Crossing over reveals a waste's difficult journey home

As the people around him cheered, Yu Yuan picked up the dagger, and excitement flashed in his usually calm eyes.

He knew that this was just the beginning. As long as he built a better smelting furnace and added more suitable things according to the requirements on the bamboo slips, he would be able to create more powerful weapons.

He also knew that this bamboo slip had a lot to do with Jiang Tuan.

He had spent countless efforts on refining something before but failed. Now, the other party could solve all the problems with just a bamboo slip and refine something better than he had imagined. How could he not be surprised?

He thought he should talk to Jiang Tuan more to see if he could get other things. But the other party was the prince, and even if he had a low EQ, he knew that if he asked for something without paying anything, he would definitely be disliked.

He didn't care whether Jiang Tuan was likable or not, he cared that Jiang Tuan didn't want to pay attention to him, so how could he make Jiang Tuan like him more and get more things? This was a serious question.

Yu Yuan knew that Jiang Tuan liked his face, so should he protect it more? Or should he learn how to dress up like his wife at home to make his face look more energetic?

If that’s not enough, he can bring his son with him when he goes, that should be enough!

Here, Yu Yuan was thinking about how to win Jiang Tuan's favor and get him to tell him more things he didn't know. Over there, Shi Miao was also thinking about how to get some information out of the officials who were escorting him.

Shi Miao's original name was not this. His name was Shi Da, but he was not the eldest in the family but the third.

However, his eldest brother died of illness, and his second brother also died after sleeping for unknown reasons, so he became the eldest brother of the Shi family, Shi Da.

However, not long after his two brothers passed away, his parents also died, and he became an orphan.

There were many orphans like him in troubled times, but few survived. They either froze to death, starved to death, or accidentally became food for refugees.

He was very lucky, as his parents left him a palm-sized piece of bread. He survived three days on this piece of bread. When he was about to starve to death and was about to reunite with his parents and brothers, he was saved by his master.

His master was an alchemist, or rather a liar.

Maybe it was because of his lingering conscience, or maybe he just wanted to find a boy to serve him. Anyway, no matter what the reason, he was indeed saved by his master.

The master didn't like his name, thinking that it didn't have any fairy spirit and would hinder his alchemy, so he gave him the character "Miao", which has the meaning of being illusory.

At that time, the little boy sincerely believed that the master was very good to him, providing him with food, clothing, and a new name. The master was his only lifeline, so he was very respectful to the master and obeyed his orders.

Perhaps his obedience satisfied the master, and slowly he was no longer an insignificant little boy, but became the master's disciple.

The master taught him to read and write, to make alchemy, and treated him as a disciple. In the master's mind, making alchemy is to deceive people and survive, but alchemy is not.

His master firmly believed that there was indeed an elixir in this world that could make people immortal. The reason no one had seen it was that no one had yet refined it.

Logically speaking, with such a master, Shi Miao should be a person who believes in elixirs very much, but his childhood experiences made him insist on his own way.

In his opinion, there are no gods in this world, let alone elixirs of immortality.

If gods really existed, why did his parents worship gods for so many years, but no god came to save them until they starved to death?

If there really was an elixir of immortality, why did his master, who devotedly researched it for so many years, eventually die from taking the elixir? Why did those kings, princes, generals and ministers who took the elixir also die?

So it’s all a lie!

With this mentality, Shi Miao always regarded what his master taught him as a means of making a living and never believed that it was true.

However, compared with his fellow swindlers, he has learned some real skills under the careful guidance of his master. Although he may cheat, when it comes to serious matters, he will never disregard other people's lives for money.

It was also because of this that Shi Miao saved his life and was only sentenced to three years of hard labor in the operation ordered by Jiang Qi to crack down on scammers.

Three years is neither long nor short, but for the people of Daxia, whose average life expectancy is less than 40 years, three years is almost one-tenth of their life.

Shi Miao has been trying to find a way to get rid of the heavy work.

However, this is not a time of chaos, and the places he knows are limited. He doesn't even know where to run to. If he runs away, in order to avoid being caught, he can only hide in the mountains and become a savage.

But before he could think of a way to get rid of the labor, he was taken away by the two officials in front of him.

These two officials were very different from the officials he had come into contact with during this period. They had serious expressions, moved quickly, and had certain rules in their gestures. It was obvious at first glance that they were not ordinary officials.

Shi Miao was very confused. He thought that he had not done anything serious except cheating some money. Why would an official who looked so powerful come to him?

Moreover, the two officials said nothing, asked no questions, and just took him away, which made him very frightened.

Could it be that His Majesty the Emperor felt that killing those extremely evil swindlers was not enough, and that he wanted to kill even a small figure like him?

If that was the case, why would they just kill him? Why did they have to find two powerful-looking people to take him away? This didn't make sense.

Shi Miao was able to become a fairly successful liar because he had basically passed the psychological test. Even if he had a lot of thoughts in his mind and was almost scared to death, his face still appeared calm and humble.

I hope that with my sincere attitude, I can get some useful information from the two officials.

However, from the time he was put on the carriage, to the time he started his journey, to the time he got off the carriage, the two officials paid almost no attention to him, leaving him no chance to even say a word.

After getting out of the car and looking around, he saw deep mountains and old forests, and a dilapidated yard.

This kind of environment made him even more panicked. If he had not been scolded by the two officials, he would definitely not have been willing to go in.

He walked in tremblingly and found that the yard was better than he thought. The yard was a little messy, with some unknown things placed everywhere, but there was no scene of cruel punishment or murder as he had imagined.

As soon as he was brought in, a young man of outstanding appearance came over.

The two officials who had been extremely stern when facing him softened their expressions and became much more attentive after seeing this young man.

"Master Xiao Yu, the person I brought here this time is called Shi Miao. He was once an alchemist and was arrested for defrauding others of their property."