Night, as thick as ink.

I couldn't see five fingers when I stretched out my hand, and the air was so oppressive that it was hard to breathe.

Looking up, there was not a single twinkling star in the entire sky.

Suddenly, my surroundings gradually lit up, and the fiery red flames were so dazzling that as far as the eye could see, the crazy fiery serpents quickly devoured the surrounding houses.

The cacophony of cries grew louder. It was the cries of men, the cries of women, children, the elderly, and even men, mixed with the sound of houses collapsing.

The whole village was in chaos.

Suddenly, a small man with a half-bald forehead, and a long, slender knife with a sharp blade in both hands, sprang to my left side, while a horse galloped and stopped to my right in the blink of an eye, and on the saddle sat a strange alien with strange braids, holding a horned bow and wolf's fangs in his hands, and the snow-white wolf's fangs shimmered in the firelight.

The two of them screamed loudly, and the weapons in their hands turned at me at the same time.

When I first woke up, I searched all the places in the vicinity, but I couldn't find a single guy to take advantage of, not to mention a kitchen knife or an iron pot, even a pot lid or half a brick!

When the enemy struck, there was no way to avoid it, and I could only use my hands in vain to try to block the steel knife and the sharp arrow.

However, how could the flesh and blood be able to block the weapon, the sharp pain hit, and the gushing blood spilled down on the head and face

……

"Ah...... Yes! ”

In a series of screams, Cai Dao suddenly woke up and touched his face with his hand, which was sticky and had a slight fishy smell.

"Whew...... Call...... Whew"

Holding the bed with his hands, he sat up, gulping in a big gulp of air, and gradually regained his violent heartbeat.

Again, a nightmare!

All the clothes on my body were soaked with cold sweat.

Even if you don't have to open your eyes, Cai Dao knows her condition.

And in the dream, the blood on his face must have been done by that damn lazy cat!

For the tanuki around him, he has an indescribable contradiction in his heart.

To be honest, he doesn't hate pets himself, but he hates pets licking himself, especially cats and dogs. If it weren't for the growing rat infestation on the farm, he wouldn't have taken in the tanuki named Little Flower.

This guy started well, as a cat is quite diligent in catching mice. But since Cai Dao started having nightmares two years ago, the tanuki has become lazy, greedy, and never eats mice. Even if you occasionally encounter a mouse that is not afraid of death, you will let it go.

All of this was that nightmare. Whenever there is a nightmare, Xiaohua will always wake him up in time. The gooey stuff on his face is what this damn tanuki licks.

In short, Cai Dao couldn't say whether he was grateful or disgusted in his heart. In this way, such a strange pair lived together.

Waking up from the dream, Cai Dao got up and got out of bed, lifted the clogs, took off his soaked clothes first, and dried his whole body with a dry cloth. He got busy, changed into clean clothes, walked to the window, and pushed open the baffle on the edge of the window.

The sea breeze at night blows gently, feeling a little cool, take a deep breath, the slightly fishy sea breeze mixed with the unique earthy fragrance of the countryside, refreshing people's hearts. Warm clouds of moonlight swarmed in, spilling over the room.

Say more 'the moon is bright and the stars are scarce', and today is the fifteenth again.

December 15, 3rd year of the Great Song Dynasty, this is the exact time. In ancient times, the fifteenth day of the month was called the day of hope, and the sixteenth was the day of hope.

It's no wonder that I was still strange just now, I was looking at the sun, but I couldn't see the moon in the night sky in my dream, and I thought it was a lunar eclipse!

The dream, or the nightmare.

Dreaming, most people do.

Nightmares, to be honest, before crossing over, Cai Dao had seen a lot of horror movies, and the scenes in them were much more terrifying than this.

However, if a person has a nightmare that has been the same for two consecutive years on the day of the month (that is, the fifteenth day of each lunar month), and when he wakes up, everything in the dream is deeply engraved in his mind, and he cannot forget it at all, isn't that terrifying?

Dreams are still dreams after all, and they have not yet become reality.

Life has to go on, isn't life always like this, and you get used to it when you write. Every time he had a nightmare, he comforted himself like this, and as for whether it was useful or not, only he knew whether it was useful.

