Dingzheng three years, autumn.

Compared with the summer heat that has just passed, Guobei County, where the autumn equinox has just arrived, is no different except for the golden color that cannot be hidden in the rice fields and the extra coolness in the wind.

Han Qiufen has lived in this Guobei County since he was sensible. Guobei County is located in the south of the Great Liang Dynasty and belongs to Wubei County. The location is remote, fortunately, the people are simple, but it is also a peaceful place.

The seasonal climate in the south of Daliang is different from the four seasons in the north, take the winter in Guobei County as an example, withering and loneliness are the main chord laws.

As for scenes like the silver in the north and the snow drifting, it is usually only spread in the mouths of those scholars who have returned to their hometowns and some pawn traders who have gone south and north.

Although this Guobei County is small, there is no shortage of rich and noble families, and the tolerance is old.

There are two private schools in the county:

A private school is the son of a noble family, and the name of the private school is Mingli Academy.

The other private school is dedicated to enrolling the children of the common people, and its name is Qiwu Academy.

With such a name, you can also know the difference in the content taught in the private school.

Han Qiufen was picked up from the land temple on the outskirts of the county, and the person who brought him back was a man named Huazi, who hurriedly sent him to the county government to receive a little reward, and went to buy roast chicken in a hurry.

The messenger of the county government also took this child who was waiting to be fed, and sent him to the enlightenment private school and handed it over to a gentleman.

This is also the only gentleman of the Enlightenment Private School.

This gentleman is about the age of not being confused, I heard that he also won the show in his early years, and passed the exam, and then he didn't know how, he came to Guobei Town to be a teacher, he is usually a good person, up to the county rich and noble, down to the people's pawns, all praise him.

So no one made fun of him for not being a literati and not being a master.

In fact, Mr. Wei is also a well-recognized literati, often catching up with a common man for the New Year's holidays, or a wealthy family marrying a daughter and proposing marriage, and will send people to the door to ask for a congratulatory speech.

Mr. likes autumn, in his words, autumn is a day that is loved by the emperor's relatives and the common people. For autumn is the harvest season, and the treasury is full, and the people have survived another year.

After the great heat is the autumn equinox, the autumn is separated, and the cold dew comes. Every autumn, the gentleman would recite this phrase several times.

Fifteen autumns ago in Guobei County, Yamen Tongguan said that a forgotten child had been found in the land temple on the outskirts of the county.

Later, people asked the child called Hanako, and Hanako said: This child is lying on a futon in front of the land lord, and there is nothing left except swaddling clothes, fortunately it did not enter the cold dew, otherwise it would be late.

That's how the name of the Han equinox came from, and Mr. gave it.

Mr. Wei's surname is Wei, and he likes to wear a gray robe, with a lot of patches on his clothes, but the seams are neat and tight. He, like the literati of his age, wore a palm-wide beard on his chin.

His skin is fair, his personality is easy-going, and he does things and speaks like the patches on his clothes, tightly fitting and leaving no gaps.

On weekdays, most of them are cautious.

Mr. Wei likes to drink in his spare time.

Only after he has drunk will he be his true self again.

Han Qiufen likes to listen to Mr. Wei's drinking.

So when he was a child, he often helped his neighbors do some farm chores in exchange for a few steamed buns to eat, and when he was a little older, Han Qiufen began to do chores in the county's wine shop, earning some loose silver taels to buy wine for Mr. Wei.

Mr. Wei drinks with a preference for spirits.

Mr. Wei only drinks one kind of wine, "roll a sip" wine as its name suggests, one word, strong!

Han Qiufen doesn't drink alcohol, and when Mr. drinks on weekdays, he is responsible for pouring wine.

Over time, the two also formed a tacit understanding. One buys wine, the other drinks. One to watch, one to drink.

Approaching winter, it gets dark early, and the people in the county also finish their work early, return to their respective homes, sit under the old acacia, and listen to the insects.

Pinch a little. In less than an hour, Han Qiufen knew that Mr. Wei had almost drunk it.

At this time, Mr. Wei seemed to have shed the shackles on his body, and with the candle flame swept by the breeze, Shi Shiran ...... Stood up.

"I like to see the thousands of waves of rice and grass, and heroes everywhere smoke at sunset. shook off the dew that was draped in the early morning..."Han Qiufen thought quietly about this sentence.

