Zhui Xu

The sky is gray, and in the cold wind of winter, it seems to change color. Houjiacun, this is the small village on the north bank of the Yellow River. It was at the end of October, and it was going to turn cold. Houyuan was carrying a large firewood and coming out of the mountain.

A child of his age can't cut so much wood like him, let alone go back. Hou Yuanzhang is 12 years old this year, but he is not tall, but he is a child from a young age. The children of the poor family are headed home. This is not popular at this time. Hou Yuan’s family is not poor. His father is a soldier. Going with the army, eating a bite to eat, and not being at home all the year round, but with his father’s money, a hardworking mother, he is not hungry.

In his memory, his father did not study, but he was always out of the ordinary. In fact, he had seen the world. His name was taken by his father who asked for literacy. It is said to be very literary. In a few occasions, the father was silent, but he also said a lot of outside things, taught him a lot of truth, taught him to be filial at home, and promised him that he will have a chance in the future. Take him out to see the world.

In the early years, the family was in a difficult situation, but three years ago, his father was promoted to a small official in the army, and his family was much better. Half a year ago, my father came back once and brought back many good things. He also told him about the situation of war. The father followed a good sergeant and won the victory, so he won many rewards.

Located in the mountains, Houjia Village is one of the most remote villages. The outside world has often become vague when passed. Houyuan has no chance to read, but his mind is more flexible than ordinary children. He occasionally looks outside. The people who came here asked for some. Since last year, it is said that the outside is not flat, and the Jurchen has been beaten. After the father talked to him, he realized that in the outside world, his father led the team to rush in the first column - killing a lot of bad guys.

He is very proud of this. In the past six months, I have often shown off with my friends in the mountains. My father is a big hero, so I got a reward – including the new cow that he bought at home, and bought it with a reward. This thing of cattle, the entire Houjia Village. There are only two ends.

In the imagination of Hou Yuanzhang, he will eat more and grow stronger, and then follow his father to go to the army and kill the bad. Then I got a bunch of rewards back. Maybe in a few years, he will have such an opportunity.

The opportunity came early.

He always remembers that the weather that left Houjiacun was gloomy. It seemed that the weather was getting colder. He cut the firewood out of the mountains. When he got home, he found some relatives and villagers gathered together. The relatives are all mothers. The father has no family, and before he is married to his mother, he is just a lonely military man - these people come over. They all talked in the room. It is the father who is back.

The father was tall, unloaded and unloaded, and there was a knife on his face. When he saw that he was coming back, he waved at him and Hou Yuanzhang ran over. I have to take the knife on his body to play. The father solved the knife and then began to talk to other people in the village.

"This year has begun to change. I don't know when to close the mountain. My time is too tight, and the army is waiting to open. If it is late, I am afraid that I will not wait for me. This is a big sin. I went to the city. I have to arrange Ah Hong and my child..."

"Isn't that meal? You rushed overnight..."

"Go ahead tomorrow morning, don't catch the night, say you can't meet a strong man..."

What the father said is that he wants to take his mother and himself to go immediately. The rest of the village people keep it, but the father just smiles: "I am killed in the army with Jurchens, people coming from the 10,000 people, waiting for a few strong people. Don't be afraid. It's all because the military order is like a mountain. I have to hurry."

The mother was packing things at home. Hou Yuanzhang took his father’s knife and asked about it. Only then did he know that his father bought a house in the city this time, and the army just happened to be near, and he was still unopened, and the snow was not sealed. Mountain, take care of yourself and your mother. This kind of good thing, the villagers will naturally not stop, everyone will retain it with enthusiasm, and the father's side will temporarily entrust many of the family's unwanted things, including the house, to the mother's relatives. In a sense, it is equal to giving to others.

So the family began to pack things up, and the father tied the cart with clothes, food, seeds, kitchen knives, plows, spatula and other valuables, and several chickens in the house were caught. The mother spread some cakes on the road, and waited for the yuan to lick, first ate one. When he ate, he saw the parents and two together and said something, then the mother hurried out and went to the grandparents' house.

Not long after, the mother came back, and the grandparents came back, and the door closed at home. The father whispered to his grandfather, and the grandmother was not knowing anything. He held tears in his eyes. Hou Yuanzhang heard his father and his grandfather whispered: "The Jurchen is coming to the shackles... I can’t keep it... We are dead for a lifetime... ..."

