At the end of February in the second year of Guanghe, Qingzhou Jinan Guoli City
At this time, the spring cold has not subsided, and although the sun has risen, I can't feel much warmth.
Zhang Chong was wearing a single coat and leading his younger brothers and sisters, who were pulling weeds on their 20 acres of thin fields. This morning, before leaving the house, his father had repeatedly told him to clear the grass from the ground and wait for him.
When we come back, we need to plant crops.
Zhang Chong didn't know what grass was, but common sense told him that it must be the staple food for his family of six to survive. Don't think that Zhang Chong is an insect who doesn't distinguish between grains. He is not from this world. Three days ago
, he was playing computer games, his eyes darkened, and he was here.
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Zhang Chong opened his eyes and saw a thatched roof and clay walls. He was sleeping on a hard wooden board and covered with a straw bedding. There was also a stench in the house that was suffocating him.
Hold your breath.
After a while, he recovered, and then he groped in the darkness again, and suddenly he touched something round and midwinter, and wanted to touch it again.
A resentful voice came from the darkness: "Second brother, you don't sleep in the dark? Why are you arresting me?"
When Zhang Chong was frightened, he stood up and subconsciously punched the sound. Fortunately, Zhang Chong had good eyesight. Even though the hole was dark, he could still see clearly that it was a child and that the sound came from him.
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"Shi Zaizi, are you a night owl? You have to get up to do work before dawn, so go to bed quickly." At this time, this rough voice came from another place in the darkness.
"Shizizi? Are you talking about me? Where is this? Who are they? How am I here?" He wanted to get up immediately and rush out. He suspected that he had been kidnapped. But he also thought that if he were here with the kidnappers,
If your intention to escape is exposed, the ending may not be happy!
Besides, I don’t know where I am now, so where can I run to at night? Let’s just wait and see what happens, not moving like a mountain.
Motionless as a mountain, snoring like thunder...
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With his memories shattered, Zhang Chong retracted his thoughts. After three days of collecting information, Zhang Chong never stopped wishing for a moment, if only he had been kidnapped, if only he had been kidnapped!
After being kidnapped, there was at least a chance of being rescued, but now? He came to a small rural area in Shandong during the Han Dynasty.
The information here was too limited. In three days, he walked around in a circle. Without being exposed, he only barely knew that this was Dahan, this village was called Dasangli, and the people living in Dasangli were mainly people with the surname Zhang.
It just so happened that he was named Zhang Chong in his two lives. The name of this life came from two years ago when he turned fifteen and became an adult. His father, Zhang Gouzi, brought two pieces of bacon to the elders of the clan to ask for it.
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For fifteen years before that, the people in Lishe had been calling him Shi Zaizi. The reason was that when his mother was pregnant with him, she almost had a dystocia. Fortunately, the witch in Lishe handled it properly and everything went smoothly. After that, the baby's mother
A Taishan Shi Gandang was brought back from the ancestral hall, and the child was named Shi Zaizi.
Shi Zaizi Zhang Chong still can't figure out whether it is the Western Han Dynasty or the Eastern Han Dynasty.
However, from the place name of Dasangli, he can basically confirm that this society is in the Qin and Han Dynasty stages. Because the natural villages or administrative villages in this society still use townships as their units, and the concept of "village" in later generations still did not exist at this stage.
Relatively rare.
But he was confused as to which stage of the Han Dynasty it fell into. The social status of the family in this world was obviously too low. For three days, he looked around the house and couldn't find an inch of bamboo with writing on it. It was wooden.
I saw a lot of farming tools, including an iron plow head, which was one of the few metal products in my home.
The family also raised six Lu chickens and a sow. What he couldn't stand was that the sow's pen was right behind the earthen hut where he slept. No wonder he smelled a foul smell the day he just crossed over.
In addition, there are two sets of fishing nets hanging outside the house, which are the joint property of his father and his two uncles. It is February now, the fishing moratorium, so the fishing nets and fishing gear are hanging at the door. Only his father has time to do it.
Make up for it.
Zhang Chong estimated that the fish caught in the net were all eaten by his own family and would not be sold. He had walked to the north of Dasangli, where there was a 70-meter-wide river, and chatted with the aunties washing clothes there.
Here, he knew that this water was one of the famous four rivers, Jishui.
He saw a big pond on the edge of Jishui River.
Seeing Zhang Chong looking at Pitang, the aunt beside him said in an envious tone:
"Shi Zaizi, don't look at it. Zhang Tiehu just asked his family's Changyong to plant seedlings in the pond. If Xie continues to steal like last year, how many pigs are there to withstand it? I don't know, Zhang Tiehu last year.
After collecting 600 shi of fish, they followed the Jishui River to the city to sell it. They said they brought back baskets of copper coins, which almost capsized the boat. Now Zhang Tiehu is rare for this fish.
Come on, don’t be a coward!"
This iron door is the nickname of Zhang Hong, the third elder in Dasangli. The tribesmen in Lishe said that this man is just like having an iron gate at home, and he is stingy and greedy towards his tribe!
In Zhang Chong's view, Zhang Hong's family is a powerful family in Dashangli. I heard that one-third of the land nearby is tenanted by his clan members. As a local powerful man, he not only controls the economy of Dashangli, but also has a son.
, working as the director of the pavilion next door.
As for the chief of the pavilion in Dasangli, he is a powerful family next door. It seems that the local tycoons are not bad, and they also understand the advantages of exchanging places.
