"I heard that when Guo Shaoqing, a native of the same county, entered Chang'an from his teacher, he bought a talisman into Hangu Pass, and once said angrily: 'If Dan does not take the messenger's car, he will never leave the pass'."

"When I went north a few months ago, I also thought so, I was determined to make a career in Chang'an, but I didn't expect to escape in a hurry in the end, achieving nothing, and going back to my hometown will be laughed at."

When crossing the martial arts, Deng Yu clenched his fists and was indignant.

This weak-crowned son is old-fashioned when he speaks, which makes Liu Xiu and others who fled south together feel funny.

"It's better to be laughed at than to lose your life."

Liu Xiu comforted Deng Yu and said: "Didn't Guo Dan of that county finally flee to the north with his disciples to avoid trouble because he didn't want to be in the new dynasty?" It's also out of the gate. It was also in order to avoid the court's tilt that we had to leave Taixue. ”

What's more, even if there is no such thing, the students who went to Chang'an from a small place in Nanyang can see it clearly. If you want to stand out from tens of thousands of competitors, it is not easy to shoot as an official, and in the days of squeezing in the Taixue District, I really haven't returned to the township to be a local tyrant. The ladder has been solidified, the way up has not been fully opened, and the county officials and township officials will be mixed up by the clan Wang, which is probably their life.

The arrest of Wuwei Si was limited to the vicinity of Chang'an, and the group crossed the Wuguan without danger and soon entered the Nanyang territory.

The Deng family is a big family in Nanyang, and there are in-laws in all counties, and Liu Xiu relies on the name of his eldest brother to get the help of the light man who admires Liu Bosheng. The crowd soon replaced the donkey, which was running to death, with a horse, and their steps became brisk. In their hometown, even if Wuwei Si ordered to chase them, they would not be afraid.

Leaving the county capital Wancheng - Nanyang was renamed the front team by Wang Mang, and Wancheng was renamed Nanyang, and traveled south along the unfrozen Yushui, and everyone arrived in Xinye County in a day and night.

The Deng family has a huge branch, and the one who is really related to Liu Xiu's family is actually Deng Yu's brother, Deng Chen, the word Weiqing, who married Liu Xiu's second sister Liu Yuan.

Seeing Liu Xiu and Deng Yu, who should have been in Chang'an, suddenly came back, Deng Chen and his wife were quite shocked, and after listening to Liu Xiu's brief words, Deng Chen only felt lucky: "No wonder there were many horsemen who passed through Xinye yesterday and went to Xindu, I am afraid that they came for the meritorious service." ”

The new capital, which is a day's journey from Xinye, is the land of Wang Mang's Longxing, and it is also the feudal town of Gongchong Gongwang Zong.

Deng Yu joked, saying that fortunately Liu Xiu was timid and ran away as soon as he pulled them, but Deng Chen praised: "Every family must have a cautious person to last a long time." ”

Deng Chen didn't like his brother-in-law Liu Bosheng's impulsive personality very much, but praised his brother-in-law Liu Xiu.

It was snowing outside again, and Deng Chen and his wife invited Liu Xiu to rest in Xinye for a few more days.

Deng Yu also instigated him: "Tomorrow is Laba, Uncle Wen, Yin's Lap Festival is notoriously lively, why don't you go and see it?" ”

Deng Yu squeezed his eyebrows, Liu Xiu knew that he was hinting to himself, go to participate in the Yin Clan's Lap, maybe he will be able to meet his sweetheart Yin Lady again.

Xinye Haoqiang, left Deng and right yin.

When the Yin clan rose in Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, the head of the family at that time, Yin Zi, was filial piety and virtuous.

It is said that on the day of a certain year, he was raising a fire next to the stove, and the god of the stove suddenly appeared, and Yin Zifang was busy slaughtering a yellow sheep and offering it. Since then, Yin Zifang has made a fortune one after another, and has become a well-known wealthy family, with more than 700 hectares of land, thousands of horses and servants, and the power is better than that of Yu Bangjun, and even the Deng family is quite inferior.

In comparison, Liu Xiu's land is only 200 hectares, and the land allocated to him may only be 30 or 40 hectares, and he is only a small landlord.

