Chapter 2: A house of good deeds is full of joy
In the second year of Taiwu, in the northern border of Daxia, Yuyang County.
As the sun sets over the western mountains, the afterglow interweaves with the mist. Farmers return home along the country road at dusk, and their cattle and sheep follow them into their pens.
In a mud-roofed house to the north outside the city, dark-skinned farmers, a girl with high hair, and a young man in plain white clothes were gathered around a dilapidated wooden table, eagerly waiting for their meal.
The flames flickered in the oil lamp on the table, making the dark room seem to sway with it.
After a while, a peasant woman in a coarse cloth skirt came out of the night outside the hall, threw the pottery plate and bamboo basket in her hand on the table, and returned to the kitchen with a cold face.
"Master, show off first."
The farmer pushed the plate and bamboo basket in front of the young master, making excellent use of the word "showy".
On the plate were shredded radish pickled in salt, and in the basket were four small eggs-sized steamed vegetables. The land in Yuyang County was barren, and the people's three meals a day consisted of these, which remained the same all year round.
The young master picked up a steamed bun from the bamboo basket and took it out. After observing it for a while, he said, "Lao Qiu, have you ever eaten meat?"
Hearing these words, the girl with the sky-high hairdo suddenly became interested and looked at Lao Qiu: "Dad, what is meat?"
"If something tastes worse than steamed buns, one bite will cause abdominal pain all night long."
"Hiss."
The girl gritted her teeth, as if she had begun to have abdominal pain, and her face was wrinkled.
At this time, the young master broke off half of the steamed bun in his hand and fed it to the girl. He took another piece and stuffed it into his mouth, and started chewing on his own.
His name is Ji You, a philosophy undergraduate at Linchuan University. He likes singing, dancing, rap, basketball, hiking, photography, and rock climbing. He is a good thief and very funny.
However, that was more than two years ago.
During the summer vacation of his freshman year, he followed an expedition group through the uninhabited land of Yunling, accidentally lost his way in the mountains, and finally came to this world.
Then he fainted on a field and was rescued by farmers in Yuyang County.
After waking up, everyone called him Master Ji.
Later, Ji You learned that there was a wealthy landowner in Yuyang County whose surname was Ji. He looked exactly like the eldest son of the Ji family, and even their names were exactly the same.
At that time, it took him a lot of talent to accept the fact that he had traveled through time, but he did not have the mentality to take it as he came. After coming out of the medical center, he wandered around the mountains for half a month, looking for the way back.
Then, the hanging heart finally died.
Later, someone told him that the Ji family was a famous landlord family in Yuyang County, so he thought that he could at least have enough food and clothing, which was a good start for Tianhu.
But then he realized that this was a scam.
Because just the day before he came to this world, the Yuyang Ji family was sanctioned for offending a cultivating sect, and the family members fled to death.
It is precisely because of this that the people in Yuyang County regard him as the young master of the Ji family who accidentally strayed into the mountains while fleeing.
Fortunately, Mr. Ji is not an unscrupulous landowner who is full of evil, and he is usually pretty good to his servants. Therefore, in the past two years, he, a fake, has been eating and drinking at the home of Lao Qiu, the former housekeeper of the Ji family.
Lao Qiu was a loyal servant of the Ji family. It is said that he was picked up by Mr. Ji from the roadside when he was about to starve to death.
So even if the family fortune is gone, he still calls Ji You "young master" on weekdays.
But Lao Qiu's wife didn't like him very much. After all, Lao Qiu started farming after he stopped being a housekeeper. The harvest at home was barely enough for a family of three, and no one wanted to talk too much at home for no reason.
"In two days, the county will send people to collect taxes and offerings. Our family eats more than other families, but now it's even worse."
"I'll go out and borrow some tomorrow, that's enough."
Lao Qiu chewed the steamed bun and said to his wife who was standing in the kitchen.
At the autumnal equinox every year, the people of Great Xia must hand over 60% of their farmland to support the court and immortals. Even though the people are now in dire straits, they have never reduced their income, so that every winter there are people dying of hunger all over the land.
This is not a rare scene in Daxia, but if there are people who can really avoid starving to death, it is an anecdote.
What's more, some old people who can't farm but need to eat and drink are sent to the nursing homes, which are living people's tombs, while they are still alive.
Li Shuping walked in with wild vegetable soup: "Borrow? Where can I borrow it? In this world, who can have enough food?"
"I have a real relative who will never leave us alone."
"Didn't you say that you were a wild orphan who was adopted by the Ji family at the age of eight, so what kind of relatives could you have?"
"I also have an old father-in-law." Lao Qiu lowered his head and muttered.
Li Shuping was stunned for a moment and then became furious: "Since I followed you, the good times have only lasted a few days, and I have to borrow everything from my parents' family?"
"When I was the housekeeper of the Ji family, I also let you live a good life for a few days..."
Li Shuping caught a glimpse of Lao Qiu reaching into the basket and knocked it off: "Don't eat it, give it to the young master. The young master is growing tall."
