At that time, Liangzhou was divided into three: North Liang, South Liang, and West Liang. Guzang belongs to Beiliang, is a county of Beiliang country, and the county government is in the same city as the national capital; the people of Beiliang call Guzang City Liangzhou City to show that it is the orthodox place of Liangzhou, and the people of Nanliang and Xiliang directly call Guzang.

Wei Ji blushed, snorted, and stopped talking.

After the shopkeeper served the sheep intestine noodles to Duan Youren, he said to Wei Ji with a cold face: "Wei Lao'er, you said yesterday that you would settle the bill yesterday, and yesterday you said that you would settle the bill today, and it was dark today, and you didn't sell half of your words, could it be that I would serve you every day, you guys, how can you be so stingy......

"Shut up!" suddenly sounded two loud shouts, but it was Duan You and the restaurant shopkeeper who scolded the shopkeeper at the same time. The shopkeeper shrank his neck and entered the back hall.

Duan You said to Wei Ji: "Mr. Wei, I bought all your ink treasures!" As he spoke, he took it out of his arms, but there was a piece of gold in his hand, and he just took it out, but he was held down by Duan Jing and winked at him. Duan You immediately understood what he meant: his wealth would not be exposed, so he asked Duan Feng to untie a money bag and ask Wei Ji for a price.

The price of Wei Ji is not high, a volume of characters only sells 100 wen, Duan You handed the money bag to Wei Ji, and the copper coins contained were 150 or 60 wen.

Wei Ji only took 100 texts, returned the money bag to Duan You, and said: "Although my Beiliang Guzang people are in trouble for a while, they are honest and don't take more money. ”

Duan You was not hypocritical and accepted the money bag.

After the meal, Duan Youlin leaned over Wei Ji's ear when he went out, and whispered: "I am also from Guzang in Liangzhou." As he spoke, he quietly shoved a piece of gold into his hand.

A scholar like Wei Ji, if he were not poor, would never have abandoned Sven like this and sold words on the street. Although Ledu belongs to Liangzhou, it is different from Guzang in the end, and when you meet Guzang folks here, Duan You does not help, and you can't bear it.

Back to the inn, the four of them unfolded the scroll one by one, but saw a number of pairs of words, there are cursive script, there are regular script, there is line script, its cursive dragon flying phoenix dance, regular script work neat and beautiful, line book elegant and chic. Although the four of them don't know how to appreciate it, they feel fascinated and are indeed good words. One of the long scrolls caused the four of them to sigh -

Gou Mang Yu Chunzheng, Heng Ji Yun Yuqiong.

Ming Shu is auspicious, and the spirit is coming.

Qingyun shades the eight poles, and Ganyurun is four.

Haotian descends to the spirit, and the morning sun shines brightly.

Jia Miao cloth field, Baihui Shi Rong.

The dove magpie and the oriole yellow, the relationship is harmonious.

The green weed covers the spirit swamp, and the fragrant flower Yang Fangxin.

Spring outing Cheng Cola, feeling this daylight.

Hugh has no ultimate, deciduous thinking stems.

Linchuan mourns the deceased, and the festival changes in the situation.

The four of them read the most in the middle of the scene, and said that this poem was written by Zhang Jun, the ancestor of the former Liang State, "Traveling to the East Gate", describing the beautiful and warm spring scenery outside the city of Liangzhou, expressing the poem of the fun of spring, and containing the feelings of serving the country and blessing the people.

Duan Youqian's thoughts, when he was a child, he and Ling'er played with their friends and went out one by one, and the scenes of playing and outing with Ling'er appeared in front of him one after another, and his heart couldn't help but be depressed, Ling'er had been separated from Liangzhou for nine years! Although Gaochang also belonged to Liangzhou, in Duan You's heart, only the aunt who gave birth to him and Ling'er was the real Liangzhou, his hometown, and his and Ling'er's roots.

Ling'er, brother will take you home soon!

Duan Kui also sighed, leaving his hometown, only to know that his hometown was beautiful and affectionate.

