Luoshui meanders past the base of the city wall.

Standing on the tower of the south city of Luoyang, you can see the farmers in the four fields holding oxen and ploughing, busy plowing the land and preparing to sow seeds.

The boys of all the families also stopped their schoolwork, and the older ones helped in the fields, and the younger ones gathered together in groups and chased and fought in the smooth and unobstructed fields, and the soil was so soft that it would not hurt if someone occasionally fell.

Whether it is helping the family to help the plow and the oxen, or chasing and fighting, there is no laughter and laughter, and it can faintly be transmitted to the city wall with the wind.

As the eldest son of the owner of the land, his mother disciplined him strictly, but he rarely had such a happy time as these boys.

Deng Shi stood under the women's wall, the tips of his hair swaying from side to side in the wind, enjoying the scenery in front of him.

Dozens of steps away from him, the second uncle Deng Zhong leaned against the wall and watched Liu Feng and Deng Qing and Deng Wei look for the ant holes and small insects in the cracks of the wall, catching insects and feeding ants.

Liu Feng is an orphan, can only rely on his uncle to live, has experienced hardships, precocious mind, at the age of fifteen, at this time can also play with Deng Qing and Deng Wei, nothing more than hoping to integrate into the new family faster.

Deng Shi is the eldest of the two families, there is no brother or sister before, as the eldest brother, many times he will feel wronged, the adopted son suddenly adopted by the second uncle is considered an extra brother, and there is no serious conflict between the two, Deng Shi also likes to be close to him, but he is not too familiar at the moment.

Therefore, today, the second uncle was busy leading Liu Feng and Deng Qing to pick him up from the house to play, regardless of agricultural affairs, and Deng Shi immediately nodded in agreement, but later followed Deng Wei, a clever ghost who rushed to the scene after hearing the news.

For Deng Wei, this sister. Deng Shi is also really loved. Although she was born to the housewife Wu family. But there is no sense of estrangement, first, she treats the two brothers no differently, and she is also respectful to Deng She's mother, Mrs. Jiao; Second, it is really clever and painful, of course, being naughty is also painful and headaches.

Under the sun, the spring breeze blows on the face and neck, making people feel intoxicated. He stood by the women's wall, forgetting many troubles for a while, envying the naughty boy in the four fields for a while, and then examining Liu Feng for a while, thinking about his sister's naughty things, but so, it was much happier than staying in the house.

Unconsciously, Deng She, who was in comfort, was almost squinting on the city wall.

Deng Wei woke him up with a sharp cheer, and when he looked back, his father Deng Ji led Deng Zhang to the city wall.

My father has been very busy lately. How do you get so free?

Deng Shi was slightly surprised, and hurried to catch up.

Deng Qing and Deng Wei had already jumped over first. Deng Qing opened his mouth to greet: "Fourth uncle, second brother!" ”

Deng Wei raised his head and asked, "How did my father know that the second uncle led me here?" ”

Deng Ji smiled but didn't answer, Deng Shi had already caught up: "Father!" ”

Liu Feng followed behind Deng Shi slowly, still a little restrained: "Fourth uncle, Baoshu!" ”

Over there, Deng Zhang also saluted Deng Zhong and Liu Feng, and greeted his younger brothers and sisters, Deng Jicai smiled and said to Zhu Xiaodao: "Today is fine, and I will bring Baoshu to play with you." ”

Deng Zhong laughed and said to Zhu Xiaodao: "You wait to play yourself, don't pay attention to him!" ”

Liu Feng saw that Deng Shi and Deng Zhang were still awkward, and consciously couldn't insert it, so he led Deng Qing and Deng Wei to play again.

To this day, Deng Shi and Deng Zhang are still uncomfortable seeing each other, and they each find a wall battlement to blow the wind.

The black iron guards who accompanied him scattered far away, and Deng Ji accompanied Deng Zhong to bask in the sun lazily for a while, seeing that Liu Feng and the three of them had already played and were getting farther and farther away, before he greeted: "Xi'er, Baoshu, come!" ”

Deng Ji opened his mouth, and Deng Zhong yawned and went down the wall to find Liu Feng and them.

