Chapter 1 The Yang Family's Daughter Grows Up

"The Emperor of Han was obsessed with beauty and wanted to conquer the country. He ruled the country for many years but could not get her. The Yang Family's daughter grew up, but she was kept in the boudoir and unknown to the world."

I don't know why Mo Ting played the song "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" in the laboratory. The melody was originally melodious, but the lyrics made Lin Cuizhi even more distressed.

The girl next door did grow up, but her surname was not Yang, but Guo.

He himself had been single for 23 years, but his classmates spread the rumor that he was a pervert who raised a child bride.

Those classmates were just joking, and he understood it, but the rumor was really a dumb person eating bitter herbs.

The story goes back three days ago.

As a first-year graduate student in Guangwen University's artificial intelligence major, he was entrusted with an important task by his tutor. To put it bluntly, the tutor was busy that day and asked Cuizhi to help the freshmen take a class instead of him.

The course was simple, and it was not a problem for Lin Cuizhi to be an introductory course for freshmen. However, he did not expect to hear a familiar but unfamiliar voice as soon as he entered the classroom: "Brother Cuizhi!"

It was a cute little girl with twin ponytails who shouted. She seemed to be a little smaller than her classmates and her face looked more immature.

How could she be here? Shouldn't she be in the first year of high school?

Lin Cuizhi looked at Guo Siyi, the girl next door who said she wanted to marry him when she was a child, and was unable to react for a while.

The classmates in their class moved back and forth between the two of them as if they were watching a TV series.

Lin Cuizhi coughed and brought the noisy classroom back to the topic: "Hello, freshmen. I am Professor Pan's first-year graduate student. My last name is Lin. You can just call me Senior Brother Lin. Professor Pan has something to do and can't come to class today, so I will take his place."

Looking at the faces of those who had just entered the university and still had obvious childishness in the classroom, Lin Cuizhi felt old for the first time.

He is only 23 years old, how can he look so mature?

Perhaps it is because his parents died when he was young, so he is mature.

After finishing a class without any danger, he just walked out of the classroom door, Guo Siyi rushed out and said: "Brother Cui Zhi, didn't you expect to see me here?"

He was still planning to find a time to meet Guo Siyi again, but he didn't expect her to rush out so actively.

Looking at the curious eyes in the class, Lin Cuizhi sighed, she took Guo Siyi to the corner of the teaching building and asked: "Aren't you a freshman in high school? Why are you here?"

"I studied hard to see you, and I skipped a grade." Guo Siyi said casually.

Looking at her shining eyes, Lin Cuizhi knew that she must have put in a lot of effort. After all, Guangwen University is the top school in the province. Judging from the experience of tutoring her two or three years ago, she is not a talented player. It is impossible for her to be admitted three years earlier in just a few years. It is not as easy as she is.

However, what the hell is this studying hard to see me?

Lin Cuizhi scratched his head and said: "Siyi, you..."

She is already a college student, and the term "early love" seems to be out of use.

He was speechless for a moment.

"When I was a child, I was serious. You and I have been destined to be together for many lifetimes. I finally found you in this lifetime!" Guo Siyi seemed to know what Lin Cuizhi wanted to say and interrupted him in advance.

"Have you read too many romance novels? You are all college students. Be more mature." Lin Cuizhi sighed, touched her little head, and rubbed it like when he was a child.

"I will make you believe it!" Guo Siyi ran away angrily.

In fact, it was just like this. How come it became a quarrel between him and his child bride after three days?

Lin Cuizhi listened to Mo Ting, a classmate in the laboratory, adding a lot of unfounded plots, and he interrupted quickly: "It's really not what you said. I was born single, my parents died when I was a child, and I was taken home by my uncle to live with me. Guo Siyi is my uncle's neighbor, she is 7 years younger than me. You can do the math. She was only in the sixth grade when I was in college. How could I be so beastly?"

"It's really quite beastly." Mo Ting said.

There were only three people in the laboratory. Situ Lansheng didn't say anything. Mo Ting, who was a big mouth, habitually teased him: "Lansheng, I heard that you are chasing after Ziqing, the junior?"

"Miss Mo Ting, I think you have misunderstood your name. Your name is Mo Ting, just don't gossip." Situ Lansheng was really speechless about Mo Ting's personality. She was so jumpy but could calm down to do scientific research.

"My name is Mo Ting, not Mo Shuo. I can talk." Mo Ting argued.

Situ Lansheng ignored her.

"Although she is a junior, she is already the mother of a three-year-old child. Her husband was away when the epidemic started a few years ago. It would be nice to have a man."

Lin Cuizhi couldn't help but say: "Don't say it, Ziqing rejected Lansheng."

"Why?" Mo Ting was a little surprised. After all, Lansheng gave people a strong and reliable feeling, unlike Cuizhi who looked thin and delicate and fragile.

"She just said that she wanted to raise the child alone." Situ Lansheng said.

"That may be simply not liking you. It's rare to have such a long-lasting love now." Mo Ting said casually.

Situ Lansheng rarely said seriously: "Rare does not mean no, I can see that she still can't let go of her man."

The laboratory fell into silence for a while.

"That classmate Lin, in fact, Siyi is now skipping a grade to go to college and is 16 years old. You can try it. After all, it's normal for a little girl to like an older brother. The gap between you seems very big now, but it's not the same thing in society." Mo Ting broke the silence and said.

