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The sky has just dawned, and in this season in Mangguo, the wind is already quite cool. The thin layer of snow on the dirt road makes the road a little difficult, but Mangguo doesn't care about it at all, because the snow will melt when the sun rises.

The first rooster crow sang to the earth, and the gate of the west city gate was opened, and the towering gate seemed to be higher than the sun that had not yet risen. As the gates were opened, the crowd that had been waiting for a long time entered the city under the watchful eyes of the guards. Mango is located in the middle of the continent, its city is not very wide, and there are many families living in the wild, these people are farmers on the one hand, and some are merchants who come and go to buy goods, because of the excessive flow of people, many people choose to come here in advance to wait.

This was in charge of policing a group of people wearing domestically made light armor, which was famous for its lightness and resistance, but it was expensive and had not yet been popularized throughout the country. And this imperial capital doorman has this treatment. The combination of light armor and fierce posture makes it look like a bronze statue standing upright from a distance.

"Report to the city guard, the gate is officially opened, and the next group of guards will be replaced, a total of twelve guards, thirty-six patrols, and the city guard will teach you!" A man in white cloth took the book handed over by the guard, and presented it to the genuine protector next to him.

On this day, Dong Qing came here early to wait, because of his poor sleep last night, he looked tired early this morning, but his resolute eyes were like stars.

Looking at the book handed over by the city guard Yang Lecong, Dong Qing shook his head with a smile and waved his hand: "Yang Guard has been guarding the city for many years, and there has never been a mistake. ”

Seeing Dong Qing speak, the white-clothed Yang Le nodded lightly, stretched out his cocooned thick hand, which contrasted greatly with his face, and took an ink buckle from his bag to sign his surname. Then it was handed over to the city guard in front of him, who led the order to scatter the soldiers, and it didn't take long to replace a strong army with a neat guard of honor.

"Lord Dong, I heard that yesterday's prescription made the lord be abused by the emperor in the court, and today he is guarding him with me, why is this?" Yang Lecong spoke straightforwardly and asked impartially, but Dong Qing's face did not change much when he heard this, as if he had already learned Yang Ren's temper.

"Yesterday, the emperor was indeed like that to me, but that time was not the past, and I will discuss it with you later. He rubbed his temples with his hand to try to make himself more sober, because he felt that his brain was a little out of order, and he was a little exhausted.

Sensing that Dong Qing was not too interested at this time, Yang Le put away the ridiculous mentality of the past, crossed his hands behind his back, and began to observe the street.

The two of them stood like this, surrounded by twelve doormen, and after looking at the street for a long time, Dong Qing's face gradually became difficult to look at, and the tiredness on his face was even worse. Le Congjin said: "If you don't watch it first, adults will take a break." At this time, the sun was rising, and it seemed to be noon, Dong Qing didn't protest too much, and sat at a tea stall by the door with the help of Le Cong. The booth manager is sincere and no longer talking.

Lecong, who was full of contemplation, was pacing to the door, but there was a commotion on the avenue on the left: "Hey, you young man! Don't die! sweep the floor and show me!"

This exclamation attracted a crowd of onlookers, and after a long time the road was already blocked, and Le Cong looked closer, and saw a young man with a dusty face and ragged clothes, apologizing to the man who was riding the horse, and his already scarred face was even more embarrassed at this moment.

"I'm sorry, my lord, I didn't notice your car coming, I thought that the stone would trip over the carriage, and I was negligent for a moment. The young man replied loudly, his voice was so refreshing and loud that Le was startled in his heart.

Originally, the street was not wide, and people and horses walked in it, and there were often slight differences, or the surrounding shops protested and complained about the rudeness of the horses, or the merchants complained about the narrow road. If the manpower and material resources involved in the rectification of the road are too much, and it has been difficult to move up in the past two years, it can only be compensated for the surrounding shops, and the children who are wandering in the city are responsible for picking up the fallen objects of the car in front of them, so as to avoid the driving of the rear car being obstructed.

And at this moment, it was the child who picked up the gravel and stumbling goods on the road, and the horseman who drove four horses who was scolding on the side. As soon as the car stopped, the follow-up vehicles were blocked, and there were many people watching things, and the whole road was even more congested.

"You kid, I see that you are looking for trouble, you don't come early or late, but at this time you pick up, do you think you want to come to the scene on purpose?" The groom scolded, not wanting to take things lightly.

Hearing this, the young man wiped the corners of his mouth full of stains with his hand, and replied without humility or arrogance: "There is no stop traffic on this street, and I am just doing my own job." If I don't remove him, I'm afraid you'll tripped over one of your four horses, and then you're afraid you'll come to say that I don't know what to do and can't clean it up. As he spoke, the young man pointed his finger at a boulder behind him, and the sudden appearance of the boulder also confused a group of passers-by.

