Chapter 1: The Miserable Transmigration

  Night. The moon is in the sky.

  Today is the seventh day that Yang Jingjing has been staying at Xiangyao Mountain Villa, and tomorrow she will return to Shaanxi with Yang Yiqing.

  I still remember the first day I started staying at Xiangyang Mountain Villa, Yang Jingjing especially wanted to escape. But now that she has to leave, Yang Jingjing's heart is also slightly reluctant. The thoughts of a young girl are simple yet complicated, and at this moment, she sits by the window looking at the bright moon in the sky, and Yang Jingjing doesn't even know what she's thinking about herself.

  "Tomorrow I'll be leaving, and who knows when I'll be able to return to the capital again." Yang Jing sighed.

  Then after about half a time, Yang Jingjing suddenly stood up, her expression changed from being melancholic to fierce, and she said with a heroic tone: "Can't let him off so easily, must make him take responsibility!"

  At this moment, Jiang Xia is trying to write an eight-part essay with the title "Zi Wei Yan Yuan Yue, Yong Zhi Ze Xing, She Zhi Ze Cang, Wei Wo Yu Er You Shi Fu!" This is the homework assigned by Li Dongyang, which needs to be checked tomorrow.

  The title of this eight-legged essay is "Full Chapter Title", which is the entire sentence. This sentence comes from the "Shu Er" chapter of the Analects of Confucius, and it is what Confucius said to his best student Yan Yuan. The meaning is that when a country uses you, you should implement your own ideas and plans according to your own principles; when a country does not use you, you should put away your own ideas and plans. It seems that only I and you have this kind of cultivation and style to do so naturally and frankly.

  The meaning is easy to understand, but the eight-part essay emphasizes breaking the topic, accepting the topic, starting the discussion, entering the topic, starting the stock, middle stock, later stock, and binding the stock. Among them, the most difficult part is breaking the topic. Generally speaking, breaking the topic uses two sentences to break open the meaning of the topic. How to break depends on individual thinking, you can follow your thoughts, break it positively, break it negatively, borrow to break, and then lead to what you want to write.

  The sage's way of hiding and showing is that only those who are capable will be subtly shown.

  "Breaking the topic" refers to the first two sentences that explain or summarize the meaning of the question, but if you put it another way, it can't be repeated with the original question. Breaking the topic is the most important part of the whole article. Jiang Xia's breaking the topic here can be considered excellent. Among them, "Saint" refers to Confucius, and "ability" refers to Yan Hui. "The propriety of advancing and retreating" refers to the just-right "advancing and retreating". The two words "slightly show" not only reflect the relationship between Confucius and Yan Hui as teacher and student but also highlighted Yan Hui's understanding, echoing the drum without needing to hit it heavily.

  As soon as this question was broken, Jiang Xia suddenly had a surge of ideas and began to continue with "accepting the topic".

  Just as I started writing, there was a knock at the door, followed by Cui Ruxue's voice: "Brother Jiang, it's me, Ruxue."

  "Who is it?" Jiang Xia immediately got up and went to open the door.

  Only to see Cui Ruxue holding a treasure sword in her hand and carrying a travel bag on her back. Jiang Xia was stunned by her appearance, asking: "Ruxue, what's going on? Are you preparing for a long journey?"

  Cui Ruxiang nodded and said: "I'm preparing to leave the capital for Jiangnan."

  "Jiang Nan?" Jiang Xia slightly furrowed his brow and said, "Let's go inside and talk."

  "Hmm." Cui Rusong followed Jiang Xia into the room, placing her long sword and luggage on the table. Then Jiang Xia poured her a cup of tea. Jiang Xia asked: "What's going on? Why did you suddenly say you wanted to leave?"

  Cui Ruxiang glanced at Jiang Xia and said, "Brother Jiang, to be honest with you, I am a member of the Tianji Society. The original purpose of this trip to the capital was to assassinate Zhang Yong, but unexpectedly, as soon as I made my move, I failed. Fortunately, thanks to Brother Jiang's help, otherwise the consequences would have been unthinkable."

  "What's Tianji Association? I've never heard of such an organization. Now that you're a member of some group, why did you go alone to assassinate Zhang Yong that night?" Jiang Xia asked.

  Choi Yu-seong shook her head, "I'm not sure either. Originally, it was supposed to be a joint effort with the Tianji Association's senior brother, but later on, I don't know why they didn't take action. Maybe they saw that the operation had been exposed and therefore didn't take action."

  "If the action is exposed, then don't take action, let you go die?" Jiang Xia suddenly said angrily: "Are you stupid? Such a hole-digging organization and you still want to go back? Not allowed, stay well in this Xiangyang Mountain Villa, brother will support you."

  "Brother Jiang......" Cui Ruxue was stunned, and the sentence "I'll support you" sounded completely different to her. In this era, when a man told a woman that he would support her, wasn't it equivalent to telling her to marry him?

