Chapter 1: Rebirth
Gu Wan picked up the horn comb on the table and combed up her slightly withered yellow hair at once, feeling a little puzzled in her heart, why could she be reborn twice?
In her first life, she did have a hard time, but who was not bitter in troubled times? Although her parents died, she was displaced for a few years, and she met a vicious uncle, so that she could not use heirs in her life, but she had a brother who loved her like a jewel, and then met an uncle who really cared for her.
After marrying Rong Huai'an, because her husband only treats her as an ornament, a ladder that can make him famous, and only his childhood sweetheart is the person in that man's heart, and his mother-in-law will never stop making trouble...... Gu Wan's life is not too good because of this!
But there are many women in the world who are more miserable than her, she at least has no worries about food and clothing, has money and leisure, lived to the age of sixty-eight, and survived the woman who was spoiled by her husband, and died without a problem.
Before she died, she didn't feel unwilling, Gu Wan's desire was never big, she always felt that she was doing well, more than the upper and lower than the bottom, which was good.
But after she died, she found herself in a strange world and had a new life......
Gu Wan only thought that she was reincarnated and did not drink Meng Po soup, she had no father and no mother in her life, she relied on the embroidery of skilled female workers in her previous life, made money to live, became self-reliant early, helped the dean take care of other little orphans when she was a teenager, and after going to school, she followed the advice of the teacher and successfully passed the medical school examination, and after graduation, she opened a clinic near the orphanage, and devoted herself to treating and saving people, and by the way, she helped take care of the children in the orphanage, until she died in a car accident at the age of thirty-three......
Although it was a bit regrettable that she didn't have time to marry a man on a blind date, and she didn't have time to give birth to a child she had begged for a lifetime, but in her short life, her life was quite fulfilling, and she didn't feel the need to do it again, but she just returned to her previous life so inexplicably!
Gu Wan sighed, it's good to be back, although she always said that her life was not the worst, but in that life, she had no children or daughters, and her brother was still sick for her, and she was poisoned by her uncle and mother, died young, and her sister-in-law did not give birth...... That kind of life can't be far-fetched to say how good it is!
In this life, as long as her brother and sister-in-law live happily and happily, she will let her uncle worry less, if possible, revive the Liu family's family business, if not, then enjoy a lifetime of health and well-being, that is.
Combed her hair up, she was still keeping filial piety, and she didn't wear a flower, Gu Wan looked at herself carefully in the mirror, although it was blurry, she could still see that the little girl's appearance in the mirror was beautiful, although because she was young, she had not yet grown, but she could already imagine what the future would be. It's just a mouthful of teeth, with yellow stains, and there are no snow-white shellfish teeth like the pampered daughter......
The last time I first went to Dayong City, I was laughed at as an ugly girl, and I can't blame others, after all, she lost her mother at a young age, she didn't get a good upbringing, and she fled again, she couldn't even eat enough along the way, she was tired, where did she still have the strength to pay attention to her face, and her appearance at that time was yellow and thin, I'm afraid it was only a little better than a beggar......
Hunger came one after another.
Gu Wan sighed, put the comb back into the old but delicate dressing box on the table, reluctantly got out of bed, moved to the kitchen, in front of the rice jar in the corner, as she expected, there was only some grain left in it, even if it was saved, it was not enough to eat for half a month, and looked around, there was still a small bowl of wild vegetable porridge on the stove, black, let alone eat, just look, Gu Wan was sick to her stomach.
However, she still gritted her teeth, picked up the bowl and put the wild vegetable porridge in the pot to heat it, and poured three or two mouthfuls into her stomach while it was hot.
Exhaling a sigh, Gu Wan finally felt that she had some strength in her body, and smiled bitterly, she didn't know how long she hadn't felt hungry - now, it was not the time to think about such a complex proposition as 'why rebirth', first filling her stomach and finding a way to survive was the first priority.
After thinking about it, a thought flashed through her mind, Gu Wan returned to the room, walked slowly to the head of the bed, took out a string of keys threaded with iron rings from a small bamboo basket under the bed, and then looked up at a dusty lotus candlestick on the stone table next to the bed.
After carefully measuring the candlestick, Gu Wan's eyes lit up, and she stretched out her hand to erect the six lotus petals one by one, and as the last petal was moved, the blue bricks under her feet suddenly seemed like water waves, from right to left, cracking a gap that could accommodate one person, revealing the stone steps of the big bluestone inside......
