Chapter 1001: Welcome to the Great Song

Zhao Xing clearly remembered the scene when he opened his eyes for the first time in this world - the continuous forest of ancient trees, a few scattered pieces of luggage were suddenly placed in the lush forest, and there was a person lying on the ground - himself.

Zhao Xing tried to recall further, but found that his previous memories were blurry. It seems that the plane he was on exploded in the air, and the broken plane threw him out, and when he fell, there were several suitcases floating around him.

Immediately after, a black hole appeared in the sky, as if the sky had been pierced......

The memory was blank until Zhao Xing opened his eyes again.

After opening his eyes, Zhao Xing saw and observed the surrounding environment, and his first feeling was the TV show "Survival on a Desert Island" that came to mind......

When he came back to his senses, he sighed and checked his body, and found that there were miraculously no serious injuries on his body.

He jumped up and checked his surroundings—some of the luggage scattered around him, some in the cracks in the rocks, some hanging from the high branches, and it took a lot of tossing and turning before he could collect it.

There were seven pieces of luggage in total, and there was no food in them, just some travel essentials. Five pieces of luggage belong to women, and inside are cosmetics, sexy lingerie, and fashionable dresses...... A careful lady also prepared some travel medicines: Huoxiang Zhengqi Water for diarrhea, Dysentery, Smecta, a cold treatment and a little anti-inflammatory medicine.

The two men's suitcases are brand-name goods, one of the men seems to be a conscientious workaholic, there are only two simple coats in the luggage, and the remaining space is a lot of English contracts, market research reports, and descriptions of the destination city, and there is an English novel - not even an mp3, boring!

The other piece of luggage belongs to a fanaticist who seems to be ready for a Desert Island Survival event. In his suitcase was a copy of the U.S. Army's Wilderness Survival Manual, a multi-piece set of Swiss utility knives, and a compass...... This man was also a man who traveled from north to south, and in his box there were large stacks of sightseeing maps, each of which had traces of sketches, showing that he had visited all these places.

Now, what the fantasy maniac has not experienced is continued by Zhao Xing.

It was the "Wilderness Survival Manual" that gave Zhao Xing a lot of help, relying on the guidance in the book, he made his own bow and arrow, made his own fishing nets, traps, traps, traps, and traps, identified edible food and fruits, and relied on this knowledge to overcome the initial difficulties and get out of the forest alive.

There is no time in the mountains, and Zhao Xing missed the first few days of recording his survival experience. When he looked back, the days of being tormented by the pressure of his stomach were blurred so much that he couldn't tell exactly how long he had been there, except that he came here when the spring flowers were full of flowers, and when the autumn leaves were gone, he came across the first human village.

At that time, the long jungle life made him have long hair and shawls, dry hair, and ragged clothes that were almost ****. The long solitude made him hoarse and unable to speak even human language......

When he came to his senses and gradually mastered the local language, he experienced two more full moons, which were already winter.

After the accident, his memory seemed fragmented and intermittent, and he thought that he would suffer from amnesia and spend his life there, but as he recovered, his memory also returned—and his memory was so good that he could not forget it, but everything he had experienced in the past now came back to him as if it were yesterday.

After his memory was restored, Zhao Xing found that his physical strength had also recovered...... However, it seems that something is abnormal, his strength is amazing, and now he can casually lift heavy objects that he never dared to think of - is this the harvest left by "survival in the wild", but this harvest is inevitably too big. He once secretly calculated: It is expected that he will definitely win the weightlifting championship when he participates in the Olympics now......

By the firepit, an old man about fifty years old greeted the sober Zhao Xing, who casually pulled the charcoal in the brazier with a fire stick, and asked in a thick Hunan voice: "Where do the guests come from?" ”

This was the first time Zhao Xing had entered this big wooden house, and he had entered it for a reason - he had spoken for the first time a few days earlier, saving a ploughing cow.

It is said that the ploughing cow was when the mountain people went to the nearby county town to catch the market, and found that someone sold it very cheaply, so he was greedy for a moment and exchanged all his mountain goods for the cow. When the ploughing cow was transported back to the cottage, the villagers found out that they had been fooled: the cow had diarrhea and had no strength to stand up.

At that time, the mountain goods paid by the villagers did not belong to him alone, but several families in the village got together and entrusted him to go to the county seat to sell. When he returned to the village after changing the cow, the cooperative families were happy at first and agreed that the cow would be owned by several families. Now there is a problem with the cow, and a dispute arises from it.

