The two rode together, laughing and playing along the way, heading northwest. After Ding Ye learned about Yun Xuelan's life experience and situation, he became accustomed to the practice of this fellow traveler changing his face and clothes every time he went to a town, completely changing his appearance. He also looked at the young man's faces a lot, and he teased Yun Xuelan several times to show people with a woman's face. said that only when he walked side by side with his beautiful and fragrant appearance would he be a fairy couple in the eyes of others, envious of others. Because of this, the black felt boy followed the horse's ass to eat and drink.

Yun Xuelan did not tell Ding Ye the purpose of his trip, nor did he take the initiative to invite him to accompany him. Even Ding Ye didn't know why he put the "little overlord" of the three streets of Luoshi City, and "Lu Lutong" didn't do it, but came all the way with the young man who followed him by chance outside the city. Sometimes Ding Ye would sit on horseback or lie beside the firewood in the broken temple to wonder if he wanted to climb the high branches because of the blood of the merchants in the valley, and share the hardships with the prince of the palace who claimed to be in distress in front of him. I don't dare to hope for an official position or glory and wealth, but it should not be difficult to worry about food and clothing in the second half of my life.

Ding Ye didn't mean to be like this, the reason why he thought this way was nothing more than to find a reason for himself to follow Yun Xuelan. Otherwise, one day in the future, Yun Xuelan suddenly asked why he had been following him, and the young man had the cheekiness to say the reason he thought. How could he say that he was empathetic to the young man and recognized his brother Yunyun's words of friendship.

On this day, the two came to a village under the jurisdiction of Xiuning County. The village was originally called Zhuangyuan Village, because according to records, there were eleven champions in the history of the village. The former Zhuangyuan Village is also famous in the whole Xiuning County and even a state. Many neighboring villages will send their own reading seeds to the private school here for enlightenment, and there is only one male in the family. The female dependents would rather work in the fields after their own hard work, but also let their men get a touch of this person's outstanding spirit in the champion village. I look forward to the day when my son-in-law can also go to high school, and from then on the lintel will be glorious, and the family can also live the life of dignitaries and dignitaries that they have only heard about in the play.

It seems to be the truth that prosperity must decline, but ten years ago, a high school champion in the village who was named on the gold list almost brought disaster to the village.

At that time, the first-class person was already a person who was not confused, and he was already married, and he also had a son and a daughter. After he won the first prize in high school, he became the person who attracted the attention of the imperial capital for a while. A young lady surnamed Lu from an official eunuch family in the imperial capital is fond of novels and dramas of talented and beautiful women, and after hearing that there is a champion from a poor family, she actually took the initiative to propose marriage. After learning that the other party already had a wife, he was committed to being a concubine. Because of the etiquette, the two are not allowed to meet each other before they get married, because the two parties have not seen each other's faces.

On the night of the candles in the cave room, when Zhuang Yuanlang lifted the bride's red hijab, Miss Lu was stunned, and the person in front of her turned out to be a fat middle-aged man with a fat head and big ears, dark skin and a beard. Miss Lu's dream of being a talented and beautiful woman was shattered, and she committed suicide by hanging herself that night. Later, this incident caused a sensation in the capital and even the entire Great Xia Shilin. There are even political enemies who are jealous of the champion Lang who wrote a couplet: "The country is too delicate to be a concubine, although the champion is good, he is not a lang".

Who knew that this matter did not stop there, this young lady surnamed Lu turned out to be the niece of the servant of the criminal department of the court. Lord Shilang couldn't stand his sister's crying that she wanted to die or live, so he used some means to demote Zhuang Yuanlang to Di Sang and made a Qipin county order, and later took the evidence of this person's embezzlement of official silver. The county magistrate who was framed and imprisoned died in prison in depression before he could be beheaded in the autumn. At that time, Mrs. Lu also wanted to destroy the man's entire family, but later the matter was learned by the spies planted by the Yun family in the imperial capital. Originally, this matter was reported back to the villa as an ordinary newspaper, but it attracted the attention of the Yun family, and then it was Yun Xuelan's third uncle who came forward, and the man's family and the champion village were spared.

Since then, Zhuangyuan Village has become an ominous place in the eyes of the neighbors in the township. Even a few villagers who had been clamoring for their children to come here to study started a fire and forcibly demolished and burned down the village's private school. The villagers of Zhuangyuan Village, who suffered an unjustified disaster, have since renamed the village Ping'an. Since then, the village has not heard the sound of reading, only the sound of hoes and shovels in the fields.

Yun Xuelan and Ding Ye came from the east of the village, and the ruins of the burned private school can still be seen at the entrance of the village. Look at its scale, it is not inferior to the academy in the county. Under the crumbling blackened earthen walls, an old man with gray hair was smoking a dry cigarette in a wheelchair. Smoke rings curled on the old man's emaciated face and cloudy eyes, distorting in pain like the hideous spirits of the dead in the sun.

