When Shi Jin came back, he brought the second aunt of the mourning master.

The seemingly weak woman did not stop crying when she saw her husband's remains, but when she mentioned her husband's funeral, she had a special idea.

"Don't talk about emergencies, don't talk about encountering bandits...... Let's just say that the boat had an accident and drowned......"

If it is an emergency, it is unfilial piety for the son not to be around; If you want to talk about bandits, your daughter's innocence will be chewed upon.

Second Aunt Shi only has this pair of biological children, and she is looking forward to passing this period and they can return safely.

The mourner is in charge, and Shi Jin, who is a nephew, has no objection.

It's just that in this way, the Huo family's life-saving grace can't be put on the surface.

Huo Wu couldn't wait to cover up the matter: "You don't have to mention us, it's taboo ...... the end?"

This Second Aunt Shi knows how to be grateful, and when she looks at Huo Bao, she is about to kneel.

Where can Huo Bao bear it, he is busy.

Second Aunt Shi couldn't kneel, so she pulled Huo Bao's arm: "Those two evil obstacles are my lifeblood, and the little brother saved them, so he is my benefactor." I'm clumsy, I can't say nice things, and I'm looking at the future. ”

"Don't bother, the junior has already received a gift from Ling Gongzi......"

"Where is the grace of saving life, which can be topped by things outside the body......"

“……”

The coffin brought by the Shi family decorated the remains of Second Uncle Shi, and the group went into the city.

The empty yard had a lot of things to add, and Huo Wu only had silver around him, so he took his son into the city to find money and redeem it.

Entering Jinling City, the eyes are full of prosperity.

The lively shouting, the comfortable pedestrians, a peaceful scene.

The fly in the ointment is that there are too many beggars, in groups of three or five, and they will entangle and beg when they see people, often causing people to cover their noses and leave.

Huo Wu didn't go to Qianzhuang immediately, and took his son to the east of the city.

Walked a little way along the city walls.

In front of him, a hundred or so feet, the city wall lacked a big opening, and it was useless.

"This ......" Huo Bao was dumbfounded.

What's the use of a wall that's high and thicker? With such a big opening, there is no need for a large army to besiege the city at all, and it can be completely speared directly.

"When I passed by Jinling, this section was gone, and it has been more than ten years, and no one has repaired it."

"Didn't this collapse during the fight against the former dynasty?"

"When Fancheng was lost, the fifth marshal was martyred, and the guards of other cities were cold to the court, so there was no one to defend it, those who could surrender were surrendered, and those who did not want to surrender were all abandoned and fled, and Jinling City did not fight at all. This opening collapsed when the earth dragon turned over eighteen years ago. ”

Eighteen years ago, the year he ascended the throne.

The magistrate did not dare to ask for money to repair the city walls, as if he had found a reason.

The father and son were silent and went to Xue's house on Xianhe Street.

"It's not a distant relative, then Xue Biao is an old friend of your father many years ago, he is cunning, not a kind person, but he has a face, just meet him." Huo Wushao had to tell his son about his relationship with the Xue family.

As the father and son spoke, they walked to Xianhe Street.

As soon as I crossed the intersection, I saw a circle of people in front of me, and I saw the excitement of pen and stroke.

"The Xue family has raided the house! Said the bandits! ”

"Oh, isn't Master Xue's sister-in-law the little grandmother of the prefect's family? Why did you raid your home? ”

"Let his family show off, he deserves it!"

"No matter how rich you are, you are a businessman, and if you fatten up, you will have to slaughter it!"

With the sound of gossip, the officers and soldiers locked up and down the Xue family and sealed the Xue family.

There were twenty or thirty concubines, seven or eight young men, and five or six young girls, all tied up in a string, and wept and wept like lambs to the slaughter.

The father and son stood in the crowd, looking terrified.

When the official pulled people away, the father and son were caught in the crowd watching the excitement and left here.

"Jinling City is going to be in chaos!" The father and son glanced at each other, and there was more heaviness in their eyes.

A merchant like the Xue family, if he can base himself in Jinling, he must have fed the yamen up and down, and at this time, his house was raided, and it was designated that the yamen was unstable.

The father and son did not say anything else, but found a money bank near the city gate, and exchanged a silver ingot, ten yuan.

The money has always been six catties and four taels, and ten pieces of money are sixty-four catties, which are put into the blanket and carried by Huo Bao.

When the father and son returned to the yard, Shi Jin went and returned, already waiting, bringing two carts full of things. Luggage, bedding, pots and pans, are all new.

Huo Wu appreciated it, and did not be polite, but said: "We don't know each other well, and we are worried about how to buy things, which is a great help!" After a few days of warming the house, come over and have a good drink. ”

Shi Jin is a bereaved family, and after sending things, he has to go to his uncle's house to support the door, so he leaves and leaves.

Huo Wu's father and son sent it to the door, Huo Wu took out a few pieces of deed paper from his arms and handed them to Shi Jin: "We are a guest house, we will leave Jinling one day if we can't keep it, and it's useless to keep it, so I ask Brother Shi to help change hands, the sooner the better." You don't have to consume the market price, and it's okay to have two or three percent less. ”

This is the reward given by the historian, and when it is entrusted to the Shi family, it can be regarded as convenient for the historian to redeem it.