At this moment, the innkeeper came and said that an old man had asked to see him.

The person who came was Wei Ji. He already knew that Duan Younai was the head of the four, and after entering the door, he solemnly thanked Duan You, saying: "Gongzi Gaoyi, with Gongzi's funding, the old man can leave to return to Guzang tomorrow, and I implore Gongzi to see his surname, where does Guzang live?"

Duan You knew that he had the feelings of retribution, and he didn't want to tell him, so as not to become a burden to him, and he felt that it was disrespectful to the old man not to say it, so he said it truthfully.

As soon as he heard Duan You say that he was from Gaogou Fort in Beiliang Guzang, Wei Ji's expression moved, and he asked, "Can Duan Gongzi know Chen Zhong from Gaogou Fort?"

"Chen Zhong, sixteen or seventeen years old, he is my brother, Mr. knows him?

Wei Jidao: "I know, he also helped me, more than three months ago, he and his group of three went to Gaochang. ”

"Gao Chang, go and save Ling'er, he also found out Ling'er's whereabouts?" Duan You said excitedly.

"Ling'er?" Wei Ji looked at Duan You, "Duan Gongzi is also looking for that little girl named Ling'er?"

Duan You pinched Wei Ji's arm: "Mr. knows Ling'er?"

"Yes, yes. Wei Ji saw that Duan was nervous, and hurriedly said, "That little girl came to live in my house for a period of time nine years ago, and she looked quite distressed, but she didn't say anything all day, I only knew that her name was Ling'er, she was five years old at the time, and she was taken to Gaochang by Mr. Lu." ”

Duan You's heart was moved, and he told Wei Ji about Ling'er's appearance, and Wei Ji nodded. Duan Kui, Duan Jing, and Duan Feng were also overjoyed, and I asked Wei Ji every word. Duan You stopped the three of them and said, "Sir, please tell us in detail about the process before and after this matter, who is Mr. Lu, and how Ling'er was born in your family, please start from the beginning." ”

Wei Ji nodded, and said slowly-

"Mr. Lu is a miscellaneous servant in the palace of Houliang Kingdom, not the lord of the country Lu Guang and Lu Long, with the same surname, I don't know what he does in the palace, I only know that he has excellent medical skills.

"After Lu Long became the lord of Houliang State, he frequently killed big households and Liwei, first the Dou family, the An family, and then the Suo family. Despite the caution of my eldest brother and I and the strict discipline of our children and family, doom is inevitable. Ten years ago, dozens of members of my eldest brother's family and my family were all detained by Lu Long in prison...... Except for me and my eldest brother, they were all slaughtered......"

Wei Ji was already in tears, took a sip of tea, relieved himself for a while, and then said: "Mr. Lu guaranteed that after my eldest brother and I were released from prison, he would heal our injuries and let my old brothers take refuge in Ledu." One night in August of the following year, Mr. Lu brought a little girl to him, saying that she was the granddaughter of the deceased, named Hua'er, and brought her to Ledu to avoid the war, so that my eldest brother and I could take care of it for a while, and told us not to make a noise and not let the little girl go out.

The little girl was only about five years old, handsome and beautiful, but rarely spoke, and asked her full name, and half a year later she said that her name was Ling'er again, and she refused to say any more. A year after being in my house, Lü's Houliang was destroyed by Qin and Nanliang, and Mr. Lü came to Ledu to pick up Hua'er...... Ling'er, said that she was going to Gaochang to avoid it.

"More than three months ago, I met the three sons of Chen Zhong of Guzang Gaogou Fort. On that day, the money I sold was robbed by a few gangsters on the street, and a few people from Chen Zhonggongzi happened to pass by, so they took action and taught a few gangsters a lesson, and then learned that I came from Guzang, that is, I asked if I had seen or knew the whereabouts of a little girl in Guzang, and said that I had found the bald hair of the gang leader in Ledu City.

