In the first year of Chongzhen, Lu Heng became a minor official in a county in Shaanxi.
He knew that in more than ten years, the capital would be destroyed, the emperor would die, and many names would be left in the history books with regrets.
But right now, he can't even open the county government's granary.
The hungry people outside the city were waiting for food relief, and the grain merchants in the city were waiting for price increases. The county magistrate urged him to hand over an account book with "no loss of money and food."
And his name was already on that false account.
Lu Heng originally just wanted to survive this winter.
Until a child who came to receive food asked him: "Can you still come tomorrow?"
He decided to let the child live until tomorrow.
Check warehouses, collect grain, resettle refugees, and then let crops grow in the wasteland so that the defenders of the city can receive military pay. Step by step, he walked into a world where he already knew the outcome, and gradually discovered that every time he saved a person who should have died, the future history became more unknown.
Many years later, someone asked him what the reason for the initial incident was.
Lu Heng thought of the child waiting for food.
"For the tomorrow I promised."
