Chapter 1 A House Full of Children and Grandchildren
Yang Zhengshan had a very long dream. He dreamed that he turned into an ancient person.

When he was young, he learned martial arts from his father. His father was very strict with him and often beat him with a small wooden stick.

When he was a teenager, his father went into the mountains to hunt but was attacked by a wild beast and died of serious injuries. He saw his bloody father being carried down the mountain by the villagers, and he lay on his father's body and cried in pain.

Then he dreamed that he joined the army. After a year in the army, he was seriously injured in a brutal battle and retired to his hometown.

He got married, to a woman with bright eyes and white teeth.

A year after getting married, his wife gave birth to a son, and he seemed very happy.

The reason why it is said as if is because he was not experiencing it personally in the dream, but more like watching a documentary.

Fragmented dreams kept appearing, and it seemed that twenty years had passed in a flash. There were more and more people in the family, and life at home became more and more lively.

But suddenly one day, his wife fell ill and could not get up. Looking at his increasingly weak wife, he felt confused and scared.

His wife died of illness, and his dreams became darker.

The warmth is gone, replaced by emptiness and confusion.

The dream became more and more fragmented and blurred. Just when Yang Zhengshan thought the dream was about to end, a pool of clear water suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

The stone pool is embedded in the ground, surrounded by endless darkness, with only the clear water in the pool emitting bright light.

Suddenly Yang Zhengshan opened his eyes and looked blankly at the beams on the roof.

He was very familiar with this beam, as he had seen it countless times in his dreams. He had even carried this beam down from the mountain himself and installed it on the house himself.

"It's not a dream!"

Yang Zhengshan blinked and his heart suddenly tightened.

Then he sat up suddenly, the thick quilt fell off his body, and everything in the room appeared in his eyes.

There was an earthen kang, with a black wooden box at the head of it, and two quilts that looked a little worn out folded on the box. Dim light shone through the wooden window pasted with window paper, and someone was clucking outside the window, as if feeding chickens.

Yang Zhengshan shook his head vigorously, then slapped himself.

"It hurts!"

I'm really not dreaming!
Yang Zhengshan was confused.

How could a good young man like me become a rural widower?

Yes, a widower.

If your wife dies, isn’t that making you a widower?
Not only is he a widower, he seems to have sons, daughters, grandsons and granddaughters.

Yang Zhengshan got off the kang with his hands and feet, and secretly looked outside through the crack in the door. He saw a woman in a long coarse cloth skirt feeding chickens in the yard.

Daughter-in-law!
The corners of Yang Zhengshan's mouth twitched wildly, and the whole person looked as if he was struck by lightning.

Damn, what is going on!
I traveled through time and became an old man with many children and grandchildren!
A house full of children and grandchildren!

A house full of children and grandchildren!

The resentment in Yang Zhengshan's heart erupted like a volcano.

I’m not even married yet, so how can I have a house full of children and grandchildren?
woohoo~~
I want to cry.

No, no, I'm not an old man!
I'm only thirty-eight!
Just ten years older.

Yang Zhengshan sat back on the kang and fell into deep thought.

In feudal society, people got married at a relatively early age.

In the dream, he joined the army at the age of fifteen, was discharged from the army and returned home at the age of sixteen due to injury, got married at the age of seventeen, and now he is only thirty-eight years old.

In modern times, thirty-eight is not considered old at all.

But Yang Zhengshan still felt bad that he had aged ten years for no reason.

The 28-year-old young man turned into a 38-year-old grandfather. Yang Zhengshan felt his heart was broken.

"Is Dad up? It's time for breakfast!"

A voice came from outside the door. It was his eldest son.

Woohoo, eldest son!

Twenty-year-old eldest son!
How come I have such a big son!
Yang Zhengshan wanted to cry even more.

"Dad, Dad~~"

The eldest son outside the door didn't get a response, so he pushed the door open.

"Dad, what's wrong with you? Are you missing mom again?"

The eldest son is called Yang Mingcheng. He is big and strong. Although he is only twenty years old, he is already the father of two children.

Miss your mom?
Yang Zhengshan buried his head in the worn quilt.

The three biggest happy events for a middle-aged man are promotion, wealth and death of his wife!

The original body’s wife died. Is this considered a happy event?
"No, you guys eat first!"

Yang Zhengshan didn't want to go out. He was not ready to face a house full of children and grandchildren.

