On the fifth day of September in the 14th year of Zheng, Yidu Road, Shandong, about 200 miles south of Yidu City, Yuan's hometown.

Chenshi. In a wing house in the village.

In the faint pain in his head, Yu Zhilong slowly woke up from his sleep. Before he opened his eyes, there were waves of buzzing chirps in his ears, the sound was like ocean waves, sometimes far and sometimes near, sometimes big and sometimes small, washing over Yu Zhilong's brain. I just woke up, my consciousness was not yet awake, and I felt that many clear and hazy pictures in the dream were still emerging in front of me, accompanied by the sound of buzzing tinnitus, Yu Zhilong tried to recognize what he could see, but these pictures were like flowing fog from himself, and he couldn't see clearly.

Yu Zhilong slowly woke up, the tinnitus gradually disappeared, and gradually heard someone walking around, whispering, occasionally there were a few crisp metal collisions, and there seemed to be birdsong in the distance. The birds chirped, the sound was crisp and bright, and after listening to it for a long time, the restless mood gradually calmed down a lot.

After finally sobering up, Yu Zhilong closed his eyes and sighed slightly, the pain in his head has not disappeared in the past few months, at the beginning, he even had a splitting headache, it was difficult to sleep every day, and there were often many complicated and grotesque scenes in his mind, just like when he watched social dramas when he was a child, he took turns to perform social dramas, but these scenes were really vague, and he couldn't understand it, as if he was playing a role in it, constantly following the rhythm of gongs and drums and the beat of the drums, and like a boring spectator, Lonely watching the scenes on the stage under the stage, as for what he saw, and how much he saw into his eyes, he didn't even know himself. After the end of the song, I couldn't remember whether it was people in the play or in people.

Later, Yu Zhilong gradually understood the meaning of these pictures, as if he had lived in a distant future life, read books, and worked, somehow, some of these thoughts and memories actually came to today's body, and became one with Yu Zhilong in this world, but the thoughts and memories of these later generations are still very incomplete, there is no overall memory, just some brief pictures. Yu Zhilong can't tell the people around him, people in this era can't understand the life and thoughts of later generations, if they talk about it to others, I'm afraid that everyone will still think that they have hysteria.

Yu Zhilong once asked Qian Zheng in the team how to treat hysteria. Qian Zheng is nicknamed Xiucai, and he knows a little bit about the art of Qihuang. Qian Zheng's method is to repeatedly pour some pickled substances such as feces and urine into his abdomen, and when he thinks of the peculiar smell of those pickles, Yu Zhilong wants to vomit, and secretly resolves to rot this secret in his stomach forever.

It's just that when the pain is unbearable, Yu Zhilong really can't sleep. The day is bearable, after the night, the men and horses are fighting, marching, raising food, and sentry for a day, and the people are already sleepy and tired, once they choose a place to rest, most of them are tired, and they have dreamed of Zhou Gong, but Yu Zhilong is even more suffering from headaches and difficult to sleep. In desperation, I had to take the initiative to be on duty at night, and only when I had time during the day, I took a nap and made up for sleep. After more than a month, due to poor rest, his spirit was even more unbearable, and finally his eyes turned black, his face turned pale, and he almost fell off his horse several times when he was marching on horseback.

Everyone didn't know what was going on, and they thought that Yu Zhilong loved his companions and rushed to suffer more, Wu Side, Ma Rulong and Huang Er in the same scout team were happy to be more relaxed, and Zhao Shi and Yu Zhilong had the deepest friendship with their fellow villagers, and they usually took more care of Zhilong.

Seeing Yu Zhilong's expression so unbearable, Qian Zheng said that this was just the sequelae of Yu Zhilong's head injury.

A few months ago, Yu Zhilong was swept to the head with a spear by the leader of the rebel army on horseback, and the person fell into a coma on the spot, but fortunately, there was a lot of blood left in his ears at that time, and it did not accumulate in the skull, and his hearing and vision were not greatly affected, but the head bulged out with a swollen bag the size of a child's fist, and it took more than ten days to gradually reduce the swelling.

