Chapter 2 cruel reality
The weather in April is boring. The gray sky is lifeless at all. The endless drizzle is like a man suffering from prostatitis who can never urinate cleanly. Under the attack of drizzle, the river ripples from time to time.
Lu Xiaoxian sat by the river, looking at the river with distracted eyes, like a sculpture.
God loves to tease people so much. After time travel, Lu Xiaoxian was full of confidence and looking forward to the future. Just when he was smiling from ear to ear, suddenly a piece of dog shit was thrown into his mouth. It was so disgusting that he said no for a long time.
Speak up.
That's right, Lu Xiaoxian really hasn't spoken for a long time.
He painfully discovered that his life after time travel was completely different from what he imagined, just like when he picked it up and thought it was a piece of meat, he bit into it and realized it was a piece of ginger. After only one month of time travel, his complacency was completely wiped out.
In the first few days after time travel, what Lu Xiaoxian couldn't bear was boredom.
There are no computers, no TVs, no mobile phones, no entertainment facilities, and no electricity. Swimming, hiking, diving, reading, being in a daze, drinking beer, these previously ordinary things have become a luxury. Boredom is coming like a rolling tide, and the
He was drowned.
The farthest distance in the world is not the end of the world, nor the separation between life and death, but the fact that the body has passed through the heart but it is still in the same place.
Lu Xiaoxian thought that he would quickly forget the past and merge into reality, but in fact this was simply impossible. In a person's life, there are as many things to remember as to forget. Some memories are hidden deep in the cells.
It is never separated from the body. To destroy it is to destroy both the jade and the stone.
He suddenly missed the old days very much. But everything has become a memory, and it will never go back, forever!
It didn't take long for Lu Xiaoxian to stop worrying about boredom. Because he discovered that there is another thing called hunger, which is more unbearable than boredom.
For a month, hunger was like a big bloody mouth, approaching Lu Xiaoxian from time to time, trying to bite and engulf him. Sometimes, he would wake up because of this feeling, and sometimes, he would be sober because of this feeling.
Hungry and more craving for food.
If handsome people can be used as food, Lu Xiaoxian firmly believes that he can feed the whole world. But the problem is, handsome people really cannot be used as food.
As descendants of exiles, the Lu family's father and son lived a very hard life. Every day, they either simmered vegetables and rice in a pot, or rice soup with a few vegetable leaves floating in it. After drinking it, it was immediately excreted from the body.
It’s almost the same without eating. Even so, I often finish the first meal but not the next.
Lu Xiaoxian is getting older and has a surprisingly good appetite. His father, who loves his son very much, would rather go hungry than find ways to feed him. If Lu Xiaoxian can eat a solid meal one day, it will definitely be from his father's teeth.
Picked out from the seam.
He was tortured by hunger all the time. He was hungry all day long. His body was as shriveled as a dried eggplant, and his eyes were blue with hunger. His empty eyes could only see through the autumn water and stare at the dim sky. He even had to leave half of it when he defecated.
So as not to get hungry quickly.
At night, Lu Xiaoxian often couldn't sleep. In his mind, he imagined eating boiled fish, boiled beef, Haidilao, hairy crabs, and many other delicious things. Thinking about it, his saliva would flow all over the floor. Even if he fell asleep, he would still drink from his dreams.
He woke up in the middle of the night because he always had hungry dreams, very hungry dreams.
Having a real personal experience of hunger, Lu Xiaoxian finally understood how important food is to people. Ideals, careers, and love are all things that can only happen after a full stomach. If you don’t have a full stomach, everything will be lost.
Nonsense.
The buoy in the water moved slightly, and a chubby little boy next to Lu Xiaoxian suddenly opened his eyes alertly. Unfortunately, the buoy stopped responding after a while, and a disappointed look appeared on his face.
The little boy sitting side by side with Lu Xiaoxian was short, round, and so fat that he could drip oil. His neck was even fatter, and his head was as round as a small watermelon, just on his two arms.
He has a round head, a semi-circular chin, a round nose, the flesh on his face squeezes his eyes into a line, and he has two striking ears.
His name is Zhang Meng, and like Lu Xiaoxian, he is also a descendant of immigrants, his family background is also poor, and the father and son are dependent on each other. They don’t know how much Zhang Meng’s father had to pay to feed him so fat. They
The two families are neighbors. Zhang Meng and Lu Xiaoxian are similar in age. They grew up together, and they are like one person.
Over the past few days, Zhang Meng has been wondering why Lu Xiaoxian, who used to love talking and laughing, suddenly seemed like a different person and was depressed all day long.
Of course Zhang Meng would not know that the Lu Xiaoxian in front of him now is no longer the inseparable faxiao from before. Although Lu Xiaoxian and Zhang Meng are about the same age, in terms of mental age, the two of them are not the same at all.
