June 19, 2023, 0:01 in the morning.
Room 2101, Building 2, Fuguihuakai Community, Blue Star, Handu.
In a two-bedroom apartment with an area of about 80 square meters, two people appeared out of thin air.
This two-bedroom apartment is in a simple Nordic style. The room is very small. This area is not even half as big as the study room in the Duke's Mansion, but it is very warmly laid out.
The lights in the room were still on, just like before Li Xiao traveled through time.
The entire room is paved with wooden floors, and the surrounding walls are painted with a slightly warm yellow latex paint. Behind the yellow leather sofa is painted a sky-blue latex paint, and an abstract painting hangs on the wall. It gives people a simple and beautiful feeling.
An octagonal blue fabric ceiling lamp hangs from the roof of the living room, the TV background wall is Van Gogh's Starry Night, a projector curtain hangs above it, and a gray plush carpet is laid under the coffee table.
Not far from the living room is the dining room, which has a simple wooden table, a few small chairs, and a bar with several bottles of wine displayed on it.
"When you come back, you're still the same as you were before you traveled through time!"
Everything is so strange yet familiar.
On the coffee table were half a bag of uneaten cucumber-flavored potato chips, several bottles of Coke, and in the ashtray were five cigarette butts that had been extinguished before crossing over.
The box of beer on the ground was still there, half of it was empty bottles, and the other bottle was poured on the ground.
Li Xiao still vaguely remembered that he was hurt by love ten years ago. It seemed that he drank the thirteenth bottle, and suddenly felt that he was not very good, and then traveled through time.
Eleven years have passed, and Li Xiao feels as if he is in another world.
If his left hand hadn't been holding Ningyun's hand at this moment, it would have seemed like everything was just a game and a dream.
Zhu Ningyun was even more shocked. Her delicate lips were red and slightly open, her complexion was simple and elegant, and her beauty was otherworldly.
Can you not be shocked? Suddenly from one place to another, an ancient man appeared in a modern room.
"Xiaolang, this will be your home six hundred years from now."
Zhu Ningyun said dumbly.
In fact, she was very happy in her heart, her husband was really not a mortal.
It actually comes from six hundred years in the future. This is so rare and interesting.
It is really interesting to have such a husband who can take him to six hundred years later to have a look.
"It's not a home, it's just a stop on our journey."
Li Xiao smiled and said: "Madam, welcome, six hundred years later."
"Um!"
Ningyun was overjoyed and nodded vigorously, with a smile on his face.
Immediately afterwards, Li Xiao took Ningyun's hand and looked around the rooms.
She was pleasantly surprised by the modern furnishings, including a sweeping robot, a TV, a computer, and a mobile phone. Every one of them was surprising.
This house is worth more than three million yuan, so naturally he can't afford it. It was rented by Li Xiao.
Seven or eight years after graduation, I have been living in this house. I spent less than half of my savings to decorate the room to make it small and cozy.
Before time travel, as a self-media person, he lived, ate, lived and worked in this apartment.
Thinking that it was night, Li Xiao asked, "Are you hungry? I'll give you a bowl of noodles."
"Um"
Zhu Ningyun smiled and nodded, and followed Li Xiao closely wherever he went.
Went to the kitchen and used the noodle pot to get water from the faucet.
Zhu Ningyun was surprised: "Is it so convenient?"
Li Xiao explained with a smile: "This is tap water. There is a tap water system in the city. Every household can get water without going out. The water plant transmits water to thousands of households through pipes."
Zhu Ningyun asked in surprise: "Can every common person be like this?"
Li Xiao nodded, "Yeah."
Zhu Ningyun also tried to open the faucet. When she saw the clear water flowing out, she couldn't help but ask: "Even if you leave it for a day and a night, it won't be enough?"
Li Xiao laughed: "Yes, it will last for ten days and ten nights. It comes through the pipeline, but there is a fee. It is charged by weight. There is an automatic billing device."
"It's amazing!" Zhu Ningyun said: "If Beiping had this device that can draw water at any time, how convenient it would be for the people. This is simply a miracle."
