Chapter 2: Back in Time

A few days ago.

Li Yanzhao is just an ordinary person, ordinary and ordinary, with gradually aging parents, a fiancée who is about to enter the palace of marriage, and a small business that is conscientiously maintained. Not rich, but not poor. There is not much responsibility in life, and there seems to be no pressure other than raising a family. The days are calm and cannot be more peaceful.

Until one day, Li Yanzhao, who was busy, received a bad news. After six years of love, his fiancée, who was about to enter the marriage hall with him, was in a car accident and died after rescue efforts failed. Li Yanzhao's eyes went dark, and his mobile phone fell to the ground.

This incident hit him too hard, Li Yanzhao was in a daze for a while, and his business was no longer open, and he walked through the places where the memories of the two of them were left like walking corpses every day. City squares, parks, campuses, stations, cinemas...... As he walked, he silently shed tears, silently missing the time the two spent together. Drinking to drown his sorrows, hangovers, and decadence became his daily routine during that time.

Until one day, he saw a news in the newspaper that the time machine had been built and entered the experimental stage. The research institute that designed and built the machine solicited volunteers from all walks of life to participate in the preliminary data collection of the time machine. At that moment, Li Yanzhao seemed to see the hope of rebirth, and he couldn't wait to sign up and tell his original intention of trying to use the time machine to go back to the past. After many rounds of screening, he was fortunate to be one of the first volunteers to participate in the time machine experiment.

Since then, Li Yanzhao has felt as if he has been reborn. Yes, go back to before your fiancée's car accident, stop that car accident from happening, and then his life will return to a normal trajectory, as before, as calm as before.

Until the machine started and slowly sent him into the space-time channel, although the cabin was airtight, Li Yanzhao still saw the scenes of the past passing by in front of his eyes. He saw his decadent self, his fiancée lying in a pool of blood, the sweet time of love and love between the two in the past, and the ignorant love and meeting between himself and her in his youth. I also saw myself as a teenager, but the machine still had no intention of stopping. Until I made a mistake in my childhood, I was educated by my parents, I took the exam and got the three good student awards......

The machine was spinning faster and faster, and Li Yanzhao couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. He patted the bulkhead of the machine with all his might, hoping that it would stop, or that the outside world would give him some positive response. And yet nothing.

The ethereal scenes in front of me still pass by one by one: war, guns, gunsmoke...... interspersed with ephemeral peace; The people toiled as always, in the dark mines, in the golden wheat fields; Further back, the Qing Dynasty officials with big pigtails on the back of their heads nodded to the foreign devils opposite at the negotiation table, and Li Yanzhao couldn't help but clench his fists; The two armies were densely packed in the wilderness, in front of the Xiongguan, fighting in the mountains and forests; Li Yanzhao looked at those bloody scenes and was terrified; The scenes flew by, and Li Yanzhao saw the conspiracy of the sanctimonious hypocrites; I saw the hard work of the diligent people for their livelihood; I also saw the bloody slaughter of brutal generals and kings......

The shocking scenes made him feel physically and mentally exhausted, and he couldn't bear to see them...... In this way, in this humble boat that traveled against the long river of history, Li Yanzhao gradually fell into a deep sleep......

On the other side, the two scientists operating the machine witnessed their results, nervous and excited.

"I don't know if he can fulfill his wish and give us a feedback as agreed." A tall scientist said excitedly.

"What is his heart's desire?" Another medium-sized chubby scientist asked, flipping through the folder in his hand.

The chubby scientist flipped through the folder, looked at the machine and looked up at the machine, and suddenly his eyelids jumped, and he felt as if the blood had coagulated without warning......

On the LCD screen of the machine, a few big words are displayed: A.D321

He rushed forward in a few lunges and pressed the pause button on the machine, but it seemed too late. The machine roared for a while, then staggered to a reluctantly stop. The hatch opened, but it was empty.

The sweaty fat scientist looked at the tall and thin man with a desperate expression: "It's over." Finished. He just said that it was over, and after a while, he sat down fiercely on the chair beside him, and grabbed his hair with both hands, looking pained.

The tall, lanky scientist was also alarmed. After a moment, he forced himself to calm down, looked at the numbers displayed on the LCD screen, and asked the chubby scientist, "A.D. 321, what era was that?" ”

"Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wuhu and Sixteen Kingdoms!" The fat scientist who answered this sentence was already slumped in his chair with a blank face. *******************************************************************

At the same time, Li Yanzhao, who was traversed, faced with the unfamiliar world in front of him, his face was colorless and at a loss. Vast wilderness, verdant mountains, and dusty and uneven roads...... He walked aimlessly in the wilderness, but his mind was already a pot of porridge. He had no idea if the time he was in as a tester had shifted the time he was in, and the space had changed. Otherwise, how can we explain that the bustling city at the time of departure has now become a vast and uninhabited wilderness?

