Crown Prince

There is Baoquan Township outside Chang'an City. Calculated according to four families and one neighbor, five neighbors and one guarantee, five guarantees and one mile, and five miles and one township, there are about [-] families living in Baoquan Township.

Wang Han's family lives in the bamboo forest closest to the foot of the mountain, and other people in the village rarely see them.Mostly Wang Han went hunting in the mountains, but his wife Zheng Niangzi of the Wang family stayed at home like a lady of every family, but every once in a while she would bring her own embroidered embroidery with the villagers to the market to sell.

Three years ago, this young couple gave birth to a son, which once again gave the women in the village more things to talk about after dinner, but this time, they couldn't help but look a little more envious.

Because that kid is so annoying.

Wang Han walked into the fenced yard and put down a few pheasants and the panniers on his back.The weather in May has already started to heat up. After returning from the shady mountains, the temperature suddenly rises.He scooped up a ladle of water from the water tank and drank it all, before letting out a comfortable breath.

"Da Lang! Come out quickly! See what Dad brought you!!" Wang Han looked at the basket and shouted into the room.

Soon there were rustling noises in the room.After a while, the wooden door creaked open from the inside, and a small doll protruded out, with big round eyes and pink and tender skin like a glutinous rice ball.

"...Father, can't you keep your voice down, my brother just fell asleep!" The child who was about three years old supported the door and scolded him with his mouth pouting.

Wang Han couldn't help laughing.He touched his nose and saw his eldest son walking slowly into the sun, so he strode forward a few steps and picked up the little baby.

"Hey!" Li Ying was taken aback, and angrily pushed the man's hard chest with his limp hands: "Father! Put me down!!"

Wang Han pinched the tip of his little nose with a stern face: "Isn't it okay to hug Daddy?" He looked at the angry son in his arms with a smile, and sighed again in his heart. Fortunately, this child looks like Ah Zheng. , If you look like yourself, it will be ruined.To be honest, Wang Jia Dalang doesn't really look like Zheng Huiniang. Although Zheng Huiniang has an outstanding temperament, his appearance is only delicate and dignified, and this child is just like a pearl snowball, as if a fairy was born.Although she is still young, she has already shown a bit of brilliance and wisdom like a jade tree.

Everyone said that he must be extraordinary in the future.

Li Ying himself was very tired of this.He naturally found that he was outstanding. Obviously, he could neither be like Wang Han nor like Zheng Huiniang at all, but he took this as compensation for him by Yan Xing, so he didn't take it seriously.It's just that every time I go to play in the bamboo forest, I will be surrounded by a group of men, women and children. Everyone likes to squeeze him, tease him, and watch him say a word in a serious manner. Everyone laughs like crazy.

How funny it is! !

Do you want him, a man who is thirty in his previous life and now in his current life, to cry like a baby? !Like his baby brother? ?

"Where are my things!" Li Ying stretched out her hand to Wang Han depressedly.

Wang Han laughed, put him down gently, and then opened his back basket: "I was lucky today, Dad found a lot of bird nests...that's all." He took out the wild vegetable fungus covering it, revealing the bottom one Half a basket of chickens.

"A lot..." Li Ying picked up one in surprise and looked at it. Under the light, it seemed that there was a little blackness inside. "This one is fertilized."

"What is fertilized?" Wang Hannahan asked.This child of his was indeed unusual, even the few words he said casually on weekdays seemed to be extremely profound.

Li Ying choked.It's been three years and it still happens from time to time...

"That's...that's..." He stared at his round eyes and thought desperately: "It's the opposite of Yunying's eggs, eggs that can hatch chickens..."

Wang Han suddenly realized.He knelt down and stroked his son's soft hair, and said quite proudly: "In ancient times, Cangjie created characters, and now my son is not giving up!"

Li Ying's petite heart couldn't help shaking.Dad, you compare me with the great Cangjie...are you serious?He looked down at the half-basket of pheasants again, holding them in his white and tender hands, just like holding a ping-pong ball.Forget it, the point is, with these eggs, he and his mother can supplement nutrition and supplement the family... If they are lucky enough to hatch a few chicks, the older brother can have steamed eggs to eat...

