If I have to say anything different, I am afraid that in the six years of Xingqian, more and more people have begun to take the initiative to go overseas, at least take the initiative to leave their hometowns. Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in the land of China, people who had been imprisoned in the countryside for reasons such as filial piety have once again flowed.

Snow is still falling.

It's been three days now.

Looking at the snow in the sky, Qiao Anton sighed in his heart.

Tomorrow, he will be eighteen years old.

Before entering the house, the mother whispered to him.

"Go in, don't talk loudly, don't get up when you kneel, scold you and you just listen there, if you dare to be hard-mouthed, the old lady will definitely kick you out!"

The old lady is the old lady of the Qiao family, and she is also the actual principal of the Qiao family, Qiao Andong knows that the money for his future college will all depend on the old lady, as for his eldest brother, he doesn't ask about family affairs, how the old lady decides, then how to decide, so although he is wronged, he can only listen to his mother's words. When he entered the house, he saw the old lady sitting there, with a brazier at her feet.

"Get on your knees!"

When the mother was instructed to kneel, the old man was sitting there with a cigarette pouch in his mouth, and she squinted, and her wrinkled eyes didn't even lift it, and she didn't say a word.

Smoke came from the copper cigarette pouch pot, and the smell of smoke choked as she swallowed and dimmed. This smoke doesn't smell like any ordinary smoke.

It should be Yunnan smoke.

The best cigarette in the world is Yunnan tobacco, and ordinary people can't afford to smoke this, but the Qiao family is not an ordinary family, and the Qiao family is a big family.

After kneeling for a while, Joe Anton's knees were uncomfortable. How can you not feel uncomfortable kneeling on the icy and hard brick floor?

What's more, he was very aggrieved in his heart, he just argued with his nephew for two sentences, he is an elder, and if his nephew did something wrong, can't he talk about it? Kneeling here old lady, but even if you kneel like this, she still looks like she didn't see it.

Finally, the old lady handed the cigarette to a maid behind her, and then sat up slowly.

"Do you know why I called you over?"

The old lady's voice was a little hoarse, probably because of the cigarette she had just smoked.

Enduring the feeling of grievance in his heart, Qiao Anton kowtowed and whispered.

"Back to the old lady, I know that I am wrong, I make the old lady sad, and I will never dare to do it again in the future."

"Oh, I was wrong......"

The old lady opened her eyes and looked at Qiao Anton, who was kneeling there, and said.

"Don't, don't dare, you are an uncle, it is normal to teach the eldest brother's son and a younger generation......"

said so, but everyone could see that she was not happy. However, the old lady looked fair, and even comforted him with a few words.

"Sixth, I remember that you will be eighteen next month!"

Eighteen!

When the old lady said this age, Qiao Anton knew that it was still here after that.

Eighteen years old, put it aside, this age is nothing, but in the Xingqian year, this age means that you have to leave home. It means that the Qiao family no longer needs to support him, and when he is eighteen years old, just drive him out.

No separation!

It is not only the dignitaries and dignitaries who do not dissolve the property, but also the ordinary people, and the state has national laws. Rules...... Who's going to ask? What's more, for the people of the Qiao family, whether the sixth child is the seed of the Qiao family or not is two words.

"According to the law of the imperial court, since you are eighteen, you have to leave home, this is not the rule set by the old lady, it is the law of the imperial court, our Qiao family has been good citizens for generations, and naturally we can't violate the law of the imperial court, so next month, the sixth child, you have to leave the Qiao family!"

"The child knows."

Qiao Andong smiled bitterly in his heart, although when he came, he had thought that he must hold back, but he didn't expect that he would be "kicked out of the house".

"Rush".

This is the most accurate description, although the Ming Dynasty has a law, but many families will still leave the children who should have been separated at home and stay by their side, after all, as long as no one reports it, the court will not force them to kick their second son out of the house.

But there are also people who will be kicked out, just like Qiao Anton, for the eldest lady who doesn't like his mother, he is naturally unwilling to let him be an eyesore at home.

"Don't say that our Qiao family has no affection, this should have yours, there will be no less yours, our three-room house, that is, thirty taels, plus a year's expenses, thinking that you still want to study, so let's go back and let the account give 200 taels of silver, counting, it is enough for you to buy a house, study, and even marry a daughter-in-law, okay, go back!"

Carefully withdrawing, his knees were numb and he couldn't walk at all, and he knelt for nearly an hour. When Qiao Anton came out, he saw that his mother was still waiting at the door, and he was relieved to see him come out in a good manner.

"How's that, how's that? What do the old people say? ”

"Next month, I will be eighteen years old."

