Shennong Sequence

Chapter 1: Exile to the Frontier
"My son, it's Dad's fault. I shouldn't have used the autumn tax money to gamble."

An old man with a sad face and wearing patched and tattered clothes.

He looked painfully at his son who had been pushed hard into the room and hit his head against the wall.

He staggered out of the house in pain.

He looked helplessly outside the gate of the courtyard, and saw the clerk in the distance collecting taxes from every household according to the list.

Bitter!

Why are you so naughty?
Why did you lose your mind?

How dare you secretly use the tax money given to the officials to gamble?

Good thing he died.

Not only did he lose all his capital, he even owed the gambling house 10 taels of silver.

Even without talking about paying taxes,

Even if I sell my house, I still can't pay back the 10 taels of silver that the gambling house has accumulated interest on!

The old man now feels very regretful.

But the mistake was made and it was too late...

"Zhao Hanxiang, you damned old man, I work in the fields during the busy farming season, I wash clothes for others under the scorching sun, I mend clothes for others under the moonlight at night, I work day and night!
I just can’t beat the bottomless hole on your gambling table!”

Although the woman in the room is only in her thirties, she looks more haggard than the old man. She has silver hair on her temples due to overwork, she is hunched over from working in the fields early in the morning, and her eyeballs are cloudy from mending clothes at night.

She was gritting her teeth at this moment, with tears streaming down her face.

People say that if you marry a chicken, you follow the chicken; if you marry a dog, you follow the dog. But what can she do after marrying a bastard who is addicted to gambling?
What can she do?

"Damn you Zhao Hanxiang, the autumn tax money I got with great difficulty is gone, and the tax collector is out now. Tell me, what should we do? What should my son do?"

"When you stole the tax money, couldn't you think about the consequences?"

"My poor Yun'er has grown up so much, but she doesn't even have the chance to read and write... She can only lie on the window of the private school every day and peek inside to learn a few big characters."

"You damn old man, you are the bottomless hole in our family!"

The peasant woman Yue Cui'e became more and more excited as she spoke. All the resentment she had towards this man over the years suddenly erupted today when she had no money to pay taxes.

He gently pulled his son Zhao Yun, who had just been pushed and hit his head against the mud wall while arguing with the old man and was still dizzy, to his side.

Yue Cui'e looked at her son with kindness, sadness and helplessness.

He leaned over and whispered in Zhao Yun's ear:

"Yun'er, when the chaos starts, run to the mountains! Hide! When the storm has passed, even if you sell yourself to a wealthy family in the city, it will be better than dying in a confused state on the battlefield..."

After Yue Cui'e finished her instructions, she picked up the scissors from the basket and rushed towards the man squatting at the door!
"I won't live anymore! I want to die with you, it's better than for me, Yun'er, to have a father like you..."

"You crazy woman, you really want me to die!"

The old man was startled, and when he looked again, he realized something was seriously wrong!
He quickly closed the gate of the fence and yard to avoid the sharp scissors that were stabbing at him.

"Since we can't pay the taxes, we'll all be sent to the army regardless of whether we're dead or alive. It's better to die early and be reborn so that we can die in our hometown!"

Although Yue Cui'e worked hard all day and was exhausted physically and mentally, she wanted to die. She wanted to drown in the bottomless hole and leave a hopeful future for her daughter Yun'er...

When a mother is strong, it seems as if her whole body has endless energy!

He rushed directly to the fence door made of thin wooden sticks, stretched out his hand and stabbed it suddenly, tearing the clothes on the old man's chest.

There were beads of blood on his chest.

The frightened old man Zhao Hanxiang sat down on the ground with his legs limp.

Zhao Hanxiang never thought that this crazy woman would really dare to kill him!

squeak~

The fence gate was pushed open.

"Crazy, crazy woman, Cui'e, I won't gamble anymore, you, don't come over here!"

Zhao Hanxiang screamed, and his limp hands and feet moved as he tried to move his body, to get away from his wife, who used to sleep in the same bed with him but now was like a demon.

Yue Cui'e walked towards her husband step by step, holding a pair of sharp scissors.

"Don't blame me! You're the gambler who wanted us to die!"

"Only if you don't have this hole, your son's life will be smoother in the future."

Just as Yue Cui'e walked up to her husband and was about to stab him with a pair of scissors.

"Second brother, little sister, what are you two doing?"

A hurried voice suddenly shouted.

"Brother, this crazy woman wants to kill me! I want to divorce her!"

Zhao Hanxiang was terrified at this moment, but when he saw the person coming, he seemed to have seen a savior, and shouted hurriedly with a trembling voice like a leaf in the wind.

"Nonsense!"

When the man ran up to him, he slapped Zhao Hanxiang, who was lying limp on the ground, twice.

Then he kicked it twice with "bang bang"!
This made me feel a little relieved.

Zhao Hanwen is the elder brother of the gambler Zhao Hanxiang.

He knew who supported his second brother's family.

Then, he had to immediately go to Yue Cui'e and apologize on behalf of his brother:
"Sister! My brother is talking nonsense. I will take care of it for you. How dare he divorce you? If he doesn't change, I will drive him out of Zhaojiazhuang..."

Yue Cui'e burst into tears and said sadly:

"Brother, I can't live like this any longer. The money I saved from the autumn tax was secretly taken away by this dead man to gamble."

"If you can't pay the taxes, you will be sent to the army, and you will die sooner or later... It's better to end it all now. You are so kind, I don't want to be buried with this man..."

The truth is, the world doesn’t want people to live!
There is really no way out...