Hearing this, Li Xiao suddenly realized that before time travel, he was accustomed to these conveniences in life. In fact, in the eyes of the ancients, this was simply impossible.
Zhu Ningyun said: "Can Peking be achieved under Xiaolang's governance?"
Li Xiao smiled and shook his head: "It's difficult."
Zhu Ningyun said: "It is indeed difficult. After all, more than six hundred years have passed. By the way, husband, the Beiqing University you plan to establish is just for the purpose of realizing this."
"Madam, you are smart." Li Xiao nodded and said, "The establishment of Beiqing University has trained countless talents. If it develops for another two to three hundred years, maybe there will be a chance?"
Zhu Ningyun said: "It will take two to three hundred years to develop, but it's a pity that we can't see it. No, thanks to Mr. Tofu, I can see it now."
Li Xiao placed the noodle pot on the gas stove and lit it with a click.
"What's this?"
Zhu Ningyun's eyes lit up, and he was very curious about everything here.
Whether you are getting water or fire, you can light a fire to cook in the room with just a twist. You don’t even need firewood. It’s amazing.
"This is a natural gas stove."
Li Xiao explained patiently: "The principle is the same as that of a water plant. Natural gas is a kind of fuel. Well, you can imagine it is a kind of fuel like coal. This is a kind of gaseous fuel. When it enters the gas stove from the pipe, it can light a fire. .”
Seeing her husband explain so seriously, Zhu Ningyun couldn't help but chuckle, Mr. Xin Dao was really cute.
The vegetables in the refrigerator were still fresh. Li Xiao cut a tomato, beat two eggs, and made two bowls of tomato and egg noodles.
"Come, try your husband's noodles"
After a while, Li Xiao put the cooked noodles on the table.
This table is far inferior to the large pear wood table inlaid with gold lacquer in the Duke's Mansion. This was Li Xiao's life.
"Yeah." Zhu Ningyun sat down and said with a smile: "Since you became the national master, you haven't cooked for me in person for a long time."
The noodles were steaming. The two of them sat on the small table and ate the noodles slowly. Although the soup was watery, it looked extremely warm under the yellow light.
A little happiness flows, a journey through time and space, a love that transcends time and space!
Ten years ago, Li Xiao was trapped by love, couldn't get what he wanted, and eventually died of alcoholism.
Who would have thought that in another world, he would obtain a love system and find his own love.
"I only blame her when I love her deeply. I will give up even if I don't let go. That is a cliff with no way out."
At this time, the cell phone ringing on the floor next to the sofa suddenly rang in the room.
That was before time travel, when Li Xiao died suddenly, the cell phone fell off his palm and fell to the ground. The ringtone was still the same.
Eleven years later, Li Xiao suddenly heard the ringtone of his cell phone. Li Xiao was not used to it.
"Ma'am, I'm going to take a call."
"What's the phone? Just go ahead."
Li Xiao smiled slightly, ate the last bite of noodles, put down the bowl and chopsticks, got up and walked towards the sofa.
Zhu Ningyun looked at Li Xiao's back and smiled slightly, her heart full of joy. She stood up, picked up the bowls and chopsticks and went to the kitchen sink.
"That's how it should be opened, right?"
Zhu Ningyun tried once and successfully opened the faucet again, and the water flowed out. Just letting out the water made two pear vortexes bloom on Ningyun's fairy-like face.
"Successful."
She was slightly happy, and then put the dishes and chopsticks into the sink.
Find the rag on the cupboard and start washing the dishes.
Soon, the water became hot water.
This is because she accidentally turned it in the direction of the hot water.
"Oh my god, not only does the water flow out on its own, but the water that comes out is also hot water."
This little thing surprised Zhu Ningyun again.
Balcony.
Li Xiao picked up the phone and saw that the caller was Xu Lili.
"Who is Xu Lili? Oh, by the way. Ex-girlfriend."
The term "ex-girlfriend" is very unfamiliar and was not used at all in ancient times, which made Li Xiao feel a little out of place.
Li Xiao recalled why he drank too much before time travel. He was not a person who liked alcohol. It was because he was hurt too deeply by this woman.
