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Could it be...

"Well -" A sudden headache caused her to hold her head tightly with both hands. Scenes flashed through her mind, and those fragments appeared intertwined in front of her eyes.

Seeing her expression of pain, Lu Wanfeng was startled and stepped forward to ask with concern, "Girl, what's wrong with you?" He was worried that she would fall into the river accidentally, so he raised his hand to gently support her shoulders.

When the headache gradually subsided, Han Zhaocai took a few deep breaths and cleared her thoughts, then she raised her hand and wiped her face.Just now she accepted some of the memories left in this body.

The original owner of this body was Lou Zhuxin, who died from colic in the previous episode, and then, her soul was somehow attracted into this body.

When Lou Zhuxin died, she happened to have an accident. At that time, she was carrying a bowl of tonics to send to her elder brother...

My mother wanted my eldest brother and second brother to take the exams for merit and fame, so she sent them to study at a clan school since they were young.

Unlike the second brother, who had been naughty and restless since childhood, the eldest brother was very good at reading. He was admitted as a scholar two years ago when he was only sixteen years old. The master thought that in this year's provincial examination, the eldest brother would have a chance to pass the examination. My mother was very happy and made up tonics for him every night.

She was passing by her second brother's house carrying the tonic, and at that time, his second brother happened to run out of the house and bump into her... Then, when she woke up, she was on the boat.

She couldn't remember it last night. She only remembered it as she absorbed part of Lou Zhuxin's memory.

Han Zhaocai suddenly frowned. Could it be that she was hit and killed by her second brother?That's why her soul came to Lou Zhuxin.

If this is the case, then her parents, her eldest brother, and her second brother, who have always loved her, are not sad to death, especially the second brother who killed her. Why don't they blame themselves to death?

No, she had to go back and tell them that she was not dead, but had just changed her shell, and her face in this body was much prettier than her original one. This could be considered a blessing in disguise.

Just as she was thinking this, a voice suddenly came from her ears!

"I remembered."

When she heard the sound, she subconsciously raised her head and looked over. The next moment, she heard the other party say: "You are the fourth girl of the Lou family."

Only then did Han Zhaocai take a look at Lu Wanfeng's appearance. This man's eyebrows were stained with ink and his nose was like hanging gallbladder. He seemed to be a talented person, but his expression was very cold.

"Unexpectedly, by such a coincidence, Miss Lou and I boarded the same passenger ship."

Han Zhaocai didn't expect that he would recognize the original owner of this body. He hesitated for a moment whether to deny it. She planned to go back to her home. Now that she was recognized by him, it would be troublesome if the original owner's family came to find her.

The next moment, a memory flashed past, and she looked away from him with a smile.

Lou Zhuxin's parents once wanted to marry her to the man named Lu Wanfeng, but they didn't expect that they looked down on her as a concubine and refused.

Lou Zhuxin, who secretly admired him, felt sad for a long time.Until a few days ago, due to her grandmother's birthday, several men in the Lou family were busy, and Lou Zhuxin's three sisters were all married. Her aunt sent her to bring gifts and go to Jiangyang City to celebrate her grandmother's birthday.

On the way back, six of their masters and servants boarded the overturned passenger ship. Now the three servants who were traveling with them and the woman and girl who served Lou Zhuxin did not know whether they were dead or alive.

Seeing that his face became a little cold after recognizing Lou Zhuxin's identity, he probably also remembered his refusal to marry her last year. Listening to his words just now, it seemed that he suspected that she was deliberately taking the same passenger ship with him. Han Zhaocai was angry and said a few words to him slowly and calmly, "If I had known you were on that ship, I would not have taken that ship; but if I had not taken that ship, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to see the sun today."

"Lu will never forget Miss Lou's life-saving grace. I have never heard that Miss Lou can drink water before." Hearing the sarcasm in her words, Lu Wanfeng immediately understood that he had gone astray.In order to rush back to Su Yuncheng, he made the temporary decision to board the capsized passenger ship. There was no way she could have known about it in advance.

Last year, he accompanied his grandmother to worship God at the Asking Heart Temple outside the city. By chance, he met Lou Zhuxin, who was accompanying his aunt's mother there. The two had a close relationship. Soon, the Lou family sent people to come to marry him, intending to betroth Lou Zhuxin to him.