After three days of investigation and visits, he got a lot of information. But the more important unexpected gain was that he slowly accepted the result of time travel. The scenery here is so real, and the characters are so flesh and blood. Just take it now and follow
Behind him, his two younger siblings were busy weeding together, their faces blue and red from the cold, distorted and distressed.
Obviously, the job of weeding is really tiring.
Look at his hands again. He is only seventeen years old and already as thick as an old farmer. Look at his almost naked body again. The layers of ribs are clearly visible. That’s right, Zhang Chong is not wearing any clothes now, only his lower body is in his waistband.
A calf-nosed trousers, so short that it looks like you are not wearing any.
Before, his father asked him to follow him to the field. Seeing that he was still wearing clothes, he immediately gave Zhang Chong a few slaps, scolding him for being ignorant and not caring about clothes.
Can I wear clothes when I go to the ground?
After being educated by his father, Zhang Chong realized that his tattered linen clothes, which he had remade again and again, were actually worth two months of food rations for the six members of his family. From their twenty acres of land, they could only produce sixty shi of shelled rice a year.
For the corn, four shi of corn had to be handed over, and what was left was barely enough for six people to eat and drink.
This was after October, and the generals who did not work in the fields had to rely on drinking water. In addition, they had to pay five hundred yuan every year. If there was not a mother at home who weaved day and night and went to the market to exchange for copper coins, they would
One family has gone bankrupt.
After my father said that, he looked helpless, and looked at Zhang Chong with a hint of guilt in his eyes. Seeing that Zhang Chong was unconscious, he couldn't help but persuade him.
"Shi Zaizi, don't blame me. Our ancestors have come down this way. I remember that when Grandpa Xie pawned ten acres of land, I just found Mother Xie. Now I'm looking for a wife for Brother Xie and I've pawned another ten acres of land. If
If I look for it again for you, the family will have to disperse. I am old enough to know things. Hey, our family’s farmland was only one hectare, but now I only have twenty acres left. I am ashamed of my ancestors.”
After saying that, he lowered his head in frustration.
Yes, Zhang Chong has grown up. In the Han Dynasty, he was fifteen cents. He is seventeen this year, and his height is already seven feet six inches. Now he is also 1.75 meters tall. No matter where he is, he is already the top of the family.
Looks like it.
As for what to know?
Zhang Chong is not stupid. He knows what his father means. The family only has enough food for six people. The eldest brother has a wife and wants to come in, so there will be an extra mouth. If the family wants to stay together, he can only go out and leave alone.
If you are established, whether you are working as a tenant or as a servant for a wealthy family, you have to make a living by yourself.
Thinking of his father's dark, wrinkled face like tree bark, Zhang Chong patted his watery belly, sighed, and continued to work on pulling weeds with his siblings.
Not long after I started working, a young man leading a horse came to the field. He looked tough and was probably in his thirties. He had a long beard and was wrapped in a kerchief. He wore a red scarf on his head and a waistband.
There was a hand-wrapped knife hanging on the side, and the sword was wrapped in black cloth. There was dust on his face. Even in early spring, his forehead was dripping with sweat, obviously he had not walked lightly.
The young man wiped his sweat with his sleeve, sat down on the farm of Zhang Chong's house, and said to Zhang Chong: "I'm a little kid, and I'm begging for a ladle of water with you. I'm walking so hard that my tongue is burning. If I have water, I'll give it to you."
Ask for a scoop."
The land of Zhang Chong's family is close to the official road outside the inner house. In the past two days, I have seen many traveling merchants and obtained a lot of useful information, but this is the first time I have seen them dressed like this.
This horse, this sword, I'm afraid he is not a heroic man.
Thinking of it, Zhang Chong quickly ran to the other side of the field and brought over a jar of water, which he scooped from the well in Lishe in the morning. At this time of year, the well water was not cold at all.
The man in red was not polite. He first untied the kerchief from his beard, then took the earthenware jug, and drank heavily. He drank most of the jug before he was satisfied. He wiped the water from his beard, and then wrapped it with the kerchief.
It seems that this bearded man takes good care of his beard.
Zhang Chong watched as the bearded man finished drinking water and was about to leave. He didn't have time to blame him for being blunt and rude, so he quickly said:
"Brother, where are you going after all your travels?"
The bearded man did not reply. He looked at the young man and the young man in the field and asked first:
"Where is the Master of the Wei family?"
The boy next to him saw the majesty of the bearded man and excitedly started talking:
"My father, my uncles, and my eldest brother all went to the club together. They said there was a spring festival today, but it was a grand event. But my father didn't let us go. In previous years, we all went, those wearing masks.
What a majestic person."
The bearded man laughed, then turned cold:
"Huh, your father is right not to let you go. If you go, it will be a nightmare. Now, if they beg me, they are begging Huang Tian. Although they are not from my circle, they still have to take care of it.
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"Brother Xie, don't be distracted! Do you know the place where you can go to Lishe for treatment? Hurry up and lead the way. I was invited by father and brothers to make the decision. Don't delay."
Zhang Chong, who had been distracted ever since Big Beard spoke, finally came back to his senses. He understood what Big Beard meant. After suppressing his thoughts, he gave instructions to his younger sister and younger brother.
"Brother, you take Xiaoni and take the pottery jar back home, and go home to be with grandma. I'll take this eldest brother to the club. Hurry up."
At this time, the bearded man had already walked along the straight road. Zhang Chong, who fell behind the bearded man, showed a look of shock. This was because a twisted window was appearing on the bearded man's head.
There are only five words in it: "Proficient in the art of ring-shou sword"
Wuhu, let’s go, I, no, my golden finger finally arrived.