Dark clouds like splashes of ink spread across the sky, swallowing up the rising sun.
After a while, big raindrops poured down.
Shen Zhiyao stood in front of the window lattice, admiring for a while the view of the rain hitting the banana trees and the pure jasmine in the yard, then turned around and said:
"I choose to go back to Lihua Village."
"Girl, you finally figured out...what, you want to go back to Lihua Village?"
Grandma Wang was stunned and persuaded:
"Girl, Madam only wants you to stay in Zhuangzi for a few days. Madam has said that she will persuade the young master to agree to keep you in the mansion. You are still Madam's daughter."
Shen Zhiyao rubbed her eyes and shook her head pretending to be choked:
"Mother Wang, my eldest brother doesn't want to see me. I think I will make Mingxue uncomfortable at home. My insistence on staying will only make my mother embarrassed, so I figured it out and I want to go back to Lihua Village."
"Mom, please go and tell mother. I will leave when the rain stops."
Shen Zhiyao looked sad, but rolled her eyes in her heart.
She was an ordinary food blogger in the 21st century.
Not long ago, she encountered a sudden flash flood while summering in the mountains. After rescuing several people, she suffered a cramp in her foot and lost support, and was washed into the water.
When I woke up, I found myself in an ancient room.
After digesting the extra memories in her mind, she realized that she had traveled to an fictional dynasty called Daqi.
And it’s still wearing a book!
The original book is a true and false book worth a thousand pieces of gold.
In the book, the heroine is the legitimate daughter of Magistrate Shen of Luzhou. Years ago, due to the revenge of a concubine of Magistrate Shen, she was designed to be exchanged with the daughter of a farmer in Lihua Village when she was just born.
After the female protagonist grew up, the male protagonist in the original book was injured on the battlefield and fell into the mountains, but was rescued by the female protagonist.
Because the male protagonist's family and the Shen family are old friends, and seeing that the female protagonist and Mrs. Shen look very similar, the male protagonist starts to investigate, and finally reveals the secret of the real and fake daughter.
The original owner of Shen Zhiyao's time travel is the fake daughter and vicious female supporting character in the book.
After the real daughter Shen Mingxue was taken back to the Shen Mansion, Shen Xiao, the eldest son of the Shen family, believed that the original owner and Shen Mingxue should return to their respective places, and wanted to send the original owner back to Lihua Village.
The original owner was unwilling to leave, so he resorted to various means to stay in the Shen Mansion.
For example, for the heroine.
But he was repeatedly slapped in the face by the female protagonist, and was eventually thrown to the wild beasts by the male protagonist and Shen Xiao, leaving not even a corpse behind.
Looking back at every evil act of the original protagonist in the book, the result was that it assisted the emotional development of the male and female protagonists.
A pure tool man!
After the truth about the real and fake daughter was revealed, although Shen Xiao wanted to send the original owner away, Mrs. Shen was a little reluctant to do so.
After all, people's hearts are made of flesh, and the relationship that has been fostered for more than ten years cannot be broken off immediately. The original owner seized this point and started with Mrs. Shen, hoping to stay.
Before she traveled through time, Shen Xiao and Mrs. Shen made a concession. They could not send the original owner back to Lihua Village, but asked the original owner to leave home and live in Zhuangzi outside the city.
The original owner frantically took a cold shower and pretended to be sick so as not to go to Zhuangzi. However, he really caught a cold and burped.
Shen Zhiyao didn't want to be a tool. She thought Shen Xiao was right and she and Shen Mingxue should go back to their respective places.
Moreover, there is a big difference in personality between her and the original owner. If she gets along with people like the Shen family who know the original owner well, it will be bad if she gets noticed.
It would be better to go to Lihua Village where no one knew her, and it would be easier to do everything.
——
Summer rain always comes in bursts, and within half an hour, it stops.
Knowing that Shen Zhiyao insisted on returning to Lihua Village, Mrs. Shen reluctantly arranged a carriage for her and asked Grandma Wang to take her back. On the carriage were some silks and satins and hairpins and jewelry used by the original woman.
"Mother, I can't have these things. Please ask someone to take them back."
