Chapter 1 Shiwa Cao Rui

"Shi Wa, go to the stove and help light a fire."

The peasant woman who was washing clothes in the yard wiped her plain cheeks and turned her head to speak.

The child called Shi Wa was about ten years old, and was looking at a child in a daze in the distance in front of the house.

"Oh."

Shi Wa responded and walked towards the kitchen in the house.

"Hey, what's wrong with this child? He is always in a daze. Is he sick?"

The peasant woman watched Shi Wa's figure disappear in the house with some worry.

After this child got sick a few days ago, he always stayed in a daze at home and asked some strange questions from time to time.

In the kitchen.

Shi Wa opened the fire starter unfamiliarly and skillfully.

He lit the dry grass and put it into the stove as a fuse.

Then put in the firewood.

The fire in the stove shone on Shi Wa's face.

It made Shi Wa's face more confused.

"Who am I?"

"Shiwa? Or, Cao Rui?"

Three days ago, Shiwa drank raw water in the wild, which caused him to fall ill and was once unconscious with a high fever.

When he was having a high fever, many fragments of memory gradually emerged in Shiwa's mind.

These fragments told him that he was from Earth, his name was Cao Rui, a 25-year-old unemployed young man who graduated and died in a car accident.

There are still many memories that Shiwa cannot fully understand at present: mobile phones, televisions, cars, trains, airplanes...

But these things are not important, anyway, this world does not have these things.

What is important is that these memories have brought changes to Shiwa's personality and experience.

Shiwa is no longer a mountain boy who knows nothing and has no life plan.

With repeated reading of memory fragments, Shiwa has gradually recognized his identity as a time traveler.

He realized that he is different.

From the ignorant and foolish mountain village boy before, he has transformed into Cao Rui, an adult from another world with higher education.

"Compared with the previous life, this world is more like ancient times, but it is also a little different, because the monsters my parents talked about in this life are not like legends, but seem to really exist."

"I have to find a way to leave this small village and see the wider sky, otherwise I will be wasted in this small mountain village."

Shiwa's thoughts have changed greatly now. He has an urgent desire to change his life and the ambition to go out and understand this world.

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At noon.

Cao Rui's family in this life has arrived.

Father, brother, mother, and myself, a total of four people in the family.

My brother is already fifteen years old. In the morning, he followed his father to the mountain to chop wood.

He came back with his father to eat at dinner time.

At this time, the hungry elder brother was feasting.

At the dinner table.

Cao Rui brewed for a while and said, "Dad, I want to go to the city. It's okay to be an apprentice."

The so-called city is just a small county with a population of more than 50,000.

But it is better than staying in this small mountain village with only dozens of households.

The reason why I have to discuss it with my parents.

Because this body is only a little over ten years old this year, it can't go to the county town with its own ability.

Once out of the village, let alone monsters, even a big insect or wild boar can be taken away and eaten alive by Cao Rui.

But going to the city is necessary.

Only by going to the county town can you see the world more clearly and make a better life plan.

Therefore, you can only rely on your family in this life.

Although they are all ordinary mountain villagers, they are at least adults and relatives of Cao Rui in this life. They are trustworthy and capable of providing assistance to Cao Rui when he was a child.

The reason why Cao Rui chose to speak to his father is that Cao Rui knows that his father is the one who can really make the decision in this family.

In addition, Cao Rui's statement of going to the city to be an apprentice is not aimless.

There are precedents of children in the small mountain village being sent to the city as apprentices.

Especially the children of the old mountain family next door, after being apprentices for many years and having achieved success, they can bring back a lot of silver money every year since the year before last.

The house of Laoshan's family is now the most luxurious and grand in the whole mountain village, and it is built with the help of his children who go to the city.

"Shiwa, do you have the courage? Can you endure the hardship?" The elder brother looked at Cao Rui in surprise and said.

He didn't believe that these words came out of Cao Rui's mouth.

He watched Shiwa grow up since he was a child. This younger brother has always been timid and afraid of things. Unexpectedly, he actually took the initiative to ask to go to the city today.

This is something that he, the eldest brother, has never thought of.

He followed his father to the city to sell firewood several times. The city people were dressed brightly and behaved elegantly, which always made him feel that they were not from the same world.

Every time he went to the city, he didn't want to stay too long.

"Well, I have thought about it for a long time."

"After entering the city, I will be an apprentice and study hard. After I become a master, I will bring money to my family every year."

"In this way, our house can also be built as beautiful as Dashanbo's!"

Cao Rui described the future in a childish tone.

He knew that only this childish way could convince his father.

If the tone of an adult in the previous life analyzed the pros and cons and discussed his life plan, the father in this life would simply think that Cao Rui's brain had burned out a few days ago.

The father took a puff of dry tobacco, looked at Cao Rui for a long time, and then looked at his eldest son.

"Your eldest brother should get married."

"This house is really too small."

"Shiwa, you are great. Children from other families are afraid of being sent to the city to suffer, but you volunteered. You are worthy of being a son of our Shi family."

"It is not a big deal to be a mountain dweller in this small mountain village."

"You can only have a promising future in the city. Dad knows this."

"You have this intention, and Dad will also pave the way for you with all his heart."

"Tomorrow morning, I will go to the city to find your cousin and ask him what kind of apprenticeship is suitable."

"Shiwa, you should be ready." His father agreed.

Cao Rui was delighted, but his mother beside him trembled and dropped her chopsticks on the ground.

"Old man, do you really have the heart to send Shiwa to the city?"

"I heard that the child of the fourth family was killed by some gang after entering the city, and the body has not been found so far!"

The mother hugged Cao Rui in her arms, and her eyes were red.

Father took a big puff of his pipe, slowly exhaled and looked at Shiwa again: "Shiwa, are you going into the city?"

Cao Rui nodded vigorously: "Yes."

"Okay, it's decided, don't delay me, old lady!"

Father finally made the decision.

Mother couldn't help crying.

The elder brother looked at Cao Rui with a complicated look, with admiration, desire, and deep down, there was also lingering confusion.

The next morning.

Father went out early to the county seat of Lianhua County.

Cao Rui was waiting at home expectantly.

Father set out before dawn in the morning.

It was about ten o'clock in the morning.

Father came back sweating profusely.

There was also a young man in his thirties who came back with his father.

He was wearing a green dress.

This man looked a bit like my mother, but unlike my mother who had a tanned skin, he had fair and delicate skin, and it was obvious that he had never worked in the sun.

"Shi Wa, call your third cousin!" Father revealed the identity of the person who came.

For this person who could help him get out of his current situation.

Regardless of whether he was a relative or not, Cao Rui did not dare to neglect him. He stepped forward and bowed, and called out clearly: "Third cousin!"

"Well, not bad, he knows etiquette and is not afraid of strangers. He is just a little tanned, but he should be white again after a while." As soon as the third cousin opened his mouth, his father smiled, and he knew that it was done.