Shi Jin swept his eyes twice, handed it back, and persuaded: "My cousin is the eldest daughter of this generation, and the dowry fields are all high-grade paddy fields, and the house is also a rent-collecting house near the left side of the house, and it will be difficult to buy it back after selling it!" Fifth Brother Huo only arrived in Jinling today, why did he say that he would leave? With the Jia family and our family, we can also help each other. If I don't have the money, I have it there. ”

"Jinling is good, but it's too close to Huainan! Huainan has become a pot of porridge, and it is only a river away from Jinling......"

Shi Jin was in the army, well-informed, and no longer persuaded each other, but remembered a piece of news he had just gotten: "The white-shirted army has occupied Xuzhou, and the imperial court is transferring troops from Shandong to Xuzhou to quell the rebellion!" ”

The intersection of the four provinces of Xuzhou, the town of Huaibei, has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times.

Xuzhou was lost, but the imperial court could only transfer troops from other provinces, which showed that the entire Jianghuai was in chaos and there were no available troops.

Huo Wu frowned, he didn't expect the situation to deteriorate so quickly.

Huo Bao felt that it was expected.

The imperial court was heavily taxed, and there were many disasters in successive years, and the people rebelled without a way to live.

For example, the Yellow Turban Army, the Red Turban Army, and the Taiping Army in history in the previous life all rebelled in the year of the catastrophe, and expanded rapidly after the rebellion, and by the time the imperial court responded, it had already accounted for half of the country.

Shi Jin left worriedly.

The people of Nanshan Village did not know their worries, and they rejoiced around the things in the half yard.

"It's all divided!" Huo Wu explained, and went to the West Chamber with a set of bedding to make a bed for his son.

There are two small rooms in the west wing, each with its own door, one for the stone and the tiger and leopard brothers, and Huo Bao, who is an uncle, naturally has one room for himself.

"Dad, ...... it yourself"

"It's still Dad, Xiaobao has grown up in a blink of an eye, and I don't know how many years Dad can take care of you!"

"No matter how big he is, it's his father's son, what is Dad worried about?"

"Dad originally thought that Jiangbei was not peaceful, so we would take refuge in Jinling, but I didn't expect that Jinling looked wrong, there were too many homeless beggars, and it was easy to make trouble; The yamen is desperately collecting money, and the official has other plans; And the city wall, if you really want to encounter a big event, this Jinling City is the meat on the board......" Speaking of this, Huo Wu paused, frowned, and said: "It's really not good, Dad will take you to Songjiang, and from there you will go to the overseas island to avoid it for a few years......"

"Dad, if Jinling is corrupted, we won't go to sea...... Huo Bao said in a low voice: "Let's go find my third uncle!" ”

"Huh?!" Huo Wu was startled, and got up with "Teng": "No, no, that's not good, dad is just your single seedling, our family heirloom can fall on you, but you can't become a monk!" ”

"Shh Huo Bao made a silent motion.

Huo Bao leaned into his father's ear and said softly: "When the third uncle came to the house that year, I saw that there were such thick green worms entangled with the third uncle, and they also had two claws, which were gone in the blink of an eye...... The night before the pig was killed, I dreamed of my third uncle again, and the long worm was still there, with two small bags bulging out of his head......"

Huo Wu grabbed his son's shoulders and was dumbfounded.

The baby of the in-law's relatives, he couldn't imagine that his son would lie and deceive himself when he killed Huo Wu, he just thought it was true.

Taiping is old, listening to such a dream, even if he thinks about it a little, he just thinks about it.

In troubled times, this is God's advice.

"Jiao is haunted, Jiaohua dragon...... I really didn't see that Tu Xiaosan still had this luck, our old Huo family's ancestral grave was really smoking......" Huo Wumei smiled: "Okay, okay, settle your uncle and them, let's go find your third uncle!" ”

It's easy to put the icing on the cake, but it's hard to send charcoal in the snow.

Even if he wants to hug his brother-in-law's thigh and let his son get more polished, Huo Wu also wants to stand up by himself, so that his son can stand up and speak, instead of blindly clinging to people's faces and looking at people's faces.

Lunch is approaching, there is no firewood, rice, oil and salt, and it is too late to prepare, so I have to buy buns and flatbreads from outside and make a fool of them.

In the afternoon, Huo Wu sent a few nephews to take a few copper coins and go out to purchase firewood, rice, oil and salt. He took half a box of silver ingots and went to see Uncle Huo.

Huo Bao was not idle, and practiced using a mace according to the booklet of "Nine Styles".

He doesn't want to live like a lost dog, he can't live in fear, and the lie has been pulled, but he didn't think about letting his father fight for military exploits, so he still came by himself.

Even if it is not the uncle who changes the dynasty, he can protect himself with more force, so that he will not live like an ant.

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In the north room, Uncle Huo didn't take the half box of silver ingots, and couldn't help frowning: "Old Five, can't you not go?" It's a mess out there, and there's no peace anywhere. ”