Lin Xi hung up the towel and happened to see this message. Just as she was about to say something, Ah Huahua replied.
[Ah Huahua from the Primitive World: I'm here, big sister. Did you travel to a palace intrigue world? Everyone in our group are time - travelers. I traveled to the primitive society. Bingbing traveled to the domineering CEO world, but she has already broken through the barriers of that world.]
[Lin Duxi is in the post - apocalyptic wasteland, Qian Lan is in the 1960s. Huanhuan is in the ancient times, just like you.]
Ah Huahua was in the primitive society, where there were many dangers. But compared to her life in the modern world, she felt more relaxed in the primitive society. With Ah Shuishui's company, she had integrated into the primitive society.
During this period, her relationship with the original owner's parents had slightly improved, which made Ah Huahua extremely satisfied. She thought it wouldn't be bad to live like this.
In the modern world, her biological parents and younger brother didn't care about her. She worked herself to the bone outside, and most of her money was used to pay off the so - called debt of upbringing. She was also tired in the primitive society, but at least she didn't have to be bullied like in the modern society. She felt that her spirit could be fulfilled here.
Ming Shu had returned to her palace at this moment. Her personal maid, not at ease with her, was lying in the outer room. She sat on the Qian - gong Ba - bu Bed carved by hundreds of craftsmen over a month, stroking her bracelet and chatting.
[Imperial Concubine Ming from the Palace Intrigue World: Yes, I traveled to the palace intrigue world.] It had been many years since Ming Shu last referred to herself as "I".
Following Ah Huahua's words, her eyes scanned the group members on the side one by one. As someone who had survived until the end in the palace intrigue world, Ming Shu wasn't a fool. Almost at first sight, she noticed the distinctive name.
[Imperial Concubine Ming from the Palace Intrigue World: @Lin Xi, the Earth Girl. Are you on Earth? What year is it now?]
As she asked the question, her hands were trembling.
[Lin Xi, the Earth Girl: It's December 9th, 2020.]
[Imperial Concubine Ming from the Palace Intrigue World: It's only 2020. That's great, really great.]
Just as Ming Shu finished saying this, the voice of Qingxiang came from outside. She quickly said in the group, [Imperial Concubine Ming from the Palace Intrigue World: The emperor is coming. Let's talk later.]
Just as this message was sent, a man in his mid - thirties strode in from outside. His voice came before he did: "Jiaojiao, I'm here. Are you asleep?"
Ming Shu wiped her face and lifted the curtain of the Ba - bu Bed: "Not yet. Why did Third Brother come here at this time?"
In the empty palace, Ming Shu heard her own voice, so sweet and gentle. She had been deeply influenced by this palace intrigue world and seemed to have forgotten how a normal modern girl should speak.
When untying the emperor's belt, Ming Shu couldn't help but recall the time when she first traveled here. At that time, she was lively and had her own personality. But for the sake of survival, she had turned herself into such a person.
Lowering her eyes, Ming Shu concealed the sadness in her eyes.
The group was silent for a while. Ming Shu had vividly shown the cruelty of the palace intrigue world with just one sentence.
Everyone couldn't help but think of those palace intrigue dramas. In the dramas, people, for the sake of their families, interests, and themselves, had forced themselves to become someone else.
Xu Huanhuan, who didn't want to share her husband with others, couldn't help but recall that tangled period. A sense of suffocation welled up in her heart again. She thought that she had felt so uncomfortable just thinking about sharing her husband with other women. What about Ming Shu?
Having fought her way to become the current Imperial Concubine Ming, what kind of mood did she have, and with what kind of feelings did she serve such a man?
A wave of pity welled up in her heart. Xu Huanhuan @'d Ming Shu in the group [@Imperial Concubine Ming from the Palace Intrigue World: I'm also in the ancient times, but the plane I'm in is a bit like the ancient world in martial arts novels. If you need anything, tell me.]
[Lin Duxi from the Post - Apocalyptic Wasteland: I can provide large - scale lethal weapons. If you need them, you can even blow up the entire palace.]
[Ah Huahua from the Primitive World: I have plants that can emit special abilities and all kinds of very beautiful gemstones here.]
[Ye Bingbing, the Evil Female Supporting Character from the Domineering CEO World: It seems I don't have anything to offer here, but whether it's supplies or things, I can arrange them.]
