The forty-eighth (middle) old pawn, postman, earth dog, long hair, silent and speechless, the son inherits his father's business

In the Thunder Empire, there is no such thing as a coming-of-age ceremony.

The reason is not complicated, the Thunder Empire was ruled by the third, and the reign of the Thunder II was extremely short, not to mention more than 20 years, not to mention for a vast country, it is just a flick of a finger for a person's life.

In the era of the Spring War, the people of the countries died seriously, and after the founding of the country, in order to fill the vacancy of the domestic labor force, the people were encouraged to have more children early, and the situation of women "fourteen for the monarchy" was normal. Now, after 20 years of recuperation and recuperation, the earliest generation born after the founding of the country is only in their teens and twenties, and the gap in the population is still huge, and the situation of more women and fewer men in the country is prominent.

People like Shi Nianyuan who have the concept of "monogamy" due to the relationship in their previous lives are very rare, and as for the princes like Shi Qinlian, Murong Lu, and Liufeng Liang who only marry one room, they either have a certain weight in their words and dare to refuse the marriage of the Son of Heaven, or they have other hidden secrets, and most of the princes are groups of wives and concubines. Every time there is a great dynasty, one of the major concerns of the Son of Heaven is that the princes can add people.

In short, in the Thunder Empire, a very small number of voices advocating "monogamy" can't even make a splash under the general trend. However, most of the people in the folk clearly do not have an overview of "monogamy" and "polygamy", but they are mostly monogamous, and the reason is simple, they can afford to marry, and they must be able to afford to raise. The Huang Lao Sect of the Minglei Empire is prosperous, and it is extremely shameful to marry and ignore it, and to give birth without raising it.

When the young Young Master Shi learned about the social status quo of the Minglei Empire, he once wailed and lamented that in the previous life of the earth, in China, his mother's law enforced monogamy, but there were countless people who secretly hid the golden house and hid many people to move! And in this life, the rain and thunder, every great dynasty, the Son of Heaven will urge the princes to marry, and let the princes encourage the people of the fiefdom to marry more and have more children, all of them can be said to be addicted to marriage, but the actual situation is due to the lack of labor, ordinary people in order to reduce their own pressure, most of them are content with monogamy.

With Cen Ying's old and refined eyes, it is natural to see that this pair of teenagers and girls should not be married yet, but looking at the appearance of the two, this kind of deliberate misunderstanding will not only not disgust them, but may also win a lot of favor, why not?

Sure enough, Liu Fengxue blushed and lowered his head slightly, the red light on his face was obviously not reflected by the faint candlelight, full of joy, and Shi Nianyuan did not deliberately deny the explanation, and generously reported his name: "Cangyun County, Shi Nianyuan." After that, he gestured to the flowing wind and snow, and seeing that the flowing wind and snow did not mean to take the initiative to open the product, he continued with a smile: "The flowing wind and snow." ”

After Shi Nianyuan's introduction, he sat on the bench and bowed his hand, which was relatively informal, but he also bowed politely: "Hello Village Chief Cen." ”

Cen Ying's heart has been spinning, thinking about it, he really feels that there is nothing in Udon Village that these two people can covet, and sighed secretly, feeling that the years are not forgiving, and people always like to worry about it when they are old, and smiled and said: "Shi Nianyuan, Miss Liu, you said that you want to borrow a night, this is no problem at all." In our Udon Village, most of the young and strong people go out to work, and those who stay in the village are the elderly and children, so many families have rooms that are unused, including my house. Therefore, there is no need to bend the wood shed, if you don't dislike it, the virtuous couple can live in my cub's house. ”

When Cen Ying said this, the corners of his mouth hooked up with a sour wry smile, but there was helpless understanding in his eyes. Living in the deep mountains, facing the loess with his back to the sky, all year round, if the sky is not beautiful, the rice harvest is not good, the next year from beginning to end have to tighten the belt, every day has to mix half a two rice and half a catty of potatoes together, chat to fill the stomach. People who grow up in the mountains are disgusted when they see potatoes, and I really don't know how those people in the city can like it, and the potatoes shipped out can be sold so well.

