Chapter 1 The Lu Family in Guozhou
Lu Yu knew very well that he had already died in his previous life, and now, he lived in Taiping Town, Guozhou, in the late Northern Song Dynasty.
Lu Yu knows even more that he is not a cross-dresser, but a reincarnation, after all, in this life, he is really from a newborn baby, trying to grow to the age of twelve, and he is not replacing someone else's body to come back to life.
For his previous life, Lu Yu didn't think there was really anything worth nostalgic, after all, in the previous life, he was originally an orphan, fatherless, motherless, relatives and no reason.
With the help of well-wishers and through his own efforts, he can be regarded as a person who has read a little book, and he has a little ink in his stomach.
However, due to the innate inferiority complex in the orphan, in the previous life, he was more withdrawn and difficult to get along with, so every job he found after graduating from college could not be done for a long time, either he hated others, or others hated him, anyway, repeated unemployment became the norm in his early life.
In the end, Lu Yu in the previous life, became a small trader alone, and set up a stall near the History Museum to sell souvenirs.
At the beginning, as a layman, he didn't know which antiques were real and which were fake, so in the process of reselling antiques, he also suffered a lot of losses, but over time, his eyesight slowly practiced, and gradually, he suffered very little.
Once, he found an ancient book called "The Book of Ghosts" from a second-class dealer, and that night, he was extremely bored, and opened the cover of the "Book of Ghosts" with his hands.
Immediately, Lu Yu saw that countless green-faced and fanged demons poured out of the "Ghost Sutra" and tore their bodies apart, and the scene was like a piece of raw meat falling into a meat grinder and being ground in an instant.
However, at that moment, Lu Yu still left a last word, which was: "It turns out that there are really ghosts in the world......"
So, Lu Yu in the previous life, before he had time to resist, was killed by the group of fierce ghosts that came out of the "Ghost Sutra", and also became a ghost, however, when the group of fierce ghosts finished eating meat and drinking blood, and were about to attack Lu Yu's soul, a burst of purple light flashed above the "Ghost Sutra".
Immediately, Lu Yu and the group of evil ghosts all disappeared, and no one seemed to care about Lu Yu's sudden disappearance, after all, he was a lone star......
Later, I don't know how long it took to be in the muddy, in the fifth year of Chongning, in 1106 AD, Lu Yu became a baby and was born in the Lu family in Taiping Town, Guozhou.
The Lu family in Taiping Town is a well-known home of wealthy merchants in the whole of Guozhou, and the history of the Lu family in business can be traced back to even before the establishment of the Song Dynasty.
In the early days, the Lu family was engaged in the salt and iron business, after all, it was the war-torn period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and selling salt and iron to the major warlords was the most profitable business, as long as it was a person with a little business acumen, he would do this kind of business.
However, in this era when Confucianism was solidified in the air, although the merchants were the most superior in terms of living standards, in terms of social status, they were at the end of the four people, and even the peasants looked down on the merchants.
Later, after the establishment of the Song Dynasty, the salt and iron business was nationalized, so the business families who originally relied on the salt and iron business to make a fortune looked for a way out.
Some business families, who did not want to transform, were willing to take the risk of killing their heads, and began to secretly sell illicit salt and secretly smelt iron, but the Lu family did not do this, and under the iron-fisted means of Lu Ming, the fourth generation head of the Lu family, the Lu family decisively gave up the salt and iron business and began to operate a tea and porcelain business.
In the end, the Lu family successfully transformed and became the leading tea merchant and porcelain merchant in Guozhou, and its influence even radiated beyond Guozhou, and even the CD Mansion across the state had a tea factory opened by the Lu family.
The head of the Lu family of this generation is the sixteenth generation, his name is Lu Long, the word Zi'an, his wife has five sons and one daughter, one of whom died early, and survived four sons.
Lu Yu is the third son of Lu Long, the head of the Lu family, in this life, his name is still called Lu Yu, the only difference is that there is an extra font name after his name, called Shuwen.
The Lu family has a big business, rich and powerful, and Lu Long, the head of the Lu family, is a good-faced master, he can't bear to be despised by his family, so in order to change his family's status at the end of the four people, he invited a teacher from Zizhou City at a high price to educate his four sons-in-law, intending to transform his family from a commercial family to an official family.
However, perhaps because the Lu family does not have the gene to read in their cells, Lu Long's eldest son and second son, that is, Lu Yu's twenty-six-year-old eldest brother Lu Wen and twenty-two-year-old second brother Lu Wu, although they have good teachers to continue to educate, but the two of them have spent more than ten years and participated in four or five imperial examinations in the county in a row, but they have not even been admitted to the show, let alone go further.
In the end, Lu Long also understood that his eldest son and second son were really not the material for studying, and he could only train the two of them to take over his own business, as for letting them study, forget it.
