There are fewer and fewer matchmakers who propose marriage, and Wang Ling's age will only increase rather than decrease, which is sad for Situ Wang Dao and his wife Cao Shu, they see Wang Ling every day, or a blank eye.

Seeing that the children of high-ranking nobles were reluctant to come to propose, Wang Dao had no choice but to lower his requirements and accept those civilian children who had obtained knighthoods for military merits, but there were still very few proposers.

As the current court's Situ, Director Wang naturally would not take the initiative to sell his daughter to others, after all, he couldn't afford to lose this person.

Father's reprimand and white eyes made Wang Ling feel pressured, and she was almost suffocated with depression, but fortunately, with Hua'an's company and guidance in these days, Wang Ling did not fall ill due to depression.

When Wang Dao and Cao Shu were no longer in the house, Hua'an even boldly took Wang Ling into Jiangshan to hunt, although almost every time Wang Ling would be scratched by branches and weeds, and even once, she almost lost her life, but she had no regrets and was rarely happy.

After each hunt, Hua An took her to the market to sell the game she hunted, and the money she earned was naturally to buy some delicious food to share with the two of you, and Hua An kept the rest of the money for later use.

If she is in a particularly good mood, Hua'an will also buy some exquisite small gifts for Wang Ling to make her smile.

Such days only lasted for a year, and after a year, Hua An was ten years old, but he was as tall as a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy, and the backyard of Situ Mansion naturally couldn't accommodate him.

He had to move to the front yard to live with the family in the house, there were no special circumstances, he couldn't even step into the backyard half a step, but the needle lady in the backyard could come to the front yard to visit her son at will, she often made some delicious food for Hua'an, and the family who lived with him took a lot of advantage.

Wang Lingben also wanted to visit Hua'an in the front yard, but there were many families in the front yard, so in order not to cause gossip, she could only endure the pain of lovesickness in her heart silently.

In order to inquire about Hua'an's recent situation, she asked casually in front of her master Needle Niang from time to time, and after a long time, the careful Needle Niang naturally discovered her affection for Hua'an, but she knew that her son was still young, and it was impossible for the door to be wrong, so she could only shake her head helplessly.

As Hua'an grew older, Han Qian was not only limited to teaching Hua'an martial arts, he even tried to instruct Hua'an on some simple art of war and common sense of marching formation.

During this time, the Central Plains in the north has changed, the emperor of the Later Zhao Empire Shi Le since a few years ago ordered the general Shi Hu to lead the army to the west to break through the former Zhao capital Chang'an, beheaded the Xiongnu emperor Liu Zheng, then controlled the fertile Guanzhong 800 miles of Qinchuan, Guanzhong, the Central Plains connected into a piece, the strength of the Later Zhao Empire greatly increased, after several years of conquest, the Qiang, Di, Xiongnu ethnic groups in the north have taken refuge in Shile.

Later Zhao Emperor Shi Le, who was born as a slave, wanted to show his skills and attack the Great Jin Kingdom to complete his grand dream of dominating the world, but he died and lay in a coffin.

After Shi Le's death, Shi Hu, a powerful figure who held military power, imprisoned Shi Le's son Shi Hong, who had succeeded to the throne, in order to seize the throne, and proclaimed himself Prime Minister, King of Wei, and Da Dan Yu, which provoked the rebellion of Shi Leyuan's deployment.

Shi Sheng, Shi Lang and others led troops to crusade against Shi Hu, but in the end the army was defeated and died, after several years of conquest, the brutal Shi Hu killed all the opponents in the country, and even Shi Hong, who had been imprisoned, was also killed, he proclaimed himself the king of Great Zhao, and began a brutal and bloody iron and blood rule.

The chaos of the Northern Zhao State consumed too much strength, which was a good thing for the Great Jin State in the south, and at the same time won Hua'an an several years of extremely valuable growth environment, but such an environment would not last long, and Shi Hu, who firmly controlled the Zhì regime, in order to establish his personal prestige, should take action against the Great Jin State next.

