In the small, dark thatched house, Yu Ying lay on a low bed made of dry rice straws, staring blankly at the roof of the thatched house.
Yu Ying just lay like this for three days.
Three days ago, she traveled through time.
Regarding this result, Yu Ying went from being confused to breaking down and crying, to now feeling numb and empty.
From the original memory of this strange body, Yu Ying also had a superficial understanding of her situation.
Not only did she travel through time, she also traveled into a novel that she had just finished reading.
The male protagonist in the book was a criminal who was wrongfully imprisoned. Because of being wrongly imprisoned, he became the son of a prefect and lived a high-class life for twenty-one years.
This comfortable life was broken until the real master was recognized.
After being exiled for twenty-one years and living a hard life, the true master has turned into a black man, so he takes revenge on the male protagonist in various ways.
Not only did he bribe the official to break his legs when he was exiled to Lingnan. After the male protagonist was rejected when he proposed to his beautiful fiancée, he was so angry that he asked the male protagonist to marry an ugly and vicious woman to humiliate him.
And this vicious woman, after marrying the male protagonist, was harsh on the male protagonist's family in every possible way. She even took away the family's food and ran away after the amnesty.
But he rolled down the steep slope before he could get far. When he was found again after a night, he was already frightened to death.
It was at this time that Yu Ying came in and became the ex-wife of the male protagonist who is described in only a few sentences in the article.
Thinking of this, Yu Ying raised her hand with a headache and covered her eyes with her arm.
In the past three days, even without leaving the house, she had a general understanding of the current situation - at this time, the male protagonist's house was bare, and there was not even a grain of rice in the house.
In the memory of the original owner, Yu Ying also knew that she was now in a world ruled by a tyrant and treacherous ministers.
The original owner's father was an imperial physician, but he was beheaded for misdiagnosing the emperor's favorite concubine, and the whole family was exiled to Lingnan.
But now Lingnan does not have the prosperity of later generations, it is only backward, barren, and full of dangers.
Thinking of this, Yu Ying sighed helplessly.
What should she do now?
She thought about this problem for three days.
Unable to escape reality, Yu Ying can only be forced to accept the status quo and then try her best to survive.
While I was thinking about it, I heard a "Gulu" sound coming from my stomach.
Yu Ying touched her lower abdomen. She hardly ate in the past few days and only ate a few mouthfuls of wild vegetable soup every day to survive.
The strong hunger forced her to leave the straw bed, put on a pair of cloth shoes outside the bed, and slowly walked out with her weak body.
He walked to the door, hesitated for a moment, and then slowly opened the straw curtain of the thatched house.
It's early summer, the sun is setting in the west, and twilight is approaching.
The twilight sun was not dazzling, but since Yu Ying had been in the dim thatched house for three days, her eyes still felt uncomfortable when she saw the light, so she had to raise her hands to cover the light.
After getting used to it for a while, she slowly walked out of the house into the empty yard, stopped in it, and looked at the endless mountains in the distance.
Yu Ying's expression was dull again.
What is the difference between this and being in a modern, unexplored mountain?
While he was dazed, the sound of a bamboo pole tapping the ground suddenly came from behind him.
Hearing the sound, Yu Ying turned around and looked around in despair.
The person who made the noise was a thin old lady with gray hair, wrinkles on her face.
In these three days, she only saw the old lady twice, and they didn't say a word.
I didn't have the time to think about it a few days ago, but now I guessed that this old lady was the hero's biological mother, Luo Shi.
Who would have thought that this old woman who looked like she was sixty years old was actually not even fifty yet.
In order to set off the misery of the male protagonist, after the male protagonist recognized his relatives and before he could let go, his biological mother died.
The coarse cloth worn by Luo Shi has been worn so much that the original color cannot be seen, the cuffs are even frayed into silk threads, and there are many patches all over the body. The only difference between this clothes and the clothes worn by beggars is that it is relatively clean.
Luo Shi obviously had trouble with his eyesight, so he held a bamboo pole in his hand to explore the way and walked out of the thatched hut with squinted eyes.