The grandfather asked him about some things. The father said: "If you want to go, you will go south... There is a gentleman who said that after crossing the Yangtze River, you can get peace. I didn't say that there is a distant relative in Bazhou..."

This exchange, Hou Yuanzhang can't understand too much. Not until the evening, their family started three. The speed of the oxcart is not slow. In the evening, I live in the mountains. On the second and third days, I walked all day again. It was not the road to the nearby city, but after a journey through the avenue, the fourth There are many people on the side of the mountain, and many people have gathered there.

In the past few days, Hou Yuanzhang had heard a lot of things from his father on the way. Half a year ago, the outside changed to a new generation. Before the month, the Jurchens went south. They went to resist and were defeated by a blow. Now the capital is not saved. Maybe half of the world will fall. These people are going to rely on a big man - they are said to be Former sir.

Hou Yuanzhang is still small, there is no concept for the capital, and there is no concept for half of the world. In addition, the father also said something about the corruption of the official, messed up the country, messed up the army and the like, and Hou Yuanzhang certainly had no idea - the officials are naturally bad guys. But in any case, the distance of more than 200 people on the edge of the mountain is the same as the father and their family.

More than two hundred people, adding up to about fifty or sixty families, children and women a lot, carriages, ox carts, scorpions pulled cars, things in the car, although it seems to be a flight. Each has its own family, and even the family is a doctor, dragging the medicine of half a car. The father should be a chief among these people. Someone greets him from time to time, and there is another sergeant named Qu Qing. When I was having dinner, I came over and talked to their family.

On this night, Hou Yuanzhang played with the children for a while. When he got to the night, he couldn't sleep. He came out of the tent, went to the outside campfire and found his father, and sat down beside his father. There was a sergeant and a few other people along the bonfire, and they spoke. Seeing the child coming over and teasing twice, he is not afraid to listen to him. The Houyuan squatting did not understand, holding a long knife and snoring on his father's lap. The sound came from time to time. The fire is also burning warm.

"... When Mr. Ning left Beijing, he wanted to go through the whole process of Jingzhong, but let Cai Jing’s old man break. But later, Cai Laoer was also uncomfortable. They redeemed the actions of Yanyun Six States. After the release of the means of disaster relief, the situation in Beijing has been tense... On Mr. Ning’s side, this means not only to make them slightly uncomfortable. Later, Mr. Ning’s inference of the situation, you all know, now. It should be fulfilled in one round..."

"... Within a year, the Liangliang fell, all the north of the Yellow River fell, within three years. The north of the Yangtze River was lost in the hands of Jurchen, and the millions of people became pigs and sheep." Others would say that if Mr. Wu Ning is uncle, the situation will not The collapse is so fast, you and I have stayed in the Wurui camp, you should know the truth... originally or have a chance to live. It’s wasted by this group of people who are empowered..."

"... When General Qin was dismissed, I thought about it, this day is over. I am his mother..."

"If you are not a wife or a child at home, I also left with Mr. Ning at the beginning..."

"It’s also afraid...it’s the enemy of the world, Mr. Ning’s side, I’m afraid it’s too flat...”

"In the summer village, I said, I want to earn myself. Of course, troubles are inevitable, but now, the court has no strength to come over to us. Qin General and Mr. Ning are not in a good position, but he has arranged. Of course, This is rebellion, snoring, not a child's play, so I am really scared. If there are many people in the family, they will be led to go to the Yangtze River."

"I have no relatives in the Yangtze River..."

"There are some, but how long does the Jurchen fight so fast, how long can the Yangtze River hold?"

"There are few people in the Jurchen, Mr. Ning said, moving to the south of the Yangtze River, how many can be lucky for a few years, maybe more than ten years. In fact, there are places in the south of the Yangtze River that can be resettled, the rebellious Fang La Yu, the core in the south, the past However, Qin General and Mr. Ning put their core in the northwest. It is not unreasonable. Although the north is chaotic, it is not the scope of the Wu Dynasty. It will not be much in the matter of taking anti-thief. The north is too chaotic, and maybe there is still a gap to survive. Going to the south, maybe you will encounter the full pressure of the Wu Dynasty... But no matter what, the brothers, the world is coming, everyone must have a preparation. ”

"When I have been a soldier for a few years, I have escaped and beaten. I also saw the Jurchen in the south, and I saw what it was like in a chaotic world. I just like a few family members and I thought about taking them away, I was afraid I couldn’t hide. It is better to follow them with General Qin and earn a life."

