Chapter 1 A New Beginning
......I grew up in the welfare home since I was a child. Because I was in poor health when I was a child, I was not adopted. Fortunately, the public welfare institutions were still complete at that time, and I was burdened with public expenses for treatment and study. Most children in the welfare home lived in a mess, and I was the few who knew how to make progress...
......A year before the college entrance examination, my chronic illness was cured, and my review and college entrance examination were both smooth. I was admitted to a well-behaved university. I studied food processing, had average university grades and had no chance to fall in love. After graduation, I joined a company and continued my ordinary life...
...... Perhaps because of the closed and depressed childhood, or because of my weakness back then, I liked to travel outdoors after working, broaden my horizons and strengthen my body...
............I went to Datong's remote suburbs with a few hikers. A friend slid down and went to help him. By chance, my friend was fine, but he fell off a cliff with an altitude of hundreds of meters...
...No, no, I am a twelve-year-old boy from Baibao Village, southwest of Datong City. He caught a cold a few days ago and couldn't get up from bed. How could he have such a ridiculous dream? He lived in the dream for more than 20 years, and since childhood, there are so many strange but extremely attractive things...
......No, no, I am an employee of a trading company. I like traveling and enjoying life. I already have a girl I like, and the other party also has a good impression of me. My life has just begun. How could I die? How could I have such an illusion, fantasizing that I grew up in a village in the ancient north and lived a half-hungry and half-full life with my parents...
.....So I have parents? No, no, this must be an illusion...
....It's great to have enough food and clothing every day. No, no, this must be a devil...
Zhu Da suddenly sat up from the bed, his face covered in cold sweat, his eyes were blank, and he said to himself, "I am Zhu Da, I am..."
Anyone who sees Zhu Da at this time will feel that he is crazy. A thin boy lying on the earthen kang said to himself, but he also fumbled himself with his hands, from his face to his feet, never letting go.
But as he kept talking to himself and groping himself, Zhu Da's confused eyes gradually became condensed, and a crying and laughing expression appeared on his face.
"Isn't this a dream? Those more than 20 years may not be a dream... It's really interesting. In those more than 20 years of life, I'm also called Zhu Da... I am Zhu Da, I'm still alive!" His tone became more and more firm.
After clarifying "Who am I", Zhu Da's mood was much calmer, and he still had the mood of fear and confusion, but he had the time to observe and recall.
The room has poor lighting, no furnishings, and does not smell very good. Of course, Zhu Da is not unfamiliar with these standard living places of poor people. He has lived here for ten years, but babies and children are confused. Even if they see and hear, they may not have any specific concepts. Now it is completely different.
Zhu Da sat on the bed, wearing a quilt full of pudding, scanning the small room. What attracted him the most was the wooden table with food, but now Zhu Da looked at the corner of the window, where a spear was lying horizontally. The spear head had rusted, and the spear rod also had traces of insect damage...
He was born in a military family. This Baibao Village is actually a Baihu Fort in Datongwei. Over time, Baihu Fort has become Baihu Village. Every household here is a military household. Everyone has a military field. It is said that it is to settle the country, but in fact it is to work as slave workers and tenants for the masters of thousands of households and commanders.
When did this come from? By the way, it should have been during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Jiajing should have been emperor for not long. Zhu Da had heard someone say it in a daze.
The parents' chats and the conversations of others in the village all contain all kinds of information. The children are carefree and heartless, and they don't pay attention to it when they hear it. But now Zhu Da suddenly understands a lot.
It turned out that he was in a border town during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Da suddenly regretted that he did not study history well in his life. He knew the Ming Dynasty, Jiajing, and Datong City. But everyone knows these, and people of this era also know that as long as you know a little more, even a little bit, it may change your life and at least have a better life.
The sound of footsteps came from outside the door. You could hear the woman's sobs and the man's sighs when you listen carefully. Zhu Da, who was wandering outside the sky, was alarmed. He wanted to lie down and pretend to be asleep, but it was not until this time that Zhu Da realized how much he was. He was sore all over and had no strength, so he could only slowly rub it back. Seeing that it was too late, he simply froze there and stopped moving.
