Three thousand miles in exile

Liu Zhan's father in his previous life was an alcoholic and addicted to alcohol. In his memory, his father was rarely sober. He either drank with a bottle or fell asleep. When he woke up, he asked his grandparents or his wife for money. There is no peace in making trouble or beating or smashing the house.

When Liu Zhan was eight years old, his mother finally couldn't bear to run away from home, and two years later, his alcoholic father also passed away with terminal liver cancer.

At that time, my grandparents were already in their 70s, and the family relied on two uncles to provide some monthly financial support. When Liu Zhan arrived, his grandparents passed away one after another, so Liu Zhan went to the army for a way out.

After time travel, Liu Zhan felt that he seemed to have returned to his childhood days, when he was struggling to survive for a meal.

In the beginning of spring, the terraced fields outside Tiancang Village are full of busy figures. Liu Zhan is bending over to transplant rice seedlings in the Liu family's ten mu of land.

The freshly melted snow water in the field was freezing cold. Even though it was spring, the weather had not yet warmed up. After soaking in the ground for a day, my feet were so cold that I couldn’t feel it. I almost fell asleep when I got home at night. This kind of life lasted for a whole month.

After the spring plowing, Liu Xueyuan plans to take the stone grains at home to the county town to exchange for grain. By the way, he also sells the rabbit fur that Liu Zhan hunted in winter for money. Also keep up.

The father and son came to the grain store where they exchanged food last time. Because it was not the peak season for food exchange after the autumn harvest, the grain store was very quiet, and there was only one shopkeeper sitting behind the counter to settle accounts.

"One stone of refined grain is exchanged for two stones of coarse grain." The shopkeeper said unhurriedly when he saw someone coming to exchange grain.

"Dare to ask the shopkeeper, has the price of grain not dropped after the beginning of spring?" Liu Xueyuan asked.

The shopkeeper looked Liu Xueyuan up and down, perhaps seeing that Liu Xueyuan's conversation was not as vulgar as ordinary peasants, so he replied to him.

"I would like to remind you that the price of grain will only be bullish and not bearish. The market for coarse grains is as tight as that of refined grains. Maybe it won't even be possible to exchange two stones in a few days."

Liu Xueyuan was surprised. "Why?"

How could the tenants in the mountains know about the world's major events, and the shopkeeper looked at them with disdain.

"Last month, Xixia fought with our great Chu in Youzhou. The king of Xixia sent 15 troops to take down our three cities in just ten days. Now the world is shaking. His Majesty the Emperor has ordered to mobilize all the troops and horses to destroy Xia. The war is likely to be protracted."

Liu Xueyuan was beyond shocked. No matter how courageous the businessman is, he would never fabricate such a big event as Xixia's conquest of the three cities of Dachu. The news must be true. After ten years of peace, there will be gunpowder again in the world!

As a result, they have no choice but to exchange food at the price of the grain bank.

After exchanging two stones of coarse grain with the shopkeeper, the father and son went to Buzhuang to sell the rabbit fur.

On the way, Liu Xueyuan couldn't stop sighing. "Your Majesty is really reckless. Emperor Wen spent ten years painstakingly creating a peaceful and prosperous world. Alas, now that the war is breaking out again, it will only be the common people who will suffer..."

Liu Zhan listened to Liu Xueyuan's nagging, but he felt that such a self-righteous emperor should be given a blow to him.

What's more, war is not necessarily a bad thing for the nobles. As long as the war does not burn into the Central Plains, the more wars the emperor will rely on the ministers, Liu Zhan slandered in his heart.

Both father and son came to Buzhuang with their own thoughts.

According to the market price, fifteen rabbit furs were exchanged for 330 Wen, and a complete rabbit skin can be sold for 22 Wen.

Liu Zhan couldn't help thinking about it. Rabbits can be slaughtered in a year, and they can be raised with some weeds on weekdays. Maybe he can find a way to dig a litter of wild rabbits from the mountains and bring them home to try.

After leaving the cloth village, Liu Xueyuan led Liu Zhan into the study.

The clerk in the study squinted his eyes at the two of them, seeing the poor appearance of the two of them in coarse clothes, he felt contemptuous and came to rub their books, and was thinking that if the time for a cup of tea was not gone, he would drive them away.

Liu Xueyuan went around and didn't seem to find the book he wanted to buy, so he came back and asked the buddy. "Little brother, I want to buy a thousand-character text, but I'm afraid that the new book is not enough money. Do you have books that have been resold by others for sale?"

"It's a book that someone else changed hands. I'll go and see if there is a thousand-character essay." The clerk didn't expect that Liu Xueyuan really came to buy books.

