4 Leaving home

I don't know how this night passed, the next day, my father called me up, the housekeeper Uncle An has been arranging the dismissal of the servants, it seems that my father is really determined to go outside to make a career, if it is not successful, it will become a benevolent, there are enough men. As far as I know, in the original history, my father never returned to Lousang Village after he left.

The servants and slaves in the family all took some money, and my father gave them back their freedom, except for my maid Ying'er and the servant Da Niu, who were too young and had no relatives to rely on, everyone else could decide where to go. However, the people of this era are really loyal, and everyone was surprised when they heard their father's decision to dismiss them, except for a few older ones, everyone else without exception expressed their willingness to join their father's volunteer army to establish their fame with their father.

Before I could mention it, my father smiled and said to me: "Feng'er, I am repairing a book for my father today, and I am bothering you Uncle Jian to send you to Gongsun Boqi (Gongsun Zhan) in Liaodong, and when the yellow turban thief is destroyed, my father will come to look for you again, okay?" "Although it is in a consultative tone, but he has always talked to people like this, even my son, probably this is his habit, can I say no?

Everyone knows that this Gongsun Chan is the first boss of Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong, and his father's classmate and friend when he was studying abroad. He is a few years older than his father, and he is a descendant of the Gongsun clan of the Liaodong clan, and now he has become the captain of the Liaodong cavalry, that is, the garrison commander of a county in Liaodong. In this important border town in Youzhou, it can be said to be a high authority. However, although Gongsun Chan was born in a wealthy family, his biological mother was just a concubine, and he had no status in the family in his early years, but he could play with the children of "clean white families" like his father. I have also heard my father talk several times about the fact that he and Gongsun Zhan studied together under the great Confucian Lu Zhi of Zhongyang, and the relationship between the two was not ordinary iron.

It seems that my father's idea is also the result of careful consideration, so I don't have to worry about no one to take care of me, and besides, I have reached the age where I need a special teacher to teach. In this era, there is no special school, and the average family can't afford to hire a tutor, so the education of the nephew in the next life can only be inherited from father to son, and the grandmother or mother will mainly complete the child's primary education.

However, I still have some reluctance, but I can't think of a suitable reason to go to the rivers and lakes with my father for a while, after all, my age and body are here, so I had to nod my head and ask casually: "Where is my father going?" ”

After listening to my question, my father was slightly surprised, stroked my head, and smiled slightly sadly: "I also said that you already know." Thinking about holding his only son under the fence, he was still a little unbearable in his heart, and sighed lightly: "Today, the Yellow Turban thieves are swarming, and in Koulian County, my father has been assassinated to allow the Lord to form a volunteer army to exterminate the Yellow Turban Thieves. This trip is not more than usual, less than a few months, more than a year. You are the only one left in the family, and my father is very relieved. Gongsun Boqi is a close friend of his father, entrusting you to him, and he may be a little relieved to be a father. ”

I don't know what my father and the others discussed last night, but this decision is irreversible. Alas, I didn't expect that I had only come to this world for 100 days, and I had just had a little emotional identification with Lousang Village, but I was going to leave my hometown again......

Watching Ying'er's big cow pack up my bags and put them on the carriage, I couldn't help but feel a little related in my heart. The father and son only looked at the big mulberry tree in the east of the village in a daze, and they didn't know if their father would think that they would never return to Lousang Village once in their lives.

While he was indulging, a servant slave entered the door and saluted his father: "Master, there are Zhongshan businessmen Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang outside the door asking to see you!" This man was also a member of his father's vigilantes, and although he was already a free man, he used to call his father his master.

This Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang, I have seen them before in my memory. They smuggled some salt and iron tools to Hudi in the north, and then sold horses back to the Central Plains from Hudi, and they had to come to deal with their father when they passed through Zhuo County before, and the thieves and thieves in the Zhuo County area gave their father face and never came to provoke them, it is said that once a gang of thieves in Shanggu County (Shanggu County is in the north of Zhuo County) caught them and wanted to rob them of their fortune and rob their lives, or their father happened to pass by and help them get their property back, saving their lives.

In the Han Dynasty, both the official and the private sector attached great importance to agriculture and suppressed business, and the status of merchants was very low. But with his father's human nature, and because he was born poor, he was looked down upon a lot, and he has always been easy-going, and he is also very polite to these two businessmen who have little status, and he does not regard himself as a life-saving benefactor. When he heard that the two of them were coming, he immediately put aside his sadness and me, my son, who was about to part, and went out to greet the guests. Alas, he is a person, it is false to say that he has no family affection, but he also has a career and no wife and children......

It turned out that Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang heard that their father organized the Volunteers to exterminate the Yellow Turban Army, and they happened to be passing by to provide sponsorship for their life-saving benefactor, 50 good horses, 500 catties of good iron, and 500 stone of grain. My father didn't care much about selling his wealth, but with the help of Su and Zhang, he didn't care about the pots and jars at home, so he was about to hastily dispose of this small family wealth, and collected more than 1,000 people from the previous younger brother and local good children.

Silently saying goodbye to the relatives and neighbors who came to see each other, my uncle Liu Zi stroked my head and sighed: "Xuande, this son is very human, why do you have to send it to Liaodong to send people under the fence?" ”

Hearing my uncle's affirmation, I couldn't help but be a little surprised. As far as I know, Uncle Zijing's ancestors still seem to have the ability to know people. It is said that his father was also very skinny when he was young, he liked gorgeous clothes, and he was not happy to study in cockfighting, so he thought that his father would have a future in the future, and despite his wife's opposition, he treated his son like his own son to support his father's education. To be honest, although it has been more than 100 days since I arrived in this world, I don't seem to have any special performance, at most, I am more "knowledgeable" than the previous Liu Feng, I really don't know how my uncle saw that I was "very human".

The father was very respectful to his son, but he didn't have anything to explain, so he only sighed softly. Lost his father at an early age, lost his wife in middle age, lost a child in old age, and lost three major misfortunes in life! My father took up the first two things, and if it weren't for my stand-in, my father would have to add another son in the prime of life. In later generations, there was even a mean joke that his father was a tough person, and everyone who had a relationship with him had to be unlucky to be restrained by him, and even the fierce horse Lu couldn't eat it.

Ade flashed to my side and said, "Brother, when are you coming back?" "There are a lot of children of the same age, but he listens to me the most, probably because he is also an orphan, except that he does not live with me, but like my own brother.

I naturally knew that he was thinking that I would come back and take him to hunt, and the child without a father was in charge of the house early, although he had the help of the clan, his life was still incomparable with that of ordinary people, and it seemed that he had a long memory of the venison yesterday. Looking at his expectant eyes, I couldn't bear to hit him, took out the birch bow that my father had made for me from the carriage and gave it to him, and told him: "Ade, my brother may come back in a while, you must practice archery well, and you must not relax for a day as you did yesterday." When you grow up, come to my brother, and we'll go deer shooting together in the future! ”

As soon as the words fell, I suddenly felt a strange feeling around me, and the atmosphere was a little wrong, so I raised my head, but saw my father and Jian Yong looking at me with strange expressions......