Chapter 44: Awakening

Chai Baochen stood in front of Lord Wang's mansion, and for a while the past things came to his mind, Wang Qiaonian failed the college entrance examination, the Qiantang River was flooded, he lost consciousness, and then he was in the Ming Dynasty. There are many things he can www.biquge.info't understand, let alone explain, and he even suspects that he just had a dream, but this dream is so long that he can't wake up.

Thinking of this, beads of sweat oozed from his forehead, which was terrifying. He watched the American blockbuster "Inception" in later life. There is a set of theories about dreams and consciousness in the movie, saying that if people fall into the abyss of consciousness, they may never wake up. The person will perceive the dream as a real reality and wander through it, and the dream will be constantly changed by the influence of consciousness. In other words, everything that can be taken care of by the human consciousness will happen according to the human consciousness, and everything will make sense, so that the person will not realize that he is actually dreaming. And whether something unexpected happened to the consciousness, I don't know, and I can't verify it.

The more Chai Baochen thought about it, the more scared he felt: the world is so vast, and he is familiar with the history of the Ming Dynasty, could it be that the world in front of him was built by himself with consciousness? For example, this small house is originally a portrayal of your own heart? So the injuries on Liu Wan'er's body were also figured out by herself? Wrong! Chai Baochen denied the idea that he was dreaming now. No matter how strong a person's brain is, it is impossible to cover everything, Liu Wan'er, Wei Su, Master, they are all living people, they each have their own thoughts, they have their own emotions, this can never be done by imagination. What's more, he played Go with Liu Wan'er and almost never won, which shows that he is himself and others are others.

Chai Baochen felt that his brain was a little messy, he touched his forehead with his hand, and he felt dizzy. At this time, someone shouted: "Lord Chai, if you miss the distance, please forgive me." ”

Chai Baochen knew at a glance that this was the son of Lord Wang Huan, and Wang Gongzi looked like his father in later generations!

He looked at Wang Gongzi, bowed and said, "How dare you." I have long wanted to pay a visit to Lord Wang's mansion. ”

Wang Gongzi saw that Master Chai didn't have any official shelf, and he liked it very much. But he didn't know the relationship between his father and Chai Baochen. Lord Wang rarely talks about the affairs of the court with his family, especially this Wang Gongzi, who is playful and does not study, and Lord Wang does not like him.

Wang Gongzi said: "Then please go into the cold house for a while, my family will definitely shine!" ”

Chai Baochen is also welcome, he has a lot of mysteries in his heart, and hopes to find the answer in Wang's mansion. So he said, "Good! And he walked in.

As soon as he walked into the yard, he smelled a strong smell of sulfur, and he looked at Wang Gongzi suspiciously. Wang Gongzi noticed Lord Chai's expression and said, "Lord Chai, do you smell something?" ”

"The smell of sulfur, right?" Chai Baochen asked.

Wang Gongzi looked at Chai Baochen in surprise and said, "I didn't expect that Lord Chai's nose is so smart!" It's sulfur, but it's not just sulfur, I also have nitrate here. Speaking of which, to the amusement of adults, I have never liked to read "Zhu Zi's Language" since I was a child, and I usually tinkered with the production of gunpowder at home, hoping that one day I could invent a powerful gunpowder so that I could make a name for myself in history. ”

Chai Baochen said curiously: "I never thought that Wang Gongzi would have such great ambitions!" I wonder if you invented it? ”

"Ah, Chai-sama, do you really think this is something that ambitious people should do? However, my father was disappointed in me, and he wanted me to study the Four Books and the Five Classics so that I could become a successful person as soon as possible. I have now realized that gunpowder can be very powerful when the specific gravity of saltpeter in gunpowder is the sum of sulfur and charcoal! ”

"Ahh You're such a cow! This is already very close to the ratio of modern gunpowder. Chai Baochen said in surprise.

"What cow? What is Hyundai? Wang Gongzi said curiously.

Chai Baochen thought to himself, Nobel's research on black powder is nothing more than that, I really didn't expect Wang Gongzi to discover this proportion in the Ming Dynasty. Chai Baochen couldn't help but admire Wang Gongzi's intelligence, it seems that ancient scholars only read the books of saints for the imperial examination, and to a certain extent, they don't know how many outstanding scientists they have killed. Of course, he couldn't tell Wang Gongzi that he had crossed over, so he had to bypass the topic and say: "I suggest that you set the ratio of nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal at 80 percent for nitrate, and 10 percent for sulfur and charcoal when making gunpowder. That is, eight catties of nitrate, one catty of sulfur, and one catty of eggplant ash. This gunpowder is called black powder, so you can give it a try! ”

After listening to Chai Baochen's words, Wang Gongzi immediately fell into deep thought, and suddenly said: "Ah! I couldn't think of it! I was so brave that I didn't dare to raise the proportion of nitrate too much. Lord Chai, forgive me for not accompanying you, I'm going to experiment. I saw Wang Gongzi walking towards a room full of miscellaneous items.

