When dusk falls, farmers in every household in Shuiyun Village have returned home. Smoke rises from each house and laughter is heard everywhere. It is the most leisurely and relaxing time of the day.
At this time, Shen Cui was in a bad mood.
A few days ago, Shen Cui was still a social animal in modern society.
When I was almost 30, I worked my way up to a middle management position in a medium-sized company.
At the end of the year, all her colleagues with families went home to celebrate the New Year, leaving her alone, struggling hard for the third salary at the end of the year.
At the moment when the clock struck midnight, Chen Cui suddenly felt a pain in her heart and her eyes went dark. When she woke up again, she appeared here and became a peasant woman named Chen Cuihua.
As a novel lover who spends her free time reading online novels, Shen Cui has read quite a few novels with time-travel themes.
The protagonist who traveled back in time, even if she was not a peerless beauty, was at least pretty and charming. In terms of status, even if she was not a princess or a daughter of a noble family, she was at least an unmarried girl from a farming and reading family.
The good news is that she looks younger than she used to be in this outfit. She is only twenty-six years old now.
The bad news is that at this age in ancient times, the original body would already be a mother.
In her previous life, Chen Cui was a complete paper-sexist. She had no feelings for real men, but for some reason she had a special liking for human cubs.
If the law had not prohibited it, it is very likely that she would have planned to become a single mother after artificial insemination.
So she was not particularly opposed to having a child, but the bad thing was that the child was ten years old, which was an age when he should be sensible in modern times and even half an adult in ancient times. However, he was lazy and greedy, "hatching eggs" on the kang every day. Not only did he not know how to do things, he also neither read nor did any work. He was already a lazy man.
Being able to raise such a precious son, the original mother must be an excellent person.
When she was still a girl, Chen Cuihua was famous in the surrounding area for being cunning, lazy and greedy.
So even though her family background was relatively good and she was fair and pretty, and it was hard to find anyone else in the area who looked better than her, not many good families were willing to marry such a girl.
Of course, the original body had high standards. When she was fourteen or almost fifteen, a new carpenter named Mu Cheng came to the village and she fell in love with him.
Although Mu Cheng is just a craftsman, the things he makes are extremely exquisite, and he is also handsome and elegant, with a good appearance.
Therefore, although he is a widower who is a generation older than Chen Cuihua and has a son, he is still a popular man in a rural place like Shuiyun Village. Several old girls and young widows are interested in him.
The original body couldn't compete with the others, so she came up with a stupid idea. While her family was holding a wedding banquet, she went to the city to buy a handful of knockout drugs.
At the banquet, she and her equally top-notch mother did something fancy and knocked Mu Cheng down, then helped him into the house to rest.
Later, when the guests were making a fuss in the bridal chamber, they found Mu Cheng and Shen Cuihua lying together in their clothes.
Chen Cuihua cried and screamed, and Mu Cheng, who woke up, was at a loss for words. However, he was a very upright and somewhat pedantic person, so he had no choice but to marry Chen Cuihua. After they got married, he did not treat Chen Cuihua badly because of the grudge he had before the marriage.
Instead, he thought that she was much younger than himself, and as a stepmother at such an age, he took better care of her and repeatedly reminded his eldest son to respect Shen Cuihua as a proper elder.
Even with such a good man, the original body was still not satisfied - after she married into the Mu family, she realized that although Mu Cheng earned a lot, he was no match for Mu Dalang who was studying, and his pens, ink, paper and inkstone all cost money. The Mu family was only a little bit richer than ordinary farmers, so she was just making trouble for the world at home.
Not long after, Chen Cuihua gave birth to a big fat boy for the Mu family. She became even more nervous. Not only did she not treat Mu Yunchuan, the eldest son of the Mu family, in a good mood, she even acted bossy towards Mu Chengdu.
The father and son of the Mu family are both famous for their good tempers. When it comes to throwing tantrums and making trouble, they are certainly no match for Chen Cuihua. Gradually, the Mu family really let Chen Cuihua take charge.