"I don't know why, she gives me a strange feeling, very kind, I... Don't laugh when I tell you, she is obviously much younger than me, but she seems to be taking care of me, and she gives me the love of an elder at such a young age." Lin Cuizhi couldn't help but say it.

This is his true feeling since he met Guo Siyi. At the beginning, she was still a little girl, an ordinary neighbor who called her big brother when he met her. Since he tutored her for a summer vacation in the sixth grade, she has undergone earth-shaking changes.

At the beginning, her academic performance was really poor, hovering in the middle and lower reaches of the class, and she was often distracted when he was teaching. He even doubted whether she would be able to pass the high school entrance examination.

Lin Cuizhi looked at the birthmark on his left elbow. It seemed that she changed the next day after seeing her four-leaf clover-shaped birthmark.

Is it really like she said that this birthmark is a fate from many lifetimes ago, as a mark for her to find herself in this life?

It's too metaphysical. As a science and engineering student majoring in artificial intelligence, he doesn't believe this.

He believes this is what the little girl said.

However, it cannot be denied that from the day after Guo Siyi accidentally saw his birthmark, she seemed to have become a different person. She looked the same, but her eyes were calm and thoughtful, which was not quite consistent with her age in the sixth grade.

In the next half month, she actually made soup in different ways every day and shared it with him during class, just like a good wife and mother.

At that time, Lin Cuizhi, a freshman, actually thought of his mother who had passed away long ago.

He didn't know how many midnights he had been awakened.

Every time he thought of the scene of that day, it was an endless nightmare.

Unexpectedly, after so many years, he still couldn't let it go.

Lin Cuizhi looked at the dirty stuffed dog toy beside the bed. He took it with one hand and looked at it quietly, and the tears in his eyes still silently flowed down his face.

It was the summer vacation when he was in the senior class. Lin Cuizhi went to travel with his parents. They had already walked out of the mall, but he insisted on buying the stuffed dog. Under his noise, his parents finally had to go back and buy the puppy toy.

He happily played with the puppy toy in the car and fell asleep when he was tired.

When he woke up, he was already in the hospital. His uncle told him that they had a car accident on the way back and he was the only one who survived.

Young Lin Cuizhi didn't know what this meant. He cried and wanted to find his parents. His uncle and aunt could only hug him and cry and say, "You will be our child from now on."

Lin Cuizhi cried at that time, "I don't want uncle and aunt, I want mom and dad!"

When he turned his head and saw the bloodstained stuffed dog, he seemed to suddenly remember a scene: he was indeed hit by something, and then he was awakened at that time. He was crying while holding the toy dog. Seeing that his parents didn't speak, he shouted heartbreakingly, "Mom and Dad!"

His mother opened her eyes with difficulty, touched his face with her bloody hands, and said weakly, "Child, I may not be able to accompany you in this life. You have to live well, understand?"

Lin Cuizhi was trapped in the safety seat and couldn't move. Seeing his mother's hand hanging down weakly, he wanted to give her a hug to wake her up, but he couldn't do it, and finally he fainted.

After that, he was adopted by his uncle, who treated him like his own son. He also had a cousin who was two years older than him and was very caring towards him.

It was hard to say that he lacked family warmth. He grew up in a healthy and harmonious environment, but he could not forget what happened that day in his heart.

If he had not cried to buy a stuffed dog, there would not have been this accident, right?

If artificial intelligence could be developed enough, would humans be able to live forever?

This was why Lin Cuizhi studied artificial intelligence.

Sometimes he thought to himself that his thoughts were really like those of a villain. Would there be a Terminator to shoot him?

So far, no one had tried to assassinate him. I thought that either he would not succeed in the future or time could not be traveled.

It was only 5 o'clock after he woke up, but he could no longer fall asleep. Lin Cuizhi planned to go to the laboratory early, but he heard rustling sounds from outside the door.

"Uh um..."

That seemed to be Mo Ting's voice.

At this time and in this place, everyone knows what is going on. Lin Cuizhi, who originally wanted to turn back, wanted to know who the person who did it to Mo Ting was driven by curiosity.

He turned to another door of the laboratory. He knew that there was a small gap in the window over there. He crouched and tiptoed over, squinting his eyes to peek inside through the hole.

Mo Ting's upper body was lying on the table in a white lab coat, and her lower body was not wearing anything. Her white and slender legs were half bent. The person behind her was wearing a white lab coat and holding her small waist and pushing forward.

Lin Cuizhi couldn't see the face of the person because of the angle, but he was very familiar with this figure.

It was Situ Lansheng who was with him in the laboratory yesterday.

Didn't they gossip and laugh in front of me yesterday? Why did the two of them do it in the laboratory early this morning?

Or were all the conversations just to make him look not isolated?

I really can't tell that the two of them actually have such a physical relationship.

Lin Cuizhi saw a live pornographic show for the first time, but he was not very interested. He had just woken up from a nightmare and did not have too many romantic thoughts. Seeing his classmates having sex in the laboratory was just a way to adjust their lives.

He walked to the deserted school road. There was no autumn in Guangwen City, but the occasional cool breeze on the campus in the early morning added a bit of early autumn atmosphere.

Lin Cuizhi walked aimlessly and saw the notice board outside the canteen saying: This weekend's economic forum will invite outstanding alumni and classmates in biomedicine, genetic technology, blockchain, and artificial intelligence to communicate face to face. The venue will be Wenxian Lecture Hall.

He saw a familiar name among the guests: Huan Jiu.

