The people of Longqing County, Lingzhou, used to be the most conceited group of people in the entire Beiliang Road, whether it was the border soldiers who went out here, or the scholars and businessmen, the waist pole was particularly straight, because this is the hometown of Zhong Hongwu, the former Huaihua general, and Zhong Hongwu served as the commander of the Beiliang cavalry for more than ten years.

Before the auspicious charm, Longqing County is undoubtedly fragrant, and the marriage partners of Lingzhou's large and small gateways are all born in Longqing County as the first choice, but after Zhong Hongwu's death, it is the bleak situation of the river, especially the former county guard of Longqing County and Zhong Hongwu's eldest son, Zhong Chengxin, after being promoted to the state city as an official, has repeatedly unabashedly expressed rejection of hometown officials in the official office, and has completely lost the backbone of Longqing County.

In this way, the three most beautiful counties in Beiliang in the past years, married and married Longqing County, Jinwu Zangjiao Rouge County, and Huangnan County, only the other two counties remained, just like this rejection of Beicheng construction, military households and craftsmen and other Beiliang people, as long as they are willing to go to Liangzhou to participate in the construction, they can get a lot of wages, there are poor people from all over Lingzhou who poured into the Guanwai, but there are few people in Longqing County, which is of course related to the fact that most of the people in Longqing County are relatively wealthy, but the knot that everyone knows about the Beiliang Road here is the key。

Beiliang folk style since ancient times fierce and martial, although Lingzhou is rich, but will be planted as many as a cow's hair, naturally do not lose the two states of Liangyou, when in the Lingzhou officialdom turned the clouds and rain His Royal Highness, no matter what the original intention, in the end from the root of the Zhong family this shade of the whole county of the towering tree, the people of Longqing County are both afraid and resentful, can be described as complicated, three words can not be clear at all and unclear.

So when an ordinary middle-aged man in the county town of Longqing County planned to go to Beicheng to beg for food, the neighbors began to spit and despise him, especially after hearing that this man planned to let his daughter-in-law and son move out of Beiliang, this is not just those painless rumors, someone has to poke his backbone in front of him and scold, scolding without scruples about the feelings accumulated after more than ten years of getting along. Then someone soon turned over the old accounts, saying that this guy named Lu Dayuan was not originally from Beiliang, but later married a woman from Longqing County as his daughter-in-law, so he went to Yamen to transfer the version, which can be regarded as taking root in Longqing County. Over the years, he has been a butcher who kills pigs and sells meat in Longqing County, in fact, he has always bought and sold fairly, and he has not made any money with a clear conscience, but this time he went to refuse Beicheng, and committed public anger, causing a family of four to become rats crossing the street, and I don't know which idle man with a broken mouth, I remembered that this bastard surnamed Lu said that he had leaked his mouth when he was drinking and chatting, and threatened that our Beiliang second game against the Beimang barbarians has little chance of winning, and this time it will be a bomb, Lu Dayuan's pork shop, a whole pig of 100 catties, for three days, was stunned that it was not sold for a pound and a half taels, so he had to stew meat every day at home for the New Year。 During the period, Lu Dayuan gave a lonely old man who lived at the end of the street a large piece of the best tenderloin, but he threw it directly out of the door for the old man, and Lu Dayuan, who was honest, just picked it up and took it home silently.

On this day, a large pot of fragrant stew was made at home, and Lu Dayuan squatted on the sill of the house and looked at the courtyard gate, patiently waiting for his youngest son to come home from the private school for dinner.

Two sons, the eldest son has reached the age of sixteen, and now he is studying and borrowing at the home of a scholar with a rich collection of books in Huangnan County, often sending letters back to report safety, Lu Dayuan and his daughter-in-law are illiterate, they used to take the family letter to the younger son's private school, and the unsmiling Mr. Mengxue asked for the content, and the old gentleman will also read to Lu Dayuan word by word, and then Lu Dayuan went home and told his daughter-in-law a general meaning, this trip back and forth, is Lu Dayuan's most satisfying time, Lu Dayuan still remembers that when the eldest son was a child, he often complained about why he was not a father of the Beiliang Border Army, so that he could not hold his head up and be a man from his peers since he was a childLater, when the child grows up, reading is becoming more and more promising, and he has become a well-known little talent, and the child's smiling face and laughter at home are more and more, although the young son also has similar complaints, but there is such a brother who can help him support his waist and long face, and he has no interest in his father's honest duty, but not as depressed and dull as his brother when he was a child, and has always been a cheerful and cheerful Lotte child who likes to grin, that is, occasionally I heard that the children of the same classmates said that which of their relatives had made a military exploit outside Beiliangguan and was promoted, so they would return home and squat in the yard and sigh, or pick up the wooden short knife that the father made for him, and run all over the yard, and the strength to run is gone, the anger is gone, it is time to eat, it is time to read and read, in general, the life of a family of four is getting better and better, as for what the first Liangmang War built a Beijing view in the mouth of the gourd in Youzhou, what Liangzhou Hutou City fought fiercely, what Qingliang Mountain erected hundreds of thousands of nameless stone tablets, and what young prince regained the title of Dazhu Kingdom, it has nothing to do with their family.

