Fan County Ling and the two clan elders had their own Li Su brothers to accompany them to eat and eat, Li Zhu and Li Jin came out with their front and back feet, Li Jin called his brother, but Li Zhu ignored it and walked away.

Gao led Li Shuo back to the courtyard where he lived, and along the way, he always said that he felt that he was still losing, and Li Shuo was upset when he heard it, and when he saw that he was about to reach the courtyard gate, he stood still and didn't leave.

Gao was chattering to himself, and was reminded by the big girl Chunfang by pulling his cuffs with his eyes, and suddenly found that his son was not around, and looked back and couldn't help but shout: "Son, where are you standing and doing?" ”

Li Shuo puffed up angrily for a while before asking, "Mother is going to separate from the third brother?" ”

"Uh, what did you say?" Gao was caught off guard by the question.

"I know my mother wanted to do this, and I don't agree!"

Gao clapped his hands: "Silly boy, my mother does everything for your good!" ”

"How could a mother do such a thing?" Li Shuo interrupted her:

"It was Aunt Qian who supported her father's coffin to return to her hometown for burial, and brought back the imperial court's pension and her father's money to give to her mother during his lifetime.

If it weren't for Aunt Qian, how could our mother and son rely on it for so many years? Mother An can be clothed and fed, and she has to be served by servants and maids?

Now to drive her mother and son out, it is really unsettling, please forgive the child for not obeying his fate! ”

"You!" Gao didn't know what to say for a while, so he had to grit his teeth and order him: "Go back to the house and talk!" ”

She walked in front, Li Shuo followed, and then the maids who didn't dare to breathe.

The last man went in and turned around and closed the door.

After a while, Li Dan peeked out of the courtyard gate of the north courtyard, looked at this side with suspicious eyes, and gently walked to the door to slow down and listen to the movement, and then continued to walk forward.

He carried a few books tied together with ropes, and today he did not dress in the usual short brown clothes, but wore a flat scarf and a deep coat, but the cuffs were wrapped in a green belt for Beixi to help make it easier to move.

He listened to the faint scolding from the upper room of the south courtyard, and raised his eyebrows in surprise.

I was about to walk over, when I suddenly saw a sound on the door and a crack on the side, and an eleven or twelve-year-old girl jumped out of it, and hurriedly beckoned and whispered: "Cuixi, come here, come here!" ”

The little girl turned around and closed the door and ran over, and said with a smile: "Is San Lang going out?" Hey, why are you dressed up like a scholar today? ”

"How can you say it's a dress-up?" Li Dan sighed, pointed to the courtyard and asked her, "Mother, is this coming back from a trip?" Why did you lose your temper in the house just after you came back? Are you blaming the fifth brother again? ”

Cui Xi looked back, pulled him away a few steps, and then whispered:

"The second grandmother just went to discuss with the county lord, the eldest lord, the third lord, the seventh old lady and the old gentleman of the clan.

I don't know how Gorou disobeyed the second grandmother on the way back, so he lost his temper! ”

"With so many people discussing, is there something big going on in the family?" Li Dan was surprised.

"What is the 'big picture'?" The little girl didn't understand, and continued: "This is still a lot of people? The third master also took Erlang and Shiro there! Eh, by the way, why didn't you call Saburo? ”

"Me?" Li Dan pointed to his nose and sneered: "Am I a member of this family?" Grandma doesn't love uncle, and uncle doesn't love it.

But then again, if I really go back to my grandfather's house, I can't say that my grandmother and uncle treat me better than here! ”

"What are you two doing here?" Before Li Dan's words landed, he heard a voice at the entrance of the alley and shouted.

When he looked up, Li Yan was standing at the entrance of the alley with his hands behind his back, followed by Lin Zifu.

Li Dan bowed: "To the third uncle, my nephew was about to return the borrowed book, and when he met Cui Xi, he came out talking together." ”

"The maid is going to tell the door that Gorou is disobedient to the second grandmother, so he has to be grounded for five days."

I just said I could go out, why was I grounded again? Li Dan knew that Cui Xi came out for this, and couldn't help but make a grimace secretly.

"Humph! It's all non-fuel-efficient lamps! Li Yan scolded angrily.

"Third Uncle, what's wrong? Who made you angry? Li Dan was a little inexplicable when he saw him scolding.

Li Yan puffed out his cheeks and didn't answer, and Lin Zifu whispered behind him: "My master and Erlang are angry." After speaking, he motioned for Cui Xi to salute and leave quickly.

