Danzhou Port is to the east of Qing Kingdom. Although it is close to the sea, several ports in the south have been built recently, and the sea route to the west is expected to be connected. Therefore, the country's trade center has moved to south. This port has gradually become decadent, and the bustling port in the past has become quiet a few years ago.
The seagulls are flying freely, no longer disturbed by those nasty sailors.
The residents who originally lived in Danzhou Port did not feel that their lives had changed much. Although their income had decreased, His Majesty the Emperor had already exempted them from taxes for several years, so their lives were not bad, and this seaport was very convenient. Beautiful, and now it has become quiet again, and it is naturally more suitable for people to live in.
So occasionally some big shots choose to build manors here.
But because the distance from the capital is too far, there are not many officials left behind. The one who can barely be counted should be the old lady in the courtyard in the west of the city.
I heard that the old lady is the mother of Earl Sinan in the capital, so she chose to come here to retire. Residents in the city knew that Earl Sinan seemed to be appreciated by His Majesty the Emperor, and that he had not been dispatched according to the law, but stayed in the Ministry of Finance in the capital to do things, so most of them expressed enough courtesy and awe to that courtyard.
But children don't understand these things.
It was a sunny day, and the adults sat in the tavern enjoying the salty taste and moisture brought by the sea breeze, enjoying the salted plums and the wine in the cups.
There are also a group of teenagers surrounding the stone steps outside the back door of Beppu, the Earl of Sinan in the west of the city. They are densely packed, and they don't know what they are doing.
Looking closer, I found that it was a very interesting scene. It turned out that these teenagers were listening to a child who was only four or five years old.
The little boy is very beautiful, with picturesque eyebrows and extremely clear eyes, but his voice is still milky, but his tone of voice is old-fashioned.
He only heard him sigh, and gestured with his small arms: "It is said that Truman went to the wall and found a ladder there, so he walked up step by step, found the door, so he pushed it out..."
"Then what?"
"Then? Then... Naturally, I will return to the human world." The little boy pouted, as if he was very impatient that the teenagers who were older than him would ask such mentally retarded questions.
"No way? Don't you want to get that Hani..."
"Haney is dead." Another boy answered.
"Yes, isn't Truman going to beat that Hani to death? He has been imprisoned for many years like this."
The little boy shrugged: "No."
"Tch! It's boring, Master Fan Xian, today's story is not as good as the one a few days ago."
"Then what do you like to hear?"
"Floating Journey."
"Story of Grace."
"Tch!" The little boy named Fan Xian pointed his middle fingers at the older children around him, "It's unhealthy to fight and kill, and it's not environmentally friendly to dig around for treasure!"
Suddenly an extremely angry voice came from the courtyard: "Master! Where have you been?"
The children in a circle imitated his appearance and gave their middle fingers, but there were more people, so it looked much more spectacular. They said in unison: "Tch!" and then broke up with a smile.
The little boy named Fan Xian stood up from the stone steps, patted the dust off his buttocks, and ran into the yard as soon as he turned his head. Just before closing the door, those clever eyes glanced at the grocery store opposite. The young blind boss had complex emotions on his face that didn't match his age, and then gently closed the wooden door.
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This is Fan Shen's fourth year in this world. During these years, he finally realized that he was not dreaming, and that he had really come to an unknown world. This world seemed to be the same as the one in his memory, but there seemed to be many differences.
By eavesdropping on the conversation of the Earl Beppu's servants, he finally understood his identity. It turned out that he was the illegitimate son of Earl Sinan in Kyoto.
Just like ordinary rich family dramas, the identity of the illegitimate child can easily be poisoned by the aunt, the second aunt and the like, and my cheap father seems to have only one son, in order to continue the earl's blood, so he They were sent to Danzhou Port, which is very far away from Kyoto.
Over the years, he gradually got used to his identity. Although it is said that an adult's soul is trapped in a child's body, both physically and psychologically, he has to experience a completely different experience. If he were replaced by a normal person, he might go crazy—but it just so happens that Fan In his previous life, Shen was a patient with myasthenia gravis. He had been lying on the hospital bed for many years, and now he only had some mobility issues. Among them, there is not much discomfort.
The most uncomfortable thing is actually his current name. When he was one year old, the Earl of Kyoto sent a letter to name him: Fan Xian, styled Anzhi.
This name is not good, it sounds very similar to the curse word in his original hometown - "suspect".
But his appearance is only that of a child, so it is impossible to express objection with words.
When I was treated in the hospital in my previous life, I could still turn my head in the early stage, so I often begged that cute little nurse to buy me some pirated DVDs and books to read.
I have lived in the Earl's Mansion for a long time. Although the old lady is cold and warm-hearted, she loves herself very much in her heart, and the servants in the mansion do not treat him differently because of his status as an illegitimate child, but the pain of having nowhere to communicate with others still makes him I'm a little upset.
Can you tell the maid that you are from another world? Can you tell the teacher that you can actually recognize all the characters in this book
So he often sneaked out of the side door of the Earl's Mansion to play with the commoner children on the street, and more often, he told them stories, movies and novels from his own world.
It seems that he wants to use this to remind himself of something, to remind himself that he does not belong to this world, and in his own world, there are movies, the Internet, and YY novels.
To this day, without knowing why, he narrates the movie The Truman Show. The plot of this movie is a bit dull, and it doesn't have Jim Carrey playing cute, so he should be very clear that these teenage boys in Danzhou Hong Kong can't like it at all.
But he still spoke.
Because there is always a sense of absurdity deep in his heart, he is obviously a dying person, why is he suddenly reborn in this body? I can't help but think of that movie... Maybe the people in front of me, the streets, and the seagulls flying in the sky were all arranged by someone
Just like Truman.
Truman finally discovered the falsehood of being in the world, so he sailed resolutely and found the exit.
But Fan Shen, no, it should be Fan Xian... Knowing that he is not Truman, this world really exists, not a big studio.
So he found himself telling stories every day to remind himself that he was from another world, which in itself was a ridiculous move.