From Dunhuang to Youfufeng, along the way through six counties thousands of miles of trek to see and hear, if you want to talk in detail, I am afraid you have to say that it can be finished overnight.

Anyway, by the beginning of September of the fifth year of Yuanfeng, Ren Hong and the others had arrived in Youfufeng Wugong County.

Under the pretext that he wanted to rest for an extra day due to the fatigue of the journey, Ren arranged for Princess Wusun and the prince to stay at the county post station, and he himself took advantage of the sunny weather to find Ren An's colleagues and old acquaintances back then, in fact, they were a few local light men who were not young, and the boss of the underworld followed them to the mountain.

"I thought that after Longban, I would enter the Guanzhong and be a flat river, but I didn't expect there to be such a mountainous place."

Ren Hong climbed along the path, turned around and pulled Xia Dingmao, Lao Xia was not young, he was sick after tossing for thousands of miles, and he was a little unwell, but he still insisted on coming to worship the old master's grave, and he was out of breath when he climbed the mountain.

"Xia Weng, take this cane, I relied on it when I climbed the Tianshan Mountain."

Ren Hong stuffed the fake scepter that had been stripped of the yak tail into Xia Dingmao's hand, he had already regarded this scepter as his lucky charm, where to throw it.

"Although it is a false festival, it is a staff made by me myself, and it will be passed on to my descendants when I travel all over the Western Regions!"

The location of Wugong County in the Han Dynasty and the martial arts in Shaanxi in later generations is not the same, in the south of Weishui, the terrain is rugged and mountainous, not at all, from their position to the south, you can see a hundred miles away, the first peak of the Qinling Mountains, Taibai Mountain.

Taibai Mountain is now called "Taiyi Mountain", the altitude is about the same as the Tianshan Daban that Ren Hong has turned over, it is really imposing, it is said that except for autumn, the rest of the three seasons on the top of the mountain are covered with snow, fog and snow jam the road, inaccessible.

And under Taibai Mountain, it is the famous Xiegu Road, which is the only place to go to Hanzhong and Bashu from Guanzhong, and the Xieshui is called "Wugong Water", and Wugong County is named after it.

The one who led them in front of them was the son of Ren An's friend when he was an official in Wugong County in the past, a young ranger named You Xiaotie, who looked back and smiled:

"That's why there is a proverb, martial arts Taiyi, go to the sky three hundred! It means that if you go up another 300 feet, you will be in the sky! ”

"Exaggeration, this mountain is not high at all, I think when Ren Jun and I climbed the Tianshan Mountain, it was called a stretch of hand to touch the sky!"

Han Dangdang also followed, muttering in the back, since he climbed the Tianshan Mountains twice with Ren Hong, he was really a bit of a "glance at the mountains".

You Tie laughed: "Han Jun, how did I hear Lu Jun of the mission say that you fainted when you crossed the Tianshan Mountain, and you were carried by someone." ”

"He's drunk nonsense, do you believe it?" Han Dangdang resolutely denied it, but glanced at Ren Hong with a weak heart.

However, Ren Hong's gaze always fell on You Xiaotie from time to time, the son of Ren An's old man had an ordinary appearance, but he was wearing a fur black and white robe.

Ren Hong took a closer look and made sure he didn't see it.

Evil, this is the skin of a national treasure!

In later generations, there are also giant pandas in Taibai County, Shaanxi, so it is not uncommon for pandas to haunt in the north of the Qinling Mountains, and Dongfang Shuo has seen this animal when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and also wrote it down: "There are beasts in the south, called rodent iron", he said that this animal is like a bear, black and white mottled, can lick and eat copper and iron and bamboo bones.

However, in the eyes of the Han Dynasty, the panda was not synonymous with cuteness, but was regarded as ...... Beast of prey!

The bite force is similar to that of a lion, and when you are tired of eating bamboo, you occasionally go down the mountain to eat a sheep and open meat, but it is not a beast.

When he was resting and drinking water halfway, You Tie pointed to the panda Qiu Yi and told Ren Hongdao: "This iron beast skin has been around for some years, but more than 30 years ago, when Ren Gong was still in Wugong County, he took my father to fight on the mountain. Because my father had contributed the most, he gave him the reward for his deeds, and I was born on the day I was beaten, so he gave me this name. ”

And the older people, most of whom were Ren An's old subordinates, began to gossip and tell Ren Hong about Ren An's deeds in Wugong County.

