The autumn wind rises and the white clouds fly, and the grass and trees are yellow and the geese return to the south. Autumn brings people a desolate scene, but also brings people a harvest of joy.

Since Emperor Longqing ascended the throne, the scene of the Ming Dynasty in the past two years has suddenly improved a lot, no longer drought and flood, although it is not considered to be smooth, but it can live a stable life. In the past two years, there have been no major looting operations in the Tartars, which really allowed the people of northern Xinjiang to live a comfortable life without worrying about it for a few years, and running around to flee at the end of the year.

In Zhang Fan's memory, when he was a child, Tartars often came to fight the autumn wind. Zhang Fan's family lives in the county seat, fortunately, there are heavy guards, but the people in the villages below have suffered, and they often hide everywhere in the mountains and wilderness. And once the Tartars bypass the Great Wall on a large scale, the people in the county will also be in fear! Fortunately, there are Huai'an and Dingbian patrols in the north of Anhua County to defend at all times.

Zhang Fan has always wanted to help his mother do something, even if it is washing dishes, sweeping the floor or something. But every time, my mother said, "Let me come!" "Kicked out (do you sound familiar, but this is not Zhu Wushuang). As the old saying goes, "A gentleman cooks far away." There is also "useless is a scholar", which seems to be worthy of the ancient "wise saying". It's not that a scholar really can't do anything but study, but that this reader has given people the impression for thousands of years that once they do these other things, they will definitely fail, and even be labeled as not doing their job.

Zhang Fan is also helpless about this. He also thought of other ways, such as going out to work to subsidize the family, but this idea was sternly rejected by his mother. She said that the results of the township examination will come out soon, and once Zhang Fan is on the list, she will make every effort to prepare for the entrance examination in Beijing next year. His mother always told Zhang Fan that she only asked him to study hard, and he didn't have to worry about everything at home. At this time, Zhang Fan is always helpless. But this also made Zhang Fan more firm in his belief that he must repay this great mother.

In fact, for Zhang Fan, living in a small city that is not very developed in modern times really does not help his current situation at all. Living in the countryside, at least they can farm, and they have a good understanding of some modern planting techniques. Living in an industrial city, you can also find out a three-point truth under the influence of various crafts. Think about those "predecessors" who have traveled back, which one did not make wine and make glass to make a fortune. I don't know the same myself, and I am not too familiar with history. But I'm afraid that even if I know that Shinong Industry and Commerce is to break my head, my mother will never let me go into business! Zhang Fan's plans were rejected several times.

Zhang Fan's life now seems to be on track, following his daily habit of reading and writing. After lunch, he was at his own leisure, and he would always wander around town. Looking at this life, maybe I have expressed too many emotions, but now it seems that I have become accustomed to it!

In this northwest place during the Hongwu period, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an imperial list and recruited people to come here to open up wasteland. Most of the people here are from the Central Plains and even Jiangnan. Then Emperor Taizu issued another list to prohibit the random movement of the population. Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, if you want to go far or travel to the north and south of the river, you need the yamen to open the way. Zhang Fan thought that the much-criticized hukou system five hundred years later might have been there at that time!

Autumn has arrived, and some crops are being put on stalls early. This small county town seems to be so popular every day!

On this day, when Zhang Fan passed by the city gate, he saw two women in flower clothes coming. Both women had veils over their faces, one in light blue and the other in pink. Through the eyes exposed, Zhang Fan saw that these two women were both in their twenty-eighth years, slender figures, and walked slowly towards the city.

In the street market of Anhua County, Zhang Fan has never seen a woman dressed like this, if she wants to say that she is the sister on the Fengyue field, but he has never seen any of them dressed up like this in broad daylight to go shopping. Zhang Fan guessed that they might be the daughters of a big family that had just moved here. But none of this is anything about Zhang Fan, he was about to turn around and leave, when a voice sounded, which immediately made Zhang Fan's head have an abnormal bloody scene.

"Two little ladies, where are you going?" The three ruffians in the county town surrounded them, and one of them seemed to be the leader who was molesting the two women, "What kind of veil do you wear on such a hot day, take it off and let the brothers take a good look." ”

The two women seemed to have seen enough of this scene, and ignored them at all, and continued to walk forward. The three of them looked at the attitude of the two girls, and they were suddenly a little annoyed, they had never seen the world, and they couldn't see that the clothes worn by these two girls were cut from the best Huzhou silk. In the Ming Dynasty, only scholars and peasants could wear silk, and the clothes of these two girls were obviously after the official eunuchs or after the wealthy eunuchs. How do these three scoundrels know this, and they don't weigh whether they are qualified to flirt with others.

The three of them quickly walked in front of the woman and began to flirt again. From time to time, there were people watching, but no one stepped forward to stop them. This is the frontier of the Ming Dynasty, there will be a curfew every night, and there are heavy guards, so there are no big gangs in the city, but there are a few groups of people who are fighting like this, and the government sees that they can't afford to play any big storms, and they don't control it. And this city gate is the most mixed place, these three people obviously have some fame here, and the surrounding crowd is unstoppable.

Seeing that no one dared to ask, the three of them gradually became bolder, their words became more and more explicit, and they began to move their hands and feet.

"Get out of here, don't do your business here all day, beware that I sued the official and arrested you guys in the market." The girl in blue is angry, and she speaks first, her voice is as crisp and delicate as a lark, which makes people feel comfortable from the bottom of her heart.

