After bidding farewell to his senior brother and getting down to Qingyun Peak, Xiao Zheng took Xiao Chunzi to call a carriage in a nearby town and slowly marched towards the capital.

I haven't felt the breath of life for seven years, and I walked like this along the way, not in a hurry, and by the way, I looked at the customs and customs, the people's suffering, and sighed at the difficulties in the world.

On this day, after breakfast early in the morning, Xiao Chunzi set up the carriage and slowly drove towards Jingzhou City, Xiao Zheng originally wanted to rest in the car, but he didn't want to miss the scenery along the way, so he also sat on the side of the carriage. There were already many farmers carrying burdens on the road, some selling vegetables and some selling firewood, walking in a flickering manner.

After walking for a while, I saw a man and a woman in front of me, supporting each other and walking, it seemed that it should be a couple, walking on the road in the morning and constantly wiping their faces, as if they were sweating a lot. Xiao Chunzi parked the car on the side of the road, Xiao Zheng got out of the car and looked at them, looking at the age of twenty-five or sixteen years old, and shouted, "This gentleman, where are you going, you are walking quite hard, why don't I take you for a ride." ”

The man was also looking at Xiao Zheng, seeing that he was young, and his clothes were not too rich, but he was also very regular, not like a bad person, and after looking at the hard-working lady, he was still embarrassed to agree, "Thank you for this son, I am a student who is rushing to take the exam, and the distance is relatively far, so I won't trouble the son"

Xiao Zheng was a little confused: "It's just early summer, and there are still three months left for the autumn exam, is this year's scientific examination advanced?" ”

"That's not true, it's just that I'm walking slowly with my lady, and the road is farther, so I'm in a hurry"

Xiao Zheng was even more confused, he had heard of the scholar who rushed to take the exam, and it was the first time he encountered it with his lady, but he didn't want to ask, but he happened to be on the way, so he laughed, "Just by the way, I am looking for relatives in the capital, if you don't mind, then take Mr. and Mrs. Xian for a ride." ”

Maybe it was a little abrupt, or maybe it was a little bit unbelievable that there was such a good person, the scholar was stunned for a moment, looked at his lady's delicate face, grabbed the lady's wrist tightly, and politely refused: "Forget it, don't trouble the son, let's hurry slowly."

Xiao Zheng also felt a little too enthusiastic, and said with a smile, "Sir, don't get me wrong, I watched you take your lady to hurry hard, and I didn't mean anything wrong, but I was abrupt, so I will leave first." ”

"Hey, in the next... It's not that in the next place.,Childe is a good intention.,It's just... I'm just afraid of trouble on the road" The scholar felt that Xiao Zheng was indeed well-intentioned, so he looked at the lady first, and then explained to Xiao Zheng embarrassedly.

"Haha... Since it's a drop-by, there's no trouble, if the gentleman is not afraid that I'm a bad guy, let's get in the car together."

The scholar saw that it was quite hard for the lady to walk with him, so he nodded, "I don't know the surname of the prince yet."

"Oh, my surname is Xiao, my name is extraordinary, this is the scholar below, Xiao Chun" Xiao Zheng raised his hand and pointed to Xiao Chunzi and said.

"Ah, it's rude and rude, the son is still the country's surname, and the name is even more... It's more... Indeed, it is extraordinary."

"Haha... Mr. is polite, although the next name is extraordinary, but he is a real mortal, haha~ I haven't asked Mr. Gao for his name? ”

"The son is polite, he is just a scholar in the next place, his surname is Gu, his name is Feng, and his name is Liang, this is the insider's Liu family"

"Brother Gu is polite, sister-in-law is polite"

"Childe is polite, thank you Xiao Gongzi" Liu also saluted, thanking Xiao Zheng for his enthusiasm.

"Mrs. Sister-in-law doesn't need to be polite, just drop by, you should help each other when you go out, please~"

Although the car was spacious, in order to avoid suspicion, Xiao Zheng was still sitting on the wheel, and Gu Feng also opened the curtain and chatted with Xiao Zheng.

After chatting for a long time, Xiao Zheng also knew and understood Gu Feng's origin. Gu Feng is twenty-eight years old this year, a native of Jiayuan County, Liangzhou, not far from Jingzhou, and his family background was relatively solid in the past. Ten years ago, he was already in high school, and he wrote a good article, and he was a famous talent in Liangzhou. His wife Liu and he are also considered to be green bamboo horses, they have been married since childhood, and they should have been enviable talented and beautiful, but suddenly changed, and life became difficult.

Eight years ago, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Gu family was admiring the moon in the backyard, drinking and reciting poems, thinking that Gu Fengneng would glorify his ancestors and come to Japan to be on the high school gold list, according to the fame and talent at that time, it was also a logical thing. So the wine was getting better, and his parents didn't disturb his Yaxing, so he went back to the room to rest first, Gu Feng sent people to let them come to pick him up later, and then went to the garden alone to drink, and before he knew it, he fell drunk in the grass. When the sun came to the branches, he gradually woke up, rubbed his head, looked at the grass around him, wondered why no one helped him back to his room to rest, and staggered to the front yard, thinking about drinking some water and continuing to rest.

