A month later, Hua'an and his party of more than 100 people, after a difficult trek, finally reached the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Looking at the wide river, Hua Anxin was full of emotion, it had been almost two months since he left Jiangnan, and he stood on the edge of the Yangtze River at this time, and there was an indescribable sense of intimacy in his heart.

On the opposite side is the hometown of the soul, and after crossing the Yangtze River, Hua'an can't wait to rush over from the river to treading water.

There are not many boats at the ferry, only a dozen or so, and at this time they are slowly coming north with guests from the south shore, and they will not reach the north shore for a while and a half.

Taking advantage of the waiting time, Hua An took out a bag of 'Tu Tu Tu' in his arms, which was a piece of soil picked up on the south bank of the Yangtze River before crossing the river to the north.

At this time, he was about to return to his hometown, and there was no point in keeping the countryside on the other side.

He gently opened the rag wrapped in the soil, stretched out his hand and gently lifted it, and the clods of soil, which had already dried into powder, drifted away into the distance under the breeze.

The direction of the wind suddenly changed, and a wisp of dust swept across Han Xueyu's face, staining her eyebrows and black hair on her forehead with a slight gray powder.

Han Xueyu hurriedly stretched out her hand, dusted off her black hair and eyebrows, looked at the soil powder in Hua An's hand, frowned and wondered, "Brother Hua An, what are you holding in your hand." ”

"Local!" Hua An said and smiled indifferently.

"What is the country, what is the country!" Han Xueyu was even more curious, and a pair of eyes stared directly at the soil powder in Hua An's palm.

"The countryside is the soil of my hometown, and this bag is the soil of my brother's hometown." Hua An pointed to the soil powder in his hand that had not completely drifted away, and patiently explained.

Han Xueyu nodded as if she suddenly realized, stared at Hua An with her big innocent and cute eyes, and asked with a smile: "Oh! It turned out to be the soil of my hometown! Where is the soil of my hometown? ”

When Hua An heard this, he rolled his eyes helplessly, and when he saw Han Xueyu nodding, he really thought that she understood, but it turned out that she didn't know how to pretend to understand.

"Where is the hometown, where the mud is the country, now I understand!" Hua An said and pinched Han Xueyu's pink face.

"Ahh It turned out that Brother Hua'an was holding mud in his hand, and it was dirty. Han Xueyu frowned and pouted, reached out and wiped the face that had just been pinched by Hua An.

Hua An shook his head and poured all the remaining soil powder in his hand on the ground under his feet. He understood that Han Xueyu was only a ten-year-old girl, and she couldn't understand the meaning of 'local', and for her, this bag of countryside was indeed just mud.

"Brother Hua'an, guess what Xue'er is holding in her hand." Han Xueyu squatted on the ground, stretched out a clenched fist, and looked at Hua An with a smile on his face.

Hua An looked at Han Xueyu's mischievous smile and the finger prints on the ground under her feet, and immediately guessed that she was holding a lump of dirt in her hand.

"Sister Xue'er is clutching so tightly, it must be some kind of baby!" Hua An pretended not to know, squatted down, and pretended to be curious to look at Han Xueyu's little hands.

"Haha! I can't guess it! It's a country! Give it to Brother Hua'an. Han Xueyu smiled very happily, opened her clenched fists, and presented her hands full of dirt in front of Hua An.

After all, she was young, and when she saw that Hua An had always carried a lump of dirt in her arms, she thought that Hua An liked soil very much, and this hand full of soil was a gift from him to Hua An.

Hua Antun was stunned, he knew that Han Xueyu loved cleanliness very much, but in order to give himself such a special gift, he actually dug the soil under his feet with his own hands, although his thoughts and actions were very naïve, but he was still greatly moved.

"Thank you, Sister Xue'er, my brother accepted it, come, put it here." Hua An said and placed the rag in front of Han Xueyu.

Han Xueyu put all the soil in his hand into a rag and wrapped it, then got up and walked towards the river.

Looking at Han Xueyu, who was squatting by the river and washing his hands carefully, Hua An felt a familiar feeling in his heart, and the petite figure was even more exquisite against the backdrop of the river, quite like a Shih Tzu yarn.

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"Today is really a good day, there are so many guest officers to cross the river, and the old man can make a lot of money!" Before the ferry boat rowed on the south bank approached the shore, the paddler shouted happily.

Hua An listened to the voice of the captain, felt quite familiar, looked up, and suddenly a cordial feeling came to his face, this captain was the old man who crossed the river when he went north to the Central Plains and praised him for his success.

"Haha! Don't come unharmed, old man! Huaan greeted excitedly.

When the captain heard this, he was stunned for a moment, he first stopped the ferry, let the guests from Beidu get off the boat, and then looked up at Hua'an, for a long time, nodded and laughed: "Oops! It turned out to be a son, I haven't seen him for almost two months, the old man almost forgot about it, it's old, it's old, hahaha! ”

After speaking, the captain shook his head uncontrollably, lamenting the ruthlessness of the years.