"Shut up!" Li Yan roared without replying, looked up at Li Dan, and unexpectedly found that he was much more elegant today, and couldn't help sighing:

"San Lang, San Lang, if you usually study more and study hard, why is the third uncle angry?"

Seeing that Li Dan was still ignorant, he shook his hand: "That's it, that's it, you go to do serious things, I have to go to the front hall to accompany the guests to eat after changing my shirt." After speaking, he sighed and walked into the alley in front of his house.

When Lin Zifu passed by Li Dan's side, he whispered in his ear: "The eldest lord asked my lord to pass Erlang over to the long house in front of the county lord, but the lord couldn't refuse, so he was sulking!" After speaking, he quickened his pace and trotted after Li Yan.

"Hey, Erlang passed on to the long house? No wonder Li Jin has been so honest recently!

In the past, he had to compete with me in everything and everything, and he thought that he had changed his character, and it seemed that there were such good things in front of him, so this kid deliberately restrained himself to show himself in front of his uncle. Li Dan smiled and shook his head and muttered to himself.

He didn't mean to target Erlang, but he felt that he was too hypocritical and utilitarian, and it was not strange to have such a person among the brothers, and the fingers were not of ordinary length.

Li Dan went out and walked to the street, looking left and right.

After crossing two streets, he gradually walked into the market, and suddenly he stretched out his hand and patted a seventeen or eight-year-old young man with a big waist and a round waist who was looking up at people playing with flags: "Gu Da, do you know where Yang Xiaoyi is?" ”

The man raised his thick eyebrows, turned around and saw that it was him, and said with a smile: "San Lang, you want to find him?" He should be in the back street of the horse market. ”

"What are you going to do there, and he's not Yazi (the ancient name of the intermediary)?" Li Dan frowned.

"Now it is." Gu Da grinned and said, "There is a man from the North who wants to sell horses."

San Lang you know, the official army is suppressing bandits on the Xianxia Ridge side, and now the market price of horses is not low, so Xiao Yi volunteered to do his business. ”

Li Dan shook his head secretly, this Yang Xiaoyi doesn't have anything serious to do on weekdays, he used to steal chickens and dogs, but he didn't dare after following him, so he helped out in the market.

But where did he sell horses? No, it's pitting. Thinking of this, Li Dan patted Gu Da on the shoulder, and hurriedly strode towards the horse market.

Far away, the peculiar smell of the horse market has wafted into the nostrils, and at the same time, the sound of boiling people can be heard.

After walking a few steps, I saw a group of people gathered around, and there were several voices arguing inside, one of which was Yang Xiaoyi.

"According to you, this horse is only worthy of pulling a cart and plowing the land, and is no different from the donkey? It's a fart! ”

"Eh, Brother Xiaoyi, don't scold! Look at you, if you don't know how to do it, you have to stand up for others, this line of work is so easy to mix? To be honest, I, Li Biao, have been working for eight years, what horses have I never seen?

This horse, looking at this head and this skeleton, can be pulled up to six or seven hundred catties, and it is indeed a good horse, so we will give the price of fifteen taels.

But do you have to say that it is a war horse, and the price is fifty taels? Tsk, that's outrageous! Let the peers here take a look, I don't care what I said! ”

Li Dan rolled his eyes, how can they all be acquaintances! Needless to say, Yang Yi is the same clan as his own family, and he is still a generation lower than Li Dan in terms of generation.

He walked outside the circle and looked inside, and suddenly the ground lit up in front of him, and he secretly shouted: "Good horse! Pushing aside the crowd and squeezing to the front, the two people who were arguing with red faces and thick necks stopped when they saw him come in.

Yang Yi clasped his fists and shouted: "Brother Dan is here, you are well-informed, come and help me evaluate the theory!" ”

Yang Biao also smiled: "Yo, why does the third uncle have time to come to the horse market today?" But looking for a leg to get around? ”

Li Dan ignored Yang Biao, only stuffed the book into Yang Yi's hand, and said, "Take it, don't lose it." Then he walked straight over to check on the horse.

It was a red-maned jujube horse, white from the forehead to the bridge of the nose and all four legs, with a saddle on its back and a leather-belted iron stirrup.

But for some reason, there was no look in his eyes, his head was sluggish, and he didn't even move when he saw him coming and rubbing.

"What about the owner of this horse?" Li Dan asked.

"There." Xiao Yi pointed with his hand, and Li Dan noticed that there was a guy half-lying in the grass behind the horse, snoring like thunder.

What kind of person can sleep like this while others are buying and selling their horses? Li Dan was a little stunned, looked at the man, and then looked back at the listless horse.

In this era, there is such a horse, which is more than owning a BMW bull in later generations.

