Chapter 2: The Ordinary and the Extraordinary
When Tang Hua walked to the door of a house and knocked lightly on the door a few times, the door squeaked open. www.biquge.info An old man of about forty or fifty years old opened the door, but the clothes on the old man's body were made of rough linen, very much like the clothes of people in ancient times! I couldn't figure it out, but I couldn't care so much, so I smiled at the old man and asked, "Old man, is this the place?" ”
The old man looked at Tang Hua with strange eyes, and said to Tang Hua: "Sir, you are from out of town, right?" If you don't like it, come inside to drink water and rest your feet. Tang Hua nodded to the old man, and thought in his heart, since the old man is so enthusiastic, let's go in first, anyway, I don't have anything to do, I have walked for so long, and my feet are tired, so it is also a good choice to rest and drink saliva first. Then disturb the elderly. ”
The old man invited Tang Hua to the house, which was very simple, and he couldn't see anything decent at all, which was poorer than the poor families in the old society as shown in movies and television. The old man poured a bowl of cold white water for Tang Hua. After Tang Hua thanked him, he lifted the bowl and took a sip, but when he just put down the bowl, Tang Hua was shocked, this bowl is a relatively rough clay pottery, although Tang Hua is a layman to antiques, but he absolutely believes that this bowl is of extraordinary value, which makes Tang Hua even more unimaginable, with such a precious bowl to take water, is he not afraid of accidentally breaking it? With such a precious bowl in hand, how can you be so poor? This kind of thing is now not sold at a good price all over the world.
The old man saw Tang Hua's changing face, thinking that Tang Hua was not used to drinking cold white water, so he politely said to Tang Hua: "If Mr. is not used to drinking cold white water, I will go in and boil it again and drink it again." As soon as Tang Hua heard it, he knew that the old man had misunderstood him, and his shocked demeanor made the old man suspicious, so he smiled and said to the old man: "No, no, the cold white water is very good, and it is quite sweet, I like it very much." The old man listened to Tang Hua's sincerity, and he didn't be polite anymore, so he said casually: "Mr. likes it." Tang Hua listened to the old man's question, sighed, and said helplessly: "Old man, I accidentally got lost, I originally came here to ask for directions, so may I ask the old man, what kind of place is this?" The old man saw that Tang Hua looked very helpless, and he didn't have to think about it, so he immediately said: "This place is under the management of Ma Yi." "Tang Hua didn't take it seriously when he heard Ma Yi, after all, there are too many place names, so who will remember them all? But I still muttered quietly, Ma Yi, Ma Yi? And think back to yourself, but what the hell is this place! How come I haven't heard of it?
Tang Hua thought for a while, but he didn't remember what kind of place Ma Yi was! When I wanted to ask the old man for a clearer name, I saw that the old man wanted to speak and stopped, so I asked, "What's wrong with the old man?" The old man sighed and said: "Sir, I don't know, a few days ago there was a group of horse thieves in our village, the little girl was not cautious, and she couldn't avoid it for a while, and was seen by the little leader of the group of horse thieves at that time, saying that she would marry the little girl three days later to be the lady of the village." If you don't agree, you will kill all the people in the village, so there is no choice but to agree to the horse thief's request, but the little girl refuses, but there is no way to solve it. After Tang Hua listened to the old man's words, he felt very strange? Where are the horse thieves now? When is it, it can't be a fool, right? "Old man, what age is it now, how can there still be horse thieves? Don't the local police care? Does the government and the government also care? After listening to what Tang Hua said, the old man looked at Tang Hua again, feeling that Tang Hua was asking something wrong. I just don't understand, how can this person **** such a mentally retarded problem, but the old man still said seriously to Tang Hua: "Sir, it is now March of the fourth year of Zhongping, and not only do horse thieves often come to rob in our place, but even the cavalry of Xianbei barbarians and Hun barbarians will come to rob, and when they encounter those barbarians, the people in our village can only flee to the mountains to take refuge." As for what the gentleman said about the police, the government, the government, or something, I don't understand it, and I don't know what it is. But no one has been in charge of the government here in Mayi for many years. ”
Now Tang Hua's heart is very shocked, Zhongping four years, so or everyone still doesn't understand, then the Three Kingdoms era, everyone should know, the Zhongping era is the time name of the Three Kingdoms period. It's not that he can't believe the old man's words, he just thinks it's a dream. After a long time, Tang Hua stabilized his mood a little, smiled at the old man and asked very carefully: "Old man, do you say that it is now the fourth year of Zhongping in the Han Dynasty?" The old man listened to Tang Hua's question, and looked at Tang Hua again, the meaning of that look was to say, you won't be an idiot, right? I don't even know what age it is, isn't that stupid? The old man didn't look at it, but still replied very seriously: "Sir, it is indeed the fourth year of Zhongping in the Han Dynasty. ”
After Tang Hua listened to the old man's exact answer, his heart trembled, how could this be? How could I go back to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty 2,000 years ago? It's not a joke, is it? Tang Hua pinched his thigh with his hand, there was pain, he knew that he was not dreaming, but he still couldn't face it, isn't this a fantasy? Three Kingdoms! The rebellion of the Yellow Turban Army led by Zhang Jiao was in 184 AD, and the fourth year of Zhongping was 187, only three or four years ago! Time travel really happened to me. God, how did you get yourself to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was the era of dying every day, both historical records record that in the 60 years from the beginning of the Yellow Turban Army's war, the population of the Han Dynasty dropped from 60 million to about 10 million, and the number of starvation and freezing death is countless, all kinds of plagues and natural disasters continue, that is the era of chaos among the princes. This was followed by the Wuhu Chaohua, which lasted for more than 300 years, which was the dark age of the Han nation and a huge disaster.
