vrcanaries Chapter 1 Crossing
Chapter 1 Crossing
Sujia Village.
"Honey, are you serious? Someone in town really offered ten taels of silver to buy this wretched girl."
Aunt Su looked incredulous. How could such a skinny, half-dead girl be sold for ten taels of silver?
"Why don't you believe me? Here, this is a deposit of one or two taels of silver. Now you should believe me!" After saying that, Su Lao Er took out one or two taels of silver from his pocket.
Aunt Su snatched the silver from Old Master Su's hand and bit it.
"That's right, sir. In a few days, we'll sell this brat, buy some grain, and use the remaining money to pay for Da Bao's tuition for the next six months."
"Alright, give her plenty of food these next few days, don't let her starve to death. When the time comes, I'll carry that brat to town. Hurry up and get me some food, I'm almost dying of thirst on this journey."
"Sigh! I wonder when this drought will end." With that, he slumped down on the broken wooden plank bed to rest.
The country has been suffering from a severe drought for over a year, with not a drop of rain falling since last summer's harvest.
The soil in the fields was cracked and parched, and all the crops planted yielded no harvest.
The river had long since dried up, leaving only the dry riverbed exposed.
The village is now only able to barely sustain its inhabitants thanks to a single well at the village entrance.
The sun has been scorching hotter these past few days than before, and the water in the well is dwindling; it's likely to dry up in another two days.
Su Yue woke up while Su Lao Er and Su Ershen were talking, but her whole body ached as if she had been hit by a car, and she didn't want to move at all.
Hearing that there was no more talking outside, Su Yue slowly opened her eyes. She looked at the dilapidated shed with what seemed to be a straw roof. The soil on the walls was crumbling badly, and she almost choked on her breath and fainted again.
She's been kidnapped by human traffickers and taken to some remote, impoverished mountain village. This is terrible!
Su Yue was filled with bitterness!
At this moment, Su Yue was unaware that the place she was in was no longer the 21st century she was accustomed to.
Instead, it was a dynasty that experienced several consecutive months of drought and has never appeared in any history book.
Su Yue propped herself up to sit up, her body aching, and touched her dry, chapped lips.
How long has she been abducted? Look at these heartless human traffickers, they won't even give her a sip of water, they're really going to let her die of thirst.
Wait, something's not right, these hands seem a bit small.
Su Yue looked down and realized that these were not her fair and slender hands at all, but rather braised chicken feet that looked like human feet.
And those arms are so thin they look like hemp stalks; he's so skinny he barely has any flesh on his body.
Looking at this body, Su Yue almost choked and died on the spot.
A look of despair.
She has clearly traveled through time.
Su Yue was heartbroken to have transmigrated into the body of a pitiful little girl!
Su Yue just heard people talking outside, it sounded like they sold the dead girl. Who is the dead girl? Is it her?
Looking down at herself, she realized that calling her a "brat" was somewhat plausible.
When Su Yue finally realized what was happening, she almost rushed out and killed the two people talking outside. But then she thought about her skinny arms and legs and decided against it.
Before Su Yue could even stand up, she felt dizzy, clutched her head, and lay back down.
When Su Yue recovered, she really wanted to smash her head against a wall and die.
Heaven is going to destroy Su Yueye!
Forget it, I'll just lie down!
Just now I was receiving the original owner's memories. The original owner was also named Su Yue, and she was eleven years old this year. She was from Su Family Village, but I don't know which dynasty she lived in.
Father died of illness when the original owner was young, and mother remarried before she had been a widow for half a year.
Little Su Yue, who had no parents, was left to live with her grandfather, grandmother, second uncle, and second aunt, and had never left the village.
Grandpa and Grandma had three sons. The eldest son was Su Yue's father. Because he broke his leg when he fell on the mountain when he was young, he couldn't get married. It wasn't until his two younger brothers got married and had children that he saved up eight taels of silver and got a wife.
Although he is the eldest son, he is the youngest child.