I don't know how long I walked, but I knew that the sun had reached the top of my head from mid-air, and Li Yanzhao saw a group of people walking out of the woods at the end of the road. He cried out with joy, and the confusion he had just felt gone, and he ran towards them. However, when he got closer, he was stunned to find that these people were all dressed as ancient people, and the coarse linen clothes showed that their families were not wealthy, with rough hands, rickety backs, and thin bodies...... All of them show the fact that they were brutally exploited by the landlord class and suffered from chronic malnutrition.

This made Fang Cai's heart that was still flashing in his mind, and the heart of Li Yanzhao, who hoped that he would meet the so-called crew group performance, sank completely......

And the men looked at him with amazement, at a young man who had no hair in a bun and wore half-sleeves and shorts of unknown fabric, looking at them with astonishment and the same astonishment. It wasn't until Liu Zhongkang, the lieutenant who led them, stepped forward to talk to the young man that they withdrew their surprised gaze, lowered their heads and continued on their way.

Li Yanzhao already understood his situation, so he thought about the poor ancient etiquette language and the like that he knew a little bit about before, and deliberately used it and talked to Liu Zhongkang. Liu Zhongkang was very curious about his life experience, but whenever he asked, Li Yanzhao always had a bitter look on his face, and it was difficult to answer. Although Liu Zhongkang had doubts in his heart, he saw that although this young man was unwilling to say his life experience, he was humble and polite in his manners, and he was generous. and there was no doubt that he was there. asked Li Yanzhao that he had nowhere to go, so he invited him to go with him. Li Yanzhao couldn't ask for it, so he readily accepted the invitation.

This time to Liangzhou, Liu Zhongkang also knew that it was difficult and dangerous, and the road was far away. However, among the people he carried, nearly seventy percent were old and weak, women and children. Even if five ploughing oxen from a few wealthy families were concentrated pulling four ox carts to carry the luggage, the distance traveled by the team every day was still less than forty miles, and it was calculated that at least there must be more than a month to enter the boundary of Liangzhou.

Thinking of the difficulties on the way, Liu Zhongkang couldn't help but feel gloomy, as if the road ahead was bleak. Then thinking about the rest of the people in Yongzhou who still endured the cruel oppression and slaughter of the Hu people, I felt that I was secretly glad that my decision led everyone to avoid famine and military disasters.

In one day, Li Yanzhao also thought a lot. In addition to secretly scolding the thief in his heart, he is more thinking carefully about how he should deal with himself in this strange era. In later generations, I have also read several time-traveling novels, in which the protagonist is either equipped with unique skills, or he is familiar with the historical direction of the past. There are many protagonists who are even more rebellious with a large number of modern black technology or a variety of firearms that transcend the times for hundreds or thousands of years.

However, now Li Yanzhao has nothing and doesn't say anything. Even for the era he had traveled back to, he knew almost nothing. He only knew that in this era, all the princes of the Central Plains, and even the grass-headed king who controlled a county, or even a county seat, was unwilling to be lonely, pulling the banner to make tiger skins. Stunned is a good end, a Central Plains and Kansai land that has not been greatly damaged after the rule of the two Han Dynasty and the short turbulent times of the Three Kingdoms, is full of holes, ten rooms and nine empty.

It wasn't until this day of conversation with Liu Zhongkang that he gradually understood that this era was not only about endless wars and killings in the Central Plains. In the northwest region, there is also a pure land under the rule of the Han people, Liangzhou. Today's Liangzhou is still nominally a subsidiary of the Eastern Jin Empire, and the Zhang family, who ruled Liangzhou, was enshrined in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and repeatedly blocked the destruction and military attacks of the Xiongnu Han Kingdom of the Liu clan on the land of Western Liang. With a few strong passes, Liu Han really didn't build an inch. Therefore, the land of Xiliang, for the Han people who are still living under the iron hooves of the Hu people in the Central Plains, is no less than a pure land that is difficult to find.

I thought about it for a long time, and tiredness hit. Li Yanzhao turned over, but after all, sleepiness prevailed. I couldn't help but wrap myself tightly around the coarse cloth blanket that Mr. Liu gave him, closed his eyes, and soon fell asleep.