Eight-Year-Old Child, Empties Scum Father's Storeroom and Goes into Exile with Maternal Grandparents' Family

Chu Chunxi, the eight-year-old daughter of the Pingyang Marquis Manor in Kyoto of the Daqing Dynasty, is reborn with all the memories of her previous life that ended at age fifteen. She wakes before dawn on the eighth day of the tenth month, knowing that within hours the Jing General’s Mansion, her maternal grandfather’s household, will be raided and charged with treason by imperial edict. In her past life, this catastrophe destroyed her family: her grandfather General Jing Yongcheng was caned, exiled, and died on the road; her mother Jing Qiurong was stripped of her dowry by her husband Chu Xuan and the manor, then killed along with her younger brother Pu Ge’er after being sent to a country estate; and Chu Chunxi herself, after suffering years of abuse, was taken back only to be forced as a concubine to a sixty-year-old official. She hanged herself when her loyal maid Hongfen was brutally murdered. Now, driven by these memories, she runs to her mother’s bed, sobbing and insisting that they must act immediately to save the Jing family. Her mother initially dismisses it as a nightmare, but Chu Chunxi proves her sincerity by making a pillow disappear and reappear, claiming an Immortal Aunt gave her a Bag of Treasures in a dream. She reveals the specifics: the emperor will accuse her grandfather of treason, confiscate property, and exile all members over ten years old. The Pingyang Marquis Manor, knowing of the disaster, will quickly divorce her mother and seize her dowry to enrich themselves, leaving the mother and children to die. Faced with her daughter’s desperate urgency and inexplicable power, Jing Qiurong believes and begins to follow her plan. Chu Chunxi rapidly directs the family’s most loyal servants. She orders Mi Mama to have Guard Cao prepare a carriage without alerting others, and to buy sturdy horses, an inconspicuous merchants’ carriage, an old handcart, thick quilts, preserved food, ordinary clothing, oilcloth, ample medicines for the exile journey, and several slaughtered pigs, chickens, ducks, and vegetables to stock the safe house. She instructs Ziyi to clear a small house in East City and a manor north of the city for later use, and to place trusted guards there. Qingyi is told to open the storehouse, and Hongfen is sent to gather two specific servants from a past life: the kitchen maid Hongying to guard her younger brother, and the strong, slow-witted but fiercely loyal Shaya to accompany them. Chu Chunxi gives her mother silver notes from her own savings and insists that all indentures of the departing servants be collected for her Bag of Treasures, and that her mother’s shops and manors be sold off at any price that day. She emphasizes that they must not take too many belongings lest the manor become suspicious. Most crucially, Chu Chunxi declares her own decision: she, as a child under ten, will go into exile with her maternal grandparents, using her magical space to carry supplies and protect them on the dangerous road to Lingnan. Her mother and younger brother, along with other children under ten from the Jing family, must stay behind in safety on Qingshan Manor to preserve the family’s future and ensure the children receive proper education. Jing Qiurong, though torn, accepts this as the Immortal Aunt’s will and realizes her role in protecting the surviving children. The mother-daughter pair finalize their arrangements, waiting for dawn and trusting their loyal servants to execute the plan before the imperial edict arrives. The story establishes a foundation for a dramatic escape from the doomed mansion and the start of a perilous journey to reverse the tragic fate of the Jing family.