His daughter-in-law walked up to him at some point, hesitated, and asked softly, "Is Mr. Liu unwilling to help us read that letter?"

Lu Dayuan scratched his head and snorted, his face full of guilt.

The woman, who was not beautiful but had a gentle temperament, smiled and did not speak.

Suddenly, a Mongolian school boy ran into the yard crying and saw his father and mother who were squatting and standing, stopped, raised his arm to wipe his tears, and sobbed heartbrokenly: "I don't have a father like you! I don't want to leave Beiliang with my mother!"

Lu Dayuan was stunned.

The woman said angrily: "Xiangzhu! my mother doesn't allow you to talk to your father like this!"

The child had never seen his mother get angry, and he was so stunned that he forgot to cry.

Lu Dayuan secretly tugged at his daughter-in-law's sleeve and said softly: "Xiu'er, don't be angry at the child." ”

The woman glared angrily and said, "There are no rules! Mr. Liu taught you to read and write, and he taught you to use it to scold people?!"

The child became more and more aggrieved and complained, and simply squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, whimpering, very pitiful and helpless.

The man stood up, picked up the child softly, carried it back to the room and sat on the bench, rubbed the child's little head, and said with a smile: "Xiangzhu, you can scold your father like this, your father is not angry, but very happy." ”

The child wiped his face indiscriminately, and secretly glanced at the mother sitting across the table, seeing that she was still calm, the child continued to stuff the gourd, anyway, the neighbors laughed at his father for being Lu Da Stuffy gourd, he was a little gourd today, and he could only blame his father, not Lu Xiangzhu.

The man was about to say something to his daughter-in-law, but she said softly: "Dayuan, you are the man in charge, whatever you say is what you say." But when you get to the gate, you have to remember to dress warmer, the weather is cold, and the snow is heavy in winter, you have to work often, after all, it is not in your own home, you can have a shelter from the wind and rain at any time, by the way, I will help you prepare three more pairs of cotton shoes, don't have a thick sole......"

Listening to the woman's almost endless chatter, the man did not have the slightest impatience, laughed and responded one by one, occasionally bowing his head to help the child sitting in his arms with a bowl of food.

After all, children can't remember their hatred, and they are still like this to their peers who make small troubles, let alone their own parents.

Soon the child raised his head and said angrily: "Dad, I can tell you, Mr. Liu told us, according to the military law of Beiliang!

The man couldn't cry or laugh, but the woman leaned forward, put another piece of meat in the child's bowl, and laughed angrily: "I can't stop your mouth! I often nap every night when I am studying and schooling, but I have never seen you so energetic!"

The child grimaced, ate the fragrant stew full of oil, turned his head to look at his father, and asked seriously: "Dad, do you know how many beheadings there are in the Beiliang Military Law?"

The man asked, "You know?"

Linghui child's eyes rolled, "Anyway, there are a lot!"

The Xu family of Beiliang governed the army and has always moved the world with its harsh reputation.

It is said that when the monarchs and ministers of Wuying Hall played the right game, he said with a smile that I Xu Xiao is a big man who can't read big words, and he will only have the stupidest method, that is, to kill people, kill the enemy without ambiguity, and never be soft when killing the soldiers and soldiers, so as to have today's soldiers and horses.

Those who retreat, kill!

Kill the good if you are greedy for merit, kill!

Ambush the early ones, kill!

Those who abandon their swords and horses for no reason, kill!

The captain of the army died in battle and all the survivors of the army were beheaded!

The captain is killed in battle and the captain is saved, and the whole captain is beheaded!

Of course, in addition to these blood-drenched iron laws, the Beiliang Border Army also has those who are not rewarded for their meritorious service, regardless of the commander-in-chief, the military camp, and those who are greedy for the salary and pension of the Mexican army, no matter how large or small, will be cut down and decided!

When the man heard the child's words, he laughed.

The child suddenly said, "Dad, after my mother and I went to the place called Songbai County in the Central Plains, do we have the money to buy a bigger house?"

The middle-aged man smiled: "This is very difficult, my father hasn't saved much silver over the years, and the Central Plains is richer than our Lingzhou." ”

The child sighed, a little lost.

