Chapter 2 The City Gate Fires

The peaks and mountains are like gathering, the waves are like anger, and the mountains and rivers are on the surface of Tongguan Road. Looking at the western capital, he hesitated.

Sad, the Qin and Han dynasties, the palace and thousands of rooms have been made of soil. Xing, the people suffer; Death, the people suffer.

The person who spoke was the old man's neighbor, a woodcutter and a bachelor.

"Yesterday, when Lao Li called his forehead to see him, he was still unconscious, but he didn't expect to be able to go to the ground today. Baby, where are you from, and what's your name? ”

This time, Du Wu can't be sure anymore, he really crossed. In this case, finding his way home as soon as possible is the right way, and staying in this place where he doesn't know which dynasty it is, he can go crazy.

Seeing that Du Wu didn't speak, Lao Li spoke: "An old thing, don't ask him again, he is from Shandong, it should be Kunshan Shandong, right?" ”

"Two old men, what year is it?"

"It's the second year of Yuanshou." The woodcutter replied.

"No, which dynasty and which emperor am I asking?"

"Look at it, I said that this baby's brain case has entered the water, and I still don't believe it, he still asks which emperor, this is something that can be asked casually, and he will be killed." Lao Li put the bowl on the root table in the yard, sighed, stood up and said to the old man next door.

"It's the second year of Yuanshou, when today's son is the grandson of Emperor Yuan, his Ah Weng is a king, I don't remember what it's called, it's too long, and the old king can't remember. But I can tell you that I'm a big man now, isn't I from Shandong, why don't you even know what age it is, it's really a water in my brain. ”

Du Wu stood in the courtyard in a daze, silent, and his mind was in a mess. Han, it should be the Han Dynasty, Emperor Yuan, there seems to be an Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, and Wang Zhaojun was sent to the Western Regions during the period of Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, he is the grandfather of the current emperor, so it should be the Western Han Dynasty now, thinking of this, he asked Lao Li: "Is the capital Chang'an now?" ”

Before Lao Li could speak, Lao Wang was happy: "It's okay, there is finally something he knows." ”

Lying on a bed made of dry wood, leaves, and linen, Du Wu suffered from insomnia. Lao Li only has one bed at home, and Du Wu can't watch the old man sleep on the floor. said that it was a bed, but it was actually a couch, and there should have been a low couch, but Lao Li's family was so poor that they directly spread the futon on the ground. Du Wu sighed, and with the help of Lao Li, he simply made a floor shop in the firewood room. In fact, it doesn't matter where he sleeps, it's the bowl of porridge he ate at night, so that Du Wu almost didn't vomit, although he hasn't eaten for two days and urgently needs energy and calories, but he just can't do the courage and courage of Bei Ye. That bowl of porridge is fishy, which may have something to do with Lao Li being a fisherman. It's tasteless, it's like white noodles are thrown directly into the pot and stirred, no, it's black noodles! It's not something that people eat! What's even more unbearable is that there is no toilet paper to go to the toilet! Although Du Wu is not a very particular person, how can this kind of thing not be particular! When he finished going to the toilet, he was desperate to find that there was no toilet paper at all, and when he asked Lao Li, Lao Li was surprised and asked: "What is paper?" ”

After knowing that dry shit and leaves were used to wipe his buttocks, the first thing Du Wu did when he came out of the toilet was to run to the firewood room to take a bath, but he was scolded by Lao Li for being a bloody dog, which was a place to put firewood! But Du Wu is even more aggrieved, Lao Li's family has two houses, a living room and bedroom, and a firewood room, afraid that the firewood will be wet, and even cooking is in the yard, how can there be a bathroom? Wait, Du Wu seemed to suddenly remember something, and ran back to the house to take a look, yes, the portrait of the god on the shrine, it was really a portrait, and it was directly painted on the wall! At that moment, Du Wu wanted to scold his mother. I think that when my family was the poorest, my mother had to buy it on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, no, ask a stove king to come back, it is all the latest paper printing, and it only takes a dime, it will be pasted for a year, and it will be burned on the twenty-third day of the second year, but it is also a piece of paper, what is this!