"Yo! The little lady is so angry. The leader heard the girl's voice and became more energetic, "Go and sue and see if you can go!" As he spoke, the three of them smiled obscenely and stopped the two girls from front to back.

"Obediently obey your master, I promise to make you two extremely happy." The man didn't know where to go!

"I said this brother, please respect yourself, how can you behave like this in broad daylight and flirt with a woman from a good family." Zhang Fan didn't want to wade into this troubled water, but his personality and the sense of justice of the scholar hidden in this body made him walk out unconsciously.

The two women saw Zhang Fan, such a handsome son, standing up for himself, and immediately had a good impression of Zhang Fan, although Zhang Fan was wearing a coat made of coarse cloth, and he didn't look like a prominent family, but his temperament was lovely.

"Isn't this Zhang Xiucai from the west of the city? Didn't you see that I was busy! The leader glanced at Zhang Fan and said, "I respect you for being a scholar, give you three points of thin noodles, but I'm not afraid of you, hurry up and roll me as far as I can, otherwise my fists and feet will be eyeless, so you can taste it!" ”

Zhang Fan was not afraid of the man's threat, and said: "The vast world, Lang Lang Qiankun, how can you allow this group of small people to do evil, and they don't disperse quickly." Otherwise, the hundreds of families in Anhua County will regard them as rats, and they will be eliminated as soon as possible. ”

"I want to see who here dares to go against my Hu Er!" Hu Er, the leader, shouted arrogantly to the surroundings, "Which of you dares to come!" ”

The surrounding crowd looked at Hu Er and the three angrily, daring to be angry but not daring to speak, obviously they were usually bullied and scared! At the same time, he looked at Zhang Fan with worried eyes, for fear that he would be harmed.

"Hmph, they are just afraid of you and other obscenities, and I will pull you to the official today to get rid of this Anhua harm." Zhang Fan said that he was about to come forward to pull Hu Er.

"Childe must not be ......," the two girls exclaimed.

Zhang Fan only felt that his back hurt, as if he had been hit by something, where could his small body bear it, he almost turned his back and breathed, kneeling on the ground and grinning and panting. But there was some regret in his heart: "I knew that I wouldn't be out of the limelight, if I hadn't taken care of my mouth, I wouldn't have been so small, and now I've been knocked on a stick!" ”

It turned out that one of Hu Er's accomplices took a wooden stick and hit Zhang Fan in the back. He didn't dare to be ruthless, after all, Zhang Fan was a famous person, and if he fought well or badly, the three of them would not be able to eat and walk around. He also knew that Zhang Fan was the kind of person who would not get back after suffering a loss, so he dared to make a move. It's just that he doesn't know that Zhang Fan is no longer the original Zhang Fan, young people five hundred years later have a characteristic, although they are not very good at taking the initiative to find trouble, but they must find the field when they are in trouble.

"See, this is the end of going against my Hu Er!" Hu Er said proudly, "Who else dares to meddle with my affairs!" ”

"Me!" A neutral voice sounded, Zhang Fan, the two girls, Hu Er and the three of them all followed the prestige, only to see a military attache walking surrounded by more than a dozen sergeants.

Zhang Fan and the two women saw that they had strong reinforcements, and their eyes suddenly lit up. When Hu Er saw that the person who came was an official errand, he immediately withered, and said humbly: "Master Jun, I have seen the military masters of several cities around here, and it is the first time you have seen it, and it is the new patrol division who has come to change the guard!" I'm fine, it's okay, I'm messing around with them! ”

"Kidding? How I can't see it! The officer said expressionlessly, "I heard from the city gate guards that they didn't bother to care about you, but you dared to break ground on Tai Sui's head and provoke our young lady!" ”

"Miss?" Hu Er may have understood something, but he didn't dare to think about it.

"Yes, this is the daughter of my family's newly appointed Dingbian Inspector Lord Chen, you dare to stop the teasing, come on, grab these three for me, drag them out of the city, and reward him with forty military sticks."

The surrounding sergeants suddenly agreed, dragging Hu Er and San, who kept howling, to the city gate, and the surrounding people all slapped their hands and sighed when they saw this scene, and they were very happy!

"The two young ladies are really naughty too." After the officer dealt with Hu San and the two of them, he turned to the two girls and said, "Before going out, the adults asked me to wait for Miss to follow, but you two escaped first, in case something happened, how do you want me to explain to the adults!" ”

The two daughters of the inspector took off their veils, and they were really a pair of sisters, and they didn't know which was the sister and which was the younger sister. I saw the girl in blue make a grimace at the officer, turned to look at Zhang Fan, and asked with concern, "This son, it doesn't matter!" ”

The officer also saluted Zhang Fan and said, "Thank you for this son's help, the two young ladies are safe thanks to the son's delay." In Lower Monyang. ”

Zhang Fan returned the salute first and said: "In the next Zhang Fan, he just said a little bit of words, but he really has no size merit, and he doesn't dare to be praised by adults." ”

"Zhang Gongzi, this is too modest." The girl in blue said, "My sister and I can wait for Brother Meng to come to the rescue, thanks to the son's words and help, how can I say that it is useless." Please also accept the worship of my two sisters. As she spoke, the two sisters bowed slightly.

Zhang Fan hurriedly raised his arms and helped the two sisters up, but he was thinking in his heart: "It turns out that this is my sister, and it is my sister who doesn't talk much." ”

Bidding farewell to Meng Yang and the Chen sisters, Zhang Fan saw that it was not early, and then walked home.