Chapter 1 A House Full of Children and Grandchildren
Yang Zhengshan had a very long dream. He dreamed that he turned into an ancient man.
When he was young, he learned martial arts from his father. His father was very strict with him and often beat him with a small wooden stick.
When he was a teenager, his father went into the mountains to hunt and was attacked by a wild beast and died of serious injuries. He saw his father, who was covered in blood, being carried down the mountain by the villagers, and he lay on his father and cried bitterly.
Then he dreamed that he joined the army. After a year in the army, he was seriously injured in a tragic battle and retired to his hometown.
He got married and married a woman with bright eyes and white teeth.
A year after the marriage, his wife gave birth to a son for him, and he seemed very happy.
The reason why it is said to be seems is that he did not experience it personally in the dream, but more like watching a documentary.
Fragmentary dreams continued to appear, and it seemed that twenty years had passed in a flash. There were more and more people in the family, and the days at home were getting more and more lively.
But suddenly one day, his wife fell ill and could not get up. Looking at his increasingly weak wife, he was very confused and scared.
His wife died of illness, and the dream became dim.
The warmth was gone, replaced by emptiness and confusion.
The dream became more and more fragmented and blurred. Just when Yang Zhengshan thought the dream was about to end, a pool of clear water suddenly appeared in front of him.
The stone pool was embedded in the ground, surrounded by endless darkness, and only the clear water in the pool emitted a bright light.
Suddenly Yang Zhengshan opened his eyes and looked at the beams on the roof woodenly.
He was very familiar with this beam, because he had seen it countless times in his dreams, and he even carried this beam down from the mountain and installed it on the house himself.
"It's not a dream!"
Yang Zhengshan blinked his eyes, and his heart suddenly tightened.
Then he sat up suddenly, and the thick quilt on his body fell off, and everything in the room appeared in his eyes.
The earthen kang, the black wooden box was placed on the head of the kang, and two quilts that looked a little worn were folded on the box. The wooden window with window paper pasted on it was dimly lit, and someone was clucking outside the window, as if feeding chickens.
Yang Zhengshan shook his head vigorously, then slapped himself.
"It hurts!"
I'm not dreaming!
Yang Zhengshan was stunned.
How could a good young man in society become a rural widower?
That's right, a widower.
If his wife died, wouldn't he be a widower?
Not only a widower, he seemed to have sons, daughters, grandsons, and granddaughters.
Yang Zhengshan poked his hands and feet and got off the kang. He secretly looked outside through the crack in the door and saw a woman in a coarse cloth dress feeding chickens in the yard.
Daughter-in-law!
Yang Zhengshan's mouth twitched wildly, and the whole person seemed to be struck by lightning.
Damn, what is this!
I traveled through time and space, and I traveled through time and space to become an old man with many children and grandchildren!
Children and grandchildren!
Children and grandchildren!
The resentment in Yang Zhengshan's heart erupted like a volcano.
I haven't even gotten married yet, so where do I get children and grandchildren?
Woo woo woo~~
I want to cry.
No, no, I'm not an old man!
I'm only 38!
I'm just 10 years older.
Yang Zhengshan sat back on the kang and fell into deep thought.
In feudal society, people got married early.
In his dream, he joined the army at the age of 15, was discharged from the army and returned home at the age of 16 due to injury, and got married at the age of 17. Now he is only 38 years old.
In modern times, 38 years old is not considered old at all.
But Yang Zhengshan still feels bad that he has aged 10 years for no reason.
A good young man of 28 years old has become a grandfather of 38 years old. Yang Zhengshan feels that his heart is about to break.
"Dad, are you up? It's time for breakfast!"
A voice came from outside the door. This is his eldest son.
Woo woo, eldest son!
Twenty-year-old eldest son!
How can I have such an old eldest son!
Yang Zhengshan wants to cry even more.
"Dad, Dad~~"
The eldest son outside the door did not get a response and pushed the door in.
"Dad, what's wrong with you? Are you missing mom again?"
The eldest son is Yang Mingcheng, who is tall and strong. Although he is only 20 years old, he is already the father of two children.
Miss your mom?
Yang Zhengshan buried his head in the worn quilt.
The three major happy events for middle-aged men are promotion, wealth and death of wife!
The wife of the original body died, is this a happy event?
"No, you guys eat first!"
Yang Zhengshan didn't want to go out. He was not ready to face a house full of children and grandchildren.
