Jing Xingzhi’s Daily Life in Ancient Times

When Jing Xingzhi heard Jing Duo calling someone, his shoulders tensed momentarily. Soon after, Liu Fang’s voice came from behind.

“I’ll give the bowl back; you wait for me.”

Although an ordinary person might not discern it, Jing Xingzhi, familiar with Liu Fang, detected a hint of guilt in his tone.

Turning around, Jing Xingzhi observed Liu Fang taking the bowl from Jing Duo. After a brief exchange, Liu Fang hurriedly retreated to the kitchen, as if avoiding Jing Xingzhi’s gaze.

Jing Xingzhi smiled, handed a penny to Jing Duo, and said, “I keep my word; this is your reward. Thank you for your hard work.” He affectionately rubbed Jing Duo’s head.

With a satisfied smile, Jing Duo accepted the coin. Their family was relatively affluent in Jingjia Village, evident from owning cattle, a symbol of prosperity in the community. Cattle were not only crucial for farming but also provided an easier livelihood through tasks like driving and carrying passengers.

In the village, individuals like Jing Chai, with literacy and skills, could secure formal jobs in town. Meanwhile, those less fortunate resorted to occasional labor. Fortunately, fertile fields ensured ample food, but spare money remained scarce.

Jing Duo, being young and not attending school, had limited funds. Grinning generously, he pledged, “Thank you, Brother Xiucai. When the salesman comes later, if you’re home, I’ll reminds you to buy a hairband for Fang Ge’er!”

In his recollections, there were men, women, and shuangers in this world. Due to a scarcity of women, most men married shuangers and built their lives together. However, coming from modern times, Jing Xingzhi knew that Liu Fang was used to be a man. Giving Liu Fang a vibrant hairband might lead to unforeseen consequences.

Feeling a slight headache, Jing Xingzhi changed the topic, asking, “What else does the vendor sell besides hairbands?”

Jing Duo excitedly responded, “There are candy bars! Four pieces a cent, so delicious!” He seemed a bit greedy as he thought about the sweets.

Jing Xingzhi handed another copper plate to Jing Duo, saying, “Here’s another cent for you. Go buy some sweets. Consider it a reward for coming to call me when the salesman arrives.”

Jing Duo, now with an extra penny, puffed up and declared, “Brother Xiucai, I’ll buy candy bars to share with you and Fang Ge’er. I just want one piece for my brother.”

As they chatted, Liu Fang emerged from the kitchen, handing a large bowl to Jing Duo. Jing Xingzhi and Jing Duo exchanged glances, pretending nothing happened.

Liu Fang, looking nervous, handed the bowl to Jing Duo, who felt something inside. As he reached to open it, he hesitated, saying, “Fang Ge’er, Amu said to not take the things you gave me.”

Liu Fang stopped the child’s hand and explained, “It’s a wild product picked up from the mountains. It’s not worth much. Just eat it.”

Jing Duo, now with two cents in his possession, lost interest in the bowl’s contents. In a hurry to go home and hide his money, he left, saying, “By the way, how many days will you stay at home, Brother Xiucai? I’ll bring my brother to play with you later.”

Jing Xingzhi replied, “I’ll stay for two days. Take care, don’t fall.”

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As Jing Duo left, Liu Fang remained in the yard, staring at Jing Xingzhi’s back on the threshold, deep in thought. He pondered the little scholar’s inquiries—particularly the questions about embroidery. The scholar must have realized he lied about the twelve zodiac sign patterns.

‘Why don’t you take the initiative to reconcile, lest you be regarded as a god and ghost by the ancients and burned as sacrifice?’

With this thought, Liu Fang lowered his eyebrows and said in a harmless voice, “I painted those pictures myself. I thought it would be easier to sell it by saying you painted it.”

“That’s right,” Jing Xingzhi praised without asking anything, “Fang Ge’er, you are so awesome.”

Liu Fang became even more vigilant due to his appearance and was on alert. Fang Ge’er had accidentally said something wrong before, and the little scholar thought he was lying to him, then got angry for several days.

Now, according to his explanation, he had lied to deceive outsiders, and the little scholar still didn’t care?!

‘If there is a ghost, there must be a ghost!’

