"You have to be careful when making friends. At least this kind of friend isn't worth making." Jiang Pengji pointed at the girl and said, "If you know what's good for you, leave. I don't like to make things difficult for a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl. It makes it seem like I'm a bad person. "
The girl bit her lower lip and tried hard to resist the urge to tremble. She turned around and ran away with her face covered.
Wuniang was confused from the beginning to the end.
"Little girl, you should be more cautious. Not everyone is worth befriending, and not every topic can be confided in."
Jiang Pengji glanced at Wuniang's attire and frowned.
"Are you Zhu Wuniang from Master Yuanjing's family?"
She had long heard that Master Yuanjing had a precious old daughter, but Jiang Pengji had never seen her.
"How did you know?"
"I've seen the hairpin on your head at Master's place. You're also called Wuniang. I think you must be Master's precious daughter."
Wuniang subconsciously raised her hand and stroked the hairpin that was inserted into her hair bun. Her pale face was a little flushed.
"Are you my father's student?"
Jiang Pengji nodded and conveniently put down the wooden clogs in her hands. She wore them on her feet with a calm expression.
"But I've never seen you."
"There are so many students in Langye Academy, and not all of them are personally taught by Master. It's normal that you haven't seen him before."
It was called an academy, but it was very different from the school that Jiang Pengji knew.
Rather than calling it an academy, it was more like a library for part-time teaching. Most of the students came with questions to discuss with others. If they could not find any answers, they would look for Master Yuan Jing to solve their doubts. Most of the time, they would be studying on their own or having fun. They would only be present when Master Yuan Jing was teaching.
Of course, the younger students had their own teachers in charge of teaching them how to read and write.
Jiang Pengji didn't belong to the group of initiators, so naturally, she wouldn't stay in the academy for long. It was normal that they hadn't met before.
"Oh," Wuniang replied and lowered her head.
When he thought about how his conversation with the young girl had been overheard by this person, he felt extremely uncomfortable.
"Can I ask a question?" Jiang Pengji furrowed her brows. "Why is Zixiao being vilified by others?"
Based on the conversation between the two girls, she could more or less guess what was going on, but there were still some things she didn't understand.
It was too ignorant and arbitrary to judge that Wei Ci was not good just based on his horoscope.
Wuniang looked hesitant. She initially thought that Jiang Pengji deliberately pretended not to know to get information from her, but upon taking a closer look, she realized that Jiang Pengji really did not know.
"Actually, you can't blame Brother Ci for this." Wuniang pursed her lips, feeling sorry for Wei Ci. "Because Brother Ci was born at the wrong time, and he lost his mother when he was born, he was almost strangled to death when he was born … In the end, he was lucky enough to survive, but he was not well received …"
Jiang Pengji raised her eyebrows. "That's it?"
How could they be despised by the entire Langya County just because of this?
Although the girl who ran away was talkative and had some evil intentions, Jiang Pengji felt that she was not lying about Wei Ci's situation in Langye.
"This …" Wuniang stammered. She had no choice but to say, "When Brother Ci was fifteen years old, his father's second wife tried to arrange a marriage for him. The two families were about to match their eight characters, but as soon as the eight characters were taken out, the woman resolutely broke off the engagement and spread the eight characters."
Jiang Pengji was still confused. What kind of strange horoscope could cause such great power?
"That horoscope is famous for cursing wives, children, parents, and even the whole clan. Therefore, it is feared by people." Seeing that Jiang Pengji did not understand, Wuniang had to bite the bullet and continue, "Brother Ci was born on the 22nd day of the eighth lunar month in the year of Kuiyou …"
22nd day of the eighth lunar month in the year of Kuiyou?
Jiang Pengji faintly felt that this day was a little familiar. She could not help but think deeply. She seemed to have seen it somewhere before.
"This time of birth …" Jiang Pengji suddenly thought of the content of a piece of unofficial history and said, "Is this really his birth date and eight characters?"
"Yes!"
