Zhu Xiaoliu once woke up the king who was in a daze in his dream: "Brother Wei Qi, it seems that you don't really care about your daughter-in-law, you don't farm well, how can you save enough to find her?" ”

Since then, I have raised pigs seriously, worked hard to chop wood, picked manure diligently, planted vegetables with my heart, and became the most capable man in Zhujiagou Village. By the end of the year, he had saved enough money from Zhujiagou Village to Dafeng Prefecture, and bought a tattered boat.

This small boat is the only boat in the village, it has a history of thirty or forty years, Zhu Xiaoliu and I repaired it, dragged it into the river and rowed a few times, it feels stable and strong, and there is no big problem in rowing to Changyunshan County.

In the past few days, Zhu Xiaoliu has rarely kicked me, he naturally knows that he is about to part with me, he doesn't say it, but he is very reluctant in his heart, he works until late every day, goes to the ground during the day, makes noodles in the evening, and steam the nest head at night to save dry food for me, and the whole person has lost weight.

That night, he finished steaming the last pot of wotou and sat with me on the threshold, looking at the night sky and drinking coarse tea.

"Didn't you think about coming with me? Like me, your parents have traveled west, so there shouldn't be much to worry about here. I said.

Zhu Xiaoliu glanced at me, his dark face couldn't show any expression in the night, but his voice didn't sound very energetic: "I'm different from you, you have read books, and you know martial arts, and you can mix well when you go outside." I've thought about it these days, and I'm not very good at anything other than growing vegetables, raising pigs, and picking manure. If I go out with you rashly, I'm afraid it will only become a burden to you. ”

"Why do you need to say such a thing as a burden between you and me, if you really want to talk about it, isn't it also a burden to you in the nearly one year I have been in Zhujiagou Village? If you hadn't taken me to raise pigs and farm, I would have starved to death. So I'm supposed to take care of you outside, you're strong enough to be my ......"

Before the word "soldier" could be spoken, he interrupted me: "Brother Weiqi, you don't need to persuade me, I can be regarded as a top-notch man in Zhujiagou, and I will be a waste person when I go out." ”

I began to understand that what was told in the storybooks I used to read was not reality after all, and in those heroic romances, the country man could walk out of the mountains with the protagonist and become a loyal and heroic lieutenant, and become a heroic hero who pulled out the mountains. I thought that Zhu Xiaoliu could do it, he would accompany me to find Envy, accompany me back to Jinguo, accompany me to reorganize the army, I will be the commander, and he will be the deputy general.

But the reality is that Zhu Xiaoliu doesn't want to go out with me, and the country man doesn't want to go out of the mountains, although this mountain is closed, it gives him enough security and makes him useful.

I understood Xiao Liu's concerns, and I also respected Xiao Liu's thoughts, and pondered for a long time before finally saying, "Then you will send me to Changyun County?" The boat was bought by the two of us together, I can't take it with me, after you send me to the county seat, and then row the boat back, if you want to go out to see it in the future, it will be more convenient. ”

Xiao Liu thought for a while, and said wistfully: "Okay." ”

Twelve days later, the two of us rowed to Changyun County, and wanted to find a noodle restaurant to eat a bowl of hot noodle soup, but Zhu Xiaoliu kicked me, took out two nests from the bag of dry food he left for himself from the boat, looked at it in his hand for a while, stuffed one of them into my backpack, and the remaining one was broken in half, and the big one was handed to me, glaring at me and saying, "What hot noodle soup to eat?" Your current entanglement is not enough to find your daughter-in-law, why do you still spend money indiscriminately? ”

In the past year, I have suffered countless feet from Zhu Xiaoliu, but today this kick seems to kick my heart, dull and stuffy. I didn't dare to look at him with my head in my hand, and I was reluctant to let him want to look at him more.

I know better than anyone else that if I say goodbye, I'll probably never see such a grumpy and cute man again for the rest of my life.

He didn't stay in the county for long, the two of us only sat on the wooden ladder of the dock for an hour, and then he was about to leave, stepped into the boat, held the oars and looked back at me, there was some mist in his dark eyes, but his mouth was still stiff and not gentle at all: "What, haven't you read a book?" The kind of sour poems that don't pull a few words, read a few words to my brothers. ”

The sun is hanging in the sky, the mist on the river has stopped, and the travelers on the boat are staring.

I stood up and looked at him and read seriously: "The Peach Blossom Pond is a thousand feet deep, and it is not as deep as Xiaoliu to send me love." ”

He heard that I had changed it, raised the corners of his mouth, and said happily, "Read a few more words." ”

"The green mountains cross the north Guo, and the white water surrounds the east city,. This place is a farewell, lonely and thousands of miles away. ”

"Well, keep reading." He commanded this, but untied the rope.

