A heavy carriage passed along the street, running over thick ice and snow. Suddenly it encountered a depression in the street, and a bump splashed snow on the heads of pedestrians nearby.
The pedestrian hissed from the cold and glanced at the swaggering carriage passing by, but he did not dare to speak at all. He only kept patting the snow on his thick cotton clothes.
Take a few steps forward.
It can be seen that on one side of the street corner, several corpses are lying in the ditch, dressed in rags. They are all beggars who did not survive the winter night and froze to death. They have been lying there for a long time, and no one paid attention to them.
"This world...sigh."
The pedestrian sighed, rubbed his hands that were red from the cold, and went home.
This is the capital of the Yuan Dynasty!
At the feet of the Emperor!
…
Walking along the snow-covered street, the number of pedestrians gradually decreased, but the road became more and more open, until a row of towering courtyard walls appeared in front of it, with two vermilion doors in the center, which read:
Xuanguo Mansion!
During the founding period of the Yuan Dynasty, he was one of the Eight Dukes and Fourteen Marquises. He has lived for seven hundred years.
Past the towering courtyard wall hung with icicles, all the way to the northwest corner of the entire Xuanguo Mansion, there is a small courtyard with only two entrances.
The yard was deserted, and the thick snow buried the floor tiles deeply. Only a few footprints of different sizes could be seen on the snow, all alone.
In the bedroom.
Chen Mu woke up in confusion, only to feel a swelling between his eyebrows.
He looked at the environment in the room with some confusion, and gradually realized that there was a string of memories in his mind that did not belong to him, and they began to merge with his original memories.
Chen Mu held his head, his body tensed for a while, and then gradually relaxed.
"Dayuan..."
"Xuanguo Mansion..."
"I see."
Chen Mu exhaled a breath of white air and felt dumbfounded for a moment.
Before he went to bed, he had made a wish to travel back in time to an ancient dynasty and become a young master, but the clothes he wore were not right, and his identity was not right either.
The young master is a young master, but he is a concubine. Moreover, the father passed away seven years ago because he was too indulged in wine and sex, so his status in the Xuanguo Mansion can be imagined.
and.
This is not a big problem yet.
The bigger problem is that the world is not very scientific yet.
There were ghosts causing trouble and demons running rampant. His predecessor was frightened and caught cold due to his physical weakness and encounters with ghosts at night. As a result, he became ill until he was replaced.
Fortunately for the welfare of the traveler, his cold and frightened body has improved due to his arrival. At present, except for being a little weak, there are no major problems.
Just as Chen Mu propped up his body and sat up.
When I started to look around my room.
There was a sound of footsteps outside, and then the door was pushed open, and someone walked in. It was a woman with a delicate and dignified appearance, about eighteen or nineteen years old.
Seeing the figure walking in clearly, Chen Mu reacted quickly and called out weakly.
"Sister-in-law."
The visitor is my original sister-in-law, Ning.
It turns out that he had an older half-brother who was excellent in martial arts and was much stronger than his younger brother. He was also assigned to be a military attaché, but last year he encountered a demonic rebellion and unfortunately died.
Ning and his brother had no heirs, so they could no longer live in the Xuanguo Mansion, but the old lady above thought of their old relationship and said something that allowed her to stay until now.
"Why are you up?"
When Ning saw Chen Mu sitting beside the bed, she was surprised at first, and then burst into tears of joy: "Uncle, he looks much better today, how pitiful..."
When I came to see him two days ago, Chen Mu's breathing was weak and his face was like gold paper. It seemed that he had only one breath left. Unexpectedly, he suddenly got better today.
uncle……
This title felt weird. Chen Mu complained in his heart, but still forced a smile on his face:
"I got over it."
"Just get through it, it'll be fine, just get through it."
Ning had tears in her eyes and nodded repeatedly.
She approached the bed and saw a basin towel placed by the bedside, so she reached out to get it, but the tentacles were bitingly cold, causing her to withdraw her hand immediately.
"Why is it a basin of cold water?!"
Ning was shocked.
Chen Mu thought that given his status, it would be good to have a basin of water, but he still shook his head and said: "I guess the firewood house is in short supply of firewood recently."
If I remember correctly, this basin of cold water seems to have been left here for a day and has not been changed.
"How can they be so lazy and slack!"
Ning was shocked and angry.
The shortage of firewood was no excuse. It was clearly because the maids and servants serving Chen Mu were lazy and slack, and she had never seen those two people since entering the hospital!
Although Chen Mu is a concubine, he is still his master, and he is served by two maids and one servant. But now there is no one in the bedroom courtyard, and the snow in the courtyard has not been swept for an unknown period of time.
"How could I bully you like this? How could I bully you like this..."
Mrs. Ning bit her lips tightly, and was so angry that she even shed tears, and said: "Uncle, wait a minute, I will go to the old lady to seek justice."
Even though Chen Mu had just come to this world and was still a little undecided, Ning's appearance still made him feel a little warm.
I sighed in my heart that my sister-in-law is so kind, but on her face she blocked her with a weak tone:
"No, my sister-in-law can stay in Xuanguo Mansion because the old lady is compassionate and the servants are lazy. If I bother you about these little things, on the one hand, it will appear that my master is incompetent and make people laugh. On the other hand, if I bother the old lady again, I will be in a bad situation."
It will only get harder."
That old lady was the biological mother of Duke Xuan of this generation, and she was a bit like Mother Jia in the Red Mansion, except that the Xuan Guo Mansion was much larger. He knew that there were dozens of bastards like him, and they were often all.
As soon as he reached the age of twenty, he was kicked out of the government to start his own business.
The old lady probably didn't even have the slightest impression of him.
Ning also knew that what Chen Mu said was right. She held the handkerchief tightly until her fingertips turned white, and said with tears in her eyes: "Then... are you allowed to let them bully you like this?"
"Sister-in-law, please rest assured."
"Now that I'm alive, they can't bully me at will."
Although Chen Mu's voice was weak, when it fell into Ning's ears, every word and every sentence seemed to be sonorous and powerful, as if it contained a completely different kind of courage.
Ning couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. When she looked at Chen Mu carefully, she saw that Chen Mu's eyes were clear and bright, with an indescribable depth.
Although the whole person was leaning on the side of the bed, still seeming weak and weak, he had an inexplicable courage, which was completely different from Chen Mu in the past.
For a while.
Ning was in a daze, as if she saw Chen Mu's brother, who also had such confidence and magnanimity. He just sat there and showed no anger or authority.
This made her feel a little crazy, and for a moment she wanted to reach out and touch Chen Mu's face.