"Four horses..."Yang Le thought from his heart, the people who can drive four horses in Beijing are generally people with heads and faces, and after a while, Le Cong also came to a conclusion in his heart.

"The city guards are all gone. The words came out of Le's mouth, and the whole street was fascinated by the drama, and then they noticed that the castle guard was on the side, and they all dispersed. Thinking about it, this Lecong person is too low-key, it's like hiding on the street, with a prominent identity but no one knows it.

"Lord Yang, you can be a small one" Seeing Le Cong, the groom hurriedly climbed the relationship, and his body seemed to be a little straighter, looking at the embarrassed guy, but he seemed to pat the dust on his body without caring about anything, and he was like a person who had nothing to do.

"Is Your Excellency a member of the Qingyang family?" asked the groom, who nodded hurriedly, wishing that he was waiting for this question.

"Qing Yang has been avoiding the court these days, I heard that he married a seventh wife and concubine?"

Seeing that Le Cong opened his mouth so directly, the groom's face changed, this is really which pot is not opened and which pot is not mentioned, who in this city does not know that Zheng Qingyang is a womanizer, and he seeks a position in the court by borrowing the foundation of the family, this Zheng family is also a famous and prominent family in the whole of Kyoto, you look at the four horses, and there are only four families in the whole Kyoto that can be arranged like this, no wonder Yang Le quickly recognized it. But it's one thing for this great business to be big, and it's another thing for the family reputation, this is the prime of life and over thirty, but he has changed the seventh wife's room, and the people of Kyoto are boiling about it, and they talk about it a lot after the meal.

Seeing that his face couldn't be hung up, the groom hurriedly said: "This is not all the blessings of the honor guards, my master can be happy so far, and my master also asked me to invite the adults to drink tea at the house."

As soon as these words came out, the highly cultivated Lecong couldn't help laughing, and the surrounding people didn't hide it, haha. It is shameless to expect this, it is really not a family that talks about a family, and it looks like this.

Hearing that everyone was laughing, this groom was also happy, but he didn't know if he was really stupid or fake. If Zheng Qingyang learned that the people in his house actually talked about the 'seventh wife and concubine' in public, I don't know if he would faint on the spot.

"It's okay," Le Cong restrained his smile, and waved his palm to signal everyone to stop, "You are a person, you are bullying other people's children on the one hand, and you are so 'talkative' on the other, it's really hard for you to be so ruffian..."

"If you want me to say, that stone must have been pulled by the front door, if that guy hadn't stopped you, you might have overturned. As he spoke, Le Cong waved the air with his hand, as if he was sniffing, "Your master's wine must be smashed!

The groom was in a cold sweat, turned his head and lifted the cloth cover, the smell of wine was stronger, attracting a group of passers-by to sniff, after checking that it was okay, the groom stood still, and did not know what to say, seeing that Le Cong removed the stone with his own hands, and then ordered the horses to gallop to the main mansion.

After that, a group of passers-by dispersed, and after the street returned to normal, Le looked at the young man from his eyes, and seemed to be standing in a daze, so he walked over, and his originally smiling eyes suddenly became orderly, "You guy, I thought you were frightened, but I didn't expect you to be a thief!"

Le Cong said this, holding the young man's arm, and snatching a small wine jar from the hand he put behind him, "I expected that the stone was used to build the wall at the north gate, but I didn't expect that you, the thief, set up a trick to deceive other people's wine..."

"I didn't!" the young man seemed to be angry, and shouted angrily, "That Zhengjia was originally a stubborn family in Kyoto, and since his father returned, he has been arrogant and domineering, and he is more ruffian and hooligan than that ruffian, and no one in the whole of Kyoto knows! I am just rubbing him with a jar of wine, why do you want to deceive me!"

"How can I deceive you? You set up a situation and steal alcohol, and you deserve to be imprisoned according to the law. Le Cong's face was full of seriousness, and his righteous words were strict, "Today you return the wine, I forgive you for your young age, and you will not be punished lightly by the law..."

Before Le Cong finished speaking, the guy jumped up and wanted to snatch the wine, Le Cong confiscated it, and with a 'pop', the wine jar cracked open, and the wine was spilled on the ground, and the aroma spread, attracting the attention of the surrounding group.

Gathering his mind, Le Cong was about to continue to speak, but he saw this guy suddenly kneeling on the ground and crying, and a crying cry came into Le Cong's ears, Le Cong's heart was stunned, and his tone couldn't help but slow, "Why are you doing this? The wine is not yours, and now it's broken, why are you crying so far? Could it be that you pretended to be bitter and escaped the order?"

