Traveled through time and became the darling of the whole family

Xie Qingyin cried herself to sleep. When she woke up, it was already dark. She felt a little hungry, so she got up and went to the kitchen to see if there was anything to eat.

When they arrived at the kitchen, the other members of the Shi family were eating. When Shi Yin was around, they would deliver food to Shi Yin's room, but now that Shi Yin was dead, they no longer cared about Xie Qingyin.

"Grandma, I'm hungry." Xie Qingyin had been back to the Shi family for so long and had seen the evil of her grandfather, uncle, and aunt, but her grandmother's attitude towards her was lukewarm, so in contrast, she still went to find Shi's mother.

"Why are you still here, little bitch? Why don't you follow your mother?" Mother Shi looked at Xie Qingyin with disgust.

Xie Qingyin was frightened by what Shi's mother said. It turned out that her grandmother also disliked her that much.

"Hurry up and kick them out. I don't know how much it will cost to have one more mouth to feed." said Shi's mother.

"Hey, hey, hey, Mom, don't rush to send her away. Isn't her father still in the military camp? This money must be a lot. We can ask him to exchange it for silver when the time comes." Shi Encai made a gesture.

"But is she eating and drinking for free here?" asked Shi's mother.

"Just work. If you don't finish the work, you won't get any food. Just go hungry." Shi Encai said, "It just so happens that my wife is still short of a maid, right, wife?"

"Xie Qingyin, you have to serve me well, otherwise you will never have food to eat or water to drink." Sun Min said.

Sun Min, Shi Encai's daughter-in-law, is aggressive and unreasonable and loves money.

From that day on, all the housework was piled up for Xie Qingyin to do. Even an adult would need a whole day to finish those chores without a break, let alone a child of over three years old. So Xie Qingyin could only finish half of it every day, and she only had one steamed bun and some water to drink every day.

At night, Xie Qingyin curled up in bed, "Mom, Ayin is trying hard to live, but Ayin is really tired. Mom, Ayin misses you so much. When will Daddy come back?" Xie Qingyin buried her head in her knees and sobbed softly.

Xie Qingyin couldn't cry in front of them, not even a tear. When she first started working, Xie Qingyin shed tears because she was too tired. Sun Min directly hit her calves with a bamboo stick, saying that she was crying for no reason and it was bad luck.

The next day, Xie Qingyin was so hungry that she ran out secretly, wanting to buy two meat buns from Uncle Wang. Shi Yin had told her to keep the money safe from the others in the Shi family, and give it to Xie Guang when he came back. "Daddy, I'm sorry. Ah Yin is really hungry. Ah Yin will spend a little to buy a few meat buns."

When Uncle Wang saw Xie Qingyin, he was shocked at first, then felt distressed, and quickly took out a few meat buns and gave them to Xie Qingyin.

"How come this child has gone through so much in such a short time without seeing him?"

"Uncle Wang, this is the money for the buns." Xie Qingyin took the meat buns and put the money in Uncle Wang's hand.

"Child, I don't want your money. Think of these buns as Uncle Wang treating you to some, okay?" Uncle Wang put the money back in Xie Qingyin's hand.

Xie Qingyin was about to take a bite of the bun, but when she saw the money Uncle Wang put back, she put the bun away and gave it back to Uncle Wang. "Mom said that we can't eat other people's food for free. If Uncle Wang doesn't take the money, then Ah Yin won't have the meat bun."

Xie Qingyin said this while staring at the meat buns and swallowing.

"Uncle Wang is having a promotion today. Three meat buns are only one copper coin." Uncle Wang put the buns back into Xie Qingyin's arms and took a copper coin from Xie Qingyin.

Xie Qingyin smiled, put the remaining copper coins back on her body, and began to eat the big meat bun. Xie Qingyin ate a little hurriedly, so Uncle Wang poured her a glass of water, "Eat slowly, eat slowly, no one is snatching it from you."

After eating, Xie Qingyin returned to Shi's house. As soon as she entered, she saw Sun Min blocking the door. "Why didn't you work hard? Where have you been?" Sun Min asked angrily.

"I……"

Sun Min sniffed, "Did you eat the meat buns?"

Xie Qingyin quickly covered her mouth and shook her head.

"Where did you get the money to buy meat buns? Did you steal money? You are so good. You don't work and you steal money to buy buns. How much money did you take?" After saying that, Sun Min stepped forward and searched Xie Qingyin's body.

"I didn't, I really didn't steal the money, wuwuwu, aunt, I didn't steal it." Xie Qingyin cried and resisted.

