Chapter 13: The Past of Taoyuan Village

Zhang Chuan was imprisoned in the hall by himself, and he had nothing to do, his eyes glanced east and west, but he didn't find anything worth noting.

To say strange things, the lamp oil on this quaint turtle and crane longevity lamp burns a little fast?

There was no timer to refer to, but in a blink of an eye, the oil in the lamp was visibly missing.

By the time Zhang Chuan could move, there was not much oil left in the bronze lamp, the flames were blowing up and down, and the lights were about to go out in the room.

"Boom la la ......"

The "cannibalistic" coffin was erected by itself, and after the coffin board was cut, it looked like a security gate, but it was pitch black at the other end of the door, and nothing could be seen.

Seeing that Zhang Chuan was stunned and did not move, the coffin jumped forward.

"Wait, I'll go myself, I know a little."

Zhang Chuan urgently called a halt, lest the coffin use some unique spells and treat him rudely.

Zhang Chuan came to the door of the coffin, gritted his teeth and prepared to step forward into the coffin, but the coffin took the initiative to swallow him first.

The boundless darkness overwhelmed him, and when Zhang Chuan opened his eyes again, he returned to that ancient and mysterious world.

He was lying on a rammed mud bed, the straw mat under him was tattered, and the long-lost sunlight poured into the room through the window, shining dust flying in the air.

"This is my home?"

"Jianye City Taoyuan Village."

Zhang Chuan asked and answered himself.

This thatched house, which is only more than 20 square meters, is horizontally divided into three areas, the westernmost is the kitchen, the middle is the empty hall, and the right one is Zhang Chuan's bedroom.

In the kitchen, there is a simple stove suspended from a wooden shelf, like drying clothes, a tripod on each side, a wooden stick in the middle, a pot hanging from the wooden stick, and three layers of stones on the ground to form a fire pit.

There are only a few utensils in the house, which can be counted on one hand: pots, water tanks, bowls, and half a gourd scoop that is about to break.

"How did you grow up in this environment?" Zhang Chuan stroked his forehead and sighed.

Destitute, but that's it.

In Taoyuan Village, there are only three families in total, the Sun family, the Xiang family, and the Zhang family, which are just distributed in the three corners of Taoyuan Village in a triangular trend.

Taoyuan Village was originally a wasteland near the mountains, and later became a field of appreciation, which was given to Sun Da, Xiang Er, and Lao Zhang San, three veterans who had made meritorious contributions on the battlefield. Sun, Xiang, and Zhang were originally from Shuyang County, Jianye City, but they were able to return to their hometowns after leaving home and serving in the army for 20 years at a young age.

These three have been soldiers for more than 20 years, but their ability to farm has not been left behind, and they have reclaimed a fertile land from the originally barren land and settled here.

The main secretary of the Jianye government in charge of land originally packaged and gave about 100 acres of land to these three people, not only to complete the tasks assigned by the superiors, but also to maintain local security.

On the mountain next to this Taoyuan Village, from time to time there are wild beasts coming down to fight the autumn wind, this piece of near the mountain field, now it has become a good buffer zone, at least after Sun, Xiang, and Zhang settled down, there has been no beast disaster in the north of Jianye City.

Looking from the window, it is full of good fields and beautiful ponds and mulberry bamboos, and further away is the peach forest that encloses Taoyuan Village.

Sun Da, Xiang Er, and Lao Zhang San settled together, but Sun Da and Xiang Er were in a hurry to marry their daughters-in-law in the same year they settled, and they also gave birth to babies the next year, and Lao Zhang San, before his death, was still a bachelor.

The daughter of the Sun family was born first, and the baby of the Xiang family was half a month later.

Aunt Sun and Xiang Ergou, the two of them, as early as three years ago, were favored by the Dongtu Mountain Gate, and became disciples to go into the mountain to practice, and the two also wrote a letter to their families a few days ago, and the signatures on the letter became Sun Piaopiao and Xiang Renjie respectively.

Zhang San is not envious of them being able to worship and cultivate in the mountain gate, but envy that they all have a proper name, especially the guy Xiang Ergou, a naughty ghost who makes a lot of trouble on weekdays, he actually dares to call himself a "hero" and a "future Qiantang hero", and he is not afraid of being laughed at and lose his big teeth.

In this dynasty, if you have not entered school, or have studied with a teacher, ordinary people themselves give their names as common names, and literacy is one thing, and most people have few opportunities to use their correct names. There is no private school in Taoyuan Village, and there is no Mr. Teaching, so it was not until they went out to worship the mountain gate that Aunt Sun and Xiang Ergou had their names, and the names on the previous two household registrations were Sun Shuangshuang and Xiang Bayi.

