2. Chapter 2 Volume 1: [Origin of the Northern Song Dynasty] 01 Ning Ling and Lianyue
This is a small village located on the border of Song and Liao. It has a small population. Because it borders the Liao Kingdom, it is occasionally invaded by the grassland peoples who are called barbarians by the Song people.
Lianyue is the daughter of a widow in this village. The widow's name is very nice, Qin Xianglian, which is certainly not Qin Xianglian, the wife of Chen Shimei in the case of Bao Qingtian.
Qin Xianglian was a woman who had a very hard life. She used to be a maid in a wealthy family. Later, she was hunted down for offending the concubine of the head of the household. Her husband died brutally to protect her, leaving her and her youngest daughter Lian Yue to depend on each other.
Unexpectedly, at this time, the enemy came to the door again. At the critical moment, the mother and daughter were rescued by a passing young man. After the man heard about her experience, he was quite sympathetic and gave them a sum of money.
Mother and daughter, and sent their mother and daughter to live in this small village far away from the capital. Although it was occasionally invaded by Liao people, it was mostly peaceful.
Now, in a blink of an eye, Lianyue is four years old. Like other children, she likes to jump around. She goes out to play with her friends in the village every day, climbs trees to dig out bird eggs, goes down to the river to fish, and does almost everything.
, she didn’t look like a girl at all. Qin Xianglian had told her countless times that it basically went in one ear and out the other. After that, she no longer cared about her.
until……
"Aunt Qin, it's not good, it's not good, Lianyue..." On this day, Qin Xianglian was cooking at home, and the neighbor's youngest son Huzi rushed into her house, shouting out of breath.
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Qin Xianglian's heart skipped a beat, and she rushed out before Huzi could finish speaking. Not far away, she saw Huzi's father running over with his daughter in his arms. Seeing her daughter's head covered in blood, she was so frightened that she was completely stunned.
He was at a loss. Fortunately, Huzi's father was still calm and applied medicine to Lianyue and bandaged the wound. However, the child was already in a coma. Whether he could wake up or not, he had to leave it to fate.
This small village is in a remote location, and it takes a day and night to go to the nearest village. Even if a doctor is hired, the child's life will be long gone by then. What's more, as a widow, Qin Xianglian has no spare money to hire a doctor.
.At this time, she could do nothing but cry and pray to God not to take away her daughter's life.
Perhaps Lianyue's life should not have been cut off, or perhaps a mother's sincerity moved God. After being in a coma for three days and three nights, Lianyue finally woke up.
However, on the day when Lianyue woke up, Qin Xianglian found that she was different from before the fall. The previous Lianyue could be described as a monkey, with no time to calm down at all. Now she has become taciturn,
People in the village all commented that the child might have fallen on his head and lost his mind!
Only Qin Xianglian knew that there was nothing wrong with Lianyue's brain. Now she always likes to sit quietly alone and look into the distance. There were times when Qin Xianglian even felt that the thoughts in her eyes were not what a child should have.
.But she didn’t think too much, thinking that maybe she was just frightened and became like this.
In fact, Lianyue's condition at this moment can only be described as 'frightened'. Even if all the words in the world were used to describe her condition at this moment, they would not be enough to describe her shock.
The four-year-old girl was completely frightened the moment she opened her eyes from a coma. But to put it bluntly, the person who was frightened was not Lianyue herself, or not the real Lianyue, but the person she was in at this moment.
The girl named 'Ning Ling' in this body.
Who would have thought that you just flipped through a book and then fainted inexplicably. When you woke up again, you were in a strange body, with a strange woman standing in front of you, calling you a strange name.'
Lotus Moon'.
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The word 'time travel' is not unfamiliar to the eighteen-year-old Ning Ling. On the modern Internet, bookstores are full of all kinds of time travel novels, both ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign. Even in the dormitory on weekdays, roommates
In our free time, we also discussed the earth-shattering love story between a time-traveling heroine and a male protagonist in a certain book. Because of this, she went to the bookstore with her friends.
In fact, it was not that she had never heard of the legend of the bookstore, but she felt that it was just a fantasy made up by some young people who were addicted to reading time-travel novels and wanted to travel to ancient times too much to comfort themselves. In her opinion,
Come on, time travel is bizarre, ridiculous and even unbelievable.
But now, this kind of absurd, bizarre, and unbelievable thing happened to her. It really is 'I'd rather believe it exists than believe it doesn't exist'.
Regardless of whether she accepts it or not, she suddenly changes from eighteen to four years old. Regardless of whether she can adapt to the life from modern to ancient times, life has to go on. At least before she returns to the future, she must first adapt to this world without computers and without computers.
An ancient life without mobile phones, bathtubs, or even flush toilets.
She tried hard to treat herself as a four-year-old child and tried to recall what she was like when she was four years old. Fortunately, this was not difficult, as long as she didn't act too outstanding and act innocently like a child from time to time.
With his demeanor, he can still deceive people of this era.
Speaking of which, no one would have thought that her soul had been replaced long ago. Only when she was far away from the crowd would she calm down, return to her true self, and then think hard about what was going on? Could it be that she was the legend?
A 'destined person'? That's why I traveled through time.
She didn't ask anyone what era it was now? There was no need to ask. Since she came here, she has heard several groups of words spoken by the villagers more than once. Based on these groups of words, she has been able to guess accurately.
