Qin Feng realized that if he allowed the old man to continue talking, he might never get the answer, so he simply asked a few questions straight to the point, and he might be able to find out where he was.
"Sanjie Mountain is right in Sanjie Mountain and has nothing to do with Yunnan and Guizhou."
The old man was a little stunned by Qin Feng's series of questions. He thought for a while before saying: "The Yungui you are talking about, I seem to have heard it mentioned by older people, but it must have nothing to do with us here..."
"Then what year is it now?" Unable to get an answer to the first question, Qin Feng asked reluctantly: "Are you using the lunar calendar or the Gregorian calendar?"
"When I was a child, I used the lunar calendar, but later I changed it." After hearing Qin Feng's words, the old man smiled and said: "Now I use the Gregorian calendar. I calculated which year it should be..."
After counting on his fingers for a while, the old man raised his head and said: "I am sixty-six this year. By the way, this year should be the year 2000 in the Gregorian calendar. Yes, it is the year 2000 in the Gregorian calendar..."
The old man smiled sheepishly and said, "We farmers rarely pay attention to these things, but it makes you laugh, Qin Feng..."
"Is it really the year 2000 in the Gregorian calendar?"
The old man's words were like nectar and dew, and Qin Feng's sweat pores were filled with relief when he heard them. He could not believe that he had not traveled back a few decades, but was still in his own time and space.
"Of course it's true. I'm sixty-six this year. I was born in..."
In order to avoid Qin Feng not believing it, the old man counted it again for Qin Feng with his fingers, and finally said: "If I remember correctly, it should be the 88th year of the Republic of China."
"What? The 88th year of the Republic of China?"
Qin Feng's face, which was originally full of smiles, suddenly became stiff. It had been 50 years since liberation. Why do this old man still use the Republic of China to calculate the year?
"It's the 88th year of the Republic of China. Why, is there something wrong?"
Seeing Qin Feng's stunned face, the old man was a little confused. He turned around and walked into the room, took out a yellowed book and said: "When I was a child, there was such a brochure. It said it was about reforming the Republic of China.
Until now, I still don’t know what’s going on outside…”
"Three People's Principles?" Looking at the people on the brochure, Qin Feng almost couldn't catch it. He flipped through it casually and found that it was indeed what Sun Dapao did.
"Old man, the Republic of China has long since disappeared. New China was established fifty years ago. Don't you know?"
Qin Feng was not panicked. Maybe this was a tribe living in the mountains of 100,000 mountains. It might not have interacted with the outside world for a hundred years, so he didn't know what was going on outside.
"We haven't had any contact with the outside world for fifty or sixty years."
The old man suddenly let out a sigh, and looked at Qin Feng like a monster, his voice trembling, "You... how do you know these things outside? Is it possible... are you from outside?"
"I'm from outside..."
Qin Feng said without knowing why: "Old man, the world outside has changed a lot. I don't think you need to stay in the mountains as you say. You can go out and take a look..."
"You...you are really from outside!" The old man's body even shook slightly this time. It was obvious that this question touched him greatly.
"Yes..." Qin Feng nodded and said, "Old man, didn't I tell you that after encountering a shipwreck, you would wake up here..."
"Shipwreck...shipwreck, I should have thought of it a long time ago!"
The old man suddenly slapped his thigh. Then he glanced left and right, pulled Qin Feng and walked into the house. He said, "If you have anything to say, let's go inside and talk..."
"What kind of thing is this?" Seeing the old man's mysterious and nervous look, Qin Feng was confused. Is it possible that the rules here do not welcome outsiders?
"Qin...Qin Feng. What is the outside world like?" After arriving at the house, the old man asked.
"Technology is very advanced outside now. As early as a few decades ago, astronauts entered space and landed on the moon. Our country has long been out of war and is now getting stronger..."
Qin Feng finally figured out that this place must have lost contact with the outside world since the 1920s and 1930s. Otherwise, it would be impossible to live a life without any technology and be completely isolated from the world.
"Without war, is there finally no war?"
After hearing Qin Feng's words, the old man suddenly shed tears and murmured: "Ancestors, have you heard that the war is finally over, and there is no more war outside, but...but we can't go back.
…”
"Old man, did you hide here during the war?"
Qin Feng frowned slightly and said: "Now that the war is over, let's just go out. I believe the local government will take care of you. Why do you say you can't go back?"
Qin Feng has roughly guessed the situation here. If he guessed correctly, the people here should have fled here to avoid the warlords' melee. This situation is not uncommon in Chinese history.
When Tao Yuanming wrote "The Peach Blossom Spring", many people thought it was just an article expressing Tao Yuanming's best wishes, but it was not.
The Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties were the period with the most frequent regime changes in Chinese history.