Her son's words made her face pale in an instant, without a trace of blood.

Then she cried and touched her son's face, and then sighed again, crying again, she knew that everything was irreparable.

The snow is still falling, and it's getting colder.

"Mother, the child is not filial, can not be filial piety in front of the knee, and please take care of your body in the future, and wait until the child is successful in the future, and then pick up the mother in front of the filial piety ......"

Looking at her son who was kneeling on the ground, although there were some bright tears flowing from the corners of Ding's eyes and mouth, she didn't dare to say anything, after all, she still had a son and a daughter to raise, and she had to rely on the Qiao family.

But even if you are raised, what can you do?

Don't you wait until you are eighteen years old to go out and stand on your own? Even the daughter-in-law...... Who wants to marry his daughter to his second son, especially a man like a son, who is homeless and unemployed, and who wants to marry him?

On this day, the snow stopped, the sun came out, and under the sun, Joan Anton left his home and the village where he had grown up.

In the pawnshop in the county seat, Qiao Anton only left a few satin clothes, and the rest were all gone, and then changed into an ordinary cotton robe, it seems that he has really become a poor man, he is really a poor family, homeless.

"How do I get to Zhongdu?"

In the carriage and horse shop outside the city gate, Joan Anton got into the carriage.

Although he was riding in a carriage, he almost didn't toss Qiao Anton half to death.

The carriage in winter, running very slowly, but also every station to stop, the road leading to Kaifeng, walked for ten days, although the official road is very smooth, but because of the heavy snow, the carriage is stop-and-go, sometimes the carriage simply stops in the middle of the road, a few hours without moving, not in front of the village, not in the back of the store, can really be anxious to die.

Some passengers who couldn't hold it anymore simply got off halfway, but Qiao Anton didn't get off. Because he didn't know where he could go when he got out of the car.

Go to Qinghe.

Examine Qinghe Academy, and then ...... It's really not good, you can also go overseas, go to Nanyang, for the future, Qiao Anton does not have a clear plan, in fact, in Shanxi, there are many people like him who go to the Northeast, after all, you can still get a piece of land there.

However, Qiao Anton didn't think about it so much, he had studied in the county school, he didn't want to farm, even if he went to Nanyang, he didn't want to farm.

Where to go?

What do you want to do in the future?

Qiao Anton didn't have any plans, he just looked out of the car with three hundred taels of silver dollar coupons in his arms, enduring the torture of the journey, and all this was finally over until he arrived in Kaifeng. At the time of Kaifeng, he got into the carriage.

"Tsk, tsk, obediently, this is the railway, look at the car on this road, it's really stable......"

In the carriage, he was not the only one who was as amazed as Qiao Anton, and many other passengers were like him, who had never seen this kind of railway in the past, and sat in this carriage, always looking at everything here curiously.

"Hey, you haven't seen the world at a glance, you don't know, this road is different from ordinary roads, this road is a railway, do you know what a railway is? It is to lay the iron bar on the ground, and then the wheels of the carriage are stuck on the iron bar, and this car walks, it is a light, like this carriage, it can also hold 20,000 catties of goods......"

While the passengers on the side were showing up there, someone else was talking to the side.

"Not only is there a lot of loading, but also running fast, at the end of this day, to say the least, it is one or two hundred miles, let's sit in the car, just pull and snort to sleep, open our eyes, maybe we will arrive in the capital......"

As soon as the man's voice fell, someone over there asked.

"Isn't that a journey of thousands of miles a day? What is this car pulling? ”

"What else could it be? It's a horse. The horse comes, you don't see, the horse is like a house, even the camel is not necessarily bigger than the horse! ”

"But no matter how big the horse is, when the strength is exhausted."

As soon as Qiao Anton's words fell, someone over there retorted.

"I said you, you, the horsepower is exhausted, you don't know how to change horses, do you know if you change horses when you enter the station, and you know how to send the imperial court's 800 miles of expedited? It's just a constant change of horses......"

Although the man's words were unkind, Qiao Anton listened to it, but he was muttering there in his heart, and his brows were furrowed from time to time. It seems that I am not very satisfied with this answer.

"If only this car didn't need a horse......

Qiao Andong was thinking like this in his heart, but as soon as the thought came to mind, he laughed at himself in his heart.

"If the car doesn't use horse-pulling, will it be possible to change the cow?"

Is there nothing but cattle?

Qiao Anton's heart was thinking like this, but his eyes looked out of the window through the window, looking at the snow, and there was only one thought left in his heart, let this car hurry up, and get to Zhongdu early......