Under the old kui tree, Xu Mingyuan watched Guo Cailing walk away, and sat down with a wry smile. Thinking of the little girl's appearance of not marrying, Xu Mingyuan also shook his head with a smile, and couldn't think of any way for the time being.

"Tsk, stupid Mingyuan, you don't even let go of a girl like Lingling, you are really inferior to a beast." Zeng Qingyi sat back in the bamboo box and looked at Xu Mingyuan with disdain.

Xu Mingyuan raised his head slightly, and said pretending to be annoyed: "You can't blame me for this too much charm, just ask Shuzhou City, down to a three-year-old girl, up to a seventy-year-old woman, who doesn't like me?" ”

Zeng Qingyi rolled her eyes, lowered her head to read the book, and no longer gave Xu Mingyuan a chance to brag and argue with her tongue, she had to admit that she was no match for Xu Mingyuan.

Seeing this, Xu Mingyuan was also happy, looked at the books spread out on the table, and poured himself a cup of mint herbal tea and drank it slowly.

After a while, a silver-haired old woman dressed in gray walked out of the alley next to her, trembling with a cane.

Xu Mingyuan heard the sound of crutches and pestles, looked up, quickly got up and walked over to help the old woman, and asked with a smile as he walked: "Granny Li, are you in good health lately?" ”

That Granny Li was full of silver hair, with a wrinkled face, she was already sixty years old, her hand holding the cane trembled slightly, and she nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, I'm in good health, but Shunzi sent a letter back a few days ago, and I was looking for you to take a look, but you haven't been here for a few days." Let's talk about it today, and stop by to see if you come, but I didn't expect you to be really there. ”

Xu Mingyuan helped Granny Li sit down on the stone bench, then poured a cup of herbal tea for her with another teacup, and said with a smile: "Brother Shunzi has sent a letter, then I am sure that I have been promoted to report good news to you." ”

Granny Li took the teacup, put it on the table, looked at Zeng Qingyi, who had already stood up and stood beside Xu Mingyuan with a smile, and said with a smile: "Miss Qingyi is also here today, but I haven't seen you for a while, Mingyuan, you don't often take her to see everyone." By the way, you are both not young, when are you going to get married? ”

Zeng Qingyi originally wanted to say hello with a smile, but when she heard Granny Li's words, she also blushed, and said with some embarrassment: "Granny Li, you are laughing, I have nothing to do with him." ”

"The girl is thin-skinned, when the mother-in-law was your age, she pulled the ear of the old thing to worship and get married. It's a pity, the old man left early, if he didn't want to watch Shunzi get married and start a business, he would have gone down to accompany him earlier. Granny Li said with a smile, and after speaking, her face was also a little gloomy.

When Zeng Qingyi heard this, her eyes drooped slightly, and she didn't dare to continue to explain.

Seeing that Zeng Qingyi didn't speak, Granny Li looked at Xu Mingyuan again and said, "Mingyuan, you said that Qingyi is so handsome, kind, and has a good family background, where can you find a daughter-in-law." Everyone has seen it in their eyes over the years, Qingyi's heart is good, if you don't hurry up, you will be robbed by others when the time comes, where to cry. The female baby is thin-skinned, and if you don't open your mouth as a big man, it's hard to let the female baby go to Micang Mountain to ask for a kiss. ”

Xu Mingyuan's face darkened, why did everyone talk about them today, it seems that it was really a wrong decision to take Zeng Qingyi to Dongcheng.

When Granny Li was young, she was a famous embroiderer in Shuzhou City, and it is said that she was selected into the Chengdu Weaving House, which was designed for the royal family to weave Shu embroidered clothes, which shows the high skill of Shu embroidery. However, in recent years, my eyes have been a little dizzy, and I can't hold the needle and thread in my hands, so I returned to Shuzhou City and lived back in Dongcheng.

Granny Li has a son, who is also an old man, who joined the army two years ago without telling her, and now should be guarding the Nanzhao border. Every once in a while he will write a letter back to report his safety, Xu Mingyuan has read a lot of letters for Granny Li in recent years, and replied to many letters, and Granny Li also treats him as a grandson.

Xu Mingyuan was afraid that Granny Li would continue to talk about this, and he didn't want to offend the old man's kindness, so he looked at Zeng Qingyi's murderous eyes, and said with a smile: "Granny Li, I'll discuss this matter with my master when I go back, didn't you say that Brother Shun sent a letter, bring it to me to help you take a look." ”

"Look at my memory, it's useless when people get old." Granny Li lightly flapped her cane, said with a smile, reached into her arms and took out a folded piece of paper and handed it to Xu Mingyuan.

Xu Mingyuan took the piece of paper with a smile and looked at it, just at a glance, his complexion had changed slightly.

What kind of letterhead is this for the promotion of good news, this is clearly a letter of worry. The letter should have been sent from the southwest border city, and it was written that half a month ago, when Zhang Quanshun was guarding the construction of Butou Road, he was attacked by the Nanzhao Baiman, and was stabbed five times in the body.

