Chapter 1 Welcome to the Song Dynasty
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Zhao Xing clearly remembered the scene when he opened his eyes for the first time in this world - the continuous forests were full of ancient trees, a few scattered luggage suddenly placed in the lush forest, and there was a person lying across the ground - himself.
Zhao Xing tried hard to recall the memories, but found that his previous memories were blurred. It seemed that the plane he was riding exploded in the air, and the plane broke into two pieces threw him out. When he fell, several suitcases were floating around him.
Immediately afterwards, a black hole appeared in the sky, as if the sky was poked...
My memory was blank until Zhao Xing opened his eyes again.
After opening his eyes, Zhao Xing saw clearly and observed the surrounding environment. His first feeling was the TV program "Survival of the Desert Island" that emerged in his mind...
When he recovered his mind, he sighed and checked his body, and found that there was no serious injury on his body.
He jumped up and checked the surrounding environment - some of the luggage scattered around him were scattered in the cracks of the rocks and some were hanging on high branches. It took him a lot of trouble before he collected the luggage.
There are seven pieces of luggage in total, and there are no food in it, only some essential items for travel. The five pieces of luggage belong to women, including cosmetics, sexy underwear, fashionable skirts... A careful lady also prepared some travel medicines: Huoxiang Zhengqi Water for treating diarrhea, lyserling, Simida, a few anti-inflammatory drugs for treating colds and anti-inflammatory drugs.
The two men's suitcases are both famous brands. One of them is like a conscientious workaholic. There are only two simple outerwear in the luggage. The remaining space contains a large number of English contracts, market research reports, and city descriptions of the destination. There is another English novel - there is not even an mp3, which is boring!
Another piece of luggage belongs to a fantasy man. This man seems to be always ready to encounter a "Survival of the Desert Island". In his suitcase, there is a "U.S. Army's Wild Survival Manual", a multi-piece set of Swiss tool knives, and a compass... This person is still a person who travels around the world. There are large stacks of sightseeing maps in the box, and there are traces of drawings on each picture, showing that he has been to these places.
Now, the fantasy has not experienced it, and Zhao Xing continues.
It was the "Wild Survival Manual" that gave Zhao Xing a great help, relying on piaotian literature, traps, and live traps to identify edible foods and fruits, and relying on this knowledge to overcome the initial difficulties and walk out of the forest alive.
There was no time in the mountains, and Zhao Xing missed the first few days of recording his survival experience. When he recalled it, the days he had been tortured by the pressure of filling his stomach were so blurred that he could not tell exactly how long he had been. He only remembered that when spring flowers were everywhere and autumn leaves fell, he met the first human village.
At that time, the long jungle life made him draped in his shoulders, his hair was dry, his clothes were tattered and almost naked. His long solitude made him hoarse voice and he couldn't even speak human language...
After he was awake and gradually mastered the local language, he experienced two full moons, which was already winter.
After the accident, his memory seemed to be fragmented and intermittent. He thought he would suffer from amnesia like this and spend his whole life, but as he recovered, his memory also recovered - and his memory was extremely good. Although he had not yet forgotten it, everything he had experienced in the past has now emerged one by one, just like yesterday.
After the memory was restored, Zhao Xing found that his physical strength had also recovered... However, it seemed that something abnormal was happening. His strength was amazing. Now he could mention heavy objects that he had never dared to think about before - was this the harvest left by "survival in the wild", but this harvest was a bit too great. He once secretly calculated: It is expected that he would definitely win the weightlifting championship when he participated in the Olympics now...
By the fire pit, an old man in his fifties greeted the sober Zhao Xing. While he casually used a fire stick to pull the charcoal in the brazier, he asked with a heavy Xiangyin: "Where does the guest come from?"
This is the first time Zhao Xing has entered this big wooden house. There is a reason why he entered it - he spoke for the first time a few days ago and saved a plowing cow.
It is said that when the mountaineer went to the nearby county town to go to the market, he found that someone sold it at a low price. So he was greedy for a moment and exchanged all his mountain goods for the cow. When the ox was transported back to the mountain village, the villagers realized that they had been fooled: the cow had diarrhea and had no strength to stand up.
At that time, the mountain goods paid by the villagers did not belong to him. Several families in the village gathered together and entrusted him to go to the county town to take action. When he changed the cow and returned to the village, the companies he cooperated with were very happy at first and agreed that the cow would belong to the cow. Now there was a problem with the cow and a dispute arose.