On one level, Lu Xiaoxian certainly didn't have anything in common with Zhang Meng, so he didn't pay much attention to him.
Despite the doubts in his heart, Zhang Meng remained as always, like Lu Xiaoxian's shadow, sticking to him all day long, talking to him, and accompanying him to fish.
Speaking of fishing, Lu Xiaoxian has to thank God.
God was still kind to him. Just when he was about to go crazy with hunger, things took a turn for the better. Lu Xiaoxian discovered that there were fish in the small river at the east end of the village. Although they were only small fish that were only about an inch long, they could at least alleviate the problem.
His current predicament.
Before traveling through time, Lu Xiaoxian had imagined countless times: going to a strange place, going fishing in the morning, basking in the sun at noon, sleeping in the house in the afternoon, and having dinner at sunset. This was the ideal life.
Now, it seems that his ideal has become a reality, and he can fish with his homemade fishing rod every day. But in fact, his mood is not at all pleasant, just like the weather at this time is as gloomy.
It stands to reason that fishing is a kind of fun, a kind of enjoyment, and a way to maintain health, which can make people calm down and broaden their minds. But Lu Xiaoxian feels embarrassed when he says it. He fishes not because of leisure, nor for elegance, but
It was to solve his stomach problem. When he was lucky, he would occasionally catch three or two small fish and go home to beat his teeth. Most of the time, he could only lick his tongue and return empty-handed.
"Xiao Xian, hurry up, hurry up, the fish is biting the bait!"
Zhang Meng's urgent voice woke up Lu Xiaoxian who was deep in thought. He looked up and saw that the buoy had sunk. He immediately lifted up the fishing rod, but it was too late. The fish ran away and the bait was eaten.
"Alas!" Lu Xiaoxian sighed.
He is not a greedy person, and his requirements after time travel are not high: a peasant woman, a mountain spring, and some farmland are enough.
However, God was too harsh on him, and even with such a pitiful wish, he was unwilling to give him alms.
There is no peasant woman, and there are only two men in the family, herself and her father.
Mountain spring, I can only think about it, I'd better take a shower and sleep.
There is some land, but there is some land, but unfortunately not an inch of it belongs to his family.
Speaking of which, Lu Xiaoxian can be considered a third-generation official.
During the Yonghui reign of Emperor Gaozong, his grandfather was a fourth-rank minister of the Ministry of Industry. Later, because he was implicated in the rebellion of Wu King Li Ke, he was dismissed from office and exiled to Lingnan. The whole family was not a slave.
When Lu Xiaoxian's father was ten years old, his grandparents died one after another, and his father grew up tenaciously by eating a lot of food. Later, his father married his mother. When Lu Xiaoxian was born, his mother passed away due to dystocia, and even her son's face was lost.
I have never seen it before. My father was both father and mother, and he dragged Lu Xiaoxian to this day.
It's not that Lu Xiaoxian has never thought that the experience and knowledge of future generations will change the current situation. However, the lowly status of a refugee is like an insurmountable mountain lying in front of him, leaving him with nothing to do and unable to move.
As a senior "Tang fan", Lu Xiaoxian is very familiar with the household registration system of the Tang Dynasty. The household registrations of the Tang Dynasty are divided into good registrations and low-level registrations. Good registrations are divided into scholars, farmers, industry and commerce according to social occupations, and low-level registrations are also called low-level registrations, including slaves and maids.
Official households, miscellaneous households, tribes, and lowly people are at the bottom of society, suffering from oppression and bullying, and have no personal dignity.
As the descendants of prisoners, both his father and Lu Xiaoxian were lowly official slaves. His father had to work hard in the designated official fields every day. All the harvests belonged to the government, and his father could only be allocated a pitiful ration.
Although Lu Xiaoxian did not have to work when he was young, he did not have basic freedom, let alone doing other things as he pleased.
If he had known that he would live such a miserable life after time travel, Lu Xiaoxian would have resolutely canceled the hiking expedition and hid far away from the damn silver-ringed snake. However, there is no regret pill in the world, and there is no such thing as "
If", nothing can be undone.
In fact, what people fear most is not death, but not knowing how to live! Think of a thousand roads at night, and walk the same way in the morning. Lu Xiaoxian is like a fly lying on the glass. It seems that the future is bright, but
But couldn't find a way out.
There are some things that give you a headache when you think about them too much, and make you feel sad when you think about them. He doesn't understand why God always likes to play humor with him, but he is so busy and wants to hurt him personally.
Lu Xiaoxian, who was ambitious and ambitious, was ruthlessly crushed by the cruel reality.
He changed, completely changed. From eager to save the world, to eager to be saved by the world! He had to compromise because he could not think of a better way than to compromise.
Chapter completed!