"It's not a bad thing that you're crazy, on the contrary, that's why we all value you." Mr. Bo didn't know why Song Yang was silent, but continued: "It's true that I'm hiding something from you, the reason is very simple, in this matter, we don't want to go crazy, but you will definitely go crazy again...... I see? ”

Song Yang smiled: "It's even more confused." ”

"It's really confused, it's okay to pretend to be confused, in short, don't ask about this matter, you'll naturally know after a while. When the matter is over, the fat man will accompany you to go crazy. Mr. Bo also smiled.

Everyone's words were very clear, since Mr. Bo was unwilling to speak, Song Yang gave up and stopped asking, and Mr. Bo patted Song Yang on the shoulder: "Sometimes I wish you were stupid, worry-free." Gone, my young lady still bothered you. ”

After saying that, he let out a shout in his mouth, rode away, and soon disappeared into the night.

…… In the middle of the moon, Xiao Yu could hear clearly, the door shaft of the yard next door rang just now, Song Yang had already gone home, and was now feeding those cats and dogs in the yard...... The two houses are less than ten steps apart, but Her Royal Highness the princess feels that it is more comfortable to climb over the wall to find Song Yang.

Unexpectedly, she had just jumped on the wall when there was a sudden knock on the door outside Song Yang's courtyard. Song Yang waved his hand at Xiao Yu, who was riding on the wall, signaling her not to jump over yet, but the latter understood, and lowered his body as if he were more hidden.

Song Yang stepped forward to open the door, and by the moonlight, Xiao Yu could see clearly that it was Xie Zimiao who was visiting, and she also held a box in her arms.

Xie Zimiao came alone, did not walk into the courtyard, and was not as polite as Mr. Bo, standing at the door, he hesitated at first, and then asked softly: "You... Short of money? ”

Song Yang coughed and said, "The previous 'meal expenses' or something, if Lao Gu was joking, you don't have to care." ”

Xie Zimiao shook his head: "It's not because of a joke, it's because of the look on your face after the joke... It seems that there is a real shortage of money. "Xie Fatzi's daughter was born with some of her father's ability to observe words and feelings.

Xie Zimiao didn't need Song Yang to say anything, she raised her hand and opened the box in her arms, a very simple action, but she was a little struggling: "I don't have any money, only these." ”

There are several silver tickets in the box, adding up to more than 3,000 taels of silver, which is not a small amount in ordinary people, but for Fengyi, it is not even a 'drop in the bucket'. In addition, there are some gold and silver jewelry, the workmanship is extremely delicate and the color can be average, and the pearl is not inlaid with beautiful jade, the value is not too high, Xie Men's lackeys have been very poor, even if the porcelain doll is taken care of as a baby, the jewelry that can be given to her is nothing more.

At this time, Song Yang noticed that Xie Zimao's ears, neck, and hands were empty, and the hairpin was just the most ordinary wooden hairpin.

"I know it's not enough, just do your best, you want money for... It comes down to revenge ... Right. When speaking, Xie Zimiao hesitated, as if he was afraid that the other party would shake his head.

Song Yang smiled: "I understand the kindness, but I really can't and won't accept these." Thank you very much. ”

The porcelain doll stood quietly at the door, her eyes lowered, and after a moment she closed the box and answered softly: "Oh." ”

If in the previous life, Song Yang would most likely pat her on the shoulder or rub the top of her head, but in this life, the etiquette is different, he didn't dare to move, just smiled and said: "Don't be so heavy, someone will do those things, you don't have to think about it, stay in peace and be happy." ”

"Oh." In the same answer, Xie Zimiao turned around and walked away with the box, but after a few steps, she stopped again: "I'm not unhappy." The lord's eyes were bright, and his hands were warm; And the princess, she said I was like a doll, but she was actually a doll...... She looks so good. ”

Xie Zimiao's tone revealed a heartfelt envy, and he took another step and left.

Xiao Yu didn't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or sigh, and when Xie Zimiao walked away, he was about to jump into the yard, but Song Yang waved his hand at her again, signaling her not to come down first.

On the empty long street, there was an extra 'ghost', and his body was silent, walking towards Song Yang's house... Old Lady Muen.

