Chapter 1
In the spring of the thirty-sixth year of Yonghe.
Cui Yong, the Prince's tutor, was executed for his involvement in a factional dispute, and the entire Cui family was exiled to Ningguta.
When we arrived in the hot summer of July, the Ningguta area was filled with strong winds and yellow sand, and it was a desolate scene.
Fifty miles away from Ningguta, Cui Youyi, the legitimate daughter of the Grand Tutor in the exile team, was slandered by a group of people for stealing ice sculptures. She was severely beaten and died.
Cui Youyi, the 21st century ice sculpture heir, took over her body amidst a sound of electric current.
[The host is detected to be about to die and has a strong will to survive. Would you like to bind to the Ningguta survival system to gain a chance of survival?]
Cui Youyi, who only remembered falling into an ice hole while harvesting ice in H City, looked at the white mist in front of her and couldn't tell whether she was dreaming or not.
But people who cherish life will never miss an opportunity to live, and Cui Youyi decisively decided to actively respond to the "plot".
"Yes! Bind the system!"
[Ding! Host binding successful. Please confirm your identity information and refresh the system tasks to get a chance to survive.]
Host: Cui Youyi
Identity: Heir of the original ice sculpture, daughter of the current Grand Tutor (no other notable identity at this time)
Survival Skills: Ice Sculpture
age:……
A huge light screen appeared in front of Cui Youyi, which was densely covered with various background introductions.
In order not to miss any plot points, Cui Youyi carefully read through various introductions that could not be contained on the screen, and finally clicked on the system task column slowly.
[System Mission 1: Please utilize your survival skills—ice sculpture techniques—to resolve the slander crisis within a quarter of an hour. Successful mission unlocks a mysterious newbie gift pack. Failure will result in the host and the Cui family facing death for offending the Ningguta dignitaries.]
[Note: Host, please complete the system task within the specified time, otherwise you and the Cui family will die. In addition, more system tasks will be randomly refreshed, please pay attention to it.]
[The host will take over the body in five seconds. At this point, the system task will be considered to have begun. Please resolve the crisis before the countdown ends.]
After the system voice broadcast finished, Cui Youyi understood the cause and effect of the slander incident. Then, she felt a piercing pain from all over her body, and she woke up from her daze.
"Are you dead? If not, hand over the ice sculpture to me."
The officer who was responsible for escorting the Cui family to Ningguta saw that Cui Youyi had recovered a little and couldn't wait to start asking questions.
"That's right. If you're still alive, hand over our treasures immediately. If you keep talking back, we'll search you."
Cui Youyi wanted to speak, but she took a deep breath of cold wind. She felt cold and painful all over, and she felt like her lungs were about to be coughed out.
Only then did she notice her hands—though a bit chapped and rough, her fingers were still slender, revealing her pampered lifestyle. The few new calluses weren't from ice sculptures at all. Cui Youyi was truly stunned. She had originally thought it was just a dream, but now the pain felt so real!
Did she really travel through time?
!!!
[The host is detected to be exhausted. The host will be randomly restored to health for one hour. Please pay attention to the time and complete the system task as soon as possible.]
Cui Youyi, who was in unbearable pain, finally felt that she had regained control of her body. Her heart was beating fast, but she had to race against time to sort out her memory and find a way out.
The original body fell down due to exhaustion. The housekeeper of the Zhou family, the richest family in Ningguta, who was passing by, was attracted by her beauty and made false accusations, saying that Cui Youyi had stolen the ice sculpture they were escorting. He brought a group of servants to take her to the nearby area for a body search.
The officers escorting them did not dare to provoke the minions of these local tyrants and only wanted to smooth things over and get the job done as soon as possible.
Oh!
When will all these bastards who only dare to bully the weak and women die!
After finding out the thoughts of the officers and the disgusting intentions of the Zhou family's housekeeper, Cui Youyi was furious.
When she looked up, she was met with the lustful gaze of the Zhou family's housekeeper. Cui Youyi wished she could take her carving tools and smash them to pieces.