"Ren Gong is a native of Kwantung, when he first came to Wugong County to settle down, he only brought a ring knife and drove a carriage, and the local light man wanted to bully him, but the result was not one of them. Because Ren Gong was brave and brave, he made a name for himself in the fight, so he replaced others to be a thief in the pavilion near the mountains and forests. Later, because he solved the case, he caught three thieves who blocked the road and looted with his bare hands, and he was promoted to pavilion chief. ”

That pavilion is called Taiyi Pavilion, and it is where Ren Hong and the others are going.

"Wugong County is remote, not as poor as Maoling and other places, and the men in the county have to rely on hunting to subsidize their families. Ren Gong often led the team into the mountains, deployed the old and young and weak to hunt the place, and hunted with the strategy of the art of war, and every time he could harvest a lot. ”

"And when distributing elk, chickens and rabbits to everyone, everyone can be satisfied, and everyone says: 'No injury, Ren Shaoqing is even, and he is wise!' ”

Ren Hong's head, people do not suffer from widowhood but unevenness, Chen Ping was in the township when the meat was average, and was praised, and promised to dominate the world.

At this time, another person came over and said: "There is another thing, once I hunted a few big wild boars, and Ren Gong was the east, and invited the county elders to get together. There were hundreds of people present that day, and Ren Gong only glanced at it and asked, 'Why didn't so-and-so come?' Everyone was amazed, it turned out that Ren Gong could remember everyone, and his eyes were like torches. ”

It's not such a miraculous thing, but Guanzhong is so big, and there are twenty-one counties in the jurisdiction of Youfufeng, but Ren An prefers to choose the poorest Wugong County to settle down, because there are few wealthy families here, if they have talent and can operate, they will soon be able to stand out and become famous in the county.

"So although Ren Gong is only a small food pavilion chief, his prestige is higher than that of the county magistrate, and slowly everyone elected him to be the third elder of the county, and later he was proclaimed as the county magistrate of martial arts because of his proximity to the people......"

No matter what era, as an external customer, he is usually the object of exclusion and oppression by the natives, but Ren An was able to integrate into it, and was promoted as the third elder of the county who could only be a famous elder in the county, and further became a county order, which shows how highly regarded he was in Wugong County back then.

"Pavilion chief is such a good position."

Ren Hongxin said: "When Liu Bang was the pavilion chief, he could eat both black and white, while meeting the source left and right in the system, and at the same time befriending the local ranger chief, Ren An was similar in Wugong County, if he encountered troubled times, he was probably also a hero." ”

But personal struggle also has to consider the historical process, and Ren An's fate after that was a little twists and turns, because when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty traveled through the mountains and rivers and passed by Wugong, the curtain prepared by Wugong County did not meet the standard, so Ren An was dismissed.

After struggling bare-handed for more than ten years, returning to the liberation overnight, this incident probably made Ren An reflect on it, and finally thought that the reason why he was unlucky was that he didn't hug his thighs.

So there is the story that follows.

However, from Xia Dingmao's narrative, Ren Hong found that although Ren An took refuge in Wei Qing as a guest, he was not appreciated, and he and another colleague named "Tian Ren" were unknown for a long time before they were discovered by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who was looking for Wei Qing to recruit talents, and since then they have been on the rise.

In the prosperous era of great unification, from the down-and-out poor coachman who left his hometown, he relied on his own struggle to get mixed up to more than 2,000 stones, which is really an inspirational story.

Then Ren An and Tian Ren were planted together in the scourge of witches, and they entered the door of Wei's relatives, and it was not so easy to clear up the relationship.

But Ren Hong still feels that Ren An was killed for riding the wall back then, and in the cruel and terrifying political struggle of the Emperor Wu Dynasty, it was actually not wronged, let alone miserable.

This was said in front of Ren An's old subordinates and Xia Dingmao, of course, he couldn't say it, and when they found Ren An's tomb next to Taiyi Pavilion, he, as a grandson, still bowed to the head three times in a regular manner and sent sacrifices.

"The tomb of the Captain Ren Gong of the Northern Protector Army."