Later, Qian Zheng asked for some gold sore medicine and bone-setting cream at the hospital to mix them, and applied them to the wounds of Zhilong's head several times, and then wrapped layers of silk cloth, so that Yu Zhilong was like a big cannibal who was wrapped around his head and doing business. Qian Zheng also picked a variety of thatch, pounded out the juice, filtered it, and after boiling it, let Yu Zhilong take it internally many times. Yu Zhilong only recognized a lot of dandelions, psyllium, bitter herbs, strawberry roots, bupleurum grass, etc., fortunately, although the medicinal juice is bitter, it seems to have some effect, even after drinking for a month, the symptoms of headache have been relieved a lot, and he can sleep peacefully for a while at night, and the original anxiety and fatigue are gradually relieved.

Qian Zheng saw the changes before and after Yu Zhilong, and couldn't help but boast of his excellent medical skills in front of people, although he didn't dare to compare himself to Hua Tuo's reincarnation and Bian Que's rebirth, but he was often compared to the descendants of the two medical immortals.

After all, when Xiucai Qian Zheng read the Four Books and Five Classics when he was young, he had read some "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" and "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" in the school, remembered some recipes, and reluctantly treated everyone, but everyone still called him a half-bucket Xiucai.

Qian Zheng's family background is relatively solid, and his father and ancestors have studied more literature, and he has always had the desire to enter the imperial examination.

In the second year of the Emperor's celebration, after years of controversy, the Yuan court finally issued the edict of the imperial examination. It is held once every three years, during which due to Boyan's arbitrary power, he insisted on abolishing the department, and the department was suspended twice.

There were a total of 300 places under the rule of the Yuan court, and the Mongols, Semu, Han and Nan accounted for 75 each, while the number of Han people in Shandong was really limited, and there were only 7 Han people allocated to Shandong. These thousands of troops crossed the single-plank bridge, and the fierce fighting on the fame field is absolutely rare in the world. Although several generations of Xiucai's family have fought hard in the examination room many times, they have all been fruitless.

In the Qian Zheng generation, because the family had many acres of fertile land on the river beach, but the county's Daru Huachi took a fancy to it, and repeatedly sought to buy it at a low price, but after being refused, the county's Daru Huachi secretly married the county Cheng, and gave the Xiucai family a hidden acre, privately spreading disrespectful words to the imperial court, and other crimes, and seized the Qian family's property. After the Qian family was wronged in the appeal, they ate the board of the county government again, and Xiucai's father was angry and soon died. Although Qian Zheng has been studying literature for many years, his body is quite tough, and he is also a little chivalrous in the township.

"Less than the head woke up? How are you feeling today? A rough accent rang in Zhilong's ears. The man should have been by Yu Zhilong's side for a while, and seeing Yu Zhilong's eyes moving slightly and his breathing heavier, he knew that he had woken up from his dream.

Yu Zhilong opened his eyes and looked sideways, there was a big man squatting on the side of the kang who was wiping knives, this person was red and slightly bearded, about thirty years old, tall and tall, more than nine feet old. "I'm tired of Brother Zhao!" Yu Zhilong hurriedly responded, these days, in addition to Xiucai often boiling medicine for him, it is this Brother Zhao who takes the most care of him. Yu Zhilong is only eighteen years old in this world, and Brother Zhao and Xiucai are both villagers in his township.

During the Yuan Dynasty, not only did Shandong suffer from frequent droughts and floods, but other provinces also suffered from natural disasters, and the government and gentry were more and more forced to pursue it year after year, the people were miserable, and the society was in turmoil. Large and small official killings and rebellions occurred one after another, and the officials and troops rushed from place to place, repeatedly encircled and suppressed, and were tired of insufficient troops, and the imperial court finally had to allow the gentry from all over the country to recruit rebels to make up for the lack of troops. In the face of the increasingly erosive situation, the higher authorities not only did not repent, but thought that the Han and Nanren were treacherous and untamable, and did not obey the king, and the various government management became more and more stringent, and the taxes became heavier.

Brother Zhao's real name is Zhao Shi, the family only has a few acres of thin fields, and the family mainly relies on Zhao Shi to work for the owner. In order to survive, he had to cooperate with others to sell some illicit salt, and was later investigated and punished by the government, so he had to fall into the grass. Zhao Shi has learned a few fists and feet, is upright but not foolish, although he has been repeatedly injured in many battles, but the fighting kung fu is also becoming more and more proficient, gradually emerging in the team, daily work and combat dare to take responsibility, and soon become a scout team of 100 households.