He remembered his distant cousin Lin Jingxin, who had married Huan Jiu a few days ago. He also went to their wedding. Seeing two children who were already in junior high school, he always felt strange. He heard that they were actually first love. He didn't know why they separated in the first place, what they had experienced in the past few years, and how they got together again after many years of twists and turns.

No matter what, I am still a first-year graduate student, doing technical work, these economic forums are not suitable for me.

Lin Cuizhi continued to walk, he felt as if he was out of the world, and he didn't care about anything.

Maybe it was the influence of that nightmare.

It seemed that his life should have ended more than ten years ago, but God blessed him to have a life, carrying the wishes of his parents to live in the world. On the surface, he was taken care of by his uncle and aunt and was admitted to a famous university. In fact, his heart had long lost interest in anything.

"Brother Cuizhi!"

A familiar voice came from behind.

Guo Siyi, who was wearing a short-sleeved sportswear, was running and happened to run into him.

Lin Cuizhi scanned her whole body, looking at her small breasts and tender face, and felt a little rude for a moment. He quickly adjusted his sight: "Siyi, so early? Do you get up every day to run?"

"Yes, I must maintain a good spirit and physique every day to improve the efficiency of learning, otherwise how can I keep up with my brother's pace and get into the same university as you?" Guo Siyi started to flirt with her before she finished her three sentences.

Lin Cuizhi raised his hands and surrendered: "Siyi, beautiful lady, can you let me go? I really treat you as a child."

Guo Siyi unconvincedly raised her really small chest and said: "I'm 16 years old! I'm a college student! I have every right to pursue the person I like."

Seeing that there was no way to argue, Lin Cuizhi had to point to the bench under the tree and said: "Let's sit over there."

Guo Siyi sat happily on the bench, and Lin Cuizhi sat far away on the other side. Seeing this, Siyi automatically moved to the middle.

"Siyi, you are only a freshman now, why don't you study hard and find a good job after graduation and meet some better boys."

"But, Brother Cuizhi is a very good person. He has a master's and doctoral degree and looks delicate. He is exactly the type I like." Guo Siyi retorted.

"Then I won't talk about this for now. Why do you think it must be me? Just like what you said last time about the fate in the previous life?" Lin Cuizhi scratched his head and said, it was far from the truth.

"Yes, since I saw the birthmark on your arm, I dreamed that I had seen you in my previous life. I rely on this birthmark to find you in every life." Guo Siyi directly grabbed Lin Cuizhi's left hand and saw the purple-red birthmark on his arm that looked like a four-leaf clover.

"Although this birthmark is rare, it is not necessarily unique. If you check it online, you will definitely find that many people have birthmarks of this shape." Lin Cuizhi looked at the birthmark on his hand, Guo Siyi reached out to touch it and shook his head.

"It's definitely available online, but that's not what I'm looking for. I must have sworn in my previous life to find you, and I'm sure it's you." Guo Siyi said angrily. Lin Cuizhi saw that she was still puffed up when she was angry, and she looked like a child who never grew up.

"What you said is so weird. Even if you say that you saw me when you were a child, you had a kind of ignorant feelings, and this feeling gave rise to more and more brilliant reverie in the long days, I can accept it a little." Lin Cuizhi is not a liberal arts student, and the most romantic words he can think of are like this.

"I can say that, but this is not my true thought. I really have been waiting for you for many lifetimes!"

Lin Cuizhi pursed his lips and asked, "Then tell me about the many lifetimes before?"

Chapter 2 Zhuangzi's dream of butterflies

At first I thought I was dreaming.

The first life I remembered was a woman weaving at home. I didn't know what dynasty it was. Later, after I woke up, I looked up the information and concluded that it should be the Southern Tang Dynasty, because I heard the name Fan Zhigu from my brother.

At first I didn't know what my brother and I were called. I only knew that the villagers called my brother Xia Bo and me Qiu Niang. I guess we were born in summer and autumn.

Xia Bo was about four or five years older than me. He went out hunting every day. The money he earned was either to help with the family expenses or to borrow books to read.

I don't know when we lost our parents. I can't dream about things when I was younger. I was already a marriageable age when I first appeared.

We depended on each other and lived a pretty good life.

I heard that the north had been attacking us, and the tax burden was getting higher and higher. I watched Xia Bo go out hunting before dawn every day and come back at sunset. After returning, he had to continue studying. I was very worried.

Fortunately, this day is finally coming to an end. Xia Bo passed the imperial examination and was sent to a place to serve as an official appointed by the court.

The first thing Xia Bo did after returning to the village was to take me to the place where he was working, but on the way to the station, I heard that the Southern Tang surrendered to the Northern Song Dynasty.

Now Xia Bo and I are in a difficult situation. It is not the same dynasty in that place. Who will recognize the officials appointed by the previous dynasty who have not yet taken office?

We all came from the village and have never seen any big scenes. We know that we dare not take the risk to go to the place where we are working after the change of dynasties. Xia Bo decided to see the Northern Song Dynasty's attitude before making plans. If they arrested all the officials of the previous dynasty, he would definitely not fall into the trap.

We happened to come across a village full of refugees who had come here to escape the war. Soldiers had been recruited here before, and there was a plague five years ago. The whole village was empty. In the past one or two years, some homeless people who had no place to retreat moved into this village to live. Fortunately, the plague had passed, and they lived in peace and gradually formed a village of hundreds of families.

We didn't say we were brother and sister for some reason. Xia Bo said that my Qiu Niang was his wife. The village chief saw that we were pitiful and rare young and strong, so he gave us a shabby little house and let us live there.

