May 19th, early in the morning

After a night of repairing, finally swept away the fatigue of the past few days, the short-shirted young man sorted out his clothes, so he went out and went downstairs, and before he could get out of the post station, he saw that the post station running hall was wiping the tables and chairs outside the door, and heard the footsteps in the post house, Dong Lao Er also turned his head to look at the house, and found that it was Lin Manliu, so he grinned at him.

"Brother Dong is early, it's been cleaning before dawn," Lin Manliu said after approaching the post station.

Dong Lao Er listened to the young man call himself Brother Dong, the hand wiping the table and chair first paused slightly, and then threw the rag on the table, scratched his head with one hand and looked at the short-shirted young man in front of him, and said with a smile: "The villagers in the village have all woken up at this point, some people have already gone to work in the field, and the tables and chairs are cleaner, so that the villagers can come to rest in front of the post station later."

"I'm here to help, too!" After listening to the words of the running hall, the short-shirted boy immediately spoke up.

Dong Lao Er hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I'm here myself, I can't... In other words, Lin Shaoxia is so early."

"I've been repairing it overnight, and I'm going to continue my journey as soon as possible" Lin Manliu still casually looked at the tables and chairs that had not been cleaned nearby, and helped clean them up as he spoke.

Dong Lao Er saw that persuasion was useless, so the two of them began to clean up the tables, chairs, and utensils outside the post house.

"Actually, when I was young, I also wanted to be like Lin Shaoxia, one person and one horse to go outside."

"Brother Dong is not very old now, so you can go outside to see if you have the chance."

"Harm... It's the opposite, the family was sluggish a few years ago, and my house was almost unable to open the pot before Uncle Qing came, if it weren't for these harvests, I would have been diligent in my hands and feet, and I might not know how to live."

Hearing this, Lin Manliu reacted, in fact, why wasn't he like this, if there was no master to appear, he and his father and mother would be in the east of the city, and they would not be able to live a difficult life...

"Actually, Brother Dong... It's not a lot of fun to travel far away, but it's a blessing to have a family reunion."

"What Lin Shaoxia said, I understand, now I don't want to do so much, I just want to save more money here in Shopkeeper Yang, and find a good mother-in-law in the future, so that I can be filial to my father and mother."

Lin Manliu listened to Dong Laoer's words, and just thought about whether to persuade something, but thinking that perhaps, if the way of the world has not changed, this is the best choice for Brother Dong and their family...... Can the world change for the better, so that the poor can not be so poor, and the people who are struggling to survive are no longer so difficult.

"It's good that Brother Dong can think like this, after the sixth year is cleaned up, he will put the key at the counter in a while."

"Lin Shaoxia will put it down, don't clean it up, I'll lead Lin Shaoxia's horse later."

"It's okay, it's still early".

"Okay".

In this way, when the sky was still bright, two teenagers of similar age in front of the post station were cleaning up the tables and chairs of the post station, cleaning up the sundries and some dust left over from last night.

With the distant eastern mountains, a touch of fish belly gradually rose, Dong Lao Er and Lin Manliu finally finished cleaning everything in front of the post station, and the tables and chairs were also placed neatly.

The two of them looked at each other and laughed at each other after cleaning up at the end.

"Without Ye Shaoxia, I might still have to be busy for half an hour, and I cleaned up so quickly today."

"Call me six, I just wanted to say it, but unfortunately in the future, I will have to clean up by Brother Dong himself" The short-shirted young man said, took out the key to the second floor from his arms, and put it in Dong Lao's second-hand hand.

After taking it in his hand, he walked towards the alley next door with a smile, shouting to himself, "Lead the horses for our six brothers."

Lin Manliu looked at the figure that disappeared at the corner of the road, and sat down casually on the stone steps in front of the post station, these tables and chairs in front of him had just been placed, and he didn't plan to make a mess again.

It didn't take long to see Dong Lao Er holding Xiao Huang, a young man in a short shirt, and walked out of the alley, it seemed that Xiao Huang was much more energetic than a few days ago, Lin Manliu looked at Xiao Huang, who was not so thin, and felt some emotion in his heart, it seems that on the way away, he still has to find a few more post stations to rest, and he can treat himself badly, but he can't treat Xiao Huang who is in a hurry, and it is Xiao Huang of the moon girl.

Lin Manliu got up and walked forward quickly, took the reins from Dong Lao's second-hand hand, Xiao Huang saw that it was a young man, stretched out his head and rubbed directly against the young man's shoulder, Lin Manliu also touched Xiao Huang's horse head when he saw this.

"Brother Dong, I'll go first, say hello to Shopkeeper Yang on my behalf" Lin Manliu turned to look at Dong Lao Er on the side.

"Definitely! Ye Shaoxia had a safe journey," Dong Lao Er said with a smile.

Lin Manliu led Xiao Huang to the same way he came, and when he turned his back to Dong Lao Er, he waved his hand at Dong Lao Er, and stopped in place, and also looked at the young man with a sword in front of him, who was younger than himself, and saw that the young man was gradually moving away, and after a while, he mustered up the courage to shout towards the position of one person and one horse, "Man Six Brothers!" The next time I pass by Lianhu Bay, I will come to the post station."

