"It turns out that there is such a thing, it seems that you are quite destined."

Xue Tao looked into the distance and sighed: "If you talk about life, Yun Nianlin is much more bitter than me, I heard that it was said that in the early years, her mother was overly sad when she was pregnant with her, and left a posterior illness, her mother left when she was less than three years old, she was basically brought up by her father, I didn't have a father in my early years, but she didn't have a mother, and no mother is more painful than no father, not to mention that I am fortunate to know who my father is, and she... I haven't even seen her mother's face, I only heard the elders talk about it." “

Xue Tao lamented again: "She has no chance to see her mother in her life, because her mother is not missing, but dead, this can only become a regret in her heart, and what is even more sad is that she doesn't even know who her biological father is, because her mother was already big belly when she married into Yunjiazhuang, and because of this, she was often bullied when she was a child, and people called her a wild child, but she is much better than me, she dares to beat someone who bullies her, and she often beats her, so she is actually not as much as I am, Alas, the past is like smoke, she was miserable in her early years, and she couldn't imagine that she would have to do business with her father when she grew up, what a hard-working child. ”

Lin Fan thought about it for a long time, his eyebrows frowned more and more, and in the end he didn't understand anything, and he didn't get particularly useful information, so he had to sigh: "It's really a very hard-working child, alas, why are you girls in Yunjiazhuang so miserable, first it's you, then her, and it's all met by me." ”

Xue Tao walked out of his pity, and when he heard Lin Fan say this, he couldn't help but smile: "That means that you are a person who pities the fragrance and cherishes the jade, and it turns out that you are indeed like this." ”

Lin Fan smiled: "Don't praise me like this, I will be proud." ”

When the last dark red on the edge of the sky gradually lost its color and was replaced by gray, Lin Fan and Xue Tao stepped on the cold and faced the cold wind and returned to the inn.

After eating a rich dinner and drinking to his heart's content, Lin Fan took out a sketchy map that he had copied from the Tang Dynasty map of the palace and spread it on the table to discuss the next plan with Xue Tao.

The Qiantang matter, the last wishes of the ancestors have been completed, and there is no major urgent matter in the future, Lin Fan is not in a hurry to propose to Xue Rengui, who is only four years older than him, there are many good things, it is better to take your time in this kind of thing.

The first time he walked in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, he naturally had to appreciate it, Lin Fan liked to travel, like mountains and rivers, and in later generations, he spent his main rest time on the journey, at first he just used the annual leave of the unit to go on a small vacation, and then on a whim after having a little savings, he directly handed over a letter of resignation and began his journey around the world.

The world is so big, I want to see it.

The reason is very simple, and he is also very capricious, and the results of his willfulness are not too bad, and he is even more excited to come to Datang to appreciate the monuments.

There are many places of interest and historic sites that he has visited in later generations, and Lin Fan has to go through them again, he wants to see what kind of scenery the scenery that was left behind thousands of years ago, whether it is like the plane forest outside Qiantang City and disappears with the wind, or the face remains the same for generations to enjoy.

Lin Fanding's route goes directly to the north, Jiangzhou is in the north, and traveling all the way will not make this trip so dry and tasteless, he doesn't want to go to the south, in the Tang Dynasty, Qiantang is already a relatively southern place in Jiangnan Province, and further south is not so plump, mostly barren land.

There are many bandits in the poor mountains, Lin Fan is still young, there are still many things that have not been done, there are still many ideals that have not been realized, there are still many fun that have not been enjoyed, and there are still many places that have not been appreciated He wants to live for a few more years, a place like Nanzhao still doesn't have to think about it, Xue Tao just jumped out of that fire pit, and he doesn't have to think about it to know that it is a dangerous place.

Lin Fan was not greedy, and he didn't have to appreciate every city all the way to the north, he only picked some important and famous places to stay for a few more days.

Qiantang is his first stop, and then Suzhou is his second stop, so go north, slowly appreciate, anyway, he has time.

It was late at night after the two happily booked the whole journey, perhaps imagining the pleasure of the journey, both of them were too excited to have any sleepiness, and if the lonely man and widow had no sleepiness, they could only do something else in the silent and boring night

Winter is coming, spring is coming, when the first thunder sounded in the sky, the long-lost spring finally embarked on a journey.