The two brothers Deng Shi and Deng Zhang leaned over, and Deng Ji pointed to the distant mountain outside the wall: "Look at the two of you! ”

The hill was bare, and the two brothers stared at it for a while, but they found nothing, and they couldn't help but wonder, and looked back at their father.

Deng Ji spoke again: "It's okay in Luoyang, you have lived in Chang'an with me in recent years, and you can see that the surrounding mountains are mostly the same as there are no forests here?" ”

Is it the trees on the mountain? Deng Zhang was a little surprised: "Father, outside Chang'an City, there are indeed many like this!" ”

When Deng Zhang answered, Deng Shi didn't say anything, just nodded.

"You go to school with Cai Ji on weekdays, and I have a question to test it today."

Deng Shi and Deng Zhangqi stood upright and said, "Please ask my father to ask!" ”

Deng Ji nodded, looked at the mountains in the distance, and asked, "There are all the forests in the world?" ”

Deng Zhang blurted out: "There is no wood here, there is wood there, there are many trees in the world like stars, how can there be everything?" ”

Deng Shi thought for a while, hesitated and replied: "There may be an infinite number, but the manpower is limited, and it cannot be counted!" ”

Deng Ji asked again: "If there is a mountain of trees, can it be counted?" ”

Both brothers replied, "Countable!" ”

"One county and one county, can you count them?"

The two brothers replied, "Countable!" ”

Deng Jifang said with a smile: "There are several counties in the country, there are several mountains in the county, and there are countable trees in all the mountains, then there should be all the forests in the world!" ”

Deng Shi and Deng Zhang thought for a while, and they both nodded in agreement, and Deng Ji said again: "I once heard the old man say that in the pre-Qin period, all parts of Guanzhong were also full of forests. To the Qin and Han dynasties in Xianyang, Chang'an, the monarchs of the past dynasties for the construction of the palace, the capital, all the surrounding big trees for use, the hundred officials cloth clothes also pick wood to build the room, generation to generation, to the Guanzhong Mountains and Mountains empty. If this is the case in the world, if there is an end of wood, will it not be cut down? Will posterity be useful? ”

Deng Shi really wanted to answer that the old trees were cut down, and the new trees were grown, there were so many mountains and forests in the world that people couldn't cut them down, but they just watched his father talk about sexuality, and today he didn't talk about the world's forests for the two brothers, so he kept silent.

After a while, I heard my father say again: "Cut down the trees, so that the people of Guanzhong are useless, not to say, every time there is rain, the sand and soil also go with the water, and in the long run, the cultivated land is also bad, and the kings of the Qin and Han dynasties are also wrong!" But who is at fault? Last year, in order to make the keel of the warship, I also asked Zhang Wenyuan to find Nanyang and cut it down with big wood. ”

"Therefore, fathers have sometimes had!" After a little more delay, Deng Jicai said: "When I was the first year of my father's life, I didn't know what was going on, and I didn't know the villain's tricks, and it was also my fault to punish your brother angrily!" ”

Hearing this, Deng Shi was so frightened that he knelt down, Deng Zhang also quickly knelt like this, and the two brothers said in unison: "Teaching the son with the father, how wrong is the father, the child does not dare!" ”

Deng Ji pulled the second son up, smiled and waved at Liu Feng, Deng Qing, and Deng Wei who were surprised to look here, and waited for Deng Zhong to stop Deng Wei who wanted to run over, and then said again: "No one is wrong, if you know it, you will change, and it is very good!" When the counties and townships are old to Beijing, the first township old courtyard must be difficult to do, and the rest of the laws are not yet dare to try, I intend to introduce the cabinet to establish the seedling method, regardless of the government, the fourth class of people, cut down a tree to replant two seedlings, and in the subordinate pavilion for the record, to be checked again in the next year, the two seedlings are alive, otherwise replanted. First, how to use this method to presciently the system of the township old home, and second, to make up for the previous mistakes. ”

"The matter of the forest is like this, how about playing a wrestle with your brother to make up for the past?"

