Chapter 3 The Year of Age
This year was not a quiet year for the Ming Dynasty.
In the twentieth year of Chenghua, the second day of the first month of the first month was called the Beijing earthquake, and the sound was like thunder. Tianshou Mountain, Miyun, Juyongguan, Gubeikou area, the city wall pier platform post fort is incalculable, people have crushed the dead, ordered to allocate 2,000 soldiers of the Beijing camp to repair the eaves and piers of the Juyongguan building, and ordered the right attendant of the Ministry of Engineering Jia Jun to supervise the repair of the four tombs of Tianshou Mountain. At the same time, from Beijing to the big country, Xuanfu all roads were earthquaked, the bad city Guo Lushe, cracked the ground and gushed sand. Xuanfu ground crack. Sand gushes out of the water. Yongping Mansion, Liaodong and other places also shook, and the sound was like thunder. In May, Jiayin, seven earthquakes in Daizhou. In September, Fei County is sinking, two feet deep, three zhang longitudinal and horizontal.
In autumn, severe droughts occurred in Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan. In recent years, Shaanxi has suffered a severe drought year after year, and people who have died of starvation are all over the road. And Shanxi is also an uncountable number of people who died of starvation, fathers abandoned their sons, husbands sold their wives, and even the whole family cried and threw themselves into the river and died. The emperor ordered that he be exempted from taxes and grain, and 600,000 stones of grain were transported from Nanjing, Jiangxi and other places to Henan by water, and distributed to the three disaster areas.
And above the court, there is also a miasma, and Wan Guifei is favored, which leads to chaos among relatives. The emperor favored Buddhism and appointed Annihilator. A large number of virtuous people were either demoted, dismissed, or died, and it was difficult for them to have direct ministers. Especially after the demon monk Jixiao relied on the eunuch Liang Fang to deceive the emperor's trust, many social scoundrels and liars were able to sneak into the palace, and the important officials of the imperial court were also [***] to the extreme, and the people all said: "Papier-mâché three pavilion old, clay sculpture six books." "Devalue these moths of the court to worthlessness.
The Ming Dynasty can be described as internal and external troubles, in this environment, the business of the Xinglong Dart Bureau this year plummeted, and the natural disasters [***] together, the displaced people fled around, among which there were many bandits, which made the dart game face a severe test.
Fortunately, the Yang family does not completely rely on the dart game to make a living, after decades of operation, there are many industries under its name, but it will not face bankruptcy like those weak dart games.
Time flies, a year has passed in a blink of an eye, and today is the first birthday of Yang Pu's son. When the child is one year old, the ceremony of "period Yang" will be held, and "period Yang" is the folk custom of "grasping the week".
"Congratulations!"
"Please!
The Yang family did not post a treat, but close relatives and friends all came to congratulate him according to the usual rules, Yang Zhijian is quite famous in Daizhou, and there are many friends and in-laws.
But everyone knows that it is true to congratulate them, but their real thoughts are different. Some came to ask the Yang family for help, and some took this opportunity to pull business and contact feelings among everyone.
Yang Pu and his wife, Wang, thanked the many visitors one by one, and they were followed by a woman with a child in her arms.
The child is very handsome, his little face is tender, and people can't help but want to pinch it, and under the two faint little eyebrows is a pair of eyes that are as dark as the night and lively and smart, as if they can speak.
This child is the son of Yang Pu, and the woman is a nurse. From birth to the present, for a whole year, Wang has never held his biological son once, nor has he ever fed him once.
"Cousin, this is your son, he is really handsome, and when he grows up, he will definitely be your cousin again, you are a beautiful man. ”
A man in silver brocade stepped forward and teased Yang Pu's child, and then smiled at Yang Pu, he was Yang Pu's cousin Lu Fei.
After speaking, Lu Fei took out a white thread, tied a coin, and put it around the child's neck. This is called "hanging line", which is a custom practiced by elders and children when they first meet.
Lu Fei pinched the child's cheek again, but was pushed away by a small hand of the child, Lu Fei smiled and asked Yang Pu and his wife, "Cousin, cousin, has the child been named?"
"The child's name is Lianting, and he was given by his father. Yang Pu looked at his son, smiled slightly, and replied.
"Lotus Pavilion・・Yang Lotus Pavilion, good name!" Lu Fei praised. After speaking, he stretched out his hand and wanted to pinch the child's cheek, but saw the child raise his hands to cover his face, looking at him with a wary expression, and was stunned for a moment, only to see Lu Fei forcibly take the child's hand, pinch his cheek, and laugh: "Little nephew is so interesting." ”
Yang Pu also saw his son's movements and smiled happily. But when his wife, Wang, looked at the child, there was undisguised disgust in her eyes.
In fact, some people in the Yang family have long been privately discussed, saying that Yang Pu's son is a disaster star and an ominous person. Because he was born at the time of the state earthquake, and he has behaved completely differently from ordinary children since birth.
