The Song State occupied the land of Yuzhou, and the land of Yuzhou was fertile in the Central Plains. Where Yuzhou and Yanzhou and Jizhou meet, there is a place for plugging.

Plugging the plain, the wind is strong and the snow is cold, and the white expanse is like the clouds in the sky, such as the reed flowers by the river. There are a few families in the sparse Lala on the plain, and there are white sheep, black horses, and cattle gnawing in the wind and snow.

Jue grew two years old, and finally grew from a childish child to a young man. This idiot strayed into the Luoyi School Palace for no reason, served as a sacrificial wine, and was beaten down from the top of heavenly morality.

It was cold, and the idiot hid in the felt room and refused to go out, and the cows, sheep and horses were bleating and neighing in the pen.

Sympathy for the same disease, the cows, sheep and horses can only take a sip of wind and snow, and the idiot Jue rummages through the felt room and doesn't even have a cold bun left.

Plugging the Mangyuan herdsmen hundreds, cattle and sheep and horses are not less than 10,000 heads, and the idiot Jue must be the smallest household, only herding one cow, two sheep, and one horse.

Someone entered the yurt, dangled in front of Jue with a cold bun in his hand, and said: "Idiot, exchange the bun for a sheep, do you change it?"

Jue nodded, and took the cold bun as if he had obtained a treasure. The man went out of the felt room alone, and went into a large pen to take the fattest sheep.

The sheep bleated goodbye to Jue, Jue came out of the felt room, counted the cattle, sheep and horses in the circle, and went into the felt room to avoid the wind and snow.

There was a quarrel outside, and after the quarrel died down, a girl entered the felt room and asked, "Have you exchanged buns with someone again?"

"Who do you say?" Jue glanced up at her, thought for a moment and handed her half of the bun in his hand.

The girl didn't answer, muttering, "What an idiot."

"I'm Jue, it's the first time we met, and I'm polite." Jue suddenly remembered that it was advantageous to get along with others, so he put down the cold bun and gave a gift.

The girl burst out laughing, her eyebrows were crooked, and she said, "What an interesting fellow, my family has horses, and when I was born, there was a white cloud in the sky, so my name is Yunduo."

"Remember, I'm also a herder, I have cows, sheep and horses, you can play with me." Jue nodded seriously.

The clouds pulled Jue out, pointed to the empty sheepfold and asked, "How many?"

Jue waved his hand and counted them, and replied, "There are cows, sheep, and horses."

Yun Duo stomped his feet and said angrily: "How long have you been here, there are dozens of cows, sheep and horses."

Jue tilted his head and counted again, and replied seriously: "There are cows, horses, and sheep, no less."

Yun Duo didn't bother to entangle with him, so he asked, "What about the old shepherd?" How can I leave you alone? ”

Jue couldn't remember any old shepherd, so he asked, "There is another old shepherd?"

Someone in the distance was calling for the clouds, and the clouds said "hey" and waved goodbye.

Luoyi School Palace, Zou Guwen wine study, the courtyard is snowy, the son Liu is naughty, and he is building a snowman with the maid.

An old man came from the wind and snow, saw Zou Gu, bowed down and said; "Meet the sacrificial wine."

"Ou Yao, have you figured it out?" Zou Gu helped him up and asked someone to take a seat.

Ou Yao nodded and said, "The guilty minister of the dead country, I am grateful for the love of the sacrificial wine."

"Go to Wuyi to see King Song, this Luoyi is not surnamed Qiao." Zou Gu said.

Ou Yao gave his hand and did not enter the wind and snow again.

Song Xiao got better with typhoid fever, met with Ou Yao, and said with a look of shame: "Ou Qing has been shepherding sheep on the plug for three years, it is rude."

Ou Yao hurriedly arched his hand and said: "The guilty minister of the dead country, thanks to the Song King's concern."

"The widow wants to worship Ou Qing as a commonplace, what does Ou Qing think?" Song Xiao asked.

