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Chapter 70. The "Ordinary" Life of a Peasant Girl in Ming Chuan
Name: Dai Erdong
Former name (working name): Yaohan
Gender: Female
Current age: 14
Substantial Identity: Future Travelers of the 21st Century

Traversing method: Soul Traversing

Current superficial identity: the personal maid of Yu Guozhen, a scholar of Nanzhili

The superficial identity at the beginning of time travel: a girl from a peasant family in Daijia Village, Qufu, Shandong Province in the late Ming Dynasty
"...Seniors who have struggled in various time and space, convey your domineering aura to me through time and space!"

During those nights of hunger and cold, Dai Erdong had secretly prayed like this countless times, only hoping that when he opened his eyes again, he would be completely reborn, he would feel his whole body full of strength, and there would be a faint halo behind him, There are two big characters in the letter: "Protagonist"!
Unfortunately, this prayer of hers was never successful.

Poor Miss Dai Erdong, the time traveler, did not realize until she was reincarnated through time and space and finally arrived at the Shandong village in the late Ming Dynasty: the real ancient village in reality is completely different from the paradise described in the time travel novels. thing!
Unfortunately, when she finally knew this, it was too late.

At this moment, Dai Erdong was standing in front of the gate of a farmhouse, looking up with his mouth open.

This is a brick house with white walls and black tiles, but it is already a bit dilapidated. If the yard is not counted, the combined area of ​​the main house and the side rooms is more than 100 square meters.The base of the wall was covered with moss, and several hoes and poles were placed crookedly.There are mottled stains on the walls, and there are small holes in some places, which are blocked by something unknown.Only the main house is fully tiled, and the roofs of the wing rooms are thatched.A few chickens clucked and walked past the door, and a little fat girl was squatting at the door to eat, wearing a thick patched cotton coat and holding a broken bowl with a chip.

In the writings of modern romance writers, the living conditions in those rural farming stories that traveled through ancient times probably belonged to ordinary people in ancient rural areas—in short, it was the life of most remote and impoverished mountainous areas in the 80s in New China. level.

But according to what Dai Erdong knew... I'm sorry, this is already the house of the richest landlord in their village!

As for the houses that other people live in... Hehe, I don't know what level it should be in the rural farming texts that travel through ancient times.

Even in the eyes of modern people, whether the place where they live can be regarded as a "house" is probably a question mark.

The village that Dai Erdong traveled through is called Daijia Village, located in Qufu, Shandong.Half of the villagers, old and young, are surnamed Dai.Although they live in the hometown of Confucius, the "sage forefather", there is not even a private school in Daijia Village, and most of the villagers have been illiterate for generations.

Generally speaking, this is a very poor village. Many baby girls in the village were drowned by their parents at birth because they could not support them.Relatively speaking, Dai Erdong's family is pretty good in this village. At least they can raise Dai Erdong and her sister's two daughters half-starved and half-fed, without drowning at birth—— ...but that's all, don't even think about food and clothing.If there is any food in the family, it must be given priority to the younger brother who carries on the family line and the father who is the main labor force. It is rare for Dai Erdong and her sister to have a full meal all year round.

The original version of the little girl Dai Erdong was because she only had one meal a day for a certain period of time, and she was so hungry that she couldn't bear it. When she went to fetch water from the river, she fell down and drowned because she couldn't stand still...so she was replaced. The soul of this future girl passed through and continued to suffer under the identity of Dai Erdong.

Well, next, first of all, I should introduce Dai Erdong's family members.There are five people in her family—the cheap father who is always urging her to work fiercely, the cheap mother who is always beaten and wiped tears, a sister who is four years older than her, and a younger brother.The elder sister's name is Dai Yixia, and the younger brother's name is Dai Sanchun—because these three juniors were born in summer, winter and spring respectively, they were named in this order.

Although there is no literary talent to speak of, but compared with the "big dog, second dog" in the village, such a name is already considered good.

Although Dai Erdong's mother seems to be at least 40 or 24 years old, she is actually only 20 years old this year. She was only 12 years old when she gave birth to her younger brother Dai Sanchun, just enough for the legal age of marriage in modern China. Before she gave birth to her eldest sister Dai Yixia He is only [-] years old!

——From the perspective of modern people, this is clearly a criminal act that destroys elementary school students.But it was a kind of helplessness in that era. At that time, the average life expectancy of ordinary people was no more than 30 years old. Those who survived were those who were in good health, delicious food, and really lucky.After all, as long as a common cold can induce a lot of syndromes, if a woman is not allowed to have a baby earlier, can she wait until she is almost 30 years old?

