Chang'an, the capital of the Silk Country.

Accommodating nearly a million people in the largest city on the mainland, this is the most prosperous place in the entire Silk Country, with all kinds of shops on the streets, a dazzling array of goods, bustling crowds of people coming and going on the road, people wearing more colorful and luxurious clothes than other places, and faint smiles on people's faces.

But not everyone is in a good mood, and one person strolling down the street is one of them. This person looks quite young, no more than twenty years old, not very tall, as long as the physique is a little more majestic, he can be regarded as burly, and his face with clear eyebrows is very handsome, if it were not for the fact that his skin has darkened a little bit due to years of exposure to the sun, I am afraid that it will attract the favor of many women. Judging from the outfit, you can understand that he is a servant in the yamen, but ordinary people never dreamed that this young man was a great hero in the war against Goryeo.

Although Wang Hanxin's official position is General Weiyuan, his current position is a small Chang'an street patrol soldier, almost no different from a civilian. This is all because after the victory of the conquest of Goryeo, he led his troops to attack the surrendered Goryeo royal family in order to vent his personal anger, and killed all the members of the Goryeo royal family, thus violating the emperor's order.

After being escorted back to Chang'an, Wang Hanxin accepted the title of General Weiyuan, and at the same time received the emperor's punishment, which was to order him to be the street patrol.

Liu Yan's original intention was to take this opportunity to dissipate the violent spirit in Wang Hanxin's heart, so that he could learn to act in accordance with morality and etiquette in the future. But Wang Hanxin is not hesitant about this arrangement. In fact, the greatest torment for him was not being able to continue to fight against the remnants of Goryeo's strength. If there is no battle to fight, then he is willing to go back to his old job as an Orion. Therefore, the status of this servant did not feel uncomfortable for him.

On the contrary, there was another thing that made Wang Hanxin feel uncomfortable, and that was because he still had a problem. That is, I don't like to be lively. At this point, he is quite incompatible with the prosperous city of Chang'an, so he is always unhappy every time he goes to the street to patrol.

Speaking of his job, it can be regarded as a very smooth job, his identity is not known by anyone except the top boss, but the colleagues soon found that the chief had a different attitude towards this new colleague, so they also respected Wang Hanxin, and Wang Hanxin was originally a very likable person, so he quickly got along with this group of people. And the vendors and merchants on the street are even more outstanding, they are like hunting dogs with a keen sense of smell to perceive Wang Hanxin's weight in this group of soldiers from the daily details. He was even more attentive to him, which somewhat troubled Wang Hanxin.

After turning around for a long time, seeing that it was almost noon, Wang Hanxin found a relatively secluded shop in a nearby alley to prepare for lunch.

"Yo, Uncle Wang, you haven't been to the shop for a few days." When the shopkeeper saw Wang Hanxin, he greeted him with a smile on his face. He gave up his seat and served tea, and from time to time he instructed the men to wipe the table.

Wang Hanxin said with a smile: "I won't come here to make a point, the shopkeeper doesn't have to be so polite." I came by myself. ”

"Look at what you say, you usually take care of the small shop, how can the small one not serve you well."

Wang Hanxin glanced at the young man, and the young man's face suddenly turned red. Timidly retreated. Wang Hanxin said to the boss: "Shopkeeper, this young man looks very good, is he a newcomer?" ”

The shopkeeper saw him and asked. sighed and said: "This is the child of a distant relative of mine, originally from Weizhou." Wasn't this the year before last when Weizhou was flooded? After the flood receded, they couldn't go on, and then they were helpless. This child's family is all gone, and he has no choice but to flee to me, and you say that if I don't take him in, won't he starve to death on the streets? I had to let him take a shelter in the store for the time being and learn some skills to make a living. ”

As soon as Wang Hanxin heard the interest, he said: "Shopkeeper, you bring me four steamed buns, a plate of fried mutton liver, and a plate of beef tendon meat." Besides, get that little guy to talk to me. ”

"Okay, the villain will do it." The shopkeeper said yes and walked away. After a short time, he pushed the young man and brought the food to Wang Hanxin.

