Chapter 1
Zhou An woke up with a large iron sword at his waist.
Velvet clothes.
Black hat.
Long boots.
Messy memories flooded into his mind, and Zhou An knew that he had crossed over.
Now, it was the tenth year of the Great Chu Kingdom.
His current identity, is a Velvet Clothes Constable in Anding County, Da Chu Kingdom.
Both of his parents were dead, and crossing over was standard.
“No father, no mother before crossing over, no father, no mother after crossing over, absolute.”
Zhou An rubbed his dizzy head and stood up with great effort.
Yesterday, he went to drink with a few colleagues, and today, he came over with a drunkenness to order, so he thought to squint for a while, and as a result, he squinted himself to death.
Next to him, a few colleagues were lying on the table, sleeping like dead pigs.
Zhou An organized the memories in his mind for a while, and only then did he realize that the world he traveled through this time was not simple.
Ten years in Da Chu, bizarre in every way.
Creepy, unspeakable, bizarre shapes and forms.
Emperor Xingwu set up the Zhen Gui Division to manage the rivers and lakes and weirdness.
In short, it’s very dangerous.
“Originally, I wanted to be a constable, receive a salary, marry and have children, why do I feel so dangerous?”
Zhou An combined the memories in his mind and realized that something like weirdness was very much like the ghosts in the novels of his previous life.
And his own current state could be described in five words.
No money, no strength.
Nothing, and his little life was like a rootless duckweed.
Zhou An sat down expressionlessly and mentally called out.
“System?”
No sound.
“System father?”
Still no sound.
“System son?”
A silence.
After a moment of certainty, Zhou An was finally convinced that there was nothing other than the standard equipment like crossing over.
No, at least he had an establishment, albeit at the lowest level.
To put it plainly, it was a wage earner.
“Whatever.”
Zhou An’s head was still a bit fuzzy, and the dizziness from a hangover was the worst.
There was also a circle of constables lying around.
Zhou An circled his hands and lay on the table, snoring gradually.
This sleep, sleep until the afternoon.
When he woke up in a daze, his fellow officers woke up before him and were doing their own things.
–Chatting, drinking tea.
The street patrol constables are all on rotation, when there is no rotation, this is a tea and gossip room.
“Old Zhou, yesterday he was bragging that he couldn’t drink a thousand cups, today he slept later than anyone else.”
A young constable brought tea and placed it next to Zhou An.
Zhou An picked it up and drank it, the flavor was average, a bit bitter: “Old Yu, you guys top me to pour it, even the God of Wine reincarnated can’t top it.”
The young constable’s name is Yu Hang, is Zhou An’s hairdresser, the two of them have played from wearing open crotch pants to now, even the place where they live are neighbors.
“Alright, alright, I still don’t know about your drinking capacity, you go back first this day, I still have to go to the private school teacher.” Yu Hang waved his hand.
“After three years of exams, you still have to take the exam?” Zhou An refilled another cup of tea for himself.
To say that Yu Hang this person, when the constable is only a side job, the real main job is to want to take the imperial examination to become an official.
According to the rules of the former dynasty, when the constable is not allowed to take the imperial examination, not only the constable, a lot of special occupations can not be examined.
But that is the sword of the former dynasty, can not be beheaded by the officials of this dynasty.
Xingwu emperor reigned for ten years, abolished the rules of the previous dynasty, all the people of the state of Chu can take the imperial examination, and the imperial examination was changed to once a year.
It is the abolition of the complicated examination process, only need to participate in the annual general examination, the emperor according to the results of the personal appointment.
This move, let too many people moved.
For a time, the literary style prevailed.
Yu Hang, this guy, take his salary to dredge up relations, life is extremely difficult, most of the salary is given to the private school teacher.
Every time after the duty, they secretly go to make up.
From time to time, has become a habit.
“Examination for ten years are going to be examined, okay first do not say, drink some tea to relieve the wine, you are fine, I am relieved, I first go to read a book.”
Yu Hang patted Zhou An’s shoulder, walked to the corner seat and sat down, took out a stale book from his arms and read it with great interest.
Zhou An still felt a bit of a headache and continued to sleep on the table.
This sleep, he slept until the loose value.
“Let’s go ah, Old Zhou, let’s drink again next time.”
“Don’t brag about old Li, who fell down in two cups yesterday?”
“I was occasional wind cold, usually I drink you ten.”
Scattered value always makes people happy.
Just like a laborer, the happiest is always the weekend.
The colleagues bid farewell to each other and the building was empty.
Zhou An and Yu Hang walked to the gate of the county office, before Yu Hang left alone, clutching his book.
“Buy some things and go home to cook.”
Zhou An walked towards his house.
As the saying goes, man is iron and rice is steel, a meal not eaten will make you hungry.
According to Zhou An’s current salary, it was fine to go out for a small meal from time to time, but he couldn’t afford to go to a restaurant all the time.
On the way home, passing through an alley, the alley is surrounded by all kinds of vendors.
Selling vegetables, selling rice, selling oil.
The sound of selling was loud and clear.
Conversations were loud and clear.
The atmosphere of the marketplace was overwhelming.
Zhou An bought half a catty of pork at the butcher’s store, didn’t let the stallholder cut it up for bashfulness, and didn’t perform a backward willow plucking.
He also went to the rice store to buy some rice, by the way, and a vegetable vendor bargaining for half a day, before carrying vegetables, meat and rice, back home.
Zhou An’s house is in a remote alleyway, where very few people live.
The location was remote, but at least it was a nest.
It was left behind by his parents, and he didn’t live alone.
The one who lived with him was his aunt.
The aunt is five feet tall and has a five-foot waist, and a face full of fat.
She has no place to live, so she lives in Zhou An’s house.
Even if you live, but also pointing fingers, all day idle.
Zhou An’s predecessor was also made a headache, and every time he asked his aunt to move out, she would cry and hang herself.
Of course, in the end, Zhou An managed to live alone.
The aunt died, accidentally kicking a stool off while pretending to hang herself once, and the person was no more.
A broken neck and a broken spine.
The method of death was quite dramatic, and TV dramas wouldn’t dare to play it out like that.
Zhou An still did his part, and after his aunt’s funeral, he was left alone in this house.
“Squeak–”
The wooden door was pushed open with a hoarse and unpleasant sound.
The sun was setting, after dusk.
Zhou An lit the oil lamp and took the vegetables, meat and rice in the kitchen for a while to wash them before placing the meat on the cutting board.
In his previous life, he also lived alone, cooking hand to hand.
Smoothly pull out the kitchen knife standing next to him, Zhou An is ready to make a fried meat to taste.
The knife is a little blunt, half a day can not cut a piece, Zhou An can only pick up the whetstone, on the water began to sharpen the knife.
Grinding for a while, wait until the blade reflective, he returned to the cutting board.
Many people don’t know how to cut meat, and the meat cut out is not only unattractive, but also very difficult to cut.
A job like cutting meat should be based on the texture of the meat, so that not only is it good to cut, but it doesn’t fall apart easily.
Zhou An lifted the kitchen knife and landed on the pork.
The sharpened knife was a bit sharper, and with a little effort, he sliced off a piece of pork.
He was just about to continue cutting when a line of text appeared in front of him, causing him to freeze on the spot.
[Knife Skill lv.1: 1/10,000]