Although the Lu family and the Han family are both merchants, they don't have much contact with each other. The Lu family has been a family of officials since a hundred years ago, and has produced many high-ranking officials above the third rank. However, in the great-grandfather's generation, all the officials in the Lu family were dismissed due to their involvement.

After about ten years, one member of the Lu family was finally resurrected. Because the Lu family had always been honest as officials, and the men in the family were all scholars who could not carry their hands or shoulders, during these ten years, life was extremely difficult, and they were finally reduced to selling off their ancestral property.

In order to prevent this kind of thing from happening again, my great-grandfather made a rule. From then on, only the children of the eldest and second eldest brothers had to go to school and take the exams for merit, while the third eldest brother went into business.

His grandfather was the third son of his great-grandfather, so from then on, the third family of the Lu family started doing business. After three generations of management, the third family of the Lu family was now very wealthy.

The Lou family, on the other hand, relied on marrying their daughters to those officials as concubines, or filling in houses, in order to build relationships with those officials.

It was not just the Lou family who was like this, many people in other merchants also acted like this. However, he looked down upon the idea of ​​relying on women in the family to gain power, so when the Lou family proposed to marry him, he refused.

Han Zhaocai replied lightly, "What do I know? Do I have to send someone to tell you?"

Looking back, she caught a glimpse of her disheveled hair on the river. She carefully combed her long black silk-like hair with her fingers. The hairpin and hairpin all fell into the water. She casually broke off a thin vine and tied it up temporarily, tying it behind her head.

Lu Wanfeng didn't need to look, he knew that most of his hair was messy, and the jade ring that was originally tied in the bun was long gone. After imitating her, he combed it with her five fingers, and then broke off a vine and tied it up at will.

"Miss Lou, let's find a way to leave." After all, it was an acquaintance, and she was his savior, so he couldn't leave her alone.

Han Zhaocai glanced at the rising sun and the clear blue sky, and said with emotion: "After the rain, the sky is blue. It's hard to imagine that there was such an earth-shattering thunderstorm yesterday, which caused a huge passenger ship to capsize and sink. I don't know how many people could escape..."

Hearing this, he remembered that those who followed him did not know whether they were alive or dead, but at this moment he was in trouble and there was nothing he could do.

"I just hope everyone can be saved like us. Let's go." He was very hungry at this time and planned to find some food to fill his stomach first.

The two walked toward the end of the forest. After walking for a while, they saw a lotus mist tree. There were many fruits on the tree, and you could pick it with your hands. Lu Wanfeng was hungry, so he reached out and picked one. After only one bite, it was so sore that his teeth dropped, so he hurriedly vomited it out.

Han Zhaocai, who was watching from the side, burst out laughing. He looked up at the tree, picked a lotus mist, and put it into his mouth. He smiled widely while eating, and said: "It's so sweet."

Seeing her sweet words, Lu Wanfeng looked at her suspiciously.

Han Zhaocai smiled and curled up the corners of his mouth, "Don't believe it, I didn't lie to you, this one is really sweet." After saying that, she took a few more bites, with a satisfied smile on her face.

Lu Wanfeng glanced at the bitten lotus mist in his hand, but still didn't quite believe her words.

Han Zhaocai finished eating quickly, stood up on tiptoes, and picked two more. Seeing him staring at her, she smiled and handed one of them to him, teasing him casually: "I didn't expect that the dignified young master of the Lu family didn't know how to pick the lotus mist to eat. Here, here you go, don't be stupid again. Instead of picking these ripe fruits, you pick the unripe ones. Of course they are sour."

Although Lu Wanfeng was a little unhappy at being ridiculed by her, he still took the lotus mist and compared it with the one he picked earlier. He found that the navel of the lotus mist she picked was fully unfolded, while the one he picked was still closed.

He dubiously took a bite of the one she picked. The sweet taste in his mouth made him unable to resist one bite after another, and he quickly finished one.

Then he looked up at the fruits hanging on the trees, picking only those with their navels spread out, and sure enough, he couldn't eat any more sour ones. He ate seven or eight in a row before he quenched his hunger a little.

Looking back, I saw that after Han Zhaocai finished eating, he picked a few more and held them in his arms. He walked calmly out along the forest with a pair of lotus feet without shoes and socks.