The old man had a tattered blanket over his knees, revealing only a pair of cloth shoes on the pedals. There were two children next to the old man. A girl in a green jacket and pigtails is holding a book and reading it intently. The boy in the red robe next to him was writing and drawing something on the ground with stones. The boy was obviously not as attentive as the girl, and when he heard the sound of the horse's hooves, he looked up and saw the two beautiful young men sitting on horseback looking here, and he couldn't help but be a little distracted.

Yun Xuelan, who had changed into another young face, jumped off the horse, clasped her fist at the old man who was looking over while swallowing clouds and spitting fog, and asked, "Old man, may I ask if this is Zhuangyuan Village?"

Before the old man could reply, the boy in red said in a childish voice: "This is not a champion village, this is a safe village." As if he was not satisfied with such an answer, the boy continued: "There is no champion village within a radius of more than ten miles. ”

The girl in the green cotton jacket was also awakened from the book, and she first knocked the boy on the head with the book, and then looked at the two strangers in the distance. He frowned.

Yun Xuelan said to Ding Ye behind him: "This is it, get off the horse and enter the village." So saying, he tied his horse to a stake at the entrance of the village. Just as he was about to ask the old man again, the boy who had been knocked on the head by his companion interjected without long memory: "Be careful that the horse is tethered here to be stolen." The voice gradually became quieter, but it still reached the ears of the two-year-old boy.

Yun Xuelan smiled a little curiously and asked, "Do the people in your village still want to steal horses?"

When the boy heard this, he jumped up from the ground like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, he dropped the painting stone in his hand, clapped his hands and said in shock: "Mr. said, a gentleman does something and does not do something." The gentleman also said, don't take the evil as small. The gentleman also said...... In short, the people in our village will not do this kind of thing of stealing chickens and touching dogs, roosters and dogs. As he spoke, his little face flushed with excitement.

Ding Ye, who also tied the horse, thought the boy was interesting, and muttered: "Mr. also said that only villains and women are difficult to raise." You little guy is the villain that Mr. said. The boy didn't know what to say when he heard this, he stared angrily at the young man whose smile was as bright as the sun, but he always felt that the smiles of the two big brothers in front of him were ill-intentioned, as if he was laughing at him and said, "Look, you don't have to study on weekdays." I can't remember what Mr. said now, can you?" the boy scratched the back of his bare head and pulled a handful of hair from his forehead, but he still couldn't think of how to deal with it, so he cried out "wow".

The old man sitting in the wheelchair mountain turned a blind eye to this, lazily knocked the silver cigarette pouch in his hand on the wooden pier on the side, and then swallowed the clouds and spit out the smoke in his mouth as if nothing happened. The girl who patted her companion's head with a book looked like an old hen guarding her cubs, she first threw an angry look at her companion in men's clothes, and then took a step forward to block the boy, looking at Ding Ye, who was a little helpless because he made the boy cry. The girl pinched her waist with one hand and raised it with the other, and was about to point at Ding Ye, as if she thought of something again, patted her flat chest as if to calm the anger in her heart, looking at this little adult, Yun Xuelan laughed out loud.

Maybe Yun Xuelan's polite appearance since entering the village is very different from the young man wearing a black felt hat behind him, so he has a good impression on the girl. Maybe it's because the girl is pretending to be an adult scolding the street and arguing and debating, but in fact, her heart is tight. In short, Yun Xuelan's laughter was broken, her voice trembled but she still pretended to be calm: "The two sons don't think that the two of us are young, so they will make fun of us." No one in our village would steal two horses. It's just that from time to time, people from neighboring villages come to our village to make trouble, and they may take the two horses away. And when the time comes, the two sons will definitely think that it is the people in our village who have done it. ”

The girl tried her best to explain clearly, but it seemed that she was a little dead in reading, and Ding Ye listened to it in a fog. He pursed his lips and said to himself: "It's all two people who are big ghosts, and they talk old-fashioned, and those who don't know think that Lao Wang Bacheng has rejuvenated." ”

His voice was so low that the two children naturally didn't notice it. The old man in the wheelchair seemed to hear the young man's unintentional remarks, and his eyes narrowed. Ding Ye felt that his face was stinging as if it had been blown up by something, and cold sweat was like rain on his forehead in an instant. Yun Xuelan also noticed the strangeness of his companion, and the two looked at the old man at the same time, but the old man still looked lazy, as if there was only a cigarette pouch in his mouth and the tobacco in the world.

Yun Xuelan frowned, although he fell to the Lower Martial Realm, his insight and acuity were not inferior to those of the Burning Kiln Realm, and he had repeatedly probed and confirmed that the old man was just an ordinary farmer.

The young man didn't dare to worry too much, but he was also a little more cautious, and before he left, Mr. Zhongli specially explained that he had to come to Zhuangyuan Village to find someone. Therefore, Yun Xuelan knew the general roots of the village and the people she was looking for. Naturally, he will not be as reckless as Ding Ye. Yun Xuelan first made a junior salute to the old man, and then looked at the girl, treating her with the courtesy of an equal. He asked in a harmonious voice, "It was our unintentional words before, and we didn't intend to tease Ling You. It's just that your village is always bullied like this, won't you resist?"