However, after traveling through time, Li Xiao gradually forgot about her after a year of "rural life".
That year of pastoral life made Li Xiao understand that what is hurt by love is that it is full and free.
Because I am a self-media person who is bored at home every day, I feel so sad.
Who wants to say that he is trapped by love now? Li Xiao feels that he only needs to be thrown into ancient times and farmed for a year to ensure that even his ex-girlfriend like Liu Yifei will be completely forgotten.
"explain."
He answered the phone. Normally, Li Xiao would have been too sick to answer the call at this time, but he still answered it.
Li Xiao is no longer who he was before, but Duke Yongle, who keeps his word and controls the situation in the world in the Ming Dynasty.
In addition to speaking gently to Ningyun and speaking respectfully to the saints and others, he always speaks to others as a superior.
The woman on the other end of the phone was obviously a little surprised. She was surprised that Li Xiao's voice was so cold when he answered the phone. He just said "say" coldly.
"Li Xiao, how are you lately? I heard from Zhao Dazhi that you are not in a good state recently. He asked me to call you to persuade you, because I'm afraid you won't be able to think about it."
Xu Lili said this on the other end of the phone.
Li Xiao thought for a while and recalled this memory.
I didn't want to think back on the year I lived in the countryside, but now that I think about it, I feel a bit stupid.
This person named Xu Lili is Li Xiao's high school classmate. He chased her for three years in high school, but couldn't get it. After graduation, he kept pursuing her, and finally he was regarded as a backup to confirm the relationship.
In the end, Li Xiao was in great pain because of a BMW uncle who left him.
Later, in order to get rid of this relationship, Li Xiao chased several girls, but failed to catch them all.
Then, Li Xiao began to feel depressed.
Fortunately, after a year of farming, things returned to normal.
"Why are not you talking?"
Xu Lili's persuasive voice came from the other end of the phone: "Although we are separated now, we are still good friends, right? I don't want you to sink like this."
Li Xiao had no trouble with this. After all, ten years had passed and he had forgotten about it. He said directly: "It's nothing, don't call me."
After that, hang up directly.
Thinking that he could still use his mobile phone today, it would not be good if this woman called again and made his wife misunderstood, so Li Xiao blocked Xu Lili directly.
"I only blame her when I love her deeply. I will give up even if I don't want to let her go."
The ringtone rang again, and Li Xiao planned to change it later.
"Who?" Li Xiao said.
"Who? You didn't even save my phone number? Have you finished the video editing?" The displeased voice of Li Xiao's boss came from the other end of the phone.
"presumptuous!"
Li Xiao reflexively scolded: "Why did your parents give birth to such an uncultured thing like you?"
After saying that, he hung up directly. If this guy dared to call himself Lao Tzu in front of him in the Ming Dynasty, Li Xiaoding would have him sent to jail to eat his food.
The person on the other end of the phone was probably confused.
But that's not something Li Xiao should consider.
Blocked again.
Li Xiao thought to himself, no one will be annoyed now, right?
He picked up his phone and first changed the ringtone, then turned on the do not disturb mode so that no one could make calls.
"Husband, why are you so angry?"
At this time, Ningyun, who had finished washing the dishes, walked to the balcony. Then, she saw the scenery outside the window. You must know that the floor Li Xiao was on was the 21st floor. Looking around, there were bright lights on the street. The location is even more like being on a high mountain.
"Oh my God." Zhu Ningyun walked to the window and looked down. It turned out that the house was built so high. No need to be surprised and said: "Husband, why is this so high?"
Li Xiao put his cell phone in his pocket, and then looked at the night scene outside the window with Ningyun in his arms, and said with a smile: "Six hundred years later, houses can be built hundreds of feet high. For ordinary people, this is a normal thing. "
"Amazing!"
The brilliant brilliance of those high-rise buildings was reflected in Zhu Ningyun's eyes, shining like stars, and his eyes were so clear, like rippling stars.
Li Xiao looked at the scenery outside the car window. The roads were busy with traffic and the commercial streets were bustling with people. This scene seemed so familiar yet strange.
