Qutang is noisy and twelve beaches, and people say that the road is difficult in ancient times.

Long hatred is not as good as water, waiting for the waves on the flat ground.

When the Han Dynasty was established at the beginning, according to the old practice of the Dead Qin, every five households were set as one neighbor, and the five neighbors were set as one li, with a lizheng; The implementation of the system of joint sitting and joint protection is to let each household supervise each other, and if one family conceals it, five families will suffer. Ten miles is a pavilion, with a pavilion chief, a pavilion father and a thief; The pavilion chief is equivalent to the director of the street office, and the pavilion father and the thief are equivalent to the deputy director, one is in charge of people's livelihood; One is in charge of law and order.

There is a valley in the east of Tongguan 30 miles, Hangu Guanxi 80 miles, this valley is located in the territory of Huxian County, more than 300 miles away from Chang'an City. It is close to the traffic post road that runs through the inside and outside of the pass, and is hidden in the canyon, and the location is very dangerous. There is a spring dove stream in the mountain, leading to the Yellow River to the north, next to the spring dove stream, there are twenty-five farmhouses scattered and scattered, just enough for a mile, this village, it is named Quanjiuli.

It's August, and the August sky is filled with a hint of midsummer mania, and the autumn tiger still dominates the majesty of the sun, and the mildness that rages on the autumn day. The air is filled with the fragrance of osmanthus flowers, which is the smile of the earth in return to the industrious. Autumn is the festival of the industrious, everything is flourishing, and the fruit of the tree is ripe; The crops of geography are ripe, the hopes of the children, and the expectations of the housemothers are all gathered in the abundant fruits and the ears of grain that bend over. The housewife was calculating how much she had left after getting rid of the tenant rent and deducting the forced labor, and whether it was enough to tear a few feet of coarse cloth for the family to make winter clothes.

"Big girl, take your two sisters and send this blue egg to the dog leftovers at the head of the village." In a dilapidated thatched house, there was a hoarse voice, accompanied by a violent cough.

"I'm not going, I'm going to send Erya" This is a girl's voice, and there is a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl who comes out with the voice.

"Daddy, why did you send it to his family? We've never eaten an egg" This is the voice of another girl who is still in the house, it should be a girl named Erya.

"You know, his three boys are the only able-bodied people among us. Ahem, if he takes a fancy to any of you, it will be a blessing for you, and if all three of you sisters can marry him, it will be a blessing for our whole family. Weakness accompanied by a violent cough, the man's voice became quieter and quieter.

"He's too ugly, his face is full of scars, and his nose is gone!" The big girl standing in the courtyard was really angry, although she looked concerned, her tone was not soft at all. This is a complete person in the eyes of his father, he has seen, and he was a soldier like his father, his luck is better than his father, when he was fighting with the Huns, his knife was cut off by the Huns, and he couldn't dodge, the other party's knife slashed through his face, and cut a huge wound on the face, of course, the nose did not block the sharp knife edge, and was cut off, but he was also clever, ran fast, and picked up a life.

"What's wrong with no nose? Ahem, ahem, no nose and no impact on work. It's much better than your dad and me, and I can't even do any work because I don't even have a leg anymore. It seems that I feel that I can't help my daughter, the man's voice is full of bitterness, but my daughter is almost twenty-eight, and if she doesn't get married, she won't be able to marry in this life, who doesn't want to find a good family for her daughter, after all, her daughter is also her own flesh and blood, and she is not an enemy. It's one thing for a good person to look down on his daughter, the key is to have it, how can there be a good person now, even if there is, it's just a doll. The original spring dove was three pavilions, thirty li, and it became one, and the desperate households walked away.

"Dad, let's take a trip, the child is thin-skinned." The mother's voice also came out, very gentle and sad.

"Everything, cough, cough, when is it, still want, cough, cough, what is your face? I've heard that the girls of the Ma Pole family are all lying directly on other people's kangs. "My father was visibly anxious, and his cough became even more rapid.

