I thought it was just the past and the present

086

Xiao Qi and Lu Xiaomeng faced each other, showing a "kind" smile to each other at the same time, Lu Xiaomeng turned to look at Mu Zhen, Mu Zhen had a gloomy face, showing no trace of emotion on his face.

Lu Xiaomeng stuck out her tongue: "My task in this world is to make the protagonist suffer together. The two of you...are you half natives, right? To survive in this world is to survive? Although I am on good terms with Jiang Ming, but, You two are actually a couple, and you have nothing to do with Jiang Ming, right?"

"friend."

"I know. But what I did will not harm him. I am a matchmaker. You see, I also helped him kill Yang Chuan. This is the biggest unstable factor besides the rebirth."

"If you called us here just to tell us these things, then I have to say goodbye." Xiao Qi stood up.

"It's not good that everyone belongs to the fox. One is more stable than the other." Lu Xiaomeng sighed, "Let's work together to determine who is the reborn person, okay? After all, my current coffee position is not big enough. I can't get in touch with Jiang Ming's affairs, and he and the two will be in the same company in the future, so we can only rely on you to protect him..."

Until he walked out of the ward, Xiao Qi didn't pay attention to her anymore.

Once outside, Mu Zhen asked, "Do you believe her?"

"I don't believe it, what she said can be said after a period of time when she recovers. She called me here in such a hurry, it shouldn't be just for these things. It's probably not convenient to say it in front of you..."

The two looked at each other - what did Lu Xiaomeng think could not be said in front of a third person?Or, she thinks that she is confident that she can fool Xiao Qi, but she is not sure whether Mu Zhen will believe her?And what Lu Xiaomeng said about being surrounded by purple air, being an emperor, and being half a native, is it really the only thing she can see?How much does she really know?

This traverser, wearing the skin of a small person, is now becoming more and more threatening.

"She was probably protesting too, but... since she knows so much about us, she really doesn't know who is the reborn person?"

"I prefer her to know, not to say... Either she is protecting the other party, or it is more beneficial for her to have exclusive information." Xiao Qi said, taking a breath, "I should have more contact with Yang Chuan at that time, Lu Xiaomeng was in such a hurry to kill him, definitely not because they were competitors. It's a pity... I was really careless at the time."

Because he underestimated Lu Xiaomeng, he even directly underestimated Yang Chuan.The only time Yang Chuan appeared in front of him was quickly lured away by Lu Xiaomeng.

Mu Zhen also let out a sigh, and the two looked at each other and smiled: "You infected me." Mu Zhen put his arm on Xiao Qi's shoulder, "There is one thing, Lu Xiaomeng is still right."

"what?"

"As half aboriginals, in fact, we just need to live a good life." After finishing speaking, Mu Zhen let out another breath.

This time Xiao Qi was breathing with him, but... After the breathing, Xiao Qi was stunned: "It's broken! I'm going over there!"

"Aren't you..." Did you die over there?Mu Zhen couldn't stop exhaling after saying three words - of course, even if he didn't exhale, saying these words in full would turn into some "nonsense".

Xiao Qi shook his head, quickly opened the car door, sat in, almost closed his eyes as soon as his butt touched the seat.He didn't know that Mu Zhen, who was sitting in the driver's seat, only had time to help him straighten his head, and then fell asleep with tears (hitting too often)...

When Xiao Qi opened his eyes, what he saw was not the roof of the car, nor the ceiling of his own room, but the dark beams.

He wanted to get up, but his body was extremely difficult to control.

Could it be that I killed myself with a poisonous snake or was rescued, but was kidnapped by someone?Now, is it because the poison of the snake has not been cleared, and it is immobile, or is it someone who has been drugged, and is temporarily inconvenient to move?

Xiao Qi raised his arm with difficulty, and then he knew that he was thinking too much just now.

His big hand with some small scars, distinct joints and slender fingers turned into a fleshy claw with five small dimples.

This is not the hand of an adult, it is definitely the hand of a child under the age of one.

Xiao Qi collapsed for a while... Is this a magical situation? !

The baby's body is difficult to control, his anger directly made "self" scream.

"Big brother! Big brother, don't cry." A little girl who was not as tall as the kang ran in, climbed up on the kang in twos and twos, hugged the boy on the kang in an uncomfortable position, and opened the wrap. Looking at the boy's tattered clothes, he stretched his neck and shouted out, "No pee... Big brother, be good, be good~ Big sister! Big brother is hungry!"

As soon as he came here, he let a strange little girl see Xiao Niao's Xiao Qi: "..."

"Hey! Got it!"

"Brother, don't cry~don't cry~" The little girl coaxed Xiao Qi with a good posture, and even tried to stuff her dirty fingers into Xiao Qi's mouth, but Xiao Qi refused with his mouth shut.After half a quarter of an hour, another big girl who was actually not much older than the little girl came in with a bowl.

