Chapter 1 001 Reborn
Du Qingtang regained consciousness and felt a sense of weightlessness. Although he adjusted his posture immediately, he still fell uncontrollably from a high place.
The mud and water splashed, startling the birds perched on the branches and making them fly away.
Du Qingtang's body suddenly stiffened. He didn't care about his injuries and quickly touched the area under his nose, the sides of his neck, his chest and the inside of his wrists.
Her warm breath, rapid and strong pulse and heartbeat all indicated that she was still alive. It was hard to tell whether it was fortunate or unfortunate.
Du Qingtang was like a frightened bird, his body tensed like a bow, the fragility in his eyes shattered at the slightest touch, and he looked around quickly.
It was late at night and the surroundings were pitch black. The village in the distance was like a giant black beast, lying dormant in silence.
What a familiar place.
Du Qingtang lowered his eyes. His thin fingers were covered with thin calluses. If he looked closer, he could see a small mole on the back of his hand.
What a familiar pair of hands.
All this information told her that she was reborn again, back to the age of twelve.
Before everything happened, she was just a farmer's daughter from Taoyuan Village, Baoding Prefecture.
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Du Qingtang was born in Daxia and was a native of Qingyuan County, Baoding Prefecture.
In the 28th year of Yongping, the magistrate of Qingyuan County recruited common people to dig canals. As the only male in the Du family's eldest branch, Du Qingtang's father had an obligation to do so.
However, the county magistrate was cruel. He ordered the people to work day and night and withheld their food.
Du Qingtang's father was tired, hungry, and in a trance, and accidentally fell to his death.
When the bad news came, the mother Yuan was so heartbroken that she had a miscarriage. She struggled for a day and a night before giving birth to a baby girl.
In order to prevent the Du family's eldest branch from being wiped out, Yuan Shi announced to the public that she had given birth to a baby boy.
From then on, she became him, and Du Qingtang became the only child in the Du family's eldest branch.
Although Du Qingtang was a girl and a lowly ant when she was young, she had lofty ambitions. She longed to be a farmer in the morning and ascend to the emperor's palace in the evening, and dreamed of changing her destiny through the imperial examination.
Men can study and take the imperial examinations, so why can't I?
Women should not be inferior to others. They have strong souls beneath their soft skin and possess extraordinary perseverance and tenacity. They are the best candidates for studying and becoming officials!
With shocking ideas in mind, Du Qingtang studied hard for more than ten years, overcame many difficulties and finally passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi.
When she returned home in glory, Yuan Shi threatened to commit suicide and forced her to resign from her official position and marry her cousin who failed the imperial examination to continue the Du family's line.
Du Qingtang was unwilling to give up her official career, so she rejected Yuan's request. However, her cousin was so angry that he revealed her identity to the government.
The county magistrate reported the matter to the capital. In order to set an example for others, Emperor Qingyuan ordered her to be stripped of her official title and executed by slow slicing.
What Du Qingtang didn't expect was that she was reborn after her death.
In her second life, she took the initiative and brought back an abandoned baby from outside, and lied to Yuanshi that he was her own child.
The Du family has a successor, and Yuanshi no longer forces Du Qingtang to marry her cousin. She successfully enters the court as an official, taking a big step towards realizing her dream.
During her exile, Du Qingtang and her superior fell into a den of thieves. After she was seriously injured and fell into a coma, her superior discovered her identity as a woman.
The superiors coveted Du Qingtang's beauty, arranged for her to fake her death, and imprisoned her in a separate courtyard.
Du Qingtang pretended to be obedient, but in fact he was waiting for an opportunity to escape.
She calculated the time when her superior would go out on business and planned a perfect escape route. As long as she escaped from here, she was absolutely confident that her superior would not be able to find her.
Unexpectedly, on the eve of her escape, her cousin from a higher position came to her house and forced Du Qingtang to drink a bottle of poison that kills instantly upon contact with blood. She died inexplicably.
After Du Qingtang died, he was reborn again.
In this life, Du Qingtang was cautious and careful, and kept her identity secret. However, the prince of the current dynasty still discovered her identity as a woman, forcibly took her into the palace, and became the prince's concubine.
Du Qingtang accepted her fate and decided to give in and just get by.
What else can she do except accept her fate?
Being alive at least gives her a glimmer of hope. Du Qingtang hopes that one day she can leave here and regain her freedom.
Unfortunately, things happen unexpectedly. In the 30th year of Qingyuan, Daxia and Daqi went to war, and the prince gave her as a gift to the Daqi general with whom he had once had a grudge.