[Lin Xi, the Earth Girl: I can be responsible for the transfer of all items.]
Ming Shu didn't reply all the time, and everyone knew what she was doing. The group gradually fell silent.
Lin Xi packed up her things and went into the room. Chi Xiangping next door had already gone to sleep. Lin Xi took out her computer and searched for a TV series to watch.
It wasn't until after twelve o'clock that Lin Xi finally waited for Ming Shu's reply in the group.
[Imperial Concubine Ming from the Palace Intrigue World: Can this name be changed? I feel so suffocated when I see this name.]
How could she not be suffocated? The words "Imperial Concubine Ming" seemed to hang there, blatantly reminding Ming Shu of all her experiences over the years.
Ah Huahua from the primitive world and Xu Huanhuan from the ancient world had already gone to rest. Lin Duxi had just come out of the military - built hospital. Seeing this, she replied: [Lin Duxi from the Post - Apocalyptic Wasteland: Ours can't be changed. Try to see if you can change yours.]
Ming Shu groped around and found a button to modify the nickname. She changed the words "Imperial Concubine Ming" to Ming Shu. When she pressed the confirm button to modify, a prompt popped up: [System Prompt: It is detected that the world where group member Imperial Concubine Ming from the Palace Intrigue World is located is relatively special. The nickname can be modified once. Do you confirm the modification? Note: Group members only have one chance to modify their nicknames.]
Looking at the words "Ming Shu from the Palace Intrigue World", Ming Shu suddenly wanted to laugh. And she really did. She pressed the confirm button, and at that moment, tears welled up in Ming Shu's eyes and streamed down her face.
She hadn't shed tears for many years. The last time she cried was the day when Ah Xiu, her maid who was like a sister to her, was beaten to death by Consort Xian to protect her.
She returned to the chat group and liked and replied to the messages saying they would offer her help one by one. Ming Shu hadn't spoken to others in such a solemn tone for many years.
After she finished replying, Lin Xi typed in the group: [@Ming Shu from the Palace Intrigue World: I'm currently in the Earth plane, in Yunnan Province. Is there anything you need me to do?]
Ming Shu sat inside the Ba - bu Bed, staring blankly at the purple curtain. Did she have something she wanted to do? Did she have something she particularly wanted to know? After a long time, she replied: [Ming Shu from the Palace Intrigue World: Yes.]
Ming Shu listened to the sound of the courtyard door being locked outside. Presumably, the emperor had left. Ming Shu didn't care about him.
When they were all still young, the emperor would stay in her palace all night. But now, the emperor rarely spends the night here. Every time he comes, he just does his business and leaves right after.
However, since the other women in the palace can't even see the emperor's face, and having sex with the emperor is a once - in - a - month thing for them, she, who can sleep with the emperor every now and then, has become the so - called "favored one".
In the imperial court and the harem, there are countless people stabbing little dolls with her name on them. Ming Shu thinks those people are really narrow - minded. Where does the emperor's heart lie in the harem? Oh, perhaps it can't be said like this. Maybe his heart was once in the harem.
[Harem Scheming Ming Shu: @Earth Girl Lin Xi, I want to know my current situation in the real world.]
When Ming Shu first traveled through time, she used to wonder why she had traveled through while lying awake at night. Later, as the time of traveling through became longer and the memories of the past were too painful, she gradually lost the memories of her previous life. Those problems that had troubled her for a long time also seemed to disappear with her forgetting.
But now that it's mentioned, she realizes that she has always wanted to know. Just like now, the things before traveling through appear in her mind one by one, as clear as watching a movie.
[Harem Scheming Ming Shu: I was a senior student at the Dance Academy in Dian Province. When I was about to graduate from college, a director came to our university to recruit actors for a play. I was good at my major and capable, so our teacher recommended me.]
[I participated in the performance of an ancient drama and played the third female lead. Before the TV series was broadcast, I signed a contract with an agency. The contract was checked by the legal advisor in the school and confirmed to be okay before I signed it.]
[After that, I went to Kun City. The company treated us well. They didn't let us run around for various announcements immediately but found teachers to teach us acting skills and postures.]
