The rooster crows three times, and the sky is bright.

The shopkeeper Liu of the Yuelai Inn in Luting County, yawned sleepily, and walked slowly from the backyard to the front hall.

Before he could enter the door, he heard a noise in the front hall, and as soon as he stepped into the front hall, he saw a tall figure in the hall, holding a piece of linen cloth and wiping the table and chair with his head down.

Twelve neatly arranged tables and chairs, each glistening with water......

"Good morning, shopkeeper!"

The tall figure heard the footsteps, raised a delicate face that looked no more than ten years old, and greeted Shopkeeper Liu with a smile.

Facing his energetic smiling face, the thin old face of the shopkeeper Liu couldn't help but smile, and nodded warmly: "It's still early for you, little brother!" ”

After a pause, he asked curiously, "Aren't you going to visit relatives in the countryside today?" Wang Dali's lazy thing? ”

The tall figure did not stop wiping the tables and chairs, and replied with a smile: "There are many people entering the city these days, and there is a large flow of passengers, and Brother Xiao Wang can't be busy alone......

When Shopkeeper Liu heard this, the smile on his face gradually disappeared, and he interrupted him angrily: "You don't have to say good things for that lazy thing, as long as he has your three points of eyesight, we will burn high incense, if you didn't relieve him yesterday, maybe there would be a big mess, that is, his father and we are old acquaintances......"

The tall figure just smiled and continued to wipe the tables and chairs, not answering his words.

The chattering shopkeeper Liu stared at his serious work, and the more he looked at it, the more satisfied he became, he was literate and hyphenated, had work in his eyes, was quick with his hands and feet, and was meticulous and generous in receiving people and things......

It's also honest and down-to-earth, without half a point of youthful frizz and restlessness!

Where can you find such a young man?

It's really a good intention!

After walking around the front hall twice with satisfaction, Shopkeeper Liu suddenly patted his thigh and said: "I almost forgot to tell you, we met Lizheng yesterday, he said that your household registration has entered the county household, counting the days, it should be in this month or two!" ”

The tall figure was stunned, came back to his senses and pursed the corners of his mouth vigorously, put down the broom in his hand and walked to the shopkeeper Liu in three steps and two steps, and made a very solemn gesture: "The great kindness of the shopkeeper, Yang Ge remembers it in his heart, and he dare not forget it without teeth. ”

He is not an innocent young man who does not understand the world, and the customs and customs between him have long been different from the two eyes of the first time he arrived.

He knew that although the household registration system of the Great Wei had been loosened in recent years due to the increasing number of runaways.

But it is definitely not a trivial matter that can be easily changed by moving his mouth casually.

At least a "foreigner" like him, who has no relatives and no reason, no long things, and doesn't even understand customs and feelings, even if he goes to the yamen to knock out his brains, he will definitely not be able to knock out a household registration.

For the sake of his household registration, Shopkeeper Liu must have made a lot of money and a lot of favors......

Not to mention, if it wasn't for Shopkeeper Liu picking him up and returning him to the Yuelai Inn, he would have frozen to death on the street if he didn't starve to death.

No one in Da Wei would give him a bowl of hot rice for the sake of his college diploma......

Shopkeeper Liu was pleased to help Yang Ge up, patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "People who have read books speak well, which is like Wang Dali's ramming goods, and he will only say 'I am my father'!" ”

After a pause, he sighed lightly and said, "You said that you are not the reckless offspring whose heart is higher than the sky, do you have a household registration, and our family can still lack you a bite to eat?" Take 10,000 steps back, even if the official family checks the fugitive households and finds your head in the future, a little money will pass, and it will be over......"

"Now that you have settled down, you have to pay taxes, pay miscellaneous taxes, and serve in labor, and now the world is not very peaceful, and the official family may not know when you will have to smoke Ding, like you are a young and strong and unrelated and clanless seedling, which is the official family's favorite strong man, really have three long and two short, and even save money for mats!"

"Why do you think you're doing this?"

From his own point of view, he really couldn't understand Yang Ge's choice.

But the matter of household registration was the only thing that Yang Ge had asked for help since he entered the Yuelai Inn for more than half a year, and he really couldn't bear to refuse.

