Yuanxin led the horse through Moping County, looked at the bustling streets here, and experienced the customs and customs that were far away from the capital, and were full of joy. There were groups of people around him, but Yuanxin was not lonely, as if the excitement here also belonged to him. Walking around the road a little thirsty, he walked into an inn, and Xiao Er greeted him warmly, "This master, please come inside." ”

Yuanxin threw the reins of the horse to Xiao Er, "Take my horse and feed it with good materials." ”

"Okay, let's go for the little ones."

Yuanxin walked to the shopkeeper's table: "Is there a vacant room?" ”

"Yes, good room, spacious, bright and cheap, only two hundred dollars a day1. How many days do you want to stay? ”

"Let's stay for three days." Yuanxin took out a tael of silver, "Bring me some good wine and food." ”

The shopkeeper beckoned, "Okay, Xiao Er, quickly find a clean table for this master to sit on." ”

Xiao Er came over quickly: "Master here, please." ”

Yuanxin was eating food, and a handsome man in white came in at the door, with a clean and beautiful face. I saw that when the man in white passed by a table, he suddenly stopped and bent down to pick up a piece of jade, and said to the person eating at the table, "This son, why is it so careless, your jade has fallen." If you're not mistaken, it should be an ancient jade. ”

The man in ink who was eating, the brocade clothes were bright and rich. He put down his chopsticks and denied, "This jade is not mine." Someone must have just fallen, I wasn't there when I sat here. ”

The man in white was overjoyed, hurriedly sat down, and whispered mysteriously, "Otherwise, let's divide this jade." This is a rare ancient jade. Look at the color, look at the texture, it's really a rare high-quality product. ”

"This," the man in ink pondered, a little hesitant, "that's not good. ”

"What's wrong, this inn is full of people, whoever loses it and who picks it up can tell clearly. Besides, this jade is so rare, let us pick it up, it must be God's intention to give us a chance to make a fortune, if you hesitate to miss it, but you are disappointed by God. The man in white skillfully persuaded.

"That's right." The man in ink agreed a little, and how many people could withstand the temptation of the money sent to the door, "It's just that my family is in the silk business, and I don't know how much jade is worth." ”

The man in white pointed, "If you want to talk about this jade, I know a little bit." This color is crystal clear, the whole body is flawless, and the tentacles are warm, that is, it is a high-grade ancient jade, which is priceless. ”

"Since it is an ancient jade, how should we divide it, if it is damaged, I am afraid that it will not be appropriate. It's better for us to go to the pawnshop and pawn it, and we can get the money back. The man in ink said.

"What Childe said is reasonable." The man in white was secretly happy, "It's just, little brother, I'm just passing by here to rest for a while, and I'll have to hurry later." This goes to the pawnshop, one back and forth, I am afraid it will take a lot of effort, I am afraid that the trip will be delayed. ”

Then, "If this jade is really as he said, this jade is worth a fortune, and if he takes it away, will I not lose a lot?" But if I don't let him take him, he won't be able to compromise. The man in ink pondered.

When the man in white saw him hesitating, he knew that he had already taken the bait, and said, "It's better to be like this, little brother, I'm in a hurry, and I'm afraid of losing it if I'm not careful with Yuyi, and it's also a burden." Second, this jade is no more convenient than the gold and silver plates. It is also fate that my eldest brother and I met today, and the eldest brother gave me some gold and silver to see off my younger brother. This jade should be regarded as a meeting gift from the younger brother to the eldest brother. What does the big brother think? ”

The man in ink was a little surprised by his generosity, and praised excitedly, "The virtuous brother really understands righteousness, and at first glance he is a generous and cultivated person. It's just that the eldest brother doesn't have much money today, only these more than 100 taels of silver tickets. ”

"Big brother, where is this, even if you are brothers, you still need to distinguish between you and me? The eldest brother has such a friendship, but the younger brother and I are disrespectful. Today, I hit it off with my eldest brother, and if I wasn't in a hurry, I would definitely come to visit. The man in white took the silver ticket and did not forget to win over the relationship between the two.

"Good brother, come, big brother toasts you."

The two of them picked up their glasses and drank them all. The man in white was calm and calm, but the man in ink was so excited that he spilled some wine.

After finishing the wine, he put down the wine glass, and the man in white said goodbye. The man in ink held the jade, mixed with the wine spilled on his hand, and a green color spread.

