4 New Challenges
◎At dawn after the rain◎
Tian Nongxi couldn't remember what happened afterwards.
Grandma Tian stopped making trouble, whispered something to comfort her, and quickly went to the kitchen to fetch water to put out the fire.
Seeing things scattered on the ground in front of the tablet, Tian Nongxi bent down to pick them up and was bumped by the tablet that rolled to his feet.
Without thinking much, she picked it up as well.
However, I didn't expect that when I picked it up and just casually glanced at the words on it, I suddenly felt dizzy and a flood of memories were forced into my mind.
It is all the memories of the original body's short life.
Everything she felt with her eyes.
Tian Nongxi's head was swollen and painful, and she felt worse than after staying up all night for three consecutive nights preparing for the final exams. Her body could not bear it anymore. When she forced herself to stand up, she felt dizzy, her eyes went black, and she fell heavily to the ground.
The noise around was instantly blocked out, and Tian Nongxi’s last thought before closing his eyes was: Going home?
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When I woke up again, it was not yet dawn, and the roosters from each household in the village were crowing non-stop, competing with each other for attention.
Tian Nongxi was still wearing the same clothes as yesterday. He had broken out in a cold sweat last night and didn't get enough sleep, so he felt listless.
She lay on the wooden bed that creaked at the slightest movement, looked up at the ceiling which was missing a tile, and finally accepted the fact that she could not leave this world unless she made enough money.
Fortunately, she thought she would have to live a life of groping in the dark, but unexpectedly, she suddenly had an inspiration last night, and the memories of the original owner flooded in like a tide.
All the details of the original owner's sixteen years of life were forced into his brain in an instant. Tian Nongxi was overwhelmed and fainted.
Until I was awakened by the crowing of a rooster.
Tian Nongxi sat up and looked around at his surroundings.
The Tian family's small house must be quite old. There are countless mosses and mildew on the walls, and the walls at the corners of the east, south, west and north are all cracked.
There was only a broken bed, a limp little stool, and a double-door mahogany cabinet with most of the paint peeling off. The cabinet doors were carefully locked by the owner.
All the furnishings in the house added together probably amount to Tian Erniang's entire fortune over the past sixteen years.
The paper-pasted windows were of no use. In the small room of a few square meters, the wind swirled around and around, but it still chose to bully Tian Nongxi, the newcomer on the bed.
She was shivering with cold, so she had to get up and do a set of Eight-Section Brocade in the house, sorting out the memories in her mind while doing it.
Although it is Tian Erniang's lifelong memory, it is not considered a lot.
She had never left Tianjia Village. Apart from washing clothes and cooking for the family, her daily life was to sit on a small stool and do needlework in the moonlight, which Tianniu would then take to the county to sell to supplement the family income.
Therefore, the memories that Tian Nongxi gained were nothing but trivial matters, with occasional hearsay, but the stories had been distorted by the addition of fuel and fuel. Even Tian Nongxi, who had just arrived, could figure out something wrong.
She had to start with "herself" and break down the information step by step.
Tian Er Niang is the second child of the eldest son of Tian Niu's family in Tianjia Village, and the only surviving female among the grandchildren of the Tian family.
Tian Niu and his wife Huang had a daughter and two sons. The eldest daughter, Liu Tian, married early and had a hard life. She seldom went home to visit her parents except during the holidays. Tian Er Niang was not very familiar with this aunt; the eldest son, Tian Zhuangying, the original owner's father, was a carpenter in the village. He was accidentally hit by an axe while working and died soon after due to infection from the wound; the second son, Tian Nong Le, was the most educated person in the family. He had been in school since he was a child. The original owner didn't have many memories of him. He only knew that he was good at studying, passed the exam for a scholar, married into a large landlord's family, and rarely came back.
When Tian Zhuangying reached marriageable age, his family found a marriage for him with Tian Chen, the mother of Tian Erniang.
Although the two were married at the behest of their parents and the matchmaker, they were deeply in love. Thirteen years after their marriage, Tian Chen became pregnant five times and successfully gave birth to two children, a son and a daughter, namely Tian Er Niang and her eldest brother Tian Guangzong.
When Tian Erniang was ten years old, her mother became pregnant again.
Although she gave birth to few children, she had many pregnancies.
At first, she didn't take it to heart, but Tian Er Niang kept pestering her every day, asking her whether the baby in her belly was a girl or a boy.
As a result, not long after, the whole family figured out the peculiarity of this pregnancy.
Not only did Tian Chen not have any pregnancy symptoms, she also had a rosy complexion, enjoyed everything she ate, and could even carry more water on weekdays.
What really made the Tian family certain that this baby was extraordinary was the famous little blind Taoist priest.
One day, when Huang went to fetch water, a blind boy from the village who was passing by stopped her even though she was not pregnant yet. He said mysteriously that the baby in her belly was a god who had come down to earth to gain experience, and that he would definitely make her a marquis or a prime minister.
A golden phoenix emerged from the chicken coop.
This made everyone in the Tian family very happy. Even Tian Er Niang, who was not very sensible, was happy when she washed clothes every day.
The adults discussed it and gave the little blind boy twenty cents, asking him not to tell anyone, and also ordered the two younger ones to keep their mouths shut.
During that period, the Tian family members wholeheartedly protected Tian Chenshi, and Tian Chenshi doted on Tian Erniang, so her life became easier.
When Tian Nongxi recalled the past, a smile appeared on his face unconsciously.
But for farmers who have been busy for half their lives but still have not enough food to eat, a small accident is enough to take away all their happiness.
