Born as a space beast, Shi Chu possessed a strong sense of self-preservation and was inherently selfish. She revelled in luxury, indulging in fine food and clothing. She rejected phrases like “su...
Chapter 567: The Exiled Female Prisoner with Two Deadly Deaths (2)
However, before Gong Liang Sibai could return home, a catastrophe befell the Gong Liang family. The prince's rebellion failed, and he was stripped of his status, demoted to a commoner, and imprisoned in a cold prison. The queen also committed suicide out of fear of punishment.
As the Empress's family and the Prince's maternal family, the Cheng'en Mansion naturally could not have a good ending. The family had their property confiscated, were dismissed from office and exiled. This was because the Cheng'en Mansion did not participate in the rebellion and did not commit any illegal or criminal acts, so they were "let off lightly" and were not sentenced to beheading or the extermination of their nine clans.
So by the time Gongliang Sibai learned that his family had been exiled because of the prince's rebellion, it was already too late.
He escaped because he was not at home at the time, but his wanted poster had been posted everywhere. He instantly went from being a nobleman to a wanted criminal. In order to preserve his strength to survive and rescue his family, he had to hide his name, change his appearance, and disguise himself as another person.
When he finally returned to the capital and found the imprisoned prince, he learned the truth.
It turned out that the prince had not committed treason. It was just that the current emperor was old and weak, and began to be dissatisfied with the prince, the legitimate, young and strong heir. He wanted to replace him with a young and easy-to-control prince, so he used the hands of other princes to frame the prince with this crime and depose him. The Cheng'en Mansion suffered an unprovoked disaster.
So it was natural for Gongliang Sibai to start planning with the deposed crown prince on how to change this situation, allowing the deposed crown prince to seize the throne and vindicate the Cheng'en Mansion.
After meeting the deposed crown prince, Gong Liang Sibai immediately went looking for his family. However, when he caught up with the exile team, the original owner had already died on the road, and even the bodies were hastily buried on the roadside.
The other members of Gongliang's family did not have a good ending either. Duke Cheng'en and his wife were old and frail, and the journey of exile was too tiring, so they died right after the original owner, and none of them could reach the destination of exile.
Gong Liangsubai's elder brother Gong Liangxian had his arm broken and his face disfigured while trying to protect his wife and children from being beaten by the police.
Gong Liangshubai was extremely sad and angry, but he had no other choice but to pretend to be a merchant on the same journey and try to make his family live better on the road.
After arriving at the place of exile, he asked someone to secretly look after his eldest brother's family, and with great difficulty managed to keep them alive to see the day when the deposed crown prince ascended the throne and Gong Liang's family was rehabilitated.
However, because the life in exile was too hard, the health of Gong Liangxian's family was ruined, and Gong Liangsubai was the only one in the Gongliang family who was capable of taking on the responsibilities. Therefore, he became the head of the Gongliang family and led the Gongliang family back on the road to family revival. At the same time, because of his contribution to the enthronement of the emperor, he became an important minister trusted by the emperor.
Gongliang Sibai is the destined child of this world. He was originally just a beloved youngest son of a duke or marquis. His family already had power and status, and they didn't expect him to contribute at all, so he lived a smooth life. Except for the setback in his marriage, he was proud and willful the rest of the time, otherwise he would not have abandoned his wife and ran away from home on the second day of his wedding.
The catastrophe of being stripped of the title and exiled for the entire family was a turning point in Gong Liang Sibai's life. Before this, his biggest worry was that his marriage was not going well and he could not marry the woman he liked. But after the Gong Liang family was in trouble, he grew up and matured in an instant, shouldering a heavy shackle, determined to save his family and take revenge.
He succeeded in the end, but the dead could not be resurrected, so of course he was sad and upset, especially when he learned that the original owner was pregnant with his child before she died, leaving two lives. He was filled with guilt towards the original owner, regretting that he had not treated her well and caused her death in exile.
But even though he felt guilty towards the original owner, it did not stop Gong Liang Sibai from marrying the woman of humble family whom he once liked. This time, there was no Cheng En and his wife as his parents to stop him. After successfully marrying his sweetheart, he soon forgot about the original owner and did not even go to find the bodies of the original owner and her child. He continued to love his sweetheart and had one child after another.
After Shi Chu received the memories, she knew what to do. She pretended to touch her chest, took out a pregnancy-protecting pill from her companion space, and swallowed it dry. Then she took out a bottle of interstellar nutrient solution, lowered her head to cover it, and drank it. After throwing the bottle back into the space, she immediately felt that the hunger pain in her stomach disappeared.
Drinking nutritional supplements is the most appropriate way to replenish energy at this time. Lan Shichu drank two bottles in a row. After all, he still had to continue walking in the afternoon and could not save energy.
Her belly is only a little bulging now. After all, she is only four months pregnant. The original owner was very tired and had not eaten properly during the half month of exile. It is a miracle that she can hold on until now without showing signs of miscarriage.
After Lan Shichu solved the crises of miscarriage and hunger, she began to deal with the blisters on the soles of her feet. Fortunately, the medicines she stored in the companion space were sufficient and of good quality. After she applied the medicines, the soles of her feet had almost recovered.
"Lan, this cake is too hard. I can't eat it. You eat it." The original owner's mother-in-law, Liu, handed the dry and hard stone-like cake in her hand to Lan Shichu and said weakly, looking at her stomach worriedly.
Lan Shichu understood immediately. It turned out that he was worried about her stomach. However, she had already drunk the nutritional supplement and did not need the bread at all. Of course, even if she did not have the nutritional supplement, she could not compete with an old man for food, so she shook her head: "No, I'll eat it. You can eat it yourself. If it's hard, hold it in your mouth and soften it with saliva before swallowing it."
"Lan, be obedient and eat this bread. I'm old and don't need to eat so much. You have a baby in your belly and you can't go hungry." Liu still looked at her worriedly and refused to take the bread back.
Seeing this, Gong Liangxian hurriedly stopped Liu and handed the dry food in his hand to Lan Shichu, saying, "Mother, give her my bread and don't give yours. I'm a grown man, young and strong, it doesn't matter if I eat less. Your sister-in-law and you are not in good health, so you can't not eat."
The three of them pushed each other back and forth, and finally the official saw it and sneered, "Do you have to be so rude for just a moldy bun? If you don't want to eat it, just give it to me!"
The three of them immediately took back the food in their hands. Lan Shichu breathed a sigh of relief, finally he didn't have to give away the food.
After lunch and a rest, the officers urged them to hurry on their journey. After all, they had to reach the place of exile on time, otherwise they would be punished, so they could not stay on the road for too long.
After Lan Shichu got up, all the physical problems left over from the original owner were solved, so there was naturally no problem in traveling. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that her clothes hadn't been changed for too long and became smelly, she could have treated traveling as a hiking trip.
(End of this chapter)