"Stop!" The man in ink knew that he had been deceived and shouted.

The man in white had just escaped two steps when he was stopped by the man at the door. At this time, many people in the store who were eating silently just now stood up, "Good boy, don't look at whose territory this is, dare to make waves in the uncle." ”

The man in white was quickly surrounded, isolated, seeing that the people around him were fierce and vicious, and he looked like a faction that was not easy to provoke, he hurriedly smiled and said: "Brothers, little brother, I don't know Taishan, I don't want to provoke you." The man in white hurriedly took out the loose silver ticket he had just accepted and stuffed it into the hand of the strong man who spoke just now: "Big brother, drink tea and dissipate your anger." Little brother, I don't dare anymore, big brother Haihan. ”

The strong man snorted coldly, but did not appreciate it. The man in white took out the money bag from his body again, and said skillfully and sleekly, "Big brother is angry, the younger brother brought so much money today, another day, another day, I will definitely invite the big brothers to drink and make amends." ”

The strong man took the money, checked it, the weight was not light, and he reluctantly hummed, the man in white saw that the strong man had eased up a little, and was ready to slip away: "Then the big brothers eat and drink first." ”

Unexpectedly, the strong man opened the money bag, but saw that there were some stones inside, and said angrily, "Catch this kid for me!" ”

The man in white was held by several people, unable to move, and begged, "Big brother, the eldest brother spares his life, and the younger brother is also forced to do so." The younger brother's family has an elderly mother sick in bed, and there are younger siblings who need to eat and drink, so I really have to ask the eldest brother to be merciful and spare the younger brother. ”

"First I threw fake jade to deceive people, and then I used stones to fool the uncle, and now I have made this bitter feeling. Boy, how many tricks do you have? ”

"The eldest brother is aware of it, and the younger brother is indeed telling the truth now. The younger brother's family lives in Lane 12 of Ximen Street, and the eldest brother doesn't believe it. At home, the old mother is still moaning on the bed and waiting to grab the medicine. ”

"Shall I go with you? If you don't get out of this street, you will still believe in you again? The strong man said as he smashed the money bag containing the stone into the face of the man in white. If this bag of stones were to fall on the beautiful and fair face, it would leave a scar.

Yuanxin had been sitting on the side and watching this farce while eating, and gradually became interested in this strange elf man in white. When the bag full of stones was shot, he got up decisively, flew quickly to the man in white, and caught the bag of stones: "Occupy the land for the king, and bully less with more, what kind of ability." ”

"Who are you, it's none of your business, you still stay cool, be careful that you can't eat and walk around!" The strong man threatened.

"Oh?" Yuanxin raised his eyebrows, "Then I'll go back and eat slowly." ”

With the strong man's voice "Up!" The people around all called Yuanxin. Yuanxin stretched out his hand to wrap his hand around the shoulder of the man in white, and flew up and went out with a light touch on his toes, landing a few feet away, and the two of them rushed away.

The two ran to the river, and the man in white gasped and said, "There should be no one." ”

Yuanxin also agreed: "Yes, no matter, let's rest first, I'm tired to death." ”

"You're so good at kung fu, what are you running, why don't you fight with them, teach them a good lesson." The man in white spoke, gesturing, as if the men were waiting in front of him to be beaten.

"Yo, I saved you, you don't thank you and stir up trouble. You are afraid that the world will not be chaotic. Besides, my kung fu is really not very good, so I can make do with light work. ”

"It's not bad, you take turns kicking them in the head, it's so enjoyable, hahaha it's so fun." The man in white made up a big battle in his brain and was excited.

Yuanxin shook his head and said, "Come on, the eldest lady should be kind." ”

"You, how do you know I'm a woman?" She looked down at herself, but she didn't see any flaws.

Yuanxin smiled and said nothing, sat down on the grass, looking at the sparkling lake and the willow fluttering in the wind by the river, it was also a beautiful scenery, he had always been at ease with what he encountered, and he could enjoy it wherever he went.

The girl also sat down beside him, which surprised Yuanxin a little, he had never seen a girl so straightforward, down-to-earth and generous, and he was not shy in the face of strange men, and he didn't mind being held in his arms, and sat with a strange man by the river, if they were to change to other girls, it was estimated that any of them would be enough to make them ashamed to see people.

"You're not going home?" Yuanxin asked her.

