Chapter 1 The Boy's Oil-Paper Umbrella

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It was rainy, and it didn't stop, and before the hour, there were no pedestrians on the street, and a fourteen or fifteen-year-old young man held an oil-paper umbrella and walked slowly from the other side of the bluestone road.

The red bricks and green tiles on both sides, the eaves in the distance, the weeping willows on the river bank are gently blowing, and a few swallows that have not had time to return to the nest fly low from the branches, like a freehand poem, accompanied by a little raindrops falling in the dust, the original face of this world is clearly displayed in front of Xu You.

Tea houses, wine shops, foot shops, butcher shops, public houses......

On the twenty-seventh day of coming here, it was the first time he went out, although he had long known that he had changed time and space for some reason, and traveled to this dynasty and the current body, but when he really walked on the street, breathing the fresh air that he had never had in his previous life, he still felt a trace of helplessness and dazed from the bottom of his heart.

"Lang Jun, the little Lang Jun ......"

Behind him came the anxious cry of a woman, and the young man ignored it, walked slowly to the riverbank, and gently grasped a swaying willow branch.

It's cold and chilly, it's already late autumn!

There was another pain in his chest and abdomen, and he lowered his head and coughed violently!

"Lang Jun, how are you, does it matter?"

A slender white hand reached out from behind and held the young man's arm, and from the slight trembling, it seemed that he could feel the other party's heartfelt worry. The young man turned his head, his eyes were confused for a moment, and then he recognized the person who came, smiled gently, and said, "Autumn equinox, it's okay, my body is already well, and this little rain can still stand it!" ”

He finally remembered that his current name is Xu You, the word is Weizhi, he is the son of the Yixing Xu family of Jiangdong Hao, and the woman in front of him is called the autumn equinox, which is his personal maid, and it is said that he was born at the autumn equinox, so he gave this name.

The autumn equinox is only thirteen, the soft green silk is separated, combed into a slave's exclusive ring bun behind the head, an emerald green cardigan skirt, a crimson waist, wearing Yuhua wind silk shoes, eyebrows and eyes are beautiful and moving.

"Before Dr. Wen left, he explained to his servant in a thousand ways, saying that the knife wound on Lang Jun's abdomen had just healed, and he must not be infected with the wind and cold again, if you ...... If...... Woooooo ”

Autumn Equinox shed tears as she spoke, and crystal teardrops flowed down her white and smooth cheeks, making Xu You feel pity, bent his fingers to wipe away the tears on her face, and said softly: "Okay, aren't I fine?" It's up to you to go back! ”

"Hmm!" Qiu Equinox nodded vigorously, took the umbrella in Xu You's hand, covered most of the umbrella on his side, and said, "Xiao Langjun, beware of the ...... under your feet."

The master and servant walked hand in hand, the autumn breeze was bleak, accompanied by the falling rain, like a charming ink scroll, adding a bit of artistic conception to this already antique street.

Back home, the autumn equinox went to fetch hot water to wash Xu You's hands and face, and was busy making dinner. Xu You walked to the window, pushed his hands, looked at the desolate scenery in this shabby farmhouse courtyard, and was silent.

He was an orphan in his previous life, relying on the funding of well-wishers and personal efforts to finish college, and later entered a listed company to achieve the top level, and then jumped to the world's most famous private equity fund, using finance as a medium to stir up the world economy, with a keen sense of smell and extraordinary courage quickly broke into a good reputation, known as the fox handsome in the industry - it means that there is both the cunning of the fox, but also the charm and determination of the leader, but unexpectedly a car accident brought his soul into this world, and Xu You, who is on the verge of death, are fused together.

Fortunately, he not only inherited Xu You's body, but also inherited all of Xu You's consciousness, so in the twenty-seven days of being bedridden, he seemed to be confused and didn't say a word, but in fact, he gradually digested the knowledge about this world in his mind!

This is undoubtedly an ancient time, but it is not the ancient one in his previous life, and history took a wonderful turn in the first ten years of Cao Wei, that is, in 249 AD. On the sixth day of the first month of this year, Cao Fang and Cao Shuang went to Gaoping Mausoleum to worship Emperor Cao Rong of Wei Ming, and Sima Yi, who had been preparing for a long time, launched a coup d'Γ©tat in Luoyang, but he did not expect that Cao Shuang was calculating in the middle and mobilized the forbidden army to exterminate the three clans of the Sima clan. Wei Zuo was continued, and then passed on to the eleventh emperor, a total of more than 200 years, which is also considered a long life.

But history, with its inescapable inertia, pulls the trajectory back to the route it should have taken. In the last years of the Wei Dynasty, due to the corruption of the officials, the extravagance of the upper and lower levels, and the politics of the gate valve led to the fall of the imperial power, and the dismissal of the county soldiers, the great feudal clan and other reasons, the turmoil in various places was frequent, and the national strength was declining.