He has lived in this modern big city for seven or eight years, but he still does not have a house of his own, has not found his own destination, and has no sense of belonging.
He suddenly felt that modern times were not that good. There were too many intrigues, too many worldly affairs, too much harshness of the world, and the pressure of survival.
Of course, this kind of survival pressure is different from ancient times.
The survival pressure of ancient people was just to be satisfied with enough food to eat.
The success of Li Xiao's reforms in Peking was largely due to the fact that the people were easily satisfied. As long as they had food to eat, they would be happy.
Modern people don't worry about food and clothing at all, but they still have pressure, pressure to go to school, pressure to get a job, pressure to get married and have children. They have to have a car and a house, otherwise they won't even be able to get a wife, just like that ex-girlfriend Xu Lily ran away with Uncle BMW.
"Wow, what is that running around on the ground?"
Zhu Ningyun had excellent eyesight and could see farther away. He saw not a horse or carriage on the road, but colorful iron boxes running on it.
"It's a car, it's oil-burning. You can think of it as a replica of a steam train."
Li Xiao explained with a smile.
“It’s so busy with so many cars”
Zhu Ningyun said in shock.
"The buildings down here are densely packed with lights. Xiaolang, you once said, let the world light up for me. Is this what you want to say?"
"Almost, haha"
"Xiaolang, you are so kind."
"That is."
Zhu Ningyun suddenly asked. "Li Xiao, this house is so high, you are also a prince in this world, right?"
Li Xiao smiled awkwardly: "That's not true, I am just an ordinary citizen."
Zhu Ningyun smiled slightly and said soothingly, "Oh, it doesn't matter. Sometimes I feel that there is nothing wrong with being a common people. There are not too many worries. I didn't expect that common people's houses are built so high. Then Aren’t the houses of the powerful built in the sky?”
"That's not true." Li Xiao said with a smile: "Rich people still live in buildings similar to our courtyards in the Ming Dynasty, called villas."
"This" Zhu Ningyun pursed her lips and smiled, it was so beautiful.
Just like that, Li Xiao looked at Zhu Ningyun's joyful expression on the side, and suddenly felt that there were ancient worries in ancient times, and modern worries in modern times.
No matter how good or bad the world is, as long as you have your sweetheart by your side, no matter where you are, you will have your way back.
Yes, it doesn't matter whether it's ancient or modern.
Being with Ningyun will make you feel at ease.
Zhu Ningyun, who had been pleasantly surprised for a while as the flowers passed by like clouds of smoke, suddenly turned around and looked at Li Xiao, their eyes facing each other.
"Xiaolang, you can travel to the past and future, then which one do you call home?"
Zhu Ningyun asked seriously.
There was a trace of worry in her heart. It was so nice here, would her husband not want to go back?
Zhu Ningyun felt that this place was indeed prosperous, but she felt that she seemed a little out of tune with this world, as if she was an outsider.
If her husband is unwilling to go back, she will stay here with him.
But the problem is that he can no longer see his parents, brothers and sisters, so there may be more temptations in this world. After losing his identity as a princess, can he still get along so happily with his husband?
"You are my married wife."
Li Xiao gently stroked her hair and said softly: "No matter the past or the future, the place where you are is home. Your home is in the Ming Dynasty, and I will only call the Ming Dynasty my home. Here, I No worries, I just brought you here to have a look, we will go back tomorrow."
This is another world in her husband's heart. Zhu Ningyun felt that she had reached the depths of her husband's heart. She asked carefully: "Do you have parents here?"
If he has parents, Ningyun wants to go with Li Xiao to see his parents.
This is the duty of a daughter-in-law. After all, Li Xiao has never come back in these years and has always been by her side.
Li Xiao shook his head: "I am an orphan."
Zhu Ningyun said distressedly: "I said too much."
Li Xiao smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, I have long regarded your parents as my biological parents. In the Ming Dynasty, I have family ties and a family."
In the Ming Dynasty, Li Xiao felt that he had everything.
Here, it’s nothing.
Hearing this, Zhu Ningyun felt extremely relieved, and the two looked at each other and smiled.