"Thank you." Ou Yao bowed three times and was grateful. Song took the three divisions as the three dukes, and the position of the empty man was so prominent.

Plugged into the plain, Yun Duo said goodbye to Jue and returned with his mother. Her family's yurt is miles away, and it has entered the boundary of Yanzhou.

The snow was knee-high, and the mother and daughter struggled to drive a flock of sheep eastward.

It was past noon, and the sun was high in the sky but it was not warm. The clouds in the sky, the sheep and the snow on the ground spread out a roll of plain white cloth, the clouds held the whip, the mother hugged the lamb, and the mother and daughter left a series of footprints of different shades.

Jue stood outside the yurt, looking at the mother and son in the distance, this idiot thought of his mother for the first time.

Jue is an idiot, forget one day after another, forget one year old and forget one year old, only remember to respect his mother, take Meng Lan as a teacher, take Yanzhou as a friend, and take Chang'an as a neighbor.

It has been two years since he left his mother, and he has never thought about it, and today he is in love with the scene, and it is not for nothing that he thinks of his mother.

The appearance of her mother is very vague, Jue can't remember it clearly, she only remembers that she spun and weaved all day long, ploughed the fields and planted mulberry.

Yunduo passed by a yurt, and his mother greeted the drunken old shepherd: "Uncle, don't get drunk, there are wolves coming, your sheepfold is broken, be careful."

The old shepherd had dozens of sheep, fat and strong, but there was a big hole in the fence of the sheepfold, and the sheep turned out and called around the clouds along the hole.

The clouds brought the seven or eight sheep outside the pen back into the pen and greeted the old shepherd.

The old shepherd glanced at the mother and daughter, and then at the sheepfold, and said, "Don't get in the way, the wolf is coming and just skinning, and when the time comes, please make a pair of boots."

It was already dark when the clouds and their mothers rushed home, the twilight clouds were kind, the wind was howling, and it was another cold night.

Although the days are poor, there are fathers and brothers who love them, and the clouds are happy all day long, with the sheep as their companions, the sheep eat grass, and she sings.

My father often told the two brothers and sisters about strange things in the world. For example, there is Emei Immortal Mountain in Liangzhou, and there is a fairy on the mountain, and he will cut the cloth into a cloud with a wave of his hand; There is an ethereal mountain in the East China Sea, and there is a sea on the mountain, which can walk on the waves; There is Jin Alin in Beiyan, and Jin Alin has a person named Ai Shi, who can speak beast language and can drive tigers and wolves; There is a peach blossom valley in Qishan, and there are four elephants and mythical beasts in the valley......

The more Yun Duo grows up, the more she feels that her father is making nonsense, after all, the world is so big in Kyushu, and she has never even stepped out of the Mangyuan.

The noisy day is a pastoral song composed of cows and sheep, and the lonely night is the wail of wolves and tigers. Hungry wolves roam the Saishang Plains all winter, hungry for a winter, hungry for a long time, hunger has caused them to lose the last of their senses, and gather outside the pasture.

Jue ate the cold bun and did not forget to throw a handful of hay to the cattle, sheep and thin horses in the pen. After doing all this, he curled up on the wool mat left behind by the old shepherd.

The wolf howled, getting closer and closer. Huddled in the corner, he could already smell the hot breath of the wolf.

The cattle, sheep and thin horses in the circle called uneasily, but the owner was an idiot and a child, and his own safety could not be guaranteed, how could he have the spare energy to manage them.

"Yunge, follow me to take a look."

"I'll go too, Daddy." The clouds shouted.

"The girl's family, it's good to stay."

The father and son carried a lantern and a whistle stick to the sheepfold.

Although the sheep were frightened, fortunately there was no loss, and the two shepherd dogs whimpered to the west.

Yun Ge said: "My sheepfold is very solid, and there are shepherd dogs, it must be that Uncle Xiahou in the west has suffered."

"Let's take a look, if you can help, you can help, and the sheep are life."

Yunge carried a lantern, his father carried a whistle stick, and two shepherd dogs followed.