During this period, the Xiongnu had the greatest power, invaded Luoyang and captured Emperor Wei Min, and Wei died. Immediately, a large number of Han people moved from the Yellow River Valley to the Changchang River Basin, mainly including Yu, Liu, Yuan, Xiao, Zhan, Qiu, He, Hu and other eight surnames, known as Yiguan Nandu in history. In addition, the county wangshi clan such as Langya Wang and others intended to support Cao Ying, the king of the East China Sea of Cao Wei's clan, to Jiangdong to rebuild the Wei family, but when they arrived in Pengcheng, they were intercepted by the Xiongnu light cavalry, and Cao Ying and the Wang clan were slaughtered, and then the Xiongnu army invaded Jiangdong Jingchu and other places in the south in three ways.

At that time, the people were panicked, and the wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River formed a dock fort and defended themselves, but because they fought separately, they were unable to resist the Huns. Shenzhou Lu Shen, when China was in danger of extinction, Yongzhou Assassin Shi under the command of the Zuozhong Army joined the army An Shiyu after the death of the Assassin Shi, packed up the remnants of the army, retreated to the land of Jingchu, and used the vast strategic space to connect the Hao clan and the Wubao and the militia, successively thirteen battles, none of them were defeated, and the Xiongnu army was blocked north of the Yangtze River.

Then set up the southern capital overlordship, formed the southern capital army, coordinated the operation with water, foot, and vehicles, and connected the Kelianjie, subdued the lost territory, and pushed the battle line between the Huanghuai and Huai, but due to the lack of food and grass, it was no longer able to advance north. And the Xiongnu also because of the southern invasion of the great loss of vitality, by Xianbei, Qi and other Hu people to take advantage of the void, several parties in the Central Plains to carry out a melee for 30 years, has established Qin, Yan, Liang and other seven countries, and finally the Xianbei Tuoba clan won the final victory, in addition to the Yao predicament corner of the West Liang, has been from the actual unification of the north,.

First, the surname Tuoba comes from the descendants of the Yellow Emperor, and the birthplace of the Yellow Emperor was in the Wei State during the Warring States Period, so the founding name was "Wei", and the capital was Pingcheng. On the other hand, the use of Wei as the name of the country is also to show that it is in the same vein as Cao Wei and is more orthodox than the south, so as to win the hearts of the people in the world.

At the same time, the south was established, An Shiyue found a distant relative of Cao Wei to set up as a puppet emperor, and controlled the government by himself, after more than 20 years of maintenance, in the north of the Wei State established the following year, in Jiankang by Chan called the emperor, established the Chu State, rebuilt Kang as Jinling, set up the national capital.

Since then, Southern Chu and Northern Wei have confronted each other across the river, dividing the world into two parts!

At this time, Xu You crossed over, and was already the reign of An Zidao, the second emperor of Chu State, as one of the most dangerous occupations of the emperor in this period, An Zidao was sixty-seven years old and reigned for forty-four years, which can be called the first longevity in nearly a hundred years.

Although Xu You was engaged in the financial industry in his previous life, he loved to read history, especially fascinated by the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

It's just that when it really came to this day, he found that history had become unrecognizable, and what made him even more speechless was that the person he possessed, including the Xu family who could be relied on, had just suffered a catastrophe!

Xu You looked at the wind and leaves outside the window, a wry smile appeared on his face, and he muttered in a low voice: "Everyone in the good world has a good life, you have to fight for any power, what kind of gambling is it, now it's good, one shot and two scattered......"

"Lang Jun, it's time to eat."

The crisp voice of the autumn equinox woke Xu You from his contemplation, he closed the window, walked outside, and saw four small dishes on the dining table, including soup, dried fish, eggplant, honey ginger, and a bowl of wheat rice. With Xu's current situation, to be able to gather such a meal, I am afraid that the autumn equinox did not know how much effort it took to raise outside, Xu You knelt on the futon, looked at the autumn equinox and chuckled: "Sit down, eat together." ”

Autumn Equinox hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, this is not in accordance with the rules......"

Xu You pulled her to sit down and said, "To this day, there are still any rules and regulations, during the time when I was injured, the slaves in the family escaped, only you stayed to take care of me, what does it matter if we have a meal together." ”

The autumn equinox is in a hurry and I don't know how to place my hands and feet. Xu You looked at the emaciated face of the autumn equinox, pushed the wheat rice in front of him to her, handed the chopsticks over, a trace of softness appeared in his eyes, and said, "I'm not too hungry, you can eat this bowl of rice." ”

"I'm not hungry either......"