For the common people who depend on agriculture for a living, spring is the most joyful thing in the four seasons of the year.

In the spring season, everything recovers, and the farmers who have been waiting for a season finally start to get busy again, hoeing, plowing, sowing, and planting seedlings, this process year after year does not disgust the people who have been farmers for generations, and they are happy to repeat this monotonous but flavorful process.

Spring is coming, and the people who repair the village also pick up their hoes to start the new year's reclamation, the small village of Xiucun is located in the mountains, although the mountains are not very high, but it is enough to isolate the village from the outside world, in this kind of poor and soiled land, the people who live here can only make a living from farming, they are very comfortable, and they enjoy this kind of farming for generations.

In the spring season, the fields are the shadows of the villagers, they happily hoe the grass, while hoeing the grass and chatting with the neighbors about some household chores, the adults are basically doing the big hard work, they are responsible for hoeing the weeds, cutting the soil, the children and women are mainly responsible for clearing the grass, they have to clean the weeds to the side, and the dead grass is dried up after being exposed to the scorching sun, and can be used as fertilizer.

Each family has its own piece of land, they are busy in their own fields, if you see a few people gathered in the fields here, it is a family, spring is coming, the people of the village like to rush into the fields one by one.

Looking at the whole plain, there are three or five adults and children in most of the fields, and there are two people at the worst, one big and one small, but on one of the fields here, there is only one figure busy there...

The boy is not particularly handsome, not too ugly, he has all the facial features that he should have, and there are no organs that others don't have, although he is not very old, but he is relatively burly, perhaps because he has been in the sun for a long time, his whole face is black, and the exposed body is also black, it is not accurate to say that it is black, to be exact, it should be a little red, the kind of redness after being exposed to the sun.

The boy was sweating profusely, burying his head in the hoe, but he didn't feel tired at all, he was born with brute strength, and he was still a martial artist, and this little farm work was nothing to him.

The boy was not tired, but after hoeing the grass for less than half an hour, he sat down on a stone by the ridge of the field and rested, wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked up at the mountains in the distance, and then looked at the blue sky and white clouds above his head, only lamenting.

"Rengui, you're starting to lament again, and you're thinking about working outside again?" Seeing the young man's sighing appearance, an old man in the field next to him joked with a smile that the young man's mind and ambition are well known in Xiucun, because he often said that he wanted to go to the outside world and did not want to live in this group of mountains for the rest of his life.

Xue Rengui glanced at the old man and sighed: "What's the use of having empty ambitions, there is no goal, and I don't know where to go after walking out of this mountain range, to Longmen County?" Going to Jiangzhou? I can't be an official there, I can only do business, so I'd better stay at home and farm. ”

The old man smiled and said: "You must have something to do when you go to the army with force, why do you have to be an official, civil officials are not suitable for you, only military generals are suitable for you, if you want to be a general, you have to start from a small soldier, and you must have military achievements, which general is not a great general to become a general." ”

Think about your own armed forces, think about the career of joining the army that the old man said, first joined the army from a small soldier, and then made great achievements, and finally became a general... This kind of career is exciting to think about, but it's a pity that the dream is very plump, the reality is very skinny, Xue Rengui only sighed.

"What's the use of having a body of force, if it's just peaceful today, where is there still a war to fight, where to join the army, alas... I only blame myself for being born too late, if I had been born ten years earlier, maybe my life would have been different."

The old man still smiled and said: "It's not that there is no chance but the time has not come, wait, first live the current life well, look at you, hoeing is not serious, work hard, Rengui, other people's families are cutting the soil, it won't take long to plow the field, according to your speed, there will be no good harvest after this period of time, this time is the most suitable for farming, but you are still thinking about what is the use of other ambitions, can you eat as food, you want your lady to be hungry, young people, just get married, you should work harder." ”

Xue Rengui thought about it, there is no chance to show his skills at all now, it is better to live the life in front of him, his wife is pregnant, he has to have a variety of food, and when he arrives at the autumn harvest, he will collect a few more stones, take some of it and sell it for some money, and buy some supplements for his wife to nourish her body.