"None of the children in my Cui family are thieves or petty thieves. You lunatics, don't even think about bullying me!"
Cui Jingshuo, the second brother of the Cui family, who was beaten to death, struggled to stand in front of Cui Youyi.
The figure standing in front of her was tall and thin. Inexplicably, Cui Youyi felt a soreness in the corners of her eyes. Before she could react, Cui Jingshuo was surrounded and beaten by Zhou's servants again.
Cui Youyi didn't care about anything else. While the officers were stopping the other female members of the Cui family, she pulled out a knife that they were carrying.
"You're slandering me for stealing, right? You think we, the Cui family, are easy to bully, right?"
"Okay, everyone, don't live anymore."
Before anyone could react, Cui Youyi slashed at the Zhou family servants with her sword left and right.
She controlled her strength, focusing on hitting someone who would draw blood but not be fatal, and indiscriminately attacked all the Zhou family's servants.
"Bitch, I have to teach you a lesson today."
The housekeeper covered his injured arm, and in anger, he picked up something nearby and threw it at Cui Youyi.
You little brat, you still want to launch a sneak attack.
Cui Youyi, who saw through everything, swung her knife back and smashed the thing that was thrown at her into pieces.
On the one hand, Cui Youyi sighed at her excellent aim, and on the other hand, she couldn't help but sigh at her original body's frail body - she had only been using the knife for a short time and had used very little strength, but she was already out of breath and her arms were sore.
If she hadn't reacted quickly, the knife in her hand would have flown out.
Everyone in the group was very confused and thought that Cui Youyi might have encountered an evil spirit, because she was a delicate and weak girl who could only cry, but in the blink of an eye she became like a shrew in the market.
Cui Youyi propped herself up against the ground with her knife and yelled, "You bastard, today I'm going to teach you a lesson."
A gust of wind blew, and Cui Youyi's satin-like hair flew wildly, bringing with it waves of blood-colored dirt, making the originally beautiful hair look like an evil spirit from hell.
The Zhou family's servants were truly in hell - the ice sculpture they were escorting was smashed to pieces by Cui Youyi with one knife!
"It's broken, it's broken! This ice sculpture is a masterpiece that the young master paid a huge sum of money for. Now it's ruined! The young master will definitely beat us to death!"
"If we delay the young master from participating in the ice sculpture competition, I'm afraid my mother and I will be beaten to death together."
"Butler, what should we do?"
After listening to the words of the Zhou family servants, Cui Youyi felt refreshed. She originally wanted to continue mocking them, but when she thought of her mission, she had to control her mouth.
What a great opportunity! The Zhou family servant lost the ice sculpture he had to hand in, so here was her chance to clear her name and save her life!
After thinking it over, Cui Youyi still didn't want to treat her mouth badly.
"Butler of the Zhou family, how about you guess which of us will set out on the Yellow Springs Road first?"
The housekeeper narrowed his eyes and stared at Cui Youyi with ill intent: "Hmph, you, a mere exile, destroyed our Zhou family's treasure in public. If I take you to the government office today, the county magistrate will certainly give us justice."
When Cui Youyi heard the word "county magistrate", she suddenly remembered the laws she had just read.
According to the new law promulgated in the third year of Yonghe, these exiles had two ways of resettlement:
First, according to the needs of the government, men were arranged to build fortifications or serve in the military, while women were assigned to local officials and wealthy families to work as maids.
Secondly, all exiles would be sent to open up wasteland. To put it bluntly, the government would give them a piece of wasteland and let them fend for themselves.
Before leaving, the Cui family received news that they would be assigned to open up wasteland. While the future of this work was uncertain, it at least offered them freedom. If the Zhou family colluded with the government, the Cui family might be sold as servants, becoming slaves forever...
In order to avoid becoming a slave, Cui Youyi had to try to convince herself to "bow her head."
Don’t be angry, don’t be angry. If you get angry and become sick, no one can replace you.
