Chapter 416: Promote Confucianism and Martial Arts, Destroy Buddhism and Taoism
"Master, there is no rice in the house."
"No? Didn't I just carry half a bag of rice back a few days ago?"
"That was all seven or eight days ago. Let's talk about that small bag. It can weigh six or seven kilograms. There are five people in our family. Six or seven kilograms of rice. Seven or eight days ago. If I hadn't been so desperate
The wild vegetables and elm leaves may not last even two days."
"Okay, okay, I'm thinking of a solution."
In the dark.
Zhang Heng reluctantly opened his eyes.
Enter the eyes.
He was lying on the earthen bed, and the sky was dark.
Look both ways.
A girl slept on the left, and a snoring boy slept on the right.
Take another look at yourself.
He was lying between the two of them, with his arms and legs small, and he looked about seven or eight years old.
"Master, can you think of another way to borrow some food from Wangmiao Zhu's family?"
"I heard from Carpenter Lu in the east of the village that Wang Miaozhu's family has so much food that they can hardly hold it. If they can borrow it, it would be nice to pay two cents more in interest."
When talking in small tones.
Came from the next room.
Zhang Heng closed his eyes and searched for the memory of his predecessor.
His predecessor was also named Zhang Heng.
Eight years old.
Born in Shanxia Village, Huwang Town.
The people talking next door were my predecessor’s parents.
The two were tenant farmers of the Wangmiao Zhu family in Huwangmiao.
The two people lying next to him were his second brother and his third sister.
Talk about it.
There is an older brother above them.
The eldest brother is very angry.
Two years ago, I said I wanted to go out and have some adventures, but I haven't been back since then, and there has been no news from me.
down.
The second brother is idle.
It stands to reason that this year is not too young, fifteen or sixteen, but I complain about everything I do.
At the end of last year, the blacksmith shop in the town was looking for apprentices, and I wanted him to give it a try.
As a result, he came back within two days and said he couldn't bear the pain.
The third sister is fine.
Zhang Heng looked at the girl's face.
In the memory of the predecessor, the third sister had a childhood sweetheart in the village named Brother Zhu.
The Zhu family is a self-cultivated farmer with land, and their life is much better than theirs.
The two were childhood sweethearts, and the second brother Zhu often secretly brought food to the third sister.
Although the food was not good, just pancakes, rice cakes and the like, the third sister usually secretly gave it to him for fear of starving him to death.
anyway.
Without these pancakes and rice cakes, the predecessor would have starved to death long ago.
Why do you say that.
Zhang Heng touched his belly.
My predecessor was eight or nine years old, when he was growing taller, and he was always hungry.
The dilapidated house happened to be raining all night.
Last year there was a locust plague and the food harvest was poor.
After delivering the food to the Miao Zhu family, there was not much left to chew.
These days.
The house has long been unable to open the pot.
The old couple struggled to survive by mixing wild vegetable dumplings and elm leaves into their rice.
If he guessed correctly.
The reason why he was able to come down as a spirit was because his predecessor starved to death at night.
If he doesn't come.
When they woke up in the morning, what the whole family saw was a cold corpse.
"I want to see my sister get married."
Collect the memories of little Zhang Heng.
Zhang Heng found that he was thinking deeply about his sister, who was the best to him.
Be aware of this.
Zhang Heng sighed inwardly, thinking with half relief and half promise: "I am you, and you are me. I will not treat her badly."
ideas together.
My heart instantly relaxed.
But Zhang Heng couldn't laugh.
Because this world is very strange.
The temples here do not worship immortals and Buddhas, but various demons.
The Buddhist and Taoist families were labeled as rebellious.
Legal provisions.
Those who help monks and Taoists receive fifty rods and their whole family will travel three thousand miles.
If there is a monk or Taoist priest in your family.
It would be even worse, directly annihilating the three tribes.
Not to mention being a monk or a Taoist priest, even if you believe, if one person believes, the whole village is responsible.
Destroy the Buddha and destroy the Tao.
In contrast, it promotes martial arts and Confucianism.
My predecessor was because I was too young.
I don’t know why they wanted to exterminate both the Buddhist and Taoist families.
