Chapter 1 Exile to an Island

On the calm sea, several seabirds are flying across the surface.

Not far away is an island, and the smoke rising from the island shows that it is still inhabited.

A dozen ordinary fishing boats slowly approached the isolated island, with many people standing or sitting on the boats.

Those standing there were all officers holding swords and with stern faces.

Sitting there were some exiles wearing tattered clothes, with dirty faces and disheveled hair.

They looked lonely and hopeless, staring blankly at the isolated island not far away.

"Ah Qian, wake up quickly... Ah Qian, wake up quickly..."

A middle-aged woman in brown coarse clothes was calling the girl in her arms, and two children aged five or six were leaning closely behind her.

The girl's face was also covered in stains, and her appearance could not be seen. She was thin, and her hair was wrapped in a rough cloth. If you didn't know her, you would think she was a weak young man.

Su Qian was in a daze when she heard someone calling her.

Smelling the faint fishy smell brought by the sea breeze, she suddenly opened her eyes and a sharp gleam of light flashed across her eyes.

The moment she opened her eyes, huge waves suddenly appeared on the calm sea, hitting a dozen fishing boats.

Just as Su Qian retracted the brilliance in his eyes, the waves gradually returned to calm.

After the middle-aged woman steadied herself, she looked at her in surprise, "Ah Qian, you finally woke up, that's great!"

Looking at the gentle face of the woman in front of him, who could not conceal her concern and joy, Su Qian nodded gently at her.

Gu Luyun was relieved to see Su Qian wake up. She gently touched his forehead and said, "That's great. The fever is finally gone. Ah Qian, you should take a rest. We will be there soon!"

Su glanced around with a hint of doubt, then closed his eyes.

Wasn't she supposed to be killing zombies with her teammates in the apocalypse? How did she end up here?

Oh, she remembered!

At that time, she seemed to have a sharp pain in her back and then lost consciousness.

The pain seemed to come from her teammates?

At this moment, a memory that did not belong to her flooded into her mind. After she had completely digested it, she opened her eyes again.

Looking at the gentle middle-aged woman and the two young children, she said nothing.

Su Qian knew for sure that he must have been stabbed by his teammate, that bastard, at the end of the world, which was why he traveled through time and space to this body.

As for why he was stabbed, it was most likely because he coveted his space jade pendant!

Ever since he and she accidentally found out that their space was not a supernatural power, they probably started to make plans, right?

Unfortunately, I didn't realize what they were thinking and treated them as comrades who I could trust with my back, so I was stabbed in the back by them!

At this moment, Su Qian felt a familiar warm feeling coming from his chest!

What is this?

Her space jade pendant?

Her space jade pendant also came here?

Su Qian subconsciously raised his hand to take out the jade pendant to confirm it, but was stopped by a hand through his clothes.

He looked up at Gu Luyun and saw her shaking her head gently at him.

Su Qian suddenly realized that her current body was still on the road of exile.

As the saying goes, wealth should not be shown to the public. I cannot show this jade pendant in front of these officials.

Su Qian smiled at Gu Luyun with difficulty, then retracted his hand.

The woman in front of me is my original body's mother. She has taken meticulous care of me since I was a child. Even after she gave birth to the dragon and phoenix twins, she never showed any disrespect to me.

Looking at the officer standing in the middle of the fishing boat with a knife in his hand, Su Qian took a deep breath.

From then on, the Su Qian of the last days disappeared, and only the exiled Su Qian of the Dongli Kingdom remained!

From her memory, she learned that her original self, Su Qian, was the eldest daughter of the general of the Dongli Kingdom. General Su was fighting against the Beicang Kingdom in the northern border, but no one knew why he was captured.

When news spread from Beicang that General Su had surrendered to the enemy, the king of Dongli was furious and exiled all members of the Su family to a deserted island!

The country of Dongli is close to the sea and is surrounded by countless isolated islands.

Anyone who committed a crime would be exiled to an isolated island to open up wasteland. If they could pay enough head tax after three years, they could return to the mainland.

Now that I have come here from the end of the world, I must take good care of my original father, mother, brothers and sisters, otherwise I will be the same as that ungrateful wolf!

Soon, a dozen fishing boats approached the isolated island, and the fishermen on the boats found a relatively flat beach and stopped.

All the people on these dozen or so fishing boats were members of the Su clan, both direct and collateral descendants.

At the signal from the officer, they supported each other and got off the boat.

"From now on, you will live on this island! Every ten days, you will have a chance to go to Haiping Town, and you can go with three people each time to buy supplies."

The leading escort officer looked at the Su family and said loudly, "Although you are already commoners, only those who have reclaimed wasteland for three years and paid twenty taels of silver each can return to the mainland to register their household registration. So, you must honestly reclaim wasteland for these three years, do you understand?"

"yes!"

There was a sense of weakness in the voices of the Su clan members.

They suffered a lot along the way, and even had to eat one meal at a time and then eat another.

The officer must have been through a lot, so he didn't care. He continued, "There are still people who were exiled on this island. Be careful not to provoke them! Otherwise, you will be responsible for any problems! And there are also those unowned houses, you can distribute them among them."

He glanced at everyone and paused. "The master has asked us to prepare five days' worth of rations for you. You can distribute them among yourselves later. Also, on this island..."

The officer thought about it for a moment, but the words came to his lips but he didn't say them out loud.

He looked at the officer next to him, and that officer took other people to carry food from the fishing boat to the beach.

They said it was food, but in fact it was just some potatoes and sweet potatoes. Not even any rice was left for them.

After throwing five or six sacks of things onto the beach, the officials returned to the fishing boat and left the isolated island.

As soon as the fishing boat left, the members of the Su clan gathered around the sacks.

They swallowed subconsciously, figuring out how to divide the money.

At this time, a white-haired old man, leaning on a cane and trembling with stagger, walked up to the sack.

When they got there, the Su clan members voluntarily made way for them.

The white-haired old man is the old patriarch of the Su family and is highly respected.

After he opened the sack and looked around, he said, "We can't eat these potatoes and sweet potatoes!"

"Old Patriarch, why?"

Someone in the crowd raised a question.

"Have you ever thought about it? We were exiled here to open up wasteland. What about the seeds after we open up the wasteland? Why didn't the adults give us mixed rice, but gave us these instead? Have you ever thought about it carefully?"

The Sioux man leaned on his cane with one hand and stroked his beard with the other hand and said, "I just checked and these potatoes and sweet potatoes are all intact. They are the best for planting."

The old tribesmen were originally farmers and were very familiar with crops.

"But, old patriarch, if these grains are used as seeds, what will we, so many people, eat?"

Someone in the crowd asked again.