A month later, Yang Huaide, Yang Huaixing and Liu Keshi made an appointment to go to the mysterious Liao Kingdom on the other side of the mountain.

Very early on this day, they secretly ran out of their homes, each took a trap cake and a water bag, and set off towards Yanmen Mountain. The weather is nice, the air is crisp and pleasant, climb to the mountainside, cross the secret path and descend to the base of the mountain.

The three of them walked east along the river, crossed a stone bridge to the opposite bank, and continued eastward, with a large meadow in front of them, on which dozens of victims were sitting and resting.

Suddenly, one person waved his hand to the three of them, and Yang Huaide recognized that the person was the young man who was begging at the gate of the field last time, and Yang Huaide and the three of them walked over.

The young man stood up and said, "Little brother, why did you come to Liao, it is very dangerous here, and the Khitan soldiers are catching the victims everywhere. ”

Yang Huaide said: "The government is supposed to provide relief to the victims, why should it arrest the victims instead? ”

The boy said: "The government forced the victims to go to the border of Tuntian. ”

Yang Huaide said: "The Khitan people are really hateful! ”

At this moment, a group of Khitan cavalry rushed to this side, and the young man shouted: "Run with me, the Khitan soldiers are coming to arrest people again." ”

The victims shouted and scattered and fled, the Khitan soldiers captured the victims like hunting, the boy and Yang Huaide ran desperately, but they were still surrounded by two Khitan cavalrymen and could not escape.

The young man knelt on the ground and said, "The two stewards, it's good, the three of them are still ignorant children, let them go, and I'll go back with you." ”

One of the Khitan cavalrymen replied, "Okay, you come with us." ”

The boy stood up and pointed to a village in front of him, and called out to the three men, "Go quickly, get out of here and go home." ”

After speaking, he turned around and left with the two Khitan cavalrymen.

The three of them understood what he meant, and hurried to the village, where they sat down on a stone beside a tea stall outside the town, gasping for breath.

Yang Huaixing said: "It's so dangerous, I was almost caught, thanks to him, I don't know what will happen to him in the future?" ”

Yang Huaide said: "If we know martial arts, we will not be bullied by the Khitans." ”

At this time, two Khitan officials, one fat and one thin, escorted an old man of the Han nationality in his fifties to the tea stall and asked for a pot of tea, and the old man sat on the ground with a burden on his back.

The fat official said: "You old man, you are still running around at such an old age, I see that you are a spy sent by the Song Kingdom." ”

The old man begged: "Two officials, I want to go back to the Song Kingdom to visit my relatives, I am so old, I don't have a few years to live, and if I don't go back, I won't have a chance." ”

The thin official said: "Old man, don't quibble, our brothers sent you to Shuozhou to receive the reward, you can tell the prefect again." The two of them burst out laughing.

The old man took off his burden and said, "Two officials, here are ten taels of silver and a few new clothes, both of you take them and let me go." ”

The fat official snatched the burden and said, "Old man, it's impossible to let you go, help you say a few good words in front of the prefect, and it's okay to beat you less than twenty boards." After saying that, putting the burden on his back, the old man sighed impatiently.

The fat official said to the thin official: "After a while, we will go west along the Yanzi River to buy a few fresh carp, return to Shuozhou to make a braised carp, and drink a few glasses of wine, how beautiful!" ”

The thin official smiled and said, "You will be happy if you are still a brother." ”

Yang Huaide and the three of them listened to it clearly, and Yang Huaide whispered: "The Khitans are bullying us Han people again, we have to find a way to save this old man." ”

Liu Keshi said: "But we don't know martial arts!" ”

Yang Huaide muttered a few words in the ears of the two, and then the three of them ran towards the Yanzi River in the west.

After the two officials finished drinking tea, they escorted the old man to the west, and the sun roasted the earth hotly.

"Let's go to the grove in front of us and rest, and then go forward." ”

Entering the grove, the two officials sat under the tree and soon snored, the old man felt very uncomfortable, thinking that if I escaped, I would definitely be caught, if I was sent to Shuozhou to find out my family, they would also be implicated, it was better to die, my soul can return to the hometown of Song Kingdom, and I can go to visit my long-lost relatives.

Thinking of this, the old man did not hesitate to untie the cloth belt on his waist, found a crooked neck tree, tied the cloth belt, found a stepping stone, and said to himself: "Wife, I will find you immediately." After speaking, he put the cloth belt around his neck, kicked the stepping stone, the old man's body shook, and the cloth belt broke with a "zra" sound, and the old man fell to the ground with a "poof", which woke up the two officials at once.

