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Hunger and pain awakened Murun's consciousness.
But the hallucinations caused by excessive blood loss made her feel as if she were in her own small studio apartment.
She looked at the ambiguous furnishings around her and couldn't help but bite her lip hard, trying to clear her mind, but in the end she was still trapped in darkness, boundless and without light or sound.
She woke up again after an unknown amount of time.
This time, she was no longer dizzy and was much more lucid, and she could see her surroundings clearly.
She was sitting in a pile of garbage.
'Gurgle, gurgle—' Her stomach rumbled repeatedly, reminding her that it was time to eat.
Looking around, all I saw was garbage.
I picked up a tattered piece of paper, on which was written—Northern Jin Dynasty Gazette.
A tall, thin boy walked over and was very surprised to see Mu Run sitting in the pile of garbage. He exclaimed, "Sister Hua Ling, what are you doing here?"
"Who are you?" Mu Run looked at the other person blankly, not recognizing him at all.
"I'm Wang Yaozong. Yaoyao and I have left the capital and are currently staying temporarily in Hedao Village, Jingyue County. Sister Hualing, what happened to you?"
"Hua Ling?" Mu Run raised his hand to touch the back of his head, which was throbbing with pain, but found it covered in blood.
Wang Yaozong rushed over and said, "You're injured. Let me take you to where my sister and I live."
It seemed there was no other choice, so Mu Run went with Wang Yaozong.
"This is the lower reaches of the Jingyue River. A lot of garbage flows down from upstream and into this area. The magistrate of Jingyue County hires people to clean up this garbage, and sometimes, if they're lucky, they might even find copper coins or something similar."
"The Jingyue River?"
"It's over a hundred miles from the capital, and most of the garbage here comes from the capital. You could say it's the capital's garbage dump. Sister Hualing, how is my sister Qiaoyu?"
Mu Run said, "...Sorry, I injured my head and don't remember very clearly. Also, my name isn't Hua Ling, it's Mu Run."
"Murun?"
"Um."
"Can I call you Sister Run?"
"Of course you can."
Wang Yaozong and his sister Yaoyao lived in a dilapidated house. More than half of the rooms had collapsed, and only one and a half rooms were barely big enough for people to fit in.
Originally, Wang Yaozong and Yaoyao lived in the intact room, but when Mu Run came, he moved to the half-room, which was exposed to the sky and had half of the wall collapsed, but it was still barely possible to squeeze in by using wooden boards to block it.
Yao Yao is a child with a leg disability, but she is very sensible and kind. She is not discouraged or self-pitying because of her disability. Every day she works hard to help Wang Yaozong with chores, such as weaving straw sandals, washing clothes and cooking.
Seeing how motivated a disabled little girl could be, Mu Run naturally reasoned that she, a fully healthy adult, shouldn't be inferior to a child. Once her head injury healed and she no longer suffered from daily headaches and dizziness, she would go find Wang Yaozong and help him dispose of the garbage.
Wang Yaozong wouldn't let her do it. After all, she was a head maid in the Grand Commandant's mansion, more precious than them commoners. How could she do this?
The head maid of the Grand Commandant's mansion... Very good, she knows some more information about this body.
"Run-jie, you go and rest over there, I'll do it."
“I have to do something, otherwise I’ll just sit here eating and drinking for free, which is worse than being a baby.”
"Sister Run seems to be literate, right? I see you always looking at those morning newspapers."
"Well, I should at least know a little about current events." Also, even though she has no memory of this world, she recognizes the words in the morning newspaper. The moment she sees these words, their meaning and pronunciation automatically come to mind.
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