Those modern people who need to rely on various vials and vaccines to live can never imagine how terrible the health and hygiene conditions were at that time.

In the cruel age when the average life expectancy is so short, it is also a last resort for ordinary people to choose early marriage and early childbearing.

Thinking of this, Dai Erdong suddenly felt fleas crawling on his body.So she took a flea off her body, put it in her mouth and nibbled it to death.Looking down, the rags on her body, which are considered clothes in theory, are already torn to pieces, and they can't even cover her dirty breasts.

Sighing, she scratched her disheveled hair like a chicken coop, turned around and looked at the large water tank with duckweed and fallen leaves floating beside her, and tried her best to show a smile—although all she showed was a dark mouth. Rotten teeth.

However, the ordinary people in the rural areas of the Ming Dynasty in this era were actually similar to her. They were generally unkempt, full of bad teeth, and rough skin. Because they didn't take baths very much, most of them still had some skin disease.

Well, it seems that Dai Erdong should be glad that she traveled to the Ming Dynasty instead of the Qing Dynasty. The custom of wrapping "three-inch golden lotus" is not so popular in the north, so Erdong didn't bind her feet—in fact, she suspected that the real reason why she didn't need to bind her feet was because The family was reluctant to spend money to buy her foot wraps...

Just as she was looking down at her dirty bare feet, a 20-year-old fat woman walked by her side. She looked like a big, burnt white steamed bun, wrapped in silk, with a thin slit on her face— ―That's the eyes.She bent down and lowered her slender buttocks to Erdong's eyes, and then slapped Dai Erdong, who was only eight years old this year, with a cattail fan.

"... Ugly thing, get away from my door! Don't stand where my house is dirty!"

——This fierce, fat woman is the owner of the house, the wife of the richest landlord in the village, and also the fattest person in the village.

In the late Ming Dynasty, except for those gentlemen in big cities with unique tastes, most country women regarded fat as their beauty.

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After being slapped to the ground by the landlord's mother-in-law's cattail fan, Dai Erdong had no choice but to stand up, enduring the burning pain, and hurriedly left the landlord's house, the only place in the village that looked decent. Slowly walk to the village.

Walking along the way, except for a few "high-end and elegant" brick houses in the village, they are basically mud-built adobe houses, which look dirty.Dai Erdong's family is no exception.The home is full of wet mud, and it is easy to suffer from arthritis after staying for a long time.

But despite this, her family is not considered poor in this village, or even in the entire province of Shandong. No need to run around naked.Unlike Xiaohua from Lao Wang's house next door, she is already a 12-year-old "big girl", but her buttocks are still bare, and she has never worn decent clothes once in her life!

——No way, the five members of Lao Wang’s family are so poor that they only have one complete piece of clothing, and even the idiot daughter-in-law who drools all day was picked up from nowhere.In the northern countryside at the end of the Ming Dynasty, most men from impoverished families were unable to marry a daughter-in-law in a serious manner.

As for poor men who have been single all their lives, there are even more in the village: on the one hand, girls are drowned when they are born, and on the other hand, poor men never get married until they grow old.In ancient societies without birth control measures, this may also be a disguised form of family planning!
Secondly, Dai Erdong's family can still afford salt, which is something that her neighbors are very envious of.

In short, this kind of life is extremely difficult. As a time traveler and fan of farming literature, Dai Erdong naturally wants to try to improve his life.

Obviously, in the absence of pesticides, fertilizers and improved seeds, the few acres of land that my family rents out has little potential to be explored.

It’s not a good idea to fish in the river either—the river near the village is narrow and shallow, and the fish in it are as small as the goldfish in the aquarium of later generations, and they are very agile, hard to catch and not very meaty .However, about half a day's walk away from her village, there is a mountain with dense trees. According to the theory of farming, it seems that you can go to the mountain to hunt some game, collect some mushrooms and wild fruits... But her family has neither bows nor hunting knives, so if a little loli goes up the mountain empty-handed, she might sacrifice her life to feed the wolves...

So she didn't make it after all.

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For the vast majority of villagers in Daijia Village, the only hope for their livelihood is the crops in the fields.