Due to the long-term feudal separatism and continuous wars, the people were in dire straits. Many people fled into the mountains with their families and lived in the mountains for hundreds of years, unaware of the time in the world.
"The Peach Blossom Spring" written by Tao Yuanming was inspired by what he heard about some people walking out of the mountains. It is not completely fabricated.
Even in modern times, something like this happened. Qin Feng saw such a news some time ago.
It was a father and son living in Myanmar. In the 1930s and 1940s, in order to avoid the Japanese, they moved their family to the Devil's Mountain in Myanmar. They lived there for 40 to 50 years. By the time they came out, what had happened outside had already happened.
Earth-shaking changes.
So when Qin Feng thought about it, the situation here should be the same. He came here to escape the war. Now that the war is over, he can go out and live again.
"It's hard to come in, and even harder to go back..."
The old man suddenly looked at Qin Feng with some pity and said: "Young man, we are not what you think. We hid here seventy or eighty years ago. We came here earlier than you thought.
…”
"Didn't you come here when the warlords were fighting?" Qin Feng frowned and said, "Then you are the survivors of the Ming Dynasty. You didn't want to cut off your hair and wear different clothes, so you hid in the mountains?"
Qin Feng is familiar with history. Among Chinese dynasties, only the Qing Dynasty was considered a foreign race that ruled the orthodox Han people.
Therefore, after the Qing Dynasty entered the Guan and pacified the world, many people of the former Ming Dynasty were unwilling to accept the rule of the Qing Dynasty and hid in the mountains to become survivors of the former dynasty.
Of course, these people are not completely isolated from the world. They will go out from time to time to exchange some information and daily items with outsiders. Qin Feng just doesn't understand. Why does the old man say he can't go back?
"We came here earlier than you said."
The old man sighed and said: "The ancestors did flee here to avoid the war. In the past, they could often go out to get some news about the outside world, but just a few decades ago, the road to the outside world was cut off.
…”
"Is it cut off? What...what is going on?" After hearing the old man's words, Qin Feng couldn't help being shocked. It was strange that he came to this place, and he really couldn't get out.
"I'm not very clear about this either. Only the five major families know about these things."
The old man shook his head. He just lived long enough to know some secrets. As for the young people living now, they don't know these things at all.
"Which five major families?" Qin Feng asked.
"Zhao, Qian, Sun, Li, Qin!"
The old man said: "Qin is the family that has lived here the longest and is also the most powerful. I heard that they were originally named Ying. They are the descendants of the First Emperor. Later, the Liu family took over the world, so they changed their surname to Qin..."
Speaking of this, the old man couldn't help but look at Qin Feng and said: "Your surname is Qin too. Could it be that you have something to do with the Qin family? However, the Qin family has been here for thousands of years and has countless branches. It is not a member of the main line. The surname is
Qin is of no use either..."
"I'm afraid I have nothing to do with the Qin family here."
Qin Feng shook his head, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said: "Zhao Qian, Sun and Li are all among the five major families. You...could it be that you came here during the Yuan Dynasty?"
Qin Feng liked reading history books when he was a child. Later, due to professional reasons, he became almost obsessed with history. When he heard the surnames of Zhao Qian, Sun Li, and others, he suddenly understood.
The Yuan Dynasty that Qin Feng mentioned was the period when the Mongol Empire ruled the Central Plains.
Although the Mongols ruled China for only 92 years from the surrender of the Southern Song Dynasty in 1276 to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty in 1368, in less than a hundred years, they staged a tragedy that nearly wiped out the Chinese bloodline.
At that time, when the Mongol Empire ruled, killing a Han man only cost a donkey. The new daughter-in-law in a Han village had to spend her first night with the Mongols. Therefore, at that time, many Han people would often give birth to their first-born child in order to ensure their bloodline.
The children who were born were drowned alive.
In that dark period, Chinese people were not even allowed to have names. Most of them were named after their birth date. They were not allowed to own weapons. They could only share a kitchen knife with several households. This was a barbaric rule!
The number of Mongols was not very large. In order to consolidate their rule, they began to massacre. The first to bear the brunt were the four major surnames of the Han people: Zhao, Qian, Sun, and Li!
At that time, the Mongols set up checkpoints everywhere. Anyone passing by with these four surnames would be pulled to the roadside and killed.
The Yuan Dynasty ruled China for more than ninety years, and the Han population dropped from 80 million to 30 million, which was the lowest point in China's population after the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Although Zhao, Qian, Sun and Li were common surnames in later generations, they were not much more common than other surnames. It was precisely because of that massacre that Zhang, Wang and other surnames were more common in society now.
So as soon as Qin Feng heard that there were four major clans here, "Zhao Qian, Sun Li", and combined with the fact that they fled here to avoid the war, he immediately guessed their origins.
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ps: The second update, I haven’t traveled through time, please recommend monthly tickets! (To be continued...)
