Is the opening of Chapter 1 so difficult?
Gu Chan worked overtime all day and night. Not long after she fell asleep, she felt a sharp pain in her back, as if someone had kicked her.
"Well..."
Then, an unpleasant drake voice came, "Don't pretend to be dead, get up and hurry up. I'm telling you, if you're late, I'll beat your muscles and skin you."
Gu Chan ignored the pain and hurriedly opened her eyes, then she was shocked!
However, here is a wilderness.
The strong wind roared, picking up dark yellow dust, mixed with sand and gravel, and smashed it into people's faces.
The sky was gray and it was so heavy that I couldn't breathe.
There was only a group of people in the wilderness, dressed in strange clothes. If you look carefully... they seemed to be officials and exiled prisoners in ancient times. The prisoners were unkempt and dressed in dirty prison uniforms. At this time, they were dragging their weak bodies amidst the shouts and insults of the government officials. With his body and heavy shackles, he climbed up from the ground with difficulty.
Those who climbed slowly would be whipped twice or kicked twice by the official.
For example, she just got kicked.
no!
What's going on?
Didn't she get off work and sleep on the bed in her bachelor apartment? How come you are here in such a blink of an eye? Could it be that you are dreaming?
Before she could figure it out, she was kicked hard on the back again, "Are you deaf? Didn't you hear what I said?"
Gu Chan grinned in pain. The intense pain told her that she was not dreaming now, but that she had most likely traveled through time.
The problem is, she neither died nor read any novels, so how could she travel through time?
Adhering to the principle that a hero should not suffer the immediate consequences, she endured the pain in her back and got up from the ground.
But she found that her body was weaker than she thought.
As soon as I stood up, I felt dizzy, and with the chains tied to my feet, I couldn't even take a step forward.
At this time, two birds of unknown species flew overhead and chirped a few times as they passed by the crowd.
Something magical happened again. Gu Chan could vaguely hear the conversation between the two birds——
[Jiji, these two-legged monsters are so shameless. They mate on the ground instead of going back to their nests. 】
[Chirping, chirping, more than that~ Didn’t you see that the female Twoleg is unwilling to mate? Several male Twolegs are suppressing the female Twoleg, tsk tsk~ The Twoleg is rude and barbaric, not a good thing. 】
[That’s right, Two-legged monsters often dig into our nests, it’s annoying! It would be great if all the Bipeds were dead! 】
"..." Gu Chan looked up at the two birds flying farther and farther away, and was completely confused!
She reluctantly accepted time travel, but what the hell is a bird talking like a human?
Could it be that she didn't travel through time, but went to the underworld after death? But I’ve never heard of talking birds in the underworld before.
Seeing the woman dragging her feet, the yamen officer kicked her again and said, "Are you looking for death?"
Gu Chan was startled and hurriedly dragged her weak body away from the general.
After returning to the crowd, a strong rancid smell poured into her nasal cavity and reached Tianling Gai. She couldn't help but retching.
Next to her was a middle-aged woman with knotted hair and dirty and ragged clothes. Seeing Gu Chan retching, the woman cursed, "What are you vomiting for? Damn slave, what qualifications do you have to despise the masters? You bastard!"
Gu Chan was scolded all over her face, but thinking that she was in the wrong, she didn't say a word.
Then, she silently looked at the crowd around her and found that there were more than fifty people in exile. Except for a few old men and boys, the others were all women of various ages.
In her mind, there are two types of exile teams.
One is for prisoners from different sources to form a team and be exiled.
The other is to take the criminal family as a unit and send the entire family into exile.
If it is the former, there should be men and women, old and young in the team. However, there are no young men in this team. The female prisoners help each other. There are a few who have similar looks. It seems that they should be the latter. The woman just called her a dog slave. Could it be that the original owner was exiled as a criminal's slave?
Gu Chan sighed quietly as she held her head-heavy and weak body - What's the matter? Okay, why did you travel through time? Even if it's time travel, does it have to be so difficult at the beginning? Even if it was difficult, why did she hear the birds talking?
Or... it was a hallucination that she heard the bird talking. After all, the original owner was dead, so it was not uncommon for hallucinations to occur.
Just when Gu Chan was depressed, he saw several government servants not far away dragging a ragged female prisoner towards the team.
Among them was a government servant with a wretched expression, wearing a belt as he walked, with an evil smile on his face.
Look at the female prisoner again, her hair is disheveled and her eyes are dull.
"Rou'er, my Rou'er!"
A cry came from beside him.
Gu Chan turned around and saw that the person crying was none other than the middle-aged woman who had just scolded her.
The middle-aged woman carried the shackles and cried bitterly.
Gu Chan thought with her toes that the woman named "Rou'er" was raped by evil government officials who took advantage of their position. This situation often happened in ancient China.
Suddenly, she remembered what the bird "said" - Twolegs did not mate in their nests, Twolegs were barbaric and forced to mate. Could it be...
Could it be that the two birds are the Yamen and Rouer?
So it wasn't an illusion that she heard the birds talking?
Rourer stumbled towards the team, and the wailing middle-aged woman kicked Gu Chan in the leg, "Get away, you blind slave!"
Gu Chan was also angry, turned around and cursed, "Auntie, do you want to find out? Do you think you are still a noble lady? We are all prisoners, who is nobler than whom? This time, for the sake of your age, I will Don’t fight back. If you dare to kick me again next time, I will definitely kick you back!”
For a moment, the surroundings were quiet.
Everyone looked at Gu Chan as if they were looking at monsters. Gu Chan snorted coldly, "What are you looking at? You'd better not mess with me, otherwise my aunt and you will be dead."
As soon as Gu Chan finished speaking, the government servant who had just kicked her shouted loudly, "That's enough, shut up! Let's start on our way. If anyone talks more and delays the trip, you will be the ones to suffer!"
After being yelled at by the yamen, everyone hurriedly looked away and prepared to drag their heavy shackles on their way.
Gu Chan went back to spraying, but silently moved to the side, leaving a place for "Rou'er".
There is a reason why she squirts - even if the original owner is a domestic slave and has responsibilities and obligations that are dictated by these people, she is not a domestic slave, right?
Being bullied by the yamen servants was already very bad, but she was not that servile. If she found another master for herself, she would die together at worst.
Of course, you can't die just yet.
She had to think of a way to see if she could travel back home.
Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly, a few weak voices came.
[Are these two-legged beasts going to the cliff ahead? 】
Gu Chan was stunned, and hurriedly followed the voice - with difficulty, she found through the heavy shackles hanging around her neck that the ones speaking turned out to be... a few ants.
no! Didn’t the biology class say that ants exchange information through pheromones and don’t have much emotion? Why are the ants in this world still nagging?
Another ant replied, [I don’t know, will you die if you fall? 】
[No, there is a hidden cave under the cliff. If you get into that cave, you cannot see it from above. You would think you have fallen down. I used to scare my second brother like this, which made him cry. 】
【You are so bad! 】
"..." Gu Chan.
(End of chapter)