One thing to say is that Mrs. Shen was really kind to the original owner. Even though she knew that the original owner was not her biological daughter, she did not immediately ignore the original owner like Magistrate Shen and Shen Xiao did.
Of course, the premise is that Mrs. Shen and the original owner's mother just happened to give birth to a child in the same ruined temple, and then the child was secretly exchanged by Magistrate Shen's concubine.
The original owner’s biological parents didn’t know about the real and fake daughter.
"Yao Yao, take it. This is the last thing Mom can prepare for you. Your elder brother also cares about you. He specially arranged for his driver to take you to Lihua Village with Grandma Wang."
Mrs. Shen's mood is a bit complicated. She has doted on her adopted daughter and biological daughter for more than ten years, and the palms and backs of her hands are full of flesh. She wants to keep both daughters by her side, but her son wants to send Yaoyao away, and the master also...
Shen Xiao asked his coachman to take her to Lihua Village?
Shen Zhiyao thought about Shen Xiao's attitude towards Shen Mingxue after she returned home, and felt that if Shen Xiao specially arranged a coachman, she might not mean what Mrs. Shen said by "caring about her".
If Shen Xiao really cared about her, could he not come out to see her off even if he was in the house?
"Mother, this may be the last time I call you this. Thank you for your kindness, but I deserve these things. You have raised me for fifteen years, which is the greatest kindness you have shown me. The kindness of raising me, I only If I have the opportunity to report again in the future..."
As she spoke, Shen Zhiyao imitated the appearance in the memory of the original owner, sobbing and tears welling up in her eyes.
It was rare for her to be so sensible, and the sadness of separation in Mrs. Shen's heart became a little heavier.
Seeing that Shen Zhiyao insisted on not wanting those silks, satins and jewelry, he had no choice but to give up and only kept some clothes that Shen Zhiyao wore daily.
Then he watched Shen Zhiyao leave.
——
Lihua Village is located in Tongfang County, Yunluo Prefecture, nearly a thousand kilometers away from Luzhou. It takes about ten days to go to Lihua Village by carriage and take the official road.
On the way, Shen Zhiyao sorted out the information about the family of the original owner of Lihua Village.
Although she has read the original book, she has read almost hundreds of novels, and she read the original book several years ago, so she only remembers what it was about.
If it weren't for the fact that the vicious female supporting character in it had the same name as her, she might have forgotten this novel.
Therefore, only a small part of the information she compiled came from her vague memory of the original book, and most of it was what she heard from the servants and Shen Mingxue when she was in Shen Mansion.
According to the information compiled, it can be seen that the original owner's relatives in Lihua Village are also named Shen. There are grandfather Shen, old man, and step-grandmother Yang, old lady.
The original owner's own grandmother died in childbirth when giving birth to her father. Less than a year after her death, Old Man Shen married Old Mrs. Yang.
Mrs. Yang gave birth to six children for Mr. Shen, and two sons and one daughter survived:
Shen Yuan Yuan, Shen Si Li and the old girl Shen Qizhu.
After having a child of her own, Mrs. Yang never wanted to see the original owner's father. She made the original owner's father do hard work since childhood, without enough food and clothing, and no warmth. After the original owner's father got married, he would work with his wife.
Until a few years ago, the original owner's parents became ill due to overwork, and both of them could not afford it.
The original owner's parents gave birth to three children. In addition to the original owner, she also has a nine-year-old brother and a six-year-old sister.
When the heroine Shen Mingxue in the original book lived in the Shen family in Lihua Village, she and her younger siblings ate the least and did the most. The three sisters did the dirty work at home.
After their parents died, the three sisters were driven to a simple bamboo hut next to the pig pen and chicken shed, where they lived with the livestock.
The original book contains a lot of information about the abuse that the heroine Shen Mingxue received in Lihua Village and the best qualities of the Shen family. Although these best qualities were severely punished when Shen Mingxue was taken home by Magistrate Shen, the readers were not relieved.
So, when she arrived in Lihua Village, she had to find a way to separate her family. She didn't want to live with a group of top people all the time.