Seeing the sadness of the captain, Hua An opened his mouth to persuade: "The old man's memory is still very good, Hua An and you only have one side, I haven't seen you for almost two months, you can still remember, it's really not simple, hahaha!" ”

"Childe is born heroic, not like ordinary people, the old man should never forget, just now I saw the sword on Childe's waist and remembered it, isn't this old." The captain said and pointed to Hua An's waist.

"Not old, really not old." Hua An touched the Qingyu sword on his waist and shook his head repeatedly.

"Not old, not old, grandpa is not old at all." Han Xueyu, who was beside Hua'an, suddenly interjected and said.

Hua An couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, Han Xueyu actually learned to tell white lies, but the sentence 'Grandpa is not old at all' is a sick sentence, since he is not old, how can he be called grandpa? It seems that children are children, and they can't lie.

"Whose child is this lovely little girl?" Gong Gong seemed to suddenly forget his sadness, looked at Han Xueyu and asked kindly.

Hua An was stunned when he heard this, he didn't know what to say, did he want to sue Sù Gong, she was the daughter of Princess Bohai and the county lord of the Great Jin Dynasty, but how could she talk nonsense without evidence, and it was a big crime to pretend to be the emperor.

"Grandpa, Xue'er has no home, her father and mother are dead, Xue'er is now following Brother Hua'an, and Brother Hua'an is a family." Han Xueyu said, looking up at Hua An, with a hint of pity in her eyes.

Hua Anzhong couldn't help but feel distressed, and hurriedly stroked Han Xueyu's forehead lightly and nodded.

"Hey! Poor good boy. The captain sighed with kindness on his face, looked up behind Hua'an, and saw that Thunderstorm, Zhao Wu and a hundred fort soldiers were all looking at Hua'an, and immediately understood that these strong men and Hua'an were together, and they seemed to be looking at Hua'an.

"Childe crossed the river alone, and actually brought back so many strong men, the old man really didn't see the wrong person, and Childe's future is limitless." The captain stroked his gray beard and said in appreciation.

"The old man praised it falsely, and Hua'an didn't dare to be ashamed." Hua An was polite against his will.

"Hahaha! Childe is still so humble, come on, come on, get on the boat. The captain hurriedly beckoned Hua An to board the boat.

At this time, there were more than 100 people in Hua'an's party, and after a long journey, there were still 60 war horses left, but there were only a dozen ferries at this ferry.

And these ferries are generally relatively small, a ferry can accommodate up to three horses, or a dozen guests, no matter how you calculate it, you need twice as many ferries.

"Old man, I will have to work hard for you later, we have too many people and horses, and we can't finish it at once." Hua An politely requested.

When the captain heard this, he looked at the other captains around him, and said loudly at the top of his voice: "It's not hard, the more people and horses, the more hard-earned money we make, and the old man can't ask for it?" ”

"Hahahaha!" The other captains around were immediately amused by the laughter.

Hua An took Thunderstorm, Zhao Wu and Han Xueyu to the captain's boat, and the rest of the men and horses boarded the ferry of the other captains in half.

With the sound of paddles, more than a dozen ferries left the north bank and headed for the south bank of the river.

Along the way, looking at the ospreys circling back and forth in the sky, and the fish jumping out of the water from time to time in the river, everyone was in a good mood.

Han Xueyu had never seen Dajiang, and under the excitement, she leaned out from time to time, stretched out her hand to play with the clear river water, and almost fell into the river several times, but fortunately, Hua An reached out and grabbed her at the critical moment.

Perennial rowing is quite boring, some young captains actually play the game of chasing, they chase me in the river, overtake each other, very exciting.

The ferry boat that Hua An was taking gradually fell last, but the old captain was not in a hurry, he was very experienced, and knew that the river was very wide, and a momentary competition would only exhaust his body, and thus he would not be able to succeed.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for those young captains to be unable to row, and they were tired and panting, and the ferry boat that Hua'an was taking naturally returned to the first position.

Look at the fort soldiers on the ferry, one by one vomiting constantly, it turns out that the northerners are not good at water, some seasickness, and the young captain's skills are unstable, the speed is sometimes fast and sometimes slow, causing a lot of bumps.

The ferry docked on the south bank, Hua An took half of the men and horses to stay on the south bank for a while, and after the remaining half of the men and horses crossed the river, they slowly got on the road and marched towards the camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army not far away.

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"Stop, who's coming."

Hua'an and his entourage of more than 100 people had just arrived at the Yuanmen of the Northern Expeditionary Army camp. was stopped by the soldiers guarding the door.

"You're new here." Looking at some of the guards who were standing guard, Hua An said loudly.

After all, since he was six years old, he has often entered and exited the camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army at will, and this time he was suddenly stopped, and he couldn't help but feel a little stunned.

The little soldier standing guard was trained by Hua An like this, and couldn't help but be stunned, looking up and seeing the thunderstorm and Zhao Wu behind Hua An, they were all burly men, and they expected that the person in front of them must be the officers in the battalion, so they hurriedly replied: "It's been a whole month since I joined the army, I don't know if you are ......."

"Brother Hua'an, you're finally back." Hua An just wanted to answer, but Wang San's voice came from inside the gate.