I asked Xia Bo why he said he was his wife. He closed the doors and windows and said, "If they knew we were brother and sister, there would be two hidden dangers. First, they don't know how to settle us. These houses are all shabby small houses, and there is no separation of two rooms at all. Second, I saw that there are many old bachelors here. If I said I was a sister, I was worried that they would do something bad to you."

Facts proved that Xia Bo was right. Those old men who had never been in contact with women always chatted with me when I went out during the day. I felt disgusted and felt that I was far from the simple villagers in my hometown.

Several times, someone directly touched my arm: "Young lady, why are you so white? Is it because your husband doesn't let you go out?"

Xia Bo heard these news from others after he came back from hunting, and he seemed unhappy.

We even heard someone peeping outside in the middle of the night, and I was so scared that I had to quickly shrink into Xia Bo's room. Of course, he slept on the floor and I slept on the bed.

However, the next day I heard rumors that we slept in separate rooms, Xia Bo was not good, he was a eunuch, and we were fake couples.

One day, after Xia Bo came back, he sat at the dinner table in silence. I asked him what was wrong. He looked at me for a long time before slowly saying, "Let's sleep in the same bed tonight."

I thought I had heard it wrong, and my face flushed. I asked, "Brother, what are you talking about?"

"Qiuniang, I'm really scared. Their desire for you is becoming more and more obvious. If they find out that we sleep in separate rooms, I'm worried that one day when I go out hunting, you will be defiled by these hooligans." Xia Bo's hands held the chopsticks tightly, and the veins on his hands were bulging.

I didn't know why I felt a little happy in my heart after hearing this. I nodded naturally and said nothing.

At night, I came to Xia Bo's door. He was lying on the bed with his back to me. I whispered, "I'm coming in."

He didn't react at all until I took off my shoes and got into bed. He shook a little.

I saw a suspicious shadow outside the window, so I hugged Xia Bo and whispered, "Brother, they are outside."

Xia Bo felt my nervousness, he held my shaking little hand, and finally turned around. We looked at each other and said, "You sleep inside, I'll block you outside."

When he stepped over me and turned around, the back of my hand touched his bulge. I knew that this was a symbol of the difference between men and women, but I had never seen it. I was just taught from childhood that this was the part that could only be seen between husband and wife.

I don't know where I got the courage from, I dared to ask, "Brother, what is the bulge below you?"

Xia Bo blushed when I asked this question, and he said unhappily, "Sleep, don't ask so many questions."

We slept like this for several days, and nothing special happened. We were half a foot apart from each other from beginning to end, and there was no physical contact.

The gossip in the village seemed to be less.

Two months passed like this, and the old women in the village always asked me to boil epimedium. I don't know why they said so, until Xia Bo came back one time and was depressed again.

When I saw his expression, I remembered what happened two months ago, so I asked him, "What happened to my brother?"

"Nothing, don't worry about it, just eat." This time, Xia Bo did not answer my question, but said, "Also, from today on, don't call me brother, call me A Xia."

It was time to sleep again at night. I usually lay on the inside, and Xia Bo lay on the outside with his back to me. I turned around and looked at his back, and the corner of my eyes swept the dark shadows moving outside the window again.

"A Xia, they are here again." I whispered behind him.

Xia Bo did not move, and seemed to have fallen asleep. Anyway, I don't know why these people are wandering outside in the middle of the night. I heard that there are some animals and insects that can be caught and eaten at night.

After a long time, Xia Bo turned around. He probably didn't expect that I, who usually sleep with my back to him, would face him today and still not fall asleep.

Under the moonlight, Xia Bo reached out and touched my face for the first time. He said in a very low voice: "It would be great if Aqiu was not my sister."

After hearing this, my heart was throbbing. I had a lot to say, but I couldn't say it because I didn't have the cultural level. The contradictions and entanglements surged in my heart. After holding it back for a long time, I said the same sentence: "It would be great if Axia was not my brother."

When Xia Bo heard what I said, he looked at my shining eyes and stayed still for a long time. He said: "In this chaotic world, we don't know what will happen tomorrow. Maybe the Song State will be destroyed by the Qi State, Chen State, or Han State. I don't know when I will be pulled into the army and die in obscurity on the battlefield."

"Axia will not die!" I was extremely nervous when I heard the word death, and I trembled all over, as if he would really be caught and sent to fight tomorrow.

"Silly girl, there is no war for now. Li Yu has surrendered. This war cannot be won in a short time."

"But I heard from my grandma in the village that there is a Wuyue Kingdom in the east. If there is a war, will they ask you to go?" I knew there was a country in the east a long time ago, but now that the two things are linked together, it has become a kind of fear.

Xia Bo was silent. She looked at my face that was about to cry and wiped my tears with her fingers: "Let me see the situation in the county. I heard that the Song State accepted all the officials of the Tang State. I plan to try my luck and see if I can take office."

"Well..." I stopped crying and touched his fingers.

"Aqiu, I hate it so much. Why are we brother and sister?" Xia Bo suddenly said.

"Isn't it good that Age is my brother? Doesn't Age want Aqiu?" When I heard such words, I was confused and confused, fearing that Xia Bo would not want me.

"That's not what I meant. I meant that it would be nice if Qiu wasn't my sister but my wife." Xia Bo hesitated for a long time before saying this.

