Chapter 25
Qin Shan, the third daughter of the Qin family, was born to the same mother as the original owner's husband.
Originally, he should have called the original owner sister-in-law, but unfortunately Qin San, like the other masters of the Qin Mansion, looked down on the original owner and thought that the original owner was not worthy of his brother. He thought that he should marry a real noble lady from a respectable family. Therefore, he always called the original owner Gu Er Niang in a bossy manner and refused to acknowledge her as sister-in-law.
As for talking about being well matched, don't you think about it? To be honest, Qin Silang was just born to a concubine. How could a real noble lady marry a bastard?
What's more, now that they are all exiled, who would still look up to the Qin family?
"Are they from your husband's family?"
Aunt Mai, who was standing next to Gu Ran and holding up the tent, asked. Pei Liuniang and Mai Xiang also looked over. Gu Ran smiled helplessly: "What husband's family? They are clearly the enemies who abandoned me at the post station."
Of course, the original owner was a female member of the Qin family after all. Since she was implicated in the Qin family's troubles and was exiled, judging from their attitude towards the original owner on weekdays, they didn't expect each other to support each other, but at least they shouldn't make things worse, right?
It would have been fine if you didn't take care of the original owner when he was sick, but you abandoned him and looted all the baggage, bedding and other belongings that should have belonged to him. You are so shameless.
The original owner was only left with one breath, but was ultimately angered to death by their shameless behavior.
Now that Qin Sanniang saw that she was still alive, she was right to panic.
I feel guilty!
She is now a witness who has pointed out that they committed robbery. Gu Ran snorted in his heart.
I thought the person who should have died was not dead. She usually claimed to be a noble lady from the prime minister's mansion with a high status and integrity, but secretly robbed the things of a poor girl of low status. If she tells this to others in the future, she will be so embarrassed.
Gu Ran had no intention of showing any displeasure to the women of the Qin family.
After a while, Qin Sanniang came back, and with her came the original owner's husband, Qin Siye, Qin Zhikai.
In the original owner's memory, Qin Zhikai was a handsome man who prided himself on being elegant. He was considered the most talented among the young men in the Qin Mansion. If Prime Minister Qin had not suddenly met with an accident, he would have planned to take the imperial examination and become an official.
For a talented but awkward illegitimate son, this can be considered a bright path forward.
Because of this, when the Ningyuan Marquis' Mansion introduced the original owner to Qin Zhikai, the original owner was also pleased with this man, and the marriage went smoothly.
But it was also because of this that Qin Zhikai thought that he would have a chance to make a name for himself in the future. Marrying an adopted daughter of unknown origin from the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion was too unfair to himself.
Although she married the original owner reluctantly due to the marriage between the Qin Mansion and the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion, she was very cold to the original owner after the marriage, and even allowed her aunt and younger sister to make things difficult for the original owner. She watched coldly when the original owner was tortured by the Qin Mansion, and was the number one culprit who made the original owner increasingly depressed.
In Gu Ran's opinion, no matter how talented Qin Zhikai is, he is a spineless person.
If he truly believed he could pass the imperial examination and become an official, and one day become a prime minister like his father, why did he still swallow his anger and obey his family's arrangements, marrying a woman he thought was unworthy? With such good conditions, wouldn't it be better to be more assertive?
When he wins the imperial examination and becomes an official in the future, as a member of the Qin family, it is impossible for Prime Minister Qin not to help such a ready-made helper, right? By then, as the top scholar, he can marry any girl he wants, right?
There is only one reason why Qin Zhikai is not tough enough, and that is that what he says and what people say about his vast knowledge and extraordinary talent are all false.
How much water content is contained in it can only be known by conducting a real scientific investigation.
Unfortunately, something happened to Prime Minister Qin, so whether Qin Zhikai is really capable or not is another matter. For now, it is only said that when Qin Zhikai saw Gu Ran, he did not show much surprise, but was anxious instead.
Come to think of it, the head of Qingyi Post should have sent someone to inform Chen Jie Guan that she was still alive. Since Chen Jie Guan knew it, the Qin family members naturally knew it too.
"It's good that you caught up. Come back and take care of your grandmother." Qin Zhikai said to Gu Ran lightly.
