Chapter 1 Crossing the Peasant Girl
It was the weather in early March. Although the spring in the north is late, this mountain and countryside is also full of green.
There is a river in front of the village, and the grass is green by the river. The village is backed by a hill with lush trees. There are also green wheat fields in the village, and small fenced courtyards are scattered among them. This kind of primitive ancient village is definitely one of the Internet celebrity check-in places in modern times, but in ancient times, it is really difficult to explain.
On the other side of the river in front of the village is a small hill from which you can see most of the village.
At this time, a little girl who looked to be four or five years old with two small buds tied to her head with a red rope stood on the hillside on the other side of the river, looking at the village and sighing to herself.
When I graduated that year, the employment situation was already very serious, and it was even more difficult for the ancient Chinese major to find a job, so I finally found an advertising company to do copywriting, but as a result, I had to work six days a week, and overtime was commonplace.
At that time, I wanted to put my work aside, and I didn't dare to hope for a distant place, so I just lived in the deserted ancient town for three or four days. But even during the 11th Golden Week, which is the longest holiday, not only is it crowded, but there are also the revisions fed back by Party A's father, and it is not clear that the holiday is not clean, so it is better to go to work! After all, you are paid to work, but you don't have a penny to work from home.
I don't know if the resentment is too deep, but I woke up with a fever, and I really got my wish in a quaint village that couldn't be more primitive.
If someone had told her five years ago that she would have crossed over, or would she have been born into this world with a stream of hot amniotic fluid, looking at strangely dressed strangers in horror, and the sound of a baby crying as soon as she opened it, she would have scoffed at each other, and she would have read too many novels, right? The medicine cannot be stopped.
However, that's just the way it is.
She crossed over, or womb, and crossed into the largest peasant group in the feudal agrarian society.
What does this mean?
Anyone who has attended nine years of compulsory education and studied the most basic history knows that the villagers who lived in ancient times were busy all year round, but they could only struggle on the food and clothing line forever. They rely on the sky to eat, if the wind and rain are smooth, it is fine, if there is a slight natural and man-made disaster, it is only to sell children and daughters, and the family is ruined.
It has been five years since I crossed, and after seeing the green mountains and rivers for five years, I once thought of the idea of escaping the world in a poor country, but I have long forgotten the poor life without oil and water. Rather than admiring the green mountains and green waters, she now wants to eat a bite of meat, even if it is the fat meat that she once hated to the extreme.
When I think of meat, I hear a "cooing" sound in my stomach.
Looking down the hillside, smoke was already rising from three or four adobe houses in the village.
It's all cooking on the fire, no wonder you're hungry, it's time to go back.
Just as he was about to get up from the ground, someone behind him shouted from afar: "Ah Xing, I have come out to pick wild vegetables, you are still lazy here, what should you do when you see Granda!" Later, there was a bit of schadenfreude in his arrogant tone.
The voice is crisp and pleasant to the ear, but the tone of the words spoils this beauty.
Shaking his head, there were many footsteps behind him, and a few chirping girls' voices, all of them accusing: "Ah Xing, Sister Ah Bao brought us to pick wild vegetables, how can you be lazy here!" ”
In five years, no matter how small she is, she can still figure out that it is not any dynasty in the history of the Celestial Empire, but a country called "Great Qi".
However, although it is an unfamiliar dynasty, the customs and folklore here are almost exactly the same as the most powerful period of the Celestial Empire in ancient times, the Tang Dynasty, which finally makes people have a sense of familiarity.
But it's just this sense of familiarity, not to mention it, let's just talk about the language at this time, only three or four words can barely collide with modern Chinese. I really don't know how those modern time-traveling novels can be written to make great achievements and do a great career as soon as they travel over. But in reality, no matter how talented this traveler is, he has to pass the language barrier first.
Fortunately, she was a baby when she first crossed over, and she couldn't speak, nor could she understand the words of adults, so no one noticed her abnormality, and it also gave her enough time to learn from scratch. It wasn't until more than two years that she fully mastered the current ancient language.
Therefore, the traversers in the novel, only if they first master the language of the time and can communicate with other people, can the men go around to collect their younger brothers, and the women can attract all kinds of ancient tyrants to bend their waists, otherwise they are talking about chickens and ducks, so how can they reach the peak of life?
It took a lot of effort for her to resist the urge to shut them up, and she got up from the grass on the hillside unhurriedly, and patted the grass clippings and dirt on her clothes, before she slowly turned around and looked up at "Sister Bao" who was surrounded by the little girls.
