Chapter 2 - Cherish the fate of this life

When you face death, you realize that this is the most fearful thing, and there is no one. When we can face death calmly, it is also a time for us to burst into courage.

When we can be like outsiders, watching our living flesh perish and be indifferent, then perhaps this is the true sense of decisive death.

When Zhang Feng woke up again, he found himself lying in a warm environment, soaked in an unknown liquid, and he didn't know where he was, but he could hear the sounds and movements around him.

In this way, Zhang Feng spent a long time, with all five senses, but he couldn't move at will.

Until one day, with bursts of women's screams of pain, Zhang Feng found that he could move, breathe air, and feel different temperatures, and he looked at everything around him in amazement.

At this time, he was being held in the arms of a strong woman, and he heard the woman holding him talking to someone else.

"Master Meng, look at this child, he just cried when he was born, but now he is not timid at all, and his eyes are also very bright, he must be a person with great prospects in the future. ”

The man known as 'Master Meng' said: "It doesn't matter whether he has a good life or not, as long as he can grow up healthily and become an upright and kind child, I only hope that in the future he can become a humble gentleman, a person who is useful to the people and the family." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Feng was already sleepy and couldn't help himself, so he simply closed his eyes and fell asleep.

When Zhang Feng woke up again, he checked it repeatedly, only to find that he had indeed become a baby. A baby who cries or talks is just babbling. He had no choice but to give up the original idea of finding out and accept this helpless reality.

He looked around and saw that the people around him were wearing long robes, the women were wearing all kinds of buns, the men had long hair and beards under their chins, and the furniture in the house was antique.

It's just that Zhang Feng doesn't understand what happened to him, whether he has been reincarnated as a human being, or has he traveled to ancient times. When will the answer to this question be understood? Zhang Feng has been silently entangled in his heart.

Now that you've come back to life, let's live well.

After experiencing the shadow of death, we will cherish our current life and the meaning of existence even more.

Forget those who have passed the past, cut off those memories and let the past dissipate with the wind.

The rest of your life is very long, don't panic too much, just be yourself, just be fine.

In this way, the memories that once seemed to not exist in the world were all sealed with this thought, and perhaps, they would not appear in their lifetimes.

Spring goes to autumn, and spring comes.

In a flash, a year has passed.

Today, the Meng Mansion in Lin'an County, Hangzhou Prefecture, held a birthday banquet for their eldest young master. Meng Hao, the owner of the Meng Mansion, is now the governor of Lin'an County, so there are many people who come to say goodbye and send congratulatory gifts.

Meng Hao, that is, Zhang Feng's father in this life.

Meng Ran, that is, Zhang Feng's name in this life.

Soon after the wedding banquet began, Meng Hao ordered someone to set up the objects used to catch Zhou, and then asked people to go to the back hall to hug Meng Ran over.

When Meng Ran came to the banquet hall, he found that the table arranged for Zhou was already full of things, including rulers, brushes, books, seals, short swords, small hammers, short knives, and so on.

Meng Ran has been thinking about what he should catch later, in order to win the favor of his parents and surprise the visitors. After thinking about it for a long time, Meng Ran still didn't get anything, because he didn't understand this world, even if he had been in this world for more than a year. He still doesn't understand what the world expects of a young person, nor does he understand what his family expects of a child. However, what he understood was that his father wanted him to be an upright person, but his father never told him what kind of upright person he wanted to be, such as being an official, such as doing business, or whatever.

So when his father carried him to the table, he hesitated for a moment, not knowing what to choose.

In the end, in the eyes of everyone, he finally made a decision, and he grabbed the short sword in one hand and a book in the other.

Until this time, bursts of joy sounded in the surrounding crowd. Everyone said, congratulations to Lord Meng for having a good son, and now that this kid has grabbed books and short swords, he must be a person with great achievements in the future.

The flattery of everyone was in his ears and echoed in Meng Hao's ears. Meng Hao couldn't help but stroke his short beard under his chin, full of joy. However, Meng Hao did not forget to restrain his expression under his pride, and hurriedly hugged his fists and said to the people around him: "Thank you for your support, thank you for your support, today's thin wine and thin dishes, please have fun." ”

After that, he ordered someone to carry Meng Ran back to the back hall, and he sat in the front hall to continue to entertain guests.

The day after the banquet, Meng Hao instructed his old servant to count the gift lists, return those expensive gifts that exceeded the scope of ordinary congratulations to those who came to congratulate them one by one, and attach his own message.

