A faint cooking smoke slipped out of the chimneys and converged into a faint white mist over Lushan, and the warm air was filled with a fragrance mixed with smoke and breakfast. The voices of women calling out for their husbands and children rang out from every house.

The vast number of living beings make up this so-called 'paradise on earth', and the name of Lushan has spread thousands of miles away in Europe. But there is a real paradise on earth at time. No matter how beautiful a place is, there is ugliness, but darkness becomes darkness because of light.

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Zhang Wenliang woke up from his sleep, he kicked off the thin quilt covering his body, and he didn't feel cold at all in his middle coat. When he looked up, Zhang Wenliang saw a cleanly washed military casual clothes on the head of the bed, but Zhang Wenliang reflexively shouted to change his clothes, because he didn't like to wear this set, and he didn't want to wear clothes with patches. Although this set of military civilian clothes does not look old, Zhang Wenliang fell to the ground during physical education class last month, and his knees hit the ground and his pants faintly grinded out a small hole, which was patched by his mother with a cloth of the same color. But before he could spit out the words, he swallowed them back into his stomach.

He's not a kid anymore.

He was already a junior in high school, and he was fifteen years old. He's already sensible. The environment at home is very 'bad', and Zhang Wenliang, who doesn't want his sister to be his little wife, is unwilling to provide his own mother with a 'cannonball' to attack his sister's uneasy feelings. Although he and his sister Zhang Wenjing are not the same mother, they are half-siblings.

Zhang Wenjing is three years older than him. At the age of eighteen, she can already get married, and now she is facing the oppression of her mother, or she has always faced the oppression of her mother, who let her have no mother?

Zhang Wenliang's father, Zhang Zixiang, was a wealthy family in Lushan County in his early years, and at that time it was still the Qing Dynasty, and the Zhang family was a big landlord in Lushan Xiatang Town, and his life was much more generous than now.

At that time, Zhang Zixiang, who was only in his twenties, was also different from what he is now, Zhang Wenliang's mother was also different from now, she was Zhang Zixiang's eldest wife who was marrying Ming Media, and his sister Zhang Wenjing's mother was a concubine carried into the house by his father from the back door. He didn't know what the aunt's name was, not even her sister.

Zhang Wenjing's mother is very beautiful, but her background is very pitiful, her parents died at an early age, and she was a child daughter-in-law at the age of eleven, but when she was fifteen years old, her "husband" died, and she could only return to her grandfather's house. Zhang Wenjing is very capable, in order to serve her grandfather, she farms by herself, and in order to make her life better, in addition to farming, she carries an ax to the mountains to fetch firewood whenever she has time, and makes needlework for people under the lamp at night. In this way, she persisted until she was eighteen years old, and then she was discovered by Zhang Zixiang, who went to the countryside to collect rent.

Zhang Zixiang fell in love with Zhang Wenjing's mother, and then Zhang Wenjing's mother was irresistibly brought to the house by Zhang Zixiang. Although her grandfather didn't want his women to be small, they were powerless to resist. The Zhang family is a large landowner in Xiatang Town, how can an old man and a yellow flower girl resist?

Four months later, Zhang Wenjing's mother was pregnant, and it was Zhang Wenliang's sister Zhang Wenjing, who had an eldest son at that time, but later Zhang Wenliang's own brother died.

At that time, there was only one seedling in the Zhang family, and Zhang Wenjing's mother's pregnancy was bad for Zhang Zixiang, and he was still counting on Zhang Wenjing's mother to give him an extra son.

Zhang Wenjing's great-grandfather was taken by Zhang Zixiang to a Zhuangzi under the name of the Zhang family to be raised, and Zhang Wenjing became all her mother's hopes and sustenance after she was born, although this white and chubby girl made Zhang Zixiang very disappointed. He was expecting to be a son, but he didn't know that he was a money-loser. If there was no Chen family's uprising, and the Zhang family did not flee, that woman should always live in the Zhang family, right?

But no.

Zhang Wenliang was born three years younger than Zhang Wenjing, but the scene when his mother sold his sister's biological mother, don't look at Zhang Wenliang was still very young at the time, but he always remembered it firmly in his heart.

The mournful screams, begging, wailing, the separation of a mother from her new beloved child, and the heartfelt cry made Zhang Wenliang still remember it vividly in the past ten years.

Because the Zhang family was already very depressed at that time, because of military disasters and man-made disasters, the family funds they carried when they fled from Lushan were almost exhausted.

At that time, their family lived in two houses, and Zhang Wenliang was lying on the window, watching his sister's biological mother being dragged out of the house by two stout men through the cracks in the window.

Maybe it was retribution, but within a month, Zhang Wenliang's brother had a serious illness, and he didn't even have time to suffer the decoction, so he died.

Two years later, the Zhang family, who were forced to make a living, were forced to return to Lushan.

