A Petty Official Chapter 1

The strong winds blew up the heavy rain, which passed through the mountains and forests, making a whistling sound. The rain washed the soil, gathered into yellow streams, filled the small pits trampled by livestock, and then flowed down, making the mountain road even more slippery.

Emma Yun hugged the camera wrapped in a raincoat tightly in her arms and shouted in the sound of the rain: "Olivia Xiao, what are you doing!"

The guide and township officials nearby also said anxiously: "Let that little girl come over here quickly!"

This is the southwestern mountainous area of   City A. Ethan Yun is a TV reporter who came here with intern Olivia Xiao to shoot materials. However, they never expected that the originally sunny weather would suddenly turn into a rainstorm, and they could only hurriedly pack up their equipment.

The township officials and guides in charge of the reception all grew up in the mountain villages, and they all said they had to go down the mountain immediately.

But the intern Olivia Xiao was still hesitating there, which made Ethan Yun a little anxious.

Olivia Xiao said with a sad face: "Brother Yun, my spare battery fell there."

Olivia Xiao was a little hasty when packing up because he was afraid that the equipment would get wet in the rain. He slipped and the spare battery fell out of his hand. The mountain road was steep, and fortunately it was caught by the dense grass below, but Olivia Xiao would have had a hard time getting it even if he knelt on the ground.

Their equipment is all owned by the station, and all entry and exit must be registered, and they must be returned the same way they took them out. This original battery costs more than a thousand yuan, and Olivia Xiao is an intern with not particularly good family conditions, so of course he can't just ignore it.

Understanding this, Ethan Yun had no choice but to ask the township cadres to help him get the camera and then he went back.

"You go first, I'll pick it up." Ethan Yun let Olivia Xiao go forward first, and he knelt down, grabbed the tree roots next to him, stretched out his arms and bent down to pick up the batteries.

The heavy rain was pouring down, washing his face and blurring his vision. Ethan Yun clung to the roots of the tree tightly and stretched out his hand with all his strength. His two fingers barely touched the battery.

He was delighted and was about to make another effort, but his feet suddenly slipped, his hands could not keep their balance, and he fell forward. All he heard was Olivia Xiao's shrill scream, and then he lost consciousness.

Ethan Yun's last thought was, "Please don't let me get injured. It's not worth it just for a thousand dollars..."

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The gentle singing awakened Ethan Yun's consciousness, and then her body gradually recovered and her brain was able to control her body.

Ethan Yun only felt that he was in a warm embrace. He opened his eyes with great effort, and what came into his sight was a gentle and beautiful face. The red lips opened and closed, and a gentle song flowed out.

Then, a concerned look appeared on this face: "Yan'er, you are awake, is your head still hurting?"

The strange visual effect and the unfamiliar woman made Ethan Yun's heart skip a beat. He raised his hand and looked in front of him. It was so short and small, obviously the hand of a child.

The young woman's hand fell on Emma Yun's head and she said distressedly: "Don't go up the mountain next time when it rains. You are so small that you can't even walk steadily... Fortunately, you didn't fall and get hurt this time."

Listening to the young woman's chattering, Ethan Yun's heart was filled with turmoil. After a closer look, she saw that the narrow-sleeved ancient costume on the young woman was neither old nor new, and was obviously hand-sewn. It was obviously different from the clothes in the photo studio, and the surrounding furnishings were definitely not modern style.

This real touch, this shrunken body, this magical environment...

Ethan Yun came to a conclusion that he had traveled through time.

Although it was a bit strange, the first thought that came to Ethan Yun's mind was, in this case, it seems that I don't have to work overtime?

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Ethan Yun was still in a daze when the young woman picked her up, dressed her, gave her some hot water, and then carried her out of the room she was in.

The big house outside looked like a hall. There were bamboo mats on the ground, and about eight or nine children were sitting on them playing games. Their ages ranged from a few months to seven or eight years old. The youngest one was held in the arms of a five-year-old girl.

It was this little girl who, upon seeing the young woman coming out, immediately ran to her legs with the baby in her arms, looking up and asking, "How is my brother?"