What the hell is that damn nightmare? Whether everything in the dream is something that has already happened, something that is happening, or what will be experienced in the future. Cai Dao couldn't figure out all this.

Listening to the four housekeepers, there are many dream interpreters around Xianyou County, and among them, there are a few 'masters' who interpret dreams very effectively. Cai Dao also had the idea of finding someone to interpret his dreams, but when he thought of the current situation, he had no choice but to give up.

Age has become a bruise first.

A child of immature age will have such a dream, either the reincarnation of a disaster star, or the possession of a monster.

"Little mute, don't talk back.

Little calamity, gram relatives.

Small Luo pot, circle legs.

Walk up and shake your tail. ”

This is a nursery rhyme that has been widely circulated in the entire Xinghua Army after he returned to his hometown. Whether it is the wording or the sentence formation, it is very rough, and with Cai Dao's literary skills, it is impossible to explore the origin of this nursery rhyme.

What's more, since he was born, there have been many bad rumors around him, such in Bianliang, the capital, and in filial piety, which is more than 3,000 miles away, it has never stopped. If, at this time, those dreamers break the news of the contents of the nightmare he had. There is a good chance that his life will be in danger, and he will be angrily dragged out and immersed in the pig coop by the villagers who usually seem to be kind.

Every time he thought of such consequences, he couldn't help but shudder.

Therefore, in addition to often when there is no one, he can only talk to Xiaohua, and no one else knows about this matter, even the fourth housekeeper who raised him since he was a child does not know.

……

Having said all that, Cai Dao, who is this six-year-old boy?

That's right, the current Cai Dao is no longer the waste wood otaku who just lost his job and is like a lost dog. When he woke up, Cai Dao found that everything around him, including himself, had changed.

This is his third way of crossing in addition to wearing and soul wearing-returning to the furnace and rebuilding. He has always been attached to the womb of the Cai Wang. It wasn't until January 1 of the tenth year of Xining that he was born, of course, this refers to the lunar calendar.

Chiling, Cixiaoli, Xianyou County, Xinghua Army, is his hometown now.

At the same time, it is also the hometown of the now famous Xianyou Cai.

In the three dynasties, the famous calligrapher Cai Xiang was his uncle.

This dynasty is a double jinshi, Cai Jing is his eldest uncle, and Cai Bian is his father.

And his maternal grandfather is a bull - 'bad minister' Wang Anshi.

However, all this glory and welfare have nothing to do with Cai Dao.

When his mother Wang gave birth to him, she had a difficult birth and almost lost two lives.

After giving birth, Wen Po and the doctor discovered that he was suffering from a hidden disease - a slight Luo Guo and Luo Huan legs.

What's even more weird is that Wang Yan, the uncle who died of illness in the ninth year of Xining, actually lived for nearly half a year in this life, and died until he was born.

Legend has it that grandma doesn't hurt, and uncle doesn't love it, which is probably what it looks like.

So, before he could catch Zhou, he was taken back to his hometown by the four housekeepers.

This stay is more than four years, and the father who is a senior official has never returned home, nor has he ever written a letter. He was a man who was born but died. Compared with Zhang Dun, who was almost drowned by his biological father, he at least has a grandmother who loves her, and Cai Dao is the only one who loves her.

All this, resting on any normal child, will make this child feel lonely, disgusted, and even hated!

But today's Cai Dao will not, he was originally a lonely otaku, he came from the later generations, from 2017, nearly a thousand years later.

Therefore, Cai Dao does not hate now, and he does not hate Cai Bian and his wife who left him alone.

He understood the hatred of Cai Bian and his wife, but was very grateful. Because not everyone can be lucky enough to have a childhood again, and not every child can have a free childhood.

If you want to blame it, you have to blame the thief who brought him here......

In the second year of Yuanfeng, the Wutai poetry case broke out.

Wang Anshi's favorite general, Li Ding, was the initiator of this political turmoil, Su Shi was almost beheaded because of this, and in the end, due to the persuasion of Empress Dowager Cao and Wang Anshi, he was only demoted to Huangzhou, and a large number of ministers were implicated.

Cai Dao was exercising his small body in his room and trying to correct his looped legs, and he was only two years old that year.

In winter, Empress Cao, the wife of the Four Emperors Renzong, died of illness.

