As soon as it dawned on the second day, Liu Yao and Xiao Hu went to the town with the sheep to look for someone. It was still early, and there were not many people in the town, so the three of them searched back and forth along the streets, until noon they found nothing. was about to go home, but Xiao Hu was suddenly grabbed by an arm.

The one who grabbed Xiao Hu was a middle-aged man, not tall, with two mustaches, it was these two mustaches that made Xiao Hu recognize him at a glance, this person was the storyteller who was in the dim sum shop that day.

The storyteller stared at Xiao Hu, nodded to himself, stroked his beard, and said, "Yes, you are one of the young men who fought that day." ”

Xiao Hu hurriedly shook his head at Mr. and asked, "Since Mr. knows me, have you ever seen the partner who was with me that day?" ”

The storyteller said, "I want to see you here and tell you where the young man is." ”

The three of them were overjoyed when they heard this, Liu Yao hurriedly took out a piece of broken silver from his arms and put it in the hand of the storyteller, but the man pushed it back and only said: "That young man is not very old, and he is not a down-and-out child who looks at his clothes, and he was arrested by the government, so the family is naturally anxious." ”

The three of them changed their faces when they heard the word "government", and they asked again to find out that Sima Qin met several people who had clashed with them that day in the town yesterday, and those people were all local scoundrels, but the leader was the son of the county Cheng family. Several people made trouble again yesterday, and were taken to the county office by the passing officers and soldiers patrolling the city, and the county Cheng was protecting his son, and the county commander and the county Cheng wore a pair of pants, and without saying a word, Sima Qin was thrown into prison. Not to mention that the prison cells of the county government are dark and damp, they are even more dirty and stinking, and a pampered child is imprisoned in that place, even if it is only for one night, I am afraid that I can't stand it.

After the three of them thanked Mr., they hurried to the county office, and it was naturally essential to do something, but fortunately, they finally met Sima Tan. Sima Qin has never suffered such a crime, just one night, once glamorous, even if he is down, he is also a noble son, he has no arrogance at this time, his clothes are dirty and sloppy, and his body exudes a sour smell, and a handsome little face In addition to a few black dirts, there are also two bruises, needless to say, he must have lost the upper hand in yesterday's conflict.

The county ordered Sima Qin to be imprisoned, but he was not tortured and interrogated, thinking that he had some bearing, and he was afraid of which family's son-in-law, so he didn't dare to treat him too much. After Liu Yao found Sima Qin, he asked Xiao Hu to accompany him, and he went to the county government with Yang Fu to find the county order to release people. When the county commander saw the two of them, he first squinted his eyes and looked up and down, only to see that the two of them were wearing coarse cloth and beating shortly, not like a person from a glamorous family, so he immediately picked up the shelf, and said that Sima Qin had injured others, and he must teach him a lesson.

Yang Fu became angry, and the injury on Sima Tan's face was clearly beaten, how could he say that he had beaten someone? Sima Tan doesn't know kung fu and is thin, how can he hurt others in the siege of that group of thugs? After a few words of theory with the county order, the county order was immediately unhappy, and ordered his subordinates to take people, Liu Yao hurriedly held down the sheep, and took out an ingot of silver from his arms and put it on the desk of the county order.

The county order straightened his body, weighed the ingot of silver with his hand, and looked at the two of them again, if he can make a move, it must not be an ordinary person, and in this troubled era, there is no shortage of people whose wealth is not exposed, the county order showed his scorched teeth and laughed, he pointed at Liu Yao: "You are a sensible person." ”

"The dog is ignorant, and he collided with others, and please raise your noble hand, read it for the sake of the dog's young and ignorant, spare him once, and I will bring him back to a good life education." Liu Yao bowed his body, with a very humble posture. This appearance is extremely satisfied in the eyes of the county master, but it makes him sad in the eyes of the sheep, what kind of character Liu Yao is, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the pride of the sky, and now that the tiger has fallen in Pingyang, he looks uncomfortable, and I don't know what Liu Yao feels in his heart. His sister wants to live a pure life and live in seclusion, can this Liu Yao really be willing to become an ant from the dragon and phoenix in the human world for the rest of his life?

The county master waved his hand and said: "The child is ignorant, I shouldn't care, it's just that he hurt the son of the county Cheng, the county is more than fifty years old, only this son, the baby is very good, if I let your child go like this, I can't say anything about it." ”

The hint was so obvious, how could Liu Yao not understand, he hurriedly put on a smiling face, and said that he would personally go to the county mansion to apologize, and after getting the county lord's forgiveness, he would come to thank the county magistrate. The county order was satisfied so far, and the two of them were no longer embarrassed, and immediately let Sima Qin out. In the next two hours, the four of them first went to the county mansion to apologize, and then returned to the county government after giving enough silver, and put down a silver ingot to the county order, and the matter was finally over.