This girl also looks like she is enjoying the scenery, "It's still early, such a good sunshine, wouldn't it be disappointing to leave." ”

Yuanxin asked casually, "Your parents are really relieved of you and let you cheat alone." ”

"My parents are in my hometown, not here."

"Oh, I say, whose daughter with parents can be taught like this?"

The girl was not happy, "How to teach, you have to go out of the door and not step out, smile without showing your teeth, three from the four virtues to call a woman, I am not your person, and I don't like to be so pretentious, I am me." ”

This woman is really special, Yuan Xin didn't answer, pulled a piece of grass from the grass, chewed it in his mouth and lay down, it was rare to have this leisure, suddenly thought of his own situation, and complained, "This is a big loss,"

"How?"

"I paid for three days of the inn, it seems that I can't go back, I really have a problem with my head."

"yes, I also think you may have a little problem, don't give up on treatment."

Yuanxin immediately sat up and said to her, "I saved you and still talked to me like this, really, how can you be such a rude girl." ”

The girl grimaced and smug, "Such a rude girl, isn't it in front of you?"

Yuanxin pouted helplessly, "Yes, yes, it's alive in front of me, if I don't save you, you don't know where you are now, you may have been beaten into meat sauce." ”

The girl said disdainfully, "Cut, no, like me, I am as beautiful as a flower, and I can earn a lot of money by selling it to a brothel, who would be as stupid as you, beaten into meat sauce, and sold for a few dollars?" ”

"Hahaha!" Yuanxin laughed, she shocked him again, he decided that the person in front of him was indeed not an ordinary person, he had never seen a girl so unashamed to boast of her beauty, and she had never seen a girl who said that her face was still not red and her heart was not beating quite naturally, not to mention herself? Although she scolded Yuanxin for being stupid, Yuanxin was not angry at all and laughed very happily.

"You're such a strange person," Yuanxin restrained a little bohemianism, deliberately trapping, "I don't know the girl's name yet." ”

"Which one do you ask?"

Well, lost to her. "How many do you have?"

"When I first came here, I was working as a maid in a house, and they called me Xue'er. My real name is Yao Menghan. "A name that is all too common in modern times.

"Yao, Meng, Han" Yuan believed again, "Listening to the accent, you are not from Moping, right, so where are you from?" ”

Menghan longed, "I'm from a far away place. Or rather, from another world. I don't know why I'm here, and I don't know why I'm here all of a sudden. ”

Yuanxin was really a little early and couldn't resist, "It's so profound." You're not going to be a sick person, you're just the kind of crazy person who doesn't know what you're doing."

Menghan scolded, "You're sick, this beauty is very good!" ”

Yuanxin nodded hurriedly and agreed: "Okay, good, you are very good, I have been talking to you for so long, except that it is different from normal girls, there is nothing wrong with it." At least when you don't have money, you will think of some strange tricks to cheat money, and you know how to talk back when you are told about it. ”

"What do you mean to be different from normal girls, am I normal, I see you are sick." Menghan is unforgiving.

"I'm sick, yes, if I'm not sick, who will leave three days' house money and run out."

"Hmph." Meng Han won a handful and was quite proud.

Yuanxin inquired, "How could you go to the trap and be abducted, what are you doing in your hometown to make a living?" ”

"You don't understand what I said."

Yuanxin said magnificently, "Then you will underestimate me." I have traveled all over the country, and I can be regarded as a little insightful. Tell me about it, maybe I'll know. ”

Seeing that Yuanxin was so confident, Menghan deliberately made it difficult, "I studied IT, have you heard of it?" ”

"What's a kick?" Yuanxin laughed, and the more he laughed, the more he couldn't stop, "You are a weak woman, you have no power to restrain the chicken, you can't even do light work, get kicked?" Practicing with others? You think you're a big man, you laugh at me. ”

"Cut," Menghan didn't bother to be familiar with him, "just say you don't understand." ”

"Hahahaha, I'm laughing to death...... Is it a kick or a beating? ”

Menghan saw that the more he talked, the more outrageous it became, and couldn't help but explain, "Oh, what I said about IT is related to computers, not what you said was beaten." ”

Yuan Xin was puzzled, "Computer? I've heard of roosters, hens, native chickens, pheasants, and pheasants, but I haven't heard of counting chickens, is that chicken proficient in power, can pinch and calculate, and has first-class strategy? ”

Menghan knew that there was nothing to explain, so fainted. I knew that there would be this experience, it was not good to learn something, I had to learn it, I got it in ancient times, I learned things for half my life, and I couldn't use wool, so I could only cheat. Fortunately, the tricks of the 21st century are still quite effective, and they have succeeded many times.