This cottage is a family-style cottage with the same surname, and the quarrel makes the patriarch tired of adjusting. At this time, Zhao Xing, who was being helped to walk around the barn floor, resolved the dispute in one sentence, and he only said one word - "Tea!" ”

The tannins contained in tea are a good medicine for diarrhea caused by water and soil adaptation. The British were the first to discover this mystery, so they did everything possible to steal Chinese tea seeds and try them out in various places, and when the trials were successful, they boasted that they had "conquered the whole world with a teacup in one hand and a musket in the other."

The "U.S. Army Wilderness Survival Manual" happens to have an introduction to the use of tea, and the book instructs travelers to use leaves and grass stems to boil tannins to stop diarrhea...... A few days later, the cow was miraculously restored, which allowed Zhao Xing to immediately obtain the right to enter the patriarch's house.

The memories had been interrupted by the questioning, and the patriarch asked again, Zhao Xing tilted his head and asked with a confused expression: "What kind of place is this?" ”

This kind of answer obviously did not conform to the patriarch's speaking habits, and when Zhao Xing explained a few times, he understood, and immediately lowered his head, picked up the coals with a fire stick, as if he was thinking about something, and only replied after a while: "Old man Cheng Tong, this place is Cheng Jiaao!" ”

This sentence is meaningless, what Zhao Xing wants to know is: which province, which city and which county is this......

When he first arrived, Zhao Xing suspected that he had come to the Dwarf Country. The people here are all about 1.5 meters tall, there are no telephones, no televisions, and even no electricity in the village, and there is almost no contact with the outside world. Zhao Xing wanted to beg someone to send him to a nearby big city several times, but due to the language barrier, such a simple thing could not be done.

What's even more terrifying is that the people here are almost illiterate. Zhao Xing picked up his pen several times to write down the request, but found that the other party was staring at a pair of blank eyes......

After repeated temptations, he vaguely felt that the situation was not right—it didn't seem to be the real world in front of him, and everything seemed so weird. The costumes, language, and living habits of the villagers...... It's all abnormal.

It made him a little scared, a little apprehensive, and of course, a little dazed.

After thinking for a moment, Zhao Xing pointed to the direction of the legendary county seat of the villagers and asked, "What county is that?" ”

"Qi Shui", after the patriarch answered, he pointed in another direction and continued: "That's Yingshan; That's the capital city of Huangzhou......"

The patriarch smiled slyly, and said with the pride of the mountain people: "I, Chengjiaao, do not belong to the management of Qi County, nor to the management of Yingshan. ”

Huangzhou?!

This name Zhao Xing is familiar with, judging according to the topography, if this is Huangzhou nearby, then he should have reached the southern foot of Dabie Mountain now. The "travel enthusiast" had a map of Hubei in his suitcase, and if he went back to rummage through it, he could roughly determine his location according to the knowledge in the manual and the direction of the terrain and mountains.

Zhao Xing asked again: "What day is today?" ”

The patriarch tried his best to adapt to the way Zhao Xing spoke, and he tried his best to use the posture of Wen Crepe to say the content he had consulted in the past few days: "Today is the year of Xinyou, the month of Wuxu, and the day of Yiwei. ”

Zhao Xing was thundered by these words.

Seeing Zhao Xing's confused face, the patriarch added: "Yuanfeng four years. ”

This sentence is still a book from heaven, and Zhao Xing continued to look at the patriarch with blank eyes, trembling.

The patriarch's expression was grim, and he asked tentatively: "Liao Kingdom, what is the era name now?" ”

This sentence was like a thunderbolt, immediately illuminating Zhao Xing's world - would there be such a primitive village in Dabie Mountain?

If this is Dabie Mountain, how can there be a lush primeval forest? How can there be such a group of retro people?

What's wrong with the world?

I crossed over.

Liao, this country should have existed during the Northern Song Dynasty......

If this belongs to the Song Dynasty, then the differences in the costumes, language, etc., of the villagers are easy to explain.

Zhao Xing once watched an exploration program about the excavation of Song tombs in Hubei and Fuzhou. The owners of the tombs ranged in age from 12 to 50 years old, and according to the identification of the bones, the tomb owners were between 1.21 and 1.57 meters tall during their lifetime. According to this speculation: in the south of the Song Dynasty, the average height of well-nourished rich children was under 1.6 meters......

If this belongs to the Song Dynasty, the height of the villagers is normal.

In addition, there is the problem of building materials in the village. Although, according to archaeological research, there have been "brick-shaped" soil embryos in China since the Zhou Dynasty, but in the Song Dynasty, the brick-shaped structure still did not reach the general public-the preserved Chaozhou Xu Juma Mansion, except for a brick courtyard wall built in the Ming Dynasty, the interior is mainly an all-wood structure.

