The Tang Dynasty, east of Chang'an, had a county called Lantian. The mountains in its territory surged, starting from the east and west, the right of Longshouyuan, connected to Shangluo and spread across the east and west.

At this moment, a crackling sound from stepping on fallen leaves in the mountains kept ringing.

Looking around, a boy about fourteen or fifteen years old was walking past the path with a load of dry wood on his back.

When I walked to the mountainside, a dilapidated mountain temple appeared.

This is the most common ordinary mountain temple. It covers an area of ​​about eight or nine feet in square meters, which is just enough for the mountain gods to sit in. In addition, at most there can be a vacant seat next to the temple gate for worshipers.

However, the mountain temple has been covered with dust after years of unattended care, and even the futon has become moldy, and the mottled after the wind and sun are blew, making it look messy.

If it was someone else, he would turn around and pass by, but the boy stopped.

He slowly put down the dry firewood on his body and then walked into this short mountain temple.

Originally, he did not believe in the sayings of ghosts and gods, but even such incredible things as soul-piercing happened to him, which forced him to be in awe of these mysterious gods.

The boy's name is Zhang Yang. He was originally a liberal arts college student born under the red flag and grew up in the sun. But he never thought that he would travel to this parallel world similar to the ancient earth in a hangover.

During the past few days after traveling, Zhang Yang also learned a lot about this world through memory. This is a parallel world similar to the Tang Dynasty on Earth but with many different differences.

The small mountain village where he lives is called Shibei Village, which is located in Lantian County, the Tang Dynasty.

There are 18 families in the village, and they are peaceful because they are suppressed by the emperor when they are close to Chang'an.

In the late Sui Dynasty, the world was in chaos and almost every household had a man joining the army and was a man who was good at fighting, and even the gentry and evil officials dared not provoke him easily.

After entering the temple, he bowed three times in succession. He raised his head and found that the so-called statue of the mountain god in front of him had no head, leaving only the part below the neck standing under the shrine.

Zhang Yang couldn't help but wonder. He looked at the neck of the statue with his toes, and saw that the neck was as smooth as a mirror as if it was cut off with a sharp blade.

However, the fracture has obviously been around for some years and is covered with dust.

“Huh?”

Suddenly, just as Zhang Yang's eyes fell, he found that he was actually pinching a strand of fur at the fingers of the mountain god statue.

The fur is only one inch long and white in color, and it should be the fur of some kind of animal.

If you don't look carefully, you will often be ignored as a spider web.

This discovery made Zhang Yang confused.

How can there be animal fur on the fingers of the mountain god statue?

He looked at the broken neck of the statue, then looked at the animal's fur, and his doubts became deeper and deeper.

You should know that although the mountain temple is small, the statue is not small. Not only is it two meters tall and strong, it is also made of a mixture of mountain clay loess and straw, which can be said to be very strong.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Yang saw the broken mark on the neck of the statue and judged that the head of the statue was cut off by a sharp blade.

However.....

The temple is not big, except for the statue of the gods, it can only accommodate one person. No matter how much it is, there is no other space to move around.

In this way, even if you enter the temple with a long sword, you can't wield the blade at all. How can you talk about cutting it off?

Everything reveals weirdness!

However, this idea just flashed through Zhang Yang's mind and was thrown away by him.

The sunset outside was about to set, and the mother and younger sister at home were still waiting for him to go home. Thinking of the warmth he felt in the past few days, his heart had wings.

I don’t know if my little sister is still standing at the village head waiting for me?

Thinking of this, Zhang Yang turned around and went out, but he didn't notice that the mountain god was covered with scratches, but it was buried in dust and smoke.

After leaving the mountain temple, I had difficulty carrying the dry firewood placed next to the temple and walked towards the foot of the mountain.

When I walked to the village, it was already dark. Looking around, I saw a small figure looking up from the old Huangguo tree at the village. When Zhang Yang walked in, the petite person rushed up happily like a swallow returning to his nest.

"Brother, why are you just coming back now?"

The little girl looked aggrieved, but she came out early. She waited for a long time but didn't see her elder brother come back. She didn't know what her elder brother was doing on the mountain.

"Hehe, of course I went to collect firewood!" Zhang Yang smiled. After seeing the little girl's angry appearance, he took out a fat hare from the dry firewood behind her like a magic trick. He smiled and said, "Do you want to eat rabbit meat?"

