The night was dark and inky, and the wilderness was silent, except for a group of people carrying torches and scurrying along dilapidated pipes.

In this line, most of the country men were dressed in coarse linen clothes, a young man and a teenager were surrounded in the middle, and the men on the periphery were giggling and laughing, and from time to time they joked with meat jokes, and the young man and the teenager in the middle were smiling, but they were also listening with relish.

"Brother Zhao Xian, how do you feel about participating in Qiuqiu this time?" The young man asked with a smile.

Zhao Yan thought for a while and replied: "As the saying goes, no one asks about the cold window for ten years, and the world knows that it is famous in one fell swoop, and Qiu Yan is the last hurdle before participating in the examination. Do your best to obey the destiny of heaven, you have already worked hard, if you don't pass the exam, you can only say that the fate of the little brother is like this, and there will be a chance in three years. ”

The young man's name is Liu Yan, who is also a talented man with a wide range of knowledge, and he was unable to participate in the township examination because of the unexpired filial piety.

"It's best for a virtuous brother to think like this, I want to participate in the autumn festival for my brother for the first time three years ago, and I was always worried about what to do if I didn't pass the exam, but although the article was written, it was even worse than before, and I wrote a few mistakes one after another when I copied it on the main paper, which led to the final name of Sun Shan."

Zhao Yan said comfortingly: "Time is also lucky, life is also lucky, maybe Brother Liu will be a blockbuster in three years." ”

Liu Yan smiled and didn't speak, when a man walking in front suddenly pointed to the front and asked, "Xiao Xiucai, is that the little hill you said you are talking about?" ”

Zhao Yan glanced at it by the light of the fire, and then affirmed: "That's it, we put a stone in front of the hill to mark, and a few robbers are in the reeds behind the hill. ”

When seven or eight men heard this, they immediately cheered up, and two men with firewood knives in their hands walked in front with torches in one hand and firewood knives in the other, and the rest followed behind with torches.

Seven or eight men circled around the reeds, and then brought out the two dejected robbers and a corpse.

Boss Hu and Ma Cripple originally had something stuffed in their mouths, but they didn't know how to spit it out at this time, after being brought out, the two of them saw Zhao Yan and couldn't help but scold, and someone next to them kicked them twice when they saw this, and then took out two rags from their arms, and scolded with a smile: "This is a footcloth made by Lao Tzu's mother-in-law, and it is cheap for you two stinky robbers." ”

As he spoke, the two rags had been stuffed into the mouths of Boss Hu and Ma Cripple respectively.

A man asked with a smile: "Sun Laosan, why don't you wrap the footcloth that your mother-in-law made for you, but carry it in your arms?" ”

Sun Laosan smiled and said, "I don't know how long I haven't washed those two footwraps, I don't think they smell, but my mother-in-law is too lazy, she neither washes nor makes up, so she has to let me continue to wear them." I held it in my arms and originally wanted to let her smell it when my mother-in-law went to sleep, but I didn't expect that these two robbers are cheap now, and they are lucky. ”

Boss Hu and Ma Cripple rolled their eyes because of the smell, and the seven or eight men who saw it laughed loudly, Sun Laosan patted the back of the two robbers with the back of the firewood knife in his hand, and shouted: "Okay, don't learn, learn to be robbers, Lao Tzu doesn't look like us Anzhou people, no one carries you in this black light, hurry up, Lao Tzu has to go back to sleep." ”

It was midnight when the group returned to the village, and the two robbers and the body were locked up in the family's cellar, while Zhao Yan went to the house of the chief under Liu Yan's guidance.

The knife wounds on Li Er and Zhang Shun were smeared with herbs and bandaged, and the two of them had also woken up, Zhao Yan said a few words to the two people, and when he saw that they were not energetic, he let them continue to rest, and he ate something under Liu Yan's beckoning, and then arranged to rest with Zhang Wenyuan and Wang Lin, who looked sleepy, to the neighbor's house.

Early the next morning, Li Er and Zhang Shun were carried into the carriage, behind which there was an ox cart with the body on it, and the two robbers were firmly tied to the back of the ox cart.

Liu Yan only brought two villagers to Anzhou this time, both of them can drive, one drove a carriage, one drove an ox cart, and Liu Yan borrowed three little donkeys from somewhere, just one with Zhao Yan and Zhang Wenyuan to ride one, Wang Lin still rode his jujube red horse, and the group walked for an hour and a half, and the city wall of Anzhou City was already in sight.

After arriving at the state office, Liu Yan took care of everything, and Zhao Yan testified that the identities of the three robbers were confirmed, and the two living robbers were taken into prison, and the body of the robber was sent to Yizhuang.

Coincidentally, Zhao Yan and the others met the fleeing coachman at the gate of the state ya, although the coachman's behavior of fleeing without telling was despicable, but in the end, he drove Zhao Yan and the others back to Shenzhou.

Standing outside the north gate of Shenzhou City, looking at the old state town in the southwest, it feels a little unfamiliar, but more familiar.

Wang Lin sent Zhao Yan and Li Er to Zhao's house, and then wanted to ride Zhang Wenyuan back to Zaoke Village, but Zhang Wenyuan refused politely, and had no choice but to leave Zhao's house.

Zhao Yan settled Li Er, and ordered a maid to take care of him, then turned to look at Wang Lin, who was following him and said, "Let's go, I'll go with you to see Wang Yuanwai." ”

Wang Lin hesitated: "My father is probably waiting for me to go back with a stick, or let's wait a little longer......

