Minister Family's Black Belly Woman Chapter 2

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Chapter Two

In the middle of the valley, a girl seemingly twelve to thirteen years old slowly opened her eyes. Her skin was rough and black, the strands of her hair was in disorder, her cheeks carried subtle scratches, only her pair of eyes were particularly black and translucent, carrying a bright light, letting people hard to forget once seen.

The crisp sounds of birds traveled into the ear, accompanied by the smell of the green gra.s.s that fluttered lightly to the nose.

Chen Ninghua came back to reality violently and subconsciously looked at the surrounding, in front of her was a plain of green and lush vegetation. Not far was a carriage that was overturned to the ground and the horse that pulled the carriage was already dead, even the body of the carriage broken without repair, the mess was scattered at the side.

How can this be? Did she not die already? Why did she end up here in the blink of an eye? Her head was a.s.saulted with bursts of stabbing pain, Chen Ninghua chirped and after a moment, she laughed with a low voice: "Hehe, looks like the heaven still has eyes, unexpectedly giving me a chance to go back to nineteen years ago."

Her mother died because she had a difficult process of birthing her. Once a hundred days pa.s.sed, her father Chen Dong re-married to Zhao family's daughter Zhao Rongxiang and in only six months after, Zhao Rongxiang gave birth to a pair of dragon phoenix twin who were Chen Linghan and Chen Xuanye.

While she was born with black skin, when her father Chen Dong saw her for the first time, he almost threw her onto the ground, frankly speaking that she was not Chen family's flesh and blood and adding on her stepmother who never liked her, even though she was Chen family's di daughter, she was treated worse than the servants.

Thinking back, on one side was someone who brought auspicious dragon phoenix twin, on the other side was a motherless girl with plainly ugly appearance, Chen Dong's heart would lean on Chen Linghan and Chen Xuanye was not a strange matter at all.

Thirteen year old this year, she accidentally saw a maidservant put something inside her meal and felt that the situation was unfavorably dangerous then she asked to recuperate at a village on her own, but she did not thought that on the road, the horse would receive shock and directly rushed down to the cliff. It was also because she was fortunate that she only sprained her leg falling down from such a high place while the maidservants who accompanied her together to recuperate on other village was not so lucky, they had lost their lives early on.

Checking herself in a simple way, Chen Ninghua did not stop for long. She picked up the clothes and bundles filled with silvers from the ground the leaned on a stick to walk north ways.

Walking for around an hour, she felt her ankle hurt so much that she almost could not bear it and walked to the side of a creek to rest for a while. In her past life, she alone walked around for one day one night until she finally walked out the mountain valley, her ankle became infected with an old injury. A girl with ugly appearance as well as a disability was Shen family's big stain. When she came back to the Shen family, she became even more disliked. No matter how intelligent she was, she would only be a laughing stock.

Crouching down her body and washing her face clean with the water from the creek, Chen Ninghua slightly smiled. The feeling of rebirthing from death was really good.

"Huala!"

A bloodstained hand stretched out violently from the bushes right in front of the creek and fell into the water with a 'huala' sound, the bloodstain immediately diffused in the water and washed downwards by the water from the creek. Chen Ninghua was shocked that her whole body trembled then shouted with a low voice:

"Who?"

Even though the creek was not wide but the vegetations on both sides of the creek were about half a man high, growing exceptionally lush. When Chen Ninghua came, she did not realize one bit that there was someone hidden on the bushes opposite of her.

Pa.s.sing quite a while, a burst of suppressed cough sounded, the bushes rustled and moved. A man came out of the bushes with great difficulty and directly stumbled into the creek water.

Chen Ninghua gripped the wooden stick in her hand and stepped back two steps, her brows tightening: "Who are you?"

"Ke Ke…..a man who met hardship." The man raised his head, a pair of with no trace of worry evaluated Cehn Ninghua over and only then did his tighten body loosen up, "You this girl grew up with peculiar appearance but in this barren hills, you suddenly show up alone and let people surprised. You are not this wild mountain's weird fiend, are you?"

The creek water washed off the blood on the man's face. Chen Ninghua realized that the man before her was very much handsome like crown jade, even with the whole body covered in blood and his stature in an awkward position, it could not conceal the air of high dignity. This person must be rich and distinguished; the person able to wound him to this extent was not someone she could offend right now. It was best to leave as fast as possible to escape danger.

"I'm just pa.s.sing by." Chen Ninghua finished speaking and stepped back two steps then turned her body to leave.

"You….. actually ready to see a dying man yet not save?" Seeing Chen Ninghua had risen up and walked away four to five steps, seemingly not intending to save him, Chu Junyi immediately spoke up again, "Have you heard of the capital's Xiao family?"

Hearing this, Chen Ninghua turned her head and her heart was considerably surprised, but it did not show on her facial expression: "You are a member of the Xiao family?"

"Xiao Jingran is my foster father."

Pondering slightly, Chen Ninghua looked up and asked: "Do you have any proof?"

Chu Junyi raised his eyebrow. The girl before him knew the Xiao family but did not rush up to any cunning tricks at all. If it was the heirs of prestigious families had this kind of bearing, then it was normal, but she, this little girl, was actually also that indifferent. His heart could not help but be surprised: "This piece of jade is Xiao family's keepsake. You save my life, I will definitely pay back."

Looking briefly at the shape of the jade, Chen Ninghua's heard slightly moved. This jade was indeed the Xaio family's keepsake and only the Xiao family's direct descendants could have this to confirm their ident.i.ty. The person in front of her who claimed himself to be Xiao family's foster son must be one of the capital's famous 'Dual Absolute gongzi''s Chu Junyi.

"I do not how much silvers do Chu gongzi's life worth for?"

She actually knew who he was!

"You obviously know my ident.i.ty but only ask for money?" Chu Junyi was astonished. The act of saving a life generally could be exchanged for a greater many things but she actually wanted silvers.

Chen Ninghua's eyes flashed with ridicule: "Does Chu gongzi hopes that I ask for something else? That is also possible. How about you say what things can you give me?"

Chu Junyi choked and evaluated Chen Ninghua up and down then smiled and said: "There is no need to be angry, I was only saying. If you want money then that is good. I will give you however much you want as long as you help me walk out of this valley." His body bore severe wounds and he basically could not walk out if there was no one helping him.

"I saved you life. After going out, you give me five thousand liang and this jade will be the mortgage. You take the money over and I will return you this jade. Money and things both clear, we both do not owe each other, how about it?" Chen Ninghua lifted her heard and asked.

Chen Linghan, Baili Jinze smeared her reputation, harmed her to the Cold Palace to live a life worse than death and also killed her most important people. This blood sea deep enmity, she will definitely pay them back! This was only the first step. Going back to the Chen family have to have the skill of protect her own life so fortune was a must have. There was someone sending to her doorstep, then there was no reason to not accept.

"Five thousand liang? Me?" Chu Junyi could not help but went dumb. Not minding his ident.i.ty in the dark, even if it's in the open, he was Xiao family's foster son, also the capital's nicknamed 'Dual Absolute gongzi', he also had a place in the court. He actually was worth only five thousand liang?

"Gold!" Chen Ninghua spat out this word with a cold voice, her eyes carried some impatience. If it weren't for knowing that the days ahead she would live like wind afflicting and water rising, she would not embrace this mess.

"Deal!"