Although Chang Xile is not very old, he has a lot of things in his heart, and he also has the temperament of a literati.

Chang Xile agreed to get engaged to the daughter of the Qian family, on the one hand, he did have a good impression of the woman - the second daughter of the Qian family was engaged, and she was raised in the boudoir since she was a child, which was completely different from the peasant girl who Chang Xile knew who was busy running in the fields, and this difference had an inexplicable attraction to Chang Xile, who was still young; On the other hand, it is also for the money of the Qian family.

Chang Xile studied outside, and naturally knew how difficult the road of scientific research was, and it was not possible to achieve it with good learning. Don't say anything else, just talk about the money to be spent, and relying on the eggs and firewood of the people in the village alone is not enough for him to continue to take the exam. Even if it can be supplied, it is based on the whole village of people being drained and skinned, how can Chang Xile agree? So he agreed to the Qian family's proposal, and used his marriage to reduce the burden on his family and the people in the village, paving the way for his future.

This made Chang Xile very ashamed, but he had come to this point and had no way out. If he doesn't make a name for himself, how can he face his parents and fellow villagers who are full of expectations for him. What he reads is not books, but the affection that the villagers have accumulated with their own blood and sweat. Maybe the people of Taoyuan Village didn't expect that their actions would bring so much pressure to Chang Xile, and they were active when they paid money and things on weekdays, but in fact, they rarely asked Chang Xile about studying. But Chang Xile is too eager to rise to the top, wanting to change today's poverty, for himself and for these lovely people.

But because of this, the invisible burden on Chang Xile's shoulders has become heavier. He can only study desperately, hoping that one day Toad Palace will win the crown.

Unexpectedly, a disaster ruined a qiē. Chang Xile felt that this was the filthy retribution in his heart, because he couldn't be poor and couldn't move, so God was punishing him. The self-esteem of the literati made him feel guilty all the time, and he was unwilling to investigate the right and wrong at that time when something happened. The Qian family's withdrawal from his relatives made him extremely painful, but he was also relieved in his heart. When he didn't have to face the Qian family, he always felt that his character was despicable and bowed his head in front of money.

However, he no longer has the shame to face his parents and fellow villagers, save money for himself, and work hard to save money. He doesn't know anything but reading. Now that it has become like this again, don't say that after repaying it, I'm afraid that it's just a waste and a burden.

Chang Xile was completely ill, and he would not have left immediately, but he wanted to do something for his father and fellow villagers, so Chang Le came.

Chang Le was already dead, maybe it was fate, Chang Le could replace Chang Xile, and Chang Xile's only request was for him to repay his family and the people of Taoyuan Village for him. Changle wants to live, so he agrees.

Since then, Chang Le has become Chang Xi.

Chang Le should now be called Chang Xile, he is no longer a simple person, but a new individual who combines the memories and emotional responsibilities of two people. He struggled to get up from the bed, covered in sweat, such a rebirth took too much of his energy, and he was already sick, but now he was even more weak.

"Uncle, you're awake!" A small black shadow quickly rushed in, shouting happily, holding Chang Xile's body before he collapsed, letting him lean against the head of the bed.

"Water." Chang Xile spoke with difficulty, and his voice was hoarse.

"Uncle, you wait for me to go and get you water." The little black shadow, Chang Chenghuai, the eldest son of the Chang family's three-room chief, hurriedly ran out when he heard this, shouting loudly as he ran, "Grandparents, father, little uncle is awake, he wants to drink water!" ”

Chang Xile woke up was a big deal, and the whole courtyard was lively, but in the end, only the grandmother-in-law and the eldest daughter-in-law Wang could enter the house, so as not to disturb him.

Chang Xile was fed sugar water by her grandmother, and only then did she have the strength to speak, "Mother, hungry." ”

Grandma's tears fell directly, Chang Xile has been losing his appetite since he learned that he could not conduct scientific examinations, and he didn't like to eat even more after being dismissed from the marriage. If you eat too much, you will vomit, which makes you lose so much weight in such a short time, and now you take the initiative to ask for food, is it possible to get better? !

