Chapter 2: The Convenience Store Followed the Journey

Xia Mo’s pale face turned red with anger.

She rolled her eyes as he choked her. Facing his accusations, she felt that the original owner was indeed a terrible person; it was no wonder he was so furious that he wanted to strangle her.

But this body was her own now; she couldn’t really be strangled to death.

Xia Mo struggled fiercely, using all her strength to push him away and gasped for breath afterward.

Boys develop a bit later than girls, and twelve-year-old Xiao Jingyuan still looked like a big child, half a head shorter than Xia Mo.

Moreover, since he was injured, she didn’t know if she could actually push him away.

“I told you I didn’t sell you, cough cough…”

Anyway, she had decided that she could never admit to selling him.

Xia Mo pulled out a string of two copper coins and directly tossed them to Xiao Jingyuan.

“Look, these are the two copper coins. It’s not that we don’t have any money; I just thought of this idea to trick some money to spend. Once the money is in hand, I will definitely come to save you.”

Xiao Jingyuan was stunned, “What?”

He stared at the two coins in confusion, but he didn’t believe her just because the money was in his hands.

“I was afraid that if I told you, you wouldn’t agree, cough cough cough…” She spoke too quickly and fell into another fit of violent coughing.

This little brat nearly strangled her to death.

Xiao Jingyuan tightly gripped the coins, his gaze still icy, but he no longer exuded the same murderous intent as before.

“Your wounds must have reopened, right? I just applied medicine to you. Quickly take off your clothes; let me see.”

Xiao Jingyuan bared his teeth in a fierce manner, “None of your business.”

Xia Mo: “…” Fine, if he didn’t want her to manage it.

He now looked like an injured wild beast; although weak, his attack power was greatly increased.

Xia Mo sighed and pushed the buns towards him.

After all, it was the original owner who had done something inhumane, and now that she inherited this body, she could only do her best to make amends.

“You must be hungry; hurry and eat. There’s also porridge here.”

Xiao Jingyuan looked at her warily, but he was truly too hungry, and his stomach began to growl uncontrollably.

He accepted the buns and the porridge.

The bowl for the porridge was oddly transparent, somewhat resembling glass, but it felt soft to the touch.

【Xi He strikes the glass, and the ashes vanish, bringing peace to the past and present. The glass of ancient times is not the same as modern glass.】

Xia Mo sipped the mineral water and took small bites of the bun, pondering where she should go and how she would return.

In the original story, when Xiao Jingyuan encountered her, she was disguised as a boy, a street-smart character who easily fooled the naïve Xiao Jingyuan.

By the time they met again, it was several years later; he had returned home to reclaim the throne, while Xia Mo was a government official’s family member.

Her maternal uncle was a son-in-law, serving as a fifth-rank official in the court, and her brothers all held respectable positions.

According to this, she should be a young lady from an official family in the capital.

But… Xia Mo pulled out two travel permits; one was for her, and the other belonged to a twelve-year-old boy named Xia Zhihuaa, which she boldly guessed was her younger brother.

According to the travel permits, she was supposed to be taking her twelve-year-old brother Xia Zhihuaa from a small town called Gubao in the north to the south.

In the book, she had told Xiao Jingyuan that her hometown had suffered a drought in the summer, and then war broke out in autumn, forcing her to head south to find relatives.

But she was clearly a young lady from the capital; why would she be taking her brother from a small northern town to the south to find relatives?

The original owner might have had some suspicion of lying or there could be reasons she didn’t know about.

So where had Xia Zhihuaa gone? Based on the original owner’s nature, she wouldn’t have sold her brother out of desperation, would she?

Otherwise, how could she have been so familiar with the business when selling Xiao Jingyuan?

Xia Mo felt a chill run down her spine.

Not having the original owner’s memories was incredibly inconvenient; she didn’t even know what Xia Zhihuaa looked like.

Forget it; she wouldn’t think about it for now. According to the travel permits, she would first head south

“Where did you get these things?”

Xiao Jingyuan had finished eating and was asking her while holding the empty bowl.

“Uh… I…” Xia Mo took a Guanyin jade pendant from around her neck.

Feeling quite ashamed, this was the pendant the original owner had taken from him before selling Xiao Jingyuan.

They had run out of money, and the original owner had originally tried to persuade Xiao Jingyuan to pawn the pendant for silver, but he stubbornly refused.

So she had simply taken advantage of his inattention, knocked him out, stolen the pendant, and sold him as well.

So terrible.

“This is a gift from Guanyin, including the medicine for your wounds; I asked Guanyin for all of it.”

She spoke without blushing or skipping a beat, finding a reasonable excuse for the things she had taken from the convenience store.

Xiao Jingyuan looked at her with a “you’re lying to me” expression, taking the pendant with suspicion.

He stared at it for a while, puzzled, “How do you ask?”

Xia Mo: “…”

“Just… think about what you want while looking at it. If Guanyin is willing to give it to you, then you can have it.”

Xiao Jingyuan held the pendant in his hand, casting doubtful glances at Xia Mo.

He closed his eyes in anticipation and silently wished, but nothing happened.

That expectation gradually turned into ice, then morphed into anger.

“You’re lying to me again! You scammer! You’ve swindled all my silver and sold me…”

Here we go again, Xia Mo thought, feeling a headache coming on.

“Don’t be so quick to curse; give it to me, and I’ll try.”

His angry expression was somewhat cute as he threw the pendant at her.

Xia Mo hurriedly caught it; this thing couldn’t break, as it was an important tool for her to take things from the convenience store.

“What do you want?”

Xiao Jingyuan’s cheeks puffed up in anger, “I… I want to eat a bun.”

That was simple.

“Wait a moment.”

Xia Mo focused her mind, and the scenery before her immediately changed.

At that moment, she was inside the convenience store, looking up at the ceiling, which surprisingly projected the scene of the cave, albeit in a still state.

She quickly grabbed a bun.

When Xiao Jingyuan saw the bun appear out of thin air in her hand, he had to believe it, no matter how shocked he was.

Xia Mo grinned as she handed the bun to him, “See, I didn’t lie to you. Go ahead and eat.”

Xiao Jingyuan took it with confusion, “Why is it that when you ask with my Guanyin pendant, you get something, but I don’t?”

Xia Mo crossed her arms, looking nonchalant.

“How would I know? You can ask Guanyin.”

Xiao Jingyuan: “…”

After eating and drinking their fill, the two temporarily called a truce.

Xiao Jingyuan didn’t fully believe her words and remained on guard against her.

Xia Mo felt quite helpless about this.

Given the original owner’s misdeeds, it was only right for her to be strangled, let alone just being on guard against her.

Fortunately, the two passed the night peacefully, and by dawn the next day, she asked for breakfast from the Guanyin pendant, getting porridge, steamed buns, tea eggs, milk, and oden from the convenience store—quite a feast.

They ate until they were full.

Afterward, she called Xiao Jingyuan to the side.

“Hey, what are your plans?”