Rebirth: From being expelled from the imperial court to becoming a high-ranking official

"Are you sore all over now?"

Qin Yunhe came back to his senses when he felt someone touching his arm. He then realized it was Chen Er who was talking to him.

Qin Yunhe nodded with a painful expression.

They were going to walk to Lijiaping, and every step he took felt like torture.

From the soles of his feet to his thighs, every inch of muscle seemed to be constantly pierced and violently rubbed by steel needles. He was already walking very slowly, but every step he took still felt like walking in a formation of knives.

In order to match his pace, Chen Er walked with him at the end of the group.

As the day gradually brightened, they were already quite a distance behind the people in front of them.

"So I'm telling you, pounding rice is very hard work. You said you could earn one hundred coins a day, and one ounce of silver after ten days. Not to mention that Mr. Li doesn't have that much rice to pound, even I can't last ten days doing this kind of work, let alone ten days for someone as frail as you."

Qin Yunhe really didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "What do you mean by delicate and weak? Where did you learn this word?"

Chen and his partner are good, but their habit of misusing words is really annoying.

"In the opera, haven't you heard it? 'The Queen is frail and delicate...'" Chen Er said this and sang it with a hint of singing tone.

Qin Yunhe was even more confused and confused: "Didn't you realize who the weak body was referring to?"

"Madam, 'Madam she...', eh?" Chen Er suddenly realized: "Oh - can't this word be used on men? Hahahaha."

Qin Yunhe was so angry that he laughed. Then he smiled foolishly at his own naive thoughts.

Before, I just wanted to make money quickly. When I heard that I could earn 100 coins a day, I naturally thought that I could earn 1 tael of silver in 10 days. But I forgot that earning this money is not a simple calculation, but requires hard work.

"Hey, Awen. Is your family short of money recently? Why do they want you to work?"

Qin's mother always doted on her son. She was reluctant to let him do hard labor like pounding rice for others, even in her own fields. She even redeemed her corvée labor with money.

"It's not that I'm short of money." Qin Yunhe said hesitantly, "I want to give Yuru some money. She's back at her parents' home now, and I'm afraid her sister-in-law will use words to bully her. I want her to have more money so that she can give her sister-in-law some food money on time, and she and Lai Di can live more comfortably."

This was the first thing Qin Yunhe thought of when he saw Yuru after his rebirth, so he was in such urgent need of money. He was so desperate that he was willing to do hard labor.

This was Qin Yunhe's family affair. Chen Er didn't know whether he should ask or not, so he was silent for a while before hesitantly asking, "Didn't you get divorced?"

Yes, when Qin Yunhe was reborn, he and his wife Yu Ru had been divorced for a month.

What was he doing at this time in his previous life?

Oh, he was still sulking, waiting for Yuru to change her mind and burst into tears. Then he could wave his hand to show that he was no longer angry.

Of course, he didn't wait.

What he waited for was the news that came two months later: Yu Ru was going to get engaged.

What was he doing after hearing the news?

He was sulking again. He wanted to find a woman who was prettier, gentler and more virtuous than Yuru, and then get married earlier than her.

How childish and ridiculous!

He clearly regretted it at that time and had many opportunities to make amends.

But he chose to act out of spite.

Later, Yu Ru got married before him because he was ultimately unable to find a "more beautiful, gentle and virtuous woman" to marry before Yu Ru remarried.

In this life, he just wanted to get everything back on track while his regrets could still be redeemed and his regrets could still be made up for.

No one is more beautiful, gentle and virtuous than Yuru.

There was some unmelted snow on the road, which made a crunching sound when stepped on. Qin Yunhe didn't think of how to tell Chen Er, and the only sound between them was the crunching sound.

After a while, Chen Er spoke first: "Awen, Yuru is fine."

"Ok, I know."

The two fell into silence again, leaving only the sound of their feet crunching through the remaining snow.

After walking for more than half an hour, the group finally arrived at Mr. Li's home in Lijiaping.

The so-called Lijiaping is actually the Li family. This village, which is almost as big as their village, belongs to the Li family.

It is said that, not counting servants, there are nearly a hundred people in the Li family alone.

That's why his family needed to hire so many people to help them pound the rice. In addition to the people from Qin Yunhe's village, there were also more than a dozen people from other surrounding villages.

The workers were gathered in the yard outside the village, and a manager and his servants brought in several pots of Hu pancakes and several large buckets of hot egg drop soup.

Yesterday's breakfast was also these. There was plenty of Hu pancakes and egg drop soup, so you could eat as much as you wanted.

