Chapter 1 A cold wave is coming

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The Great Departure Dynasty.

February of the seventeenth year of the Yuan Dynasty.

Northern Border City.

In a dilapidated courtyard in the south of the city, a young man wields a firewood knife and chops a wooden stake.

He was slender, and after a few chops, he sweated like rain, threw away his knife and sat on the ground panting.

"No, this body is too weak! With such physical fitness, even if it is a saber, it can't kill a wild wolf. ”

The boy sighed.

His name is Mu Tianming, and a day ago, he traveled to this ancient world.

It's a game world called Ten Directions.

Dressed as an inconspicuous little person with the same name and surname.

About this game,He downloaded it by chance.,There's more than 900G.,After downloading,Just played all night.,When it's dark.,I'm tired and fall asleep.,Wake up and you're already here.。

From the plot of the game, it is known that three months later, there will be a super cold wave that will last for two years, during which the temperature will plummet to minus 40 degrees, and a large number of people will freeze to death due to lack of preparation for the cold.

Fortunately, he has a golden finger, which is an infinite carry-on space.

What Mu Tianming has to do is to take advantage of this information gap, prepare in advance, stock up on supplies, and survive in this cold wave.

But his family is poor, his parents are dead, he is a poor scholar who has no power to tie the chicken, and he only relies on the help of his neighbors' brothers and sisters-in-law to barely make ends meet.

To resist the super cold wave, you need to buy a lot of supplies, such as food, charcoal, cotton clothes, quilts, shoes, etc., and most importantly, you need to have a decent cold house.

The dilapidated house that I live in now is not good for leaking on all sides.

It all takes money.

So how to make money has become the main problem at present.

According to the gameplay in the early stage of the game, Mu Tianming knew that there was a cave in the mountain behind Lingshan Temple outside the city, where there was a "wild wolf", and if he killed it, he had a chance to drop items.

Mu Tianming didn't know whether the concept of "dropping" still existed in this world, and planned to take a firewood knife to give it a try.

After a morning of practice, I found that the physical fitness of my body was really poor, with thin arms and legs, and it was difficult to wield a firewood knife.

"Uncle, why don't you study? What are you doing when you practice chopping wood? ”

A graceful figure. A beautiful woman in a coarse cloth dress pushed the door in from the outside, holding a bowl of steaming white rice porridge and a white-flour steamed bun in her hand, looked at Mu Tianming with concerned eyes, and asked, "Are you tired of studying, are you moving your muscles?" ”

This woman is Mu Tianming's sister-in-law Li Qiao'er, who lives next door to Mu Tianming.

Li Qiaoer earns 50 yuan a day by doing manual work for large families, and seeing that Mu Tianming is living alone in poverty, he often sends some food or silver taels.

Her husband, Mu Tianming's brother Mu Dayuan, is an ordinary dart master who is not at home all year round.

Mu Tianming took the white rice porridge and steamed buns and ate them in a big gulp.

Li Qiao'er took out a piece of silver from her coat pocket, handed it over, and said: "Uncle, I have a piece of silver here, you can take it, tomorrow is the day when the Temple of Wensheng will open, you can go in and give it a try, in case you win, you will get a Dao fruit, just to make up for your body." ”

Mu Tianming chewed on the white steamed buns, looked at Yinzi and Li Qiao'er, and searched for information related to the "Wensheng Temple" in his memory.

It turned out that this Dali Dynasty enshrined two gods, the Martial Saint and the Wensheng. It's just that in recent years, the dynasty has been fighting with the northern barbarians for many years, the martial arts are prosperous, the martial saints have many disciples, and the literature and Taoism are declining.

Just a year ago, Wensheng appeared and set a rule that at a specific time every month, he would go to Wensheng Temple to worship, and he would have a chance to get a "Dao Fruit".

In addition to the traditional incense burning, the most important thing is to fill in a poem or article, and burn it together.

But to enter the Wensheng Temple, you need to pay a ticket, tattooed with one or two silver.

One tael is equivalent to 1,000 Wen in the Dali Dynasty, and with Li Qiaoer's income, she needs to work for 20 days to earn it.

"Take it, I'll try it tomorrow." Li Qiao'er handed over the silver.

"Thank you, sister-in-law."

Mu Tianming hesitated, but still took the silver.