The eldest brother Zhao Hanwen hurried to comfort him: "I heard about it. I asked someone to rush and collect one or two taels of silver. This can be used to pay the tax for you and Yun'er."

The second brother Zhao Hanxiang, who was lying on the ground, quickly got up, came to the two people who were talking, and asked anxiously:
"Brother, what about my tax money?"

The eldest brother, Zhao Hanwen, looked at his brother who was a gambler and sighed:
"It's autumn tax time, who has extra money? I can raise a tael of silver to leave you a descendant, a memory, that would be good enough..."

The second brother, Zhao Hanxiang, was so anxious that his face turned red. It didn't matter that the whole family was sent into exile, it was like that anyway.

By the way, you don’t even have to pay back the 10 taels of silver to the gambling house.

If the gambling house has the ability, then go to the border and find him among the troops!

And now that the eldest brother has raised money, he is helping outsiders instead of helping his closest relative?

How can this be justified?

The second brother Zhao Hanxiang shouted anxiously:
"Brother, what do you mean by this? Are you asking me to go into exile? Without me, can they survive?"

"Maybe, they and their mother will live a better life!"

The eldest brother Zhao Hanwen narrated slowly.

Then he stuffed a bag of loose copper coins and some silver, totaling one or two taels of silver, into the hands of Yue Cui'e, who now looked quite powerful.

Suddenly, a roar came from a distance:

"Mr. Zhao, you are such a jerk. How dare you secretly borrow money from everywhere behind my back, and you lent it to your brother, a bottomless pit."

"He's a gambler. He almost lost all the land he got when the family was divided. He still has a shitload of money."

"He should be sent to dig canals, build the Great Wall, or serve as a soldier at the frontier... and die there, so he won't be a burden to his family."

The eldest brother Zhao Hanwen looked from afar at the woman on the ridge of the field who ran towards him with an angry face because he was borrowing money from everywhere.

He is worried too!
It's not easy for him to deal with his wife.

The eldest brother Zhao Hanwen quickly explained to his sister-in-law:
"Sister, keep this money. I'm going to run away from your sulking elder sister."

"Brother, I thank you on behalf of Yun'er!"

"We are one family, why are you talking to me? I'm leaving now."

The eldest brother Zhao Hanwen left in a hurry to hide from his angry wife.

The second brother, Zhao Hanxiang, was shaking with anger.

I saw my elder brother and his wife running away along the path...

Feeling the burning pain in his chest, he looked at the scissors and silver in his wife's hand!
This evil woman just now actually wanted him to die?

It is simply contrary to Tiangang!

He hasn't won back the money he lost to the gambling house yet, he absolutely cannot die!

If you lose your wife, you can marry again; if you lose your son, you can have another one.

But the money I lost,

We must win it back!

Immediately, evil thoughts came to his mind.

"Bring it to you!"

While Yue Cui'e was staring at the money in her hand, in a dazed state as if she had survived a disaster, Zhao Hanxiang made up his mind and snatched the scissors.

With weapons in hand, his courage also grew.

Then they robbed the money!

After Yue Cui'e lost consciousness, she woke up in an instant, "Zhao Hanxiang, give me back the money! This is what my elder brother gave me for your son. Aren't you afraid that my elder brother will come and settle the score with you later?"

Zhao Hanxiang's face was ferocious at this moment, with madness flashing in his eyes. He kicked Yue Cui'e away and knocked her to the ground.

He stood in front of him and roared:
"Fuck you, you just wanted me to die. You and your son will be taken away by soldiers soon. Even if my brother comes back, what can he do?"

"Besides, if I were alone, I would only have to pay 7 cents of autumn tax, and with the remaining 3 cents of silver, I might be able to make a profit from the casino..."

Then, Zhao Hanxiang looked at his son who walked out of the house slowly, rubbing his dizzy head. Although his face was slightly darkened by the sun, he was still as handsome as a pretty boy.

He looked again at the tax collector who was walking towards his home.

"Son, please forgive me. I don't want to send you to the frontier, so I'll let you and your mother go to the frontier..."

Zhao Yun was immediately confused.

What is this?

Oh!
He died, but he was also reincarnated.

Just now when I was arguing with this old man about "not stealing tax silver",

The old man, who no longer worked the crops in the fields but devoted himself to gambling and wanted to make a fortune from gambling, pushed him hard, and his head hit the wall, knocking him unconscious.

By the way, the wisdom of the past was awakened in advance.

Why say that in advance?

The reason was that when he died in his previous life, he happened to be in the Laojun Temple on the mountain behind his home. When he was taking the incense money, he accidentally pulled a piece of yellow cloth in front of Laojun, and the statue of Laojun fell down and hit him on the head.

Of course, it could also be that he was trying to scam Laojun...

So there was some compensation, and the yellow cloth followed his soul to the underworld and then to reincarnation.

Originally, he was going to awaken his wisdom when he turned 18.

But now his head suddenly slammed against the wall. This family would be separated from their wives and children, and would suffer the disaster of exile.

There is no other way but to awaken the wisdom in advance.

But awakening the wisdom in advance will also leave a lot of sequelae, that is, headaches and confusion...

Zhao Yun covered his aching head and looked at the yellow tattered cloth that only he could see. According to what he could understand, there were several lines of golden light.

【Name: Zhao Yun】

[Skill: Reading (beginner)]

[Progress: (23/200)]

[Effect: sharp hearing and eyes, quick learning of knowledge]

【Note: The rest of the functions are still evolving...to be continued.】

The things about agriculture and farming are at the back. If you are in a hurry, just look at the table of contents and jump there.

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