Sun Piaopiao didn't forget to joke to Ergou in the letter, saying that if he couldn't marry a daughter-in-law in the future, he could come to their daughter's village to try his luck.

Sun Piaopiao's daughter village is located in the north of the Aolai country composed of the southern archipelago of the Qiantang Dynasty, on an island in the south of the Xiliang Nuguo country outside the western Qiantang Dynasty.

And Xiang Ergou's Mojia Village, where he is located, is slightly farther away than his daughter village, and the general direction is also outside the western Qiantang Dynasty, and it does not belong to that country like his daughter village, because it is a "mountain gate" that is indisputable with the world.

"The world is full of wonders, and I'm very calm now." Zhang Chuan thought of this and smiled.

It is also strange to say, Sun Da and Xiang Er seem to have great blessings, after returning to their hometown, they not only married and had children smoothly, but even the descendants are like dragons and phoenixes among people, there are only three households in Taoyuan Village, there are two disciples of Shanmen, you must know that the entire East China Sea, since the establishment of the Qiantang Dynasty, especially in the past 100 years, the number of children who have been looked down on by Shanmen in each session is only ten.

And Lao Zhang San, obviously the youngest of the three sergeants, not only failed to please his daughter-in-law, but also died before Sun Da Xianger, it was just strange, and even Jian Ye had a lot of gossip that Zhang San was a broom star, it was the fate of the sky to go down to earth, and whoever went to his house would be unlucky, so after the death of Lao Zhang San, the precocious little Zhang San struggled to be self-reliant, no matter how Sun Daxiang persuaded the two and two families, he stubbornly refused to go over to live with them, but what a good dish on weekdays, The women of these two families will also leave a separate copy to send over, and Xiao Zhang San's clothes are also from Sun Liu and Xiang Yang.

Xiao Zhang San will drive cattle to plough the fields even at a young age, and will take the small fishing boat left by the old Zhang San to the offshore sea from time to time to fish, and because he often goes into the city to sell seafood, he got acquainted with the Shen family's Xiaolang Junshu brother, when Shen Shu saw that Xiao Zhang San actually had a golden king on the side of the road, and was instantly attracted to the fact that he couldn't walk, and Xiao Zhang San, who happened to wander around in a way of selling, was very proud to sell the golden turtle to Shen Shu at a price of 100 yuan.

100 Wen to make a friend.

It's a pity that Shen Shu's child seems to be inherently unsuitable for pets, what to raise or die, the golden sea turtle that he bought back was taken by his mother to stew soup for his sick father.

Shen Shu was full of interest in the first turtle breeding plan, which was over before it began, and then in order to raise the best animals, Shen Shu went to the Fang Market to find Zhang San every three or five days, but Zhang San, as a farmer, had very few opportunities to go into the city to buy and sell freely, and most of the time the farmers sold directly to the large commercial houses with sales qualifications at wholesale prices, and these large commercial houses carried out secondary sales in the fixed square market façade in the city.

But after all, they are all people from Donghai Jianye, and they have also made contact with each other, and they have become companions who can have fun.

Let's talk about this Zhang San's adoptive father. At the beginning, Lao Zhang San was the only one who believed in Buddhism in Taoyuan Village, although he did not often eat fasting and chanted Buddha, but whenever the matchmaker came to the matchmaker, Lao Zhang San either said that there was no bride price money, or he said that it was inconvenient to take a child and other perfunctory words to shirk away, and over time, the burly and strong old Zhang San was even named Zhang Buju and Zhang Monk nicknames.

Lao Zhang San died due to a shipwreck, he was born in an offshore fish family, and his ability to observe the weather is not weak, and he will definitely not choose a weather with strong winds and waves to go to sea, but the day is like the previous day of worshiping the turtle on the fairy, the weather in the clear sky will change, the storm and the waves will come, and after the wind and waves are calm, Lao Zhang San will become a corpse and float to the shore, reminiscent of the scene when Xiao Zhang San was also pushed to the shore by the waves.

In fact, Xiao Zhang San's household registration name is not Zhang San, but Zhang Shisan, who is from Taoyuan Village, Jianye City, Donghai Prefecture, and was born on the 13th day of Wuyue in the 27th year of Jingtai.

But the next generation of Taoyuan Village happens to be three people, and people are used to calling him, and they often call him Xiao Zhang San.

Since the death of the old Zhang San, little Zhang San has really become the only Zhang San.