After a while, the old man came back, lowered his voice and said to him: "Listen to the accent, you are from the Guan, the master has not been out for more than ten years, you just need to tell him what you have seen and heard outside the Guan, and relieve him of his boredom, if the master is happy, he will not treat you badly." ”

I see.

Huo Jiang's anxious heart settled down a little, of the dozen or so people they were caught, only he was a scholar, and the woman in red obviously took a fancy to his identity as a scholar and chose him to talk to his father.

He hurriedly gave a deep salute to the old man, and said: "Uncle, the surname Huo Mingjiang in the next place, the family of Baoding Mansion, has the fame of raising people, there is an old father below, and there are younger brothers and sisters below, all waiting for me to go back safely, I have nothing else to ask for, only to be able to return to the customs as soon as possible, if the lord of your mansion is happy, please also ask the old man to be thoughtful." ”

The old man's eyebrows moved slightly, he looked at him again, and nodded slowly: "It turned out to be a lifting old man, forgive the little old man, please come in, my master has always come to see the heavy reader, you don't have to be nervous." ”

Huo Jiang exhaled a long breath, and he didn't know why he felt like he was dreaming.

But in any case, for now he can only walk in, whether the old man is a humble gentleman or a flood beast, he has no way out.

The old man pointed to the stairs and motioned for him to enter, Huo Jiang had already exposed his cotton robe and walked in with his head held high.

The old man looked at his straight figure and nodded silently.

"Guests, guests." A strange voice suddenly sounded, startling Huo Jiang, and when he looked up, it was a wren.

"Haha, A-Qing, you're naughty again." Another voice came, Huo Jiang looked up, and saw a person sitting on a chair with wheels, he flicked the wheels with his hand, and the chair slowly walked over.

Huo Jiang looked at that person, he was about forty years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, handsome facial features, but he had a little pride, but he might have been in the house for a long time, his face was pale, his eye sockets were deep, and his face was thin, as if he had just had a serious illness.

Huo Jiang's gaze moved down, and he was even more surprised, only to see that although this person was sitting on the chair, the robe on his body was empty from below the chair, Huo Jiang looked carefully, this person's legs were actually gone from the thighs!

Huo Jiang had seen people who were paralyzed in bed due to leg disease, but their legs were just unable to move, but they were still intact. But the person in front of him was only half of his body left.

Huo Jiang suddenly felt creepy, he was only a teenager at that time, all his thoughts were written on his face, he stood there in astonishment, just looking at the man's legs in a daze.

How did you not have this leg, was you born without legs, or was it sick and broken? If you were sick, it wouldn't be all gone, would it be cut down?

Who gets their legs cut off? By the way, this family is related to Snowy Mountain Villa, so they are also bandits, so their legs will be cut off in order to fight for territory or fight for property and women?

But the person in front of him, although he looks rough, does not look like a bandit in any way.

However, Gao Hui is not like a bandit, compared to the bandits he has encountered these days, those guys in Wild Bear Ridge are more like standard bandits, and Gao Gao Hui is more like a gentleman, and the person in front of him is even more incomprehensible.

"Young man, did I scare you by the way I looked?" The man spoke again, in a modest, somewhat kind tone.

Huo Jiang came to his senses, and secretly blamed himself for his gaffe in his heart, he gave a salute to the middle-aged man, and said, "Huo Jiang, who was born late, has seen Mr. ”

The middle-aged man smiled: "Surname Huo?" You're from Kannai? ”

Huo Jiang said: "Exactly, I traveled the world according to my father's orders in my late life, and came to Guanwai a month ago. Excuse me, sir, what is the surname? ”

He didn't mention the captivity to Snowy Lodge, and he didn't know whether to mention it or not.

The middle-aged man said: "My surname is Xie, you can call me Mr. Xie." ”

Huo Jiang gave his hand again: "I saw Mr. Xie in my later life." ”

Mr. Xie said with a smile: "You can come to me, you must have seen the little girl, the little girl is filial, I am afraid that my legs and feet are inconvenient, and I am lonely at home, and I often find some readers to chat with me, Huo Gongzi should not be surprised." ”

Huo Jiang finally put his mind at ease, he really didn't guess wrong, the woman in red let him come here because he was a scholar.

"That young lady who loves to wear red clothes is Ling Qianjin?" He asked, in fact, he wanted to know what the name of the wonderful woman who was with the woman in red was.

"The little girl is naughty, which makes Huo Gongzi smile." Mr. Xie smiled.

Although Huo Jiang wanted to know about Miss Xie's cousin, he was a man, so he couldn't continue to ask about other people's female transcripts, so he had to divert the topic and said to Mr. Xie: "Mr. speaks official language, it doesn't look like a person from outside the Guan, are you also from the Guannei?" ”

He had heard people say before that some people's families had a difficult life, but while they were young and strong, they moved their families to live outside the border, and some people really made a fortune and returned to their hometowns after many years.

Mr. Xie was very straightforward, he said: "Let Huo Gongzi see the smile, I lived to be forty years old, and I haven't been to the Guannei, haha, I still don't know what kind of scenery the Guannai is." ”

Speaking of this, he casually picked up a book on the small table, raised it, and said to Huo Jiang: "My understanding of Guan Nei was originally obtained from this book. ”

Huo Jiang saw that the book was "The Chronicles of the Great Zhou Dynasty", which was a travelogue of the previous dynasty, he had seen it at an old bookshelf, and the current dynasty had already changed the name of the country, and books like this with the name of the country of the previous dynasty would not be reprinted for a long time.

The paper in Mr. Xie's hand was yellowed, apparently old.

Huo Jiang said: "This is the book of the previous dynasty, and the scenery in the gate is different from the previous dynasty." ”

Mr. Xie's eyes lit up and said, "I see, no one has told me before, please ask Huo Gongzi to tell me in detail." ”

Huo Jiang's heart moved, this person said that he grew up outside the Guan, and had never set foot in the Guannei, but he was so fascinated by the scenery in the Guannei, looking at this family, it should also be a wealthy family, if you really want to go to the Guannai to play, even if you are disabled, just bring a few more servants, how can you not rely on an old book to imagine it.

But Huo Jiang didn't ask much, in the past year, he has also been to many places, even if he hasn't been there in person, he can know some legends and allusions from the poems and songs of his neighbors, which are not in that book.

He took the book "Da Zhou Jingwuzhi" from Mr. Xie's hand, and began to tell it from the first page.

Huo Jiang's literary style is flowing, quoting from the classics when he tells, sometimes expressing his chest directly, sometimes humorous, Mr. Xie listened to it like he was fascinated, the old man came up to serve tea, he took a sip, and said to the old man: "Go and change it to the Fujian tea that Ah Hui sent me." ”