Yu Zhilong and Zhao Shi joined the gang together, although they were young, but they fought bravely and resolutely, and they are now the general flag of the scout team. It's just that now, the families of Yu and Zhao have passed away one after another, leaving only Yu Zhilong and Zhao Shi.

Yu Zhilong opened his eyes, supported his body, and sat up from the straw mat. Zhao Shi casually handed over a scoop of water, Yu Zhilong took it and drank it all, feeling much refreshed, and his head didn't hurt so much.

Now they live in a wing room of a large family in the township, because there are many people and few rooms, most of them still lay on the floor, and the only kang in the wing room is now Zhao Shi and Yu Zhilong asleep.

As soon as he put down the water scoop, Yu Zhilong heard a burst of footsteps outside the door, and several people were walking directly to this room. Then the door of the wing room, which had not been completely covered, was knocked open with a bang, and four men came in, and a few people went to other houses to rest on their own.

The first person was stout and burly, in his thirties, with big eyes, attractive ears, and some beards. The man turned his head and saw Yu Zhilong, saw him sitting, and immediately shouted: "Less than the head, you are awake!" Can I go out with my brother tomorrow to get food? Before the words fell, the man had already found a small wooden stool, leaned his back against the earthen wall, sat down, untied the saber from his waist, and put it on the ground, and then breathed a sigh of comfort.

Zhao Shi to: "Side, how about this time?" ”

"Hey, the worst of the day! After turning four villages, the big households have run away, and there are not even rats in the empty warehouse. In the end, on the way, the old brother Feng was shot to death by the damned official army detective, and the Yang brothers were also injured. The Chinese character who sat down was called Wu Side, and replied indignantly.

"If it goes on like this, sooner or later, the mountain will be empty, and now Meng Lao's men and horses are getting closer and closer, and his sentry horse is not far from us! This time it was the Feng brothers who were careless, they were exploring the way in front, but they didn't expect that there were officers and soldiers hiding in the woods at the Huangshi Cliff, these grandsons wanted to catch Lao Tzu's prisoners after shooting arrows, fortunately Lao Tzu saw the opportunity early, and got rid of these turtle sons! However, there is no way to bring back the bones of the old brother. "A Chinese character nicknamed Ma Face on the side.

Ma Yunlong, a pock-faced person, followed Wu Side in and found a bench to sit with a few other people who came in. The four men took off their armor or bows and arrows, and put down their spears or swords.

Side continued: "We have few horses, weak feet, and the spies of the official army can't be compared, they have more horses, more bows and arrows, and even the sword of the old thief Meng is not bad!" His grandmother's, when we used to farm the land, the old thief Meng rode on our heads, and now the old thief directly recruited soldiers and horses to fight with us, and five times out of ten times he was pressed and beaten by them. This battle is suffocating! Speaking of which, Brother Yu's clever plan last time was really good, he hit an ambush with the old thief, but the brothers sulked. ”

"Less than the head, you have a lot of ideas, what should we do in the future?" Wu Side said indignantly.

"Ah, yes, let's have an idea!" The people in the room looked at Yu Zhilong Dao.

In the past six months, Yu Zhilong from time to time according to the surrounding situation and the current situation, put forward some useful suggestions, the big leader Yu Hai and the people did not pay attention to it at first, and gradually after adopting some suggestions, they found that it did have an effect, although not every time they can say it, there are times when the judgment is wrong, but most of them are still good, especially in the first two months of several suggestions, so that the team jumped out of the encirclement circle of the official army without danger, and laid down a few large villages, supplementing the urgently needed grain and grass. Last month, Yu Zhilong offered another plan to kill a horse pistol, and taught the team of Meng Jiashan, the third son of Meng Lao Thief, a hard lesson, and beat the most urgent pursuit of the heroic gentry and righteous army, and also killed two hundred households in Mengjiashan. Although the team was tired from marching, it helped everyone survive in this troubled world. Gradually, some of the people in this team, especially most of the scout team, gradually regarded him as a staff officer, and they liked to chat with Yu Zhilong when they had nothing to do, and talked about the direction of their future activities. Among these people, Zhao Shi, Xiucai, Wu Side, Ma Mian, Feng Laoxi, Hou Ying, etc., Zhao Shi is a hundred scouts, and he is quite satisfied with the recent performance of this little fellow.

Because Yu Zhilong fought bravely and was resourceful, he was promoted to the general flag of the scout team some time ago, and Wu Side, Ma Mian, and Huang Er belonged to him.