Yang Ge smiled and said softly, "I want to have a home......"

Shopkeeper Liu glanced at him and said helplessly: "Okay, it's not too early, you should get out of the city quickly!" ”

Yang Ge has to go to the countryside every month, and he has long been used to it.

Yang Ge nodded: "Then I will work hard for you today, and I will rush back before the city gate is locked." ”

Shopkeeper Liu shook his head: "Don't be in such a hurry, you can come back before dusk tomorrow." ”

Yang Ge also shook his head slightly, but didn't say anything more, pushed out a wheelbarrow from the corner of the front hall, waved his hand to Shopkeeper Liu, and went straight out.

Shopkeeper Liu chased the sacks piled up on the hill on the wheelbarrow, watched Yang Ge leave quickly, and muttered with emotion in his heart: 'The wages stuffed to this kid a few days ago are all spent here......

After Yang Ge's back disappeared at the end of the long street, a young man covering half of his swollen cheeks walked from the backyard into the front hall in his clothes, and said vaguely: "Shopkeeper, it's time to eat morning food." ”

Shopkeeper Liu was furious, picked up the broom and hit: "Let you eat, let you eat......"

……

Yang Ge pushed the wheelbarrow and followed the flow of people out of the county.

After leaving the county seat, he followed the fairly flat horse road all the way to the southeast, and after a while, he saw a wide river that looked like a jade belt in the distance.

This big river is called Bianhe, and it is an important section of the North-South Grand Canal of the Great Wei Dynasty.

Through the Bianhe River, you can go straight to Luoyang, Shangjing, go to the north, go up to Yanyun Beiping, and go south to Yuhang, south of the Yangtze River, which can be called one of the political, military and economic arteries of the Great Wei.

At this moment, there are several cargo ships sailing against the current on the Bianhe River, and the sound of the trumpets of the slender boats on both sides of the river bank is fierce and magnificent, one after another, attracting many passers-by to stop and watch.

Yang Ge also slowed down, looked at the sparkling river fixedly, and only retracted his gaze for a long time before continuing to push the wheelbarrow to hurry.

He followed the riverbank, along the river, all the way to the lower reaches of the Bianhe River......

After turning a few forks in the road, the road became more and more rugged, but Yang Ge's steps became more and more brisk, and the heavy wheelbarrow was as light as a lamp grass in his hands.

When the pedestrians on the road were sparse, he directly pushed the wheelbarrow and began to run wildly, until the cast iron parts at the junction of the wheel and the axle were ground out of sparks!

As the sun approached noon, Yang Ge finally arrived at the destination of his trip.

"Squeak."

He gently pushed open the simple courtyard door made of small sticks, and was about to speak, when he saw a lean old man with a sparse beard and a neat patched short, sitting in the courtyard, skillfully mending a worn-out fishing net with a shuttle.

When Yang Ge saw the old man, a heartfelt smile slowly appeared on his face.

When the old man saw Yang Ge, he sighed heavily.

"You, why are you here again!"

The old man slowly got up on the ground, picked up a dusty sweat towel from the stool next to him, and greeted him with complaint and distress: "Didn't you tell you not to come again?" My old man is almost buried in a handful of loess to the root of his neck, how much can he eat and how much can he wear? With that extra money, how good it would be to save up for an aunt and a home in the future......"

Yang Ge took the sweat towel in the old man's hand, wiped the sweat while unloading the sack on the wheelbarrow, and said with a relaxed smile: "Look at what you said, how much do I eat and how much I wear?" ”

When the old man heard Yang Ge's words, he couldn't help but sigh again.

Yang Ge ignored the old man's sad eyes, and carried the heavy sacks into the low room with his hands and feet, untied the bags, and poured the yellow, orange and orange wheat grains into the grain bucket.

After placing the grain, he found a woodcutter that was about to rust in the stove house, and in the persuasion of the old man, "You don't care" and "Rest for a while", he went out and dragged the wheelbarrow and strode away.

It was not until the sun began to set westward that he returned to the small courtyard with a cart of firewood, neatly stacked and much taller than the others.

"It's been very busy in the inn these days, I have to go back early today, you burn these firewoods first, and I'll come ......back in half a month."

