Chapter 1 Born to be Different
Zhang Shun was reborn, and the rebirth of the poor god was in the late Ming Dynasty. He could not play games online or stay at home to watch dramas. This tragic life was simply.
His name is Zhang Shun in this life. He felt a little depressed. He didn't know if he wanted to give himself the name "Wangli Baitiao"?
What’s even more tragic is that he was an otaku who could not resist his shoulders and his hands in his previous life. He traveled through this life and was even more lazy. He could not endure hardships and was still poor and was very particular.
As the soul of a modern man, he was afraid that he would be destroyed by the tragic environment of the ancient times. Therefore, he had to drink water and boil it, and had to eat fresh food. He did not travel far without a donkey or horse when walking. He had to rest for a while if he had worked hard. He could not get the scorching sun or the wind, frost, rain and snow. He was 8 feet tall and fat, and he only practiced some guns and rods and fished in the water. He was ridiculed by the villagers as a "fake prince."
In fact, as a modern person, he has seen his parents working hard all day long, and he is not without filial piety and also tries to do some farm work. As the saying goes, "If you have a mountain backer, you will only bear it without a mountain." If you really have a support, you will never be able to make up your mind to endure the hardships of farming.
Fortunately, his father was healthy and healthy in this life. Because his mother died early, he was particularly spoiled by him and could not make up his mind to let his son suffer. Originally, the old father wanted to save some money himself, let him go to a private school or use it as a capital to do some small business, but he never thought that "there will be unexpected things in heaven, and people will be lucky and good luck at any time."
When the winter began in the fourth year of Chongzhen, my father fell to the ground while chopping wood outside and never got up again. In this era, when there was a shortage of doctors and medicine, no one knew what kind of disease it was, and the person was gone. Based on his experience in his previous life, Zhang Shun estimated that it should be diseases such as cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral infarction. Even if it was not discovered in time in later life, it would be difficult to treat it.
A father and son are born in one lifetime, and a family relationship is in love for one lifetime. Although Zhang Shun was a little indifferent to his feelings for two lifetimes, he still blamed himself: if he had suffered more, perhaps his father would not have any trouble.
The death was gone, and it was too late to regret it. Zhang Shun had to find someone to spend money to hire a Taoist priest to do a simple ritual for his father, which was a sign of expressing his feelings.
In this era, rural farmers were quite poor. They dealt with food and drink all day long, and some poor families had never even seen copper coins. Most of them had bartered from some demands. The richer ones had food and some were rich, and they could raise some chickens and ducks, sell some money, and they could respond to their urgent needs. Some were even poorer, who could not pay heavy taxes and abandon their land and flee.
Zhang Shun is now in Zhangjia Village under the rule of Chenzhou, Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan Province. Henan has always been a major agricultural province. It has a very important position in agricultural society. Since ancient times, those who have won the Central Plains will win the world. Even though the center of economic gravity has moved south since the Song Dynasty, Henan is still one of the important granaries in the north. This kind of abandonment has occurred. Zhang Shun had to sigh: This Ming pill is.
Zhang Shun read many Ming Chuan novels in his previous life, and he knew the importance of soldiers and horses in troubled times. He understood the routine: first practice spearmen, set up spear formations to suppress bandits and Anmin; then recruit craftsmen, build muskets, line up and shoot, and occupy the base; then blast furnaces smelting iron, trade to make money; cast cannons, build armor, and then snowballs to develop and grow, and eventually unify the world, three palaces, six courtyards, seventy-two concubines, etc.
However, most villagers regard him as a lazy and unfilial descendant, and they are reluctant to listen to him. Instead of doing farm work, they practice martial arts for him to be subordinates. Isn’t this talking in a sleep?
Zhang Shun followed the example of the "predecessors" and tried to do some business and make some money. However, no one of the villagers was willing to be the enemy and lend him capital. Although his family could still have enough food, he still had no capital to sit there. Helplessly, since Zhang Shun was reborn, he had been so confused for 17 or 8 years. He thought in his mind that the world would be in chaos. Since he was unable to turn the tide, he should be safe. After preparing to bury his old father, he sold his property and found a place to avoid disaster.
Not to mention Zhang Shun's long-term plan, this time, Zhang Shun, as an unfilial son, was willing to spend money to do rituals for his father, which made the villagers look at him with admiration. Zhang Shun's father was a resident who moved from another place and had no relatives. Zhang Shun didn't know any messy etiquette and didn't know how to start. Unexpectedly, the villagers who had sarcasticted to him came to help, which made Zhang Shun feel warm.
That morning, Zhang Shun was walking in mourning clothes and greeting neighbors who came to help, but happened to see an old Taoist priest wearing a patched Taoist uniform and holding a whisk walking into the door. Zhang Shunxin said: This should be the Taoist priest who invited to do rituals, so he bowed and said, "It's a good job, Taoist priest."
Unexpectedly, the old Taoist priest was obviously stunned when he saw him, but he quickly bowed and said, "I dare not, I am late. I hope you will forgive me."
