One Hundred and Twenty-Seven, How is Xiangrui Refined (II)

Tell me a man's story.

This is a very ordinary and ordinary man.

This man has no illustrious background, no blood feud, no extraordinary intelligence, and even some timidity.

He was born in a very ordinary and ordinary working family, and then went to elementary school, junior high school, and then high school and university. After he graduated from college, he just started looking for a job like an ordinary citizen.

He doesn't have any naΓ―ve dreams, no great ideas, and he doesn't think that he is burdened with a destiny that ordinary people can't understand, but just hopes to find a good job and live a safe and happy life.

In short, he is just an ordinary person who is everywhere in today's society, neither an immaculate sage nor a heinous evildoer.

However, the summer after he graduated from college, on his way to a job fair in a hurry, the man suddenly crossed over.

Almost without warning, he found himself in the Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, possessed by a small landowner.

When he first traveled to the Han Dynasty, this man was very excited and wanted to make a big career. He racked his brains and tried to make many research inventions, such as burning glass, making paper, making gunpowder, and drying salt, but most of the attempts failed, and the way to get into the official position did not go through. So, he married a wife and had children with peace of mind, and established his own small family, and slowly felt that it seemed good to live like this.

However, just as his son could speak, the Hun cavalry broke through the Great Wall and slaughtered the village where he lived.

However, the man's story is not over, he crosses over again.

This time, he came to the turbulent era of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, and became the owner of a small dock fort in Jizhou. This is located in the territory of Later Zhao, which was established by the Qiang people, and he had to endure the blackmail and insults of the Qiang officials all day long, watching these blonde and blue-eyed cannibals wantonly in the hinterland of the Central Plains, while the Chinese nobles were reduced to slaves in the homes of their ancestors, and they would be killed or even eaten by the Qiang people for no reason at any time, and their lives were simply not as good as pigs and dogs.

He was not very bold and did not dare to rebel, only thinking about how to take all his family members and escape safely to Jiangnan to join the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It's just that the Qiang people are very closely watched, and he has never been able to find a suitable opportunity. Until one day, the great hero Ran Min led the Han people in the Central Plains to launch a Jedi counterattack, conquered Yecheng, the capital of Later Zhao, and issued the "Killing Hu Order" to call on the people of the world to expel Hu Lu, causing Later Zhao to begin to fall apart.

He didn't dare to defect to Ran Min to fight the Hu people, but took advantage of the chaos to leave Jizhou with his family and fled south desperately. Unfortunately, they didn't get far, and while he was looking for a ferry boat by the Yellow River, he was suddenly overtaken by a group of Qian cavalry...... So, at the Zuihou moment of his life, this man saw his wife, sisters, and daughters being cooked as "two-legged sheep" by the Qiang people, and then he himself was trampled into meat puree by the horse's hooves.

However, the man's story is not over, he crosses over again.

This time, he came to the Tang Dynasty in the Tianbao period, which was in the Anshi Rebellion, but his place of arrival was not Guanzhong, Hebei and the Central Plains, which were devastated, but in Lingnan, far from the center of the war, which made him somewhat relieved, but also a little stunned.

After the Anshi Rebellion ended, because his memory of ancient history was very rough, he thought that the world of the Tang Dynasty should have been temporarily stable, so he wanted to go to see Chang'an, see the most glorious city in Shijie at that time, and it was not in vain that he came to this era. …,

As a result, he traveled thousands of miles from Lingnan all the way to Chang'an, and just met a beautiful woman in a wine shop that made him excited, so he caught up with the Tibetan army to invade Chang'an and plundered the army. Although he did not dare to resist at all in front of the fierce Tibetan rebels, he obediently offered all the gold and silver treasures around him. But when he arrived in Zuihou, he was still with the woman, and was slashed and killed by the red-eyed Tubo soldiers.

However, the man's story is not over, he crosses over again.

This time, he traveled to Xiangyang City at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, where he was born and raised, and once again met the woman he liked and established his own family. Next, the terrifying Mongol army appeared on the northern horizon and gradually approached the fortified fortress city.

At the beginning, he still had the opportunity to leave Xiangyang and escape, but the man hesitated for a long time, although he was very scared, but in the end he did not leave, but joined the militia team defending the city. Because he didn't want to be a coward anymore, he didn't want to die a humiliating death like a wild dog, he wanted to protect the home he had worked so hard to manage, and he also wanted to see if Guo Jing and Huang Rong would appear and use their divine condor and martial arts to easily force back the Mongol army.

It's a pity that the story of Guo Jing and Huang Rong is just a novelist's fabrication, and he didn't see any chivalrous man, so he was shot in the throat by an arrow.

However, the man's story is not over, he crosses over again.