"Alas, what a sin. The young offspring is either dead or disabled. How do you spend your days? "The mother loves her daughter very much, but love is love, you can't let your daughter be lonely for a lifetime, the choice is to choose when there is a choice, at least now, no, this is a helpless situation.

"Now no matter how others live, even if they rob hard, they will snatch the three boys who are left behind by the dog." The man finally took a breath, held back his cough, and said loudly, not to his own woman, but to his eldest daughter standing outside the courtyard.

"Who are you robbing here?" An unfamiliar voice sounded outside the courtyard.

This sentence suddenly came from outside the courtyard, startling the two people in the thatched house, and the man hurriedly walked out with the support of his woman.

"Dali, how are you? It's a bazaar today, don't sell straw sandals? Then the woman recognized the one who made the voice, and hurried out to greet him. Dali's popularity is good, whoever has an urgent matter or something around him, he is very enthusiastic to help, although he is an old bachelor, but he doesn't hate it.

"Well, what straw sandals are you selling? In the past, it was sold one by one, but now, it is sold one by one. Today's bazaar is even more evil, and those people don't even have to buy one, they all crawl over. The one called Dali, he didn't twist, he spoke very easily, and he seemed to be quite familiar with this family: "Sister-in-law, give me saliva to drink, I'm dying of thirst." ”

After the woman helped the man to stand firm, she went back to the house, scooped a ladle of water, and handed it to Dali.

Dali hurriedly took it, drank it in one goo, drank it in one go, and after returning the scoop to the hostess, he looked at the man who couldn't even cough and wheezing, and couldn't even straighten his waist:

"I just entered the door and heard that you were going to rob someone, who are you robbing?"

"Who else can I rob? Look at the way I look now, I don't even know how many days I'll live here. Ahem, ahem. ”

"Don't be so depressed, who doesn't have a headache and brain fever, it's over quite well." vigorously comforted this stout man, this man, who was fierce with two Hun soldiers, exchanged one leg for two lives.

The man knew that this was vigorously comforting himself, but he just curled the corners of his mouth slightly, and did not answer, his own affairs were clear, and he was suffering from tuberculosis.

"What I'm worried about now is the four of them, alas~~~" The man looked at the sun that had sunset, the sun, or the sun, it was a good sun, it was still shining, and he was already in the sunset.

The atmosphere was a little heavy, and Dali didn't know how to comfort him, saying that he was blessed and rich? He really can't say anything like this, this is obviously what a liar said. Don't talk about this, Dali can't find any suitable words.

"Brother, you better go back to the house and rest. I'm leaving. "Say hello to the two of you vigorously, and prepare to leave.

"Dali, how old are you?" The man suddenly asked, seeing that he was about to leave.

“。。。” He hesitated vigorously and scratched his head: "It seems to be more than thirty, right?" ”

"Who do you ask?" The sick man looked at Dali strangely: "You don't know your age?" Or forgot? ”

"Hey, I really don't remember how old I am, you don't ask, I forgot how old people are. I'm now fed by myself, and my whole family is not hungry. It doesn't matter how old he is, he has to weave straw sandals. I won't tell you more, I still have to go back to weaving straw sandals, you can rest early, the whole family depends on you, you have to get better quickly. Dali said as he walked out of the courtyard.

"Brother Strong, wait a minute" The man forgot to cough and glanced at his beloved, and a blue green light appeared in the eyes of both of them at the same time.

"What are you going to do?" Dali was taken aback by the demeanor of the husband and wife, feeling that he had suddenly become a little white rabbit, and was targeted by two big bad wolves, one with a blue green light in his eyes, and a green blue light in the other eye.

"What a waste" The patient immediately became energetic, as if he had recovered from his illness and stopped coughing.

"Huh?" Dali was looked at by those two strange eyes, and goosebumps all over his body, what is this for? Before the New Year's Day, you are going to slaughter me for the New Year?

"Waste!" The man's tone was quite affirmative, neither for Dali, nor for his own beloved, but for himself.