"Lord Yang", the guy's tone sank and was slightly hoarse, "You only know that law enforcement needs to be strict, but you don't know how to distinguish the law." That Zhengqingyang is blind with a good name, he took a girl three months ago, only the old mother in the eighteenth family, Zhengqingyang loves her beauty, so he coerced her with the old mother, and the woman cried and obeyed, but the mother did not get Zhengqingyang support, and now she is riddled with evil diseases, and the doctor needs a good wine to do the introduction and dispensing medicine. In this Kyoto world, no one knows that all the good wine is in the main house!"

Le Cong's eyes widened, his body trembled slightly, and the earth around him, which was originally scorched by the scorching sun, seemed to be unable to contain the chill in his heart, and after a long time, the young man knelt for an unknown amount of time.

"My lord, Lord Yang?" a sonorous sound came into Le Cong's ears, accompanied by the sound of the collision of military weapons, Le Cong came back to his senses, but felt that his mental strength was insufficient, it turned out that the person who shouted was a patrol soldier in the city, and he saw that the city guard stood still, so he asked each other. Le Congbing gestured that it was okay, and the soldier glanced at the kneeling guy, the corners of his mouth moved, and he didn't open his mouth after all, and stood in line and left.

"If... If it is true.." Le Cong's voice was hoarse for some reason, "Take me... Go to the old man's house and take a look, and I'll be... Believe in you."

The young man got up suddenly, turned his head and walked towards the corner of the street, Lecong took a deep breath and hurried away, his heart was blank for a while, and a sense of powerlessness and self-blame swirled in his heart.

...

As the old saying goes, Luoyang paper is expensive, Kyoto is full of gold, and an inch of Beijing land and gold is not exchanged. According to the blueprint of the kingdom of Namang, only 5% of the area is remote, and few people come and go in these places, precisely because the previous kings believed in Feng Shui, so they set up a void land as a boundary, so that Kyoto is symmetrical. In the meantime, Yang Lecong was fortunate to participate in the construction supervision, and his father presided over the construction of the magnificent imperial palace, which has been manifested since three generations. To the generation of Lecong, because of the love of learning and hard study since childhood, not only in the construction of houses have been recognized, its literary elegance and conduct are upright and upright in the whole government and the opposition is more famous, but the mouth is too straightforward, into the court as an official only half a year before the head of the official dismissed, so that he guarded the city, called 'straightforward interrogation officer'.

The five percent of the remote land was in the northwest corner, bounded by a huge crumbling ancient tree. The dilapidated and messy ground, the ancient and ruined walls and houses are gradually revealed.

After walking for about an hour, although Le Cong was tired, he did not stop, looked at the guy standing in front of him, Le Cong knew that it had arrived, and subconsciously touched a rough pocket of his white clothes, as if he had touched a reassuring pill, and his heart was a little more stable.

The boy turned his head, and the bright eyes on his dusty face looked particularly special.

"Lord Yang, I hope you don't talk about what happened just now in front of the old man, otherwise... I'm afraid she's panicking."

Le Cong knew what he meant, and raised his hand to show that he understood.

Walking through the narrow paths full of dirt, you will be greeted by a unique scene.

The stone wall, which had been cracked and cracked, was suddenly covered by branches and leaves, and two conspicuous flowers appeared in the muddy black soil at the corner of the wall, as if rendering this dark and oppressive scene. Continuing on, he finally stopped in front of an old house, which was extremely grandiose, because of its towering forests, red hand-embroidered doors hanging along the border, and two birds with wings spread on both sides of the upper end of the house, although washed by the wind and rain, faded many but not damaged. The front of the house is full of green and red crosses, and the branches and flowers bloom together, competing with each other to reflect the ancient scenery.

"She said she likes flowers. My sister and I planted flowers. Still... There are only two people left... Faced with this scene, the young man did not have the slightest joy, but seemed to have had enough of the blow.

"People don't know the language of flowers, but flowers understand people." Wu, Lecong opened his mouth like this. The young man glanced at Le Cong from the corner of his eye, but did not answer.

'Squeak' seems to be unable to withstand the push and pull at any time, the door of this house is finally placed for a while, the house is like the outside of the house, flowers and plants are more abundant, but this place is extremely wet, sticky and oily people are difficult to place, like the first time in many years to usher in people to step.

In the corner of the yard, there is a small space of the wooden house, this wooden house and the surrounding seems so mismatched, the biggest difference is the old and new, although the wooden house is small, the wood is all solid materials, the board splicing hanging hanging beams, on both sides of the wood and rubble house is generally tiled, 'such a house will definitely leak if it rains' Le Cong thought.

