Chapter IV

"Buy rice." The man said as he stared at the reluctant teenager on his face.

The young man was extremely impatient and grabbed the copper plate in the man's hand. Not wanting to leave a superfluous look to the man, he turned around and left directly. The extremely heavy footsteps seemed to be a catharsis of emotions.

The man looked at the back of the young man and shook his head gently, sure enough, he was still a teenager.

At the immature age of eight years old, even if he has extremely high ambitions, his impulsive temperament is still difficult to hide.

It has been more than ten days since the Imperial City was occupied, and the exhaustion value of the originally heavily guarded Imperial City has reached its highest point. With the end of today's main hall, the heavily guarded city gate will be relaxed, and it is the day to leave the imperial city.

Rounds with outsiders, everything is considered in the long run, everything is not in a hurry, and it is not in a hurry......

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The bustling streets, full of the sound of hawkers shouting, each praising the merits of the goods, forcefully persuading others, everything seems to be so harmonious.

Such a scene only gave Yaoguang the illusion of being in a different world. Today, only a dozen days have passed since the fall of the previous dynasty. It was as if nothing had happened.

Yaoguang still deeply remembers that on the second day he settled in this thatched hut, the iron-faced man dragged him out to buy things.

"Why?" Although the boy has long been accustomed to the days of the third watch, he was only for the sake of practicing martial arts in the early days, not being dragged out by this man. Since you have decided to return to the country, you should show more energy, and get up early to practice martial arts. Instead of being dragged away to do meaningless things.

"Buy rice." The man spit out these two words lightly, and the force that dragged the young man did not become lighter at all.

When the boy heard the man's words, he was confused, buy rice?

"Why don't you buy a servant?" The boy subconsciously said this, and in his opinion, his precious time was used to do more meaningful things, rather than wasting it on such tedious and tedious things as buying rice, chopping wood, and lighting fires.

He is shouldering the great cause of restoring the country.

When the man heard the young man's words, he stopped dragging and stared at Yaoguang with a smile that seemed to be not a smile. Such a smiling look made him panic from the depths of his heart. He could feel the man mocking him, but he didn't know why? It's a boredom feeling.

"Why, this is the day when you can't adapt to it without the servants, and you work your own firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar?" The sarcastic tone seemed to say that you have what right to enjoy everything that someone else has created.

The man's words aroused the boy's great displeasure, and the conversation between the two seemed to have reached a dead end, ostensibly talking about the same body, but in fact they expressed their own opinions, without carefully discerning the differences in each other's words.

"I didn't!" The boy stiffened and retorted. He hated the feeling. If Mo Xuan listened to him, would he be able to understand the most hidden heart?

"You go out and have a look." The man has never been reasonable, he just wants to wipe out the arrogant temperament of the young man in the shortest possible time, the time is too short. Now the dynasty is still in a state of turmoil, although the occupation of the Canglan by the Northern Qiang State is in line with the expectations of the people.

Within three or two years, the new monarch will be able to fulfill the long-cherished wishes of the people. Everything is heading towards ......

In two or three years, it was too short to recruit troops and horses, although now there were 50,000 horses in hand, and the confrontation with the people's support and strength of the Beiqi Dynasty was undoubtedly an egg to hit the stone.

Fifth Yaoguang was not wrong, he really didn't do his best......

The young man looked confused at the man's words. Get out? Didn't he come out of the palace? Where else to go?

The man took the young man's hand and walked out of the door, the thatched hut he wanted to escape from yesterday was taken out of his own initiative today, but his steps were a little vain and uncontrollable, and every time he took a step closer to the door, his timidity increased a point.

The moment he took the step, he closed his eyes tightly, for fear of encountering a flood beast. The scene outside was a little different from what he had imagined, a stall was set up not far away, and curling smoke slowly rose from the stove, mingling with the thin mist of water.

Such a scene is clearly full of warmth. But it is out of place, as if you have strayed into the mountains and seen the prosperous scene. Yesterday the dynasty fell, the monarch changed, such a momentous event......

"I don't understand?" The boy stood in place, staring blankly at the distant scene, and the tingling pain gradually spread from his chest to his whole body. He doesn't understand, he really doesn't.

The man appeared beside the young man at some point, with a hint of pity in his eyes, took the young man's hand and led him closer to the stall.

"Obviously, the country has perished, why can these people live as before." The boy's legs seemed to be welded to the earth, and he refused to move for half a minute, and his mouth was also murmuring.

"Or else?" Disapproving tone.

The boy was suddenly speechless. He doesn't understand, he really doesn't.

Thinking that he is the emperor above the court plays a vital role, but in the end, it turns out that the truth is nothing more than self-deception.