I looked at the occasional flickering shadow outside the window. Hearing this confession, my heart finally encouraged me to say this: "Among the villagers in this village, we are husband and wife."

Hearing this, Xia Bo bit his lower lip, as if he was struggling violently. He shook his head, turned his back to me and said, "Go to sleep."

I don't know what happened to him. I almost didn't sleep that night.

After a few days, Xia Bo decided to go to the county town to see the situation. It takes more than three days to go back and forth from the county town to this small village. He told me to stay at home and not worry too much.

Xia Bo was normal in the first few days after he went out, but he didn't come back on the fourth day. The second-rate people in the village began to touch me and even said, "Qiuniang, did your Xia Bo meet bandits? If you don't come back, come to my house to sleep."

Blatantly.

At this time, I missed Xia Bo very much. I was afraid that he really met bandits as those people said. After all, the dynasty has changed now, and most of them are bandits.

Fortunately, the aunt in the village helped me drive away the second-rate people and comforted me that the mountain road was difficult to walk, and it was normal to walk for one or two days.

I have never tried to leave Xia Bo for so long. Why hasn't Xia Bo come back for seven days?

I have been worried these days. In the past, some people in my hometown went far away and never came back. It was just that someone reported that he died in a foreign land and his body was buried on the spot.

The more I think about it, the more scared I am. I think of what he said to me before going to bed a few days ago, "It would be great if I were his wife."

Yes, if I am not his sister in this life, then we can be together openly for a lifetime. He will eventually marry and have children, and I may also marry someone I don't know.

But why, deep in my heart, there is a feeling of unwillingness?

I have never been to school, so I don't know how to explain this. Xia Bo's words are like a brand in my heart, and I even regret it a little.

If this farewell is the last farewell, then do I need a hug from him?

I like Xia Bo, and it seems that it has surpassed the affection between brothers and sisters. I want to be his wife and be with him for the rest of my life.

I don't want him to marry and have children, and I am willing to be his bride.

Anyway, everyone in this village thinks we are husband and wife.

Who knows us outside our hometown?

I clenched my fists tightly, and my tears were already dripping to the ground. I hate it so much!

I finally understand what Xia Bo meant by "hate" that day!

I hate it too!

But what's the use of hate? Xia Bo is gone, and I don't know where he is now. God has given us the opportunity to be husband and wife in the eyes of others for so long, and I should be satisfied.

I want to be a real husband and wife with Xia Bo!

Maybe in the next life, it's impossible in this life.

"Why are you crying?" Just when I couldn't stop crying, I heard a very familiar voice. I looked up and saw that it was Xia Bo!

"Ah... Xia Bo! You're back!" I stood up and ran towards him crying, hugging him tightly.

"Aqiu, what's wrong with you? Did someone bully you? I'll take care of him!" Xia Bo heard me crying so miserably and thought I was bullied by the villagers.

I shook my head and cried, "Nothing...nothing...I was afraid that you wouldn't...why did you...go for so long?"

Xia Bo hugged me, touched my head as usual and said, "I'm sorry, I should have come back earlier. I went there to inquire and found that there was not much change after Song State took over here, so I walked to the government office with courage. The county magistrate there was a northerner who was sent here on behalf of him. He spent a day checking my identity after knowing that I was about to take office. Then he said that things of the previous dynasty could not be done, but seeing that I was knowledgeable, he reported to the court that I could be the chief clerk in the city, and I agreed."

"Great! Brother is an official!" I shouted happily, and then I realized that I had said the wrong thing: "A Xia is an official!"

"I told the county magistrate that I wanted to go home and pick up... pick up my wife." Xia Bo's words made my heart beat, and I looked up at him in disbelief.

"I've thought about it. No one here knows the true relationship between you and me. When we go to the county town, no one will know us. In this era, it's already a blessing to be alive. I don't want to deceive myself anymore. I like you, Qiu. I not only want you to be my sister, but I also want you to be my wife." Xia Bo hugged me and said what he had been holding in his heart for a long time.

"Brother, me too. Qiu is really scared these days. I'm afraid I won't see you again. I don't want to be just your sister. I want to be your wife." I couldn't help it anymore and cried and said what I felt.

Xia Bo hugged me tightly and we stopped talking.

At night, I went to Xia Bo's room as usual, but this time was different. I was very nervous. The moment he came back, I really wanted to give everything I had. Of course, it was the same now, but I was a little more nervous.

Xia Bo still had his back to me today. I pretended to be calm and got into the bed. As soon as I got in, he turned around.

He was not wearing anything!

I swallowed my saliva all of a sudden. From the village grandma, I learned that couples should do what couples do, which is to put the man's unique thing under the woman.

I felt a pillar between my legs.

I had tried to be touched by this bulge before, but it was not as direct and rough as today. This thing just went straight into my legs.

"I read the books of sages and found that my feelings for you, Aqiu, have long gone beyond brother and sister. I know this is a rebellious thing, but we have been dependent on each other since childhood. In this chaotic world, we are in danger of losing our lives. There may be a war tomorrow, or some bandits may come to the village to slaughter. I don't want to be brother and sister with Aqiu in this life. What I am going to do today will definitely be struck by lightning. I am willing to bear it all by myself, and it has nothing to do with Aqiu." Xia Bo hugged me and said in my ear, as if he was going to make an oath for what was to come.

"I haven't read books, but I also know that this matter is consensual. I don't know any sages' principles, I only know that I love Axia, and these things should not be borne by you alone." I also reached out and hugged him, hugging him as a wife for the first time.