Even now when she thinks about the past, Ming Shu still thinks her company was great. She continues, [In the second half of 2013, I took on a script, still an ancient - costumed drama. After confirming the remuneration, we went to Wufeng Town, Kaiyuan City, Dian Province to shoot it.]
[I remember the shooting went quite smoothly. But that night, I just remember that I went back to my room, drank a bottle of mineral water and then fell asleep. When I woke up, I had traveled through to ancient times.]
[Now so many years have passed. More than seven years have passed in the real world, and I've spent fifteen years in this world. I just want to know if I'm dead or alive. If I'm dead, what's the cause?]
After Ming Shu finished speaking, she @'d Lin Duxi: [Do you know what happened after you traveled through?]
[Are your bodies still alive?] Ming Shu's hands were trembling when she typed this line.
She was from a single - parent family. Her father was a scoundrel. When she was young, he had affairs outside. Her mother was a person who couldn't tolerate any sand in her eyes. After discovering it once, she divorced directly.
After the divorce, she raised Ming Shu alone. Ming Shu took her mother's surname, and on her father's side, her name was Gu Xidi.
Ming Shu didn't dare to think about how her mother would live if she was dead.
Lin Duxi's reply came a bit slowly: [Wasteland Apocalypse Lin Duxi: We all traveled through after we died.]
It was a bit difficult for Lin Duxi to type this "we".
At this time, Lin Xi opened the browser on her computer and searched for Ming Shu's name. The first video that popped up was a haggard and thin woman looking for her daughter all over the streets.
Lin Xi's hands were trembling. She didn't dare to tell Ming Shu about this.
Even though Ming Shu had already expected this situation, she still found it hard to accept. At this moment, she really wanted to smoke a cigarette, but unfortunately, she didn't know how.
Lin Xi sent a message in the group: [@Harem Scheming Ming Shu, send me your address. I'll go and have a look for you.]
There was Ming Shu's address in the video on the browser. Her home was in the city next to Lin Xi's. It only took more than half an hour by high - speed rail and an hour by car. But Lin Xi needed to confirm it.
Ming Shu took a deep breath and typed out the address that she had memorized by heart and never forgotten for many years: [Okay, thank you.] After sending this message, a pop - up window appeared.
[System message. Does the group member want to issue the 'Go Home and Have a Look' task to Earth Girl Lin Xi? The task reward___.]
Ming Shu was stunned for a moment, then got out of bed and walked barefoot towards the study opposite the canopy bed.
In these fifteen years, she has a lot of property. In the years when she was most favored by the emperor, she got a lot of benefits. But when she thought about it carefully, there were very few things truly belonging to her.
Issuing this task means so much to her that she doesn't want to taint it with those things at all.
But it doesn't matter. This world is still related to the Earth, except that history took a turn during the Sui Dynasty.
She took out a brocade box from the top of the antique shelf and wrote "Wang Xizhi - Lanting Xu" in the blank space of the task - issuing line.
The moment she finished writing, the group task was updated in the group. Lin Xi was stunned when she saw the Lanting Xu.
Who doesn't know the Lanting Xu? Jay Chou even has a song specifically about it. And in the eyes of domestic calligraphers, the value of the Lanting Xu is immeasurable.
Back then, when Lin Xi listened to the song about the Lanting Xu, she specifically searched for it. The whereabouts of the real Lanting Xu are still undetermined. If the one Ming Shu sent over is the real one, Lin Xi can't even believe how valuable it is.
She almost clicked to accept the task with trembling hands. She would receive the reward after the task was completed, but at this moment, Lin Xi was extremely excited.
She also specifically asked Ming Shu in the group. Ming Shu said: [The history of this world took a turn during the Sui Dynasty. Now, six hundred years have passed since the Sui Dynasty, and the emperors have changed, but they still have the surname Yang.]
[This collection of the Lanting Xu was my dowry. Originally, I planned to keep this book, but now I think it's better to give it to you. At least it can let our later generations witness the beauty of the world's first running - script calligraphy.]
Ming Shu likes calligraphy and practices running script. She has never given this Lanting Xu even to the emperor.
Now that she gives it to Lin Xi, she doesn't feel the slightest bit of regret. After all, the current emperor is a collector and a bit possessive. If she gave this book to the emperor, or if something happened to her in the future, this book would definitely not stay with her.