I only know that the government's propaganda slogan is: If one person studies, the whole family will be glorious; if one person practices martial arts, the whole village will be peaceful.
"There is spiritual energy and abundant spiritual energy."
"Although it does not meet the standards of the Great Thousand World, it is still higher than the average Middle Thousand World."
"There are two schools of Buddhism and Taoism, but they were expelled. Now the government attaches great importance to Confucianism and Wushu."
"As for the progress of civilization"
"It's similar to the early Song Dynasty after the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. It just ended with years of conquest and the establishment of a unified dynasty."
Think of this.
Zhang Heng looked far away and then looked at the mountains outside the window.
Enter the eyes.
There is a temple on the top of the mountain.
The predecessor was told that he must not go up the mountain because the tiger master is enshrined on the mountain.
And under Zhang Heng's gaze.
The mountain's demonic aura soared into the sky, and its blood condensed.
Not surprisingly.
The so-called Tiger King Temple and the Tiger Master must be a ferocious tiger that eats countless people.
But now.
This man-eating tiger actually lived in the temple in a grand manner and was officially named a mountain god.
It can be seen from this.
When the world was first settled, the imperial court was not stable and did not even have the power to purge the demons in the world, so it could only focus on appeasement.
"It's just weird."
"The imperial court can even appease demons, but it wants to exterminate both Buddhist and Taoist families."
"How could this be? Could it be that the government hates Buddhism and Taoism more than these demons?"
"Or maybe the demon is also a member of the imperial court, and like the Confucian and Wu families, they played a big role in establishing the world?"
There is too little information.
Zhang Heng couldn't understand either.
But he knew there must be a story in it.
Can't say.
When dynasties competed, the Buddhist and Taoist families appeared as enemies.
A dynasty supported by Confucianism, Taoism and martial arts.
The Buddhist sect was destroyed and the dynasty supported by the Taoist sect.
Therefore, after the world is unified, both Buddhist and Taoist families will be exterminated.
"Brother, are you hungry?"
Just thinking about it.
Voices came from behind.
Zhang Heng looked back and saw that it was the third sister who had woken up.
Talk about it.
Third Sister Zhang is also fourteen years old.
However, due to the long-term adverse effects, her hair was withered and yellow, her bones were as fleshy as firewood, and she looked smaller than her peers, just like a little girl who had not grown up.
"I'm going to pick wild vegetables at the foot of the mountain with Brother Zhu today. If you're hungry, I've also hidden a few wild dates for you to fill your stomach first."
Sister Zhang has no name.
Even before Zhang Heng was born, she only had the title "three".
After having Zhang Heng.
Zhang Heng can speak, Third Sister, Third Sister shouted.
So she got a name, Sanjie Zhang.
"Thank you, third sister, I'm not hungry yet."
Zhang Heng smiled.
But after all, he was not his predecessor. As soon as he opened his mouth, Sanjie Zhang was stunned for a moment.
Because the first thing Zhang Heng said when he saw her every day when he woke up was: "Third sister, I'm hungry."
Moreover, how could a child from a sharecropping family have such courtesy?
Third Sister Zhang was a little confused.
I touched little Zhang Hengshi when he was holding him, and because he didn’t have anything to eat, he scratched his fingernails on his arms, and subconsciously murmured: “How can I not be hungry?”
yes.
There are five people in the family, and everyone is very hungry.
They didn't have enough to eat at all, and Sanjie Zhang couldn't remember the last time they had enough.
It's just that Zhang Heng is different.
He had just come down from the spirit, and the power of the immortal soul nourished him, but his hunger was not as strong as others.
"Third sister, let me accompany you to pick wild vegetables."
Zhang Heng looked around.
My predecessor has already starved to death. If I do nothing, I'm afraid the third sister will starve to death too.
He promised his predecessor that he would take care of his third sister for him.
It just so happened that I took advantage of the way to pick wild vegetables and went outside to see if there was anything to eat.
"Don't go up the mountain. There are ferocious beasts on the mountain. They will be captured."
Wash your face.
finish dressing.
Zhang Heng followed the third sister and listened to his parents' instructions.
Previous parents.
They are all honest farmers.
Give the Tiger King Temple’s blessing to the family as a tenant farmer.
