The county seat is there, but the road into the city is winding, and it is a country road called the road. At that time, after the crazy infrastructure of the infrastructure mad demon Ying Zheng won the uncle, in the time of Daqin, the road traffic was very developed, except for a bridge flying north and south, it was basically a moat to change the road.

The road is divided into three kinds: the first is the road called the road, the road is very wide, three carriages can be parallel, the middle one is the gallop road, of course, the middle of the road is mainly used for drag racing, later, after the traffic accident was revoked driver's license, the middle of the road was quiet; Road: A road where two carriages can be exercised, the so-called official road, and a road, which is a road where only one carriage can be exercised, mainly country roads.

After Liu Ju's father and son decided to enter the city, they followed this road called Tu and walked in the direction of Huxian.

Although it is not far from the county seat, it is not close, except for Liu Juye San, there are no pedestrians on the road, which serious person has nothing to do with the old old man into the city, what are you doing in the city. And those who are not serious either lack arms and legs and hum on the kang, or, they have not grown up yet, and they do not have the capital to be serious.

One, two, three, four, five, go up the mountain to fight tigers.

The tiger didn't hit it, it hit the little squirrel.

How many squirrels are there? Let me count.

Count and count, one, two, three, four, five.

Five-four-three-two-one, one-two-three-four-five.

Liu Chang was very excited, and the straw sandals with wooden bottoms rhythmically slapped the ground, and every time he slapped it, a puff of dust was raised under his feet. The willow trees on the roadside were still flourishing, hanging like long hair.

Liu Chang used the wicker branches on the side of the road to weave two round headbands, wearing one for himself, one for his brother, and one for his father, both interesting and shade, waving a willow branch with green leaves with one hand, and holding his brother with the other hand, while jumping and singing.

Under the infection of his younger brother, the elder brother was in a much better mood, and from time to time followed with a few words of "Huh!" Big Tiger, Fight Tiger. ”

Liu Ju followed behind, holding his hands behind his back, looking at the two sons with a smile, and walking slowly. On both sides of the road are farmland, bare, the wheat has been harvested and put into storage, leaving only a large patch of uneven wheat stubble, telling the farmer's helplessness--- most of the people are also like Dali, with their hands.

Looking up at the sky, the sun is already in the west, it seems that it is impossible to enter the city today, there is no shop in front of the village here, and you must find a place to spend the night. Sleeping in the open has been accustomed to sleeping in the dark forest, camping on the side of the avenue, not to mention, at both ends of the wheat field, occasionally there are some low huts built with branches or thatch, which are simple huts built by farmers when the farm is busy, for rest, because they have just finished harvesting, and those huts are still well preserved, and it is absolutely no problem to shelter from the wind and rain.

Even the food is more troublesome, and the little meat that was brought out of the forest was eaten when it came out. When the two half-immortal retinues left, they didn't leave any silver money for themselves.

Money, it's the first time I've seen it since I saw Dali, I've only heard of it before, and I've heard that money is very important and can be used to buy things. But the prince has never bought anything, is there something to buy? The Master didn't teach!

Up to now, the prince really regrets it a little, not regretting making his father's rebellion, but regretting that he ran away from home at that time, why didn't he bring money, he hadn't seen the five-baht coin with a square hole, gold, silver, and the palace is not lacking, and his tiger (night pot) seems to be golden, and it is one person.

"Alas" thought of Uncle Qian, Liu Ju sighed, he only thought about running away, why didn't he think of money? It's good to bring the tiger with you, five or six. The one for himself weighed several pounds, and when he got up at night, he had to be carried by the two eunuchs. If you have three night pots, you don't have to risk letting the chamberlain go into the city to ask for a loan.

But now, what's the use of you even if you have money, this is a rural road, not an official road, no post station, no big car shop, nowhere to buy.

"Father, what's wrong?" Hearing his father's sigh, Liu Chang turned his head, looked at Liu Ju, and asked.

