Chapter 1: Rebirth
In the three years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, although the Yellow Turban Rebellion had been pacified, the remnants of the Yellow Turban were all over the world, thieves were in turmoil, the vitality of the Eastern Han Dynasty was greatly damaged, and the people were miserable.
And the state, Yunzhong County Jiuyuan.
Summer goes to autumn, and it is the harvest season again, for the people in the northern land, this is the most important solar term of the year, which determines whether the family can survive this winter.
The place we are going to talk about is called Heqian Village.
There are mountains and rivers here, the climate is pleasant, the breeze is blowing, the air is fresh, and it can be said that it is pleasing to the eye and makes people forget to return.
However, there was such a beautiful scene, and there was a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy lying on the grass, sighing and patting his shriveled belly.
"I'm so hungry, as the saying goes, half the size eats Lao Tzu to death, but when I was growing my body, I was only allowed to eat half a bowl of rice at each meal, or mixed with wheat bran, what is the reason!" The boy muttered to himself with a sad face.
This young man is thin and long, he is still a minor, and he is close to the height of an adult, but due to malnutrition, his body is very thin, and his delicate face is also a little sallow, but fortunately, his big eyes are bright.
"It's all crossing, this difference is too big, is this what you want me to be the first time-traveler to be starved to death?" The young man casually pulled a grass in his mouth and sighed helplessly.
The boy's real name is Wang Feng, he is a new youth in the 21st century, he just graduated from college, he found a good job, and when he was about to show his ambitions, he didn't expect to make people happy, so he was assigned to this place where birds don't because he took a nap when he worked overtime.
He was quite excited when he first came here, and regardless of the powerful label of being a traverser, the view, the air, it was like a vacation.
But a few days later, he had to face the reality, what to learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, and he was not afraid to go all over the world, at this time it would be nonsense.
Even though he has knowledge that is 1,800 years ahead of this era, he still has to worry about three meals a day when he arrives here.
knew that he was going to cross, Wang Feng chose to study literature, and he finally memorized the history from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms, but unfortunately it was too late to regret it now.
He could only hide alone in a corner at night when no one was around, looking up at the sky, crying out in vain.
"Brother Wei Yan, are you hungry?" Just when the boy lamented his ill-fated fate, a little girl about ten years old came to him in a hurry.
The little girl has a delicate, goose-egg face, red fluttering, although she is dressed in tatters, but it is difficult to hide her natural beauty.
"This is a wild potato I just dug up for you to eat." The little girl took out a fist-sized wild potato from a cloth bag she was carrying as if she were offering a treasure, and held it in both hands and put it in front of Wang Feng's eyes.
Yes, the little girl's brother Wei Yan is the current Wang Feng.
Wang Feng didn't know if this Wei Yan was the other Wei Yan, if it was really the famous general Wei Yan in later generations, it would really be a bit laughable, who would have thought that Wei Yan's childhood would be so hard.
"Qingqing, I'm not hungry, you can eat." Wei Yan sat up and looked at Qingqing, who was smiling happily, and his heart was warm.
"Brother Wei Yan eats, I grow small, and I eat less." Qingqing said obediently.
Wei Yan knew that Qingqing's family conditions were not good, the little girl was so young, it was not easy to go out every day to dig some wild vegetables and pick wild fruits to maintain food and clothing.
But he was really hungry, he had never been so hungry in his previous life, and he was going crazy in the past few days.
Wei Yan swallowed his saliva, and was about to say that the two of us were half, when the dog Yu from the same village came from a distance blowing snot bubbles.
This dog was usually bullied by Wei Yan, and when he saw Wei Yan from afar, he hurriedly stuffed something into his arms.
"This heartless goods, stuffed with bulging bags in his arms, you and I are blind!" The corners of Wei Yan's mouth twitched, and he spit out the blades of grass in his mouth, and his eyes stared straight at the dog leftovers.
Gou Yu lowered his head, pretending not to see Wei Yan, holding his hands on his chest and trying to slip past Wei Yan.
"Stop." Wei Yan said.
"Brother Yan, what's wrong?" Gou Yu was afraid of Wei Yan, so he didn't dare not listen, he smiled innocently, and his hands were still holding the things in his arms.
Although Wei Yan is long and thin, he is a head taller than Gouyu, which naturally causes a sense of oppression to Gouyu.
"What's in your arms? Take it out. Wei Yan didn't bother with him.
"I didn't ...... Nothing ...... "The dog is left with a fragment."
"Looking for a fight, huh?" Wei Yan grabbed him over, reached out and pulled him into his arms.
"Don't... Don't, Brother Yan, these are a few wild fruits that I finally found," the dog left with a sad face, tears swirling in his eyes, and the snot bubbles blew even bigger, "Today Zhang slaughtered sheep, your uncle bought a large piece of mutton, you have mutton to eat, don't rob me." ”
"Uncle bought mutton?" When Wei Yan heard Gou Yu's words, the roundworms in his stomach that were about to starve to death reacted, and the hand that grabbed Gou Yu unconsciously let go.
The dog took advantage of this gap and ran away.
"Qingqing, I won't eat this wild potato, Brother Wei Yan will bring you mutton to eat in the afternoon." Wei Yanle said hehehe.
"Uh-huh~" Qingqing nodded hurriedly, her eyes narrowed into a crescent moon.
At noon, Wei Yan went home early, saying that this was not his real home, but his grandfather's house.
There is no memory of his father in his memory, he has lived with his mother in Heqian Village since he can remember, and followed his mother's surname, and the whole family is very secretive about this matter, every time Wei Yan asks his mother about his father, his mother always bows her head and wipes her tears, and then Wei Yan doesn't ask.