Although from Dai Erdong's point of view, the crops in this field are not very full, but according to Daddy Cheap, this year has been regarded as a bumper harvest year - without chemical fertilizers and pesticides, disasters are extremely frequent At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was time to laugh when the production capacity per mu was over a hundred catties.

When Dai Erdong went to the grain drying field in the village, he saw the cheap old man standing next to his pile of wheat with a smile, and he was so happy that he could not close his mouth from ear to ear—according to the old man, there is a lot of grain harvested this year , the whole family probably won't starve to death this year.

However, after all, this is just an impossible wish—not long after, under Dai Erdong's astonished eyes, a group of brutal men suddenly broke into the village arrogantly and unceremoniously sent everyone to the village. Seventy to eighty percent of the grain piled up on the grain drying ground by every household was taken away!Naturally, Dai Erdong's family's food was not spared... This winter's full meal was wasted like this.

——Most of the farmers in Daijia Village do not own their own land, so they can only work as tenants for landlords.And these people who came to take away the grain were the landlord's new steward and his henchmen who were in charge of rent collection.In the past few years, the village has been experiencing poor harvests, and many rents have been owed.This year is finally a bumper harvest, and the old steward who was in charge of rent collection was disliked by the master because he hadn’t confiscated it in the past few years, so he changed to a new one. The villagers paid off the rent owed during the famine in previous years, and as a result, much more grain was recovered than in previous years.

As for what the people in Daijia Village should eat to survive after taking away so much food... This is not in the consideration of the new manager who is eager to make contributions.Anyway, even if they all starve to death, they are not afraid, there are refugees out there who have no land to grow!
In this way, as the landlord's family began to collect the rent arrears over the years, the joy of the harvest disappeared instantly, and the whole village felt like a concubine... Who knew that the house leak happened to be raining overnight, and less than half a day later, another group of people were full of faces. The ferocious man arrived and swaggered into Daijia Village. While pinching his nose in disgust, he skillfully searched for any place to hide things, and at the same time threatened the villagers sternly—the villagers were even more desperate to learn that It turns out that after paying the rent this year, I still have to pay the miscellaneous taxes of the court, and in addition to bear the gray income of the yamen.

Accompanied by the intrusion of this group of ferocious men, the whole village of Daijia Village was in a state of chaos, howling ghosts and wolves, and even one person was beaten to death with a stick by them for resisting the tax!In addition, there were a few men who could not afford food at home (he owed a lot of rent, too much was taken away by the steward of the landlord’s house before, and the rest was not enough for the appetite of the next group of people), so they gave them He was arrested and said that he was going to be escorted to the county seat, where he was shackled in front of the yamen and displayed in the cage. If the family did not use money and food to atone for his sins, he would be shackled until he died!
The cheap father of Dai Erdong's family was also taken away by those scumbags, and he asked the family to redeem it with a tael of silver, but where is there any money in the family?
It is clear that the house has been plundered and nothing can be brought out even a grain of rice! ! !
But it’s impossible not to redeem people. Without the main labor force of Daddy Cheap, how can the family survive?

The cheap mother and the two sisters Dai Yixia and Dai Erdong are so worried that they have nowhere to borrow money from usury.The little brother Dai Sanchun, who was hungry, was still wailing loudly, which made people even more disturbed, as if a hundred cats were scratching at their hearts.

In the end, the cheap mother finally had an idea and came up with a helpless way, which is to sell people-although the world is getting more and more chaotic these days, and human life is getting more and more cheap, and there is really no price to sell.But at any rate, there are still one or two taels of silver.

Apart from the cheap mother, there are three members of Dai's family left. The younger brother, Dai Sanchun, wants to pass on the family line, so naturally he cannot sell it.The eldest sister, Dai Yixia, had already told her husband's family that she had even received the dowry (already spent), so naturally she couldn't sell it.Therefore, Dai Erdong, who was only eight years old, was tied up by a cruel cheap mother and sold to a human trafficker, and finally got a tael of silver.

And the human trafficker is going to sell Dai Erdong to a brothel in the city, and he can get two taels of silver as soon as he changes hands, making double the profit.

Then, on the way to the county seat under the escort of the traffickers, Dai Erdong quietly broke the rope, smashed the trafficker's head with a stone, stripped his clothes and straw sandals, and searched for the few things he had on him. Copper coins, and then fled out in a panic.