But as soon as he said this, his stomach growled.
Yang Mingcheng heard his stomach growling, "Dad, you are hungry."
Yang Zhengshan was depressed. He was really not ready to face a house full of children and grandchildren. He was resistant.
He hasn't married yet!
But he has grandchildren!
He wants to curse now, really wants to curse.
Even if others travel through time, they are grandchildren or sons. Why did he travel through time to become a grandfather?
He would rather be a grandson than a grandfather!
Woo, I'm so hungry!
It's okay to curse, but I have to eat. I'll be hungry if I don't eat.
"You go out first, I'll be there soon!" Yang Zhengshan said with his head down.
"Okay, Dad, hurry up!"
Hearing that he wanted to eat, the eldest son Yang Mingcheng immediately agreed.
After he left, Yang Zhengshan raised his head from the quilt.
There's no way to hide!
He must face his children and grandchildren.
Yang Zhengshan let out a heavy breath.
He is not alone now. He has three sons, two daughters, two daughters-in-law, two grandsons, and one granddaughter. Woohoo, what a big family!
When he thought of home, he thought of his parents. Although his parents divorced and remarried and had their own children, they were still good to him. They never gave less child support and even bought him a house when he graduated from college.
He lived a comfortable life alone. Although he felt lonely sometimes, he felt free most of the time.
But now he...
It's all tears to talk about it!
Yang Zhengshan didn't dare to think about it anymore. He stood up and looked at his body.
He was about 1.8 meters tall and a little thin. A long scar extended from the left shoulder to the abdomen. This was caused by the original body being injured on the battlefield.
That war was a life-or-death struggle for the original body. If it weren't for the original body's good luck, it would be impossible for the original body to retire and return home.
But even if the original body saved his life, his body was also seriously injured.
It was fine when I was young, but now that I am old, this body is getting weaker. Especially the shoulders, which often ache.
Yang Zhengshan frowned and looked at the scars on his body, then put on blue cloth shirt and cloth shoes, and rubbed his face vigorously.
"Even if you don't want to face it, you have to face it. The original person's personality cannot collapse. I am Yang Zhengshan, and Yang Zhengshan is me!"
The original person is a serious person, and Yang Zhengshan himself is not a person who likes to talk much. The two are somewhat similar in this respect.
However, as a modern person, many of Yang Zhengshan's habits are definitely different from those of the original person.
He can only recall the habits of the original person and try to maintain the same personality as the original person.
Walking out of the room, the whole family is already sitting at two wooden tables in the main room.
Looking at this big family, Yang Zhengshan's feet are a little bit unable to move.
Too scary!
The wife of the original person is really fertile, with five children.
The eldest son, Yang Mingcheng, is 20 years old and looks big and strong. He has practiced some martial arts with the original body. Although he is not a warrior, he is also very strong.
He got married at the age of 15 and married Wang from the neighboring Wangjia Village. After five years of marriage, he had two children, a grandson who just turned three years old and a granddaughter who just turned 100 days old.
The second son, Yang Mingzhi, is 18 years old. He looks like his mother. He is a little thin and is just over 1.7 meters tall, much shorter than the eldest son. He is dull and doesn't like to talk. He also got married at the age of 15. His wife is Li from Lijia Village. He gave birth to a boy at the end of last year.
The third son is a daughter, Yang Yunyan, who is 16 years old this year and just got married more than a year ago.
The fourth son, Yang Minghao, is 14 years old and is an apprentice in a blacksmith shop in the county town. He is not at home.
The youngest daughter, Yang Yunxue, is only ten years old. She looks like her mother, with bright eyes and white teeth. She is the treasure of the youngest daughter. When the original wife was alive, she loved her the most and spoiled her since she was a little bit naive.
Yang Zhengshan felt dizzy. In the past, he could feed the whole family by himself, but now there are ten people in this big family, excluding the eldest daughter who is married. Just thinking about it makes his scalp numb.
Moreover, this family is not rich. There are only 20 acres of land. The harvest has not been good in the past two years. It is a problem to have enough food.
"Dad!"
"Dad!"
"Grandpa!"
Yang Zhengshan walked out and the whole family shouted.
"..."
Yang Zhengshan was speechless for a while, just nodded and walked to the well outside the main hall to wash his face.
Looking at his face in the basin, Yang Zhengshan couldn't help crying again.
