Chapter 1: The Shen Prodigy

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If I were an ordinary peasant, living an ordinary life in the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms, there was an ordinary hoe wielding me, planting ordinary land, struggling against the harsh natural environment, and beware of the attacks of warlords from all walks of life.

In the distance, there was an army's horses' hooves from far to near, and everyone squatted down with their heads in fear, I only hope that the army we met was Liu Yuanjun's military horse.

β€”β€”From a netizen at station B, eat Bingbing's meow sauce.

In the fourth year of the first peace, in the autumn of 193 AD, Cao Cao raised troops to attack Tao Qian on the grounds of avenging his father, and Yuan Shao sent Zhu Lingdu to help the three battalions.

After Cao's army entered Xuzhou, he successively conquered more than ten cities, and Cao Jiang conquered Guangwei and went along Surabaya to Pengcheng. The forward Cao Ren attacked Tao Qian's general Lu You, and after breaking the enemy, he joined forces with Cao Cao.

Xuzhou Mu Taoqian led the army to meet Cao's army in Pengcheng, but suffered a great defeat, so he had to flee from Pengcheng and retire to Tancheng in the East China Sea.

Cao Jun took the opportunity to break through Pengcheng, Fuyang, Wuyuan and other places.

At that time, the displaced people from all over the country were attached to Tao Qian, mostly in Pengcheng, and when they met Cao Cao's army, they were all killed. People were driven to the Surabaya River and drowned, and the bodies blocked the river so that it could not flow.

In the spring of the second year, Cao Cao attacked again, stationed troops in Pengcheng, eyeing Xuzhou, and threatened to kill Tao Qian to avenge his father.

At the same time, the Langya Zhuge clan also began to migrate south.

Zhuge Xuanchu was Liu Biao's subordinate official, and was ordered by Liu Biao to send an envoy to the Han Ting to convey the general situation of Jingzhou, but before leaving, he learned that his cousin Zhuge Jue had died of illness, so he asked Liu Biao to go to Mount Tai to take care of Zhuge Gui's future affairs after completing the mission.

Liu Biao granted his request, and after the mission to Chang'an was over, he rushed all the way to Xuzhou to take care of Zhuge Gui's widow and children.

At that time, communication was inconvenient, and Zhuge Jue died of illness at the end of the sixth year of Zhongping, that is, in 189 AD.

And Zhuge Xuan learned the news in the third year, he sent an envoy to Chang'an, first returned to Jingzhou to report to Liu Biao, and then returned to Xuzhou Langya State, traveling thousands of kilometers, until the fourth year of Chuping did not arrive in Xuzhou.

Unexpectedly, after Zhuge Xuan returned to Xuzhou, it happened that Cao Cao sent troops to conquer Tao Qian, in order to avoid the disaster of war, he took Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Jun and two nieces, and scattered with Zhuge Jin to Jiangdong, and fled all the way south to the direction of the Lujiang River.

So in the first year of Xingping, in the spring of 194 AD, thirteen-year-old Zhuge Liang began to move south with his uncle Zhuge Xuan.

Xiangben County is located about 50 miles northwest of Xiangben County, separated by Yishui.

The desolate early spring is still with a slight chill, the withered yellow earth is gradually rejuvenating, the dense branches and leaves of the mountains and forests are leafy, the endless fields have been harvested last year's wheat, and the villagers are busy in the fields and begin to plant this year's new millet.

In the northeast of Xiangben County, close to Yishui, there is a village at the foot of Huangmen Pavilion, Yumai Huangshan in the north of Tingbei.

The village of the Han Dynasty is not called a certain village, but called a certain and so ju, this place is called Zhangyang Ju, because it is located in the south of Zhangshan and gets its name, the name of the mountain is called the layer of the mountain in the future, and it is already very close to Yan County.

There are two surnames mainly inhabited by Jinyangju, one is Xinye Deng, in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Deng family was very favored, and the family was extremely prosperous, represented by Deng Yu, Deng Chen, and Deng Han. The cumulative number of princes is very large, 2 dukes, 13 generals, 29 marquis, and there is no one on the right in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

But this situation changed after the death of the Empress Dowager Deng, when Emperor An was in power, the eunuch Jiang Jing and others snare the charges, and framed the Deng family for obstructing Emperor An's government, and Emperor An abolished Deng Hong and other children surnamed Deng as concubines, in order to protect the Deng family, the clansmen moved out of Kyoto and their hometowns, and scattered all over the country.