——She had to escape, because the little girls who are sold into brothels these days usually have two prospects, one is to work as a maid for a high-ranking prostitute, which is still a good way out, and the other is to be directly pulled Go pick up customers and satisfy the special fetishes of some guests who like young girls!
Before she traveled, she had heard about the Arab man marrying a nine-year-old girl. She felt contemptuous and unbelievable. Now that she traveled to the end of the Ming Dynasty, she realized that such things abound in China these days... But the little girl died. The rate is equally high!
When she went to the county town with her father once before, she saw with her own eyes a girl in the same village who had been sold by her parents the day before, and was carried out of a brothel at most six or seven years old. A piece of blood and flesh, it seems that even the intestines have flowed out!

Therefore, facing the terrible prospect of being sold into a brothel, Dai Erdong really didn't dare to gamble her luck - if the cruel brothel owner actually asked her to pick up customers now, she doubted whether she could see the first one. Two days of sun!

So, Dai Erdong had no choice but to find a way to escape—fortunately, she was lucky enough to let her succeed.

On the way to escape, eating and sleeping, drinking unboiled water, digging wild vegetables, stealing, begging, and relying on a little copper coin he got from the traffickers for food, Dai Erdong stumbled and walked without knowing how far, passing a Another village looked as poor and filthy as Dai's Village, and the people living in these places were all the same as the people in Dai's Village, with ragged clothes, dirty and thin.

The rural areas in northern China at the end of the Ming Dynasty were so dilapidated and dilapidated. Compared with the situation in Shaanxi, Shandong was actually quite good: in Shandong, the common people could survive by selling their sons and daughters for a while.But in Shaanxi, the common people can't survive even if they sell their sons and daughters.

China during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty was such a miserable world where the people were in dire straits.

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I don't know how many days after he fled, full of despair and a growling stomach, Dai Erdong trembled with his arms folded, wandering aimlessly on the road, after the copper coins he found from the traffickers were exhausted , Although she ate bark, gnawed grass roots, caught mice and frogs, and collected all edible things along the way, she almost ate dead human flesh, but she was still dizzy with hunger.

She doesn't know the way and can only rely on her head and intuition.There are dangers everywhere in the wild: wild dogs, bandits, poisonous snakes that have not yet hibernated, human traffickers everywhere, and hungry and crazy refugees-they have really begun to eat dead human flesh!
Unfortunately, the unlucky Dai Erdong finally met such a cannibal who was feasting on the bones. When he rushed towards him with red eyes, Dai Erdong was so frightened that he jumped into a river.

It was late autumn, and the weather in the north during the Little Ice Age at the end of Ming Dynasty was extremely cold. The icy river water suddenly flooded to her waist and washed away her torn clothes, but she still struggled and continued to escape. Crawled out with hands and feet on the buttocks.

When Dai Erdong struggled to climb to the other side of the river.Her legs were completely numb.She groped her way through barren fields and woods, until at last she found a small estate.Exhausted, she still dared not sit down and rest for a while—she was afraid she would die of hypothermia—but she knew she didn't have the strength to go any farther.She had to try and find someone for help.

Although there are very few kind-hearted people in this world, Dai Erdong, who is completely desperate, has no choice but to admit even if he encounters a human trafficker.

She stumbled along a dirt road to the gate of the manor, only to find that the gate was open and there was no one there.So, Dai Erdong tried to look inside, and then accidentally fell into the mud and fell into the ground inside the door.

On the ground, she saw a small clay bowl with some food in it.She looked closer again - it was a bowl of rice!White rice!It also mixed some meat and bones in it!She can't remember the last time she saw a whole bowl of white rice!
But why put a bowl of rice here, just put it on the ground?When she heard a chained dog barking nearby, she understood everything.

--damn it! !Even a dog eats better than her! ! !God! ! ! !What kind of world is this? ! ! ! !
This new discovery made her full of anger, and she didn't know where the strength came from. She immediately grabbed the bowl of dog food, ignored the vicious dog, sat on the ground and gorged herself - it's pitiful, this Already the best meal she had this year!

However, the meal was not over, because the barking of the dog attracted a servant in the manor, who immediately beat her to the corner with a stick, and then the stick rained down, ready to steal the owner's dog. The crime of food, let's beat Dai Erdong to death.

Fortunately, Dai Erdong was stopped by a steward before Dai Erdong was beaten.Then, the steward ordered her to drag her over, washed her with water, and found that although she was thin and dark-skinned, her facial features were fairly regular, so she smiled cheaply.