Her own son did not inherit any of his father and brother's strengths, and became a useless person who had everything handed to him.
Two years ago, Mu Cheng arranged a good marriage for Mu Yunchuan.
Naturally, it costs a lot of money to get married and start a family. Just renovating a house will cost a lot of money.
Chen Cuihua grabbed the silver and money box at home and refused to let go, saying that Dalang's studies cost a lot every year, and Erlang would be getting married in two years, and the family could not afford such expenses even if they had mountains of gold and silver, so she insisted that Mu Cheng go and earn some money.
Mu Cheng was so frustrated that he had no choice but to go and work on his own.
When he went out of town, Chen Cuihua became lawless at home and left all the housework to Mu Yunchuan.
He even started to tease his future daughter-in-law, Zhou, who had not yet married into the family.
Zhou was a good girl favored by both the Mu family and their son. After her parents passed away, she took care of her younger brother until he settled down in the city, and only then were they willing to find a husband for her.
She had no elders in her family to support her, and she was unwilling to complain to her brother, so she really let Chen Cuihua take advantage of her.
Before winter, Zhou and Mu Yunchuan's wedding date arrived, but Mu Cheng, who had written in advance saying that he was on the way, had not returned any news.
The day after the wedding, Mu Yunchuan went to the city to report to the authorities. The young couple didn't know how many pairs of shoes they had worn out, but there was still no news from Mu Cheng.
At that time, Chen Cuihua, who was also panicked, ran back to her parents' home to seek help.
Her brothers from her mother's side said that things were not peaceful outside the provincial capital recently, with bandits causing trouble frequently. Mu Cheng did not show up for such an important event as his eldest son's wedding, so he must have been tricked.
After waiting for more than a month without seeing either the living or the dead, Chen Cuihua actually believed the story.
I believe that the first time after that, she kicked Mu Yunchuan and Zhou out of the house and made them live in the old house of the Mu family.
They say that the young couple are newlyweds, so they are allowed to live a sweet life on their own.
In fact, even a fool would know that she felt that Mu Cheng was gone and wanted to seize the Mu family's property - two blue brick and tile houses that had just been renovated two years ago and a box of silver and money.
She had a clear plan, thinking that even if Mu Cheng came back safe and sound, she hadn't done anything against the law, and she could get away with it by acting like a spoiled brat like before.
Maybe it was because the original body was just too bad. Not long ago, the weather suddenly turned cold and she caught a cold, but she was too stingy to spend money to see a doctor. She had a high fever for two days in a row, and she only had a lazy son who didn't know how to do things by her side. So she died in a confused state.
Shen Cui came through.
After receiving the original body's memories, the first thing Shen Cui did was to ask the original body's lazy son to take money to hire a doctor.
She had finally been able to live again, and she didn't want to ruin her life again!
Even so, the lazy boy was still mumbling, saying, "Mom used to say that doctors are good at cheating people out of their money, and they charge a lot of money for just some random medicine. We are strong and healthy, so we can just sleep it off when we get sick!"
Seeing that he took more than a quarter of an hour to put on his shoes and get off the kang, Shen Cui was so angry that she raised her hand as if to hit him, and only then did she mobilize him.
Later, a doctor was invited to the house with some commonly used medicinal herbs for treating colds and fevers. He immediately prescribed several prescriptions.
Chen Cui took several doses of medicine and rested until today. She finally felt that her illness had subsided, her mind was clear, and she had the strength to get up.
After regaining consciousness, Shen Cui sorted out the relationships between the people around her original body. The more she thought about it, the more something seemed wrong. Then, an idea flashed across her mind. She thought of a novel she had read called "The Road to Success in the Imperial Examinations".
Isn’t the protagonist of this imperial examination essay called Mu Yunchuan?
Mu Yunchuan was a man of extraordinary talent. Although he was not very prominent when he was young, he won the first place six times in a row since he started taking imperial examinations at the age of sixteen. He had a smooth career in the government and finally became a high-ranking official, becoming the youngest and most promising number one scholar in the history of this dynasty.