Although the Wei family is not a high-ranking family, it is also a well-known family in Heqian Village, with dozens of acres of land, several tenants and a long-term worker, and is barely a small landlord.
But this is just the appearance of the glamorous, if you plant dozens of acres of land by yourself, the family can live well, but relying on this rent, it is really a bit stretched.
To eat in this house, except for my grandmother, other women are not allowed to serve the table, and can only eat in the back kitchen.
As soon as Wei Yan entered the main hall, his eyes were fixed on the table in front of his grandmother.
There was indeed a large ceramic bowl there than usual, and Wei Yan was overjoyed, thinking that it should be mutton inside.
Wei Yan has two uncles, the eldest uncle Wei Xun has a son and a daughter, the son is named Wei Xu, who is two years older than Wei Yan, and the daughter Wei Ying is one year younger than Wei Yan. Uncle Wei Xuan said that he had a son named Wei Shen, who was the same age as Wei Yan.
Although Wei Yan is surnamed with his mother and also surnamed Wei, his daughter who marries out is spilled with water, so Wei Yan's status is the lowest, and he can only sit at the bottom.
"Dad, it's so fragrant, I can smell mutton." Wei Xu sniffled and said to Wei Xun.
"Hehe, you know that you are gluttonous, if you spend all this time on your homework, I won't have to worry about it." Wei Xun knocked on Wei Xu's head, which seemed to be reproachful, but in fact it was all doting.
Wei Xu stuck out his tongue and grimaced at Wei Shen on the side.
"Big brother, child, you're always gluttonous, but the piece of meat you bought today is really good, it's fresh and fat." Wei Qi said.
"This is what I gave to me after grinding with Zhang Butcher for a long time, and he originally wanted to keep this piece of meat for himself, think about it, can that be bad?" Wei Xun said proudly.
"It's still the eldest brother who has face, but if he changes someone else, Butcher Zhang will not give this face."
This has to be put aside, Wei Yan heard these words, and probably had to vomit, but today he didn't care at all, and his heart flew to the mutton in the porcelain bowl.
Wei Yandu was impatient to wait, and his grandfather and grandmother came out after a long time.
"Let's have dinner." Grandpa sat down majestically and said.
The grandmother who is in charge of the rice in the house is the grandmother, who serves the rice in each bowl in order, and then the long-term worker of the family takes the bowl down and puts it in front of the descendants of the Wei family.
Wei Xun is the eldest son in the family, and Changgong was the first to bring him food.
Wei Yan craned his neck and looked over, although it was porridge, it was very thick, the rice was pointed, and a layer of mutton was covered on it, exuding an attractive aroma.
Then there was Wei Qi and their two sons.
Although the two grandsons only have half a bowl of rice, they obviously have a lot more meat.
Wei Yan swallowed his saliva and watched with his eyes blank, finally arriving at him.
Without waiting for the long worker to put down the bowl, he himself couldn't wait to reach out and take it.
But the next moment, the smile froze on Wei Yan's face, and the vegetable-yellow face turned vegetable-green.
The big bowl full of porridge is big enough, but it's really thin enough.
Wei Yan clearly saw his shadow in the bowl, not only was there no mutton on it, not even a silk oil flower.
"Yan'er, this year's harvest is not good, there is famine everywhere, it would be good to have something to eat, you are a child, just eat less." Grandma looked at the dissatisfied Wei Yan coldly and said.
"They are also children, why do they eat more than me, and they can also eat mutton." Wei Yan didn't dare to compare with his uncle, so he could only point to Wei Xu and the others.
"Humph! Xiaoyan, why are you talking to your grandmother like this, you don't have a tutor! Wei Xun scolded coldly.
"Yan'er, there is not much mutton, Xu'er is two years older than you and not as tall as you, of course you have to eat more meat, although Shen'er is a few months younger than you, but she is going to school this year, learning homework is a brain-consuming thing, you also have to eat more meat, make up for it, you don't care." Grandma said.
"But you can't eat so much mutton, why can't you give me some to eat." Wei Yan was still unconvinced.
"Xiaoyan, it's not that my uncle said you, you are too ignorant, your cousin just entered school this year and needs to be handed over for repair, and the rest of this piece of mutton is to be given to Mr., how can I give it to you." The brother-in-law also taught Wei Yan a lesson.
"My cousin can go to school a few months younger than me, and I'm going to go to school too." Wei Yan's eyebrows jumped.
Wei Yan knows that it is very important to find a good teacher if he wants to get ahead, and now he doesn't have that condition, so it's okay to find a random one to make do with first, it's better than not going to school.
"Nonsense, what are the conditions of our family, your cousin has enrolled in school, and he has to pay for it twice a year, and now your cousin is about to enter school, this is double the burden, the whole family has to tighten their belts to live, you don't have to fight, follow the meal, and let your uncle find you a job to do in a few days, so as to reduce the burden on the family, don't wander around outside all day, embarrassed!" Grandpa slapped the table and glared at Wei Yandao.
Wei Yan knew early on that because he was his grandson, he had no status in this family, but today he realized that in the eyes of his grandparents, he was not much different from outsiders.
Although he knew that people were under the eaves and had to bow their heads, Wei Yan was also very temperamental, he put the bowl on the table and said, "Don't eat it!" ”
Then, he stood up, didn't say goodbye to his grandparents, and left in a huff.
"Xiao Yan ......"
"Don't worry about him, this anti-bone boy, no wonder his father doesn't want him, it's just right not to eat, his food will be shared with my two good grandsons."
"Thank you, grandfather!"
"Thank you, grandfather!"