Qingchun's father, when he was cultivating Chi Road, never returned, his mother remarried, and his uncle's family raised him for half a year, and he was unsustainable.

Speaking of which, Qingchun's uncle and aunt are also benevolent and righteous.

Because under the Juntian Order of the Great Sui, the death of the father and the remarriage of the mother are already regarded as having no family members, and all the land and property in the family will automatically be confiscated into the government and distributed again.

If Qingchun wants to accept it, he has to wait for two years to become a Ding and then report to the government.

Of course, the property that will be returned by then will definitely not be the original.

During the Great Cause, with the gradual collapse of the household registration system, the drawbacks of the uniform land system, which relied on the integrity of local officials, gradually became apparent.

Take Qingchun's village as an example, under the sudden decline in population, the government can not cut down the registration in time, and can only be inherited by relatives, but the number of people is insufficient, and the tax is not reduced, with the increase of land production, the consequence can only be that the pressure is getting bigger and bigger, and under the overwhelming burden, many peasant households go bankrupt, and the rich households take the opportunity to collude with the government to encroach on it.

As a result, many families became slaves or even displaced people.

And Qingchun's uncle's family also had to sell Qingchun to a rich family in the village as a slave, so it can be said that this child has suffered a lot since he was a child.

In the autumn of the sixth year of the Great Cause, the villagers resisted taxes, killed the tax collector by mistake, and moved the village into the mountains.

The rich families in the village were unkind, and finally suffered retribution not long after entering the mountain.

Qingchun escaped by luck, and happened to see Li Po leaving, and in desperation, he also followed.

Li Po asked him, he was also from a poor family, and he must have something to do with the villagers, why didn't he stay with those villagers?

Qingchun replied, those who are in the lead are not good people, it is good that they are all dead......

Although his words were vague and the reasons were far-fetched, Li Po still understood.

In these messy years, the so-called reckless heroes who show their faces are not good people.

And a child would rather follow a stranger with an unknown surname to cross the jungle than stay among the villagers, what kind of sadness and pain there is in the middle, Li Po can also understand one or two.

Li Po didn't ask anything more, the situation outside the mountain was not good, but it was not as bad as he imagined.

It's not easy for everyone to eat well, but it's not a troubled time.

This can be said to be a mixed bag for him.

The good thing is that after going out, it doesn't seem that you have to meet people and soldiers, and it shouldn't be too difficult to find a business to do and keep yourself fed and clothed.

The downside is that he still has to rack his brains to get an identity.

Moreover, now there is one more person around, according to the child's own words, that is, he is in slavery.

Slaves, both in the northern steppes and in the Great Sui in the south, are a very common term these days.

The difference may only lie in the fact that slaves on the northern grasslands are no different from cattle and sheep, but in the Great Sui, they already have a certain right to survive and limited freedom.

However, at this moment, Li Po had no intention of paying attention to the distinction between civilization and barbarism, he only knew that taking a slave from someone else's family, and now becoming an outcast, would add a lot of trouble to the future journey.

But he finally decided to take this child out of the mountains and forests, as for the reason, there is actually only one sentence here in Li Po, he looks at this child quite pleasing to the eye.

One large and one small climbed up the mountain beam, Li Po looked down, and a small village faintly appeared in sight.

Built on the mountain, the grass and trees are faint, and not far away, a stream meanders through.

A nice place......

"Teacher, that's us...... Village ......"

Not long after following Li Po, the title has been changed to this noun that makes Li Po feel very awkward.

And Qingchun is very satisfied that he can think of this title, which is also the title he can think of that can best express his heart in addition to his father and mother.

At this time, looking at the faint village below, Qingchun scratched his head suspiciously, and the affirmative sentence became a question sentence in the end.

Although it was still far away, it was still clear that the village was in ruins, as if it had just been hit by a fire.

There is no doubt that this is the result of the villagers killing the tax collector, and there is nothing surprising about it.

It's just that Li Po didn't know that since he destroyed the village, why didn't he go into the mountains to chase the fugitives?

According to Qingchun, if you follow the stream outside the village, you will go to Mayi City, which is the county seat of Mayi County.

Next to Mayi County is Yanmen County, which used to belong to the rule of Daizhou, but during the Great Cause, the imperial court abolished the state governance, and the places were divided into counties

In other words, from a three-level administrative body, to a county-level two-level.

Li Po has a certain understanding of this, after all, several old soldiers have Sui Army military status, they are all in the army in the last years of Emperor Wen, although they know nothing about the changes from the last years of Emperor Wen to the Great Cause, but they can also know a thing or two about major things.

But such a rough understanding is not enough to make Li Po's future trip smoother.

After quietly looking at the village under the mountain for a long time, Li Pocai said: "After going out, you and I are brothers, whoever wants to ask, just say that we are here to find relatives." ”

"Hmm." Qingchun responded in a muffled voice, and then tightened the short knife in his arms, "When will the teacher teach me to use a knife?" ”

Li Po looked at the village below the mountain and said absentmindedly: "With a knife? What do you want to do? ”

"I've learned my skills...... If anyone beats me again, I will kill him. ”

"How old are you, and you're full of fighting?"

"I'm not small...... When you have the ability, you can go hunting, and you can feed the teacher. ”

"Well, that's pretty much like that, but didn't you say that prey in the woods can't be hunted casually?"

"People who have the ability can do whatever they want, and no one dares to say anything if I fight." ……

One big and one small were talking indistinctly, and when they became familiar with it, Li Po knew that this kid didn't talk much, but he didn't have a topic.

And the fierceness of the people of the Northland is also gradually manifested in his words and deeds.

This also made him somewhat regret that he picked up such a child in the mountains and forests, so that his ears could not be cleaned.

The so-called Wangshan ran a dead horse, all the way to the foot of the mountain, and the sky gradually darkened.

The two of them entered the village in the dark, and the village was indeed hit by a fire, and there were ruins everywhere, and the smell of smoke and fire was still very strong.

Li Po knew very well that this was not a place to stay for a long time.

Maybe sometime, someone will come and take a look.

Originally, Li Po wanted to look in this village to see if there was anything useful, and then left here to find another place to stay.

But the world is unpredictable, and the two of them stayed in this abandoned village.

Because the first heavy snow of winter has finally arrived.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, Qingchun was young and frail, tossed in the jungle for a few days, frightened, and ran back and forth, and on the evening of this day, he launched a high fever.

The north wind is howling, the snow is falling, and the winter in the north finally shows its hideous face.

It snowed for most of the day, and the temperature plummeted.