Song Zhiwen once said in "Crossing the Han River": Lingwaiyin is broken, and it is restored from winter to spring. The hometown is even more timid, and he doesn't dare to ask anyone.

Wang Li has only been away from home for two days, but he also feels that the closer he gets to the door, the more timid he becomes, and the closer he gets to the door, the more his heart beats, like a war drum. In the Wang family's compound in Tianjingfang, Yongfeng Street, south of Yecheng, two girls, one big and one young, stood at the door, glaring at Wang Li with a smile.

Of course, the little girl is Zhi'er, but the big girl is not a cicada, but a strange woman in her twenties.

The woman's melon seed face, agar jade nose, slightly upright, complexion like jade, snapping fingers, bright eyes under the eyebrows of curved willow leaves, smart and playful, what is even more rare is that her figure is also surprisingly tall, comparable to Wang Li's eyebrows, walking like the wind swinging willows, graceful and graceful.

Wang Li looked at the woman and only felt that her mouth was dry, and she couldn't open her mouth for a long time, but the woman seemed to be familiar between her eyebrows and eyes, and the figure in her mind gradually coincided, and she couldn't help but shudder.

But I heard the woman shout softly, "In ancient times, Dayu controlled the water three times and did not enter the house, didn't my brother also want to learn Dayu to control the water?" ”

The sound is like the first song of a yellow bird, and the sound is like the soft cry of a chick, like a clear spring flowing through Xintian.

Wang Li's heart trembled suddenly, and he panicked inexplicably. Is this still the Huang Ling with a cold face, a condescending face, and a beard? How did a good old man suddenly become a peerless and independent northern beauty?

"Yellow, yellow... Brother Xian, ah, no, Huang... Virtuous sister! Wang Li looked at the beautiful woman in front of him and was at a loss, with a tongue curled, stammering, and almost unable to utter a complete sentence.

Huang Ling stood high on the steps with his back on his back, looking Wang Li up and down with a pair of bright eyes slightly closed, as if he was smiling, as if he could penetrate people's hearts, his lips raised slightly and pouted gently: "Brother, look at your sweaty head, what's the matter, do I look like a tiger?" ”

"It's... Yes... No! Wang Li wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and secretly glanced at Huang Ling, why are you not a tiger, at first glance, I feel that my scalp is numb and my heart beats faster, and I dare to say that you are not a tiger? Your whole family is a tiger.

Looking at Wang Li's embarrassment, Huang Ling pursed his lips and smiled, revealing a little amorous. That smile was just like a breeze in spring, blowing the calm lake and taking away the restlessness in Wang Li's heart.

"Brother, all the guests have gone in, and you, the host, are you going to drink the northwest wind at the door?"

Looking at the white eyes on Huang Ling's crystal clear face, and seeing that Zhao Yun, Chen Poyu, Sun Cai and others had disappeared into the courtyard, Wang Li smiled and ran into the gate without looking back, leaving only the silver bell-like laughter of the two girls behind him echoing at the door.

"Zhi'er, my sister will take you to play, and you will tell my sister the story of your young master!"

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In the study, Wang Li, Zhao Yun, Chen Poyu, Yu Kuai, Sun Cai and Zhou Kang sat on the ground, and a jar of wine was placed in front of each of them.

Sun Cai's face was as usual, but the huge man was as calm as a mountain, and there was still a trace of gloom and struggle in his eyes.

"In the middle of the night in the cold winter, drink some wine to warm up your body, and ask Brother Sun Cai to tell us the inside story of Taiping Dao?" Wang Li raised the wine jug and greeted everyone, glanced at Sun Cai again, and sighed.

This scar will still be uncovered after all, although it may be bloody, although it may be painful to the bone.

Sun Caiwei sat on the ground, didn't take the bowl, directly picked up the wine jar and drank it all, nodded woodenly, and the taste of pain gradually appeared in his eyes: "Thank you for your care to make the lowly return to the thief, the lowly came today, first, thank the lord for his trust." Another reason is that I want to tell a story to adults. ”

Wang Li and the others put down the wine jar in their hands and looked at Sun Cai quietly.

Sun Cai didn't seem to know that he had become the focus of the masses, so he opened a jar of wine and took a long sip, as if he was stuck in a memory, and his eyes gradually became confused.

"More than ten years ago, there was an ordinary family surnamed Sun in Yecheng, Jizhou. The two elders in the family are there, a pair of children under their knees, the second elder and the second son work in the field for a living, and the eldest relies on his brute strength to go up the mountain from time to time to hunt and chop wood, and then go to the market to buy it for some change to supplement the family. The family is diligent and diligent, coupled with the good weather in those years, even if they pay the taxes of the imperial court, they can still leave a little money all year round.

That year, the eldest of the Sun family married a new daughter-in-law, who was his childhood sweetheart's cousin, and the two fell in love and loved each other. The cousin has just passed the Sun family less than half a year, she has been pregnant with a child, her belly is round and round, seeing that the old Sun family will have a successor, the boss of the Sun family is very happy, and he can't wait to hold the cousin in the palm of his hand.

In September of that year, the eldest of the Sun family went up to the mountains to hunt as usual, but he caught a wild boar. The mountain pig is two or three hundred catties, and the boss of the Sun family is very happy, if he pulls down the market and sells it, where can he not get one or two thousand yuan, and he can also make a set of clothes for one person in the family.