Although the probability of this "Wensheng Manifestation" triggering the "Dao Fruit" is very low, and it is generally a stunning and gorgeous Huazhang, Mu Tianming plans to give it a try, because the "Dao Fruit" thing sounds very attractive.

According to rumors, this "Dao Fruit" is very beneficial when eaten, it can strengthen qi and blood and increase strength.

"Your house is leaking, the weather has been getting colder and colder recently, you study at night, if you can't stand it, come to your sister-in-law's house to warm up. I'll wait until I'm paid again, and I'll find someone to fix your house. ”

Li Qiaoer said again.

Mu Tianming finished eating the porridge in three or two bites, returned the bowl, and said, "Thank you, sister-in-law, sister-in-law has worked hard and has to rest more." ”

"I'm not hard. Being a female celebrity is also my interest. Li Qiao'er smiled, "When you become an official in the future, don't forget that we are." ”

She walked out of the yard with the bowl.

Mu Tianming fetched water from the well, burned a pot with firewood in the courtyard, and went to the house to wipe his body, which can be regarded as bathing and changing clothes, and preparing for going to Wensheng Temple to worship tomorrow.

The north wind was howling, and Mu Tianming lay on the cold wooden bed, wrapped in a torn quilt and fell asleep.

Because this winter is exceptionally cold, the price of charcoal has soared, from 300 wen 100 catties in autumn to 800 wen. Burning this thing is burning money, ordinary people have to keep the temperature in the house in winter, and they have to burn hundreds of catties, Mu Tianming must not be able to burn it.

Nothing was said all night.

Day 2.

Mu Tianming changed into a white robe and went out, bought two steamed buns in the morning market with 8 yuan, and then queued up in front of the Wensheng Temple in the east of the city.

Due to the decline of Wu Shengwen in recent years, the probability of triggering the "Dao Fruit" is very small, so the number of people in line is much less than in previous years.

Most of the people who can come are from well-to-do families.

There are the children of the powerful who ride in a carriage or sedan chair, the children of rich families in gorgeous clothes, and of course, there are also the children of poor families like Mu Tianming, who look poor, but have a look of hope and hope to try their luck.

After registering in front of the temple, he got a small wooden plaque, handed over a tael of silver, and Mu Tianming entered the temple with a license.

The ancient buildings in the temple are lined up one after another, and the blue-gray brick helmet and heavy eaves look solemn and solemn.

There are carvings of immortals riding on the ridge of the roof, and in order they are nine divine beasts such as immortals, dragons and phoenixes, lions, heavenly horses, seahorses, sinister beasts, fish, bullfights, etc.

Above the main hall of the temple, there is a ten-zhang high statue of Wensheng. The statue of Wen Sheng sat cross-legged, with the Qingping sword suspended behind him, and his expression was solemn.

Because the Dali Dynasty fought against the northern barbarians all the year round, even if it was Wen Sheng, he was also a sword wielder.

After taking incense and burning it, worship it.

Mu Tianming, like everyone else, entered the small cubicles in the main hall, just like the imperial examination, with desks and pen, ink, paper, and inkstones.

Worshippers write poems or articles on paper, write their names and dates on the inscriptions, seal them in brown paper bags, and then throw them into the incense burner in the room, and stand in the room, waiting for the "Tao fruit".

If the "Dao Fruit" appears, the eyes of the statue of the god of Wensheng will flicker with a faint light.

If you get the "Dao fruit", you need to take it on the spot in the cubicle.

But since a year ago, Xu Gongqing, the first genius in the border city, won a Dao fruit, no one has ever won it.

Mu Tianming, like everyone else, finished burning incense and entered a lattice marked "Qi".

When I went in, I saw a piece of paper on the table.

It reads: [Recently, the weather has been cold, and I will make poems or articles with the theme of cold]

Mu Tianming suddenly realized that this thing still has a proposition, it is almost like the imperial examination.

"Cold-themed ......"

Mu Tianming held the brush, groaned, and wrote on the paper:

Thousands of mountains and birds fly away, thousands of paths and people disappear, lonely boats, fishing alone in the cold river and snow.

Because according to memory, there are no these ancient poems in this world, so with the mentality of giving it a try, Mu Tianming wrote this poem "Jiang Xue" by Liu Zongyuan.

After writing, I picked it up and blew on the pen and ink.

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