webnovelfull Chapter 906 The Scholar Who Abandoned His Husband and Children 16
Chapter 906 The Scholar Who Abandoned His Husband and Children 16
Xiao Yun shook her head, "No rush, let's talk about it tonight. We don't even know where they are in broad daylight."
Jia Duo Bao: "What are you planning to do? Just create the system directly?"
Xiao Yun sat on the bed made up by the robot. "We'll see. If that system doesn't affect this world or my mission, I won't cause trouble. If it does, I'll find out who it is."
Jia Duo Bao rolled his eyes. "Isn't that obvious? Any system has a purpose. The host they chose is a princess. Whether it's a strategy or a counterattack, it's all aimed at the royal family. How could it not affect you? Just say you've found it."
Xiao Yun ignored it, had the robot wipe the table clean, and waved to set out a table full of food, all of which were her favorite dishes.
There was nothing in the kitchen when she first moved in, so she had to eat what was in her spatial storage for now. She hadn't had a proper meal since she transmigrated.
While eating, he extended his divine sense, covering the entire Jidi Hutong within its range.
This alley is only a little over 200 meters long, but there are more than 60 courtyards on both sides. Most of them are small courtyards, and they are built quite neatly, so it seems that they were indeed planned in a unified manner.
In comparison, the place Xiao Yun rented was mediocre, with three main rooms, two side rooms, a livestock shed, and a firewood shed.
The other courtyards, even the larger ones, only had six or seven rooms, which were prepared for people to share a room. After all, they were rented to candidates who came to take the imperial examinations, and it was impossible for them to come with their whole families.
Instead, there were more houses with two main rooms, and the courtyards were so small that even a carriage couldn't fit in; they could only be used to store miscellaneous items.
The housekeeping robot is really capable. In less than an hour, it cleaned up the whole yard, removing a lot of old garbage, and even found a few copper coins and a jade pendant.
The housekeeping robot had cleaned them before bringing them over. Xiao Yun took them and looked at them, then asked where they had been found. These copper coins must have been dropped into the crack by the previous tenant. The pendant was just a decoration on the clothes; it wasn't very valuable.
Let it put its things aside, and then go outside to buy firewood, rice, oil, and salt. Since it has moved in, it can't just stay idle forever.
That night, she went to the brokerage firm and the government office to manipulate things and solidify the name Jiang Zhi, thus avoiding future trouble.
The household registration system in ancient times was not as comprehensive as it is today. It was all handwritten, so she could just fill it in and imitate the handwriting without any problem.
As for the contents of the letter she wrote to her husband, it was just as she had planned: she was injured and might miss the imperial examination this year, but she didn't plan to go back and would simply stay in the capital and try again next year.
But she also knew that the family's money was definitely not enough, and she didn't want to take money from those merchants and gentry, as she would have to repay those favors later. She had just borrowed some money from the clan, and if it was inconvenient for the clan to lend, she could mortgage the land so that he could bring his son with him. It was inconvenient for her to have no one to take care of her.
Of course, she described the injury as quite serious, saying that she would try again next year, and that there was a possibility of being left with a disability and no further treatment. This was for the clan to see, and if the clan saw this, they would very likely have the idea of giving up on her.
At least those families with scholars who had passed the imperial examinations would have this idea, since the clan's resources were limited and they definitely wanted to keep some for themselves.
If she's just injured, it'll be fine once she recovers. Even if she doesn't pass the imperial examination, she can still become an official with the title of a provincial graduate.
But if she were left disabled, then all hope would be lost, and she would have no chance to take the imperial examinations. She wanted to create this misunderstanding within the clan so that she could find an opportunity to sever ties with them. If all else failed, she would pretend to be "disabled" for a period of time.
That evening, Xiao Yun applied an invisibility talisman and went to the yamen (government office). However, she encountered a problem outside the yamen wall. Her body had not yet learned martial arts and could not cultivate, so even climbing over the wall was a problem.
After thinking for a moment, he decided to use the Sky-Covering Mirror to conceal the information while using his divine sense to find the documents related to household registration, store them in his spatial storage, and then operate them within the spatial storage.
She searched through the older records and found a family surnamed Jiang. The parents had passed away, leaving behind only a daughter named Jiang Yue. She had been married for only a year when her husband died, and she never remarried. She died of illness half a month ago, which meant that her household registration was cancelled.
Xiao Yun took an old-fashioned piece of paper, copied all the names on this page onto it, and then added "Jiang Zhi" after Jiang Yue's name, along with information about her own servitude.
Then he used his divine sense to alter the records of the brokerage firm, creating a death pact for Jiang Zhi so that she could follow him from now on.
It's uncertain whether the two servants from the original owner's family are reliable. After all, the original owner hasn't seen them since becoming a soul. If they were killed, they could still be considered loyal servants. But if they betrayed the original owner and joined another clan, or took advantage of the original owner's husband being imprisoned to retrieve the indenture and run away, then they are not trustworthy.