One afternoon, the tragic news of her father's injury reached Tian Erniang's ears. Tian Niu and Tian Guangzong, who were not yet lame at that time, hurried to the scene and hurriedly carried the body back.
When the mother, who was about to give birth, saw her husband's bloody body, she lost all hope and passed away the next day, leaving behind only her posthumous son Tian Yaozu.
In just one day, ten-year-old Tian Erniang became an orphan.
On the day Tian Yaozu was born, there was a strange phenomenon in the sky. The sky was sunny and clear just a moment ago, but it turned gloomy in an instant.
The sun and the moon shone together in the sky, and a bright yellow meteor fell straight into the hut where Tian Chen was giving birth, and disappeared without a trace.
Then, Tian Yaozu was born.
Tian Chen closed her eyes forever amid her parents-in-law's ecstasy.
The family suddenly lost two laborers and had a newborn baby. The sensible Tian Guangzong did not want to stay at home with his two sisters and eat and drink for free, so he volunteered to join the army.
Yan Chao encouraged people to join the army and implemented the "recruitment system". Anyone who joined the army not only received a monthly salary, but their family was also exempted from taxes and corvee labor, which greatly reduced the pressure on the Tian family. Only then did the two elders have a good attitude towards Tian Er Niang, Tian Guangzong's beloved sister.
As for Tian Yaozu, as the only male in the entire Tian family in the past ten years, there was a strange phenomenon when he was born that was not recorded in the Tian family genealogy. The love that Grandpa Tian and Grandma Tian showed him was a true portrayal of "holding him in your mouth for fear that he would melt, and holding him in your hands for fear that he would fall."
Tian Nongxi remembered that the first chapter of the original book he had read spent a lot of space describing Tian Yaozu's childhood life - he was spoiled by his grandfather and pampered by his grandmother, but Tian Yaozu was not at all spoiled. He would walk to school even in the cold winter and study under candlelight every day until the rooster crowed.
The author uses vivid and colorful words to describe in detail Tian Yaozu's poverty and resilience.
Tian Nongxi remembers that many people shed tears in the comment section of that chapter, and said frankly that if they had a son, they would want to be like Tian Yaozu.
She thought it was ridiculous at the time, and now when she saw the frostbite marks on her hands, she laughed even more.
Not only did the original owner not have the opportunity to go to school and learn to read, the Tian family was unwilling to even buy her a candlestick, leaving her to embroider in the moonlight. Fortunately, she was young and in good health, and the embroidery time was not long, so it did not cause too much damage to her eyes.
Otherwise, as soon as Tian Nongxi opened his eyes, he would be frightened by the blurry sight and wonder if he was walking on the road to hell.
The last time the original owner saw his brother was more than a year ago. Tian Guangzong used to go home only during the Chinese New Year. Last year, for some reason, he neither went home during the Spring Festival nor sent any letters or money back.
Everyone in Tianjia Village said that he died in a war with the Sukjin tribe.
As time went by, the little care that Grandpa Tian and Grandma Tian had for Tian Er Niang disappeared completely. They just thought that they had raised a thankless and money-losing girl, and they were determined to find an opportunity to marry her off when Tian Er Niang was sixteen years old.
The protagonist of the original book, Tian Yaozu, lightly accepted the money at the cost of his sister's life.
The author also explained this point: Yaozu was young and did not understand life and death, so he thought his sister had gone to live a good life on her own. Not only was he not angry, but he wholeheartedly blessed his sister. When he grew up and learned the truth, he regretted his decision and did his best to sculpt a statue of a virgin for his sister.
When Tian Nongxi saw this, he was so angry that he turned off his phone and went to sleep.
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It was not until he saw the dawn breaking through the missing bricks and tiles and heard the rooster crowing again that Tian Nongxi finally came to his senses.
There are still many things to do today. Apart from other things, it is a difficult task to hide the fact that the real Jing Wenshu is someone else from Li Kangbo.
She calmed her breathing and sorted out her thoughts. It didn't take long before she laughed out loud. She had already thought of a solution.
It seemed like it rained a little last night. The mountains not far away were lush and green, and the air was filled with the smell of earth.
The courtyard in the early morning had long concealed the traces of last night's noise. The early morning sun shone into the courtyard. The sound of neighbors calling to feed chickens could be heard from time to time. Tian Nongxi stood in front of the door and stretched lazily.
Grandma Tian, who was cleaning the yard, didn't stop. As if not wanting to talk to her any more, she said coldly, "Why are you up so late today? The porridge is in the kitchen. Wash the bowl after you finish eating."
Upon hearing this, Tian Nongxi went to the kitchen, drank the half bowl of corn porridge in the cracked bowl on the stove, wiped his mouth, and walked out of the kitchen.
Near the gate of the Tian family courtyard, there was a man standing there as straight as a pine or cypress. He was still wearing yesterday's clothes, and the corners of his clothes were slightly wet, as if they had been washed but not yet dried.
Tian Nongxi walked up quickly, patted Lin Luan on the shoulder, and greeted him with a smile: "Good morning, we'll set off now." After saying that, he didn't care about anything else and was about to leave.
Lin Luan had no objection and followed.
"Wait for Li Kangbo on the road and scare him."
The girl's clear voice passed through the breeze and carried back to the empty courtyard, but was blocked by the door that the Tian family quickly locked in order to avoid it.
There is only a clear echo between heaven and earth.
"Um."
【Author’s words】
Privately set up a weir to marry a woman at the age of 18. Please collect (quietly) (ultra-quietly)
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