"Cry, cry, cry, you just know how to cry." Sun Min used the bamboo stick to hit Xie Qingyin a few more times, then continued to search and took out the few copper coins that Xie Qingyin had just left. "Heh, you didn't steal the money, what is this? Isn't this money?"

"This is the money my mother left me. I didn't steal it." Xie Qingyin said.

"Your mother is dead, how can she have any money? Stealing is stealing. There are so many things to learn at such a young age. I want to go to your room to see if you have stolen anything else." Sun Min pulled Xie Qingyin's clothes and walked towards her room.

Xie Qingyin panicked. There was some money left for her by Shi Yin in the room. She had just counted the coins and used them to buy the meat buns. She was afraid that Sun Min would take out the other money, so she broke free from Sun Min's hand and grabbed Sun Min to stop her from going to the room.

"What are you doing? Let go. I told you that you must have stolen something again. You're holding me back and won't let me go. Let go of me now." Xie Qingyin didn't know where she got so much strength from. She held Sun Min's legs tightly and refused to let go. There was no one at home except Sun Min and Xie Qingyin. Sun Min couldn't call anyone to pull Xie Qingyin away, so he could only kick Xie Qingyin away with force.

Xie Qingyin was kicked away, and her back hit the wall of the well hard. Sun Min ignored Xie Qingyin, opened Xie Qingyin's room and went in to search. Xie Qingyin climbed up in pain and stumbled into the room. Sun Min turned over all the quilts, pillows and other things on the ground, searched every corner, and finally found a box in a particularly hidden place. He opened the box and saw several hundred dollars inside.

Sun Min took out the money and tossed it in his hand, "There's still a lot left."

"Put it down. My mother gave it to me and my father. You can't take it." Xie Qingyin ran to Sun Min and tried to snatch it.

"Hehe, I said you stole it, so it's you who stole it. If you still want to stay in this family, then you should work honestly and dutifully." Sun Min took the money and left.

"Don't go. You can't take my money. I didn't steal it. It's mine!" Xie Qingyin ran to Sun Min and stopped her.

"Xie Qingyin, if you keep making trouble, you won't get the money, and you won't be able to stay in the Shi family. Be honest." Sun Min pushed Xie Qingyin aside and left.

Xie Qingyin dropped her little pearl, "Mom, what should Ayin do? All the money has been taken away by my aunt, and Ayin can't get it back. Shouldn't Ayin use the money to buy meat buns? If Ayin doesn't buy them, my aunt won't find out that Ayin still has money, and won't take Ayin's money away."

Xie Qingyin got up from the ground, put the quilt and pillow back on the bed, put all the scattered things in the room back to their original places, and then went out to work. If she couldn't finish the work, Xie Qingyin would have nothing to eat tonight.

In the following days, Xie Qingyin worked very hard every day, but the Shi family seemed to deliberately not give Xie Qingyin food. Whenever Xie Qingyin was about to finish her work, everyone in the Shi family would throw some new work to Xie Qingyin. Even if Xie Qingyin protested that it was not today's work, the Shi family would just say, "If you don't finish it, you won't have food."

One time when Xie Qingyin went to empty the box at night, she discovered that the big yellow dog sometimes had a lot of delicious food, the kind that others didn't eat much of, including meat and rice. However, the big yellow dog was very fierce, so Xie Qingyin didn't dare to approach it directly. She could only secretly take some when the big yellow dog was not around, then run away and eat it in hiding.

Every time when Xie Qingyin was washing clothes in the yard, she would see the children playing outside and hear their cheerful voices. She would also want to play like them. At this time, Xie Qingyin would think, "Where is Daddy? Why hasn't he come to pick me up yet? If Daddy comes to pick me up, I can play happily like the children outside without having to work."

But the truth is always cruel. Every time Sun Min found Xie Qingyin looking outside, he would hit her with a bamboo stick, "What are you looking at? Have you finished your work? Don't you want to eat again? You are an orphan and you want to be like others. Hurry up." Xie Qingyin endured the pain and continued to wash clothes.

One day, when Xie Qingyin finished her work and was eating, Sun Min gave her a piece of meat and said, "I'm in a good mood today, so I'll give you a piece of meat. You must be more careful when serving me in the future." Later, Xie Qingyin found out that Sun Min was pregnant.

Two days later, Shi En came to find Xie Qingyin, wanting Xie Qingyin to go to the temple in the next county to help Sun Min pray for a child. He said he had a secret recipe, which required the only girl in the family to walk to the next county by herself to pray for a child with sincerity, and that way she would be guaranteed to give birth to a big fat boy.

Xie Qingyin knew that the whole family was staring at the baby in Sun Min's belly, and they all hoped it would be a boy. Xie Qingyin had no way to refuse, because even if she didn't agree, Shi Encai and the others would have ways to force her to agree, so Xie Qingyin agreed. And the night before leaving, the Shi family prepared a lot of delicious food for Xie Qingyin for the first time.