This is the last footnote on the stele to Ren An's life, buried here after death, is Ren An's last wish, I don't know if he regrets leaving martial arts under the butcher's knife.

Ren An was beheaded that year, and he relied on the help of Ma Qian of Taishi Company to save the lives of his family, and the old subordinates of Wugong County ran to Chang'an to collect their bodies, so that they could be buried here.

Therefore, there is also a memorial every year, but the human favor is not permanent, there is always a day when it fades, fifteen years ago, hundreds of people came to pay tribute, which can be called the grand occasion of Wugong County. But Ren An's old acquaintances are dead and old, and only a few people have come to this year's Cold Food Festival.

If it weren't for Ren Hong's return, I'm afraid that in a few years, no one would remember Ren An's grave buried here, and let it be surrounded by crazy wild grass, just like those ownerless deserted graves in the mountains that don't know which dynasty and which generation.

"Those who help with the burial, the people who sacrifice and sweep every year, have to be recorded, and this favor still has to be repaid by me."

Ren Hong has no impression of what happened when he was young, so he is only responsible for kowtowing, crying and chattering to Lao Xia, which is nothing more than these years and how promising Ren Hong is, and he has made great contributions in the Western Regions, and he can be regarded as a glorious ancestor.

"What do you mean by that, Qing ......?"

"Blue is better than blue." Seeing that Xia Dingmao was almost done, Ren Hong took it and said to the tomb again: "Hong returns to Chang'an this time, or he may be able to enter the court, and even be crowned a high lord, which can be regarded as justifying Ren's name, as for the enemy who framed his grandfather with slander and caused Ren's suffering......"

"Sooner or later, I will make him pay the price and return my father's innocence."

Innocent and innocent, the scourge of witches can be called the Han Dynasty's version of the decade, involving too many and extremely sensitive, even Huo Guang, a general who was born in the Wei family and has been in charge of the world, did not dare to touch this historical issue, let alone Ren Hong.

Therefore, it is difficult for Ren Hong to completely overturn the case for Ren An.

But there is no way to solve the problem, you can solve the person who raised the problem!

As long as the grain official who reported Ren An's collusion with Prince Wei to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was brought down, learned the best tricks of the Confucian scholars, and criticized him from the perspective of character and morality, it can be proved in turn that his confession was false, and Ren An was not guilty of death.

Ending this old grievance is Ren Hong's only "repayment" to Ren's family.

However, Xia Dingmao was still a little worried: "Gentleman, the grain official who falsely accused the old lord back then is now a high-ranking official of 2,000 stones, I'm afraid it will ......."

When he was a small official in Hanging Spring, Ren Hong was nameless, and Xia Dingmao didn't have to worry too much.

And after Ren Hong joined Fu Jiezi's mission, he was in the Western Regions, even if the enemy heard about it, it would be difficult for him to intervene.

But now that Ren Hong has made great contributions, he has entered the court, and his reputation has spread, even if the enemy is dull, he also knows that Ren An's grandson is back, Xia Dingmao is afraid that after Ren Hong enters Chang'an, he will be criticized.

Ren Hong said with a smile: "Xia Weng can rest assured, whoever dares to touch me now is a hero who is bleeding and sweating for the big man, and no one will do that." ”

When he went to the Western Regions, Ren Hong was just a speculator who wanted to take advantage of the wind, mixing up some credit, and moving up one level at a time.

But when the time came to heaven and earth to work together, when he returned, he had been forged by the fire, proved his determination in the cold wind of the Tianshan Mountains, and the Hun kings fought wits and courage to sharpen their strategies, carrying two heads of King Hu in his hands, holding his head high.

He is now a trendsetter at the forefront of the big era!

There is no need to worry about the crime of grandfather Ren An.

There is no need to be complacent about breaking through the confinement of three generations.

There is no need to worry about whether returning to the DPRK will be troubled by the enemy.

The fate that was originally floating and uncertain, like the self-made scepter, was firmly held in Ren Hong's hands.

"Xia Weng is at ease, and Anle is just the minister of Changyi, the left official of the kingdom, and it is only two thousand stones."

"It shouldn't be me who is afraid of him stumbling now."

"And it's his turn to be sleepless at night, afraid of my revenge!"

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PS: Yes at night.