"I'm thinking of where to get some food, it's getting dark, you're all hungry, aren't you?" Liu Ju was embarrassed to tell his son that he was missing the night pot, but this is also the truth, can you not be hungry, from morning to now, I haven't eaten a bite.

"It doesn't seem to be too hungry," Liu Chang hesitated for a moment and said.

Liu Ju smiled bitterly, knowing that this was Xiao San comforting himself, but apart from smiling bitterly, he had nothing else to do, there was not even a farmhouse on both sides of the road, the field was bare, and all the grain was harvested: "From now on, we will starve." ”

"We can learn from Wu Shang." Wu Zixu begged along the street, and eventually became a great cause, but he was a household name and very inspirational, and basically became a compulsory textbook for the children of nobles.

"What do you say?! Do you want to learn from Wu Zixu? Do you know who Wu Zixu is? Liu Ju looked at his son's back, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and asked in a mocking tone.

"Then I don't know." Liu Chang came to his father's side and walked side by side with his father: "It's the white-headed prisoner who was white-headed overnight, a bit like us now." ”

"Well~~ It's indeed a little similar" Liu Ju thought for a moment and nodded, "Then how do you learn from him?" Also white-headed overnight? ”

"I don't want to get a gray hair. Hmm~~ I want to learn from him" Speaking of this, Liu Chang paused intentionally, looked up at his father's face, and then jumped away before he spit out the last two words, "Ask for food!" ”

"What?" Liu Ju's brain suddenly buzzed, his steps staggered, and he almost fell: "You, you, you are a prince, you actually want to beg?" Want to be a beggar? ”

"What's wrong with asking for food, one day, I'll sit at the gate of the palace and ask for food!"

"Do you want food at the gate of the palace" Liu Ju thought for a while, pondered for a moment, and then said: "This can be had, and then our father and son will go together." Hahaha"

Liu Ju laughed a few times, laughed and laughed, and slowly his voice became choked: "The palace, the palace, I'm afraid I can't go back in this life." ”

"Father doesn't have to be sad, since we want to go back, we will definitely be able to go back, let's start with beggars, Wu Shang can do it, we will definitely be able to do it."

"Okay, just listen to you, let's be beggars together and ask for food at the gate of the palace!" Liu Ju casually responded with a word, only as a father and son funny, but when he saw Liu Chang's eager posture on one side, he was still stunned: "You, you don't really want to be a beggar, do you?" ”

"Manly man, of course, I want to be the biggest beggar in the world! The Beggar King! ”

"Son, the beggar king, is also a beggar" Liu Ju still decided to pour some cold water on his son first: "You see, Wu Zixu didn't become a beggar in the end, but became the prime minister." ”

"Wu Shang is nothing! When the prime minister was not killed in the end. My life is up to me! ”

"It's up to me to take my life, my son is really arrogant." Liu Ju was infected by this sentence, and couldn't help but stretch out his hands and applaud: "It's just, gentleman。。。。。。 ”

"A gentleman dies of thirst and doesn't drink stolen spring water, and he starves to death and doesn't eat," Liu Chang didn't wait for his father to finish speaking, and immediately continued.

"It's good that you know, good son, we don't want to beggars, and when we meet people, we'll exchange this for some food." Liu Ju pointed to a knife and a bow on his back, which Zhang Daoda gave them.

"Yes, what my father taught me was" After talking for a long time, his father still couldn't turn that corner in his heart, Liu Chang knew that he had said it in vain, so he quickly admitted his mistake.

Seeing his son obediently admit his mistakes, Liu Ju decided to strike while the iron was hot and correct some of his son's erroneous views: "In the future, don't call Wu Shang Wu Shang anymore, you can't call him by his name, this is very impolite, others will say that you don't have a tutor." ”

"But this Wu Zi --- Xu is really not worthy of respect."