"Yu'er, Yu'er, is it you?" Hearing the call, the boy hurried over. Joy and follow.

"It's me, mother-in-law, Yu'er is back. ”

This is an old man with a kind face, the bridge of his nose, eyes, and the corners of his mouth are framed, and he looks like a very simple and kind person. It's just that the bruises on his face, his swollen arms and his purple lips make this old man look so old.

The old man seemed to be unable to stand alone, so he had to lie on the cloth pillow with the help of the young man, and heard the whispers at the corner of his mouth, the old man learned that someone was visiting, and hurriedly asked the young man to stand up, perform the national salute, bow thirty degrees and say: "The old lady of Qinglian does not listen to people's words, her ears are not smart, and she did not ask the visitors in time to give her a courtesy, and I hope to ask for forgiveness." ”

Le Cong's body trembled, and hurriedly went to hug Qinglian, "The old mother is too happy, how can this make the contemptible person go unwillingly, please rest quickly." After the support of the two, Qinglian finally lay back on the wooden bed, and from that support, Le Cong only felt that Qinglian's body was extremely light, and most of her body shape was probably weighed by edema, and she had to think of smashing the wine jar, and her heart was even more uncomfortable.

"Yu'er is young, Qinglian still thinks how much mistake he will take and how much trouble he will bring to the family, but he doesn't want to be able to bring friends to visit today. Hearing this, the young man's body trembled, but he tried his best to bite his lip and endure it.

Le Congxin sighed and said guiltily: "The old mother's love is so serious, Yu'er is well-behaved, alert and sensible, but she can take on a big responsibility, and the old mother should enjoy happiness with him, don't talk about disasters." ”

"So... Very good.." Qinglian chuckled for a while, and then caused a cough, and the young man and Le Cong hurriedly comforted him.

Freedom is a conversation, Le Cong and Qinglian chatted more and more, seeing that this young man did not make a sound, just stood aside and waited.

Just laughing and talking for a while, Qinglian came tiredly, and Lecong bowed down to dismiss, and the young man also resigned.

As soon as he went out, Le Cong frowned and stretched, when the sky was gradually darkening at this time, the young man was lighting a fire on the side, Le Cong asked suspiciously: "It's not cold at this time, why are you in a hurry to make a fire?"

"Boil the fire and boil the water, and give the hot water to my mother to drink, and I will have to go out to find food in a while. ”

"Since you are in charge of cleaning the roads, you should have a monthly salary, why do you seem to be poor and white?"

"Today, I am only on duty, and no unknown people like me can enter the post without a way. The boy sneered, full of sadness.

Le squatted down and looked at the young man who was burning the fire, but through the pupils of his eyes, he saw that Qingming was as white and bright as water. When the young man saw this, his eyes were evasive, and he seemed to be shy.

"Haha! You are a good boy!" Seeing this, Le got up and laughed from clapping his legs, as if he was talking to himself and seemed to be speaking out on purpose, "If I want to guess, if your mother hadn't stopped you, you would have moved the entire mansion to her old man's house, because your mother ordered you not to rob other people's property, so you are so good-behaved.

Before Le Cong's words were finished, the young man suddenly grabbed Le Cong, although his height was only below Le Cong's shoulders, he reached out and grabbed Le Cong's chest, and his eyes were also full of anger.

Spread his hands, Le Cong let the guy in front of him grab it, "Your mother taught you very well, I robbed you of the wine jar before, and finally smashed it, although it is a pity, but I don't think I did anything wrong.. Just like you, I would like to recommend you to the gatekeeper, I wonder if you would like to?"

Hearing this, the young man's face was full of shock, and the hand holding the placket of his shirt couldn't help but let go, and he shook his hand to break free, and said with a smile: "Although your posture is not up to standard, but your conduct and thoughts are up to standard, if you want, I can also advance a month's salary to you..."

"Why did you suddenly say you wanted to help me?" the fifteen-year-old boy did not understand what Le Cong was thinking at this time, only that he had grown up here since he was a child, and now he was alone, like a homeless ronin on the street every day, and no one was necessarily kind to him. This Yang Lecong was originally a high-ranking city guard, and it was like an unattainable place for the definition of a teenager, and the teenager still knew this kind of person, but he was not recognized by this kind of person. A young man who is accustomed to being alone and lonely, as if he is not dead and his mother is not hungry, it is the mercy of this world, and how can he say that someone suddenly helps him get a proper job?

"The flowers in the capital are blooming in the capital, and the lonely bird has no intention of being at ease..."Le Cong hummed this ancient song of the Mangguo country in the Chinese dialect, and under the gloomy sky, the flowers and plants seemed to play enough to weep and sleep.

The south wind blows, and the annual winter cold period of Mangguo is coming.