Several years ago, Stone's parents went to work in Xinjiang and disappeared when they were picking cotton. Grandparents and Stone took a green train to go to the northern provinces, but grandmother died in the travel. The grandfather and Stone returned to the village with the grandmother's ashes and buried them in a sunny place in the back of the house. Then, after another year, Grandpa also left. The villagers put the body of the grandfather into the coffin and buried next to Stone's grandmother. The two graves were combined into one grave. Then, Stone was brought to Ningbo, working in a beef noodle restaurant. Including eating and housing, he could earn 300 Yuans a month. Although he had never seen his Yuans due to mistakes in the work, such as breaking the bowl, working slowly, sleeping in the morning and so on. Stone never hated the boss because he knew this guy had the same experience when he had started to live in the busy but cold city.
Business was good last night. In winter, people liked to eat hot noodles. In the middle of the night, the boss went home. Stone prepared some dough for the next day, washed his hands, cleaned the store, added coal to the stove, arranged the table to a bed, laid, and soon fell asleep.
Didn't know how long he has been in sleeping, Stone heard someone gently calling to wake him up.
Stone liked it. He wanted to see the owner of the voice, so he opened my eyes.
What was going on here? wasn't it sleeping on the table in the beef noodle restaurant? How could there be a Kang bed-stove in Ningbo, a southern city in China?
Then he looked at the wrinkled kindly old lady, with the puddings on his skirt. Stone felt relaxed, although there were too many doubts in his head.
"I must be dreaming," Stone thought so, hoped that this dream never wakes up.
"Stone, let's go out and play," the curtain was smashed up, and a little boy came in and slammed into the arms of the aunt, "Mom, is the Stone OK?"
Stone felt pain in the whole body, and the throat was very dry. He tried to open his mouth and wanted to talk, but he was afraid to wake himself up. Everything in front of him would disappear. He did not want to go back to the beef noodle restaurant to wash so many bowls and dishes......
"Water, water" After all, the throat was too dry, Stone's dream did not seem to be woken up.
Auntie raised the kettle on the stove with her left hand took a ceramic bowl in her right hand, and poured half a bowl of water. Then put back the kettle, picked up a wooden spoon, poured a little water from the bowl and feed it into Stone's mouth.
Still hurting...
Strange, how could people in the dream feel pain? Stone felt that everything in front of him is so real. The dream did not like this. Yes, this was not a dream, it might not be!
"Who are you? What is this place?" Stone asked timidly.
"Poor baby, you are really pitiful," Auntie stroked Stone's hand, sadly said, "I am your aunt, Madame Zhao your nursing mom. This is Liang Zi, your best companion."
"My... aunt?" Stone still preferred to believe in his own dreams. Since he was in a dream, at least could probably see mom and dad!
"Poor baby, your grandmother was taken away by the Jurchens a long time ago. Your father joined the army of the Liao Empire and fought with the Jurchens. It seems that he is promoted," the aunt said softly, "Last year, he sent a letter and said that he would come to pick you up soon... ..."
The aunt also brought a bowl of millet soup with oily flowers. Stone was very fragrant as if she had never eaten such a sweet meal.
At least, could see Dad, maybe also could see Mom! Thinking about this, Stone feels that the strength was recovering very quickly, so he squatted, tried to control the sore legs, held the wall, crossed the threshold, came to In the yard.
In this dream world, it seemed that the winter had just passed, the sun was warm and shining, very comfortable. In the vegetable plot in the small courtyard, there were green plants, small as nails, covered with water drops. On the low hill outside the yard, two rainbows hung in the sky.
Seeing the world of color, Stone had to believe that this is not a dream, this was the real world.
Stone was reborn into a whole new world as many heroes in the films of Hollywood had done.
However, those reincarnated people, with martial arts, high-powered, and wisdom ... "I do not know martial arts, just finished my primary school, no courage, no wisdom, no strength, what am I doing?"
"Maybe, God blesses me, give me a home in this world, let me see my loved ones!"
However, something was wrong, in that world before coming here, although it's a bit miserable, the world was peaceful. This new world where Stone arrived was in a war, although the war seemed to be still far away.
Since he was here since he couldn't go back, "let's just go ahead and see."
In the days that followed, Stone slowly learned that his dad was a soldier in Nanjing in the Liao Dynasty, and it seemed that he has been promoted. Dad's name was Xiao Fugui , the same name as his father who disappeared in Xinjiang in the world before that Stone took the body of this Stone. The dad in the world of that Stone's, Xiao Fugui , once worked as a soldier also went to Vietnam, but was captured by the Vietnamese. There, dad's character was not very good, and grandparents feared him a little bit, the villagers also feared him, but he feared her wife, that Stone's mom.
Stone also learned that he was adopted in this family. In this family, the owner was called Liu Hutou, and he is a policeman. The hostess's surname was Zhao, people called her Zhao Aunt. There are four members in the family: Bingwa, Liangzi, Zhaodi, and Black Egg. Bingwa was born by Zhao Auntie and his ex-husband. Liang Zi was the orphan adopted by Uncle Liu Hutou. The Zhaodi was the first daughter of this family. Bingwa was fourteen years old, Liang Zi was twelve years old, and the Black Egg was ten years old. He was one year older than Stone. The Black Egg was one year younger than Stone. The father of this family was often busy with things in the government and often does not go home. Therefore, Bingwa had almost replaced the position of the father, Liu Hutou: cultivation, harvesting, playing with bothers and sister, repairing houses, etc. Before entering the winter, Liang Zi, Zhao Di, Black Eggs and Stone must go to learn for reading and writing for half a day in a neighboring village. Liu Hutou and his wife asked them to go there for one or two years, recognize a few words, they would settle accounts, and then help the family. They also had to work at home, learn some basic skills to live, and then started attending family businesses. What Bingwa were doing now is exactly what the three children are going to do.
Today, Bingwa was pulling the hollow hoe in the newly unearthed wheat seedlings. This hollow hoe was built by the father of Stone with Liu Hutou several years ago. With this kind of hoe, you don't have to shovel all the earth when working in the field. The gap between the two rows of crops has been pulling the hoe, and the work is very quick and easy.
A month later, Liang Zi, Zhao Di, Stone, and Black Egg, they were getting very familiar with each other, bouncing, noisily climbing up to the hill behind the village to dig the cave, or going to the small river in front of the village for catching small fish, coming back home like mud monkeys.
"Bingwa, it's not good," Zhao Di ran breathlessly, full of horror...
