Time goes back to the thirties and forties of the last century, and the big landlord Sun Yuqing of Majiadang.

The southernmost part of Majiadang, the market in the north, and the marshland in Majiadang in the south.

In the marshland, there is a big river in the north and south, known as the Qianlong River. Starting from this river, it reaches Huangcheng in the east, Huai'an Drum Tower in the west, and Hongze Lake in the southwest. Straight south to face Baoying Lake, south to Taizhou, Gaogang, into the Yangtze River......

The waterway is called accessible in all directions in Majiadang.

The only dry road, there is a three-zhang wide bend all the way to the north, leading to Yilin Town, which is known as the small Shanghai in northern Jiangsu.

The original inhabitants of Majiadang are fishermen, and many years ago, it was just a reed beach where fishermen's fishing boats rested.

Over time, it became a foothold for fishermen. Fishmongers who came from dry roads came here early in the morning without riding bicycles and riding horses to harvest fish. They sometimes bring grain, cloth and all kinds of daily necessities to the tidal flats and fishermen to exchange all kinds of fresh fish and shrimp, and then go to the market to earn silver taels.

Year after year, the inconspicuous tidal flats are filled with small fishing boats and horse-drawn carts of fishmongers, on which improvised tents are set up one after another, touching together with reeds. In order to facilitate the transaction, the people on the small fishing boats, each family, set aside one person to live in a simple reed hut and squatted to watch the arrival of the fishmonger's carriage.

And the fishmongers also set up reed greenhouses in the same way on the tidal flats for convenience.

Fishmongers and fishermen on small fish boats slowly built up the tidal flats bigger and bigger, and there were more and more people.

Gradually, the tidal flats became bazaars, and the reed-made greenhouses were replaced by simple wooden houses in the near future, until they were replaced by bricks and tiles. One or two people from a small fishing boat went up to the beach, and in the end, the people on the small fishing boat had a boat to go into the water and a house on the shore for the convenience of selling fish, which became a kind of expectation of the fishermen.

The fishmongers have long been doing business for the people on the small fish boats, and they also divide the homes in the market in half.

A family, at least one person settles in the tidal flats. There is a family that collects fish on the tidal flats, which is enough to sell in the market for a day. Therefore, every household who sells fish in the small Shanghai market always has a person or a family collecting fish in the tidal flats. The tidal flats have grown from one or two households to hundreds of households.

Since the tidal flat extends to the edge of the reedang lake, the first family living in the tidal flat was a family surnamed Ma on a small fishing boat.

Therefore, people habitually call such tidal flats Majiadang. Since then, the tidal flat has become Majiadang. The Sun family is the fourth family of Majiadang original residents who went ashore from a small fishing boat, and it should be said that Sun Yuqing's ancestors were also fishermen on small fishing boats. Just because of fishing and selling money, the family is rich. Later, a son was good-looking, and everyone saw that he was a talent since he was a child.

So he gave everything he had and sent him to discuss a private school. Ten years of cold window, went to the capital to catch the exam.

Live up to expectations and raise people in high school. When a group of people and horses sounded the gong to open the way and came to Majiadang to announce the day, the entire Majiadang position cheered. In order to glorify their ancestors, the Sun family built the Sun family mansion on the current Sun Yuqing's old homestead. All the people related to the Sun family live in the elegant lobby.

That was the recognition of the Sun family by the Ma family, not for the person who was admitted to the exam.

He was in the capital and never returned.

He never returned to his hometown to come to Majiadang, but it never affected the love of the Ma family's people for the Sun family. Sun Yuqing, when he was fourteen years old, inherited the heir of the Sun family's old homestead. It's strange, the Sun family is a treasure and an outstanding person, why did the 14-year-old Sun Yuqing become the master of the Sun family of Ma Jiadang? It's only to blame his parents for the untimely death, not this blessing.

They are of the same clan as Sun Mingyuan, who was raised in high school, and the old house of the Sun family was built with funds for Sun Mingyuan.

The Ma family worked hard and sweated to build it together. originally wanted his children and grandchildren to enjoy their old age in Majiadang.

