Hu Subai is over 70 years old this year.

Seventy years of spring and autumn, this old man has almost witnessed the rise and fall of Dayan.

Of course, everything she saw was only a corner of this great world after all, but this was enough to make her feel some changes - when Dayan was newly established, Manzhou fell, Ningzhou stood on the territory of Dayan as a gateway, and the conflict with Guirong and Qichu continued, and the border fortress of Ningzhou was often in constant flames, and Hu Subai's husband was the soldier who was stationed in the border defense of Guirong. In the third year of her marriage, one night there was a knock on the door of her house, and the waist card, the crown of clothes, and the heavy silver of the generation were stuffed into her bosom.

Her husband died.

In this not very peaceful world, as a soldier's wife, Hu Subai has heard a lot of such stories, and has also given some long and short sighs for this. And when all this really happened to her, when the other party really handed those things into her hands, she realized that under the fall of the sky, the comfort and persuasion of others were just no important pity, and only by relying on herself could she get out of such a predicament.

Hu Subai cried all night holding the clothes left by her husband, and on the second day, she handled the afterlife for him with red and swollen eyes.

Since getting married, the war situation on the border has become more and more tense, her husband rarely returned home, and Hu Subai did not have time to give birth to an heir for him, but the other party left her a pair of elderly parents.

Hu Subai's parents committed some things, so that she and her mother could not escape the fate of their father after being beheaded, and were relegated to slavery.

Hu Subai's husband and in-laws do not dislike Hu Subai's background, Hu Subai has not read much, but he also knows the truth of this kindness, after the death of her husband, Hu Subai did not think about remarrying, relying on frugality, and doing some odd jobs in other people's houses, he simply supported this family that was broken up because of the death of his only son in the war, and continued to move forward.

Now the two old men have already gone west, and Hu Subai has also become an old woman from a woman.

Now her body and spirit are not as good as before, and many times making a bowl of clear noodles alone is enough for her to consume most of her energy, not to mention where to make some money-making guys.

Of course, Hu Subai's life is not good, but fortunately, it is not too bad.

About 18 years ago, on a rainy night, Hu Subai, who had just returned home from a day's work, picked up a baby that was still swaddling on the side of the road in the torrential rain. At that time, the child had been drenched in the rain for a long time, and it seemed that he would not survive. Hu Subai didn't think much about it, so he took him back to his home to take care of him, and there was some trouble in the middle, but in the end, the child miraculously survived.

However, this result also made Hu Subai mixed with joy, after all, Hu Subai was over half a hundred years old at that time, and she was not sure whether she was capable of taking care of the baby in front of her. But after asking the neighbors and no one was willing to adopt the child, Hu Subai still made up his mind to raise the child.

For this reason, she also gave him a name that she thought was very good - Hu Le.

After all, in this life, in her opinion, happiness is the most important thing.

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Although the days that followed were a little harder, the grandparents and grandchildren depended on each other for their lives, and there was bitterness and sweetness. Hu Le is also very smart, and even showed a good talent for cultivation at the age of eight, Hu Subai thought about it for three days, and finally gritted his teeth and dug open the ground under the bed, and took out the silver taels that her husband's life had exchanged for his life from inside, and sent Hu Le to the White Horse Academy.

Of course, that little money can't support Hu Le's education from the age of eight to the present ten years, but fortunately, Hu Le's child is very sensible, and since the age of eleven, he has been doing some work from time to time, or finding some ways outside, and can always bring back money when the family needs it most. Hu Subai also suspected that Hu Le had gone astray and did something sorry for his conscience, but under the other party's repeated assurances, he gradually relaxed his heart.

But just yesterday, Hu Le, who would return home at the latest on weekdays, did not return home for the whole night yesterday. Hu Subai stayed awake all night, and stood at the door of the room all night waiting for Hu Le's return, but she didn't wait after all. She had no choice, she just remembered that Hu Le had said that he was going to the White Crane Inn yesterday to meet a big man, and if everything went well, he would become a disciple of the Purple Cloud Palace.

Although the old woman was older, she had also heard of the name of the Purple Cloud Palace, so naturally she had no reason to stop her grandson. It's just that he didn't wait for his return for a day, and the worry in his heart could no longer be contained, so he went to the White Crane Inn alone with a trembling cane early in the morning.

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Legend has it that going back thirty years, this Ningxiao City is not what it looks like in front of you.

The re-planning and construction of Ningxiao City took place thirty years ago, when Jiang Huanshui had been a state pastor in Ningzhou for ten years, and the establishment of the Sanxiao Army and the gradual stabilization of the border made this state pastor finally free up his hands to take care of Ningzhou's internal affairs at that time, and the expansion of Ningxiao City was his first step in governing Ningzhou's internal affairs. It is difficult to describe the many reasons and considerations for this, but it was from that time that Ning Xiaocheng gradually changed into what it is today.