"Lao Ge is a song to explain the boat, and the red leaves and green mountains and water are rapid."

He flicked his oars and steered the boat a foot away from the dock, "Say a few more words." ”

"The old man is separated from the rivers and seas, separated by mountains and rivers several times...... Covering the tears in the air, where is the wind and dust. As soon as I saw that my intestines were broken, I didn't look back. There is a confidant in the sea, and the end of the world is like a neighbor. Luoyang relatives and friends asked each other, and a piece of ice was in the jade pot. Don't worry about the road ahead, no one in the world knows you. ”

He stopped looking at me, raised his sleeve and wiped his face, rowing the boat farther: "I can't say anything nice, I can't read these beautiful poems, you read a few more words for me, even if I read it to you." I also know that I won't see you in the future, don't lose your skills after you find your daughter-in-law, so you can live a good life. ”

He turned away from me and paddled with all his brute force.

I watched Xiao Liu and the boat go from two huge vertical and horizontal to a point that was connected together in the distance and could not be distinguished. touched the half-empty money bag, and even felt that his eyes were damp: I hope Xiaoliu can come to the county seat again, and he can be willing to use the money I left him to buy a bowl of hot noodle soup to eat.

I remember the first day when I picked up the dog's life and figured out where I was, Xiaoliu gave me a blow to my heart: "From here to row a boat for half a month to the county seat, and then spend two taels of silver from the county town to take a donkey cart to the state capital, and then spend twenty taels of silver from the state capital to take a small boat to the national capital Weihai, and get on the boat from the dock in the south of the city of Weihai, and spend two hundred taels of silver to get to Ningguo." In this way, it will cost you 222 taels of silver to find your daughter-in-law, and you will raise pigs for 20 years, plant 40 stubbles of vegetables, pick 6,000 buckets of dung, chop 8,000 catties of firewood, and be a beggar for another 10 years, and you will need 10 years of food, which will probably be enough to go to Ningguo. ”

At that time, I thought that as long as I walked out of the mountains, with my ability, more than two hundred taels of silver should not be difficult to earn, after all, I felt that I was entangled in Changyun Mountain with less than one or two pieces of silver, and I couldn't even sit on the donkey cart to the state capital, only to find that I had spent extravagantly in the first half of my life, and I didn't know the hardships of the people, and I didn't know the difficulties of making money.

I was lucky, thinking that I could be the same as the protagonist in the storyteller's mouth, I could drop divine power from heaven, I could meet nobles on the road, I could turn evil into good fortune, and I could make a fortune inexplicably, but in fact I didn't, I pinched less than one or two pieces of silver, bought the cheapest paper, ink, pen and inkstone, set up a stall in front of the Wenchang Temple in the county town during the day to help pilgrims worship documents, and at night in the night market for passing pedestrians to perform the eaves and walk the wall, ten days later finally saved enough two taels of silver to Dafeng Prefecture.

Next, you need twenty taels of silver to go to Weihai, the capital of the Eastern Qi Kingdom.

According to my money-making speed in Changyun County, it will take 100 days to earn enough money to reach Weihai, and three years to earn enough money to see Xian, at that time, I am afraid that before I see her, I will die.

After much consideration, I found a cargo ship bound for the sea and made a deal with the owner: "I will help you move and unload the goods, no wages, no food, just ask you to take me to the lake." ”

The owner looked me from head to toe, spat on me, and mocked, "How much the fuck can you carry for me, thin body?" Can't afford to take a passenger ship and want to be cheap? ”

I rolled up my sleeves, without saying a word, picked up two sacks of peanuts and flew to the boat, turned my back leisurely in his shocked and appreciative gaze, gasped for breath, and turned around with a smile after my body softened a little, met his happy face, and smiled calmly: "Does the owner still think that I want to be cheap?" ”

He hurriedly shook his head, pointed to a pile of wheat as tall as a man in the distance, and said with a beam: "Since you are so capable, then this pile of goods will be handed over to you to move alone." ”

Me: "......"

Despite the arduous process, I was able to move the stack of wheat and arrived in Ulhai five days later.

This time, I learned the lesson of the previous time, and instead of looking for a cargo ship, I squatted on the dock in the south of the city for three days, found a huge luxury passenger ship, applied for the position of chef's assistant, and finally stood out from 30 people with my excellent ability to catch fish in the water.

Two days later, the luxury passenger ship sailed upriver along the Changlan River from Weihai Wharf and is expected to arrive in Ningguo in a month and a half.

I scrupulously obeyed my duty, woke up at dawn every day, went to the sea on time to catch fish, and prepared the ingredients for the cook on the ship......

Until one day when I came back from fishing, I met an old man on the bow of the boat.