Chapter 1820
The Orphan of Zhao 1
Liu Tong was depressed; he had become a woman once again.
This time, Liu Dong was only ten years old when she regained her memories.
He was greatly traumatized.
The father actually sent his own daughter and son to their deaths.
To be fair, this biological father wasn't a bad person; in fact, many people praised him as a righteous and heroic figure.
But this man was using his own child to fulfill his sense of loyalty.
Bai Yanlang is the chief镖头 (bodyguard/escort) of Fuyuan镖局 (escort agency). He is second-rate in martial arts, but first-rate in connections, having connections in both the martial arts world and the officialdom.
This time, Bai Yanlang's friend, the Marquis of Zhenyuan in the imperial court, was executed and his family members were also to be beheaded.
Bai Yanlang, as Zhenyuan Hou's good brother, was unable to save Zhenyuan Hou's life, so he thought of helping his brother preserve a bloodline.
Coincidentally, Bai Yanlang's eldest son was about the same age as Zhenyuan Marquis's youngest son, so he wanted to exchange his eldest son, Bai Jiazhi, for Zhenyuan Marquis's youngest son.
Liu Tong didn't want her younger brother to go to his death, so she tried to escape with him, but Bai Yanlang caught her and brought her back.
Bai Yanlang simply sent Liu Qiu to prison as well, and replaced her with the daughter of the Marquis of Zhenyuan.
To prevent Liu Tong from making a scene and exposing his act of switching people, Bai Yanlang fed Liu Tong a drug that made her mute, damaging her voice.
Liu Dong was deeply shocked, which caused her to regain her memory.
Liu Tong seized the time to cultivate, and on the night before his execution, he escaped from prison with his younger brother.
As for how the jailer will treat the Zhenyuan Marquis's family after discovering the two children are missing, Liu Dong has no say in that.
Whether the authorities would follow the clues to find Bai Yanlang and arrest the Bai family as accomplices of the Marquis of Zhenyuan, Liu Dong didn't care.
When Bai Yanlang personally sent him and his brother to prison, their karmic ties with Bai Yanlang were severed.
Liu Dong took her younger brother and left the capital, heading south to Jiangnan.
Along the way, Liu Dong continuously enhanced her strength.
Even though he's still a child, he doesn't dare to bully them anymore.
Anyone who dared to bully them was crippled by Liu Dong with severe methods.
He frightened many people, thus earning the nickname "Five Poisons Child".
Well, after all, starting cultivation again requires time to accumulate true qi.
Since Liu Dong's internal strength was insufficient, he could only increase his power through other methods.
Liu Dong practiced Wang Nangu's poison manual, and would throw poison at those she couldn't defeat.
In addition, he was very young, so he was given the title of "Five Poisons Child".
Liu Dong taught her younger brother martial arts. Now that Bai Jiazhi is another child's name, Liu Dong gave her younger brother a different name.
Since their biological mother's surname was Liu, he renamed his younger brother Liu Qi.
The journey south was fraught with peril. Several places outside the capital were suffering from drought, forcing people to flee their homes and resort to cannibalism to survive.
Liu Tong's two children were coveted by many disaster victims who wanted to stew them for meat.
For people like that, Liu Dong would simply send them on their way with a handful of poison.
Don't blame him for killing ordinary people.
In Liu Dong's eyes, these people were not even human.
Those who eat people are beasts.
Liu Dong didn't care about how others perceived him; he killed someone in full view of everyone, which intimidated the refugees.
No one dared to make a move on the two of them anymore.
When Liu Dong woke up that day, she noticed that her younger brother's eyes had changed.
Those weren't the clear, innocent eyes of a child, but the eyes of an adult, the eyes of someone who had experienced much.
Liu Qiu: ?? My younger brother has been transported to another world? Liu Qiu: "Who are you?"
She didn't know if her younger brother's soul was still inside her body, or if she could take back the body.
If the relationship is no longer there, he has to consider whether or not to break up with that person.
If the time traveler is of good character, he can keep the person by his side.
But if it's someone with a strong opinion, he'll just leave.
It seems that time travelers have a special aura that prevents them from dying easily.
The child said, "Sister, I'm your little brother."
Liu Tong sneered: "My brother is an innocent child, not an old monster like you."
The child said, "Sister, I really am your brother, but somehow I've gone back to when I was a child..."
Liu Qiu exclaimed in surprise: "Reborn?"
The child told Liu Dong about his past life.
In her previous life, the child's older sister did not have Liu Qiu's abilities and was unable to escape from prison with the child.
Later, the child's older sister died, and the child, because of his young age, escaped death.
He was wandering when he was found by a girl surnamed Gao, who took him in.
The girl was the same age as the child's older sister, so the child regarded the girl surnamed Gao as his own older sister.
Later, the girl surnamed Gao picked up three boys and took them with her. The child felt that her sister had been taken away and was very hostile to the three boys.
Even though they rejected each other, they still supported each other as they grew up.
All five of them learned martial arts.
A girl surnamed Gao established an assassin organization, and four boys were the mainstays of this organization, helping her kill and make money.
Later, they took on a job to kill a person who held a high position in the underworld.
Such people are naturally not easy to kill. Of the four assassins, one died, and another fell in love with the target's daughter and left the assassin organization.
Both of them turned their backs on the girl surnamed Gao.
The boy relentlessly pursued a girl surnamed Gao, and for her sake, he resorted to any means necessary to kill. As a result, he was caught by people close to his target and subjected to various forms of humiliation, leaving him completely ruined.
The girl surnamed Gao discarded him like trash.
The child died with resentment and bitterness, but when he opened his eyes again, he found himself back in his childhood.
His biological sister survived this time and even gained the ability to poison people using martial arts, which helped him escape.
The child asked, "Sister, were you also reborn?"
Liu Tong: "No, I just had another extraordinary encounter."
The child: "??"
Liu Qiu didn't mention that she also had memories of her past life, but instead lied and said, "Our biological mother was actually a Miao woman, you know that, right?"
The child nodded.
His mother was brought back from the Miao region by his father. She had no maternal family, which is why she was often bullied by the concubines in the family.
Liu Tong: "I found a poison manual and a set of martial arts secrets among my mother's belongings. That's when I learned that our mother was originally a member of the Five Poisons Sect. However, due to internal strife within the sect, she was injured and her martial arts were crippled, so she left Miao territory and came to the Central Plains with my father."
Liu Tong: "I secretly learned my mother's martial arts and poison techniques from my father, so that I could escape from prison with you."
Child: "So that's how it is."
It seems that his sister didn't discover those secret manuals in his past life, which is why she was unable to escape from prison.
I wonder who ended up getting the two secret manuals?
They were either from the Zhenyuan Marquis's mansion or his father's illegitimate sons and daughters.
Oh, by the way, his father has already elevated his concubine to the status of legitimate wife; those two are now his legitimate sons and daughters. (End of Chapter)