Chapter 2 Home
Since I have accepted it, I will not say any more nonsense. I must show my determination after recognizing the reality. Since I have come here, I must do my duty as a time traveler, plant crops and trees, and lead the ancient people into socialism. Some necessary tasks must be done, such as conquering celebrities as my subordinates, changing history to add political achievements, going deep into the imperial city to play palace fighting, playing with the dynasty and being rampant.
After setting a preliminary goal, Su Luo stayed in the house for a whole day and tried hard to recall the short passage "The 15th Year of Wanli" that he had only read. He remembered some things, which basically said that the weather this year was abnormal and there were some minor disasters. Thinking about it in more detail, apart from the first sentence, the most profound one was the last sentence: In short, in history, the 15th year of Wanli was actually an ordinary year.
Depend on!
In such an ordinary year, these few words brought devastating blow to Su Luo. His goal of controlling the dynasty became at least 50% less feasible.
Since there is no chance to dominate the world, then go for the harem? This idea was completely dispelled after Su Luo barely saw her face, which was neither classical nor beautiful, in an object called a "bronze mirror". With her looks, she could be found in the crowd. Moreover, she did not look like a teenager, and definitely not the sun of the motherland at the age of fourteen or fifteen. She no longer had any competitiveness in the harem.
So, a woman disguised as a man and visited a brothel, bumped into the most handsome prince, sang some pop songs, and read some new prose, thus creating an earth-shattering cross-generational love? Su Luo felt sick just thinking about it.
Pinching his temples, Su Luo stretched his waist, turned his head and shouted, "Xiao Yi, I'm hungry."
Xiao Yi is the name of another humanoid creature in the courtyard, the Hope Project who calls her "Sister". His last name is Su Yi. And she is also called Su Luo. So, time travel is not without reason. At the very least, two people who are separated by more than 400 years may have exchanged souls because of the same name, although this explanation is silly.
After Su Luo shouted, she heard a response from outside the door, followed by the sound of "bang bang" footsteps, indicating that her instructions were implemented.
This cheap brother is really good. At least he doesn't need anyone to take care of him in daily life. On the contrary, he can take good care of others. Su Luo felt ashamed when he thought of this. What did he do when he was thirteen? He played crazy with a group of children all day long.
Of course, Su Yi's advantages are far more than that. Besides being caring, he is also very simple and honest. He answers all of Su Luo's questions. Although he also raised questions, they were all dealt with by Su Luo with a single sentence, "Stop talking nonsense".
Through friendly talks with Su Yi, Su Luo has initially understood some of the circumstances of his family.
First, they are two siblings, living with their mother;
Second, they have a father who is still alive, but for various objective reasons, he does not live with them ;
Third, my mother worked as a staff member in the logistics department of Li Fuhu's family in Zhuxian Town, the administrative agency above Baolai Village ;
Fourth, their father is not Li Fuhu;
Five, their family is very poor.
After asking again and again, Su Yi still couldn't explain who their father was. He only said that he also lived in Zhuxian Town. In all these years, he had only come to see Su Yi twice. He was said to be well-dressed, but he didn't bring any improvement to the family. This made Su Luo have a bad impression of her own cheap father, and also touched on the thing she didn't want to touch the most in her heart, so she had more than a little sympathy for this cheap mother. She even wanted to show filial piety to her mother that she had not done in the past twenty years. This feeling is hard to explain.
This family was very poor, a woman with two children. If they could make ends meet, no mother would be willing to abandon her children to work in a richer place. The one hundred copper coins she earned every month were all given back home, and it was said that they were given to Su Luo. This made Su Luo feel a little guilty. She once searched her small dark room but didn't find any copper coins.
Su Yi is even more worthy of praise. Although Su Luo couldn't understand why a boy couldn't get sponsorship from his father, boys in this era are valuable, aren't they? But obviously Su Yi didn't get what he deserved. He only had a small stall, a few woodblocks, and a carving knife. On weekdays, he made some pleasing woodblocks and sold them to printmaking processors to supplement his family income. I forgot to mention that Zhuxian Town is a nationally famous woodblock printing base. It is quite popular to paint on the woodblocks with carved patterns and print some New Year paintings of door gods. However, this popularity refers to places without woodblock printing. In Zhuxian Town and even the surrounding areas, almost every family knows this thing. There is a woodblock printing workshop every three steps. Who can they sell it to? So people like them who have no connections and are small in scale can only make money by sending some fancy patterns to big households.
