In the 12th year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, Xujia Village, Shangrao County, Guangxin Prefecture.

It was late winter, the sky was bright, the weeds along the road were still covered with a thick layer of white frost, and the cold was gnawing at the bones.

"Come on, Brother Jin has fallen into the river!" A cry for help broke the tranquility of the winter morning.

Three or two villagers carrying farm tools and preparing to go out to work quickly ran to the river. Several village women and aunts who had just returned from watering the vegetable fields threw away the dung buckets they were carrying and ran to the river. In an instant, everything was going crazy.

Jump.

"Hey, you still have some energy, hurry up, Erniu, turn Brother Jin upside down and use all your strength!"

Xu Jin was in a daze of consciousness. He felt that someone was roughly lifting his legs and jostling his head and feet so hard that his internal organs seemed to be knocked out. The river water he drank spurted out from his mouth and nostrils, like a showerhead.

.

"Okay, spit it out!"

A burst of cheers frightened Xu Jin. He opened his eyes slightly and saw a group of big feet wearing gray cloth shoes, clogs, and even straw sandals.

"What's going on, shooting a costume film?" A thought flashed through Xu Jin's mind.

"Send him home quickly, don't drown or freeze to death!"

…

Xu Jin was wrapped in a shabby linen quilt and sitting on the bed shivering. His mood at this moment was as if he had drank a bottle of Sprite in the middle of winter. It was so cold!

The stuffing inside the linen quilt was probably not cotton, but probably reed catkins, rice straw, etc. Even though it was tightly wrapped, Xu Jin still felt very cold, and his upper and lower teeth chattered.

However, the biting cold made Xu Jin realize that he had indeed traveled through time and this was not a dream.

Xu Jin was originally the boss of a private enterprise. He was a wealthy man who built his family from scratch. At the age of 28, he had a net worth of over 100 million. He married a lovely wife who was eight years younger than him. He has two children. He can be said to be a winner.

Since then, Xu Jin's career has been smooth sailing, his company has been successfully listed, and his net worth has soared to more than one billion.

However, when the water is full, it will overflow, and when the moon is full, it will lose money. The ebb and flow always have an ebb, 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 his life

Also got into trouble.

When Xu Jin was released from prison after three years in prison, his wife had already sold the property, leaving behind a pair of children who were nowhere to be found. That day, Xu Jin burst into tears as he watched his elderly father holding two sallow-looking children to pick him up.

Buried in my old father's arms, crying like a child.

"No matter how poor you are, you can only beg for food. If you don't die, you will always come forward. Only when you wipe away your tears and make a comeback can you be called a real man!"

After Xu Jin was released from prison, he worked hard, working three jobs a day at most, almost all year round. After accumulating tens of thousands of capital, he started to start a small business again. With many years of experience in the business world, he quickly

In just a few years, his wealth snowballed, and at the age of forty-eight, he once again reached the pinnacle of his life.

It is said that one can stand up at thirty and not be confused at forty. Xu Jin, who has passed the age of forty, has looked away. Wealth cannot be brought with him in life or in death. As long as it is enough, why bother to work hard every day?

Work, the child has grown up anyway, and he has to live for himself in the remaining part of his life journey.

So Xu Jin completely put aside his business affairs and truly let himself go. He went to bars like young people, reading, painting, photography, dancing, diving, rock climbing, marathon... Occasionally, he would just do it again.

Take the trip.

Recently, Xu Jin became obsessed with skydiving and jumped almost twice a month. As a result, fate played another joke on him at the age of fifty-two.

The parachute failed to open, and Xu Jin plummeted from an altitude of two thousand meters, and then... inexplicably traveled through time.

According to the original memory of this body, it is known that 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 actually Xu Jin. He is the Chengxuan Government Envoy (Province) of Jiangxi Province and a person from Shangrao County, Guangxin Prefecture. This year

Only fourteen years old.

Xu Jin combed through his memories like a movie, and couldn't help but sigh secretly. He had to say that the original owner of this body was really an unlucky child. Both his parents died when he was eleven. He had no brothers or sisters, and of course no money.

The kind that is so poor.

Xu Jin smiled bitterly. Fate once again left him with nothing. Oh, strictly speaking, he still had a dilapidated house to live in. It seemed that he also had...a little wife!

At this time, a young girl walked in. She was wearing a gray-brown skirt. She was about twelve or thirteen years old. She had slightly dark skin and a sallow complexion. She looked malnourished at first glance, but her dark eyes were bright and clear.

"Ms., there is no ginger at home. Let's drink some hot water to keep away the cold!" The young lady timidly walked to the bed, holding a rough earthen porcelain bowl in her hand. It was steaming, and it was obviously freshly boiled water.

Xu Jin took the bowl tremblingly, not caring about burning his mouth, and drank a few big sips, finally feeling warmer.

"Thank you!" Xu Jin finished drinking the hot water and handed the earthen bowl back to his mother, who turned around and walked out of the house with an uneasy look.

Xu Jin was stunned for a moment before suddenly realizing that this is an ancient, patriarchal society. Especially in the Ming Dynasty, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism became popular, and the feudal ethics' restraint on women reached its peak. The so-called Three Cardinal Guidelines and Five Constant Rules, the husband is the wife's guideline, and the wife serves her husband.

