Chapter 002: Qiu Niang
On a March afternoon, the sun is warm and the mountain breeze is slightly cool.
Chen Qiuniang, who had been in a coma for five days, finally woke up, Shi Shiran opened his eyes, and the first thing that caught his eye was a simple wooden house, and a young man holding a book at a small square table under the window, with light green clothes and knotted hair. It was Liu Cheng who saved her from danger.
Liu Cheng looked serious, his expression was focused, and there was a pot of national orchids on the table in front of him, and the beige buds were translucent and pure in the sunlight, reflecting the young man, making this simple room look particularly elegant.
Outside the window, the courtyard is lined with bamboo dustpans and dried herbs. The walls of the fence courtyard are full of verdant vines, and in the distance, the sunset reflects the green hills, and birds are flying.
Such a beautiful mountain village scenery is not its own time and space. Yes, she is not the real Chen Qiuniang, but Jiang Yun, who was not cautious and rashly entered the thousand-year-old rice wine cellar to investigate, and fainted.
It was pouring rain that day, and she woke up, thinking it was a dream at first, but then she slowly realized that she was a soul that had traveled to an unknown time and space, or in other words, she had borrowed a corpse to return her soul.
Before she had time to lament that God had always liked to prank her fate, and even the way she appeared was earth-shattering, she fainted in Liu Cheng's arms because of a headache and high fever.
After that, she lived in Liu Langzhong's house for five days before she completely woke up, and she was more sure that she had really crossed over, not a dream.
In the past five days, she also woke up intermittently, but immediately fell asleep due to headache and dizziness. However, every time I wake up and fall asleep, many unfamiliar memories come flooding back like fragments from the movies. So Jiang Yun and Chen Qiuniang's memories fused, she saw Chen Qiuniang's past, understood that she was more bitter than Jiang Yun's life, and also knew what kind of time and space this was:
This was the beginning of the Song Dynasty, a turbulent era when a hundred years of division was coming to an end and bloody and barbarism was rampant. And the Shu where she is located, because of its wealth, is destined to fall into a catastrophe after the destruction of Hou Shu.
Chen Qiuniang was born on the eve of the demise of Houshu. She is the daughter of the Chen family and the adopted daughter of the Chen family.
At first, the Chen family was not in Er'e Mountain Liu Village, Meizhou, but in Chenjiazhuang, Qingcheng County. At that time, Chen Qiuniang's father and mother opened a small noodle restaurant in Qingcheng County, and although her life was not rich, she also had a good taste.
Later, Chen Qiuniang's grandmother Chen Liushi suddenly came back from the Houshu Palace, saying that she was old, and Concubine Fei in the palace took pity on her, so she was allowed to return to her hometown to live for a long time, and at the same time rewarded some gold and silver.
The reward brought back by Chen Liu's family, coupled with her savings, the Chen family bought more than a dozen acres of land in Chenjiazhuang, Qingcheng County, which can be regarded as a solid small landlord, and life is very good.
Although the Chen family's life is getting better, Chen Qiuniang's father Chen Quanzhong and his wife Chen Fang's family have been married for fifteen years and have never been pregnant, which makes the Chen family very distressed. Later, under the guidance of the Taoist priest of Qingcheng Mountain, he said that he could find a child with a precious life.
In the autumn of the following year, Chen Liu's went out and took the baby girl back and named her Chen Qiuniang. It is said that the Taoist priest has calculated it, although Qiu Niang's life is strange, but it is expensive, and it can be brought.
Sure enough, when Chen Qiuniang was three years old, Chen Fang's family gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, the male named Chen Qiusheng, and the female named Chen Qiuxia. Although the arrival of the dragon and phoenix fetus made the Chen family very happy, Chen Quanzhong and his wife and Chen Liu's family did not snub Chen Qiuniang, but loved them even more. Therefore, Chen Qiuniang in Chenjiazhuang was raised as the eldest lady, living a happy and carefree life.
In this way, Chen Qiuniang grew to six years old. One day, Chen Liushi received a letter saying that he went to Jinguancheng to drink wedding wine, and remarried an old sister who was a palace maid together in the past.
This was not unusual, but when Chen Liu's family returned to Chenjiazhuang, she made a surprising decision: the family moved back to her mother's hometown, Wuli Town, Meizhou.
