Chapter 1: The Great Chu State

  In the early morning, a thin fog enveloped the entire town. In the faint mist, the houses of each family were vaguely visible, and occasionally the barking of dogs and the crowing of chickens wove together.

  This is a small town called Qing Shi Town. Some people in the nearby mountain villages who are not well-educated also call it "Qing Shi City".

  Qingshi Town is not big, only a few streets intersecting with each other from east to west and north to south. There is only one inn, Qingshi Inn, which is located in the center of the town. If traveling merchants do not want to sleep outdoors, they can only stay here.

  In front of and behind the Qing Shi Inn, there is a considerable area of land. In a house with an old flavor in the backyard, Zhang Yang was sitting on the big bed in the room, wearing open-crotch pants, lifting his small head, blinking his small eyes, and staring blankly at various toys on the floor.

  If someone looks closely, they will find that this three-year-old kid wearing open-crotch pants has a depth in his bewildered eyes that is hard to come by for a child of his age, or rather, maturity.

  The room was quite spacious, with a large bed taking up one-third of the space where Zhang Yang sat. The rest of the area was cluttered with various knick-knacks and trinkets collected by Zhang Yang's father, the owner of the Qing Shi Inn.

  "Alas, three years have passed! Where is this place and what era is it?"

  Zhang Yang let out a low sigh.

  Great Chu!

  This is the information he obtained after crossing over. In fact, the news of this small town is not very well-informed, and it can even be said to be somewhat closed off. He could only know that he belonged to a country called Da Chu.

  In a town of several hundred people, there were only a handful who could read and write, including an old child prodigy who had taken the imperial examination for decades but still hadn't passed to become a xiucai.

  Of course, as the owner of the only inn in town, Zhang Yang's father was also literate.

  Among the few books, Zhang Yang recognized that it was traditional Chinese characters, and the words spoken by the people around him were similar to Tianchao dialects with some local accents. He could also understand them, so at first, he thought he had traveled back in time to ancient Tianchao!

  But from slow understanding, Zhang Yang had doubts about his own judgment, and the people around him called their country Great Chu.

  The ancient dynasty of Tian Chao appeared twice.

  One is the Chu State in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which was destroyed by Qin. The allusion "Chu has three households, and the destruction of Qin must be Chu" led to the famous Xiang Yu, the Overlord of Western Chu. Two is one of the Ten Kingdoms in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties period, also known as Ma Chu.

  But it's clearly not the Spring and Autumn Period or the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Zhang Yang just crossed over to a world that is very similar to the ancient Tian Chao.

  Zhang Yang was a ordinary young man in the 21st century. His father passed away early, and his single-parent family environment made him mature earlier.

  One day, Zhang Yang was surfing the internet and watching a movie when a webpage suddenly popped up.

  "Do you want to start a Xian Xia journey? Yes, No."

  Damn it!

  Watching movies also has pop-ups?

  Just as Zhang Yang was about to casually close it, he saw a woman on the webpage with peach blossoms, half-hidden and half-revealed, more enticing than the cover of the game his wife played when she wasn't home.

  It wasn't just the alluring woman, but also the background and title on the page that resonated with him.

  What man doesn't have dreams!

  In the middle of the page was a face as lovely as a peach blossom, hazy and full of temptation. Zhang Yang quickly scanned it, with an attitude of not caring, and moved the mouse to the flashing cursor on "Yes".

  Then, after a numb and electric shock feeling came from his right hand, before Zhang Yang could carefully experience the feeling of being electrocuted, in an instant of dizziness, he woke up to find himself transformed into a newborn baby, arriving in this world called Da Chu.

  His name in this life is also Zhang Yang, when he was born, his old man Zhang Dapang was already thirty-five years old, and he had a twenty-year-old sister, but since birth, they have never met, according to him, she was actually married off to someone else as a concubine.

  After three years, Zhang Yang has adapted to his current life.

  In the first one or two years after birth, he was held in his mother Li's arms every day and couldn't even go out of the backyard. Looking at this limited courtyard, he felt very lonely, a kind of spiritual loneliness.

  As a young adult in his twenties, every day stuck in an infant's body, being pinched on the cheek and even having his little penis touched without being able to resist, what kind of life is this!