The man continued to laugh and said, "But don't worry, when Dad arrives at the North City, he won't forget to send you money in the future." ”

The child shook his head angrily and said: "Mr. said, the rich and noble cannot be lewd, the poor and the lowly cannot be moved, and the mighty cannot be bent, it is a big husband!"

The man asked curiously, "What do you mean by Mr. Zi Zi Yu?"

The child smiled, "That's what Mr. Liu said that the sage of the Zhang family said', I don't understand, Dad, you really don't know!"

The man was relieved: "It's okay if Dad is not educated, you and your brother are just educated." ”

As soon as his brother was mentioned, the child immediately said with pride: "I'm far worse than my brother, and my brother even says that Mr. Liu is amazing!"

The man laughed heartily and said, "Aren't they all daddy's sons?!"

The woman looked at the father and son with a gentle smile.

She doesn't know what to fight or learn, but with so many years of firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, she has seen a lot of people and things, and understands a superficial truth, some men will only say the most ruthless words to the people closest to them. But there are also some men who keep their best temper for their own families.

Her man is the latter.

So whether it is the dullness of more than ten years or the rumors of the neighbors now, she doesn't feel that marrying this man was a mistake in the first place.

The child asked, "Dad, where is your hometown? Is that Songbai County?"

The man nodded and said, "Yes, but when my father was your age, life was not good, and there was no one in the family, so he couldn't live anymore, so he left his hometown." ”

The child smiled and said, "No wonder the neighbors say that your mother can take a fancy to you, but she is really blind." ”

This time the woman was not angry, but just covered her mouth and snickered.

The man was even less angry, and looked at his daughter-in-law, "It's not!"

The child asked worriedly, "Dad, my brother is really going to go to that Jiangnan Province to study and study, when will he be able to go to Songbai County to meet us?"

The man said softly: "Dad doesn't know, Dad in this life, when he was very young, he swore that his son must study in the future, and he always feels that only those who read can be considered promising, and what else to do, no matter how much money he makes, is not good." Dad, I didn't have my father and mother very early, I only know that more than ten generations have been croppers, so when I came to Beiliang, I met Xiangzhu and your mother, I was really lucky, otherwise if you and your brother are with your father, how can it be the material for reading!"

The child muttered, "Then you don't know how to be nice to your mother!"

The man said helplessly: "Dad is so capable, he can't do it." ”

The woman's eyebrows were crooked, the man said he was lucky, and she felt happy.

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On the day that the two of them left Longqing County with their luggage, the man slowly returned to the city along the post road, returned to this small street, and after thinking about it, the man carried the only two pig's legs left in the family, and went to two places successively, one was secretly placed at the door of the old man's house at the end of the street, and the other was sent to Mr. Liu's house.

In the process, the man does not know how many white eyes and spit he receives.

Finally the man returned home and took out the dusty wooden box from under the bed, which he never opened, and his daughter-in-law was kind enough to never ask.

The man, who had been silent for more than a decade in the side streets, carried the heavy wooden box to the yard, crouched down, and vigorously wiped the dust.

The man said to himself: "Two old fellows, not long after you accompanied me to Beiliang, the general took us to fight in Beimang, it was really aggrieved, and I and many people withdrew from the border army in a fit of anger, and later I learned that it was the means of the old emperor of Liyang, and it turned out that I was afraid that we would destroy Beimang in one go, and his dragon chair really didn't have to sit...... I really haven't had the face to see you all these years...... Hey, as for the war, I joined the army at the age of fourteen, served as a military commander in the second year, became a lieutenant at the age of sixteen, and followed the general to the cool as a battalion deputy general at the age of eighteen.

The people on this street were a little puzzled, after the sound of horses' hooves, they saw that there were seven or eight elite horsemen in armor and swords, which actually stopped at the door of Lu Dayuan's house.

This makes the people a little worried, for Lu Dayuan's foreign species, they scold and scold, but after all, they have been neighbors for more than ten years, Lu Dayuan is not a bad person, everyone has deep feelings, otherwise where would they scold people in person?

This Lu Da stuffy gourd, don't annoy the government garrison!

The head of the elite cavalry is a burly man in his forties, and now he is the chief general of the local garrison in Longqing County, and has been the captain of the cavalry army for more than ten years!

The people of Longqing County may not know him personally, but they all know that this person is deeply respected by Han Laoshan, the general of Lingzhou, and it is said that Hong Shuwen, who was born in the Hongfeng Zi Battalion of Zhengmiao, is a brother!

In the future, a lieutenant with real power or a lieutenant general in a state can run away?

