The afterglow of the setting sun stretched Xu Xian's figure. He was walking in the alley with a dull expression and staggering steps, like a zombie wandering aimlessly.

The young woman who was walking towards Xu Xian covered her mouth and ran away with a scream. It was not surprising. After all, Xu Xian was still a dead person yesterday, and she staged a good show of pretending to be a corpse.

When he emerged from a roll of straw mat, the monk You Fang who helped him to transcend was fainted on the spot, and then Xu Xian experienced an unprecedented misfortune in his life.

His hands and feet were tied up with a menstrual belt, tattered hemp shoes were stuffed into his mouth, and his head was drenched with dog blood. He was also beaten with peach branches until someone brave enough to test his breath and pulse.

, the nightmare is finally over.

After a night of confusion and shock, Xu Xian rushed out of the house early in the morning and wandered around for miles, trying to find a flaw to prove that what he was in was an illusory illusion.

You can spend a whole day and still get nothing, everything is so real. For example, the kid with pigtails in front of him asked the big yellow dog at home to "wipe" his butt after pooping. This was something Xu Xian had never seen before.

The scene is so vivid and vivid.

When a fat middle-aged woman saw Xu Xian coming, she quickly threw the child and the big yellow dog into the yard, and peeked out through the crack in the door. It wasn't until Xu Xian passed by that she half-opened the door and stretched out her hand to greet the man who was following.

The little girl in the back said, "Come here, little silkworm."

The little girl was dark and thin, and looked as frail as a newly hatched silkworm. Seeing the woman greeting her, the little silkworm ran over quickly and asked in a soft voice: "Aunt Liu, are you calling me?"

The woman pointed at Xu Xian's back, "Has he eaten or drank water this day? Has he pooped or peed?"

Xiaocan nodded and said, "I ate a steamed cake and drank two bowls of cold water. I also went to the latrine."

The woman nodded, "I think it'll be fine if you can have food, water, water and a latrine. Aunt Liu still said the same thing. If you're afraid, come and stay at my house at night."

It's hard to say whether Xiao Can was scared or not, but the woman was really scared. After all, yesterday she used a peach branch to beat Xu Xian who was "pretending to be a corpse".

All the men in the family have gone to war, and she is the only woman at home with an ignorant child. She was in a panic all night yesterday, and she really hoped to have someone to keep her company.

Xiaocan nodded and said: "Aunt Liu, don't worry, brother, he is a human or not a ghost. He asked me a lot of questions last night."

"That's good, that's good, haha... don't make a fire to cook when you get home. Aunt Liu is going to make soup cakes and bring them to you later."

Xiaocan knelt down and thanked the woman, then turned around and chased Xu Xian. Looking at her back, the woman couldn't help but sigh, "What a pitiful baby!" In the blink of an eye, the pity on her face was completely gone, "This man is really a real person.

It's better to die happily and not have to drag people down anymore."

Xu Xian walked to the end of the alley and turned into a courtyard. Different from the surrounding houses with adobe walls, this courtyard was made of blue bricks and green tiles and was very delicately built.

But apart from the pretty appearance, there is nothing good about this courtyard. It is a real house with bare walls. If it weren't for the two straw mats spread in the hall, it wouldn't look like a place for people to live at all.

Xu Xian was lying on the straw mat in a daze, and suddenly he grinned, "How ridiculous!" When he said this, he had already accepted a "ridiculous" fact in his heart, and he traveled through time.

I have watched a lot of time-travel dramas, but when this kind of plot with no scientific basis happened to me, I realized how absurd and unbelievable it was.

I will never be able to return to my old world, and I will never see my family and friends again. The news headline "Off-duty firefighter died while saving child from drowning" was probably the last mark I left on that world.

Everything in the previous life suddenly became extremely beautiful and nostalgic. I thought I would become stronger after going through the test of blood and fire, but why did my tears keep flowing down?

Looking at Xu Xian who was laughing and crying for a while, Xiaocan could not help but feel worried. She took a deep breath and stepped forward to wipe Xu Xian's tears with her sleeves. "Brother, don't be sad. Aunt Liu said she would give us food in a moment."

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This little girl has been following him like a tail all day long. She is probably the only person in the world who worries about him. Looking at her timid and worried look, Xu Xian feels that she is a little cruel.

He patted Xiaocan's hand, smiled and said, "It's okay, brother, I've made you tired today."

The little girl shook her head and said, "You're not tired, little silkworm. It's hot. I'll get some cold water to wash my brother." After saying that, she turned and left the house.

Looking at this empty room, Xu Xian couldn't help but secretly scolded God for being unfair to him. How could someone who traveled through time be either an emperor or a prince or a young master in his office? He was so powerful and wealthy, and he had three wives and four concubines, and he was so unhappy.

But why was he a penniless pauper when he arrived? What was unfortunate was that the era he lived in was not yet peaceful, and was known as the "most chaotic era" of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (Note: 1).