Tired of walking, Liu Zhan squatted on the threshold and waited. When the guy went to the warehouse, he said jokingly, "The guy must have wanted to drive us out just now."

Liu Xueyuan smiled helplessly.

When paying, Liu Zhan trembled at the price of 250 Wen for a second-hand thousand-character text. Liu Xueyuan was hesitant to buy a pen, ink, paper and inkstone to write silently by himself. More than 500 Wen, and finally bought a second-hand Thousand-Character Wen.

Liu Zhan couldn't help sighing in his heart, no wonder the ancient farmers had to go bankrupt to pay for a student.

After leaving the study, the father and son spent four copper coins on the roadside to buy two bowls of plain noodles, and then went home after eating.

Afterwards, Cao Wen and the Zhang family picked a good day to bring their children to pay homage to Liu Xueyuan.

Due to limited conditions, everyone didn't pay much attention to it. The classroom was set in the main room. The four families each brought two catties of meat and one hundred coins as a bundle of repairs. The children respectfully kowtowed to Liu Xueyuan.

On the first day of class, everyone first learned their own names, and each person followed with a sandbox.

Liu Zhan was seven years old and studied for four years. Liu Xueyuan wanted to restrain Liu Zhan from going to the mountains to act wildly, so he let him attend classes together, but he didn't know the ancient characters of Dachu that Liu Zhan couldn't understand at all and could only rely on guessing.

In case Liu Xueyuan saw the clue, Liu Zhan followed suit quietly.

It was also on this day that Liu Zhan knew that his name in this world was Liu Mingzhan, and that the Liu family belonged to the generation of Ming characters in Liu Zhan's generation, but Liu Zhan still selectively removed the Ming characters, and he was still called Liu Zhan.

Naturally, poor people do not have paper and pens to practice calligraphy. Everyone uses a stick as a pen to write and draw on the sand table. However, even so, Liu Xueyuan corrected everyone's pen holding posture over and over again, just practicing his own name for several days. Until you can write well.

After learning to write his own name, Liu Xueyuan began to teach Thousand Characters, reciting sentence by sentence.

At the beginning, the teenagers were fresh and could bear it, but after a long time, they became painful, and Liu Zhan was one of them. The two-hour class time in the afternoon every day was a torment for the teenagers.

So it was midsummer, when get out of class was over, Liu Zhan was lazily lying under an old tree at the edge of the village to enjoy the cool air, when suddenly Zhang Xiaoman hurried over.

"Boss, your second brother got into a fight!"

"Che'er? What's going on?" Liu Zhan frowned.

Zhang Xiaoman said: "Someone joked about your second uncle having an affair with the widow from the next village, and he just overheard it, so..."

Liu Zhan is funny and angry, this cheap second uncle is really not a fuel-efficient lamp.

The widows in Tiancang Village have been hooked up by Liu Xueyi for a long time, but they have developed into the next village. Even the old lady has come forward and told him, but how can they hang out or hang out.

The Liu family has long been disappointed with Liu Xueyi, and at the same time, Che'er has become more and more silent. Liu Zhan did not expect that Che'er, who usually looks timid, would fight with others because of his father.

When Liu Zhan came to time and space, several teenagers were huddling together, outnumbered and outnumbered, only Cao Zhuang, Cao Ming and Wen Qingshan were helping to fight, and there were eight or nine people on the other side!

Over there, Che'er was pushed down on the ground by a tall man and beat him fiercely. Liu Zhan, who was protecting his weaknesses, immediately became angry, and punched the tall man on the head with a punch, making him stare at him.

These teenagers were very unfamiliar and were not from the village, so Liu Zhan naturally didn't need to keep a hand in the fight, so he picked up the stick at the side and swung it over.

Zhang Xiaoman was so anxious that he scratched his ears and scratched his cheeks, finally gritted his teeth and rushed in to fight with a groan, the fight was inseparable for a moment.

As the so-called capture the thief first, capture the king, Liu Zhan let go of the man he had beaten so helplessly, chased up from behind, and kicked the arrogant black and strong boy to the ground.

The boy was stunned immediately, he brought all these people here but he never thought of doing it himself.

"damn you!"

But Liu Zhan didn't give anyone a chance to scold and dance vigorously with the stick in his hand. The black and strong boy had no power to fight back, and finally had to lead him away in disgrace.

But before leaving, I still didn't forget to say harsh words. "Liu Zhan, right? Just wait and see! Brothers, let's go!"

Cao Zhuang snorted. "I don't even look at whose territory our Tiancang Village belongs to. I dare to come here next time and beat you to the point of crying!"

Zhang Xiaoman also said in a choked voice: "Our leader is someone who has hunted wild boars, who are you? Get lost!"