"What waste?" Vigorously resisted the thought of running away, and looked at the tuberculosis ghost jumping around him. Why did this guy suddenly come up with such a sentence, is this a waste of my life, or a waste of growth?

"How did we forget you, you have all your hands and feet, and the key is your nose. It's only over thirty, even forty is not big, it's really like a flower's age. As soon as the man stretched out his hand, he dragged his eldest daughter, who was still watching the excitement next to him: "I've sent you, I've sent you as a wife." ”

This action can really scare the force, what is this called? What's that? I have indeed committed peach blossoms in the past few years, and I have been a big girl and a little daughter-in-law wherever I go

The woman watched like a monster, and her straw sandals were particularly easy to sell. But like now, I really haven't seen a situation where I forcibly stuffed my daughter into my arms.

"How?" The leprosy ghost looked at himself with a smile, like looking at a piece of meat sandwiched in a bowl: "It's you today, your daughter-in-law has been gone for so many years, and she is still single, don't run away this time, my three girls, all of them have thick waists and big butts, can work, good at giving birth, you choose one, all three of them will do!" ”

"Whatever you say, I can be their father." looked at this lame man incredulously, not lame, but lacking. Big brother, what you lack is a leg, not a heart, doesn't that become a lack of heart?

"As long as you marry her, be a father and a wife, you have the final say!"

Who is this? Dali didn't dare to talk to them anymore, so he ran away.

"Don't run, we'll discuss." The lame man, after jumping twice, stood in place and stared dryly, not expecting anything from the one leg to catch up with the two-legged one.

"I like thin waists." Damn vigorous, I don't know that the brain is broken, and suddenly threw such a sentence from the running figure.

The one-legged gentleman, who was desperate, suddenly saw hope again: "Look at my three girls, which one is not the thin waist of the willow... Look at it! Damn, run so fast, bully Lao Tzu on one leg... Ahem, ahem! "The patient who is angry and devastated suddenly remembers that he is still a patient.

"Dad, what should I do now?" When the mother turned around and looked in the house, no one knew what she was looking at, maybe she just looked back, maybe she was looking at the blue eggs, whether to give them or not?

When a man's understanding is of course according to his own thoughts, this understanding is of course related to eggs: "Cook eggs tonight, one for each person." Damn, I forgot what eggs tasted like. ”

"Do you want to give it..."

"No, you don't! This kid is richer than us. ”

And as the eldest girl of the party, she unexpectedly did not raise objections this time, but blushed a little, and went into the house with her mother as if she was fine, she is always a little older, for women, is age a problem? Eighteen marrying eighty is a normal thing even in normal years. Besides, he is a complete person, at least he will not be scared to death in the middle of the night, in short, she has no opinion. Besides, what can you do if you have an opinion, a woman marries someone and has nothing to do with the woman herself, her parents are enlightened, but you don't tell yourself, send yourself to the noseless kang, what can you do, except for death, that is, accept fate.

When he returned to his nest with a string of straw sandals hanging on his body, he saw two adults and two children in his courtyard, one sitting and three standing.

"Who are you looking for?" Vigorously asked cautiously, and at the same time looked back and forth, left and right, to make sure that this was his own house, and few people in his house came, so how can I take a look

With so many people, the first reaction is whether they are in the wrong place.

"You're the one called Dali?" Seeing Dali approaching, one of the four people immediately greeted him, and like Dali, he looked around with his eyebrows and rat eyes, and only then asked after making sure that there was no one.

"I am, who are you?" The question of the male duck's throat is very uncomfortable. In your own home, being asked by outsiders who you are is is too abnormal, right? I should have asked.

"Dali, don't you remember me?" After the male duck nodded to the sitting person, meaning that everything was normal and safe, the sitting one stood up, walked to Dali's side, and asked very kindly.