"When I entered the village, Zhang Laozhuan and Ma Dog saw me coming, if you come to fight the autumn wind, don't worry about the food, give them a little, they dare to kick their noses in the face, don't fight with them, wait for me to ......come back and clean them up."

"It's still the same sentence, if you want to have any headache and brain fever, you can ask someone to go to the Yuelai Inn in Luting County to find me, and say that I will give them money for running errands, so that no one will come......"

Yang Ge placed the firewood while chattering to the old man.

The old man kept wandering around him, and he couldn't interject when he opened his mouth several times, until Yang Ge was about to finish placing the firewood, he seemed to suddenly remember something, took Yang Ge's hand and said, "Don't be busy with your work first, wait for me, I'll show you something!" ”

After saying that, he hurried to the back room.

Yang Ge didn't know why, but he still waited in place.

After a while, the old man came out, stood inside the door, hid behind his back with one hand, beckoned to him with the other, and looked around the courtyard with his eyes as if he were a thief.

Seeing this, Yang Ge couldn't help but smile and said, "Let's say okay first, if it's a treasure like an heirloom, I don't want it!" ”

The old man glared, and beckoned to him with some eagerness: "Don't talk nonsense, come here!" ”

Yang Ge clapped his hands in confusion and leaned over.

After making sure that there was no one around the courtyard, the old man mysteriously took out the objects behind him...... But it was a fist-sized cloth bag wrapped in I don't know how many layers.

Yang Ge glanced at the old man suspiciously, and then looked down at the cloth bag.

The old man carefully lifted the cloth bag layer by layer, and a ray of sunlight slanted in from the eaves, reflecting a wisp of yellow-orange-orange golden light, which dazzled Yang Ge's eyes.

"It's ......"

Yang Ge's eyes widened suddenly, and a large amount of mist suddenly rose in his eyes.

The old man untied the last layer of fabric, revealing the two objects wrapped in the middle.

A string of pure necklaces with a strong social atmosphere, to say the least, and a Buddha pendant in the middle of the necklace.

A ...... that includes layers of rust and seems to have been ravaged by countless years Casio Big Clay King dial.

Looking at these two objects, Yang Ge was stunned for a second, then came back to his senses and took the cloth bag suddenly, covering his heart tightly, tears bursting out of his eyes.

This necklace was a birthday gift from his mother when he was thirty-three years old, saying that he was light and frail, and that he could be pressed by wearing some precious metals.

This watch was a birthday gift from his girlfriend when he was thirty-four years old, hoping that he would remember to go home early no matter where he went.

Pity......

The golden Buddha necklace failed to hold down his body.

The big mud king watch can't show the way home.

When the old man saw his appearance, he breathed a sigh of relief and sighed lightly: "I know that this must be your object." ”

With tears in his eyes, Yang Ge stretched out a hand to hold the old man's rough and thin hand, and hissed, "You... You don't want to die! ”

He had been to the backwater many times later, but he couldn't find these two things.

It is conceivable how many times this old man, who has to walk on crutches, drilled in that backwater repeatedly in order to help him find these two objects!

The old man proudly puffed up a mouthful of sparse teeth, and said with a smile: "I have worshiped the Dragon King for most of my life, so going into the water is like going home!" ”

After a pause, he shook his head with some regret and said, "It's a pity that I still didn't find the iron box bigger than the carriage you said, maybe it was too big and was washed away by the undercurrent......

Yang Ge waved his hand again and again, wanting to say, "No need to look for it", but he couldn't spit out a word.

The old man sighed, smoothed his vest with one hand, supported him with the other, and sat down.

I happened to be sitting in the ...... Next to the broken fishing net.

Seeing the broken fishing net, the old man remembered something, and asked softly along Yang Ge's vest: "Son, do you still want to die now?" ”

Sensing the old man's gaze, Yang Ge also turned his head to look at the broken fishing net beside him.

Eight months ago, the old man used this broken fishing net to fish him out of the Bianhe River...... Twice!

He was silent for a long time before he finally shook his head and said hoarsely, "I don't want to die." ”

I just haven't figured out how to live yet......