Four months ago, in the territory of the Southern Tang Kingdom.

Huainan, Dingyuan County, is located in a small county in the south of the lower reaches of Huaishui.

At this time, it is noon, the scorching sun shines directly on this land, although it has passed the beginning of autumn, but the weather is still hot, located in a small mountain village more than 100 miles away in the east of Dingyuan County, from time to time there are some children's laughter. The weather is too hot, except for the excited children who are playing and noisy, the other people are lazy and do not go out, some sit in the shade under the eaves of their own houses, and some fanned three or five people sit under the thick shade such as the cover of the towering trees to enjoy the shade, from time to time there are annoying noises on the trees, so that people just want to be drowsy.

Next to the village, there is an inlet formed by a tributary of the Huai River, the inlet is about three or four acres in size, and most of the inlets are planted with lotuses. At this time, it is past the season of lotus flowers, and pink petals can be seen floating everywhere on the water, like a miniature painting boat wandering in the wind. A breeze blows, the lotus leaves rise and fall, slapping on the water, and the lotus canopy sways from side to side, startling the red dragonfly that stays on the lotus canopy, and the red dragonfly flies up and around the bend, and then stops on the lotus canopy.

Around the inlet, the willows are shady, and there are a few mulberry trees mixed in it, in a water edge with less lotus, a young man lies flat under a huge willow, the young man is dressed in a white shirt, a large green lotus leaf covers his face, the young man holds a fishing rod in his right hand, the young man seems to be asleep, he does not find that the float on the fishing line on the water seems to move, and the ripples spread around the float, the float suddenly sinks, and sinks to the bottom of the water and is almost invisible.

The young man raised his right hand, a big and fat red carp came out of the water, the big red carp jumped on the fishing line, the tail was still struggling, the young man sat up, the lotus leaf fell down, revealing his handsome face, with a little childishness, his eyes were like stars, and the two sword eyebrows set off his handsome and free. The boy unhooked the carp, threw it away, and landed in a fishing basket not far from him, placed in shallow water.

"Young master, young master", at this time, an old shout came, and after a while, a figure with a graceful figure appeared behind the young man, and the young man saw that it was Ye An, the steward of his own house.

"Young master, it's time to go back for lunch." It turned out that Ye An came to ask the young man to go back to his house for lunch.

"It's still early, that's so fast," the boy was a little strange, the family usually didn't eat lunch from time to time, and now in the middle of the day, it was noon.

"There are guests at home, it's the Huangfu lord from Dingyuan County and his son, Huangfu Hui, who are here," Ye An explained.

"What are they doing on such a hot day?" The boy asked, confused.

"I don't know about this old slave, maybe it's something about business." Ye An didn't know much either. Seeing that he couldn't ask anything, the young man had to put away the fishing rod and fishing basket, and walked towards Ye's house with Ye An.

This young man's name is Ye Yinfeng, the only son of the head of the Ye family, Ye Yinfeng is gifted and intelligent, famous far and wide, he temporarily showed his wisdom when he was young, when he was six years old, he read the whole book, "Book of Songs", "Analects" each book is like a stream, at the age of ten years old, the export into a chapter, the world said that the chest has the capital of warp and weft, will become a great tool. There is a document that says: "Pianpian young man, full of economy, borrowed from He Jiazi, Huainan Ye's family." ”

The Ye family was originally the first family in Huainan, because of the chaos of the world, gradually began to decline, the ancestors of the Ye family settled in Shouzhou, Huainan, but the family was declining, and the family moved to a small mountain village in this remote Dingyuan County, and later Ye Yinfeng's grandfather Ye Dexing relied on his business acumen to do some tea business, and the family began to improve, so that the Ye family could slowly revitalize, but it was impossible to restore the past glory, and the Ye family did not want to move back to Shouzhou, but in this troubled world, the mountain village that avoided it was calm and stable.