Knowing that Yu Zhilong was not resting well during this time, Zhao Shi and the others took more care of Zhilong, hoping that Yu Zhilong's body would recover as soon as possible.

The most surprising thing for everyone is that Yu Zhilong can read a lot of words! Although multiple numbers will not be written.

In this era, those who can read and write are often the upper class, and they have the time and money to go to county schools or private schools, and the probability of being able to read and write in the whole society will never exceed 1 in 10, or even more than 5 in 1,000. Yu Zhilong's explanation is that he worked in a large private school when he was a child, and he was on the side at the time to recognize some words, because Zhao Shi and Xiucai from the same township testified, and everyone believed it. In private, because Yu Zhilong can read and write, and in his spare time, he is also willing to tell you a storytelling story or read some interesting stories about local county chronicles, etc., so everyone laughs and relaxes after being nervous and tired, so everyone also calls Yu Zhilong half a gentleman. Xiucai has read the county school, but he doesn't like the scriptures, so he has to Qi Huang's technique, and at this time he sings and harmonizes with Yu Zhilong, which complements each other.

Yu Zhilong is not good at explaining that this ability is a vague impression of later generations, but unfortunately now it is all traditional characters, no punctuation, or vertical style, often encounter rare words, even if they have to ponder for a while to barely understand the general meaning, especially rare words have to ask Xiucai. Fortunately, after Mongolia entered the Central Plains, it gradually became sinicized, and many articles and records were written in semi-literary language, which did not cause much difficulty in reading.

Because Yu Zhilong and Qian Zhengneng were literate, after the team had laid down some administrative posts, the big leader Yu Hai arranged for Yu Zhilong and Qian Zheng to sort out the seized documents, local notices, Yuan court residence newspapers, various account books, etc., so as to understand the military and political trends of the Yuan court.

Yu Zhilong sat up completely, lifted the tattered quilt that had been mended on his body, formed a ball, carefully placed it behind him, and then put on the cloth shoes on the edge of the kang, smoothed the corners of his clothes and pants, and looked around at the crowd, it was obvious that everyone's spirit was not high, only Zhao Shi was not annoyed, sitting in the corner of the kang with his hand, rubbing his chin with his hand, I don't know what he was thinking.

Yu Zhilong thought for a while and asked, "How many waves have been found in Meng Thief's exploration today?" Where are their strikers now? ”

Meng thief refers to the great man Meng Qing of Yidu Road, the family has four sons, in order to exterminate this rebel army, in the case of ineffective official combat, in response to the so-called righteousness of the Yuan court, self-organized righteous army, and the rebel army has been fighting for more than a year, and now is personally leading the army to pursue Yu Zhilong and them, the two sides have fought many times.

"Let me tell you, we found a total of three teams of Meng Lao Thief's horse exploration today, each team has four or five people, and the team that attacked us in the woods has a large number of people, there are seven people, all with bows and arrows, it should be the old thief's horse exploration team." The yellow-faced Chinese character sitting on one side, named Hou Ying, said,

"This time, because I suddenly ran into each other and broke the old brother, I didn't go too far. However, when we arrived at Qingshuihe, we saw that Meng Jiaxun's banner was stationed in Guojia Village, Hebei, about 600 people, and the horse team was about 100 people, which should have arrived yesterday. The men and horses of the captain of Zhaoxin in Yidu Mansion have arrived in Wujingji in the northeast, about 100 miles away from us, and the Wuda Suma in the west has passed through Lushan, and it is estimated that they will be able to reach Longtouyan tomorrow, although Ye Zhicheng in the south did not go out of the city to advance, but the elder brother of the Liu family found that there were two more teams of Han troops in the city in the past two days, and the banners were Qianhu Dianxin and Qianhu Gu Zhenhua's men and horses. There are more than 100 grain and grass trucks that are sent into the city every day. ”

Yu Zhilong turned his head and said, "Brother Shi, how much food do we have?" ”

Zhao Shidao: "Counting sorghum and bean feed, it is about more than 200 stones. Yu Zhilong meditated on the changes in the situation in the past few days, and before he could figure out a clear idea, a small leader ran in from outside the room, and shouted loudly: "Everyone go to the ancestral hall to gather, and the eldest brother will gather all the big and small leaders to discuss the matter!" Then he went on to call out to the others.