"You want to buy straw sandals?" In the desperate memories in his mind, he couldn't remember that this person knew himself, and the only possibility was to find himself to buy straw sandals. Buy shoes, buy shoes, why is it so big? Do you remember me? Why should I remember you? Those big girls and little daughters-in-law are looking for themselves to buy shoes, and they don't ask the price, I don't remember, how many of you big men want to discount? If you want to get a discount, there are no doors.

He vigorously unloaded the straw sandals on his body and piled them on a straw mat in the middle of the courtyard, while looking at the four people, the big and the young, with contempt.

The person was obviously stunned, slightly embarrassed, Yaoyao's head, and then his attitude was even more gentle, and he looked at the confused vigorous with a spring breeze on his face: "Three years ago, in Chang'an, you think about it." ”

"Three years ago?" Vigorously locked his eyebrows: "I have been to Chang'an, but I really do."

Can't remember seeing you."

"In Bowangyuan, you look for someone, I'll help you find it" The stranger was not a little impatient with the amnesia, but reminded him little by little, bringing the memory of the great force back to Chang'an three years ago.

Dali's parents died early, and the beloved (wife) also died due to difficult childbirth, and both mother and son died. In addition to planting a few acres of thin fields left by his parents, he also has the craft of weaving straw sandals, which are durable and popular, and the price is relatively low, every time he goes to the market, his straw shoes can be snatched up. There are also people who draw the strings for him and persuade him to continue the strings. But Dali has a deep affection for his deceased wife and has always been single. It is also because he is a person, his expenses are small, and his life is relatively wealthy in the surrounding miles.

He has no burden of life, and he is a single-family household, so he will not be drawn by the conscription, and he often walks around when the farm is not working. Three years ago, he followed a few traders to Chang'an City, more than 100 miles away. Of course, he didn't sell his straw sandals to Chang'an in order to expand the market, but when he chatted with those vendors in the bazaar, he heard how prosperous and lively Chang'an City was, and followed them into the city to have a look and take a look.

It may be the first time to come to a big city, Chang'an City was a huge city at that time, and after a while, I lost my way and couldn't find the southeast, northwest, south, south, west The houses in the city are all the same, and the roads are also horizontal and vertical, walking in it is like entering a labyrinth, and he can only follow the few merchants who took him into the city, wandering around a city in Chang'an City, so that he does not get lost. Looking at the shops and restaurants everywhere, my heart is excited, yearning, and at the same time inferior.

Dali was disappointed to notice that almost no one wore straw sandals, either sackcloth or animal skins. It seems that there is no market for straw sandals, although he is not here to sell his straw sandals, but he is still a little disappointed in his heart.

"Humph! Wearing such thick shoes, I am not afraid of prickly heat" vigorously despised in his heart.

"Bowangyuan is open and recruiting!" Just when Dali's heart was worried about whether those who wore leather shoes would get prickly heat, I don't know who howled and chatted, and the people in the whole market became restless.

"What is Bowangyuan for?" Seeing the vendor who had led him the way, his face flushed with excitement, and he didn't know what had happened.

"Let's go, don't ask." The vendor didn't bother to explain to Dali at all, so he pulled up Dali and left.

Emperor Wu, who was born and had his eldest son at the age of nearly 30, was very excited, and ordered someone to write "The Crown Prince's Fu" for Liu Ju, which was equivalent to announcing to the world in advance that the newborn baby was the crown prince, and made his mother Wei Zifu the queen by his wife, and granted amnesty to the world. Therefore, Liu Ju is not only the eldest son of Emperor Wu, but also his only son-in-law, and Emperor Wu's move has further consolidated Liu Ju's position. Six years later, at the age of 7, Liu Ju was made the crown prince, and his three half-brothers subsequently took over one after another, and Liu Ju's position as crown prince was extremely stable. In the process of Liu Ju's growth, Emperor Wu poured special efforts. For the prince to build Bowang Garden five miles outside the south gate of Chang'an City, as a place for the prince to receive all kinds of people. Allowing him to recruit disciples was Emperor Wu's initiative, showing Emperor Wu's eagerness to regard him as his successor.