Chapter 1
When her consciousness recovered and a wave of memories that did not belong to her flooded into her mind, Gu Ran knew that she had traveled through time again.
In her first life, she was just an ordinary city dweller, with an ordinary family background, education and occupation. Like all ordinary people, she had a job and lived an ordinary life diligently, but she died in a car accident.
But he did not die completely, but traveled to a certain world of cultivation and remained an ordinary cultivator.
Originally, he thought that if he practiced according to the immortal cultivation system step by step, he could easily continue to live for another thousand years. However, not long after he had achieved results, he encountered a powerful person in a secret realm who was undergoing a tribulation and caused a purple sky thunder. Because he did not leave in time, he became an innocent bystander and was struck to death by the thunder!
He is so unlucky, I am afraid there is no one else like him in the world.
And then, waking up is now.
As a second-time traveler, she skillfully blocked out the original owner's memories and first checked her own situation.
All the cultivation and spiritual palace gained in the world of cultivation are now gone.
I don’t know if it’s because the suppression was released after crossing into this world, or if it crashed, but the cultivation system that came with crossing into the world of cultivation seemed to have no response!
Gu Ran took a deep breath. Before she had time to adapt to the identity of this body, she heard footsteps coming from outside the cell, and they were getting closer and closer. It seemed that they were coming towards her?
She perked up and looked around, only to find that she was in a place similar to a prison.
Gu Ran was stunned. A prison cell? This was a prison cell? She was in jail?
She dressed as a prisoner?
Before Gu Ran could be surprised any more, the footsteps came in. She looked up and saw an old woman over fifty years old with gray hair and a sad face.
Seeing Gu Ran for the first time, he was obviously shocked: "You, Qin, Grandma Qin Si? Are you dead... No, are you okay?"
She, no, the original owner, must have had an accident, otherwise how could she have come through here?
Before answering the old woman, Gu Ran let the original owner's memories flood into his mind.
This Gu Ran was a daughter raised in the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion during the Great Sheng Dynasty, but she was a fake daughter. When the Ningyuan Marquis' wife was ten months pregnant, she accidentally gave birth to a girl in a temple on a rainy night. In the chaos, she was switched with a farmer who gave birth to a newborn girl on the same night. The Marquis Mansion raised Gu Ran for twelve years before they found the real daughter who was away from home.
After the real daughter came back, the original owner was unwilling to be a farmer's daughter, and the marquis's mansion was unwilling to let the original owner go away in vain after carefully training her for more than ten years, so they adopted the original owner as their adopted daughter and continued to raise her in the marquis's mansion. After she came of age, she was chosen for a marriage and married to the illegitimate son of the fourth branch of the Qin family, the prime minister of the current dynasty.
At the beginning of this year, Prime Minister Qin was suspected of being involved in the third prince's treason case in the court. The whole government was held accountable. Originally, all the nine descendants of the Qin family should have been sentenced to death, and all the female relatives were sent to the Music Bureau. In order to prove his innocence, Prime Minister Qin hit a pillar in the hall and died to make a lasting appeal.
The current emperor felt some pity and changed the death sentence to a life sentence. All nine members of the Qin family were exiled to the border, and the entire branch of Prime Minister Qin was exiled to the southern border.
It takes six or seven months to walk from the capital to Minzhou, where the Qin family was exiled.
They were escorted out of Beijing at the end of August, and it has been more than three months now. It is mid-December, the middle of winter, so it is no wonder that Gu Ran feels so cold.
The Ningyuan Marquisate is a key official relied upon by the current emperor and is very much in his favor. The original owner thought she was the daughter of the marquisate and the eldest daughter of the family since she was born. She was doted on by everyone in the Gu family, and the young men and women from the noble families in the capital also tolerated and flattered her. As a result, she developed an arrogant and domineering personality, but no one dared to criticize or question her.
When the story of the fake daughter was exposed, the original owner turned from the moon in the sky into mud on the ground overnight. There were many people who followed the situation and admired the real daughter, while mocking and humiliating the original owner.
The original owner could not accept the fate of being transformed from a phoenix into a sparrow, and then being reduced to her original form and falling into the common people as an ordinary peasant girl. She tried her best to please the wife of the Marquis. Fortunately, the wife also developed feelings for her and finally arranged a marriage for her with the concubine's son of Prime Minister Qin. Although it was not comparable to the original marriage with the prince of a noble family, it was a good marriage for a peasant girl, so the original owner married him.
How could she have expected that she would suffer such a catastrophe of genocide just one year after marrying into the Qin family?
His status kept declining, his circumstances kept getting worse and worse. The original owner was originally proud and upright, but after being exiled, he suffered a lot, had trouble eating and sleeping, and not only did his temper become more and more perverse, his health also deteriorated rapidly until today.
Gu Ran recalled the original owner's memories and felt sad.
They walked to Xinzhou, but it was cold and snowy, so they could not go any further. So they stayed at an inn called Qingyi and were trapped there for five days.