Liu Fang looked at the little scholar, forced out an unnatural smile, and tried again, “It’s just an embroidery look. It’s the same as tiger-head shoes. It’s just me trying something new.”

He explained and asked again, “I just remembered that there was rabbit meat in the evening. I gave some to Uncle Erniu’s house. Do you think it would be okay to stew the rest?” Liu Fang got the rabbit meat, but Fang Ge’er didn’t know how to go up the mountain, so the rabbit meat’s source was also strange.

Liu Fang thought to himself that the little scholar must be looking for trouble this time with this new information!

Liu Fang had already thought of his excuse, saying that he was lucky enough to pick up the rabbit. There was an allusion to the rabbit hitting a tree, so he had to believe it even if he didn’t. As for the dolls, the quality of the paintings wasn’t always the same, and they didn’t care about the details.

However, Jing Xingzhi and Liu Fang had completely different ideas. Jing Xingzhi was addicted to the taste of fried rabbit meat and couldn’t extricate himself. Finally, he thought about the broth he just drank, recalling that he and Liu Fang’s new bodies had not eaten meat for a long time, and then nodded.

“We haven’t eaten meat for a long time. It’s better if to make lighter dish.”

After hearing what the little scholar said, Liu Fang was a little stunned when he looked at the little scholar who seemed to have a look of regret.

???

Brother! Just ask where the rabbit came from!

Liu Fang thought for a while and could only explain it reasonably by saying that Fang Ge’er had gotten used to doting on this little scholar.

‘If you have meat to eat, why do you need to know where it comes from?’

No wonder he didn’t know how hard Fang Ge’er’s life was, and he really didn’t care at all.

Liu Fang wanted the little scholar to eat wild vegetables, but he said there was rabbit meat, so he couldn’t mess with it anymore. He had to go to the kitchen to make food in a sulky mood.

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Jing Xingzhi looked at Liu Fang’s back and began to wonder why he didn’t say anything and went to work.

Jing Xingzhi closed the courtyard door and then realized that Liu Fang didn’t say anything because he didn’t know his identity yet. It seemed that he didn’t want to tease Liu Fang anymore, and he had better find a way to confess quickly.

After making a decision, Jing Xingzhi walked around the house with his half-full stomach after drinking soup. He planned to get acquainted with the house while Liu Fang was cooking. After visiting around the house, he would go to the kitchen to help out.

Jing Xingzhi didn’t know how to cook, but he could help out even if he didn’t know how to cook. ‘You couldn’t just sit and wait for food; what’s that like?’

The house’s yard encompasses a large area of land, with a front yard and a backyard, but the house wasn’t large, with a total of five rooms. There was a kitchen, a main room for dining and entertaining guests, one was a study room, and one was a utility room. The largest room contained two beds, one large and one small, which were usually used for two people to sleep.

Jing Xingzhi glanced at the study and bedroom, and then went to the backyard. Vegetables were planted in the backyard, and each plant was sparsely grown.

After picking up several small onions, Jing Xingzhi turned around and walked back with the trophies. However, when he turned around, he saw a pile of black things in the corner.

Walking over with the green onions, Jing Xingzhi found the pile of black that looked like burnt paper money. After recognizing what it was, Jing Xingzhi smiled knowingly, thinking that Liu Fang must have burned it for him, and they thought the same thing.

Jing Xingzhi was in a good mood and went to the kitchen in front of him, humming a tune. He walked into the kitchen with the green onions and asked Liu Fang, who was lighting the fire, “What do you want me to do?”

Liu Fang said without raising his head, “You don’t study?”

Jing Xingzhi thought about it and found that the little scholar in his mind seemed to be still there. He really read a book as soon as he got home, read a book after eating, and went to bed after reading a book. It seemed that he ate, slept, and read all his life.

He believed that if people didn’t need to eat and sleep, the original body could really stay up all night studying without eating or drinking.

But Jing Xingzhi didn’t want to read at the moment, so he said, “I pulled out a few green onions, let’s put them in the soup.”

Jing Xingzhi also liked the green onions sprinkled on the soup, which made foods appetizing.

“What onions? The onions in the backyard haven’t grown yet.” Liu Fang looked up at the little scholar’s hand and saw the thin green onions that hadn’t grown yet. He said with a headache, “Put it down and go read a book. Don’t cause trouble for me.”

