Going through the Red Mansions quickly means going against the system.

This journey has been busy, and Qingwen hasn't had time to look at her memories yet. Hearing Wu Gui's words of caution, she could only nod her head to deal with her cousin.

After Wu Gui left worriedly, Qingwen checked the memory.

Xiao Qingwen's memory was occupied by sweetness and bitterness at the same time. The happier you were when you were a child, the more miserable you will be later on.

She remembered that her grandfather and father were generals and were not often at home. Her mother took her to work as a female celebrity, and her uncle's cousin often came to take her out to play.

Then one day, after her cousin took her out, when she came home, the door of her house was surrounded by soldiers.

She thought her father was back, but her cousin stopped her, and then she saw her mother being dragged away by the soldiers, and the maids and women at home were also taken away.

Her cousin took her back to her grandfather's house and found the same situation. The two of them did not dare to wander around, so they rested for a night in a dilapidated house.

The next day, her cousin wanted to take her out of the city, but was scared off by the soldiers at the city gate. So the two of them wandered around the city, not daring to go anywhere.

Thanks to Wu Gui, they survived begging in the city.

Later, I learned that my grandfather and grandfather were both involved in the transition of imperial power, which resulted in the execution of three clans in the family. Except for my cousin and myself, everyone else was beheaded and exiled. No one was spared.

And they waited for two years until the matter subsided and the two of them lost weight before they dared to come out and look for a new way of living.

Wu Gui wanted to take her to work for two years first, and then take her out of the capital when he made money. They would ask for more than one hundred taels of silver because they wanted to find a good place to bury their relatives in the mass grave.

In the evening, Grandma Chen, who taught her the rules, asked her about her life experience. She always answered that she was too young and could not remember. She only said that her hometown was Jinling, and she had to ask her brother for the rest.

"Jinling, we are also from that place. How did you come to the capital? How many years have you been here?"

Aunt Chen is worried. They usually don't want this kind of little girl of unknown origin.

But she really couldn't let go of Qingwen, a good young girl. Seeing that she was young, Grandma Chen thought of trying to trick her, but she didn't expect that Qingwen was a perfect girl at such a young age.

"I came by boat. I've been here for a few years."

When Qingwen saw her asking, she responded with a confused look, and the answer she gave was vague. When the question was asked urgently, she said that her brother knew, but her words only indicated that she had only come to the capital in the past few years.

"You speak Beijing quite well." Aunt Chen couldn't tell, so she became even more suspicious. With two little children and no other relatives or friends, what would they do with such expensive money?

She went to report to Lai Da, who was determined to torture Wu Gui.

Fortunately, after spending more than two years together day and night, he trusted Qingwen very much. No matter how Lai Da tested him, he would only tell the stories he had made up before.

"Didn't we have a major earthquake in Jinling a few years ago? Then there was a severe drought, and then there was the locusts. My family originally had a small business, but if we keep going like this, we will lose our livelihood."

"That's why I came to the capital two years ago to seek refuge with my relatives. I didn't want to meet bandits and got sick. As a result, I owed debts in the capital. Naturally, I have to pay back the money to my benefactors."

Putting it this way, things make sense. Because of the capital relocation, most of the people in the capital were from Jinling.

There was a disaster in Jiangnan a few years ago, and many refugees did come.

Wu Gui and Qingwen's accents do match the accents. In addition, the emperor's status has been stable in the past two years, and it is indeed not like it was in previous years.

But this also means that Wu Gui and the others have no one to rely on?

Lai looked at Wu Gui with big eyes and saw that his delicate appearance was indeed good. It was probably because he was so hungry before that his bones were exposed.

As a young man, Wu Gui was the son of a military general, so he used to be very fleshy. If it weren't for Qingwen who was a burden, he would have gone to live outside the city long ago.

At that time, only when the sky was high and the emperor was far away could we live in freedom.

But he would not trust his cousin Qingwen, a seven or eight-year-old girl, no matter where she was, so he had to lose his dignity and sell himself.

However, he is too "upright". A boy of 14 or 15 years old, begging in the city, will not steal or join a gang, nor will he ask Qingwen to go out to beg. At first, Qingwen was not asked to go out and show his face, but it was finally Qingwen who got seriously ill that made him bow his head slightly.

Seeing that the new emperor had secured his seat in the court and that the faction supported by his family had no hope, Wu Gui gave up waiting and looked for a new way out with Qingwen.

When Wu Gui saw Lai Da looking at him with more and more arrogance, he couldn't help but get angry. These years of wandering had indeed softened his temper, but it didn't mean that he was a weakling who allowed others to bully him.

Seeing that his eyes were getting sharper and sharper, Lai Da felt uncomfortable. He thought that if he touched it now, it would only be a handful of ribs anyway, so he might as well fatten them up.

So he changed his demeanor and acted kindly to reassure Wu Gui, and then gave him half a day off to busy himself.

When Wu Gui went out, he suspected that he was overthinking it. Their family and the Jia family were both military commanders, so they knew the Jia family. If this were not the case, Lai Da would not be chosen as the buyer.

However, he still kept an eye on it and did not immediately go to collect the bodies of his relatives. Instead, he went to thank several well-wishers. On the road, I saw a kind-faced boy following me all the way.

Three months passed in a flash, and the two of them became more and more successful. Seeing that Qingwen had learned the rules very well and that she was indeed good-looking, Aunt Lai took her to the Jia Mansion.

While Aunt Lai was playing cards with Jia Mu in the house, Qingwen stood waiting in Jia Mu's yard. Now she is not qualified to serve Aunt Lai. Just when I was bored, I saw Yuanyang, Xiren, and Siqi playing with the rope in the corner.

As soon as she saw Xi Ren, Qingwen felt a sense of disgust. If the person that the original owner Qingwen hated the most was not the new emperor who told her to break up her family, nor Mrs. Wang who kicked her out, it was Xi Ren.

It was not because he was jealous that she stayed with Baoyu, but because he hated her for orchestrating him, which caused her to die unjustly.

So when I saw her now, I couldn't help but want to step forward and expose her face.

"Why do you look at people like this!"

Siqi had seen her a long time ago, and Qingwen's appearance was already top-notch. Several people saw that she came here with Aunt Lai, and they were still guessing about her identity.

Aunt Lai has brought different little girls here before, including relatives of her family and maids doing shopping. She knows that Jia Mu likes good-looking and upright little girls, so she always brings them to Jia Mu to see what's new.

The two Yuanyangs were speculating whether she was the new one found by Grandma Lai. Seeing her outstanding appearance, they originally planned to play with her.

Qingwen lowered her eyelids and suppressed her resentment. When she raised her head again, she looked innocent.