According to the words of several women, Mao Jiaodong walked west for a while before coming to a house.

Outside the wooden fence, Mao Jiao walked to the door and looked curiously at the small garden in front of him.

The small garden is not big, a narrow bamboo door was gently pushed open by Mao Jiao, and then Mao Jiao could see everything in the small garden.

A few stones lay on the ground, and under the eaves next to the thatched hut there were bundles of firewood, and a few were hung between the firewood and the fence, and coarse cloth clothes were hung.

On the other side of the hut is a simple wooden hut that seems to have just been made, used to raise cattle.

"That boy, that's where you grew up?"

Mao Jiao looked at everything in front of him, and seemed to be able to imagine that the young figure walked out of the old wooden house and walked around in this small garden.

Day after day.

It was only here that the boy might not see the contempt and ridicule in the village.

"Huh?"

In the small garden, a middle-aged woman in cloth clothes was chatting with a woman in cloth clothes, seeing Mao Jiao, the two looked at each other, and found that they didn't know each other The old man, with doubts, slowly got up.

Maybe I don't know Mao Jiao's intention, whether it is the young woman or the middle-aged woman, they don't understand what this old man who has never met before entered his own garden.

"Beloved, come out quickly!"

The middle-aged woman turned her head and shouted into the room.

The woman's voice fell, and then a middle-aged man hurried out of the house.

A man is a step-father.

When Yan's father heard Xiao shouting to him, he thought that he was in an urgent need to help, but after he didn't think of it, he saw an old man in cloth clothes in the small garden.

"Who are you, old man? What's going on here? ”

Yan's father glanced at his wife, then stepped forward, looked at the old man and asked.

At the beginning, my grandfather asked my uncle and the third son to read and write, and let my father work to support the family, but my father didn't read any books and never saw the world.

It is precisely like this, compared with the uncle and others, Yan's father is simple by nature, and although he is confused about the arrival of Mao Jiao at the moment, he does not drive people away as soon as he comes up, or his tone is not good.

And it was also Yan's father's demeanor, Mao Jiao couldn't help but nod in his heart after seeing Yan's father.

"The old man passed by here and heard about your Zhong'er, so he came to take a look, I wonder if your Zhong'er is at home now?"

Mao Jiao looked at Yan's father, said with a smile, and bowed to Yan's father.

Mao Jiao's behavior made Yan's father, Xiao Shi, and Yun Han confused.

"Yan'er?"

When Xiao Shi heard that the old man had heard about Yan'er, he came over curiously to take a look, and subconsciously frowned.

Heard about Yan'er?

As a mother, how could the Xiao family not know how the villagers talked about Yan'er.

Fortunately, Xiao vaguely felt that the old man didn't seem to mean to laugh, so he didn't drive the old man away.

"Old man, Yan'er is not here!"

Xiao Shi said.

Xiao Shi guessed in his heart that it must have been the old man who overheard the villagers talking about Yan'er when he was a child, so he was curious.

Since Yan'er often brought money to the family's trustees, those red-eyed villagers have not looked up to the things that Yan'er had done when she was a child.

"Old man, my second son Zhong Yan has not returned from Yicheng now, and he is not at home!"

Father Yan heard the words of his wife behind him, and also explained to Mao Jiao.

Inside the garden.

Mao Jiao nodded when he heard the words of his father and Xiao's family.

Sure enough, the couple, like those villagers, always thought that the young man was in Yicheng.

"In this way, then I can only give up, the old man wanted to come to see the young man, if there is a fate, he will take the young man to read and write."

Mao Jiao said.

This move was to reassure the couple in front of him that he had come here without malicious intent.

"Ahh

Hearing Mao Jiao's words, whether it was Yan's father or Xiao's family, they were all surprised, and even the woman Yunhan looked at Mao Jiao with surprise.

The old gentleman wants to accept Zhongyan as a protégé?

It's almost three people, and the thought that comes to mind in an instant.

"Sir, come in and sit down!"

