Escape: I rely on the food exchange system to survive to the extreme

"My dear, are you going to..."

"Shh-"

It was a dark and windy night. The thirteen-year-old boy Chu Ji was sitting on the wall with a bag on his back, holding a sword in one hand and gesturing for silence with the other.

He was lowering his head, looking nervously at his maid, Biyun, who had discovered him.

"My dear, where are you going?"

Biyun understood and asked in a low voice.

"It was the news about my sister's divorce that was sent to the city during the day.

In my opinion, my elder sister and the He family were destined to be together. Fortunately, there were noble people in Beijing who helped her, so she was able to divorce smoothly.

But now that the news has come back, although the overall situation has been decided, but when I saw my uncle scolding my father today... I think there is still room for trouble.

I have to go and tell my sister in person."

"Master, wait!"

Biyun stepped on her heels and grabbed Chu Ji's scabbard. Chu Ji glared at his maid, thinking she wanted to stop him, but unexpectedly he heard Biyun say:
"Master, please take Biyun with you~"

"what?"

Chu Ji lowered his head and saw the girl looking up, her pretty and bright face shining in the moonlight.

Biyun put on a pitiful look, looked at Chu Ji, and said, "Master, you ran away and left Biyun here. If the master found out, he would definitely punish Biyun for not taking good care of her."

Seeing Biyun, who always had a smiling face, looking sad tonight, Chu Ji couldn't help but agreed: "Okay~"

Suddenly, Biyun burst into laughter.

At this moment, Chu Ji didn't notice that Biyun's other hand was hidden in the darkness, holding the bag that had been packed early in the morning.

One month later,
"Master, don't you know the way?"

On the mountain road, Biyun, who was wearing men's clothes and riding a horse, followed Chu Ji for most of the day and silently put away her cheerful smile.

Biyun looked at the familiar scenery around her, and couldn't help but stare with suspicion at Chu Ji, who was riding another horse and stopped at the fork in the road ahead, hesitant.

"Isn't that the map lost? If it wasn't lost, I would know the way immediately."

The young Chu Ji was somewhat arrogant, and it was absolutely impossible for him to admit that he was wrong.

"But when we had the map before, you took the wrong road, and we even encountered bandits.

It was also because of that incident that some of our luggage got lost, and part of our travel expenses and maps were lost.”

"you!"

Chu Ji, whose past was exposed, became furious and looked back at Biyun with an innocent expression with a red face.

Biyun changed the subject and said with a harmless smile, "But the young master is very smart and clever. He used the terrain to take Biyun away. This is not something that ordinary people can do~"

"Humph~"

In response to this, the little flame of anger in Chu Ji's heart was extinguished in an instant.

Biyun clearly noticed the change in Chu Ji's mood, and continued, "We have only been out of the town for half a day. When we were in the town before, didn't we hear others say that merchants who go into the mountains to do business will live there?

Why don’t we go back and try our luck, find a caravan leaving the mountains, and go out together then~”

During this period, Chu Ji had been avoiding people, fearing that he would be discovered by the Chu family and taken back.

He still has to inform his sister in advance!
But for the two young boys and girls, it was actually a blessing that they didn't get lost on their first trip out, not to mention that they ran to report the news in advance.

Just when the two of them had arrived in the capital after a long journey, and had not yet found out the whereabouts of his sister Chu Ying, they were caught by a member of the Chu family who had already been rejected by his eldest sister when they came to the capital.

So, the first time the young man went out to the mountains, he eventually died.

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“Hiss!! Ahhhhh, it hurts!”

Chu Ji, who was taken home directly by his clan members and beaten by his own father, was now lying on the couch in a very ungraceful manner. He had no time to cry about the bloody wound on his back, while Biyun, who was applying medicine to him, had cried so much that her eyes were swollen like walnuts.

Hearing Chu Ji's sudden howl, Biyun, who was originally crying, suddenly stopped crying.

"Master, where does it hurt? Did I hit you too hard?"

Putting down the wound medicine in her hand, Biyun picked up the round fan beside her and fanned the wounds on Chu Ji's body again and again.

"It's nothing, the wound just hurts a little. Please continue to apply the medicine to me."

Turning his head to glance at Biyun's flustered appearance, Chu Ji was clearly in terrible pain in his butt and legs, but he felt inexplicably happy in his heart.