This time, he traveled to the coastal area of Fujian during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty and landed in a gentry's house. At the height of the Japanese invasion, the man's family was attacked by a group of Japanese invaders on a rainy night, and many relatives, including his parents, were killed.

He decided that this time he could no longer be cowardly, and he could no longer expect any more chivalrous men who would never appear.

So, this man, who finally had the courage, scattered all his family wealth, moved his relationships, and quickly pulled up a militia team. Later, after a series of thrilling bloody battles, he finally exterminated this gang of widows and cut off the head of his father's killer with his own hands.

Unfortunately, he himself was also seriously wounded in the battle to exterminate the Japanese and died of an infected wound shortly after.

But he is still happy that he has finally protected his hometown this time and succeeded in avenging his relatives and family before he dies.

However, the man's story is not over, he crosses over again.

This time, he came to the prosperous Jiangnan at the end of the Ming Dynasty and was born in a scholarly family. Later, the Manchu Tatars occupied Beijing and soon crossed the Yangtze River. This man arranged for his family to take refuge in the distant Nanyang, but he stayed alone in Jiangyin City, following the iron-clad Yan Yingyuan Dian Shi, as well as the 80,000 impassioned and fierce righteous people in the city, to face the menacing 240,000 Manchu army.

In the unprecedentedly tragic offensive and defensive battle of Jiangyin, he used his historical insight beyond the times to put forward many effective plans, including poisoning the well, throwing the corpses of smallpox patients to the enemy camp, causing the Qing army to break out of the plague, etc., so that this isolated city lasted for a year, and also caused the Qing army to suffer heavy casualties, and successively ambushed as many as 200,000 corpses.

But when he arrived in Zuihou, the isolated city of Jiangyin was still conquered by the Qing army, and he was also killed in the street fighting.

However, this time when he died, there was not much fear in his heart, and he even greeted death with a smile, because he died fighting for his country and nation this time, and he was finally able to die like a hero.

When he was dying, he also thought about which era he would travel to next time - whether it was the Opium War, the First Sino-Japanese War, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, or the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he was confident that he would be able to fight to the death against any enemy until the moment of Zuihou and sacrifice for the country like a hero. …,

-- He did cross over again, but he was back in the beginning, the bustling street leading to the job fair.

So, the man stood in the middle of the street with blank eyes, looking at the bustling crowd at a loss. He saw that the TV curtain wall on the street was playing the Qing palace braided play, the Gege brothers in Manchu court costumes were talking about love inside, the clothed minions were gagging each other, and the Qing Dynasty emperor with big pigtails was showing his wisdom and martial arts...... Zuihou, he could only collapse in the corner, covering his face and crying......

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β€œβ€¦β€¦ At that time, I thought I was having a big dream. But then, I soon discovered that I had spatial abilities, saw wormholes that connected to the Atlas, and was soon recruited by the special department of the state to become a true time-traveler......"

Next to the rattling bonfire, Director Ma swallowed the smoke with a cigarette between his fingers, and chattered to Wang Qiu about his past story, "...... Based on the conclusions I have come to after communicating with all kinds of travelers in the course of my work over the years, I must have done many soul crossings in a row at that time...... And these long life experiences are the most precious treasure in my heart - without these wonderful and harsh trials of life, I would not have been able to attain enlightenment, and I would not be where I am now......"

He gave a look of remembrance in his gaze, and then spat out a large smoke ring, "...... I know that many people see me as an unruly demon, a butcher with blood on his hands, and a god of decay who brings bad luck. But in fact, I just have a relatively indifferent view of life and death - anyone who walks around the door of hell is generally more open-minded. For example, I have a few old classmates who work in a cancer hospital, because they see people getting lung cancer every day, but they are not surprised, and each one smokes more fiercely...... What's more, I've already walked so many laps around the ghost gate?

In short, I hope you can understand that I am not a pervert, let alone a madman. I am just a patriot, a warrior who can sacrifice himself for the sake of the country and the nation! It is not that my heart is devoid of morality and pity, but, for the good of the country and the nation, I have never been afraid to turn myself into a demon and let my hands be stained with the blood of innocents - as long as it does not come from my countrymen! That's my only bottom line! ”

"......" Wang Qiu felt that his thoughts were a little confused, and he was speechless for a while.

The awkward silence came again, and only the sound of burning firewood was left between the two, and when it came to Zuihou, it was Director Ma who broke the silence again.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Well, it's getting late, go back and rest early, boy, and you'll have to walk a long way tomorrow. ”

Director Ma dropped the cigarette butt in his hand, stepped on it a few more times, and then clapped his hands and said, "...... Tomorrow morning, let's go to Tenochtitlan together, destroy CortΓ©s' expedition, and put an end to this catastrophe that has lost tens of millions of lives! ”