The day went very fast, and I didn't stop to eat at noon, until it was dark, and I rested in an abandoned inn.

Before the outside of the inn was clean, everyone made a fire in the courtyard and set up pots for cooking.

Li Ran was not yet neat, and rode the dwarf donkey for a day's journey, and was extremely tired at this time, leaning between the two piles of goods as if he was asleep.

When the fire started, Li Ran moved, roasted the fire, and slowly exhaled.

Even in summer, in the middle of the night, it is cool to the bone.

Tao Nong and Shen Mai brought things over and set up a pot to cook.

Hong Min watched as he unloaded the goods and sat next to Li Ran.

Zhou E, An Xiaorui, and Wang Cui inspected the post station from outside the post station, looked at it for a while, and arranged for the sentry and night watch, and when they sat down, Tao Nong and Shen Mai had already cooked a pot of salted meat and vegetable soup and baked hot cakes.

Zhou E soaked the cake into the vegetable soup, lalalulu finished eating, put down the bowl, and squeezed into the pile behind her, while pointing to Hong Min and Wang Cui and said, "I'll sleep for a while, you look at him, look at it, you can't be wrong at a glance." ”

Li Ran, who was slowly drinking the soup, looked at Hong Min, who was calm and calm, as if he hadn't heard Zhou E's words, and bowed slightly and said with a smile, "General Zhou has a straight temper and has been wronged." ”

Hong Min glanced at Li Ran and said with a dry smile, "With General Zhou's black face in front, the princess can be generous, shouldn't the princess reprimand General Zhou first?" ”

"She did the right thing, how can she be reprimanded?" Li Ran glanced at Zhou E, who had been dumped into the pile.

Hong Min was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing.

"When I heard that Princess Leping had a daughter, my father sat in the courtyard all night, and when it was dawn, I asked my father to show me and went to the capital."

Hong Min moved and looked at Li Randao.

"Go see me?"

"Well, in the first half month of my arrival in the capital, the princess lived in a simple place, and she never had a chance, and she couldn't think of any good way.

Hong Min smiled.

"I often see the princess, and after half a month, I left the capital and came back.

After arriving home, I told my father in detail about seeing the princess several times, and my father breathed a long sigh of relief at that time, saying that the princess was extremely smart and very open-minded. ”

Li Ran heard the four words and glanced at Hong Min.

Hong Min met Li Ran's gaze and smiled, "Mr. Huang......"

Hong Min's words paused, and he sighed as if he didn't have anything.

"I should call him Master Hui An, and when Master Hui An came, he and his father talked freely about the wine, and I was with me.

Master Hui'an said that the princess, although she is the blood of the first emperor, the flesh and blood of Princess Leping are all over the body. ”

Momono, who had been listening intently, burst out laughing.

Li Ran leaned against the pile of goods and drank the soup calmly.

"Father said, this is good, you can live, and you can live well." Hong Min looked at Li Ran, who was calm and composed.

"It's not close from your home to the capital, you have waited for half a month." Li Ran's words paused slightly, "In this way, I heard that the Lu royal family and Princess Leping can be about a few days earlier than you." ”

Hong Min looked at Li Ran, for a moment, lowered his eyelids, slowly drank the soup in the bowl, and looked at Li Randao

"When my father was young, he was very cheerful and had a very good temper, and since he was a child, no matter how much my cousins and I annoyed him, he was not annoyed.

My father took us to fish for shrimp, catch crickets, pick mulberries, go to the mountains to play, watch the flowers bloom, listen to the cicadas, read, write, go shopping, watch the trial of cases, and watch the farmers farm. ”

Hong Min's words paused for a while before continuing

"My father is a very open-minded person, after passing the Xiucai exam, Qiu Yu took the exam twice in a row and lost his name to Sun Shan, he didn't care, saying that those were all external affairs.

The third time I took the Qiuqiu exam, it was still A-Niang, and I persuaded him to go.

I remember very well that my father laughed and said that he had only taken the test twice and had to take it again.

This time, my father passed the exam, but he didn't come back, so he sent a letter to Ah Niang, saying that since he was successful, he would go to the capital to take the Chunqiu exam. ”

Li Ran sighed lowly.

Hong Min smiled wryly. "Chunqiu, my father accompanied me at the end of the list, got acquainted with Mr. Huang, and received a messenger in the Ministry of War.

After the city of Rong'an was broken, my father returned home, and that month, he took A-Niang and our brothers to leave their hometown and arrive here. ”

Hong Min looked at the campfire dancing in front of him, and was silent for a long time before he continued, "When I come back from Wanxian, my father is no longer the father he used to be.

He almost never spoke to us again, his father was a talkative person, after returning from Wanxian, his father often didn't say a word for a day, just sat alone, when he sat alone, even A-Niang didn't dare to come forward.

My father used to get up in the middle of the night, and go around the yard in circles, and after a few turns, he would squat down, and swing around with leaves and branches, and write and draw, and a man muttered to himself that if the horses had been delivered in time, if they could be persuaded to come down, if the matter had been stopped...... Etcetera.

A-Niang is very worried, so am I, I asked him, Daddy, what are you doing?

He said he was reflecting and that it was all his fault. ”

Hong Min looked at Li Ran and smiled meaninglessly.

"He is a late name in the spring, an eight-rank petty official in the Ministry of War, a small county magistrate who has been in office for less than a year, and the fall of the dynasty, what mistake can he afford?

Over the years, my father rarely reflected on the past, but he was never really happy, or even really laughed.

I decided not to enter the career in this life because I hated a loyal word like my father.

The fall of Qianliang has nothing to do with him or our family, but one lord was humiliated and buried his father.

I hate the way of kings and ministers. ”

Li Ran looked at the dancing flames and hummed lowly.

"Father wants to see you, risking the destruction of the family, but also to send you out of a desperate situation, I haven't persuaded you a word, because, seeing you, helping you, saving you, maybe, can make my father feel better, let his stupid loyalty, have some sustenance, let him have some relief."

Hong Min took a piece of firewood and threw it into the fire, watching it burn.

"Thank you." Li Ran looked at Hong Min, thanked him solemnly, was silent for a moment, and said in a low voice, "Not all courtiers are like Mr. Hong."

Not all the people who can be called loyal ministers are like Mr. Hong.

Mr. Hong is a loyal minister, Mr. Huang is a loyal minister, I think the prince is also a loyal minister, I am not talking about the king who followed Emperor Renzong, it is the current king, and there are many people who have made the officials from the past to the present. I think they're all loyal servants.

Loyalty and filial piety, everyone has their own ideas, and they are practicing according to their own ideas.

Think differently, act differently. ”

"Yes." Hong Min didn't look at Li Ran, for a moment, he sighed, "The world is overturned, like the Hong family, like my father, it is already a great blessing." ”

"Well, may the country and the people be safe." Li Ran leaned back into the stockpile and closed her eyes.

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