Transmigrating To The Ancient Times With Lu's Convenience

Chapter 1

People back then were unreasonably superstitious about luck and fate, the villagers started to cast sidelong glance at the host since his grandmother cooked up the story.

The host was ineloquent by nature, he became even more quiet and grim since people had been calling him 'ill-starred'.

The host was eighteen years old, he had passed the ideal marriageable age already, but no one in his family cared about him or his marriage, all they wanted was to keep him at home for the farm work.

The government, however, had enacted a law that year all men and Bios must get married before eighteen, all women must get married before seventeen otherwise a three-tael-silver would be imposed due to the warfare and population decline.

The law had provoked an uproar in the host's family, three taels was no small amount, especially for a miser like the host's grandmother. She would kill to save that money. Plus, the whole family was counting on the host to do the farm work, so they discussed this matter and decided to look for a girl for the host.

Unfortunately, none of the fellow villagers wanted to marry their daughter to the ill-starred host even though it was a well-known fact that the host's family was pretty well-off, and they could even afford to send a boy to school. Plus, the villagers knew the host was in disfavor in the family, so they didn't see him as an ideal son-in-law.

The host's grandparents had been so upset, but they blamed the host instead of themselves for cooking up the ridiculous story about the host's fate.

As luck would have it, there came the news that a Bio named Chen Xiao Mi was looking for a husband when the host's grandparents were at a loss what to do. This Chen Xiao Mi was a well-known figure in the Big Stone Village, he was a Bio, but he was endowed with mighty strength.

Chen Xiao Mi and Lu Lin shared similar life stories, his grandmother disliked his father as well, and Chen family was pretty well-off in the village.

In Big Stone Village, some villagers would go hunting in the mountains in a lean year, dangerous it was, but the reward could be handsome. A group of villagers hunted a bear and sold it to a landlord by twenty taels of silver, all the other villagers wished to follow suit.

Chen Xiao Mi's grandmother egged Chen Xiao Mi's father Chen Shou Ren on hunting, but Chen Shou Ren rejected the idea for he was well aware of the risks involved, there were so many villagers had never come back alive. And it was usually the struggling villagers who were willing to take the risk and try their luck in the mountains, but they were doing just fine.

Chen Xiao Mi's mother was about to give birth, so Chen Shou Ren wanted to stay with his wife instead of venturing into the mountains. But Chen Xiao Mi's grandmother made such a scene and scolded Chen Shou Ren harshly until Chen Shou Ren yielded. Unfortunately, Chen Shou Ren and his friends were attacked by wolves, only one of them survived.

Chen Xiao Mi's mother did a premature delivery on hearing the grievous news, and just like that Chen Xiao Mi had a second little brother named Chen Xiao Mai who was also a Bio, Chen Xiao Mi's first younger brother's name was Chen Xiao Cai.

What was strikingly similar was Chen Xiao Mi's grandmother's reaction after she heard her son's death, she blamed Chen Xiao Mi's mother for that, she kept saying her son died because of Chen Xiao Mi's mother's bad luck. Chen Xiao Mi's mother died of grief two years ago.

Chen Xiao Mi's First Uncle meant to sell Chen Xiao Cai to a wealthy family as a servant thus he could gain a few pennies per month.

In that time and space, servants were completely at the mercy of their masters, the masters could beat the servants as they wished once they signed the indenture.

Chen Xiao Mi's grandmother thought that was an excellent idea, Chen Xiao Cai was a young boy who couldn't be of much help on the farm work after all.

Chen Xiao Mi had captured his First Uncle's son Chen Jing after he heard that, and he threatened the First Uncle that he would castrate Chen Jing if Chen Xiao Cai became a servant.

Chen Jing was the old woman's favorite grandson, her heart would ache for days on seeing a slight wound on Chen Jing.

Chen Xiao Mi had been pretending to be ignorant of the fact that it was his grandmother who had forced his father to go hunting, and he had completely lost it on hearing that they were planning on selling one of his little brothers.

Chen Xiao Mi put up a good fight on people who tried to force him on releasing Chen Jing, he was so determined that he would protect his brothers. He had inquired about the family which had their eyes on Chen Xiao Cai, it turned out the Young Master tended to bully the servants at home, he had already beaten two young girls to death, so he wanted to buy a tough boy to beat.

Chen Xiao Mi turned furious on hearing that, little did he expect his First Uncle and his grandmother could be this merciless, his father had literally died because of his grandmother, and now his grandmother was helping his First Uncle to sell Chen Xiao Cai. Chen Xiao Mi wished to strangle that old woman!

Chen Xiao Mi's grandmother feared Chen Xiao Mi to the guts, she shivered at the thought that Chen Xiao Mi said he wouldn't listen to her like his father.

Chen Xiao Mi urged his grandfather to allow him and his two little brothers to live independently, his grandfather had to agree that.

It was so rare for a child to reason with the elders and fight for himself or the ones he cared, people tended to grin and bear all the unfairness. Therefore, Chen Xiao Mi was condemned by the villagers.