There is a village and town at the three-way intersection twenty miles outside Tongzhou City, a small boxy county town, surrounded by green brick city walls, and the city walls are clear and clear moats on all sides.

There are four city gates in the southeast, northwest and northwest, and there is a centuries-old stone arch bridge outside each gate, called Hanjia City. In the city, half of the city's style houses are pù, and half of the countryside is rural, which is very unique.

Legend has it that Shi Jingjiao, the emperor of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun to the Liao King Yelu Hongguang, and the city was only a small walled city with a population of 1,800 at that time.

During the siege by the Liao army, half of the houses were demolished to reclaim farmland, and the Han people from all directions rushed to defect, holding on for three years, and finally suffered most casualties.

Unfortunately, there was a great drought again, and there was no harvest in the fields, so the city was breached, and all the Han people would rather die than surrender.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang had ordered the repair of this ancient city, and Zhu Di had also allocated funds to repair it, because during the entire Jingyan campaign, the imperial court and the king of Yan did not dare to intrude here, and the entire city remained intact, like a paradise.

Xu Hao did not have any memory of the Han family city, probably after the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, this ancient city, which represented the Han people's festival, finally disappeared in the long river of history.

The people visiting the temple fair were like flowing water, and there was a burst of noise in the open space outside the city.

Young Master Liu, who walked around to see the eldest girl and little daughter-in-law, carried a folding fan in his hand and wore a new scribe's robe, but unfortunately it looked very funny because of the hunchback, and the road to the imperial examination was basically cut off because of the hunchback.

He looked curiously into the distance, only to see a sea of people, surrounding the open space, and asked, "Brother Tai, what's so lively?" ”

"It's a team that runs the rivers and lakes." The pedestrian replied, running and speeding up.

"Let's go join in the fun." Young Master Liu opened the folding fan suddenly. Shaking while walking, the late autumn at the end of October is very out of place.

When he got closer, he couldn't squeeze in, and he wasn't tall enough, so he told his subordinates to lie on the ground, and he stepped on his back, helped another subordinate, and stretched his neck to look inside.

At the same time, the sound of gongs and drums stopped abruptly. The lively noise also died down suddenly. Syllable! With a crisp whip, from the shed covered by a reed mat, a majestic white horse without a halter and without a saddle rushed out, neighing and leaping, causing the people to scream and retreat again and again.

"Good fellows." Young Master Liu was also taken aback, but fortunately, there were subordinates who pushed hard to block the flow of people and were not pushed to the ground.

At this moment, a handsome young man leaped up from the crowd. made a spring swallow three cut water, just jumped on the horse, and the action was done in one go, and the clouds flowed. Immediately, the audience erupted in a thunderous cheer.

The young man stood upside down with his head and feet upside down amid the cheers, and let the white horse run in a circle. Then he performed a dazzling ride.

The surrounding audience was watching dumbfounded, and a red horse jumped out again, and on the horse was a girl like a flower and jade; Wearing a pink top. The green bloomers, combed with a thick black braid, a large jasmine flower slanted into the corner, and held a cold and shining Qingfeng sword.

The girl didn't say a word, she swung her sword forward and slashed at the young man, and the audience exclaimed, only to see the young man hiding in a kick, dodging the fatal blow, he drew his saber from behind, and the two horses circled and fought.

The girl is heroic, the handsome young man is white, and the audience is fascinated.

Several subordinates were stunned, staring intently at the sword light and sword shadow, and they didn't even care about shouting cheers, and no one noticed that Young Master Liu suddenly disappeared.

Mr. Liu was born in a defeated scholarly family, originally a native of Tongzhou City, and moved to Liujia Village when he was a teenager, where there are dozens of acres of land handed down by his ancestors.

He hated the Four Books and Five Classics since he was a child, liked poetry and songs, and was willing to bear the sin of disobedience when he became an adult, desperately befriended a thousand households of the Yuan Dynasty, became a military attache under his disciples, and went to the Mongolian steppe to garrison at the age of twenty-five, and married a Mongolian wife.

Although he was a Mongolian soldier, Master Liu admired the elegance of celebrities and scholars, and he couldn't play bow and archery, and he was too lazy to write and fight strategies, and only loved to dance and write. Later, Tong Guò bribed Fengying, slipped his beard and patted the horse to become a general of a thousand households, and he served as a town guard in a certain place for ten years, and the military power was sluggish, and he was only famous for poetry and wine.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the army of the Yuan Dynasty suffered repeated defeats, but the imperial court generally believed that Master Liu was vain and could not be used, so he was never sent to the front line to fight.

But because of this, after the age of forty, Mr. Liu's official fortunes deteriorated, and he had a son in middle age, and his Mongolian wife died due to difficult childbirth, leaving him a deformed son, which was probably a retribution for his betrayal of his ancestors.

After his wife died, he looked for flowers and willows everywhere, and on the other hand, he was determined not to marry, and his behavior became even more perverse.

Seeing that Da Yuan was no longer good, Master Liu turned into an army to revolt, intending to take over the Red Turban Army that came over, but he had no prestige in the army, and no one listened to him at all.

