At this time, the sky is already slightly bright, and the cicadas, which have been resting for a while at night, begin to emit a long song full of summer flavors.

The entrance of Daliu Village

Yan Kui carried a mace on his shoulder, led the horse in his hand and walked in front, and behind him was Yan Jiang supporting the fat man who had long been unable to walk, and slowly hung behind.

"Persistence...... Hold on, it'll be there in no time. ”

Yan Jiang wiped his sweat, his throat stirred, and said with difficulty to the fat man who was almost half-paralyzed in his arms.

Who would have thought that the fat man from a rich background could not ride a horse, and he could only walk on the way, plus the fat man was fat, his physical strength was not good, and the mountain road was difficult to walk.

couldn't ride a horse, so Yan Kui didn't dare to help the fat man, so he could only pity Yan Jiang and a scholar, and dragged the more than 200 catties of meat and walked dozens of miles of mountain roads.

When he arrived in Daliu Village, the fat man was so tired that he could hardly walk, and he was even more struggling.

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"Brother, I Guo Fu remembered this love today, after I go back, our brothers and sisters will be friends for eight years, and the restaurants and Qinglou in the city will play casually, I will ...... I'm in for a treat. ”

The fat man Guo Fu looked at Yan Jiang who was sweating like rain, and made his promise with emotion.

"Uh...... I'll talk about this later, but if you really treat me as a friend, remember to do two things when you go back. Yan Jiang was bitter and had fun, and chatted with Guo Fu.

"You say."

Yan Jiang glanced at the fat man who seemed to be quite talkative, and gritted his teeth and spit out a sentence from his mouth.

"Learn ...... Learn to ride a horse and lose ...... Fat. ”

Guo Fu: "........."

The two of them were gossiping in the back, and Yan Kui, who was walking in front, listened, and his mood became happy, and at this moment, at the corner of the village road in front of the three of them, a large group of people suddenly poured out.

Yan Kui was startled at first, and almost copied the mace in his hand, until he came back to his senses, only to find that all the people who came were villagers in the village, led by the village chief, his father Yan Changlin's brother Sun Hong.

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Don't look at Village Chief Sun who is the oldest in this group of young people, but his legs and feet are no worse than this group of young people, and he rushed to Yan Kui first.

Grabbing Yan Kui's arm, Sun Hong looked Yan Kui up and down with his eyes, and saw that there were no injuries on his body, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and then made a feigned anger on his face.

"Bastard, what can you do, relying on your own brute strength, you don't take the world's capable people in your eyes.

That gust of wind has been entrenched in the hungry wolf slope for several years, how can it be easy to provoke, do not call the villagers in the village to help, go to save people single-handedly, if something happens, how can I explain to your father and your mother. ”

was pointed at his nose and scolded, and if he was someone else, the mace in Yan Kui's hand would have been smashed down a long time ago.

But the village chief Sun Hong has watched himself grow up since he was a child, and has always taken good care of him, almost treating him as his own son, plus he is his father's brother, the two families have a very close relationship, and they are like close relatives.

Not to mention pointing at Yan Kui's nose and scolding, even if Sun Hong slapped him twice with a stick, Yan Kui could only bear it.

What's more, Yan Kui knew in his heart that although Sun Hong was scolding in his mouth, he was actually worried that something would happen to him, and it was too late to warm his heart, where was there any resentment.

So, Yan Kui, who had only stabbed more than a dozen people not long ago, looked at Sun Hong, who was angry, squeezed out a smile on his face, didn't say a word, lowered his head and was silently trained.

Guo Fu in the back saw this scene, and almost stared out his eyes in fright?

If he hadn't witnessed it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have been able to believe that this honest descendant in front of him was the living Hades who had beaten the bandits into pulp on the hungry wolf slope before.

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After a while, Sun Hongxun was tired, so Yan Kui took the time to take his cousin Yan Jiang to thank the villagers who wanted to go up the mountain to rescue.

The young and strong people didn't have any strength, how could they dare to take on this favor, they all humbled and greeted Yan Kui, the proud of Daliu Village, for a while, and cared about Yan Jiang, who was tied up, and then said goodbye one after another and went back to their respective homes.

Soon after, only Sun Hong, the village chief, was left, and a few descendants who were friends with the Yan family brothers, accompanied Yan Kui and the three of them back to Yan Kui's house.

On the way, Yan Kui also learned a news from Sun Hong, his father Yan Changlin, learned that his nephew was tied up, he was furious for a while, and fainted directly, and he woke up not long ago under the treatment of Lang Chinese medicine in the town.

The eldest of the Yan family went to the town to follow Lang Zhong to get medicine, Sun Hong was afraid that something would happen to the Yan family again, and the Yan family had no male to take care of it, so he asked the third child of the Yan family to serve Yan's father at home.

Therefore, there was no Yan family in the rescue team just now, otherwise it would be reasonable to go up the mountain to rescue this matter, and the Yan family, the family, could not be present.

"Erlang, Jiangzi, don't worry, Lang Zhong said, Changlin is just ...... Well, by the way, if you are in a hurry, take two pairs of medicines, and rest for a while. ”

Sun Hong was afraid that the Yan Kui brothers would be in a hurry, so he hurriedly comforted the two with Lang Zhong's words.

But having said that, my father (uncle) was sick, how could Yan Kui and his brothers still have the heart to go home slowly, Yan Jiang entrusted the fat man Guo Fu to the two peers, and the two brothers greeted Sun Hong, immediately left everyone behind, and rushed towards the house in stride.