Jing Xingzhi touched his nose and knew how much Liu Fang didn’t want to see the original body.

He put down the green onions but did not leave, and asked, “I saw a pile of ashes in the corner of the backyard, which looked like burnt paper money. Did you burn it?”

Liu Fang looked at him again and replied, “A good friend of mine passed away. That’s it.” After saying this, Liu Fang lowered his head in depression, not wanting to talk to the little scholar.

Jing Xingzhi didn’t want to let go and asked stubbornly, “Which friend of yours is it?”

Liu Fang held the fire stick and was asked about his sadness. His eyes were fixed on the raging fire in the stove, and his emotions were on the verge of collapse.

Jing Xingzhi walked towards him and knelt down next to him.

The two young faces were illuminated by red flames, as if they were smeared with orange-red rouge, and even their hair was red.

Jing Xingzhi turned his head, looked at Liu Fang who frowned and pursed his lips, coughed, and uttered the famous time travel sentence seriously: “The king of heaven and the tiger earth. The boss is in the forest is coming.”

Liu Fang froze at first, then slowly turned his head and stared. One pair of eyes looked at Jing Xingzhi in disbelief.

Jing Xingzhi smiled and urged him: “Speak, it’s okay if the code doesn’t match up.”

Liu Fang’s mind was blown, and he couldn’t remember what the next sentence of the secret code from famous novel ‘forest sea and snow field’ was!

His mind was filled with shock and joy because Liu Fang guessed another possibility of the same name—it was possible that this Jing Xingzhi was his Jing Xingzhi, not the little scholar!

Liu Fang couldn’t think of the next sentence. He was so anxious that his eyes were almost red, and he finally choked out a sentence with difficulty.

“The boss should also listen to the mountain god.”

After saying what he thought was a lame sentence, Liu Fang threw away the fire stick, grabbed Jing Xingzhi’s arm, and stared into his eyes.

Liu Fang took a breath, moved his lips, and said extremely nervously: “Dorm 319…”

Jing Xingzhi smiled brilliantly, but a little embarrassed. However, for the sake of Liu Fang’s heart, he still gave the standard answer: “I am the most handsome in University A!”

Jing Xingzhi was laughed at and called the school grass. One day when he returned to the dormitory, there was a bastard wanted to get a code between them, so Jing Xingzhi thought one, he was ashamed, but it was ‘I am the most handsome’. But the roommates still found it fun, and it became a little secret between them.

After hearing the expected answer, Liu Fang rushed towards Jing Xingzhi without saying a word and hugged him tightly.

Jing Xingzhi felt that the person in his arms was shaking, and after a while, he heard soft sobbing sounds, which made Jing Xingzhi feel very distressed.

While patting Liu Fang’s back, he comforted: “We are all fine, really, everything is fine.”

“Ugh…” Liu Fang raised his head and found that tears were falling to the ground. He couldn’t help it, and he didn’t want to. When Jing Xingzhi saw how miserable he was crying, he simply buried his head again and continued crying.

Liu Fang had been crying every night these past few nights, always dreaming about the past, and regretting from time to time that he did not seize the opportunity and directly turned black to do this or that to Jing Xingzhi.

But now, he knew Jing Xingzhi was still alive, Liu Fang felt extremely lucky and didn’t expect anything else. It was great that he was still alive.

Liu Fang cried for a long time, until his thoughts became a little distracted, but he held Jing Xingzhi in his arms and didn’t want to let go, so he just held him while sobbing and thinking randomly.

Liu Fang found that his current situation was very similar to the altered versions of some books he had read—after changing into something, the couple did something to have fun.

His current body was no different from a woman.

But Jing Xingzhi was too young now. He was only fifteen years old.

Three years under the modern consent age, the maximum penalty was death, stop, stop.

Liu Fang blushed and let go of the hand holding Jing Xingzhi.

Jing Xingzhi looked at his bright red face and thought that Liu Fang must have cried and felt embarrassed as a grown man, cried like this.

Jing Xingzhi took out the handkerchief from his arms, handed it to Liu Fang, and said, “I’m the one who should cry. With such a big car, you rushed towards me desperately, I was so moved. Xiao Fangfang, tell me where did you get the tiger’s heart? Which goblin you borrow it from?”

Liu Fang blushed even more.