In the third year of Yuanfeng, in May, Yi Mao, the eldest princess of Shu.

This was also the third year after he returned to Xiaocili.

In this year, Cai Dao borrowed two pieces of money and one acre and three points of land from Cai Xi, the fourth housekeeper.

After all, Cai Dao was raised by Cai Xi himself, and his name is the master and servant, but he is actually a father and son. Cai Xi thought that Cai Dao was messing around, so he took out his own pocket to meet his request.

First, four eleven or twelve-year-old hairy boys and an eight-year-old girl who signed the death deed with the consistent money, and then used the consistent money to build some farming tools and buy a few ducks.

No one thought that there was no big livestock, and Cai Dao relied on these small points to tidy up the one-third of an acre of land in an orderly manner.

One acre of land is planted with early rice, and two acres of land are used to cultivate seedlings of late rice. The remaining half of the land is used to grow wead, and half is used to grow winter melon.

In the end, six stones were harvested from the early rice on that acre of land, and the melons and vegetables on that piece of land were even more amazing, with 100 catties of winter melons and 80 catties of woad. If this is converted into a mu yield, it should be 1,000 catties and 800 catties respectively. In the future, if someone plants well, the winter melon can reach a yield of 20,000 catties per mu. However, this output is very amazing in this era. ①

Anyway, the fourth housekeeper Cai Xi has already regarded Cai Dao as a celestial.

After the summer harvest was over, he immediately gathered the tenants of the Cai Mansion, but planned to hand over all the properties of the Cai Mansion in Xiaoci to Cai Dao to manage.

However, Cai Dao did not immediately agree.

One is that he doesn't have that much energy, and he doesn't have that many subordinates;

second, they don't want these tenants to get it too easily;

Therefore, he set a rent of eight buckets per mu, and he had to make a contract, wanting to use such a high land rent to scare these tenants who had never seen much of the market and did not know how to calculate.

As a result, as he expected, more than 100 tenant farmers were frightened by the rent of eight buckets per mu, and only a dozen or so tenants who were relatively shrewd or poor that had no way out signed this 'unequal' contract with Cai Dao.

With Cai Xi's strong support, Cai Dao did not take the same intensive cultivation as when he farmed, but first recruited a lot of carpenters and carts to build a lot of strangely shaped donkey carts.

In the first half of the year, more than a dozen tenants even did not cultivate seedlings, and even if they cultivated seedlings, they could not be compared with the two points of land cultivated by Cai Dao, so Cai Dao did not use any advanced technology, that is, to put primitive green fertilizer on the ground. It is also difficult to think of low yield per mu when it is poured.

Cai Daoke doesn't care if those servants in the family have a habit of cleanliness or not. In addition to the tenants who farmed, the whole family went into battle and pulled a donkey cart to Xianyou County to collect the reincarnation of the five grains in the county.

The people in the whole county didn't know what Cai Mansion was crazy again, and the county magistrate of Xianyou County didn't know how to think about it, and it was estimated that he was also crazy, and he actually secretly made a stumbling block to delay Cai Fu's convoy.

As a result, he used the money to buy a large area of poor houses in the south of the county, which not only skillfully resolved the difficulties of the county order, but also laid the foundation for the future vegetable base of Xianyou County. Cai Dao is a child in charge, and he can't hurt him even if he says strange things. But the Xianyou County Order is miserable, and it has won the 'reputation' of the county order of the dung.

During the autumn harvest, Cai Fu released a spark in the entire Xinghua Army - the average yield per mu was five stones, and the yield per mu of one household was actually the same as that of Cai Dao's one mu of experimental field early rice. You must know that in this era, even in the Jiangdong area, where the water and soil are abundant, the average yield per mu is only about 4 stones.

However, this time, Cai Dao gave most of the seedlings he cultivated to farmers who lacked seedlings, and tried to plant soybeans in his one-acre experimental field.

The yield at the time of the autumn harvest was not very ideal, and I don't know if the preparation time was a bit hasty, coupled with the poor selection of bean seeds, only less than five buckets were harvested.

This is just Cai Dao's own subjective opinion, in the eyes of outsiders, whether it is late rice or soybeans, Caifu is very successful in planting.

As a result, Caifu ushered in a large number of people seeking the true scriptures.

