Volume 2 The Wind Rises in Jiangdu Chapter 22 Liang Dynasty
In the morning, Jiangdu, Caishi Street.
"Xiao Jiang, how is today's harvest?" The fish seller saw a young man carrying a basket coming from a distance, and got up to greet him.
"Well, it's not bad, it's estimated that there are about 100 catties!" The young man walked up to the vendor and stood still, took off the basket from his shoulder, turned it upside down, and handed it over.
"Okay, I'll take a look...... Ho, it's not light! The fish seller picked it up, took the basket with one hand, and almost got rid of it carelessly.
Seeing this, the young man hurried over to help lift the bottom of the basket.
When the vendor saw that he held up the back basket of more than 100 catties with one hand, his face did not show the slightest difficulty, and he secretly said that he was surprised.
Quickly weighed the weight, lifted the basket and poured the fish into the pool next to the cutting board.
"This is today's fish money, you order a little."
The young man took the dozen or so copper coins that were stained with water handed over by the vendor, and he was not too dirty, put them in his pocket, turned around and left, and shouted: "No need, I can trust you." ”
The young man strolled along the street, casually looking left and right at the shops on both sides, as the most prosperous area in Jiangdu City, the shops on this street can be described as everything, restaurants, cloth villages, gambling houses, pawn shops......
Looking at the endless stream of pedestrians, listening to the enthusiastic shouts of the shopkeepers, the young man's bright eyes flashed with a touch of loneliness, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously showed a trace of bitterness.
The pedestrians were thinning, and before they knew it, the young man had come out of the city along this familiar and unfamiliar road, and a newly built thatched house by the lake in front of him slowly appeared in the field of vision—it was the young man's home.
Standing on the shore of the lake, the soft sunlight is scattered in the lake, flashing a little golden light, the figure of the young man is reflected in the lake, his posture is tall in the green cloth robe, the sword eyebrows and starry eyes, the face is like a crown of jade, about a teenager, it is no one else, it is Jiangnan.
It's been a while since I've been here, and as for why I've come here, Jiang Nan can't figure it out, and it's still a little strange in retrospect.
It all started with the expedition to Gaotai Mountain.
The whole class of the 01 class of the first year of high school was dispatched, and the head teacher Wu Sheng rented a bus, and a group of more than 50 people went to Gao Tianshan.
I set off from school on time at 11 o'clock in the morning, although it was in the suburbs, but some parts of the road were being repaired, and I also caught up with a traffic accident, and it was already more than one o'clock in the afternoon when I arrived at Gao Tianshan.
There are many people who can't stand the hunger, and they have already started to eat snacks in the car.
The first thing to do when I arrived at Gaotai Mountain was to make a fire and cook, some of the people who ate in the car set up tents by the city wall, and some went to look for dry firewood, but a few of them couldn't resist their curiosity and prepared to go to the cave to find out, and the happiest ones were Yu Huafei and Yang Ying.
Yang Ying was going, Du Mengying was also pulled together, but Tang Hongliang, as the class leader, also had to assist the teacher in organizing everyone to prepare for camping, and there was no way to accompany Yu Huafei, so he asked Jiang Nan to help take care of Yu Huafei and a few people on his behalf.
A group of four people went as the vanguard to investigate the situation in the cave.
Knowing that they were going to explore in the cave of the collapsed city, the three girls who were careful prepared flashlights, but only Jiang Nan was empty-handed.
Seeing this, Du Mengying gave her to Jiangnan and shared one with Yang Ying.
There are really a lot of people who come here to explore, and there are several groups of people camping outside, and it is estimated that they are just like them, and they are going to live here tonight.
The entrance to the cave was a little far from the city gate, and the stones of the city wall had collapsed for some unknown reason, revealing a hole with no end in sight, and even in the middle of the day, when the sun was abundant, it could only shine a few meters into the hole.
The four of them carefully looked at the entrance of the cave to make sure that the city wall would not collapse again, and walked slowly towards the cave.
Jiang Nan walked in front, followed by three girls, although holding a flashlight, but it also took time for their eyes to adjust to the dark environment.
Taking care of the girls behind him, Jiang Nan walked very slowly.
The road in the cave was winding and winding, and after walking for more than ten minutes, nothing was found except for the dark front and the bare stone walls on both sides.
Listening closely, you can vaguely hear the tapping sound of "dangdang" in front of you and the sound of someone talking.
After walking for so long and not finding anything, Yu Huafei, who likes to be lively, couldn't stand it anymore, and shouted to go back, but Yang Ying, who didn't give up, had to pull Du Mengying to continue walking, looking at her expectant eyes, Jiang Nan had to accompany her to continue walking.
There is only one way back, and everyone is more relieved that Yu Huafei will go back alone.
