The Bully General's Spiritual Husband

Peach Blossom Village

A group of children stood hand in hand under the big banyan tree at the village entrance, spinning around and singing a folk song that everyone in the village, from the oldest to the youngest, knew:

"Little cabbage... yellow in the field... brought death to her father... brought illness to her mother... married a bully as her husband..."

Yin Baicai walked over carrying river snails she had picked up from the river.

"You little rascals, if you keep singing like that, I'm going to tear your mouths off!" Yin Baicai yelled angrily.

"Hehehe..." Then, seeing Yin Baicai approaching, the group of children quickly ran away.

cross?

That's outrageous, isn't it!

That's right, I am the protagonist in the folk song—Yin Baicai.

But I am not the real Yin Baicai; the original owner of this body was already dead when I arrived.

I am an ambitious young person living in the 21st century.

This is of course false.

Okay, I'm just a spirited young man.

But I'm not your average young man.

I don't like loafers, I don't like Want Want outfits, and I especially dislike dyeing my hair in various colors.

I only like to secretly look at the handsome guys and beautiful girls on high school campuses.

Maybe I'm just superficial.

Or perhaps it's envy.

I am an orphan, and I was found by the director at the gate of the orphanage.

I could have had the chance to work hard in high school like them, and rise above others through my studies.

However, an unexpected event suddenly occurred in the second half of the third year of junior high school.

Life is so dramatic.

No one knows whether tomorrow or an accident will come first.

The hospital director's mother is sick and needs a lot of medical expenses.

He had no choice but to drop out of school and work, since the dean was his only family.

Our welfare home is privately owned, and there aren't many children there. The director, a mother, couldn't conceive and eventually ended her marriage of over twenty years.

She opened this small orphanage with only about twenty children.

I was the last child to arrive here, and she supported the entire facility on her own.

Later, all the children were taken away one after another, but the headmistress, afraid of being lonely, kept me.

And so we depended on each other for survival.

During the time I dropped out of school to work, I didn't earn much money because I was young, but fortunately the government reimbursed part of it.

She endured this for three years, but she still left.

Later, I lived alone in the big house in the welfare home.

I felt very lonely, so I made a group of friends.

Many of them have had similar experiences to mine.

Some are orphans who have lost both parents, others are left-behind children, ...

I brought them all to the welfare home where I lived, and we later got involved with short videos.

We started by playing the role of a spirited young man, and that's how we made a lot of money.

But I haven't even had a chance to spend it yet!

I'd also like to find a better burial plot for the dean's mother!

Perhaps my good brothers will help me fulfill my last wish.

I traveled through time.

I transmigrated into the body of someone with the same name as me.

From his memories, I learned that I was a boy.

There's a red mole on my wrist.

It is said that men in this era could have children.

I've really learned something new.

I am currently in a small village in Yuyang County of the Yan State.

It's called Peach Blossom Village.

This is the poorest village in the surrounding area.

This is my first month here.

The original owner was incredibly unlucky; he went up the mountain to cut grass and then fell down and died.

By the way, the original owner's family was the poorest in the village because all the money was used to treat her mother's illness. Her father was also trying to find money for his mother's treatment. Five years ago, he was seriously injured while hunting in the mountains and died a few days after being rescued.

His mother also passed away half a year ago. She was afraid that he would be all alone after she was gone.

Just then, a local bully named Li returned from serving in the army and came to propose marriage with a large dowry. His mother agreed, and with these five taels of silver, his future life would be secure.

If the original owner was already seventeen, why hadn't anyone come to propose marriage yet?

One reason is that people dislike his mother because of her sickly condition, and who knows how much money they might have to spend on her.

Secondly, people might worry that the light-colored birthmark on his hand makes it difficult for him to conceive.

The men here mainly judge a woman's fertility by the red mole on her wrist.

The original owner was the most hardworking person in the village, but some villagers said that his birth chart was bad and that he would bring misfortune to his father and mother.

Many people were deterred by this.

In the Yan state, boys and girls reached adulthood at fifteen, and people would come to propose marriage when they reached fifteen. However, boys did not reach adulthood until eighteen.

The original owner couldn't understand why this bully Li would come to his house to propose marriage.

The original owner didn't know him very well; she had only met him a few times.

I know from the original owner's memories the person I met on the day the marriage proposal came.

As expected of someone who has been on the battlefield, his aura is truly intimidating.

What's even more frightening is the horrifying scar at the corner of his eye.

It looked like a centipede crawling on my face.

It is said that as soon as he returned, he drove away his second uncle's family, who had been occupying his elder brother's house, and took his elder brother's only son with him and raised him.

His second uncle, Li Jiang, was beaten and bedridden for more than three months, and his second aunt gossiped about him in the village every day.

Yin Baicai looked at the river snails in the wooden bucket; this was his dinner for the night.

The original owner used all five taels of betrothal gifts given by the bully Li to pay for his mother's funeral.

He bought her a nice double coffin and buried her deceased father and mother together.

After the funeral, the family was so poor that they didn't have a single penny left, and the original owner had to go up the mountain every day to dig for wild vegetables.

When he transmigrated, the original owner's family had nothing. He inherited the original owner's pots, pans, and three thatched huts.

The family's land has been almost entirely sold off over the years to pay for the original owner's mother's medical treatment.

He has been here for nearly twenty days, eating wild vegetables for every meal.

He was tired of eating them, and today he happened to see some river snails by the river, so he picked them up and ate them.

He discovered that the villagers didn't eat this stuff, saying it was fishy and smelly, and that eating it would leave their mouths full of mud and sand.

Yin Baicai smiled. It was because they didn't know how to do it that she benefited from it.

Yin Baicai happily carried his things home, but some people who saw him picking river snails told him that they didn't taste good.

He just smiled and shook his head.

The others went with him. Everyone knew his family was poor, but who could help him? They themselves were also struggling to make ends meet.

A woman said, "Have you noticed that Cai Ge'er smiles more now?"

"Yes, he used to be a quiet person, always silent and reserved," someone chimed in.

Yin Baicai knew why; he wasn't the original owner of this body who was socially awkward. He, Yin Baicai, was the epitome of social elites.

He started working at the age of fifteen, beginning as an apprentice in a small restaurant. He was best at chatting with people.

Because they act like spirited young men online, they have to maintain their persona from time to time.

Even in reality, one must maintain a facade.

Live streaming and interacting with fans is essential, and over time, Yin Baicai has become a chatterbox.

Otherwise, their fans would tear them apart, and then who would watch their live streams and give them tips?

So sometimes he can't tell if he's pretending or if he's just letting his true nature show.