It's a matter of justice. No man would say thank you to his wife. No wonder the little girl looked uneasy.

After a while, the young lady walked in again, holding an old wooden basin, lowering her head and saying: "My lord, please rest for a while. Don't go to the school today. I'll ask the master for leave later."

Being called husband by a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, Xu Jin felt uncomfortable all over and nodded: "Well, go ahead and don't worry about me!"

The young lady walked out with the wooden basin, then 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. In modern times, a little girl of twelve or thirteen years old would have just entered junior high school. Some of them were spoiled and could not even take care of themselves. However, in ancient times, most girls of this age were already married.

The wife takes on the heavy housework.

From the memory of the original owner of the body, we learned that the name of this little girl was Xie Xiaowan, and her nickname was Bea Caier. Her father was a fisherman, and she had several brothers in the family. Her marriage to her was decided 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 scholar in the nearby village and was quite respected. The villagers would invite him to attend every festival, wedding, funeral, etc.

Therefore, the Xu family was relatively well-off at that time, and with Xu's father's title of scholar, there were many people who wanted to get married to the Xu family, because maybe one day Father Xu would be selected for the examination, or even be nominated for the gold medal, and then his daughter would become a

If you become an official wife, your family will also be able to prosper.

At that time, Xu's father declined all the proposals for marriage, but finally agreed to the fisherman Xie's family. The reason was that Xu's father went to the provincial capital to take the provincial examination that year, but failed in his job. In frustration, he went boating on Poyang Lake with his classmates to relax, and accidentally fell into the water.

In the end, he was rescued by Xie's father who was fishing nearby. Out of gratitude, Xu's father took the initiative to propose marriage to Xie's father.

In this way, Xu Jin and Xie Xiaowan's marriage was decided. Unexpectedly, Xu's father died of illness a year later, and Xu's mother also died of depression the following year. The Xu family's situation plummeted.

According to the original agreement, when Xu Jin came of age and was crowned at the age of fifteen, the two families would arrange the marriage. However, Xu Jin is fourteen years old this year. He suddenly fell ill a few months ago and has not recovered. The Xu family has been passing by.

Unluckily, their luck was so bad that everyone in the clan felt that they wanted to celebrate Brother Jin, and everyone happened to know the marriage contract between the Xu and Xie families, so the clan leader Zhang Luo arranged for Xu Jin and Xie Xiaowan to get married in advance.

Fortunately, Xie's father was also a man of faith and did not regret it because of the Xu family's situation. Even the betrothal gift was only a symbolic dou of rice.

Perhaps it was the happy occasion that played a role. After getting married, Xu Jin's illness gradually improved and he was even able to get out of bed and walk around in the past few days.

It is worth mentioning that under Xu's father's words and deeds, Xu Jin became an out-and-out nerd, focusing on studying to gain fame and glory. After Xu's father died, no one gave Xu Jin any guidance on his studies.

There was an old Tongsheng who opened a private school to teach children elementary education. So Xu Jin took the old Tongsheng as his teacher and walked Lixu Road to the neighboring village early every morning to attend classes.

This morning, the bookworm, who had just gotten out of bed and walked around, ignored Xie Xiaowan's dissuasion and insisted on going to the book school to study. As a result, he slipped and fell into the river and died, and his body happened to be occupied by Xu Jin who had traveled through time.

…

Xu Jin rested in bed for half an hour. Finally, he didn't feel so cold anymore, but his stomach rumbled with hunger, so he got up to look for something to eat.

Xu Jinxing left the room and came to the hall. Suddenly, there was a desolation. The hall was quite big, but it was empty. Except for a low table and two broken stools like crooked melons and cracked dates, there was nothing else. The house was really bare and empty.

The words are desolate!

My stomach was growling, and my insides were burning. The feeling was really uncomfortable.

Finally, Xu Jin found an earthenware urn in the corner of the room and opened the wooden stopper with great anticipation. As a result, it was empty except for a few grains of rice crumbs.

Xu Jin's heart suddenly sank to the bottom. There was not even a grain of food left at home. How should he survive this cold winter?

Panic and anxiety arise spontaneously. You must know that being hungry and cold will kill you!

At this time, there was the sound of the firewood door being pushed open from outside. Xu Jin hurriedly walked to the door and saw Xie Xiaowan walking into the yard carrying a large bundle of dry firewood. Two dung buckets were hung on the firewood pile.

He held the wooden basin with one hand, which contained freshly washed clothes.

Xu Jin subconsciously ran out to help, but the body was too weak. He tripped on the threshold and almost fell into a hungry dog.

Xie Xiaowan hurriedly dropped the load of firewood and wooden basin, ran over to help Xu Jin up, and said hurriedly: "Ms. sir, you are weak and it's cold outside. You don't dare to run around. Come to the house and rest quickly!"

Xie Xiaowan had just finished washing clothes by the river. Her hands were cold, and the backs of her hands were full of cracks. Her face, nose and ears were all red from the cold, and her eyes were filled with mist.

Suddenly, Xu Jin felt that the softest part of his heart had been hit. It felt like when he was released from prison and saw his sallow and skinny children looking at him timidly, and he felt sad for no reason.
Chapter completed!