Chai Baochen saw that Wang Gongzi was a scientist and was obsessed with studying chemistry. In ancient times, even if there were any achievements, it would be difficult for them to be recognized by the scholars at that time. But if it is placed in modern society, it will definitely satisfy the weight of the monarch of a colonial country that is in desperate need of invasion and plunder, obtain invention patents, and even make a lot of money.

Chai Baochen thought about this, so he walked around the Wang Mansion by himself, this mansion is not too big, and in later generations, it has been bought by a wealthy businessman surnamed Shen, who demolished the yard and built a villa. I remember that when the Shen family built the villa, the dust was sprinkled on their house, and their workers were still throwing cigarette butts on the scaffolding to the ground, so that their own family didn't dare to pile up the finished fireworks in front of the door. Thoughts were drifting wantonly, suddenly there was a loud "boom", and then a heat wave came, Chai Baochen was blown up into the sky, in the sky Chai Baochen saw the entire Wang Mansion fell into a sea of fire, and then Chai Baochen fell heavily outside the courtyard wall, his head was dizzy, and he was unconscious.

After a while, Chai Baochen heard a voice: "Come and see, Wang Qiaonian is in tears, he is in tears!" ”

"Where?" A tired voice came.

Chai Baochen felt a pain in his head and was tired, and he slowly opened his eyes. Everything in front of me was relatively unfamiliar, a small room, the surrounding walls were painted white, and the air smelled of flowers. He tried to turn his head and saw two men looking at him with concern, with a number of instruments behind them.

Chai Baochen wanted to raise his hand, but he was pricked with a needle in his hand, as if he was infusion. Chai Baochen was very surprised by everything in front of him, his eyes seemed to be unable to adapt to the light in the room, and he just opened and closed them. Said slowly: "It's too bright! ”

"What? What did he say? A man asked.

"I heard him say it was too bright. What's too bright? A woman asked.

"Oh, it's the lamp! He hadn't opened his eyes in a long time, so he wasn't used to it yet. I'm going to turn off the lights, and you turn on the flashlight. The man said. He excitedly walked to the door, turned off the light, and the whole room went dark. Only a small flashlight remained, still glowing faintly.

"How long has this flashlight not been charged?" The man asked.

"This is the flashlight that Wang Qiaonian used to read in the dormitory when he went to high school, and he hasn't charged it for more than a year." The woman said, with excitement in her tone.

Hearing this, Chai Baochen was startled, he sat up from the bed all of a sudden, and the saline bottle he was pulling shook violently.

The two people in front of them looked at Chai Baochen in surprise, and they shouted in unison: "Wake up!" ”

"Mom and Dad!" Chai Baochen looked at his parents in front of him in surprise, he twisted the flesh on his thighs hard, and screamed.

"Silly boy, how can you pinch yourself?" Mom said distressedly.

"Silly boy, lie down." Dad said with concern.

Chai Baochen suddenly cried, he couldn't believe all this in front of him. He said, "I'm not dreaming! ”

Wang Qiaonian's parents said excitedly: "No, you are not dreaming. Don't you see we're on your side? You've been in a coma for nineteen days! Thankfully, I finally woke up. ”

"Nineteen days in a coma?" Chai Baochen was surprised, why was he in a coma for nineteen days? Anxiously asked, "What the hell is going on?" Why am I in the hospital? ”

"Qiao Nian, don't you remember at all?" Dad asked.

"Qiao Nian." This name is so familiar, by the way, my original name was Wang Qiaonian. Chai Baochen began to recall the experience before he fell into a coma, "I still remember a little bit about that day. I went to see the tide of the Qiantang River, well, it was the seventeenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and the tide was very large, because I was in a bad mood, so I wanted to have some excitement. So I climbed over the barbed wire fence and went to the shore to watch the tide. Who knew that the tide would be so big, and it would envelop me in it all at once, and I don't know what happened after that. Chai Baochen said.