"It is already Meng's honor for you to come to Meng's Mansion and congratulate the dogs, how dare you accept your gifts again and let everyone break the bank. As the leader of a government, how could Meng Moutian set up a wedding banquet to collect personal gains; Meng Moutian, as the honor of a government, should be honest and honest, how could he harm the interests of the people. Therefore, I hope you will understand, and of course, thank you again. ”

Afterwards, people with a heart knew about it, and it was rumored that Lord Meng was really well-organized, and only received some simple and cheap congratulatory gifts, and all the expensive gifts were returned.

For a time, the praise of the Meng Mansion came in a flood of praise, and all the people who received the gifts from the Meng Mansion felt honored, and those who received the gifts were not ashamed. In this way, the wind of Mengfu spread all over Lin'an County at once, and even some rumors spread to Yangzhou Mansion.

Meng Hao doesn't care about this, he is just busy with his office every day, and he looks at his son in his spare time, so he has a happy home.

Meng Ran has lived in such a warm and happy family for a long time.

The afterglow of the setting sun dissipates, the birds return to their nests, and the night breeze fills the sleeves.

Just like countless days in the past, when this evening came, the Meng Mansion was the same as usual, and nothing changed.

When Meng Hao returned to the mansion from the office, he heard a familiar cry, and his cheeks, which were tired from political affairs, were ironed a little flat by this cry, and there was a sense of relief between his eyebrows.

"This stinky boy is making trouble again. Meng Hao, who had his hands behind his back, said to himself, but the smile in the corner of his eyes couldn't be hidden.

The arrival of this child made the originally peaceful family of Meng Mansion add a lot of laughter, and the arrival of this child made the originally serious Meng Hao smile a little more.

Meng Hao, who is already thirty years old, had no children before Meng Ran was born, and his parents died early, and no one nagged in his ear that 'there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is the greatest', and as for the neighbors, they have no intention of talking about the unspeakable pain of other people's homes.

However, Mrs. Meng has been persuading her husband to take a concubine, but Meng Hao has always disagreed, thinking that children are fate in their previous lives, and whether they can get it or not, it is all natural and cannot be forced. After a few times of persuasion, Mrs. Meng stopped mentioning it.

I remember that it was the same night as usual, and Mrs. Meng dreamed that a fire fell from the sky and went straight into her belly. After that, within a month, she became pregnant.

Later, after Meng Hao heard about this strange dream, he said to his wife with a smile: "That is, the so-called 'so-called heavenly one, who says that it is natural things and has no winner', so it is called 'Ran', so he gave the name 'Meng Ran', which also happened to respond to that fire." ”

After that, it naturally speaks for itself.

conceived in October, and Meng Ran came.

Autumn goes to spring, and autumn comes.

Children are the fastest growing thing in the world, just like Meng Ran. In a blink of an eye, Meng Ran was already four years old, and he ran around behind his mother every day, although he didn't know what he was busy with, but he could accompany his parents, which was already the greatest comfort to Meng Hao and his wife.

This child is also sensible, when his parents are busy, he sits alone on the steps of the courtyard, quietly looking at the flowers and plants in the yard, or the sky, and does not say much, nor does he run around, never bothering Meng Hao and his wife.

It's just that this kid is very interested in the outside world, every time Meng Hao has free time, he always asks questions around Meng Hao, and occasionally asks one or two quirky questions, which makes Meng Hao scratch his ears and cheeks, if Meng Hao really can't answer, he won't ask anymore.

Although Meng Ran is younger than the children in the neighborhood, he is precocious and makes people suspect that he is the oldest. Whenever a child invited Meng Ran to climb trees and fish together, he always refused, and when others asked him why, he always said that his father and mother would worry about him. After a long time, there are no children to play with him, everyone thinks he is quiet, and he doesn't play with everyone.

Even so, Meng Ran never ran around by himself, he always sat there quietly, looking at the things around him in a daze, sometimes facing the sky, sometimes facing the grass, sometimes facing the river.

The crops in the fields were harvested and stubble, the trees grew round after round, and the weeds of the wasteland turned green and yellow. Life grows and dies, and so do trees and beasts, and so do people.

In the summer when Meng Ran was five years old, one evening, his father Meng Hao came home from the government office and told him: "Ran'er, you are not young anymore, I will find you a Mr. Enlightenment in a few days, you prepare yourself, don't be lazy." ”

"Okay, father, Ran'er must study hard, so that he can be a good official like his father in the future. Meng Ran held his head high and said seriously.

Meng Hao stroked his beard under his chin with relief, and said slowly: "Haha, my son has ambitions, but what will you do in the future, my father doesn't want to interfere more." My Meng clan is scarce, and although it is a scholarly family, it will not require children and grandchildren to be officials. As long as you don't insult my Meng family style, it doesn't matter what you do. ”

"Well, the boy got it. Meng Ran replied respectfully.