There was rain in early spring, and it was beating against the gray tile ridges of the decaying town.

The little yellow dog of Dr. Xin's family came back from a distance, lying on his stomach in front of the pharmacy and napping, as before, no one would pay attention to it, after all, it was just a dog.

The neighbors sat together in twos and threes and talked about Ah Dog and Miss Cui'er, which was the only "interesting thing" worth talking about in the town.

Cui'er has been married for three months, and she hasn't come back once, the pavilion chief and his wife have visited, but they were blasted out, and the pavilion chief's son Song Yu always has a black face every time he comes back, and it is said that his promotion to the head catcher has not yet been settled.

And the boy who loves to laugh and make trouble, always compares himself to the hero in Uncle Xin's story, and the young dog who shows off everywhere is gone, in a daze all day long, and has not spoken a word to anyone for three months.

"Pop ......"

Daddy Dog came from a distance, standing at the door of the pharmacy, hesitant and embarrassed, he was just in his early forties this year, but his temples had turned white in three months.

"Come in."

Suddenly, Dr. Xin's voice came from inside the room.

Daddy sighed, lowered his head and entered the pharmacy, looked at Xin Zhuo, and smiled awkwardly.

"Sit."

Xin Zhuo put down the herbs in his hand and pointed to the chair beside him, his long gray hair was meticulously combed, his face was full of wrinkles, and the rotten scars on his body emitted a fishy smell.

Daddy Dog sat on the chair next to half of his buttocks, looking at Xin Zhuo's appearance, he wanted to speak again and again, and finally sighed heavily.

Xin Zhuo smiled: "If you have something, you might as well say it directly."

"Brother Xin......"

The man in his forties suddenly turned red in his eyes, and his tone was choked, "Ah Gou, this child is a waste, but I can't help it as a father, you say, we are just ordinary people, how can we climb to the pavilion chief's house?" The Pavilion Chief is in charge of the whole town and hundreds of people in ten villages, and eats more meat than we eat, we can't climb it, I have persuaded Ah Dog since I was a child, he didn't listen, and the result was good......

It's been three months, and he hasn't said a word about me and his mother, and our old couple is just this one child......"

Xindra was silent, waiting for him to continue.

After a while, Ah Gou's father said: "Ah Gou said yesterday that he wanted to be a soldier, and it happened that the guerrilla general of the imperial court was recruiting soldiers in the next county, and I discussed it with his mother all night, and decided to fulfill his wish and let him go, but I heard that when I entered the army, I had to work up and down, so that I would not be divided into cannon fodder, and our relatives borrowed it all over again, and only got less than three taels of silver, so I thought about it, I wanted to ...... it."

Speaking of which, I really can't go on, the only person in the town who has money to spare may be Brother Xin, but Brother Xin is old, has no children and no daughters, and has nothing to rely on......

"Smack!"

Xin Zhuo neatly took out twenty taels of silver and put it on the table, "All my savings over the years, take it." ”

"Brother Xin, it's too much, it's too much......"

Daddy Dog hurriedly stood up, helpless.

Xin Zhuo waved his hand and gave the order to evict the guest: "Take the money and get out!"

"Ah Gou will not give Brother Xin a pension in the future, I will kill him."

Daddy Dog was grateful to Dade, gritted his teeth and picked up the silver and hurriedly left.

On the third day, early in the morning, the rain was not lighter, but heavier.

Ah Gou rode the only old donkey in the family, carried his bags to the front of the pharmacy, looked inside, and found Uncle Xin sitting on an old chair in the door drinking tea, as if he had been waiting for a while.

He hurriedly jumped off the old donkey, knelt in the stagnant water in front of the pharmacy, and kowtowed three times in a row before he said with red eyes: "Uncle Xin, thank you for your kindness, Ah Gou is going, but if you have any chance, you will definitely serve you as your own father."

The corners of Xin Zhuo's mouth hooked up a smile, but his eyes were deep, and he asked in a vicissitudes of voice: "What is the purpose of your soldier?" Let's talk about it. ”

Ah Gou immediately said: "Defend the family and defend the country!"