Anyway, from the formation of the carriage to Majiadang, it will not take a year, maybe half a year.

A round trip is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Therefore, whenever Sun Mingyuan misses his hometown, he sends a fast horse back to Yinliang as a thank you and return to the people surnamed Sun in his hometown. Although Fu Lu was rich, during Sun Mingyuan's lifetime, he never gave less funding to the people surnamed Sun of Ma Jiadang, but because of the poor living conditions in the countryside, the average life expectancy was only 70 years. At the age of thirty, the Lord rejoices in wealth, and goes and comes diligently.

Sun Yuqing's parents passed away in their 40s, and when he was 14 years old, he became the youngest heir to Sun Mingyuan's family. The Sun family's mansion, which covers an area of one acre of land, under the auspices of a 14-year-old child, no one could have predicted.

But everyone knows that in Sun Mingyuan's family, there is a little woman sent from the capital.

The woman is as beautiful as a fairy and has excellent talents.

Piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, dancing knives and guns, he and she almost know everything. Riding a horse and archery, dancing and swordsmanship, it can be called both civil and military. Sun Yuqing has been exposed to the woman since she was a child, and later people learned that the woman was Sun Mingyuan's last concubine. Because she was not recognized by anyone, Sun Mingyuan had to arrange her in Majiadang's hometown.

The woman is not very old, about the same age as Sun Yuqing's mother.

But the dance and writing are ink, and the eighteen kinds of martial arts made Sun Yuqing's parents dumbfounded when they were alive. Therefore, when Sun Yuqing's parents passed away one after another, the heavy responsibility of supporting Sun Yuqing fell on the woman. Like many northerners, the woman's nickname is Xiao Nanfeng, and her real name is Xiao Lanfen.

The gold, silver and jewelry sent back by Sun Mingyuan from the capital were handed over to Xiao Nanfeng every time, including the family letters, which were also read by Xiao Nanfeng.

It's no wonder that he gave it to Sun Yuqing's parents, who are authentic fishermen who haven't been to private school for a day, and read out the letters.

I don't even know how to write my own name, do you think the two of them can recognize each of the letters? Thanks to Xiao Nanxiang, otherwise Sun Yuqing would not know a single big character. Because Sun Yuqing's parents were born in a scholarly family, they did the work of fishing and drying nets. This person looks the same, but his preferences are different.

Sun Yuqing's parents are illiterate and prefer to read. Fishing is the greatest joy for both of them, so they do one thing for the rest of their lives. Fishing with nets and selling fish for silver, rice, white flour and cloth has become the pursuit of both of them in their lives. After having Xiao Nanxiang, Sun Yuqing had hope. How?

It's not because Sun Yuqing doesn't like to follow her parents on the boat to fish and get off the boat to sell fish.

He didn't want to get on the boat, so he put him on the shore.

No, leave it to Xiao Nanfeng to take care of, Xiao Nanfeng has no children and no daughters in his life, and he is worried that there is no one to accompany him. With Sun Yuqing, Xiao Nanfeng has something to do. In the morning, the rooster crows and starts to get up to practice martial arts. In the evening, I took Sun Yuqing to practice. Horseback archery, sword dancing and knife playing. With long guns and short guns, two cannons fired at once, Xiao Nanfeng trained Sun Yuqing more carefully than his own disciples.

It's better not to be biological.

It stands to reason that relying on the mountains to eat the mountains depends on the water to eat the water. Sun Yuqing leaned on Majiadang, it should be learning to hunt, catch birds, catch fish and shrimp. The richest natural resources in Majiadang are the thousands of reeds and the vast reeds that cannot be seen at a glance. In addition to the inexhaustible supply of small fish and shrimp here, the wild geese and swans flying in the sky are tens of thousands of rows and rows every day, and rows pass overhead.

Hares, pheasants, wild ducks, and horses can be seen everywhere in the water running on the ground.