The original owner had already had a high fever when he checked into the post station, but they would not stop to rest on the way to exile just because a prisoner was sick. He could only move forward with his sick body. The delay slowed down his journey a lot, and he was cursed by the escorting officers and was whipped several times.
When he arrived at Qingyi, the original owner was already at the end of his strength. He had been breathing heavily last night.
They set out early this morning. Seeing that the original owner was gradually dying, the Qin family, including Gu Ran's husband, were unwilling to carry her as a burden in this cold weather. After giving twenty cents to the clerk in the kitchen of the post station to help dig the grave and bury the soil, the official and the servants took their group and hurried on their journey while the snow was clearing.
The original owner was only breathing his last breath when he heard in a daze that the Qin family not only abandoned him, but also took away all the bags he had with him. They even took off the only coat he had on him and left him to die in prison. He was so angry that he died with hatred in his heart.
The moment the original owner breathed his last, she came through in time and took over the sick body.
The old lady Dou in front of Dou was the inn attendant who was asked by the Qin family to clean up the body of the original owner. No wonder she was so surprised to see that he was still alive.
"Are you serious? You're still alive?"
"Of course I'm not dead."
Gu Ran replied weakly, his voice hoarse and raspy.
As Mrs. Dou listened to her, her expression became more and more surprised and suspicious.
When the old lady of the Qin family called her in this morning, Grandma Qin Si was hanging on to her last breath. Everyone thought she was dead. Even the officer who escorted them thought the woman was beyond saving after taking a look at her. After they received the money and felt her breath, it was clear that she was dead.
But in the blink of an eye, how did she come back to life?
Mrs. Dou was shocked and frightened. She asked the guard to open the cell. After entering, she reached out and touched Gu Ran, then quickly took her hand away.
Wow, it’s still incredibly hot.
He then waved his hand in front of her and watched her eyeballs move. He then sniffed and felt her breath, and finally confirmed that Grandma Qin Si was a living person.
Mrs. Dou breathed a sigh of relief, but then quickly became anxious again: "This, you are not dead, this is not okay, I, I have to go and talk to Master Liu about this."
Of course not.
Gu Ran already knew from the original owner's memory that the exiled prisoners were registered, and even if they died on the way due to an accident or illness, the responsible official would have to remove them from the register.
Now everyone believed that the original owner had died of illness, so the official Jie probably intended to write this in the reason for canceling the registration. When the government in Fujian received these exiles, they would have to verify with the local Ministry of Revenue officials who had already received the exiles' certificates and information.
But if the release officer reported it as originally planned, and the original owner was still alive at the post station, the release officer would have lost the exile on the way, neglected his duties, and the post station would have deceived his superiors and subordinates and sheltered the exile, then both parties would be punished, so Mrs. Dou was anxious to find the post station chief to solve this problem.
While waiting for Mrs. Dou to report to Lord Liu, the postmaster, Gu Ran finally breathed a sigh of relief, but he also felt a feeling that he had forgotten for a long time.
Yes, cold?
In the world of cultivation, as a cultivator, the body has become accustomed to adjusting its adaptability according to the environment, and is unaware of external adverse conditions such as cold or heat. Even if the cultivation level is not high, one can purchase robes or magical instruments to cope with it, and does not need to be tortured by the cold and heat of nature.
After experiencing the novelty of the freezing temperature, stiff body, and shivering from the cold, Gu Ran gradually felt uncomfortable. As all his senses returned, the soles of his feet and limbs felt painful, swollen, and itchy.
This discomfort was both familiar and unfamiliar. It took Gu Ran a while to recall that this was the torture brought by frostbite in the winter in his first life.
She tried some warm-up techniques, but found that they were useless.
It seems that I have traveled to a world where magic cannot be used!
Gu Ran checked his condition again and found that this body was seriously deficient, weak and exhausted, and he didn't even have the strength to open his eyes.
His body temperature continued to drop rapidly, and he was afraid that he would faint again soon.
She guessed that she had traveled through time when the original owner was sick and frozen to death. If she fainted from the cold again, it would set a record for the fastest death after traveling through time.
No, I have to find a way to hold on.
Gu Ran controlled his consciousness to drive his body and limbs.
No response.
Gu Ran was helpless and used his consciousness to check his body again. He saw that after the abandoned immortal cultivation system fell silent, only two narrow flat spaces were left. Looking at the talismans classified into different categories on the high and low shelves, he didn't have time to think about it. After silently reciting a warming talisman, he felt something appear in his right hand.
After a while, a warmth slowly extended from the palm of my right hand to my arms, shoulders, and neck, all the way down to cover my entire body and up to submerge my head, as if my entire body was soaked in warm sunshine.
Gu Ran felt comfortable.
When he was about to look for any talismans that could be used, he heard hurried footsteps outside the prison.
Judging from the severity of the situation, there were two people involved. Mother Dou's voice was mixed in with the others, constantly shouting, "Master Liu, you really need to go and take a look. This is incredibly strange. When I checked earlier, Fourth Madam Qin was clearly dead. How could she have come back to life in the blink of an eye?"
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