The door of the antechamber was wide open, and he shouted for someone to pour a cup of tea, but no one responded, and when he entered the hall, he looked at the corpses all over the place, smelled a little bit of blood, and instantly sobered up. "Dad, mother... What's wrong with you, what's going on, what's going on, wake up! The cry did not call for a response from his family, and he was the only one of the sixteen servants in the family, and it was not until his throat was hoarse and his tongue was dry that he gradually regained his senses.

The Gu family is quite kind, and the old man Gu is also a well-known person who accumulates kindness, it can be said that there is no enemy, who killed his whole family so cruelly? He couldn't figure it out. However, there is no one in the family to help, so they can only think of reporting to the police first, finding the murderer, and then burying the family. When the official messenger came, the result of the investigation was only "done by people in the martial arts", which made Gu Feng think about whether there were any martial arts enemies, and there was no news about anything else.

The Gu family had no other relatives, and it was the neighbors and parents-in-law who sent people to help bury the family, and Gu Feng was also in a slump since then, and he was in a mess every day, borrowing wine to kill his sorrows. It wasn't until the funeral was over that the parents-in-law sent someone to ask about the wedding date, and they gradually regained their former looks.

But after all, he has no experience in running a family since he was a child, and in a few years, the family's finances have been sold by him. Originally, according to the meaning of the parents-in-law, the dowry brought by the Liu family was also relatively rich, but there was a mean sister-in-law, who saw that the Gu family was no longer the Gu family before, so she was snub and refused to let her sister take away the dowry. Liu is also a lover, and he didn't want his parents to be embarrassed, so he only brought a hundred taels of silver and a little jewelry and married into the Gu family.

The husband and wife are not housekeepers, so they can only invite a housekeeper and a shopkeeper to manage the Gu family's original grain store industry. Gu Feng is also gradually picking up poems and articles, in order to seek the title of the gold list to comfort his parents. It's just that last year, there was a big flood in Liangzhou, and the crops were not harvested, and the husband and wife watched the refugees have no rice to satisfy their hunger, and wanted to give some porridge so that everyone would not starve to death, but they didn't expect the refugees to rush directly into the grain store and rob a clean one, and the good thing was not done and the famine was owed. Helplessly, Liu could only ask his mother's family for help, and all he got was his sister-in-law's white eyes and ridicule. Liu has been strong since she was a child, and she is not pestering her family, so she went home with the jewelry that her mother secretly gave her.

The two hugged their heads and cried, and they were helpless, and finally sold their real estate, paid off their debts, and thought that if they didn't succeed, they would become benevolent, and took the remaining dozens of silver to go to the capital to catch the exam, and they wanted to hire a carriage, but they asked for twenty taels of silver when they got to the capital, and the husband and wife were reluctant to do so, so they were ready to go all the way to the capital. Walking and walking, I realized how huge the gap between the ideal and the reality is, and the two people who have not walked a few miles since they were children can imagine the footsteps, so they stopped and walked until they met Xiao Zheng.

Xiao Zheng looked at the tears shed by the two of them because of the sad past, and didn't know whether to comfort him or laugh at his scholarly anger, seeing their weak bodies, they were afraid that they would be tired and sick if they couldn't walk the capital. It's hard to meet him, but I don't know what Gu Feng's knowledge is, and I want to test him and think that my identity is inconvenient to ask, so I can only take care of him as much as possible on the road. If he is really knowledgeable, he can be regarded as a pillar for the imperial court, and if he is not knowledgeable, it should be regarded as a reward for his good deeds. After all, you can't just watch a pair of beautiful people just desperate.

"Brother Gu, depending on the behavior of your husband and wife, God will not treat you badly."

"Thank you Xiao Gongzi, meeting Xiao Gongzi is God's greatest gift to us"

"Well, there's nothing wrong with what you said", Xiao Chunzi took over the conversation with a smile, and immediately corrected it when she saw Xiao Zheng's eyes

"I mean you're a good person, and our son is also a good person, isn't this just a good person with a good reward, hehe"

"Hehe... Xiao Chun likes to joke, don't mind, the two of you "Xiao Zheng was afraid that they would misunderstand, so he explained to them with a smile.

"Where is it, what Brother Chun said is right, Xiao Gongzi is indeed a good person, and it is indeed our blessing to meet Xiao Gongzi on the way."

"Haha... Brother Gu is polite when he says this, this should be our fate, maybe I will have something to ask Brother Gu for help in the future."

"As long as you can do it in the future, you will definitely repay Xiao Gongzi's kindness today"

"Since seeing each other is fate, Brother Gu doesn't want to be a Xiao Gongzi, we still have a long way to go, so we will be separated, Brother Gu is older than me, just call me extraordinary."

"Well, it's disrespectful to be a brother, thank you for being extraordinary." Gu Feng thought about it, and inherited such a big favor from Xiao Zheng, and he shouldn't be so angry.

Xiao Zheng waved his hand, "Brother Gu is polite"

Seeing that Xiao Zheng is very easy to get along with, he is warm and kind, Gu Feng also has a good feeling, "Don't call me Brother Gu if you are extraordinary, just call me Nianliang"

"Okay, good, acquaintance, good thoughts, this journey has not been wasted." Xiao Zheng is also as good as a stream.