"Go to the northwest, are we going to Luliang Mountain? Qingmu Village?"

"No, I can't say for the time being. You can walk with me."

"That... We are following the generals Qin and Ning, are they rebelling against the world?"

"Yeah, actually, I originally thought that we only had one or two thousand people. We used to beat Jurchens. In the few months of Xia Cun, Mr. Ning let us defeat the rebel army. If there are more people, we will be more united. , Jurchen is afraid of anything!"

"...Ning Mr. Ning is saying now, save China. This is the end of the river, so many good people have lived on this mountain, they must be handed over to the Jurchen, we try our best to save ourselves and save this world. What is the rebellion against the world, do you think that Mr. Ning’s deep learning is like someone who can say such things?”

"Oh……"

"Haha, it is also..."

"Actually... I am thinking about the big brother, I was thinking, rebel will rebel, why do you have to kill the emperor? If Ning did not kill the emperor, this Jurchen man went south, he said to go, we must all keep up, take it slowly, Still not alarming, is this better?"

"Mr. Ning actually said this thing. Some of them I think are not too clear. Some of them understand. The first point, this Confucianism is Confucianism. All kinds of relationships are dragged too much. I don't understand. What Confucianism is the doorway of the scholars. All kinds of wrestling, intrigue, we can't play with them, they play too much, and the Wuchao is tossed like this, you want to improve. If you can't put this kind of The relationship is cut off, you will do things in the future, they will hold you all over, including us, and at that time, they will feel that this thing has to give the court a face. That thing is not very good, and by then, it will become the same as before. Do this There are no big things, you can't have delusions, you can kill the emperor. If you are willing to follow, you and me will not have any delusions. On their side, the emperor ministers, you don't have to take care of it... and as for the second point, Ning The gentleman said five words..."

"what?"

"He said... it’s hard to be flat..."

The campfire burns and the air is warm. Occasionally, the wind blew, and it was blocked by the mountains over there, and it was only faintly heard. Hou Yuanzhang did not know when he was taken into the tent by his father. Woke up the next day. They waited for a day here, and someone came over. On this day, there were more than one hundred people. When it was dawn, the team set off under the leadership of Quqing.

The group went northwest, and the road became more and more difficult along the way, and occasionally the same people who fled. Perhaps because the core of the team is made up of soldiers. The speed of everyone is not slow, and it takes about seven days to travel. Also encountered a rogue monk, seeing the wealth of wealthy people. I was prepared to come up with the idea that night. However, there was a scout in front of the queue and I found out the intention of the other party. The crowd was first dispatched this night to kill the other party halfway.

There were more than 30 people in the team who were attacked by Hou Yuanzhang’s father. After his father’s attack, Hou Yuanzhang was restless. He had previously heard from his father that he had been killed, generous, and horrified when he fled. These days I was used to the uncles and uncles in the crowd. When I was close at hand, I suddenly realized that my father might be injured and would die. This evening, he waited for three hours in the tightly guarded camp. When he appeared in the night, he ran over and saw his father at the front of the queue. He was stained with blood and held a skinny horse. It seems that there is a breath that I have never seen before, so that I have to wait for the time.

The father came over and squatted in front of him and reached out and made a snoring action. "Was the mother kiss over there?"

Hou Yuanxiao nodded, and his father said: "You tell her, I am back, I have finished the horse, I have not been injured, and I don't want to say anything else. I am going to find a wash with everyone. Do you know?"

Hou Yuanzhang nodded again, and his father waved his hand: "Go."

After a while, a group of people came back, and there was no blood stain on them. They just had some suffocation, but they were not as horrible.

This campaign has given the team a few more horses, and everyone’s mood has risen. So for a few more days, I passed through a lot of desolate ridges and rugged roads. In the middle of the road, problems caused by various carriages and cattle carts were delayed, and a team of more than 200 people joined in. The day when the weather became colder, when people camped, someone brought them together.

Hou Yuanzhang likes the feeling of gathering. He stands on his own cart, looking far ahead, his father is there, and the uncle named Qu Qing spoke.

"...Before you go to the place, there are some words to tell everyone. If you understand, you can listen, you don't understand, it doesn't matter... Since Qin General and Mr. Ning killed the faint king, I wanted Qin General and Ning in the court. There are a lot of people who have a life. I know that they have also transferred their staff, arranged people, and infiltrated into us. Maybe you have this. It doesn't matter."