"I want to!" The little girl's eyes suddenly shone, and she happily snatched the hare and weighed it while looking at it. She said happily: "Wow! What a big hare!"

She swallowed, but in a flash she became sad again. She looked at Zhang Yang with some confusion and said weakly: "Brother, why don't we eat it? We took it to the market and bought you pens and paper. Didn't you say you want to study?"

Seeing the little girl's sensible appearance, Zhang Yang couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

It turns out that the poor children are already in the family.

"You silly girl! Look at what else on your back?" Zhang Yang touched Zhang Lan's little face indulgently, pointed to his back and said, "There are three in the firewood pile. When we get home, we will use the fattest one to eat, and make a hat for you. The furry one will be warm when it is winter!"

"Um!"

The little girl admires her elder brother more and more.

In the past, although my elder brother went up the mountain to collect firewood every day, he just used it to collect firewood. Unlike now, he can catch hares every time he goes out, which makes her eat meat almost every few days. It is many times better than her previous life.

Thinking that there would be rabbit meat to eat again at night, Zhang Lan's little feet ran towards her house a little lighter.

Only after Zhang Lan walked away did Zhang Yang think about it secretly.

In ancient times, there were no fertilizers, no pesticides, and no high-quality varieties, so the harvest was extremely low. His father left early. Over the years, in order to pull him and his sister, Zhang Yang relied on the twenty acres of Yongye Field left by his father.

It can be said that even if the year is good, the family will just have food and clothing.

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Almost a luxury!

Of course, there is no Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shibei Village, and of course it is impossible to have one.

However, in Qinghe Town, ten miles away from Shibei Village, there is a private school funded by the gentry in the town, which is dedicated to the children of the gentry.

Of course, if a poor family wants to enter school, he needs to go through a private school entrance exam. He can only enter a private school after passing the exam.

Otherwise it will be as difficult as the sky!

A few days ago, Zhangyang passed by the private school when he was selling firewood in Qinghe Town to buy daily necessities for his family.

He found that the words Professor Master’s in it were actually Chinese characters, and what he didn’t expect was that the books were also the three-character classics, hundreds of families, and the Four Books and Five Classics that he was familiar with on earth in his previous life...

This discovery made Zhang Yang take the matter of entering the school at that time. He was a liberal arts student and studied Chinese. Thanks to the knowledge within reach of the Internet, his understanding of these ancient Chinese can be said to be no worse than that of the great scholars of this era, or even higher.

This is his advancement!

Therefore, these days, he worked tirelessly to collect firewood and placed rabbits in the back mountain to hunt hares for money. The purpose was to raise funds for school in order to study in Qinghe Town private school. In March of the following year, he participated in the boy test hosted by Lantian County to change his life and his family.

Although the country and dynasty value martial arts over literature, it is only relatively speaking.

In fact, even if the territory is large, civil servants need to be managed. Therefore, no matter which dynasty is the mainstream, the most important thing is that in Zhang Yang's opinion, civil servants are relatively safe. At least they don't have to go to the battlefield, and they won't lose their lives because of this.

After a few days of hard work, I received more than 400 cents.

According to price comparison, a penny is almost the same purchasing power as one dollar in later generations.

However, the former was short of materials in the era, but there was no shortage of materials in later generations, so the value was higher.

If the remaining three hares were sold in the town today, they could be exchanged for nearly 100 cents, so Zhang Yang would have a full 500 cents for him to go to school.

In addition, there were two windy half-dry hares and three pheasants hanging on the beams of the house. These were the shrouds prepared by Zhang Yang for the Master.

As for life at home, Zhang Yang also had a plan.

These days he has set up almost a hundred rabbit condoms on the back mountain. With these rabbit condoms, as long as he is lucky, he can basically ensure that he can get one or two hares every day.

What he had to do was to get up early every day to collect prey at the back mountain, and then go to a private school to go to school and sell it in the town without delaying any trouble.

"It seems that tomorrow it's time to go to the town to find a master to take the school entrance exam!"

Zhang Yang walked while muttering to himself that next year would be Enko Year. According to convention, as long as he could pass the Boy Examination and pass the Boy Student, he could continue to pass the Scholar and Juren... and swept all the way.
Chapter completed!