It rained and the yellow talisman became wet. Bai Su threw the yellow talisman away and smiled.
"Ms. sir, do you also believe in ghosts and gods?"
"Huh?" Li Jun was stunned.
"The yellow talisman is issued by the Anping County government. The masters of the Demon Suppression Department say that there are ghosts. Every household in Anping County has a yellow talisman. Are there no ghosts and gods in the world?"
Li Jun frowned. When he first traveled through time, he looked at the yellow symbols all over the street and thought he was wearing the wrong set!
Later, he just relied on eavesdropping on the conversations of his neighbors and got a preliminary understanding of the world.
The theory of ghosts and gods was deeply ingrained in his mind.
"Foolish gentleman."
Bai Su held his hand tightly and exhaled softly.
"The theory of ghosts and gods is just a policy of the government to fool the people. They dare not go out in the middle of the night because they are afraid that the refugees will eat people. The village leader in our village has already said that if people die and turn to ashes, how can there be any ghosts?
Do you still remember what happened when we were children? We were childhood sweethearts, holding hands together to catch night fish in the river, going up the mountain to catch night centipedes, lying in the grass and watching the fireflies fly. You said you wanted to marry me, and then I said, I won’t marry you.
If you like to go down to the river to catch fish at night, sooner or later the water ghost will carry you back to be the mistress of the water."
"You've touched the night fish so many times, but you still haven't seen the water ghost carry you away?" Bai Su teased.
Li Jun smiled: "So you have coveted me since you were a child?"
"I hate it~" Bai Su blushed in embarrassment and stood close to Li Jun. Her little body was trembling. I don't know if it was cold or excitement.
Li Jun put his arms around her waist, which was so thin that it was too thin to be held, as if it could be cut off at any time.
There is an allusion about King Chu's love for thin waists. Literati and poets have scolded King Chu for thousands of years, but Li Jun now understands King Chu's psychology. Alas, when a woman's waist is extremely thin, it really makes people love and pity her!
Li Jun remained silent.
Bai Su stood up on tiptoes and kissed Li Jun's forehead shyly.
Bai Su was stunned for a moment, then said: "Mr. sir, don't be afraid. No matter what you have experienced, Su Su will definitely protect you. There are no ghosts or gods in the world. Have you ever seen anyone around you actually encounter a ghost?"
"Well, that seems to be the reason."
Li Jun thought about it, and it seemed that since he traveled through time, he had heard people talk about ghosts and ghosts every day, but he had never seen anyone actually encounter them, and Li Jun himself had not encountered them either.
Is there a world without ghosts?
Is it just feudal superstition?
Li Jun was in a good mood. After all, he didn't want to travel to a world full of ghosts!
"Look at Liulin..."
Bai Su jumped up and ran over, dragging Li Jun. Sure enough, he saw a willow forest next to the official road. In late autumn, many dead leaves fell on the path. The rotten leaves had been accumulated for many years, and they became soft and hollow when stepped on.
foot.
After walking for a long time, we finally entered the village.
Arriving into the village just before dark, Bai Su took a long breath, rubbed his sore legs, and entered the village arm in arm with Li Jun.
The rain just stopped.
The village is quite quaint, with rows of rammed earth houses, roofs covered with straw, and stone rollers, stone mills, and stone rollers placed in front of the door. This made Li Jun very novel. In the era before he traveled, these had long been eliminated.
Earthy stuff.
He has seen stone rollers and stone mills before. Some B&B restaurants like to display these things to attract business.
Every household has straw piled high in front of their earthen houses. The golden straw is piled high. Li Jun saw it in the countryside when he was a child. In winter, the cattle had no food to eat. The farmers mixed this with soybean meal and fed it to the cattle.
Times have changed, and cattle and straw piles have long been eliminated in the countryside. Unexpectedly, Li Jun traveled to ancient times and saw the things in the countryside of his childhood again, which made him feel more intimate.
"Ms. sir, what are you looking around for?"
"Uh, curious."
Li Jun hurriedly looked away. His current identity was that of an uncle from the city, and he returned home in fine clothes.
Well, it was a bit ironic to return home in fine clothes. Li Jun finally dug out a half-old gown to wear, and specially put on his only pair of cloth shoes. There was also a jade pendant hanging around his waist, but the quality of the jade was quite poor and it belonged to the country.
Coarse material.
A few cents each, Li Junyuan picked it up in person.
"Hey, isn't this Li Jun?"
"I haven't seen you for a few months, and I'm a little fairer again. I am indeed a well-educated person in the city. Come quickly, come quickly, my family is killing pigs for the night today, and the folks are waiting at my house to eat the pig-killing vegetables. It's so delicious! White
Brother Bai’s sister-in-law is here too!”
Brother Bai and Sister-in-law Bai should be Li Jun’s parents-in-law.
But Li Jun doesn’t remember who the person in front of him is?
The only reason is that after the death of the original person, Li Jun received too few residual memories.
"This is Uncle Zhang, the butcher in our village who is responsible for killing pigs! My husband, you seem to be in a bad state recently. Why have you forgotten so many things?" Bai Su frowned, thoughtfully.
"Well, I lost my job a few days ago. I was a little stimulated and forgot a lot of things." Li Jun smiled faintly and found a lame excuse. No matter what, no one could find out that he had traveled through time.
There were no royal laws in ancient times. What if someone thought you were a monster and burned you to death?
"My husband has been wronged. Let's go eat pig meat. You can eat more to replenish your body."
Bai Su believed Li Jun's words.
She held Li Jun tighter with her bare hands, tightly, as if she was afraid that Li Jun would run away.
The two followed Butcher Zhang into the courtyard.
Li Jun observed carefully and saw an old dog lying at the door. The old dog stuck out its tongue feebly, had a big belly, and its coat was messy and dirty. There were warehouses full of rice piled in the corridor of the courtyard, and the grains were full.
In the middle of the yard, a fat pig with black skin and big ears was tied up, grunting and meowing.
Next to the fat pig were boiling boiling water, a large wooden barrel, a sharp knife, a machete, a meat cleaver, a chain hook, a bamboo tube, a razor, a chopping board and other tools for killing the pig.
Many men, women and children gathered together to chat. Although the clothes they wore were coarse linen, they were clean and tidy. Their faces were filled with joyful smiles, which was different from the ancient rural areas Li Jun imagined.
Li Jun remembers that when he read history books before traveling through time, farmers in ancient times were very miserable.
Urban-rural development is extremely unbalanced.
Take the late Ming Dynasty as an example.
A mother-in-law in the Jiangnan market can wear silk clothes, silk shoes, and transgressive clothing. Ordinary servants spend enough money in the summer. Wu Dalang in the Water Margin written by the Ming Dynasty has a house facing the street to live in, so he has no worries about food and drink.
In the rural areas of the late Ming Dynasty, it was just the opposite. Excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes were imposed, land was annexed, sons and daughters were sold, and people were displaced.
Is this ancient time that Li Jun traveled through strange?
The ordinary people in Anping County live a miserable life, but every household in the countryside has enough food and clothing?
"What do you think, sir?"
"I was thinking that since our village is so prosperous, I won't go back to Anping County anymore. Being a small landowner would be pretty good."
Li Jun was telling the truth. Thinking about the shabby house in Xishi he rented in Anping County and the little food in the rice vat, he really didn't want to stay anymore.
It is better to be a small landowner in the countryside, start a rice field fish breeding, make soap, toilet water, and brew wine, and you can also make a fortune.
Bai Su smiled bitterly: "My husband is joking."
She sighed.
"I still hope that you will return to Anping County, work hard, and get ahead. What's the future of farming in your hometown?"