"Knock!knock!", "Knock!knock!", "The cold wave is coming, turn off the lights and close the door" The voice of the husband came, and it was already the second watch day when he heard the voice. It is not easy for the husband who guards the drip to not sleep at night, and he must guard the drip or burn incense, and grasp the accurate time, until the end of the fifth watch, the emperor and the people all get up, busy with political affairs or sprinkling the courtyard.

Zhao Jiu dried his body, put on his clothes, picked up the wooden basin next to the wooden barrel and wanted to go out to pour water, as soon as he opened the latch, he saw Jin Yi sitting on the steps in front of the door, tilting his head, ignoring Zhao Jiu. Pouring out the basins of water one by one, and putting them away, he sat down next to Jin Yi and draped the coat he took out of the house over Jin Yi's shoulders. Jin Yi turned his head to look at him, the moonlight fell on Jin Yi, tears the size of rice grains slipped from the corners of his eyes, and the two looked at each other.

Zhao Jiu's eyes were calm, and he took the lead in speaking casually, "My sister's tears are worthless!" and no longer looked at the sister beside him, just like Jin Yi just now, tilted her head, just stared at the sky in a daze, her eyes were red, but there were no tears, she was stunned for a long time, and suddenly whispered: "Thief God, master, how can I only do thunder and not rain, let my sister Jin Yi be sad alone!" Hearing this, Jin Yi was about to raise her sleeves and get up, but she was held by a pair of hands on her cheeks and wiped away her tears with two fingers. Zhao Jiu's face was gloomy, and he said word by word: "Take your time." Jin Yi returned the coat on his shoulders to Zhao Jiu, and the two of them turned around and went back to their rooms, quietly listening to the sound of the horse's hooves hitting the ground in the distance, and each fell asleep with a deep heart.

"Knock——knock!""The cold wave is coming, turn off the lights and close the door", one fast and two slow, it is already three watches, and the husband is still continuing to watch.

Zhou Zhengqing woke up on the fifth watch day and meticulously cleaned up the home where he had lived for fifteen years. After boiling some gruel, after gobbling up the pickles, the dishes and chopsticks were cleaned up, and two people walked in outside the door, a man and a woman: "It's a holiday today, our sister looks at the tavern for you, I'll go out with you to buy things, hurry up, Mr. Han specially instructed me to see you." "It's the two sisters of Jin Yi and Zhao Jiu in the pastry shop. Zhou Zhengqing didn't really want to go.

It's never a bad thing to learn more, but I'm really special with Mr. Han. But Brother Xiao Jiu pulled him and walked out of the door, it seems that he should go today.

There are a lot of pedestrians on the street, there are many unfamiliar faces, the town is really not big, whoever has a little trivial matter, everyone who can upload it immediately knows, what Li family's hen has opened its crotch, and the grandson of the Huang family has been fined a lot of homework by Mr. Han. If there is a living person in the town, wherever you go to the inn to rest, it will become a topic of conversation after dinner, some say that the food in Dong Fatzi's shop is delicious, and some say that the Cao family inn is going to the Cao family widow.

It's rare to see unfamiliar faces everywhere like today. Zhou Zhengqing looked at it three or five times in all directions, "Brother Xiaojiu, there are indeed few people in the town, but there are also many caravans coming and going every year, and there are not many lively times, but it is not like today, the time is not right, and the atmosphere is not right." Most of them carry blades?" Zhao Jiu was not like playing around on weekdays, he was surprisingly calm, and the atmosphere made Zhou Zhengqing feel weird, "Take our way, the sooner you finish the purchase, you can see Mr. Han earlier." "The boy who never left the town was a little more cautious.

The law of the Ming Dynasty is strict, ordinary people hold swords and other kinds of blades without authorization, and it is still good to distribute and fill the army, if the blade sees blood, the person who holds the blade will be beheaded, and those who conceal it and do not report it will be punished with the same crime. The town belongs to the Guannei Road in the five roads of the Ming Dynasty, which is the inherent territory of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty expanded outward, and its own city has never fallen a penny, so it is difficult for bandits and thieves to enter here. Therefore, in addition to being more cautious, Zhou Zhengqing really doesn't have much to worry about this.

"Come in and say, early in the morning, you two are going to prepare something for the winter!" Aunt Xu was wearing ordinary gray coarse cloth clothes, holding a wooden basin in the yard with one hand, and sprinkling water from the wooden basin with the other hand, it was the daughter-in-law of the Xu family, seeing Zhao Jiu and Zhou Zhengqing, the movements in her hands did not stop, but she raised her head and greeted the two. "My sister-in-law is really diligent, and Uncle Xu is cheap.

Out of the back room came a crop man, not tall, but very strong, thick eyebrows and big eyes, with a short beard, sharp edges and corners, not good-looking, but very attractive, at this time he was rolling up his sleeves: "Little rabbit, the cow is in the backyard, put on the ox cart by himself." ”

Zhou Zhengqing's face was happy, simple and kind, the characteristics of the town, "Uncle Xu, I will bring you wine at night." Unexpectedly, she was interrupted by the woman who was extremely sensitive to the word wine: "What kind of wine did you bring, when did your Uncle Xu send you this wine?" The woman of the Xu family looked at her man with a displeased face. This man's momentum plummeted, and he was still scolding the little rabbit cub a moment ago, and at this time he could only helplessly say, "Don't drink, quit drinking, drinking hurts the liver, Xiao Zhengqing, don't hurt me" The man flattered like that, living like a loyal puppy leg of a ruffian.