Qin Yunhe ate three Hu pancakes and a bowl of egg drop soup, and felt fuller and relieved of the pain in his body. His mother was right. After eating the vegetable dumplings, he was hungry again.

Mr. Li is indeed kind. Not only does he pay a high wage, he also provides good food. No wonder everyone likes to work in his house.

After eating and drinking, everyone started to work again.

Standing on the rice pounding machine, Qin Yunhe held the horizontal bar and pressed the wooden pole down to lift the stone pestle. He waited for the person who cooperated to put the brown rice into the stone mortar before letting it go. After that, he kept repeating the action of pressing down and putting it down.

These two actions involved every inch of his muscles and bones being ravaged repeatedly.

After stepping for a while, Qin Yunhe's movements gradually slowed down.

"You young man, hurry up." The old lady who was helping Qin Yunhe to move the rice shouted in dissatisfaction.

"Hey, here it comes." Qin Yunhe's face turned red with embarrassment after being called like that, and he quickly stepped down with force.

It is not easy to maintain the action of stepping down. The faster you step on it, the faster you put it down.

"Ouch, watch out, you almost hit my hand."

The rice-picking lady started shouting again, and Qin Yunhe became even more embarrassed and apologized repeatedly.

"Okay, okay, you move the rice and I'll step on it for a while."

Qin Yunhe wanted to hold on a little longer, but finally compromised with full of guilt.

Chen Er, who was not far away, saw Qin Yunhe's embarrassment and said, "Auntie, my brother is a scholar, please bear with me."

When she heard that he was a scholar, the old lady's expression suddenly became more respectful, and even changed her way of addressing him: "Young man, you are a scholar, no wonder you look so elegant."

Another villager started to tease, "Auntie, this is our village's child prodigy. He will be the top scorer in the imperial examination in the future."

The rest of the villagers laughed and agreed.

The old lady didn't realize they were teasing her, and she respected Qin Yunhe even more: "It's good to pass the imperial examination. You can become a high-ranking official in the future and no longer have to endure this hardship."

What does hardship matter, Qin Yunhe thought, as long as he doesn’t end up with his family broken up and regrets ruined like in his previous life.

Encourage yourself to continue this battle, and hope that you can catch up in time.

Qin Yunhe's resolve became even stronger.

After two days of hard work, Qin Yunhe felt as if he had been run over by a millstone. The moment he opened the door, he wanted to lie down in the yard.

Mother Qin heard the sound and hurried out. Seeing her son struggling, she said distressedly, "You're back. How are you?"

"Mom, I'm fine. I'm going back to the house first."

Mother Qin held her son's arm and went back to the house. As they walked, she began to scold him distressedly: "You said you were a scholar, the right thing to do is to concentrate on your studies. Why do you have to suffer this?"

Qin Yunhe had a quarrel with his mother yesterday. Today, he didn't want to quarrel again. Mainly because he didn't have the energy to quarrel, so he patiently said: "Mom, I'm just going to work temporarily, not that I won't take the exam. This is not a conflict."

Mother Qin wanted to scold her son a few more times, but suddenly she remembered something else.

"By the way, today the owner of the bookshop in town, Xu, sent someone to bring you a message, asking you to go to him. He seemed to want to copy something."

"Mom, you should have told me earlier," Qin Yunhe couldn't help but howl in pain, "I would have gone there directly and saved myself these few steps."

With that said, he turned around and walked out.

Qin Yunhe was good at writing, and in the past, the town's bookstores occasionally gave him some book copying jobs. After his rebirth, he needed to earn money urgently, so he went to find the bookstore owner.

However, no one wanted to copy the book at that time.

Copying books is always easier than doing hard labor. Some clients just want quick hands and good handwriting, so the reward for copying a book will be relatively generous.

When Qin Yunhe heard that the bookstore was looking for someone to copy books, he was so excited that tears welled up in his eyes. He didn't care whether he was tired or in pain. He just wanted to get to the town quickly so that the boss wouldn't be able to wait and give the book to someone else.

"It's dark now, let's go tomorrow." Qin's mother grabbed her son.

"I have to get up early to go to work tomorrow."

When Qin's mother heard that her son had to go to work tomorrow, her face fell. She waved her hand and slapped her son: "Why are you going? You are not allowed to go!"

Qin Yunhe was already in pain all over, and being slapped by his mother made him feel even more painful. He couldn't help but scream in pain: "Ah! Mommy!!"