——Until then, Dai Erdong didn't know that the manor where he broke in to grab food with the watchdog was the rural courtyard of Yan Shenggong Confucian Mansion.And the steward in front of him came to inspect from the Confucian mansion.It just so happened that the Confucian mansion recently lacked a little girl doing chores, and I haven't had time to find Ren Yazi to buy it.Now she happened to bump into him, so she simply signed the deed of selling herself, and went back to the Confucian mansion with him to work.

What?She is unwilling to sign the deed of sale?If you don't sign it, you will be killed. Feed the dog!
Therefore, Dai Erdong, who knew very well that she would probably starve to death and freeze to death wandering outside, had no choice but to swallow her anger and start her career as a slave.

Well, by the way, in order to show the "literary spirit" of Confucianism, she was given an "elegant name" by a certain steward: Yaohan.

For Dai Erdong, or the "Yaohan" girl, although being a slave is very humiliating, it is precisely because she was sold to the Kong family that she was able to survive this winter without worrying about being starved to death or freezing to death. ...

However, the seemingly luxurious and wealthy Yanshenggong Confucian Mansion is also a terrifying place that cannibalize people without spit out bones.

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——Qufu, Shandong, was the former capital of the State of Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period, the hometown of Confucius, and the place where the descendants of Confucius lived together.

The Confucian Mansion in Qufu, Shandong is a symbol of Confucian civilization.Located in Qufu County, the Confucian family's "Yanshenggong Mansion" covers an area of ​​more than 100 acres, a piece of dark ancient buildings, three black lacquered gates, countless places of interest, and countless aristocratic styles. Countless extravagances.

The rulers of the feudal dynasties of all dynasties, in order to consolidate their feudal dictatorship ideologically, used Confucianism as a tool of ideological rule, respected Confucius very much, and also "thoughtful" for the descendants of Confucius. Add grandeur".Since the Han Dynasty, the titles of the descendants of Confucius have been changed repeatedly, from the title of king to prince, and since the Northern Song Dynasty, the descendants of Confucius have been canonized as the hereditary "Yansheng Gong", and a large-scale mansion was built in Qufu City.

From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Ming Dynasty, the long years of more than 20 centuries have passed away with the wind. In the past, many rich and powerful families who were famous for their food, from the Four Princes of the Warring States Period to the Eight Pillars of Guanlong in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and even Genghis Khan’s gold Families have all perished in the flames of war.

But as long as the court scholars and bureaucrats continue to govern the world with the way of saints, Duke Yan Sheng of Shandong Confucian Mansion will be the honored guest of the rulers of all dynasties.

Even if the Hu people invaded and the country changed, it would not hurt the hair of the Confucian mansion—on the contrary, the more the Hu people ruled the country, the more they wanted to benevolent to the Han people in the world and win over the Han scholar-officials. The Confucian mansion gave the Confucian family more titles, land and wealth.

The world-renowned Confucian Mansion Holy Gate, a unique thousand-year-old family...

The Confucian family in Qufu is indeed the most "aristocratic" family in Chinese history.

And the whole Confucian family is quite proud of this, thinking that the blood of their own family is the most noble existence in the world.Even the most noble royal family of this dynasty in the world, in the eyes of the descendants of the Confucian family, is just a nouveau riche who "has only been rich for 200 years"-the pattern on the gate of the Confucian mansion reads "Yingguo Xianxiu, Anfu and Honorable Mansion" Second, the couplet of the same day and the old article "The Family of a Moral Sage" is a wonderful portrayal of this kind of arrogance.

Passed down for thousands of years, the various rules and taboos in the Confucian Mansion are outrageously numerous, even more exaggerated than the royal family.

For example, in the Confucian Mansion, there are strict restrictions on the relationship between men and women. Adult men other than Yan Shenggong are not allowed to enter the inner house, otherwise they will be beaten to death with random sticks.In most cases, the female relatives of the inner courtyard were not allowed to go out, otherwise they would also be beaten to death with sticks.Even for the water used in the inner house, the water bearers are not allowed to step over the gate of the inner house, so there is a special water tank in the Confucian mansion. Fetch water from the tank... As for the delivery of daily necessities such as food and clothing from the outside to the inner house, it is even more troublesome. Just sending the message has to go through several people. Don't know who to hold accountable,
Then, in daily speech, those servants and maids also have to abide by a lot of rules, such as taboo to say the name of the master, and try to use other words to bypass the words that appear in the name of the master.