Volume 1: A Mess After the Crossing Chapter 2: A Strange Little Mountain Village
When Li Yinglong was lying on a clay kang and trying to recall what he had crossed, he heard a stern shout from the room outside: Hey, when are you still a corpse, you should go to the town to sell firewood, otherwise we will have to drink the northwest wind today.
Hearing the sound, Li Yinglong hurriedly stopped recalling, lifted the broken quilt with holes everywhere on his body, went down from the kang to the ground, and then took the only pair of torn pants in the family that was placed on the edge of the kang and put it on his body and walked out.
In a corner of the dirt pit in the room outside was a naked old man who had been emaciated to a handful of bones, the old man's face was sallow and sickly, although Li Yinglong didn't know what disease this old man had, but he could see that this old man was already terminally ill and couldn't live long.
Li Yinglong hurriedly walked back to the room where he had just slept and picked up the broken quilt with holes everywhere on the clay kang and walked out again, and then jumped on the clay kang in the room outside and covered the broken quilt with holes everywhere on the naked old man.
Then Li Yinglong said to the old man: Old man, you are sick, you can cover this broken quilt in the future.
Hearing this, the old man's mouth moved and he wanted to say something, but before he could say anything, Li Yinglong had already walked out and came to the courtyard.
Then Li Yinglong pushed up a wheelbarrow with a stack of firewood tied to it in the courtyard and walked outside.
This cart of firewood was cut by Li Yinglong on the mountain three days ago, oh, by the way, it was the previous Li Yinglong who went up the mountain three days ago to cut it, that is, when he was chopping firewood that day, that Li Yinglong slipped and rolled down the mountain and fell and was injured, it should still be a very serious internal injury, and after coming back, he lay down on the bed and couldn't get up, and finally died that night, Li Yinglong was at the moment of his death, his soul crossed over here and was reborn.
Due to his injury, Li Yinglong recuperated at home for three days, so this car of firewood has also been stored at home for three days, and now there is no grain of rice left at home and cannot be opened.
To sell firewood, you have to go to the local big market, which is in Tiangui Town, which is more than 20 miles away from their small mountain village, because the road is not very easy to walk, so even if it is a quick walk, it will take more than two hours, so you have to set off early in the morning, otherwise the market will be dispersed and you will not be able to catch up.
The village where Li Yinglong was reborn is located at the foot of Tiangui Mountain, it is a small mountain village that is common in the local area, there are only more than 30 families in the village, of course, they are all the same as Li Yinglong's reborn family, they are all poor families, as for whether they are so poor that they are like Li Yinglong's family, the whole family only has a pair of pants, he doesn't know, because after all, Li Yinglong has only been reborn for three days, and he hasn't had time to integrate the memories of the past life of the owner of this body.
When he came outside, Li Yinglong stretched his waist lazily with his arms to the sky, and then intentionally or unintentionally looked at his shirtless body wearing only a pair of torn pants after his rebirth. However, he is still quite satisfied with this body, although it looks very thin, but it is quite strong, which should have a lot to do with the fact that the previous owner of this body went up the mountain to chop wood all year round.
Chopping firewood is a labor-intensive physical work, think about it, cut more than 300 catties of firewood from a very high mountain, and then carry it down step by step from above, what a lot of labor intensity it must be, ordinary people are afraid that they really can't do it, even the body of Li Yinglong's trained special operations captain in the previous life may not be able to withstand it. And now this thin Li Yinglong, who can only eat one meal a day, and can only eat half full, has to do this, day after day, year after year, with his own life.
If you don't do it, you won't have anything to eat, or if you don't get firewood, you won't be able to eat, and if you can't eat, you won't be able to live
The reborn Li Yinglong inherited the body of others, and also inherited the responsibility of going to the mountain to collect firewood to support his family. Although he has a lot of skills, for example, he can drive all kinds of vehicles, and even drive tanks and planes, and he also has a good kung fu, but in this remote and poor mountain village, he can't use those skills, the only thing he can use is his current strength, that is, he can only use his strength to go up the mountain to chop wood and sell it for money to live. Therefore, if you don't want to do it, you have to do it, because here a poor person like him can only go up to the mountains to cut firewood or collect medicinal herbs, even if he wants to become a farmer, he can't do it, because the people who live here don't have land at all.
Of course, Li Yinglong will not let himself go on like this forever in this small mountain village, on the first day of his rebirth, he made up his mind to change all this, of course, if you want to change all this, you have to go out of this small mountain village to the outside, which is what people often call breaking into the world, or rather, breaking into the rivers and lakes. He didn't believe that he couldn't mix up his personal appearance with his own ability and advanced thinking that had been many years ahead.
Oh, by the way, there's a very important question he has to figure out now, and that is how he was reborn in that age. Because on the first day of his rebirth, he asked his terminally ill cheap dad this question, but he was slapped with his terminally ill cheap daddy, and then his cheap dad shouted: Idle you, what, what age, since you are so idle, then you go up the mountain to fetch firewood.
It's not that his terminally ill cheap dad doesn't want to answer his question, because his dad himself probably doesn't know what age it is, and it would be very embarrassing if he can't answer, so he has to hide this embarrassment with anger.
Since Dad couldn't answer this question, he had to go outside and ask, but what he didn't expect was that he asked several people in the village without exception, including the elderly, middle-aged and young, and even a seven or eight-year-old child.
He couldn't help but wonder if the question he was asking was difficult.
Of course, it's not difficult, and it can even be said to be very simple, if a person doesn't even know the era in which he lives, then he must be a fool, but the fact is that none of the people he asked are stupid, not only are they not stupid, but those people seem to be very clever.
Could it be that this is what Tao Yuanming's paradise can't be? But even if it is Tao Yuanming's paradise, the people there know that they are from the Qin Dynasty, but the people in this small mountain village don't know anything.
Well, this is really a strange mountain village.
This village is too small, even if Li Yinglong walked to the entrance of the village with small square steps, it didn't take two minutes, then Li Yinglong saw an old man who looked to be in his sixties sitting under a big banyan tree at the entrance of the village was telling a story to the five bare-bottomed children around him, in fact, this is not a story, it is a legend circulating in this place, or rather, this should not be a legend, it is a strange thing that really happened in this place, Over time, it became a legend. The reason why this is not a legend is a real thing, it is Yingwei, an important character in this legend is Li Yinglong who came over to listen to the old man tell the legend story, of course, it is the Li Yinglong before he was reborn in this place, not the current Li Yinglong, but that Li Yinglong doesn't know.
The legend goes like this.