Ji Tang

Chapter 2 The Strange Boy

In autumn, the fifth year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty, in a bamboo forest in Jiangjia'ao, Haowei County, Gyeonggi Province.

"Xingtian competed with the emperor for gods, and the emperor cut off his head and buried him on the mountain of Changyang. He used the breasts as his eyes, his muscles as his mouth, and he danced with his limbs."

There was a crisp sound of reading from the bamboo forest that was as big as an acre. Judging from the voice, it should be that of a child.

But the ups and downs of the sentences make people feel very comfortable.

Coupled with the somewhat cynical tone, it makes people even more curious.

"Hey! This ancient man was really imaginative! Even after his head was chopped off, he could still use his breasts as eyes, his belly eye as a mouth, and fight with an axe!

Tsk!Tsk!Tsk!Who can say that the ancients are rigid and boring? Who am I to worry about?It would be a pity to have such a rich imagination, if it were left to future generations..."

Walking into the bamboo forest, a young man wearing an ordinary cloth with a sly look on his pretty face was lying on a strange chair. The bottom of the chair was made of two arc-shaped curved pieces of wood, which swung up and down. There was a boy about eleven or twelve years old.

At this time, Ji Song was holding a book wrapped in unknown black bark with both hands, reading it carefully, and making tut-tsk sounds from time to time.

But at the end of the sentence, there was a vicissitude of life that should not have appeared in his innocent eyes.

"The sea has turned into a mulberry field. It has been 11 years. Why did you come to the Tang Dynasty in the first place? And it was still the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, and Wude was five years old!
Now except for Hedong, Guanzhong, Shuzhong and parts of the Central Plains, which are relatively stable, other places are still in chaos. "

With a sad face on his face, Ji Song closed the books in his hands and placed them on the bamboo table beside him. Only then did the title of the book, which had been blocked by his little hand, reveal itself.

I saw three small seal characters jumping out on it: "The Classic of Mountains and Seas".

"But what the hell are the Liangshan Mountains in the distance?

Also, my current location looks like the location of my old hometown? "

Ji Song patted Naoren, who had a headache. He really couldn't figure out how he got here across more than 1000 years.

Although I have read many such time-travel novels, when it actually happened to me, I realized that I didn’t really like it.

"Harm! Ye Gong is really a dragon!"

The conjecture in my heart may just be dissatisfaction with the current situation and the sustenance of the longing in my heart.

There are no mobile phones or computers here, and there are almost no entertainment options. Ji Song doesn't know how he survived these 11 years.

When I opened my eyes, I found that I had become a newborn baby. I only eat and sleep every day.

At that time, his father, Ji Wu, was the head of this small family. Due to the decline of the family over the years, it had already reached the point of falling apart.

If it weren't for his father's frequent relief to the clan members, which gave him some prestige in the clan, it's hard to say that this small family would not have been able to survive long ago.

But this also makes it even more difficult for families who are not already wealthy, and they can barely afford food and clothing.

Who knows the confused expression on his face when he found out that he had returned to his hometown more than 1000 years ago.

When her parents saw her, they thought she had given birth to a fool, and they were nervous for several days.

At that time, the Tang Dynasty had not yet been established, and Haoji County where he was located was under the rule of the Sui Dynasty.

However, the small court at that time was already in turmoil.

After Li Yuan raised the flag to rebel, Li Yuan's daughter Li Xiuning led her women's army back and forth across the land of Guanzhong. There were scenes of panic and chaos everywhere.

Fortunately, the Detachment of Women had strict discipline and never harassed ordinary people.

In addition, my father is good at martial arts and has gathered more than 100 members of his family, so he is really a real thief.

Otherwise, Ji Song would not have grown so big.After Li Xiuning welcomed Li Yuan to live in Guanzhong, the entire Guanzhong quickly settled down. Because of his outstanding martial arts, his father Ji Wu was recruited into Zuo Xiaowei to serve in the Sixteenth Guards.

In the following years, Ji Song spent less and less time with his father, often only seeing each other for a year and a half. Only he and his mother, Wu, were left in the family to depend on each other.

For 11 years, if he hadn't occasionally thought of the past, he would have thought that he was a native of the Tang Dynasty.

Because like other children, Ji Song has to hide everything about himself and never do anything that goes against his age, just because he is afraid that someone will regard him as different.

Ji Song's heart was full of his parents from his previous life. At the beginning, he really couldn't accept two strangers as his new parents.

However, the inheritance of blood cannot be faked, even if there is a soul from a later generation living in this body.

Mother's meticulous love and care cannot be faked, until one time when she was willing to sacrifice herself for Ji Song to survive, Ji Song cried out with tears in her eyes, "Mother", which she had never called before. That year Ji Song is five years old, and this is the first time he speaks.