If you want to turn public opinion and completely change your image.

Cai Dao can't hide his secrets, and he doesn't plan to hide the reason for the high yield of his fields, farm manure is just a means to increase the income of the field. Therefore, regardless of Cai Xi's advice, Cai Dao generously told the secret to the big families and people of the entire Xinghua Army, and sold his high-yield grain to the surrounding people and big families at a price slightly higher than the market price.

Of course, like the patriarch Cai Xuan and Cai Jing's father-in-law, Cai's mansion was given away for nothing.

……

Yuanfeng four years,

In May, the three counties of Yongqing, Wuqing and Gu'an in the Nanjing region of the Great Liao Kingdom suffered a locust plague.

In June, on the afternoon of Wuwu, a locust plague occurred in the counties north of the Yellow River in the Great Song Kingdom.

Ji Mao, Hongzhou Yanzhizhou, Guanwen Palace, Wang Shao, who recovered Hehuang, died of illness, obviously a Jinshi background, a generation of famous ministers of Yunwen Yunwu, and only got the nickname of Xiangmin after his death.

In November, the five-way war of the whole country of the Great Song Dynasty ended up in a miserable victory due to improper employment.

At the beginning of the year, a large trawler named 'Qian' made its maiden voyage at Xiaocili Wharf and brought back a large amount of seafood three days later.

Driven by Cai's house, the entire Xinghua army matured in two seasons that year, and its tax revenue even exceeded the sum of the armies of other states in the entire land of Fujian. Of course, Zhizhou is not a fool, and the actual tax revenue reported by him is not an extra achievement last year, and as for the excess, it is either used to make up for the deficit, or it quietly sells the excess grain to grain merchants privately.

Not only that, but Zhizhou even reported that the state has completely eradicated the evil custom that has been rampant in the land of Fujian for hundreds of years - infant drowning.

In fact, the evil custom of the Xinghua Army drowning babies has not been eradicated, and Zhizhou himself does not have this ability.

It's just because Cai Dao used the name of Cai Fu to hype up Cai Fu's adoption of babies who were unable to raise children, so on the surface, there were no more drowned babies in the Xinghua Army in the past two years.

The Cai government concealed the grain production of these two seasons, and the harvest was certain, otherwise it would not have allocated about a third of the land to grow soybeans and alfalfa in large quantities, and also planted a large number of tea trees in its own mountain forest, and even set up a large pasture in a hidden valley.

Buffalo, sheep, rabbits, and ducks gradually gained size, and Cai Dao also bought back many Dian and Arabian horses through merchants on sea and land.

Nowadays, the sugar industry and shipbuilding industry have become the pillar industries of Cai Fu in Xiaocili, and with the passage of time, the prosperity of Xianyou County has gradually surpassed the other two counties of the Xinghua Army, and gradually evolved into the commodity distribution center of the entire Xinghua Army.

……

As mentioned earlier, Cai Dao knows a lot, but he knows a lot.

Therefore, in the past two years, the implementation of his development steps has not been very smooth, and there are great differences from his previous plan, and there have been many twists and turns.

However, there is also encouraging news that the trial of inoculating cowpox in humans has been successfully concluded. The children and women of Cai Mansion、...... In short, anyone who has never had smallpox is vaccinated with cowpox.

Of course, it also includes Cai Dao himself, he cares about his own life very much.

Moreover, after three or four years of persistent efforts, his looped leg was finally completely corrected.

In the eyes of outsiders, Cai Dao is now completely a golden doll, simply the reincarnation of the fortune boy in front of the Great Compassion Guanyin, the legend about him has long spread throughout the land of Fujian, as the Cai family's shipbuilding industry is becoming more and more prosperous, this reputation has a tendency to spread more and more to other roads

……

This is what Cai Dao has achieved with his own efforts in the past two years.

The first day of next month will be Cai Dao's birthday, and he will be five years old in half a month, according to the habits of Chinese people, his virtual age will be six years old.

Next year will be the fifth year of Yuanfeng!

(1) In the Song Dynasty, ten buckets were one stone, and five buckets were one hu. The balance system, that is, the weight, was unified into the decimal system in the Song Dynasty, but due to the change of law, the balance system was the same for each emperor, so the metric system was used in the future.