  Cui Ruxiang didn't expect Jiang Xia to be so direct, she lowered her head and blushed, asking: "Then... what about my sister?"

  "What else can I do? I'll raise it together with you. Anyway, I'm not unable to afford it." Jiang Xia said casually.

  When Cui Ruxue heard Jiang Xia say this, she felt a slight disappointment in her heart. He indeed liked Nianslave too. But then Cui Ruxue thought it through and realized that Jiang Xia had known Nianslave before her, and she was the one who inserted herself into their relationship later on. Anyway, it's normal for men to have multiple wives and concubines. If both sisters were to marry him, they could take care of each other. Thinking this way, Cui Ruxue nodded slightly and said in a soft voice, "I don't have any objections, but... you need to go discuss it with Nianslave first, then choose a time to meet my father..."

  "Ah? Oh, don't worry, I'll go talk to Nianshu." Jiang Xia completely didn't understand Cui Ruxue's inner thoughts and agreed in one breath.

  He suddenly remembered something he had always wanted to ask but hadn't, and Jiang Xia asked: "Right, Ruyue, why did you go to assassinate Zhang Yong? Does he have a grudge against your family?"

  "Hum! That dead eunuch......"

  "Bang!" Jiang Xia's door was suddenly kicked open by someone, followed by a loud shout: "Jiang Xia, you'd better make it clear to me today, are you responsible for what happened to me?"

  Jiang Xia took one look at Yang Jing and immediately understood that she was referring to the events of that night. Jiang Xia immediately said, "Hey, get it straight. That night, you yourself entered the wrong room and slept on my bed, I didn't do anything to you, what responsibility do you want me to take?"

  "You... you damn bastard, if you don't make things clear today, I'll castrate you!" As soon as she finished speaking, Yang Jingjing suddenly revealed her right hand from behind her back, clearly holding a shiny pair of scissors.

  Cui Ruxue gave Yang Jing a glance, and the latter immediately changed from being shy to cold as ice. She said in a chilly tone, "Where did this crazy girl come from? If you shout again, be careful that my sword is merciless."

  Yang Jingjing was furious as soon as she heard it. Originally, seeing a woman who was even more beautiful than herself suddenly appearing in Jiang Xia's room at such a late hour already made her feel very uncomfortable. Now this woman actually dared to call herself the "crazy girl". Who else besides Jiang Xia could call her that? Yang Jingjing immediately said: "I was just wondering where this cheap woman came from, running into someone's man's room in the middle of the night with what intentions?"

  Cui Ruxiang sneered and said proudly: "I am Jiang's fiancée."

  "What?" Jiang Xia was taken aback.

  Yang Jingjing was also shocked, she immediately looked at Jiang Xia, Jiang Xia had not figured out the situation yet. Yang Jingjing didn't say a word and directly threw the scissors in her hand towards Jiang Xia, scolding angrily: "Bastard!"

  Cui Ruxue suddenly drew out a long sword, and with a flash of white light, the sword accurately knocked down the scissors.

  Yang Jingjing was about to leave, but Cui Ruxue immediately picked up the teacup on the table and threw it at her: "You came to my husband's house in the middle of the night to cause trouble, do you think you can just leave that easily?"

  Chui Ru Shuang's martial arts skills were far superior to Yang Jingjing, and with a flick of her wrist, the teacup flew out and struck Yang Jingjing's leg, causing her to kneel down on one knee. She quickly stood up, looked at Chui Ru Shuang, then at Jiang Xia, and suddenly burst into tears, wailing: "Dad, someone is bullying me..."

  As she spoke, Yang Jingjing ran out of the room.

  Everything happened too quickly, Jiang Xia hadn't reacted yet, so he suddenly "returned to his senses" and immediately said to Cui Ruxue: "Ruxue, you misunderstood, ah... I'll go talk to her."

  After finishing speaking, Jiang Xia chased out.

  "In the room, Cui Ruxue said with a resentful face: 'Husband, how many young girls do you need to entice before you are satisfied?'"

  "Wild girl!" Jiang Xia chased after her, shouting. Yang Jingjing looked back and saw that Jiang Xia's heart was first slightly sweet, then endless sorrow. She wailed and ran towards the garden. Jiang Xia immediately caught up with her.

  It wasn't easy to catch up with Yang Jingjing in the garden, but Jiang Xia finally grabbed her and said, "Crazy girl, listen to me."

  "I won't listen, I won't listen..." Yang Jingjing's fists kept falling on Jiang Xia's chest.

  Jiang Xia's expression suddenly changed, and he covered his chest with difficulty, saying: "Crazy girl, you...you hit my weak point."

  Jiang Xia finished speaking and immediately fell softly to the ground.

  Yang Jingjing was taken aback at first, then shook Jiang Xia's body half-believingly and said: "Jiang Xia, don't lie to me, you can't fool me, I won't believe you."