And in that year, Ji Song's father Ji Wu came back. He was now a team leader of the Zuo Xiaowei Mansion of the Tang Dynasty (the military system of the Tang Dynasty was five men per team, two teams per fire, and five fires per team). In other words, Ji Song's father, Ji Wu, was a captain who could command fifty soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. This was already an amazing achievement for ordinary people.Moreover, for killing the enemy, he was awarded the title of Deputy Lieutenant for Resistance. This was a martial arts honor from the eighth rank. An ordinary person with no connections and no backing could achieve this position, which shows Ji Wu's bravery.

Ji Wu rushed back in time and rescued their mother and son. Ji Wu was ecstatic when he saw his son calling him daddy.

Other people's children started babbling when they were more than one year old, but his son could not speak when he left last year. Ji Song was already more than three years old at that time.

As a low-level military attache of the Tang Dynasty, Ji Wu's family background was pretty good. In addition, he was brave in killing enemies and captured a lot on the battlefield. Jiangjia'ao, under the rule of Haoji County, was considered to be a middle-class family.

In addition to Yongye Field, there is also Koufen Field, which adds up to a full 0.81 acres (one acre in the Tang Dynasty is [-] acres today). Many doctors were visited for his son's illness, but they were all helpless.

The better thing is that except for being temporarily unable to speak, everything else is normal. He is even much smarter than other children. No matter what he learns, he can learn it once he is taught.

In the end, he could only attribute it to the fact that the child was a late bloomer, and perhaps it would have been better if he were older.

When Ji Wu came back this time, he not only saved his mother and son, but his son's illness was also cured. How could this not make Ji Wu crazy with excitement.

So, Ji Wu waved his hand and started a banquet!

Ji Song let go of his worries and enjoyed his parents' care and pampering with peace of mind. In addition, he deliberately showed his intelligence that was different from other children, which made his parents extremely happy.

But the good times did not last long. When Ji Song was five years old, his hard days came.

Ji Song really couldn't understand that in the Tang Dynasty, when the literacy rate was less than one in a thousand, his mother was actually literate, and she still had three volumes of books at home that could be passed down to the family.

Among them, there is a volume of books that even my mother cannot read.

This volume has no name and is written on a large piece of brocade silk. However, this volume can only be handed over to Ji Song after he completes his elementary education.

So, Ji Song added something to his childhood life - reading.

Ever since his mother Ji Wu took out the book "Mencius" under Ji Song's horrified eyes, Ji Song knew that his childhood career was coming to an end.

Ji Song's intelligence was fully revealed after he started studying. This surprised the Ji family members and shouted that the Ji family was going to give birth to a Kirin son.

Perhaps as a result of the fusion of two souls, Ji Song's memory and understanding abilities have greatly increased. Reading and literacy are as easy as eating and drinking.

If he is in future generations, he will definitely be a top academic figure.Although I can't say that I have a photographic memory, I can memorize it by heart a few times at most.

The only thing that troubled Ji Song was that her mother only knew a lot of words, and she knew only a little about many things.

In desperation, Ji Song could only write down the things he didn't understand and the words he didn't recognize, and ask others for advice when he had the opportunity in the future.

If he could barely accept reading, then another thing troubled him.

After all, in this era, the status of scholars is quite high.

However, when Ji Song saw his father smiling strangely and saying that he wanted to teach him how to strengthen his body, Ji Song felt that his future life would be absolutely dark.

At this time, parents have nothing to say to their disobedient children, except for one word: beat.

As the saying goes, a filial son emerges from under a stick, and a jade cannot become a useful tool if it is not polished.

After Ji Song resisted a little, he sincerely chose to obey his father's words, practice martial arts well, become a general or prime minister in the future, and become one of the five good children of the Tang Dynasty.

Ji Song touched his butt that was still aching and thought so!

Unforeseen circumstances bring unexpected events, and people have misfortunes and misfortunes. Less than three years after enjoying the care of his parents, a former subordinate of his father came to Ji Song with a dark clay pot and thirty copper coins. Home.

After saying my condolences to my sister-in-law, I couldn't say any more, so I hid my face and ran away!
Ji Song was eight years old that year.

In the end, Ji Song learned that his father died of exhaustion during the battle with the enemy, and that the dark clay pot was his father's ashes, and the copper coins were the post-war pension.

At the same time, there was also a writing from the Ministry of War, which basically said: Because Ji Wu, the deputy captain of the Imperial Guard, fought bravely and took the lead, he was rewarded with twenty acres of Yongye land, rent-free and mediocre, until his son came of age.

Ji Song endured his extreme sadness and stayed with his grieving mother.

Now that he has lost his father, nothing can happen to his mother again.

Otherwise, Ji Song really doesn't know if he will go crazy.

However, he still underestimated the strength of the Guanzhong woman. After one night, his mother dealt with his father's death without expression. Those former subordinates and tribesmen of his father also spontaneously came to help his mother. Most of these people had been taught by his father. The favor, so they don't need to worry about many things.

The mother did not refuse, but used half of the father's pension to help the disabled soldiers.

Only then did Ji Song know that only 26 of the Fubing tribesmen who followed his father had returned, while the others had stayed in the far north forever. Half of them were disabled and could no longer go to the battlefield!
(End of this chapter)