If it was in the former Han Dynasty, the Liu family also occupied the status of a clan, which was superior. Now even this privilege has been deprived by Wang Mang, and now there is no one in the family to be an official, and the ancestors are not very useful, what do you do? Inverted door as a son-in-law?

He had a plan in his heart, and smiled honestly: "You have to go back to your own house for the sacrifice, how can you go to someone else's house to disturb?" What's more, my brother has a strong temperament, and if the government comes to interrogate me about my whereabouts, and his guests clash with him and kill the officials, it will not be good. ”

Liu Xiu hurriedly bid farewell to Deng Yu, specially bypassed Xindu County, and did not rest all the way, and went straight to his hometown Caiyang.

It is also miraculous to say that when Xinye was renamed "Yihe", Cai Yang actually escaped the poisonous hand of the madman who changed his name. This may be because Cai Yang is the hometown of Wang Mang's mother Gong Xianjun and the fiefdom, and the taxes have been reduced and reduced so far, and the farming is very profitable, and it is also Liu Xiu's favorite business.

Eighty miles southeast of Caiyang is Baishui Township, but Liu Xiu and his people are still accustomed to calling it "Chungling".

Liu Xiu's ancestor was the thirteenth son of Liu Fa, the king of Changsha, who was named the Marquis of Chungling, and established the marquis state in the remote Lingling County (southwest Hunan). By the time of Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, the third generation of the Marquis of Chungling asked to reduce the internal migration of the fiefdom to the enclosure of the damp ground, and the mountains and forests were full of poisonous gases and difficult to live. So he migrated to Caiyang Baishui Township, and when he arrived at Wang Mang's dynasty, the throne was cut.

As for Liu Xiu's family, he became a small sect as early as his grandfather, and his family background declined little by little: his grandfather was the governor of Julu County, a high-ranking official of more than 2,000 stones, and his father was only a Nanton County commander, more than 600 stones, and died early. After the Liu Xiu brothers lost their father, they were all raised by their uncle Liu Liang and completely became commoners.

In the past few years, the family has been revitalized, firstly, because Liu Xiu is good at running the industry, and secondly, because Liu Bo has been promoted to a chivalrous reputation, the brothers have become enterprising one by one, like two pillars, supporting the family.

In the past, I went back, the willows were still around, and now I think about it, and the rain and snow are falling. It was winter, and the lush hometown with clear grass and clear water became lonely. Snow fell in the sky again, making "White Water" even more worthy of its name.

Stepping on the snow and carrying the north wind on his back, Liu Xiu wore a hat and a knife, and rode on the road with difficulty.

Although it is not yet twilight, it gets dark early in winter, and the snow is even more gloomy, and the front is dark, and the voices of people on the side of the road seem to be absorbed by the snow.

Until an earth-shattering drum beat broke the silence!

"It's a drum."

Liu Xiu reined in his horse and smiled: "I finally caught up." ”

His house was holding the annual opera, and there was a faint singing and dancing cry in the chaos, and as the ceremony was halfway through, the stage went beyond the liyuan, and a fire dragon came along the road, from far and near.

The light snow could not stop the enthusiasm of the people, the torches tumbled in the dark of the night, the firelight lit by the pine wood flickered in the moonlight, and the flags raised high again and again raised into the night sky.

If you look closely, you can see that unlike ordinary operas, there is a bit of order in the chaos, the team advances and retreats in a certain degree, and the momentum is loud but not dispersed, and these more than 100 people seem to be controlled by a commander.

This is the result of Liu Bosheng's training of his guests and clansmen, called preparing for the opera, but in fact...... According to Bosheng, when there is a change in the world, the crossbow armor handed over to the soldiers is the two soldiers.

The team was approaching, and the leader saw Liu Xiu standing on the road, came over to take a look, and couldn't help but be overjoyed: "It's Uncle Wen!" ”

This person's name is Liu Jia, the word filial piety, a member of the Chungling clan, who also lost his father at a young age and was adopted by Liu Xiu's father. He has a gentle and benevolent temperament, and is close to Liu Xuan and Liu Xiu brothers, and once went to Chang'an with Liu Bosheng to study, studying "Shangshu" and "Spring and Autumn".

If Liu Xiu is his brother's right arm, then Liu Jia is his left arm.

Liu Xiudao: "Filial grandson, what about my brother?" ”

"Command from behind."