"I hope we are a legitimate husband and wife in the next life." Xia Bo said.

"No need for the next life, we can be husband and wife now!" I argued. I don't understand the big principles, and I don't know if there is a next life. I just want to be with Axia in this life, forever and ever.

Xia Bo didn't say anything. His shaking hands began to untie my clothes. I was shaking all over. All I could do was to lift my body slightly when he took off my clothes.

Soon we were naked and honest with each other.

Xia Bo pressed me under him and kissed me with his lips. My brother and I kissed each other!

I couldn't help but shed tears of joy.

"Aqiu, why are you crying?" Xia Bo found my tears, "Are you unwilling? I... I will leave immediately."

I couldn't help but hook my legs around his body and said, "Axia, I'm not sad, I'm happy. I'm finally Axia's wife."

After hearing this, Xia Bo kissed me gently and then stroked my chest with his hand. It was the first time I was touched here by a man. I felt hot all over and didn't dare to move.

I don't know how long I was touched by Xia Bo. When I reacted, he was already kneeling under me, holding his thing, and said to me: "Aqiu, I love you."

"Axia, I...oh!" Before I answered this sentence, I felt a thick pillar piercing my lower body, and a hot and painful feeling surged into my heart, "It hurts so much!"

Xia Bo immediately stopped the attack. He leaned over and bit my ear and said: "Aqiu, don't cry. I heard from others that women will feel a little pain for the first time, but it will be fine after a while."

Hearing this, I gritted my teeth and nodded, holding back the tearing pain in my lower body, and twitchingly inhaled through my mouth.

Xia Bo pressed my legs and pushed forward again. My pain was even worse, and my body seemed to be torn apart alive.

I have to hold it in!

I kept saying this to myself in my heart.

Gradually, I felt a sour and numb feeling replacing the pain from below. I began to feel Xia Bo's thing going in and out of my lower body. Every time I was penetrated by his thing, I seemed to have a sense of pleasure and fullness spreading throughout my body.

I began to moan uncontrollably. Xia Bo became more excited after hearing my moans, and his lower body movements became more violent.

This violent in and out also made me feel more pleasured. I seemed to be so happy that I flew to the sky. So is the matter between husband and wife so fascinating?

I don't know how long Xia Bo had been twitching on me. I only know that at the end his thing seemed to be shaking regularly under me, and I felt a small stream of heat shooting into my body.

After Xia Bo withdrew from my body, I sat up shyly and saw blood and white turbidity flowing from my lower body. I said in surprise: "I'm having my period!"

Xia Bo touched my head and said: "Silly, this is the blood that flows out of a woman after losing her virginity."

"What are those white things?"

"That's the man's sperm." Xia Bo explained.

"Do I need to wipe my body?"

"Wait until it's all gone, then wash it with water." Xia Bo said dotingly. At this moment, I felt that I was no longer a girl. Xia Bo was my husband, and I wanted to be with him forever.

After my lower body stopped leaking semen, I stood up and prepared to wash it. The moment I got off the ground, my legs became weak. Fortunately, I held on to the edge of the table and didn't fall.

This scared Xia Bo.

I quickly said, "It's okay, it's okay. I feel a little pain down there, but it should be okay."

Xia Bo helped me to the water tank and gently helped me wash my lower body. Looking at him, I felt that nothing in the world was more important than him.

We said goodbye to the people in the village the next day. When they knew that Xia Bo was going to the county town to be the chief clerk, they were all surprised. They didn't expect that the man they had lived with for a while was actually the county magistrate of the previous dynasty and the current chief clerk.

It took us two days to get to the county town. The county magistrate asked the servants to help us arrange a house.

Xia Bo said to me: "You will be my wife from now on, and you can't call yourself Aqiu anymore, lest someone in your hometown recognize you. I've thought about it. You don't go out much at home, so we won't be exposed. I want to give you a new name, okay?"

I blushed and said: "I'll listen to you, my husband."

After saying this, I felt that I was the happiest person.

"The window contains the eternal snow of the Western Hills, and the door is moored with ships from Dongwu. This is a poem by Du Fu in the Tang Dynasty. Can you call me Axue from now on?" Xia Bo said.

"Okay, I will be Axue from now on."

In the simple house, facing the sky and the earth, we formally worshipped each other as husband and wife.

Although Xia Bo was not an official official, he did a good job as a chief clerk. The county changed several county magistrates, and he was still the chief clerk in the county.

"Daddy!" Our child was born in the second year after we settled in the county, and now he is old enough to enter a private school.

Fortunately, after we were incorporated into the Song Dynasty, we were able to live and work in peace and contentment here.

I listened to Xia Bo talking about many troubles at work, but I didn't understand. I could only comfort him, and this comfort was to make love with him at night.

I had gradually forgotten that I was Aqiu and that he was my brother. Now I was just Axue, Xia Bo's wife.

However, we still didn't have a good ending.

More than ten years had passed. The child was already a scholar. He went to Beijing to take the imperial examination. Only Xia Bo, who had begun to have gray hair, and I were left at home.

Someone from my hometown came. We hadn't seen anyone from my hometown for many years. This time, it was a good friend who used to be a good friend. Now he was bent over and looked ten years older than Xia Bo.

Xia Bo received him warmly at home, and I, as his wife, was busy cooking.

When the dish was served, the man saw me and seemed a little puzzled. Xia Bo introduced me and said, "This is my wife Axue."

I politely said hello to him and hurried back to the room.

