Chapter 59: Arrival and Departure (Part II)

Four years ago in this time and space, when the Lingao Crossing Group landed on Hainan Island, Jin Lingxue, a nine-year-old elementary school girl at the time, naturally did not have any ambitions to change the world and create history - normally, with her age and gender at the time, at most she would daydream of "becoming a magical girl, posing in gorgeous poses, and playing around with cute magical pets".

――Jin Lingxue, who was still a little Lori at that time, was completely dragged by her father to embark on this road of no return through ancient times.

Jin Lingxue still clearly remembers that day, her father, who had divorced her mother since half a year ago and quarreled over property and custody, suddenly took herself out in a hurry and came to a strange city and met many uncles and aunts she didn't know...... It wasn't until her father took her on the ship that she knew that she was going to move with her father to a strange place, and she didn't have any correct understanding of the next journey across time and space, as well as the world of the seventeenth century, until many days after the time-travel, she finally woke up.

-- For Jin Lingxue, a "pink newcomer" who was born in the 21st century and didn't even know all the Chinese characters, history lessons are still far away from her. And all kinds of palace fighting dramas and historical dramas on TV, Jin Lingxue's age is still a little earlier - she prefers to watch magical girl cartoons.

Although her father and the other time-travelers were very interested in the world of the late Ming Dynasty four hundred years ago, for Jin Lingxue, they were only at a loss.

“…… In this new world, you are a princess......" her father assured her as he climbed out of the boat with his luggage on his back.

…… Princess...... Hehe, that's a terrible joke that you can't laugh at all

Recalling her father's sworn and longing tone at that time, the corners of Jin Lingxue's mouth couldn't help but have a sarcastic wry smile.

-- Dreams are beautiful, but reality is cruel. Less than three months after the ship of the crossing group landed in Lingao, when the traverser took the initiative for the first time and sent troops to attack Goujiazhuang, a local tyrant village in Lingao County that was the enemy of the traverser, Jin Lingxue's father was poked from the wall by a spear of the Gou family Zhuangding because of the charge, and he fell on the spot and bled and suffered a skull fracture, and finally died after the rescue failed.

As a result, poor Jin Lingxue has not had time to become a "princess", and has already become a real orphan first.

- If you don't consider her biological mother, who is far away in the other world and is anxious to jump because of the disappearance of father and daughter......

Fortunately, no matter how young Jin Lingxue is, she is still a "veteran", and as the executive committee of the highest authority, it is naturally impossible to kick her away and leave her to fend for herself...... However, despite the care of several "female elders", the care of outsiders is not as intimate as that of relatives, Jin Lingxue still fully felt the despair of being unaccompanied, the desolation of being alone, and the sadness under the fence......

Then, Jin Lingxue, who had already lost her father, further felt the malice of this ancient world.

-- In modern novels and film and television works, this kind of thing is often processed by the creator to art, and a lot of romantic and happy colors are often processed by the creator -- whether you are an ordinary person or a genius, as long as you cross over, women will immediately become demons who are loved by everyone, and men will become leaders who change the world.

But the problem is that only after experiencing the time travel, can you know the real ancient society, which is definitely not the kind of handsome guys running all over the ground and seeing beautiful women everywhere described in novels and TV series......

On the contrary, the ancient world was not only extremely poor and backward, but also full of danger everywhere, and it was full of malice towards the travelers—the attacks of the natives of the Ming Dynasty, the threat of various infectious diseases, and the harsh living environment...... And the strictest test is the extreme lack of material and spiritual life.

As an ordinary girl who has been pampered since she was a child and is unprepared for the hard life in another world, poor Jin Lingxue was almost about to collapse during the difficult period when she first started her business: there was no Simmons when she slept, there was no KFC when she was greedy, not only did she not have air conditioning and soda when she was natural, she didn't even have an electric fan, and she didn't have anime and games when she was bored - all kinds of high-definition or "love action movies" stored in the time-traveling computer, It's still a little early for Jin Lingxue, who is still underage. Even the toilet only has her super uncomfortable squatting toilet. If it is outside of Bairen City, there is no such thing as a toilet, only a stinking thatched house......

