My whole family time-traveled! I became a god during my exile in a famine.

Chapter 42 Mental Breakdown
"Yesterday I was on the road for almost the whole day, and only slept for two or three hours. Now I have to keep going."

"Exactly, this is too much suffering. They don't even care about our lives."

Several convicts grumbled and complained behind them, but after being glanced at by the escort officer Zhang, they immediately fell silent.

"We're rushing you now for your own good!" Xiao Jia sneered, "If you don't reach the far north within the time limit, you'll all be beheaded. Ha, you'll all behave yourselves then!"

Wang Bangyan's old lady plopped down on the ground and wailed, "Oh dear!" "Day after day, I only get half a broken coarse grain pancake to eat, and I'm still hungry. I have to walk such a long way! Why is my life so miserable!"

Seeing that Old Zhang and his men were walking towards them, Wang Bangyan and his wife hurriedly stepped forward to pull away the wailing old woman and whispered to her, "Mother, stop wailing. If those officials come and whip us, none of us will get away with it."

The old woman kicked her legs, her face full of stubbornness, "I'm not walking today! Why is it that other old ladies get carried every day, but I don't? I'm much older than them!"

Wang Bang glanced at the several gazes coming from the Xin family and said awkwardly, "Mother, they're just rich."

"Why don't you have any money? How could I have given birth to such a useless good-for-nothing? Oh dear, at your age, you're being forced into exile in the northern wilderness."

"I'm not going anymore, I'm not going anymore, I can't walk anymore!"

Wang Bangyan's wife hurriedly said, "Mother, please stop making noise, the escorts are coming. Husband, why don't you continue carrying me?"

The slender second-place scholar swayed, almost bursting into tears...

If he could, he'd be the first person who doesn't want to live! He carried his mother halfway home yesterday, and now he can't even straighten his back.

Are you coming again today?

Wang Xiaomei egged him on from the side, "Brother, you're a man. If you don't stand up for us now, what will become of our family? Besides, it's all because of your mess that we were exiled to the north! Mother can barely walk anymore. She's so old; we can't really force her to die!"

Old Lady Wang collapsed to the ground, slapping her thigh, tears streaming down her face.

Wang Bangyan, looking distressed, was forced to join the Liangshan bandits. "Alright, alright, come on, come on!"

He crouched down, and the old lady quickly got up from the ground. With the help of her daughter-in-law and daughter, she immediately climbed onto her son's back, even kicking her short old legs to try and climb up a little further.
Many onlookers were speechless. When the escort came over and saw that the old lady had stopped making a fuss, he just glared at them a few times and left cursing.

The middle-aged man who had run out of the crowd shouting and kowtowing during the earlier earthquake is now rushing out of the crowd again, shouting incoherently, "The sky is darkening, which foretells a great disaster. Everyone, kneel down and kowtow to beg for God's forgiveness!"

Everyone was startled by him, and some looked up at the dark sky and felt a chill run down their spines.

The sky, which had been somewhat bright just moments before, suddenly turned as dark as ink, like a sign of an impending downpour, making those who saw it feel uneasy.

"What's wrong with them all? Can't we just travel in peace? Do they all want to die?" In just a few days, several people have gone mad!
The escorting officer felt both angry and exhausted, so he pulled out his whip and lashed it across the back of the mad middle-aged man.

The family members rushed over, repeatedly begging for mercy and stopping the guards from hitting them.

Standing beside Xin Nian, Imperial Physician Cheng sighed as he looked at the madman. "That man was originally a royal merchant named Zhao. His family was once incredibly wealthy, possessing everything imaginable. Alas, when his property was confiscated, he lost everything, and he went insane as a result. It's pitiful."

He shook his head and said with feeling, "It will take another two or three months to get to the North. Those who can't handle it will probably go crazy."

Xin Nian glanced at the crazed Zhao Huangshang, who was kowtowing and bowing, then looked away indifferently.

Physician Cheng smiled and looked at her again, "It's truly remarkable that your brother was able to regain his senses on the road to exile. Did you learn your medical skills from a traveling physician, young lady?" He had come closer to observe the third son of the Xin family up close.

He had seen Xin Sanlang's symptoms before. He had gotten into a fight in a brothel, rolled down the stairs and hit his head, and developed a fever that night.

Although the heat was brought under control, the person never regained consciousness.

Unexpectedly, the sixth daughter of the Xin family had such a skill; after a few doses of medicine, she really managed to wake her brother up.

What's strange is, if the little girl has such abilities, why did she keep them hidden at home? Why did she only come to rescue her brother on the road to exile?
"Why didn't you do this earlier?" Physician Cheng asked, puzzled.

Although he was curious, he didn't dare to ask too many questions. He also knew that some things were better left unsaid.

"I suppose so, but that doctor has a rather strange temper. He said I'm slow-witted and haven't fully mastered the art yet, so I shouldn't show off easily." Xin Nian casually made up a reason, treating Doctor Cheng with great politeness.

Physician Cheng suddenly realized something. He didn't say anything, but in his mind, he imagined one scene after another: a reclusive master encountering a young girl and giving her some pointers.

That itinerant doctor must be a rare genius, one in a hundred lifetimes!

The young girl was too young to understand the intricacies of the matter. She thought he had just met an ordinary doctor who had taught her some trivial skills, which he dared not easily reveal.

A master is indeed a master; it's quite normal for him to have a bit of a temper and a lot of rules.

Meanwhile, Xin Mengxue wiped her red and swollen eyes, helped Zhuang Shi follow behind the group, and walked with a limp, one foot higher than the other.

Zhuang was filled with resentment. "That damned girl has such a sharp tongue. She'll get her comeuppance for her words sooner or later."

The thought of the little girl haughtily raising her chin and scolding them as "poor and pretentious" made Zhuang Shi so angry that her chest ached!
"She's like a completely different person! Before, she would only go to her mother when something happened, but now she's even arguing with Xie Shi!" Zhuang Shi couldn't help but mutter. "Mengxue, what do you think?"

“Me.” Xin Mengxue bit her lip, looking aggrieved. “I also think she’s strange. She’s been acting too sharply and abnormally these past few days.”

"No, but thinking about it, she's never been very bright. It's not like she's never acted so drastically before."

As if remembering something, Zhuang paused for a moment, "You mean, a few years ago?"

Xin Mengxue responded weakly.

"Now that you mention it, I suddenly seem to remember something." Zhuang Shi frowned and thought hard, her neck stiff.

"It seems like that's true." Madam Zhuang stamped her foot. "Yes, yes, she was like a hedgehog back then, pricking anyone she saw. She even got into a fight with the second son of the Marquis of Dingxing's family next door, beating him so badly he couldn't get out of bed for half a month! Right??"

"Yes." Xin Mengxue nodded, still feeling a bit shaken.

Her memory was a bit hazy, because she was only about eleven or twelve years old at the time. She rarely left the house and only heard about many things from the adults in her family.

Zhuang exclaimed in surprise, "Heavens above, that evil star has returned!"

(End of this chapter)