That look scared me. I was afraid that he would find out that I was Aqiu, but I comforted myself that it had been more than ten years and it was impossible for him to recognize me.

After that person left, I quickly told Xia Bo about my worries. He still touched my head and said, "Silly girl, it's been so many years, you won't recognize me."

"But the way he looked at me just now seemed to recognize me. We were so familiar with each other before." I still said worriedly.

"I just told him that Aqiu has married far away in Jiangning Prefecture. It's okay, don't worry."

But after so many years, how could Xia Bo know what his former good friend had become after life?

Soon after, rumors spread in the county that we were brother and sister. Xia Bo was depressed these days when he came back. Every time I went out, people pointed at me behind my back. Although we pretended to know nothing, we were still called over by the county magistrate.

"Xia Bo, this is your wife, right?" The first time I met the county magistrate was a man a little older than Xia Bo.

Xia Bo said, "That's right, Lord Wu."

"How old are you?"

"Three years younger than me."

"Where are you from?"

"From Xuanzhou."

"Xuanzhou is quite far from here, and you are not from Xuanzhou, so how do you know such a beautiful wife?" The county magistrate's words became sharper and sharper.

"My wife escaped from the disaster, and it was fate that we met."

I saw that Xia Bo's neck seemed to be sweating, and I was about to wipe it off, but I didn't expect the county magistrate to ask me directly, "Madam Lin, Xia Bo said you are from Xuanzhou, can you tell me what is special about Xuanzhou, I have never been there."

I am not from Xuanzhou, but fortunately before I went out, Xia Bo asked me to remember some useful things, including the characteristics of Xuanzhou, "Ah, that, what is it called..." The more nervous I was, the more I forgot what Xia Bo said.

"Sir, that is called..." Xia Bo was about to reply.

"I am asking your wife, don't interrupt!" The county magistrate roared.

This fright made me forget everything clearly. I was shaking all over and couldn't say a word.

"Sir Wu, my wife is very nervous when she meets you for the first time. Why don't I answer for her?" Xia Bo said.

"Where is your sister Qiu?" The county magistrate stopped asking me and asked Xia Bo instead.

"Qiu, she married far away in Jiangning Prefecture. I don't know where she is now."

The county magistrate clapped his hands and said, "What a Xia Bo, you are worthy of being a Jinshi in the previous dynasty. Your lies are really flawless. This time, I can't find any loopholes. It's amazing."

"My lord, I don't know what you are talking about?" Xia Bo said with his head down.

"Someone reported to me that Xia Bo, you disregarded propriety, integrity and shame, and read the books of saints in vain. You actually had an affair with your own sister. It's simply a great offense to the world! Confusion of right and wrong! Absurd! Absurd!" The county magistrate threw a book directly in Xia Bo's face. He sat on the chair out of breath and stopped talking.

"My lord, did you listen to what others said? Don't believe the words of villains." Xia Bo knelt on the ground and begged with his forehead touching the ground.

I also knelt and kowtowed like Xia Bo.

"Forget it, I think this matter is over. You don't need to defend yourself. I have enough evidence to overturn all your arguments. However, since you have worked hard for the local government for so many years and have followed me for many years, there is still some friendship between us. You can resign from the post of chief clerk and return home." The county magistrate suddenly said gently.

"It's unfair, sir! I really don't know what you are talking about!" Xia Bo still denied it, and I kowtowed beside him.

"Enough!" The county magistrate threw the teacup in his hand at Xia Bo. The hot water in the teacup scalded his face red, but Xia Bo remained motionless. "I have given you enough face. What you did will be despised by the world. Now I want to let this matter go for the sake of our friendship. Don't be ungrateful!"

Xia Bo stopped arguing. He knelt down and kowtowed three times to the county magistrate. His forehead was bruised. "Thank you, sir. I will leave with my wife today."

"Let's go. I will pretend I don't know about this." The county magistrate sighed and turned away.

Back home, Xia Bo was silent. He asked me to pack up. Looking at this home where we have lived for more than ten years, I couldn't help crying.

"It's okay, Axue. Let's go back to the small village before. I'll let my brothers and sisters leave a message for Xiaolin. We'll wait for him to pick us up after high school." Xia Bo said with a smile.

I thought he was fine. We returned to the small village where we had taken refuge. The people there had changed. However, since Xia Bo had a position in the county, the small house was still reserved for us. We lied that we wanted to come back to live because we were old, and waited for the children to take the imperial examination.

Unexpectedly, since returning, Xia Bo's health has been getting worse and worse. He was obviously a strong middle-aged man, but he suddenly became hunched. He began to cough and spit blood. No matter what medicine he took, he couldn't get better.

Xia Bo shook his head and said, "Ah... Aqiu..."

This is the first time he called me like this in so many years.

"Aqiu... I can't be saved. This is a heart disease. It can't be cured." Xia Bo said.

"What heart disease? I'll let the doctor help you treat it." I grabbed his arm and said.

"There is no cure, there is no cure in this life. I thought our relationship could be concealed for a lifetime, but I didn't expect it to be discovered by adults. The moment it was exposed, I realized that I couldn't bear such a result at all. Did we make a mistake from the beginning? We should be brother and sister." Xia Bo held my hand with difficulty, and he cried rarely.

"No, we are not wrong!" I seemed to see him leaving me, I held his hand vigorously and said, "It is the right thing for us to be together in this life!"