Wang hurriedly said: "Mother, you are here to take care of the uncle, and I will go to Zhang Luo." ”

Saying that they went out in a hurry, everyone was relieved to hear that Chang Xile actually took the initiative to eat. If you want to eat, it means that the disease is more than half cured!

Because he had not eaten normally for many days, Wang brought millet porridge to nourish his stomach, and he drank a bowl of Chang Xile to really feel that he was alive. Although his body is still very heavy, and his hands and feet are not very obedient, he is still much stronger than when he was lying on the hospital bed in his last days in his previous life.

Chang Xile lay on the bed for three days, so he could barely get off the ground, and after walking a few steps, he felt a little dizzy, this body was too bad, and he had to slowly raise it back.

Xing'er saw that his face was pale, and hurriedly stepped forward to help, "Uncle, you sit here." ”

Chang Xile didn't dare to do it, and with the help of the two children, Xing'er and Yangzi, he sat down on the grass mound in the corner. Although it was already summer, it had not yet begun to get hot, and the sun shining on Chang Xile made him feel very comfortable. It's just that the grass mound is a little short, and it's always a little unaccustomed to bending the legs. According to the memory of the deity, there were no chairs in this world, only the country people liked to use straw to tie the pier into a seat, and the people in the city sat on their knees.

Xing'er is the daughter of Chang Xisheng, the second son of the Chang family, and Yang Zi's name is Chang Cheng, and Yang is the youngest son of the old family, the former is six years old and the latter is just five years old. Because he was small, he was left to take care of Chang Xile, and the other slightly older ones went to help in the fields, and the younger ones were carried on their backs by their own mothers.

Chang has four sons and one daughter in the third room, Chang Xile is the youngest, the older sister has been married, and the grandchildren are currently three boys and three girls. The oldest is nine years old, and the youngest is less than a year old. In addition to the foreign daughters, there are a total of fifteen people.

In this world, not only Taoyuan Village, but all farmers are like this, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, because of low productivity, the busyness of the whole year can only barely make ends meet, once it encounters a disaster year or war, it has become a luxury to live.

Although Chang Xile inherited the memory of his predecessor, the memory of the deity was very barren, all of which were how to study hard and were ignorant of external things. But it's not a big problem, and he will slowly understand it when he recovers. Don't worry about any difference in words and deeds, everyone will only think that he learned it from the city. Most of the people in Taoyuan Village have never been out of the village, and they are afraid that they know less about the outside world than him, an outsider. So his accent and other issues, no one doubts anything at all, and they automatically explain that they were learned from outside.

Chang Xile looked around and looked at the home.

The layout of Chang's house is a large house in the north, a small house in the east and west, and a fence in the south to open a door to enter and exit, and the layout is similar to that of a courtyard house. The open space in the middle is very spacious, and the ground is pressed very flat. The east side of the house was specially built for Chang Xile, and he lived alone in one room, so that he could have a quiet environment to study, and it was a mud and tile house like the big house. Although the house was very simple for Chang Xile, it was spacious and bright, and it was very clean and tidy. The western side of the house, the kitchen, is a relatively simple mud thatched house.

The big house is very spacious, about a meter of land is made of stone, and the top is a rammed earth wall, and you have to go up a staircase made of stone to enter the house. The gate is two heavy wooden doors, and on the left and right sides of the door are small rectangular wooden piers, and you have to cross the threshold of the stomach to cross the door.

The large house was built very high, separated by wooden planks in the middle, and divided into two floors. The lower floor is divided into a hall and four small rooms, two on the north side and one on the east and west rooms. The hall is very spacious, and it is not only for entertaining guests, but also for the collection of millet and other grains, as well as the foot-to-foot rice utensils, etc., are all piled up here, and even now they are used to raise silkworms, and before you even enter the house, you can smell the unique smell of silkworms.