It's a pity that in this small remote county town in the south with a dense network of rivers, when you meet a rural villager who can't read the goods, you will think that this big man who is too long is an ordinary horse.

Li Dan tilted his head to observe this person, and saw that he was wearing a blue cloth with arrow sleeves, and a pair of cloud-headed cowhide boots on his feet were all scratched, obviously injured by tall grass and shrubs when he was in a hurry, and even the cloth towel under his head was scraped into strips of cloth, which showed the embarrassment when walking.

In his arms, he held a scarred long-handled copper-headed chain flail, and a wooden sheath Yanling knife was hung around his waist.

In this dynasty, those who accompany the weapons must have a road guide license for the opening of the government, otherwise the guard can be detained and detained on the way.

This person dares to sleep in broad daylight with a weapon, first, he must have real skills, and secondly, it shows that he probably has some background.

"Hey, brother, don't sleep, Li Sanlang came to see your horse!"

Li Biao stepped forward and kicked the sole of the man's boot as if he was smart, but the man's snoring suddenly stopped, and he suddenly turned over and stood up, holding the chain flail and shouting:

"Which thief would dare to touch your grandfather?" Li Dan turned sideways, and bluffed Li Biao into hiding behind Li Dan with a "mom" sound.

"Brother Yang, slow down! This Li Sanlang, whose father was the former prefect of Dongchang Mansion in Shandong, came to see your horse. Yang Yi shouted from behind.

Only then did Li Dan know that this person was also surnamed Yang, and thought to himself that Xiao Yi probably climbed with him because of the same surname and won the trust of the other party, right?

"Oh?" Only then did the man pay attention to the young man dressed as a Confucian in front of him, and realized that his shackles were about to reach someone's chest, so he quickly withdrew it and hugged his fists:

"Reckless people, Shandong Yang is careless and polite, and he almost collided between his ignorance, please don't blame the son!"

Yang careless? Li Dan smiled when he heard this name: "It's me who disturbs my brother's rest, why blame?" ”

After speaking, he pointed to the horse: "I came to find Brother Xiao Yi for something, and I was attracted by your horse." I don't know why Brother Tai wants to sell horses, isn't it good to keep it for transportation? ”

"Uh, what do you say? I didn't get it. Yang Dayi said this, Li Dan immediately understood, and immediately changed the official dialect of Shandong and said it again.

"Well, who wants to sell good horses?" Yang Dayi smiled bitterly: "I'm not cornered."

Lu Yuhu bandits lost their way and took the wrong road, and they turned between the ditch and the lake for more than half a month, and were stolen by some thieves.

This business trip is really unlucky! Now if I don't sell my horse, I won't even have any money for food, and if I want to go back to the Northland, I'm afraid that I won't have any hope in this life! ”

Listening to his words, Li Dan felt that there was a story, and seeing that this person was bold, he became a friend, and said:

"Brother Yang is out of tolerance? Then this horse can't be sold, otherwise how can you talk back in front of Shangguan in the future? ”

That Yang smiled carelessly, remembered and said: "I just heard Xiaoyi say that your mansion was once the prefect of Dongchang?" ”

"Oh, my father was an official there before his death, and ten years ago, the old river (the old road of the Yellow River) flooded, and my father accidentally fell into the water while managing the embankment."

"Eh!" Yang Dayi's bronze bell-like eyes widened: "Isn't it Master Li Wencheng?" ”

"It's my father. Do you know that? ”

"Half of Shandong knows wow!" Yang Dayi hurriedly bowed: "I am a native of Gaotang Prefecture, I was fourteen years old that year, and my father was also on the construction site on the day of Master Li's accident.

Later, I heard that the emperor also gave his wife a title? Oh, my father also said that a southerner came all the way to Shandong to be an official, but we didn't keep it, and we couldn't live with other people's wives and children.

I didn't expect to see the descendants of Master Li today. Please stand up, I will bow to Master Li on behalf of my hometown! After saying that, he bowed deeply.

Li Dan didn't expect this rude person to be so polite. Because he worships his father, of course he can't avoid being worshiped by his son's surrogate father, so he has to stand there and worship him in a proper manner.

Then he picked him up and said, "In this way, my brother has suffered a great deal of sin, and he must be hungry." Walk, go, the sun is high, I invite my brother to eat a few glasses of water and wine to relieve fatigue. ”

Yang Dayi originally wanted to shirk, but as soon as he opened his mouth, his stomach screamed angrily.

Li Dan laughed and pulled him along, Yang Dayi had to smile awkwardly and ask him to wait, turned around and took out a batik cloth from the grass and picked it on the shackle.