The cold wind brought Zhao Zhen's soul to Baihe County, Hua State, and arrived at Qingyang Village, Qianwei Village, Martial Saint Village. He saw a group of people crying and crying miserably by the riverside. It was a 16-year-old boy named Duoduo who was gathering firewood and crossing a single-plank bridge on the river. The single-plank bridge collapsed and Duoduo drowned.
Zhao Zhen's dark soul felt that Toto was him. He could not die, so he possessed his body and revived Toto.
Toto addressed Zhao Zhen as Hongyi, which was the same name and character as Zhao Zhen in the space-time rift. However, the Zhao Zhen in the space-time rift was 25 years old, and the revived Zhao Zhen was 16 years old. There was a difference of nine years in age.
It was a good thing that he was getting younger! Zhao Zhen thought to himself,'It doesn't look good to have a nickname like Duoduo.'
Zhao Shiniu and Zhao Liushi hugged their dying son and cried tears of joy. The couple wanted to set up a few tables of wine and dishes to thank the villagers for their help.
However, they were tenant farmers and did not have any financial resources. They could only kneel on the ground and kowtow to everyone to express their gratitude.
Zhao Zhen was very sad. He didn't expect that there would be floating tenants like his parents in the " prosperous " Northern Song Dynasty. They couldn't even afford to treat him to a meal.
" The wine and meat at the vermilion gate are stinky, and the road is frozen to death." Old Master Du had long described it in a poem. Zhao Zhen had personally experienced it once and knew the hardships of the poor in this world.
Zhao Shiniu carried his son home and placed him on the brick bed in the kiln to " warm " him up for a night. Zhao Zhen recovered his energy, but he had transmigrated from 25 years old to 16 years old. His father was like his brother, his mother was like his sister, and his family was a poor farmer…
Zhao Liushi carried the plate and bowl and made a whirlwind. She suddenly stopped and stared at Zhao Zhen for a while before returning to the kitchen cave.
After Zhao Liushi returned to the kitchen cave, she placed the dishes on the kitchen counter, weighed a wide-brimmed stool, walked to Zhao Zhen's side, and placed it in front of him.
Zhao Zhen stared at Zhao Liushi's actions in confusion, but he quickly reacted," Mother wanted to use a wide-brimmed stool to replace the dining table as a sign of 'civilization'.
The wide-brimmed bench that replaced the dining table was enough to show the poverty and hardship of the floating tenant farmers.
Although life was hard, civilization could not be eliminated. The long-term enlightenment of the Northern Song Dynasty melted in the blood of the subjects and was engraved in their minds.
It was a sign of civilization to replace the dining table with a wide-brimmed bench.
Zhao Liushi put down the wide-brimmed stool and returned to the kitchen cave. She came back with plates and bowls.
Zhao Liushi placed the plate of vine vegetables and the big white porcelain bowl of thick soup on the wide-brimmed stool and said happily,""Duoduo, Mother has made you a bowl of soup. The vine vegetables were dug up by your father at night under the moonlight.”
Zhao Zhen felt depressed and hung his head without saying anything.
Zhao Liushi stroked her son's head with her slightly chapped hand and muttered,""My baby, eat it while it's hot. The paste soup and turnips are the most greasy!”
Sticking on fat meant increasing nutrition. Zhao Zhen stared at the thick soup and turnip vegetables on the wide-brimmed bench and could not help but shed tears.
Wiping away his tears, Zhao Zhen realized that his mother was very handsome. She was big-footed, not the " radish head " he had imagined.
No wonder Mother walked like a whirlwind, blowing the grass and leaves everywhere she passed.
Zhao Zhen was dumbfounded. In the 21st century, his grandmother and grandmother were all little radishes. During the Republic of China, it was popular to tie one's feet. If one didn't tie their feet, they wouldn't be able to get married.
His grandmother's ancestors were from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but their feet were still bound. However, the mother standing in front of him was from the Northern Song Dynasty, but she was a big foot. Zhao Zhen began to doubt his life.
In Zhao Zhen's impression, women's foot-binding started from the concubine of Li Yu, the Latter Ruler of the Southern Tang Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, Cheng Zhu's Confucianism was popular, so women must have bound their feet.
Mother's big feet subverted Zhao Zhen's three views. It turned out that women in the Song Dynasty did not bind their feet.
Zhao Zhen knew that he was currently in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the emperor was Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty.
Zhao Ji was the 11th son of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty and was appointed King Duan. He was supported by Qinsheng Xiansu and the Empress to ascend the throne.
Empress Dowager Xiang and her mother-in-law, Empress Dowager Gao, were as autocratic as Emperor Huizong. A year after Emperor Huizong ascended the throne, Empress Dowager Xiang ascended to heaven. Zhao Ji named the year "Jianzhong Jingguo".
Jianzhong Jingguo meant that he would not be biased towards the old party or the new party, and would be an impartial and neutral emperor.
It was commendable that Zhao Ji was able to remain impartial and neutral in the late Northern Song Dynasty, but his important prime minister Cai Jing, under the banner of supporting Wang Anshi's Xining reform, crazily harmed the "Yuanyou Party". The doctrine of the golden mean of "Jianzhong Jingguo" was useless.
Zhao Zhen knew that Zhao Ji was incompetent in governing the country, but he was a weirdo in literature and art.
Calligraphy, painting, stone and music were unique, and the self-created thin gold body created a historical precedent.
Song Huizong's Painting of Listening to the Guqin was sold overseas for a sky-high price of 200 million US dollars, and the thin gold calligraphy was even more priceless.