"Why? Didn't you just swear to learn from him? Remember, even if you are an enemy, you can't call him by his name, this is upbringing! ”

"What the father taught was that the child remembered. I just want to learn his survival methods, and I will never be as shameless as he is. ”

"Wu Zixu is shameless? Who do you listen to? ”

Liu Ju was a little surprised, this time it was not that Liu Chang wanted to learn from Wu Zixu and beg for food along the street, but that Liu Chang actually knew about this famous historical minister. Of course, when every master teaches these things, he will mention that although the youngest son is talented and intelligent, he often listens to the master's lectures with his two elder brothers, and he thinks that he is just a child playing with him, but after all, he is less than five years old, he has not reached the age of Mengxue, and he does not have his own enlightenment teacher.

"Do you know Wu Zixu's allusions?" Liu Ju doesn't believe it, allusions have nothing to do with being smart, what it needs is accumulation, the accumulation of life, the accumulation of knowledge, you are a little kid who has accumulated like this, as Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu is not alive anymore.

"What the Master said."

"Do you remember what Professor Taishi did?" Liu script no one dared to say it, and the teacher remembered what he taught. Especially the Taishi, his mouth is full of "Gou Dou is wide open", not only his son can't understand it, but he can't understand it himself.

"I seem to remember them all"

"Why don't I know? Then why didn't you say it before? ”

"Say what?"

"You remember everything you said Taishi taught"

"You haven't asked, I still remember, did Wu Shang ask for food and die?"

"Why don't I know? It was Taibao who said it, right? "There are three divisions and three young teachers in the East Palace, which are originally officials who teach and take care of the prince, namely the prince and the prince, the prince and the prince. Shi teaches Wen and Fu teaches martial arts, and Bao is a pure personal bodyguard. Liu Ju seriously suspected that it was said by the bodyguard whose arms were thicker than his head.

"Of course not, it was the Taishi who said: 'Erhuansha, I beg; I'm full, and I'm drowning. Ten years later, a daughter will repay her virtue! ’”

"Didn't you say that you hate these crepe words the most? Do you remember that clearly? ”

"I only remember it when I admired Wu Shang's ruthlessness and shamelessness."

"Where did you know that Wu Zixu was ruthless and shameless? Taishi told you about Wu Zixu's whipping corpse? "This is a taboo, it goes against the way of the ministers, no master will talk about this, Liu Ju knows that the prince and the prince will not talk about it, especially in front of the children.

"Whipping corpses? What kind of corpse is whipped? "It's not that Liu Chang is pretending to be confused, he really doesn't know.

"Don't care what corpses you whip, don't you know?" Liu Ju asked.

"I don't know," Liu Chang replied affirmatively.

"Then how do you know that he is ruthless and shameless?"

"Just from the words he wrote?"

"Those words? Doesn't these words show that Wu Zixu knows how to repay his kindness and is benevolent and righteous? How can you see that he is ruthless and shameless. ”

"You say, why did that woman commit suicide by throwing herself into the river?"

"Of course, it is the custom of Wu State, it is a shame for an unmarried woman to talk to a strange man, she feels that she has no face to see people, so she throws herself into the river."

"Then, why did she still talk to Wu Zixu. Besides, Huansha still has to bring lunch, how much yarn does she want? Even if you give the palace yarn, you don't need to bring lunch! ”

"Y-You see so much?"

"Also, why did Wu Shang watch her throw herself into the river instead of rescuing her?"

"Why do you say?" Liu Ju became interested all of a sudden, and forgot about the Golden Night Pot, which he really hadn't thought about before. Thinking about it, that woman is at least his savior, watching his benefactor struggle in the water, and still being indifferent, calm as water, is indeed ruthless.

"Wu Shang robbed her of her food, and was afraid that the woman would expose her whereabouts." Liu Chang gave his own judgment.

"Then why did he leave a handwriting? Wouldn't that be more exposed? ”

"Whether he left a word or not, he said it himself, who has seen it? Besides, who is he writing for? How many people know how many people know words in the country? If he really wants to repay the favor, why should he write it, for fear that others will not know that he wants to repay the favor, is this repaying the favor? I think there's something about revenge. ”

"You mean, Wu Shang killed her and threw her into the river?"