"Wait until the daylilies are cold." Zhao Yan pulled Wang Lin by the hand, and said: "Wang Yuanwai didn't know that we were coming back today, we just returned to Shenzhou now, it is the best time to see your father, if you wait another day or two, Wang Yuanwai knows that you went back to Shenzhou but did not go home, he will definitely be even more angry, and I can't protect you when I think about it." ”

Wang Lin hesitated when he heard this: "That...... Then I'll wash my face first. ”

"Don't, it's best to go to see the king." Zhao Yan glanced at Wang Lin, and suddenly smiled: "When you see Wang Yuan, you'd better not say a word, you can listen to what your father says, and if he wants to beat you, you will kneel." Wouldn't it be pathetic? It's best to have a little tears, but I guess you don't have such profound acting skills, you can lower your head if you can't shed tears, I'll say a few good words to you next to you, and this matter is probably over. ”

"Really?" Wang Lin asked, and then said to himself: "It would be nice if I had learned to pretend to be pitiful a long time ago, so many beatings were in vain before." ”

The two of them walked to the door one after the other, and Zhao Yan collided with someone as soon as he crossed the threshold.

"Oops." Li Yun screamed in pain, covered his forehead and took two steps back, and when he looked up, he met Zhao Yan's gaze.

Zhao Yan covered his nose, the sour feeling kept hitting his eyes, and when he looked up and saw that it was Li Yun, he couldn't help but complain: "Hurry, what are you doing walking in such a hurry, should you be caught lying to people again?" ”

Li Yun's cheeks were slightly red, and he whispered: "No, I ...... I'm hungry and anxious to come back and eat, well, just anxious to come back and eat. ”

Zhao Yan looked at Li Yun's plump figure in surprise, and then looked at her slightly red little face, and said in her heart, How did this little girl become more and more shy? According to the previous routine, shouldn't you put your hands on your hips and say loudly that you are a little liar, and your whole family is a little liar? Could it be that the eighteen changes of the female college have changed, and even the temperament has changed?

"Eat? I've been out for less than a month, and you've eaten a lot of fat, and if you eat again, you'll be a piglet. ”

Li Yun sighed, touched his face with both hands, and said in surprise: "It seems to be really fat." ”

"Young lady, what are you doing so fast? Childe has just returned from Jingshi, and he can't fly again. Li Yun's personal maid Xiao Xiang'er panted and ran over from the corner of the street, and she was slightly taken aback when she saw Zhao Yan also present, but then she called out to her son.

"Young lady?" Zhao Yan glanced at Li Yun playfully, and asked Xiao Xiang'er, "Who asked you to change your name?" ”

Xiao Xiang'er stuck out her tongue and replied in a low voice, "It was the master who asked me to change it." The old man said that the son is not young, and he can already get married and have children, and the young lady is the adoptive daughter-in-law of the son, and she will also be the mistress of the Zhao family in the future, so let the people below change their names in advance, and let the son and the young lady marry after the New Year, and said that he wanted to hold his grandson as soon as possible. ”

Li Yun is already self-conscious, the two mothers-in-law around her brainwash her a lot on weekdays, mostly saying that Zhao Yan is good, Li Yun already knows what it means to get married, at this time, Xiao Xiang'er said a few words in front of Zhao Yan, but it made her ashamed and angry.

"You little long-tongued woman, what are you talking nonsense?" Li Yun glanced at Xiao Xiang'er fiercely, stomped her feet again, lowered her head and walked into the door quickly, and when she passed by Wang Lin's side, Wang Lin smiled and called her sister-in-law, in exchange for Li Yun's big eyes.

Zhao Yan shook his head, his body is only sixteen years old this year, Li Yun is even younger, only fourteen years old, and his body has not yet grown up, but he didn't expect that the cheap father was already in a hurry to hold his grandson.

A quarter of an hour later, Wang Lin led the horse and stood in front of the Wang family's door and stopped, and a small servant ran out of the door and said happily: "Second son, you are back, the master is now in the study, I will lead the horse, the second son go to the study to see the master, these days can worry the master." ”

Wang Lin watched the little girl lead the horse through the side door, and then looked past the main entrance and looked in the direction of the study, his heart was very entangled, and he couldn't move on his two feet.

The ugly daughter-in-law always has to see her in-laws, Zhao Yanqiang dragged Wang Lin into the door, and just walked near the front hall, Wang Ye had already heard the news and walked out of the back house.

Seeing Wang Lin's figure from a distance, Wang Ye's footsteps suddenly slowed down, and his face was also on the floor, and he whispered to Wang Jiu behind him: "You go and get the family law, the old man will teach this rebel a good lesson today." ”

Wang Jiu looked sympathetically at Wang Lin, who was standing in place with a worried face, and turned around and went to the back house to get the family law.

When Wang Ye came closer, Zhao Yan stood behind Wang Lin and gently pushed him, Wang Lin understood, and called Dad.

Wang Ye's anger erupted at this moment, he looked at Wang Lin who was covered in dust, and shouted angrily: "You rebel, do you still know to come back? ”

Zhao Yan pushed him behind Wang Lin again, Wang Lin knelt on the ground with a plop, and then lowered his head and shouted with all his might: "Dad, don't beat me, it was Senior Brother who asked me to follow him to Jingshi to play, I won't dare next time." ”

Wang Ye was stunned for a moment, and when he heard Wang Lin say that Zhao Yan was holding his son Qiao's family, he immediately turned his eyes to Zhao Yan.

Feeling the biting chill in Wang Ye's eyes, Zhao Yan was also stunned, why didn't Wang Lin, this kid, follow the script? What an honest child, how did he learn to open his eyes and tell nonsense? It's embarrassing now, how can I get over it?