Yuanxin still couldn't stop laughing, and after a while, Meng Han rolled his eyes at him, "Enough laughing." ”。

"My stomach hurts to death, why are you so interesting."

Meng Han said fiercely, "Laugh again, laugh again, I threw you into the river, do you believe it?" ”

"If you have that strength, I believe you are a cow."

"You" Menghan was angry, "What do you say, I am a cow, you are a bull, you can pick me up with one hand, and you run so fast, you are a bull, you are a big bull!" Menghan said and used his two hands to draw the horns of the bull on his head. Don't run, stop me, I'll throw you into the river!" ”

One of the two of them ran, the other chased, fighting and making trouble, very happy.

As the sun set, a cool breeze blew a little cold on his body, and Meng Han said, "It's time for me to go, it's getting dark." ”

"Don't go, I love being with you." Yuanxin didn't even believe that he actually said such a sentence, if he were another girl, he might scold, a prodigal son, shameless. But the person in front of him was so special, Yuanxin finally mustered up the courage to say it, whether it was to scold herself, Yuanxin really didn't want to leave her.

In fact, this afternoon, Menghan was also very happy, and she also hoped that she would have the opportunity to play together in the future, but the truth did not allow it, and she resigned with regret, "This, I have to go back to do things." ”

"What to do? Make some fake jade? Stop cheating. Menghan, let me protect you for the rest of your life, okay? Yuanxin looked into her eyes and said solemnly.

Meng Han was stunned, and suddenly didn't know how to answer, "This ......"

"Promise me, I really like you and don't want to leave you."

"But ......," Menghan hesitated.

Yuanxin chased after him, "But what? ”

"Nothing." After hesitating for a moment, taking a sharp breath, Meng Han regained her boldness, "I promise you." "She came to this world alone and was helpless, living by abduction and deception all day long, and she couldn't say that she was not moved when she met someone who treated her sincerely. After an afternoon of contact, Menghan felt that the person in front of him was not malicious and reliable.

"Great, Menghan, you promised me! I will protect you for the rest of your life. Yuanxin hugged her into his arms. Menghan, a name that has been abandoned for nearly two years, is affectionately called at the moment, so warm and comfortable. In Yuanxin's arms, there was an unprecedented sense of security, and his chest was warm, broad, firm and steadfast. She herself was frightened by her own decision, so hasty, so quickly, to hand herself over to a person who didn't know the details, which is even more outrageous than a modern flash marriage. However, Menghan was not very worried, she felt relieved, a drifting heart, and now she was finally at peace.

That night, Yuanxin and Menghan talked at night, and the two chatted happily. Menghan made a lot of efforts to describe the modern world to Yuanxin, what his hometown was like, what a computer is, and what kind of industry IT is, but he still couldn't explain it to Yuanxin. It is even more difficult for an ancient person to imagine modern development than to be admitted to the civil service. Yuanxin was scolded by Menghan for being stupid many times for this, but he has always refused to suffer, but he didn't talk back, thinking he was stupid.

Yuanxin took out his

Yuanxin explained, "This is the thing of my clan, and the Yun clan has been a close confidant of the emperor for generations. When I was a child, I was named a brave marquis for my meritorious service in rescuing drivers. ”

Wow, the emperor's cronies? Brave Marquis? I accidentally returned to officialdom? I wandered to ancient times and suffered so much and was helpless, but I was able to catch a golden beetle. Wow, it seems that God is not kind to me. How did he go from a street crook to a family member of a cadre in a blink of an eye? God opens my eyes. Meng Han forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked carefully, "You have a knighthood, why don't you become an official in the court?" ”

"My title is just a fictitious title, I don't have any real power, and officialdom is not the life I want." In fact, Yuanxin was the first of his three brothers and sisters to be rewarded, he was interested in anecdotes when he was a child, and he happened to know some celestial phenomena, and helped the emperor to avoid a flash flood during a hunt, and also avoided the loss of a group of men and horses, and was rewarded by the emperor.

Menghan asked, "You are from a prominent background, shouldn't your family expect you to prosper?" How will you be allowed to be idle on the go? ”

"It's up to my brother."

"Your brother?"

