This year, the eldest son of the dog baby was admitted to the child at the age of 12, and the whole family was very happy, and the villagers in the village rushed to congratulate him, saying that Wenqu Xing had descended to earth, and he was full of literature and joy. Although most of those gifts were just one or two eggs, a few cloves of garlic, a handful of leeks and the like, which were not valuable, and the best was nothing more than a foot of red cloth, it was enough for the whole family to be happy and have a glorious face.

The family even went to the county town to buy two catties of pork belly, steamed buns to eat, add vegetables and chop stuffing to season, fragrant, and the children ate one by one with their mouths full of oil.

It is a fine tradition to be successful in your studies and to thank your teacher.

The dog baby took her eldest son, dozens of copper coins, some grain and vegetables, and carried the burden to thank Mr., all in the same village. Mr. is a down-and-out talent, a little excuse, then happily accepted the gift, and then with a pleasant face, it is an encouragement to the student, urging him to be studious, humble, and not to delay his homework. Before leaving, the gentleman also gave a valuable book with annotations in return.

It seems like the beginning of a good day.

As long as there is no shortage of people in the field, the dog baby works in the city on weekdays, and the foreman heard that his eldest son has taken the Tongsheng examination, and the wages are no longer in arrears, and he is a lot more pleasant, even if it is others, most people will at least be polite on the face.

Just a few years later, the eldest son of the dog baby is indeed very competitive, and he was admitted to Xiucai in one fell swoop, although he ranked at the bottom, a little reluctantly, but that was also Xiucaigong. The whole family can be exempted from forced labor and taxes, Xiucai can see the county official without kneeling, and there is a monthly salary to receive. This is amazing, the village chief gave gifts, the village entrance Xiucai archway, and the township lord also gave gifts. There are even landlords' families who ask matchmakers to come to the door to say goodbye.

Good things seem to follow.

Another year later, the dog baby's family started a new tiled house, although the family wealth was exhausted, but life was good. What's more, the days of the past few years have been much stronger than in the past, less than the top, and more than the bottom.

With a new house, the eldest son got married, although he was only sixteen years old, but in this era, it is too normal to get married and have children in his teens. The bride is the second lady of a landlord's family, and she is quite long.

However, the situation changed suddenly, and the state of Qi suddenly announced an all-out war against the state of Qing, and the world was shaken.

The State of Qi dispatched a million soldiers to advance on all fronts, and the Qingguo Festival was defeated and retreated. In just one month, the border of Gyeongkook fell. Three months later, nearly half of Qingguo's territory was encroached upon. Among them, the defection of a general in Qingguo was the fuse for a complete collapse.

This is a catastrophe for the people of Qingguo, but it is worth celebrating for the nobles of Qiguo. Ordinary countries have this kind of good thing, and after the war, there will be gifts, giving some occupying countries new land, population, and more importantly, with new occupying countries, then some new official positions are inevitable, and many people can be promoted and rich.

However, everything flourishes and declines.

The king of Great Qin said: "The Great Qin State and the Qing State are only good friends with the Qin and Jin Dynasties, and they marry the king's favorite princess Lingxi, and the Qi State actually intercepts and kills the king's daughter halfway, which is a serious provocation to the Great Qin State!"

Under the pretext of supporting Qing, the Great Qin State quickly raised troops to attack the border passes of the Qi State, which belonged to the neighboring country.

This is a blow to the Qi people, and it is useless to explain it in any way.

The State of Qi is stronger than the State of Qing, and the original strength is limited, but in the past ten years, the State of Qing has decayed and declined, while the State of Qi has become stronger. On this land, many countries are similar to Qi and Qing, or weaker, but the Great Qin State is a behemoth.

It is directly chasing the strongest country on this land, the 'Liu Xiang Dynasty'.

The difference between the king and the emperor shows the strength and weakness of the two countries.

The borders of the Liu Xiang Dynasty, the Great Qin State, and the Qi State were bordered. But the difference is that the Liuxiang Dynasty had more than a dozen surrounding vassal states, and they could only be blessed by offering them every year, while the Great Qin State did not.

