The pale sunlight shone carelessly on the earth.

Even though it was already the spring of March, it was still unusually cold in the Northland, where birds do not lay eggs. Even the perennial verdant pines and cypresses hang their needles and stand listlessly in a shoddy garden and swing in the wind.

This garden is really rough, the rockery, stone forest, grass and trees, ponds, all are piled up in a disorderly manner, and the ingenuity of the southern garden, step by step, compared with the wind of the north.

A small figure sneaked into the garden, bent on tiptoe, and sneaked to a rockery.

On the rocks sat a boy of eight or nine years old, wearing a light-colored jacket with delicate eyebrows, and was looking up at the front in a daze with a young face.

The sneaky guy cautiously detoured behind the boy, put his dirty little hands over the boy's eyes, and laughed, "Guess who I am?"

The boy reluctantly took away the dirty hands, pulled his master in front of him, and said impatiently, "Don't mess around. ”

"Don't call me a dango. ”

The sneaky little fellow turned out to be a girl with pigtails, only four or five years old, and after being stopped from playing a prank, he angrily squeezed his delicate facial features together, and on both sides of his cheeks, which were already baby fat, bulged high, and shouted: "People have names, people are called Ma Yuexiang, the horse of the big white horse, the moon of the moon, fragrant and fragrant." ”

The boy grinned and praised against his will: "You have even learned the word fragrant and fragrant, it is not easy." ”

"That's not it, my mother and relatives praise me......" The little girl held her little head proudly.

"But in the four words fragrant and fragrant, how can there be a fragrant word. ”

The little guy's face was smug, and he hurriedly stretched out his dirty little hand in front of him, and said with a cute finger: "Fen...... Fragrant...... ......"

The boy did not wait for her to finish counting, grabbed her little hand, and pressed it into the pond beside her, "Look at you, where you are playing so dirty, Madame has seen it, and it is inevitable that you will have a good meal, go and wash it quickly." ”

"Hehe, my mother is reluctant to beat people, you will scare me. The little girl laughed nonchalantly, and then she looked up inadvertently, and saw a young man with an indignant look also walking into the garden, and walked to the back hall by the road in the garden.

She subconsciously called out loudly: "Big brother......"

Then the young man saw them, and a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes, and he ignored them, and went away.

The boy on the side frowned when he saw this, this young man was also handsome, but he kept hanging his eyebrows, his face was mean, and his expression was as if everyone owed him, which made people very unhappy.

"The eldest brother is going to quarrel with his mother again, and they have quarreled many times these days. The little girl said sullenly and pulled the boy's gaze back.

Looking at the little girl's distressed appearance, the boy stroked her little head with pity, but he was also helpless, because after all, he was an outsider and didn't know whether to meddle in other people's family affairs. It is difficult for the Qing officials to cut off family affairs, and in the end, they can't get gratitude, and if they want to provoke a resentment, it is troublesome.

Besides, he is now worried about his own affairs, not to mention rejuvenation, his skills have been lost, and he has not figured out where he is. This pile of things, which one is not more troublesome than the unfilial piety of other people's children and grandchildren, and how can there be idle time to take care of other people's family affairs.

The boy, that is, Chen An, was speechless when he thought of his current situation.

However, among the countless bad news, there is still a good one, that is, he is already in Daqianling Prefecture.

Although in this era when it is difficult to move an inch without a map, the place name of Daqian Lingzhou is so general that it is almost useless, but after all, it is not under the rule of Daqian, and it is at least safe compared to the killing machines everywhere in the Haotian Realm. Otherwise, with his current state of losing his skills, if he is still in the Haotian Realm, he will really be dead.

Moreover, there is more than one big cadre in the central realm, and the other side of Kunlun Mountain is the land of barbarians, if it falls to the other side, it may not be much stronger than in the Haotian realm, so to some extent, Chen An is lucky.

He woke up that day, because he had an experience, so he quickly accepted the fact that he was getting smaller, quickly integrated into the life around him, and also learned that he was picked up by the dumb uncle, the long-term worker of the Ma family, and adopted by the wife of the Ma family, Yu.

This Ma family is also considered a good family, and Mrs. Yu is widowed, but she has a good reputation, often helping the poor people of Zhou Cao and raising orphans and children. In addition to Chen An and his own son and daughter, he also adopted two adopted sons at home and barely survived on a grain shop run in the town.

Therefore, it is only characterized as a first-order middle household in the filing of the local government.

The people under their rule are divided into five classes and eleven classes according to the tax ratio, the first class is naturally the local gentry, and the second class is divided into three classes for the rich, middle, and poor households in the fourth class, and the abject poverty in the last and fifth class basically cannot pay taxes, so there is no division.

Poor households pay oral taxes, middle households have to bear labor while paying oral taxes, and rich households have to pay profits and taxes in addition to oral labor, as for the gentry according to the tax law, there are more than these, but the specific amount can be collected, but it also depends on the central and local wrists, no world can do it completely according to the law, the privileged class always has privileges that ordinary people can't imagine, and it is already commendable to maintain the superficial harmony.