In 337 A.D., that is, the year when Shi Hu became king, Hua An was already sixteen years old, at this time he was skillful in bow and horse, strong in body, and two whiskers were tied up at the corners of his mouth, just like an adult.

Tong Guò has been training hard for many years, and Hua'an's abilities have been greatly improved, especially in martial arts, no one can defeat Hua'an within a hundred miles of the capital, and the title of the Great Jin Warrior has also been worthy of the name, Han Qian was relieved, and felt that it was time to let Hua'an enter the military camp for further training, and Hua'an was naturally overjoyed.

To say that over the years, Hua'an Tong Guò has earned a lot of silver by hunting and chopping wood, and Huagui and Needle Niang also have a lot of money, they could have bought the property many years earlier, so as to move out of Situ Mansion to end the life under the fence, but Hua'an is always nostalgic for Situ Mansion for some reason, and is reluctant to buy real estate.

It wasn't until the master asked him to go to the military camp to experience that he thought of buying a property again, after all, his father and mother were old, and buying a property would allow them to take care of each other together, so that Hua'an would be more at ease outside.

Hua'an fell in love with a property in Wuyi Lane that is not too big, not far from Situ Mansion, only about 500 steps, where the original residence was a six-grade official in the capital, because he was impeached and demoted to Guangzhou as an official, before leaving naturally anxious to sell the property, Huaan bought the property at a very affordable price.

This property is boxy, divided into two courtyards, the front yard faces south of five main rooms, there are three wings on the east and west sides, the layout of the backyard is exactly the same as the front yard, it is also five main houses and three wings on the left and right, and at the same time, between the two courtyards along the front yard between the main house and the outer wall, two round doors are opened in the middle, since then, a total of 22 rooms in the second courtyard here belong to the Hua'an family of three.

At first, Huagui and Needle Niang felt that the real estate here was too big, and there were too many rooms for the family to live in, so they didn't plan to buy it, but Hua'an said, "An'er will marry ten or eight mothers-in-law in the future and give birth to more than a dozen little cubs, but I'm afraid I won't be able to live there?" The two of them were amused, so they bought the property by the way.

After moving, Hua'an settled his father and mother packed up and prepared to leave home to serve in the army. On the day of departure, Huagui and Needle Niang shed tears, and told Hua'an to enter the military camp to take care of himself, not to be reckless, and not to rush to the forefront in the face of war, and to save his life.

Hua An naturally nodded yes, in order to make his father and mother feel relieved, Hua An could only say some words against his will.

"Father, mother, go back! The child is gone. Hua An finished speaking, turned around and was about to leave.

Huagui patted his head and said hurriedly: "An'er, wait a minute, bring our family's heirlooms, maybe you can use it." Dad's memory is not good, I almost forgot, hehehe. ”

Hua An was stunned, thinking that there could be any treasure, it was the contents of the very heavy square box, his father seemed to have said what kind of heirloom was in it, but he was busy practicing all these years and forgot about it, at this time, Huagui mentioned it, and Hua An remembered.

"Dad, is that the thing in that box? It's heavy, what a baby. ”

"Wait, dad will go back to the house and bring it to you, hehehehe." Huagui smirked and ran back to the house.

Hua An smiled and shook his head, his stupid father actually learned to sell guanzi.

"Aunt Needle, this is Hua'an!" Just as Hua An shook his head with a smile, a young woman's voice came from behind him, and it seemed familiar.

"Oh, it's Miss Cui!" Needle Niang took Xiao Cui's hand, looked at Hua An and said, "An'er, this is Miss Xiao Cui next to Miss, do you remember." ”

Miss Xiaocui, what is she doing here, Hua An thought to herself, and said, "Remember, of course I remember." ”

"Aunt Needle is really a blessing, Hua'an is so tall and handsome, there must be many girls who fall in love, Aunt Needle wants to hold her grandson!" Xiao Cui looked at Hua An and quipped.