When he came to him, Mu En got straight to the point: "Are you short of money?" ”

Song Yang was stunned, shook his head and smiled: "You and Xie Zimiao have agreed, right?" ”

"I haven't spoken to her." Mu En ignored Song Yang's joke and continued: "I always hear you mention money these days, so I'll ask about it. ”

Song Yang asked rhetorically: "Are you rich?" ”

Mu En shook his head and replied simply: "I don't have any money." ”

At the same time, Song Yang suddenly felt that the conversation between him and the old woman was somewhat familiar, as if he had mentioned similar topics before, and after thinking about it carefully for a while, he finally remembered it.

It was more than two years ago, Mu En said that he wanted to give Song Yang a big gift, but Song Yang didn't expect her gift to be three hundred mountains and streams, and he said that the barbarians would give a fortune...... The situation at that time was almost the same as now, Mu En first asked, 'Are you short of money?', and then replied to himself, 'I don't have money', as if he was deliberately trying to make Song Yang happy.

But this time, Mu En was much more solemn: "There may be a place, there may be money." ”

Mu En's words were vague, but Song Yang was in good spirits, he was too tight on hand... Let the other party in and lead her into the house: "Come in and talk carefully." Mu En had the instinct of a barbarian and had a keen sense, and when he entered the courtyard, he frowned at first, and did not go to the hall with Song Yang, but turned halfway to the courtyard wall where Xiao Yu was lying down, looked up at Her Royal Highness the Princess, and said in a curious tone: "What are you doing?" ”

Xiao Yu blinked, not knowing how to answer at all, and responded: "Climb the wall." ”

Mu En was still curious: "From which side to climb to which side?" ”

Song Yang dragged Mu En into the house while coughing dryly, and jumped off the wall to listen to the story together. However, Mu En didn't enter the house, she didn't like the house, and if Song Yang asked her to go up the tree to talk about things, she would probably nod happily.

"Have you ever heard of a monkey?" Mu En sat casually in the courtyard and asked first. Song Yang and Xiao Yu glanced at each other and shook their heads together, Xiao Yu asked tentatively: "Monkey?" ”

"It's not a monkey, it's a wild man in the mountains, he likes to live underground, and he is best at breaking the ground and digging pits, because he has been running underground for many years, his eyes are deeply sunken, and his eyesight is very poor, but his ears and nose are abnormally protruding, anyway, it's ugly and amazing, so it's called a monkey. In ancient times, it was subdued by the Han people and went out of the mountains. Mu En explained, and then began to tell the story formally: "The leader of the clan has passed on by word of mouth, and it is very early, I don't know if it is true or not. ”

All the wild people and barbarians will not be too docile, but they may not be as hostile to the Han people as the mountain stream barbarians, the earth monkeys are like this, and the continuous contact with the Han people gradually feels that the mountains are hard, and more and more people leave the mountains and enter the Han realm to beg for a living. Nine hundred years ago, they were no longer seen in the mountains.

More than 100 years later, more than 700 years ago, a group of earth monkeys suddenly came from outside the mountain, with a large number of more than 1,000 people, and a large number of baggage. These native monkeys wear Han clothes and speak Chinese, and they have obviously been assimilated long ago, and if it weren't for the fact that their bodies still retain the characteristics of their ancestors, they would simply be Han Chinese.

"More than 700 years ago, the twelve corpses in the clan were still little dolls, and the mountain stream often migrated to avoid the miasma, and in those decades, it happened to occupy the former territory of the earth monkeys... They have been out of the mountains for hundreds of years, and who knows if they will come back. ”

The people in the mountains were arrogant, and when such a thing happened, the earth monkey didn't say a word, and even the negotiation process was saved, and he directly launched an offensive, and the mountain and creek man immediately suffered a big loss. Speaking of this, Xiao Yu's eyes widened in surprise: "Can they still make Shanxi suffer a big loss?" Is it very capable of fighting? ”

Mu En snorted coldly: "It was dark at that time, and they were all loaches in the soil......"

Song Yang coughed: "What you want to say is 'earthworm', right?" ”

The ancestors of the earth monkey shuttled underground all the year round, and their eyesight deteriorated severely, but their senses of smell and hearing were abnormally developed, and they took a great advantage in fighting at night. However, it is not for nothing that the Shanxi clan can become a strong barbarian, the nine clans of Shanxi have their own strengths and tenacity, while gathering the nearby clans while gritting their teeth and fighting hard, they really fought for a few days and finally won a big victory, more than half of the earth monkey casualties, and the rest were captured.

