Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 218 Heavenly Divine State

"North... Beiyang..."

Chen Yan's astonishment contained a hint of unbelievable surprise.

"Father! Why is our Heavenly Shenzhou Beiyang?!"

The old man's blood pressure was immediately raised. He looked at Chen Yan, holding the cigarette stick, with a painful expression on his face. He endured so much that he didn't knock the copper smoke pot on Chen Yan's forehead.

"Stupid boy! Go ask that silly dog ​​under the tree with a crooked neck in the east of the village! See if he knows why we are Beiyang!"

Looking at Chen Yan's sluggish eyes, the old man was not angry at all.

"Beiyang is Beiyang! Chen Yan is Chen Yan! Why do you say you are called Chen Yan?! What are you doing all day long! What are you talking about! Stupid baby!"

Chen Yan was used to seeing his father's expression of hating iron and steel, so he didn't feel any fear in his heart, and kept his mouth shut.

When the old man saw his harapi look like a hob, he took a deep breath and stopped talking.

Dad didn't speak, but Wish heard his heartfelt voice.

'Well, I knew that the stupid baby of the Er family had a brain disease a few years ago. Now that he is getting bigger and bigger, his brain is getting worse and worse... Seeing how cowardly he is, he will definitely not be able to find a wife. There is a way out, let's talk about living first...'

Chen Yan was sulking with his neck stuck, but the old man couldn't argue with him, sighed, and said:

"This 'Beiyang' is because of the old name many years ago. At that time, before the change of dynasty, the emperor of the previous dynasty divided Tianshen Prefecture into two according to a big river. We call the one in the north Beiyang, and the one in the south is called Nanyang." 【Note 1】

Chen Yan was very excited because of such a statement. Doesn't this coincide with the memory in his impression?
Although the statement is a bit strange... But at least there is a roughly similar outline!

"Father, why didn't you tell me before!"

Seeing Chen Yan who was getting excited gradually, the old man sighed again.

"You know there is an egg for this, so it's not like you can't get a wife."

Chen Yan said awkwardly: "Didn't we discuss it earlier, let's not talk about this..."

Seeing his son's "cowardly look", the old man took a deep puff of the dry cigarette, and with a "hum chi" he sprayed out the thick white smoke from his nose, as if he had made a great decision. Looking at Chen Yan's eyes said:
"Two days ago, your brother-in-law who was studying abroad came back. He has gained a lot of knowledge now. When drinking last night, he told me that in the past two years, wars have been going on in various places in Tianshen State."

Chen Yan's complexion was complete, and he immediately caught the key words.

"fight!"

Was it the battles he remembered? !

Ever since Chen Yan came here, he has never been able to figure out whether this place is his hometown or not.

Here is very similar to my hometown, the customs are exactly the same, even the food is the same.

But... there are many differences.

This place is called "Tian Shenzhou", and it is the land blessed by the gods of the gods in the legend-this vulgar saying applies to every civilization that has experienced religious baptism.

There are many names for Chen Yan's hometown in history, so we can't see why from the name alone.

Before Chen Yan came here, she was just an ordinary office worker, without any special ability or identity. Even after coming here, she didn't know the old man in the ring.

Although after transmigrating into this body, I met a very good family member, but... still have no sense of belonging.

Chen Yan has been thinking, if this world, which is very similar to his own impression, is really his hometown, then, after a few hundred years, will the society develop to the way he remembers?Will his real parents and friends appear in history?
But he is just an ordinary person, even if this "Shenzhou" is really his hometown, even if his real parents and friends will really appear on the historical track, he will not live that long.

but……

If this is really his hometown...

Then, according to the course of history, he might be able to meet some people he dreamed of seeing.

That was something very important to him.

It was also one of the most important thoughts in his heart after coming to this world.

He couldn't help asking: "Father...why is there a war everywhere in the Divine State?"

The old man couldn't help grinning, showing a mouthful of big yellow teeth:

"I heard from your brother-in-law that the emperor's old man has been stealing his house for decades, and none of his [-] sons are his own. They could get along without knowing each other before, but now they want to elect a new emperor, Mr. I don’t know who got involved in the matter of the emperor’s wearing a hat, and it’s a huge mess!”

"Most of the eighteen sons have broken their skins with the old emperor. Heh, there are more than a dozen anti-Wang Zhancheng separatist regimes, and no one accepts the other! They are competing!"

Chen Yan was dumbfounded when he heard what his father said.

This... When is the history? !
In this era that he knows, the most exciting thing is the nine sons seizing the heir.

More than a dozen rebels against the king, none of them were born by the emperor...

I've never heard of such a thing.

The old man didn't notice Chen Yan's disappointment at all, he just knocked the cigarette pot on the sole of the old cloth shoe that was about to wear out, and took a puff of cigarette.

While puffing the clouds and mist, the gloating expression on the father's face gradually disappeared, replaced by a sad expression.

"Before your brother-in-law came back, he only thought that our Baihuyuan was remote, the terrain was high, the sky was high and the emperor was far away, and the flames of war could not reach us. That's why he wanted to come back from Nanyang to take refuge."

"But who knew, the county next door to us had a terrible military disaster a few days ago..."

Dad looked serious.

"Now it seems that as long as it is the Heavenly Divine State, no one can avoid it."

The old man looked at Chen Yan, swallowing the clouds, as if he had made a major decision, and whispered in that hoarse and thick voice:
"Silly boy, don't you always say that the world is so big, do you want to go and see it? Dad promises you..."

After saying this, Dad seemed to have aged a lot in an instant, his back became more rickety, and his spirit was obviously weaker. The sunken eye sockets made his face, which was rough and rough due to the sun exposure during the busy farming season, look even more haggard. .

Chen Yan heard the meaning of his father's words, and was taken aback: "I'm talking nonsense! My parents are here, my relatives and friends are here, and my roots are here! I live on our Baihuyuan Okay, what are you doing out there! Let’s take refuge in the mountains when the military disaster comes!”

The old man sighed softly: "Silly boy, if the military disaster is easy to hide, there won't be so many deaths in the next county... Do you know why you haven't been forced to go to school these days?"

Chen Yan bit the bullet and replied: "Because of the military disaster in the neighboring county, the masters of the Academy took refuge..."

The old man took a puff of tobacco: "The brave young men of Erhu came back and said that the master was unwilling to persuade the villagers to pay the grain and did not cooperate with the group of gangsters. The whole family was hanged on the beam of the academy."

Chen Yan's face was livid and he couldn't speak. When he thought of Mr. Academy's vivid face in his mind, he felt shuddering.

"I... I can try to change these..."

　In ancient times, Beiyang was originally another name for the Yellow Sea, which appeared around the Song Dynasty.In the late Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the Yangtze River estuary at Wusongkou in Shanghai was designated as the southern boundary of Beiyang. The area north of the Yangtze River was collectively called Beiyang, and vice versa was called Nanyang.

　　The Beiyang in the book is not the Beiyang in history, it is completely fabricated by the author.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)