"Brother is eating shit~"

The large celadon bowl was very dirty, and it contained rice paste. The eldest girl wiped the rice paste with a chopstick and poked it into the boy's mouth. After "feeding" a few times, the boy's eyes closed. When it was time to go, the eldest girl was about to leave with the bowl, but the little girl called out: "Sister!"

The older girl looked at her younger sister, while the younger girl looked at the bowl, and licked her mouth openly.

"Greedy cat!" Although the eldest girl said so to her younger sister, she still dipped the chopsticks in the mush in the bowl and handed them over.

Five days later, Xiao Qi roughly figured out his situation.

He did wear it again. If the ancient world is his responsibility, the modern one is because of the big pillow. Now this time travel has made him puzzled—it was agreed to wear the ancient world to the present, but it turned out to be a fucking fast time travel. ? !

The situation in the ancient world of this world is rather weird, with contradictions everywhere.

His family should be an ordinary peasant family, with both parents and two older sisters.

The furnishings in the house can be more or less shabby, and the clothes of the parents and sisters are only more shabby than the most shabby, but the family can eat rice, his parents are not short, and they are in good health.But his own mother didn't even have milk, so he could only mix rice paste with goat's milk for Xiao Qi - he couldn't afford to feed only goat's milk.

Xiao Qi's parents are not lazy people who lie on the kang after eating and drinking, but also hardworking people. They get up and work every day before the cock crows. , They all looked sad.

Xiao Qi really couldn't understand, what is the situation that makes a family have enough food, but other supplies are seriously lacking.

I don't know what my father's surname is for the time being. The two older sisters are called by the eldest sister and the second sister.His sisters called him Big Brother, his mother called him Big Brother, and his own father called him "donkey egg"...

Xiao Qi objected to this nickname, even if it had to be of the "Dan" generation, it could be called Goudan or Tudan!So he has been ignoring this dear father, and screaming when he is in a hurry.

No matter how rich he was in his last life, the ordinary people in this life are just as poor.But as much as the grandson in the previous life hated him, his parents and sisters in this life love him...

For the matter of wearing it again, Xiao Qi can only accept it if he doesn't accept it, but he still tries hard to figure out how to wear it back, no matter what, the big pillow at home is the most important.Xiao Qi set a time for himself, ten years, if he still can't find a solution in ten years, then he will try to die and go back.

Although he felt sorry for his family in this world, he had already paid too much for the ancient world.The remaining sense of responsibility is left to Hyundai. In this life, he thinks that he has nothing left to shoulder.

Parents went to work before dawn, leaving three children at home.Don't think that a dilapidated little house will have less housework. Feeding chickens, ducks and dogs, cutting pigweed on the mountain, fetching water and firewood when you come back, boiling water and cooking are all the work of the eldest sister.And the elder sister has just been higher than the stove, so she has to step on a bench when cooking, otherwise it is difficult to swing the spatula.

The younger second sister is not idle either, most of the time her "work" is to look after Xiao Qi, except for the feeding which is the work of the eldest sister, the rest is done by the second sister.Even girls who are as big as peas have to sit on the small bench and wash Xiao Qi's diapers.

The two girls have never been lazy and slippery, but after all they are too young, so whether it is themselves, Xiao Qi, or this family, they are all dirty and smelly.

Although Xiao Qi was not used to it, he understood it very well, so he tried his best to cooperate.He is very honest, so the second sister went to help the eldest sister more and more. At this time, it was the old yellow dog at home who looked at Xiao Qi.The old yellow dog is very human, when Xiao Qi fell asleep, it would lean over and wrap Xiao Qi around to keep him warm.If it's too hot, it will open Xiao Qi's torn clothes a little bit, without hurting Xiao Qi's skin.

Xiao Qi also tested this yellow dog a few times, and later found that it is very smart, not a monster, nor does it contain a personal soul, so Xiao Qi is completely at ease in its care.

At the same time, Xiao Qi has been working hard to exercise his body. Although he is only as big as a peacock, he can move his fingers and toes, kick his legs and stretch his hands as much as possible, turn over and over if he can turn over, crawl around if he can crawl, and walk if he can... Help the yellow dog to go.

At first the second sister was terrified, but after a few times, Xiao Qi was allowed to wander around.

When he was three years old, Xiao Qi had already traveled all over the village with his yellow dog.

Then he discovered that not only his family's yellow dog, but the whole Wangshan Village had many smart animals, such as dogs, big geese, roosters, hens, ducks, donkeys, pigs, and black-browed snakes. The villagers didn't know about it, and no one would make a fuss, and they didn't slaughter these domestic animals. Instead, they would give them special treatment, allowing them to run freely in the village and take care of their children.