After a few breaths, when he came back to his senses, before Yan's father could speak, Xiao Shi passed by Yan's father and invited Mao Jiao to sit down with enthusiasm.

"Yunhan, it's not early, go make something to eat."

Xiao Shi commanded to his eldest daughter-in-law.

In Xiao's eyes, she didn't doubt Mao Jiao's words, because she looked at the old gentleman in front of her, his words and deeds, and his expression, were by no means ordinary people.

Xiao Shi is not worried that this old gentleman is pretending, in order to cheat and eat and drink.

If this is the case, then the Xiao family also admits it, and in the future, let Yan'er also learn this deceptive ability, and trick a woman to come back to be her little daughter-in-law, and when Yan'er is old in the future, she will not worry about eating and drinking.

Worried about the mother.

Compared with the eldest son, what the Xiao family has been unable to let go of in his heart is the second son, after all, unlike the eldest son Shou'er, the second son Yan'er has suffered from white eyes since he was a child.

Xiao Shi was worried that a hundred years later, she and her father would not be in the world, and the eldest son would be in the army.

Inside the garden.

When Yun Han heard Xiao's words, she nodded hurriedly, looking at the old gentleman in front of her with surprise, she didn't expect that this old gentleman would accept the little uncle as a protégé when he heard about the little uncle.

But before she could turn around, she saw the old gentleman waving his hand.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Shi laughed cautiously.

"You're welcome, old gentleman."

Xiao Shi looked at Mao Jiao and spoke.

For the opportunity in front of her, Xiao Shi was naturally nervous, and letting Yan'er read and learn skills was something she had always dreamed of.

Now that she sees an opportunity, where is she willing to give up.

"Yes, the old gentleman went to drink saliva first."

Yan's father was also on the side to help.

Mao Jiao looked at the anxious couple and couldn't help laughing.

"No need, since your second son is not here, it is inconvenient for the old man to stay for a long time!"

Mao Jiao said with a smile.

Regarding the matter of the teenager, Mao Jiao did not tell the couple in front of him.

It's different at the moment.

At the entrance of the village, when he learned about the experience of the teenager from other women, Mao Jiao was impulsive, and he still had the idea of telling the couple in his heart.

But walking here from the entrance of the village, and now seeing the couple again, Mao Jiao has calmed down.

Mao Jiao knew that he was ordered to come to investigate this time, not to take the family away, so he could go back and resume his life after he found out, and he must not make decisions without authorization and let the news leak out.

The most important thing is that even if he says it, the couple in front of him may not necessarily believe it.

Moreover, he came at the king's command, and his identity was sensitive, and if the two of them inadvertently spoke out or inquired, it would surely bring disaster.

Inside the garden.

In the face of the repeated retention of the Xiao family and his father, Mao Jiao refused lightly, and then asked some other things under the pretext.

During the small talk, Mao Jiao remembered the location of the stones in the hospital, as well as some old details of the wooden house, and most importantly, the characteristics of the couple.

As for the young woman.

Mao Jiao already knew that the woman had just been married, so he didn't pay special attention to it.

The purpose of his trip was to remember some details of this village, as well as to observe the things of this small garden for a long time, and the couple of them.

"Then the old man won't bother!"

After Mao Jiao remembered what he saw, he arched his hand and said, ready to leave.

"Can the old gentleman tell me where he lives, the next time Zhong Yan comes back, I will definitely ask Zhong Yan to visit the old gentleman."

Xiao Shi looked at Mao Jiao and couldn't keep it, and still said without giving up.

Father Yan also nodded.

"We'll see you next time!"

Mao Jiao said with a smile, without giving his address.

Mao Jiao had a hunch that the next time he saw the couple, it might be when he told the couple his identity.

After finishing speaking, Mao Jiao gave up his hand again, and then turned around and left under the gaze of Xiao Shi, Yan Father, and Yun Han.

In the bamboo garden, Yan's father and Xiao looked at the old man's departing back and looked at each other.

Although the old gentleman said that he would come again next time, the old gentleman was reluctant to say where he lived, and the couple were a little worried that this was just a polite remark.