Upon hearing this, Gu Ran became angry.
The original owner had her coat and quilt snatched away by the Qin family's eldest wife, second wife and other female members with the tacit consent of the grandmother Qin Zhikai mentioned.
As the original owner's husband at the time, Qin Zhikai did nothing for her after she fell ill. He just treated her as a dead person. Oh, yes, he thought the original owner was dead after leaving Qingyi.
Now that they meet, he doesn't feel any guilt at all and immediately asks the original owner to serve the old lady of the Qin family?
What a heartless and hypocritical young man from the Qin family.
"No."
"Not going? What's your attitude?" Qin Zhikai's face darkened after being publicly insulted. "Gu, where do you think this is? How dare you throw a tantrum?"
"I'm not throwing a tantrum. This is a normal reaction." Gu Ran sneered, "Your Qin family left me to die at the post station, and you still want me to serve your old lady? You're wishful thinking."
"You..." Qin Zhikai's face turned pale, then red. "Second Lady Gu, don't forget who you are? As a wife, as a daughter-in-law, how dare you be rude to your husband? And unfilial to your elders?"
"So what?" Gu Ran stood up and moved closer to Qin Zhikai. "I don't want to serve others. Can you, Qin Zhikai, force me to do it?"
Qin Zhikai looked at Gu Ran's aggressiveness and couldn't help but take a step back: "You, you shrew, how bold!"
"No matter how bold you are, it's not as ruthless as your Qin family's disregard for human life."
The original owner is already dead, and half of the cause of death was forced. Their Qin family is half of the real culprit who harmed the original owner.
Although I am taking on the original owner's identity, the original owner had died before I came here. It can be said that all the interpersonal relationships of the original owner during his lifetime have nothing to do with me.
If the original owner's family members were good to the original owner and also to herself who had traveled through time, she could politely take care of them, but as for cleaning up the mess, such as having to support her grandparents until they were old, and serving her husband and adopted son, etc., that depended on her mood.
She didn't owe them anything.
As for those who are not good to the original owner or even to oneself, for example, the relationship with the Qin family should be cut off completely.
Now Qin Zhikai comes to ask her to serve him, which is really a joke.
Not to mention her first life, when she was the only daughter in the family. Even though her family was only slightly wealthy, her parents still spoiled her. In her second life, even though she was from a declining branch of a family of immortal cultivators and her family was poor, her parents never treated her badly.
Therefore, she had never served her parents in this way in her first and second lives. Why should she, a person who had been spoiled by her parents in two lives, serve an old lady whom she had never even met?
No way.
Even if her parents in both lives knew about it, they would never allow others to humiliate her, and she would certainly not bring humiliation upon herself.
They worked hard to raise their daughters, and no matter where they are, they would not be willing to see their beloved daughters working like slaves for others.
As for this third life, the original owner's adoptive parents were not extremely bad. After all, there are differences in closeness and distance, and we cannot be too demanding. But after the Qin family was imprisoned and exiled, this relationship should be over.
The original owner's biological parents were her own adopted mother, but after becoming the adopted daughter of the Ningyuan Marquisate, they severed all ties with her. Therefore, they had never cared about the original owner's exile. Furthermore, they were peasants with no emotional connection to the original owner. Gu Ran estimated that they would have avoided such a disaster and hidden away.
In other words, the original owner is now without a father, a mother, or a family. As long as she does not recognize the Qin family as her marriage partner, she will not be burdened.
Seeing that Gu Ran was unmoved, Qin Zhikai suppressed his anger and left. Qin Sanniang watched from the side. Seeing that her brother had no way to deal with the second wife of the Gu family, she did not dare to act rashly and went back to the campfire in a sullen manner.
But Gu Ran still heard her spit.
Gu Ran ignored them and didn't even bother to look at the women of the Qin family. That would be such a waste.
"Second Lady Gu, how can you treat your husband like this?" Aunt Mai was stunned by the excitement. When she realized what was happening, she was shocked. "Aren't you afraid that your husband's family will divorce you?"
"They won't divorce me. They just don't like me. If they divorce me now, wouldn't that give me a chance to escape from my suffering?" Gu Ran said, "They just want to drag me through the suffering together, so they're reluctant to let me go."