Thinking of this, he wanted to sigh.If I knew it earlier, I would have asked Nianxing to leave some money for him to use.

At this time, there was a burst of baby crying in the room, Li Ying quickly stood up, and ran into the room, shouting as he ran, "Dad, remember to put my chickens away, don't break them!" It's—"

"Run slower!" Wang Han shouted anxiously from behind.

As soon as Li Ying entered the room, he smelled a faint stench.

"You brat...I just changed your diaper..." He held his breath depressed and walked to the side of the basket. This hanging basket woven from bamboo strips was his idea.The inside is covered with thick material, and the top is hung on the beams with strong straw ropes, so that the mother does not have to hold the boy all day, and her hands and feet are sore from exhaustion. She can also carry a bamboo chair to sit beside her on weekdays. Shake this basket while doing embroidery work.

Li Ying disliked it but skillfully wiped his half-year-old brother's butt and put on a clean diaper.The little one opened his beautiful amber eyes, and smirked at him while drooling.

"So stupid..." Li Ying couldn't help pinching his younger brother's tender cheeks secretly, and made a face at him.

"Giggle...giggle..." The little guy grinned even more happily, and stretched out his chubby little hand to grab his fingers.

Li Ying reluctantly let him grab his hand to play with, and simply sat on the chair in a daze.

I didn't expect to come across such a strange thing like time travel, but I have to worry about my future livelihood all day long... I thought that knowing Ron Xing meant that his trip must be unusual, but Ron Xing just patted his ass just like that Gone, leaving him in this unfamiliar world.

Yes, he did not go back to the historical Tang Dynasty through parallel time and space.

Although Li Ying lived in the Tang Dynasty, after a year of investigation, he found that this Tang Dynasty was not the other Tang Dynasty, and the two did not follow the same path at all.He knew Yuan Tiangang, but Yuan Tiangang's boss was not the one in history. Tang Gaozu did have one, but his son Li Shimin disappeared, and a single seedling naturally inherited the throne... Come on, there is no Xuanwumen change, and the regime is handed over harmoniously.The hell behind it is that Empress Wu is not proclaiming the emperor. He doesn't even know which period of the Tang Dynasty he is in now, so he has no way to locate it...

Tsk, psychologically insecure.

The only good thing is that except for the change of the ruler, the currency is the same, at least it is the same as the part he knows.For example, Kaiyuan Tongbao is still used today, with an exchange rate of ten to one, and the accumulation of ten coins is one tael.

"Ranxing you bastard..." Li Ying sighed again, and squeezed the tender little palm in his hand.His father, Wang Han, is a countryman, and he has no advantages other than strength, but his mother...is not simple.The five surnames in the Tang Dynasty are Taiyuan Wang, Qinghe Cui, Zhaojun Li, Xingyang Zheng, and Fan Yanglu. His father has no family background to test, but his mother is the daughter of the Zhenger Xingyang Zheng family, but why did he marry far away? For his father, I don't know about this.

Thinking of his mother, Li Ying's mood became depressed.In his previous life, he was an orphan, and his adoptive father did not marry a wife. In this life, his little mother, Wang Shihui, did not disappoint him. Although she was young, she was really a good mother... But he will never forget the experience when he was just born What happened, the strong smell of blood, and the words of Xing Xing.

Nianxing has continued Huiniang's life for five years, and this year is already the third year.

Li Ying looked down at his younger brother in the hanging basket, and shook the hanging basket with his other hand.He met those pure and innocent watery eyes, and thought bitterly, "I don't know if you will remember our mother's appearance when you grow up... When you are as old as me, the grass on her grave will be knee high up.Although, she is already a dead person, but she is struggling to stay in this world just for us.

Mother's body has suddenly become weaker in the past year, even though she suffered from a few more minor illnesses, Li Ying already felt a little ominous.

What should we do in the future?