  It's okay, newborn babies don't have strong physical and mental strength anyway. Even if Zhang Yang came with the soul of the 21st century, it would be the same, just a little better than other babies. Most of the time is spent nourishing the spirit, that is, sleeping.

  It's just that in his two lifetimes as a human being, the soul of his previous life was infused into the body of an infant, and it took him a long time to feel some pain in his head.

  At this time, Zhang Yang was sitting on the big bed in his room, staring blankly at the toys on the ground. In a sense, he couldn't say that he had traveled through time and space, but rather that he had been reborn, only equivalent to having drunk one less bowl of Meng Po's soup in the underworld.

  Three years have passed and his thoughts of his past life have also faded a bit. I hope his sister can take good care of their old mother!

  Zhang Yang's eyes flashed a deep and profound gaze, in his previous life he was from a single-parent family, also had an older sister, and was already married, living a good life, but his mom couldn't find him, didn't know what she would be like...

  There was another point that made Zhang Yang even more puzzled. Before crossing over, he had just clicked "yes" to a web game, and he still remembered it was an immortal-themed web game. However, after coming to this world, he hadn't come into contact with any information related to immortals, not even a little bit. Three years of time made Zhang Yang think that maybe it was just a coincidence.

  Maybe it's just a short circuit!

  "Master, get up and have breakfast!" Just then, a beautiful young girl opened the door and walked in, saying to Zhang Yang on the bed.

  A young girl held a wooden basin filled with water, emitting steam.

  Ya Tou Xiao Qing wore a plain white dress, with a beautiful face and long black hair styled in two buns, looking even more lovely and charming.

  Zhang Yang took a glance at Xiao Qing who just came in and nodded, saying: "I know."

  After finishing speaking, he put on his shoes and washed up briefly before heading towards the front hall of the inn.

  Xiao Qing was born into an ordinary family in Qingshi Town and was able to work at the Qingshi Inn, earning a considerable income. In the eyes of the townspeople, this was already a very good job.

  However, this made Zhang Yang feel a bit embarrassed. Xiao Qing was only 15 or 16 years old, which was equivalent to being in middle school or high school in his previous life. With her delicate appearance, she should have been a popular and lovely girl.

  Here is a maid serving people.

  Xiao Qing followed Zhang Yang to the front hall of the inn, looking at the back of the young master and couldn't help but roll her tongue. She was already used to the young master's genius, while other people's children were still playing with mud at the age of three or four.

  Zhang Yang was a reincarnated person after all, and there were some differences from ordinary babies, such as never having wet the bed or soiled his pants since birth.

  However, he also didn't dare to show off too much, after all this was ancient times. If someone spoke eloquently from birth, others would naturally be suspicious. He had even heard adults mention a villager who was beaten to death by the villagers for speaking wildly and irrationally, being taken as an evil spirit.

  In this remote and unprosperous town, some events in nearby villages are the only 'gossip news'.

  Zhang Yang arrived at the inn's main hall, because it was morning, there were no guests eating in the inn, and this had nothing to do with the fact that Qing Shi Town didn't have many traveling merchants.

  It can be said that it is rarely visited by people.

  Sometimes Zhang Yang also wondered how the old father of the inn could maintain it with such a cold business.

  Zhang Yang had just entered the hall when he was hugged by a woman of ordinary appearance and over thirty years old, who was his mother Li.

  Zhang Dazhuang was a round-faced man with a small mustache, slightly chubby, and when he saw his son coming, he smiled and said: "Yang'er, your sister Ranzhuang sent someone to deliver a letter saying she wants to come home for a visit, and after some time you can see your sister."

  Zhang Yang nodded slightly, and in his heart he was quite curious about this sister he had never met before. He had only heard that she had married someone else as a concubine, and his parents rarely mentioned her.

  He is now only three years old and no parent would talk about such incomprehensible things with a newborn baby.

  Then the kitchen staff brought up several dishes of vegetarian food and rice porridge, and Zhang Yang was held in his mother Li's arms to start eating. The maid Xiao Qing and one of the inn's cooks, as well as a waiter, went to another table to eat.

  Zhang Yang didn't know that with this sister, whom he had never met before, returning home for a visit, would bring another change to his future, just like a key unlocking the lock of fate.

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