Section 1: A Dream for 500 Years (I)
The cool breeze is blowing, the night is misty, and the light gauzy mist envelops the quiet county town.
The hazy moonlight reflects the clear river, which flows slowly under the arched bridge, and on the banks are rows of two- and three-story black tiled buildings. The water-stained walls were covered with traces of turquoise moss, and some were covered with evergreen vines, revealing only a window that opened on the riverside side.
At this time, it was the middle of the night, except for the sound of frogs in the river and the barking of dogs at the end of the alley, I could no longer hear half a sound, only in a narrow window hole at the east end, there was a dim light, and the sound of talking came faintly......
Looking through the open window, there was only a table, a stool, and a bed, and a black oil lamp lit on the table, barely illuminating the three feet between them. On the bench there is a coarse porcelain bowl with a missing mouth, and the bowl contains ** Luohan beans. A man in his forties, dressed in a shabby robe and with a disheveled beard, crouched on the side, tending to the small clay stove in front of him, while talking to a teenage boy lying on the bed opposite.
He said an official dialect with Wu Nong's accent, and said in a hoarse voice: "Chaosheng, you hold on to it, wait for your father to decoct good medicine, and you will be cured after taking it." ”
The young man on the bed sighed softly in his heart, and said secretly: "This must be the thirtieth recitation, right?" But knowing that he was anxious for himself, he did not criticize him. Turning his head slightly, the young man saw that strange and kind face, full of sweat and eagerness, and his heart suddenly felt warm. Knowing that he wouldn't be busy for a while, he slowly closed his eyes and thought back to the incredible things that had happened recently.
He was originally a young deputy director, who was in the stage of triumph in his life, but he woke up and possessed this dying teenager. And when the young man's soul was weak, he inexplicably fused with it, obtained the consciousness and memory of the young man, and became the young man five hundred years ago.
Is it Zhuang Zhou or a butterfly? Is it the original me or the silence of the present? He was completely confused, as if it was and was, as if it was neither nor was, or that it was already a new silence.
Things are so absurd, but it did happen, so he couldn't face it for several days, but then he thought about it, anyway, he was an unmarried orphan, and he had nothing to worry about, so where was he not begging for a living? Besides, with the original deputy director level, I changed the body of this young teenager, and it seems that I still earned it.
It's just that he suddenly gave birth to a lot of emotions that belonged to that teenager, which made him a little uncomfortable.
The fittest survive, so be sure to adapt. Shen Mo said to himself.
Once you let go of your heart and accept your new identity, some memories that belong to that teenager flood back. He knew that his name was Shen Mo, and his milk name was Chaosheng, thirteen years old. He is the only son of Shen He of Yongchangfang, Huiji County, Shaoxing Prefecture, Ming Dynasty.
To say that this Shen He was born in the Shen family of Shaoxing...... The side branch, the family is still well-off, and he has been enlightened in the clan since he was a child, and the knowledge is very good. At the age of eighteen, he took the county examination, the government examination, and the hospital examination one after another, and became a student who received rice every month...... A student is a talent, but a talent is not necessarily a student, because only a few people who have passed the first class can be supported by the state.
can rely on this talent who eats imperial food, Shen He has earned face for his father and mother.
However, the reversal of fortune and the creation of people, Shen Xianggong began to participate in the Autumn Festival for the first time at the age of nineteen, and fell four times in a row, which is a very normal thing, because Jiangsu and Zhejiang are places where humanities gather, and Shaoxing Mansion has pulled out the Jiangnan context. Yuyao, Huiji, Shanyin and other counties almost every child study, can be described as a hidden dragon and crouching tiger, every year there are a large number of excellent readers.
Places are limited and competition is cutthroat. Like Shen Xianggong, he has long been promoted elsewhere, but in Shaoxing, he can only become a foil for others year after year. Later, his parents passed away one after another, and he kept filial piety for five years in a row, and when he came out again for the exam, he was already in his thirties, and the best age for the exam had passed......
But Shen Xiucai has been studying all his life, what can he do without exams? He was unwilling to fail, so he took the exam for two more sessions, and the results speak for themselves...... Don't say the good time of the empty hand, but also the quite solid family background is wiped out, and the life is extremely difficult, after years of eating bran vegetables, I can't see a little meat.
Last summer, Shen Xiucai's daughter-in-law suffered from heat stroke, and her weak body collapsed all at once. In order to treat his daughter-in-law, he even pawned the three-deep house he originally lived in. As a result, people deceived him into a hurry, and pressed a house worth 100 taels to 40 taels, Shen Xiucai was angry, and he despised Zhou borrowing relatives and friends, so he really gritted his teeth and sold the property, rented a cheap small building in a remote alley, settled his wife and children, and gave his daughter-in-law medical advice.
As a result, the money was spent like a stream, but the silence and fucking illness became more and more serious, and he was bedridden in the autumn, and finally died before the year. Shen He used the remaining money to bury his wife, but found that he couldn't even afford to rent the cheapest small building, so the two had to 'settle down and live'.