Xiao Qi's father is still surnamed Xiao, named Xiao Beigen, and he has three uncles, but the uncle died early, the second uncle lives in the town, and the third uncle is not close to his family either, they belong to the kind who hide and go.Her maiden name is Tong, but she has no name. People in the village call her Beigen's daughter-in-law, or Donkey Danniang.

_(:з」∠)_Xiao Qi still couldn’t escape that nickname in the end, Xiao Beigen called him big brother at home, but other people in the village still called him donkey.Xiao Qi can only bury the sentence MMP in his heart!

In addition, Xiao Qi's biggest discovery in the past three years is that this place is not just ancient times!This is still the cultivation world!

Even... Xiao Qi suspects that this is the Hongyun Great World, but suffers from lack of evidence.

Here, as those monks told him back then, they don’t charge ordinary grain taxes from farmers, and the crops are indeed growing well. It’s true that if you sprinkle the seeds in, you can have a good harvest, no matter whether it’s rice or wheat. The plants are very tall, and the tassels produced are very heavy and full.

But the abundance of food does not bring about the same abundance of life.Moreover, at least in Wangshan Village, it's not like ordinary farmers don't pay taxes. Xiao Beigen and his wife wake up early and stay late every day because they have to dig iron thorns on the mountain north of the village.

The iron thorn is a kind of dark green thorn, because it is only as thick as a little finger at most, so it looks ugly.But the iron thorn is as hard as iron, if you break it open, you may find a silver thread as thin as a hair from the core.And no matter how much the villagers dug during the day, the iron thorns can grow to the original place overnight.

The tax of Wangshan Village and several surrounding villages is that a man over 15 years old pays 15 catties of silver spines every year, a woman over 15 years old pays [-] catties a year, and children over five years old and under [-] years old pay five catties a year. catty.Children under the age of five do not need to pay tax.

Because food is extremely abundant, it cannot be used as general equivalents at all. People can eat enough, but other materials are extremely scarce.Their granary is full, but there are only broken bowls and tables in the house, and there is no salt. The salty taste is the "salt stone" that his father and other villagers went to the mountains to find.

This is not a salt rock mine, but a slightly salty stone, which is drawn or pulled in a pot or cooked with meals. This is most people's salt.

The growth rate of people here is no different from that of ancient and modern times, but the growth of animals is much slower. It takes two years to grow into a chicken, and a year to grow into a duck. They are also very prone to illness. It takes five days for a chicken and duck to grow. To lay eggs, these precious eggs and duck eggs are the most important items that their family can exchange for necessities.

If there is surplus silver thorn silk after paying taxes for a year, each household cannot sell it, because the Xiao family strictly forbids farmers to sell silver thorn silk, and violators will be burned to death.

Last year...the ten-year-old eldest sister "married" to a neighboring village. Because she was a child bride-in-law, not only did she not need a dowry, but her family also got two catties of silver thorn silk.Xiao Beigen hugged Tong Shi in the house and cried all night...

Xiao Qi understood them, and the eldest sister also understood them, because parents worked hard and obviously saved up to forty catties of silver spines, but the new tax collector insisted that they were short of five catties.They were given ten days to make up for the missing five catties, and they were also fined another five catties for cheating.

But his family only had two and a half catties, and the rest of the family borrowed it, and they got a total of eight catties-not only their family was extorted, but the whole village was also unlucky, and this year, everyone's poll tax, no matter how big or small They all added five catties.

In other words, if the eldest sister is still at home, their family will have to pay [-] catties of silver thorn silk this year, and other families will have to pay back [-] catties, which is one third more than in previous years.Xiao Qi watched them take silver thorns, wear heavy wooden "armor" on their arms and legs, and use a hoe to dig out the iron thorns bit by bit.Put it in a large vat, soak it with a special medicine, and then put it into a stone mortar and beat it with a wooden mallet to get out the silver spines. If you are lucky every day, you can get a few strands of silver spines.

360 days a year, except for the coldest days when you can't leave the house, there is no free day.In comparison, farming is really not hard work at all.

Xiao Qi listened to the adults in the village chatting during the noon break, saying that what their village pays is called wood tax, which is considered good.Some villages have to pay a stone tax, which is to extract something from a kind of extremely hard stone.There are also things like gold, water and fire, with different degrees of difficulty, but in the end they are taxes that can be paid as long as you work hard.However, in some places, there is an animal tax to be paid, and some strange things are raised, and several lives are lost every year.

Looking for a place to sue?Where are you going to sue? There is no grievance drum at the gate of the county government here.Anyone who approaches the gate of a family will be shocked to death.The ones you can see if you don't get close are also those who are at the first level of the steward. Those who seek the steward to sue the steward, are they going to sue or seek death?Besides... there are no laws in this place, only rules.