The younger son's family lives in town and only comes back a few times a year.
After the eldest son dies.
Xiao Su Yue could only live with her second uncle and aunt. Su's second aunt was very fertile and gave birth to three sons in one go: Su Da Bao, Su Er Bao, and Su Xiao Bao.
At first, Aunt Su was very kind to Su Yue, but after her grandparents died...
Uncle Su Er and Uncle Su San sold Su Yue's house to the villagers for fifteen taels of silver. Uncle Su San, who didn't want to raise Su Yue, took six taels, while Uncle Su Er, who wanted to raise Su Yue, took nine taels.
Only then did Uncle Su have the money to send Su Dabao to school.
Before long, Aunt Su Er began to beat and scold Xiao Su Yue constantly, and never gave her a decent meal.
Adding to the problem is the drought, which has made food even scarcer. Furthermore, people have been beaten and forced to work all day without a break, and they all died last night.
When she woke up again, she was Su Yue in the 21st century.
Su Yue recalled the day she transmigrated. She didn't know what hit her, then everything went black, and when she woke up, she was here.
What bad luck! I was just walking along when I got hit and sent through time.
I don't want to think about it anymore, thinking too much will give me a headache.
Now that we're here, the most important thing is to find something to eat to fill our stomachs, otherwise we'll get hungry again later.
Su Yue sat up again, enduring her discomfort, and got up to go to the door. She looked out through the crack in the door and saw that it was pitch black. She listened for a while but there was no sound.
He cautiously opened the door and went out, sneaking into another shack. He searched inside for a while before finally finding a cornbread.
Su Yue came out of the shack while munching on a cornbread bun.
She couldn't stay in this house any longer. This "dead girl" that her second uncle and aunt were talking about was her. If she didn't run away soon, her second uncle would sell her in a few days.
Su Yue thought, she couldn't just run away empty-handed, and she couldn't let her second uncle's family have an easy time before she ran away.
She strolled around the yard, looking around. There were three thatched houses, plus two dilapidated sheds that were about to collapse. In the backyard, there was a chicken coop with a fence and a few chickens being fed.
After surveying the yard, Su Yue finished eating the cornbread in her hand, patted it off, turned around and went back to the dilapidated shed to lie down and rest to recharge.
Her small frame was so fragile, it seemed like a strong gust of wind could carry her away.
Besides, this house is so bare that there's nothing worth looking at.
According to the original owner's memories, this is roughly the situation in the village. Coupled with the drought, these days, only families with some savings can afford to eat and stay warm.
For example, the village head, with his three large brick houses, is already one of the wealthiest people in the surrounding villages.
Also, the original owner's house was only built less than two years ago, which is why they were able to buy so many.
Most villagers are still struggling to make ends meet, and their families don't even have enough food to eat.
As Su Yue lay down, she remembered that other transmigrators had some kind of cheat code. She was also a transmigrator, so what was her transmigration cheat code? She quickly got up and began to search her entire body.
After searching for a while without finding any cheat codes, he was filled with despair and cursed God eight hundred times.
Just as Su Yue was about to give up on her ability to use cheat codes, she angrily punched herself in the chest, hitting a piece of jade.
Wait a minute! Where did the original owner get the jade? If they did, it should have been taken away by their stingy second uncle and aunt long ago. Why would it still be left for the original owner?
This jade seems to have been bought by Su Yue in her previous life when she used her first pot of gold to travel outside an ancient temple. It has a peace buckle with auspicious clouds on it.
At the time, Su Yue always thought that the old monk who had grabbed her was a big liar.
The old monk who grabbed her stuffed the jade into Su Yue's hand without saying how much money she wanted, simply saying to give whatever she felt like.
When Su Yue bluntly stated that she didn't have any change and didn't want the amulet, intending to return it, the old monk said that once the amulet was given away, it couldn't be taken back.
The old monk then nimbly pulled a QR code from his pocket and presented it to Su Yue.