Yuanxin sighed, "Yes, my brother is the pride of the family, my grandfather and father pinned their hopes on him, and I had a chance to escape." Since my father's death, my grandfather has been more strict with my brother, but fortunately, my brother is now famous and has lived up to my grandfather's expectations. ”

"Then your brother must be very tired, he bears the glory of the whole family alone." Menghan thought of the children in the modern world, carrying the expectations of their parents, and the whole various cram schools, without a little time of their own.

"Yes, so I respect him very much, half of his suffering should be mine, and half of my happiness should be his." Yuanxin thought of Cheng Zheng and felt a lot of guilt in his heart.

Menghan changed his words, didn't talk about such a heavy responsibility, and talked about something happy, "You said that he is famous, then you tell me your brother's name, see that I have been here for two years, have you heard of it?" ”

"Cheng Zheng, have you ever heard of it?"

"Cheng Zheng?" Meng Han read his name, and suddenly gasped, "Cheng Zheng! There is a folk saying of 'Xicheng Nanyuan', is it your family? ”

"It's my house, what's wrong?"

Oh my God, I just think I found a golden beetle son-in-law, don't be too golden, it's enough for me to eat and drink without worrying, if it's such a powerful family, on the cusp, I can't resist it, Menghan has a headache, I've seen too many palace fighting dramas, and I've seen too many historical novels that can't end well, and I can't help but panic, "Cheng Zheng is your brother?" ”

Yuanxin looked uneasy at Menghan and comforted: "Naturally, how?" Shocked? Even if you've heard of his name, you won't be so nervous. ”

Meng Han forcibly calmed down, "I heard of him, but I didn't dare to associate with you, a bastard boy." Since you are brothers, the difference in names is too great, shouldn't your famous family have a family tree? ”

"Oh, there is a family tree, the Cheng family and my generation have male names from afar, and female names from afar. However, my brother's name was given by the emperor himself, which is an exception. Yuanxin explained,

Or give it to yourself? Menghan was even more unsteady in his heart, and he didn't want to mention the matter of his family anymore, "Your family is too powerful, it scares me, and my whole person is not good." Let's fool around with the world. ”

Yuan Xinxi said: "It seems that we are really all the way." Actually, I don't like the atmosphere of officialdom, so I left home to travel. ”

"But I don't have a home to worry about, you have a home after all, and you're traveling alone? Don't you feel lonely? ”

"Absolutely. Sometimes when you encounter a lively festival in a foreign country, even if you integrate into their joy, you will feel very lonely and miss your family. Yuanxin was not sad, and the words changed, "But I won't be afraid in the future, are you willing to accompany me to the end of the world?" ”

Wandering the world, isn't that traveling the world? In modern times, I want to travel, but I don't have any money. A poor IT woman who even has to save two months' salary to buy a mobile phone and travel around the world of wool. Well, now there's a pie falling, woo-la-la.

The red candle is halfway through, and the night is late.

Yuanxin took Menghan in his arms, "In the future, you just have to follow me, I will fight for you whatever you want, don't cheat again." ”

Menghan was not happy, "Why, it's fun." Don't you also say that you often do things that make fun of people? ”

Yuan Xin Yan said, "I can protect myself, can you, what should you do when you encounter this situation before?" ”

"Before, that's it. Will be calculated, see the move. I really couldn't get by, so I was beaten up. ”

In a strange environment, helpless, Yuanxin can imagine how difficult those days were for a girl, he believes that human nature is good, all unrighteous things are just forced by life, when a person's food and clothing are a problem, do you talk about more etiquette and morality. When he once passed by a simple village, he was deeply affected, and he thought about what a wonderful world it would be if the whole world was like this, where everyone helped each other and loved each other, everyone believed in and respected each other, worked together and harvested together, had food and clothing, and had no fighting and no conspiracy.

Yuanxin hugged Menghan tightly into his arms, as if this could soothe her previous pain, "If one day we are really poor and can't open the pot, we have to go to the point where we can make a living by doing evil, it must be me to steal and rob, you can wait for me at home with peace of mind." ”

Note: 1 The ancient Chinese system of weights and measures was extremely chaotic, and there were differences between different dynasties.

1 tael of gold = 10 taels of silver, 1 tael of silver = 1000 wen money = 1 guan (hanging) money, converted into the current rmb one tael of silver is about 500 yuan (I am calculated in the Ming Dynasty), refer to Baidu Library "How much is a tael of silver worth in ancient times".