In short, apart from the fresh air and the bright Milky Way at night, as well as green and pollution-free vegetables and seafood, she could hardly find anything good from this world worth mentioning, and most of the time she could not even use electric lights, only dim kerosene lamps for lighting, which made her feel as if she had come to some remote mountainous area...... But one has to look at the ragged and bun-haired natives of the Ming Dynasty outside, and you know that the place you are staying in today is probably far worse than any remote mountainous area in modern China

In those darkest days, Jin Lingxue often cried in bed all night long...... She has complained more than once about the dead ghost father who brought her to this ghost place to suffer by his own talk, and by the way, she has also "greeted" the organizer of this crossing countless times, that is, the eighteenth generation of the "executive committee", but in the end she still slowly survived - no way, she can't survive: as long as she leaves the simple camp of the traverser, it is a dangerous and dangerous situation for her Lori, any poisonous insect, a wild beast, or even a mouthful of raw water that is not pure, It is possible to kill her, and any seemingly honest Ming Dynasty farmer may also secretly knock her out and sell her into the Qinglou with her fine skin and tender meat

So, in the best period of the girl's life, Jin Lingxue was forced to live in a simple dormitory where mosquitoes were flying and there was no electricity, wearing an oversized and ill-fitting ugly face as a training person who had to clean her room, wash her clothes and do housework by herself at the age of nine, eat disgusting seafood porridge every day, and was often called to help wash vegetables and rice, as well as copy all kinds of texts, and made a cameo appearance as a literacy teacher for the indigenous people of the Ming Dynasty - although she had just finished the second grade of primary school, and her Chinese characters did not seem to be fully recognized. But he has already taught a group of illiterate people to read and write......

Hey, it's all a handful of bitter tears

Then, as time passed, the Senate of the Travelers finally gained a foothold in Lingao, and the living conditions gradually improved. In line with the simple idea of "no matter how hard you are, you can't be bitter for children", Lingao Senate established Parkview Green College, and tried its best to create a small world for those "little elders" who were less than eighteen years old, and Jin Lingxue naturally moved into the dormitory of Parkview Green College.

Although this Parkview Green Academy is incomparable to the original school in that world in terms of software and hardware, it is also a rare and clean place here, and it has a somewhat school feeling. And the study institute where the underage traveler is located is a country within a country: surrounded by high walls and heavily guarded. With the exception of a carefully selected "selection group" of indigenous students and naturalized teachers who take care of their daily lives, it is difficult for anyone to enter or leave the place, ensuring that they will not be disturbed lightly. And what they need to do is to get a good education and become the next generation of successors in the cross-career.

It sounds very good, but in fact, it is similar to the modern kind of fully closed boarding school, and it is also the kind of study pressure, discipline and prison-style management, which is enough to ⊥ most modern children who are addicted to leisure and hard work.

In just over two years at Parkview Green College, Jin Lingxue's studies have been running at full capacity every day, and her schedule is full of all kinds of courses - eight classes a day, and after dinner, there will be evening self-study, and the teacher will review the students' knowledge points one by one. Children in the modern world are already wailing just learning English. Jin Lingxue has to learn Japanese and Spanish on top of this...... Jin Lingxue, who didn't have much talent for languages, was soon dazzled by countless grammar and tenses......

By now, Jin Lingxue, who is only thirteen years old, should have just reached the sixth grade of primary school in the original world, but here she has already completed the junior high school curriculum, started high school education, and has to learn a lot of additional practical knowledge, and even has to practice shooting and surviving in the wild. Why learn so much nonsense? Jin Lingxue was deeply distressed by this.

There is no way, in the Lingao Crossing Group, which is known as "women are used as men, and men are used as livestock", at least in the initial stage, no traverser can think of an easy life. Even if it is a minor, it is necessary to train the special forces protagonist who is "proficient in multiple languages and survival skills in the wild, as well as a certain amount of Cheng dù fighting ability", but he has not considered it at all, Jin Lingxue is just an immature girl who should enjoy her childhood carefree.