She was holding a clay pot in her hand, and seemed to see a vague figure in the courtyard.
Even if she couldn't see clearly, Luo Shi could guess who it was. She ignored Yu Ying and walked to an old water tank with a numb expression.
After rubbing the water tank for a while, he picked up the water ladle and slowly poured two spoonfuls of water into the tank. Then he walked to a simple wooden frame for burning fire and squatted down.
Yes, the hero's family is so poor that they don't even have a kitchen, let alone a stove for cooking.
Yu Ying glanced past Luo Shi and looked at the crumbling thatched house behind her.
She thought that if the wind was stronger, the two thatched houses could be blown down.
There are only two thatched houses in this courtyard.
She lives in one room, and the other one is a bit larger, and is currently occupied by the male protagonist's family.
Such conditions are really bad, but Yu Ying knows that if she wants to survive, she cannot leave this place now.
The original owner had no way out and had less than ten cents in her entire body. How could she survive after she left here?
Moreover, the security in ancient times is not comparable to that in modern times, let alone Lingnan, which is known as a wilderness.
If you stay here, you can get some shelter from the wind and rain, and if you follow the protagonist to eat and drink later, you can have a little more vitality. But if he leaves, he may have a narrow escape from death.
Since she wants to stay and hang out with the male protagonist, she must integrate into the male protagonist's family.
After hesitating for a long time, Yu Ying still limped towards Luo Shi.
Because of his sprained foot, the sound he made while walking alerted Luo Shi, who was on guard.
When Luo heard the sound, her withered hands hurriedly touched the bamboo pole.
Seeing Luo Shi's guarded look, Yu Ying explained: "I just want to help you."
Hearing this, Luo Shi frowned and became even more wary of his wife's change of attitude: "I can do it without your help."
Luo Shi's rejection was also expected by Yu Ying.
The original owner was too bad before. He has been here for half a month. Not only did he verbally insult the Fu family, he even beat people. He even took away all the food in the house when he ran away. It's not surprising. Now Luo Shi is so wary of her.
Besides, when the original owner was carried back by the villagers, the small bag of taro was also missing. I don’t know who took the opportunity to leave.
Although Luo Shi cared about the food, after all, it was all gone. He couldn't question each family one by one, so he could only accept the reality. In his heart, he was even more unhappy with his daughter-in-law in name only.
Luo Shi wished that this fictitious daughter-in-law would run away far away and not come back again. I just didn't expect that she would take away all the food when she ran away, let alone that she would come back again.
This daughter-in-law was sent by an official to be his son's wife. Luo Shi did not dare to let his son reconcile with the evil woman at will.
Besides, everyone was back, and Luo Shi didn't dare to drive them away rashly, let alone starve her to death and cause a murder. In desperation, he could only swallow this breath of frustration alive.
Luo Shi was on guard, and Yu Ying could only temporarily rest her thoughts on integrating into the hero's family. Just as she was sighing again, her back hurt, and a pebble hit her back, and then she fell to the ground with a "snap" .
An angry voice came from behind.
"If you, a bad woman, bully grandma, I'm not done with you!"
Yu Ying frowned and immediately turned around to look.
The person who hit her with a stone was a boy who looked only five or six years old, but was actually almost eight years old.
This boy's name is Fu'an, and he is the nephew of the hero.
At this time, Fu An was glaring at Yu Ying fiercely, holding his thin little sister with his left hand.
The girl looks only two or three years old, but her actual age is definitely one or two years older than she looks.
Both brother and sister's faces were dirty, and they were wearing very inappropriate clothes that could barely cover their bodies.
Lingnan is one of the three places of exile, also known as a barbaric land. You can imagine how harsh and poor the environment in this place is.
Seeing that the family had no clothes to keep out the cold, no food to eat, and lived in thatched huts that were in danger of collapsing at any time, Yu Ying suddenly felt a chill in her heart, and she felt more confused than ever about the days to come.
She didn't know whether she could adapt to this harsh environment, or whether she could improve the situation and live well in this era.