The monarch is important, and a word determines the life and death of the people at dawn; The monarch is not important, the person above the court is just a sign. and the people, obviously connected to each other, but they can be well.

"He bought the ingredients yesterday, if he doesn't sell them today, the food will rot, and the cost will be put in. If you can live in style, how can you risk death to set up a stall. Between certain death and desperate fight, the latter was chosen. The man unexpectedly did not use a cynical voice, but spoke softly.

Although the boy did not say approval, he let the man pull him closer to the stall. The smoke curls and turns into a physical entity to touch the taste buds.

"Two wontons." The man pulled the boy to sit down.

The kind old man lifted the lid of the pot tremblingly, and the wontons with a small belly puffed up jumped into the water and swirled.

Tears smashed into the bowl to add saltiness, the man did not disturb him, but leisurely tasted the wontons, where the young man could not see, the old man selling the wontons and the man looked at each other for two seconds.

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The young man went straight to the rice shop and bought rice quickly, but he didn't even listen to the polite words of the rice shop owner, nodding and smiling sluggishly.

"You know what? Today is the day when the new emperor ascends the throne. The gossip that drifted from nowhere entered the young man's ears, and his steps forward suddenly stopped.

"I know, it is said that the new emperor is a milk doll!" The words paused, and a sigh sounded.

"The confused old emperor has just come in the afternoon, and an ignorant little doll has come. ...... day"

"You're not afraid to lose your head and say such rebellious things......"

“……”

The boy turned to look for the two people he was talking about, but when he turned around, he saw only pedestrians in a hurry, merchants and customers bargaining and raising prices. There was no mention of the two women who were talking.

Huang Zhong, a young man with a confused look, stood in the middle of the street holding a burlap bag containing rice. Hurried pedestrians walked past him, hiding among the pedestrians.

And a few kilometers away in the hall held the enthronement ceremony, civil and military officials kneeling to worship, the young man wearing a yellow robe, the heavy crown pressed on the top of his head, the crown gently swayed with the movement.

The young man is petite, but every step is extremely heavy, his head is close to the ground, his eyes are full of tears, the prince has become the emperor, if Anhua Niangniang has a spirit in the sky, she will definitely be happy for him.

Mo Jing stood straight, which was a symbol of infinite dignity.

"Zhong Aiqing is flat!" The young man's firm and powerful voice sounded, and the civil and military officials stood up and shouted loudly in their mouths, long live my emperor, long live, long live.

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"The rice was bought." The man naturally saw the young man's dejected appearance, and he just avoided talking about it.

The boy mechanically put the rice in the man's hand, walked around the man, and walked to the thatched house without saying a word. The man narrowed his eyes slightly, now is not the time to be emotional, if you miss tonight, there will be no such easy time period.

It was easier for him to go out alone, but it was not easy to transport the boy out safely.

There are many organs and heavy guards, and none of them can be easily dealt with.

In order to ensure the smooth holding of this enthronement ceremony, a large number of soldiers stationed at the city wall will be temporarily dispatched to the palace to prevent the assassination of those with bad intentions.

The most important thing is to beware of them, the remnants of the previous dynasty.

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The striking sound of the wood on the table made a crisp sound, knocking away the sleepy insects of the sleepy people in the room. Only then did people turn their eyes to the man in the hall.

The man's appearance has just passed the crown ceremony, and the green shirt adds a bit of the elegance of a literati.

The visitor saw the storyteller today clearly, and let out a pour. The jade-faced man was not affected in the slightest, and with the sound of the pipa, the story was told.

The people who were not optimistic also restrained their playful temperament and listened to the man's story intently.

The boy sitting in the corner played with the wine glass in his hand, looking at the man with a playful expression, the man seemed to notice the boy's casual posture, his voice became more subdued, and even the children who were playing stopped laughing, and grabbed the food in his hand sluggishly.

The boy noticed the man's actions and smiled lightly.

The communication between the two was only in the blink of an eye, and no one noticed.

The man with a pale face sat in front of the young man, snatched the wine glass from the young man's hand unhappily, and threw it on the table, and half of the wine in the cup spilled on the table.

The young man didn't care about the manly appearance at all, and filled himself with himself. The man wanted to take it again, but the wine glass tilted between the dodges, and the clear wine ran down the creamy skin and disappeared into the sleeves of his coat.

The cup fell to the ground with a crisp sound, causing small ripples, and the spectators on the side looked sideways. The young man didn't know when to put on a pitiful look. The eyes full of tears are about to overflow in the next second.

"Although the slave family is a lowly membership, but ......" stopped talking, lowered eyes, reddish eyes, straight back and white fingertips.