What era are you in? These groups of words are Khitan people and Yang family generals, and the corresponding period should undoubtedly be the Northern Song Dynasty. To be precise, it is the early Northern Song Dynasty, the period of confrontation between the Song Kingdom and the Liao Kingdom.
'The ethnic minority from the grasslands outside Guan Guan invaded and plundered the Song Kingdom again and again. If it were not for the loyal protection of the Yang family, I am afraid that the iron hoofs of the Liao people would have set foot in the Central Plains, and everyone would have been reduced to slaves of the subjugated country.
Living under alien rule, the old man in the village told her again and again.
But Ning Ling didn't think so. The Song Dynasty was one of the longest-ruling dynasties in ancient China. It ruled for more than three hundred years and went through two periods, the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty. During this period, it was invaded by countless foreign races. But even though
Even though half of the country was taken away by the Jin people during the Southern Song Dynasty, it still did not perish until it was unified by the Mongols.
The story of the Yang family generals has been passed down as a model for protecting the family and the country for thousands of years. The Yang family generals are synonymous with heroes. Their stories have been remade into countless TV series and movies in later generations, and have been praised by people for generations. Ning Ling is very fond of them.
The story was also familiar to her. When she learned that she was living in the same era as the Yang family generals, the excitement in her heart suddenly surpassed the feeling of being inexplicably sent to this era. She thought more than once, if she could see these people
How good a son and son would be to protect his family and country.
Of course, at this time, she would never have thought that from the moment she stepped into this era, her fate had been closely linked to the Yang family and inseparable.
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The weather was sunny that day. Ning Ling, who had helped her mother finish her work, ran outside the village to play. After finally being a child again, she naturally had to seize this hard-earned childhood time. Childhood only happens once, but if she could go back to
In childhood, everyone must take the opportunity to enjoy that carefree age.
To the north of the village, there is a cliff, which is very steep. Beyond it is the land of the Liao Kingdom.
As usual, Ning Ling ran to the bottom of the cliff. A pair of white eagles flew up to the cliff and built a nest on the wall. When she was free, she would run here and observe the life of the white eagles. Growing up in a big city, Ning Ling ran to the cliff.
She was so big that she had never even seen an eagle, let alone an eagle.
But today, when she walked to the bottom of the cliff, she saw a vague figure climbing on the cliff, and above the man's head was the white eagle's nest.
"Hey, what are you doing? Come down quickly! Don't hurt the eagle!" Unfortunately, the voice was blown away by the howling wind. She wanted to stop it, but the high cliff made her timid, so she had to stand
Work in a hurry below.
I saw the man crawling to the vicinity of the sculpture's nest, holding tightly to the stone beside him with one hand, taking something out of the sculpture's nest with the other, putting it into his arms, and then began to climb down.
As the saying goes, "It's easy to go up the mountain, but it's hard to go down the mountain." It was easy to climb up, but much more difficult to come down. When the other person was halfway down and still some distance from the ground, Ning Ling saw clearly that he was a young man, and his clothes were not what she thought.
She was familiar with people from the Song Dynasty, but at this moment, she was thinking about Bai Diao, and she didn't bother to study that his clothes were different from those of people from the Song Dynasty.
"What are you doing?" she yelled, this time her voice went directly into the other person's ears.
But the other party was startled by the sudden sound. His feet slipped and he was carried directly down the cliff!
Ning Ling was startled, and quickly ran over to check. The boy lying on the ground, about eleven or twelve years old, was staring at her coldly. His gaze was like a sharp knife, piercing into her heart, making her feel terrified.
Cold, this kind of look is not something a teenager can have.
"Are you... okay?" She stepped forward.
"Get out of here!" the boy said coldly, trying to get up from the ground. He was halfway upright when he suddenly groaned and fell back down again. Ning Ling followed his gaze and realized that something was wrong with one of his legs.
It was caused when it fell down just now.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it!" She apologized incoherently, ran to him, knelt on the ground, held up his leg with one hand, tore off the fabric from his clothes, and bandaged him skillfully. Fortunately, her grandfather and several
Both my uncle and aunt are doctors. They have been exposed to the disease since childhood, and they are quite expert in bandaging.
She carefully checked his leg, because it was broken when it hit the ground when she fell. What is needed now is fixation to prevent the bones from dislocating. The boy watched her movements, moved his lips, and said nothing after all. After all, she was not
It was intentional, and it was a sign of friendship that she didn't abandon him and run away afterwards.
"Wait for me here, I'll get some things." She ran towards the village, and after a moment, she ran back panting, holding two wooden boards in her hands.
The boy watched in surprise as she clamped his legs with wooden boards and then fixed them with strips of cloth. After doing all this, she relaxed a little and looked up at him. When she saw his appearance for a moment, her heart was shaken.
This boy is so handsome. If he were born in modern times and grew up, he would definitely be a star.
"I'm so sorry, I thought you wanted to hurt those white eagles." She lowered her head.
"Do you know that pair of eagles?" The other party's voice finally became gentler.
"Well, I come here every day to see them. Today I saw you on the cliff and thought you were going to hurt them."
He took a breath and said, "I want to save them!" He reached into his arms and spread his palms in front of her. She looked closely and saw that there were two little white eagles in his hands. It was obvious that they had just been hatched. "
Their parents are dead, and I want to save them. Without the care of their parents, they will starve to death soon." As she said this, she pointed behind Ning Ling. She followed his hand and saw two white eagles lying next to the stone wall.
Of the corpses, one was covered in scars, while the other had no obvious injuries but a broken skull.
She found a small box and put the two eagles in it.
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