Chapter 2: Travel to Antiquity

"What is this place? Did I cross over? ”

Zheng Chen looked at this strange room, a square table, on the table there was a teapot with a missing corner, and two teacups, also with a missing corner, there were three stools under the table, and the closed window also had a missing corner, and there was a person lying on the bed, it could be seen from the side face that it was a young man, and it looked a little familiar. Covered with a quilt with seven or eight holes, there were a few books.

Zheng Chen walked over and saw that the young man actually looked exactly like himself, but his face was a little pale.

"Should I wake him up?" Zheng Chen struggled for a while and decided to wake up the other party.

"Hey, wake up, don't sleep, it's dawn, it's time to get up." Zheng Chen called several times, but the other party did not respond.

"It's not going to be dead, is it?" Zheng Chen's heart was beating wildly, but he still reached out and put it on the other party's nose.

"Dead... Zheng Chen felt that the other party was out of breath, and touched his face again, feeling a burst of coldness and stiffness, which frightened Zheng Chen to take a few steps back.

"What should I do? Go back, you can't stay here, if someone comes over, you can't explain it clearly, right... Go back..."Zheng Chen began to communicate with Shimen, but there was no response several times in a row.

Zheng Chen didn't give up and continued to communicate, until half an hour Zheng Chen gave up, and he couldn't go back.

"Calm, you must be calm, you can't panic now, you are not a murderer, even if someone from the government comes, you can find out that he died of natural causes, but how should I explain my identity? It's dawn again, and if you go out, you might meet someone else, but if you find out that this person is dead, you won't be able to explain it clearly. Zheng Chen thought of several methods, but they were all rejected.

"I wonder if I can put it away? In the novel, Goldfinger can put away items and corpses. Zheng Chen approached the person who looked exactly like him again, put his hand on his body, and communicated with Shimen again...

"Whew... It really can..."Seeing the corpse disappear, Zheng Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to pick up another set of clothes on the bed to change, when he suddenly felt a tingling pain in his mind, and this tingling pain disappeared after a few minutes, and there was also an extra memory in his mind, which was about the memory of the deceased.

From memory, I learned that the other party was picked up by a couple, the couple also had two sons, a few years older than the deceased, and currently worked as a long-term worker in a large family in the town, the eldest was called Zheng Xin, the second was called Zheng Xu, and the deceased was also called Zheng Chen with the same name as himself.

His adoptive parents had died, and he was eighteen years old, a nerd who starved to death because he refused help from others.

This country also has a imperial examination system, a bit similar to the Song Dynasty, everything is inferior, only the reading is high, the scholars in this country feel superior, before the adoptive parents attacked him to study and spent all his savings, there was no money for medical treatment, and the money earned by the two elder brothers working was also brought back to him, so he has not married a wife until now, and he has pressed all his hopes on him, hoping that one day he can go to high school, and his fate can be changed.

"Fool, I'd rather starve to death than take into account the so-called backbone of those sour Confucians, and deserve to be starved to death." Zheng Chen didn't sympathize with the other party at all, and he despised it very much in his heart.

After reading books for a few years, I felt that I was superior, although I was kind on the surface, but in my heart I looked down on my next-door neighbor.

"I've changed my clothes, but this hair is a little troublesome, so it's easy to be seen through when I go out, why don't you shave your head to cover it up?"

Before Zheng Chen could make a decision, the already haired hair grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it didn't stop growing until it was as long as the hair of the deceased person before.

"Now it can be perfectly disguised, the first step is to solve the problem of food and clothing, I knew that I would have agreed to Qiu Yu's invitation to have supper, and now I don't have to be hungry." Zheng Chen opened the door and walked out to the living room.

The living room was three times larger than the room, but there was nothing to furnish except a dining table and a few stools, and the kitchen did not need to be gone, and from the memory of the fool I learned that he could not cook, and that the gentleman was far away from the kitchen, and usually went to the town to buy a few baked cakes to solve the problem of food and clothing.

Before Zheng Chen could open the door, the door was pushed open, and a young man about twenty years old walked in with a small bag of rice and a piece of meat, and said to Zheng Chen with a smile: "Little brother, are you going to go out?" Brother brought you a piece of mutton today, you make a good meal..."

"Second brother, why did you come back today? Isn't there a few days left until the middle of the month? "It's Zheng Chen's second brother Zheng Xu who comes back, he has one day off in the middle of every month, and the eldest brother has one day off at the end of the month, and they will come back to cook for Zheng Chen when they are resting, and they will also give Zheng Chen their wages.

"Uh... It happened that there was nothing to do in the house today, and the housekeeper gave me a few days off, so I came back. Zheng Xu was a little unnatural when he spoke.

"Second brother, you can't hide it from me, what happened? Was it fired? Zheng Chen saw Zheng Xu's unnaturalness, he was not that nerd, and he had become more sensitive and observant after the transformation, and he could see the slightest unnatural expression.

"Little brother, you think about it too much, I have been working in the Tong family for five years, why did you quit me? I'll go back in a few days..."Zheng Xu looked even more unnatural, he secretly thought in his heart that his little brother seemed to have changed a lot, he only knew how to study to death, and he wouldn't pay attention to other things, how could he see it all at once?

"Second brother, I decided not to study anymore and never go to the academy again. I'm going to do a little business..."

Before Zheng Chen's words were finished, Zheng Xu roared: "Bastard, how can you say such a thing, do you know how much our family has paid to be able to let you study, you can go to the township exam next year, you actually told me now that you don't want to study, are you right and pay for us?" ”

"Second brother, don't get excited, listen to me first." Zheng Chen didn't expect the second brother, who has always been honest, to get so angry, it seems that he has never been angry since he was a child, let alone roaring at himself so loudly.

"It's useless to say anything, you have to read this book, you don't have to worry about money, my eldest brother and I will help you solve it." Zheng Xu didn't listen to Zheng Chen's explanation at all, and after speaking, he took his things and entered the kitchen.

"I can only take my time..."Zheng Chen smiled bitterly alone, and then followed into the kitchen.

"What are you doing here? Your task is to study well and not think crookedly. Zheng Xu said while brushing the pot, listening to his tone has eased a lot.

"Can't I read a book? But business still has to be done, I read that you do business, anyway, you don't have a job now. Zheng Chen didn't go over to help, just stood at the door and said.

"Bastard, a businessman's family can't be an official, I'm a businessman, what's the use of your study?" The fire that had finally been lowered was ignited by Zheng Chen again.