When the sun showed its fiery strength, Fu Qingyun finally walked onto the official road under the hill. He has a thin body, and his legs and feet are not dexterous enough, so he has suffered a lot. I wanted to find a family and ask for something to eat, but I was so shocked by the scene in front of me that I almost forgot my hunger and thirst.

I saw that on both sides of the official road, although there is a tiled house or earthen house every 100 meters, but most of the doors are closed, and the corners of the doors are full of cobwebs, which shows that they have not lived for a long time; occasionally the doors are open, but the houses are broken and ruined, and the windowsills are covered with thick dust, and a desolate scene is like walking into a ghost domain.

Fu Qingyun walked through several houses in a row in disappointment, but he didn't get anything, and when he was hungry, he suddenly saw a gray-haired grandmother looking at him fixedly at the gate of a gray-walled and black-tiled compound in front of him.

The courtyard is surrounded by high walls, the vermilion lacquer gate, the yellow copper ring, looking at the gate, you can see that the courtyard in the courtyard is wide, and the ground made of bluestone slabs is flat and bright, which shows that this was once a big family. Grandma was dressed in a somewhat old gray dress, and her face was hungry, but she couldn't hide the solemn look of her former superior.

Fu Qingyun didn't care about the shyness of his shirtless body, walked a few steps quickly with a wooden stick, and walked to stand in front of his grandmother. Before he could speak, Grandma couldn't wait to ask, "Little brother, did you come back from the north, did you finish the battle over there?"

Fu Qingyun looked at Grandma, her face was full of doubts, she shook her head and said, "Grandma, is there a war going on in the north? Where is this, why is it so desolate, and has it encountered any natural disasters?" Fu Qingyun was full of doubts, fell into the river and did not die, and after seeing the sun again, not only did the seasons change, but also came to such a desolate place.

Grandma didn't get the news she wanted, her eyes looked a little lonely, and she shook her head and said, "Young man, this is Nanyang County." After that, he sighed again: "There are both natural disasters and man-made disasters, little brother, you are not a local, right?"

Fu Qingyun's heart froze, and he secretly wondered: "'Nanyang County' is not a contemporary place name, could it be that I have returned to ancient times?"

Fu Qingyun came back to his senses and asked, "Grandma...... , I just came from out of town, what's wrong here, why is it so deserted?"

Grandma took a deep breath and sighed: "Little brother, don't you know that in recent years, there have been frequent border wars, heavy taxes and taxes, coupled with years of natural disasters and soaring prices, and you can't survive." Far from the city, bandits form in groups and plunder, making it even more difficult to survive. The young people fled, they died, and there were not many people left in this mountain. ”

Fu Qingyun was at a loss when he heard this, and asked, "Grandma, what year and month is it now?"

Grandma smiled bitterly and said, "Child, it's the year of Tianfeng, don't you know?"

Fu Qingyun let out a stunned sigh and asked, "God...... During the Tianfeng period, is it Wang Mang's regime now?" He knew that "Tianfeng" was the second era name after Wang Mang usurped the "Liu Han" regime and established a "new" dynasty.

Grandma stretched out her hand and made a silent movement, and said in horror: "Child, don't call the emperor by his name, and if you want to be beheaded, you should be honored as Emperor Xinxing." ”

Fu Qingyun nodded, confirming that he had indeed traveled through time and space and came to a strange dynasty. He knew that Wang Mang's regime was a troubled era when the Western Han Dynasty was destroyed and the Eastern Han Dynasty was not established, when Wang Mang established a "new" dynasty and became emperor, with severe punishments, heavy taxes and military service, and the people complained, and it was the shortest-lived dynasty in history.

Seeing Fu Qingyun's poor appearance with vegetables and leaves on his face, Grandma said with pity: "Child, I still have some old clothes in the house, I should be able to wear them depending on your figure, you can come with me." ”

Fu Qingyun responded gratefully and followed Grandma into the compound. There are many rooms in the courtyard, but there are not many complete homes, and traces of smashing can be seen everywhere, most of which are furniture with short legs and missing corners.

Fu Qingyun carried a bucket of water boiled by Grandma, carefully washed his whole body, and felt extremely comfortable. Since being paralyzed by a catastrophe, it is the first time that I have been so happily groomed and washed my whole body, and the unpleasant smell of feces and urine in my lower body has been removed. Fu Qingyun changed into a set of clothes given by her grandmother, although it was a little old, but her grandmother washed it cleanly, folded it neatly, and was very comfortable to wear.

Fu Qingyun changed his clothes, he was refreshed, and his gratitude was indescribable. Seeing that Grandma's house was destitute, she was embarrassed to ask for some food and drink, but Grandma spoke first: "Child, Grandma has nothing to entertain you, Grandma will make you some corn and vegetable cakes." ”

Fu Qingyun's stomach was indeed unbearable hunger, so he didn't shirk it, and thanked him gratefully. Grandma turned around to the corner of the house, scooped some cornmeal in a porcelain jar with a porcelain bowl, and listened to the sound of scraping the wall of the bowl, showing that there was not much food left, which made Fu Qingyun even more grateful and uneasy in his heart.

Grandma took some wild vegetables from the basket, and corn flour, set up a firewood to burn, and after a while, served a few pieces of yellow and green corn cakes.

When Fu Qingyun gobbled up for a while, Grandma said apologetically: "Child, Grandma can't help you anymore, it's difficult to make a living in this mountain, you go to Nanyang City to try your luck." ”

Fu Qingyun thanked him sincerely, went out, and walked along the official road with a wooden staff towards the city of Nanyang County.

Although Fu Qingyun has regained sensation in his legs and feet, he is not very dexterous, and it is still difficult to walk. After walking for a while, I saw that the sun had gradually turned west, and there were still undulating hills on both sides, but I saw half of the city there.

Just when he was weak, suddenly there was a faint sound of swords clashing from behind the hill in front, mixed with the neighing of people and horses.

Fu Qingyun raised his strength, stumbled around the mountain with his crutches, and looked fixedly, only to see swords and swords on the mountain valley, cold stars flashing, and the two teams of men and horses were fighting each other, and the battle was fierce.

Fu Qingyun has grown so big, he has seen such a bloody scene there. Fu Qingyun's body couldn't help but tremble slightly, and he quickly found a big tree to hide behind it, feeling a little stable in his heart.

Fu Qingyun came out to watch, but saw a team of people and horses dressed in short clothes, all fierce and vicious, some with knives, some with sticks to kill back and forth, about 30 people. Another group of centaur merchants, less than twenty people, led by a few men in strong suits, rode their horses to the left and right, not giving an inch, guarding the goods on the carriage and several family members on the carriage.

At that time, the martial arts were extremely victorious, and most of these merchants who went south and north practiced a shallow kung fu self-defense, one move and one style, and the attack and defense were very orderly; the other side should be the mountain bandits that Grandma said, although the man won and the attack was ruthless, but there was no move at all, it was a gang of rabble.

One of the middle-aged men who was dressed in a hurry was very brave, and one of them was not afraid of the five Caokou, and a big knife danced vigorously. I saw that the man lifted the reins of the horse, shouted violently, waved a knife to the left, forced back the bandits on the left, and reversed the big knife, and slashed down at the two bandits on the right, the two bandits hurriedly blocked, but where could they resist, only heard two snorts, the big knife slashed through the neck of a bandit, castrated unabated, and cut into the chest of another bandit, seeing that he was not alive.

The bandits were captured by the man's mighty momentum, let out a roar, and fled in all directions.