In other words, by the time of the Song Dynasty, brick-framed houses had not yet reached the administrative level of the imperial court.

If this is the Song Dynasty, then the architecture of the village, the attire of the villagers, the language...... These anomalies have a plausible explanation.

As for the changes in strength and memory...... Maybe it's the transformation of the body by the space-time wormhole.

Zhao Xingfu thought about it, and forgot to answer the patriarch's words for a while. After the patriarch shouted a few times, he found that the patriarch was holding a cup of hot tea for him to drink, and in one hand he was still holding a clay pot taken from the firepit.

There was a faint fragrance in the air, which seemed to be the smell of cardamom or cinnamon, Zhao Xingshen took the teacup and took a sip of tea absentmindedly.

The smell of tea made him frown, and after a little thought, he stretched his brow again, took a sip of tea, and nodded slightly in satisfaction.

Zhao Xing's frown was because the tea had a strong smell of spices, which made him very uncomfortable. But when he tasted it carefully, he felt that the taste was familiar, a bit close to the taste of British "Earl Grey Black Tea".

After a moment's thought, he understood.

The Song Dynasty was the time when it was popular to add various spices to tea. If this is the Song Dynasty, if this is the southern foot of the Dabie Mountains near Huangzhou, then it should not be far from Lanxi Spring. Lanxi Spring is the "third spring in the world" personally assessed by Lu Yu, the "tea saint" of the Tang Dynasty, and the local tea culture has a long history, which happens to be one of the birthplaces of Song tea culture.

This habit of drinking tea with spices has been criticized by modern people, who believe that adding spices to tea will make the fragrance of the tea itself covered by spices, so they think that this is a "layman" to do things...... However, even the most resolute critics of Song Tea consider it a "petty bourgeoisie" when they drink a pot of British "Earl Grey black tea" for 100 yuan a pot in the bar.

The Song Dynasty was the peak of China's tea trade, and it was from this era that Europeans began their efforts to steal Chinese tea seeds. At this time, the tea drinking habits of the Song people were inherited to the West and were considered the most elegant by foreigners, so there were "Earl Grey Black Tea", "Sri Lankan Cardamom Tea", and "Cinnamon Tea" - these are all modern "petty bourgeoisie" luxury goods.

Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty has a poem: "More than thirteen years of grace, cardamom tips in early February." In the Song Dynasty, you can drink the original cardamom tea, and suddenly, the countryside, wooden houses, old people, fire ponds, ......, all transformed into an adult ancient painting.

This painting does not give people a sense of cangsang, it is full of the meaning of "cardamom years", which can't help but make Zhao Xing have a longing for this era.

The patriarch had been observing Zhao Xing's expression, seeing Zhao Xing stretch his brows, he took another sip with great enjoyment, and he continued to ask: "Where is Liao, is Han'er okay?" ”

Zhao Xing couldn't answer this question. He is now only sure that he is in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Song Liao's hatred for hundreds of years made him dare not talk nonsense at will, so he cautiously asked in the calmest tone: "Liao? Are you sure there is this country? ”

The patriarch breathed a sigh of relief, he skipped the topic just now, and then asked, "What is the guest's surname?" ”

Zhao Xing replied slowly: "My name is Zhao Xing, the word is out of people, I have always been in the mountains in the past, @#¥%%............"

And what surname is the safest in the Song Dynasty, Zhao! The emperor's surname is Zhao, and the surname of the hundred families ranks first, who dares to question it.

Zhao Xing means "Zhao's prosperity", and the name is "very dark and backstage". In this era, cultural people are popular with the word "leaving people" - a person who has left his homeland, which also appropriately expresses his identity. In this way, the meaning of the whole name is: "I am a tourist in the Song Dynasty".

The name made the patriarch completely relaxed.

The patriarch did not have much culture, and in his mind, the barbarians would never think of giving themselves an elegant "word". "Detached" - he didn't understand what it meant, but he thought it was so profound.

In fact, Cheng Tong didn't know that there were also many pure Han people on the territory of Liao, they were all from Confucianism, and the word they took was more elegant than "leaving people". But the villagers' knowledge has not yet been widely heard of that point, Cheng Tong only thinks: barbarians, they are barbaric, and it is normal to be illiterate in big characters, how could they think of taking "words" for themselves, taking words, that is the ability of the official master and the big showman......

"Where do you want to go?" Cheng Tong asked lightly.

"Nowhere to go", the answer was as Cheng Tong expected. It's just that these words are extremely lonely and bleak.

"How about living in peace?" Cheng Tong asked very earnestly, full of the cunning of the mountain people.