Before the words fell, he heard the gurgling sound in his abdomen, and the autumn equinox was ashamed, from his cheeks to the roots of his ears, he was as red as the sunset, he lowered his head, and he didn't dare to look at Xu You again.

Xu You stretched out his hand and rubbed the head of the autumn equinox, almost messing up her ring, and said with a smile: "Eat quickly, didn't Doctor Wen say it, I just recovered, I want to eat less." ”

The autumn equinox trembled slightly, his head hung lower, he didn't see Xu You speak for a while, and secretly raised his eyes to look, but saw that he had sandwiched a piece of dried fish and put it in his mouth and chewed it carefully and carefully.

But if these things were put in the past, he wouldn't even look at them.

"Lang Jun, it's all useless to be a servant,"

The autumn equinox's eyes were red, and his heart hurt, and he said: "I begged Aunt Zhou and Aunt Wang for a long time, and I only asked for these ingredients, wait for tomorrow, tomorrow I will find a way, and I will definitely make your favorite milk stuffed fish......"

Xu You raised his head, his eyes were clear, and the smile on the corner of his lips made people feel at peace for no reason, and said: "It's already very good, there are eggplant and ginger, fish and hair, and other people want to eat these, I am afraid it will cost hundreds of dollars, which is enough luxury." ”

The southerners especially love to eat fish, Xu You remembers that there are dozens of kinds of fish practices in "Qi Min Yaoshu", such as squid, trout carp and silver bream, bream tuna and silver carp, and carp mullet, with a wide variety of types, and the finesse of cooking is even more striking. The milk-stuffed fish mentioned by Xiaozhu is the favorite dish of the original owner of Xu You's body, and the method has been lost in later generations, and it is only known that it should be flavored with milk.

Speaking of milk, it involves the influence of the Hu people's relocation, the Han people did not have the habit of eating dairy products, but during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Hu people moved to the northwest counties within the family, and some special foods were gradually melted and combined by the Han people. Xu You read the "Book of Wei" in his previous life, and there was a record of "often drinking milk, the color is like a virgin", which shows that not only dairy products have been widely spread, but also discovered the beauty effects in it.

But compared with these exquisite fish dishes, dried fish is pickled by small fish that is selected to be inch long, and people have the saying that "fresh fish is thousand, dried fish is the cheapest", poor families can not afford to eat fresh fish, and often go to the fish market to pick up these small fish that cannot be sold and go home to make a tooth sacrifice.

Something like this, with the illustrious family background of the Xu family, Xu You not only doesn't like to eat it, but he has never eaten it at all!

But this time is different from the past, it is a blessing to be able to fill your stomach, Xu You didn't want to blame himself for this at the autumn equinox, so he deliberately changed the topic, pointed to the soup and smiled: "Do you know that this dish is very famous?" ”

The autumn equinox shook his head blankly, Xu You said: "Cao Wei has a famous man Zhang Heng, from Wu County to Luoyang as an official, when the autumn wind rises, suddenly think of the hometown of the soup perch, said, 'Life is so expensive that the ambition is right, how can you detain the eunuch for thousands of miles to be famous', so he resigned and returned, and the soup perch became famous all over the world. ”

It is also called horseshoe cabbage, which is very popular in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and many dignitaries and celebrities love it very much, as a side dish to mix the soup, it is the most delicious. But in general, large households make soup, often accompanied by shredded bacon, shredded chicken, shredded bamboo shoots, small meatballs, etc., and then pay more attention, like Zhang Heng with soup, where will Xu You eat now, just boiled cabbage into soup, even seasoning is not a few ingredients.

When he said this, it was just the heart of the autumn equinox!

Autumn Equinox looked at Xu You blankly, he was stunned and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"No, nothing!" The autumn equinox hurriedly turned his head, and after a while, he couldn't help but say, "Lang Jun, you are a little different from before......

Xu You smiled bitterly in his heart, since he inherited the body and memory of this descendant of the Xu family, of course he knew what he was like before, although he was not bad, he was so willful, he was irritable and irritable, and these slaves below were beaten and scolded. That is, the autumn equinox has grown up with him since he was a child, and he has a deep affection, and he has not easily blackened his face, but how have you ever seen him so gentle and soft-spoken?

"After such an incident, I almost lost my life, and it should be a little different. Come, let's eat, don't eat or sleep, don't finish this bowl of rice, don't talk! ”

The autumn equinox picked up the bowl and obediently ate a bite of wheat rice, the barley was bitter, and it was a little prickly to swallow, far less sweet than the rice I usually eat, but at this time, I felt full of happiness for some reason.

Perhaps, it's because of the gentle smile that Xiao Langjun has never had, and the unhurried posture when talking to him......

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