But since the old man has left, it is difficult for them to step forward to stop him.

"Love, go get some rice millet, and then take some money, this road out of the village is not easy to walk, we are husband and wife, go and send the old gentleman."

After a long time. With the old gentleman leaving, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he had missed the opportunity, and he felt pity, and turned his head to his father and said.

"The old man is a polite person at first glance, he should have heard about Yan'er, and felt that Yan'er was pitiful, so he wanted to accept Yan'er as his protégé, we husband and wife, don't snub others."

Xiao said.

Thinking back to what the old man could do for Zhong Yan, he came to this water village and came here to inquire if Yan'er was not at home. Xiao Shi felt more and more that the old gentleman really wanted Yan'er to be his protégé.

If so.

This is an opportunity that cannot be missed, and it is necessary to seize it.

"Good! I'm going to get something! ”

When he heard his wife's words, he nodded, turned around and walked back into the house.

"Mother, I'll go with you!"

Yun Han watched Xiao get up, and hurriedly got up, wanting to accompany Xiao Shi to go together.

Xiao Shi nodded.

However, when Yan's father and Xiao took Yun Han and chased them from Shuicun to the official road, they walked for a long time, but they didn't see Mao Jiao's figure.

Qi country Linzi.

Deep in a small alley, in a narrow and dilapidated courtyard, an old woman with white hair and wrinkled cheeks was washing her clothes with water.

In this quiet alley, the figure of the old woman in the courtyard seems very lonely.

The old woman seemed to be in poor health, and after washing the laundry, she bent down again the moment she got up, and finally stood up and rubbed her waist with one hand.

The old woman took the washed clothes and walked slowly to the courtyard to dry on a pile of miscellaneous trees.

A moment later.

After drying the laundry, the old woman went to do other chores.

At this time, the sound of footsteps came from beyond my imagination.

"Right here!"

When the old woman heard the voice, she turned her head and saw a man with an old man dressed in cloth coming to the courtyard.

Under the watchful eye of the old woman, the old man entered the courtyard.

"You are?"

The old woman looked at the old man with some strangeness.

She didn't seem to know the person who came to the courtyard in front of her, didn't she come to find the eldest son?

"Dare to ask, but Zhong Yan's grandmother?"

The old man asked softly.

The old man is Mao Jiao who left the water village.

It turned out that when he was in Shui Village, he learned from the woman that the old woman was in Linzi, so Mao Jiao specially returned to the official road and ordered Hu to go to the old woman's village and find a familiar villager to guide the way.

Here, Mao Jiao uses small means.

When he appeared in the water village, he didn't let the villagers of the old woman's village see him, but asked Hu Cong to follow the villagers to see the way, and then bring him over.

In this case, the villagers of the old woman will only think that there is a young man looking for the eldest son of the old woman.

"I am!"

The old woman was Bai Yan's grandmother, and when she heard the old man in front of her mention Yan'er, she was full of white hair, and she nodded hurriedly.

Although I don't know the old man's intention.

But her grandson Yan'er has been gone for nearly a year, and she misses her grandson and thinks about it tightly.

"The old gentleman knows my grandson?"

The old woman's eyes were red, she looked at the old man in front of her, and asked softly.

Mao nodded his head.

Looking at the old woman in front of him, after Mao Jiao had been to the water village, he could have found it again without having to be so troublesome.

But thinking of the words of those women, Mao Jiao still chose to find here.

In addition to the fact that he wanted to tell the king about it, he also wanted to see the old woman.

"Sir, where is my grandson?"

The old woman asked with a trembling voice.

At this moment, in the old woman's mind, it was all the figure of the little grandson from the past, who used to shout at her grandmother before entering the bamboo garden, and at a young age, she always dragged a bundle of firewood home, worried that she would have no firewood to make a fire.

Mao Jiao looked at the wrinkled face of the old woman in front of him, and when he mentioned his youth, his eyes were red, full of concern and longing.

"Qin State!"

Mao Jiao said.

Inside the yard.