That is, a little girl of eight or nine years old, who did not look much different from the group of peasant girls in front of her. They are all dressed in burlap clothes, and the only strong point is that the clothes have no patches, and the skin is quite fair. It can be seen that "Sister Bao" has a good family background and is quite favored at home. After all, if you farm under the sun all year round, you can't raise fair skin.
However, only a good family background and being favored are not enough to become the head of this group of peasant girls, and the reason for chasing it is that "Sister Bao" is the only girl in the village who is literate and literate.
"Sister Bao's" real name is Liu Bao'er, and the third house at the entrance of the village, the seven-room house with a civil structure, is her home. This is also the only family in the whole village that uses wood to build a house, and the other is the head of a village, the home of the village leader. Therefore, the Liu family is one of the richest families in the village, and they also sent Liu Wanli, the son of the Liu family, to the county to study privately, becoming the only scholar in the village. And Liu Wanli is Liu Baoer's father.
If you want to ask her why she knows so clearly, because she is also surnamed Liu now, it happens to be Liu Baoer's cousin-Liu Chenxing.
Although this name is a bit neutral, it is much better than the names of the male "big strong" and the female "big girl" in the village. It can be seen how important it is to have a scholar at home. However, her name was not taken by Liu Wanli, an uncle who only uses Wenshu's scientific examination as an excuse every time and never gives birth, but by her mother in this life.
Thinking of A-Niang who was having dinner at home, in order not to make it more difficult for A-Niang in Liu's house, Liu Chenxing looked at Liu Bao'er who wanted to find fault with an innocent smile, raised the small bamboo basket woven by his father in his hand, and said: "Grandma has filled a basket of wild vegetables that Grandma let pick. But the family's grain was sold to the uncle in the first month, and the only remaining rations had to be tied to the uncle. Grandma said that my uncle has the strength to study only when he is full, and my sister and I are little ladies, and we can't do farm work with little strength, so we should eat less. I thought that the wild vegetables were also picked, so I would sit and save some energy, so that I could be hungry more slowly. ”
Although the "Great Qi" is the same as the Tang Dynasty of the Celestial Empire, its women's status has reached an unprecedented height, but patriarchy is still the norm. Especially in poor peasant households, if you only have one ration of food, you must first hold on to the men.
There are all peasant girls present, who hasn't been hungry?
Indeed, as Liu Chenxing said, whenever there is not enough food at home, in order to be hungry slowly, they lie still.
Thinking about it like this, I couldn't help but feel a little sympathy for Liu Chenxing.
There is also a lot of land in the Liu family, with 60 acres of fertile land and a cow, but the uncle of the Liu family wants to study, and I heard the family say that reading is a bottomless pit, plus they have to pay field rent, poll tax, forced labor, etc. every year, and the output of these 60 acres is not enough for the Liu family to chew, and they have to rely on the second uncle Liu, that is, Liu Chenxing's father, to work as a carpenter or do odd jobs in the county to earn money. However, no matter how powerful Second Uncle Liu's skills are, he can't stand to support his parents and brothers, and even Liu Chenxing has to be poor and hungry, which is really pitiful.
This was a change of thought, and all the peasant girls invariably opened the distance from Liu Bao'er, looked at Liu Chenxing sympathetically, and some were even bold and didn't like Liu Bao'er's arrogant temperament, and their eyes on Liu Bao'er showed condemnation on the spot.
Liu Baoer is four years older than Liu Chenxing, nine years old this year, and is eleven years old, and she is also a little lady in this village, and she has been reading and reading with her father Liu Wanli since she was a child, and she has a little bit of eyes, and immediately noticed the changes in everyone, remembering that her parents often mentioned that they should not do anything that would damage their reputation, and let the neighbors in the village know that they not only serve filial piety to Ah Weng and Grandma, but also take care of other people in the Liu family, so they swallowed their anger and said: "Ah Xing, why didn't you say that you picked wild vegetables earlier!?" Okay, let's all go back, the sun is setting! After speaking, he didn't wait for Liu Chenxing, he turned around and left with a basket of wild vegetables.
Looking at his cousin who rushed down the hill angrily, Liu Chenxing smiled helplessly.
Hey, it seems that the body has become smaller, and the inner core has also become smaller, so it makes Liu Baoer angry.
It is estimated that her arrogant cousin must have been angry at this time, thinking that she had endured the humiliation again, and then she hated her even more.
There was a "coo", and the stomach rang again.
Liu Chenxing carried his small bamboo basket, and quickly took up his short legs and went home downhill.