He said: "Mr. Ning told me to tell you that if you want to do things, you may control your family. Now you are surrounded by a beam, maybe you will break the city soon. If your family is there, then you will be in trouble. I don’t live in Liangliang City, they can’t protect your family. Mr. Ning knows that if they are looking for someone like this, you will be forced to do it. It’s okay, we’re all living together on the battlefield. People! We are the ones who have defeated the resentful army! You will not look down on you because of your forced compulsion. So, if you have such a threat, or they are looking for you brothers who have talked about this matter, these In the day, think about it."

"After thinking about it, you can find me, you can also look for the mountains. You think people who can talk about it. If you say something, you can write off things, we are still good brothers. To be honest, as long as there is such a thing, Mr. Ning even You can use it in reverse, so you can't hide it, so you can help us to do it in turn! Into the mountains, what we have to do is save the world's big things! Don't play, don't be lucky. If the family in your family really falls.汴梁, please think about them, the court will not care about their lives."

"In order to be in Xia Cun, those brothers who died in the battle against the Jurchens, in order to make a painstaking right, because the heart of the people was ruined by the court, Mr. Ning went straight to the church, and even the faint can kill on the spot. Everyone It’s his own brother, and he will treat your family as his family. Now, near the Liangliang, there are our brothers, the Jurchen, who may not be able to say how many people will be saved, but they will Do your best."

"Okay." Qu Qing waved his hand. "Everyone thinks."

Nothing happened on this day, and then set off. Three days later, Hou Yuanzhang and the people arrived at the place. It was a valley between the desolate mountains. A small river quietly passed through the valley, and the water flow was not urgent. . On both sides of the creek, various simple buildings are gathered, but it seems to have outlined the outline of a concentrated area. The winter has arrived, and it is a waste of time.

On one side of the river, there was a small village that had been abandoned. Hou Jinyu came here for an hour and knew the name of the river. It is called Xiao Cang River. The village near the river was originally called Xiao Canghe Village. It has been abandoned for many years. At this time, nearly 10,000 people's camps are being built.

It’s cold in the sky, but there’s a well-organized work between the small rivers and the mountains. Hou Yuanzhang and others first gathered in the west side of the valley. Someone soon came over and arranged a wooden house for each of them. It was a relatively good building that was formed on the west side of the mountain, giving priority to people from outside the mountain. Father Hou Wu followed the channel to collect them on the other side, and then came back to help the family to unload the supplies.

"Qin General may come, Mr. Ning will go out for a while." When moving various things into the house, Hou Wu and Hou Yuanzhang said so, he probably told the son about these two people on the road. Things, but Hou Yuanzhen was happy at the new residence at this time, but did not say anything.

Soon after, it was like something was passed up in the valley. Hou Wu and Hou Yuanzhang moved their things and watched many people in the valley whispering. On the other side of the river, someone shouted: "That is not going to do something for us!"

This doesn't sound like a reprimand, because many people answered in unison: "Yes--" The voice is quite loud.

It was doubtful that Qu Qing came over here. He was followed by a young and honest man. Hou Wu said hello to him: "One mountain. Come, Yuanxiao, called Uncle Mao."

Hou Yuan screamed, and his eyes were still curious ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Mao Yishan also waved with the children. The channel is complex and whispered: "The beam is broken."

Hou Wuyi took a long while: "...so fast? Direct attack."

"They found a heavenly master, Shi Liujia Shenbing..."

Qu Qing whispered, and told Tian Jing Guo Jing to talk about the city of Liujia. Hou Yuan blinked his eyes, and in the end did not hear how the Liujia Shen Bing was broken. Hou Wu pinched his fist: "So... this kind of thing... So broke the city?"

"Well, the Jurchen is preparing for half a month under the city, nothing is used."

"...He General is shouting right." Hou Wu whispered and turned and went to the room. "They are finished, let's do something, don't wait..."

This day is the twenty-fourth of the first year of Jingping, or the child's Hou Yuanzhang came to Xiaocanghe Village for the first time. Also in the afternoon of this day, Ning Yi came back from the mountain and knew the news of the collapse of the Liangliang... (to be continued)

Ps: At the beginning of the new episode, there are a lot of things to think about, the speed will not be fast, and finally updated. This chapter is 5950 words, so lazy, just like this.