Zhou Zhengqing added oil and vinegar, pretending to be surprised, and said as he walked: "Yo, auntie, why did Uncle Xu quit drinking? Didn't the copper wine jug just fill up in the tavern two days ago? Zhao Jiu also struck while the iron was hot: "Uncle Xu also said, 'A whole sip of small wine, the gods will also dispel their sorrows', and I envy Uncle Xu's literary brilliance." When the man heard these two little bastards say this, he secretly gritted his teeth. A small head came out of the door of Xu's house, eleven or twelve years old: "Brother Zhengqing, Brother Xiaojiu." Having made up his mind to swallow this breath first, the man raised his head and looked at Zhao Jiu with a smile: "Take my little Bao'er with you, he is also idle when he is idle." "The man is afraid that Xiao Bao'er will see that he, the 'head of the family', will be taught a lesson by the woman's family, and his status in his son's heart will plummet. Although the status is not high.

The woman of the Xu family stared directly at her man, and the man was a little flustered, these two little bastards will settle accounts sooner or later. Xiao Bao'er happily followed the two brothers and went to the backyard, unaware that her father had made a mistake. The three eldest children drove the ox cart out of Xu's house and set off towards the west of the town.

Throughout the morning, a lot of copper coins were spent on a few houses on the west side of the town, which can be regarded as busy enough. Move the morning's harvest into the cellar. returned the ox cart, sent Xiao Bao'er home, and brought two jars of old wine. After all, you can't use other people's oxen and carts for nothing. If you give money, it's a curse, the people in the town are simple, and the help of the east and west families is a matter of having a meal. gave money, but I looked down on my own family too much, and no family had a time when they needed everyone's help.

It's noon, the sun is high, and the autumn breeze is blowing.

Zhou Zhengqing had lunch in the pastry shop, the tavern was open as usual, Jin Yi helped take care of it, Zhou Zhengqing brought a jar of aged wine with a vintage, and went straight to Mr. Han's house, Zhao Jiu followed behind Zhou Zhengqing lazily.

"Let's enter the house", a blue robe, a wooden hairpin pinned to the bun, wearing ordinary black cloth shoes on his feet, no jade pendant hanging on his waist, no rich and noble appearance, ordinary scholar dress, this man with a face of about thirty years old, stood outside the door with a smile and looked at the two, as if waiting for two teenagers outside the courtyard gate. Entering the courtyard, Zhao Jiu stopped, saw a reclining chair in the courtyard, walked over and sat down directly, and casually grabbed the pu fan on the table next to the recliner and covered his face: "It's still comfortable here" The words stopped making a sound. Zhou Zhengqing had no choice but to follow Mr. Han up the steps into the house by himself.

Zhao Jiu pulled down some pu fan slightly, exposed his eyes, glanced left and right, the yard was very clean, and a piece of land was enclosed with a fence on one side, there was no more vegetables in it, only some flat soil was left, and only half of the fence was left. It looks like I don't plan to plant anything more next year. The rest of the place is clean and clean, not much to see. I put my eyes back on the fan and heard a voice from inside the house.

"Thank you Mr. Han for your concern", Zhou Zhengqing gave a deep salute, even if he didn't really want to come here to meet, but for this teacher, Zhou Zhengqing respected it from the bottom of his heart. And here is a place to do learning, reading is a big thing. Mr. Han was still smiling and looked at Zhou Zhengqing: "Don't thank me, just don't scold me in your heart, let's sit down and talk."

Mr. Han pointed to the wooden chair opposite the desk, there was a small bookshelf standing on one side of the wall in the room, in front of the desk, there was a chair in front of the desk, and under the wall on the other side was a wooden bed, and a window was opened on each side of the door, and the sunlight entered the room, and there was only a round table in the center of the room, and there were four round stools under the table, and a candlestick was installed. Mr. Han sat at the main seat of the desk, and Zhou Zhengqing sat opposite, and the two were facing each other. "How much have you learned over the years?" Zhou Zhengqing was a little stunned, he really didn't expect Mr. Han to ask himself like this, he just answered truthfully: "Not much, there are what you taught in the school back then, there are also little nine brothers and Jin Yi sisters taught me, and there is, my mother's teachings back then."

Mr. Han nodded slightly, and then asked, "Don't you still want to go out for a walk?" Zhou Zhengqing frowned a little and lowered his head: "Students are ashamed to teach." Zhou Zhengqing looked at Mr. Han in front of him, and sure enough, he didn't have any angry look: "Don't I have time?" "No, you can think about it again, you can make your own choice." Listening to Mr. Zhou's voice in his ears, at some point, Mr. Han had already stood up, and now behind him, he reached out and patted him on the shoulder. "You still have a winter," Zhou Zhengqing was silent. Mr. Han stood at the door, holding on to the door frame, and turned his head to look at Zhou Zhengqing: "The truth is always there, you can't run, it's just that I hope that the truth you learn is enough for you to walk the road under your feet, and the gentleman is cautious and has no worries, this is not a mistake." This was said to Zhou Zhengqing, but Zhao Jiu in the courtyard really couldn't hear this?