Since the birth of the child, Yang Pu has been much colder to the Wang family, all because when the child was born, she left her parents and children to escape alone, so that her husband, who originally loved her and spoiled her, had a gap in her heart.
But Wang didn't think much about it, she counted everything on the child, it was the child who brought bad luck, and it was the child who made her lose face in front of her husband and subordinates, so she didn't want to look at her child this year, because as long as she saw the child, she would recall that she was unbearable, and she regarded the child as a big stain on her life.
And Wang's attitude towards his son made Yang Pu's relationship with her even worse.
Seeing his son looking directly at his wife, Yang Pu turned his head to look at Wang, and when he saw his wife's disgusted eyes, his face suddenly became gloomy.
"Cousin, what's wrong with you?" Lu Fei asked when he noticed Yang Pu's strange appearance.
"No, it's okay!" Yang Pu didn't want outsiders to know about his family of three, his face was straight, he shook his head, and glanced at the Wang family.
Wang withdrew his gaze from the child when Lu Fei opened his mouth to ask, saw Yang Pu's dissatisfied eyes, snorted lightly, and then nodded to the visitor with a smile on his face.
Lu Fei is a smart person, seeing the expressions of Yang Pu and his wife, he guessed that the two might be in conflict, his face was embarrassed, and then he laughed and diverted the topic.
"Hah..."
But it was Yang Pu's son Yang Lianting who yawned, only to see the corners of his mouth pulled, and glanced at everyone with deep meaning, but this expression appeared on a child's face, but it was indescribably weird. Then he closed his eyes.
"Cousin, your son, he must be extraordinary!" Lu Fei saw the child's expression clearly.
Seeing his cousin praising his son, Yang Pu was also happy and immediately smiled.
Wang glanced at the child and grimaced.
At this moment, no one knew that there was an adult soul in this small body.
Yang Lianting is very sad, he does not belong to this era, or he does not belong to this world.
Right and wrong are just to speak more, and the troubles are all due to the strong head.
Yang Lianting was originally an entrepreneurial young man who had just graduated from college and walked out of society, just because he was brave on the way home by chance, and relied on his own hard work to save a woman from three men, a very beautiful woman. It was also from that night that he was in constant trouble, because he couldn't afford to mess with those three men, let alone fight them.
The three of them all have a great background and threatened to kill Yang Lianting. Since then, not only has the fledgling business been frustrated, but even the relatives and friends around him have been affected, and what makes Yang Lianting even more sad is that except for his parents and sister, everyone blames him and forces him to kneel down to the three of them to admit his mistakes.
"I'm not wrong!"
Yang Lianting flatly refused! But he also asked himself, was he wrong?
The situation became more and more serious later, and Yang Lianting smuggled away to a foreign country in order not to affect his family, but he never returned home. He was arrested, and he thought he would be sent back to China, but he didn't expect to be thrown into a laboratory and live a life as a guinea pig for three whole years. In the last "human brain networking" experiment, his brain was connected to millions of electrodes, which gave him a headache, which was also Yang Lianting's last consciousness before he fell into a coma.
When Yang Lianting woke up, she found that she had become a newborn baby, or a baby who was born in the earthquake and abandoned by her mother.
Yang Lianting wasn't sure whether he had encountered the legendary time travel or was living in the virtual world created by those madmen, but with what he knew and what he had heard in the laboratory, he knew that such a 100% realistic world was not at all something that could be created by the technology he originally had in the world he was in, otherwise why would those people do so many low-level experiments with him.
This world is the same as the Ming Dynasty in his mental memory, but it is slightly different, at least as far as he knows, it seems that in the official history, the Ming Dynasty has no dart game, and the Qing Dynasty has only existed since the middle of the Qing Dynasty.
"What a headache!"
Yang Lianting said in his abdomen, even if he could feel that this body was extraordinary, but the baby's brain capacity could not accommodate the huge memories he had implanted, so many of Yang Lianting's memories and knowledge were either forgotten or fragmented.
After eating longevity noodles at noon, the "period yang" ceremony begins.
Looking at the seals, scriptures of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, pens, ink, paper, inkstones, abacus, coins, account books, jewelry, flowers, rouge, food, toys, and a small gun on the big case.
"Which one is better?" Yang Lianting sat on the desk and hesitated for a while.
Lu Fei asked Yang Pu, "Cousin, which do you think your son will take?"
"I don't know. Yang Pu shrugged.
Lu Fei continued: "Then cousin, what do you want him to choose?"
"It doesn't matter what, as long as he's safe and grows up happy. Yang Pu replied.
Hearing this, Yang Lianting glanced at his biological father, and then casually picked up a copy of "Tao Te Ching".
At this time, someone suddenly shouted: "There is a fire in the backyard!"
There was a "whoosh", and suddenly there was a commotion.
Yang Lianting rolled his eyes, looked at the disgusted eyes of the woman when she glanced at her, picked up the "Tao Te Ching" and slapped it on the head, he knew that the name of the disaster star that everyone criticized in private had more evidence this time, and he was sad in the future.