Cai Jing was also a famous calligrapher, but after he became the prime minister, he colluded with Wang Fu, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng, Zhu Wei, and Li Yan to "overthrow" Huizong. The government was corrupt and the people were in dire straits.
The northern Jurchen took the opportunity to invade the south, and the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed after the capture of Bianliang City in Tokyo.
Mother's " Whirlwind Kick " meant that the women of the Northern Song Dynasty were as open-minded as the Tang Dynasty. Otherwise, why would there be nine empress dowager sitting behind the curtains in the Song Palace!
Empress Dowager Liu E of Song Renzong was even more wise and intelligent, and Empress Gao of Song Shenzong was selfless. They were all passed down as good stories by later generations.
At the same time, Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao Kingdom and Empress Dowager Liang of the Western Xia were also classic examples of women's open-mindedness.
The Northern Song Dynasty was an extremely wealthy and civilized world. Its total economic output was several times higher than that of the Tang Dynasty. However, floating tenant farmers like Zhao Zhen's parents were in dire straits. They regarded flour paste and turnip vegetables as " top-grade food."
The paste and turnip were fatter than squid, sea cucumber, turtle, lobster, and braised pork? This was probably the whimper of the Qingyang Village villagers, and the ghostly chanting of the tenant farmers…
Wei Wei, the landlord of Qingyang Village (known as Yuanwai in the Northern Song Dynasty), had ten thousand hectares of land.
Wei Wei's godfather was Cai Jing, a powerful official of the Northern Song Dynasty. His godfather was just a cover. Wei Wei was actually Cai Jing's illegitimate son.
With such a strong backing from his father, wouldn't it be a piece of cake for Minister Wei to obtain ten thousand hectares of land?
Zhao Zhen's parents rented 100 acres of land from the Wei family as a vagrant family. The cattle, farm tools, and the yard were all rented from the Wei family.
He was busy all year round, but he still had two to three months to eat.
The gap between the rich and the poor in the Northern Song Dynasty was the ratio of an elephant to an ant. Official Wei had spent money to donate a general sentence and built a mansion in Qingyang Village that was no less than an imperial palace.
Zhao Zhen's house had no room, no plot of land, and he was so poor that he only had a blanket left.
Wei Wei's servants were nominally soldiers of the imperial court, and their meals were all paid for by the imperial court. In reality, they were Wei Wei's personal guards.
Wei Wei took over the authority of the court in Baihe County. If anyone dared to disobey, they would be exterminated.
Zhao Zhen's family had rented the underground courtyard for an unlimited period of time, but after every grain was harvested, they had to pay 10% of the grain production as rent.
The underground courtyard was a unique residence of the northern families. Official Wei had dug thousands of underground courtyards in Qingyang Village specifically for the tenants to rent.
"A rich family has a vast land and a vast territory. Recruit wanderers, scatter them, whip them, and treat them as slaves. He sat down and looked around, commanding the crowd. The people who were enslaved were hoed in the summer and harvested in the autumn, and no one dared to play against their temperance.”-- "The Fifth Day of the Year."
The entrance of Zhao Zhen's underground courtyard was a gentle slope that was dozens of meters long.
Zhao Zhen was curious about all this because the underground courtyard was very similar to the three-entry courtyard he had in the modern world.
Zhao Zhen looked at the big white porcelain bowl and the fish-shaped plate with mixed joy and sorrow, intending to eat the rice. Only then did he realize that there were three words at the bottom of the bowl: "Yaozhou Kiln".
Yaozhou kiln began in the Tang Dynasty and reached its peak at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty.
In the late Song Dynasty, celadon was mainly used. The body was thin and hard, the glaze was smooth and even, the color was green and translucent, and it was very elegant.
There were carvings and prints on the decorations. The structure was rigorous and full, and the lines were free and smooth.
There were many kinds of decorative patterns on the inside and outside of the ware, such as peony, chrysanthemum, lotus, fish, duck, dragon and phoenix, etc. The style was extensive, beautiful, lively and natural.
The flowers, plants, fish, and insects inside and outside the big white porcelain bowl and the fish-shaped plate were vivid. Zhao Zhen could not help but be delighted. He stared at the words "Yaozhou Kiln" with his round eyes and pondered for a long time. He placed the big white porcelain bowl on the wide-brimmed bench and picked up the fish-shaped plate to stare at it.
The words "Yaozhou Kiln" were also written under the fish-shaped plate. Zhao Zhen was so excited that he wanted to sing "I'm So Happy Today", but he didn't sing it. He just muttered to himself, The Northern Song Dynasty was really rich. Even the peasant families had antiques? If such an antique was brought to the modern world on the other side of the space-time rift, it would instantly become a millionaire.
Antiques in prosperous times, gold in troubled times. The heavens wanted you to be rich, but you had to be rich…
Zhao Zhen was silent in his heart and began to eat the soup in big mouthfuls. The way he wolfed down the soup made Zhao Liushi dumbfounded.
Zhao Liushi couldn't believe that her son, who had been resurrected from drowning, would gobble up the rice. Her son had never eaten like this before, but now…
Zhao Liushi's imagination ran wild as Zhao Zhen asked.
"Mother, did you buy the big white porcelain bowl and fish-shaped plate from Yaozhou kiln?”
Zhao Zhen's question was strange. Zhao Liushi stammered in reply,""Yes…yes…ah…"
Then, he said without hiding anything,"The fish-shaped plate and white porcelain bowl were sent by your uncle. Your uncle is a kiln worker!"”
"Oh," Zhao Zhen replied. He seemed to understand the origin of the 'antiques' in the floating tenant's house, and his heart was so excited that he could hardly suppress it.
Zhao Zhen danced around, but he did not tell his mother his true intentions.
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