Deng Shi and Deng Zhang were already in tears, and their hands were pulled by Deng Ji and they couldn't kneel anymore, so they both shook their heads and said, "Father, how dare a child do this?" ”

"As a parent, you only hope that your children can distinguish between right and wrong, grow up in good health, and live in harmony with brothers and sisters, what is the rest?" Deng Ji smiled at the two of them, turned around and shouted at Deng Zhong: "Second brother, I haven't wrestled for many years, I have nothing to do today, how about trying again?" ”

Looking at the appearance of his father and son over there, it is estimated that he has almost been persuaded to do so, Deng Zhong is also happy, but he is embarrassed: "At such a young age, the children are all here, and if you do child's play, your face is a little unsightly!" ”

Deng Ji laughed at him: "Since your strength is not as good as mine, you refuse to try again, and you run away every time, but are you afraid of losing me?" ”

Provoked by him, Deng Zhong was suddenly furious, and rolled up his sleeves and walked over: "Phew! It's just that things are busy, and it's not easy to think of you as a king, so as not to be embarrassed in front of your subordinates! Am I afraid of you, little four? ”

Deng Zhong rolled up his sleeves to fight, and when he saw the excitement, Deng Wei and Deng Qing immediately clapped their hands and jumped over happily, Liu Feng didn't expect that the two old brothers would wrestle like children at this age and with such an identity, and followed in surprise.

To wrestle with the second brother for a play was just a temporary idea, Deng Ji was not prepared before, so he took off his wide robe at this time and threw it to Deng She: "Take it." ”

Deng Ji only wore a small coat and a hakama to wrestle, and the wide robe that was thrown over was very large, covering the heads of the two brothers Deng Shi and Deng Zhang in it at once.

was covered by his father's wide robe, and others couldn't see it, Deng Shi and Deng Zhang took the opportunity to wipe away their tears before sticking their heads out to see.

Deng Zhong didn't want Deng Ji to be serious, and when he saw him like this, he also took off his wide robe to Liu Feng to hold, and also only wore small clothes and hakama.

When the two old brothers got closer, they put their hands together and tried twice, and then began to test their strength against their shoulders under the gaze of the little ones.

The two gritted their teeth and competed, and they were still at a stalemate for a while, Deng Wei clapped his hands and shouted the most happily: "Second uncle, make your strength!" Second uncle, make the force! ”

After calling for a while, he changed his words again: "Father, drop the second uncle!" Fall the second uncle! ”

Deng Qing was also shouting for force, but he was not as heartless as Deng Wei, he didn't call him a name, he only shouted for strength.

After a stalemate for a while, Deng Zhong's shoulders were raised, and Deng Ji was knocked to the ground with a "bang".

Able to throw Deng Ji to the ground, Deng Zhong laughed and danced proudly: "The bigger the official, the less strength he has?" ”

asked Deng Wei again: "Second uncle and your father, who is powerful?" ”

Deng Wei's little head was anxious: "The second uncle is amazing!" ”

Deng Ji rubbed his waist and got up, arguing: "It's my hand that slips, come again!" ”

The second wrestling, after a while, Deng Ji was thrown to the ground again.

Not only did Deng Zhong laugh, but Deng Ji also laughed: "At this age, I don't want the second brother's strength to rise a lot!" Again! ”

Comparing hands again, seeing that Deng Wei's mouth was already raised high, he was obviously very dissatisfied, Deng Ji used his strength in his hands and finally knocked Deng Zhong down once.

The ground on the city wall is paved with stone slabs, this fall hurt the waist and bones, and sure enough, it is not as good as it was back then, after Deng Zhong got up, he shook his hand sharply and refused to try again.

On the side of the city wall, Deng Shi turned his head to look at Deng Zhang: "Second brother, the two of us are also wrestling and playing, or we may have fun with our elders and brothers and sisters, how about it?" ”

Hearing this, Deng Zhang started to undress, and said, "You are a brother, just call me Baoshu!" ”

(End of volume)

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