CBGC – Chapter 1

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001: I’m from a rich and powerful family

Today, Su Tingyun was wearing a bright red lined jacket.
The character 寿 and copper coins were embroidered on it using gold thread, making it look particularly festive and tacky.
(alyschu: 寿 = birthday)

Her hair that had already turned white was being bound by a servant girl with a golden hairpin in a coiled bun fashion, into the elegant flying goddess topknot that was currently all the rage at the capital.
Many young ladies styled their hair that way, but on her head, it seemed a bit out of place.

“Old Madam, today is your great birthday, and I heard that even the Empress would be coming to our manor.” The oldest servant girl was named Cui Jiner.
She spoke as she hammered the Old Madam’s shoulders with the perfect strength, making Su Tingyun feel pretty comfortable.
She was about to be tormented to death by her frozen shoulder and didn’t even sleep well for the entire last night.

She had obviously just turned a full twenty five, so how come when she woke up, she had become a granny who was about to become seventy years old?

At first, back in her time, when she saw thin lines beside her eyes, she was so frightened that she had even hopped.
Now, when she looked at the wrinkled face in the copper lens, Su Tingyun only felt that the god of destiny truly did enjoy making fools of people.
It was as if the fast forward button had been pressed on her life.
Before she got to enjoy all of her youth and experience middle age, she had directly stepped halfway into the grave, into old age.

What left her the most speechless was the current era she was in, which fundamentally did not exist in history.
The body that she currently possessed was of the seventy year old Su Family’s Old Madam, whose life could even be said to be a fairy tale.

Su Manor’s Old Madam’s surnamed was originally Wei.
After marriage, she took on her husband’s family name.
This period of time was currently a time of turmoil in which six nations were unceasingly in dispute.
Not long after the Old Madam had gotten married, her husband immediately went on the battlefield, never to return again.
As for her, she had given birth to a pair of male twins.
In that kind of difficult circumstance, the Old Madam had brought up those two boys.
One was skilled in literacy, the other in martial arts.
Both had become founding generals who assisted the current emperor in unifying all six nations.

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Even the current emperor himself had received the Old Madam’s teachings.
When he was young, it had even been said that he had been hit on the face with a shoehorn by the Old Madam.

Old Madam Su was currently granted the title of the Nation’s most highest ranking Lady, and even the Queen Empress completely revered and honored her.
She was naturally the target that every upper class lady wanted to curry favor with.
No matter how extravagantly she dressed with gold, silver, and a red silk flower on her head, everyone would only clap their hands and say that she was beautiful.
This had indirectly warped the Old Madam’s aesthetics.
To Su Tingyun, what she wore could even be said to be universally offensive.

A few days ago, she had planned to wear plain white colored clothes while trying to become a kindly benevolent old lady.
Just as she finished expressing her suggestion, all of the maids in the courtyard plopped on their knees.
An entire expanse of foreheads knocking against the floor echoed, as if they wanted to smash a hole in the floor tiles.
Their attitude had given Su Tingyun a fright.

It was afterwards that she realized that for the old lady to raise two children during these troubled times, especially one who was highly skilled in martial arts and another who whose intelligence was close to a monstrous level, she had probably not been easy to deal with.
Even though she had never studied in school nor practiced writing characters, she was shrewd and had her methods.
Furthermore, she was strong, so strong that even though she was nearing seventy, she could still single-handedly lift a ninety kilogram object.
One could say that she was a female Hercules.

Her temper wasn’t that great either.
At home, when she said one thing, she meant just that.
The two sons were both completely obedient towards this old mother.
If a servant had not served the Old Madam well and caused her to become unhappy, getting off light would be just corporal punishment while the serious cases would be exile.
The worst case would be them being clubbed to death.
In any case, they would not have a happy ending.
So when Su Tingyun had said that she wanted to switch to wearing plain white clothes, everyone thought that they had caused the Old Madam to become unhappy.
Each and every one of them trembled with fear as they fiercely apologized for any offense they committed.

From that point on, Su Tingyun had never again requested any changes.

The Old Madam’s figure had already deeply penetrated through in the hearts of the nation’s people.
Whatever peculiar change she did would always trigger some commotion within the manor.
At present, it seemed that Su Tingyun could only temporarily become a colorful gorgeously dressed old lady.

Back when she was young, the former host had suffered many hardships.
Her skin terribly darkened by the sun and thick calluses were all over her hands that looked deformed.
Her finger joints were thick and unsightly, yet she still wore a few jade rings atop them.
Su Tingyun rubbed them a few times, but had never taken the jade rings off.
The one on her left hand’s middle finger was given to her by her husband that had died early.
She had never taken them off, and they were currently deeply embedded into her flesh, as if they had been grown together with her finger.
She had a headache when she looked at it, and in these past two days, it had gotten increasingly worse.

Su Tingyun rarely did anything herself, and it was exactly because of her painful fingers.
Accurately speaking, her entire body was aching quite painfully at the moment.
In the ancient era, seventy years old was already considered to be a really old age.
Her time was probably at its limit now.

This was seriously a tragedy…

After she finished dressing up, the maid brought in breakfast.

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The Old Madam’s breakfast were all dishes with generous amounts of meat and fish, and were even matched with threebrown sugar boiled eggs.
When Su Tingyun saw them, she had no appetite and only ate a few dishes.
Then those maids and little servant boys kowtowed again.
She continuously ate for three days now, and truly could no longer eat it all anymore.
She might as well just simply try a wealthy person’s headstrong attitude.
Heavily placing the chopsticks aside, she said, “Not eating anymore.”

If they want to kowtow, then kowtow.
Su Tingyun had already gotten used to the kowtow trick that was used many times before.
After she finished speaking, Su Tingyun got up and left the room.

She walked with a dragon head walking stick.
As the walking stick fell to the ground, it emitted banging noises, its imposingness was quite shocking.
A big courtyard was seen when she walked out of the door.
There were many vegetables and fruits, and it had even raised chickens, ducks, fish, and little rabbits.
If she turned to her right, there was even a brick pig pen with two fat pigs that had big heads.

The old lady did not like seeing plays and listening to stories.

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