Thinking that he was going to be a father at the end of the year, Xue Rengui's whole body was full of vitality, he stood up, picked up the hoe and continued to hoe the grass, he did it very easily, effortlessly, the eldest son next to the old man next to him looked at Xue Rengui's movements enviously, he was only one year younger than Xue Rengui, but he didn't have the brute strength of Xue Rengui, he felt tired after moving the grass a few times, compared with the two, the eldest son of the old man became more and more envious.

The old man looked at Xue Rengui's hoeing speed, nodded appreciatively, and then he himself buried his head in the soil and began to cut the soil, asking Xue Rengui while cutting: "Rengui, when it came to joining the army just now, I remember that your eldest brother just joined the army, and there is no news so far, if he is in the barracks, it should not be difficult to introduce you to the army." ”

Xue Rengui stopped what he was doing, raised his head and sighed, thinking of his eldest brother Xue Yong, he was angry and didn't fight anywhere, it wasn't the eldest brother who ran away from home in the early years, and the father didn't go so early, although the father also had a lot of heart for his own disobedience, but the main fault was the fault of the eldest brother, although the mother's death was due to the death of the father, but in the final analysis, it was the fault of the eldest brother.

He said hatefully: "He has been running away from home for seventeen years, he has not returned home once, nor has he sent a letter to his family, through a trace of information, whether he is still alive now, whether he is still in the army, I have never known, although I have not seen the eldest brother, but I heard my father and mother say, I have no impression of this person, and I have no feelings, whether he is still in the barracks now, if he is really still in the barracks, become a general or something, that is also his life, what does it have to do with me." ”

Xue Rengui took a sip, with a dissatisfied face: "What if he is brilliant, he won't remember his family, he won't remember his relatives at home, and he won't remember how his father and mother are at home, what is the use of this kind of big brother, what is the use of being brilliant, he has long been smoked by fame and fortune, he has forgotten his family, he has forgotten his relatives, even if he wants to introduce me to the army at this moment, I will not go to the military camp where he is."

If he was already in the barracks, if he had a trace of conscience, he should have gone home to visit, he should have returned to his hometown in fine clothes, he should have let me join the army, but unfortunately he never appeared, maybe... Maybe he has already died on the battlefield, hmph, there are no two times to go to the army to fight, I and he should be exchanged, if I was born in his time, now I should be a general, I should be able to return to my hometown, what about him, no fart, no news, he was born more than ten years early in vain, replaced by me, Today's Xue family is still as poor as it is now, and it will definitely be able to return to the Xue family in the Northern Wei Dynasty! ”

Xue Rengui complained and was dissatisfied with his eldest brother, and the resentment in his chest was alleviated, he hated his eldest brother, not because of whether he was meritorious or not, but because he had not heard from him for so many years, which made him and his father worry for more than ten years, which was what he hated the most.

The old man didn't expect Xue Rengui to think so much about his eldest brother, and he didn't expect that his unintentional words would make Xue Rengui so indignant, in order to ease the atmosphere, he had to comfort him: "Rengui, you shouldn't look at it like this, I grew up with Xue Yong, I know best what kind of person he is, I believe Xue Yong is not that kind of person, he is not filial piety when he runs away from home, but he is very filial to his parents before he leaves home, all the hard work is taken on himself, and he does not let your father work more, at that time the farming season, The heaviest work was done by your eldest brother, and your father gave him a hand to do some light work, and at that time we all praised your eldest brother's filial piety.

Now that he has no news, maybe he has unspeakable hardships, maybe he can't help himself, maybe he has died on the battlefield as you said, I believe that Xue Yong must have helplessness, he is not the kind of person who values profit over righteousness, and there must be a reason why he can't return to his hometown.

Rengui, you have no relationship with Xue Yong, but he is your eldest brother after all, you can't have such a grudge against him, he is not the kind of person you say, you can't be prejudiced against him, when he comes back with news the next day, you will know that your eldest brother is by no means the kind of person you imagined, I... (To be continued.) )