However, the Great Qin State produced two generations of Ming monarchs one after another, laying a solid foundation for the strength of the Great Qin State. In terms of comprehensive strength, it is inferior to the Liu Xiang Dynasty, but in terms of belligerence, the Great Qin State is not inferior in any way. The Great Qin State privately fought abroad all the year round in the name of suppressing bandits, secretly annexed many small countries and small forces, and built a strong army with war, while the Liu Xiang Dynasty was much worse in this regard, born in sorrow, died in peace, and the scene of singing and dancing in the dynasty was easy to make people lose their enterprising spirit.

It is said that this time, the Great Qin State sent important ministers to the Liuxiang Dynasty and brought a lot of heavy gifts, including a rare health preservation masterpiece 'Wuyun Tea' 100 catties, which emptied the inventory of the Great Qin Dynasty for many years, which made the emperor of the Liuxiang Dynasty very happy.

Later, the Great Qin envoys were close to their cousins and sought an alliance, and successfully prevented the intervention of the Liu Xiang Dynasty on the grounds that the alliance was conquering beyond the mainland.

Once the war machine is activated, it will inevitably destroy lives everywhere it goes, and the people of the world will be displaced.

In just one year, Qingguo was destroyed, and the royal blood was slaughtered. In another two and a half years, the state of Qi was destroyed by the Great Qin State, the royal family of Qi surrendered to the Great Qin State, the king was admitted to the capital of the Great Qin Dynasty as a hostage, and was given the title of duke of a country for retirement, and was supported by a son of the king who was close to the Great Qin to serve as the governor, but he actually had no real power. The two countries naturally became the land of the Great Qin State, and it was too late for the Liu Xiang Dynasty to regret it.

At the beginning, when the Qi State was in danger, the dog baby's family could not be spared, and the exemption from forced labor and taxes became an empty word. The eldest son, Xiucai, joined the army and became a clerk in the army, replacing the conscription of the rest of the family. In the end, the bad news came back within half a year.

The Qing State and the Qi State were destroyed, and the Great Qin State announced that it would treat the people well, exempt them from forced labor and taxes for three years, and grant amnesty to the world. But the dog baby's family and many families of the people of Qi did not live an easy life because of this, but became poorer.

This year, in order to keep the family from being hungry, the middle-aged dog baby took a stunned teenager to step into the forest outside Haishan County again after many years. However, the name of the county seat was changed to Glory County. And this young man is his second son, who, like him, does hard labor, farming, and occasionally goes into the mountains to collect medicine to make ends meet.

"Dad, look at the hillside, there seem to be medicinal herbs!" The honest young man's eyes were equally good, and on the sunny slope of the hill, some plants and trees bloomed, still so bright, overshadowing the surroundings.

If it weren't for the fact that this place is dozens of miles deep into the forest, with insects and beasts everywhere, I'm afraid it would have been discovered long ago. After many years of inactivity, these medicinal herbs have become stronger and more abundant.

Green, white, red, pink, yellow, still so vibrant.

The dog's eyes were very good, and he had a lot of experience, so he hurriedly stopped his son who was about to run over, and reminded: "Second stunned, there are many insects and beasts in the mountains, the more unusual the place, the more careful you must be! Also, this piece of medicinal material is a gift from the mountain god, and you are not allowed to tell anyone in this place, your mother and little sister can't do it, you can pick up to one-tenth at a time, so as not to break the roots, understand?"

"Yes, Dad. The honest boy scratched the back of his head, no longer impulsive, and seemed very quiet.

"Let's go, go up with Daddy, be careful—" The dog nodded with satisfaction.

The trekking poles in the hands of the father and son slapped the grass and trees, and they went up the hill smoothly, but suddenly heard sudden thunder in the sky.

With a boom, the mountains and forests shook, and everything was quiet. Then the thunderclap continued. They saw an astonishing scene on the top of a mountain, on a mountain more than ten miles away, the sky gathered a thick cloud like ink, and the coarse gray thunder that connected the heavens and the earth struck the mountain, and the mountain was blown apart, and the earth shook the mountain.

"The mountain god is angry, quick, stunned, kneel down and kowtow!"

The dog baby was frightened, and immediately knelt down, kowtowed there, and asked his son to kneel down as well, and prayed to the mountain god for forgiveness and blessing of them.

The gray thunder slashed nine rounds, and by the last round, the thunder had a faint silver sheen, a foot thick.