Mr. Wei, who had just borrowed wine and chanted poetry, held the rough wine glass made of clay in his hand, and looked at the silent Han Qiu equinox across the table with hazy eyes.

Han Qiufen glanced at Mr. Wei and ignored it.

Mr. Wei smiled, then picked up the small wine cup on the table, picked it up and shook it in front of his eyes.

Squinted his eyes and tilted his body. Listening to the sound of insects chirping outside the door, he shook his head, carrying a wine cup in one hand and a wine glass in the other.

Mr. Wei pondered for a while, licked the skin of his mouth, and then drank the remaining glass of wine in one gulp.

"The time is in September, and the order belongs to the third autumn"...

"There is also a cold in autumn, autumn equinox, don't freeze.... After the gentleman finished speaking, he tilted his head and did not move.

Han Qiufen didn't understand whether Mr. was saying this to himself, or if he meant something else.

The moonlight outside the house gradually alternated between light and dark, and Han Qiufen looked at the sky outside along the eaves of the window.

Clouds gently obscured the moon's brilliance. After a while, the thin cloud swallowed up all the shadows on the ground.

Retracted his gaze...

Mr. Wei had already taken off his shoes and lay down on the bed with his kimono, and Mr. Wei's snoring came softly in the night when only the insects could be heard and the candle flame was faintly beating.

After cleaning up the mess on the table, Han Qiufen gently pulled up the two wooden doors on the left and right.

Han Qiufen stayed at the Land Temple at night, which was the Land Temple when Hanako found him.

Mr. Wei usually helps those rich and noble men write Spring Festival couplets, letters, and greetings to earn some money, and the money he earns is not much.

The people of Guobei County saw what Mr. Wei did, so when they heard that Mr. Wei was going to take care of a child who was brought back from the Land Temple, they all rushed over to help.

These years of life have made Han Qiufen's mind much more mature than other peers, so when he just learned about his background, he made the decision to move back to the dilapidated land temple back then.

The thin cloud just now had already drifted to other corners with the breeze with the passage of time, and the bright moonlight returned to Guobei County.

There are about three miles from Mr. Wei's house to the Land Temple, Han Qiufen is wearing a dark cloth clothes, and the whole person is blended into the night, and he can only hear the sound of cloth shoes and fine sand and gravel pavement.

When I arrived on the outskirts of the county, I was getting closer and closer to the land temple, the road became narrower and narrower, there were more and more trees and weeds on both sides of the road, and there were fewer and fewer houses in sight.

The road under Han Qiu's feet became more and more blurred, the roadside on both sides of his body was overgrown with weeds, and the woods were shaded, and the sound of rustling was heard from time to time in the grass and woods.

The pace of the autumn equinox did not speed up, and he still moved slowly.

The land temple was built by the previous dynasty, and the great Liang Taizu re-canonized the mountains and rivers after the world was established, and the land temple of the previous dynasty was slowly deserted.

The land temple has also become a place for some people who are in a hurry to rest.

The two wooden doors that had been broken were pushed open by a pair of hands, and the moonlight penetrated into the land temple, illuminating the scene in front of the temple, some parts of the stone slabs on the ground in front of the land temple had broken and many openings had been opened, and even some stone bricks had disappeared, and the place where they disappeared was bare on the dirt floor.

Most of the red paint on the wooden beams and pillars that support the entire land temple has long since faded, but the exposed parts have been wrapped in mud and sand, and the rotten wood in the pillars has not been exposed.

In the middle of the land temple against the wall and facing the gate, there is a statue of the god of the land, the statue is carved in stone, although it has been eroded by the years, the face is still clear, and there is no moss lichen cover.

In front of the idol there is a small incense burner, two extinguished candles, and next to the candles are a steamed bun and an egg.

In front of the statue is a bed covered by a futon in the front room.

Han Qiufen closed the door and breathed a sigh of relief. It would be a lie for him to say that he wasn't nervous just now, that autumn is not only the season for humans to harvest, but also the season for beasts to store their energy for the arrival of winter.

After putting a stick of incense on the land god and kowtowing respectfully, Han Qiufen shook off the cover and lay down, turned sideways to look at the idol in front of him, and slowly closed his eyes.