Of course, this is Shen Xianggong's Sven statement, in fact, it is to use bamboo and wood as the roof truss, cover it with straw, and build a grass hut to the end. It's cramped and damp, but there's finally a nest, isn't it?
At this time, the family's only source of income was the rice from the county school, which was six buckets a month. It is said that if you save a little, you can barely make do with it, but 'half a child, starve to death Lao Tzu', Shen Mo is the time to grow his body, and his appetite is greater than that of his father, how can this japonica rice be enough? Shen Xiucai had to go to the grain shop to exchange for the worst indica rice, so that he could get nine buckets. Shen Mo went to the countryside to dig some wild vegetables and catch some loaches again, so that he could just deal with the meal of the two.
As the saying goes, disaster is not a single line, it is not false at all, a few days ago, Shen Mo went to the mountains to dig wild vegetables, and was bitten on the lower leg by a frightened poisonous snake.
What happened later, Shen Mo didn't know. When he woke up, he found himself in an attic. Although the purlin roof was covered with spider webs, and there was a rotten and sour smell in the air, it was much stronger than the dark and damp grass hut that was leaking through the wind and rain.
was looking at a spider struggling to spit silk, and listened silently...... The father said, "Okay, okay, Chaosheng has taken medicine." And he was lifted up. He leaned on the pillow and looked at the man he would call his father, and saw that his beard was unkempt, his face was pale, the corners of his eyes were wrinkled, the corners of his mouth seemed to be bruised, and there were some fresh scars on his cheekbones. The robe on his body was also dirty and torn, as if he had fought with someone, and it was not surprising that he had lost.
Seeing Shen Mo open his eyes and look at himself, Shen He's eyes were full of excitement and joy, and he said excitedly: "Thank you Miss Yin, if you don't have her to save you, we will have to ......be separated forever by yin and yang."
Seeing him crying, his silent nose was also a little sour, and he wanted to open his mouth to comfort him, but his throat seemed to be plugged, and he couldn't say a word.
Noticing the change in his expression, Shen He quickly wiped away his tears and said, "What's wrong, are you uncomfortable?" Seeing Shen Mo looking at the medicine bowl, Shen He said embarrassedly: "I almost forgot." Then he took the bowl, scooped a spoonful of brown pottion, blew it on his mouth a few times, and then carefully rested it on his mouth.
Shen Mo frowned and took a sip, but it was not as bitter as he imagined, but a little bitter and sweet. Seeing that his brows soothed, Shen He said happily: "You don't like to take medicine since you were a child, I bought some apricot nectar to mix it in, and the doctor said that it will help you recover." So he waited for him to drink a bowl of medicine.
Wiping Shen Mo's mouth with a towel, and then putting him back on the ground, Shen He breathed a long sigh of accomplishment, as if he had done a big thing. Only then did he straighten up, put the empty medicine bowl and the broken bowl on the table, sat down on the stool, bent down tiredly, and gasped heavily.
Shen Mo saw him fill a bowl of boiling water, twisted three green and yellow broad beans from the broken bowl, hesitated for a moment, shook his hand again, and dropped two of them back into the bowl, leaving only one in his hand.
After looking at the bean for a long time, Shen He closed his eyes, slowly put it in his mouth, and chewed it slowly, his movements were extremely gentle, as if he was in an endless aftertaste, and he couldn't extricate himself for a long time.
After a long time, Shen Hecai slowly opened his eyes, shook his head slightly, and wrote a poem: "Cao E brought sprouts and green beans, and Qianyu Tongxing good soy sauce; Dongguan invited a good cooker, and ate it until it was glutinous and soft in the mouth. ”
Silent and embarrassed, he never knew that eating a bean would cause such a great sense of happiness.
Seeing that he showed a disapproving expression, Shen He took a sip of boiling water and said, "Chaosheng, haven't you tasted it, this."
The bean meat is cooked but not rotten, soft but not rotten, chewed with a mouthful, fragrant, salty and fresh, and slightly sweet aftertaste...... If it can be accompanied by rice wine, I am afraid that the father-in-law of the land will come to taste it. ”
'The landlord hasn't eaten anything good? Shen Mo rolled his eyes, but Shen He thought he was complaining that he ate alone, and hurriedly explained: "It's not that my father doesn't share it with you, but the doctor told you that you can't eat cold, hot, sour and hard things, so let's wait until you're cured." ”
Nodding silently and weakly, seeing that Shen He ate two more at the same speed, he rubbed his fingers on the rag, drank a bowl of water, and said with a satisfied face: "After dinner, it's time for the two of us to sleep." ”
Shen Mo's eyes widened, and Shen He said solemnly: "Sage Yun: 'It's only three things', this first time you eat is called tasting, the second time is called enjoyment, and the third time is called hunger, and eating more is a waste of gluttony." As he spoke, he winked at him and smiled, "Sleep." Then he blew out the oil lamp, and fell asleep on the table.
Because there is only one single bed in this room......
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There is nothing else to say, only one sentence, let's start a good memory, dear, let'sgo!!