In March of the twelfth year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, Sichuan Cheng announced that the political envoy Silong'an Prefecture Shiquan County.

One hundred and twenty miles away in Zhaozhuang, east of the county, the sun is slanting in the west, Zhao Ran is holding a hoe in both hands, looking at the fields under the ridge, his forehead is full of sweat.

If it is a normalized crossing, then Zhao Ran may slap his hands and laugh to celebrate that he has won the jackpot. Being able to play a game of opening the golden finger to get ahead, and even change the dynasty, is the wish of every traverser.

But unfortunately, Zhao Ran could only wrap his linen coarse clothes around his waist, step on tattered straw sandals, and work hard in the fields shirtless. The Ming Dynasty is agriculture-oriented, as a farmer, we must abide by our duties, work hard at the bottom of the society, and contribute to the foundation of the dynasty, which is Zhao Ran's fate. But such a fate, how can Zhao Ran, as a traverser, accept it willingly?

Zhao Ran's body belonged to Zhao Sanlang, and to Zhao Ran's surprise, the two actually had the same name and surname, which couldn't help but make him reverie for a while, is the same name and surname also one of the necessary conditions for crossing?

Before last year, Zhao Sanlang's life was still very promising. His parents were frugal and frugal, so that San Lang could study in a private school in a neighboring village, and San Lang did not live up to his relatives' kindness and studied very well. But San Lang, who had great hopes of passing the Tong Sheng test, was crossed by Zhao Ran.

Zhao Sanlang, who was crossed, or Zhao Ran's studies after the crossing deteriorated. The reason is very simple, Zhao Sanlang not only left Zhao Ran with a body, but also gave away a qiē memory in his mind.

The dynasty is still called the Ming Dynasty, but it is not the Ming Dynasty that Zhao Ran knows, because there are still Xia Kingdom and Tubo in the west.

The era name is still Jiajing, but the emperor is not Zhu Houxi.

The government still governs the people, but it no longer has absolute authority.

Even Shiquan County, Silong'an Prefecture, the political envoy of Sichuan Province, is not sure if it is the first county of sericulture in the west between Qinling and Bashan.

Because there is a door in this world!

Zhao Ran probably knew that Daomen was the foundation and pillar of the dynasty, and the driving force behind the government's governance of the world. The reason why I say "probably" is because with Zhao Sanlang's qualifications, Zhao Ran can't understand the deeper "shady".

Zhao Ran vaguely knew that there seemed to be a true immortal in the Daomen, and the soaring clouds and flying swords in the novels of his previous life were not just legends. However, Zhao Ran has not seen it with his own eyes, but people say so - from this point of view, these things are still legends, but they are more reliable than in their previous lives.

However, Zhao Ran did see with his own eyes the appearance of the county lord, county officials, gentry and celebrities groveling in front of the Taoist priest, and that scene left a deep impression on him.

So Zhao Ran didn't want to go to school.

Being able to visit a famous teacher to seek immortal path is of course the first choice, for the traverser, this kind of strong desire does not need to be explained, but the opportunity to cultivate immortals is too slim for him.

Instead, even if you can't learn the Immortal Dao, if you want to gain a foothold in this world, joining the Dao Sect is obviously more promising than joining the government. For Zhao Ran, who had been in the government department for more than ten years in his previous life and was already a substantive department-level cadre, this choice was logical and did not need to be considered.

At the end of last year, Zhao Sanlang's parents both passed away due to illness, and the responsibility of filial piety inevitably fell on Zhao Ran, who occupied Sanlang's body and memory. Because of Ding Wei, Zhao Ran couldn't go back to school, so he could only go home honestly and keep his filial piety. The husband told him not to abandon his studies, but apparently Zhao Ran didn't take it to heart.

The incident that made Zhao Ran completely give up his studies was a grand legal event. The patriarch did not survive the age of seventy and passed away at the end of the year. The fourth uncle, who succeeded the patriarch, invited a few Taoist priests from Qinghe Temple and did seven days of rituals. Zhao Ran, who went to the fourth uncle's house to help, was literate and could count, so he listened to it in the account room. Hearing and witnessing more than ten baskets of fruits and vegetables, dozens of buckets of rice, seven live chickens and three sheep being sent to the Qinghe Temple, Zhao Ran did not sleep well for several nights.

Zhao Ran knew that the patriarch's family was very rich, but he knew how rich it was after witnessing it, you know, Zhao Ran had traveled over for more than half a year, and he hadn't eaten a piece of meat so far!

I heard that the patriarch was born as a fireworker in the Taoist Academy, and his huge net worth was saved in the Taoist Academy. After getting off the mountain gate, he was elected as the patriarch as soon as he returned to Zhaozhuang, and took over the position of patriarch within two years. Of course, with Zhao Sanlang's memory, I don't know what the fireworker layman does, but Zhao Ran is a traverser, and he doesn't need to think about it to understand that this identity is probably a handyman in the Daomen. Even handymen can mix so well, which shows the power of the Daomen.

When Shiguan Jiajing Tongbao was loaded into the car and pulled out of Zhao Zhuang, Zhao Ran finally stopped thinking about studying. He was thinking about how to squeeze through the door.

It's a pity that the family is poor and has no money to spare, if Zhao Ran is twenty miles away from home, he will definitely go hungry. If it weren't for the help of his neighbor Uncle Zhao, Zhao Ran might not even be able to survive this winter. Even the ancestral three acres of thin fields are not manipulated. In the foreseeable next half a year, Zhao Ran will still have to rely on Uncle Zhao to survive.

From another point of view, even if Zhao Ran still wants to study hard and raise a career, the situation at home will definitely not allow it.

