The cold rain is autumn.

Pingzhou, which had been dry and rainless in spring and summer, received several heavy rains after July, and even in mid-to-late August, there were two dangerous floods on the riverbank.

The news of the emperor's serious illness in the Luojing Imperial City gradually spread from the north to the south with the cold wind, and at the beginning of October, even ordinary people in the market would pretend to play haha mysteriously when they saw each other, speculating whether it was about to change.

"It is also said that in the fifteenth year of Yongde, the virtue of God's favor to the Chen Dynasty is approaching the end number." , the little Zhou Manyun stood on the deck of the southbound ship, holding on to the guardrail of the ship, looking at the Fengjin ferry that was getting farther and farther away, and sighed secretly.

She didn't know astrology, but she did. The sky is going to change, but for the Zhou family, which is riddled with holes, the top priority is to return to Huocheng before the next continuous autumn rain locks the river.

The master and apprentice of the false words were also on the boat, and they were going to follow the Zhou family to the south. As early as more than half a month ago, a group of fugitives from Zuihou who were hiding in the Balei Mountains had said goodbye to them and left first, and went to find a place where they could settle down and take root. Zhou Manyun, who was falsely said to be taken by his side to bid farewell to his gang of "brothers" as a disciple of his descendants, saw some famous thieves in his previous life, including Liu Tai, the lord of Northern Chu.

But just before Zhou Manyun could figure out whether her reborn variable would affect the national fortunes of Northern Chu and bring the lie to Huocheng in the south of the Yangtze River, he heard that a group of river workers had been brought back to Fengjin Ferry, and the number was more than the number of those who served before.

Moreover, because of the Sai Wan fugitive incident that day, the newly recruited peasants and prisoners were uniformly stamped with gold seals on their faces. The word "river" was branded. This is not only the case in Toyotsu, but also in the various river factories within the Chen realm. The same approach has been used.

So, eleven years later. The "river people" who intercepted the dragon boat of the late Chen Dynasty and made it impossible for him to return north began at this time. If you don't see it with your own eyes now, I think I will still feel the same emotion as in my previous life, although the last emperor of the Chen Dynasty is absurd, but the first emperor whose temple name is set as Xiaozong is still a generation of Ming Jun.

Chaos begins here.

Man Yun's eyes were lightly replaced with a mist, and slowly closed, the river breeze blowing on his face. Weeping in my ears like a complaint......

A slightly cold little hand patted the back of Man Yun's hand, and as soon as she opened her eyes, she saw her cousin Zhou Shen's shy smile.

Six-year-old Zhou Shen was changing his teeth, and when he saw his cousin staring at him, he embarrassedly clutched his teeth that showed two empty doorways, and invited in a low voice: "Sixth sister, it's cold outside!" Let's go in and play chess! ”

Zhou Manyun smiled and nodded, letting Zhou Shen hold her little hand. Wander to the cabin.

"Hui Ji will be hurt, and the love will not be long......", when the figures of the two children disappeared in front of the hatch, the old Zhou Xian, who had just signaled Zhou Shen to call Man Yun back, stood alone on the deck not far away. Silently staring at the mast, weeping.

The sails on the mast were whistling in the wind. On the side was a string of copper coins cut from linen. Qian Chuan'er kept swaying with the tail of the wind, announcing to the surroundings. This mourning ship carrying "homecomings".

The wanderer returned to his hometown in a different place, and when he returned, he was already a guest. It is from the Netherworld Yellow Spring. A guest who can only occasionally visit the world.

Hanging cloth money on the boat is the rule of the boat, and it is also a guarantee that does not need to be explicitly stated.

Even if the world is peaceful, the river will not eat the river bandits who rely on water and draught, and mix river rice, but the bandits have banditry, and they rob three and do not rob. Business robbers do not rob officials, rich robbers do not rob poor, red robbers do not rob white. The first two are just looking at how much oil and water there will be retaliation for, if it is profitable, it will occasionally make an exception, but zuihou does not rob a "white", but it is very taboo, after all, no one wants to grab a "death" back.

"Zhe'er, you protect your father and return home. Daddy will also protect Manyun, as well as your unborn child, who will grow up in peace and ......."