Hearing Cen Ying's words, Shi Nianyuan

's eyes couldn't help but cast on Lao Zhang, who had been silent beside him, Lao Zhang looked like he was about forty, and his son Zhang Ga should not be the eldest son, but Lao Zhang was in the prime of life at this age, and he was not old.

Seeing Shi Nianyuan looking over, Lao Zhang smiled. Cen Ying explained in a timely manner: "Lao Zhang is the only strong mouth in the village, he is the postman in the village, he runs the mail road every day for a year, he goes out for five days, and he stays for one night when he comes back." In fact, like Lao Zhang can go home once in five days, in our Udon Village, it is already very good, other children, fathers and even both parents have been away for a long time, and the full moon does not come back, except for a trip back during the New Year, tidy up the house, hastily spend a new year, and hurriedly go back to the city, and when they come back, they say back and forth, and they are busy...... Busy...... Alas...... It's good to get busy......"

Liu Fengxue was a little curious: "If this is the case, why does Gazi still have a bad relationship with his father? Compared to other children, isn't he very happy? At least, he can see his father once in five days." ”

After Liu Fengxue finished speaking, Lao Zhang beside him shook his head with a bitter face.

Cen Ying sighed and said: "The parents of other children go out to work, and they can earn some money every year, and when they come back after the Chinese New Year, they will buy some toys, which can add some household goods to the family, mix well outside, and even buy a lot of piglets for the elderly to raise." But...... This postman......"

Cen Ying looked at Lao Zhang, Lao Zhang happened to look at him too, the two glanced at each other, and they both showed helpless looks: "I thought that this postman was just running the mail road to deliver letters, and he was lazy, and he felt that in a remote countryside like ours, only lazy people would take over this job......" Cen Ying said this, and glanced at Lao Zhang again, and the two generations of postmen in Udon Village were silent at the same time.

Cen Ying smiled bitterly, feeling that he was really old and confused, the two guests were so old, and they had such a net worth, how did they understand this when they talked about it? People don't have empathy with each other, people with similar circumstances are like this, and the greater the difference between people, the more so......

Cen Ying originally had something to say to Lao Zhang, but after being interrupted by the arrival of Shi Nianyuan and the children of Udon Village, he had been put on hold, and it was very clear that early tomorrow morning, Lao Zhang still had to leave in time for Chang Gung Qiming, and it was not okay to not sleep enough today, so Cen Ying got up and said to Shi Nianyuan and Liufengxue: "Two guests, please come with me." ”

Shi Nianyuan and Liufeng Xue got up and followed behind Cen Ying, walked through the narrow hall in three or two steps, squeaked and pushed open a door, the wind brought by the door blew up the dust in the house, Cen Ying couldn't help coughing twice, and said apologetically: "My cub hasn't come back for a long time, I'm a bad old man, and I also suffer from leg disease, so I haven't cleaned it up, please don't dislike it." ”

Shi Nianyuan said gratefully: "It's already excellent, it's us who bothered us." "There is no such thing as silver taels in the Sumeru ring, and there is no such thing as a check for the builder's money, and Shi Nianyuan doesn't think that Mao San has spread to such a remote village as Shaxi County. After thinking about it, Shi Nianyuan no longer insisted on it, and said sincerely: "Thank you, Village Chief Cen." ”

Cen Ying sat back on the bench, took the pipe from the wall behind him, and then opened it layer by layer from the cloth bag on the ground, rolled a little in the remaining dry leaves and put it in the bucket, Lao Zhang took the oil lamp in a timely manner, let Cen Ying light the tobacco leaves, the smoke rose up, and spit out the smoke comfortably, Cen Ying looked at Lao Zhang, and took the initiative to say: "Actually, I know if you don't say it, what do you want to say when you come to me." ”

Cen took a puff of old tobacco leaves, and the burning tobacco leaves turned red in the tobacco pouch, and quickly burned the next section: "Before you, I was the postman, and I saved the hardship of this job, but others don't save it, and I think this job is easy and easy to do." When I was working, I couldn't say, but when you did, I mentioned it many times to the mayor of the town, saying that you were a veteran of the battlefield, and that you were not afraid of hardship, but the postman's salary was too little to support his family. However, this job is excepted

I'm you, and no one else has done it, so others don't know and don't believe it. Those people, on the one hand, refused me with this job, and at the same time couldn't find anyone to take over the job, so we had to figure it out on our own—such an easy job? Wouldn't it be better to find someone to do it?"

