He really didn't expect that after being nervous all night, he would pass the test so smoothly.

"Brother has worked hard, how many years have you been here with that big brother outside?"

"How many years?"

Hearing Yu Zhengqing's words, the old servant's thoughts seemed to drift away, trying to recall, and couldn't help frowning slightly, and the wrinkles on his forehead deepened.

"Brother Zhuang, why are you confused again, you have been forty-one years, and I have been twenty-three years!"

The younger servant, holding two oversized skewers of barbecue, walked in, and happened to see the old servant looking like he was trying to recall.

After laughing, he sent one of the skewers of barbecue in his hand to the old servant, and couldn't help but joke!

"Yes, yes, yes! It's been forty-one years, it's been forty-one years, I'm twenty years old here, at that time we were more than a hundred people, and now this side has its own faction, those who came here voluntarily from the three religions and nine streams, but they have nothing to do with us, those who have been exiled here, will not quietly slip away, after all, ordinary people can't get out of the nine-fold mountain at all, even if they have the ability to go out, their wives and children can't go out, so they stayed, for this reason, slowly, the court withdrew the others, and the remaining brothers died one after another, There are still two of us left. ”

Listening to Old Man Zhuang's words, Yu Zhengqing admired from the bottom of his heart for a while!

"You have been here for most of your lives, and your lives have been dedicated to the court, and you are the most amazing people."

Listening to Yu Zhengqing's words, the two looked at each other and laughed again!

"Yes, most of our lives have been dedicated to this wild land, to the imperial court, and our lives are like this. By the way, what's your last name? Did you bring us anything this time? We haven't sent three months' salary, save enough for a year, when you go back, remember to go from the post station, help us send this year's salary, send home. ”

Salary?

Yu Zhengqing was directly stunned!

How much is the monthly salary of these two servants, he doesn't know at all, how can he give it?

"I just took over this time, and I haven't gotten used to too many things, and I haven't reminded you above, so I forgot about the two of you, and the next time I come over, I'll bring them together. But I'll bring some white rice and white noodles and I'll give them to my buddies later. ”

"Okay, we've been eating rice and noodles for two months, and we want to go to the lockdown to buy it, and it's really risky, this day we barbecue meat, we eat our mouths full of bubbles, just cook some white rice porridge to eat, it's also good."

When the old man Zhuang heard that although he had forgotten about it, there was still white rice and white noodles, and he was in a better mood.

But hearing his words, Yu Zhengqing's heart was somewhat uncomfortable.

To tell the truth, if he hadn't been exiled here, he really didn't know that in this wild place, there are still two people who are so persistent, who have been away from home for decades, have no land to spend with money, and have been staying here alone.

Think about the powerful people in the capital, the wine pond meat forest, the wind and the snow, and these two people who have dedicated their lives to the imperial court, but in this bitter cold place, lonely and hard, but they have always persevered.

They are even more bitter here than those who come to exile.

Those exiled criminals, if they have the ability to live, at least there is hope, and when suddenly the emperor gives amnesty to the world, he says that they may not have the possibility of going back, but what about them?

It was as if they had long been forgotten, no one remembered their existence, and the court did not replace them with a new person......

The hardships of the people at the bottom, those powerful people who are high, who can remember?

"The two of you haven't been home all these years, so you haven't thought about it, and you want to find some way to go back? After all, there must be relatives in the two families who haven't seen each other for decades, right? ”

"Think, why don't you want to? I joined the army at the age of sixteen, and when I left home, I was still a teenager, and my parents, brothers and sisters were still there, but who knew that the years had passed, and there was no hope of returning home once I left? ”

The two looked at each other lonely for too long, and as soon as Yu Zhengqing opened the conversation, they looked a little unable to stop.

Old man Zhuang said as he spoke, moistening his eyes.

And the younger officials on the side, tears flowed down their eyes.

"I'm forty-three years old this year, I joined the army at the age of eighteen, and my family has been married, but I have been arranged here in circles, except for Liang Chao who came before and helped us bring some family letters and money back, and I have no contact with the family, my fiancée is probably married to someone else a long time ago, and even now she has children and grandchildren, right?"

In ancient times, people became parents early, thinking about the people they thought about day and night, and the tears of the young servants fell down with a snap.

Looking at him like this, Old Man Zhuang slapped him on the shoulder, and suddenly straightened his tone!

"What are you crying about, you see that Liang Chao can be transferred, maybe you are also possible, didn't you say that before joining the army, your mother told you fortunes, and you are rich and infinite in this life? He also said that you must be full of children and grandchildren, only forty-three years old, you have a chance, but the old man and I, are all this age, if you die one day, you have to find a place for the old man and me to face my hometown, and bury it for me! ”

"Don't, Brother Zhuang, don't die, if you die, if the court doesn't send someone down, I'll be alone."

When the young official heard this, he wiped the tears from his face and said hurriedly.

Old man Zhuang laughed, "Okay, then let the old man live for another twenty years and accompany you for twenty years!" ”

After the optimistic old man Zhuang laughed, he suddenly looked to the side, Yu Zhengqing, who was a little infected by the emotions of the two.

"Little brother, I'm smiling at you, the two of us have nothing to do all day long, except for homesickness, there's nothing to do."

Yu Zhengqing came back to his senses and waved his hand with a smile, "Human nature, understand and understand." ”

Thinking of the hardships of the two, Yu Zhengqing hurriedly took out the silver ticket that he had planned to save again, and directly gave one to each of them.

"By the way, the identity of the exiles in this line is not simple, the people of the Yu family, now there are two daughters in the capital, one is the princess, and the other is Mrs. Shangshu, they have a lot of points, these two hundred taels of silver, they asked me to give them to the two."

"Ouch, it turns out that these people are not small, this relationship is good, although this month did not arrive in time, but with this hundred taels of silver, plus the month of money saved before, send it back to the family, they can also live a good life."

Old man Zhuang took the silver ticket, and couldn't help but carefully check the silver ticket with a spring on his face, until the amount on the silver ticket was determined, his smile became bigger and bigger.

It's as if the sadness just now no longer exists.

"Yes! If it's Liang Chao's kid, I don't know how much I have to hide, we haven't encountered such a good thing for many years, or brother, you are on the road, and the silver of their filial piety will really be given to us. ”