Traveling through time and space to become a lady of a noble family, but she only wants to escape

Chapter 126 Past

"Wait a minute!" Bai Zhi rushed over in two steps and pulled Chu Yunchuan away from the door. "I'll go in alone. You wait for me outside." She knocked on the door and said softly, "Chuqi, I'm going in?"

The house was quiet.

Baizhi slowly pushed open a gap, slipped in, and then slowly closed the door again.

A huge pile of quilts was lying on the bed, motionless. Bai Zhi kicked off her shoes and sat cross-legged, lifting a corner of the quilt: "Lin Chuqi, can you catch your breath?"

A hand reached out from inside and pressed the lifted corner back.

"Hey, hey, hey, stop it." Bai Zhi raised her hand again, "How can you continue the exam if you're suffocating yourself to death?"

This time there was no movement inside.

Bai Zhi pressed the issue further, "Such a small hole is not enough to breathe, you have to lift the quilt. I'm telling you in advance, if you hold it in for too long you'll become stupid, and you'll never be able to pass the imperial examination again."

The quilt mountain was silent for a while, and finally the top of the mountain was lifted, revealing the head inside. The two red and swollen eyes looked at Bai Zhi without saying a word.

It was at this time that Lin Chuqi finally started to act a little like a child.

"If Qiaoqiao knew you were hiding under the quilt, she would be furious. It's all in vain." Bai Zhi rubbed her palms to warm them up, and gently used some internal energy to massage Lin Chuqi's eyes. "It's not easy to get her to be your servant, so you better be gentle with her."

Lin Chuqi said with a heavy nasal tone: "I heard Qiaoqiao's voice."

"You can hear this? Let mom change your blanket to a thicker one tomorrow."

These words failed to make Lin Chuqi laugh. Instead, he pursed his lips and kept silent.

Bai Zhi became serious and whispered, "What's the method of worrying? Tell me, it won't hurt to tell you."

Lin Chuqi's eyelashes trembled in Bai Zhi's hands, and he said, "Sister."

"what happened?"

“Have you ever wanted to do something but couldn’t do it?”

"Of course there are. Life is not always satisfactory."

"So what will you do?"

Bai Zhi paused.

In the original owner’s memory, there were too many unhappy things, but like Lin Chuqi, she just cried every time.

This won’t do. I can’t say that. If I say that, her coming in here to advise me would be in vain.

Finally, Bai Zhi said gently: "Let me tell you something from the past, just listen to it as a story."

"Ah."

"Do you remember the strange stories I told you before? People drink Mengpo soup after they die to forget their past lives. I didn't drink enough in my previous life, so I still remember some of the past. In my previous life, I had no parents and grew up alone." Bai Zhi said, "I lived with a group of children who also had no parents. There was an old lady who took care of us, but she couldn't take care of so many people, so we often had to take care of ourselves. Fighting for things was common. The most troublesome thing was not having enough food, and I often had to go out to pick up other people's leftovers, so my biggest wish at that time was to have a full meal.

"Later, life got better. Every now and then, a few rich people would come and want to take their children home to raise. I was chosen by a family and taken away. Although I had food, drink and clothes to wear, I had to play with their child. The child was very unreasonable. I was beaten more than before and several bones were broken. Then I ran away. I had no money to take a bus, so I walked the 450 kilometers back home. At that time, my biggest wish was to be a rich man.

"Later, the old lady picked a few smart children to go to school, and I was one of them. She said that if I studied well, I could stand out and become rich, so I devoted myself to studying. But the good times didn't last long. One day, when I finished my homework at the cram school and came home, do you know what I saw? There were corpses all over the ground. I went to identify them one by one. The old lady and the children who didn't go out to study were all dead.

"I reported it to the authorities, and they later caught the people. They were a group of bullies who came to rob the old lady. The old lady said she had no money, but they didn't believe it, so they became very violent. They came to such a poor place to rob money? I still don't know if what they said was true. Although I always fought with those kids, we grew up together and there was always affection. I was really sad at that time. My wish became to stand out, become rich and powerful, and make everyone afraid to mess with me, so I went to work like a slave for the rich.

At this point, Bai Zhi's story came to an abrupt end. Lin Chuqi couldn't help but ask, "Then what?"

"Then," Bai Zhi spread her hands, "then I died, so you see, Tai Sheng's obsession ended up in vain. It's good to have a hope, but you have to be broad-minded and have a clear vision. First, if you can't get what you want, you have to let it go in time, and second, you have to recognize what you really want. Chuqi, I know you want to pass the imperial examination to become a teacher, but do you want to be a teacher or do you want to pass the imperial examination?"

"…What's the difference? Only a juren can be a teacher."

"Of course it's different. For example, if you are riding a horse to the capital, it's a small matter if the horse is too tired to move, at most you can just change it. Only if the capital is blown up into the sky will it be a big matter. You can cry after seeing the capital blow up. Now the question is, do you want to ride a horse or go to the capital?"

The quilt was pulled down, exposing the neck. Lin Chuqi was pried a little by Bai Zhi, but still hesitant: "But...but what if there is something wrong with my riding skills? What if I can't ride anymore no matter how many times I change horses?"

"Can't ride a horse? You have both arms and legs, how can you say you can't ride a horse?"

"I ranked third in the county exam, but in the provincial exam, several people who ranked behind me passed, and I..."

Bai Zhi opened her arms, hugged the whole quilt mountain tightly in her arms, and asked with a smile: "You heard Qiaoqiao's voice, right? Did you hear her say that so many people can only pass the imperial examination at the age of 40 or 50? You are still young."

"……Um."

"How many years have they studied? How many people can pass the imperial examination after studying for such a few years? Every one of them is a child prodigy. Are you being unreasonable because you are not a child prodigy, Lin Chuqi, my wise friend?"

"What if I still can't pass the imperial examination when I'm 40 or 50?"

"Maybe you won't want to be a teacher by then? Life is eighty years long, so you have to wait and see. Even a fortune teller who has studied for more than ten years may not be able to predict what you will be like when you are forty or fifty years old. How can you predict it for yourself just by speaking? How can you be so good at it?"

Young people see the whole world, but they only have a tiny part in it. There are too many things that are beyond their control, so it is easy for them to get stuck in a rut. Bai Zhi hugged Lin Chuqi and consoled him in murmurings until she saw him cheer up before leaving.