The most useless one is Su Luo. Saying she is useless does not mean that she is not hardworking and does not work hard to make money. On the contrary, she works too hard. She can do everything from washing clothes to cooking, sewing clothes and embroidering. She works hard all day long. She is just a little stubborn. A few years ago, someone came to propose marriage, but she was worried that no one would take care of her younger brother and that her mother was in poor health. She didn't think that after she got married, she would work hard to control the economic power of her husband's family. Isn't it better than anything else? This is probably the difference between people. It turns out that Su Luo is a simple person and only does simple things, so she rejected the proposal and waited for her younger brother to grow up. This body just turned twenty this year. Although it is still in the age of flowers, for this dynasty, it is already an old maid .
"Sister, let's eat." Su Yi leaned against the door, smiling, with a little pride revealed in his simplicity.
"What are you laughing at?" Su Luo walked into the kitchen and sighed a little at the sweet potato millet porridge which was, of course, delicious. She had been eating this stuff since she came there. This family was very poor, and she could feel it. She was also trying to ignore the difficult external conditions, but she didn't have to eat this for every meal. It made her stomach sour. She suggested that Su Yi should switch to potatoes or something next time, as long as the cost remained the same.
"Nothing." Su Yi's smile was completely different. After laughing for a while, he couldn't help but say, "Sister, you have a chance."
"What opportunity?" Su Luo drank up the porridge in the bowl in no time and wiped his mouth with his sleeve - there were no such things as napkins in those days.
"Brother Zhou came over this morning, and I gave him the things you embroidered for him."
"Eh?" Su Luo scratched his chin, "Brother Zhou? Oh, since it's embroidered for him, of course I have to send it to him."
It sounded very grand, but in fact Su Luo had no idea who "Brother Zhou" was and had not had the chance to find out.
Su Yi felt a little guilty after hearing her speak frankly, "I mean the embroidery that Brother Zhou planned to give to Miss Xie." He looked up and saw that Su Luo was still confused, so he said anxiously, "Oh, that's... that's the ones you soiled and left behind the door a few days ago."
Su Luo looked at Su Yi, who seemed honest, and thought to herself that one should not judge a person by his appearance. The so-called "embroidery" left behind the door should refer to the thing she used to wipe her feet after kicking over the toilet one night, and this boy actually gave it to someone else as a gift.
"Sister, how is it? Did I do a good job?" Su Yi smiled with a red face, seeming to want to take credit.
Su Luo slapped him on the forehead, interrupting his pride, "What is the relationship between Brother Zhou and Miss Xie?" She asked without any hesitation, because Su Yi never doubted the purpose of her asking these questions.
As soon as the question came out, Su Luo saw the word "sympathy" in Su Yi's eyes. Su Yi sighed, "Sister, I felt something was wrong with you that night. That embroidery was asked by Brother Zhou. You like Brother Zhou so much, why would you throw away the embroidery for him? Later, I secretly asked Aunt Wang and found out that Brother Zhou was going to propose to Miss Xie. He had prepared everything except your embroidery. Then I understood why Sister was so abnormal these days."
"I, I like Zhou..." Su Luo pointed at herself and asked dryly. She said that Su Yi's eyes were not right that night. He was staring at the pile of cloth in a daze. But these two days he took good care of her and answered all her questions. Maybe he thought that she was mentally ill because of her emotional frustration?
"Sister, don't worry. I have wrapped the things carefully. Brother Zhou won't open them to look. If Miss Xie receives such a dirty marriage proposal gift, the matter will definitely be over. Then you will have a chance." Su Yi became happier and happier as he spoke. He was so excited that he went for another bowl of rice and ate it with relish.
What a good brother who cares about his sister! Su Luo was almost moved, and at the same time she wanted to pinch that slender neck. She had embroidered that thing "herself", so if there was a problem, wouldn't it be obviously related to her? Is this how sabotage is done? She got herself involved.
She also thought that if she received a marriage proposal gift with some strange smell, she would definitely kill the other party to pieces!
She also thought, if…she meant if, if Zhou’s marriage proposal really failed because of this, then would she be considered the main culprit? Or was it an accidental injury?