Ye Yinfeng was not interested in these literary and dancing inks, in his heart, he wanted to be a ranger with a sword to eliminate the strong and help the weak, he liked the "Swordsman" of the previous Tang Dynasty Jia Island very much: "Ten years of sharpening a sword, the frost blade has not been tried." Who has a grievance with the king today? In addition to the books such as the Four Books and the Five Classics that the family wants him to read, he also likes to read some books such as Jianghu Zhilu, those books have his favorite bearded guests, Xue Hongxian, Nie Yinniang, he is very envious of those swordsmen's "ten steps to kill, thousands of miles without leaving a name" heroism.

Ye Yinfeng asked Ye An to take the fishing rod and fishing basket home first, and walked slowly by himself. Passing through the village path, there will be villagers to greet him from time to time, and the simple smile reveals some honest atmosphere. Walking out of the small road of the village, the road began to widen, Yefu is located in the west of the village, a road can be through a carriage to the entrance of Yefu, and the other end of the road is the official road to Dingyuan County.

Ye Yinfeng was just entering the door, and a little girl about ten years old came over, threw herself into his arms and asked, "Brother, how many fish have you caught today," the little girl is Ye Yinfeng's sister, Ye Ruyan,

Ye Ruyan was dressed in a white dress, with a pink ribbon, a pair of bright big eyes embedded in her flickable pink face, a cherry mouth, red lips and white teeth, and a small nose like Qiongyu on her lips. Two slender pigtails swayed at the back of her head, which looked particularly cute.

Ye Yinfeng pinched her face with pity, and said: "I caught a few big fat carp today, let Amber take it to the kitchen first, I originally planned to let the cook cook the whole carp for you at noon, your favorite food." ”

"No, I want my brother to take me fishing too," Ye Ruyan said mischievously while shaking his head in his brother's arms.

"Okay, my brother will definitely take you to fish in the future, I heard that there are guests at home, and it's about to start, so let's go and eat," Ye Yinfeng agreed to her.

"No, I'm not hungry yet, I'll go see the big carp you caught first." Ye Ruyan left her brother's arms and ran towards the kitchen at a trot, like a dancing butterfly.

Although the courtyard of the Ye family is not big, it is also quite chic, there are a few tall pine trees in the yard, and the courtyard is surrounded by some unknown flower pots, the flowers are blooming, and from time to time there are a few bees surrounding the flowers in the pots, making a "buzzing" sound. In the corner of the courtyard wall, a yellow dog was lying there, with its eyes closed, but its mouth was wide open, and sticky saliva flowed from time to time, the yellow dog suddenly sneezed, it opened its eyes, looked at Ye Yinfeng, wagged its tail, and closed its eyes again.

At this time, someone came to call Ye Yinfeng and asked him to hurry up and enter the table, saying that the guests had already taken their seats and were waiting for him alone.

Ye Yinfeng walked into the hall, he looked around the dining table, his father Ye Chongguang sat directly above the dining table, his father's right was his mother, and his mother's right was his little uncle, and there was an empty seat on the right side of the little uncle, Ye Yinfeng knew that it was reserved for himself.

The first seat on the left side of Ye Chongguang is a rugged middle-aged man, although this person has a rugged appearance, his eyes shine from time to time, he is the Huangfu master in Ye An's mouth, named Huangfu Yi. On the left side of Huang Fuyi is a young man, who is about the same age as Ye Yinfeng. looks polite and polite, and looks weak, this person is Huang Fuyi's son Huang Fuhui. Huang Fuhui saw Ye Yinfeng's gaze fall on him, and nodded to him with a smile on his face.

Ye Yinfeng saluted the emperor and his son, and then sat on his seat.

The Ye family now only has Ye Dexing's lineage, but Ye Dexing passed away four years ago, Ye Chongguang became the current head of the family, Ye Dexing has three sons under his knees, Ye Chongguang is the eldest son, and the second Ye Chongye has moved to Dingyuan County to take care of the Ye family's business, and Ye Chongye only has a pair of daughters under his knees. Uncle Ye Ran, when Ye Yinfeng was six years old, he went out and had no news, and suddenly returned to the Ye family in the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, and he had no wife in his thirties, and he had been single, and no one knew the reason.