"Grandpa!" , Zhou Manyun trotted to Zhou Xian's side with a blush on his face and helped his grandfather. The murmuring tail that came into her ears with the wind just now made her heart palpitate.

Grandfather treated her very well, but after Man Yun returned to the cabin and set up the chessboard, under the prompting of the false words, he remembered that the old man was still left outside by their brother and sister alone. She is not Zhou Shen who is still young and inevitably neglects to take care of the elderly, but because she is still a lifetime, facing her grandfather, she is still a little uncomfortable, and she deliberately hides a few times, and she gets used to it.

Zhou Shen also followed, one left and one right acted as Zhou Xian's little crutch. Zhou Xian smiled, but he only supported the child weakly, and the self-imposed cane in his hand was more forceful.

Grandfather's leg disease was serious! Zhou Manyun followed Zhou Xian's steps slowly, lowered his head, and was inexplicably a little sad.

And Zhou Xian not only has wind paralysis on his legs, according to the false words that Zhou Xian has examined his body, Zhou Xian should have been tortured in prison. It's just that the means of torture are high, and there are no traces on the flesh and skin. It is also thanks to Zhou Xian's timely release from prison, otherwise he may die directly in prison.

"If you can't punish a doctor, it's just talking. Xiaozong is known as the most benevolent emperor of the Chen Dynasty, but he doesn't know how to choose an heir. But in the year when he was in power, was he so confused that he couldn't manage things because of illness or had he lost control of the government at all? Until he sat in front of the chess table and started playing against Zhou Shen, Zhou Manyun was still thinking about a bunch of messy accounts while falling, and he had a headache.

In this life, she is only five years old, and in her previous life, although her fate was related to the change of power between the old and new dynasties, she was actually trapped in the inner house all her life, and she was very confused about how and why big things happened.

"Sixth sister, you lost!" , Zhou Shen on the opposite side reminded in a low voice.

Man Yun fixed his eyes, and sure enough, on the chessboard, the black spot she held the lead had been blocked by Baizi, and there was no way to survive.

Losing to a six-year-old doll in chess? Man Yun secretly counted his age, and immediately replied confidently: "This plate doesn't count!" One more plate ......"

The result of the second come, it was Zhou Manyun who pushed Ping to admit defeat.

Man Yun pretended to be annoyed and complained to Zhou Xian, Zhou Xian comforted her softly, and then, squinting his eyes and praising Zhou Shen, said, "Brother Shen'er played chess well." I can be a big country in the future! Now, go back to Huocheng to open a chess club. It's enough for ......."

Obviously, it was used to coax the child, which made Zhou Shen very happy.

Man Yun's face. But he was a little more surprised, for a senior member of the DPRK who had just "retired", Zhou Xian's expectations for his children and grandchildren were a little low, too low.

"Brother Shen, don't you have to take the champion exam in the future and become a big official?" , Catching a trace of memory floating from his mind, Zhou Manyun smiled at Zhou Xianyang's face and deliberately asked tentatively.

Zhou Xian was stunned. laughed softly: "What is the haode ...... to be an official?"

The old man's voice was vague, but the pain in his eyes was clear. Zhou Manyun silently lowered his head and picked up the chess pieces in his hand, one by one.

In the previous life, in the fifth year of Taiye, the second uncle was the grandfather's filial piety expired, and he received a letter of reinstatement. When preparing to take office, the second aunt Gao deliberately ran from the family nunnery to stop her, and Man Yun was with her.

"My father died on his deathbed. The descendants of the Zhou family are not Chen! The second uncle shouted like this when she dragged the second uncle's robe that day, and the second uncle Zhou Bai kicked Gao fiercely in the heart, and Gao spit black blood on the spot. fainted, and it was only good to raise it for more than half a year, and naturally it did not prevent the second uncle from taking office.

The descendants of the Zhou family are not Chen? Even if the career is not smooth. Nor should grandfathers make such demands on their descendants. If, what the second aunt said about her grandfather's last life is true. So......

Could it be that now Zhou Xian has seen the fate of the Chen Dynasty that is declining. Zhou Manyun's hand couldn't help but shake, and a chess piece slammed into the ship's board.

"Sister Yun! You're just a kid. There are some things you don't have to think about too much. Silly boy! People have to be stupid to live well......", Zhou Xian sighed, and his thin fingers raked the soft hair scattered on his shoulders.

