Shanggu County, on the banks of the Yishui River, Barge Niu Mountain.

There is a peach forest at the foot of the mountain, it has entered October, the peach blossoms have already fallen, the mountain peaches have already been picked clean, and even the peach leaves are no longer tender and green and begin to wither off piece by piece. There is a thatched hut in the peach forest, which is low, but not dilapidated. It's so simple that there is not even a yard, and it seems that the owner is too lazy to insert a low fence wall. The peach grove looked a little depressed, and the hut looked lonely, and when the two were put together, the whole autumn seemed doubly depressed.

Outside the peach forest is Yishui, which is not magnificent, but you can't see the fishermen boating on the river, the children who are herding cattle in the meadows, and of course, the village women in Huanyi by the river.

There is a mountain, a river, a peach forest, and a thatched hut.

On the bluestone slab outside the thatched hut, there sat an old man with his head hanging and squinting as if he was asleep, but in fact, his eyes were constantly moving, and the seemingly withered old man was staring at a dead branch on the ground, on which a lost ant was crawling back and forth. The old man sat there, his hands trembling imperceptibly like the dead branches, as if he couldn't stand the cool autumn breeze, or was anxious for the ant who couldn't find a home.

Next to the old man, there was an old dog lying on his stomach.

In the mountains in October, the heat had long since stopped, but the old dog was still sticking out his tongue and gasping, and he did not know whether he was tired from chasing the naughty hare just now, or whether he was too old to keep his mouth shut.

The old man squinted at the ants, and the old dog squinted at the old man.

The wind passed through the peach grove, blowing the branches and the bells outside the peach grove.

The bell was in the hand of a little girl, and the little girl was in the arms of a strong man.

A group of five or six people appeared outside the peach forest. Everyone dismounted outside the peach forest and walked into the depths of the peach forest. Walking in the front was a thin man with a hideous scar on his face, and he was dressed in dust. Behind him was a man who was a little stronger than him, holding in his arms a little girl of about ten years of age who looked as delicate and beautiful as a pink carving. Behind the two sturdy men are two beautiful women who are eye-catching. The woman who looks a little older at the front is like a mouth-watering peach that is red and ripe in pink. The younger woman at the back looked like a mountain peach blossom that bloomed against the wind in March. At the back of the walk was a young man who looked a little lazy, with a yellowed hairy grass in his mouth.

The sunset dragged the figure of this group out for a long, long time, and the shadows walking through the peach forest were like wandering lonely ghosts.

Of course, they are not ghosts, but a few flesh-and-blood, affectionate and righteous people.

When the old man saw the man with the scar on his face, his squinted eyes instantly widened. Even the back that had been bent involuntarily straightened a little.

"Daxi? Is that you? ”

The old man raised his head and asked in some surprise.

It was Daxi Changru who walked in the front, and when he saw the old man, he smiled with relief: "Why aren't you dead yet?" ”

The old man pouted childishly: "I remember telling you, I can live to be at least eighty years old, and you can only live to be fifty years old at most, you are not dead, how can I die?" ”

Daxi Changru sneered politely: "How many of what you said can be taken seriously?" I remember when you were a free rider, you swore to me that that person would become the first emperor of the ages. If what you said is true, how can you run to this barge cow mountain to survive? ”

The old man snorted and said, "Even if I wait for death in this peach forest as you said, why do you come to disturb my purity?" ”

Daxi Changru laughed, pointed to the old man's nose and said, "If you want to hide, you can hide?" Lao Tzu wants to find you, not to mention a barge cow mountain, even if you get into the East China Sea, you can rest and hide. You're over 60 years old this year, and I'm only over 30 years old, so when I see you, I want to tell you that I'm sure I'll have time to give you a beautiful funeral, burn firecrackers, beat gongs and drums, and send you on your way. Of course, if you die later than me, you can do that for me. ”

"Daxi Changru! If you've come all the way to mock me, then I'm not welcome you. ”

The old man said solemnly.

Seeing that he was serious, Daxi Changru made an equally serious expression and said, "Naturally, I am not here to ridicule you, but to send you a smart and clever apprentice." Speaking of which, you should thank me, otherwise your amazing medical skills will be buried in the rotten peach leaves with you, rotten, stinky, and then forgotten. ”

"In vain?"

The old man was stunned for a moment, and then said angrily: "Don't! ”

He stood up tremblingly, took a few steps forward, pointed to the tip of Daxi Changru's nose and said, "You said that if I accept apprentices, I will accept apprentices?" I owe you my life, but you don't want to sway my thoughts! ”

Daxi Changru didn't pay attention to him at all, but beckoned to the beautiful little girl not far away and said, "Xiao Di, come, I've seen this bad old man, he will be your master in the future, call master." ”

The little girl ran over obediently, looking up at the old man's withered face with a delicate little face.

"Don't scream!"

The old man shouted hoarsely, and the old dog, who was lying on the ground, stood up and showed his teeth to the strangers, which were no longer sharp.

"Grandpa"

Xiao Di, who looked up at the porcelain doll with a small face, laughed and screamed crisply. The sound came far and wide, making the entire peach forest seem to be full of life at this moment.

