Quick Transmigration: Underdog Turns out to be Untouchable

Chapter 75: Chapter 75: The Crime of Gender 75

Don’t get the wrong idea, Qin Shuangshuang was not attracted by the young man’s handsome appearance, but because that young man’s look reminded Qin Shuangshuang of an incident from her past life!

In her past life, Qin Shuangshuang was escorted to the border city with the Qin Family. At that time, the Qin Family didn’t manage to get tenant jobs and could only work on the city construction. As an unwelcome girl, Qin Shuangshuang also had to work.

However, Qin Shuangshuang looked too young and was clearly unable to do any hard work. The overseer, out of kindness, arranged for her to assist the women who cooked meals.

The construction of the border city was divided into two parts. The border city was built behind Feiying Pass and two other major passes, and was an enormous city. This city would become the largest city of the current dynasty in the future, extremely prosperous, although now it was just beginning to take shape. No one knew the Emperor planned to build such a huge city!

Besides the border city behind, there was also the establishment of a Mutual Market outside Feiying Pass. Although it was called a Mutual Market, it was actually a square-shaped small city comparable to a medium-sized city. However, no common people lived there, only merchants and stationed soldiers.

This Mutual Market was specially created by the Emperor for trading with the Northwest Hu People. The Hu People lived by herding and moved according to water and grass, as the grasslands couldn’t produce grains or vegetables. People couldn’t live without these foods, so the Hu People’s frequent border raids were not just due to their inherent violence but also their need to seize stored grains and vegetables.

The Emperor opened this Mutual Market to appease the Hu People, allowing them to exchange their skins, wool, and meat for grains, vegetables, and other necessities.

Of course, the trading of salt and tea was not allowed to be done privately by merchants. These two items were only sold in fixed annual quantities by the court to the Hu People, and no more was permitted. When the Hu People could obtain what they needed, the frequency of their border disturbances would naturally decrease!

In her past life, Qin Shuangshuang followed the women who cooked for the workers building the Mutual Market. The construction needed to leave Feiying Pass, directly facing the steppe where the Hu People lived, which was quite dangerous. Because of this, the wages were high, and Qin Shuangshuang was forced by the Qin Family to work there for high pay.

Unfortunately, within a few days of her arrival, a small group of Hu People attacked the workers building the Mutual Market. During that time, a Hu man saw Qin Shuangshuang and wanted to abduct her.

Qin Shuangshuang was so terrified that she was frozen with fear and unable to move. It was a flying arrow that killed that man and saved Qin Shuangshuang. She followed the direction of the arrow and saw a handsome young General on horseback rushing not far from her, skillfully pulling his bow to shoot other Hu People who were harming the common people.

Qin Shuangshuang only saw the young General once and never met him again. Yet, she remembered the young General’s appearance very clearly, the same as this handsome young man passing by her at this moment!

The handsome young man had already passed, but Qin Shuangshuang was still immersed in memories from her past life. It wasn’t until the two mules pulling the cart suddenly neighed and stopped that she came back to herself.

It turned out there was a large patch of exceptionally lush pasture by the roadside, and the two mules were fighting to chew on it. Qin Shuangshuang sighed heavily. There were many people who were not good to her in her past life that she could forget, but those who were good to her, she should repay. Yet, she didn’t even know who that young General was, so how could she repay him!

Because she thought of a benefactor from her past life, along the journey that followed, Qin Shuangshuang was often absent-minded. Meanwhile, the two mules took advantage and lazily chewed quite a bit of fresh grass. Once, they nearly chewed on someone’s well-planted crops. Fortunately, Qin Shuangshuang noticed in time.

But not long after leaving Feiying Pass, Qin Shuangshuang could no longer laugh! Because her mind was filled with anger!

The border where the current dynasty and Northwest Hu People meet is very long, naturally not only having Feiying Pass but many passes connected together. Such a long border inevitably has places with weak defenses, which are frequently disturbed by small groups of Hu People.

However, Qin Shuangshuang never expected that within just three to four hundred li from Feiying Pass, Hu People would dare to sneak over and disturb the border!

Logically, this was inadvisable; it was summer, there was no bumper grain harvest, so raiding the border wouldn’t yield good rewards. Furthermore, summer was also the Hu People’s crucial herding season, so it was even more unreasonable for Hu People to raid the border at such a time. Yet, the bloody tragedy appeared before Qin Shuangshuang, turning all her disbelief into anger.

This was just an ordinary small border village, not very large, with seemingly few inhabitants. Yet, now this small village had been burned to ruin by a great fire! The ground was littered with corpses of all shapes!

Some of these corpses were decapitated, others disemboweled, appearing as if the people were still alive and crawled some distance while being disemboweled, their intestines dragged all over the ground! Others were clearly burned alive, reduced to charred bodies, with traces of struggle spreading over a large area!

Some elderly had been hanged high in the trees, and others were trampled by horses until their bones and tendons were completely shattered, leaving them unrecognizable! Most horrifically, numerous infants had been thrown into a large cauldron and cooked alive!! Yet, not a single woman was to be seen!

Qin Shuangshuang stood at the deserted village entrance, in a daze, like a lost person who had wandered into endless Purgatory! Was this still the Mortal World?!! How could the Mortal World bear such horrendous scenes!! Indeed, this was the Abyss of Hell!!!

Never before had Qin Shuangshuang felt such intense hatred towards the Hu People! If a Hu person appeared before her now, she would surely kill him without hesitation!

After standing woodenly for a long while, Qin Shuangshuang finally took heavy steps, found a random hoe, and started to dig pits one by one. They were her compatriots; she couldn’t save them, but at least she could lay them to rest in the earth!

Row after row of grave pits were dug. The houses had all been burned to rubble, even finding a few quilts to wrap the corpses was impossible, so Qin Shuangshuang had no choice but to bury them directly into the pits.

The bodies of some people trampled to death by Hu People’s horses had fused together so much that Qin Shuangshuang could not distinguish them, so she had to bury these few together without marking a grave. She didn’t know who the dead were and couldn’t erect memorials.

When leaving, Qin Shuangshuang’s mood was very heavy. She didn’t know why the Hu People would raid the border when they shouldn’t have, but obviously, these common people were caught unprepared, which was why they didn’t manage to escape in time.

Subsequently, Qin Shuangshuang quickly collected the grains, though she didn’t encounter another village massacred by the Hu People, but her mood remained very sorrowful!

Returning to the border city with a cart full of grain, Qin Shuangshuang heard some big news!