This is not thirty-eight years old!
It's a bit unfair to say that he is forty-eight years old.
His complexion is dark, his skin is rough, his beard is messy, and there are white hairs on his temples.
I used to be very handsome!
Yang Zhengshan pursed his lips and tied up his long hair. At the same time, he observed the courtyard of his home.
This house was the original body's previous home. It was rebuilt when the original body married a wife. At first, there were only three tiled houses. Later, as the children grew up, the original body built several more houses.
There are three main rooms, a bedroom, a main room, and a kitchen. There are four rooms on each side of the east and west. The door is in the southeast corner of the yard. There is also a cowshed in the southwest corner, where a big yellow cow is raised.
Speaking of which, this family was not considered poor before. The original body had been on the battlefield and was considered a capable person in the villages. The original body's wife was from the Lu family, and his father-in-law was a scholar. He was given some dowry when they got married.
But as the number of children increased, the daily expenses of this family became larger and larger, and their lives became more and more poor.
However, the family did not seem to be without money. Yang Zhengshan remembered that the original body and his wife still had some emergency money.
Thinking of the silver in the money box, Yang Zhengshan breathed a sigh of relief.
He really felt it was difficult to support this big family.
With some money, he felt more confident.
As for leaving this family, he gave up just thinking about it.
Although this family was a little poor, it at least gave him a place to stay.
If he left this family, he didn't know how to survive in this world alone.
According to the memory of his previous life, this world should not be a certain dynasty in ancient times, but a completely unfamiliar world.
In the feudal dynasty and feudal society, it was even more difficult for a person to live.
So Yang Zhengshan thought it was better to stay in this family, at least he had a big family to rely on.
Well, having many children and grandchildren is not a bad thing.
After washing up, Yang Zhengshan returned to the main room and sat in the original body's seat, looking at the food on the table.
Two wooden tables were put together, the man was inside and the woman was outside. The meal was grain porridge and corn cakes, and there were only two dishes, pickles and wild vegetable soup, without a single drop of oil.
The meal was made by the eldest daughter-in-law, Wang, a chubby woman. It was obvious that the daughter-in-law here had eaten a lot of food, otherwise she wouldn't be chubby.
The family looked at Yang Zhengshan eagerly. Yang Zhengshan had a wooden face and said in the tone of the original body: "Eat!"
He was the head of the family. If he didn't speak, the family couldn't move their chopsticks.
In feudal society, there were so many rules.
But think about it, being a grandfather is not bad. The work in the fields is done by the son, and the housework is done by the daughter-in-law. He, the head of the family, has absolute say.
The food was really bad, but Yang Zhengshan was really hungry. No matter how bad the food was, he had to eat it.
Moreover, they only eat two meals a day. If they don’t eat breakfast, they can only wait for dinner.
Yang Zhengshan drank a bowl of grain porridge with gritted teeth. After suppressing the hunger in his stomach, he couldn’t eat anymore.
He could still eat grain porridge, but he couldn’t swallow the corn cake.
The corn cake was very rough, and it felt piercing in his throat when he swallowed it. Even if he swallowed it with wild vegetable soup, he felt uncomfortable.
He took a bite of the corn cake and put it down.
“Grandpa, give me your grandson’s porridge!” Seeing that Yang Zhengshan only drank a bowl of porridge and didn’t drink it, the eldest grandson Yang Chengye pushed his porridge in front of Yang Zhengshan.
Yang Zhengshan looked at the baby in front of him with a complicated look.
The eldest grandson knew how to respect his grandfather at the age of three. Woo, I feel, feel...
Go away, you are not my grandson!
“Grandpa is not hungry, Chengye eat it!” Yang Zhengshan reached out and rubbed the eldest grandson’s head, sighing softly.
He didn't want this grandson in his heart, but even if he didn't want it, he couldn't blame a child.
"Go to the field after eating, I'll rest for a while!"
Yang Zhengshan felt uncomfortable, left a word, and walked back to his room.
"What's wrong with Dad?" The second son Yang Mingzhi looked at Yang Zhengshan's back and asked in a low voice.
Although Yang Zhengshan had deliberately maintained his original habits, as children, they could still see that Yang Zhengshan was a little different today.
"Maybe he missed his mother!"
The eldest son Yang Mingcheng said, thinking of Yang Zhengshan's appearance in the house just now.
When their mother was mentioned, the whole family fell into longing.