Zhang Shun and the villagers were shocked when they saw this. In Chinese feudal society, officials were respected, followed by gentry and scholars, and Buddhist monks and elderly people. This old Taoist master was young and had a childish face and fairy-like appearance. Zhang Shun was young and could not bear such a great gift. He quickly helped him up and said, "How dare you?"
After seeing this, the villagers couldn't help laughing: Another one was fooled!
It turns out that Zhang Shun is very good-looking, eight feet tall, with lightning eyes, and a white and fat person, and a slow-witted personality. He likes to walk in a square step. If it weren't for his short clothes full of patches, no one would have doubted it to be the son of a wealthy family.
The old Taoist looked at the villagers contemptuously, and without saying anything, he went to do the ritual according to the arrangement.
Zhang Shun was busy for a day and finally buried his father. He was sad in his heart and wanted to be quiet for a while. The old man in the village said again: "The Taoist priest who came to do the rituals and the villagers who helped him have not left. He needs to make a few more banquets. Thank you for your help."
Zhang Shun had no choice but to arrange for the villagers to help prepare two tables of banquets and invite everyone to have a banquet. The villagers were poor and did not get oil and water all year round, so they were reluctant to leave. They just drank almost from the evening to the late night.
So, someone used the alcohol to mock the old Taoist priest, saying that his eyes were not good, and he was fooled by Zhang Shun's appearance. The Taoist priest also drank too much, and laughed: "How old are you, you are the best at face-to-face, and you never get flawed. You are blind and dare to laugh at me. This is really a dragon trapped in shallow water and was played by shrimps, and a tiger fell into a flat sun and was bullied by dogs."
The villagers were rude and ignorant, and were scolded by the old Taoist priest without annoyance. They just teased: "What a dragon or a tiger, what a big man is? We all call him "fake prince". There may be a throne in our family to inherit."
When the old Taoist priest saw someone questioning, he pointed at Zhang Shun and said, "Look at the sides of this hairy forehead, the nose bones are connected up and down, like a big seal. There is a name here called the 'Chaotian Fuxi Bone', which is a sign of great wealth and honor."
"How rich and noble can you be?"
"The generals and ministers are at a low level! The emperors are at a serious level!"
The villagers had never heard of such a person. They immediately didn't dare to eat food or drink wine, but just listened to the old Taoist priest's words with their ears.
"If you look at his eyes again, they are dark and big, and they are powerful without anger. This is the noble appearance of the dragon's eyes. This is what you think others are often deceived. He doesn't look like an ordinary person. Besides, if you look closely at his pupils, they are embedded in size, and the legendary double pupils are characteristic that only the legendary Emperor Shun has."
"Look at his eyebrows are thick and upward, like a knife, which is exactly the appearance of an emperor killing and attacking." "Look at his ears are big and thick, with the earlobes hanging down; his arms are stretched, his hands are over his knees, just like Uncle Liu of the Three Kingdoms."
"I used to read photos of the picture books, but I just thought that my predecessors made it up. How could anyone look like this? Now I know that there are such strange people in the world." The old Taoist said with emotion. To be honest, he himself was a little unbelievable that he had met an emperor and noble man.
"Be careful, this is the sin of beheading!" I don't know who reacted at this time and suddenly said.
Everyone was frightened and did not dare to speak. The old Taoist priest was also scared and sweated in cold sweat. After drinking three points, he covered up embarrassedly: "I drink too much, talk nonsense! Don't take it seriously."
Zhang Shun was a little sad at first and didn't care about listening to these things. Later, they were louder, but they heard them compiled them like this, and they didn't care much. After all, they were deeply educated by materialism in later generations and kept a distance from these feudal superstitions.
Only they said that they had doubled their pupils, which made him a little worried. In this era, mirrors were usually made of copper. Since copper was money, only some ladies from wealthy families had this thing. Zhang Shun had never looked in a mirror since he traveled through time.
For this reason, Zhang Shun decided to look back and look at his eyes. Because later research shows that the so-called "double pupils" are pupil adhesions, which are said to be an early manifestation of cataracts. He must not become blind. Cataract surgery cannot be performed in this era.
In this way, after burying his old father, Zhang Shun was going to sell his property and go to the distance to escape, but unexpectedly, the villagers' attitude towards him changed drastically in the past few days. The girls who were respectful and fearful of him and even looked at him began to look at him, leaving Zhang Shun speechless.
A few days later, Zhang Shun got up lazily from the bed as usual, and slept until the sun was high, preparing to eat the remaining meat for the funeral.
But he never thought that with a hush, his door was knocked open. Zhang Shun jumped up from the bed and saw that a girl who often glared at him was running in panic.
Zhang Shun was shocked. Are all girls in this era so bold? Didn’t it say that the ancients were conservative in their thoughts? How could they reject her?
However, when the girl saw him, she quickly shouted out panting: "Zhang Sheng, leave quickly! Someone has reported to you, the magistrate sent someone to catch you, and asked about your news at the entrance of the village."
"What are you trying to catch me? I haven't broken the law?" Zhang Shun asked strangely.
"Catch you to rebel?"
"Where did I rebel?"
Chapter completed!