And if the emperor takes these books, they will surely be buried with him after his death. Instead of letting this cultural treasure of China be gnawed by snakes and insects underground, it's better to give it directly to Lin Xi. At least it can be passed down to later generations.
Lin Xi's heart was pounding. She immediately searched for the address and phone number of the museum in Yunnan Province.
She thought she was unworthy of possessing such a treasure. Only the country was fit to own it!
That night, both Lin Xi and Lin Duxi were extremely excited. Ye Bingbing came up twice in the middle of the night. After learning that Lin Xi was about to own the "Lanting Xu", she was very envious. There was no genuine copy of the "Lanting Xu" in the plane she came from.
But then she thought that she also came from Lin Xi's plane, and she immediately felt happy.
It was not until the rooster crowed that Lin Xi finally fell asleep. It seemed that she had hardly slept when she was woken up by the sound of Chi Xiangping crushing pigweed outside. She got up, washed her face, had breakfast, and then rode the tricycle she bought yesterday and went out.
On the way, she met many villagers. When they learned that she was going to the city to look for a job, they all praised her for being diligent.
Lin Xi had thought it over carefully. It wouldn't work to stay at home all the time. Not to mention that the old people in the village would start to dislike their own children after three days. Since she had a chat group, maybe she would travel far and wide in the future. It would be too conspicuous to go out of the village every day.
The villagers were simple and honest, but sometimes their gossiping was really unbearable.
Lin Xi first went to the wholesale market and ordered three or four tons of rice, flour, cooking oil, and water. She also ordered a lot of daily necessities according to the list Lin Duxi made. This batch of daily necessities was quite miscellaneous, even including flower mud for planting flowers.
On the way from the wholesale market to the warehouse, Lin Xi took a completely different street from yesterday and bought out all the pharmacies.
As soon as she opened the door of the warehouse, the delivery trucks of rice and flour arrived. In the next two hours, there were always people in Lin Xi's warehouse. After unloading the goods, Lin Xi rented a truck as she did in Beijing and then asked someone to fill the truck again.
She loaded the rice, flour, cooking oil, and water first, which filled a small truck to the brim. Lin Xi took out her phone to navigate to Ming Shu's address and drove along the small path towards there.
When she reached a place where there were no people and no surveillance cameras, Lin Xi got out of the car and patted the carriage. A box of goods disappeared into thin air, and the tire tracks became shallower.
Ming Shu's home was in Mengshi, where the scenery was exceptionally beautiful and the temperature was hotter than that in Pingyuan City. Lin Xi was not good at driving and took a small path, so it took her nearly an hour to reach Mengshi.
She found a parking lot to park the car and then took a taxi to Ming Shu's community.
As soon as she got out of the taxi, she saw a large missing - person notice posted at the community entrance. At the top was a photo of Ming Shu.
In the photo, she was wearing a white shirt and had her hair tied up in a high ponytail. It seemed that she was facing the sun, with one hand blocking her forehead and looking straight ahead. There was a slight smile on her face, and there was a shallow dimple on her right cheek.
She was very beautiful. Although she was smiling, she gave people the impression of a cold and elegant young woman. Below her photo were her height, weight, physical characteristics, the contact information if there were any leads, and the reward amount.
A reward of 400,000 yuan would be given for any leads.
Maybe Lin Xi had stood in front of the missing - person notice for a long time. An old woman walked up to her and asked, "Girl, do you know the person in the missing - person notice?"
Lin Xi turned her head and replied vaguely, "I seem to have seen her on TV."
The old woman's expectant look immediately faded, but she still couldn't help saying to Lin Xi, "Girl, remember the phone number. If you have any leads, be sure to call her mother."
Actually, the old woman didn't hold any hope. It had been almost eight years. If the girl was still alive, she would have come back long ago. Since there was still no news, she must be dead. But Ming Li only had Ming Shu as her child. She couldn't give up, and she didn't dare to give up.
All her hopes were pinned on that one - in - a - million chance.
It seemed that the old woman had said this sentence many times over the years. Although she always told herself not to say it anymore, every time she saw a strange face stop in front of the missing - person notice, she would still go up and say something.
She did it not for anything else, but for that mother's love and that one - in - a - million chance.
"Her mother is on the verge of collapse," the old woman sighed and walked away with her vegetable basket on her arm.
