My whole family time-traveled! I became a god during my exile in a famine.

Chapter 147 You two, come here!
That fire-type ability user.

Xin Nian tilted her head to look at the dusty-faced man.

His travel-worn and disheveled appearance makes it hard to connect him with the spirited young man I met in the cave dwelling last time, unless you look closely.

She still remembered that before he left, he threw her a stink bomb to trap her. Haha, it was like finding a needle in a haystack!

"Young man, you look much older."

Xin Nian's words were sharp and cutting; this one was so hurtful that Chi Jue's lips twitched slightly.

Of course I'm getting old! I've been traveling non-stop these past few days, not eating or sleeping well, and I haven't even had time to shave. It's impossible not to age.

"You came to see me?"

"You're just being presumptuous!" Chi Jue retorted irritably. "We're just going to Binzhou together."

"Really?" Xin Nian looked at the young man suspiciously.

"Xin Xiaoliu!" Madam Chi suddenly exclaimed, her face full of disbelief. "You're Xin Xiaoliu! I didn't recognize you at first."

Xin Nian was startled by the lady's sudden cry, and her little hand trembled...

"Hey, you're the little Liu Zi that Xiao Jue always talks about!"

"mother!"

"In the past, when we bumped into each other at palace banquets, I always wanted to see your face clearly. But you always kept your head down, and you would burst into tears after saying just a few words. Today, I finally got to see your face properly!"

Xin Nian glanced at the excited Madam Chi, then looked at Chi Jue with a strange expression, "It seems we're quite familiar with each other?"

This is really strange. She had previously suspected that this fire-type ability user was familiar with the original owner of the body, but the original owner's memories were pitifully few.

All she does is cry; she rarely leaves the house and has absolutely no interaction with this person.

So how did they meet?
Chi Jue rolled his eyes, grabbed Madam Chi, and left, saying, "Mother, please get in the carriage and rest."

"Little Liu, come visit your aunt sometime." As Madam Chi was helped away by General Chi, Xin Nian's gaze fixed on Chi Jue, her eyes narrowing dangerously.

"You two, come here." She coldly tossed out the words and walked away from the crowd.

Everyone looked at each other, wondering which two people the little master meant by "you two".

Everyone was on tenterhooks, wondering whether they should go with the little girl.

until--

His Highness the Crown Prince rose quietly.

"Little Goldie!" Xie Ninglan called out, looking completely bewildered.

"It's alright, Aunt Lan, we're just going over to have a chat..." The Crown Prince's phoenix eyes, misty with tears, glanced pitifully at Xie Ninglan.

His aunt's heart softened, and she called out to Xin Nian, who was not far away, "Daughter, you can't hit people!"

Everyone:...

That's ridiculous. Yes, the world has changed, but His Highness isn't someone who can just start a fight whenever he wants...

Chi Jue followed closely behind the Crown Prince, taking each step with extreme caution.

Everyone watched the two leave, exchanging bewildered glances.

After a long while, Xin Wen'an coughed softly, "What are you all looking at? Take some time to rest."

Another compartment.

Xin Nian led the two to a place away from the crowd and raised her hand to set up several spatial barriers to isolate the sound.

Then, with a cold gaze, she looked them over and said, "Tell me. When did you two meet me?"

"You have a bad memory, yet you still have the nerve to yell at us?" Chi Jue retorted first.

"How can my memory be bad?" Xin Nian said indignantly. "My photographic memory is better than anything else!"

"Give me a break." "What did you say??" Xin Xiaoliu's voice rose eight octaves, filled with a threatening tone.

"Did I say something wrong? You're out of your mind! You don't remember anything, yet you're yelling at us!"

"Stop arguing, this is all my fault. I didn't explain things clearly to Miss Niannian," the Crown Prince said weakly, looking like he was on the verge of collapse and suffering terribly...

Xin Nian glanced at him and suddenly realized that she might have been a little too fierce.

The little girl's arrogant attitude subsided a tiny bit.

His Highness the Crown Prince said gently, "Miss Niannian, please feel free to ask whatever you wish."

"Was it you who asked him to deliver the grain to me? All the things in the earthen cave dwelling were actually prepared by you."

His Highness the Crown Prince nodded obediently, "Mm."

Xin Nian lowered her voice slightly after raising it a little, "Then why did he throw a rotten egg at me when he left?"

Your Highness: ...

He glanced at Chi Jue with a troubled expression, "Why did you bully Niannian? How could you take the things she gave you and throw them at her?"

What?
Xin Nian sorted out her thoughts and discerned a clue.

"That round, rotten egg-shaped ball exploded, sending up a cloud of yellowish-brown smoke. That thing..."

"You gave it to him." The Crown Prince nodded to her with a sincere expression.

Xin Nian: ...

No, I don't! Absolutely not!
"That yo-yo is..."

"You made it." This time, the two said in unison.

"Me!" Xin Nian stammered after saying just one word.

She gathered her thoughts and tentatively asked, "You know... me? I mean, before, a long time ago. When did we meet?"

"Hmm... about five years ago. When you were ten years old."

Xin Nian said "Oh," and then tentatively asked, "Back then, I entered the palace?"

That's unlikely. She's only ten years old, so young, and such a crybaby. Why would the old lady bring her to the palace? Wouldn't that just invite bad luck?

In the past two years, because the original owner of this body was already fourteen or fifteen years old, and in ancient times women valued early marriage and engagement, she was repeatedly taken to palace banquets, flower fairs, and other banquets.

"Uh... actually we met at Ya Yun Lou. At that time, you were dressed as a man, waving a small fan, pretending to be a student of Shengjing Academy, and came with your group of classmates."

"Then you got into a fight with a young master who was harassing a musician at Ya Yun Lou, and you even broke two of his noses. The other party then reported it to the authorities and sought help from the magistrate of the Jingzhao Prefecture."

"The moment Lord Si and his guards stepped through the door, you punched him right in the eye socket, making him howl in pain."

Xin Nian: ...

She no longer knew what expression to wear when facing the two people in front of her.

The Crown Prince's lips curved slightly as if he was trying his best to suppress a laugh, while the young master Chi next to him rattled off a string of unrelated stories about someone's dark past.

"The two young masters present rushed over to help their father, but you pounced on him and rained down punches. Even a passing dog got punched by you!"

His Highness the Crown Prince couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"We're all on the second floor watching you battle the heroes."

“My eldest brother Chi Zheng, Lu San from the Lu family, and the second young master of the Shang family all went down to break up the fight. They tried to pull you out from under a bunch of people, but they found nothing there. That’s when they realized you had already vanished.”

"Your classmates, a dozen or so kids from Shengjing Academy, are sitting on the ground wailing and crying, insisting that we beat you to ashes and they all want to go home and ask their parents for an explanation."

Xin Nian's lips twitched; she couldn't even imagine how beautiful that scene would be...

"Later, His Highness's men found you on the hillside two streets away. When we went there, you were hugging a tree, completely drunk and unconscious."