China has a long history with many troubled times, such as the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the three kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Jin Dynasty and the Sixteen Kingdoms at the end of the Sui Dynasty, but none of them were as absurd, bizarre, bloody and cruel as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, which had such a negative impact on future generations.

Its influence is also unparalleled by other troubled times.

How chaotic this era was can be seen just from the change of political power in the Central Plains. In one sentence, it can be summarized as "Five Dynasties, Eight Surnames and Thirteen Emperors" (Note: 2). Between the Later Jin and the Later Han, the Khitan Emperor Yelv Deguang was also involved.

A kick.

Such frequent regime changes only occurred in the fifty-three years from the fall of the Tang Dynasty to the establishment of the Song Dynasty. Each regime rotation meant that wars occurred, production and life were destroyed, social wealth was consumed and plundered, and people were massacred.

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When such troubled times last for decades, this world will be no different from hell. Otherwise, how could there be people who would rather be a peace dog than a person in troubled times?

The time and space Xu Xian lived in was the Later Han Dynasty among the Five Dynasties. In February last year, the founding emperor Liu Zhiyuan suddenly passed away just one year after he became emperor. The emperor's second son Liu Chengyou came to the throne and still used the Qianyou reign title.

According to the practice of the Five Dynasties, there would be rebellions every time a new king came to the throne, and this time was no exception. After the new king came to the throne, Li Shouzhen, the governor of Hezhong, Zhao Siwan, the governor of Yongxing, and Wang Jingchong, the governor of Fengxiang, rebelled one after another.

The new king immediately sent troops to attack but failed, so he had to ask Guo Wei, the deputy envoy to the privy council, to lead the army in person. Now the war has been going on for more than a year and it still has not ended. It is not known how many innocent people will die in the war.

What is even more unfortunate is that in this era of warriors ruling the country, Xu Xian's "host" is actually a useless scholar. It is said that scholars have praised him, but to be more precise, he should be a stupid nerd.

This host has the same name and surname. He is fifteen years old and comes from Bianliang, Henan. The host's father was originally a salesman. He started from scratch in troubled times and created a small family business. If measured by the standards of later generations, it is considered a small business.

Middle class.

Father Xu only got this single seedling of Xu Xian when he was 40 years old. He held it in his hand for fear of dropping it and held it in his mouth for fear of it melting. He didn’t want his son to be like him, a traveling businessman with a low status, but wanted him to

Be a respected scholar.

Xu Xian did not disappoint his father. Although he was not a gifted scholar in terms of reading, he was still very smart and was often praised by his husband.

Until the age of thirteen, on the way to a private school, Xu Xian encountered a soldier who killed someone in the street and was spattered with blood, and his whole person began to change.

First, he had trouble sleeping and eating, and suffered from nightmares. Over time, he became nervous. He stayed at home all day, shaking his head while reading and doing nothing. When he rarely went out, he would walk along the wall.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Xian, who lost his mother early in life, lost his last supporter, and Father Xu, who went to Jiangnan to do business, disappeared. Some people said that his companions killed Father Xu and took away the payment; others said that the ship carrying the goods sank.

With nothing left, Father Xu jumped into the river and committed suicide in despair. He never came back.

Xu Xian, a patient with severe depression, is still alive today because of Xiaocan's care for food, clothing, and daily life. The twelve-year-old Xiaocan is nominally the adopted daughter of Mr. Xu, but in fact she is a maid bought from Ren Yazi.

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Although the little girl can wash and cook, she has no ability to support her family. After Xu's disappearance, she could only sell the items in the house to survive, one after another. Until a few days ago, she even sold the big bed she slept in at home.

People have reached a desperate situation.

God finally showed mercy and didn't want Xiaocan to be dragged down by his useless sworn brother. Xu Xian suddenly fell into a coma and passed away within two days. It is estimated that all the neighbors were happy for this poor little girl.

They happily arranged Xu Xian's funeral. In less than half an hour, they set up the funeral shed, set up the stove, killed chickens and dogs to celebrate the new life of the silkworm, and even found a wandering monk from the street.

Chanting sutras will help Xu Xian to be reincarnated as soon as possible so that his ghost will not leave him.

Several women have been secretly competing for the ownership of Xiaocan, and Aunt Liu is one of them. She has always wanted the diligent and sensible Xiaocan to be her daughter-in-law.

Who would have thought that a dead person would suddenly come back to life. Perhaps the only one who was happy for Xu Xian was Xiao Can, and by the way, there was also Dr. Yin, whose voice Xu Xian could hear from so far away.

"Xiaocan, Xiaocan, I heard that your brother's illness is cured, so I said my prescription is useful!"

Note 1 The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms are also known as the Five Dynasties and Eleven Kingdoms. Please be sure to read the three major chapters in the first part of the work, which introduce the formation and development of the Five Dynasties. Although it is an explanatory text summed up in ugly words, it is not boring. Be sure to read it.

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