The west city is full of vendor markets, the east city is the place where the state governor's mansion and the military troops stationed here and government officials from all sides are located, and the north and south cities are the residences of the people, but I don't know if it is the result of deliberate manipulation by people with intentions or the result of gathering like things, it has evolved to this day, most of the northern city districts are ordinary people like Hu Subai, while the south is more crowded with rich people and those ordinary people who can't feel their scalps tingle at a glance.

One of the most famous should be the long street called Ning'an.

As Ah Cheng walked into Ning'an Street, an intoxicating smell of wine seeped out of the street and wafted throughout the block.

Among the terraces on both sides of the street, you can see men in brocade clothes raising glasses and drinking, and there are also young women in silk and light yarns smiling coquettishly. It seems that there are two worlds outside the street, and the outside is the bustling red world, and here is a fairyland with only wind and moon. Of course, in such a fairyland, you have to prepare a sufficient amount of money to really fit in, otherwise it will be like ......

"Get out, is this the place you can stay!?" suddenly resounded in the midst of a red-brick and green-tiled building not far away.

A figure was pushed out of the door of the shop, it was a woman who seemed to be quite old, and in such a push, the figure fell to the ground with a stagger, and the crutch she held in her hand immediately rolled, and it just fell to Wei Lai's feet before it stopped.

Wei Lai frowned, but before he could say anything, the girl next to him said lightly: "Ning'an Street gathers most of the rich people in the entire Ningxiao City, if you win the favor of any big man here, it doesn't matter if you reward some money, whether it is a livelihood with you, it is all chance, beggars and thieves like this place the most, and there are many guys who come here to try their luck." ”

"It's also because of this that if you want to be a little guy in these stores, you naturally have a lot of money a month, but you also have to recognize these habitual offenders, so as not to disturb the customers. ”

When Wei Lai heard this, he glanced sideways at Ah Cheng. He probably understood the meaning of the girl's words, but it didn't go as she wished, and after looking down at the crutch under his feet and being silent for a few breaths, Wei Lai still leaned down, reached out and picked up the crutch from the ground, and then walked to the old woman who fell to the ground under Ah Cheng's slightly frowning gaze, and helped her up.

"Thank you, Childe......" The woman was very old, and after taking the cane from Wei Lai's hand, the cane stood in place for a few breaths before she eased up and thanked Wei Lai. And the little maids who had just pushed the woman at the door of the store saw Wei coming, although they didn't know each other, but in order to avoid the possibility of bumping into a certain son of the family, those little maids put away their thoughts and continued to insult the woman and retreated to the door of the store.

"Mother-in-law is fine, this is not the place where mother-in-law should stay, don't stay for a long time, leave quickly." Wei Lai smiled, reached out and stuffed the two copper plates into the woman's hand, and then turned to leave.

Ah Cheng, who was frowning on the side, saw that Wei Lai had no intention of entanglement with the woman, and her brows suddenly relaxed, she thought that judging from Wei Lai's temperament of doing those things in Wupan City, Wei Lai would not be kind enough to seek justice for this woman for a while.

Ah Cheng is not cold-blooded, but he knows the way of Dayan today, some are displaced people, and some are people who have nowhere to complain, Wei Lai can manage it for a while, but he can't manage it, not to mention that he doesn't understand the situation of the things in front of him, and it is too reckless and self-righteous to predict which is right and wrong just by looking at a glance. And although Wei Lai gave the old man some money, he didn't have the intention of intervening in the fight between the two sides, and from this point alone, Wei Lai was much more mature than what he had seen in Wupan City before.

Thinking like this, Ah Cheng felt a little relieved, but the old woman stretched out her hand and grabbed Wei Lai's sleeve at that time, and then knelt in front of Wei Lai with a plop: "Childe, I don't want money, I ask Childe to help me make the decision!"

Ah Cheng's brows immediately furrowed, and Wei Lai also did not expect the old woman's actions, but Rao was like this, Wei Lai still reached out again to help the woman up, and said with a kind attitude: "The old woman has any trouble, just say it, if there is really a grievance in it, the kid is willing to accompany the old woman to the official mansion." ”

The old woman was obviously a little panicked, she heard Wei Lai's words, and took a few big breaths before she recovered from the previous panic, and then she looked up at Wei Lai, and said in a trembling voice: "The old man has a grandson, and yesterday he said that he would come to this White Crane Inn to find a nobleman, and then he ......."

"Noisy and shouting, are all you people in the north so ignorant of etiquette?"

But at this moment, an impatient voice came from the door of the store, Wei Lai turned his head to look, and a familiar figure walked out of the door with a sinister face at that time.