Lin Xiao, who was standing blankly beside the wedding bed with the red candle swaying, still didn't understand. After sleeping, how could he travel from the modern 21st century to the backward feudal society, and even get married?!
Even if you are getting married, why would you be dressed as a groom?
Could it be...
"God, are you trying to kill me?"
Lin Xiao ignored the bride who was sitting on the wedding bed and wearing a wedding scarf. She stumbled out of the wedding room and found a corner to check her body.
call!
Okay, okay, everything is normal, nothing more or less.
Lin Xiao breathed a long sigh of relief, and his hanging heart gradually fell to the ground.
But...why did the original owner want to disguise herself as a man?
My head started to hurt for no reason, and then a large number of memories belonging to the original owner flooded into my mind, merging with Lin Xiao's memories.
In his previous life, Lin Xiao, as the youngest section chief of the agricultural research team of a prestigious university, had just published a paper that shocked the global agricultural community.
Before she had time to experience the glory of her own life, she traveled to this dynasty called Daxia.
She is also possessed by a poor scholar with the same name as her.
The poor scholar she possessed was also named Lin Xiao.
Compared with her fate, there is no worst fate, only worse fate.
When the original owner Lin Xiao was still in her mother's belly, her father lost his life due to hunting.
In order to prevent the Lin family from being wiped out, the original owner was lied to by Lin's mother as a boy when she was born, and finally kept the one-third acre of land left by her father.
I don’t know whether she took the lies seriously or had other plans, but Mother Lin tightened her belt and sent the original owner, who was disguised as a man, to school.
She even hoped that one day she would be able to obtain a good name and honor her ancestors.
However, things went against expectations. Just half a month before the original master was about to go to Beijing to take the imperial examination, an accident happened.
Mother Lin went to the river to wash clothes. Her foot slipped and she accidentally fell into the river.
By the time the original owner rushed to save her, it was too late, she was already cold!
The grief-stricken original owner drank to drown his sorrows all day long.
It also happened to coincide with the annual official wedding ceremony, and the drunken original owner became the groom in a daze.
On the night of the wedding, the original owner thought of his mother who died tragically, and couldn't help but feel sad and mistook the wine for water.
As he drank, he brought Lin Xiao from the 21st century to the Great Xia Dynasty...
"Other people who travel through time travel are popular for drinking spicy food. It's better for me. I can go directly into the bridal chamber and there will be no one else."
Lin Xiao complained, but his mind did not stop thinking.
She is a girl and the bride is also a girl. How do two girls enter the bridal chamber?
If it is exposed, not to mention that the original owner's three-thirds of an acre of land will be wiped out by the clan members, even he will have to suffer terrible punishment!
Thinking of the terrible punishment, Lin Xiao quickly shook her head and made up her mind to hide her identity as a woman disguised as a man and never let anyone know!
After making up her mind, Lin Xiao was about to return to her room when she realized that the walls of the original owner's house were in ruins. She couldn't help but sigh to herself:
"You are really not an ordinary poor person. No wonder Mother Lin forced the original owner to take the merit examination."
With a creaking sound, the wedding door was pushed open.
The bride, who was covered with a hippa, tightened the dagger in her hand, and a fierce look flashed in her slender red phoenix eyes.
Lin Xiao picked up the small bamboo pole placed on the dressing table and gently picked up the red hijab.
A handsome face with deep three-dimensional features and sharp eyebrows caught Lin Xiao's eyes.
Is this...the bride?!
Lin Xiao looked at the bride in front of him, who was a bit more handsome than the popular traffic boy, and his mind was full of black question mark faces.
"You...what's your name?"
Lin Xiao took a deep breath, calmed down her mood, which was scorched outside and tender inside, and asked softly.
The bride was stunned for a moment, then with lightning speed she hid the dagger in her waist and faintly uttered three words "Li Yuyan".
Li Yuyan, a famous black widow in Lijia Village, often had her husband die suddenly and inexplicably on the night of her wedding.
According to Lin Xiao's understanding of history, in the evil feudal society, women had extremely low social status.
Especially for a woman who has become a widow, it is even more difficult to remarry!
But how can Li Yuyan get married again and again?
Some related memories flashed through Lin Xiao's mind.
In recent years, the Daxia Dynasty has experienced constant natural and man-made disasters, resulting in a sharp decline in population.
In order to stimulate population growth, the imperial court stipulated that if a man reaches eighteen years old and a woman reaches sixteen years old but has not yet gotten married, the tax will be increased by 50%.
Men and women who are widowed and childless must remarry, otherwise they will receive a 60% increase in taxes.
This will undoubtedly make things worse for the people who have been oppressed by exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes for a long time.
Especially those who have daughters at home, they are afraid that they will not be able to get married in the Xia Dynasty where there are many girls and few boys, which will bring down the whole family.
Therefore, every time when spring and summer alternate, the imperial court will ask the officials to take girls who are of marriageable age but have not left the court, or who have become widows, and go to the mountains and countryside with their dowries.
Once selected, no matter how ugly or ugly the man is, he must immediately become his biological child and has no right to refuse.
If a man of marriageable age does not choose the woman of his choice, the government will directly send him a bride.
Obviously, Lin Xiao’s bride was forced upon her by the government!
And it was the second-rate boy named Wang Le in the village who instigated it.
As an atheist, Lin Xiao naturally does not believe in such things as the fate of a husband or the fate of a widow.
She felt that since she had traveled through time and was married to the rather heroic-looking bride in front of her, she must treat each other with respect as a guest in the future.
What's more, her first priority is to get out of poverty and run towards a well-off society!
Lin Xiao cleared her throat and said friendly: "My name is Lin Xiao, and we will be a family living under the same roof from now on."
"Why?"
Li Yuyan looked at the smiling Lin Xiao blankly, her heart full of confusion.
Could this guy be Liu Xiahui, who is still in love?
But that’s fine, because I don’t have to kill anyone anymore and can solidify my reputation as the Black Widow!
Li Yuyan, whose real name is Li Yuyan, was the late emperor's favorite ninth prince.
In order to avoid being pursued by the current Holy Emperor, his half-brother Li Yuquan.
The man had no choice but to disguise himself as a woman and hide in the remote Lijia Village, taking on the identity of Li Yuyan, the daughter of the Li family who died in a foreign land.
During these years of hiding his name, Li Yuyan accumulated a lot of experience and made full preparations for future revenge.
But time waits for no one, and Li Yuyan will soon reach the age of getting married.
In order not to expose his identity, he had no choice but to assassinate the groom on their wedding night and became the black widow that all men feared.
I thought I would have to use the groom's blood to sacrifice his dagger again tonight, but I didn't expect that the seemingly weak groom turned out to be an out-and-out Liu Xiahui!
"Are you hungry?"
Lin Xiao said something unexpectedly. Li Yuyan shook his head subconsciously and nodded again.
He would be lying if he said he wasn't hungry. He hadn't had a full meal in several days.
In the past few years since he became the Black Widow, all the property of the Li family has been used to pay 60% of the tax, and it is common for him to have a meal every two or three days.
"I'm hungry too."
Lin Xiao chuckled and said, "Just wait, I'll go to the village to get some food!"
I am responsible for concentrating on writing code words, and the rest will be left to all your beautiful fairy sisters and handsome fairy brothers!