This village is a family-style village with the same surname. The quarrel made the clan leader exhausted from adjustment. At this time, Zhao Xing, who was being supported by someone, resolved the dispute in one sentence. He only said one word - "Tea!"
The tannin contained in tea is a good medicine for treating diarrhea caused by unacceptable water and local conditions. The British discovered this mystery first, so they tried every means to steal Chinese tea seeds and try planting them everywhere. After the trial planting was successful, they claimed that they "conquered the whole world with a tea cup in one hand and a musket in the other."
The "U.S. Army's Wild Survival Manual" happens to introduce the use of tea. The book guides travelers to cook tannin from leaves and grass stems to stop diarrhea... A few days later, the cow actually magically recovered, which allowed Zhao Xing to immediately gain the right to enter the clan leader's house.
The memories were interrupted by the question. The patriarch asked again. Zhao Xing tilted his head and asked in confusion: "What is this?"
This answer was obviously not in line with the patriarch's speech habits. After Zhao Xing explained it several times, he understood and immediately lowered his head and carried the charcoal with a fire stick. He seemed to be thinking about something. After a while, he replied: "Old man Cheng Tong, this place is Chengjiaao!"
This sentence is meaningless. What Zhao Xing wants to know is: Which province, city and county is this...
When he first arrived, Zhao Xing suspected that he had come to the Dwarf Kingdom. The people here were about 1.5 meters tall, and there was no telephone, no TV, or even electricity in the village, so it was almost impossible to contact the outside world. Zhao Xing several times wanted to ask someone to send him to a nearby big city, but because of the language barrier, such a simple thing could not be done.
What's even more terrifying is that people here are almost illiterate. Zhao Xing picked up his pen and wrote a request several times, but found that the other party was staring at a pair of confused eyes...
After repeated temptations, he vaguely felt that the situation was wrong - it seemed that there was not a real world in front of him, everything seemed so weird. The villagers' clothing, language, and living habits... were all abnormal.
This made him a little scared, a little nervous, and of course, a little confused.
After thinking for a while, Zhao Xing pointed to the villager's legendary county town and asked: "What county is that?"
"Qishui", after the patriarch answered, he pointed to another direction and continued: "That is Yingshan; that is Huangzhou Prefecture City..."
The patriarch smiled cunningly and said with the pride of the mountain people: "My Chengjiaao is neither under the jurisdiction of Qi County nor Yingshan."
Huangzhou?!
Zhao Xing is familiar with this name. According to the terrain, if the nearby one is Huangzhou, then he should have arrived at the southern foot of the Dabie Mountains. The "travel enthusiast" had a map of Hubei in his suitcase. He went back and flipped through it. Based on the knowledge in the manual and the direction of the terrain, he could roughly determine his location.
Zhao Xing asked again: "What day is today?"
The patriarch tried hard to adapt to Zhao Xing's way of speaking. He tried his best to express the content he had read in the past few days: "This is the year of Xinyou, the month of Wuxu, and the day of Yiwei."
Zhao Xing was shocked by these words.
Seeing Zhao Xing look confused, the patriarch added: "The fourth year of Yuanfeng."
This sentence is still the Book of Heaven. Zhao Xing continued to look at the clan leader with a confused look.
The patriarch looked grim, and he asked tentatively: "Liao Kingdom, what is the year name now?"
This sentence is like a thunderbolt, immediately illuminating Zhao Xing's world - will there be such a primitive village in the Dabie Mountains exist?
If this was the Dabie Mountains, how could there be a lush and verdant primeval forest? How could there be such a group of retro people?
What's wrong with this world?
I traveled through time.
The Liao Kingdom, this country should have existed during the Northern Song Dynasty...
If this belongs to the Song Dynasty, then the differences in the villagers' clothing, language, etc. will be easy to explain.
Zhao Xing once watched an exploration program, which was about the excavation of Song tombs in Hubei and Fuzhou. The owners of these tombs were between 12 and 50 years old. According to the identification of corpses, the owner of the tomb was between 1.21 and 1.57 meters in height during his lifetime. Based on this, it is speculated that in the south of the Song Dynasty, the average height of rich children with sufficient nutrition was below 1.6 meters...
If this belongs to the Song Dynasty, the height problem of villagers is normal.
In addition, there are problems with the construction materials in the village. Although, according to archaeological research, "brick-shaped" earth embryos have appeared in China since the Zhou Dynasty, but by the Song Dynasty, the brick-shaped structures were still not popular with the public. The Xu Fuma Mansion in Chaozhou, which has been preserved to this day, has mainly been fully wooden structures in addition to a brick courtyard wall built in the Ming Dynasty.
