Chapter 01: The Four Walls of the Family
In the twelfth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, Xujia Village, Shangrao County, Guangxin Prefecture.
It was the depths of winter, the sky was bright, and the weeds beside the road were covered with a thick layer of hoarfrost, which was cold and eroded the bones.
"Come on, Brother Jin has fallen into the river!" A cry for help broke the silence of the winter morning.
Three or two village men who were carrying farm tools and preparing to go out to work quickly ran to the river, and several village women and sisters-in-law who had just returned from watering the vegetable field threw away the dung buckets they were carrying and ran to the river, and the chickens and dogs jumped in an instant.
"Hey, there's still anger, hurry, Erniu, turn Brother Jin upside down, hard!"
Xu Jin was in a daze, only to feel that he was being roughly lifted his legs, his head and feet were violently upside down, his internal organs seemed to be turned upside down, and the river water he drank spurted out of his mouth and nostrils, like a shower.
"Okay, spit it out!"
A burst of cheers frightened Xu Jin into a rage, and he opened his eyes slightly, only to see a big foot wearing gray cloth shoes, clogs, and even straw sandals.
"What's the situation, do you want to make a costume film?" A thought flashed through Xu Jin's mind.
"Send it home, don't drown and freeze to death!"
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Xu Jin sat on the bed wrapped in a shabby linen quilt and shivered, and his mood at the moment was like pouring a bottle of Sprite in winter, which was cool to the heart!
The filling in the linen quilt should not be cotton, it is estimated that it is reed flowers, rice stalks and the like, although it is tightly wrapped, Xu Jin still feels very cold, and his upper and lower teeth are chattering.
However, this biting cold made Xu Jin realize that he had indeed crossed over, and this was not a dream.
Xu Jinyuan is the CEO of a private enterprise, a rich generation who prospers a family from scratch, with a net worth of more than 100 million yuan at the age of 28, married a wife who is eight years younger than him, and has both children and daughters, which can be described as a winner.
Since then, Xu Jin's career has been smooth, the company has been successfully listed, and his net worth has skyrocketed to more than one billion.
However, when the water is full, it overflows, the moon is full, and the tide always rises and falls, and no one's life will always be smooth sailing. A serious production accident knocked Xu Jin from heaven to hell, the company went bankrupt and delisted, and people also entered the bureau.
When Xu Jin came out of prison after three years, his wife had already sold the property, leaving a pair of children who did not know where to go. That day, watching his elderly father holding two yellow-skinned young children to pick him up, Xu Jin was in tears, buried his head in his father's arms, and cried like a child.
"No matter how poor you are, you can't beg for food, you will always come out if you don't die, wipe away your tears and make a comeback!"
After Xu Jin was released from prison, he worked hard as he could, working three jobs a day at most, almost all year round, and after accumulating tens of thousands of capital, he began to toss a small business again. With years of experience in the ups and downs of the business world, in just a few years, his wealth grew like a snowball, and at the age of 48, he once again stood at the peak of his life.
It is said that life is thirty and stands, forty is not confused, Xu Jin, who has passed the age of not being confused, has seen it, wealth is not brought in life, and death is not brought, as long as it is enough, why work hard every day, anyway, the child is also an adult, and he has to live for himself in the rest of this life journey.
So Xu Jin completely left his business affairs and really let himself go, and Uncle Ben Wu clubbed, read, painted, photography, danced, dived, climbed, and marathon like a young man...... Once in a while, take a walk-and-go trip.
Recently, Xu Jin has become obsessed with skydiving, almost twice a month, and as a result, fate played a joke on him again when he was fifty-six years old.
The parachute failed to open, and Xu Jin fell straight from a height of two thousand meters, and then ...... It crossed inexplicably.
According to the original memory of this body, it is now the twelfth year of the Zhengde Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, and the name of the original owner of the body is also Xu Jin, who is the political envoy of Jiangxi Chengxuan (province), a person from Shangrao County, Guangxin Prefecture, and is only 14 years old this year.
Xu Jin combed through his memories like a movie, and couldn't help sighing, I have to say that the original owner of this body is really an unlucky child, his parents died at the age of eleven, he has no brothers and sisters, and of course he has no money, and he is so poor that he is so poor.
Xu Jin smiled bitterly, fate once again left him with nothing, oh, strictly speaking, he still has a dilapidated house to live in, as if there is still a ...... Little daughter-in-law!
At this time, a young lady happened to walk in, wearing a gray-brown skirt, about twelve or thirteen years old, with slightly dark skin and a vegetable-colored face, and she looked malnourished at a glance, but her black eyes were watery.
"Xianggong, there is no ginger at home, drink hot water to ward off the cold!" The little lady timidly walked to the bed, holding a rough clay porcelain bowl in her hand, steaming, apparently freshly boiled water.
Xu Jin took the bowl tremblingly, didn't care about the hot mouth, and drank a few big sips, finally warming up.
"Thank you!" Xu Jin drank the hot water and handed the earthen bowl back to Xiao Niang, who turned around and walked out of the house with an uneasy expression.
Xu Jin was slightly stunned for a moment before he suddenly realized that it was now an ancient, patriarchal society, especially in the Ming Dynasty, when Cheng Zhu Lixue was popular, and the feudal etiquette and religion had reached its peak. The so-called three outlines and five constants, the husband is the wife, and it is a natural and righteous thing for a wife to serve her husband, no man will say thank you to his wife, no wonder the little girl looks uneasy.
