At this time, Father Xue heard Xiantu shouting loudly behind him, thinking that Xiantu must not be able to withstand the cold, and shouted behind him to go home, after all, it is a child, since this is the case, it is better to let them go down the mountain earlier, so as not to freeze their bodies.

Thinking of this, he stopped moving forward and said to them: "Son, are you freezing on the top of the mountain and can't stand it, if that's the case, go down the mountain first, and then look around for your father, if you can't find it, your father will go down the mountain before dark, and you don't have to worry about your father." Father Xue said this, Xiantu naturally they would not leave Father Xue and go down the mountain alone.

I only heard Xiantu say to Wu Shiyue: "Brother Wu, I'm not wrong, you see that my father doesn't believe what I said at all now." ”

"Brother Xian, how could our uncle believe us, if there was really a way, we wouldn't have gone up the mountain just now, do you say?" The samurai said persuadingly.

Hearing the two of them talking behind their backs, Father Xue looked at the barren mountains and mountains, and felt that there would be no results if he looked for it any longer, since the children were willing to let him go down the mountain together, it was better to go down the mountain first and then make plans, if it really didn't work, he would be hungry for a meal, and he would find a way to solve the problem of food and clothing tomorrow.

I saw Father Xue turn to Xiantu and say, "Let's go, it seems that it's too cold this day, and the prey is hiding, so it's better to warm up the mountain another day and then go up the mountain to hunt." ”

"Well, I'll just say, it's surprisingly cold on this mountain, and people can't stand the cold, let alone those poor little animals." Xiantu muttered dissatisfiedly.

Hearing Xiantu say this, the samurai Yue said, "Uncle." I don't know where there is a grain store nearby, and I still have some broken silver on me, so why don't we go down the mountain and buy some food? ”

Father Xue pondered for a moment. Said: "Where is there a grain store in our poor country, there is a Zhang Yuanwai in Li Village next door, I heard that there is a lot of food at home, but he is too mean, the price of food is ridiculously high, and the others really can't think of where to buy food." ”

"In that case, we might as well go and have a look. If these broken silver taels on the little nephew's body can be exchanged for one and a half buckets, we won't have to be hungry tonight, do you say uncle? The samurai finished speaking. He took out the few small pieces of silver that he had on his waist.

Father Xue took the silver tael and put it in his hand, and said, "Just this little bit of broken silver, it is estimated that Zhang Yuanwai will not even let us in." ”

"It's okay uncle, the little nephew still has a family heirloom jade pendant here. When the time comes, you can mortgage it there in exchange for some food. The samurai said generously.

Hearing the samurai say this, the more he said. Father Xue hurriedly stopped: "No, no, how can you use the family heirloom jade pendant of the virtuous nephew as a mortgage in exchange for food, wouldn't this trap the virtuous nephew be unfilial." ”

After hearing this, the warrior smiled bitterly and said, "Okay, uncle, let's talk while we go, if you starve me, it will be unfilial piety." ”

"Where do you start?" Father Xue asked puzzled.

Xiantu looked at his elm-headed father, and said with some laughter: "Dad, why do you have so many questions? You don't want to think about it either. If Brother Wu starved to death because he didn't eat, how sad his parents would be. Since they are all starving to death, what else can they do to fulfill their filial piety, isn't it to trap the martial brother to the point of unfilial piety. ”

Hearing Xiantu say this, Father Xue suddenly said: "That's right, that's right, since that's the case, let's go to Li Village as soon as possible, it's hard to walk after a while." ”

"What Uncle said is reasonable, let's hurry down the mountain to Li Village!" When the samurai finished speaking, he went down the hill wrapped tightly in the thin sackcloth and asked them to follow closely behind.

On the way, the warrior asked with some curiosity: "Brother Xian, I heard that the Li family brothers and you have been friends since childhood, I wonder if the two of them are in the same village as you?" ”

"Different villages, the two of them live in Li Village, not far from our Xuejia Village." Let's go back first.

"Li Village, isn't that the village we're going to go to in a moment?" The warrior said with some surprise.

"That's right, it is there, the Li brothers have no relatives since they were young, the elder brother took his younger brother to eat all over the hundred family meals, wear all the clothes of the hundred families to grow up, and then we were fortunate to worship, so that the two of them had relatives, my parents accepted them as righteous sons, and later, that is, this summer, they packed their bags and moved to our house, and now we are like a family." Xiantu explained, and brought the past of the Li family brothers to the samurai.

Hearing Xiantu say this, the warrior said with deep emotion: "You have been so pitiful, and I have always envied you for my brother, and it seems that I am so ashamed of my brother's life in comparison." ”

The words of the warrior Yue and Xiantu made Father Xue, who was walking in front, interested, and only heard him ask curiously: "The virtuous nephew doesn't know where he lives, who is his surname, and who else is in the family?" ”

"Uncle, the little nephew's family lives in Wenshui County, Shanxi, the surname is Wu Ming Shiyue, the family has parents and several brothers, ranked fourth, my family has been farming for a living, and when the little nephew was a child, he did business and became a businessman." The warrior replied to Father Xue in detail.

"So that's the case, I said how to make a brother with the virtuous nephew, it turns out that both of you are frustrated businessmen, think about Shinong and businessmen, the virtuous nephew should not give up agriculture and change to businessmen, businessmen are the lowest level, and they are also the kind that people look down on the most." Father Xue heard that the samurai were abandoning agriculture and business, and expressed his views with emotion.

"Uncle is strict, businessmen have their own businessmen's good, there is nothing to look down on, we rely on buying and selling for self-reliance, and we don't make people look down on us." Samurai Yue explained for the merchants, these words were originally intended to Mrs. Sù Luo, but I didn't expect the Samurai Yue to say the same, it seems that this is the voice of the merchants all over the world.

"Since the virtuous nephew said this, it is not easy for the uncle to say anything more, but society is like this, and it is better to put the suffering peasants in second place than to put the merchants who buy and sell in the first place, perhaps this is the way people think." Father Xue said on a matter-by-case basis.

"Perhaps!" The more casually the samurai agreed.

While walking, the distance is not far away, after going down the mountain, there will be no cold just now, although the number of cold days is really thin, but it is better than blowing some north wind on the mountain to warm up.

This inconspicuous small mountain village is Li Village, the entrance of the village erected a stone that is not square or round, carved with the word "Li Village", this craftsman is also a ghostly workmanship, actually wrote these two words in regular script on such a piece of stone that is not square, it can be seen that the calligraphy is profound. (To be continued......)