Further on, the vault gradually gets taller, and the road widens and is not as flat as before.
Some places were full of potholes, and some places were full of rocks, and the two girls had to stand side by side with Jiang Nan, each holding him by an arm.
Jiangnan was not as relaxed as when he came, vigilantly looking at his feet and the vault.
Yang Ying was chattering excitedly beside her, because she felt that there was wind blowing from the front, even if she couldn't find the treasure, she would definitely have to go to another exit, not to mention that she couldn't hear the voice of the person in front of her just now, and Bacheng had already gone out.
Sure enough, the further I went, the more obvious the wind was blowing, and there was a faint light ahead.
Seeing this, Yang Ying excitedly pulled Du Mengying forward, and Jiang Nan had to speed up and follow behind.
Not far away, a beam of light shot down from the top of the cave, illuminating the surroundings brightly and abnormally, Jiang Nan was worried that something was wrong with the two, so he hurriedly stopped them and went to check alone.
Jiang Nan stood under the beam, the dazzling bright light made him unable to see everything above his head, and when he was about to give up, he was horrified to find that he had not moved even the slightest amount of strength, so he could only shout loudly for Du Mengying and the two to come and help.
Du Mengying saw Jiang Nan saying something with a frightened face, but she couldn't hear it, she ran forward and took his hand, and instantly felt an invisible hand pulling at her, pinning her where.
As a golden light flashed from Jiang Nan's body, the two of them disappeared into the cave along with the beam.
When Jiang Nan woke up, he found himself lying by the lake, but Du Mengying was nowhere to be found.
When I got up and was about to look for it, I found that a group of people dressed in long-distance running coats and costumes around me were pointing at me, and I didn't know why.
Jiang Nan hurriedly stepped forward to ask, and everyone dispersed in panic.
Gangnam, who has short hair and a modern dress, is regarded as an outlier.
Walking on the street, pedestrians saw him coming forward and hurriedly avoided it.
The streets, the buildings, and the pedestrians dressed in retro clothes, Jiangnan seemed to be in ancient times, and everything was so strange to him.
Jiangnan has been able to live until now, thanks to Li Zhong and Wu Chaozu.
When he was alone and worried about filling his stomach, Li Zhong, who had been fishing for a living since childhood, helped a lot, and with Li Zhong's memory, Jiangnan easily caught a few wild fish in this Liuquan Lake.
In accordance with Wu Chaozu's method of survival in the wild, he quickly took the fire and grilled the fish, and then set up a thatched house after filling his stomach.
Although it is simple, it may shelter from the wind and rain.
Every morning, I go to the lake to catch some fish, send them to the vegetable market street to sell them for a few pennies, buy a long shirt, and follow the local customs, and it is always a bad feeling to be regarded as an alien.
When he had some money to spare, he bought some twine and knitted a fishing net himself. I went to the nearby mountain forest and cut down a few trees and built a small boat myself.
In this way, Jiangnan can be regarded as self-sufficient and quickly settled.
Out of the instinct of human nature, in an unfamiliar environment, I will always try to understand as much as possible.
When Jiangnan has time, he sits in restaurants, tea shops and other places in the downtown area and listens to other people's chatter.
This is a completely different world: in the original world, after the death of Qin Shi Huang, his son Hu Hai ascended the throne, after Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu raised troops against Qin, and the Qin Dynasty, which had only been unified for more than ten years, perished, and Liu Bang won the battle between Chu and Han to establish the Han Dynasty; Here, Hu Hai is a generation of Ming monarchs, abolishing cool laws, benevolent governance, light taxes, loving the people like sons, and the Qin Dynasty ruled for more than 400 years.
This world, at the inflection point of Huhai, has gone in a different direction from the original world.
After the fall of the Qin Dynasty in this world, there were constant disputes for more than 800 years, and there were more than a dozen dynasties, until more than 100 years ago, Yang Shan, the founding emperor of the Liang Dynasty, swept away the countries of the Quartet, and established a strong Liang Dynasty, with the capital in Luoyi.
Of course, part of Jiangnan's understanding of the world comes from "personal" experience.
As for whether the actual situation is true, you still need to verify it yourself.
After arriving in this world, Jiangnan fainted from a strange dream again.
That morning, as usual, he rowed his boat to the lake to fish.
I heard the noise of people in the distance, as if the clanging sound of striking iron came from a large ship several stories high, and in a moment a man fell from the boat, and the big ship sailed away without stopping.
Seeing that the big boat was gradually blurring in his field of vision, driven by curiosity, Jiang Nan drove the small boat towards the place where the man fell into the water.
It didn't take long for him to faint.
In the dream, Jiangnan seemed to have experienced that person's life again.