Seeing the tears on Biyun's face, he said, "You are my maid. How can they sell you out? Besides, I ran away secretly. As my maid, you must follow me.
How can they blame you and attribute all the bad things to you? You are not familiar with my elder sister. " "Master... Isn't it because they want to reduce your punishment? You know the master..."

Compared with the soft-heartedness of Chu Ji's father, Chu Ji's uncle, the patriarch of the Chu family, has a stern face all day long.

His hard heart is proportional to his serious face.

This time, if it wasn’t for the need to save Biyun, Chu Ji would have said everything before his father and he wouldn’t have been beaten like this.

Even so, it was because his father released the water himself.

"My father is soft-hearted towards us, his children. To make me feel better, he wants to sell you out.

I am on the same side as you, what are you saying for my father?"

It’s worth mentioning that even though his father put water in the caning, it doesn’t mean that it didn’t hurt.

In addition to the caning, his uncle also said that after his injuries healed, he would have to go to the ancestral hall and kneel for an hour every day for a full year.

In a disguised way, he is under house arrest.

Because the humidity in Tianyu Prefecture was high, and the ancestral hall was always cold and gloomy, Chu Jina almost broke his body after kneeling for a year.

In the following years, Chu Ji hardly left the house. He was either taking medicine in the house or studying with his father. Chu Ji would also drag Biyun to study with him.

His younger sister was still young and had not yet started to learn, so he studied at home alone with his father, which was actually very stressful.

Ever since what happened to his eldest sister, his father closed the door to his small courtyard and no longer managed the affairs of the clan.

Others said that his father felt so ashamed of his eldest sister's incident that he didn't want to see anyone.

Only Chu Ji himself knew that his father really loved his eldest sister.

He would get angry when he heard bad things said by others, not because he felt ashamed, but because he was angry because of what those people said about Chu Ying.

His father even secretly exchanged letters with his eldest sister.

As for the communication channel, his father did not tell him, fearing that it would be disastrous if he exposed it to his uncle.

For the sake of his daughter, and in order not to bring trouble to his brothers, Chu Ji's father could only hide away and live his own life like this.

Speaking of which, this kind of character of Chu Ji's father, who usually looks weak but is extremely tough in some aspects, is not the first time Chu Ji has seen it.

The first time he saw him was when his sister got married and his mother died not long ago. His father rebelled against his uncle because of the issue of remarrying.

Chu's father was already over 40 years old at the time, and he and his first wife had been in love for more than 20 years.

He would rather be both the father and the mother and raise Chu Ji and Chu Yuan himself than marry a second wife according to his brother's wishes.

He was unwilling to remarry for the family or to find someone who could take care of him and his children.

Therefore, when it comes to emotional issues, Chu Ji discovered that his father seemed to understand them particularly well.

In the blink of an eye, several years passed, and this time Chu Ji's marriage was also on the mind of his uncle.

It is said that she is the daughter of another wealthy family in Tianyu Prefecture. Even others who knew about it thought that Chu Ji was lucky.

Even his clan leader came to him personally and told him how much importance the clan attached to this marriage and the benefits of it.

As soon as his uncle left, Chu Ji expressed his dissatisfaction in front of his father: "If this marriage is really not good, why doesn't he let Brother Chao marry the other party?"

Chu Chao, his uncle's biological son, was only one year older than him.

"Ridiculous! Brother Chao got engaged last year. This Miss Luo is the youngest daughter of the Luo family. In her early years, the master predicted that she must be of marriageable age before she could be seen in public.

Girls from aristocratic families start looking for a husband and preparing for marriage when they are ten years old. For a girl like her who only starts looking for a husband when she reaches the age of 15, many good boys of the same age are already married...

Otherwise, how could such a good marriage be yours?"

“Father, you always said that children from noble families start dating each other at an early age.

I'm already nineteen and you don't care about me, yet my uncle still cares about me..."

"You need your father to worry about you?"

For some reason, Chu Ji seemed to hear something sarcastic in his father's question.

Father Chu looked up at Chu Ji and asked, "Your uncle told you about this. Based on my understanding of your uncle, he just came to inform you. As for whether you agree or not..."

As soon as Mr. Chu finished speaking, Chu Ji's expression changed slightly.

He turned his head suddenly and saw only the flash of the aqua skirt outside the door... (End of this chapter)