Then Li Xiao took his wife to take a bath and put on pajamas.
"I'll teach you how to turn on hot water"
"Don't come in, you're disgusting"
"You don't need to teach me. I just learned how to do it in the kitchen. It's quite simple."
After Zhu Ningyun took a shower, she put on the spacious white shirt Li Xiao wore as pajamas. Her slender legs were as pink as lotus roots, and they were dazzlingly white under the light.
Li Xiao brought snacks, popcorn, potato chips, and beer
He turned on the 4K high-definition projector again. The weather was a little hot, so Li Xiao turned on the air conditioner and let in a cool breeze.
Li Xiao covered his lover with another air-conditioned blanket, and the two snuggled on the soft sofa.
The high-definition projector projected onto the screen, and the picture appeared.
"This is so clear and it's in color. It's much clearer than the movies in Peking!"
Zhu Ningyun's eyes lit up, she hugged Li Xiao tightly and asked, "Isn't it still Li Qingtian from the Ming Dynasty? I'm tired of seeing him."
Although movies are very surprising, Li Xiao had already made them in Beiping, so Ningyun didn't show too much surprise.
"I think should not be?"
Li Xiao thought that after hundreds of years, this kind of tape film could not be preserved for such a long time. He tried searching, but he couldn't find it.
So Li Xiao opened Titanic, a must-see for couples.
Just like that, the two of them were like modern lovers, watching movies, cracking melon seeds, and drinking wheat.
Zhu Ningyun only felt that such a clear image was more beautiful and lifelike than in Peking, as if it were performed by a real person in front of him.
During this period, Zhu Ningyun watched very carefully, and Li Xiao was by his side, which was very warm. When the ship hit the iceberg, Zhu Ningyun couldn't help but shed tears.
Until two o'clock in the morning, Zhu Ningyun, who had been busy all day in the Ming Dynasty, couldn't bear to be tired and fell asleep on Li Xiao's shoulder without knowing it.
Li Xiao remained motionless for fear of waking up Ningyun.
He muted the projector's sound, then gently took out his phone with his left hand.
He wanted to see how history had changed.
"Let's see first, has China's current territory become larger?"
Thinking of this, Li Xiao couldn't wait to search the map of China.
Then, after entering the web page, Li Xiao was stunned.
The land of China is still a chicken. Li Xiao's head is full of black lines. After working on it for a long time, is it like doing it in vain?
"Hey, no, there's an extra worm, just like the picture of a rooster eating worms!"
To Li Xiao's surprise, the Japanese country actually belonged to China.
"It seems that there are still changes! I won the Japanese country in vain."
"By the way, let's see if I have a name for the ages!"
Thinking of this, Li Xiao searched for the word Li Xiao on the search bar.
Then, a web page popped up, and the first news item was called "Real People in China Who Traveled Through Time and Space, Three Travelers with Evidence in History"
Li Xiao opened it and looked carefully. The content above was:
The first time traveler was the forward-thinking Wang Mang. It happened at the end of the Western Han Dynasty. Wang Mang launched a coup, seized the ruling power of the Western Han Dynasty, established a new dynasty, began to carry out comprehensive reforms, and even invented the vernier caliper and so on.
Finally, he plans to start a war with other countries, sweep across the globe and unify the world. But Wang Mang only succeeded in the second step, which was to establish his own country, and failed completely in the third step of major reforms, thus making this time travel a failure.
Netizens commented that this is an ordinary time traveler.
The second time traveler is Liu Xiu, who is known as the son of the plane. He is known as the male protagonist with luck second only to Li Xiao in history. At the age of 29, he raised an army to conquer the world and became emperor at the age of 31. This is the shortest and longest time in history. The founding emperor of the unified dynasty who became emperor at a young age, the process of establishing his achievements was like divine help. When fighting with the enemy, fireballs fell from the sky and smashed the opponent's barracks. After the battle, they summoned the wind and rain to form an army. They defeated the New Dynasty army with overwhelming power and defeated its million-strong army to win a complete victory.
Netizens rated it as a time traveler with golden fingers, very powerful.
