The blue sky is clear and the rain is falling, and the sunlight shines into the window of the account room of the Beishanzi Tea Factory, shining into a quadrilateral shape on the floor, and the rain is dripping outside the window, hitting the banana leaves in the courtyard, crackling.

The air was filled with water mist.

Wang Yanshan, the head of the Bianjing City Tea Shop, was talking with his entourage about a public case that had caused a stir recently, and two tea merchants in the industry who had been close to each other were going to court for their respective sons.

The little brother surnamed Han is a tea merchant who makes money like dirt, idle, eating, drinking and having fun all day long, and his family can't restrain him, only his money and silver, he is used to being called uncle outside, and when he is embarrassed, he borrows money everywhere to fill the façade.

When his friends asked him to collect debts, he wanted to be ridiculed by him, so he demolished the east wall to make up the west wall.

But he said that the little brother surnamed Hu was stunned, and he had a solid and honest temperament, one is one, and two is two. It's another mouthless gourd, and he can't make a fart with a stick. Ask him to draw a circle, he can draw a smooth and round shape, and he will never think of adding anything more.

The two little brothers started playing when they wore open crotch pants, playing in a courtyard and studying in a school. When he was older, Little Brother Hu followed Little Brother Han around, stained a lot of light, and when his brother was in trouble, he also helped a lot.

Brother Han, who was used to being an uncle, was in danger on the east wall and in danger on the west wall, and his reputation could no longer borrow silver, so he instigated Brother Hu to lend him silver in his own name.

Brother Hu trusted him and didn't want to, so he borrowed again and again, no problem.

The hole in the money is getting bigger and bigger, Brother Hu is settling accounts every day, his shoulders are cold in a panic, he keeps mentioning Han Xiaoge, where can Han Xiaoge, who was enchanted at that time, listen to it, just patting his chest and guaranteeing, day after day.

By the time he finally faced the problem, the huge interest had turned the original debt beyond recognition. Only then did he panic, he pondered for a long time, and said Let's share it evenly, when I took you around to eat and drink, you also spent a lot, and said, how much I borrowed here, and how much you borrowed yourself, I don't know.

When Wang Yanshan heard this, he just smiled and shook his head,

The world is merciless, and the good will be fruitless. Don't believe in others, don't believe in yourself, and don't be lucky to prevent others.

He looked sideways at his grandson Wen Yanbo, who was making sencha, and felt more and more that his face was like a crown of jade, a talent; It is also rare to be restrained and introverted, with steady steps, and never make a mistake. Then he smiled and asked, "You said that you want to marry the eldest girl of the Yan family, who is involved in the political affairs." ”

Wen Yanbo served tea with both hands and hummed respectfully.

Wang Yanshan took the rabbit lamp, blew it slowly, took a bite, and said, "Well, it's good." He paused, put down the rabbit lamp, looked at Wen Yanbo again, and said with a smile: "With such a clear stream portal, I'm afraid I can't look down on businessmen like us." ”

Wen Yanbo puffed out his chest and smiled warmly and peacefully: "Grandfather, relax, everything is in the hands of your grandson." ”

He has always acted steadily, and even if he is very sure, he is also humble.

But this time, he was careless.

Attacking Beizhou, Wen Yanbo led the Jingbian army to build the city wall, was ignited by the fire brought by the stray arrow on the wall of Beizhou City, the grass and trees in the rammed earth were ignited, the raging fire burned for three days and three nights, Wen Yanbo woke up again, his eyes were full of scorched earth, his body was sore, there were sword wounds on his legs, and he saw Lao Chen at a glance, almost beating his chest.

He picked up a stone and threw it at him.

Lao Chen was using two stones to mash unknown herbs into mud, his hands were busy, and from time to time he raised his eyes to look at the embarrassed Wen Yanbo, and saw that he had lost a stone, so he moved his body slightly and dodged over.

Wen Yanbo was so tired that he was out of breath, he paused for a long time and asked, "How is Liangbi?" ”

Lao Chen said: "When he came back, he didn't commit treason, but someone in the capital wanted to frame him." ”

Wen Yanbo said: "I never believed that he would commit treason. ”

Lao Chen was laughing, Wen Yanbo picked up a handful of dirt and threw it at him, and said angrily: "I am a general, even if I die, I will die with my soldiers!" ”

Lao Chen shrank his head, dodged again, and said with a smile: "It is not easy for your grandfather and your mother to cultivate you, and you have to stay alive." ”

Wen Yanbo looked up to the sky and sighed, and said: "My soldiers saw their generals running away, what should they think, they have no momentum, the army's morale is weak, and they are still talking about fighting." ”

Lao Chen said: "At that time, it was very chaotic, those who fled and died, who still paid attention to you." ”

Wen Yanbo stayed for a long time and shed two lines of tears.