Just now, Emma Yun looked around the furnishings in the house and found that this family was very poor. Apart from the bed, there was a shelf with a few clothes hanging on it. The only furniture outside was a table and a few bamboo mats.

Even though she was so poor, she still had so many brothers and sisters? How could a young woman who looked slender and gentle be so fertile?

"Be good, brother is fine." As soon as the young woman finished speaking, the child in the little girl's arms pursed his lips a few times and started crying. The young woman bent down and put Emma Yun down, told him to stand up by himself, then took the child and started feeding him.

Ethan Yun almost couldn't stand at the beginning and grabbed the young woman's clothes. Seeing this, the little girl came forward to support him.

"Brother Yan, come and sit down." The little girl led Emma Yun back to a bamboo mat.

Ethan Yun sat cross-legged on the bamboo mat and could hear the humming of a baby as it fed, the sound of children clapping their hands, their childish laughter, and the lowing of cows in the distance.

Looking down, I saw gray and bumpy stone slabs. The room was not very bright, and the sunlight poured in through the tall windows.

Oh my God, where on earth did he travel to?

"Brother Yan, are you okay?" Several children who were playing around found that Brother Yan seemed to be too silent, and finally couldn't help asking, "It's all our fault. We will never stop playing with you in the future..."

What does this mean? Could it be that this "Brother Yan" had a quarrel with his brothers and ran to the mountain and fell down?

Although he had not yet fully accepted the current situation, Ethan Yun's rationality made him whisper back: "It's okay."

When the children heard this, they hugged Emma Yun back and laughed foolishly for a while.

Probably because there were so many children in the family, including one who was still breastfeeding, the young woman was always busy. This also gave Ethan Yun the opportunity to get information from the children.

However, the child really didn't know much, so Ethan Yun only asked in a roundabout way what his current body was called, how old he was, and the relationship between them.

His body is only two or three years old now, and his name is also Ethan Yun---and when he took a look at himself through the reflection in the basin of water, he found that his appearance was exactly the same as when he was a child.

This made Ethan Yun almost suspect that he had fallen into a parallel world or his past life. He just didn't know whether his original little soul had left the world or came into his modern body. If it was the latter... he would probably be considered to have become mentally ill.

As for the relationship between them, it is true that the young woman is his mother, but she is not a heroic mother who gave birth to ten children in a row. All the children except him are orphans.

This place should be a place for adopting orphans. As for the young woman, judging from her attire and the fact that she doesn't have much money, she probably didn't adopt the child. She was most likely just hired to take care of the child.

Ethan Yun played with the children for a while with a heavy heart, and then the young woman called everyone to eat. She moved the tables and chairs to the shade of the open space outside the door, and then brought the food.

Ethan Yun took a look and found that there were many broken bran shells in the rice. There was no other way. In ancient times, it took a long time to process and poor people could not afford to eat fine rice and flour. As for the vegetables, Ethan Yun could recognize them. They were bamboo shoots and bracken, without any meat.

The young woman was still gently urging each child to eat, including Ethan Yun.

Ethan Yun picked up the bowl, took a bite, and then frowned. Although it was for children and had been cooked soft, the bran inside was still very irritating to the throat. Then he found that other children were eating vegetables to finish their meals, so he followed suit.

Even so, Ethan Yun couldn't help but put down his chopsticks halfway through his meal. He looked at the other children who were wolfing down their food, the frail and pale young woman, and the empty house, and a surge of lofty sentiments and ambitions arose in his heart.

Since I have already worn it and my situation is not very good, but in order to eat better food in ancient times, I must work hard to grow up and improve my living environment! !

Ethan Yun firmly picked up the bowl and took another big mouthful of the unpalatable wheat rice.

At this time, a fat woman hurried into the yard and said to the young woman with a pale face: "Madam Zheng, it's bad, it's bad, the boss has lost a lot of money in business, and wants to fire us, close this Ciyou Village, and sell the land to make up for it."

Emma Yun replied: ...

...Damn, his ambition hasn’t even come to fruition yet and he’s already unemployed.