The Eighteenth Century of Xuyang in the Red Chamber

Xu Yang told himself, this is a dream, this is a dream, but this dream is too real.

I fell into the lake, was fished up and came to ancient times, and was rescued by a kind old man, and I refused to face the reality, so I made a lot of trouble.He caught a cold after falling into the lake, and felt uncomfortable, and the cold was not good at all. The old grandfather who took care of him sold almost all the old furniture at home, and he recovered.I can't do it without recovery, my throat hurts from the tortilla, I got up and found that the family was poor, and there was only a bed frame and a broken table left.Even if it is a dream, you have to improve your life!At least turn the nightmare into a dream.So I wanted to find a job. Who knew that even if I wanted to work as a clerk in a shop, I would have to insure someone. I didn't even have a household registration, so being found out would be a big problem.

Thanks to Xu’s mother for urging him to practice calligraphy since he was a child, so I took it as an earring for my sister-in-law (thanks to the corrupt life of the bourgeoisie, the quality of the Rimowa suitcase my aunt gave me is excellent, it has not been crushed through time and space, and it is also waterproof and moisture-proof, my aunt I was wrong, I shouldn’t have said that you are stupid to send me a metal suitcase, you are right, it’s really not expensive after more than 7000, and the notebook in it is not damp! The quality of the German stuff is really good Ah!) I bought a pen and paper.The scholar across the street went out to set up a stall to write letters. To be honest, he felt that his handwriting was much better than that of the scholar—could it be bad?Those who go out to set up stalls are all poor scholars. Although the imperial examination has high requirements for writing, how can poor scholars have the money to buy so many pens and paper for practice?Where there is money to hire a famous teacher to teach, it is a luxury to be able to draw red, so although the scholars who set up stalls have good calligraphy, they are just good.Xu Yang's teacher is a master of calligraphy in the world. From the age of four or five to now, he has to write at least a thousand characters every day. Even a piece of rotten wood has to be carved into some tricks. Besides, he is indeed talented, master. Only if he is willing to accept him, he will continue to practice, otherwise, whoever has nothing to do will write about this stuff for more than ten years.

But the tragedy is that the working people obviously don't know how to appreciate him, the former third runner-up of the national youth group in calligraphy, because most of what he said couldn't be understood by the uncles and aunts who wanted him to write, and he couldn't understand what the uncles and aunts were saying. So he bought the pens and papers, and mostly he practiced calligraphy by himself.

The house leak happened to be raining all night, probably because he was very tired, and Grandpa Zhang suddenly fell ill.Xu Yang was stunned all of a sudden, God is sorry, although he got two and a half taels of silver these days as a small jewelry to give to his sister-in-law, but after buying paper and pens and the one or two that he insisted on giving to Grandpa Zhang as living expenses, the only thing left around him was After paying a few coins, what else can I sell?The scarf for my mother, although it was really expensive when I bought it, is just a piece of strange cloth here.A lighter for Dad?asshole!What kind of bullshit is a world famous brand, doesn't it just travel through time and space?You haven't even sacrificed the laptop in the suitcase, and your lighter is not a high-tech thing, and you actually went on strike for me!The earrings for my sister-in-law have already been pawned, and the gloves for my brother were given to Grandpa Zhang when his hands were chapped a few days ago... Wuwu Grandpa Zhang is really a good person. He has raised me for so many days, but I just gave it to him He was so happy with both gloves.So in the end, Xu Yang became the Vacheron Constantin given to him by his loving aunt, and only got ten taels of silver.

So this dream became more and more real and cruel. In Xu Yang's opinion, a very common cold had to be delayed for almost a month... But Grandpa Zhang's illness was obviously much more serious than Xu Yang's cold. Lying in bed panting like an old leaky bellows being pulled.He grabbed Xu Yang's hand to prevent him from going to the doctor again, and tremblingly touched the ten taels of silver that Xu Yang brought him, telling him not to waste the money and keep the money for himself to live on, he listened to this good-looking big boy Talk to him: "Grandpa, I have money. You see, there is so much money. I will use this money to hire you a good doctor. You will surely live a long life."

Medical clinics also have industry rules for medical clinics. It is estimated that no one will accept patients who cannot be saved. Otherwise, if someone is put to death, a trouble can cause a medical clinic to close once or twice. Of course, this rule is aimed at That is to say, these powerless ordinary people... Xu Yang asked his neighbors to help carry Grandpa Zhang, and searched seven or eight medical clinics along the way, but none of them were willing to treat him.Xu Yang has run out of good words, he has been likable since he was a child, but seven or eight out of ten of what he said are incomprehensible, no matter how nice the words are, they are useless.Seeing Grandpa Xu lying on the bed, struggling to catch his breath, Xu Yang was almost desperate.