At that time, Lushan was like a paradise compared to the troubled times outside, and the chaos and chaos were not contaminated here. Even the ancestral home of the Zhang family is still intact, and it is guarded by a very unexpected person, who is the great-grandfather of her sister Zhang Wenjing. Zhang Wenliang couldn't remember the old man's appearance anymore, but he only knew that after learning the news of Zhang Wenjing's mother, that night, the old man jumped to the Dangze River next to the town with a cane.

He didn't seem to have thought about the young Zhang Wenjing, maybe in the old man's heart, Zhang Wenjing was not worthy of his nostalgia at all.

So Zhang Wenjing's status in the Zhang family can be imagined.

Zhang Wenliang's mother even hated the death of her eldest son to Zhang Wenjing's mother, and then treated Zhang Wenjing very harshly. However, the Zhang family's stable life in Lushan did not last long, and some of the things Zhang Zixiang did before, and some of the 'debts' owed by the Zhang family, came to be repaid. The Zhang family was liquidated by the township officials of Xiatang Town.

Pity Zhang Zixiang at that time was still thinking about his own land, the town, and the house in the county.

And that liquidation caused the Zhang family to lose most of their property in Chen Han's law.

However, although Zhang Zixiang never went to the field, he also spent a few days studying in his early years, and although he lost most of his industry, he still insisted on sending Zhang Wenliang to the primary school. This is to catch up with the trend, and it is also a manifestation of supporting Chen Han.

And it is also fate, because Zhang Wenliang is in school, some things about his family spread in the school, and then his sister Zhang Wenjing's life experience was pitiful by the principal. The latter reported the matter to the Bureau of Culture and Education, and then Zhang Wenjing also went to Xiatangzhen School and became the first batch of official female students in China at that time.

Zhang Wenjing is very smart and has a better academic performance than Zhang Wenliang in school, but after graduating from primary school, she did not go to middle school, but was admitted to a preschool normal school that does not have to pay tuition fees and became a preschool normal student.

This incident made the long-lost Zhang family appear on the cusp of Xiatang Town again. Although many people in Xiatang Town have been admitted to middle school, high school, and higher schools in recent years, a small kindergarten teacher is not worth making a fuss about at all, but this matter becomes very eye-catching when put on a daughter, and Zhang Wenjing is beautiful.

A fifteen-year-old girl is no longer a flower bud, and an eighteen-year-old girl is even more beautiful. So Zhang Wenjing was valued when she was about to graduate. Just like Zhang Zixiang valued her mother back then, and the strength of the broken Zhang family at this time was just like the pair of miserable grandfathers and granddaughters facing the Zhang family, they had no power to resist.

Or that the Zhang family at this time was not willing to resist at all.

Because whether it is Zhang Zixiang or Zhang Wenliang's mother Zhang, they all hope to exchange a money-losing goods for a backer, in exchange for a brighter future and future for their son. But Zhang Wenliang was ashamed, and Zhang Wenjing was even more unwilling.

Then the Zhang family cut off Zhang Wenjing's living expenses, and she tried to use this method to threaten Zhang Wenjing into submission.

But Zhang Wenliang knew that his sister would not give in. She left school immediately in two months at most to earn a living. The work of a kindergarten teacher seems to be a joke, but the salary is no less than that of a teacher in a school. Zhang Wenjing has a good temper, enthusiasm, and popularity, Zhang Wenliang believes that just those enthusiastic classmates can make her last two months if they make up for her meals.

Zhang Wenliang put on his clothes neatly, although the military civilian clothes had been washed and were about to fade, but they were very neat.

Zhang Wenliang walked out of his room, it was just an old-fashioned two-story building, the stairs and the floor were all wooden structures, and Zhang Wenliang even creaked a little when he stepped on it.

The downstairs room was brightly lit, and the morning sun shone through the doors and windows on the old furniture in the living room.

The Eight Immortals table in the middle has already lost its paint.

The Zhang family's current residence is an old wooden house, the walls of the house are all black, the small house is divided into two floors, in addition to a living room on the ground floor, there is a bedroom, and then a kitchen.

There was also a dustpan at the door, set up on a stool, and in it was a pile of palm-length small white strips.

Lushan is next to Zhaoping Lake, although it is located in the Central Plains, there are still thousands of miles away from the sea, but there is no seafood here, but the river is constantly fresh.

You can't fish and shrimp in Zhaoping Lake, and anyone can go to fish, as long as you avoid the fishing moratorium in spring.

However, the fishing moratorium is only carried out in Zhaoping Lake, and there is no such thing as a fishing moratorium in the surrounding rivers. There are many tributaries of Zhaoping Lake around Xiatang Town, and the river here has never been cut off throughout the year.

Yesterday I ate stewed white strips, and this morning's main dish is really stewed white strips, and then there are shallots mixed with tofu and braised eggplant, and a plate of fried fish.