The whole family was stunned. Mo said that this Wuli Town is a small town in the mountains, very remote, and it cannot be compared with Chenjiazhuang at all. Even Chen Liu's maiden family has long been gone, so what's the point of moving back?
But Chen Liu's insistence that Chen Quanzhong and his wife were filial, so they sold the land, cleaned up the finesse, moved their family to Wuli Town, and re-owned the property in Wuli Town.
is still buying more than a dozen acres of land, buying a small house, and living a solid life. Chen Qiuniang lived the life of an eldest lady in Wuli Town at first, and she did not have to worry about food and clothing.
A year after the Chen family arrived in Wuli Town, the Song army, which was fighting in the east and west outside Shu, finally gathered troops to bite the fat of Houshu.
The people, emperors, ministers, and troops in Shu didn't think so at first, and they said at every turn: The difficulty of the Shu Road is difficult to go to the blue sky.
At that time, Chen Qiuniang followed her father and mother to the street, and occasionally went to a restaurant to eat, and she would hear someone saying: "What are you afraid of, the terrain in Shuzhong is dangerous, as long as the army holds the pass, thousands of troops and horses will not be able to enter." There is a way: the difficulty of Shu Road is difficult to go to the blue sky"
The Chen family also thinks that there is no need to worry about such a natural risk.
But the Song army invaded Shu a few months later, and still entered through the most dangerous sword gate in Shu. The hungry wolf-like Song army burned, killed, and plundered in Shu, and soon arrived in Jinguancheng, the capital of the country. The flag of surrender was erected at the head of the imperial city, and 140,000 soldiers unloaded their armor together, and Houshu was gone.
The poor and crazy Song army took the promise made to them by Song Taizu at the beginning, "If you wait for Shu, the land will be returned to the country, and the rest can be taken by yourself", and began to plunder even more barbaricly. This plunder was centered on the rich Jinguan City, radiating even the remote town of Wuli.
At that time, Qiu Niang was eight years old and had a high fever. Chen Quanzhong went to Zhuangzi to see the fields, and Chen Liu's legs and feet have always been inconvenient. Because it was the autumn harvest season, few of the servants in the family could leave. Chen Fang, who had just given birth to twin sons, decided to go out to ask a doctor by himself and take him out for a walk.
Chen Fang's family never came back, and the Chen family was also destroyed in the hands of these ruffians. By the time Chen Quanzhong returned from the countryside and found Chen Fang's family, she had been dead for a long time. It is said that he was molested, resisted to death, and jumped into the river to die.
Therefore, Chen Quanzhong, who loves Chen Fang's family deeply, feels that if it weren't for Chen Qiuniang, his wife would not have met those scumbags and ruffians, let alone died. Therefore, Chen Quanzhong was angry with Chen Qiuniang, and beating, scolding, and kneeling were commonplace. At the same time, Chen Quanzhong was also addicted to gambling, gambling with several wealthy businessmen who had fled, and lost all his fields and family property in one hand.
Chen Liu's old tears were rampant, so she had to move to her mother's old house, Liucun. But Chen Quanzhong is still addicted to gambling, and he has almost lost everything he can at home, and as soon as he loses, he will come back to beat Chen Qiuniang.
From this time on, Chen Qiuniang not only knew that she was carried, but also felt that her mother died because of herself, and she felt guilty and sad every day. At the same time, she also has to take care of the housework, learn to plant that acre of thin land, take care of her younger siblings, and find a way to get food.
Such days lasted for more than half a year, when Chen Qiuniang went up the mountain to dig wild vegetables, she was bitten by a poisonous snake, and when she was discovered, she was out of breath. Chen Liushi insisted on asking Liu Langzhong to come to the rescue, but finally died.
Fate used war to send a little girl who had no worries about food and clothing and whose parents loved her into hell in an instant.
And she, Jiang Yun, I don't know if it was God's continued spoofing of her fate, or guilt, which made her soul wear for thousands of years to become Chen Qiuniang.
This Chen Qiuniang, except for being young and having a tendency to grow into a beauty, other conditions are so rotten that they are a mess.
But youth doesn't get anything in exchange. In this regard, God is not thin on her.
So, on the morning when Jiang Yun woke up completely, she drank Liu Cheng's porridge, and after thinking about it for a few minutes, she suddenly became enlightened and came to the conclusion: Since God has given this generous gift, how can she be embarrassed to be decadent. From now on, I will not be Jiang Yun, but Chen Qiuniang.