Liu Xiu walked through the crowd, under the torches were a pair of strong hands and beads of sweat on his face, and the smell of burning pine came to his nose, everyone was so familiar that everyone could call out their names.

He has an easy personality to get along with, and he is very popular in the clan, and everyone wants to come over and get close to Ah Xiu.

Liu Xiu only sighed a little, his hometown is better than Chang'an, no wonder the poem says: "Yellow birds and yellow birds, no collection in the grain, no pecking my millet." The people of this state are not willing to be grained. Words and words, return to our country. ”

But he doesn't have the time to greet everyone now, he just wants to see his brother soon, Liu Xiu has something to say.

Liu Xiu was thus surrounded by everyone and came to the center of the line, and the commander of this scene was a tall and strong man, standing on a chariot pulled by people.

This person wears a hideous face on his head, and his appearance looks like a bear but not a bear, like a tiger and close to a ghost. Covered in black bear skin, dressed in black clothes, holding a shield, accompanied by the sound of gongs and drums, singing and dancing, there is really some momentum to scold Fang Xuan.

In the gilded holes on the face, a pair of eyes looked at Liu Xiu, who came to bow down, and was quite surprised.

Liu Xiu was eager to see his brother and told him what he had seen and heard in Chang'an for a long time!

He understood that his brother was right, that the Han should be revived, and that the new room should be destroyed.

At this moment, he choked up all of a sudden, and only lowered his head and said, "Brother, Xiu'er is back!" ”

"Good!"

A hearty laugh came from behind the face, Liu Xuan helped his younger brother up, took him to board the chariot together, and handed over the shield in his hand to Liu Xiu under the banner of the Wu: "With Uncle Wen, this Wu, it's all over." ”

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At the same time, in the fifth mile of Linqu Township, a thousand miles away, the puppet drama was nearing its end.

The northern nu is not much different from the southern nu, the proverb: "The drum sounds, and the spring grass grows." "The people who participated in the sacrifice wore beards, wore thin waist drums, and held wooden mallets and beat them thumping.

Beating the drum to drive away the plague, it is said to expel it, and the whole Li is working together to drive away the ghost face that symbolizes the evil plague.

Chased from the ancestral hall to the entrance of the village, the dog was behind the people, and the children ran with the adults, and after holding the actors down, they peeled off the ghost faces on their faces, and carried them together with the shoddy ghost flags, and happily went out of the inner gathering, threw their brains in the open space, and added some firewood and even charcoal into it.

"Sect Master, Sect Master! Burned them! ”

The sect master Wu Lun, who was wearing a noodle to preside over the sacrifice, walked out with a torch in cheers.

He was still thinking about other things in his heart: in the past five months, what Wu Lun had seen and heard in his hometown and in Chang'an was simply bizarre. The name of this new dynasty is new, but in fact the old is decaying.

Qingxu Haidai, Huaiyang Huiji, Jingzhou Jiangxia, peasant uprisings have broken out one after another in the world.

Lu Mu, Fan Chong, and Green Forest, like the flames bursting out of dry firewood, are only sparks at present, but they are destined to burn the prairie in the future!

"And what am I going to do?"

The fifth Lun was to slowly accumulate a huge pile of charcoal in the hinterland of Guanzhong, next to the lieutenant county of Chang'an. If it is lit at the most suitable time, it will be the most dazzling fire in the world, leading this feast of anger!

In the frenzied shouts of the crowd, Wu Lun threw the torch in his hand and lit the ghost-faced banner that symbolized the evil of the plague of the last year.

The firelight flickered in the moonlight, and the villagers rushed in a row, stroking their palms and laughing. In front of them, the burning stars are like pink butterflies flying, and the bright flames are blooming like fire lotuses. Gradually it began to snow again, the jade armor in the sky was one after another, the snow bullied the fire, and the charcoal helped the fire, which could not cover the red dragon and jumped into the sky!

"Burn it."

"Only by burning the old dynasty clean, can we ignite the fire and knock out a new world!"

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PS: The new book is not divided into small volumes, the first article is over, and the speed will begin to be accelerated later.

In addition, this book will be on the shelves on December 1st, and those who are ready to raise books will also support the first order.

It's really important to me.,I'm going to give everyone a new head in October.,I'm going to give everyone a head in October.。