"The girl laughed, he's a little older, and he hasn't reached the age yet, so he has to wait for two years, hahaha." When she saw others praising her son, she was naturally overjoyed.

"Sister Xiaocui didn't come all the way to praise me!"

"It was Mademoiselle who asked me to come." Xiao Cui went straight into it and didn't hide it at all.

Hua An listened to a stirring in his heart, since he climbed the wall to peek at Miss for the last time four years ago, he has not seen Miss for four years, and he doesn't know how she is now, whether she is fat or thin, she is in a good mood, and the happy scenes of his childhood suddenly reverberated in Hua An's mind for a long time.

"Small, Miss is good." Hua An lowered his head and spoke a little slurred.

"Fortunately, I just agreed to the matchmaker's proposal yesterday, and I will get married next month, but I have always been in a daze with a string of beads these days, and my face is a little haggard."

Hua An was stunned, and an inexplicable feeling surged from his heart, it turned out that he hadn't seen him for so many years, and Miss had never forgotten herself, and a small string of wax beads pinned Miss on her thoughts.

"Which family is so blessed to marry a young lady?" Hua An tried his best to suppress his feelings, but the tone of his voice was Yan Zhan's lack of confidence.

Xiao Cui pursed her lips and said softly: "It is a son of the Wuxing Shen family, a seven-grade official of the imperial court, although he is over forty years old, he has never been married, and the Wuxing Shen family is a wealthy family in the south of the Yangtze River, so it is not a disgrace to the young lady." ”

"A bad old man in his forties, he actually wants to marry a young lady, hum ......" Hua An looked very angry, and the green tendons on his forehead suddenly burst out.

"Hua'an, you, what's wrong with you." Xiao Cui and Needle Niang looked at each other.

"It's fine, but I can't figure out why Miss agreed to marry a forty-year-old man." Hua An shook his head uncontrollably.

Xiao Cui pouted and explained: "It's not because Miss has delayed the marriage over the years, now Miss is twenty-two years old, and she can be regarded as an old girl, and the young son naturally can't look down on it, so she has to marry an older son." ”

Oh, yes! This is the Great Jin Dynasty, at the age of twenty-two, she will become an old girl, if it is in the future life, at such an age, it is a budding flower, growing carefree in the ivory tower.

Hua An sighed lightly and asked, "I don't know what Miss is looking for me." ”

"Miss said, I haven't seen you for many years and I don't know what you have become, I want to see you for the last time on the day of marriage, Miss must come on the day of her wedding, otherwise she will be sad."

It's heart-wrenching to be invited! After seeing the last side, I'm afraid it will be even more unforgettable, since I have to forget jì, why bother to see you again.

Hua An shook his head and said lightly: "The master recruited me to serve in the military camp, and the discipline in the army is strict, I am afraid that I will not have the opportunity to participate in the big wedding of the young lady, and I asked Sister Xiaocui to tell me on my behalf." ”

"Miss sincerely invites, you can't take a leave in the army, on the sixth of next month, Miss will get married, I hope you can come, the words have been brought, I should go back."

"Aunt Needle, take care, Xiaocui is back."

"Walk slowly, Miss Cui." Needle Niang politely sent Xiaocui away, looked back at Hua An and shook her head, and sighed: "Miss sincerely invites, why don't you go." ”

"What if I go, I'm afraid that Miss will be even more sad when she sees me, so it's better not to see me." Huaan replied very simply.

"Whatever you want! Miss has refused to marry for so many years, and as soon as we moved out, she agreed to marry, hey! It's our mother and son who delayed Miss. ”

Hua An listened, and was stunned, what his mother said was right, because of his own savings in Situ Mansion, Miss always had thoughts, if she had moved out earlier, maybe Miss would have found a good family a long time ago, thinking of this, Hua An was annoyed for a while.

"An'er, An'er, the heirloom dad brought it to you. Hey, hey, hey!