After Cen Ying imitated the tone of the mayor, Lao Zhang did not answer, and the two generations of postmen were silent at the same time, I don't know whether they thought of those similar pasts, or thought of something else, in the quiet hall, the sound of tobacco burning leaves was particularly harsh, it seemed to burn the bumps hidden in the wrinkles of the old village chief, and woke up the difficulties buried under Lao Zhang's rough skin.

After a long time, Lao Zhang's lips moved a few times before a voice came out: "But, since the mayor said that it is okay to find someone to do it, why can't it be Gazi?"

"Well, I know, you don't want your cub to suffer too...... What are you talking about?" Cen Ying said halfway through his serious words, before he suddenly reacted to Lao Zhang's semantics, the pipe flickered, and the columnar soot that was originally kept on the pipe after it burned out flickered and scattered, and fell in all directions: "The division of labor of the postman, you just happened to have worked for another five years this year, and it was time to apply for a replacement, you came here at this time, didn't you say that you want me to find someone to replace you?"

Lao Zhang was stunned, and shook his head stupidly: "I want to say, this job, can you try to hand it over to my family......" Lao Zhang's headcase has been slightly lowered to lift, revealing a high hairline, in this candlelight environment, the white hair on the top of the braincase mixed with the black hair is particularly obvious, Lao Zhang scratched his head and smiled, the smile is the precipitation of walking on the mail road for ten years, it just so happens that Cen Ying understands the deep meaning of such a smile.

Looking deeply at the junior who took the baton from his hand, Cen Ying smiled sincerely, and shook his head with a grin on the corner of his mouth.

The old man even shook the ashes of his cigarette as if he was cautious and precious: "Not to mention that in our Udon, there are ten villages and eight villages within a radius of 100 miles, and you are the one who can understand my Lao Cen." However, you are really ruthless, knowing that this work is hard, and you still want to hand it over to Gazi. Do you want him to understand you?"

Lao Zhang shook his head and smiled honestly: "I think this postal road is worth walking." ”

Cen Ying raised his head lightly, revealing a mixture of amazement and relief: "Yes...... It's worth a walk......"

Wang-Wang-

There was a dog barking from far and near outside the door, and when I heard it, I knew that the dog was running fast, but after a few breaths, I could already hear the dog running.

Lao Zhang's eyes lit up, and Cen Ying showed a look of understanding and understanding: "Long Mao is coming to you." I forgot that it was our dog who understood us. After a pause, Cen Ying extinguished his pipe and continued: "I think you shouldn't have told me about this matter first, but should have told Gazi first." ”

Lao Zhang said embarrassedly: "Lao Cen, you know. My cub never wants to talk to me more than that. ”

Cen Ying shook out the remaining cigarette ash in the middle of the cigarette, put the cigarette pouch back on the wall, and said with a smile: "Have you forgotten how you decided to take over my mail back then?"

Lao Zhang was stunned for a moment and nodded thoughtfully.

The earth dog, called "Longhair", stretched out its paws outside the threshold, and obediently did not jump into the hall.

"Go back, your family is here to call you home. Cen Ying smiled and stretched out his finger to point at the long hair of the earth dog.

Lao Zhang likes Cen Ying to call Chang Mao like this, so he nodded with a smile and said, "If Gazi doesn't want to be tomorrow, Lao Cen, you can help me talk about it." ”

Cen Ying suddenly looked at the bedroom next to him and said with a smile: "Perhaps, there is a more suitable person." ”

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