The fat official said to the thin official: "Look, this old man is going to hang himself, let's send him to Shuozhou quickly, otherwise, if the reward is not paid, we will have to buy a coffin for this old man." The two of them escorted the old man one after the other along the Yanzi River to the west.

Let's say that Yang Huaide and the three of them left the tea stall, found a flat place along the Yanzi River to the west, took off their clothes and went down to the river to catch six carp, lit a fire under a big tree, and skewered three fish to roast.

Yang Huaixing climbed the tree and looked east, and after a while, he said, "They are coming this way." After saying that, they slipped down from the tree, and the three of them pretended to be grilling fish, and the two officials escorted the old man over slowly.

Yang Huaide shouted: "Sell fish, sell fish, two officials, these three fish are cheap, only three cents." ”

The two officials really stopped, Yang Huaide took a grilled fish, ran over and said, "Look, the freshly grilled fish is fragrant, you can eat it first and then give money." ”

When the two of them heard this, they thought that they must take advantage of it, and said, "Yes, let's taste it first." ”

The two of them put down their burdens and sat down by the fire to nibble on the grilled fish.

The old man said next to him that he was going to make it convenient, and the fat officer said impatiently: "Go, go, don't want to run, you children help me keep an eye on him." ”

Yang Huaide and Liu Keshi took the old man to the river, suddenly, the two of them set up the old man left and right and jumped into the river, Yang Huaixing picked up the old man's burden and ran to the river and jumped into the river, and the three of them carried the old man to the opposite bank.

The two officials panicked and ran to the river and shouted, "Come back, come back, that old man is a spy." ”

The two were landlubbers, jumping and jumping on the shore.

Yang Huaide and the three of them quickly swam to the other side with the old man, and the three of them scolded the two officials: "Khitan dog, big villain, Khitan dog, big villain......"

Yang Huaide said to the old man: "Uncle, we can take you to the Song Kingdom and follow us!" ”

The old man was a little skeptical and replied, "Really?" The three of them helped the old man and walked briskly towards Yanmen Mountain.

There was no bridge nearby, and the two officials could only watch and be anxious, and the fat officials laughed at themselves: "Brother, our brothers have no chance to get rich today, let's go back and eat braised carp!" ”

Yang Huaide and the three of them took the old man through the secret passage and came to the bottom of the mountain to make a fire to roast clothes, and the old man thanked the three of them very much and talked about his past.

It turned out that the old man's name was Wang Shide, and when he was young, he and his wife Li lived in Wangjia Village, which was close to the Xia Kingdom, and they were very affectionate and had a son and a daughter.

Once, when the Xia army looted the village, his wife and daughter escaped with a trip, and he and his son were captured.

Later, the Xia people dedicated them to the Liao State, and the Liao State placed them in Pingzhou, and after being a slave for a year, they redeemed themselves and became commoners, because he could read and write, and the prefect made him a bookkeeper, and his life was not bad. But he misses his wife and daughter in his hometown, he has never married, he raised his son alone, his son married his daughter-in-law, and he has a twenty-year-old grandson, Wang Jue, and his life is quite happy. Now that the old man is old, his longing for his relatives is getting stronger and stronger, and after making up his mind, he explained to his son, and secretly came out alone, and was caught by these two officials when he secretly crossed the border.

After drying his clothes, Yang Huaide helped the old man make a cane and sent him on his way.

A month later, Yang Huaide and Yang Huaixing went to Yanmen Mountain to chop firewood and came to the foot of the mountain, found a person lying on the road, and took a closer look, it turned out to be the old man Wang Shide who had been saved last time, his face was pale, his eyes were slightly closed, and his lips were chapped, Yang Huaide took out the water bag and gave the old man a few sips, and shouted: "Uncle Wang, wake up, Uncle Wang, wake up." ”

The old man slowly opened his eyes, recognized the two children at once, and said tremblingly: "You saved me again, thank you so much." ”

It was estimated that the old man fainted because he was hungry and thirsty, Yang Huaide and Yang Huaixing took out the pie for the old man to eat, and asked, "Uncle, have you found your family?" ”

The old man replied, "It's hard to put it into words! ”

It turned out that the old man had worked hard all the way, returned to Wangjia Village, which had been separated for a long time, and went straight to his home, when he stood at the gate of the courtyard, his mood plummeted, and the house completely collapsed and was uninhabited. The old man climbed the ruins to look for what might be left, and more than thirty years later, only stones and rubble remained, and overgrown weeds, and the old man sat on the ground and wept bitterly.

