Chapter 1 Unlucky Time Travel
The rain was pouring down and the wind was howling.
Jiang Tangtang folded her arms and hid in a dark corner, shivering.
The dilapidated temple was leaking, and her clothes were wet. Even though she was wearing this body full of fat, it could not withstand the biting cold wind.
Jiang Tangtang looked up at the sky, wanting to cry but unable to. Oh, God! If I am guilty, please punish me according to the law. Why did you let me travel through time?
Yes, she traveled through time.
She was originally an ordinary white-collar worker who had been working hard in the big city. Because she was tired of the 996 work schedule, she followed the example of internet celebrities and returned to her hometown to start a business. She sold all her belongings and still owed the bank millions. Finally, she built a small villa in the mountains, rented hundreds of acres of land, and opened a rural farm stay.
But she didn't expect that after she had finally built the house and planted the orchard, and the farm stay was finally ready to open, she traveled through time and became the legitimate daughter of the Earl of Anyang in the Zhou Dynasty.
The original owner had a broad back and a face full of flesh, looking like a big black bear, but she coveted the most handsome young man in the capital - Lu Shiyan, the young master of Dingbei Marquis Mansion. She used despicable means to get herself pregnant, married into Dingbei Marquis Mansion with her pregnancy, and became the envied prince's consort.
But the good times didn't last. Three years after the original owner married into the palace, the Dingbei Marquisate was imprisoned for colluding with the Third Prince and plotting rebellion. Now, she was on her way to exile, replacing the original owner.
What bad luck!
She did not enjoy the glory of being the Crown Prince's Consort, nor did she sleep with the handsome young man, but she inherited more than 200 pounds of fat, suffered the hardship of exile, and had to raise her three sickly children.
Aaaaaahh ...
Jiang Tangtang's mind screamed like a groundhog.
I wonder if she can get back into her clothes if she bangs her head against a wall and dies?
This is unscientific!
She just accidentally fell while tidying the warehouse and hit her head on the wall. How could she have traveled through time for no apparent reason?
She had purchased a whole warehouse full of things for her villa, just waiting to open it. She also had her orchard, such a large orchard, with the best varieties, especially grapes, which were the most expensive on the market. She invited several experts to come and give her guidance, and when the grapes were about to mature, she actually traveled through time.
All her wealth, the result of her hard work for so long, is gone just like that?
Just as she was about to endure the pain and bang her head against a wall, a sarcastic voice rang out from the dilapidated temple, "You still think you are the prince's consort, waiting to be served?
Shi Yan's leg injury hasn't healed yet, yet he's dragging it out to cook. An Ge'er, an eight-year-old child, knows to go to the mountains to collect firewood and start a fire. How can you, a grown man weighing nearly 300 pounds, sit here and be lazy?
The person who spoke was her cousin Jiang Caiwei.
The two had been at odds since childhood. After the original owner used trickery to marry her beloved, Jiang Caiwei hated her to the core. In the second year after the original owner married Lu Shiyan, despite her family's objections, she resolutely married Lu Shiyan's third uncle as his second wife. From then on, whenever she saw the original owner, she would make trouble for her as an elder.
Jiang Tangtang temporarily put aside the thought of banging her head against the pillar and responded with a spirited expression, "If Third Aunt is alright, please pay more attention to Third Uncle and stop focusing on the trivial matters in the room of my nephew and his wife all day long. Even if the entire Marquisate has been demoted to commoners, they are still a family that knows propriety, righteousness, and shame."
The call of "Third Aunt" made Jiang Caiwei's face change.
She likes to use her status as an elder to suppress Jiang Tangtang and make trouble for her, but what she hates most is the identity of third aunt.
But Jiang Tangtang also indirectly mocked him for coveting his nephew and being shameless. Jiang Caiwei was almost angry to death.
She gritted her teeth and said, "The younger generation is so useless. As an elder, I have to take more care of them."
"My mother-in-law will take care of me as long as I live. There's no need for a step-wife like you to meddle in my affairs."
Jiang Tangtang originally spoke with great vigor, but unfortunately, the air suddenly filled with the aroma of roast chicken, and her feet almost uncontrollably walked towards the place where the fragrance came from.
This was the original owner's instinctive reaction.
In addition to being dark and fat, she also had a problem that outsiders didn't know about. Whenever she was hungry, it was as if a ferocious beast lived in her body, controlling her nerves and making her go crazy and reckless, grabbing everything edible and stuffing it into her stomach.
However, in the past when she was in the capital, whether in the Anyang Marquis' Mansion or the Dingbei Marquis' Mansion, she had no shortage of food and drink, so this problem rarely broke out.
But things are different now. The Marquis of Dingbei was demoted to a commoner because of rebellion, and the whole family was exiled to Lingnan.
The original owner's family, the Anyang Earl's Mansion, was also implicated and demoted. They could only live in fear and did not dare to secretly help her.
Not only did she have to walk dozens of miles every day in exile, but the food she ate was just coarse grains that could barely fill her stomach. The original owner had a big appetite, so such a small amount of coarse grains was not enough for her.
So along the way, because she couldn't control her body's instinctive reactions, the original owner snatched food from the officers and soldiers several times, causing a lot of trouble to the Lu family, who were already in a difficult situation, and her in-laws also became more and more disgusted with her.
And now, she was being controlled by this inexplicable emotion.
This was the first time Jiang Tangtang encountered such a situation. She was extremely panicked. She knew in her heart that this was wrong and she shouldn't do this, but she couldn't control her feet and her desire to eat like crazy. It felt really terrible.
Just as she was about to approach the officers and soldiers, a pair of slender and strong hands grabbed her and dragged her to the side.
He was the husband that the original owner had slept with through trickery, the former prince of Dingbei, Lu Shiyan.
He was seriously injured and was exiled with his family before his injuries had healed. He walked with a limp, and the handcuffs and shackles had rubbed the skin on his wrists and ankles, soaked in blood. However, his eyes were indifferent and cold, as if he felt no pain at all. He just pulled Jiang Tangtang forcefully towards the corner where the Lu family rested.
"Here! Eat when you're hungry!" Lu Shiyan poured the rice porridge from the hanging pot and handed it to Jiang Tangtang.
"Shi Yan!" Old Madam Lu scolded disapprovingly, "Don't spoil her."
Madam Lu had traded this pot with the officials using her personal silver notes, so that she could make some rice porridge for the children during her rest periods.
Although the emperor exempted women and children from handcuffs and shackles in recognition of the Lu family's contributions in guarding the border for generations, the children could not bear the pain of exile.
What's more, the children born to the original owner were triplets and were born prematurely, so they were weak. They used to be nourished with elixirs every day in the capital and could barely get by, but once they were exiled, their bodies immediately collapsed.
Lu Shiyan spent a lot of effort and finally got some glutinous rice to nourish his three children.
Old Madam Lu couldn't bear to eat it herself, and when she saw her grandson giving the rice porridge to Jiang Tangtang, she was immediately furious.
"Great-grandmother, just give it to mother! We are not hungry!" At this time, the three children said in unison.
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