At night, you can hear the frightened "clucking" of pheasants in your sleep. The owl's "cooing" strange cry came from the reeds of Majiadang, and it could be heard for dozens of miles. The barking of dogs caused by creepy weasels stealing chickens, and the noise of people chasing weasels, happen almost every once in a while.

All of these are scenes that Sun Yuqing hates.

He likes to be quiet and has a similar personality to Little South Wind. Someone once jokingly said in front of Xiao Nanfeng and Sun Yuqing's parents: "Ah, look at your Sun Yuqing, which thing looks like the two of you?" It seems that Xiao Nanfeng was born, not only the faces are similar, but the personalities of the two people are also very similar.

Xiao Nanfeng, could it be that Sun Yuqing's true drop was born by your Sun Mingyuan and you! ”

Xiao Nanfeng also felt a little interesting, Sun Mingyuan and Sun Yuqing, who couldn't beat the side with eight sticks, were extremely similar in personality and hobbies, and their biological parents' personalities were incompatible with Xiao Nanfeng. On the surface, Sun Yuqing's biological parents are lukewarm to Sun Yuqing. They would only teach him to fish and dry nets, and at a certain age they would detain him on a boat and take him to fish.

When Sun Yuqing could walk, he refused to follow the two of them on the boat to fish anyway.

It's strange to say, I heard my parents say that Sun Yuqing is a twin. He had a younger sister who was always left on the shore to attend a private school. People are so strange that it stands to reason that men should choose to study, and girls should choose to embroider threads and thread needles. Large families, learning piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Practicing martial arts, teaching horse-drawn bow archery. Sun Yuqing's parents did the opposite.

Let their girls learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and let Sun Yuqing follow them to the fishing boat to learn how to fish and dry nets.

I can't figure it out, and no one asks. Don't go through the suffering of others, Moti is kind. Sun Yuqing's family affairs, what are outsiders going to talk about. Anyway, they are all born to their family, and Sun Yuqing is not brought here, whether they learn to fish, learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, they are all their own children, and parents have the right to make arrangements for them.

The words of the parents' order to match the concubine were prevalent in that era.

Sun Yuqing's parents were short-lived, 14-year-old Sun Yuqing inherited the family property, and his sister gave her to someone else's family before her parents died. For this reason, Sun Yuqing once had a big quarrel with her seriously ill parents. The crowd also felt incredible, people are dying, and their hearts are good.

Although the old couple died one after another, the two of them never handed over Sun Yuqing's sister to Xiao Nanxiang.

Instead, he gave Sun Yuqing's sister to his mother's aunt's house as a maid, but he lost Sun Yuqing to Xiao Nanxiang. The huge Sun family's property, why didn't they leave one for their daughter, but all of it for Sun Yuqing? Do you have to give away your daughter? usually spoils her so much, but before she died, she was thrown to someone else's house, why are they afraid of Xiao Nanxiang?

What's the secret......

Under the care of Xiao Nanxiang, 14-year-old Sun Yuqing thrived.

At the age of seventeen, Sun Yuqing was a man. Seven feet tall, hunting on horseback. Pull the bow to shoot geese, cast nets to fish, Sun Yuqing doesn't need to teach what to do, take a look and understand it. It's just a gun and a sword dance, which requires Xiao Nanxiang to point with her fingers. Xiao Nanxiang couldn't figure out why she was so close to Sun Yuqing, the child, and no one gave her an explanation.

However, Xiao Nanxiang and Sun Mingyuan had a child.

When the child was born, the eldest lady told her that Xiao Nanxiang gave birth to a stillborn baby. She didn't believe that she wanted to see the midwife who delivered her baby. After being confirmed, Xiao Nanxiang cried bitterly. Because Xiao Nanxiang gave birth to a stillborn baby, it was called unlucky in the past. So, Xiao Nanxiang was driven out of Sun Mansion because he became an unlucky person in Sun Mingyuan's mansion.

Thanks to Sun Mingyuan, she was arranged to go to Majiadang, otherwise Xiao Nanxiang would have been on the streets.