Lin Manliu, who was in the distance, didn't look back, his eyes brightened, he walked forward, and said a word in his mouth, "Certainly."

Lin Manliu walked back to the field where he met Qinglan at the beginning, the pavilion was empty, and some women and men were already working and farming in the field, and the short-shirted young man found an old man who was sitting on the ridge to rest and asked about Qinglan, the old man naturally knew Qinglan, but what he told the young man was that he didn't know where Qinglan's family lived in the early morning.

The short-shirted young man stood quietly at the gazebo for a while, yesterday Qinglan told himself that he didn't need to come to him to say goodbye, he didn't want to come to himself, and he always cared about something related to moves, Lin Manliu bowed to the pavilion, and then turned over and got on his horse and continued in the direction of Fengcheng.

A young man with a man and a horse carrying two swords, he galloped away in the field, and on a distant hill south of Lotus Bay, there was a thatched hut with a wide field of vision, and he could see the houses of the entire Lotus Bay and the lotus leaf scenery in the field.

In front of the thatched house, on the edge of the cliff, there are two people standing in the bamboo fence, the age looks a little older, but the man's face is old, but he is full of spirit, it is the villagers of Lotus Bay who say Uncle Qing, the woman's face next to him looks like it is not as sweet and moving as the girl, but she has a hibiscus face, her cheeks are slightly red, her star eyes are like waves, her posture is beautiful, she does not apply fat powder, she is just wearing an ordinary coarse linen clothes, and she can't hide the woman's mature beauty.

The two were standing side by side, looking at the young man with the sword who was riding away from Lotus Bay.

"That's the boy you saw yesterday?" The woman spoke up.

"Well, what the six little friends want in their hearts is deep in my heart, at such a young age, he can learn the martial arts of various factions and learn the sword, and he must have been taken by his good teacher since he was a child" Qinglan said in response.

"In such a situation, how dare his master let him run around..."The woman said with some doubts.

"When he was a young man, the young man always had to walk in this river and lake for the beauty in his heart and the chivalry in his heart," Qinglan said with a stroking beard, and in the end, he had already begun to laugh to himself.

"You expect so much from him, I only wish that the young man you spoke of would... "The woman looked at the back that was fading away, and said with a sigh.

"Why not, he will be able to walk out of his own way in this river and lake," Qinglan said and turned around and walked towards the hut.

A dog rushed out from the side of the hut and hurriedly rubbed it at Qinglan's feet.

"Let your dog steal less food from my cubs!" The woman turned around and shouted at the person and the dog, but it was not angry, and the woman couldn't help but start laughing as she watched Qinglan tease the dog under him.

......

Before noon, Lin Manliu rode Xiao Huang to the foot of Rongcheng, the young man in the short shirt dismounted and led Xiao Huang was about to enter the city, and before he entered the city gate, he saw an acquaintance, who was a Yanyang soldier, whose name seemed to be Gui Xin, when General Li Yanhe attacked several times, he was by his side, like General Li's henchman.

"Brother Gui!" Lin Manliu approached and shouted to the Yanyang soldier.

Gui Xin turned his head to look at the young man in response, first sighed, and then shouted, "Isn't this the sixth brother, why did you come to Rongcheng to play again, is it a fat gall?" This time, I came alone."

"Brother Gui said with a smile, Man Liu just didn't want to trouble others, so this time he walked alone," the short-shirted boy scratched his head and said.

"One is one! Now my Yanyang soldiers are all over the mountains and rivers, and some bandits dare to stand in the way, and they are all cut down by us one by one! Gui Xin stretched out his hand and patted the young man on the shoulder.

"That's natural, I wonder if Brother Gui can help me find General Li, I have something I want to ask him" Lin Manliu said with a smile.

"General Lee... Recently, I went to patrol the northwest area, and you don't believe it, a general from Xijing is like a fortune teller, where you send people, you can catch soldiers and bandits and rebels, these days, our brothers are ready to fight at any time" Gui Xin said and began to turn his head to look at a certain place in the direction of Rongcheng, as he seemed to have great respect for the general who came from Xijing.

"Then Brother Gui, do you know that there is news of a caravan returning from Jiangnan recently" Lin Manliu waited until Gui Xin finished expressing his longing and yearning for that general before asking out loud.

"General Li has made us pay attention to this before, from Rongcheng to Jianmen Pass, there is no news" Gui Xin immediately replied, at this time, Li Yanhe specially explained to several of them before he was ordered to patrol.

Hearing such news, the short-shirted boy was not discouraged, after all, it was also expected, Lin Manliu chatted with Gui Xin again, and then said goodbye to Gui Xin, Rongcheng had no need to enter the city, and the short-shirted young man planned to go directly to Jianmen Pass.

When he arrived at Jianmen Pass, if there was still no relevant news, he was ready to leave Jianmen Pass and rush to the direction of Qianzhong.