Chapter 22: Trivialities
In the first year of Zhenguan, Wei Xuan had a very dull life, nesting alone in his small thatched hut, drinking the fruit wine that Xuankui specially sent yesterday, and eating the wild boar meat that Uncle Wu hunted from the mountains and forests, which was very leisurely. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
If you don't consider that Wei Xuan is not far from freezing to death at the moment, it is true.
Fear of cold is a habit, and this habit will not disappear because of a change of time and space, a change of body. And in this situation, no one will send warm winter clothes to Wei Xuan.
Others are still too busy to take care of themselves, who will take care of Wei Xuan?
The clothes on his body are very thin, and they are still sent by the villagers in the summer. Wei Xuan put on a few more outside, and also put on the sackcloth robes in the Taoist temple, and sat next to the fire with warm fruit wine, still unable to prevent the cold wind outside from burrowing into his body through the leaky thatched hut here. Although this feeling of hot chest and cold back will make people very sober, Wei Xuan would rather not have this situation.
This is the first New Year in the Tang Dynasty, and from this year this majestic empire in the eastern land will begin its great journey, and the man who now sits on the throne will also begin his great and controversial life.
Wei Xuan knew this very well.
However, it is clear that Wei Xuan has no intention of getting involved, at least not now. Who would be nosy when they were too busy to take care of themselves?
That's right, contributing to the rise of Datang seems to Wei Xuan to be nosy at this moment.
Seriously calculated, Wei Xuan is just a seventeen-year-old young man of unknown origin, who survived by chance, and became a little gentleman in Nanshan Village by chance, and inexplicably added a cheap teacher and a little nephew. Except for the things in the black package he carried with him, Wei Xuan was not as good as an ordinary Tang Dynasty man in many places.
Either you have extraordinary knowledge or excellent physique, which is the only two prerequisites for getting ahead in this era. It's a pity that Wei Xuan thinks he doesn't have one.
The incident in Nanshan Village has not been forgotten for a long time, including the tragic incident that happened later, but there are more doubts that cannot be guessed. Li Chang never appeared in the village after that, and those who knew about it died in the prison, and even if Wei Xuan had a thousand conjectures in his heart, it was just a conjecture.
Happiness in suffering is a nature and an attitude. After the New Year, the days in Nanshan Village were hard but joyful. The materials sent by the county can ensure that the eight or nine families who entered the village can survive peacefully and steadily until spring ploughing, and the things after spring ploughing have to be solved by the villagers themselves. But this is not a problem, in addition to the people who recovered in the spring, there are also birds and beasts in the mountains, and it is impossible for those small things to escape the hands of Uncle Wu.
Wei Xuan's field was handed over to others to cultivate as always, but this time it was not the old couple of the Wu family, and Brother Qin volunteered to take over the job. After Wei Xuan pulled him out of the ghost gate, Brother Qin replaced the old couple of the Wu family and became Wei Xuan's "nanny". This is not a shameful job, Wei Xuan, who has shown his life-saving skills, now has an unimaginably high status in the village. What if your hands don't touch the spring water? What if someone has to take care of it? can teach his children to read and learn words, and he can also save his life, to a certain extent, Wei Xuan is a baby, not to mention that Brother Qin is only two or three years older than Wei Xuan.
Brother Qin has no name, his parents died in the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and he has lived alone in Nanshan Village all these years. He is very tall, very strong, honest, and very pleasing to the people in the village. Last year, under Aunt Wu's Zhang Luo, she begged for a daughter-in-law, a peasant girl from a neighboring village, and the two of them all relied on that little bit of land to live, not to mention wealth, but also worry-free about food and clothing.
Ordinary people in this year are very simple, and they pay attention to the grace of dripping water, not to mention that Wei Xuan is the grace of life to Brother Qin. The two gave up the small house in the village, built a thatched hut near Wei Xuan's house, and took over Wei Xuan's daily life. Wei Xuan couldn't shirk it a few times, so he followed them. I just felt that it was not convenient to always call Brother Qin and Brother Qin, so I tried to come up with Qin Zhen's name. Now the highest question in Nanshan Village Middle School is Wei Xuan, and no one says anything about naming people, not to mention that Brother Qin himself likes it very much, and he also calls it out after coming and going.
Qin Zhen's daughter-in-law's surname is He, according to the folk customs at this time, she is just called Qin He, but Wei Xuan is called "sister-in-law" and "sister-in-law". Although Qin Zhen and his wife opposed it many times, they really couldn't resist Wei Xuan, so they let him go. In fact, many times Wei Xuan didn't understand people's thoughts at this time, and always felt that they respected literate people too much. With this ideological difference, Wei Xuan has nothing to do.
Winter turns to spring, more than a month has passed in a blink of an eye, and as the grass and trees on the mountain gradually turn green, Nanshan Village seems to have forgotten the tragic incident a year ago and resumed its plain and simple life. Qin Zhen has a lot of fields to plant this year, and his own ones are Wei Xuan's, even if he has the ploughing cow in the village, he has been busy for a long time.
There are fewer people in Nanshan Village, so naturally there is a lot less land. The officials who came down from the county took back the fields of the people who were no longer there, and redivided them, and now they are more tidy, and the fields of each family are very close, and they are all connected together. There are not many people left in the village, and it is impossible to finish planting before the first rain of early spring if we still sweep the snow in front of each door. For a time, the children in the village who were running around all over the ground and the old people who had lost half of their teeth plunged into the fields. Even Wei Xuan, a person who didn't work much, followed Qin Zhen to the ground twice. Although he was brought back by the old and young masters in the village every time, Wei Xuan didn't feel ashamed.
In this day and age, you can know nothing, but you must know how to do farm work.
Wei Xuan knew that this was the care that the people in the village took care of him. After experiencing so many things together, Wei Xuan's background is no secret to them. This kind of origin with a bit of mystery makes Wei Xuan inexplicably a little more majestic, even if he is only a seventeen-year-old boy now. Of course, this secret is still a secret to people outside the village, so Li Chang is not clear.
After the New Year, Li Chang came back with two personal soldiers, but as soon as he walked into the boundary of the village, he was beaten away by a group of people led by Uncle Wu. Wei Xuan didn't make a move, but just looked coldly at Li Chang from a distance. Wei Xuan knew very well what the people of Nanshan Village would become in the eyes of those officials in the county after this incident, but he had no intention of stopping it.
Before the truth of the matter is clarified, Wei Xuan does not plan to change other people's opinions about Nanshan Village. So even if Li Yong looked at him with murderous eyes, he still looked indifferent.
"Li Chang, there will eventually be a **** who will send you to prison with his own hands!" Wei Xuan said silently to himself. That's all, now Wei Xuan has no plans to become a leader, and it is a serious matter to teach the few remaining children in the village.