Zeng Qingyi saw that Xu Mingyuan's face was a little wrong, so he also poked his head over and glanced at it, his face also changed slightly, and he looked at Xu Mingyuan and opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

Granny Li was illiterate, but her heart was transparent, and seeing that Xu Mingyuan and Zeng Qingyi's expressions were wrong, her complexion also changed, she stood up suddenly, her lips trembled slightly, and she grabbed Xu Mingyuan's hand and said, "Could it be that something happened to Shunzi?" Is there another war in the south? Is Junko dead? ”

Xu Mingyuan held Granny Li's hand, made up his mind, looked at Granny Li and said, "Mother-in-law, don't worry, Brother Shun is not dead, but he has some injuries, and it may not be convenient to work in the future, the letter said that in a few days, when the injury heals, he will come back." ”

Hearing this, Granny Li breathed a sigh of relief, sat down a little blankly, tears were already flowing from her eyes, and her eyes were a little distracted: "I'm coming back, it seems that I have broken my leg and foot." ”

But it was only for a while, and the look in his eyes came back again, and some stalks said to themselves: "It's good if you don't die, it's good if you don't die, even if you come back without hands and feet, you won't die, if it's still in the south, maybe one day it will be gone......"

Xu Mingyuan breathed a sigh of relief, he was most afraid that Granny Li would not be able to accept this matter, if something happened, then he would have no choice. Fortunately, Granny Li is a person who has seen the wind and waves, although she is a little sad, but she can still see it.

Thinking of the content of yesterday's debate, Xu Mingyuan also felt a wave of anger rise in his heart. Nanzhao and Dawan are just a small collision, how many innocent people are separated for their wives, if Granny Li's son is crippled and he can still accept it, how should those families who have lost their pillars of home deal with themselves.

Dawan started a war with Nanzhao, if it was really as his master said, he would use the lives of 50,000 soldiers to fill it, I am afraid that Shu would have to be vegetarian and wail everywhere. Those are all good sons and daughters of Jiannan Road, and they are the pillars of children to be fed and parents to be raised.

At this moment, Xu Mingyuan really realized his weakness, he had a mouth, but he had nowhere to wave his arms. He knew the suffering of the people and the difficulty of attacking Nanzhao, but he could not change the general trend of destroying Nanzhao.

Even though he won the first place in yesterday's debate, it is still unknown whether what he said can be picked by the Guozi Prison and listened to the heavens.

No wonder it is the master who often says that he is the most ruthless but a scholar, who is in a high position, takes the world as a chess piece and all living beings as his sons, and how can he care about the life and death of a small chess piece.

A thought suddenly flashed in Xu Mingyuan's heart, if he stood on the Taiming Palace one day, if he saw those high-ranking officials who kept saying that they took the world as their own responsibility, but did not regard the people of the world as people, should he be with them, or should he stand opposite them.

Without losing his heart, this is the answer Xu Mingyuan gave himself.

Xu Mingyuan comforted Granny Li a few more words, and helped her reply a letter to Zhang Quanshun, asking him to relax and recuperate from his injuries, and go home after his injuries are healed.

Then Xu Mingyuan helped the trembling Granny Li to get up, sent her home, and then asked several families in her neighborhood to take more care of Granny Li.

Back under the old kui tree, Xu Mingyuan and Zeng Qingyi were a little depressed. The two were silent for a while, Zeng Qingyi, who was sitting on the bamboo box, looked up at the sky and said softly: "Stupid Mingyuan, do you say that Granny Li can hold it?" ”

"Granny Li is a person who has experienced strong winds and waves, she will definitely be able to hold on, I hope Brother Shun can get better soon, Dawan's pension for the disabled soldiers is still very complete, even if you can't do heavy work, you can live." Xu Mingyuan nodded and replied softly.

"Yes, I hope so." Zeng Qingyi bowed slightly, turned his head to look at Xu Mingyuan, and said seriously: "I suddenly feel that what you said yesterday is very reasonable, Nanzhao and Dawan have been peaceful for decades, there are few disputes, and they also deter Tubo from committing lightly. ”

Xu Mingyuan smiled at Zeng Qingyi, being able to beat Bai Molou in debate, Zeng Qingyi's knowledge is naturally not shallow, she can agree with Xu Mingyuan's opinion, which also makes Xu Mingyuan a little relieved.

"Still." Zeng Qingyi's eyes widened, and she looked at Xu Mingyuan and said with some gritted teeth: "You just told Granny Li that you would discuss with your master when you go back, what are you discussing?" ”

Xu Mingyuan's face changed, and he just saw an old man coming over, so he quickly got up and said with a smile: "Yo, Old Man Li, you are here, Brother Feng has come again, bring it to me and read it to you." ”

Seeing this, Zeng Qingyi smiled sweetly at the old man, rolled her eyes at Xu Mingyuan's back, and continued to look down at the book.

After Xu Mingyuan read the family letter to seven or eight people, returned to the family letter, and named a newborn child, the sun also rose overhead, and Xu Mingyuan, who had only eaten one chicken leg in the morning, had already growled in his stomach.

And the stone bench where Xu Mingyuan was sitting was also full of all kinds of vegetables and fruits, as well as half a bag of rice, which was given to him by the uncle who named him, saying that he planted it outside the city.

Xu Mingyuan looked left and right, and saw that no one was coming for the time being, so he pressed the paper on the table with an inkstone, put the pen and ink in place, picked up a few seasonal vegetables and fruits, and smiled at Zeng Qingyi, who was sitting on the bamboo box and was about to fall asleep: "Let's go, take you to eat." ”

------------ second shift, I didn't have any classes today, so I also wrote some during the day, so I was able to watch two shifts...... If there are no classes in the future, I will have two shifts, so everyone should support them...... The speed of whispering is still slow, 1,000 per hour, so it is still hard to write a picture for at least three hours. Let's vote for more recommendations, and there is no money for recommendation votes.