Thinking of this, Du Wu wants to go home even more, he doesn't want to stay in the Han Dynasty, there is no computer here, no WiFi, no beer and crayfish, and no TV to watch, the old Li family is poor and doesn't even have a book, of course, even if there is, it is estimated that he can't understand it, it's all traditional characters, like ghost paintings, no, it seems that there is a book, this can be understood, but what if he understands it, he doesn't want to stay in this ghost place. Thinking about it, he fell asleep in such a daze.

The next morning, Du Wu was woken up by Lao Li's loud voice. He slept soundly, and suddenly a few words of Qin dialect sounded like thunder in his ears: Zhou Qin and Han, passed down from generation to generation, our faces face to the loess and our backs to the sky, the Yellow River in our dreams is clear, and we will go to Chang'an on the road to the sky...... He just wanted to get angry, and suddenly felt that this vast tone was completely different from the pop music he had heard before, so he couldn't help but stand up and listen there quietly, but before he heard a few words, he heard the old Wang next door, well, every time Du Wu thought of this title, he wanted to laugh, and yelled: "Howl every day, and let people not sleep, look at the chicken, start howling before dawn, every time the dog day says that he belongs to the tiger, that is also worthy of the genus......"

Du Wu laughed secretly, he felt that these two people were really interesting, they quarreled every day, and they couldn't do without anyone every day, which reminded him of the two old men in the comedy "A Family in the Northeast" he watched before, quarreling every day, and regretting chess when he played chess, and finally when Uncle Jin moved out of the community, Uncle Niu stalked his neck and said, you old thing, hurry up, save me here! When it was really time for Uncle Jin to leave, Uncle Niu stood behind him and saw him off, saying, you old thing is gone, who will accompany me to play chess! By the way, teach these two old men how to play chess, and you can count it as having fun for the two of them. Thinking of this, Du Wu got up and went to find the two old men.

Looking at the two old men with a bowl of paste, squatting beside him, watching how he drew the chessboard, Du Wu was pondering, didn't he say that chess was invented by Han Xin, why are these two old men still at a loss, haven't they spread to the people? It took Du Wu an hour to finally teach the two old men "The horse walks the Japanese character, like a flying field, the car takes a straight road, and the cannon climbs the mountain." The soldier walked the ramp to protect the general, and the pawn was gone. The two old men happily asked Du Wu for advice on how to play, and played until noon, and the two decided to make a delicious meal at noon, and then in the afternoon Lao Li took Du Wu to the county government to find the main book to do the township registration, and Lao Wang went to the mountains to chop wood and came back to do chess.

Today's lunch made the two old men eat with oily mouths, and the reason was that Du Wu cooked. In fact, Du Wu is not a chef, but he really can't eat the food cooked by Lao Li, Lao Wang is also an old bachelor, and the level of cooking is not very good, so Du Wu volunteered, two families and one family, Lao Li took out the grass carp caught in Weishui two days ago, and secretly stole a rabbit from Lao Wang's cage. When Du Wu was cooking rabbit meat in a clay pot, Lao Li was still being chased and killed by Lao Wang with a flat pole.

There is only salt and sesame oil, no thirteen spices, no cooking wine, no light soy sauce, no star anise and pepper, and no almighty old godmother. A boiled rabbit meat, a stewed fish, a plate of millet nests, at first the two old men were humble to each other, and when they ate the first bite of food, the two big bowls were swept away in an instant, leaving only Du Wu to take a bite of the nest head, staring at the two old men who took the nest head and brushing the bowl.