Since when did I get anything done.

He looked at the sky, the sky was clear, the cirrus clouds were blown with the autumn wind, and the whole field was a silence that was not found in Bianjing City.

"I want to get her back......"

When he said this, there were tears in the corners of his eyes, and he was about to explain his mind tenderly, Lao Chen held the herbal mud and pasted it on his wound, and the stinging pain like a heart, suddenly howled, and was held by Lao Chen's muddy hand.

His rough old hands were filled with all kinds of smells, the smell of mud, the smell of herbs, the smell of gunpowder...... Mixed together, it became an inexplicable stench.

Wen Yanbo flicked his hand away, and his stomach rolled over, about to spit it out.

Lao Chen bandaged him, the movements in his hands did not stop, and his mouth did not stop, and said: "When I go back, I have to get a roasted fat duck to eat." He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said: "The fat duck is charred on the outside and tender on the inside, take a bite, the mouth is full of oil, and then a bowl of farmhouse wine, this taste, beautiful!" ”

His thumb and forefinger were bent in a gesture of holding a wine glass, which he put to his lips, squinted his old eyes, and smiled with a wrinkled face, as if he had drunk wine from the fat duck.

Wen Yanbo burst into tears.

On the Shangyuan Festival, when she lost her hairpin, he was not around. He wasn't there when she was taken away from her in a coma. She fell into the dungeon and was taken to Western Xia, and when she endured the humiliation, he was not by her side. When the Gentleman's Party suffered a catastrophe and her situation was worrying, he was not around.

Why is it that he is always not around when it matters.

Why hasn't he tried?

It turns out that it is really fateful, and sometimes, the effort is really not as good as a just right time.

"I want to get her back......" he muttered again.

Lao Chen said: "If you want to, just think about it, no one can stop you." ”

Wen Yanbo remembered Su Zimei's words, no, you can't, I can't.

He remembered that she was playing with the brothers and sisters of the Liao Emperor in Baojin Tower, and when we were still in the same place, she had traveled thousands of miles a day and became unreachable.

She is no longer the clever little lady she used to be, she has suddenly grown up.

He stared straight into the sky with his eyes and muttered, "What has she experienced this year?" ”

Lao Chen sighed: "It's better to be a woman, but if you have a little look, you have a chance to rise to the top." Unlike us men, we have to rely on ourselves to take one step at a time. ”

Wen Yanbo said: "There are many men who rely on the help of their wives and families. ”

Lao Chen nodded and said, "That's right, why can't I, Lao Chen, touch such a beautiful thing." ”

Wen Yanbo glanced at Lao Chen: "Are you still insufficient?" ”

Lao Chen smacked his lips and said: "Why do you think I'm still running around desperately at this age, my mother-in-law doesn't recognize money and people, doesn't hand over money, and grandchildren don't let me see it!" ”

Wen Yanbo said: "Who let you leave her back then, she is an unmarried girl from Yunying, and the pearl is secretly knotted." After so many years of infamy, you have raised your son with hard work, and helped him start a family, so you have your grandson. It is not too much to ask you to count the money. ”

Lao Chen thought about it for a while and said, "That's right." He was silent for a long time, and then said: "I also have my own troubles, didn't I accidentally kill someone, otherwise I wouldn't be able to do this bloody thing on the knife." ”

Wen Yanbo sneered: "Could it be who is holding your hand to kill the person?" ”

Lao Chen recalled the past and said with a smile: "At that time, I was young and vigorous, I just thought that brotherhood was as big as the sky, but I didn't want to think about it, people had Lao Tzu's backing, and if he did something wrong, someone would clean up the mess for him." As he spoke, his expression became more and more lonely.

The world is merciless, and the good will be fruitless. Don't believe in others, don't believe in yourself, and don't be lucky to prevent others.

Wen Yanbo added another sentence: "Success enjoys its merits, and failures are entrusted to its faults, and those who are saints can surpass it are also the nature of people." ”

Lao Chen smiled: "You, he will definitely become a great weapon one day." He put his hand sideways, patted Wen Yanbo's buttocks, and said, "When you are flying, don't forget my Lao Chen's life-saving grace." I pulled you out of the pile of the dead...... By the way, are you thirsty, hungry or not? ”

Wen Yanbo was silent for a long time and said, "I'm going to snatch her back." ”

Lao Chen jumped anxiously: "Why are you so desperate, grab it back, grab it back, grab it back, do you grab the land and come back, ah?" Why don't people ignore you, it's because they don't want to ruin your future, then again, it's not guaranteed, the girl has other thoughts, this queen is more majestic than being the second lady of Wen. ”

Wen Yanbo said angrily: "She doesn't wait for people who are greedy for vanity!" ”

Lao Chen's eyes were full of suspicion, and he said: "Whether she is greedy or not, only she knows." Besides, with her reputation, if she didn't marry the lord of the Western Xia Kingdom, she wouldn't have survived. Look at Shi Yuansu, the deputy general of General Liu Ping, how many people impeached him for stealing his life and asked the officials to give him death. He still has the merit of going into battle to kill the enemy...... Oh, don't think about it, what's there to think about, think too much, your brain hurts! ”

"I can take her out of Bianjing, I don't want a career, let's go to Jiangnan and do some small business, just like Zimei."