In other words: by the Song Dynasty, brick-structured houses had not yet been popularized to the administrative level of the son-in-law of the current dynasty.
If this was the Song Dynasty, then the buildings in the village, the dresses of the villagers, the language of the language... have reasonable explanations.
As for strength and memory changes... maybe it is the transformation of the body by the wormhole of time and space.
Zhao Xingfu thought a lot and forgot to answer the clan leader's words. After the clan leader shouted a few times, he found that the clan leader was holding a cup of hot tea to him to drink, and he was carrying a pottery taken from the fire pit in one hand.
There was a faint fragrance in the air, as if it was the smell of cardamom or cinnamon. Zhao Xing took the tea cup absent-mindedly and drank a sip of tea absent-mindedly.
The smell of tea made him frown. After thinking for a moment, he stretched his brows again, took a sip of tea, and nodded slightly with satisfaction.
Zhao Xing frowned because there was a strong spice smell in the tea, which made him very uncomfortable. But after savoring it carefully, he felt that the taste seemed familiar and a bit close to the British "Earl Black Tea".
After thinking for a while, he understood.
The Song Dynasty was a time when various spices were added to tea. If this was the Song Dynasty, if this was the southern foot of the Dabie Mountains near Huangzhou, then it should be not far from Lanxi Spring. Lanxi Spring was the "third spring in the world" personally evaluated by Lu Yu, the "tea saint" of the Tang Dynasty. The local tea culture has a long history and happens to be one of the birthplaces of Song tea culture.
This habit of drinking tea with added spices was criticized by modern people. They believed that adding spices to tea would instead cover the fragrance of the tea itself with spices. Therefore, they believed that this was a "little people" doing things... However, even the most determined critics of Song tea, when they drank the British "Earl Black Tea" that costs 100 yuan a pot in the bar, they also considered it a kind of "bourgeoisie".
The Song Dynasty was the peak period of China's tea trade. It was from this era that Europeans began to steal Chinese tea seeds. The tea drinking habits of the Song people at this time were passed down to the West and were regarded as the highest elegance by foreigners, so they had "Earl Black Tea", "Sri Lankan Cardamom Tea", and "cinnamon tea" - these are all modern "petty bourgeois" luxury goods.
Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem: "There are more than thirteen years of grace and grace, and the beginning of the second month of the second month." In the Song Dynasty, he could drink the original cardamom tea, and suddenly, the countryside, wooden houses, old people, fire pits... all turned into an ancient adult painting.
This painting does not give people a sense of elegance. It is full of the meaning of "years of the age of time", which makes Zhao Xing have a longing for this era.
The patriarch kept observing Zhao Xing's expression, watching Zhao Xing stretch his brows, and took another sip with great pleasure. He continued to ask: "Where is Han'er in Liao Kingdom??"
Zhao Xing could not answer this question. He is only sure that he is in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Hundreds of years of hatred in the Song and Liao dynasties made him dare not speak casually. He asked cautiously, in the calmest tone: "Liao Kingdom? Are you sure there is this country?"
The patriarch breathed a light tone. He skipped the topic just now and asked, "What is the guest's surname?"
Zhao Xing replied slowly: "My name is Zhao Xing, and my courtesy name is Liren. I have always been in the mountains in the past, @#¥¥%%…………………………….”
What surname is the safest in the Song Dynasty? Zhao! The emperor's surname is Zhao, and the surnames of hundreds of families rank first, who dares to question it?
Zhao Xing means "Zhao's family is prosperous", and the name is "very dark and backstage". In this era, cultural people have popular characters, "Li Ren" - a person who leaves his hometown, which also appropriately expresses his identity. In this way, the whole name means: "I am a tourist in the Song Dynasty."
This name completely relaxed the patriarch.
The patriarch has little culture. When he thinks, the barbarians will never think of giving themselves the elegant word "" "Li Ren" - he doesn't understand what the word means, but he thinks it is so profound.
In fact, Cheng Tong didn't know that there were many pure Han people in the territory of the Liao Kingdom. They were all from great Confucianism and took more elegant characters than "Li Ren". However, the knowledge of the villagers had not yet been widely heard of that. Cheng Tong only thought: Barbarians are barbaric, and it is normal to not know big characters. How could they think of taking "character" for themselves? They were the skills that only officials and great scholars could...
"Where is the guest going?" Cheng Tong asked easily.
"There is nowhere to go" and the answer was as Cheng Tong expected. However, this was extremely lonely and desolate.
Chapter completed!