Chapter 1 A Dream Through the Ages
In 884 A.D., northwest Shuofang, outside the city of Lingzhou.
"Xuanqing, hurry up, it's almost dark. If we don't leave, we won't be able to catch up with Helan Mountain at night. We'll have to spend the night on the side of the road. A fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy shouted with a bow and arrow on his back without replying.
The young man in black homespun clothes who was a little younger and carrying a medicine basket smiled when he heard this, reached out to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and quickly caught up with his companion in front.
One of these two teenagers is named Chen Yu, and the other is Li Xuanqing in the back. Both of them are orphans in Lingzhou City.
Since the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, the national strength has been declining, and the lives of the people have also deteriorated sharply. Lingzhou, the former land of Heshuo, has experienced wars, but in the back of the war in the Central Plains, it has become an alternative paradise. There was a large influx of displaced people from the Central Plains, and although the Hetao Plain was rich in later generations, it was not developed at this time, and the displaced people brought all kinds of problems. Since the last Tibetan invasion was thwarted, the Turkic Uighur tribes have risen one after another, and the city of Lingzhou has been sandwiched between them, but at this time it has also maintained a delicate balance. It's just that this balance is caused by the decline of the Han nation, and the surrounding ethnic groups have not yet begun to focus on this fertile land. If one day all the clans set their eyes on Lingzhou, I am afraid that the battlefield of the past will reappear.
However, all this is still far away from Li Xuanqing and Chen Yu. The two of them grew up eating 100 family meals in Lingzhou City. As a teenager, they are already struggling to survive. Li Xuanqing worked as a servant in a pharmacy called "Yishantang", and Chen Yu worked as an apprentice in a blacksmith shop. Since both of them were orphans, they became companions. Li Xuanqing often needed to go to Helan Mountain in the west of Lingzhou City to collect medicine, and Chen Yu also had to look for ore.
On this day, they began to walk along the post road of Lingzhou City to Helan Mountain. Li Xuanqing looked around and told the bad behavior of the blacksmith shop shopkeeper who bullied his subordinates as he walked, smiled slightly, ignored him, and continued to walk forward.
In fact, Li Xuanqing's pharmacy is similar, for orphans like them, it is already a fluke to be able to find a place to eat mixed rice, so he can understand the complaints of his friend.
However, for Li Xuanqing, he always seems to have a pair of eyes that are free from this world, seemingly innocent eyes of a young man, but in fact, no matter how you look at it, it seems to have a trace of vicissitudes and an indescribable sense of alienation. This alienation seemed to loom in the world, allowing him to peel himself out of this world.
In fact, in the past fifteen years, he has almost been accustomed to the little bit of this world, but some things in his bones are not so easy to change.
"Yes, after so many years, I still integrate into such a society after all." Li Xuanqing stopped and sighed slightly. I have been in this world for fifteen years, and it is really a dream. It's just that my dream is really from a thousand years later to a thousand years ago. I never thought that I would simply take a nap and I really came to a thousand years ago, and I really lived in this world for fifteen years.
Thinking back to my childhood, I don't know how much energy and time it took to prove that I really crossed over. This dream really made me cry and laugh. His "past life" was just an ordinary ordinary person, and he never thought that such an unbelievable thing would happen to him one day.
It's just that I came to this time and space inexplicably, shouldn't I learn to do something like what is written in the novel? Changing the world?
Li Xuanqing smiled slightly bitterly, it seems that he doesn't have that much ability, right? But you have to leave something to prove that you "came", right?
In fact, if I can go back one day, I can prove that this is not a dream.
It's just that can I really wake up from this dream? Maybe I'll never wake up. Besides, I have been in this world for fifteen years, and even if I can go back, it will be a matter of life and nothing to do.
Li Xuanqing touched the medicine basket behind his back, the feeling in his hand at this moment was so real, so real that he actually knew in his heart that he really couldn't go back. Everything that was once became a thing of the past with the moment I came into this world.
"Xuanqing, what are you doing? Stupid again? Let's go. Chen Yu walked up at this time and found that Li Xuanqing was distracted for a while, and couldn't help but push him, "Let's go, it's delayed, and we will be beaten and scolded again when we go back." ”
"yes, it's time to hurry." Li Xuanqing smiled slightly, remembering the hardships of life now, temporarily suppressed the thoughts in his heart, and rushed towards the mountains in the distance with Chen Yu.
Regardless of whether you can do something or not, at least you must first ensure that you can survive in this troubled world.
It's just that I can survive, but how can the people of this troubled world survive? Thinking of those creepy records in the history books, Li Xuanqing's heart beat faster and faster. What can I do to change the dark years in the parallel world?
The Tang Dynasty had lost its restraint on the power of the feudal towns, and the flames of war had resumed after the Huangchao Rebellion was extinguished. Sen Sen white bones, the land of the Central Plains that is thousands of miles empty is estimated to have begun to kick off.
Li Xuanqing thought about his thoughts as he walked, and completely forgot the world outside his body. I dreamed for eternity, dreamed back thousands of years ago, shouldn't I change all this?
Yes, since you let yourself come back in the dark, is it to let yourself change this period of history?
But where do you start?
Li Xuanqing stopped again, and for the first time in his clear eyes, he was confused and overwhelmed.
Indeed, I really don't know where to start now.
In the distance, Helan Mountain is already in sight, and the sunset casts a majestic shadow, and a little light passes through the gap between the mountains. Although it is slim, it is so unyielding.
In the setting sun, there is also hope.
Li Xuanqing suddenly smiled, and once again quickened his pace and walked forward.