Travel to the mountains and make a fortune in silence

In the eighth year of Yongping in the Eastern Liang Kingdom, in Huayang Prefecture, Luzhou County, Wuyang County, Nan'ao Town.

On the way to Shan'ao Village, a bright red sedan chair wobbled along.

When Wang Qing'er woke up, she found herself sitting in a small sedan chair.

She was wearing a bright red cotton dress, a very thin silver bracelet on her wrist, earrings on her ears, and what looked like a headdress that jingled when she shook her head.

Wang Qing'er felt dizzy from the jolting of the sedan chair, and suddenly a flood of memories that didn't belong to her rushed into her mind.

A marriage exchange? What the hell? The original owner of this body shared the same name as her, but was forced into a marriage exchange by her family. She refused and committed suicide by poisoning herself after getting into the sedan chair.

Oh my god! Did I time travel? Wang Qing'er pinched her thigh hard. "Ouch...it hurts."

If it's not a dream, then I really transmigrated? Wasn't I playing a farming game? Aren't all those transmigration novels about people transmigrating after a car accident or drowning?

How did I get this while playing a game? This is absolutely absurd.

What kind of place is Shan'ao Village in Da'ao Town, Dongliang Kingdom? There are no historical records of it.

Is it an alternate history or a parallel universe?

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Wang Qing'er felt as if many questions were flying before her eyes.

The original owner of this body was also named Wang Qing'er. She was only sixteen years old and lived in a town. Her family ran a general store and was quite well-off.

Her family moved to Da'ao Town from a county town hundreds of kilometers away eight years ago.

Her mother dotes on her, but her mother is timid by nature and lives a very cautious life at home.

Last night, her mother seemed to have secretly slipped her ten taels of silver. Wang Qing'er subconsciously touched her pocket; the silver was still there.

However, her father and grandmother favored boys over girls and treated her badly, looking down on her as a money-losing asset. Therefore, Wang Qing'er was fostered by her maternal grandparents from a young age.

My maternal grandparents were hunters in the mountains, and they lived a fairly good life. None of my uncles had daughters, so they treated her like their own daughter and loved her very much.

She has an older cousin and a younger cousin. The older cousin is a scholar who passed the county-level imperial examination, and the younger cousin passed the county-level imperial examination last year.

Therefore, her older and younger cousins ​​would take turns teaching her to read and write, and she could recite primers such as the Three Character Classic and the Standards for Being a Good Student and Child by heart.

It wasn't until last year, after she came of age, that the Wang family arranged a marriage for her, and her maternal uncle sent her to Da'ao Town.

Wang Qing'er also has a mentally challenged older brother. He wasn't mentally challenged before; he just tried to save Wang Qing'er from falling into a pond when they were children.

After waking up from a fever following her drowning, her brother became mentally impaired, which made her father and grandmother dislike her even more, calling her a jinx and a troublemaker.

The so-called matchmaking was actually just his grandmother and father forcing him to find a new wife for his mentally challenged brother.

Her maternal grandparents were unaware of this matter; they simply assumed she had been betrothed to a good family, otherwise they certainly wouldn't have sent her back.

The man Wang Qing'er is going to marry is named Mu Nan. Although his name sounds nice, he is actually just a rough farmman.

They mainly make a living by farming, and in their spare time they also go up the mountain to hunt wild game to sell in town.

At 22, he was already married and had a daughter who was now four years old.

His family was just too poor. They had incurred a lot of debt to treat his grandfather's illness, and three years ago his wife couldn't stand it anymore and left him and their child.

There are two younger brothers and two younger sisters in the family. The eldest sister is seventeen years old this year. She is mute and is the girl who married her mentally challenged older brother. The youngest sister is only ten years old.

This information was given to her by her neighbor, Aunt Zhang. Aunt Zhang's youngest daughter had recently married into Shan'ao Village. That day, when she returned to her parents' home, her mother told her that the daughter of the neighbor next door was also going to marry into the Mu family in their village.

Most of the villagers in Shan'ao Village fled here a few years ago, so the village has a variety of surnames. The only people with the surname Mu are Mu Nan's family and his uncles' families.

Aunt Zhang's daughter told her mother about the general situation of the Mu family. Aunt Zhang then embellished what her daughter had said and told it to Wang Qing'er.

Originally, the two families were just arranging a marriage between her mentally challenged brother and Mu Nan's mute sister, but according to local customs, the bride price for a wife is thirty taels of silver, plus quilts, clothes, and various jewelry.

Therefore, many families here cannot afford to get married. Some families not only sell their pots and pans to get their sons married, but they may even sell their daughters.

Wang Qing'er's family was run by her grandmother, who was unwilling to pay the bride price. When she learned that the Mu family had two other boys of marriageable age, she came up with this terrible idea of ​​exchanging brides.

The two families discussed it and arranged for them to change the marriage. The Mu family definitely had two sons who could get married, and the older one would definitely get married first, so they decided on Mu Nan, who was 22 years old.

Wang Qing'er is only sixteen, while that man is already twenty-two. There's such a big age gap between them, and most importantly, that man is already married and has children.

Wang Qing'er lived like a young lady in her maternal grandparents' home since childhood, and she was also literate and beautiful.

From a young age, her maternal grandmother and aunt told her that she was destined to be a young mistress. After being flattered like this for so long, some things had become deeply ingrained in her heart.

She naturally assumed that she would marry into a wealthy family and become a young mistress, with maids and servants attending to her.

Therefore, when she learned that the man she was marrying was not only a divorcee but also extremely poor, she was absolutely unwilling.

However, she couldn't go against her father and grandmother's wishes, and her mother was a weak woman. She only had twenty-odd taels of silver, and after borrowing for several days, she couldn't even borrow ten taels, which was not enough to pay the bride price for her brother.

Her maternal grandmother's house was so far away, and after Wang Qing'er made a fuss a few times, her grandmother locked her in her room. She was filled with resentment!

She hated not only her own family, but also the Mu family, which is why she committed suicide by poisoning herself after getting into the sedan chair.

The sedan chair stopped, the curtain was lifted, and the matchmaker, beaming with joy, helped her out of the sedan chair. Wang Qing'er thought they had arrived.

When the results came out, all I saw was a huge mountain, with no houses in sight.

While she was still in a daze, the matchmaker and the sedan chair bearers had already turned and left.

A man carrying her dowry walked up to her and said, "The sedan chair can't go through the mountain road, so we have to walk back."

Wang Qing'er sized up the man in front of her. He was a bit dark-skinned, but had well-defined facial features, a high nose bridge, and was quite handsome. He was tall and strong, which was exactly her type.

She thought to herself, "So this is the man the original owner was going to marry. He doesn't look bad at all! Since I'm here, I might as well make the best of it and follow him up the mountain first."

So he said, "Okay."

Wang Qing'er was too tired to walk any further after walking halfway, so she leaned against a large rock to rest. Mu Nan opened the water bag and handed it to her, saying, "Have some water."

Wang Qing'er didn't stand on ceremony and took a few sips. "Mmm! So sweet!" In her memory, the sugar here was not something that poor people could afford. Even in her family, which was relatively well-off, sugar was a rare commodity.