chapter 2 I'm a son-in-law for a handsome man

by Haruki Murakami 16:30,Jul 14,2023


This is where? Haven't I been blown to pieces?

When Scott Shen opened his eyes again, he was already in a completely unfamiliar environment.

He was lying on a big soft carved bed, and everything around him was magnificent.

The well-carved mahogany table, exquisite silver candlesticks, and soft wool carpets all show that this is a wealthy family.

The most important thing is that everything in this room is antique, without any modern home style.

He looked down at the clothes on his body. It was fine Journal of Silk, but the style definitely did not belong to the modern world, it was more like the ancient costumes in TV dramas.

There is a big mirror next to the bed, it is not very clear, it should be a bronze mirror.

Scott Shen tried his best to get up, mustered up a lot of courage and looked towards the mirror.

It can't be blamed on him. Since the disfigurement, every time he looks in the mirror, it's like having a nightmare, and he will be frightened.

Seeing the face in the mirror, Scott Shen was shocked at first, and then burst into tears.

Although this face was haggard and pale, it was extremely handsome, even eighty-nine points similar to Scott Shen before his disfigurement.

Scott Shen confirmed one thing.

He traveled, his soul traveled to this strange world, to this strange yet familiar man.

Long time no see, handsome face.

Scott Shen looked at the face in the mirror almost greedily.

God actually gave him a new life, he really restored his handsome face, even in a completely strange world.

That's great, anyway, after his parents left, he has no attachment to modern Earth.

It feels great to have a new life!

At this moment, a complex mass of information flooded into his mind, which was the memory of the original owner of this body.

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This is a familiar yet strange world.

Familiarity is because this place is very similar to ancient China, and it also has a similar culture, uses the same characters, and has similar races.

Strange because this is not the earth, the territory is different.

There are four books and five classics in this world. Those works written by ancient Chinese sages seem to have the foundation of Chinese civilization.

But there are no dynasties in China, no Qin Dynasty, no Han Dynasty, no Jin Dynasty, etc...

This is very strange, the territory and history are different, but the culture is the same.

Because the history of this world once experienced a great nirvana, and then civilization was reborn again, these books were excavated neatly and became the great key to the revival of this world civilization.

Therefore, books such as the Four Books and Five Classics have even more lofty status in this world.

Not only that, there is martial arts in this world, and personal force is far more developed than in ancient China.

At this time, Scott Shen's dynasty was called the Dayan Dynasty.

This is a huge empire. After conversion, the territory exceeds 14 million square kilometers, almost surpassing any dynasty in ancient China.

This dynasty is also different from ancient China. In addition to a central empire, it is surrounded by many vassal states.

It is a vassal state, not a vassal state, similar to the relationship between Zhou Tianzi and the princes of the world, but this central empire is much stronger than the Zhou Dynasty, and these vassal states all regard Emperor Yan as the real dragon emperor.

Moreover, in terms of pure civilization, the Dayan Dynasty was far superior to China's Spring and Autumn and Warring States, and it was roughly similar to the Tang and Song Dynasties.

...

The country Scott Shen is in now is a big vassal state in the south, the Yue Country!

Yue Country has three provinces, forty-five counties, an area of ​​more than 390,000 square kilometers, a population of more than 10 million, prosperous commerce, sharp folk customs, and prosperous martial arts.

The Ning family has ruled the Yue Country for more than four hundred years.

The place where Scott Shen is located is the Tiannan Province of Yue Country, Nujiang County, and Xuanwu City.

The name of the original owner of the body he traveled through was also Scott Shen.

The key is that the two people's appearances are 70% or 80% similar. This should not be a coincidence. It is completely unknown at this time how complicated the reason is.

But after reading the memory of this body, he only felt that this different world, Scott Shen, was a complete tragedy and comedy.

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Scott Shen was born in Xuanwu City, Hanshui Town, Fengye Village.

His family is an outsider, and they only came to Fengye Village when Scott Shen was over two years old.

Parents are the most common self-cultivating farmers. The entire Nujiang County has a lot of mountains, a lot of water, a lot of water and few fields. Scott Shen's family of four only has a mere two acres of land and two acres of mountain land. Both parents are very hardworking, but they barely even have enough food and clothing for a year.

Although he was born in a farming family, and he was not the only child in the family, his parents loved him very much since he was a child, and they were reluctant to scold him and let him work. Although the family was extremely poor, his parents still sent him to study, so he was still a scholar in a sense.

However, his book reading is quite poor. After ten years of reading, he can recognize no more than a thousand characters.

It's not because he's lazy, but he's very hardworking. His poor grades are because his IQ is too low, not enough to reach the level of brain damage. It's probably the same as Forrest Gump in "Forrest Gump", with soft words, sluggish expressions, and slow reactions.

Apart from his handsome face, he has almost nothing, and he is synonymous with trash for hundreds of miles.

And his younger brother Thomas Shen is a shabby householder who has practiced martial arts for several years and gained nothing, and now he has become a complete hooligan.

Parents are getting older, and the family is going from bad to worse. They are too poor to let go of the pot, and the real family is destitute.

He turned eighteen this year, and it has been nine years since he entered the town school, but his knowledge is still poor. Some of the classmates who went to school with him have even passed the exam, but he is still in the elementary class, and he goes to class with a group of ten-year-old children every day.

This is equivalent to that everyone else has gone to college, but he has not even graduated from elementary school.

This is completely a disgrace to the Hanshui City School, and the teachers in the town school are not willing to teach him anymore, because he is too stupid and too stupid to carve.

So he was kicked out.

Since he was a child, his parents have spoiled him too much. He can't lift his shoulders or lift his hands. He has almost no strength to restrain a chicken.

So after returning home, he took a wooden stick to write and draw on the mud floor outside the door every day, and ate free food at home every day.

His parents didn't dislike him, they still greeted him with care. Although the younger brother is a rascal, he still treats him very well. He earns a few copper dollars every day when he comes back from outside with a bruised nose and a swollen face. He has no complaints about raising his good-for-nothing brother.

When these memory images surfaced, Scott Shen's body felt waves of comfort.

When Scott Shen Lang ate white rice, his parents and younger brother could only drink polenta.

Occasionally, my father hunted a hare on the mountain, and would sell it in the street market for money, but every time he would leave a rabbit leg and let Scott Shen eat it alone. His younger brother , Thomas Shen, was drooling while picking up the hare in the bowl. Corn rice.

The parents are really eccentric, they love Scott Shen, an imbecile, like a treasure, and his younger brother, Thomas Shen, is like a weed.

Moreover, Scott Shen was often bullied because of his low intelligence since he was a child. In order to protect him, his younger brother Thomas Shen fought with others a few times.

It's really happy and warm.

So the memories are good so far, even though my family is extremely poor, but I am really happy.

However, since Scott Shen is so poor, why is the room he lives in so luxurious?

Because she married a super rich wife, to be precise, he married into a wealthy family.

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Note Put me on the bookshelf, let’s develop it well, thank you Amitabha Buddha for the infinite reward of 10,000 coins, thank you.

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