Because of the chaos everywhere now and the absence of both parents, the wedding was kept simple.
Who knew, just 3 days after they got married, a wave of rebels rushed into the village under the pursuit of the imperial court.
The rebels have always acted harshly. In order to prevent the villagers from revealing their whereabouts, they killed all the old men and women in the village and took the rest of the women and children to the northwest to sell them as slaves.
The way they took people was to tie them up and throw them in a wagon. As for the difficult journey, the cold, and lack of food and clothing along the way; these people didn’t care if they died.
If they die, they will die. Just throw them away and keep walking.
The original owner had always been afraid of death. When the rebels attacked, he was hiding under a tree lazing around. He saw the killings and watched one of the rebels pull his wife forward.
When a man saw that his wife had been taken, he would certainly rush up immediately and try his best to protect the other.
However, the original owner was scared and his legs went soft. So, he quickly found a corpse, smeared the blood from the corpse on himself and his face, then slid down with the corpse to play dead.
The human’s survival instinct was powerful.
After lying under the body for so long, he also heard the miserable howling of women and children crying for a long time. Then, the horsemen took their wagons and everything quieted down.
The original owner was about to get up when the imperial army also came in pursuit.
The army barracks were camped in the vicinity, but the surrounding people were tragically killed by the rebels. At that time, General Hou was furious and immediately took people to chase them. The rest of the soldiers went back to the barracks. Only these two soldiers, who saw so many people die here, thinking that the rebels wouldn’t have any time to touch their belongings after killing them in a hurry, quietly slipped over with the intention of making a fortune from the dead.
Originally, the original owner got up when they touched him and saw the two men scared to the point of kneeling down and begging for mercy. The two men saw that he was a living person, and were immediately emboldened again. After scolding him, they intended to return to the barracks.
The original owner was frightened by this incident.
He was lazing around, and suddenly from the sky, a bunch of people slaughtered the whole village. Even if he was fortunate enough to pretend to be a corpse today and came out alive, in case he finds a village in the future, he might be slaughtered by the rebels.
Thinking about it, it was better for him to hug a big thigh.
So, he begged the two men, begging them to take him to the barracks.
Two soldiers weren’t exactly hard-tempered people, otherwise, they wouldn’t have really helped these people gather their bodies after touching their belongings. Seeing the original owner begging, and thinking that the gentleman in charge of accounting in the barracks happened to be deceased, they tried to take the original owner back.
The higher-ups lacked an accountant and heard the original owner say he was a scholar. They agreed to put him in charge of the accounts.
Anyway, if he didn’t obey, just kill him.
The original owner successfully infiltrated into the barracks, which opened the road of development step by step.
He had a good relationship with the two soldiers first, and then through their good relationship, he produced evidence that the two men were spies for the rebels, and then reported them in a ‘righteous manner’.
After the two men were beheaded, he was rewarded for his meritorious work, and his position was further promoted.
The original owner became more and more proud, from then on, he started his road of ‘meritorious service’. He gradually learned to be clever, and successfully embraced the golden big thigh of the Second Prince sent by the court to supervise the army.
General Hou was the Emperor’s people, but his sister was the biological mother of the Third Prince. The Second Prince wanted to fight for the throne, and General Hou, a great General who had achieved many feats, was his obstacle.
Then, at the prompt of the Second Prince, the original owner slandered General Hou for collaborating with the enemy.
He was a small nobody. Of course, he couldn’t trip up General Hou, but he had the Second Prince ah.
After Hou Jiangjun was dismissed for treason.
The original owner smoothly went under the Second Prince’s banner.
Because his bootlicking was very skillful, his position was still quite good. After the defeat of the rebels, the northwest was captured, and at that time, the original owner, who already had a number of concubines, was ordered to go ahead and take part in the operation.
As a result, he actually ran into the same girl he did at the beginning.
The girl who was taken away three days into her marriage with him was sold to a large family in the northwest to work as a slave girl, only to find out she was actually pregnant just after entering the house.
The girl thought that her husband died, and this child was the only blood of her husband in this world. She could have aborted this child, and she might be able to remarry when she worked well in the residence.
But in the end, she was reluctant and chose to keep the child.
Because she was pregnant, she couldn’t be assigned to the young lady to do easy work as before but was assigned to wash clothes.
Whether it’s summer or fall, doing laundry was no easy job.
The girl endured and gave birth to a child. It so happened that the wealthy family in the residence was also looking for a wet nurse. She was a servant in the mansion, and because she had no husband, the wealthy family pitied her and chose her as a wet nurse.
After that, she stayed with the wealthy family to be a wet nurse, and her child also became a book boy for the Young Master Sun of the family.
(TNote: Book boy = a servant of a scholar, usually serving them as they study.)
Everything was quite good for the original girl.
Although still a slave girl, the Eldest Young Madam was very generous to her and promised to release the mother and son after two years. Her son was very intelligent, and he might be able to take the examination in the future, to bring her some fame.
But at this time, the original owner came.
The original owner was the Second Prince’s people, the girl was a slave girl who came to receive him to the residence, the two coincidentally met this way.
The girl was first surprised, then overjoyed.
But the original owner looked back at the past few years. After all the suffering, she was no longer as pure and beautiful as the wife in his memory, and his heart didn’t feel happy at all.
He was now rich, with the Second Prince behind him, and a lot of concubines in his house. The Second Prince also promised to find a small official’s daughter for him to marry as a wife.