Xu Yang was pampered and grew up since he was a child. His family loved him very much. He was born well and had a good brain. Naturally, his studies were not bad. His teachers liked him and his classmates were close to him... He grew up smoothly until he was 16 years old. Years old, next semester will be a senior year, other students are either anxious about getting a job or getting dizzy preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination, but what about Xu Yang?The matter of recommending graduate students has long been a certainty, and there is no pressure to survive in the short term.He likes to write small things, and his writing skills are good. Some small articles sent to magazine websites, plus serials that are still relatively small on the literature website, can earn four to five thousand a month, plus the monthly income from his parents Three thousand living expenses, all kinds of daily and entertainment items sent by my aunt at every turn, all my peers in the family are older than him, and occasionally when I come to see him leave, they always come with gifts, and before leaving, I have to stuff money into his pocket .He hasn't officially worked yet, but he doesn't spend money randomly, and his income is also mixed. He has 10,000+ in his small coffers without knowing it, most of which are lucky money, and some are earned by himself.Growing up so big, maybe he is not as big a spendthrift as those rich second generations, but why did Xu Yang worry about money?But these days, he has really suffered all the hardships he can endure in his life. His throat hurts from eating Zamian Wotou, and he hasn’t touched a bite of meat in almost two months. When he is most sick, it’s a luxury to drink noodle soup !

To make matters worse, here, Xu Yang completely lost the ability to live independently.If it weren't for his khaki windbreaker that reminds people of a monk's robe, and his too-short hair makes people think that he just didn't have time to shave it off, it is estimated that the patrolmen on the street will question him casually and treat him as a refugee locked.Even if he is from the Chinese Department, he also understands that the writing style he is proud of can only be regarded as nonsense here, and it is difficult for him to understand the time after the watch is pawned!That's right, I understand it. The bell and drum telling the time is really not something that a young man born in the 90s can understand. He knows that Zishi is 12 o'clock (big mistake!!!), but what time is Haishi and what time is Xushi? A whole lot of lawsuits, confused.

After running for a day, Xu Yang didn't dare to torment Grandpa Zhang anymore, for fear that the wind would make him sicker.Anyway, when I have money as a watch, I am not stingy at this time.He took a few hundred dollars and asked Mrs. Gu, a neighbor, to help wash clothes and cook every day. I served the old man for dinner the next morning, and asked Mrs. Zhang to take care of him. I took the money and continued to find a doctor.He went to several other hospitals to invite doctors, who knew that it was Mr. Zhang's home, and seeing his attire like a monk's robe, they would know that he was the patient rejected by another hospital the day before yesterday, no matter how many times Two silver, people are rejected.Early in the morning, he only drank some corn porridge and went out. He was so hungry that he should have done it. He passed by a teahouse and was really thirsty, so he went in and ordered a big pot of the worst tea for five cents. , poured three cups in a row and drank it, and was resting when he heard the scholar at the next table mention something about Mr. Shi Lin, the inspector...

As a student of the Chinese Department, Xu Yang had to study it several times, even though the Dream of Red Mansions was not a good young man of the new era for him. After all, he was from the Chinese Department.What's more, he had just bought a set for her sister, and he had nothing to do on the train before reviewing half of the book...

I have been here for almost two months, and I know a little bit about the current dynasty. It is obviously not any dynasty in history, but a strange dynasty called "Jiang", an alternate history?But at this moment when he heard the name "Master Lin, the inspector and censor", Xu Yang naturally easily associated it with the most famous fantasy novel in Chinese history, "Dream of the Red Chamber".

Xu Yang finally got a little bit of information about this era, how could he let it go?He stayed here for a while at least, and although he couldn't speak, he could barely understand Yangzhou dialect. In addition, most of the scholars knew Mandarin, so it was obvious that the Mandarin of this dynasty was pronounced in the north.Xu Yang told the scholars well that he was looking for relatives, and then asked if anyone knew the name of Mrs. Lin, but it was called Lin Hai. When he was confirmed, he asked Mrs. Lin if her surname was Jia. Not a few scholars knew That's right, so he asked Mr. Lin if he had a criminal record, and it was confirmed again... Then he asked Mr. Lin if he just lost his wife, and someone at the next table said that Mr. Lin lost his wife at the beginning of last year, and it has been a year and a half since After the loss, most of the servants and women in the family were dispersed, and even the only daughter-in-law was sent to the ancestral home in Beijing to be raised.