When Li Xiao saw the last person, he really saw his name.
The third time traveler, Li Xiao, was a true son of destiny. He made no secret of the crazy reform that he was a time traveler, and almost single-handedly pushed Chinese history forward for three hundred years.
In the 25th year of Hongwu's reign in the Ming Dynasty, Li Xiao married Zhu Ningyun, the princess of Yong'an, at the age of 22. He began to embark on the road of cheating and entered the peak of his life. He made snowflakes and white salt to gain Zhu Yuanzhang's attention. Within a year, he became Yongle Hou.
Then he launched the Jingnan Campaign within a year, and was recognized by Zhu Yuanzhang and was granted the title of Duke of Yongle, using the same title as Yongle Emperor Zhu Di!
After being sealed off as the Peiping Special Economic Zone, frantic reforms began, with remarkable results.
Five years later, the Ming Dynasty moved its capital to Peiping because of Li Xiao alone. With the full support of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, Li Xiao began to carry out large-scale reforms, which touched the interests of the gentry and landlord classes in the society at that time, and the people of the world. enemy.
But unfortunately, because Li Xiao planned to cancel the imperial examination and established Qingbei University, he had a violent conflict with the Confucian scholars all over the world. On the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, he and his wife, Princess Yong'an Zhu Ningyun, both disappeared and were never seen again.
After Li Xiao disappeared, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di were furious and turned their anger on the Confucian scholars. Zhu Yuanzhang killed most of the Confucian scholars in the world. Zhu Yuanzhang kept sending people to search for Li Xiao to no avail, and died in depression two years later.
The subsequent reforms have been implemented by Zhu Gaochi. Under the control of Zhu Gaochi, he tried to cross the river by feeling the stones, with little effect.
In the first year of Hongxi, Zhu Gaochi died in depression and was succeeded by Zhu Zhanji.
After succeeding to the throne, Zhu Zhanji carried out his father's last wish and continued to carry out reforms. Five years after the reform, there was too much resistance, so he began to play cricket all day long and implement rule by inaction. Although the economy was still prosperous, the impact of the reform had slowed down at this time. fall back.
After Zhu Zhanji and his son Zhu Qizhen succeeded to the throne, because they favored the eunuch Wang Zhen, Wang Zhen accepted bribes from local lords and gentry, and began to influence the court's strategy, leading to the complete reversal of the reform content. In just ten years, return to pre-reform levels.
In the 16th year of Zhengtong, Zhu Qi was captured in the Tumubao Incident. Mahamu's troops came to the city. The Ming Dynasty was on the verge of destruction. The elderly Zhu Gaoxu sent troops from Yunnan to rescue him. He defeated Oara and saved the Ming Dynasty. He then ascended the throne as emperor for two years. During that time, he sent troops to the Northern Yuan Dynasty twice. The first time Zhu Qizhen was sent back to the palace and placed under house arrest. He died of illness during the second Northern Expedition.
After Zhu Gaoxu died of illness, his son Zhu Zhanhe ascended the throne. However, he suddenly died of illness five months after he ascended the throne. Zhu Qizhen launched a palace coup and ascended the throne again. After Zhu Qizhen died, his son Zhu Jianshen ascended the throne.
Later archaeologists suspected that it was Confucian scholars who assassinated Li Xiao and his wife, which led to the failure of China to stand on the top of the world.
Netizens commented that this was a time traveler with super powerful plug-ins. He almost made China the world's hegemon with his own efforts. Unfortunately, he suddenly disappeared and missed the opportunity. What a pity!
After reading this article, Li Xiao was stunned.
"What's going on? After Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, history went into reverse?"
"Also, with this change in history, it seems that the moment I came back, I disappeared over there."
"Oh my god, it turns out that this is how the couple returned the house."
"You can see the results of my reforms. No wonder the system prompts that there will be surprises every time I come back. Then next time I come back, will the technology be able to soar into the universe?"
"However, the current results seem to be a bit poor. There is only one more Japanese country in the territory, and there are no other changes. Damn Zhu Qi Town."
(End of chapter)