Xie Qingyin watched as she gobbled up the meat, while Shi's mother looked at her with disdain, "Look at you, it looks like you've never eaten meat before."

"Okay, let the child eat well." Father Shi interrupted Mother Shi.

After the meal, they didn't ask Xie Qingyin to clean up the table. Instead, they asked Xie Qingyin to go back to her room and sleep, and leave on time tomorrow morning. "Uncle, am I going alone?" Xie Qingyin asked.

"Yes, they all said that the child should go by himself, and he should sincerely seek the talent, so Qingyin, you should go by yourself. Remember to be sincere, understand?"

Xie Qingyin nodded and went back to her room.

The next morning, Xie Qingyin got up early, packed up and left the room, but except for her, no one else in the Shi family had gotten up yet. Shi En had prepared two copper coins for Xie Qingyin last night, saying that they were travel expenses for Xie Qingyin. Xie Qingyin put the copper coins away and went out.

Xie Qingyin had never been to the next county and didn't know how to get there. She could only walk for a while and ask someone. Later, the weather turned bad and it started to rain, so Xie Qingyin hurriedly found a place to shelter from the rain.

"Baby, where are your family members? Why are you here alone?" Xie Qingyin hid in a stall selling cloth.

"Mother-in-law, I want to ask how long it will take to get to Niucheng County?" Xie Qingyin asked instead of answering.

"Why are you going to Niucheng County? It's quite far away. Are you going there by yourself, a little kid?"

"Yeah, I went to that temple to pray for a child for my aunt."

"If you want to go to the temple, you have to go before it closes. It's raining so hard, and if you wait until the rain stops, you probably won't be able to make it."

"Grandma, do you have an umbrella?" Xie Qingyin saw that the rain was not going to stop for a while.

"Do you have to go today? Can't you go another day when the weather is better?" advised the mother-in-law.

Xie Qingyin didn't dare to do that. She was afraid that the people in the Shi family would think that she didn't want to help Sun Min to have a child. "It's okay, mother-in-law. If you have an umbrella, can you lend me one?"

Seeing that Xie Qingyin was stubborn, the mother-in-law said nothing and handed her an umbrella.

"Mother-in-law, I don't have much money. This copper coin is for the cost of lending you the umbrella. I will return it to you after I use it. Is that okay?"

"Never mind, never mind. I was going to throw away this umbrella anyway, so just think of it as you picking it up and using it. You don't need to pay for it."

Upon hearing this, Xie Qingyin happily took the umbrella, bowed to her mother-in-law, and said, "Thank you, grandma." Then she opened the umbrella and continued on her way.

After walking for a while, a bullock cart came to Xie Qingyin and stopped. Xie Qingyin looked over and saw an ugly uncle. "Want to go to Niucheng County? Uncle will take you with him."

Xie Qingyin had a feeling that he was not a good person, so she walked forward without paying any attention to him. However, the old man kept following Xie Qingyin, so Xie Qingyin quickened her pace.

"Kid, why are you walking so fast? It's raining so hard and the road ahead is dangerous. I'll take you there." The uncle drove the ox cart and followed Xie Qingyin.

"No need, uncle. I can walk by myself." Xie Qingyin thanked him, but her legs continued to quicken her pace.

It was raining heavily and there were not many people on the road. The man stopped the ox cart, ran to Xie Qingyin and picked her up.

"Let me go, let me go." Xie Qingyin struggled.

The man found a rope to tie up Xie Qingyin, stuffed a piece of cloth into Xie Qingyin's mouth, threw Xie Qingyin behind the ox cart, then sat in the front again and started driving the cart.

The man held something to block Xie Qingyin's escape, and he kept looking back at Xie Qingyin's position from time to time.

Xie Qingyin turned around and looked at the man's back, moving her position little by little. When the man turned his head to look at her, she did not move. Later, Xie Qingyin saw a man riding a horse towards them. When the man was about to pass by the ox cart, Xie Qingyin squirmed and jumped off the ox cart. The man noticed that it seemed like a person jumped off the cart, and hurriedly caught him, who fell to the ground and rolled twice.

The man riding the ox cart noticed this and wanted to catch Xie Qingyin, but when he saw that the man who caught Xie Qingyin was carrying a sword, he quickly ran away.

"Are you okay?" Ye Zhengde looked at the tied child in front of him, untied her rope, took the cloth out of her mouth, and then saw half of the jade pendant exposed on the child. Ye Zhengde showed a surprised expression, "You, you are Xie Qingyin?"