Originally, the remnants of the earth monkeys were certain to die, but when they were about to be executed by the barbarians, they wept bitterly and begged the barbarians to release a way out...... The reason is only that they are already the last of the whole clan, and if they are killed, they will be wiped out.

Under questioning, the earth monkey told the reason, and the Han people outside the mountains already felt that they were useless, and began to kill them bloodily, and only this team successfully escaped back to the mountains.

Xiao Yu wondered when he heard this: "They entered the Han realm to live... How can there be such a thing as 'useful or useless'? ”

Mu En shook his head and sent her away with a 'I don't know'.

"Unless..."After all, it is his daughter-in-law, Song Yang's patience with Xiao Yu is very good: "The earth monkey came out of the mountain, not to live his own son, but to do things for the Han master, the Han master used them before, but then he no longer used them." ”

Xiao Yu was indignant: "Then you don't have to kill them all." ”

This time, Song Yang had no choice but to shake his head: "I don't know ......" he said, making a gesture to Mu En, signaling her to continue.

The request of that team of earth monkeys is very simple, they will never go out of the mountain again, nor will they be enemies with Shanximan, they have experienced a 'world', and now they just want to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors, as long as Shanxi Man spares their surname, they are willing to be slaves for a hundred years.

The mountain and the people hated the Han people the most, but they were much more friendly to the mountain people, even if the group of wild people had served the Han lord and had just attacked them, they finally agreed to their request and did not need them to be slaves. The earth monkey retreated into the ancestral house, and the two tribes coexisted on the same territory.

Although they live in a mixed house, the barbarians move on the ground, and the earth monkeys mostly shuttle underground, rarely coming up, and they don't bother each other much.

"But in the following ten years, Shanxi Yimai has suffered enough for those 'loaches', and Han people continue to enter the mountain, it seems that they are looking for the ...... of the earth monkeys" Mu En's expression was gloomy: "The earth monkeys are not a good thing, they have learned the cunning of the Han people, and they have not said it when they begged for mercy, and there are countless Han people chasing and killing behind them, because they, the ancestors of Shanxi and those Han people have fought many times, and I don't know how many people have died." ”

"Until the Twelve Venerable Divisions chose a new camp for us, we could better avoid the miasma, and at the same time avoid the nuisance of the Han people. The ancestors were not afraid of the Han army and samurai, but the messy grievances between the Han and the earth monkeys had nothing to do with us, and we couldn't participate, and the ancestors who used to eat the earth monkeys didn't care about it. Since then, we have no connection with the monkeys. ”

"I heard that after that, four years later, an army of Han Chinese marched into the mountains and into the nest of the earth monkeys. The specific situation is unknown, only that the Han army never came out, but that team was large in number and very elite, and even if the earth monkey won the battle underground, it would have to suffer heavy casualties. This is the end of the matter, no Han people come again, but I have never seen the infested earth monkeys in the mountains, and it is estimated that they are completely extinct. ”

When Mu En finished speaking, he closed his mouth.

Song Yang waited for a while, making sure that the old woman was gone, and then asked tentatively, "What about the money?" Where is the money? ”

Only then did Mu En remember, and she forgot to say the most important one: "When the ancestors passed down this matter, they mentioned it, and when the earth monkeys begged for mercy, they said that they had the wealth of the Han people, and asked us if we wanted it." ”

The mountains and streams are quite self-sufficient, almost not in contact with the outside world, and are not rare in gold, silver and jewelry, not to mention the things of the Han people, they will not want.

Xiao Zhu's eyes lit up: "So, the earth monkey originally brought gold and silver treasures into the ground... The Han people chased them non-stop, and in the end they were both defeated, but the money stayed? ”

Mu En was noncommittal, and repeated what he had said at the beginning: "I don't know if the legend from hundreds of years ago is true or not, if you are really short of money, you can go and try it." ”

Song Yang asked, "Why haven't I heard you mention it before?" ”

"It didn't matter to me that you were short of money before," Mu En replied very directly: "Now...... I hope you have money. ”

Song Yang nodded, understanding what she meant. How staggering is the cost of feeding an entire barbarian...... In fact, there is another reason, Shanxi is reluctant, they promised the earth monkey, the two sides will not invade each other, after worshipping Song Yang as the master, Mu En and the three hundred Xiu clan gave up the identity of Shanxi Man, no longer limited by the promise, but if it is not a last resort, she is still unwilling to break the promise of the ancestors. It was never said before.