Now there are three choices in front of Tang Hua, the first choice: find a place to be a hermit and live this life ordinarily. The second option: to become the overlord of one side, only in this way can you live a chic life. The third choice: This choice is not difficult to say that it is not so easy, that is, to become a strategist or general, but his life is not in his own hands, which is difficult to do, and Tang Hua does not like this. Then there is only the first or second option, but this can wait and think. Let's solve the current problem first!
"So, old man, can you tell me about this group of horse thieves?" Tang Hua thought about it and said to the old man. "Sir, there is a group of horse thieves more than 100 miles away from our village, there are more than 200 of them, usually come and go without a trace, often go to the villages around the country to rob food, things, if they are not satisfied, they will slaughter the village, kill all the people in the village, and a little farther away I heard that there are many horse thieves, sometimes our village will also be burned and plundered by the Xianbei, Xiongnu and other barbarians, once we meet those barbarian thieves, we have to flee to the mountains to hide, and then come back after they have robbed. As for the official government, don't say it's Mayi, it's that Yanmen County heard that no one cares about it now, and it's all occupied by the Waiyi barbarians, and they will come every winter, and after the beginning of spring, those barbarians will go to the north again. When Tang Hua listened to the old man's words, his heart shook again, what is this? Even the government has run away, so what should the people do? It seems that the Han Dynasty of the Eastern Han Dynasty is too weak, and it can no longer see such a strong emperor as in the period of Emperor Wu, and it is estimated that there will be no more blows to the foreign barbarians, and the emperor does not care about the life and death of the people at the border pass. Immediately said: "Old man, those horse thieves, there are not many of them, so why don't you unite the people of a village to fight against them, you can't always be like this, let those horse thieves run over and rob them when they are happy, this is not the way." The old man listened to Tang Hua's words and shook his head, what you said is too easy! Is it that simple? The old man sighed and said: "Sir, you don't know, those horse thieves are riding big horses, holding weapons in their hands, even our whole village can't beat them horse thieves, my son resisted them last year and was killed by horse thieves, and now the people in the village don't dare to help even if they want to." ”
After eating, Tang Hua was still thinking about Huang Lao's question! Huang Lao is the old man, and it is not right to say that the old man is old, but in this era when the average life expectancy is not more than fifty years old, forty or fifty years old can be said to be Lao Tzu! Then again, there is no way, but that is based on the modern industrial situation. can only use that method, but I don't know if it will be successful, Tang Hua thought of this, so he raised his head and said to Cai'er: "Cai'er, what about Huang Lao?" I have something to discuss with Huang Lao. "Ahh Cai'er screamed in surprise, or she didn't expect Tang Hua to suddenly call herself! Cai'er didn't think much about it and said, "Father's words just went out, and I should be back soon." Before he finished speaking, he heard Huang Lao's voice coming over, "Cai'er, what's wrong?" "Maybe Cai'er's exclamation just now was heard by Huang Lao! Thinking that something had happened, he hurried over. "It's okay! It's okay! Father, Mr. Tang has something to do with you," Cai'er said hurriedly. "It's okay, so does Mr. Tang have anything to do with me?" Tang Hua looked at the father and daughter very speechlessly, I really wanted to yell at them, what kind of person do you think I am! Shaking his head, he said to Huang Lao: "Huang Lao, can you please bring all the people in the village over tomorrow?" Because I want to say that I want to deal with horse thieves. ”