When Xu Bai regained consciousness, he felt surrounded by gentle water. He wanted to stretch, but he felt that his arms and legs were bound by something, and he couldn't move properly. It wasn't until much later that Xu Bai realized that he was in his mother's womb.
Xu Bai had mixed feelings; he never expected to have such a wonderful encounter.
Xu Bai was an orphan. When he was a teenager, his business parents died in a plane crash, leaving him an orphan who inherited a fortune of hundreds of millions. Although he was rich, he was a true orphan. Fortunately, Xu Bai's parents were very open-minded and valued their child's upbringing from a young age, raising Xu Bai to be optimistic and strong. Xu Bai handed over the company to a professional manager and continued to attend school and participate in various training courses as before. With the help of the nanny who had raised him since he was a child, he lived until he was eighteen.
That year, the nanny was too old and was taken back to her hometown by her son. Xu Bai was admitted to university, so he sold the villa he used to live in and went to Beijing to study.
Because he was single-minded, Xu Bai focused all his energy on his studies, received scholarships every year, and was eventually recommended for postgraduate studies at Peking University.
During his postgraduate studies, the school's Youth League organized students to spend their summer vacations visiting remote rural areas to bring warmth to left-behind children. That was the first time Xu Bai, who had grown up in a big city, had learned the meaning of the word "poverty".
Xu Bai felt he had found a direction to strive for. From then on, every winter and summer vacation he would go to schools in the mountains to tutor the children or buy them daily necessities and school supplies. Xu Bai felt that he had found the meaning of life from this.
That summer, Xu Bai went to a school in the mountains again. On his way back, he encountered a rainstorm and a flash flood. Xu Bai was swept away by the flood. He was swept downstream by the floodwaters mixed with mud. He managed to grab a small tree, but he was unable to save himself. The last thing he saw was a large rock falling down from above and hitting him.
Xu Bai didn't know why this was happening, but now he spent all his time in this cramped space, where it was difficult to even turn around. His daily pleasure was listening to people talking outside.
From those words, Xu Bai knew that this was ancient times, because he heard people calling his father "Lord Xu," and his mother was called "Madam," "Third Grandmother," and "Doctor Zhang" by some. Xu Bai knew that his mother was cheerful and loved to talk and laugh, while his father was a gentle person. He had never heard him raise his voice in front of him and always spoke softly to his wife. Sometimes he would even read a few poems or articles to the person who was still in his mother's womb.
Xu Bai knew he had an older brother and an older sister. His sister was a gentle person who always spoke with a smile. As for his brother, he seemed like someone not to be trifled with. Xu Bai thought that once he was born, he would stay far away from his brother.
Xu Bai gradually learned that his father came from the Yongning Marquis's mansion in the capital, but was an illegitimate son. He studied for the imperial examinations and came to this border town to serve as a county magistrate, where he devoted himself to defending against the invasion of nomadic tribes from beyond the Great Wall.
Xu Bai loved the atmosphere of this family. Besides his parents, older brother, and older sister, there was also an elderly woman in the family called Granny Lu. They said that Granny Lu would be staying in the family to live out her old age. Granny Lu was busy with housework every day, taking care of everything big and small. She cared most about her mother and the baby in her mother's womb. Xu Bai loved his elderly grandmother the most. He was determined to take good care of Granny Lu after he was born.
My brother got engaged early on. His future sister-in-law and his sister are learning to manage the household from Granny Lu. It was my mother who suggested this. My mother said that she was not good at managing the household or socializing, but she liked to study medicine. Since the household would be handed over to her eldest daughter-in-law in the future, and the eldest daughter-in-law has been chosen, she should be trained well. It would be best if she could start working as soon as she arrived.
The more Xu Bai listened, the stranger the family seemed to be. Many of their words sounded very familiar. After pondering it for a while, Xu Bai realized that they were all modern terms. Some of them were technical terms. Others might find them strange, but Xu Bai had gone to university and had excellent grades. He knew many of these cutting-edge technical terms.
Xu Bai later learned that his parents and brother, like himself, had all traveled from the modern world. As for the gentle young lady, Xu Bai couldn't make a conclusion yet, but since his parents and brother often sat together in their bedroom at night to talk about private things, Xu Bai thought that the young lady must be a native.
Xu Bai was somewhat excited. He felt that there would be no more obstacles in communicating with his parents and brother in the future. Xu Bai was afraid that he might accidentally do something that was not in line with the identity of people in ancient times, which would make people think that he was a weirdo. But now, Xu Bai no longer had this worry.
Listening to the stories happening at home and outside every day, Xu Bai began to look forward to his birth. He really liked the atmosphere at home and couldn't wait to be a part of the family.
As spring turned to winter, Xu Bai could sense that the atmosphere outside was tense. By listening to others, Xu Bai learned that the Northern Di people were about to attack.
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