The old woman nodded her head when she heard Mao Jiao's words.

"Okay, Qin State, my grandson is in Qin State."

The old woman's old eyes were already filled with tears.

recalled that at the Linzi City Gate, her grandson knelt down in front of her in full view.

It turned out that at that time, her grandson was going to Qin State.

"It's good in Qin Kingdom~!" "It's good in Qin Kingdom~!"

The old woman muttered.

Mao Jiao lowered his head and did not look directly at the old woman in front of him, as if he was thinking about something.

"Since the old gentleman has seen my grandson, can you bother the old gentleman to sit down and talk to me about my grandson!"

The old woman looked at Mao Jiao with a prayer.

At this moment, the old woman didn't ask much, so she wanted to hear about her grandson from the old gentleman in front of her.

Then under Mao Jiao's gaze.

The old woman looked at the courtyard, a little anxious, as if she wanted to find a place to sit and talk.

And yet it was at this time.

Mao Jiao looked at the old woman, and finally made a decision, took a step back, and arched his hands under the old woman's gaze.

"Old woman, your grandson, has already been crowned a general!"

Mao Jiao said, telling Bai Yan about it.

Facing the couple in Shuicun, Mao Jiao can not say anything.

But after learning everything, facing the gray-haired old woman in front of him, Mao Jiao really couldn't bear to hide it.

He was sure that the old woman in front of him would not talk nonsense.

What's more, from the time he mentioned the young man, unlike the couple, the old woman did not say that he was in Yicheng, but asked him where the young man was.

Obviously, from the beginning, the old woman knew that the young man was not in Wing City.

"What?"

When the old woman heard Mao Jiao's words, she looked at Mao Jiao in a daze.

What did he say?

"My grandson, Feng Qing has paid homage?"

When the old woman said this, the tears in her eyes fell down her wrinkled old face.

Is this true? Is it really a blessing?

Is his grandson really a general?

The old woman stood still, her mind full of these words.

"It's true, your grandson is now the left chief of the Qin State! Bai Yan! ”

Mao Jiao arched his hand and said, worried that the old woman would not believe it, and explained to the old woman.

As soon as the words fell, Mao Jiao saw that the old woman's face was full of tears, but she smiled very brightly.

"When the Yue clan and the Xiongnu went south, it was your grandson who led the iron cavalry to drive away the Yue clan and the Xiongnu. Later, the king of Qin personally met your grandson and worshipped your grandson as a general. ”

Mao Jiao said to the old woman.

Before coming to Linzi, Mao Jiao already knew that the first battle of Gaonu had already spread to Linzi, and it was spread widely.

"My grandson, Feng Zuoshu has grown!"

The old woman muttered, although she didn't know what her grandson had experienced, but how unhappy she was to learn that her grandson had been made a general.

No one knows better than the old woman how much ridicule and discrimination her grandson faced when he was a child.

This moment.

The old woman wanted to see what her grandson looked like after becoming a general, whether he was majestic or not.

And the old woman also learned from Mao Jiao's words that the people who were facing Zicheng outside, and the Qin general Bai Yan that everyone talked about was her grandson.

The boy who used to hide behind her.

Inside the yard.

Mao Jiao looked at the old woman in front of him, and after saying it, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But Mao Jiao also knew that he said it only to reassure the old woman.

Others, even if it were spread now, no one would believe the villagers who had laughed at the boy and the old woman, not even the boy's biological parents.

I remembered the old woman in front of me, who once held a broom and stones to protect the young man.

Until now, they will still be ridiculed.

Mao Jiao is clear.

The old woman had been wronged, and she had to wait until the young man returned, and then she could silence everyone.

Only when the young man returns, no one here dares to deceive this old woman in the slightest.

"You're waiting outside!"

Outside the alley, a girl's voice rang out.

In the courtyard, the old woman had red eyes, and when she came back to her senses, she saw a young girl running towards her.

When I saw the girl, the old woman, your wrinkled old face, suddenly raised a loving smile, just like when I saw my grandson.

"Grandmother!"

