands to create several hundred acres of good land and shops for the originally poor Xu family.
Wu's and Xu Jingan were childhood sweethearts, and their relationship was deep, but it was a pity that their offspring were unlucky. The two of them had been married for six years and had given birth to Qiao Jieer.
Xu Jingan's mother had schemed for her son and pressured him to marry the successor Feng's disease when he was only three years old. Feng's disease wouldn't even be able to bear the pressure for a few years, his daughters Xu Qiaozhu and his son Xu Rui.
He stayed in the Academy all year round, and had even brought Qiao Jieer along to be raised personally by his side. Although his mother doted on his grandson, she was also very fond of him, who had always been obedient and intelligent. This made Feng's disease and Xu Qiaozhu very jealous.
As the favoured eldest daughter of the Xu family, Xu Qiaohui had lived a life of luxury since childhood. Although she could not compare to the young ladies who were the direct descendants of the Xu family, she had two girls serving her from a young age.
Although it was easy to take advantage of the tree, but ”the tree falls and the monkey disappears”. In the end, because the Xu family, which had been a large clan for a hundred years, had made a mistake while standing on the same side of the line, the New Emperor had to settle the matter. The Xu family's patriarch and his subordinates, the grown men, were executed and the underage males and their female family members were sentenced to exile.
's family had also become the fish in the water. The male members of the Xu Family were sent into the army, and the female members were exiled with them. The majority of the people in this long line were from the Xu family, with difference person escorting them to the northern region of Ming Province, then distributing them to various Guest House s as well.
A group of people who used to be extravagant were now exiles, falling from the sky into the earth. Many people could not stand the gap, many had died from self-inflicted injuries along the way. Although Xu Mu's mother died after walking for a few days, difference person only had one or two sentences, and that was to bury her in the ground.
Although Xu Qiaohui was a lady who was raised delicately, she had the innate tenacity of her birth mother, the Wu's. With her grandmother's death, she quickly saw through the dangers on the road and tried to find a way to use the belt with the gold foil that her aunt had given her when they set out. She did her best to curry favor with the difference person, causing her father, Xu Jingan, to suffer less.
Even so, Xu Jingan's thin body still could not bear the pain of being transported. After being drenched by the rain, he fell sick three days ago.
Without Xu Jingan's protection, no matter how intelligent Xu Qiuhui was, she was still only a fourteen year old girl. How could she be a match for her stepmother and sister, Xu Qiaozhu? When she found out that her stepmother wanted to give her father as a concubine for money, Xu Qiaohui was so angry that she crashed into a wall and begged to die. When she woke up, the core of her heart had turned into the modern Xu Hui.
Xu Hui had all of Xu Qiuhui's memories. She was very sympathetic towards this girl who had such a strong and clever ending. However, after seeing the situation, even if Xu Hui was a 24 year old adult, she would not be able to bear the suffering and hopeless future.
His father joined the army, and his son joined the army. For generations, he would have to join the army, and in this border that was filled with wars, he might even die in the battlefield tomorrow. If a man was already like this, then a woman would be even more miserable. If there was no man in the family and the heir could not inherit the position of Military, then the woman would be sold off and become an official courtesan that could not even be redeemed.
Xu Hui did not want such a life at all. No matter how stressful life in modern times was, it was still heaven compared to this place!