People are old spirits, ghosts and spirits, not to mention that Zhou Xian has been mixed in a bunch of human spirits for decades. He has a full view of his granddaughter's abnormality. He was not pleased, only heartbroken.

Just like telling Manhua the story of Mrs. Du at that time, he specially called Manyun to tell her that he agreed with the matter of lying to save Du's family, and Manyun didn't have to use Manhua to test his attitude at all. As long as he thought of the temptation that Man Yun had begun to test him again and again since Baoshu Village, as well as the lack of some intimate ancestral and grandson feelings until now, Zhou Xian felt a little helpless.

After eating when he was being fed, he lied that he was doing acupuncture for Zhou Xian, and Man Yun followed with him to recognize the acupuncture points, and there was no one else in the cabin.

Zhou Xian looked at Man Yun for a long time before he asked with a smile, "Yun'er trusts Master more than Grandpa!" ”

Zhou Manyun was stunned and a little dazed. Zhou Xian's smiling face still had a long needle that was shaking, but the feeling of questioning was extremely serious.

Seeing that Man Yun didn't answer, Zhou Xian then sighed lightly and said, "I don't blame you, because of your eldest sister's matter, you have thoughts about grandpa and grandma, and you are right." Sister Yun! Because Grandpa knows that you understand, he will tell you directly. Grandpa also wants Sister Yun to be truly filial to me and like me, but Sister Yun can't do it now, and Grandpa doesn't force it. Grandpa just wants to say that I will do my best to protect your mother and daughter......"

Speaking directly, it is the current doctor's suggestion to Zhou Xian in private, and his judgment of his apprentice is to treat her as an adult and not hide it. Zhou Manyun is a complicated-looking, in fact, extremely simple child, if you are good to her, she will be good to you.

Shouldn't it be good, right? Zhou Xian quietly exchanged glances with the void, and his heart was worried.

Zhou Manyun didn't say anything, watching the scorpion tail needles in Xuyan's hand pierce into Zhou Xian's body one by one.

1.2...... Twelve, sure enough, there are only twelve of the thirteen needles of the scorpion tail in the shape of a needle, and Zuihou has to leave one needle for his own Tong.

Zhou Manyun raised his eyes and looked at his master, his face was calm and uncertain, as if he was deaf to the chatter of old Zhou Xian.

Is this my own way of dealing with being honest with my grandfather?

Zhou Manyun pursed his lips, stared at his grandfather's eyes with his two eyes, and said softly, "Grandpa! My mother is sick, my brother has not yet been born, and I am still young...... I need you. ”

The intergenerational affection that was missing in her previous life can't be accepted without obstacles, but she will try hard.

"Grandpa! I want you to live well, heal your illness, live longer, and protect us longer......"

Zhou Xian's lips trembled for a while, and he tried his best to restrain the tears that wanted to flow, and said to the false words: "The chief of the false words, I want to try the secret recipe you said." When I return to Jiangnan, I will build a medicine garden and let people go to the southwest to find medicinal herbs to plant ......"

"The medicine I dispensed for you, the main medicine will contain deadly poisons such as fishing kiss and tripterygium wilfordii!" Although the patient adopted the treatment advice that he had been hesitant, the face of the false words was not happy, but the danger of the following drugs was emphasized.

"Always try! Don't you also say that if I continue like this, I will be able to live for a year at most. Zhou Xiandaxiao spoke, clenched Man Yun's little hand, and said: "The old man is still useful to live, and there will be people who want it, so naturally he will have to live a little longer." ”

"Grandpa! You're going to be fine......"

The happy old man is like a child, even if the needle is pulled, it will be wordy for a long time before being coaxed to sleep.

The big ship moored on the river at night, bathed in the clear light of the moonlight, everything is quiet and peaceful.

"It's smooth sailing, we will arrive in Huocheng safely, and the days to come will gradually get better......", Man Yun put it in the ear of the sleeping Du Shi and whispered, "Mother! I'll take care of you and my brother...... If it is, if it were my sister...... I will be a good daughter and a good sister...... Very good......"

It's good to live a new life and be needed......

Volume I, Finale. (To be continued......)