There is a bad side to this system, and of course there is a good side, such as the Ma family. With his family's economy, it is more than enough to evaluate a second-class rich household, in addition to the oral levy of servitude, but the legal principle is nothing more than human affection, because of its good deeds, the local government has given a middle-class household assessment, minus the burden of its profits and taxes, so that a widowed lady with five children and two or three servants can barely survive, and even have some surplus during the New Year's holidays.

In fact, Chen An's situation has nothing to do with the situation of the Ma family, the only thing he has cared about since he woke up is where he is and how far he is from the Western Regions.

However, due to the short calves, he couldn't go out, so he could only inquire from the servants of the Ma family that this place was Lingzhou Shangjun, but he didn't have any specific concept. Also, as a servant, I am afraid that I have never left the county seat in my life, and it is already good to have a place name in the upper county, how can I expect too much.

As far as Chen An knows, the Great Qianguo Zuo inherited from the former Wei Dynasty, and the former Wei royal court was inherited from the former Han Dynasty, and the former Han Dynasty bluntly claimed to be a descendant of Zhuxia and Miao, and a descendant of the emperor.

Therefore, the people of the time often used the title of Kyushu opened up by the creation of the emperor to call the Central Plains, the ancestral land of Xia.

By the time of the former Han Dynasty, Zhuxia was at its peak, of course, it was unwilling to be trapped in the land of Kyushu and dormant, so it drove Rong Di to Mobei, which was a garrison; opened up the barren land and the North Sea, and established Shuofang; then built an ancient stack to pass through the Western Regions; split the southern Xinjiang to become a Lingyou; the Yue Shu land to unify Baiyi, and got the land of five states. In the past, although the Han Dynasty was known as Kyushu, it actually ruled as many as 14 states.

Although the Great Qian did not become an immortal dynasty, but the policy was enlightened and inclusive, although because the family sect sat on the big so that the real control of the five states of Gyeonggi was not the only place, but the Son of Heaven, in addition to the 14 states of the former Han Dynasty, added Xiqi, Jiuyuan, Jiuli, Southern Xinjiang, Yunhuang five lands, is the territory of the Great Qian, there are as many as 19 states, vast and boundless.

As for the nineteen prefectures, they are as follows: Zhuxia and Kyushu: Qinping (Qinzhou), Qingxu (Qinzhou), Jingyang (Suizhou), Yongliang (Hezhou), Tianyi (Shengzhou), Shuchuan (Shuzhou), Youyun (Yunzhou), Xiangyu (Yuzhou), and Donghai (Yanzhou);

Chen An counted with his fingers, but he didn't find out where Daqianling Prefecture was. But fortunately, there is a good reference, that is, under the Kunlun Mountain, to be precise, it should be the northwest of the Kunlun Mountain. But the concept of the northwest is also too big to be located.

Therefore, Chen An is here today to wait for Mrs. Yu to wake up from a nap and ask a good question.

A few times ago, he had also seen Mrs. Yu, but at that time, he was either lying half-dead on the bed by himself, or he was careful not to reveal his identity. Now that he was finally sure that he had completely escaped from the Kunlun Mountain region, he let go of his worries and dared to come to inquire.

It's just that he hasn't moved yet, but he was preempted by Mrs. Yu's eldest son, Ma Rui.

Looking at the menacing appearance of the goods, Chen An planned to go later, since he came, he would be safe, and he was not in a hurry at this time anyway.

Of course, this is mainly because he knows that Mrs. Yu is probably not in the mood to see her again after seeing her biological son, and it is really not the right time for her to come today.

Mrs. Yu's own son, Chen An has been thunderous for a few days after he arrived, and he has never heard a good word from the mouths of several servants. The second son adopted by Mrs. Yu is even more disgusted with it, only the youngest daughter in front of her is not a sibling, and she is young, so she doesn't have too many ideas, but she can't get close to this eldest brother. It can be seen what kind of person the other party is annoying, and the dog is annoying when he sees the dog.

Sure enough, not long after entering, there was a chaotic quarrel in the back hall.

Chen An waited for a while, but the quarrel was not small, but became louder and louder, occasionally accompanied by the sound of objects falling to the ground. His mind was entangled, after all, he had received the grace of his wife, and if he could do something for him, his heart would be at peace.

Just as he was hesitating whether to go in and have a look, he saw the dumb man hurrying from the front yard, vigorously crossing the crooked road in the small garden, and going straight to the back hall. Because of the things in his heart, he didn't find Chen An and the others at all.

The reason why Chen An hesitated just now was that it was someone's family affair after all, so Ma Rui and Mrs. Yu were also mother and son, and he would never do anything to Mrs. Yu.

But the dumb uncle is different, although he has kung fu, but after all, he is a slave, and he is inconvenient to speak, and he will be angry with Ma Rui's bastard when he enters.

The first thing Chen An saw when he woke up was him, and he had a natural sense of closeness to him, and when he saw him rushing in, he immediately wanted to follow him, so as not to suffer a loss.

So he pulled the little girl and said, "Let's go and see it too." ”