At this time in the Tang Dynasty, the concept of hierarchy was very strict, and there were strict regulations on what kind of education a person of any status could go to. The Hongwen Hall and Chongwen Hall were for members of the royal family to go to school. Most of the state two schools are children from well-to-do families, and even the local and rural schools have to study separately.Originally, his family was not without money. Although his mother was not married in a serious way, she also brought a lot of property. It was just that a natural disaster happened before he was born, and her mother encountered dystocia when she gave birth to him. After that, it took more than half of her health care savings.Nowadays, you have to spend every day, and you spend more than you get in. It is really difficult to save some money.

Li Ying was worried that if his mother was going to die two years later, his father would not know whether he could bear it. Didn't the husbands often follow him in grief on TV... In that case, he and his younger brother would be left alone. How can a half-grown child survive?He couldn't help cursing Yan Xing again, he just cared about killing but not burying him, caring only about living without caring for him—too irresponsible! ! !

"Da Lang?" Wang Han packed up the wild things, opened the door and saw his eldest son curled up on the bamboo chair, muttering like a small dumpling, and could hear the younger son's voice from time to time. Crisp and tender laughter. "Why are you still in a daze, come and help dad watch the fire, your mother hasn't come back from the market yet, let's prepare the food."

Hearing this, Li Ying nodded sullenly, took his finger out of his younger brother's mouth, wiped it on his body casually, and followed Wang Han out of the house.

The stove is set at the back of the house, next to a small vegetable garden opened by Hui Niang, in which are grown common cabbage, as well as micro-vegetables and purslane, which are the most eaten daily, and the most special ones are lettuce and spinach. The two are newly introduced vegetable varieties, grown from the rapeseed that Hui Niang brought from Zheng's family.A few years ago, the family originally raised a sheep, but after Li Ying didn't need to drink milk, the sheep was taken to the market and sold.

Li Ying remembered that in spring, his mother went to the foot of the mountain every day to pick some fresh bracken. Usually, she could pick cocklebur from the roadside or in the mountains. He also suggested micro-vegetables and purslane. Come try growing your own.

He observed other families in the village, and it seems that they are all like this. They try to pick some wild vegetables and fruits from the mountains throughout the year to enrich the family's dining table. I heard that if they are in the south, every family's dining table will have water shield soup ... Li Ying's mouth waters whenever he thinks of the water shield that he ate in Hangzhou in his previous life, but unfortunately, in Chang'an, water shield is a rare food, and even the elders in the village have never tasted it, let alone ordinary people like them.

"The sun is already west, why hasn't mother come back?" Li Ying moved a small stool and sat in front of the stove, looking up at the path in the bamboo forest from time to time.

"Maybe I've been shopping for a while, your mother loves to worry, I'm afraid that at most a cup of tea will be back." Wang Han replied casually, beating the sticky yellow millet vigorously in his hand to make rice cakes, Corn porridge is cooked in the earthen pot on the other side. Just throw some fresh and tender wild vegetables into it, and serve it with a little salt flower, and the taste will be extremely salty and fresh.

Li Ying groaned, inhaled the aroma of rice porridge, and picked up the iron tongs to poke the crackling firewood.Alas, when it's time to eat, he misses KFC and McDonald's. He used to think of them as junk food, but now he drools whenever he thinks of finger-licking plain chicken.The diet of the Tang Dynasty was also very rich, steamed, boiled, baked, grilled, fried, roasted, and deep-fried. Quite a few of them have never been heard of even by modern people like him.A few days ago, the old man's grandson came back from the government school, and he also brought the preserved meat of centipedes and wild boars, which sounded like rare things.But in a township-level place like Baoquan Township, you can't enjoy the enjoyment of those big cities with a population of over one million.

I don't know when he will have the opportunity to visit Chang'an City...

When Mrs. Wang returned home, it was already time to light the lamps.

"Mother!" As soon as Li Ying saw Hui Niang's slender figure, she rushed over like a chicken blood.

"Big man, slow down!" Niang Hui heard her son's tender screams from a long distance away, the little figure was as nimble as a monkey.She hurriedly put down the basket, hugged her son who rushed over and picked him up.I haven't seen her for a day, but I'm so worried about her!