Xin Zhuo shook his head: "The heart is not sincere!"

Ah Gou was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head and let the rain drip down his still somewhat green face to his chin, and then smashed to the ground along his chin, and gritted his teeth for a while and said: "In order to get ahead, be superior, only by being a soldier can you climb up step by step, and the prince will Xiangning have a kind?" Willing to cut all his body, dare to pull the emperor off the horse, this is Uncle Xin's words! I want to break out of a world of my own, what pavilion chief, Ling Yin, I have to step on, my beloved woman, must not be taken away so easily, I don't want to experience that helplessness and pain again. ”

Xin Zhuo looked at him silently and didn't say anything for a long time.

This kid is sixteen years old, and he was also sixteen years old when he became the king of the mountain, similar words, it seems to be ...... Also said.

Ah Gou raised his head: "Uncle Xin, am I wrong?"

Xin Zhuo still didn't say anything.

Ah Gou gritted his teeth: "Does Uncle look down on me?" Didn't you have dreams and aspirations when you were young? ”

"You need to know that you have been in the world for a long time!"

Xin Zhuo looked at the sky silently, and muttered this poem for a long time, as if he was saying it to Ah Gou, and as if he was saying it to himself, his voice was very slow, and his old eyes were full of exhaustion and vicissitudes.

The mountain kings of those years, the princes and kings of those years, the elites of the sect in those years, the hunted down and killed all over the world in those years, and the countless old friends of those years, all crossed in their minds one by one, and in an instant, they became the decay of heaven and man today, and they were suffering every day......

Ambition...... Is it still there?

Ah Gou doesn't know much about words, and they are all made by Xin Zhuo, so he doesn't understand too much at the moment.

Xin Zhuo finally looked at him: "You should know...... Life and death are life, wealth is in the sky! ”

Ah Gou nodded heavily: "Uncle's story over the years has taught Ah Gou a lot of truths, Ah Gou understands, please ...... Uncle give a name, Ah Dog doesn't have a name yet, the surname is used by the uncle's surname, it is the uncle who gives Ah Dog a chance to regenerate! ”

Xin Zhuo's old eyes emitted a faint essence, and he said casually: "Chengzhi!"

"Cheng Zhi...... Xin Chengzhi! ”

Ah Gou silently read it a few times, and raised his head violently: "This name Ah Gou likes it very much!"

"Wait a minute!"

Xin Zhuo suddenly got up and entered the back room, and when he came out again, he had three more books in his hand, half of "The Art of War", half of "Analects" and half of "Wumai Kaiwu", the ink had not yet dried, and he commanded: "Remember to read more!"

"Got it, Uncle Xin!"

Ah Gou solemnly took the book and stuffed it into his backpack, got up and got on the donkey, slapped the reins, and went straight into the distance, just ran more than ten steps, stopped again, looked back and smiled: "Today is the third day of the third month of the seventeenth year of the Taiping of the Dakang Empire, Uncle Xin and wait for the news, Xin Chengzhi's name will be famous all over the world sooner or later, and I will take it back if it belongs to me!"

"Da Da Da ......"

The donkey's hooves trampled the water and went straight into the rain in the distance.

Xin Zhuo watched silently, looked at it for a long time, until he couldn't see anything, and then said: "Cause and effect!"

Xiao Huang glanced up at him.

Xin Zhuo said: "Don't you understand? If I hadn't told these stories for many years, he would never have had a long-term grudge against his beloved woman who was married to someone who couldn't read a word. I enlightened his mind because of the cause, what he did today is the effect, what I gave him the book of the future is the cause, and the future life and death are also the effect!

The theory of cause and effect is by no means a matter of the cultivation realm, and it took me two lifetimes to understand it. ”

Yellow tilted her head and sprinkled a Thomas swirling pee.

Xin Zhuo shook his head, got up and walked into the room, and continued to sort out the herbs, as if he was a few years older.

(End of chapter)