The spring sun pierced through the clouds and hung high in the sky. Under the sunlight, the earth showed a lively scene.
The green grass was lush, the peach red willow green, and the bright and fresh air was filled with an intoxicating fragrance.
Zhao Zhen walked out of the cave that faced south. He stood in the underground courtyard and glanced at the sun in the sky. He pulled a futon and sat in the courtyard to bask in the warmth.
The orioles on the Chinese toon tree chirped faintly, their voices clear and melodious.
Zhao Zhen looked up and saw a lush green Chinese toon tree growing on the cliff's edge. A yellow oriole nest had been built on top of it.
In the nest, there were three little orioles with their mouths wide open, waiting for their mother to bring back the bugs to feed them.
Every time the old oriole fed the little oriole an insect, it would perch on the branch and cry out a few times. Was it to comfort the child? Or to tell them not to forget the hardships of raising their parents…
Zhao Zhen's eyes were filled with tears. He retracted his gaze from the Chinese toon tree and looked around the underground courtyard.
Dikengyuan was a unique residential house in Baihe County, Huazhou. A square pit more than ten meters deep was dug down from the flat ground, leaving a gentle slope as a door to connect with the outside world. Then, caves were dug around the pit. After the cave was completed, it became an ideal living room.
The cave of the underground courtyard was warm in winter and cool in summer. Its history could be traced back to ancient times.
Zhao Zhen's family was the lowest class of tenant farmers in the Northern Song Dynasty. The clean and spacious underground courtyard was rented by Wei Wei's family, a councilor of Qingyang Village. The rental fee was not paid in cash. It was only deducted from the grain after the annual harvest.
The underground pit courtyard was full of vitality, accompanied by the Chinese toon tree, yellow oriole birds, and the sun's rays that were formed by red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple colors. Amidst the vitality, the life elements in Zhao Zhen's body were activated.
After opening up his Conception and Governor Meridians, Zhao Zhen, whose soul had transmigrated into this world, felt full of energy and endless strength.
This was a strange phenomenon, so strange that Zhao Zhen found it hard to believe.
In the modern world of the space-time rift, Zhao Zhen was a university student who had just graduated and had been practicing martial arts since he was young. After transmigrating to the Song Dynasty and becoming the son of a floating tenant farmer, his internal strength had increased by several times.
The sunlight in spring was not as intense as summer, not as cold as winter, nor was it as lethargic as autumn. Instead, it was like a galloping energy machine. The 16-year-old Zhao Zhen felt his entire body filled with strength, and he had the desire to lift the Thousand Gold Cauldron like the overlord of the Western Chu Kingdom.
Zhao Zhen turned his head in a big circle in the Colang Pavilion in satisfaction. He looked up into the sky and saw the golden light of the sun immediately shooting over.
He quickly closed his numb eyes and said," The heavens had bestowed upon them a space-time rift. The suns on the other side of the rift were as precious as the suns on the other side, but they were two completely different worlds…
"Duoduo!" His mother's voice came from the kitchen cave.
Zhao Zhen turned his head and saw his mother rushing out of the kitchen cave that was facing east like a whirlwind.
"Toto! Mother made a bowl of soup for you. My child drank it while it was hot to force out the cold in his body!”His mother was like a paperboy on the streets of the Republic of China, shouting as she walked, her voice full of love for her son.
" Duoduo " was Zhao Zhen's nickname. His mother shouted loudly and the wind kept blowing. The grass scraps scattered on the ground were frightened and flew in all directions.
Zhao Zhen was amazed by his mother's " whirlwind kick ". He saw that her left hand was holding a fish-shaped plate with some turnip vegetables on it. In his right hand was a large white porcelain bowl filled with a bowl of noodles.
The dough paste was very thick. It was no different from the stir-fried dough that Zhao Zhen had eaten in the modern world through the space-time rift. The people of Qingyang Village called it paste soup.
Qingyang Village belonged to Yongxing Military Road, Huazhou, Baihe County, Wusheng Township, and Qianwei Li in the Northern Song Dynasty. There were more than 500 main customers and a population of more than 4000.
Since the Northern Song Dynasty, a large village with more than 4000 people was very rare. Of the 4000 people living in Qingyang Village, 70% were tenant farmers who came from other places.