In this way, Du Qingtang went from being the Shaoqing of Daxia to the lowest-ranking servant in the Qi camp. He slept with cattle and sheep, suffered humiliation, and had his pride broken, becoming a walking corpse.
Until recently, the Qi army tied her to the back of a horse and dragged her around in order to humiliate her.
The hemp rope suddenly broke, and Du Qingtang flew out, like a dead leaf or a kite with a broken string, thrown high into the air and fell heavily.
When a person is dying, he or she usually reviews his or her life in a revolving lantern-like manner.
This is exactly what happened to Du Qingtang.
She recalled her three reincarnations, planned carefully and meticulously, hoping to single-handedly fight against the cannibalistic feudal ethics that had existed for thousands of years, but she failed every time.
In the moment of despair, the kaleidoscope of memories suddenly stopped, and a large number of strange yet familiar memories flooded into Du Qingtang's mind, making his brain almost explode.
Strange and spectacular scenes flashed by frame by frame. She saw skyscrapers towering into the sky, inlaid with spotless glass, the hustle and bustle of traffic under the bright lights, showing the prosperity of the city, and the young boys and girls with innocent faces sitting in the bright and clean classrooms, holding textbooks that smelled of ink and reading aloud.
Here, both men and women can study, do business and become officials.
Here, there are no three obediences and four virtues, and there are no rules for women.
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Recalling the memories that suddenly emerged in his dying moments, Du Qingtang stared blankly at the night sky: "So that's it! So that's it!"
She is not only Du Qingtang of Daxia, but also a talented girl that Chinese media in the 21st century are vying to report on, and the youngest academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences!
She died in a premeditated accident, and her fetus traveled to Daxia. Because Yuanshi had a difficult delivery, she was affected in Yuanshi's womb and unfortunately lost her modern memory.
Looking back on his previous three lives, Du Qingtang felt that he was incompetent and cowardly.
Born in poverty, she had no ability to protect herself. She knew that disguising herself as a man to take the imperial examination was a crime of deceiving the emperor, but she seemed to be under a spell and allowed herself to hit the wall again and again. Even though she was covered in bruises, she still did not give up and did not wake up.
What he wanted was not achieved, and his mortal enemy is still living freely, which is like a joke.
Du Qingtang sat there for a long time until his legs became numb. He then stood up and stumbled up the ridge of the field.
This year is the tenth year of Qingyuan, and it is her second year studying at Li's private school.
The private school is closed for two days at the end of the month. After classes in the afternoon, we set off to return to the village and are still on the way.
When passing by the wheat field, Du Qingtang was reborn, but the suffocating feeling of death still enveloped her, causing her legs to go weak and she fell off the ridge of the field.
The jacket made of coarse cloth was soaked with mud and water, dirty and wet, but fortunately she only had a slight scratch on her palm and was not seriously injured.
While tidying her clothes, her fingertips accidentally brushed across the inside of her collar, and the familiar touch startled her.
Looking down, she saw a braided rope wrapped around her neck, with an emerald pendant hanging just below her collarbone.
This was the full moon gift that Grandpa personally polished and made on Du Qingtang’s full moon day. It is very valuable.
Du Qingtang has worn it for more than 20 years and has never taken it off. He will never make a mistake.
She thought of the novels she had read in the 21st century. Most of the heroines in time-travel novels had cheat codes, systems, spiritual springs, red envelope groups... There were all kinds of them.
Among them, there is a type where the golden finger is attached to the items that the heroine carried with her before she traveled through time, such as a jade pendant or a ring.
Du Qingtang thought thoughtfully: "Could it be the golden finger?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the jade pendant flashed with green light.
Du Qingtang touched the Adam's apple that suddenly appeared, pondered for a moment, and tentatively took off the jade pendant. The Adam's apple immediately disappeared and the chest returned to its original curvature.
Preliminary judgment is that the function of this jade pendant is to hide female physical characteristics and fake some male physical characteristics, specifically in the Adam's apple and chest. Other places have not changed at present.
This made Du Qingtang breathe a sigh of relief. He clutched the jade pendant tightly and murmured, "If only you had come earlier."
With it, the first life's dreams can come true.
But it's better than nothing.
Disguising as a man is inherently risky, but with the jade pendant as her cover, even if her cousin has a hundred mouths, he cannot reveal her identity.
Du Qingtang raised his head and looked into the dark night.
Her parents died early, leaving her with only her grandfather as a relative, and the two had a deep bond.
The year she graduated with a Ph.D., her grandfather passed away, and she no longer had any worries in that world.
Traveling through another world and getting broken and bloodied, this is the best gift her grandfather left her, and the only comfort among many misfortunes.
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