After giving up the eldest son and the second son, Lu Long focused his attention on the third son Lu Yu and the fourth son Lu Ning.
Although Lu Yu has adult brain power since birth, it is quite easy to memorize those Confucian classics by rote, but because Lu Yu's personality is relatively low-key and withdrawn, he did not take the initiative to show any superiority in front of his father and teacher, which seems quite mediocre, not like a literary music star.
In addition, Lu Yu's fourth brother Lu Ning turned out to be a prodigy, he is only eight years old this year, and he can understand the basic meaning of the Four Books and Five Classics, this ability, an ordinary child who is more than fifteen or sixteen years old, is quite remarkable, so when he saw Lu Long, who changed the fate of the family, he focused all his attention on his young son Lu Ning, and the requirements for Lu Yu were not so strict.
In fact, Lu Yu also felt that he was the third son of Lu Long, and he was quite lucky, if he was Lu Long's eldest son, then he would have to inherit the Lu family's property one day in the future, and he would be busy; And if he is Lu Long's youngest son, then, as Lu Long's heart and liver, he has always been concerned, and there is no privacy space at all.
To tell the truth, Lu Yu knows very well that the spring of next year will be the day when the county will hold the imperial examination, and his father must want his fourth brother Lu Ning to participate in this examination, if Lu Ning can be admitted to Xiucai at the age of eight, then Lu Ning's name as a prodigy will be confirmed, which will be very helpful for his future career, after all, this is the Song Dynasty, this is the heyday of literati.
And two years ago, ten-year-old Lu Yu also had the opportunity to take the county exam, but, the year before, his mother died in childbirth when she gave birth to his fifth sister, so he had to keep filial piety for three years, so he missed the exam.
"Third young master, the master asked you to go to the courtyard of the eldest young master for dinner at noon...... "Squeak......" Yaqin, the big girl who pushed open the carved wooden door, whispered softly after saluting Lu Yu, who was sitting on the soft floor of Shu brocade.
"Got it......" raised his eyes and glanced at Yaqin who was standing at the door, and waved his right palm to send her away, Wang Xu raised his left hand slightly, holding a thread-bound ancient book in his hand, and the ancient book in his hand was the "Ghost Sutra" that killed him in the previous life.
Since the first moment of his birth in the Great Song Dynasty, Lu Yu discovered that there was something in his knowledge of the sea, and when he was six years old, he summoned the thing in the sea for the first time, and saw that the thing was the "Ghost Sutra" that killed him, he was not surprised at all.
He knew very well in his heart that since the book "The Book of Ghosts" could allow him to carry the memories of his previous life and reincarnate in the Song Dynasty, then what would it matter if it was more magical.
At this time, there was still an hour before noon, and Lu Yu had just returned from the private school, since there was still an hour to rest, he picked up the yellowed pages of the book "Ghost Sutra" again to read.
To tell the truth, every time Lu Yu took out the "Ghost Sutra" and read it, he had a feeling of horror, he was afraid, if he opened the "Ghost Sutra" by himself, countless fierce ghosts poured out of it again, so what should he do, do you want to die and be reborn again, or die completely, and there will be no more.
However, since he was reincarnated in the Song Dynasty, Lu Yu, who has read the "Ghost Sutra" countless times, found that the "Ghost Sutra" in his hand does not seem to have the intention of "going crazy" again, which allows Lu Yu to repeatedly look at the culprit who killed him countless times.
To be honest, now Lu Yu can write almost all the content on the "Ghost Sutra" word for word, and even the punctuation will not be wrong.
The whole book of "The Book of Ghosts" has about 300 pages, which is quite thick, and it is introduced in the book that it was written by Zhong Kui, but Lu Yu felt that this might be blown, after all, it is difficult to say whether there is Zhong Kui in history, not to mention that he also wrote a book.
There are three parts to the book: the first part details the classification of ghosts in the world; In the second part, the recipes of several elixirs and the patterns of the talismans are recorded; The third part is the two methods of practice.
Among them, the first practice method, called "Ghost Formula", is mainly for eye training, the book says, practicing "Ghost Formula", you can get the three eyes of heaven, earth, and people, the eyes of the earth can observe the ghosts in the world, the human eye can check the number of life in the world, and as for the eye of heaven, you can distinguish between good and evil.
The second method is called "Qi Cultivation Formula", and the book says that practicing "Qi Cultivation Formula" can wash the pulse and cut the marrow, and achieve the effect of prolonging life.
Because the knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine in the Song Dynasty was very developed, Lu Yu, who had only lived here for 12 years, already knew the knowledge of meridians and acupuncture points well.
Just when Lu Yu was feeling comfortable and wanted to stretch his waist, suddenly, there was a faint sound at the door: "Xianggong ......"
Lu Yu, who was startled by the sudden wonderful sound, subconsciously trembled twice, and then he quickly put away the "Ghost Sutra......