Just from this point alone, it was not difficult to see how turbulent the society of the late Northern Song Dynasty was.
Zhao Ji, King Duan, had been emperor for ten years. He put Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Zhu Wei, Wang Fu, Liang Shicheng, and Li Yan in important positions. The bankrupt farmers grew like weeds.
The bankrupt farmers gave birth to the Song Jiang and Fang La uprisings. After Song Jiang was recruited by the court, his subordinate Shi Bin was sent to the northwest to resist the Western Xia, but the court officials despised this " traitor."
Song Jiang was killed by the emperor after he was recruited. Shi Bin hated Song Ting and the officials. He once again revolted and used Shaohua Mountain as a base to form a loyal army to kill the rich and help the poor.
Cai Jing, Tong Guan sent troops to encircle and suppress, Shi Bin led the loyal army to appear and disappear mysteriously, killing the officers and soldiers, throwing away their armor and helmets, fleeing in panic.
Shi Bin's loyal army persisted until the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty and the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty. It was written by the novelist Shi Naian into the Water Margins as Shi Jin.
Shi Jin was ranked 23rd among the 108 heroes in Liangshan Lake, and the Horse Army's Eight Tiger Cavalry and Vanguard Envoy was ranked seventh.
His master was Wang Jin, the instructor of the 800,000 imperial guards in Tokyo. Because of the nine green dragons tattooed on his body, he was known as "Shi Jin, the nine-striped dragon".
In the Northern Song Dynasty, rural hukou was divided into five classes. Floating tenant farmers belonged to the fourth and fifth classes. They were called customers and also called floating tenants, which meant that they were vagrants in the countryside.
The fourth and fifth class families regarded the soup as a "top-grade delicacy", which could only be enjoyed by those who were weak or sick.
Zhao Zhen's mother did not have a name, only a surname. She was known as Zhao Liushi and was 32 years old at the time.
However, last night, Zhao Zhen heard his father call his mother Xiao Cui. So, his mother's name was Xiao Cui?
The 32-year-old Zhao Liushi could only be Zhao Zhen's older sister in the modern world of the space-time rift, but now that Zhao Zhen had become a 16-year-old teenager, Zhao Liushi had no choice but to be his mother.
Zhao Xi, the seventh emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, was 25 years old. The Empress of Emperor Shenzong, Xiang, strongly advocated that Zhao Xi's half-brother, King Duan, Zhao Ji, should be the emperor.
Prime Minister Zhang Dun strongly opposed it, saying that King Duan was frivolous and unfit to be the emperor. If he became the ruler of a country, it was only a matter of time before the country perished.
The Empress Dowager reprimanded Zhang Dun for his heresy and drove him out of the court. The "Yuanyou Party Struggle" was pushed to a new stage.
Empress Dowager Xiang and her mother-in-law, Empress Dowager Gao, opposed Wang Anshi's Xining reform. During the period when the two women held power behind the curtain, the Xining party members who supported the reform were destroyed.
After the Yuanyou Party dominated the world, they formed the Shuo Party led by Sima Guang, the Luo Party led by Cheng Yi, and the Shu Party led by Su Shi.
Party struggles were rampant, but the peasant uprising was surging. The social chaos in the late Northern Song Dynasty was out of control.
Under the protection of Empress Dowager Xiang, Zhao Ji became the eighth emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty. His temple name was Huizong, and he was known as Emperor Daojun and Taishang Emperor Daojun.
On the day that Zhao Ji ascended the throne, Zhao Liushi, the wife of Zhao Shiniu, a tenant farmer, gave birth to a baby boy. The wandering Taoist priest named him Yuan, also known as Hongyi, and his nickname was Duoduo.
Hongyi comes from the Analects of Confucius. "Taibo" said: scholars can not be ambitious, heavy responsibilities and a long way to go. In layman's terms, Hongyi meant ambitious and strong-willed.
When Zhao Hongyi was 16 years old, Zhao Ji had been the emperor for 16 years.
The versatile Zhao Ji was a master of literature and art. The government was completely handed over to Cai Jing's "Six Thieves". The Six Thieves levied exorbitant taxes, causing the people to be in dire straits. The border was filled with smoke, and the wind was about to rain.