One of the most basic rules that they, the lowest level of mortals, must abide by is—resign themselves to fate!

Now, the steward who said to add five catties of poll tax is their god.

leave the village?The places where the influence of the non-cultivation family must be the land of poor mountains and rivers. The poor mountains and rivers of Great Xia are full of ferocious beasts, but this place is full of monsters and ghosts. They are eaten alive and their souls are also enslaved.

Xiao Qi... a little wronged.

He made the right choice, and he spared tens of millions of people in his world, and countless descendants after a long time, from suffering.In the end, did he suffer the crime himself?

But if this is the case, Xiao Qi's grievances will be grievances, but he will be content with it... that's good.

For the people at the bottom of the cultivation world, the only way to improve their level is, as it is said in countless books-testing the spiritual root.

Every year on November [-]st, the adults in the village will take the children who have reached the age of three to the town to "select immortals".

The big family will test the spiritual roots of these children. I heard that the reason why Erbo lived in the town is because a child with spiritual roots was born in his family.

These children will grow up in aristocratic families, and the most talented among them will be sent to heaven.

Xiao Qi guessed that the "heaven" is the fairy gate, his two elder sisters naturally have no spiritual roots, and this year, it's his turn.

Xiao has been in this world for three years. For the first time, he put on a new dress and a pair of shoes. The village head paid for the clothes and shoes for them.The night before, Xiao Beigen took him by the hand and walked to the grain drying field in the village.Tong Shi, who was sent to the gate of the yard, turned her head and began to cry.

The last two times the village sent people to participate in the selection of immortals, Xiao Qi couldn't see it, after all, the children were sleepy, but he could also clearly feel that the adults' attitudes were not right.

——Obviously, when talking about the selection of immortals to the children, they always talk about good things, what can become an immortal, live a long life, eat well, and wear well.But the only ones who cheered for this were the children. In fact, the adults didn't expect much.When mentioning his second uncle's family that has gone to the town, it's not because of envy or jealousy, but because of contempt...

Now that he was in it, it became more and more clear that something was wrong.

"Donkey Dan... You must listen to the village chief honestly. If you can't talk, don't talk. Do what others tell you to do, you know?" The place is here, but Xiao Beigen still doesn't let go.

"Father, I know."

"Peken, let go. Don't worry."

"Hey! Please trouble the third grandpa." No matter how reluctant Xiao Beigen was, he still let go, wiped his eyes, and stood aside with his hands in his hands.

Xiao Qi was carried into the bullock cart by the village head, covered with a quilt, Xiao Qi turned his head to look at his father - that thin and tall man, he was still young, but his back could not straighten up anymore, he was wearing The cotton-padded jacket was dirty and torn, and could no longer keep warm. When the wind blew, the man shivered like a leaf, but he didn't notice the cold on his body at all, and kept looking up at him until... no more not coming...

Xiao Qi wiped his eyes, and said he didn't care, but this cause and effect is still involved.

There are actually quite a few children born in Wangshan Village every year, but many of them go before the full moon, so there are only four children who are three years old this year.

One boy, three girls.

The only advantage of choosing a fairy is that before the age of three, the parents will not drown the girl, but after the age of three... many families will sell the girl.Then the boy grew up and couldn't afford a wife—even if he could eat enough, the heavy tax made it impossible for him to raise more children.

This is also a vicious circle, Xiao Qi sighed and dragged his thoughts back.

Judging from the situation of adults, the selection of immortals is probably a bad thing with a good reputation.

So what does this thing turn out to be, in the most diabolical sense of the word?

——This is the first time he has experienced the world of comprehension. He doesn't have a deep understanding of it, and those comprehensions have never written about how the lowest-level people live.However, he can also learn a thing or two from the way the ancient aristocratic families treated civilians.

For the aristocratic family, the more children of the family selected into the fairy gate, the better.What if among the civilians selected, there are better seedlings than their own children?

In ancient times, some big aristocratic families met good study seedlings, would marry their own daughters, and would help them continue to study.But... In ancient times, there was a government. As long as the good seedlings who studied were awarded the title of scholar, they would be remembered by the government. They had "backers".

What about the good seedlings who have cultivated themselves?The local aristocratic family is the rule, and the common people under the protection of the aristocratic family are like cattle and horses.But one day the cow and horse suddenly turned into a human, even smarter and stronger than their own children...then use a whip to make him turn back into a cow and horse again!

It is good to be a slave and a servant, and it is definitely the job of these children to practice as a companion, to burn the cauldron, and even to practice the kind of wedding dress magic skills that are fast in progress but only for the purpose of passing on to the master.