"Mother, put me down quickly, Da Lang is too heavy." Li Ying put his short arms on Hui Niang's shoulders, and found that her forehead was covered with fine sweat, and she couldn't help struggling to get off the ground.

"Modong... You are only as tall as you are nodding your head, so you are heavy?" Hui Niang was amused by her son's serious tone, and stretched out a hand to nod his small forehead: "Let mother see if you have stolen money today." Run to the back mountain."

Hearing this, Li Ying calmed down obediently, and let the little mother carefully examine her.

Hui Niang looked at it carefully, and found that her son's clothes were neat and tidy, his light hair was neatly tied up, his little face was flushed, and his little mouth was also ruddy. When he pinched his little paws, they were soft and hot, and he touched them. Little Yaya, um, is also hot.

"Very good, come, help mother carry the paper bag." She put Li Ying down, took out a lighter oiled paper bag from the basket and handed it to her son, then took his little hand and walked into the fenced yard together.

Wang Han had already prepared the food and brought it to the table in the main room. Knowing that Madam Hui wanted to see his youngest son, he carried Erlang out again and greeted her.

"Why did you come back so late?" He took the basket with one hand and put Erlang into his mother's arms.

Hui Niang carefully hugged her youngest son, and then forced a smile to Wang Han: "...I saw my natal brother, so I was delayed for a while."

Wang Han looked at her in surprise: "Your brother? Why is he here..." At the beginning, Hui Niang was unwilling to obey the family and marry Qinghe, so she ran out secretly and met his father. Hearing this, he was furious. Not only did Huiniang's mother not be allowed to give the dowry from the public, but also Wang Han and Huiniang were not allowed to return to Zheng's house.Now that the Patriarch of the Zheng family has come to the market in this small place, what else can he do besides looking for Madam Hui?

Hui Niang was silent for a while, then looked down and saw the bright eyes of her elder son, she couldn't help smiling.

"Brother heard that I gave birth to two sons and wanted to adopt one as his son."

Wang Han suddenly became angry, and the basket fell to the ground.

"Doesn't he have a son himself? Why would he want someone else's son?!"

Li Ying also opened his mouth wide in surprise.Why, the Tang Dynasty already had such a thing as adoption?Why doesn't he know?He looked nervously at his mother, wouldn't mother agree?If it was for her son's future, she might really be persuaded... After all, the Zheng family is big and powerful... But to be honest, he doesn't want to go, and he doesn't want his younger brother to go.That kind of big family has always been intriguing, and it is impossible for everyone in the family to be kind.

"Of course I don't agree." Luckily, Hui Niang shook her head: "Brother didn't say anything, he just told me to let Dalang and Erlang go to the countryside to study, and in the future they will also go to the government school. Let him find a way to let our son go to Chinese school." She took out a small silk package from her bosom, gently opened it to Wang Han, and saw that there was a big silver ingot and several coins inside: "This is mother I asked my elder brother to bring it to me, and said it was for Dalang Erlang to go to school."

Li Ying suddenly became happy.God, since he arrived here, he thought that there was no gold and silver in this ghost place... Later he realized that it was because the normal currency circulation was too small to use gold and silver.These seem to be small in size, but they actually have a lot of money. A thousand coins are only worth a tael of silver. This silver ingot looks very good, and it is at least four or five taels in weight.

Wang Han's complexion was not good, but he stared at the piece of silver for a while, and finally he just sighed heavily, accepting the Zheng family's kindness.It is really a shame for the head of the family not to give his wife and children a good life... But he cannot let his wife and children suffer along with him because of his little shame.

Li Ying was completely unaware of Wang Han's bitterness, so he cheerfully followed Hui Niang, eating a simple dinner happily.The future seems to be somewhat guaranteed because of this piece of silver ingot.

Hui Niang hugged Erlang and nursed him, her delicate face was just like Wang Han's, with a little sadness.Although the elder brother can't help persuading her further, has he given up?My brother has a wife and three concubines. When she was at home, my sister-in-law gave birth to a son for my brother. Now he should be five or six years old. Why do you want to adopt?