Chapter 1: The Beginning of All
"Da!"
Fang Yan lit the last cigarette in the cigarette case, casually tossed the empty cigarette case in his hand, and took a puff.
In life, there will always be some accidents that happen for no reason, because people will never predict what will happen in the next second, for Fang Yan, his accident is: innocent crossing.
And now it's the third time, as the so-called first life, second familiarity, three times and four times become friends, now he is estimated to be tightly tied to the crossing of this file, and no one can do without anyone.
I remember the first time I crossed over in the early morning of February 28, 2017, when Fang Yan was still sleeping in the dormitory of Beijing University.
And when he opened his eyes, he saw a strange world, Yanjing was called the capital at that time, and it was still an era when braids were walking all over the streets.
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What would it be like for a normal person to travel to the Qing Dynasty in real life?
Dialects that have had real experiences will tell you that the stories in the novel are all deceitful, and the real scenes can be summed up in two words - "cruel".
In the early Qing Dynasty in history, for example, in the sixth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the imperial court was violently implementing the political measure of "shaving hair and making it easy to wear", with the saying "keep your head without hair, and keep your hair without your head".
And at that time, the imperial city - the capital, the center of power in the Qing Dynasty, was also the place where no braids were tolerated. If you are found without braids, if you are lucky, you will be beheaded at noon the next day; If you're unlucky, you may be able to see for yourself the horrors of the Ten Manchu Tortures.
Secondly, for a normal person, a strange world without relatives and without any modern atmosphere will bring you great panic. And this can cause your thoughts and judgments to be confused and to behave wrongly......
If you can overcome the above two points, then the next step is to think about your survival.
Keeping warm and feeding is the instinct of every animal in the world, and if you carry something like gold jewelry, it will make you comfortable through the most difficult times after the crossing.
If not, then sorry, you will find yourself hungry, unable to find a place to live, and even the cold is a problem.
Later, you will find in your life that most of the knowledge you have acquired from modern times is useless.
You can't propagate socialist ideas or Marxism in the highly centralized Qing Dynasty; It is also impossible to make a standard ruler in the era when there is no precise unit of measurement.
In the end, according to the knowledge you have learned, the character of the world, your life is either idle or a little rich and peaceful, only a very few traversers can stand in the court, a very good minister, or a rich family, rich and rival the country......
Dialects are unfortunate, alone, without anything. He was also lucky that he was not found by the officers and soldiers without braids, and when he was about to freeze to death on the street, a kind butcher also carried him home.
The butcher's surname is Zhang, his name is raised, he is an ordinary low-level person, he is doing pig killing like hemp, but he makes the dialect really feel the warmth of the strange Qing Dynasty.
Fang Yan once asked Butcher Zhang why he was so good to him, not only gave himself medicine to cure wind and cold, but also helped him buy fake braids to solve the identity problem.
Butcher Zhang looked at Fang Yan at that time and grinned, "I see you pleasing to the eye." ”
didn't appreciate the style of Yanjing four hundred years ago, and didn't even say "goodbye" to Butcher Zhang......
I thought that I would be rich and peaceful in the Qing Dynasty, take a Qing Dynasty daughter-in-law, and give birth to a few big fat boys to retire and die, but unexpectedly returned to modern times after ten days.
That night, Fang Yan dragged his roommate to the hotel, and in his stunned eyes, he shrank under the table crying and laughing.
If it weren't for the second time in a month, going to class, eating, going dark, and sleeping might have been all his college life.
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It's still the same early morning on the 28th, the same woke up on an unfamiliar street, but the difference is that this time Yanjing is called Youzhou, and it's Yuan Shao who is in charge.
The dialect that has been born once and matured twice has had a cross-cutting experience is obviously much calmer this time.
Without panicking, he found a pawnshop and sold the watch he didn't take off because he was drunk on the birthday of his roommate Huang Shangqing. Then I bought myself a dress from the Three Kingdoms era, and after finding a hat to cover the conspicuous inch, I quietly integrated into this era.
Youzhou during the Three Kingdoms period is different from modern Yanjing, whether it is the antique buildings, the knights who walk with swords on their backs, or the carriages that pass slowly on the avenue, and the hawkers on both sides, this city that is not contaminated with a trace of modern atmosphere reveals a different kind of prosperous atmosphere. Of course, there are indispensable beautiful women who are shy to be released, literati who talk loudly and worry about the world......
Wander around the ancient neighborhoods, buy some small objects with the characteristics of the Three Kingdoms, see and see Yichun Courtyard, cough cough, customs and customs......
Treating this crossing as a dialect of travel, he returned to the modern day after ten days without accident, only to find that history had played an incomparably huge joke on him.
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"The archaeological team opened the coffin in an ancient tomb suspected to be Cao Cao's tomb on April 5, and found an item suspected to be a modern watch in the coffin, the object was rusty, but it had the general shape of the watch......
Brother Cao, didn't you build 72 suspicious tombs? Why is it that all of a sudden the coffin board can't be pressed? Why did you buy a watch last year?
Thinking about what had happened to him, Fang Yan took a hard puff on the cigarette.
"My beauty, why should I be a thief, phew, I can't even be a thief!" Fang Yan looked at the mountain forest where the bird didn't poop and smiled bitterly, and threw the cigarette butt at his feet with nostalgia and stepped on it a few times.
"I can't live this day, I'm wearing everything, and I'm not allowed to do anything." Fang Yan shook his head and sighed, bent down to pick up the cigarette butts and cigarette cases on the ground, raised his flashlight and walked towards the cave behind him.
In the wild, the fire will always be your most reliable friend, not only to keep you warm but also to keep mosquitoes and beasts away.
After pulling open the one-person-high backpack next to him and taking out compressed biscuits and mineral water, Fang Yan's face turned a little blue.
Next time, you must get a pot, bring a few more power banks, bring a few more packs of cigarettes, prepare some air fresheners....... chew bread mechanically in dialects, take out the notebook in the backpack, and write it carefully.
Fang Yan can be regarded as a senior traverser, and he has also figured out some traversal experience when he studied at Jinghua University.
The exact time for each crossing to start is on the 28th of each month, at 5 a.m. After the time travel, they will spend ten days in the era of travel, and at the same time, in modern times, they will spend ten hours.
At the same time, you can carry some items through the crossing, such as backpacks on your back, things in your pockets, and items that you can grasp with both hands.
As for the location of his crossing, the dialect is a little confused, and he can only speculate that it is near his modern crossing location, that is, the projection of the modern crossing location in ancient times.
After eating, he threw the bread bag and the empty water bottle into the fire, and by the way, a few pieces of wood were added, and the fire in the cave began to brighten, and the dialect walked outside the cave and looked at the spotless night sky.
"It's the ninth day, it's time to go back tomorrow, and I don't know what era this is." The dialect murmured.
Because of Brother Cao, Fang Yan carefully chose a primeval forest around Yanjing as the crossing location this time.
Now he feels like he is playing a single-player survival game called "Ten Heavenly Ancient World", if he instigates his little wings too much, maybe it will not be just Cao Cao's problem after returning to modern times.
Fang Yan shook his head, turned around and went back to the cave, opened the tent and lay in, turned the flashlight to the low light setting, Fang Yan took out the "A Brief History of Time" next to him, opened it, and a drawing fell out of the book......