Lao Chen was furious, and lay down on the ground, looked at the flow of cirrus clouds, was silent for a long time, and said: "Once this woman is broken, I can't tell how many people have touched her." ”

Wen Yanbo roared angrily, his face was red, and his green muscles were violent.

She did add a charm that she didn't have before, it was a natural gesture after knowing people, and this gesture was not added by me for her, but by other men.

Wen Yanbo choked up and said, "I don't care, I just feel sorry for her grievances." ”

Lao Chen waved the toes of his two feet and said, "Maybe she is not wronged." ”

Wen Yanbo remembered what she said willingly, and was stunned for a while.

Sometimes, however, a woman is not willing to dedicate herself because she loves with all her heart, but because she dedicates herself, she has to love with all her heart.

The girl is young, she is not sensible, and she is coaxed by the sweet words of the bastard, and she can't tell whether she loves it or not. It's just that I was led by the nose by that throbbing, and after losing my body, out of various considerations, what reputation, what something, I can't tell, in short, I have to cover it up with love. ”

Lao Chen put his hands behind his head and continued: "There are two in everything, and over time, no matter how sober a girl is, she will be dizzy, and if she doesn't love, she will become love." ”

Wen Yanbo said: "Nonsense. According to what you say, those girls are so casual, and the lover will dedicate herself at will. ”

Lao Chen said with a smile: "There are many righteous gentlemen like you in the world, and there are also many villains who are sanctimonious. He paused and said, "I have added another big fat granddaughter, and the water is so clever that the family looks like eyeballs, for what."

Besides, it's not good to be a woman, but if you have a little posture, it's easy to attract bees and butterflies, and then you have no power, wealth and intelligence matching, one wrong step, one wrong step, if you don't do it well, you will lose all the plates, it's better to have no posture, and come to be stable. ”

The world is merciless, and the good will be fruitless. Don't believe in others, don't believe in yourself, and don't be lucky to prevent others.

Wen Yanbo shook his head with a smile and said, "What I said, what did you say." ”

Lao Chen said: "I advise you, if you want to open some, people are willing to let go, and they have their own reasons." Since you are willing to let go, you should not dwell on it. Besides, she is going to marry to Western Xia, if you are entangled, you are ugly, she is ugly, not to mention that she is ugly, and she may even provoke disputes between the two countries. ”

Wen Yanbo fell silent.

Lao Chen muttered: "Don't speak, don't speak." ”

After about half a cup of tea, Wen Yanbo suddenly said, "I'm going to snatch her back." ”

Lao Chen sat up abruptly and said in a strange tone: "You kid, why can't you make sense?" ”

Wen Yanbo sat up in the mud and said, "I'm going to snatch Beizhou back." ”

Lao Chen Kong opened his mouth and said, "This, this is not easy." ”

Wen Yanbo stayed for a long time and said, "When Jie was still alive, he quietly sent someone to tell me that most of the concertos on our table were intercepted by Xia Song. This bastard, who spends his days like a puddle of mud, does not want to make progress, and is afraid that others will cross him. When we fight, we don't want to put more effort into it, and when we are suppressed, there are a lot of ghost ideas. ”

He paused and continued: "So I consulted with my lieutenant general Ming Hao, and I led my troops to attack the city fiercely on the bright side, and Ming Hao secretly led the soldiers to dig tunnels from the moat to the city...... The secret passage was about to be dug through, and there were people in the city who were coerced into rebellion shooting arrows asking for surrender, and we were deliberately defeated in this battle, in order to be careless by the rebels in the city. ”

Lao Chen was speechless and said: "Deliberately defeated, you almost lost your life!" ”

Wen Yanbo smiled and said, "Since you have done it, you must do it!" If it costs me my life, they will only be more careless. The next battle will undoubtedly be won. ”

Lao Chen said: "You also said that you can enjoy the merits of success, and you will be blamed for failures." What's the trouble with that? ”

Wen Yanbo laughed and said: "I also want to learn from Liangbi, learn from Yuqi, learn from Xuejie, learn from the crazy tiger in Western Xia, and fight once without reservation." ”