When you are under someone's roof, you have to bow your head. It is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge. Don't be angry.
After some mental preparation, Cui Youyi calmed down and walked over to pick up the largest piece of the ice sculpture on the ground. "What if I tell you I can save you?"
The butler pulled his mustache and stared at Cui Youyi.
"Butler, she's a delicate young lady..."
"Rather than all die together, why not make peace?" Cui Youyi was too lazy to listen to the Zhou family's nonsense. "If you admit that I didn't steal and clear my Cui family's name, I'll give you a new ice sculpture and let you report back. We can just pretend that we've never met before."
"how?"
*
As the sun sets in the west, the dormant mountains look like giant beasts that devour people, and the dilapidated temple in the wilderness seems even more dangerous.
In the temple, the runners and the Zhou family's servants were all worried about their deadlines and gradually became anxious. Only the housekeeper stared at Cui Youyi's sculptures with a puzzled look on his face.
However, Cui Youyi was so immersed in creating ice sculptures that she had no time to care about it.
Long before she started carving the ice sculpture, she received a system notification, knowing that she had not only completed the task, but also received a novice gift package. She just had to wait for everything to settle down before she could open the blind box.
Although she was eager to open the blind box, Cui Youyi, out of a sense of responsibility for her work, still devoted herself to polishing it.
Cui Youyi carefully carved on the ice, the ice pick fell deep and shallow, and the clean and neat lines formed a lifelike koi.
With the completion of the last stroke, Cui Youyi breathed a sigh of relief.
God knows how much she feared that the housekeeper was unreliable. If the insulation he found was unreliable, this ice cube, which was only slightly bigger than a palm, would have melted into water long ago.
"The items have been delivered, so we..."
When Cui Youyi stood up to stretch her bones, the housekeeper rushed forward and snatched the ice sculpture away.
"Someone, take her down for me."
Before Cui Youyi could finish her words, she was interrupted by the housekeeper and was caught by the Zhou family's servants.
Only then did she realize that the Zhou family's scumbag housekeeper had called someone new over!
"How dare a man as tall as seven feet go back on his word? How can someone as dishonest as you be in charge?"
Cui Youyi hated herself for not being smart enough, but she had already lost the initiative and could only pin her hopes on the group of officers, hoping that they would have some courage. However, this group of people were indeed different from what she expected - because they watched Cui Youyi being captured and cooperated in isolating the other members of the Cui family.
The housekeeper grabbed Cui Youyi's hair and hit her face with a dagger, half showing off and half threatening: "Bitch, since you have come to our Ningguta, you must abide by our Ningguta rules."
"You know, there are so many people who can't get out of this snow."
Cui Youyi: I hate people who take advantage of others and act pretentiously...
"Bring her back to me and consider her a great gift to the young master."
"My lords, this is just a small token of my respect. If you have the opportunity in the future, please feel free to visit our Zhou family. In the Ningguta area, our Zhou family always has a say. I just hope you know what to say and what not to say."
After saying that, the Zhou family's servant handed the officer a purse full of money.
Although the officers felt it was unbecoming for the Zhou family to embarrass a young woman, how could they dare offend a local tyrant with connections in the imperial court on their territory? It would be better to accept the silver and keep their mouths shut, and at the same time, maintain their dignity.
Cui Youyi's brain was working fast, but in this remote place, she was a weak woman who couldn't even tie a chicken, and she was really helpless.
Cui Youyi screamed frantically in her heart: "System, system, say something!"
"Your host won't see the sun tomorrow again!"
But the system just remained silent.
Seeing that she was about to be taken away by the Zhou family's servants, Cui Youyi decided to take a gamble and open a novice gift package for a chance of survival.
Just then, a group of people came quickly and surrounded everyone in the temple.
Two system announcements sounded in succession.
[Congratulations to the host for unlocking the novice gift pack and obtaining the Ningguta survival item: XXXXXX]
[Congratulations to the host for unlocking the important role of Ningguta Survival Chapter - County Magistrate - Wang Jun]
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