There are not many herdsmen around, but there are only seven or eight households within a radius of ten miles, this old man Xiahou is alone, not to mention sheep, even people are afraid that they will suffer.

When the two arrived, more than a dozen hungry wolves were harming the sheep in the sheepfold, and Uncle Xiahou was still sleeping in the yurt.

Yun Ge went in and shook the old shepherd awake and shouted, "Uncle Xiahou, the wolf is coming."

Uncle Xiahou said with a mouthful of wine: "Sooner or later, what will the wolf eat if the wolf is hungry and not eat the sheep?"

Uncle Xiahou's indifferent appearance made Yun Ge speechless for a while, so he had to pull him up.

Outside the house, Yunge's father was chasing a hungry wolf with a whistle stick, and the hungry wolf was cornered and bared his teeth. More than a dozen wolves escaped, seven or eight

Two horses died, and the remaining one was at the end of the road. The whistle stick fell, hitting the nasal bone and killing with one blow.

"Brother is very skilled." Uncle Xiahou clapped his hands and said, as if it was not his sheep that died.

Yun Ge pointed to the sheepfold and said, "Uncle Xiahou, you can see that your sheep have died a lot."

"It's good to be dead, just eat mutton," Uncle Xiahou kicked the wolf corpse and said, "Please ask your mother to help make three pairs of boots." ”

"Let's go." The father of Yunge carried a horse lantern in one hand and a whistle stick in the other, and a dead wolf hung from the whistle stick.

Yun Ge shrugged his shoulders and followed with two dead wolves.

At dawn, Jue walked out of the yurt, and the cattle, sheep, thin and horses in the pen were unscathed, as if they were hungry, and their hooves cut through the snow and nibbled on the grass sprouts that only showed their sharp tips.

Jue counted them, and then he was satisfied with a handful of hay and threw it into the circle.

Uncle Xiahou's family gathered five or six herdsmen, all of whom were nearby herdsmen, probably knowing that Uncle Xiahou's family had suffered a wolf disaster last night, and came to watch.

Jue also leaned over, and Yun Duo handed him a rice ball and said, "Hurry up and eat, it's hot."

Jue first gave a salute, and then the rice ball was swallowed.

"Uncle, I said I wanted you to mend the sheepfold a long time ago, but you didn't listen."

"Too much horse urine?"

Everyone was gossiping, their faces half regretful, half happy.

"Good wine," Uncle Xiahou untied the wine bag, took another sip, exclaimed, raised the wine bag again, and asked Jue, "Take a sip of wine, do you drink it?" ”

Everyone laughed, Jue blushed, took the wine bag, took a small sip, and exhaled with a spicy grin.

The onlookers felt that they were bored and dispersed, after all, the excitement was only temporary, and the grazing could not be delayed for a while. So Uncle Xiahou's family only left Yun Ge, Yun Duo brothers and sisters and Jue.

"Were you afraid last night?" Cloud asked in a whisper.

Before Jue could speak, Yun Ge said first: "The eldest husband was born in heaven and earth, how can he say that he is afraid."

Jue has grown crazy in the past two years, and he still lowered Yun Ge's head, he looked up at Yun Ge and said, "I want to be a gentleman."

Yun Ge didn't care, and told Yun Duo to go home early, and he hurried to shepherd the sheep.

When Yunge walked away, Uncle Xiahou asked, "Why do you want to be a gentleman?"

Yun Duo knew that Uncle Xiahou and the old shepherd Ou Yao both came to Saishang Mangyuan to shepherd sheep three years ago, but someone picked up Ou Yao a few days ago, and Jue came to Saishang Mangyuan at that time. In Yunduo's impression, Uncle Xiahou and Ou Yao are old acquaintances, and the two are good friends, but a year ago, the two suddenly died of old age and did not get along.

Jue replied: "Mr. Meng said, a gentleman should cultivate himself and rule the country and level the world, and Mr. Zou taught me the art of vertical and horizontal, which is not a gentleman's trip."

