Shu Yan breathed a long sigh of relief, looked up at the swallows in the sky, she bent her waist, and carefully looked for wild vegetables on the ground.

Mother-in-law, shepherd's cabbage, bracken, duck's feet, shallots.

She dug up a basket.

She was followed by a boy of seven or eight years old, who looked very pink, but his clothes were in tatters, and his shoes were torn.

The boy also followed his grandmother to dig wild vegetables, and his mouth was still muttering the scriptures he had learned in the school earlier.

The boy recited a sentence.

"Learn and learn, don't you say."

Shu Yan smiled.

"I haven't forgotten it."

The boy replied: "The teacher said that I was enlightened late, and I had already taken the children's examination to find my children, and if I went to the northwest, I might be able to take the exam." ”

Shu Yan stood up and turned his head to look at his little grandson with a serious face.

Hehe smiled.

"Our Yu'an is smart, and when we are ten years old, we will definitely be able to pass the exam."

Children in this era also have to study all day long, and children of seven or eight years old have their fame in their hearts.

Shu Yan led Chen Yu'an to a small pavilion in the middle of the mountain, the two settled and rested, and Chen Yu'an took out the gourd and handed it to his grandmother.

"Grandma, you drink water."

Shu Yan took the water, took a sip, and looked at the sea of clouds tumbling in the distance.

I think of many things in my past life.

Shu Yan was a workaholic in his last life, working overtime every day, and then he died of cancer when he reached middle age.

No objects, no offspring.

The original body she wore was about the same age as herself, but she was already a pampered old lady.

The old lady has already completed the major events in his life, and his children and grandchildren are full, but the reborn dynasty is not very good, and it seems that he is at the time of the handover of the two dynasties.

However, the old lady seems to have a bad relationship with her family and children, and she has been sick.

It happened that the Han army came to Jiangnan, and Shu Yan's cheap husband led a group of children to leave the old house and fled to the northwest, leaving only the old lady and a nephew to guard the old house.

In fact, it can be regarded as abandonment.

When the old lady was well, he left Hangzhou with the son of the side branch and a little grandson with a special identity and went to the northwest.

But as soon as the son of the side branch came out of the city gate, he was slashed by the rebels.

Even most of their homes were robbed, and those rebels took pity on the old lady and the little grandson Chen Yu'an, so they spared their lives.

Now these two people are on the way to escape, because they are penniless, they have to dig some wild vegetables in the mountains to satisfy their hunger.

Shu Yan took out a broken pot from the package, instructed Chen Yuan to get some stones, and set up a bonfire in this pavilion.

She instructed Chen Yu'an to light the fire, and she went to a nearby stream to wash vegetables.

Xu was pitiful to their loneliness, so he found a nest of bird eggs by the river, Shu Yan hurriedly put them in his arms, washed the vegetables, and returned to the pavilion.

Chen Yu'an has already burned the fire.

Shu Yan hurriedly cooked the wild vegetables and bird eggs, and after the meal was ready, he shared the food with his little grandson.

The two of them ate sweetly, but they never noticed a handsome little novice walking in the distance, this little novice was holding a Zen staff in his hand, and there was a woman with outstanding appearance behind him.

The woman's expression was dazed, her face was full of tears, but she didn't know what was sad.

When the little novice saw the smoke curling from the pavilion, he hurried over, presumably very hungry.

When he saw the food that was already clean in the pot, he immediately sighed.

The little novice was thick-skinned, so he asked bluntly, "Madam, do you still have food?" ”

Shu Yan shook his head.

"We also get wild vegetables from this field."

The woman cried even harder, and the little novice said, "Don't worry, the female benefactor, the little monk will look for it again." ”

Shu Yan hurriedly put away his pot and left here with his little grandson.

The two walked away, and Chen Yuan asked, "Grandma, why don't you rest for a while?" ”

Shu Yan said: "I'm afraid that those two people will have murderous intentions because of our pot." ”

When Chen Yu'an heard this, he was immediately silent.

The two walked to the evening, and finally went down the mountain to the official post road.

The post roads were crowded with refugees from the south.

This time the rebels attacked the southern city very tightly, and there was no rumor in advance, so many families did not have time to escape, and they were killed by the rebels.

Chen Yu'an held his grandmother's hand tightly, they had only been walking for a few days, but they were not too hungry, many refugees who had fled from Jingshi were already hungry and inhuman, and they had already collapsed on the side of the road and were eaten by wild dogs.

Shu Yan covered Chen Yuan's eyes, and couldn't bear to let such a young child see this.

Shu Yan said softly: "Chen Yuan, when we get to the northwest, we don't have to be afraid." ”

Chen Yu'an nodded and followed Grandma forward.

In the middle of the night, many people stopped and pulled to the shade of the trees on the side of the road.

Shu Yan took out his extremely tattered bedding roll, spread it on the ground, and slept with his grandson.

At the time of the third watch, it rained in the world, Shu Yan was woken up by Chen Yuan, and the people around him were complaining, Shu Yan put the quilt on top of his head, hugged Chen Yuan, and said softly: "Spring rain is as expensive as oil, it is a good thing, and next year's harvest will be good." ”

Shu Yan's words fell, and an old man sighed beside him.

"If you want a good harvest, but you also need to have people who farm the land, if there is a big chaos today, and the displaced people are everywhere, how can anyone grow food?"

Shu Yan looked at the person who spoke with his old eyes, only to see an old man about his age nesting under a tree not far away.

The old man was dressed in tattered clothes, but his temperament was indeed good.

"Then I will find a place, plant the land, and feed me and my little grandson, and I will be worthy of this God's gift."

Shu Yan was just 36 years old in his last life when he was terminally ill.

Reliving a life, although he is old and decrepit, but in the end he can pick up a life, but it can be regarded as God's grace.

The old man smiled, but because the air was too cold at night, he coughed.

Chen Yu'an hurriedly took out the gourd from the baggage and handed it to the old man.

"Grandpa, you drink water."

The old man took the gourd and said with a smile: "It's a well-bred child, but it's enlightened?" ”

Chen Yuan said: "I have learned the Analects. ”

The old man's eyes lit up and he smiled: "It's not bad, if it's ...... That's it, now a car of knowledge can't be exchanged for a steamed bun. ”

The old man was a little depressed, and turned his head to sleep.

It was drizzling and it didn't stop until morning.

But the rain stopped, and the rebels came.

An army of yellow turban horses rode up on fast horses, like a leader.

The leader, Lerma, stood on both sides of the post station and said: "The general has an order, and he orders you to go north for thirty miles to serve the river service." ”

After the leader finished speaking, a quarrel broke out in the crowd.

The river conscription was the most severe of the conscriptions, nine out of ten people died, and they still had a way to survive in the north.

When the leader saw the crowd rioting, he became angry and casually cut off the head of a refugee man.

Blood gushed two feet high, and the family members around the man screamed in shock, and the refugees who had gathered together began to flee in all directions.

Shu Yan hugged his little grandson and trembled, and the old man beside her said sharply: "What are you doing in a daze? Run! ”