"I hope I can still be with you in the next life, but we don't have to be brother and sister anymore..." Xia Bo said with a weak breath.

"No, no, we still have a long life in this life, don't say these." I couldn't help it anymore when I heard Xia Bo's words. I burst into tears and knew that he might leave me forever.

"Don't leave me..." I said sobbingly.

"Why don't we make an agreement and leave a mark so that we can find each other in the next life?" Xia Bo said with a smile while panting.

I knew that my fate with him was about to end. I cried and picked up a knife to carve a small four-leaf clover pattern on his left arm.

"I heard a woman in the county say that there are many countries far to the west of our Song State. There is a plant called four-leaf clover in those countries, which is a symbol of good luck."

Looking at the blood on his arm, I didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

"Then what mark should I leave for you? Ah... I know, I'll carve it on your back shoulder, then... in the next life, I will marry you in a formal way, I'll carve a sun and a moon, tomorrow..."

I turned my back to Xia Bo, already crying uncontrollably, even though I felt the stinging pain from the knife carving behind me, it was nothing compared to the pain in my heart, until there was no new stinging feeling behind me, I asked tremblingly: "Xia Bo... ok... ok?"

Looking back, Xia Bo no longer had any breath...

I cried uncontrollably and didn't eat for two whole days. Fortunately, the villagers helped to arrange Xia Bo's funeral, and I gradually recovered.

I saw a round shape on my right shoulder, that was the sun, and the moon next door was not carved well, only half of the moon was shown.

The child passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi. After returning home and knowing the bad news, he mourned for his father for three years, and then took me to work in a distant place. I don't know where that is, and there is no longer him in my world.

In the following hundreds of years, I don’t know how many lives I have lived. I reincarnated with the mark on my back in each life, but most of them never found Xia Bo’s reincarnation. I lived happily in that life, because I had never seen Xia Bo, so I would not remember the things about Xia Bo in my previous life.

I met him in one life, but I was a man in that life, and he was also a man. We recognized each other, but how could two men be together?

How could this be the result after searching for hundreds of years?

In that life, we jumped off a cliff together to commit suicide.

Later, I met him in another life, but at that time I was still a little girl, and he was already gray-haired and dying. It should be the Qing Dynasty. I remember that he had a pigtail.

The moment we met, I remembered the past hundreds of years ago.

You were born before I was born, and I was born when you were old.

We ignored the opposition of the world, and in the year when I came of age, he was about to marry me in a formal matchmaker, but he died on the day of the engagement...

Chapter 3 I only wish your heart is like mine

"That's the whole story."

When Guo Siyi finished telling the whole story, the sun was already quite strong, and the two of them felt warm and restrained. Lin Cuizhi looked at his phone and saw that it was already past 7 o'clock. Many students went to the cafeteria to eat breakfast on campus.

Lin Cuizhi lowered his head and looked at his natural four-leaf clover birthmark, muttering to himself: "This is too magical."

Then he remembered something and asked: "Where is your sun and moon birthmark?"

Guo Siyi shook his head and said: "I don't have it."

This sentence doesn't fit the direction of the story? According to what she said, the content is so rich, how can she not even guarantee the most basic settings?

"So this is a story you made up?" Lin Cuizhi patted Guo Siyi's shoulder and said earnestly, "This should be the birthmark on my arm you saw when you were a child, and you had a rudiment of an event in your dream, and then gradually you made up a complete story in your mind."

"It's not like that!" Unexpectedly, this sentence aroused Guo Siyi's emotions, and she said excitedly, "This is true! I didn't make it up!"

This roar made the passing students look sideways. After Lin Cuizhi smiled and greeted them, they found that there was nothing special, and they returned to normal.

Guo Siyi choked and said, "This is not fake! This is really true!"

"Why are you so sure?" Lin Cuizhi understood that it was not appropriate for a person to easily deny something when he was sure of it. He would contact Guo Siyi every holiday when he went home before, and knew that she was not such a person.

But this year she didn't go home during the holidays, and didn't even contact him. Lin Cuizhi thought she went abroad, but she didn't expect that she was in seclusion to prepare for the college entrance examination.

"I looked up a lot of information this summer and determined the approximate scope. I asked my father to sponsor me 10,000 yuan on the pretext of going on a trip after graduating from the college entrance examination. I went to several places in Huizhou and Suzhou and Hangzhou. My purpose was actually to visit local museums and libraries."

It must be said that Guo Siyi's action is stronger than many people. Once she decides to do something, she will do it. If it were Lin Cuizhi himself, he might not doubt his life because of such a dream.

"Ninglan County." Guo Siyi said three words.

"What?"

"In Ninglan County, Huizhou, I found the county annals of the early Northern Song Dynasty, which contains records of the county magistrate Wu Da."

Lin Cuizhi did not interrupt Guo Siyi. He knew that there must be more than just Wu Da in the county annals. He sat quietly on the chair, watching the people coming and going. For some reason, his heart seemed to be hanging at this moment, a little scared and a little curious.

"Wu Da, the county magistrate, is from Xuzhou and was appointed in the sixth year of Taiping Xingguo... Zhao Ming, the county magistrate, is from Qingzhou and was appointed in the first year of Xianping. Lin Xia, the chief clerk, is from Chizhou and was appointed in the eighth year of Kaibao... He was loyal to his duty and upright... In the third year of Chunhua, he was dismissed because of the unrighteous family style." Guo Siyi struggled to say a few sentences of ancient Chinese, and Lin Cuizhi understood the general meaning.

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