When she was 19 years old, Sun Yuqing really handled all the things in the Sun family's compound. Xiao Nanxiang, as his teacher, stands behind. At that time, Ma Jiadang was rampant, and bandits were rampant.

In the thousands of reeds, there are guerrillas, heroes in the green forest, and robbers. Due to the proximity to the water, the fleet of ships engaged in commercial transport is increasing day by day, and the busy waterways are thriving. The fleets of ships coming and going from the south to the north, loaded with goods and grain from all directions, crisscrossed the vast golden waterway of Majiadang.

The reason why it is called a golden waterway is not because of the east-west north-south traffic of Majiadang, except for relying on large wooden boats for transportation, there is no dry road to reach directly.

Since it is a busy golden waterway, there are people who covet the business here.

As a result, there are people of unknown origin in Ma Jiadang every day. There is nothing to do on the streets, and you can throw a stick at you and kill a few of them. At the beginning, this group of people did not attract the attention of Ma Jiadang Sun Yuqing and their family. Later, after the boat was robbed and the people were wiped out, Sun Yuqing's business was directly affected.

The golden waterway, the bandits who had never appeared before, actually appeared in the place where Ma Jiadang went to Wujindang, which made Sun Yuqing unable to sleep.

He is a killer and wants to purge the Golden Age. Out of respect for her teacher, Sun Yuqing told Xiao Nanxiang about it. "Master, the child has something to ask for. In the Golden Age, bandits appeared and unscrupulously carried out public robberies against my grandson's family. Killing people and overselling goods made my grandson's transport ship daunted by the golden age.

Therefore, the disciple is ready to compete with the strength of the bandits and robbers.

Tell the teacher, just in case, if the disciple is not stabbed by a traitor, then there will be no successor to the great cause of my grandson's family. The traitor and the teacher treat me as if I were my own child, and I have the same affection for the teacher as a mother and son. In case of a miss, this blockbuster will be handed over to the master. Lao Sun's family can't do without management housekeeping talents, so please ask the master to accept the invitation of the apprentice. After speaking, Sun Yuqing knelt on her knees and hugged her forehead with her fists.

Seeing this, Xiao Nanxiang hurriedly got up to help.

"Hurry up, apprentice, just promise for the teacher. It's just that the Sun family's family business is so huge, and without the heir of the Sun family, Liwei, how can I be an outsider. Whether the apprentice takes the apprentice as a teacher before leaving, or whether I can guide the apprentice when needed. Let your worries be nipped in the bud. Wouldn't it be better to eliminate its hidden dangers before they break out. ”

Sun Yuqing listened to the master's words, and he couldn't ask for it.

I'm just afraid that if I say it, I will be disrespectful to the master. Now, the master himself said that he was in the right place.

He stood up, hugged his master's waist with a smile, and said excitedly, "Thank you, Master, the apprentice has this intention." It's just that it's inconvenient to export, lest the master be unhappy. Now, the master himself said it, and the apprentice didn't say much except gratitude. In this case, then please deny an auspicious day of the zodiac, and we will raise an army to fight the bandits. ”

Xiao Nanxiang nodded, although she didn't know why Sun Mingyuan sent her to the south.

Leaving Xiao Nanxiang in the suburbs of the capital in the north is unknown to anyone, and it will be calm if he escapes the eldest wife. There is no need to send yourself to Ma Jiadang's hometown, thousands of miles away, could it be that Sun Mingyuan has other plans? Xiao Nanxiang didn't have time to think about this, the moment she saw Sun Yuqing for the first time, she knew that she had come to Majiadang to call it right.

Although he knew that Sun Yuqing was the child of Sun Mingyuan's younger brother's family, she invisibly liked this child.

Getting along with Sun Yuqing, she devoted all her life's energy to Sun Yuqing. Xiao Nanxiang knew that since Sun Mingyuan sent her to Majiadang, thousands of miles away from the capital, it indicated that Ye Luo would return to his roots, and he, Sun Mingyuan, would sooner or later return to Ye Luo's roots and return to the fields. If her idea is valid, then Sun Mingyuan still has a deep affection for his Xiao Nanxiang.