Chapter 512 The Past (Happy New Year)

"That was a long time ago, so long ago that I almost forgot about it."

Walking in Xiangqinxuan like a leisurely stroll, Xu Yuan followed Lou Ji and listened quietly to her telling stories of the past.

Lou Ji's voice was still frivolous with the smile of the past, but today Xu Yuan heard a hint of other meaning from this smile.

She was a little melancholy tonight.

The sword light still spanned the sky.

The rockery was covered with frost, the green pond was frozen, and the snow was silent.

The two walked very slowly.

Xu Yuan tried to understand the stories of the previous generation, but what he got was extremely limited.

Most of the information has been distorted.

Just like what is recorded in history books may not be true history, either for the sake of maintaining reputation, confidentiality, or some other reasons, there are many conflicts between the written records of the previous generation and the Xiangfu internal reference that Xu Yuan had read.

The Xiangfu internal reference he read would not be forged, so those official records must be false. Although the Xiangfu internal reference can be authentic, the content is limited.

It only records some complicated fragments of time in the past. Although Xu Yuan vaguely glimpsed a corner of the story of the year, it was just that. It was not as comprehensive as the information he got from chatting with the high-level officials of the Xiangfu at home.

Tonight was the first time that Xu Yuan had a comprehensive understanding of the past of this elder sister.

Lou Ji's family background was not low. Even in this feudal dynasty, she could be said to be a person far superior to the common people.

Her father served as the transport envoy of the military storage department in Wuling City in Pinghuai.

A proper son of aristocratic family.

In the previous life, he was at least a regular official.

And based on Xu Yuan's understanding of the official system of Dayan, no matter what kind of transport envoy under the government, it was a lucrative job.

After all, even in the previous life with modern management and monitoring methods, places like warehouses were the hardest hit areas of corruption, not to mention this feudal dynasty with closed information at the bottom.

Moreover, before the current emperor and the prime minister rectified the administration, the huge Great Yan Dynasty was actually rotten to the root, and there were basically no truly honest officials.

And Lou Ji did not hide this. She smiled and told about the corruption methods she saw her father use when she was a child, about her few impressions of the middle-aged fat man with a big belly, and about how her family was destroyed after the flood.

In the 39th year of Yongqing, the seventh year after Xu Yinhe entered the capital, the month when Lou Ji just turned five years old.

Pinghuaizhou had been raining for more than 70 days, and the flood broke the embankment in the middle reaches of the Luo River. The huge flood that poured down hit Wuling County in the lower reaches of the Luo River, and millions of people became refugees and displaced overnight.

Whenever there was a major disaster, the court would mobilize troops to rush to the disaster area for disaster relief and to prevent the emergence of bandits.

In this case, the middle-aged fat man with a big belly was also naturally ordered to raise military rations and a series of military supplies because of his official position.

In Lou Ji's words, the flood was a crisis for her family, but also an opportunity.

"During that time, I often didn't see my father in the mansion for several days. He was a corrupt official, but he was a corrupt official who did practical things. At first, every time he came back in the rain, his face was serious and sad, but later I gradually began to feel relieved from him.

"Until he came home in the rain one time and picked me up with a smile, and told my mother that his achievements in handling the flood were noticed by the bigwigs in the court, and he would most likely be promoted in the next year's exam. "

"At that time, I didn't know about the promotion, but I knew that the mansion, which had been dead since the flood, had some life for the first time. "

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Xu Yuan listened quietly, without speaking or interrupting, but he already knew what was going to happen next.

It was not because of Lou Ji's previous words about calling Granny Long "Miss", but because he had read about this in the internal reference of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

The flood in the 39th year of Yongqing was more of a man-made disaster than a natural disaster.

Lou Ji glanced at Xu Yuan lightly and said with a smile:

"It seems that Changtian, have you read that internal reference?"

Xu Yuan nodded silently.

"Oh, that's right. That flood was a natural disaster, but also a man-made disaster. It involved some important officials in the court and some disputes among the sects. My father foolishly thought that he was chosen by someone, and the result was naturally needless to say."

Speaking of this, Lou Ji was silent for a while, her beautiful eyes half-closed, and her long eyelashes trembled slightly:

"At that time, the court was really too far away from us. People there only needed one word to break my family apart. ”

In the 40th year of Yongqing, the eighth year after Xu Yinhe entered the capital, Lou Ji was six years old.

Lou Qingwu, the transport envoy of Wuling Chengjun Chusi, looked down on the common people, embezzled money and was thrown into death row. The men in the mansion were exiled thousands of miles away, and the women were taken to the Jiaofangsi.

From that moment on,

the world lost a young lady from the Lou Mansion in Wuling City, and gained an ignorant little girl named Lou Ji.

During the long journey of exile, Lou Ji's mother died on the way. As a young child, she had to learn to survive alone in this world.

She learned to disguise, to please, and how to kill people with her thin body and smart brain.

Hearing this, Xu Yuan subconsciously glanced at the side of his sister.

Murder at the age of six?

Ruthless people are indeed trained from childhood.

Lou Ji didn't care at all.

The journey of exile was really long, and between the death of others and your own life, the choice was not difficult.

She calmly told what she thought in her heart when she was only six years old:

"I persisted along the way, because I knew that I was different from those people. I was beautiful and smart. As long as I persisted to the Jiaofangsi, I would soon get the best treatment, and then climb up step by step until I met the "big man" who decided the life and death of my family."

"Revenge?"

"A very old-fashioned reason?"

"At that time, you should need a reason to live."

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Lou Ji was silent for a moment after hearing this, and then her red lips rose slightly:

"Yes. A reason to live."

This was Lou Ji's thought at that time, but bad luck only picks on the unfortunate, and hemp ropes only break at the thinnest.

She did not enter the Jiaofangsi of Di'an City as she wished, because they encountered monsters on the road.

The escorting soldiers were no match for the monsters, and soon collapsed, leaving more than 20 open-air prison cars exposed to the monsters' sharp teeth.

Lou Ji said that when she saw the monster coming towards the prison car she was in, she was not frightened or panicked, because she felt that she could survive.

She used the lives of other women in the car to exchange for her own survival.

Happy New Year

This year, I underestimated the ability of relatives to persuade people to drink

The drinking culture is really dregs!

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