Tian Feiyan, who was dressed in silk clothes, trotted to the old woman and shouted sweetly.

The old woman looked at the girl, her eyes red and full of smiles.

Maternal grandmother, this is the title that the old woman insisted on letting Tian Feiyan say, very stubborn, Tian Feiyan was not used to it at first, but later under the love of the old woman, she slowly got used to it.

"I often come to see me, an old woman, and I'm not afraid of being tired!"

The old woman laughed, stretched out her thin, calloused hand, and rubbed the girl's black hair.

The girl didn't mind at all, looking at the old woman's eyes full of tears, she stretched out her little hand and gently wiped the tears on the old man's cheeks.

The girl did not ask why the old woman was crying.

The other side.

Mao Jiao looked at the girl, already stunned, and his heart was full of shock.

At first, looking at this fair-skinned and beautiful girl, Mao Jiao was amazed in his heart, but also saw at a glance that this girl's origin was definitely not ordinary, and he was curious why this girl appeared here.

However behind.

looked at the familiar Mao Jiao of the girl, and soon remembered whose daughter this girl was.

A few years ago, he had seen a child in Tianfu once.

Tian Ding's daughter, Tian Feiyan (妫非烟)!

Why did Tian Ding's daughter appear here? With Tian Ding's character, it is impossible to tolerate the appearance of his beloved daughter here.

"Feiyan has seen Lord Qin Shangqing Mao!"

Tian Feiyan, who was dressed in the costume of Qi State, saluted Mao Jiao, then looked at Mao Jiao, and said with a smile on his small face: "Feiyan is very curious, why did Lord Mao come all the way to Qi Country to inquire about a village?" ”

"How do you know?"

Mao Jiao looked at the girl.

He obviously went in disguise, and it was impossible for him to be stared at, how could the girl know.

At this moment, Mao Jiao was a little worried.

Tian Ding's daughter Tian Feiyan already knows, so does Tian Ding also know.

Come to think of it.

Mao Jiao's brows tightened.

"Non-smoke!"

The old woman looked at Tian Feiyan and hurriedly shouted softly.

"Non-smoking to boil medicine!"

When the girl heard the old woman's words, she laughed softly and said that she was no longer naughty, and then walked from the bag in her bosom towards the courtyard where the medicine was boiled.

This scene.

It made Mao Jiao full of surprise, and he looked at the old woman suspiciously.

The old woman had just heard Tian Feiyan's words, and she already knew that the old man in front of her was Mao Jiao, the secretary of the Qin State.

This is a big man who is out of reach.

"The old woman meets Master Mao!"

The old woman saluted to Mao Jiao.

"You're welcome!"

Mao Jiao returned the salute.

After the two of them finished the ceremony, the old woman told Mao Jiao about Tian Feiyan and why her grandson left Qi State.

It was only at this time that Mao Jiao finally understood why the couple always received money from the young man in Yicheng.

Looking at the skillful girl in the distance, Mao Jiao was full of incredulity, who would have thought that that girl was the daughter of Tianfu Tianding, who was in awe of countless people.

But it's the same.

When Mao Jiao thought of Tian Ding, he couldn't help but laugh in his heart, in the Qi court, Tian Ding was a rare clan minister, and he wanted to strengthen Qi.

As a result, such a powerful and powerful minister personally drove a young man who dared to fight 150,000 horses with 10,000 horses out of the Qi country!

Such a generous handwriting, placed in the Qin State, the Qin State is not so generous.

"Tian Ding, Tian Ding, I'm really curious about the day you saw that young man, and learned that you personally drove the young man out of Qi country, what his face would look like!"

Mao Jiao thought to himself.

Mao Jiao didn't expect that the young man's encounter was so interesting.

Listening to the old woman's words, Mao Jiao breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that the young man's uncle had met the young man in Qin State, so he was not at ease and ordered someone to quietly monitor the village.

However, Mao Jiao also knew that the reason why the girl deliberately brought it up when she saw him was also to vaguely remind him that this is the country of Qi, don't mess around.