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Yan's house, bedroom

Yan's father, Yan Changlin, frowned, and lay on the bed with a slightly painful expression, while Yan's mother, Chen, was holding a hot towel beside him, wiping the sweat on Yan Changlin's forehead over and over again.

Yan Xiong, the third elder of the Yan family, is still young and has experienced few things, looking at his sick father, he is anxious, but he has no idea in his heart, so he can only squat in the corner and stuffy, helping the Chen family change the basin from time to time.

"Do you have a letter from the second child?"

Maybe the hot towel had an effect, Yan Changlin recovered a little and asked about the progress of saving Yan Jiang. ”

Chen glanced at her man worriedly, and wanted to report a lie first to comfort her husband, but she was afraid that Yan Changlin would not let go of her inquiry, so she couldn't resist showing her timidity, and then made him want to aggravate her condition.

Therefore, after thinking about it again and again, the Chen family still decided to tell the truth: "There is no news yet, but don't worry about you, the eldest brother of the Sun family just sent someone over, saying that he took the people from our village up the mountain to help the second child, and I believe that he will be able to save Jiang Zi soon." ”

Chen's words did not make Yan Changlin relax, and Father Yan sighed depressedly.

"I hope so, Jiang Zi is Changmu's only bone and blood, if something happens to him, how can I explain to Changmu under Jiuquan in the future."

When Chen heard this, his brows furrowed slightly, and he looked at his husband lying on the bed, but he didn't speak, but there was a resentment in his heart.

His second son went to the bandit's nest to save people alone, but her husband didn't ask a word, but he didn't say a word to Yan Jiang, the nephew, and he couldn't help but be dissatisfied with her, a mother.

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However, the Chen family also understands why her husband treats her husband so differently, not that Yan Changlin turns a blind eye to Yan Kui's own son, but that Yan Jiang is the widow of Yan Kui's third uncle, and he is also the only male in the second generation of the Yan family except for Yan Kui's three brothers.

This matter is a long story, in fact, the Yan family was not originally a native of Qingyuan County, but moved to Daliu Village in Qingyuan County in the generation of Yan Kui's grandfather.

It is rumored that the Yan family was also regarded as the queen of the gate at the beginning, and the ancestor was a four-grade general soldier of the former Qi, controlling the soldiers and horses of the first house, so he was not majestic.

It's just that there are unforeseen circumstances, and then the ancestor died on the battlefield, the Yan family lost its pillars, and the family road slowly began to fall, Yan Kui heard Yan's father talk when he was a child, thinking that when Yan Kui first came to Daliu Village, there were only two rolls of straw mats left on his body, and a ragged shirt, and he couldn't be poorer anymore.

Later, Mrs. Yan Kui went to a widow's house in Daliu Village, so that he had a place to shelter from the wind and rain, and then, Mrs. Yan and the widow gave birth to a son, that is, Yan Kui's grandfather.

Yan Kui's grandfather is the only seedling of Mrs. Yan, I heard that in fact, Mrs. Yan also has a son, but he died halfway, so the responsibility for opening up the branches and leaves for the Yan family falls on Yan Kui's grandfather.

Yan Kui's grandfather was also angry, and he had three sons and one daughter in his life, the eldest son Yan Changsen, who was Yan Kui's uncle, was conscripted by the imperial court at the age of eighteen, and died in the hands of the enemy three months later.

The second son, Yan Changlin, that is, Yan's father, has been farming in Daliushu all his life, although he is not rich, but his wife and son are filial, which is enviable.

The third daughter, Yan Hua, married to Dong Guangming, the shopkeeper of the grocery store in the county, is surrounded by children under her knees, and has solid family resources, and is the best one of the brothers and sisters of the Yan family, so Yan Kui, the aunt, often makes up for her mother's brother.

The youngest son, Yan Changmu, married his wife Li, when Yan Kui was two years old, Li was pregnant, and soon, Yan Changmu was called into the army like his eldest brother Yan Sen.

The following year, Yan Changmu was carried back by his fellow villagers on a stretcher with a sigh of relief, and half a month later, without waiting for Yan Jiang to be born, Yan Changmu died of serious injuries.

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Before Yan Changmu died, he asked his brothers and sisters Yan Changlin and Yan Hua to take care of their wives and children, and the brothers and sisters cried and swore to fulfill their little brother's wishes.

Therefore, since Yan Jiang was born, his treatment in the entire Yan family is far better than that of Yan Kui and his three brothers.

As long as there is anything delicious in Yan Kui's family, the fun will be close to Yan Jiang first, and the gifts that Yan Hua brought back to her parents' house from the city will also wait for Yan Jiang to finish picking before it is Yan Kui's turn to get Yan Kui's brother's share.

Even when the Yan brothers were in private school when they were children, Yan Kui's brothers just opened their minds roughly, recognized some words, and because their families couldn't afford to pay the restraints to their husbands, they dropped out of school early and went home to work.

However, with the strong support of Yan's father and Yan Hua's brothers and sisters, Yan Jiang has never stopped studying, although a large part of this is because Yan Jiang is very talented in reading, but it is undeniable that the brothers and sisters of the Yan family have indeed treated this fatherless nephew a little bit kindly.

It can be said that in Yan Changlin's mind, Yan Jiang's status as a nephew is higher than that of his three sons, and the reason for this is not only blood and family, but also the expectation of the Yan family's branches, as well as the oath he made with his dead third brother Yan Changmu.

Therefore, as soon as Yan Changlin heard that Yan Jiang had been taken captive, he immediately fainted in anger, and almost ignored the safety of Yan Kui, his own son, and was more than worried about Yan Jiang.........