On the way home, Sima Tan kept hanging his head, and in the past few hours since he came out of prison, Liu Yao and Yang Fu didn't ask him what happened, but he watched this large amount of silver sent out, and he also knew that he had caused trouble, and he was also a little worried about guilt, they had escaped, and had been living in low-key seclusion here, and these dozens of taels of silver were sent out for fear that it would attract the attention of others, and then I don't know if it would bring unnecessary trouble.

Yang Fu looked back at Sima Tan, who was silent, smiled, patted him on the shoulder, and said: "The child also has a mind, don't worry, you don't do anything bad, you just made your mother worry a little, and it will be over after a few meals." ”

"I'm not worried." Sima Qin muttered.

Liu Yao patted Sima Tan's shoulder with a smile and said, "Manly man, what is this little thing?" After going home to bathe, he changed into new clothes, and he was a good man again. ”

Sima Tan raised his head and glanced at Liu Yao, and asked in a whispering voice, "Father-in-law, you have spent so much money for me today, will we run out of money in the future?" ”

When Liu Yao and Yang Fu heard this, they looked at each other and laughed. "It's not your turn to worry about it, can't we old men still be able to raise you?"

Sima Qin smiled a little shyly, and his mood was not as gloomy as he was just now.

When he returned home, Yang Xianrong was anxiously waiting in the courtyard, and when he saw a few people coming back, he hurriedly greeted him, and when he saw the gray-faced Sima Tan, he was anxious, and his words were a little stern: "Where have you been?" I wonder if my family will be worried? ”

"Mother." Sima Tan hurriedly knelt down for the sheep and asked for sin: "It's the child who is ignorant, so the mother is anxious, please punish the mother." ”

Sima Qin's well-behaved and sensible made Yang Xianrong lose his temper, he just stared at him, and he didn't know how to say it for a moment after a night of scolding. Seeing this, Liu Yao hurriedly pulled up Sima Tan and asked him to bathe and change his clothes first, and asked Sun and Su Chen to prepare some meals, and then took Yang Xianrong and told him the process of their search for Sima Tan today.

"Then why is he in a bad mood these days, you ask?" Yang Xianrong is still a little uneasy, she has no experience in dealing with such a big child, so if the child is slightly inappropriate, she is anxious, plus she is pregnant, thinking crankily all day long, it is not the first time that she scares herself.

Liu Yao shook his head, Sima Tan has grown up, he will always have his own thoughts, he who is willing to tell them will naturally say, if he is unwilling to tell them, I am afraid that if they ask again, what they will get will not be a true answer.

After Sima Qin came out of the bedroom, she changed back to the appearance of a handsome son, but the two bruises on her face still made Yang Xianrong a little worried, she had the heart to ask Sima Qin what happened, but remembering Liu Yao's words, Shengsheng endured her worries.

Sima Tan was so hungry that he ate two bowls of rice with his head down before he burped contentedly. As soon as he turned around, he saw Yang Xianrong looking at him, his eyes were full of worry, and after pondering for a while, he sat down in front of Yang Xianrong and Liu Yao and said, "I went out yesterday to inquire about joining the army. ”

"Join the army?" These two words surprised both Yang Xianrong and Liu Yao, they looked at each other, and then at Sima Tan, obviously not quite understanding where his idea came from.

Sima Qin is the child of the Sima family in the end, he has read the sage book since he was a child, and the master taught him how to only live in the ordinary world, and whose world is the peace? Of course, it's Sima's family. This sense of responsibility rooted in his heart since he was a child made him hope that the Jin Dynasty would last forever even though he was only a commoner today, and therefore, he and Xiao Hu went out that day, and when they heard that people slandering the royal family, they would fight impulsively. Although Sima Qin is not very old, he knows the current internal and external troubles of the Jin Dynasty, he has the heart to calm the world, but he is powerless to save the current decline, thinking for a few days, he feels that the military can serve the country, not only to annihilate the rebellious army, but also to calm the internal strife of the Sima family, but when he really asked about the army, he found that there is no army to follow now.

The vassal king's subordinate army was subordinate to the vassal king, and the garrisons in each region also had their own allegiance. Sima Zhen is incompetent and powerless, he is the king of a country on his face, but he can't even mobilize a single soldier, and now there is no one around him who can make Sima Tan trust, so which army can he vote for? No matter what army it is, it's just for the tiger. At that moment, Sima Qin also realized that the Jin Dynasty was probably really close to the number of qi.

Yang Xianrong didn't know that this child's mind was so heavy, she sighed, glanced at Sima Qin deeply, and asked, "Then what do you want to do?" ”

Sima Qin lowered his head again and stopped talking, he read every day, understood a lot of truth, and grew a lot in knowledge, but all this was useless.

"Do you want to go back to Beijing?" Yang Xianrong asked again.

Sima Qin glanced at Yang Xianrong and nodded silently. He wanted to go back to Beijing, he wanted to go back there to compete with his uncles and brothers, and he couldn't bear to see his grandfather's hard-earned inheritance ruined in such a group of unscrupulous descendants.

"Mother," Sima Qin opened his mouth, his voice was not loud, but it was unusually firm, "I have always been surnamed Sima. ”