Divorced woman with child travels through time

At the Li residence, Li Qingshan was still hungover early in the morning, while the Wang family was busily preparing breakfast.

Li Dali rushed into the mansion and shook Li Qingshan awake, who was fast asleep due to a hangover.

"Young master! Young master, wake up! Something's happened! Yesterday afternoon, Magistrate Ouyang mobilized the local troops; they've probably gone to Wangjiazhuang."

Li Qingshan's drowsy eyes snapped open instantly. He sat up and started dressing, saying, "What? Why didn't we get any information last night?" The October weather was already quite chilly…

"Old Liu said the county government office was sealed off overnight, and everyone had to go. No one was allowed to go home at night. The message was sent out as soon as we left the county government office this morning," Wang Dali explained.

"Damn it! Quickly tell Miss to pack her valuables, nothing else. We must leave within the time it takes to drink a cup of tea! Hurry! Hurry! Go get the carriage ready!" Li Qingshan shouted frantically, his handsome face no longer elegant, filled with resentment and anger. He quickly and hastily put on his clothes.

Seeing panic on his young master's face for the first time, Li Dali quickly replied, "Okay, okay, I'll go right away," and ran off.

Li Qingshan quickly packed his valuables, and pulled the bewildered Li Baozhu who had rushed over. Besides Wang Dali, there was also Hong'er, a little maid who served Li Baozhu. The four of them drove a carriage towards the capital Jiankang Prefecture under the dim sky. This dynasty had become chaotic in the Southern Song Dynasty. The last emperor was not Zhao Bing in history, and the capital had also changed.

On the speeding carriage, Li Baozhu complained, "Brother, what are you doing? You're making us look like we're taking refuge."

Li Qingshan said with a wry smile, "I lost the power struggle with the higher-ups, and they sent me to find some people to get rid of the Wang family. It seems that things have been exposed. If we don't run away, we'll become scapegoats."

Li Baozhu didn't take it seriously, but asked curiously, "What idea? I want to know."

Li Qingshan didn't hide anything from her and explained, "I hired the fourth leader of Yunlei Mountain to give Chen Ji a little punishment."

Li Baozhu, not being ignorant of the situation, said, "I've heard that Yunlei Mountain has a good reputation. Why are we going to them?" She meant that the people they were looking for were too good, and that they were being too kind to the Wang family.

Li Qingshan smiled and said, "As long as it works, nothing else matters."

"Brother, you should have told me beforehand. I was in such a rush that I didn't even say goodbye to them," Li Baozhu said reproachfully.

"What are those things! Ignore them." Li Qingshan already loathed those men.

"But what will I play with in the future?" Li Baozhu muttered.

"Yes, I will arrange it. Just be more restrained in the future," Li Qingshan said.

"Alright." Li Baozhu sighed with regret. They wouldn't see Wang Erniu again. They hurried on their way, remaining silent...

After the soldiers left, every household in Wangjiazhuang was cleaning up. Although the bodies had been removed, there were still some scattered bloodstains and other spots that needed to be covered with soil.

Wang Hanyang and his brothers Wang Xiaoguang and Xiaoming were cleaning the path behind Dayaoshan Mountain, laughing and joking. This was the path where the most people had died, and it also had many traps, so they all needed to be buried.

"Brother Hanyang, you didn't see me shoot that little thief in the butt with an arrow, and he peed his pants on the spot." Wang Xiaoming was bragging to Wang Hanyang.

Wang Hanyang smiled faintly, "They're just a bunch of rabble, what courage could they possibly have?"

"Life is better now, is the threshold for becoming a bandit still so low?" Wang Xiaoguang chimed in with a smile, his hoe still twirling in his hand as he asked.

Wang Hanyang laughed and said, "That's because we've improved our lives under the leadership of my second brother and sister-in-law. Everyone in Wangjiazhuang is doing well, but that doesn't mean people in other places are doing well. Our Lijia Town is getting better and better because we have a good official like Magistrate Ouyang. Other places don't have that."

Wang Xiaoming said angrily, "That's right! The magistrate of Linxia County next door is a corrupt official. I heard that a rich merchant forcibly took someone else's wife and he just gave him ten taels of silver to get rid of him." After saying that, he dug hard with his big hand. The handle of the hoe may have been a little loose, and it flew out and slid into the depths of the grass.

"Damn it!" Wang Xiaoming exclaimed, threw down his hoe, and disappeared into the bushes.

Then there was a "poof" sound, followed by Wang Xiaoming shouting in alarm, "My God! Brother Hanyang, come quick!"

"What's wrong?" Fearing that there might be bandits inside who hadn't escaped, Wang Hanyang and his companion grabbed hoes and rushed in. Then, unsurprisingly, "Thud! Thud!" they both fell on their backsides.

The two looked around, and oh my god! Four or five skeletons were scattered haphazardly. The place was shady, and when the wind blew, the big trees above rustled. They could faintly hear Brother Nie and Li Huanqiu talking not far away.

Wang Xiaoming was startled, but still holding the hoe handle he had found, he said, "Brother Hanyang, what do we do now?"

Wang Hanyang was carefully observing his surroundings when he said, gripping his hoe, "Go and tell Second Brother to come over. Don't tell anyone except Brother Nie. Xiaoguang, look over there. I'll go over from here."

"Okay!" they both replied, and then went about their business.

Wang Xiaoming felt his way up, casually packing his hoe as he went, and then leaned against a nearby rock for a few moments. He walked over to Brother Nie and said, "Brother Nie, Brother Hanyang is inside, he wants you to come over."

"Okay!" Brother Nie put the hoe aside and went over. Wang Xiaoming ran to the village again and whispered a few words to Wang Erniu. Wang Erniu followed him to the edge of the pit without changing his expression. Li Huanqiu and Lü Xiong on the road did not ask anything and continued to level the road like everyone else.

The two jumped into the pit. Wang Erniu looked at the terrain, then squatted down and picked up a skeleton to examine it. Wang Hanyang came over and said, "Second Brother, there are about ten skeletons in this pit. There are five on the top of the pit, and there should be seven or eight more on the slope below. There should be a grave mound next to it. Brother Nie has checked them all."

Wang Erniu nodded, and Brother Nie said, "They were all men, young and strong. Judging from the remaining fabric, they didn't seem to be poor. It seems that the things that could prove their identity were all taken away. That's all. I don't know anything else."

Wang Erniu pondered for a moment and asked, "Can you tell how long they've been dead?"

Brother Nie pondered, "I'm not quite sure, maybe ten months or a year."

A year? Wang Erniu's thoughts began to waver. His wife had come here a year ago, and there was also that Zhao Lue, dressed in white, looking so dashing. It was probably him who caused the trouble. Sigh, he regretted not coming back sooner.

After a pause, Wang Erniu said, "This can't be kept secret, and it has nothing to do with us. Go and call Huanqiu over. Brother Nie, tell him what happened and have him notify the government officials. That's all."

"Okay." Brother Nie, too lazy to climb out of the pit, stood inside and shouted, "Global Times, come here!"

"Sigh!" Huanqiu came over happily to see the gossip, but before he knew it, his foot slipped and he fell down with a "thud." Brother Nie caught him quickly.