"Son, you...you live...you're alive!" The door of the house was pushed open. When he saw Zhu Da sitting on the bed, his mother's voice changed excitedly. Zhu Da's father was also stunned, and the white cloth in his hand fell to the ground.
In this era, typhoid fever is a fatal disease for poor families. The white cloth in my father's hand is probably used to wrap his body. My father and mother thought he would die. Perhaps it was when he was dying that he would have such dreams and more than twenty years of life...
Zhu Da did not bother with these things. He looked at his parents, father Zhu Shitou and mother Zhu Wang in front of him, both in his early thirties and looked like people in their forties. They had all the characteristics of poor people, and their expressions were dull, as if they had been used to suffering, but now both of them had surprises on their faces, incredible surprises.
This is his parents... father and mother? The family affection and blood-connected care, Zhu Da is familiar and unfamiliar with this feeling. He was lonely in the past twenty years of his life. Now, the twelve-year-old Zhu Da feels that everything is taken for granted and does not need to be understood at all.
"Mom, Dad..." Zhu Da shouted out in a hoarse voice. After only two words, he felt that tears were flowing down uncontrollably. He had a home. This feeling was really good.
Zhu Da's voice made Zhu Shitou and Zhu Wang react. His mother Zhu Wang was about to move forward quickly, but as soon as she stepped forward, she staggered and almost fell down. Her father Zhu Shitou, who was beside her, did not reach out to support her, but leaned against the door frame. The huge surprise impact of "resurrecting from the dead" made the two of them almost unable to withstand and their behavior was at a loss.
The mother Zhu Wangshi stabilized her body and quickly walked two steps to the earthen kang, pressed Zhu Da down, covered the bedding in a hurry, and then tightened the corners. She turned to her husband and shouted, "Close the door quickly, don't let Da'er suffer the wind!" She said with a stuttering voice, not to mention tears flowing, but Zhu Wangshi didn't bother to wipe it, and just held Zhu Da's face there and looked closely, crying and laughing. She was very excited.
The father Zhu Shitou trembled and closed the door. He took a deep breath. Then he walked up to check. The only son Zhu Da caught a cold a few days ago and soon became unconscious. He had no choice but to borrow money to hire a doctor to get medicine. Last night, he saw that he didn't even talk nonsense and his breathing became weaker. By the morning, he even disappeared. After crying heart-wrenchingly, the two went out to borrow a few feet of white cloth and prepared to wrap it up and buried it for the child. Unexpectedly, he "resurrected from the dead."
There are many cases of serious illness, dying or even pretending to die and recovering, but there are also hearing that at this moment, the Zhu couple did not have any strange thoughts, but were just huge excitement and surprise. Seeing the only girl who was still weak but obviously recovering, the two were shocked and moved. The mother Zhu Wangshi looked at Zhu Da, and her emotions could not be controlled. Her father Zhu Shitou was the same. She kept wiping her eyes and laughing.
Zhu Da was weak, but his mind was very active. He was unfamiliar with this kind of family affection and care. He had never felt that in the past twenty years of life, and the ten years of life were distant. He soon became immersed in this feeling of being cared for and cared for. His mentality was no longer a child, but at this time he was surprised and excited with his parents, feeling that the shortcomings of life were being filled and tears kept flowing.
The family of three cried and laughed, but Zhu Da was recalling another life. When he saw the feelings of his colleagues and classmates, he always felt heartbroken and subconsciously avoided it. He was insomnia at night. Now looking at his parents who were full of joy and were excited and helpless, Zhu Da felt excited. He was not alone anymore. He had parents and home. It was great! It was great!
Zhu Da finally smiled foolishly. Seeing his son laughing, Zhu Shitou and Zhu Wangshi were stunned for a moment, and also wiping their tears. The whole family laughed out loud.
Chapter completed!