Beida Liushu Village is not too big a village, there are more than 100 households in the whole village, there is not even a private school, the children in the village go to school to go to the neighboring village Nanda Liushu Village, but everyone is very poor, there are few families who can afford to go to a private school, after Mr. Private School lowered the standard twice, there are finally more than a dozen students, and the majority of Nanda Liushu Village. The names of the two villages are derived from a large willow tree, which is said to be a small sapling from the Gaozu period, and has become a famous sacred tree for more than 200 years. During the reign of Emperor Jing, the imperial court's policy of recuperation and recuperation has been implemented for decades, a large number of people were born, and some people took a fancy to the place of the big willow tree, so they moved their families here, and slowly formed a village, and the county later took over logically, and established a complete administrative system. During the period of Emperor Cheng, there was a young man surnamed Li, Zhao Hede, who was out of the palace, was in distress, sacrificed his life to save him, was rewarded by Emperor Cheng, and was promoted to be a guard, and his family also took the opportunity to propose to the county, with the big willow tree as the boundary, the new Beida Willow Village was established, which is the origin of the village. It's a pity that Emperor Cheng died of illness later, Zhao Hede was forced to commit suicide, and Beida Liushu Village was implicated and gradually declined.

Lao Li chatted with Du Wu about the history of the village while driving the donkey cart, and he was probably a descendant of the young man surnamed Li, so he was very proud to talk about it. Today's lunch has completely bought the old man, so he volunteered to be a commentator, but Du Wu was in the mood to listen to this, and urged Lao Li all the way to the county office.

Beidaliu Village is about twenty or thirty miles away from the county government, and when Lao Li went to borrow a donkey cart, the family also said to him: Lao Li, go at this time, just drive the donkey's posture, and when it arrives, the main book is scattered! Lao Li Tou didn't reply and shook off a sentence: A melon and a horse, it's really the king of the stove who sweeps the yard, and he cares too much about things!

Sure enough, when Lao Li arrived shouting all the way, a small official was beating the big drum at the entrance of the county ya. The main book looked at Du Wu, who was dressed in fancy clothes - mainly hair, and said that he would come back tomorrow, and he would be scattered today. Lao Li may feel that he has lost face, or he may want Du Wu to leave a good impression on the master book, and he must take the master book home for dinner, and claim that it is an invincible delicacy in the world! The master couldn't help his repeated pleading, so he pretended to have a little impression of Lao Li and agreed, but he drove his own donkey cart, and he had to go home after eating.

The dinner was quite sumptuous, probably seeing that the main book came, Lao Wang took out a leg of mutton, and the other one he wanted to keep for the Dragon Boat Festival to worship his ancestors. Of course, Lao Li wanted to borrow the crowing rooster, and was so frightened by the mother-in-law of the donkey owner that he almost strangled the hen in his hand, and fished two fish in the Wei water while it was dark, and stole a little turnip and green onions when passing by other people's vegetable fields, and made a big table of meals. When cooking, Du Wu couldn't help but sigh, originally he thought that the Han Dynasty had no seasonings, but later realized that Lao Li was too poor, he passed by the pharmacy on the way back, and borrowed dozens of copper plates from Lao Li with half a month's coolie as collateral, that is, five baht money, and bought a little pepper, ginger, cinnamon, dogwood, etc., with the green onions stolen by Lao Li, a large table of fragrant meals was eaten by the master book and the two old men nodded frequently, and almost didn't swallow their tongues. With the strength of the wine, the master bookkeeper patted Du Wu on the shoulder and said, I will do your business early tomorrow morning, so that Lao Li will shout Qingguan vigorously, and even cook several bowls of muddy wine, that wine Du Wu has drunk, it is not as good as rice wine, and it is not as good as his favorite beer.

With the strength of the wine, Lao Li made a look at Lao Wang, Lao Wang took advantage of the situation to mention the matter of next year's conscription, the main book pretended to be deaf and dumb, and he was about to leave, Lao Li hurriedly pulled the main book, and asked Du Wu to teach him to play chess, Du Wu also wanted to have a good relationship with the main book, so he began to kill the main book with the main book 21 and 5. But before he could set up the first cannon, the master bookkeeper suddenly felt excited, said that there was something important, and he excused himself and left, which made Lao Wang say again and again that this meal was fed to the dog's stomach, but it was a pity for his leg of mutton. Du Wu also felt quite strange, but when he packed up the dishes and chopsticks and passed by the chessboard, and inadvertently saw the demarcation river, he was suddenly also a spirit, with four words written on it: Chu River Han Realm!