Strange to say, after nine rounds of gray thunder, the clouds quickly dissipated. If it weren't for the fact that the mountain had been cut off a few feet, it would have been a mess from afar, and the gap would have been filled with the breath of destruction and the sun, and the rest would have been as if nothing had ever happened.

The father and son knelt for a while before getting up, carefully picking about one-tenth of the medicinal herbs and leaving in a hurry.

Suddenly, there was a small and strong-eyed man in a light blue robe on the hillside, and he glanced at the two people who were far away, ignoring them. He radiated joy.

"From today onwards, I will be Zhang Jingui!"

The sound falls, and the people disappear.

Here everything is back to normal.

About two years later, the dog baby came to collect medicine for the second time, with some incense and candles, and still with the honest boy, but the boy only had two years of hard work and grew a knot, his eyes were a little smarter, and his lips had yellow hair. If it is not undernourished, it is estimated that it will grow stronger.

The father and son first knelt down, burned incense and candles, worshiped the mountain god, and then collected medicine, carefully throughout the whole process, not daring to make extra sounds, and finally left safely.

Spring goes to autumn, and there is no sun and moon in the mountains.

On this day and in the early spring of another year, another pair of grandchildren came on the hillside, which was a bit unexpected. The grandfather and grandson were dressed luxuriously, not like tenant farmers, although they went all the way into the mountains, and their clothes were a little dirty, but they couldn't hide the temperament of the rich and noble. Especially the young man's white purity, it seems that he has not suffered hardship, and his face is full of reluctance.

"Grandpa, what the hell are you bringing me here, I'm almost exhausted!"

The loyal grandfather looked at the sunny slope, seemed to be a little immersed in it, and after a while, pointed to the medicinal herbs on the hillside and the full slope, and said to the young man: "This is a blessed land discovered by our ancestors, and our family can inherit it to your generation, thanks to here, thanks to the mountain god, otherwise the roots would have been broken long ago." ”

"Isn't it just a hillside, what kind of blessed land? How much does our family need for such a broken land, can we run thousands of miles and walk dozens of miles of mountain roads?" said the young man disappreciatively.

Syllable!

Grandpa changed hands and gave him a big mouth with a stern look in his eyes.

The boy was stunned, covered his face and burst into tears.

Grandpa also seemed to be distressed, but he lost the interest in teaching a lesson, and said sadly: "You don't understand-"

Bang!

With a muffled thunderstorm, the grandfather and grandson came back to their senses and looked into the distance.

At some point, a cyan cloud gathered in the sky, and lightning loomed in the cloud, and after a while, a cyan thunderbolt as thick as a bowl slashed at a mountain, and the mountain rock exploded, and the movement was huge.

Then, the cyan thunder lasted for two more rounds before dispersing.

Grandpa looked at it in a daze, his expression was uneasy, and his mouth was chattering: "Like, too similar, three generations of ancestors on the family tree once said that the nine rounds of gray thunder split the mountain, it was the mountain god who was angry, but this time it was three rounds of thunder, it was cyan, is it because my family is insatiable?"

"Grandpa, get out of the mountain quickly, it will be dark later-" The young man was just surprised, and he seemed to have forgotten the slap just now, and urged.

Grandpa came back to his senses, looked at the young man, looked at the hillside, and the colorful medicinal herbs, knelt down and kowtowed to the hillside, got up and sighed: "Let's go, I won't be able to come in the future." ”

The boy pouted, who wants to come?

After the grandson left, two people dressed in Taoist costumes appeared on the hillside at some point.

A young man in a black brocade robe with a gentle demeanor, a very burly man with small eyes, the latter was dressed in a light blue robe, standing respectfully on his side, his eyes were excited, and he looked around, as if everything around him made him feel very fresh.

"It's been 120 years in the blink of an eye—" The young man in the black brocade robe was a little distracted, a little reminiscent, a little gloomy, but more determined.

The small-eyed man listened, and wondered a little, what was the young master sighing? But his eyes as he looked at the young man were full of reverence.

"Jin Gui, let's go, it's time to go out. The young man in the black brocade robe said, walking down the slope.

"Yes, young master. "The small-eyed man 'Zhang Jingui' is busy keeping up.