But now, in order to feed her relatives in the mountains, the old woman can't care about anything anymore.

Mu En got up: "You think about it yourself, if you go, call me, otherwise you won't be able to find a place at all." After speaking, he walked out of the courtyard without saying goodbye.

After she left, Xiao Zhu smiled sweetly: "I understand, let my sister find a way to get money every day, Chang Chunhou is not a taste in his heart... Now that there is a way to get money, Hou Yeshe has to go. ”

I don't know if it's because of the double cultivation, Xiao Yu has become rare and smart, and then said with a smile: "But if you tell my sister about this, she will definitely not let you go." "Deep in the mountains, in the underground lair of the savages, the situation is still very vague, Ren Churong is not without money, but she doesn't want to always ask for money from her family, and most of them will not agree to Song Yang to take risks, at least she will send others to go first on the first trip.

The princess shook her head and was about to continue, but Song Yang said directly: "I'll take you with me, you won't tell Cheng He, right?" ”

"Yes!" Xiao Yu immediately replied loudly, and then pulled up Song Yang's sleeve again, pitiful: "I want to go ......"

Song Yang said with a smile: "I also want to go, but I ran to take risks with a legend in Shanximan, no matter how I think about it, it's a little unintelligent, let's ask Lao Gu first, I can't compare to his knowledge, listen to what he says." Song Yang's idea Xiao Yu always agreed with both hands and feet, and immediately jumped up: "Let's find him!" As he spoke, he was about to walk out, but when he saw that Song Yang hadn't moved, he frowned and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Song Yang looked up at the moon and said with a smile: "In the middle of the night, if you don't rest, others will still sleep." ”

Xiao Yu laughed with a 'hee' smile: "Then... Practice first? ”

......" has some meaning, and it really has some meaning. The next morning, Song Yang and Xiao Yu went to the Golden Nest to find Gu Zhaojun, and after telling the legend that Mu En had told, Lao Gu thought for a while and said.

Song Yang came to the spirit: "What do you say? ”

Gu Zhaojun was full of interest: "Time, what is interesting is time." More than 700 years ago, the earth monkeys returned to the mountains and forests, saying that the Han rabbits and dead dogs were cooked...... Do you know what happened in the world more than 700 years ago? The Great Hong Dynasty rules the world! The only unification of Middle-earth. ”

As soon as he first said it, Xiao Yu listened to it and couldn't understand what the connection was.

"Listen to me slowly." Gu Zhaojun could understand Xiao Yu's 'pain', and said with a smile: "Because the time can be right, so I think so: In ancient times, the earth monkey came out of the mountain, and it was always for the ancestors of the Great Hong Dynasty to do things, and it was needless to say that it was not until more than 700 years ago that Hong Taizu dominated the Middle-earth world. And the things that the Earth Monkey Gang did for his family before didn't need to be done anymore after Da Hong completed the Ambition Hegemony. ”

Song Yang: "And those things can't see the light, so at this time, Hong Taizu is going to die." ”

Gu Zhaojun nodded and continued, "As far as I know, Taizu Hong has reigned for almost twenty years...... According to the old woman, after the last earth monkeys returned to the mountain, the Han people kept attacking, and it lasted for almost 20 years, and then there was no movement. ”

Song Yang thought for a moment: "What do you mean... It was Hong Taizu's idea to kill the earth monkey alone, and when he died, the plan to hunt down and kill him was shelved, and no one mentioned it again. ”

Gu Zhaojun nodded again: "I am a story to redeem according to time, it is completely speculation, and I can't do it accurately." But there's another legend that's an interesting proof. As he spoke, he paused for a moment and turned his gaze to Her Royal Highness the Princess.

Xiao Zhu was thinking about it, and when he saw Lao Gu coming over, he immediately asked the most itching question in his heart: "What does the earth monkey do to help the Han master?" ”

Gu Zhaojun expected her to ask this question, and said with a funny smile: "Princess Xuanji is worthy of her name, and your question is the legend I want to say." Isn't the biggest strength of the earth monkey being to break through the ground and dig holes? According to legend, when Hong Taizuzu started a family and started an incident, a large amount of expenses came from dead people; According to legend, under the command of Hong Taizu, there was a ghost soldier, who disappeared during the day and hurried away night and night, so he only did one thing...... Grave! ”

(To be continued)