Suddenly, the old man stopped crying, as if remembering something, he knocked on the door from door to door, and when he saw people, he asked him about the whereabouts of his wife and daughter, and most of the people in the village were taken captive during that disaster, and everyone shook their heads, and finally found a surviving old man in an old house.

According to the old man, after the Xia army looted the village, his wife Li and his daughter returned home and found that the house was empty, the mother and daughter cried loudly, Li waited under the big tree at the entrance of the village every day, hoping that one day her husband and son would come from afar, and the neighbor saw that it was not easy for her to take her young daughter alone, so she persuaded her to remarry, she said that she must wait for his husband and son to come back.

At sunrise and sunset, the leaves of the trees were green and yellow, and the slanting sun shone on the big tree at the entrance of the village, and her hair was gray before she was forty years old. When her daughter grew up and married, she still stayed in the old house, under the old tree, and she died of illness after a few years.

The old man came to his wife's grave, burned paper money, filled in new soil, weeded, and said to himself: "Wife, I'm late to come back, I'm sorry for you, let you wait for half a lifetime, and I'll go to you in a few years."

The old man heard that his daughter was married far away in Daizhou, Shanxi, and thought that he must find his daughter, and he also gave an explanation to his wife, so he immediately returned to Daizhou, asked his daughter everywhere about her whereabouts, and fainted when she walked to the foot of Yanmen Mountain.

Yang Huaide and Yang Huaixing were very sympathetic to the old man and said: "Uncle, you come to our house first, our parents are enthusiastic people, they will definitely have a way to help you." The two helped the old man back home.

Mr. and Mrs. Yang Wenshan first let the old man lie on the bed to rest and stewed chicken soup for him to drink.

In the evening, when they saw that the old man's face was much better, they sat down in front of the bed and asked him what had happened. When she heard that the old man's daughter was married to Daizhou, she asked the names of the old man's wife, daughter and son.

I saw Wang Yue'e grabbing the old man's arm tightly and shouting: "Dad, I am your daughter, Yue'e!" ”

She rolled up her sleeves, pointed to the scar on her arm, and said, "Look, my brother accidentally scratched me back then." ”

The old man's eyes widened, and sure enough, there was a knife wound, he carefully looked at Wang Yue'e's face, and he could still see what Wang Yue'e looked like when she was a child, the two hugged each other and cried loudly, and Yang Huaide and the three of them also sobbed on the side.

The old man cried, "Daughter, I have found you for making you suffer." ”

Wang Yue'e cried: "Dad, why are you only coming back now, my mother has been waiting for you alone for more than 30 years, her hair is gray, and she still misses you when she is dying, you killed your mother!" ”

The old man was also very guilty, and said, "It's not good for my father, if my father came back earlier, your mother would not have left us so early." ”

Yang Wenshan also wiped his tears and persuaded: "It's a good thing that your father and daughter can see each other in this life, don't be resentful anymore, it's all bad things done by the people of Xia Guo." Only then did the father and daughter turn from sadness to joy.

The old man lived for half a month, and was relieved to see that his daughter's family was very happy, so he proposed to go back to Liao, because he ran out secretly and did not tell the prefect, and he would be suspected if it was too long, thus bringing trouble to his son's family. The father and daughter were reluctant, Yang Wenshan prepared coils and clothes for him, and Yang Huaide and Yang Huaixing sent their grandfather to Liao.

Back at home, Yang Wenshan called Yang Huaide and Yang Huaixing in front of him and scolded: "You two are getting bolder and bolder, and you actually went to Liaoguo without permission to let the government know that you are going to kill your head." ”

The two of them lowered their heads, their hearts pounding.

Yang Wenshan continued: "Fortunately, nothing happened, I want to find a master for you to discipline you, and tomorrow I will send you to the Taiping Xingguo Temple in Wutai Mountain, and let Master Huiming be your master." ”

Huaide and Yang Huaixing were still worried just now, and when they heard that their father was going to send them to learn from a teacher, they jumped up happily: "Great, great!" ”

Yang Wenshan also smiled and said: "There are a lot of bad people in Liao, it is very dangerous for you to go, Master Huiming is versatile and strong in martial arts, he can teach you a lot of things." ”