"Old woman, Mao Jiao will take his leave! Don't spread the word about today! ”

Mao Jiao said to the old woman.

"Don't worry, sir!"

The old woman nodded back.

"The old woman sends the adults out."

The old woman looked at Mao Jiao and said softly.

Mao Jiao wanted to refuse, but looked at the old woman's eyes, nodded, and before leaving, glanced at the girl who was boiling medicine in the distance.

Mao Jiao was not worried about the girl saying it, the girl had already known that he had been to the village, and Fang Cai did not look surprised, obviously knew something, if the girl really wanted to say it, Fang just appeared here, I am afraid it was Tian Ding.

The old woman sent the mao jiao outside the courtyard.

In an alley where no one is.

The old woman stopped and looked at Mao Jiao.

"Please also ask Lord Lao to inform King Qin that my grandson is kind-hearted, and if there is something bad to do and other officials to admonish him, then there must be something bad to do. As for those rebellious things, please believe that my old woman is here, that kid won't do those things, if the old woman dies and the grave is there, that kid won't dare. ”

The old woman said to Mao Jiao: "Please tell my grandson this sentence as well!" ”

The old woman's words were obviously not as good as those of other people who had read the book, but she could feel the concern, and when she heard it, Mao Jiaoxin couldn't help but tremble.

Mao Jiao didn't blame the old woman's uprightness, as the secretary of the Qin State, at this moment, he sincerely admired the old woman's words.

That boy had the best grandmother in the world.

"The old man will definitely tell me!"

Mao Jiao said.

Mao Jiao, who had written with his life and persuaded the king, naturally knew how to tell the king what the old woman meant.

"Thank you, sir!"

The old woman saluted Mao Jiao with gratitude.

Mao Jiao bowed to the old woman, and said goodbye to the old woman again before leaving.

The old woman watched Mao Jiao's departing figure disappear, her eyes full of longing for her grandson, and she turned around and walked back for a long time.

A moment later.

The old woman returned to the courtyard.

"You, didn't you already know!"

The old woman looked at Tian Feiyan and whispered angrily, but the love in her eyes was extremely spoiled.

The old woman couldn't see it, Tian Feiyan seemed to know it for a long time.

Look at the old woman to sit down.

Tian Feiyan shook his head with a smile while getting up to help, and refused to admit it.

This appearance provoked the old woman to laugh, and then on the stool.

"Yan'er is a general!"

The old woman whispered, her eyes were red, and she couldn't help but laugh with satisfaction, remembering that her grandson had already been crowned a general in the Qin State, and at this moment the old woman finally put her mind at ease.

She knew that her grandson would definitely have a good future.

"Grandmother, you have to take medicine well, take good care of your body, and wait for him to come back!"

Tian Feiyan said softly, and his little face was gone.

The guy was a fool at the beginning, and he didn't know that his grandmother knew that he would go to the doctor, but luckily she found out early.

Return the left chief of the Qin State!

"Good! It's good to have smoke, study medicine and treat me as an old woman! ”

The old woman smiled and nodded, and the thin old hand reached over her shoulder and placed it on the back of the girl's hand.

When I was a child, I thought about my grandmother's children, and I remembered my grandson's smiling look at me.

Now, she hasn't seen her grandson wearing battle armor and wearing a sword, with a majestic appearance, how can she let her body collapse.

What's more, she still has to watch Zhong Yan marry Yan'er and go home.

"Grandmother, you go out with me and let Uncle Xiao go with me!"

Behind him, the girl said something that I don't know how many times.

The old woman shook her head, looking at the narrow courtyard in front of her, she knew her grandson, and knew that once her grandson returned to Qi Kingdom, he would definitely want to see her.

At the beginning, her grandson carried things and sent her here.

"Yan'er sent me here at the beginning, he knows the way, and he can find this place directly when he comes back."

The old woman said with a smile.

During the Warring States Period, like the words of an old woman, she could talk to the king, just like Zhao Kuo's mother.

During the Warring States period, it was a king!

(End of chapter)