The Story of a Young Man Who Traveled Through Time and Space to Farm

Chapter 5

Chen Xiaonian has a large family, with nearly 20 people living together from four generations. The Chen family is an outsider in Taohe Village and has no relatives in the village.

In ancient times, due to some legal regulations and the influence of those in power, people had a strong clan consciousness. Things like the system of collective responsibility and the success of one person brought prosperity to the whole family were fully demonstrated here. The villagers were united and xenophobic.

If you don’t have people from the same clan or your family is small, others will not take you seriously.

If you have a conflict with someone’s family, you will be bullied if you don’t have anyone in your family. The villagers believe that there is strength in numbers. When encountering any problems, cousins ​​and aunts will be invited, and they will definitely have the power of numbers.

If you don’t want to be bullied by others, you can only have children desperately. It is because of this that Chen Xiaonian’s family has a large population. Chen Xiaonian’s grandfather is 57 years old this year, which is considered a long life in ancient times.

Old man Chen has four children. Except for the third daughter who is married, the other three sons have their own families. But they all lived together. The Chen family had nine brothers and sisters in Chen Xiaonian's generation. Uncle Chen's family had two sons and one daughter, all of whom were older than Chen Xiaonian and now had families and married.

Chen Xiaonian's father was the second child and had three children.

Because Chen Xiaonian's mother, or Chen Xiaonian's mother, was a boy.

So there were no daughters in their family, only one son and two boys.

In Zhang Wuliang's memory, it seemed that men and boys would only give birth to boys or boys. And women and men can only give birth to boys and girls. Zhang Wuliang could think that this might be due to some chromosomes, but the details... why think so much?

Although they were from the same village, Taohe Village was surrounded by mountains and rivers, and their two families were not very close. Zhang Wuliang carried his things and walked for more than half an hour. When he turned a corner, he saw two children squatting outside a farmer's house. When they saw them coming, they immediately stood up and ran to the door, shouting while running: "Dad, Mom, Fourth Brother and Fourth Brother's husband are back..."

Soon a bunch of people came out of the door, and the number was not comparable to Zhang Wuliang's family.

Someone soon took over the burden on Zhang Wuliang's shoulders, and he and Chen Xiaonian were welcomed into the main hall by the whole family. When they arrived, the old man of the Zhang family sat at the head.

Zhang Wuliang took Chen Xiaonian to greet Grandpa Chen, Uncle Chen, Aunt Chen, Father Chen, and Uncle Chen and Aunt Chen one by one, and then sat down in the main hall. Zhang Wuliang had basically met all the people in the Chen family because of the previous wedding banquet. Now he just needed to match the images in his memory with the real people one by one.

The Chen family is large and now the new son-in-law has come. Everyone has nothing to do and stays in the main hall. They watch Zhang Wuliang and his wife like rare animals. The house will inevitably look crowded when there are too many people. Zhang Wuliang responded to the questions of his father-in-law, mother-in-law and brother-in-law while observing the Chen family.

Sitting at the head of the table was Mr. Chen, with gray hair and wrinkles all over his face, squinting his eyes and smiling.

Although he was over fifty, he looked energetic. Below him sat three middle-aged men, who should be Uncle Chen, Father Chen and Uncle Chen. Their skin was sallow from long-term work in the fields. They all looked hunchbacked, probably because of long-term heavy lifting. The linen clothes they wore had been washed many times.