Chapter 1: Waking Up (I)
In the dream, the sword light and sword shadow, the cold blade touched the skin, and the blood splashed, a middle-aged woman struggled to kill the enemy, and the pursuit continued, and a look in the river condensed
Without telling him, he understood that this was a secret method, at the cost of burning his life, he could obtain the power of the more ordinary people, he fell into the water, he saw the last look of his mother, that was the consciousness of sacrificing his life for the child, and in an instant, his hatred for the woman in white could not be washed away even if he used the water of all the lakes and seas.
Zhang Xuanning sat up from the bed violently, his heart rolling and breathing heavily.
It took him a long time to breathe a sigh of relief: "It turned out to be a dream!"
It has been half a month since I was reborn from this world, and my body is only about fourteen years old, but around it is a simple room, a small room, just a few tables and chairs.
"Ah, it's almost dawn, get up quickly, or the boss will scold. ”
There was a similar boy on the bed who was awakened, and when he opened his eyes and saw that it was already dark outside, he quickly began to put on his clothes.
Seeing that he was still stunned, the young man couldn't help but say: "Don't get dressed yet, you are the sister-in-law rescued from the river, don't embarrass the sister-in-law, although the boss is good, but the boss lady likes to make trouble with her!"
This is an apprentice hired by Cui Han's boss, who is also a fourteen-year-old.
Zhang Xuanning woke up from the memories and gave up continuing to pursue the remnants of this body, and wanted to answer, but he didn't know where to start, and he got up and put on his clothes at the moment.
Out of the small room, they went to the guest hall outside, although the two of them got up very early, but there were already people outside, it was a young woman, if you look at it according to the modern age, she looked seventeen or eighteen years old, and she was a little beautiful in a coarse cloth dress, and she was already working.
"Hello sister-in-law!"
"Xiao Zhang, Xiao Cui is here, hurry up and get ready to open the door!" "Sister-in-law's mother's surname is He, and the money owed by the people in the city is only twenty taels of silver - the owner of this shop is Lao Feng, and the reason why she is willing to ask her is not only for the sake of her beauty, but also for the sake of her beauty, and also needs a helper who can rest assured.
After answering the call, he took off the coarse cloth, hurriedly wiped all the tables and chairs, and then put the buns he had prepared last night on the steamer one by one, lit a fire, and burned them.
Just as the fire was shining on the surface, the steam had already risen, and the smell of steamed buns began to waft out, and a voice came from inside, and then someone said with satisfaction: "Well, you're almost done?" ”
"Good morning, boss!" Zhang Xuanning didn't need to look at it to know that it was the boss and the boss lady who came out, and hurriedly stepped forward and wiped it on a table again, in fact, the table had been wiped very clean, but this could make the boss feel comfortable.
Then he picked up two bowls of rice porridge and a plate of pickles, which was the breakfast of Lao Feng and his wife, and the boss nodded with satisfaction, but the proprietress snorted.
In the first half of the month, if it wasn't for the fact that his sister-in-law saved him, he was a young man who was not yet fifteen years old, and she would have taken advantage of the topic a long time ago, although Zhang Xuanning worked very diligently, but she just didn't like it.
The smell of steamed buns slowly fills the room, diluting the inevitable smell of firewood fire.
"You can eat too, and you'll have to work later!" The boss said to his sister-in-law, men always like young and beautiful women, this concubine is very satisfying, and the eldest woman has no children for four years, and he still hopes that this concubine will give him a son: "Also, you guys drink porridge and open the door to do business!"
Sister-in-law Zhen answered, she opened a basket of freshly steamed buns and gave a cage to her husband, three of each of the eight bosses and the eldest wife, one for herself, and one for the two servants.
Of course, Zhang Xuanning and Cui Han were not qualified to eat on the table, and the two of them each ate half a bun, and then gobbled up a bowl of thin porridge to see that the boss's family had eaten almost it, and the two of them went up to clean up one obediently, and the other hurriedly opened the door.
As soon as the door opened, the commotion outside came in.