The old man was stunned, and his body trembled involuntarily.

"What do you call me?"

The old man's voice became even more hoarse, hoarse like a leaky horn baptized by the wind and sand in the north.

"Grandpa"

Xiao Di's voice seemed so ethereal and beautiful in the peach forest.

The old man couldn't help but bend down, raised his deadwood-like fingers and lightly tapped the tip of Xiao Di's delicate and small nose. At this moment, the past that was deliberately sealed by him poured out irrepressibly. In that year, 500,000 soldiers of the Great Sui crossed the river and destroyed Nanchen. The moat couldn't stop the Sui soldiers who were full of vigor and power, let alone the already decaying Nanchen court?

That year, the country was broken and the family died.

That year, his son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter, who was only five years old, all went to another world.

That year, he was still called Xu Zhizang, and he was Chen Guo's free horseman.

"Grandpa doesn't cry."

Xiao Di unfolded a clean handkerchief and seriously wiped away the tears overflowing from the old man's cloudy eyes. Her movements were very careful and careful, as if she was coaxing a child younger than herself.

"Grandpa, I'll show you what Brother Anzhi left for me, so you can't cry."

Xiao Di took out the notebook of Li Xian from his arms and handed it to the old man. The old man took the notes tremblingly, glanced at Xiao Di lovingly, and said, "Okay, grandpa, look at it, what a good thing." ”

After a few minutes, the old man wiped his snot and exclaimed, "Which madman wrote this!" What a fuck...... What a fucking genius! ”

Xiao Di was startled and looked at the old man in a daze.

"Haha!"

Dugu Ruizhi, who was standing at the back, laughed proudly: "I'll just say, whoever watches it will say that Anzhi's kid is a madman!" ”

Red Buddha and Ou Si Qingqing glared at Dugu Ruizhi at the same time, and said in unison: "Still a genius!" ”

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After trekking thousands of miles, day and night, Li Xian led a team of more than 1,000 people to bypass the state capital checkpoint and finally returned to Yanshan again. After leaving Yanshan, the eighteen horsemen went to Youzhou, and now they have turned around in a big circle and turned back, which should be regarded as a small reincarnation that will not be discovered. Wen Yao and his Long Tingwei had already left, and the corpses of the fighting ground on the mountain had been buried. After a few months, a layer of weeds had grown on the grave.

The area around Yanshan is considered to be a place without the jurisdiction of the government. The Great Sui declared that Yanshan was the territory of the Great Sui, so the steppe people did not dare to approach it easily. And the part outside the Great Wall, the Sui people will not easily cross it. The border army of the Great Sui will not tolerate the steppe people approaching here, because this is the border of a powerful empire, and whoever comes uninvited will kill him. The soldiers of the Great Sui were all proud, so Wen Jiao was obviously here to hunt down Li Xian, but when he saw the Turkic wolf riding in Yanshan, he would simply order those guys to be killed.

Of course, it is impossible for Wen Jia to hide this matter, and Emperor Yang Guang of the Great Cause will definitely know, but he will not do anything to the Turks at the juncture of the upcoming conquest of Goguryeo, so the killing of the Great Sui will not publicize it. In the same way, Ashina will not preach it, unless he wants to lead the million-strong army that is about to gather in Zhuo County to the grassland.

So, Yanshan is safe now.

It was at that place where he was fighting with the Turks that Li Xian stopped.

"Let's build a stockade along the hillside."

"The terrain doesn't seem to be very good."

Ji Haotian took a closer look at the terrain and said: "Here is a gentle slope on one side, a cliff on the other side, and two of the three sides are dense forests, once someone attacks, it is difficult to withdraw." ”

"It's really not the best place to be."

Li Xian said word by word: "But since you have promoted me as the big boss, don't question my orders." I said here, here it is. ”

Ji Haotian was stunned, then nodded with a smile and said, "Everything is under the orders of the big boss." ”

Li Xian snorted, pointed to a big stone outside the dense forest not far away, and said, "Also, you can find a way to get that stone away, or you will smash it, anyway, I don't want to see that stone." ”

"Why?"

Ji Haotian asked subconsciously, and after seeing Li Xian's eyes, he slowly lowered his head: "The big boss said to get it, so he took it away." ”

His attitude was humble, humble to the ...... It makes Li Xian's straightforward fingering look so hateful. A trace of indignation flashed in the eyes of several pro-soldiers who followed Ji Haotian, although they deliberately concealed it, they were still seen clearly by Li Xian.

"Why, you ask?"

Li Xian smiled, turned around and walked to another place: "Because I don't like it, it's that simple." ”

When Li Xian left, he didn't see the smile in Ji Haotian's eyes, which was full of banter. And Ji Haotian didn't see the smile on the corner of Li Xian's mouth when he turned his head, and that smile was also full of banter.

Li Xian walked to the front of the hillside alone and looked down at the foot of the mountain.

"I'm going to build a house here, and I'm going to open up that flat land to grow some food. I also have to plant some flowers and plants, and raise a dog. ”

Li Xian pointed to the hillside in front of him, full of spirit.

"What do you do with a dog?"

Li Xian asked himself.

"Fattened and eat meat."

He said. The voice is soft.