But as soon as he said that, his stomach started growling.

Yang Mingcheng heard his stomach growling, "Dad, you're hungry."

Yang Zhengshan was depressed. He was really not ready to face a house full of children and grandchildren. He was resistant to it.

He is not married yet!

But he already has grandchildren!

He wants to curse someone now, he really wants to curse someone.

Even if others traveled through time not through their wombs, they would have been grandchildren or sons. Why did I travel through time to become a grandfather?

He would rather be a grandson than a grandfather!

Woo, I’m so hungry!
It’s okay to curse people, but you can’t skip a meal. You’ll feel hungry if you skip a meal.

"You go out first, I'll be there in a minute!" Yang Zhengshan said with his head down.

"Okay, Dad, hurry up!"

Hearing that he wanted to eat, the eldest son Yang Mingcheng immediately agreed.

Only after he left did Yang Zhengshan raise his head from the quilt.

Can't hide!

I have to face a house full of children and grandchildren.

Yang Zhengshan let out a long breath.

He is not alone now, he has three sons, two daughters, two daughters-in-law, two grandsons and one granddaughter. Wow, what a big family!

When he thought of home, he thought of his parents. Although his parents divorced and remarried and had their own children, they were still very good to him and never gave less than the child support. They even pooled money to buy him a house when he graduated from college.

He lives quite comfortably by himself. Although he feels lonely sometimes, most of the time he feels that he is very free.

But now he...

Talking too much brings me to tears!
Yang Zhengshan didn't dare to think about it anymore, he stood up and looked at his body.

He is about 1.8 meters tall and a little thin. There is a long scar extending from his left shoulder to his abdomen, which was caused by an injury he suffered on the battlefield.

That war was a life-and-death experience for the original body. If it weren't for his good luck, there would be no way he would have been able to retire and return home.

But even though the original body survived, its body was also seriously damaged. It was fine when it was young, but now that it is older, its body is getting weaker. Especially in the shoulders, it often hurts.

Yang Zhengshan frowned and looked at the scars on his body, then put on a blue cloth shirt and cloth shoes, and rubbed his face hard.

"I have to face it even if I don't want to. My original personality cannot be destroyed. I am Yang Zhengshan, and Yang Zhengshan is me!"

The original body was a serious person, and Yang Zhengshan himself was not a talkative person. In this respect, the two were somewhat similar.

However, as a modern man, many of Yang Zhengshan’s habits are definitely different from his original self.

He could only recall the habits of his original self and try his best to maintain the same personality as the original self.

When I walked out of the room, the whole family was already sitting around two wooden tables in the main room.

Looking at this whole family, Yang Zhengshan felt a little bit tired.

Too scary!

The original body's wife was really fertile and had five children.

The eldest son, Yang Mingcheng, is twenty years old and is tall and strong. He has practiced some martial arts with the original body. Although he is not a warrior, he is also quite strong.

He got married early at the age of fifteen and married Wang from the neighboring Wangjia Village. After five years of marriage, he had two children, a grandson who just turned three years old and a granddaughter who was just over a hundred days old.

The second son, Yang Mingzhi, is eighteen years old. He looks like his mother, is a little thin, and is a little over 1.7 meters tall, much shorter than the eldest son. He has a rather dull personality and does not like to talk. He also got married early at the age of fifteen. His wife is Li from Lijia Village. He gave birth to a baby boy at the end of last year.

The third child is a daughter, Yang Yunyan, who is sixteen years old and just got married more than a year ago.

The fourth child, Yang Minghao, was fourteen years old and was an apprentice in a blacksmith shop in the county town and was not at home.

The youngest daughter, Yang Yunxue, is only ten years old. She looks like her mother, with bright eyes and white teeth. She is the apple of my mother's eye. When the original wife was alive, she loved her the most and she was spoiled and naive since she was a child.

Yang Zhengshan felt dizzy. In the past, he could feed the whole family by himself. But now, apart from his eldest daughter who was married, there were ten people in the family. Just thinking about it made his scalp tingle.

Moreover, the family is not wealthy, with only 20 acres of land. The harvest has not been good in the past two years, and having enough food is a problem.

"father!"

"father!"

"grandfather!"

When Yang Zhengshan came out, the whole family shouted.

"..."

Yang Zhengshan was speechless for a while. He just nodded and walked to the well outside the main room to wash his face.

Looking at his own face in the basin, Yang Zhengshan couldn't help but want to cry again.