The boy who was hiding behind the girl and crying saw that his companion could talk to two strangers in righteous words, and he was standing up for himself, and felt that as a manly husband, a two-and-a-half-foot man should not hide behind a woman. I saw that the young man in the green robe on the other side was really handsome and good-looking, no matter how he looked at it, he didn't look like a bad person, and his courage grew stronger and stronger. He poked a small head out of the girl's green shoulders and said, "Our village has always been bullied by outsiders. The seedlings that have just grown in the spring will be turned over by people from other villages at night; the seedlings that have just grown in the fields will sometimes be released by people from other villages with many voles and ruined the crops and vegetables; and when it is finally time to harvest, they will be burned by a fire at night. As he spoke, the boy's tears remained on the girl's shoulders. The girl lowered her head as well, her lips pursed tightly.

Hearing this, Ding Ye angrily punched Yun Xuelan's shoulder, and the latter was defenseless and staggered forward two steps by the hammer. The black felt boy pretended not to see the cannibalistic eyes shot by his companions, and still said indignantly: "Is there really such a person who has lost his conscience? Is there no man in your village? Haven't you asked people from other villages to theorize?"

The girl in green raised her head, and at the same time her aggrieved brows furrowed, and she replied: "I heard from the adults that at first the strong men in the village hid in the fields, and then they caught the people from the neighboring villages who came to destroy them. They were beaten up and let them go. Unexpectedly, a few days later, people from several neighboring villages came to our village and injured all the men working in our village like robbers, and many of them were disabled. From then on, they blatantly came to the village to wreak havoc. He also said that what is the way of doing things for the sky, saying that there were monsters in our village, which harmed a young lady with a head and face in the imperial city, and almost implicated the entire Xiuning County in our village. ”

The head lying on the girl's shoulder suddenly interjected: "Where are there any monsters, our village has had many big officials before, grandpa said that other villages are jealous of our village ........." Before the boy finished speaking, his mouth was blocked by a chubby little hand. The latter words also became "woo woo".

Ding Ye didn't care what the boy said later, he asked angrily: "Won't you report to the official? The government doesn't care? What is the difference between this group of people and bandits and robbers?"

The girl bit her lip and shook her head, saying, "The county magistrate said that the law is not responsible." He couldn't punish all the hundreds of people in these villages at once, otherwise he would cut off the way of life in these villages. And he also said. The girl's voice became weak and choked.

He also said that our village had offended the big people in the court. If it weren't for the people of Yunwangfu's intervention, he would have killed all the people in our village a long time ago, saying that our group of mourning stars almost caused him to lose his position. Kill the seeds of reading in this county and their future careers. The boy removed his mouth from the hand that had gagged him, but he didn't seem to understand the meaning of his words, and was more like parroting the adult's words.

Ding Ye, who was carried away by anger, glared at Yun Xuelan and asked, "What the hell is going on? Don't say that your family doesn't know anything, that's how your Yun family is the lord of this state?" As soon as he blurted out the words, the young man regretted his words a little. He cursed himself in his heart and kicked his nose in the face. Along the way, this prince was kind to himself, and it was difficult for him to treat others as ordinary people. People call you Ding Ye brothers, and they look up to you Ding Ye. You Ding Ye didn't know that the sky was high and the earth was thick and asked about the inaction of the dignified Yun Wangfu. What a sin, a sin. At the same time, the young man read all the names of the Zhenwu Emperor, the Eastern Emperor Taiyi of the Purple Mansion Shaoyang, and the Bodhisattva Buddha he knew, hoping that all the gods and goddesses would bless this Yun Shaozhuang Lord not to remember the villain, and he must not settle accounts with himself after the autumn. Let's not mention that if Yunyin Villa wants to cure him for a big crime of disrespect, he is afraid that he will not even have a bone residue left, just say that the young man next to him is smiling and squinting, and in the next few days, he is afraid that he will run and break his leg after following the horse's buttocks.

The little girl in the green cotton jacket tilted her head a little puzzled and stared at the little brother who lost her temper at the young man in the green robe, the girl was not familiar with the world, but she could also judge the difference between the master and slave between the two from the actions and words of the two, but the girl didn't understand why this brother who seemed to be an entourage was angry with her "master", as if the latter was a heinous person. The red-robed boy didn't know what the two adults were arguing about, he was just curious about what the girl was curious about, and tilted his head to look at the girl.

The old man, who had been staying out of the matter and being indifferent to the affairs in between, suddenly knocked on the armrest of his wheelchair with a silver cigarette pouch pot, and said in a hoarse voice, "Go back."

The girl turned around and asked, "Grandpa, it's not time to eat yet." It can be seen that the old man did not say a word, leaning on the back of the chair with his eyes closed, as if he was pretending to be asleep. The two men in front of him also said goodbye, and the boy in red came behind the old man, and the two pushed the wheelchair together and walked towards the village.

Yun Xuelan originally planned to ask the old man about something, but when he saw the old man refusing to let the two of them out of the village, he didn't get bored anymore. He made another junior salute to the wheelchair that was "squeaky yo".

The slanting sun is broken and the ruins are broken, and the shadow of the thin horse's hooves is shallow. The green hair, the red hair, the yellow mouth, the old boys and the women laughed and talked.