Wang Hanxin looked at the trembling young man, who looked like he was only thirteen or fourteen years old, thinking that he had never seen anything in the world, and he was scared when he saw himself wearing soap clothes.

"Come, don't be afraid, sit. I'll ask you something, and you just have to tell the truth. Wang Hanxin said while picking up the steamed bun and taking a bite.

The boy sat down leaning. Wang Hanxin said, "What's your name?" ”

"The villain's surname is Qian, he has no name, and others call me Xiaoliu." The child saw Wang Hanxin's face full of smiles, and relaxed slightly.

"Oh, Qian Xiaoliu. I heard that you are from Weizhou, let me ask you if the imperial court did not vigorously provide disaster relief during the flood disaster the year before last, why can't you go out to escape? ”

Qian Xiaoliu couldn't help but reddened his eyes when he heard this, and said in a low voice: "Uncle asked the little one, and the little one didn't dare to hide it." In fact, we also heard other people's legends, and the disaster relief things were all detained. ”

"Withheld? How so? Who is so bold? Wang Hanxin's eyes widened when he heard this.

Qian Xiaoliu said softly: "We don't know the details, but nearly half of the more than 700 people in our village were drowned, and the houses and fields were destroyed, but not to mention the silver, not even a grain of grain was seen." Everyone had no choice but to borrow grain from the government, and only by borrowing one and repaying two could they survive the year, but who knew that after the plague broke out in the village, hundreds of people died, and the fields were uncultivated in the coming year, but the grain to be repaid could not be less, seeing that the harvest was not good, and the grain owed could not be paid, then they had to borrow from the government again. Everyone felt that they couldn't do it, so they could only start fleeing. ”

Wang Hanxin couldn't help but sigh when he heard this: "There is such a thing, I only heard that the imperial court allocated a large amount of silver and grain for disaster relief, who would have expected that it would not be the case at all." Then you came out to flee last year, why did you come to Chang'an now? ”

When Qian Xiaoliu heard this, tears rolled down his face, and he choked up and said: "My mother took me to Yingzhou to join my uncle, but when we arrived in Yingzhou after many hardships and dangers, we found that there was a cult there. ”

Wang Hanxin almost squirted out the piece of beef in his mouth, and finally swallowed the beef in his stomach before saying, "Cult? ”

"yes. In recent years, there has been a Taoist sect called it, and there are many believers, and all those who do not believe will be threatened, and some will even be destroyed. When we got there, my uncle's family had already fled. We had no place to go, so we had to come to Chang'an. Who knew that I met those cult members on the way, and my mother was killed by them in order to cover my escape. I begged all the way to make a living, and I took the wrong road, so it took me so long to get to Chang'an. ”

Qian Xiaoliu cried as he spoke, which made Wang Hanxin lose his appetite, and he stopped eating only half of it. Wang Hanxin touched fifteen copper coins from his arms and put them on the table, and took out an ingot of ten taels of silver to hand it to Qian Xiaoliu, and said, "Thank you for telling me the truth, these fifteen wen is the money for this meal, and you hand it over to the shopkeeper." You have collected the ten taels of silver yourself, although the money is not much, but you are still young, and you will always need to learn some trades or make some living in the future. Since you have escaped this life through hardships, you should live a good life, and don't let your mother's spirit in heaven be disappointed. ”

"Eun Gong!" Qian Xiaoliu knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "The grace of Engong's recreation, the villain will never forget!" ”

Wang Hanxin smiled and said: "Who will recreate you, only you can recreate you, don't let me down." Let's go. ”

With that, Wang Hanxin strode out of the store and walked towards the street. As soon as I was at the entrance of the alley, I suddenly heard many people exclaiming in the distance: "Run!" Come on! (To be continued.) )