How can she be thirty-eight years old?

To say he is forty-eight is a bit of an understatement.

He has a dark complexion, rough skin, messy beard and white hair on his temples.

I used to be very handsome!

Yang Zhengshan pursed his lips and tied up his long hair, while he looked at the yard of his home.

This house was the original owner's previous home. It was rebuilt when the original owner got married. At first, there were only three tiled houses. Later, as the children grew up, the original owner added several more houses.

The main house has three rooms, a bedroom, a living room, and a kitchen. There are four rooms on each side of the east and west. The door is located in the southeast corner of the yard. There is also a cowshed in the southwest corner, where a big yellow cow is kept.

In fact, this family was not considered poor before. The original body had been on the battlefield and was considered a capable man in the surrounding villages. The original body's wife was from the Lu family, and his father-in-law was a scholar, so he was given some dowry when they got married.

However, as the number of children increased, the family's daily expenses became higher and higher, and their lives became increasingly poor.

However, the family did seem to be without money. Yang Zhengshan remembered that the original couple had some emergency money.

Thinking of the silver and money in the money box, Yang Zhengshan breathed a sigh of relief.

He really found it difficult to support such a large family.

With some money, he felt more confident.

As for leaving this home, he gave up just thinking about it.

Although this family is a little poor, at least it can give him a place to live.

If he left this home, he wouldn't know how to survive in this world alone.

According to the memory of my previous life, this world should not be a certain dynasty in ancient times, but a completely unfamiliar world.

In feudal dynasties and feudal society, life as a person was even more difficult.

So Yang Zhengshan thought it would be better to stay in this home. At least he had a big family to rely on.

Well, having a large family is not entirely a bad thing.

After washing up, Yang Zhengshan returned to the main room, sat in his original seat, and looked at the food on the table.

Two wooden tables were put together, the man was inside and the woman was outside. They had whole-grain porridge and corn tortillas for dinner. There were only two dishes, pickles and wild vegetable soup, without a drop of oil.

The meals were prepared by the eldest daughter-in-law, Wang, a plump woman. It was obvious that she often cheated on others when they cooked, otherwise she wouldn’t be so plump.

The family looked at Yang Zhengshan eagerly. Yang Zhengshan had a wooden face and imitated his original tone and said, "Eat!"

He is the head of the family. No one in the family can pick up their chopsticks until he opens his mouth.

In feudal society, there are many rules.

But think about it, being a grandfather is not bad. His sons do the work in the fields, his daughter-in-law takes care of the housework, and he, as the head of the family, has absolute say.

The food was really bad, but Yang Zhengshan was really hungry, so he had to eat it no matter how bad it tasted.

Moreover, they only eat two meals a day. If they skip breakfast, they can only wait for dinner.

Yang Zhengshan forced himself to drink a bowl of mixed grain porridge. After suppressing the hunger in his stomach, he could not eat anymore.

He could still eat multi-grain porridge, but he really couldn't swallow this corn tortilla.

The corn tortilla was very rough and it felt harsh in his throat when he swallowed it. Even with the wild vegetable soup, he still felt uncomfortable.

He took one bite of the tortilla and put it down.

"Grandpa, give me your grandson's porridge!" Seeing that Yang Zhengshan only drank one bowl of porridge and stopped, the eldest grandson Yang Chengye pushed his porridge in front of Yang Zhengshan.

Yang Zhengshan looked at the doll in front of him with a very complicated expression.

The eldest grandson is only three years old and already knows how to respect his grandfather. Woohoo, I feel, I feel...

Go away, you are not my grandson!
"Grandpa is not hungry, Chengye, eat!" Yang Zhengshan reached out and rubbed his eldest grandson's head, sighing softly.

Deep down he didn't want this grandson, but even if he didn't want him, he couldn't blame a child.

"After you finish eating, go downstairs. I'll take a rest!"

Yang Zhengshan felt upset. He left a few words and went back to his room.

"Dad, what's wrong?" The second son Yang Mingzhi asked in a low voice, looking at Yang Zhengshan's back.

Although Yang Zhengshan has deliberately maintained his original habits, as his children, they can still see that Yang Zhengshan is a little different today.

"Maybe he's missing his mom!"

The eldest brother Yang Mingcheng recalled how Yang Zhengshan looked in the house just now and said.

When their mother was mentioned, the whole family fell into longing for her.

(End of this chapter)