――Even in terms of age, thirteen-year-old Jin Lingxue should still have Children's Day in the original world

In addition to the unbearable academic load, the relationship with the "new classmates" also made Jin Lingxue not very comfortable - like any armed colonial exploration group, there are not many minors in the Lingao Traveler Group, Jin Lingxue, who was only nine years old at the time of the crossing, was already the second-to-last in age, and the rest of the girls were a few years older than her, plus Jin Lingxue was not the kind of self-familiar temperament, but was a little introverted and shy, so she was among the traversers, I can't always find a few peers to play with.

And those local children who "accompany the prince to study", although they have a natural awe and stutter towards the traverser, but they seem too deliberate and contrived, and they can't say anything from their hearts. Moreover, the estrangement of the four centuries and the hierarchical feudal tradition are not so easy to wear away after all. Jin Lingxue, who is not sociable in the first place, is really difficult to find a confidant girlfriend here.

This is true between people of the same sex, not to mention between people of the opposite sex. The few time-traveler teenagers in the school, although barely able to speak, are almost all strong supporters of polygamy, always dreaming of buying a few obedient personal maids to warm the bed and do all kinds of things when they are old, and this is obviously unacceptable to most modern women - is it fun to play house fighting with a group of ancient women?

And the indigenous teenagers, I'm afraid it will be even more sad...... Although most local boys cower and dare not offend the "noble" female traverser, it is not that they do not take the initiative to stammer and pursue the "female elder", and want to fight for 20 years in one breath for less than 20 years. The problem is that Jin Lingxue first thinks that she is still young, and she treats those suitors as Lolicon. Secondly, she has also seen with her own eyes how low the status of women is in the traditional families of the Ming Dynasty: daughters-in-law cannot eat at the table, housework is not finished from morning to night, and parents-in-law set rules for daughters-in-law all day long, not to mention work, and even go out shopping has to be talked about - in a feudal society that has not experienced the women's liberation movement, all kinds of all-round restraints, whether explicit or covert, for female compatriots are really much stricter than in modern Saudi Arabia, which is absolutely unbearable for modern women.

In several celebrations open to the outside world, and occasionally when she took advantage of her vacation to wander outside the market, Jin Lingxue more than once met an old-fashioned old man who scolded her for "bad morals" and "unruly women's morals", and asked her to bind her feet and learn the rules. There is also a scholar in the Ming Dynasty who claims to be a merry genius and makes fun of her like the kiln sister who sells laughter in the Qinglou - when she learned that Liu Ru, a famous prostitute in the late Ming Dynasty who was famous in history, had already made her debut to receive customers at a younger age than herself, Jin Lingxue couldn't help but let out a long sigh: Are all men in ancient times pedophile criminals?

In short, as a primary school student who has just started to fall in love, Jin Lingxue has long been desperate for those flowery travelers who are full of thinking about three wives and four concubines, as well as ancient men who are full of rules for women with three obedience and four virtues.

By the way, Jin Lingxue really can't have a good impression of this ancient society that is incompatible with her and boring everywhere.

Therefore, after seeing the video communication sent to her by her mother from another world in tears on the smartphone brought by a PLA uncle in Tongguò, Jin Lingxue immediately cried, and then ignored the retention of teachers and classmates, and was determined to go home to find her mother

However, when it was time to part, overlooking the street scene of Lingao Dongmen City from the apartment building, she still felt a trace of sadness and melancholy - no matter what, this is a city built by 500 travelers in Lingao for more than three years, covering frost and dew, cutting thorns, and overcoming countless difficulties and obstacles. Every brick and tile of it is soaked in everyone's sweat and hard work.

In the middle, Jin Lingxue's contribution is naturally indispensable...... Although the share may be pitiful.

Therefore, although she had no good feelings about this experience comparable to going up the mountain and going to the countryside, in the last time before leaving Lingao, Jin Lingxue couldn't help but take out the smartphone that her mother had entrusted to her, and pointed at the city in the morning light from upstairs, and took a lot of pictures that she thought were worth recording......