The second floor is also about the same layout, divided into four rooms, which are for children who can sleep alone. The common area was also used as a warehouse, and two coffins were placed. It was Chang Laosan who prepared it for himself and his wife early, which is a local custom, and basically the third generation has to make a coffin for himself in case of emergency. Most of the farmer's stuff is self-sufficient, except for some things that can't be made, such as salt, etc., otherwise they will never spend money on things, and the farmer's cash in their hands is too small. If you don't prepare in advance, you will leave suddenly and you won't even have time to fight the coffin. Because the firewood has to go to the mountains to cut it yourself, and then dry it in the sun, it takes a long process.

There is also a small door on the west side of the second floor, from which you can go out, and the door is very small, and adults have to shrink and get out. Outside is a bamboo shelf platform supported by wooden stakes, the platform is about 20 square meters, used to dry clothes and millet and so on. Taoyuan Village is a mountainous area with very little flat land, so this is done to use the space to build flat land, so almost every family will build such a platform, also known as a sundeck.

Although this home is really a little shabby in Chang Xile's eyes, it can be learned through the memory of Guò's original body that the Chang family's three rooms are among the best in the entire Taoyuan Village, especially the big house, which looks very magnificent, and I don't know how many people envy it. Most of the families in Taoyuan Village live in mud thatched houses, and the poorer ones are bamboo buildings or all-thatched houses, which are just in summer, and the cold wind is swishing in winter, which is very difficult to endure, and it is easy to collapse in heavy rain.

The prosperity of the Chang family in the third room is due to Chang Laosan's courage to go out and explore, and he is a capable person who earns this family business. However, now that Chang Xile has been squandered, there are only these unsellable items left. Although this house is not bad, outsiders will not come to buy a house here, and the locals of Taoyuan Village will also reject outsiders, after all, there are so many resources, and outsiders will share their own interests. Moreover, the criminal law in this world pays attention to joint sitting, so it is even more reluctant to accept outsiders. And the people of this village can't afford it, and they don't want to buy it, so they keep it.

"Uncle, do you still feel uncomfortable?" Yang Ziyuan's round eyes flickered as he stared at Chang Xile, asking with a serious face, like a little adult.

Chang Xile came back to his senses and smiled slightly, "I'm much better, if you want to go out to play, go there, but don't run around, and don't forget to go home." ”

Five-year-old children are the time to have fun, especially when the children here are young and have to go to the fields to do some light work, and the time for the farmers to play is very short. In the past few days, Xing'er and Yangzi have been taking care of him, helping him pour water to help him make it convenient, and being taken care of by such a big fart child makes him very unhappy. If it had been in a previous life, this kind of thing would have been in the news.

Yang Zi waved his hand and shook his head again and again, and said like a little adult: "I don't like to play when I grow up, I want to take care of my uncle and take my uncle to boo." ”

Chang Xile suddenly cried and laughed when he heard this, although these two children were still very young, they were really useful. Although he is weak now, he is not crippled, but his movements are not very convenient, so the Chang family will let the two little ones stay to take care of him. And Yang Zi has always been the youngest boy in the family, and there is only a cousin who is less than a year old below, and this time he was entrusted with a heavy responsibility, and he has always felt that he is a little man now, but he can show himself hard, where is he willing to go away, not to mention that he will definitely be scolded when he turns back.

"I can do it myself now."

At this time, Xing'er took the two straw mounds, handed one to Yang Zi, and sat down on the side, "Uncle, if we don't go anywhere, we will be scolded to death by grandparents and parents." ”

Xing'er's temperament is obviously more jumpy and more fun than Yang Zi, but although she doesn't want to stay at home, she is also very obedient and serious, and there will be no slack.

Chang Xile had just come back from the ghost gate, and the Chang family was not at ease, and they told the two children to take good care of Chang Xile, and the two children were in their hearts. If it weren't for the delay in farm work, the Chang family would definitely leave a laborer to take care of Chang Xile. This is still Chang Xile's insistence on refusing, and there is really no time, so he replaced it with two little ones to take care of.