However, no matter what Qin Zhikai thought or how the other members of the Qin family reacted, she would definitely break up with Qin Zhikai if she had the chance.
She is not the original owner, so she doesn't want this kind of husband.
As for the Qin family, they no longer have the energy to take care of Gu Ran's affairs.
Because when the avalanche happened, the Qin family was walking at the foot of the mountain. Except for the youngest wife, the whole family of the second branch of the Qin family was crushed by the falling snow and buried in the snow. When they were dug out, the whole family was dead. In order to protect his mother, the old lady of the Qin family, the eldest uncle of the Qin family was also hit on the head by the snow. Now he is paralyzed in the tent, half alive. As for the old lady of the Qin family, she was frightened by the avalanche, and then heard the bad news about the second branch of the Qin family. She was cold in the wild and fell ill.
The other members of the Qin family were also injured and frozen, so Qin Sanniang was making medicine for the whole family. That's why Qin Zhikai asked Gu Ran to go back and serve others as soon as he saw her - they needed servants!
Gu Ran didn't care at all about how chaotic the Qin family was.
Near night, Li Jieguan, who had gone to the front of the mountain to dig snow, came back with his men. Returning with him were Chen Jieguan and other officials. Gu Ran was the exile that Chen Jieguan was responsible for escorting, so naturally he had to return to the team.
Chen Jieguan's team of exiles actually consisted of three teams, with a total of more than eighty people. The chief officer was Chen Jieguan, there were three deputy officers, and more than twenty officials.
However, several of these officials were crushed to death by the avalanche, and another one was dug out from the snow pile today. As for the remaining officials, except for those who were injured and unable to move, half had to guard the prisoners, and the other half had to watch the exiles dig snow - the mountain passages blocked by avalanches had to be dug through before people could pass.
The officials were overwhelmed by the loss of both officers and prisoners caused by the avalanche. After a simple prisoner handover with Li Jieguan, Chen Jieguan asked his former adjutant to take good care of Gu Ran and ignored him.
Gu Ran asked his adjutant to continue to be placed with Li Jieguan's female prisoners.
Because many of Chen Jieguan and other officials were killed or injured, and considering that there was still a long way to go, he and Li Jieguan decided to set off together in the future and borrow the officials and prisoners under Li Jieguan.
Seeing that the two groups of prisoners were combined into one large group, that Gu Ran was staying well, and that the prisoners under his charge were in a very chaotic situation due to the avalanche, the adjutant agreed.
Gu Ran then continued to stay with Aunt Mai and her husband and Pei Liuniang.
However, no matter how chaotic the situation was, the fact that Gu Ran came back alive and that the fourth master of the Qin family failed to persuade Gu Ran to come back to serve the old lady were still known to the eldest grandmother of the Qin family that night.
"To think that Gu actually caught up with us? She's really lucky." Grandma Qin San looked at Mrs. Qin Da with a look of disbelief. "She even embarrassed my uncle so much in public. Mother-in-law, do you think that Gu has a grudge against us?"
Mrs. Qin was the former wife of the Prime Minister.
Because the Qin family was suspected of treason and was convicted, all the imperial titles of the Qin family's female members were taken away, and they became wives of ordinary families.
Mrs. Qin was already angry because her eldest son had nearly sacrificed his life to save his mother-in-law. Now that her mother-in-law was ill and needed her to tend to her, she was heartbroken and upset. "What is there to hold a grudge against her? She was so seriously ill back then, who could have predicted she'd survive? She's going to die anyway, so what good is it if we take her little belongings? She married into our Qin family, and everything she needs to eat, wear, and live is expensive. Aren't the few things we take from her enough to cover her expenses at home?"
"That's right." After hearing what Mrs. Qin said, Grandma Qin San breathed a sigh of relief. "Given her status, marrying into our Qin family is a great fortune. What is there for her to hold a grudge against?"
"As long as she's a daughter-in-law of the Qin family, she has to abide by our family rules. How can she be so disrespectful when the old ancestor is ill and doesn't care?" Mrs. Qin said, "Go, go find Mrs. Gu and call her back. Tell her it's my order. If she dares to disobey, don't blame us for being rude to her."
"Oh!" Grandma Qin San agreed immediately and went to find Gu Ran to ask for an explanation.
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