"Oh, you're unconscious after that, and it's normal not to remember. At that time you were swept up in a wave. It was also difficult for the riverbank rescue team to go into the water to rescue. Coincidentally, just as the exclamations on the shore passed, and everyone called the police, a wave pushed you back to the shore again, and a few enthusiastic people with good water qualities climbed over the guardrail and rescued you. After that, you've been in a coma, but it's now the nineteenth day. ”

Chai Baochen looked at the surrounding environment and couldn't help but be a little puzzled: "Parents, is this in the hospital?" ”

"yes. What's wrong? Mom asked.

Chai Baochen suspected that he was still dreaming, because this ward knew at a glance that it was a luxury ward, and only one patient lived, and he rolled some fireworks at home, and he didn't have much money, and he couldn't even afford a house, and the family lived in a small house, how could I be allowed to live in such a luxurious ward?

Dad saw that Chai Baochen was thoughtful, very concerned, and asked, "Child, do you have anything on your mind?" ”

Chai Baochen thought in his heart that he would indeed be called Wang Qiaonian in his later life, and his parents did love him very much. But are the parents in front of you real? If it's not true, then they're just things in their own consciousness? Could it be that you have fallen into the abyss of consciousness?

Thinking of this, Chai Baochen couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. He looked at his parents suspiciously, wondering if his doubts and inner fears would cause them to change. Will parents suddenly glare at themselves?

"Kid, what's wrong with you? Don't scare your mother, you finally woke up, but don't be stupid. Mom wept.

Seeing this, Chai Baochen said the question in his heart: "I live in such a luxurious ward, it costs a lot of money every day, right?" You watch over me every day, how do you do business? ”

"So you're worried about money? Child, what a filial child. You don't have to worry about money. Dad looked up to see if the salt water had finished dripping, and said, "Not long ago, when you went to Hangzhou, your mother and I were worried that the small house and the board house built on it were no longer enough to store fireworks. So your mother and I simply dug into the ground at night, trying to learn from the people on the news to dig out a few basements. Who knows, before digging a meter deep, I came across something hard, and if I looked closely, it turned out to be a wooden box. Your mother and I carefully cleaned the soil out of the box, then opened the box, looked at it, and were stunned. There are a lot of porcelain in it, and they are all expensive treasures!

Our mother's heart was pounding, thinking, dug up the treasure, this is not to be handed in, and I dare not take it out and sell it. If you are caught selling cultural relics without permission, you will go to jail. Fortunately, your mother was attentive and pointed to the bottom of the box and said that there was still something. I pulled the dirt off the top and took out an oiled paper bag. Your mother's culture is higher than mine, so she took the oiled paper bag to the lamp and put on glasses. She unraveled the oiled paper layer by layer, boy, you know, there are twenty layers of oiled paper! Your mom peels it to the end, and her hands are shaking!

Finally, the oiled paper was finally peeled off. A piece of paper was revealed, and there were many words written on it, so let your mother say it, I can't remember it all. Dad said this, very excited, and he took a sip of tea.

Mom looked at Chai Baochen and said: "It reads: In the fifth year of orthodoxy, General Chai Baochen has made meritorious contributions to the extermination of the Japanese invaders, and the court has rewarded him heavily." The house of Lord Wang Huan caught fire inexplicably, his only son died in the fire, and the whole family was burned down, only his grandson Wang Youshu and several servants escaped by chance, and the property loss was huge. Chai Baochen gave all his assets to Wang Youshu, the grandson of Wang Huan, to help him tide over the difficulties. After this difficulty, the Wang family was in the middle of the road, and they could no longer afford to build a new house in the ashes, so they had to let it be abandoned. After learning this lesson, Wang Youshu buried some of the fine porcelain in the property donated by General Chai into the ground of the old house where his grandfather studied when he was a child, so that he could be unearthed and sold when his descendants were poor in the future. Written in the county annals, future generations are erudite and have no resources to enter the Beijing scientific examination, can be used. The mother said this, and then looked at the child's father.

Dad said: "I went to the Urban Construction Bureau and the museum, and finally found this passage in the local chronicle. And the imperial examination has long been abolished. Even learned people don't necessarily read books in traditional characters. Therefore, this passage in the county chronicle did not attract attention. I took the county records and consulted a lawyer, knowing that according to the law, these properties can be owned by the descendants of the Wang family. So I sold two of the bottles and got 600,000 yuan, so that I could pay you to see a doctor. ”

After hearing this, Chai Baochen understood what was going on, it turned out that the ancestor had the foresight to bury the treasure in the ground in advance. After thinking about it, Chai Baochen's heart was sour, and he cried when he hugged his mother.

Dad said, "Be careful, don't get pricked by the needles of the salt water!" ”