  Jiang Xia still didn't react, Yang Jingjing reached out to check Jiang Xia's breath and found that he wasn't breathing.

  Yang Jingjing leaned her head over again to listen to Jiang Xia's heartbeat, Jiang Xia covered his heart with his hand, Yang Jingjing was too anxious and didn't notice that there was a hand under the clothes when she put her ear on it.

  After listening for a while, she realized that there was no heartbeat sound. Yang Jingjing suddenly believed it. She cried sadly: "Brother Jiang, don't be in trouble, Brother Jiang, don't be in trouble... wuwu..."

  "It wasn't on purpose, don't die! I won't be unreasonable or arbitrary again. Don't die!"

  "Do you mean what you say?" Jiang Xia, who was sleeping on the ground, sneaked a peek at Yang Jingjing and asked with a suppressed smile.

  Yang Jingjing didn't react at all, she nodded vigorously and said: "Consider it settled. It's definitely settled."

  "What if you cheat? Unless you swear."

  "I, Yang Jingjing, swear that if Brother Jiang doesn't die, I will never again..."

  "Huh?" Yang Jingjing suddenly reacted, she turned her head and saw Jiang Xia smiling at her, Yang Jingjing immediately knew she had been deceived. She let out a sharp cry: "You cheated me!"

  Jiang Xia stretched out his hand and hugged her, laughing and saying: "You've made a vow, you can't go back on it."

  "Hmph!" Yang Jingjing turned her head away and ignored Jiang Xia.

  Jiang Xia sat up and said softly beside Yang Jing: "What's wrong? Tomorrow you'll be leaving, so you can't bear to part with me?"

  "It's not like that, I'd be delighted if I never saw you again, you scoundrel." Yang Jingjing said, turning her head to one side.

  Jiang Xia leaned in again with a smile and asked, "Really?"

  "More precious than pearls." Yang Jingjing said with puffed cheeks.

  Jiang Xia suddenly stopped talking, and Yang Jingjing also didn't speak.

  After a long time, Yang Jingjing suddenly leaned into Jiang Xia's arms and said: "You rascal, I just can't bear to part with you. I'm leaving tomorrow. You're in the capital and I'm in Gansu, who knows when we'll see each other again... Waaahhh..."

  Jiang Xia patted Yang Jing's back, and she continued to cry. After a while, Yang Jing stopped crying, and Jiang Xia said: "Silly girl, just because your father is the governor of Gansu doesn't mean he'll be the governor of Gansu for his whole life. He'll eventually return to the imperial court as an official. Alright, even if he doesn't come back, I can still go visit you there. The world has no banquet that doesn't disperse, and parting is a common occurrence, but we have many opportunities to meet again."

  "Are you really going to Gansu to see me?" Yang Jingjing asked with a face full of expectation and another face of disbelief.

  Jiang Xia smiled and nodded: "At worst, we'll make a bet. Whoever goes back on their word will be the little dog."

  "Good." Yang Jingjing really did it this time, stood up and shook hands with Jiang Xia.

  After pulling it off, Yang Jingjing asked Jiang Xia, "Was that fierce woman just now really your fiancée?"

  "Hmm..." Jiang Xia hadn't figured out the situation yet, and he didn't understand why Cui Ruxue would say that. However, he knew that she must have her own reasons for saying so, and it was unnecessary to make things more complicated. Jiang Xia could only force himself to nod and say: "Yeah... probably."

  "Look at how reluctant you are to answer, I guess you definitely don't like her. Divorce her and marry me instead?" Yang Jingjing said with a bit of courage.

  Jiang Xia suddenly couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time, he weakly said: "This... isn't good, is it?"

  "There's nothing wrong with it, you've touched me here and here." Yang Jingjing pointed to her own chest and then to her buttocks. With a tone of grievance and sweetness, she said: "And no one has ever touched me before."

  Jiang Xia took a look at Yang Jing's buttocks, and three black lines appeared on his forehead. He secretly thought to himself: "I finally understand what it means to not be able to touch a tiger's butt."

  Jiang Xia didn't say a word, and Yang Jing's face suddenly changed as she said: "What? Are you prepared to take responsibility? My nanny told me that only my husband can touch these places. You touched them, so you are my husband."

  No matter how bitter, cannot be bitter to the children, no matter how poor, cannot be poor in education. Look at this, it is the root of the feudal education. Jiang Xia wiped his sweat and smiled: "I will take responsibility, but not now."

  "Not now? When is it?" Yang Jing asked.

  "When you grow up, I'll be responsible." Jiang Xia replied.

  "I'm eighteen today, I've grown up."

  Jiang Xia shook his head with an unfathomable expression and said, "I'm not referring to age."

  "What is it if not age?"

  "Here." Jiang Xia pointed at Yang Jing's chest.

  Yang Jingjing looked down and said with a pout: "How big is that?"

  "Have you ever eaten the big meat buns at Manfulou in Beijing? It's about that size."