The other is the Gushi Shen family, the Shen family originated from the surname Ji, the son of King Wen of the Western Zhou Dynasty Ji Zai in Shen, the ancient city in the north of Pingyu, Henan in later generations. Later, the Shen State was destroyed, and hundreds of years later, the Shen Ziguo was established in the southeast of Gushi and the northwest of Ruyin, and the address was in Fuyang, Anhui Province, and the area of Linquan in the later generations.

Later, due to the Warring States Period, the end of the Qin Dynasty, the end of the Western Han Dynasty and many other wars, the Gushi Shen family began to migrate to the southeast to avoid the disaster of war, most of them went to Yangzhou, Xuzhou and other places, one of them went to Xiangben County, the East China Sea State, the clansmen are about hundreds, and they live here for generations.

Speaking of which, the Shen family moved here earlier than the Deng family, but the Deng family has been a prominent family for generations, so it has gradually become the leader of the local people, among which the elders of Huangmenting Township are all served by the Deng family, and the surrounding tens of thousands of acres of land are also faintly accumulated by the Deng family as a manor.

Deng Shen lived together in Zhangyang, intermarried with each other, and the people in the surrounding township pavilions were mostly headed by Deng Shen, so although Deng Shen's second family could not be said to belong to the family in Xuzhou, at least it was quite prestigious in Xiangben County.

Maybe in a few years, the surrounding fields will be expanded, and maybe the Deng family can also be regarded as a strong man.

However, since the spring of this year, the prodigy of the Shen family began to go crazy for some reason, and repeatedly begged the elders of the Deng and Shen clans to give up their land and move south to Jingzhou, and said that the world will be in turmoil in the future, and only Jingzhou is a short-term paradise.

Although Shen Chen is indeed smart, he is only eight years old this year, and his speech and demeanor are no different from those of adults, but how can such a thing as family relocation follow the views of a child?

Therefore, this matter is just a nonsense remark by the clansmen as a prodigy, no one takes it to heart, and even some people often say that the prodigy has not been in the past few years, so he has gradually become insane.

Only Shen Chen himself, seeing that the villagers were indifferent, became increasingly bored.

On March 16, late spring, when the news of Cao Cao's troops in Pengcheng came from the merchants who came and went, Shen Chen completely fell into a restless mood.

Cao Cao is coming to slaughter Xuzhou this year, men, women, children, chickens and dogs are not left, how can people feel at ease?

After he came out of the house after breakfast, the whole person walked around the house with a heavy face, the son of the neighbor next door was only twelve years old, and he had already become a family laborer, and he went out with a hoe to see him walking outside the house, and said with a smile: "Ah Chen, don't go to cut pigweed, you are still hanging out, be careful that you Ah Weng beats you." ”

"Ignorance!"

Shen Chen scolded: "What do the villagers know, when the catastrophe comes, they don't know that the time of death has come, and when Cao Cao comes, the entire county will be slaughtered by him!" ”

"I'm starting to go crazy again."

The neighbor's son shook his head and left, Shen Chen used to be the pride of their children, and everyone was willing to listen to him, but in the past two months, he has become the laughing stock of the villagers.

Only Shen Chen was even more anxious, and walked quickly towards a high-gate compound in the village.

Knowing that Shen Chen was here again, Deng Hong thought about it and let him in, everyone is a relative, Shen Chen's mother Deng Daughter is Deng Hong's niece, Shen Chen has to call him a sixth uncle, it is really not good to turn him away.

After passing through the vestibule, he passed the hall to the atrium, Deng Hong was already waiting for him under the atrium corridor, and when he saw him coming, he beckoned: "Ah Chen, come and sit down." ”

"Sixth Uncle Ancestor!"

Shen Chen respectfully went up and bowed.

In fact, Deng Hong is not very old, only twenty-six years old, and belongs to the family of the Deng clan.

It's just that the old saying is good, there are elders in the house, although Deng Hong is not very old, his seniority is very high, so at present, more than 40 Deng clan people in this area of Zhangyang are led by him.

After Shen Chen saluted, Deng Hong beckoned him to come and sit down, touched his head and said, "Ah Chen, come here today, what's the matter?" ”

Shen Chen said seriously: "Sixth Uncle Ancestor, I will open the discussion of the second clan of Deng and Shen. ”

Deng Hong's face changed slightly: "How can you be an eight-year-old child who can open such a big matter as you say it?" ”

"So I asked the Sixth Uncle Ancestor to come forward!"

Shen Chen looked at him with blazing eyes and said, "This matter is related to the lives of the Deng and Shen clans and the surrounding people, more than 300 households and thousands of families, and I also ask the sixth uncle to listen carefully to what I say." ”

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