Chapter 1: Selling Yourself
In the middle of winter, the wind is cold.
Ji Qingling shrunk into a ball, feeling the chill seeping through the vertical and horizontal silk threads of the fabric on her body, and the cold made her whole body stiff.
In addition to the cold, she also felt a twitch in her stomach, and the pain made her whole person lose consciousness for a moment. After a long time, I gradually realized that this pain was a little strange, and it seemed to be ...... Hungry ......
After surviving the hunger pain, Ji Qingling opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was that there were a few leaky tiles on the top of his head, and the east side had already turned white, and a few beams of light leaked from the missing tiles, but it reflected a little brightness in the room. I looked at it in the sparse light for a while, and a large clay statue sat on the platform not far away, the sky was too dark, and I really couldn't tell which god it was for.
Seeing this statue, Ji Qingling had a feeling.
Yes, she is no longer the Ji Qingling who was born in the mansion of Zhong Ming Ding Food in Da Chu, loved by the family but riddled with evil diseases, but has become the daughter of an eight-rank official in the previous dynasty, coincidentally, this body has the same name as her in the past, also called Ji Qingling.
This Ji Qingling died of his mother, and he was so grieved that he couldn't catch his breath one night, and he was gone. When he woke up again, his body had been replaced by "Ji Qingling" of the Great Chu State.
Why did he live again after death, but he was reincarnated in someone else's body, was Meng Po not giving herself a drink of ecstasy soup, or is it the same as those Zhiyiye histories say, there are really cases of borrowing corpses to resurrect souls in the world?
I have been thinking about these questions for many days, and I have no clue, and now Ji Qingling is cold and hungry, and I really don't have the strength to dwell on it anymore. Instead of focusing on things that don't make sense, it's better to think carefully about how to fill your stomach.
"Ji Qingling."
Just as all kinds of unstructured calculations flashed through her mind, a boy's voice sounded beside her, and it was particularly terrifying in the darkness.
Ji Qingling was excited, and subconsciously "belched".
I almost forgot that this body still has a companion.
At this time, the name of the country is Jin, which is the former dynasty of Great Chu, this name is Ji Qingling, only eight years old, his father was an official in the border, and there are five people in the family. A year ago, the Northern Barbarians invaded and slaughtered the city, Ji's father and Ji Qingling's two brothers were all killed in battle, leaving Ji's mother to flee with her daughter.
The boy's nickname is Gu Wulang, and he is also a homeless person who fled in the city, and his family has some branches and rich in the Central Plains, but unfortunately the whole family was slaughtered by the Northern Barbarians when the city was broken, and only an old servant fled with the little master.
After the great war, there was often a plague, and the servants were old and contracted without accident. Fortunately, before he died, he met Ji's mother in the same city, so he handed over the money and the little master to the other party and entrusted her to take care of it.
Unexpectedly, within two days, Ji's mother also fell ill and died, leaving the two children at a loss.
"It's time to go, I'm still on my way today." Gu Wulang called.
was fleeing for their lives, but the two families were unable to bring much money, and they buried the old servant and Ji's mother, and now they are even poorer. Without entanglement, the two children could only live in a ruined temple outside the city. Gu Wulang is a little older, and since Ji's mother passed away, he has been making decisions about the big and small things between the two.
Ji Qingling got up, walked to the corner, and barely washed up with the frozen water in the basin.
Seeing that Ji Qingling had freshened up, Gu Wulang took out the last small half of the bun from his arms, broke it in half, and handed it over: "Eat quickly, let's leave after eating." ”
The steamed bun was already frozen like a stone, only the size of a newborn egg, but Ji Qingling still cherished it with his teeth.
After eating this breakfast, which was not even within the reach of a simple one, Gu Wulang carried a small bag on his back and took Ji Qingling out of the door.
When they entered the city, it was already dawn, and the two walked to a densely populated street, Gu Wulang turned to Ji Qingling and said, "You will take the money in a while, go to the east dart bureau to hand over, and go on the road with them." ”
Ji Qingling was stunned: "What money?" ”
It's been a few days since she entered this body, and maybe because the thing of borrowing corpses to resurrect and transform her body is too weird, she has always been in a daze, as if no matter what happens, it has nothing to do with her. Gu Wulang gave her dry food, she would eat, she would drink water, let her sleep, and leave when she was in a hurry, very cooperative.
However, even so, a few days is enough for her to see the current situation clearly - the two of them are really exhausted, not to mention any dart money, even a penny, and they can't take it out now.
Gu Wulang pulled her aside and whispered: "You go to the capital, find the Li family, give them the jade and letters in the mezzanine of your clothes, and tell them your name and origin, naturally someone will take the initiative to take it in, and then you will let the Li family send someone to find me." ”
Ji's mother was going to take her daughter to the capital to join an old family, the surname is Li, the head of the house is a wealthy businessman who was inadvertently saved by Ji's father in the early years, after being saved, the wealthy businessman wanted to pay a lot of money, Ji's father refused to accept it, the other party saw this trip, so he left a family heirloom jade pendant, saying that if the Ji family has something to do in the future, he can go to Beijing to find him at any time.
Since then, the two families have been in correspondence, the Li family knew that Ji's father had to be promoted to the eighth grade, and soon wrote a letter to ask for the second son of the family to marry the daughter of the Ji family.
The Ji family has lived in Yanzhou for generations, the border city was slaughtered, and the three relatives and five friends have died seventy-seven eighty-eight, thinking about it, Ji's mother had to take her daughter to the Li family. In Ji's mother's opinion, she went away with grace, although now that the Ji family is withering, the Li family may not still attach importance to herself, an orphan and widow, but it should not be a problem to stutter.
Hearing Gu Wulang's words, Ji Qingling couldn't help frowning: "Fifth Brother Gu, what are you going to do?" ”
Gu Wulang didn't explain more, but pulled her into the side of the room, knocked on the door and shouted, "Aunt Liao!" ”
The door soon opened, and a woman in her thirties poked her head out, and when she saw that it was Gu Wulang, a smile immediately appeared on her face, and she said, "Come in." ”
There are all tables and chairs in the room, and when the two of them choose a place to sit, Aunt Liao has already taken out a piece of paper from the inner room and said, "You wait here, and when I pack up, I will go to find the chief together." As he spoke, he handed the paper to Gu Wulang, "Since you know two big characters, let's take a look, but I didn't cheat you." ”
Gu Wulang answered, took the yellow paper in the other party's hand, and looked down seriously.
Ji Qingling glanced at it from the side, the handwriting on the paper was quite neat, and there were three big characters "Pawn Deed" at the head, and "There is now Gu Yanzhang, a son of the Gu family in Yanzhou City, who rents himself, changes copper coins for 12 times, and has been a servant for the main family for eight years" and so on.
Ji Qingling was shocked and blurted out: "Fifth Brother Gu, what are you going to do?" Aren't you going to the capital with me? ”