Hearing this, Xu Yang has basically confirmed that this Lin Ruhai is the Lin Ruhai in the Dream of the Red Chamber. In fact, it is really bad for him to rush to the door so recklessly, and it is even dangerous, but he has no time to think about it. I am afraid that Grandpa Zhang It's really going to die.Although Xu Yang was spoiled and brought up, he is really a good boy, the kind of good boy who can act like a baby but loves others, coquettish but kind.Even if a stranger died in front of him, he couldn't stand it, let alone this old man who had taken care of him wholeheartedly for almost two months?

Xu Yang gritted his teeth and became cruel. He went home and disassembled the set of Dream of the Red Chamber. He took out the first book and turned to the page "No. Open one page, and then fold the pages on both sides towards the spine of the book vigorously. Open, fold, close, open, fold, and close again for a while, confirm that as long as you turn the book casually, it will be turned in nine out of ten. At this page, he gave Grandpa Zhang water again, told him to go shopping, then put the book under the creaking hole of the windbreaker, and ran to Lin's mansion.

Everything after that was more like a dream. From the moment he saw Lin Ruhai, Xu Yang felt self-defeating and out of control. He even thought of Lin Ruhai simply arresting him as a liar, or simply killing him because of his taboo...fortunate Fortunately, he was right.

There will be the best doctor to see Grandpa Zhang, and there will be dexterous servants to clean the room, cook and do laundry for them... After coming to this inexplicable world for so long, it was the first time Xu Yang ate steamed buns made of white flour, and Grandpa Zhang covered them. Soft comforter.However, extreme joy begets sorrow, that kind-hearted old doctor clearly told Grandpa Zhang to take good care of his illness and it would be fine, but when he turned around, he asked him to prepare more food for Grandpa Zhang and tell him what he liked to hear.

He cried, but wiped his tears after crying, tried his best to make Grandpa Zhang happy, bought him his favorite sesame cake made by Fatty Wang at Jiekou in the morning, and pretended to write and study during the day and told him that he had to take an exam , to make him happy, to serve him for decades, to iron a hot towel at night while wiping his face while saying that he went out to write letters in the afternoon and earned a hundred coins... Grandpa Zhang was very happy to hear that, Every day is a smile.Xu Yang thinks this is very good. He doesn't want to and dare not think that in the future, he dare not think that he will live alone in this strange world. He stubbornly believes that as long as he takes good care of Grandpa Zhang, he will be fine. Get up, and then he can still think of a way to go back to his parents, even if he jumps into the lake, he can try.Then, one morning in early winter, he entered the house with washing water and found that Grandpa Zhang was already hard.

Xu Yang's tears were almost dried up in these three days.The man does not cry lightly, but his family has always regarded him as a child. At his age, in China in the 21st century, he can only be regarded as a child. Even though he went to college early, his age, after all, Still only 16 years old.This child has grown up rapidly in the past three months, but he is still a child in essence. Now this child is afraid and hesitant. The only warm support in this world has fallen down so easily and become cold .Xu Yang cried for Zhang Laozhang, and even more for himself, his eyes were dark.He hated this nightmare that he had known for a long time that it was not a dream, and he really couldn't bear it anymore.

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The author has something to say:

This chapter is still explaining Xu Yang's past.Maybe some people don’t like to read these things, they like to watch the progress of the story happily, and most authors also like to briefly mention the things before the time travel, and quickly enter the topic after the time travel.

But I always feel that the formation of a person's personality has a lot to do with the environment in which he grew up and the things he has experienced.After all, the Xu Yang I wrote about is not an all-powerful hero, but just an ordinary kid with a high IQ, so it’s really useless not to explain.

I want to write an article seriously, so I want to make it as free as possible. Of course, it is impossible to have no omissions at all, but I always try to explain the cause and effect clearly.I used to have a particularly big weakness in writing things, which was the details, so I wrote short stories, and often a story was composed of fragments, and then let readers imagine and fill them in.Fortunately, most of the comics I wrote in the past were comics. Comics have a sense of jumping and imagination, so my weakness is not obvious.

But the terrible thing is that this will be written about the same people in the Red Chamber, so it must be meticulous... Alas, this is the first time I tell a story in such a step-by-step manner, I really have a headache, and I don’t dare to jump around. , when their life is on the right track, they can naturally take it all away.It’s just that now, I’m really afraid that I’ll accidentally turn meticulousness into long-windedness, haha.