"It must be so, otherwise, who would have lost his life for a strange beggar. She couldn't talk to a strange man, she couldn't walk away. Hum! I don't think the blood he writes with is his own. ”

Since meeting the half-immortal, Liu Ju has become more and more fond of talking to this son. It's okay anyway, it's better to talk than to walk with a stuffy head, and I'm hungry, at least, and now I seem to have forgotten my belly.

"I'm hungry." Just when Liu Ju was trying to forget his belly, Bao'er spoke.

"Bao'er, you are hungry, and you are hungry for your father." Liu Ju looked at this stupid son helplessly.

"Hehe, what's the problem, the Hun problem." Silly Bao laughed stupidly twice, as if he had forgotten about the problem of his belly and thought about national affairs.

Night fell.

In a straw hut, it should be a firewood room, filled with neatly stacked dry firewood and bales of hay. In a small open space, covered with thatch.

The three of them were lying neatly in their clothes, yes, these three people were the prince's father and son.

Because of the fatigue and nervousness of the day, the two children have finally relaxed, and they have fallen asleep peacefully.

The prince himself, with his hands under his head and his eyes looking straight at the roof in the dark, did not seem to be sleepy.

It was already the next night, and yesterday, they couldn't find any food, and they couldn't walk, so they found a shack and slept for the night. Maybe I was too hungry, but I slept well, but I didn't feel hungry. But this morning, the situation was different, especially the hunger was particularly obvious, and Silly Bao even began to gnaw on the bark of the tree.

Fortunately, the stream was not far from the roadside, and the grandfather crawled to the edge of the stream, hoping to get some small fish, shrimp and the like to satisfy his hunger. When they got to the water's edge, they were dumbfounded: not to mention whether there were small fish and shrimp in the stream, even if there were, there were no fishing tools, so there was no way to get them.

The three of them could say that they hadn't eaten for two days, and they were all a little dizzy with hunger. Although the water is free, after drinking a stomach of water, you can feel the water in your stomach even when you walk, and the water can swell your stomach, but you are still hungry.

The three of them walked aimlessly downstream along the river, hoping to find some miracle or encounter a rabbit that had been killed by a collision.

As we walked, the river gradually opened up, and farmland appeared not far from the riverbank. Just when the three of them are desperate for the rabbit, a farmhouse appears,

And curling smoke.

Liu Ju and Xiao San'er glanced at each other, their eyes were full of joy, of course, Bao'er was still that Bao'er, not sad or happy, and her eyes were dull.

"Let's go" Liu Chang looked at his father with a struggling expression, knowing that begging was a job, although his father finally faced the choice of death and survival, he no longer resisted, but let his father go and beg in person, he still couldn't do it. Since birth, it is to open his mouth for food and stretch out his hand for clothes, of course, he is also like this, so it is indeed difficult for him to let go of all his dignity and ask for food at once. But after all, he was a child now, and he didn't have so much face to maintain, on the contrary, he thought it was fun, and it was much more interesting than hiding from the eunuchs and guards, so he volunteered.

Of course, the knife and bow and arrow were persuaded by Liu Chang, and he didn't bring them with him, but found a place to hide them, Liu Chang's reason is also very good, it is really useless for the farmer to ask for these two things, if it is an Orion family, it is about the same, maybe it can be sold at a better price when you go to the city.

Liu Ju looked at the door of the farmhouse in front of him, and then looked at Liu Chang who was eager to try next to him, and in the end, dignity prevailed over reason, he really couldn't open his mouth, and he really couldn't do it if he groveled.

Pulled Liu Chang aside and tidied up his clothes, fortunately, although the clothes were tattered and dirty, the clothes were still very neat, the hair was neat, and although his face was a little tanned these days, it was also clean.