Uncle Xiahou looked at this childish man who had been here for half a moon for the first time, and asked, "Mr. Meng is Meng Lan?"

Jue nodded, arched his hand and said, "Mr. Meng taught, so I shouldn't be a husband."

Uncle Xiahou didn't know that Jue was an idiot, and asked, "Are you Mr. Meng's protégé?"

Jue bowed and said, "Mr. gives the name Jue."

"Hahaha, then be a gentleman and be a big man." Uncle Xiahou said with a smile.

Jue and Yun Duo glanced at each other, and Yun Duo explained in a low voice: "Uncle Xiahou is this virtue, you don't care about him, let's shepherd the sheep?"

Old Uncle Xiahou pointed his ears and scolded: "A gentleman should not shepherd sheep, let alone indulge in women, you will come with me in the future."

Although Yun Duo was young, he understood, his ears turned red, and he stomped his feet and ran away.

Seeing that Jue didn't nod, Uncle Xiahou said again: "The old man's name is Xiahou Zhongqing, the former Qiao Guo Situ, and he is good friends with Meng Lan."

Xiahou Zhongqing cut the meat of the front leg of the sheep and cooked, Jue squatted on the side and watched, without saying a word.

"Why were you banished here to shepherd sheep?" Xiahou Zhongqing tore off a piece of mutton and handed it to Jue.

The mutton was hot, Jue panicked, nibbled on it, and ignored it.

Xiahou Zhongqing also tore a piece of mutton and chewed it slowly, and said, "Just because Zou Gu wants you to learn the art of vertical and horizontal, you don't want to?"

Jue nodded and said, "Mr. Meng said that he got two ears for Jiahe; The teacher has two sons, and he is a good teacher. Since this is the case, then I can't have two teachers, so Mr. Meng taught me the etiquette of a gentleman and I learned, and Mr. Zou lied to me, and I didn't learn. ”

If Meng Lan heard that Jue actually remembered what he said casually, I was afraid that her jaw would drop in shock.

"Do you know the difference between a gentleman and a husband?" Xiahou Zhongqing asked and answered himself, "Self-cultivation Qi family rules the country and the world, a gentleman's trip; The rich and noble cannot be lewd, the poor and the lowly cannot be moved, the mighty cannot be bent, and the husband is also. ”

"Is the old gentleman a husband or a gentleman?" Jue asked.

"I'm going to say it's a big husband, are you not following me?" Xiahou Zhongqing asked.

Jue nodded.

"I want to say that it is a gentleman, but I am lying to you, what is the difference between it and Zou Gu and others," Xiahou Zhongqing said.

Jue took a small bite of meat, and took a small sip of wine from the wine bag.

"They all say that I am an idiot, I am so forgetful that I can't even remember a piece of "Golden Harvest"; I can't remember what my mother looks like; You may not be able to remember the clouds tomorrow; Jue drooped his head, his tone was low, and he looked up at Xiahou Zhongqing's eyes seriously and said, "I can't be a gentleman or a husband, Mr. Zou said that I am a rotten wood." Mr. Meng didn't say it, but he only recognized Shi Yanzhou, not me. ”

Xiahou Zhongqing listened to Jue's heartfelt words, and he was all pitiful.

"Whether it's a gentleman or a husband, they all end up in the same place, and you don't understand," Xiahou Zhongqing said, "Would you like to learn from me about the trip of the eldest husband?" Mr. Meng will have difficulties in the future. ”

Xiahou Zhongqing said extremely secretly, and the last sentence was undoubtedly very tempting, Jue asked, "Can the husband of the university help Mr. Meng?"

"Shepherd with me." Xiahou Zhongqing raised his sword and said, which can be regarded as a tacit acquiescence.

Jue drove the sheep to follow behind and asked, "The old gentleman said that a gentleman should not shepherd sheep."

Xiahou Zhongqing laughed and said, "The old man is not a gentleman."

Plug the name of the original river in Mang, which flows all year round, and the water has also become a winter pasture in the cold winter. The two walked to the water, and the sheep nibbled on the grass to eat the newly unearthed shoots and enjoy the rare delicacies.