Therefore, Zhao Ran's footprints are inseparable from Zhao Zhuang, and it is just wishful thinking to seek a way to join the Daomen. It's hard to even inquire about some news, the villagers of Zhuanghu are all poor families who have never seen the world, and Zhao Sanlang is not yet a dead ghost with broad knowledge.

Zhao Ran also considered borrowing some money from the new patriarch in the name of raising his career, so that he could "visit the famous mountain". But although the fourth uncle has the name of "uncle", he obviously has no consciousness of being a "relative". The fourth uncle agreed to lend Zhao Ran ten copper coins, or twelve taels of silver, but it must be pledged to Zhao Ran's ancestral three acres of land. To put it bluntly, the fourth uncle didn't think that Zhao Ran could afford to repay the money, and Zhao Ran himself felt that he couldn't afford to pay it back, so this loan was actually like selling the land.

Even if Zhao Ran is a traverser, he has to carefully weigh the matter of selling his net worth. The money that the fourth uncle agreed to lend can maintain Zhao Ran's livelihood for a period of time, if he sits at home, he can last for more than a year, and if he travels, he will have to consume it in half a year at most. This means that Zhao Ran is exchanging his life for half a year, and if he can't find a chance within half a year, Zhao Ran is likely to become starving and become a tragic traversal loser.

So Zhao Ran thought about the gains and losses for more than a month, and he hadn't made up his mind until now.

But since Zhao Ran revealed the idea of borrowing money to the fourth uncle, the shape shì has slowly become out of his control. The canal water for watering the fields was often cut off by the fourth uncle, so that Zhao Ran had to work hard to fetch water from the stream for irrigation; the fourth uncle's ploughing cattle and lambs would often be "lost" to Zhao Ran's fields and eat the seedlings in a leisurely manner; and the uncle Zhao's family, who helped him, was also threatened, and occasionally received the same treatment as Zhao Ran.

Zhao Ran was very angry, but he was deeply helpless. Not to mention the authority of the patriarch in the patriarchal society, just a few sturdy children and servants of the fourth uncle's family are not something that Zhao Ran and Uncle Zhao can afford to provoke, not to mention that Zhao Zhuang's three adult families are all tenants of the fourth uncle. When Zhao Ran was repeatedly angry, whenever he picked up the only broken kitchen knife at home, he would sigh and put it down after thinking about it for a long time. Sixteen years of school education and twelve years of civil service experience in his previous life made Zhao Ran naturally have the habit of carefully considering the consequences before doing things.

just implicated Uncle Zhao, which made Zhao Ran feel very guilty.

After finishing a day's work, Zhao Ran returned to his humble earthen house and erected wooden windows. The afterglow of the setting sun penetrated into the room, bringing some light to the dark room. Zhao Ran took a bowl of gruel that had been boiled yesterday with this bit of light, found two sweet potatoes in the ashes of the stove, thought about it, and put one back.

By the time he finished eating, the room was already dark, and Zhao Ran lay down on the bed, and the broken wooden planks creaked several times. He put his hands behind his head and looked at the night sky quietly through the wooden window.

A crescent moon hung on the branches of the old apricot tree in the courtyard at some point, and the stars in the sky reflected the dark distant mountains more deeply. Occasionally, unknown mountain birds cry crisply, accompanied by sporadic frog chirping, which is an idyllic scene.

If it weren't for the bursts of hunger in his abdomen, Zhao Ran might have made some sour water at this time and silently recited a few pastoral chapters of the Tao family. It's just that this hunger is really powerless, and Zhao Ran has no heart to think about art at all. All he could think of was the question: to borrow this money, or not to borrow?

If you borrow it, will you be able to find a chance to enter the Taoist Gate? There are Taoist temples all over the world, but it is extremely difficult to become a Taoist priest. If the Daomen insist on not accepting themselves, this possibility accounts for ninety percent, or should it be said that nine out of nine, then what should they do? How can they infiltrate the Daomen? Don't look at themselves as traversers, but the "ancients" of this world are not fools, why can the vast majority of people not be able to take this path, and they can find a way to wade through? Will they use the knowledge before the crossing? Will they be considered evil and suppressed by the Daomen?

If you don't borrow it, how can you survive under the persecution of the patriarch? The key is how to make up enough to entangle? Zhao Ran has never seen a pie in the sky, and he doesn't believe that there will be such a good thing.

Zhao Ran is not an indigenous, and his desire for land is not as strong as that of farmers who have cultivated for generations, and frankly speaking, he will never let him really be a farmer who plows in the land. At the same time, he was also thinking about whether to simply sell his land and sell goods to make a living, and then look for opportunities in the process of business, which is also a way out. But in this way, his identity has become a businessman, and the world also despises businessmen, Zhao Ran wants to join the Daomen not just for the identity of a fireworker layman, will the businessman's background hinder his inward expansion in the Daomen? Zhao Ran felt that it was very likely.

Thinking about it, he couldn't help but smile to himself, he didn't even touch the threshold of the Daomen, and he was fantasizing about the future exhibition, isn't it a bit too unrealistic?

Anyway, Zhao Ran finally decided to sell the property directly to the fourth uncle, in this case, the asking price can be higher. As for livelihoods, he was reluctant to think about them. Even if he starves to death, he can't sit in Zhaozhuang!

Behind this decision, it cannot but be said that there is a certain fluke psychology in it - Zhao Ran feels that since he is a traverser, he should enjoy the aura of the protagonist of a certain Cheng dù, if he really starves to death in the middle way, then ...... Zhao Ran couldn't help asking: Author, do you plan to end this book with only one chapter?

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