Datang Library

Chapter 1
hiss!so cold!

what happened?Is the heater broken?

No, why is it so dark!How did I fall asleep?
Bai Fan slowly opened his eyes, and what caught his eyes was not the dazzling array of bookshelves, but a wall, to be precise, an adobe wall.

this?This is where?Difficult to look up, a triangular roof, a few sparse purlins and a curved beam, that hangs on the roof purlins, is clearly the world's number one building material - thatched grass, which is the most respected by the poet saint Du Fu.

After counting carefully, there are seventeen holes on the roof of less than fifteen square meters, through which one can directly see the blue sky outside.

Cottages?A dilapidated thatched cottage?No, as if remembering something, Ji Ling stood up instantly, but then his eyes darkened, and he fell back immediately, hitting the back of his head against the wall again, and Bai Fan, who had just been awake for less than 5 minutes, passed out again.

This time, it seemed that there was something more in his mind, some fragments, or called memory fragments, a frail figure, only in his teens, with a yellow complexion, but with a sense of perseverance and unyielding.

As if seeing himself, the figure smiled at him knowingly, and then slowly turned into fragments that filled the sky until it disappeared.

Bai Fan wanted to call out, but he couldn't make a sound.

I felt one fragment after another hitting my head, and like a puppet, I completely lost the ability to move independently and could only accept it passively.

A figure in his 30s with a vicissitudes of life, who is this?Bai Da, an old soldier in the army, feels very familiar to him, it seems that this is the father of that figure.

A traditional hand-copied version of "The Analects of Confucius" with wrinkled and yellowed pages, and a sentence from Bai Da: You just need to learn to read and study hard, and father will handle the rest!

Memory fragments hit Bai Fan one by one, as if he had lived the life of a young man, also named Bai Fan, 14 years old.

His father, Bai Da, was an old soldier who was injured and retired from the Datang Army. He participated in the Battle of Luoyang and the Battle of Hebei all his life.

Bai Da, who had fought all his life, knew in his heart that he had been confused all his life, and he couldn't let his son follow him. He gave up all his family expenses (two taels of silver) and exchanged a broken book with a down-and-out scholar. The family doesn't let their son do anything, just read and study.

His son Bai Fan was also obedient, he learned to read from a wandering Taoist for a few days, and he was able to recite this Analects. In this way, he had read this book for three whole years without knowing that he had read it. How many times.

Unfortunately, last year, my old father, Bai Da, suddenly fell ill. According to the doctor's words, the old injury relapsed due to overwork, and time is running out.

Treating his father used up all the savings of the Bai family, and even the 190 mu of land rewarded by the court was sold by the scholar to [-] mu!However, Bai Da still left!

Before leaving, Bai Da looked at his son with a look that was so complicated that it was hard to explain, full of relief, hope, worry, and reluctance...

A helpless scholar buried his father with the help of his neighbors.

There was no food left at home, so he had no choice but to go to the mountains to learn to hunt and gather wild fruits for a living.

A scholar who has studied the Analects of Confucius for three years does not know the depth of knowledge, but he has a hard bone, "I would rather die than accept other people's charity",
This is what he said to others.Others say that this kid is stupid in reading, and the folks in the village can watch you starve to death?
In fact, the scholar knew in his heart that they were all poor people, and everyone was short of food. If he ate other people's food, they might lose a mouthful of life-saving food for the winter.

Three years of sage books have not been read in vain, and a whole body of bones, or awe-inspiring spirit, has appeared around this weak body.

After reading the life of the scholar, Bai Fan also felt a lot of emotion in his heart. There is something about this person that he admires, but there is also something that he disdains. So what about a benevolent gentleman?Is it right to starve yourself to death?

After sighing in my heart, I also understood my situation. I had time-traveled, and it should be the legendary soul wearer, and I found myself on the body of this stubborn scholar with the same name and surname, Bai Fan.

Talking to himself, he said to himself: Dude!You can leave at ease, and reincarnate in a wealthy family in the next life to study hard.

After waking up again, it was already an hour later, Bai Fan got up with difficulty, and looked around.

It really is a house with nothing but broken windows, a thatched house with [-] holes on the top, and two rotten wooden doors, as if the next time you open the door, it will fall down.

Under my buttocks is an earth bed built by my father with a thin layer of thatch on it, and the "Analects of Confucius" that is about to be smashed is placed in the innermost part.

Looking at the light outside the window, it should be noon at this time, outside is the thick white snow that just fell yesterday, if it weren't for this cold winter, the scholar Bai Fan would not have starved to death, it was this heavy snow that made him suffer from hunger and cold Underneath, a life just passed away quietly.

At this time, it was the eighth year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty, and the world was initially settled. I don't know how many people like the scholar Bai Fan in the world were swallowed by this ruthless snow?

It was too late to be grateful for the world, the sound of a rumbling stomach brought Bai Fan back to his senses.

Let's solve the problem of the first meal first, you can't starve to death again as soon as you arrive in a new place!

Slowly got off the dirt bed, wrapped himself in the thin rags, put on the shoes with holes all around, opened the door, gathered himself together, and bravely took the first step towards the outside world. step.

I'm not that nerdy Bai Fan, who is stupid in reading and can't borrow money?Can't you go to the city to make a living?After all, he is also a literate person.

its not right!Does working for others mean selling yourself as a slave in this day and age?That's not okay!

Thinking about the way of survival one by one in my heart, I kept stepping, walking in the snow on the village road with one deep foot and one shallow foot.

There are only [-] villagers in Baijiagou, and all of them have the surname Bai. One ancestor, counted as a big family without five blessings, but they are all poor and poor people. Bai Da, now his son Bai Fan is down and out again.

Thinking wildly in my heart, I walked slowly towards Sanyuan County. Baijiagou was about fifteen miles away from Sanyuan County. In this snowy day, I estimated that with my thin body, it would take at least two hours to walk there. Call for an hour.

Bai Fan, who had just walked out of the village entrance, saw a hurried figure in his eyes, dressed as a Taoist, walking towards this side in a hurry from a distant road, looking at this direction, it should be heading for Baijiagou.

Bai Fan stood still and began to look at the Taoist from a distance. He was wearing a dark blue Taoist robe. Although it was simple and unpretentious, the exquisite workmanship also showed its value. He had three long beards, a refined complexion, a wooden crown on his head, and a wooden crown in his left hand. Fuchen, look at the wrinkles on that face, this person is about fifty years old, and he is considered a long-lived person in this age.

Bai Fan thought to himself, this Taoist looks like a fairy.

Well, it doesn't matter if you are a real Taoist priest or a fake Taoist priest, as long as you are a rich Taoist priest, hehe, then you are sent by God to deliver food to me!

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