And his stepmother, Shen, was just an extremely disgusting thing in his colorful life - she treated Mu Yunchuan harshly, but after he became successful, she took her own son and stuck to him like a dog-skin plaster.
Scholars must maintain a good reputation, and filial piety is highly valued in this dynasty. For the sake of the word "filial piety", Mu Yunchuan had to endure countless disgusting things.
As a reader at that time, Shen Cui didn't know how many times she cursed her stepmother Shen.
Until the plot in the second half of the book - Shen's mother and son were so bold that they dared to accept huge bribes from others, intending to persuade Mu Yunchuan, a close minister of the emperor, to rebel.
Mu Yunchuan then put the interests of the country above his own, tied up the mother and son of Shen and brought them before the emperor, while he took off his official hat and apologized.
The emperor knew that Shen was not his biological mother, so he only sentenced Shen and her son to be pushed out of the Meridian Gate and executed by slow slicing, and the entire Shen family was exiled. However, Mu Yunchuan was not implicated. On the contrary, because of his act of sacrificing his own son for the sake of justice, the emperor became more dependent on Mu Yunchuan.
At this point, the stepmother Shen, who had been jumping around and making people feel disgusted every time they saw her, finally died. She became a sinner for all eternity and left behind countless infamy.
Thinking back to this, Chen Cui felt a chill in her heart.
Naturally, she could not do something as outrageous as her original self, but Mu Yunchuan in the original book was a complete villain. Her original self was born a peasant woman and was a brainless person. She dared to be so lawless, which was naturally due to Mu Yunchuan's connivance.
When I was reading the book, I just felt that Mu Yunchuan's behavior was very satisfying.
When she became a person in the book, Shen Cui was left with only fear.
I'm afraid that what the original body did now has already made him bear a grudge. Once he becomes successful, who knows how he will seek revenge.
Shen Cui forced herself to calm down and calculated that it was still early in her timeline. Mu Yunchuan was only a teenager of fifteen or sixteen. It would take him several more years to complete the imperial examinations.
Chen Cui was a cautious person. Between making up for the non-existent mother-son relationship between them and staying away from this white-cut black Wenquxing, she quickly chose the second path.
Anyway, according to the plot in the book, Mu Cheng never appeared again after that. No one saw him alive, and no one found his body after his death.
The original body had already kicked them out of the house, so she decided to go all the way and stay away from them, cutting off all ties with the Mu family.
Mu Yunchuan is the male protagonist of a novel about the imperial examination. When he left, he had the world in his heart. As long as you stay far enough away and time passes, he might forget what happened before.
Even if she hadn't forgotten, they were far apart at that time. He was a Beijing official and she was a village woman. They were not related at all, so it would not be the case that they would end up being torn to pieces.
Just as Shen Cui got up to pack her bags, a nasal voice of "Mom" came from beside her.
The one who spoke was of course the lazy son of the original body, Mu Hanshan, the second son of the Mu family, who was now ten years old and almost got beaten up by Chen Cui the day before.
As his name suggests, Mu Hanshan is as strong as a mountain. However, he was not usually called by his original name, for fear that the name was too big and the child was too young to control it, so people always called him Erpang.
Seeing Shen Cui packing a big package, Mu Erpang did a somersault, shaking the fat on his cheeks, sat up and asked, "Mom, what are you hiding? Give me a bite!"
Shen Cui: ...
Anyone with eyes would know that she was in a hurry to escape, not to hide food!
When Fatty Mu saw Chen Cui looking at him with a twitching mouth, he simply rubbed his eyes with one hand and tried to grab her bag with the other.
"I braved the heavy snow to get a doctor for mom the other morning. Mom can't eat alone."
Chen Cui had just packed her luggage, so she naturally wouldn't let him open it and mess it up. As the two were arguing, they heard a "ding" sound -
A voice rang in her mind: "It has been detected that the host has merged with the body's memory. The [Imperial Examination Version of Raising a Cub System] is connecting to the host's consciousness!"
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