Chapter One: The Horse Thief

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  I vaguely remember that my journey to this world was on a stormy night, and indeed thunder and lightning are the best weather conditions for crossing over. Now, counting on my fingers, it's been two years since I crossed over. Before crossing over, I had already been diagnosed by a psychiatrist as having intermittent explosive shopping desire syndrome. I also suffered from this "terminal illness" and was deeply in debt, with my credit card limit already being negative. It seems that the high-interest loan I borrowed will be due soon, and I don't even have enough money to pay the interest now. Should I cut my wrist? Jump off a building? Hang myself? Forget it, I'll just cross over instead.

  When this girl gritted her teeth and spent her life savings to buy a cross-dimensional backpack from Taobao, she finally saw the hope of living. Haha, I don't know where this backpack will take me. The advertisement was beautifully written: Do you want to live a life where clothes come with stretching out your hand and food comes with opening your mouth? A life of luxurious clothing and fine food, with countless servants and officials kneeling in worship? Don't hesitate, choose XX brand cross-dimensional backpack! We offer various dynasties from the past 5,000 years of Chinese history, including kings, princes, generals, princesses, and many other professions for you to choose from. Ps: Due to technical reasons, foreign dimension travel services are temporarily unavailable.

  In those days, this girl was so spirited and proud. Although the crossing was random, when she jumped from the 20th floor according to the instructions, she thought that at least she could pretend to be a princess. Who knew she would be deceived? No wonder everyone says that Earthlings are unreliable. Now it's good to come to such a place where birds don't even shit. Although the climate is harsh, the servants under her hand are barbaric, and the variety of food is scarce, but at least every person in this place sees her and shouts: "Hello, young lady."

  This is an earthen castle, and it's not an exaggeration to call it a castle. The city walls are made of yellow earth, and there are abandoned arrow towers on both sides of the gate. Inside the city, there are also streets and markets, but the local customs are rough and tough. Men, women, old and young, even children as small as bean sprouts, all carry weapons on their bodies. The earthen castle is surrounded by endless deserts, and it's a city that has long been forgotten by the world.

  Every time the camel bell rings, a large team of people holding horse knives rushes out in a mighty manner, and when they return, they are always loaded with spoils. Unfortunately, this glorious traveler, Liu Xiuniang, did not successfully enter the imperial palace as she had wished, but instead fell into this group of horse bandits in a grand manner. Her father, the big-bearded old man, is the leader of these horse bandits, but he unexpectedly brought back a teacher from who-knows-where and said that his daughter should read books, learn characters, and become a refined lady.

  Liu Xian, this transmigrator, didn't have any adverse reactions after transmigrating. After learning that the original owner of this body was called Liu Qi Xian, which only differed from her own name by one character "Qi", she felt at ease and became a docile young lady. Every day, she would eat, sleep, obediently attend classes in the study room, and when she was in a good mood, she would even ask her father about his well-being, scaring the old man with the big beard half to death. Was it possible that their daughter had fallen and hit her head in the courtyard back then?

  In Liu Xiu's opinion, eating and drinking every day wasn't bad at all. Dancing with knives and guns was too dangerous, even if no one got hurt, it wasn't good to hurt the flowers and grass either. But when she sat on the outer wall of the city tower, watching the cavalry leave the city, her heart suddenly skipped a beat. Wasn't eating and drinking every day also too lacking in pursuit? Looking at others who had traveled through time, they weren't kings or generals, but a generation of heroes, while she was dressed so slovenly. In an era without shopping malls, possessing the body of this seemingly miniature version of herself, she was no longer herself, and from then on, she was just Liu Qi Xiu.

  "Teacher!" Qi Xi shouted while waving her hand, although she had been a proper young lady for two years, but she had already gotten along well with the people around her, especially the favorites of her father. Seeing that Ma Dui had stopped, she also ran down from the city wall excitedly. The man in black purple attire at the front of Ma Dui heard the voice and slightly furrowed his brow, gave a few orders to the people beside him, then turned around and rode back towards the city wall.

  "What instructions does Ah Qi have, I'm about to go 'hunting'." The young man called Teacher Meng Kuang, who was the best in martial arts in Hei Shui Zhai, used to be a captain before becoming an outlaw and now also taught Wu Xie martial arts. "If I remember correctly, you should be studying 'The Analects of Confucius' with Mr. Tong Gan right now."

  "I... Teacher, today you're also taking Qiuxi to experience it, all day listening to Mr. Gan's nagging is suffocating, besides, what's the point of reading so many books? As the daughter of a horse thief, I'm supposed to be a lady, do I still need to go to Kyoto to select concubines?" Qiuxi naturally knew that "hunting" in Teacher's words actually meant going to rob and plunder, such an exciting thing couldn't be missed.

  The teacher, although only a few years older than himself, was the most trusted subordinate of Lao Da and one of the few people in the village who could get along with him. He would never refuse his requests. When Qiuxi ran to his front, Meng Kuang, on horseback, stretched out his hand: "Get up!"

  Qī Xiǎo hesitated for a moment, wondering if the teacher wanted her to ride together with him on one horse. Who would have thought that this young lady, looking only eleven or twelve years old, would be treated like this? It's no wonder people wouldn't think of anything improper. Qī Xiǎo still felt a bit awkward in her heart, although she had been over twenty before crossing over, but she had never been so close to a man before. After getting on the horse, she heard a low voice say: "You're different from before." She was shocked, with this tone, could it be that the owner of this body had some ambiguous relationship with the teacher in the past?

  In the vast desert, a camel caravan can be seen vaguely from west to east towards the sandy island. After staying in Heishui Village for seven years, I have naturally become accustomed to such caravans. The Cloud City in the west is a place where rare medicinal materials, colored gold and bright pearls are produced. Every year, there are merchant teams coming from the east to purchase them. However, between Dongjin and Cloud City lies a vast Gobi Desert. The weather on the Yellow Sand Gobi is harsh, and from time to time, bandits will rob and plunder. Nevertheless, every year, countless people still want to go to that legendary city in the west.

  "Wow, it's rare to see someone who can successfully bring goods back from that haunted place. The last one was a merchant named Gan. The people in the horse team knew better than anyone how difficult the road from Shazhou to Jingdu City was. Although they sincerely admired this merchant group, they also had to survive, and looting was their only means of survival. Moreover, with the big sister around, everyone was eager to take the lead."

  In Qi Xie's eyes, there was no difference between being a bandit and being a scholar, as their goals were the same, only the means were different. If scholars couldn't make a living, they could only beg on the streets, while successful bandits could live more freely than emperors. Many times when blending into a group, she would also be carried away: "Lambs, I'm here!" In her past life, she was always being chased by loan sharks and had to flee in fear. Since heaven gave her such an opportunity, she wanted to try what it's like to be a bad person.

  Meng Kuang didn't make a sound, he just took off the curved knife from his waist and handed it to Qi Xie. With a flick of his whip, he led Qi Xie to charge to the front of the team. From afar, they saw that the merchant's goods had flags with large "Jin" characters written on them. Normally, seeing this flag should have made him immediately lead the troops back, but instead, he didn't organize the cavalry and the smile at the corner of his mouth grew thicker.

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