This one is oil-intensive and sprinkled with paprika. The crispy little white strips are so fried that you can chew and swallow the bones in one gulp.

There are fist-sized white flour steamed buns in the basket, and then there is porridge sprinkled with a handful of rice in a bowl of pots for one person.

The food of the Zhang family is slightly above the average level in Lushan, and the breakfast at this level is definitely hearty for many people in this era.

A family of three all sat around a table to eat, and the Zhang family had long since lost the rules of the past. From a landlord to a small family, the rules have also changed.

Of course, Zhang Wenliang is Zhang's heart, liver, and in addition to these meals, he also has a boiled egg for breakfast.

Every day, Zhang had to boil an egg for his son to eat, or a salted duck egg.

The chickens and ducks raised in the Zhang family's yard and the eggs laid by the Zhang family are never sold by the Zhang family, and they are all left for their baby son to eat.

"Mother, there are review materials in the school. The teacher said that the student's family conditions allow it to be bought with money, which is a collection of knowledge points in the past few years. I ......, I want to buy the ...... of Bahasa Malaysia and nature"

Zhang was gulping down the gruel and muttered vaguely, "How much does it cost?" ”

"Two doors for two dollars, one door for one piece. Daddy, give me the money. ”

Zhang Wenliang looked at his father opposite him, drinking porridge and reading the newspaper at the same time.

"Nope!" Zhang Zixiang, who was reading the newspaper while drinking porridge, didn't raise his head, so he replied in a muffled voice. Zhang Wenliang's study made him too upset. Zhang Zixiang has an intuition in his heart that no matter how much money he invests in Zhang Wenliang, it will be wasted.

Zhang Wenliang listened to his father's words but didn't think so at all, because he knew that he still had a mother, and he knew that he would definitely win his mother's support by cutting into the topic from study.

"No, nothing, nothing? Can you buy it for two dollars? ”

"Don't hold your breath here, it's important for your son to go to school."

"Your daughter doesn't ask you for money, and she can still earn a scholarship. But I can't count on it, people don't have us in their hearts......"

Zhang Wenliang lowered his head and drank porridge, and his mother entered a nagging state again. And Zhang, who was irritable in his heart, didn't know that he was talking about it again, although he made his mood a little better, but it also invisibly made his son more impatient.

No young man with vigor wanted to hear his mother's plans to trade his sister's fate for his future. No aspiring person would want to hear this kind of thing over and over again.

Zhang Wenliang got not just two yuan, but three yuan. They are going to the theater in the middle of the month, and it will inevitably cost them.

In addition to this incident, this extra dollar can be regarded as Zhang Wenliang's pocket money this decade.

It's just that Zhang didn't know that her baby son made a big circle on the way to school and came to the gate of Lushan No. 1 Preschool Normal College. Then not long after, Zhang Wenjing appeared at the school gate.

Zhang Wenjing really has no feelings for her parents, but she doesn't like Zhang Wenliang's little brother, but she can't say that she doesn't like it.

At least on the big problem in front of her, Zhang Wenliang supports her.

"Sister, this is five yuan. The ...... my father wants me to give you" The naïve Zhang Wenliang didn't know how to mend the gap between his mother and Zhang Wenjing, but he felt that he could use his father as a signboard, and then try to make up for the gap between the two sides.

Zhang Wenjing looked at the back of her younger brother leaving, a touch of warmth flashed in her heart, she had vowed to leave this hateful family forever and never climb this evil gate again, but her heart as cold as ice shone in a ray of sunshine today.

The sun is very weak, but it is like a glimmer of hope, like a white light in the dark night, which makes Zhang Wenjing remember her family forever.

On the carriage leaving Lushan, Zhang Wenjing leaned against the window and looked out, if she could, she also liked that she had left her hometown with the farewell of her relatives. It's a pity that her parents are her enemies, and in order to get rid of them completely, Zhang Wenjing chose to enter the palace. Her resume, her place of origin, and her academic qualifications all allowed her to enter the gate of the palace very, very smoothly.

Zhang Wenjing still had a book in her hand, and she had simply flipped through the book just now.

Children's room, kindergarten, playground, the children in the palace are so happy. The Emperor really loves his children!

From the brief introduction of this manual, Zhang Wenjing can't see the difference between a princess and a prince at all. There must be fathers in the world who love their children like the emperor, but why didn't he let himself meet them?

The emperor is too far away, but what about his neighbors? Uncle Zhao's family is far inferior to the Zhang family, but the Zhao family has always been harmonious and beautiful, I don't know how many times I have been envious, why didn't such a day fall on my head?

The girl in the carriage thought of God, and unconsciously, the carriage left the girl's hometown far behind, farther and farther away.

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And Newton certainly didn't know what else happened to Lushan, who he thought was a 'paradise on earth'.