After a while, the little lady walked in again, carrying a dilapidated wooden basin, bowed her head and said, "Xianggong, you rest for a while, don't go to the school today, and go back to ask the master for leave." ”
Being called Xianggong by a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, Xu Jin felt uncomfortable, nodded and said, "Well, you can get busy, don't worry about me!" ”
The little lady retreated with the wooden basin, and picked up the dung bucket outside the door and left the yard.
Looking at the little girl's thin back, Xu Jin couldn't help but sigh, a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, in modern times, should have just entered junior high school, some pampered people can't even take care of themselves completely, and most girls of this age in ancient times have married women and take on heavy housework.
From the memory of the original owner of the body, I learned that the little girl's name was Xie Xiaowan, her milk name was Sprouts, her father was a fisherman, and there were several brothers in the family, and her marriage with herself was set five years ago.
Five years ago, the parents of the original owner of the body were still alive, and Xu's father was the only talent in the nearby village, and he was quite respected.
Therefore, the situation of the Xu family at that time was quite wealthy, coupled with the title of Xu's father's talent, there were really many people who wanted to marry the Xu family, because maybe one day Xu's father was promoted, and even nominated for the gold list, then his daughter would become an official wife, and her own family would be able to soar.
At that time, Xu's father refused to come to the door to propose marriage, but finally agreed to the fisherman Xie family, because that year Xu's father went to the provincial capital to participate in the township test, and the result was Sun Shan, and in frustration and his classmates boated on Poyang Lake to relax, but he fell into the water, and was finally rescued by Xie's father, who was fishing nearby.
In this way, the marriage of Xu Jin and Xie Xiaowan was decided, but a year later, Xu's father died of illness, and Xu's mother also died of depression the following year, and the Xu family's situation plummeted.
According to the original agreement, after Xu Jin was crowned as an adult at the age of fifteen, the two families would get married, and Xu Jin was fourteen years old this year, and he suddenly had a serious illness a few months ago, and he never got better. The Xu family had a bad year, and their luck was too bad, and the clansmen all felt that they wanted to give Brother Jin joy, and it happened that everyone knew about the marriage contract of the Xu Xie family, so the patriarch Zhang Luo married Xu Jin and Xie Xiaowan in advance.
Fortunately, Father Xie is also a person of faith, and he did not regret it because of the Xu family's situation, and even the dowry was only a symbolic acceptance of a bucket of rice.
Maybe Chong Xi played a role, after getting married, Xu Jin's illness slowly improved, and he was even able to get out of bed and walk around in recent days.
It is worth mentioning that under the words and deeds of Xu's father, Xu Jin has become an out-and-out nerd, dedicated to studying and striving for fame, and the lintel of the door. After Xu's father died, no one instructed Xu Jin to study, and it happened that an old boy in the neighboring village opened a private school to teach children to learn. So Xu Jin worshipped Lao Tongsheng as a teacher, and walked Lixu Road to the neighboring village early in the morning to attend classes.
This morning, the nerd who was just able to get out of bed and walk around, despite Xie Xiaowan's dissuasion, had to go to the study school to study, but he fell into the river halfway and died, and his body happened to be occupied by Xu Jin who crossed over.
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Xu Jin rested on the bed for half an hour, and finally felt less cold, but his stomach was grumbling with hunger, so he got up to find food.
Xu Jinxing walked out of the room and came to the hall, and suddenly there was a depression, the hall was quite large, but empty, except for a low table and two crooked melons and cracked stools, there was nothing else, it was really a family with four walls, and there was nowhere to talk about desolation!
The stomach was rumbling, and the stomach was like a fire, and the taste was really unpleasant.
Finally, Xu Jin found a clay urn in the corner of the room and opened the wooden stopper with anticipation, only to find it empty, only a few grains of rice crumbs remained.
Xu Jin's heart instantly sank to the bottom, and there was no surplus grain at home, how should he survive this cold winter?
Panic and anxiety arise spontaneously, knowing that hunger and cold can kill people!
At this time, there was the sound of firewood being pushed away outside, Xu Jin hurriedly walked to the door to take a look, and saw Xie Xiaowan carrying a large bundle of dry firewood into the yard, two dung buckets were hanging on the firewood stack, and he had to hold the wooden basin with one hand, which contained freshly washed clothes.
Xu Jin subconsciously ran out to help, but this body was too weak, and he tripped on the threshold and almost fell into a hungry dog and chewed.
Xie Xiaowan hurriedly threw down the firewood and the wooden basin and ran over to help Xu Jin up, and said hurriedly: "Xianggong, you are weak and cold outside, don't you dare to run around, go to the house and rest!" ”
Xie Xiaowan had just finished washing her clothes by the river, her hands were cold, the back of her hands was full of cracks, her little face, nose and ears were red from the cold, and her eyes were still covered with a layer of mist.
Suddenly, Xu Jin only felt that the softest place in his heart had been hit, and it felt like when he was released from prison, when he saw his children with yellow faces and thin muscles looking at him timidly, he felt sad for no reason.
Xu Jin subconsciously held Xie Xiaowan's little hand and took a few breaths of hot air, and then put it in his arms to keep warm.