Those teenagers were so angry that they couldn't speak, they could only speed up their pace and leave.

After the war, the clearing returned to calm.

"Aren't you hurt?" Liu Zhan looked at everyone.

Cao Ming said, "What's the point of being beaten?"

Wen Qingshan covered a dark circle under his eyes and said angrily: "That little monkey-like man greets his face all the time, Grandpa, I will poke his eyes blind next time."

Several people joked with each other, Liu Zhan went over and brought Che'er up. "You're not hurt?"

Che'er just lowered her head and said nothing.

Liu Zhan patted the dirt on his head and shoulders and said: "Your father is your father, you are you, no matter what they say? The next time we fight, ask brother to join us. If it wasn't for Da Zhuang, they just met. Are you stupid to several people by yourself?"

Che'er lowered her head and whispered something. "I see."

Seeing that the child bowed his head again, Liu Zhan rubbed his head angrily. "Go back. If your uncle asks, he will say that it's none of your business that brother fights with others, do you understand?"

Che'er looked up at Liu Zhan in surprise and quickly lowered her head.

On the way home, Liu Zhan was thinking about how to explain the fight to Liu Xueyuan, but he didn't expect that a big family drama was about to be staged, who would care about the trivial matter of Liu Zhan's fight?

According to legend, Li Shi, the most beautiful widow in the village next door, was sitting in the main room crying so pitifully. The old lady, Liu Xueyuan and his wife, and Liu Xueli and his wife were all there.

The widow, Mrs. Li, cried out. "Brother Yi and I were friends, but he said that if I was pregnant, he would marry me and come in. Now my belly is four months old. How can you stand in the village as a widow with a big belly? If he doesn't come looking for me , I can only come to find him, how can he say that ruining the marriage is ruining the marriage! Wuwuwuwu, my life is really miserable!"

Liu Zhan knew about this widow. Her husband, also surnamed Li, once served as the general banner in the army, and later died of illness and left four acres of private land for his wife and children.

Military farms have ten taxes and seven taxes, while private farms only need ten taxes and three taxes, so the widow Li's life is not bad. The bachelors in these villages on Qiyun Mountain all want to have a relationship with her, but Widow Li just doesn't like her, but Liu Xueyi hooked him up easily.

It would be fine if Widow Li was single, but Widow Li had a son who was said to be 13 years old, an age at which he could be independent in ancient times.

At this time, Widow Li came to remarry, how would the Li family's property be calculated?How should such a big stepson be arranged?

Liu Zhan drove Che'er back to the room, so that he would not come out to act wild when he heard something bad again, and sent Che'er away. Liu Zhan squatted in the corner to listen to gossip.

The old lady was so angry that she covered her heart and screamed for her life. Liu Xueli and his wife turned their heads sideways and did not speak, but it could be seen that they were very displeased with Widow Li.

As for Liu Xueyuan's face was completely dark, Liu Zhan's mother, Mrs. Zhao, also sighed as she sat aside.

Liu Xueyuan patted the table. "Where's Liu Xueyi? Where did he go?"

"Second Uncle hasn't come back for three days." Third Fang Fang whispered.

After hearing this, Liu Xueyuan stood up angrily. "Third brother, follow me to arrest people!"

"Where are we going to arrest people?" Liu Xueli was stunned.

Liu Xueyuan said angrily: "Look for the widow's house in the village, and the tea house and wine shop at the foot of the mountain, but these are the few places!"

The movement of the Liu family attracted the attention of the neighbors, and Zhang Fusheng informed his brothers to follow Liu Xueyuan to look for it. How could Liu Zhan be missing for such an interesting thing? Liu Xueyuan was so angry that he didn't notice that Liu Zhan followed. .

Tiancang Village is only that big, and the group quickly found Liu Xueyi at Widow Hu's house.

When Liu Xueyuan broke the door and went in, Liu Xueyi was drinking and hanging out with Widow Hu in disheveled clothes, drunk and dreaming to death, so happy.

Liu Xueyuan originally wanted to arrest him, but no one noticed that Widow Li had followed her to find him.

Seeing that Liu Xueyi was happy in the arms of another woman, Widow Li rushed to fight with Widow Hu in anger. The scene was really embarrassing.

"You have lost all face of our Liu family!" Liu Xueyuan slapped Liu Xueyi on the face.

The so-called elder brother is like a father, Liu Xueyi would be convinced if he was slapped, but Liu Xueyuan was even more furious by his dying look.

Widow Hu's home was already surrounded by curious villagers. Liu Xueyi was shameless, and Liu Xueyuan had to take care of the Liu family's face, so he had to swallow his anger and go home.