But as the saying goes: there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck. The boss of the Sun family was only fainted by the momentary joy, and did not notice that the beast was not completely dead, and when he was halfway there, he let the beast break free from the rope and fled into the manor of a large local family.

Maybe it was because the past few years had gone too well, but I didn't expect the Sun family to start falling because of a wild boar. The big family got a boar out of thin air, and they were happy to fall from the sky, how could the boss of the Sun family go to the house to ask for it. Therefore, the big family colluded with the chief and You Jiao and others to steal money from the house on the charge of breaking into the house to steal money, and turned the boss of the Sun family into theft, intending to send it to the government.

The Sun family is a single family, with only two brothers, how can they be worthy of the many powerful families of that family, like wolves and tigers. Seeing that the eldest of the Sun family was about to be thrown into prison, the second elder of the Sun family was busy accompanying him, pawned the family's property, invited the third elder of the township to accompany him, and lost ten acres (1) of good land before saving the eldest of the Sun family. It turned out that the big family had fallen in love with the ten acres of fertile land of the Sun family in the early years, and he was overjoyed to succeed in this day, so he had a kind heart, and he was not to blame for the trespassing of the Sun family's mansion. ”

At this time, one acre of fertile land is worth about four or five thousand yuan, and ten acres of fertile land is worth fifty thousand yuan. Just because the big family wanted to covet a mountain boar of one or two thousand dollars, he blackmailed the Sun family for 50,000 yuan, how unfortunate is the Sun family, and how vicious is the big family?

"This big family is really hateful, and it deserves a thousand cuts!"

Zhao Yun shouted angrily, "Bang! The ground slammed the jar on the table, and the jar shattered, splashing the wine.

Where did everyone not know that Sun Cai was talking about his own family affairs through the story, and they all looked at Sun Cai sympathetically.

In this dog's world, Wang Li shook his head and sighed, this special thing is clearly a copy of the brothers Xie Zhen and Xie Bao in "Water Margin", such a court, such a big family, how can it not make people feel cold, how can it not force people to rebel? It's just and unbearable, no, it's unbearable!

Sun Cai glanced at Wang Li and Zhao Yun gratefully, controlled his emotions, and then said: "The Sun family originally had fifty or sixty acres of land, but after this incident, the family of five only had thirty or forty acres of barren land, and the annual income was only thirty or thirty stones.

By the second year, the birth of the grandson of the Sun family made the Sun family even worse, and the already stretched family had little left after paying the land rent and taxes. In May of the following year, coinciding with the severe drought in Jizhou, the grain harvest failed, and the hunger was everywhere.

The daughter-in-law of the Sun family just gave birth to a fat boy, and was shocked to hear the bad news that she was angry and suffered from a cold as soon as she was out of confinement, lingering in bed for more than a month, and died of illness in bed with the child.

The two brothers were cornered, and a person happened to pass by, comforting the two brothers, "Heaven is the way to go, the earth is to the virtue of the home, to give birth to all things, nothing to hide, nothing to selfish", "the country is going to die, there will be demons", and the Han Dynasty is now rampant with demons, the big family is just a scabies disease jumping beam clown will soon kill himself, "the Han family is at the end of heaven and earth, when it is more ordered by the sky, the emperor of heaven makes the red spirit (son) go down to earth to teach me this way".

That night, the Taoist instructed the two brothers for a long time before they drifted away.

The next day, they heard that the head of the big family and his eldest son died violently, and the two brothers knew that this was the Taoist who avenged their personal vengeance, and the two brothers became the first group of disciples under the command of the Taoist. Because the brothers of the Sun family were the first to join the church, they were awarded the position of fire flag envoy, and the second child of the Sun family was the leader of the team. After the boss of the Sun family was able to make the fire flag, he was even more convinced, practicing martial arts day and practicing doctrine at night. Soon, when the county was recruiting trappers, the eldest of the Sun family joined the thief Cao and became a catcher who eliminated thieves and caught thieves. ”

"And where is your brother now?" Wang Li looked at Sun Cai and sighed.

Sorrowful gathering eyebrows, thousands of marks, 10,000 marks.

Although Sun Cai is not a heart-warming Xi Shi, when he raised his head, his face was already full of tears, and he fell into the wine drop by drop, causing ripples in a circle: "My brother's name is Sun Lin, and he died in the Red Fengdu Cave last night!" ”

Hey, the Sun family of six, who used to be in the same house for three generations, just because they hunted a mountain boar, they directly taught one more hero in the rivers and lakes to be angry and cynical.

Everyone sighed in unison, lowered their heads and silently looked at the wine in the jar without saying a word for a while, only breathing heavily.

Exegesis:

(1) Mu: 240 steps in the Han Dynasty is a large mu, about 0.69 mu today, and 100 steps is a small mu, about 0.29 mu today, and here is a small mu. The annual output of a small acre of fertile land is about 1.8-2 stones, and the annual output of barren land is about 0.8-1.2 stones. 1 stone = 4 jun = 120 jin city, 1 city jin = 0.5 jin in Han, 1 stone is about 60 jin now.

(2) Field rent: 30 taxes and 1, plus the tax on fertile land, the Sun family pays about 2 stone of land rent a year; Household tax (poll tax): 200 yuan per household per year; More endowment: 300 yuan per year for adult men; Calculation: 120 yuan per person per year. The conversion here is based on barley, and 1 stone of barley is about 220-230 yuan.