Zhao Hongyi had been working in the fields with his parents since he was five years old. By the time he was twelve, he was already a skilled woodcutter. Every day, he would go to Shaohua Mountain to chop firewood and carry it to Baihe County to sell.
Yesterday afternoon, Duoduo had chopped a piece of hard wood and carried it on his back to rush home. When he passed the single-plank bridge over the river, the bridge collapsed and Duoduo fell into the river.
The peach blossom water in spring was cold and rapid. The villagers had already fished Toto out of the river and were no longer breathing.
When Zhao Shiniu and Zhao Liushi heard that their son had drowned, they stumbled over from the fields.
Zhao Zhen was lying dead on the riverbank. Zhao Shiniu and Zhao Liushi threw themselves onto their son and cried,""Duoduo…my poor son…"
After crying for a while, they both fainted.
The villagers rushed to the rescue. Zhao Shiniu and Zhao Liushi woke up, and Zhao Zhen's face turned red.
Zhao Liushi hugged her son and said incoherently,"" Duoduo…Where are you living…Doggy Duoduo…The heavens have opened their eyes…"
Zhao Zhen woke up and stared curiously at the villagers around him with his big black eyes. From their conversation, he knew that this was Huazhou, Baihe County, Martial Saint Village, Qianwei Village, and Qingyang Village in the Northern Song Dynasty.
His mother was Zhao Liushi, and his father was Zhao Shiniu. He had been revived after drowning.
When Zhao Zhen heard his father's name, Zhao Shiniu, he muttered in his heart," He had been a cow for generations, what a good temper…
Zhao Zhen stared at Zhao Liushi, who was crying sadly, and called out," Mother!"
Zhao Liushi was so excited that her lips were trembling. Zhao Shiniu squatted down and stroked his son's head.
Zhao Zhen stared at him with a little rejection. Zhao Liushi nagged,""Duoduo, he's your father! Don't you know Father…"
Zhao Zhen dragged out his tone and called out 'father', and the atmosphere at the scene instantly became lively.
Zhao Zhen had revived after drowning. Such a thing had never happened in Baihe County before.
The conclusion given by the villagers of Qingyang Village was: The heavens took pity on Zhao Shiniu and Zhao Liushi, who were floating tenants, and did not want to take away their only son…
The villagers explained with simple idealistic ideas that Zhao Zhen had come back from the dead. In fact, it was the result of the soul of the 21st century youth, Zhao Zhen.
Zhao Zhen was twenty-five years old in the 21st century when he was in the space-time rift. He had transmigrated to the space-time rift and became sixteen years old. His age had shrunk by nine years. It was unknown whether it was sad or happy.
His home on the other side of the space-time rift was the Zhao Family Terrace in the modern world, which was a Zhuang Village ten miles away from Tongluo Town in Wuyue County.
Zhao Zhen's family lived in the village. After his parents passed away, Zhao Zhen graduated from the Agriculture and Forest Science and Technology University and set up an agricultural research institute in Sanjin Hospital. Due to the lack of funds, he had no choice but to inherit his father's business and go from village to village to geld pigs and sheep.
After the Spring Festival, Zhao Zhen received a big order. He went to the grazing area to slaughter pigs and cows for a farm. When he returned home, the winter wheat had already been grown.
Walking into the three-door courtyard, Zhao Zhen noticed that there was an additional stone door on the back wall.
The stone door faced south. Zhao Zhen pushed it open with interest, and a gust of cold wind immediately blew at him, almost knocking him over.
Zhao Zhen steadied his body and mustered up his courage to step on the stone door. His physical body instantly disappeared, leaving behind a dark soul.
Zhao Zhen was frightened and hurriedly retreated to the stone door. His physical body recovered, and Zhao Zhen was still Zhao Zhen.
"Spacetime Gate!" Zhao Zhen shouted excitedly and couldn't help but hum the song " I'm So Happy Today "."I'm so happy today, so happy today, so happy today…"
Zhao Zhen hummed a " happy song " for a while. The itch in his heart made him restless. He pushed open the stone door again and walked in…
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