Don't look at the mechanism is still exquisite, but this is just a very crude cellar, there is a place for light transmission on it, so the light is not dark, Gu Wan looked over, and saw three boxes in the corner, Gu Wan walked over, opened the boxes one by one, and suddenly her eyes lit up-
It turned out to be a box of antique jade, ornaments made of Hetian white jade, jade tooth zhang, white jade hollow openwork sachet, jade eight immortal pattern holding pot, there are dozens of pieces, all of which are excellent antiquities.
She hurriedly opened another box, and this time, the box was full of jewelry, presumably her mother's dowry.
Gu Wan was only happy for a moment, and then couldn't help but sigh: "Mother, since you are so rich, why didn't you think of storing more food?" ”
If it is peaceful and prosperous, with such a large amount of wealth in hand, Gu Wan's future life is definitely guaranteed, but unfortunately, in the troubled times of disasters and famines, these things are far less attractive than food.
In fact, it's not that Gu Wan's mother-in-law Liu Yan didn't store food, although she was born as the daughter of a century-old family, and she was not stained with fireworks in the world since she was a child, but that was also before, living in this world for decades, how could she be so ignorant, it was really Gu Wan's mother's eldest son who was young, still studying abroad, her husband died early, she was a sick and weak widow, she knew the truth that wealth should not be exposed, and she didn't dare to take out too many treasures to exchange food, for fear that something would happen to others!
However, in recent years, the year has been bad, natural and man-made disasters have continued, most of the land in the village has been barren, not even much seed grain has been left, and the price of grain in various grain banks has also continued to be high......
Liu Yan is not good at farming, the farmer who rents her family's three acres of fertile land, his own chewing is not enough, and he is hungry and sells his daughter to feed his son......
Who would have thought that this year's food is so scarce, the little food she secretly bought by herself is not enough to eat, and when she still wants to buy it again, she is already too sick to get up, and the village is empty, and it is difficult to find someone to help. is the current food at home, or Wang's sister-in-law, Uncle Guo saw that the two of them were in difficulty, and took the initiative to help bring it back from the city......
The so-called gold in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times, even if these things are worth a fortune, but there are still eight years before the peaceful and prosperous times, and eight years is such a long time, where can this bit of belongings be kept?
Gu Wan thought that in the previous life, she was too young and ignorant, and she didn't have time to explain when her mother died, although she also knew from her uncle that she had the habit of digging cellars and dark rooms to collect precious items, but she never took it seriously, and she didn't get any of these treasures, so she let her uncle and aunt who cleaned up the house for her go, and there were two of them, she seemed to have seen them in her cousin's dowry......
If that's all it is, that's it, anyway, antique jade and jewelry, no matter how precious, are only valuable, and money can always be earned again. And the third box full of books is the greatest wealth. Back then, Gu Wan's uncles, aunts, cousins, and cousins were able to transform themselves from a humble family to an aristocratic and wealthy family, and these books were the ladder for them to enter......
At this time, it is different in modern times, knowledge is only obtained by a small number of people, only the palace is in the palace, a hundred years old, will have a collection of books, ordinary people, most of them are illiterate at all.
"I wonder if I can exchange them for some food......"
Gu Wan frowned, picked up a sheep fat white jade wrench, and at this moment, a row of big characters in italics suddenly appeared in front of her eyes - fair trading, Tong Su is not bullied, and a piece of inferior sheep fat jade handicrafts can be exchanged for twenty-eight points.
As soon as her hand stiffened, Gu Wan's eyes widened, her face was full of incredulity, and she almost threw away the mutton fat jade in her hand......
After being stunned for a moment, Gu Wan pressed her thumping heart, and finally found out that this was actually a store system......
Ignoring her doubts and entanglements, she studied it a little, and her first reaction was to quickly choose a small white jade ring for thirty points, and then began to buy food, the three empty rice jars in the kitchen were full, and the points were almost spent, and then she exchanged the zero point for a bowl of thick corn porridge and poured it into her stomach!
It's not that she doesn't want to eat more hearty food, it's just that she knows very well that her body has been hungry for a long time, and eating too much at once is harmful......
A bowl of hot corn porridge went down, Gu Wan finally breathed a sigh of relief, she had food in her hand, she didn't panic, no matter how the food came from, looking at the 'pile-up' of grain, her heart was much more steady.