Everything was going great. If there was a wife and a son turning up so suddenly, wouldn’t it be ruined?
Besides, the two were separated after 3 days of marriage.
His wife was attractive. Who could guarantee that the rebels didn’t do anything to her back then? There was no certainty that the child was his.
His heart was full of rejection, but the girl was full of joy.
After thinking about it, the original owner pretended to be very happy, trying to appease her first. He told her to go back, not to tell anyone first, wait for him to arrange it, and then he would quietly pick her up.
After all, he was now still the Second Prince’s retainer. If his wife was a slave to someone else’s family, it wouldn’t sound good.
The girl believed him. When she got back, she sat in her room with her son in her arms and told him that his father, her husband had come for them.
The next day, the Eldest Young Madam received the news that the two people had hung themselves from a beam.
The original owner left quietly after finishing his work. No matter how the wealthy family investigated, they couldn’t find out that it was him.
This matter has been hidden for over 10 years before it was discovered.
At that time, the Emperor was still strong and alive, the imperial sons were still competing, a young man passed the exam and then revealed the original owner’s acts of being unfilial to his parents and the murder of his wife and son, in court.
He was the original owner’s youngest brother. After the original owner left, the family’s second brother always kept going strong and supported their parents for 5 years. After that, the second brother fell to his death because he wanted to save some money on medicine and personally went to the mountains to pick medicinal herbs.
After the second brother left, the third supported the family. His parents died, he raised his younger siblings alone, at a young age as a hunter. He struggled to let his youngest brother study and pass the exam.
He himself was bitten to death by a tiger.
The remaining two sisters were still around, but one of them was taken away by the original owner’s people. After that, the younger sister was r*ped, and the original owner ‘took care’ of the aftermath.
At that time, he was already a scholar. For this reason, he hated the original owner, defected to the Eldest Prince, and began to investigate. Only after the investigation did he find that the person who was responsible for the death of his sister was the older brother who had left their family behind, took all the money, and left them to die.
And the eldest brother had done a lot of harmful things in his life.
He desperately struggled to get first place in the exam. It wasn’t for fame, but to expose the original owner, and all his crimes.
After the original owner has bestowed death, this brother, because of ‘brother suing brother’, was beaten twenty times with a board. The Second prince hated him for cutting off one of his minions, and directly paid off the doctor, to let him ‘die because of a cold’.
Ji Changze only had one thought after reading it.
The original owner felt that his wife brought bad luck.
He himself was much greater.
His parents, brothers, and sisters, are left with just one youngest sister, and his wife and son were killed by his own hands. Even the Second Prince, his master, was rejected by the Emperor because of him.
Ji Changze wandered around the house before going out.
The two soldiers outside were terrified and didn’t move, for fear of moving and Grandpa Ghost would come after them.
Originally, it was the original owner who knelt on the ground and begged them for a long time, and they reluctantly agreed to take the original owner to the barracks.
Ji Changze calculated how far he could go and for how long.
Indeed, as expected, the fastest way was to the barracks.
He went up to them and said to them, “Get up, I’m not a ghost. I’m a man.”
Neither one dared to move.
Ji Changze: “Do you want me to kill you and turn you into ghosts to see if I am a man?”
The motionless two quickly jumped up: “We believe, we believe!!”
After they got up, they looked carefully and saw that the man in front of them did have clear eyes, and he didn’t look like someone who had died. The pale complexion on their faces slowly got better.
They were soldiers, he was a person. He should be the one afraid of them!
The two were reacting, trying to show off their power. They heard the person with a face full of blood ask them, “You are at least soldiers who follow General Hou Jiangjun. Why are you two so shabby? You even came to pick money from the dead, did you enter the army without getting any military merit?”
“Only people with the talent to kill get military merit, ah. After we entered the army, we haven’t been to the battlefield. Even if we go, we are only small soldiers, we would be upfront, the first to die.”
One of the soldiers looked at Ji Changze hesitantly and asked again, “Are you really human?”
Ji Changze reached out to take his hand, “See, it’s warm, right?”
The soldier was relieved, and then became angry from embarrassment, “Then why didn’t you say something?!!”
Ji Changze smiled and had a good attitude, “You saved me. Don’t worry, I will repay you.”
The little soldier was not convinced, “Just you?”
“I am at least a scholar, just help you guys come up with a method that will be able to let you get some military merit. When the time comes, then naturally, you wouldn’t don’t have to go upfront and be the first to die. You don’t believe me? “
The little soldiers hesitated for a while, but in the end, they still held the idea of taking advantage of the bargain for nothing and asked, “What’s the method? “
After a minute, he looked at them and said, “You can see if there are any positions that lack people in the barracks.”
“The barracks is short of an accountant, but where would we find a scholar in these mountains …”
His words faded away gradually, and they looked at Ji Changze.
“You just said that you’re a scholar, right?”
Ji Changze look at the sky, “I don’t want to go to the barracks.”
“Eh ah the barracks can be a good place, there is food and clothing, and it’s safe to follow.”
“No good, I’m a scholar, I don’t go to such places.”
“It’s not like you’re going to be a soldier. You can be the accounting officer.”
“And how did your accountant die?”
“Go, go, go, brother, let’s talk while we walk.”
“Ehh, what are you doing? I don’t want to go, don’t drag me.”
Therefore, Ji Changze was very ‘reluctant’, as he was begged, coaxed, and dragged to the barracks.
So, it’s not that ‘he wanted to be an accountant.’
In fact, these two ‘sought after his talent.’