"The boss is open, come and come on with three steamed buns!" Although the sun has just come out, there are already familiar guests waiting.
"I want two cages too!"
"I'll come to the half-cage with a small amount of food, haha, Lao Feng, is there still a seat in it?"
"Oh, I married a concubine and invited someone, Lao Feng, you are really getting richer and richer, you want to have a treat today, you have a treat!" a middle-aged man walked over.
"Okay, what did Master Liu say, do you want you to pay for it? You came to add glory to me, come quickly, please come in, please come in!" Lao Feng greeted with a smile on his face at this time.
As soon as the door opened, the people outside poured inside, Lao Feng personally invited that Liu Ye to a table, Zhang Xuanning hurriedly stepped forward to wipe the table and chairs again, and then sent the three steamed buns to the table, and didn't even let that Liu Ye wait for half a moment: "Liu Ye, please use it." ”
"Well, I haven't seen this guy for a few days, it's not bad!" Liu Ye said casually.
"It was my little mother-in-law who rescued me from the river, and I didn't think that the work was quite neat!" Lao Feng was full of smiles, this Liu Ye couldn't be offended, and the store could make some money, all relying on him, if it wasn't for some relatives, how could there be such a good thing?
The other guests also came and went, and now the eldest woman only had to collect the money, and the others did nothing, and the other three were busy going around.
The buns here are a cage of eight, each cage is fifteen wen, three cages are forty-five wen, but if a single sale will cost one two pennies, the people who enter the store are eating the whole cage outside, the little sister Zhen holds a basket of steaming vegetable and meat buns and handed them to the front of the shop, seeing that the boss and the proprietress are busy inside, so she took two buns very quickly and stuffed them into the hand of Zhang Xuanning, who went out to help, and whispered: "Eat, I know you are not full, the porridge you eat is too thin." ”
Zhang Xuanning quickly grabbed a bun and stuffed it into his mouth, and said vaguely: "Sister-in-law, you are really a good person!"
He was indeed hungry, but it was a very busy job, and he had to get up and prepare every day until late at night before the sun came out.
After eating the two buns quickly, he went inside to help, and he also had a share in changing Cui Han out, Zhang Xuanning knew in his heart that if he ate alone, Cui Han would definitely tell the truth, which had nothing to do with anything else, and it was a matter of course.
casually answered again, picked up the two steamed buns and entered the store, glanced at Cui Han, Cui Han cheered softly, and hurriedly withdrew from the crowd to help outside, enjoying the two steamed buns he should also have.
They are all fourteen or fifteen years old, and they are growing up, of course, the food needs are very large, and the thin porridge cannot be satisfied at all.
The steamed buns are indeed delicious, and there are many customers, and it is not until after midnight that the crowd of people eating breakfast slowly disperses, and the boss and the hostess have counted their income for the day with satisfaction.
After the boss and the hostess had counted all the money, it was time to take a break.
It's almost noon, and although the steamed bun shop doesn't serve lunch, there are some people sitting and drinking tea, or a few people getting some steamed buns and wine, but these are all people who know each other nearby.
Since ancient times, this kind of location is similar to an inn, and it is the fastest place in the world where news spreads, and a few people who know at a glance that they run the dock or even resemble small gang members blow there: "Do you know? ”
"Hey, the second expedition of Goryeo, Lord Situ rebelled in June, so that Jinshang had to return to his master, and his success fell short! But I heard that he died in August last month!"
For ordinary people, these discussions are like listening to a story, but Zhang Xuanning listened attentively, and came here for half a month, he also knew that this was the Sui Dynasty, and if he heard it, he would know that it was September of the ninth year of the Great Cause, after all, the books were not read in vain for a few years on the hospital bed, not to mention that because he liked the biography of the Tang Dynasty, he also specially read the history of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
If you think correctly, this Lord Situ is Yang Xuangan, the family is noble, and there are many courtiers with his father's father, and the former officials see that the government is disordered, and the righteous army is scattered all over the country. Xuan sensed that he had an opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity, and on June 3, he led his troops to take the city and began to rebel, and died in Jialushu in early August.
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