"The old man taught you how to practice swords." After Xiahou Zhongqing finished speaking, he danced his sword on the riverside.

Jue stood on the riverside and looked at Xiahou Zhongqing dancing with a sword, one move and one style was strong and powerful.

"Do you see clearly?" Xiahou Zhongqing finished dancing a set of sword skills and asked.

Jue nodded, he couldn't take his eyes off it, he was indeed watching.

"I'll dance again, you feel it with your heart." Xiahou Zhongqing pointed to his heart and said.

Xiahou Zhongqing danced again, much slower, and each move was separated.

"Did you get it?" Xiahou Zhongqing asked again.

Jue nodded, he felt it with his heart, and it was not difficult to make that move.

"Come on, you try." Xiahou Zhongqing handed the iron sword to Jue.

Jue stretched out his hand to pick it up, but his body was weak, and he couldn't hold the iron sword, so he was deflated. If you can't hold the sword steadily, how can you dance the sword?

Xiahou Zhongqing went to the riverbank and broke a branch, handed it to Jue, and said, "Use this first."

Jue held the branch for a long time, it was very awkward, his eyes could see clearly, and he was attentive, but his hands did not obey the call.

"Take off your clothes." Xiahou Zhongqing scolded.

Jue looked dazed, but still did it. The weather is already cold, and it is even colder to the bone without clothing.

"Go down and swim for an hour." Xiahou Zhongqing pointed to the water and said.

With a "plop", Jue gritted his teeth and jumped into the water, his blood almost stopped flowing, and his breath was short.

"The eldest husband can't bear this hardship, how can he help Mr. Meng?" Just when Jue was so cold that he almost fainted, Xiahou Zhongqing's words made him come back to his senses, and he gritted his teeth and paddled the water.

There were many herdsmen on the bank of the water, and when they saw Jue diving into the water, they thought they had fallen into the water, so they hurriedly gathered around to find out.

Seeing that it was just that idiot, the young man who had exchanged cold buns for sheep shouted before: "Idiot, I have three buns, in exchange for your cattle, sheep and thin horses, can you change them?"

Xiahou Zhongqing looked at the young man with a smile and asked, "Your name is Zha Wu?"

The boy ran away, shouting, "Old madman, little idiot, one old and one young."

"Uncle Xiahou, what kind of enmity do you have with Jue?" Yun Duo first questioned Xiahou Zhongqing, and then beckoned Jue, "Come up quickly." ”

Jue shook his head, if he can't bear this hardship, how can he become a husband and help Mr. Meng? I am an idiot, I am afraid that I will not be able to be a gentleman, and if I can't be a gentleman, then I will be a big husband.

Yun Ge said approvingly: "This is what a big husband looks like, and when spring begins, I will take you to drive wolves and tigers."

Yun Duo was so anxious that he stamped his feet and shouted, "What kind of big husband will die like this."

"Are there fewer people in the world who have died? When a reckless person is slaughtered? Xiahou Zhongqing sneered. In the end, it is a little woman, short-sighted.

"The eldest husband is born in heaven and earth, and he should stand on top of the heavens and the earth," Yun Ge high-fived and said, "Jue, when you grow up, I will tell my father and mother to marry you Duoduo." ”

Yun smiled and blushed, stomped his feet and ran away.

It's cold, and the snow is deep.

There is a murmuring water, which does not freeze in winter, and the water is murmuring.

There is an old man whose eyes are like torches, and his hands are dancing with swords, like an old sheep crawling.

There are young people who don't know the cold in winter, like a thin fish in the water.

There are clouds like clouds in the sky, and they are leisurely shepherding sheep and singing.

There are cloud songs, walking on songs, driving wolves and tigers, like eagles hitting the sky.

"What if it's a carp dragon gate? Who knows. Xiahou Zhongqing took a big sip of wine, sighed with emotion, drew his sword and danced, one move and one style endlessly.