The original school had already hollowed out this home, and the disease was even more completely squeezed, and the others could only work hard. Otherwise, you won't be able to pay your summer tax.

What kind of tax method is in this world, the original identity is not clear, and Chang Xile only knew it when he heard Xing'er inadvertently mention that everyone was worried about summer taxes.

Although children don't know much about tax policies, they can listen and see a lot, and they know some information. Every summer and autumn, he would take away part of his own grain and woven cloth and give it to the village chief, and then the village chief would lead a few young adults to bring the things handed in by everyone into the county seat. The children do not know the sorrow of adults, but they only know that at this time, people who go out often bring back gadgets from the city, and at this time a group of children will squat at the entrance of the village and look forward to it.

However, Chang Xile later learned that their family did not have to pay land tax because he was a showman. Xing'er heard that it was actually because she borrowed other people's money and had to pay back part of it when the summer tax was paid, otherwise those people would not be able to pay the summer tax.

"Then you can play in the yard, and I'll call you again if I have something." Chang Xile said, although these two children are already more naughty and clever in this family, they are also very sincere. Let them take care of him, and really sit on the side and stare at him inch by inch, and his eyes almost dare not blink. If it weren't for the fact that he was too weak to pay attention to it two days ago, he really couldn't stand such enthusiasm.

Xing'er's eyes suddenly lit up, and the firmness in her eyes turned into hesitation. Yang Zi's eyes looked left and right, and he unconsciously raised his little finger

"You can't eat your fingers." Chang Xile took Yang Zi's fingers out of his mouth, "You guys play, I'll be happy to see you playing." ”

Xing'er no longer refused, and hurriedly ran into the house and ran out again after a while, holding a reed pole about six inches long in her hand, and hurriedly said to Yang Zi: "Let's play with wooden sticks!" ”

Yang Zi grinned, clapped his hands and said, "Okay, good!" ”

Xing'er doesn't usually take him to play with these, and his little friends don't like to play this.

Chang Xile also became interested, and when he crossed, the children either went directly to the playground or played with their iPads, an ancient game that few people played.

"Can I play?"

The eyes of the two little guys widened suddenly, and Yang Zi said incredulously: "Uncle, you also play this?" ”

Chang Xile laughed, "It's okay now anyway." ”

The two little guys glanced at each other, with a look of surprise, Chang Xile was in their hearts except for eating and sleeping and reading, and they would not be interested in anything else, let alone this kind of little trick.

Chang Xile didn't explain much to them, and said, "You start first, and I'll last." ”

"Then I'll let Yang Zi start first."

When Yang Zi heard this, he immediately forgot about Chang Xile's intention to join, grabbed the reed pole and then spread it violently, and the reed pole was suddenly scattered. Yang Zi picked the one on the most edge, and then used that one to pick the others. Yang Zi was young, his hands were not flexible enough, and he didn't know how to find the loose ones scattered next to him first, so he picked three and let the other sticks move.

"It's me, it's me!" Xing'er, who had been staring at the anxious waiting, said happily.

Yang Zi pouted, and although he was not happy, he also retreated.

Xing'er played much better than Yang Zi, but she only picked a small handful and was defeated.

Chang Xile plans to give way and challenge the difficulty. After all, no matter how old I am or how old I am now, there are a lot of these two children, and playing this is purely a whim, so I didn't choose the reed poles scattered on the side alone, but directly picked the reed sticks together, and the first one failed.

Yang Zi and Xing'er both laughed, it turns out that the powerful uncle also has such a bad time!

Chang Xile is a great store in the hearts of the whole village, and Yang Zi and Xing'er think so, they didn't expect that playing with wooden sticks is worse than themselves, which makes them feel too fresh.

Chang Xile shook his head helplessly, and secretly moved his right hand, he didn't think it before, but now he really understands that these hands are really not easy to use.