Jiang Pengji suddenly understood why Wei Ci was so feared and ostracized by people.
If he was born in the year of Kuiyou, Wei Ci was separated from that historical figure by exactly three sixty-year years, which was 180 years.
Having been in ancient times for so many years, Jiang Pengji was quite familiar with some taboos in this era.
Sixty years was a cycle, and Wei Ci's date of birth coincided with that of a famous historical figure. Moreover, he was born without a mother, which seemed to confirm his fate of cursing his mother. This made people uneasy. Could it be that he was the reincarnation of that famous person?
Which famous figure?
The founding prime minister of the Xia Dynasty, Huangfu Fengmin, was born in Langya County. He was also a famous romantic figure in the past.
The ancestors of the three tribes of the Northern borderline, the Qiangwu tribe, led 500,000 cavalrymen in rattan armor and swept through half of the Central Plains. In the end, they were stopped by this person at the Qichuan Plain. With a big fire, the sky darkened and the earth darkened. 500,000 wronged souls were buried in this plain. Not a single one survived.
According to some old people, on special days, the Qichuan Plain would be filled with white dust, like the ashes of those cavalrymen!
This was probably not considered ruthless. What was more ruthless was that this person had once made tens of thousands of captives into human flesh and dried meat for the army to use. He had resisted the most tragic battle before the founding of the Xia Dynasty. He seemed to have done many things like burning cities and massacring them.
It was not wrong for the enemy to hate him because he was ruthless to the enemy, but why did the descendants of the Xia Dynasty also avoid and hate him so much?
According to rumors, this person held the young emperor hostage and tried to replace him. In the end, he was killed by the young emperor who bore the humiliation and carried out his mission.
The young emperor probably hated this person to the core, so he cut off his head and separated his corpse. He took out his heart and made it into food to be cooked and shared with many officials … When she read this part of history, Jiang Pengji was completely dumbfounded.
That was not the end of it. There was another unofficial historical rumor that said that the young emperor and his confidants had conspired to summon the most accomplished Daoist priest in the country to make a Soul-suppressing Peach Wood Coffin. His headless body was placed inside the coffin, and his soul was imprisoned. They used the monstrous hatred in his heart to suppress the Xia Dynasty.
The unofficial history also said that before the Xia Dynasty was destroyed, there was thunder and lightning and a flood. This caused the mountains to collapse, revealing the peach coffin.
The peach coffin was split open by a farmer who went up the mountain to chop firewood. He released the wronged souls and ended the fate of the Xia Dynasty.
Wei Ci was born after the Xia Dynasty was destroyed. People could not help but suspect that this person was the reincarnation of that person who came to take revenge.
Unfortunately, Wei Ci's appearance became more and more handsome after he grew up. He was full of talent. Whether it was the Six Arts of a Gentleman or other unorthodox skills, he displayed impressive talent … When the annulment of the engagement happened, this date of his birth spread throughout Langya County. Naturally, people were anxious.
It was not to the extent of taking Wei Ci's life, but his life would not be easy.
"I didn't know that Zixiao had such a legendary past life." Jiang Pengji teased him with a smile.
Wuniang was so anxious that her eyes turned red. "Brother Ci can't be the reincarnation of Prime Minister Huangfu. It's also impossible for him to do such a despicable thing."
Jiang Pengji tilted her head. "Prime Minister Huangfu assisted Emperor Xia and helped him go from a lowly ruffian to a hegemon who unified the nine states. What kind of person was he? If that person was the reincarnation of that person, Wei Ci should be happy. In today's world, there might be a lack of such a person. "
"Huh?" Wuniang was confused.
This was not the main point.
But … it seemed that there was nothing wrong with thinking that way.
Jiang Pengji called the System in her heart. "No, what kind of dimension is this? There's actually such an anti-science thing as reincarnation? "
The System rolled its eyes. "He's not the reincarnation of that person. Everything is purely a coincidence."
Jiang Pengji was speechless.
Coincidence?
Would Wei Ci cry if he heard that?
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