One of the confidant horsemen under the command of Du Wei asked in a low voice: "Du Wei, who is this going for, and you still need your old man to come forward in person?"

Du Wei sneered: "Those embroidered pillows are not worthy of feeding the horse to the man in the house!"

Then Du Wei said proudly: "Lao Tzu, I was the one who fed him horses back then!"

This kind of thing can also be used to brag about?

The horsemen looked at each other.

Did our lieutenant's head clip the door panel recently? It wasn't like this before, and the eyes were very high!

When the riders finally saw the man with his bags stepping out of the courtyard door, they were all a little stunned, and they were still sturdy and tall, and they didn't see that it was a three-headed and six-armed master.

The lieutenant quickly turned over and dismounted, and then led an unridden war horse forward, clenched his fists and said in a deep voice: "Ma Yunjing, the commander of the cavalry army of Longqing County!"

The man with his bag was still carrying a long object tightly wrapped in cotton cloth in his hand, and glanced at Ma Yunjing, who had been deliberately not dealing with him for more than ten years, and said angrily: "When you call others, the official position has a sub-word, you scold people?

Tai'an City's favorite thing to greet those military generals with adverbs and civil officials who are second-in-command?"

Ma Yunjing shrunk his neck and didn't dare to answer.

The man named Lu Dayuan looked around, straightened his waist, hugged his fists and said: "Over the years, I, Lu Dayuan, thank you for taking care of you!"

All the people on both sides of the street were at a loss and at a loss.

Lu Dayuan hung the armor bag on the side of the saddle, and then turned over to the horse with extreme skill.

Regardless of whether the next battle outside the Liangzhou Pass was won or lost, he Lu Dayuan didn't want to return to the Guannei Lingzhou alive at all.

For more than ten years, how can you not wear armor or touch a knife, and if you don't kill yourself!

Ma Yunjing reminded softly: "Old man Beiliang, you can go to the street with a knife according to the law." ”

Lu Dayuan raised his eyebrows, and finally faded the long strip of cotton cloth, revealing the old style of the war knife, carefully and thinly, hanging on his waist.

Lu Dayuan turned his head to look at Ma Yunjing, who couldn't follow him to the outside of the pass, "If we lose, don't talk about anything." If you win, if my two sons return to Lingzhou in the future, you can tell them that their father is not only a pig killer, but he is also one of the Xu family's iron riders!"

Ma Yunjing nodded vigorously, a thousand words, only two words came out, "Take care!"

Lu Dayuan squinted and said: "Little rabbit cub, I knew that counting you was useless back then, and sure enough, I didn't become a tattered lieutenant until today." ”

Ma Yunjing's face flushed.

Lu Dayuan suddenly took off the war knife, threw it to Ma Yunjing, and laughed: "Forget it, Lao Tzu has to use the new cool knife to kill the enemy anyway, for the sake of you feeding the horse for so long, this one, I'll give it to you!"

Ma Yunjing is like a treasure, such a man is actually in tears.

This war knife is the first generation of Xu family knife!

It symbolizes the rise of the Xu family iron horse in the spring and autumn period, and symbolizes the invincibility of the Xu family iron horse in the Central Plains territory.

It is precisely because of the time-honored cavalry camp of the Xu family that there will be today's Beiliang Iron Cavalry World!

And this man was born in one of the time-honored battalions of the Xu family, Manjia Battalion!

First-class horseman, Lu Dayuan!

The people on this street naturally don't know that after the general Xu Xiao was old, he also sighed to the full hall of civil and military affairs in the Qingliangshan Council Hall many times, the kid named Lu Dayuan back then was the most fierce in the war, and he had a fight with Lu Qiuer, which was really good.

Chu Lushan always has to call Qu Dao, but the guy surnamed Lu has been rushing forward every time, and he never pays attention to the art of war, so he is definitely not as good as me.

Yuan Zuozong will dismantle the platform, but he has never lost once.

Ren Tu would nod and say, yes, like me.

Then a certain young prince will make a sarcastic remark.

Around the beginning of autumn this year.

Many veterans of the Xu family like Lu Dayuan began to go outside the border.

And they are the backbone of the Beiliang Iron Cavalry.

At this time, Lu Dayuan and Ma Yunjing rode out of the city together, and there were words in their mouths.

The young riders only heard small sounds, not very real.

After Ma Yunjing sent Lu Dayuan to the post road outside the city, he left without saying a word for a long time.

When he finally turned the horse's head, Ma Yunjing also said silently: "My Xu family is full of armor camps, and the detectives and horses are traveling in all directions, that is, they are scattered, and the camp is not moved to erect beams......"