Mrs. Qiu, who has a rather venomous tongue, is actually a sharp-tongued person.
Ji You reached out to the bamboo basket with some emotion, and heard the second half of Li Shuping's sentence echoing in the room: "Eat a strong meal, and then go to the fields to pull the rake for spring plowing." "How can you let the young master go to the fields to do farm work?"
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Li Shuping smashed the wotou into pieces and said: "The Ji family is gone, what can we eat if we don't go to the ground? You are the only one who still treats him as a young master. Otherwise, how could the daughter of the grand master's family break off the engagement with him?"
Young Master Ji originally had a marriage that had been set since he was a child, and the object was Fang Ruoyao, the daughter of the county magistrate's family.
However, on the third day after Jiyou was sent to the hospital, the county government's carriage arrived.
At that time, the county magistrate Fang Zhongzheng got out of the car with his daughter Fang Ruoyao and forced him to voluntarily sign an annulment letter, intending to cancel the marriage.
Ji You was still lying in the hospital before he could recover, so his fingerprints were pressed.
But he didn't feel bad, after all, she was someone else's daughter-in-law.
And just a few days ago, news came from the county town that Miss Fang was selected by Daxia Shengzong Tianshu Academy and would go to Shengjing to enter Taoism and cultivate immortality.
The Qingyun world has always respected those who cultivate immortals, and even the royal family has to pay three respects, but this immortal does not just cultivate if he wants to.
According to the laws of Daxia, civilians can only engage in production and cannot cultivate immortality in private. Otherwise, it will be a crime of beheading and will implicate the three clans.
Therefore, if Fang Ruoyao has the opportunity to become an orthodox immortal cultivator, she can really reach the sky in one step.
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So after this incident came out, Master Ji was laughed at for a long time.
But this was not Ji You's fault, but because the original Mr. Ji's reputation was not good.
Li Shuping now uses Miss Fang's family as an example, not to be sarcastic, but to make Ji You and Lao Qiu understand that the so-called Ji family has actually changed things a long time ago, and she wants to persuade him to recognize the reality.
Ji You broke off some steamed buns and fed them to Lao Qiu's daughter, and said, "Next autumn, I should be successful, and I will give Qiu Ru delicious food and spicy food."
"I want something delicious and spicy!"
Qiu Ru's eyes were bright, she held the steamed bun in her little hand and took a bite.
The little girl is five years old this year. The Ji family disappeared before she could remember, and she didn't live a good life with her. Now she can't even remember the smell of meat.
Li Shuping was a little helpless, thinking that she couldn't even eat now, but she still thought about the popular food and spicy food. This young master was probably terminally ill.
But there are always good things in hard times, just like her silly daughter.
Qiu Ru was frail and sick when she was born and coughed every day. In the past two years, she suddenly got better. Although the family was short of food and could not eat any meat, her daughter was getting stronger and stronger.
Dr. Chen in the county was considered a sage within a ten-mile radius. Even he was amazed when he saw it and categorically said that there was something wrong with this matter.
But Lao Qiu often told her that this was good news for good people, so she should be kind to the young master of the Ji family, but when will these poor days end?
"I've finished eating."
Ji You suddenly spoke up and stood up.
Lao Qiu was stunned for a moment: "Young master, how can you just eat this and then show off?"
"Forget it, I don't have any food left at home. Let's show off the leftovers later."
At Haishi, the night is deep, the moon reaches the top of the willow trees, the lights are out after the moon shines, and everything is silent.
Ji You left Lao Qiu's house and walked along the dark path into the city. At this time, there was a long red mark in the night sky across the sky, like a bleeding wound, dyeing the nearby night pink.
This is not a rare celestial phenomenon. It is said that it has existed since ancient times and has survived to this day.
"What does Tiansang... mean?"
"Does it mean that the sky is dead?"
Ji You thought about the series of syllables he heard on the walkie-talkie that day and was a little puzzled.
At this moment, he had arrived in front of a two-entry house, so he pushed the door open and entered.
He does not live in the old Qiu family, but in the only remaining ancestral home of the Ji family.
The house is large, but the valuables have been sold by the Ji family when they fled, and now only some broken bricks and tiles are left.
Ji You stepped into the second entrance, and suddenly saw a scholar in plain clothes sitting on a willow tree in the next courtyard. His face was like jade, and his eyebrows were drawn into the temples. He hung the oil lamp on the branch of the tree, held an old book and read silently, talking to the sky. of silver hooks in the same frame.
But when he saw someone coming, the scholar in the next courtyard took off the oil lamp and jumped down from the willow tree.
Ji You seemed to be accustomed to such scenes and ignored them. He turned back to the room, lit the candle, closed the doors and windows tightly, and carefully covered the black curtains.
"Lai Genhuazi."
He opened the drawer and pulled out a stick of incense called Hua Xian Yin by the dim light of the candle.
This fragrance has a calming effect and can make people fall into trance instantly.
Ji You inserted the incense stick into the incense burner, took off his boots, and sat on the bed. After a few breaths, a spiritual light appeared all over his body.
(End of chapter)