"After Chen Zhonggongzi explained the little girl's situation in detail, I knew that it was Ling'er they were looking for. I saw that Chen Zhonggongzi and a few people were quite worried about Ling'er, and they were not evildoers, so I said. He and the others hurried to Gaochang. ”

After listening to Duan, a few people had already determined that Ling'er was in Gaochang. It's just that who Mr. Lu is, how did he meet Ling'er, and why Ling'er is his granddaughter, but I don't understand. Could it be an old friend of my grandfather or grandfather?

Suddenly, Duan You had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and blurted out to Wei Ji: "Is Mr. Lu's name Lu Hua?"

Mr. Chen Chen Hua once said that they have five brothers. At that time, they all went to Liangzhou and other places with the big families to build their own businesses, and their surnames followed the owner, all of them had a single name with the word 'Hua', Mr. Lu's medical skills were excellent, if he was called Lu Hua, it was very likely that he was Mr. Chen's brother! If so, he went to Gaochang and invited Mr. Lu Hua to Gaogou Fort, and his brothers could get together, which was an unexpected joy.

Wei Ji shook his head and said, "I only know his surname Lu, but I don't know his name." ”

Duan You said, "Do you know your eldest brother? Let's go and ask." ”

Wei Ji's expression was gloomy: "The eldest brother died seven years ago, and Ling'er passed away shortly after she was picked up by Mr. Lu. ”

After chatting for a while, Wei Ji said goodbye and left.

Looking at Wei Ji's rickety figure in the night, Duan You's heart welled up with a sense of desolation, ten years, wandering in a foreign land, his children died, how miserable the old man's heart should be!

At dawn the next day, four people set off for the next day.

When I got out of the inn, a man on the other side of the street poked his head out of the way, and then disappeared. Duan Jing told Duan You that the person was a diner at the sheep intestine noodle restaurant yesterday, and it seemed that he had bad intentions.

Duan You sneered, knowing that he had revealed his wealth yesterday and was targeted by a thief.

Sure enough, when he went out of the north gate, he saw the man hiding in one place and looking, and there were seven or eight men gathered around him, all armed with weapons, standing there, as if nothing had happened, but squinting at him. Duan had a few people who remained silent and rode out of the city.

After walking five or six miles in the northwest direction along the official road, it gradually got higher and higher, the surrounding mountains were slowly spreading, the forests were scarce, the road was on the mountain, the horses were panting for white steam, and several people had to slow down.

Suddenly, there was a sound of horses' hooves behind him, and he saw Sergeant No. 100 coming on horseback. Duan Youyou four people stopped on the side of the road and said, "Uncle Kui, the three of you get off the horse and stand in a circle, use the sealing trick trick, only defend and not attack, and hand over the rest to me." ”

A few people prepared as they were told.

When the army got closer, they saw the big man wearing a fox-fur pheasant hat in the lead glanced at Duan You's four people, and then led the team to gallop away, ignoring the four of them.

It seems to be too much to worry about.

After walking for half an hour, a team of men and horses came behind him, but there were more than 20 people, who were also sergeants, but their costumes were different from the previous Nanliang sergeants. is the first elegant young man, wearing a long sword at his waist, a strong man on each side, both carrying a thick back sword, looking like two brothers. When the elegant young man passed by a few people, he bowed slightly. Duan You saw him greeting him, and he also nodded in return, and the two did not speak.

Not long after this group of people passed, a large group of sergeants came behind them, also Sergeant No. 100, for the Nanliang army, a big man with a fox fur pheasant hat followed by a red-faced and luxurious young man, galloping past Duan You's four people.

Duan Jing said: "The twenty or so people in the middle belong to the Xiliang Kingdom, and it seems that the Nanliang army is going to attack the Xiliang people. ”

Duan You had also seen that not only that, but there were actually two generals in the Nanliang army, and the red-faced and luxurious young man seemed to have a high status. The people of Nanliang are so aggressive, with more than 200 people encircling and suppressing more than 20 people, who is the elegant young man in Xiliang?

Duan Feng said: "Young City Lord, can we help the Xiliang people?" (go to Zongheng Chinese Network to see the genuine "Following the Absolute Ring")