Life was hard, but I never thought about cheating. Even if I borrowed someone's rice, I would talk about it again and again before going to bed.
I'm afraid that if they don't know how to write, they will forget the same thing if they don't talk about it for a few days.
"knew."
The third sister was carrying a big bamboo basket and leading Zhang Heng.
Go early to pick wild vegetables.
Because of the severe drought the year before last, and now that spring has just begun, they are not the only ones who are having a hard time.
If there are more people picking wild vegetables, there will be fewer wild vegetables. If you arrive late, no one will wait for you.
"Brother, you have to remember."
"You must not go up the mountain, you know."
Zhang Heng does not need to carry a bamboo basket.
He followed the third sister, watching the fourteen-year-old, over 1.3 meters tall, thin and dark little girl walking in front, imitating an adult and saying to himself: "You can't even think about it."
Looking at the third sister holding a small sickle.
Zhang Heng actually knew very well that the danger came not only from wild beasts, but also from the man-eating tiger.
Otherwise, they, the mountain people who live at the foot of the mountain, would not abandon the treasure mountain and not dare to leap even half a step like thunder.
Talk about beasts.
No matter how cunning the beast is, it cannot defeat the hunter.
The reality is that there are no hunters at all in Shanxia Village.
It's not that the people in the village are stupid and don't know how to live on the mountain, but everything on the mountain belongs to the Tiger King Temple, and hunting is seeking death.
"Third Sister"
The two walked to the entrance of the village.
When he came face to face, he saw a young man carrying a bamboo basket and looking around.
He looks about fifteen or sixteen, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a relatively strong body.
It can be seen from this.
This is a man who has enough to eat and his family is in good condition.
"You haven't eaten anything."
Seeing Zhang Heng and the others approaching, the young man trotted up to meet them, and took out two pieces of rice cakes from his arms in a sly manner: "My mother made them. I stole two pieces and kept them specially for you."
Third Sister Zhang's face was slightly red, and she used her hand to stab Zhang Heng: "Quickly call Brother Zhu."
"Brother Zhu."
Zhang Heng looked at the young man happily.
The second brother Zhu and the third sister were childhood sweethearts. Knowing that they did not have enough to eat at home, they often helped their siblings on weekdays.
Although from his point of view, the third sister is still a bit young.
But in today's environment, there are many people who get married at the age of fourteen or fifteen.
That is to say, the Zhu family despises the Zhang family for being poor, and the third sister is just like a hairy girl, her body bones have not grown, otherwise this matter would have happened long ago.
"hey-hey"
Brother Zhu smiled happily, took out a piece of rice cake and handed it to Zhang Heng: "Eat it quickly."
Zhang Heng didn't answer.
Sanjie Zhang was shy, but she also thought about his younger brother.
Seeing that Zhang Heng was motionless, he took the two rice cakes with a blushing face, then gave one piece to Zhang Heng and divided his piece into two.
After separation.
He took half of it and gave half to Brother Zhu.
The two looked at each other, said nothing, and ate happily, with eyes full of each other.
As for Zhang Heng.
All right.
He is a light bulb.
"I came a little earlier than you."
"I went to the foot of the mountain to take a look. There is a forest where wild vegetables are growing well, and there are also mushrooms."
Ate rice cakes.
Brother Zhu volunteered to walk in front: "Follow me. Let's go farther today. All the wild vegetables nearby have been harvested."
Zhang Heng and two others followed behind.
Talk about it.
Brother Zhu's family has more than ten acres of self-cultivated land, which is enough for the family to eat, but not for picking wild vegetables.
He came mainly to keep company with his third sister.
When he goes out on weekdays, even if he picks wild vegetables, he doesn't want them and asks his third sister to take them back.
Standing in Zhang Heng’s perspective.
Brother Zhu is indeed not an outstanding person. He doesn't even know the character Douda.
You can ask yourself sincerely.
Zhang Heng understood that Brother Zhu was indeed a good match for Third Sister.
Peacock flies southeast.
Wandering back and forth for five miles.
Looking at Brother Zhu who was walking in front and looking back frequently.
Zhang Heng seemed to see the sunset, with the afterglow shining on his face, and asked his girl with a smile: "Zhang Heng, do you like me?"