In order to save his life, Master Liu had no choice but to abandon the official and flee, but fortunately, the scraped people's fat and ointment were sent back to his hometown, and he met the army led by Xu Da on the way.

Since then, Master Liu has completely disappeared because of the bad deeds of the previous dynasty, but he is pretentious, and when he lives in seclusion in his hometown, he hates himself for not meeting Huaicai, and Huaicai is bound to be cynical, and if he is cynical, he will be dissatisfied, and secretly make friends with all kinds of people who are dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty.

In the sixth year of Hongwu, he was appointed by the Mengyuan court who escaped into the grassland to serve as the vacant title of the secretary of the military department, and ordered him to recruit troops to buy horses to resist the Ming.

He saw that although his only son was hunchbacked, he was very shrewd, and he was very satisfied with the calculation of the people in the village and the family business, but he was also worried about being arrested by the government, so he simply lived in isolation and seclusion in this small garden courtyard with a bamboo fence ten miles away.

The seventy-year-old man has no heart to raise beautiful women, he doesn't even have a concubine, there are only a few subordinates around him, and because of more than 20 years of seclusion, green forest heroes like Yang Li don't know his details, and no one cares.

Qingtang tile house, the front and back of the house are verdant with flowers and trees. In the center of the courtyard is a vine covered in thick shade. Mr. Liu didn't get up until three o'clock every day, and went listlessly to the fields and rivers for a walk, ate lunch, and then lay down and fell asleep.

When I woke up and it was nearly dusk, I went to the river to fish in disheveled clothes, and at night, I walked alone in the courtyard by the moonlight, pacing around the trees and hedges.

Although the moonlight is like water, the evening breeze blows, and the river blows cool water vapor. Master Liu, who has reached the twilight of his life, only feels that his chest is hot, bored, empty and boring, and one of the things he regrets the most in recent years is that he failed to bet on following King Yan, and he has missed a golden opportunity.

And Da Yuan seemed to have no hope, and Master Liu was even more depressed and melancholy.

Xu Hao walked to this Tibetan house, at the door, there is a hundred-year-old weeping willow, three steps away is the steep slope of the riverbank. Under the shade of the willows. A stone table, a few stone piers, and a twenty-year-old girl reading.

She wore a green silk jacket on her upper body and a Hunan embroidered pleated skirt on her lower body. A pair of embroidered shoes at his feet, a round hat of white fox fur, and two white fox tails hanging down. A duck egg face, big spring eyes. A small smile spread across Sakura's lips.

Xu Hao silently observed the other party, and the woman was engrossed in the world of the book.

If it weren't for the forced question from Young Master Liu's mouth. Who would know that the beautiful girl in front of me who looks like a Jiangnan woman also has a Mongolian name, called Tana? The Mongolian word means dragon ball, which turned out to be the blood of Kublai Khan.

In the Mongolian steppe that year, the personable Lord Liu was fortunate to marry one of the many princesses of the Yuan Dynasty royal family, and became the so-called golden knife horse.

Xu Hao stepped forward and called softly, "Miss Liu." ”

The woman raised her head in surprise, looked at the strange handsome young man, and asked in confusion, "You, who are you?" ”

"When I left home and returned to my eldest child, my hometown accent did not change and my sideburns declined. It's a pity that it's not that children don't know each other, but I'm also a guest from afar. Xu Hao said with a smile.

"Oh." Miss Liu exclaimed, then remembered the difference between men and women, and stumbled: "I, I'm going in." ”

Xu Hao asked, "What kind of book are you reading?" ”

Miss Liu's face turned red, and she lowered her head and said, "I'm reading a forbidden book, The Legend of the West Chamber." ”

"It's not a banned book." Xu Hao said again: "The flowers are red, the sorrow is all kinds, and there is no word to complain about the east wind; The east wind sways the weeping poplar line, the gossamer pulls the peach blossoms, and the bead curtain covers the hibiscus surface. The shy flower explains, the gentle jade is fragrant, and it is given to the girl. ”

As a mixture of fat powder, the boudoir holy book The West Chamber is too familiar, and the classic words and sentences in it can really be said to be memorized.

Miss Liu, who is not married at the age of twenty, has a redder face, Xu Hao's move is obviously too abrupt, and there is already a hint of a private courtship.

"Childe, please be respectful." Even though she was very happy in her heart, Miss Liu had to have a cold face on the surface.

"My Fair Lady, good gentleman. Besides, the late life is just a feeling, and there is no other meaning, forgive sins. Xu Hao said softly.

He didn't care about any of this, because even if he didn't want to embarrass the other party, he didn't expect to be polite, what was it to say a few words? didn't tease and then abandon it, which was already a great shame for Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan.

"You, why did you come?" Miss Liu asked at a loss, thinking about a young girl who has lived in the depths for many years, facing a rich and handsome man who seems to have fallen from the sky, she may not know how complicated her mood will be, and she wants to leave and stay, and she is very entangled.

Xu Hao said with a smile: "I heard that there is a senior living in seclusion here, so I took the liberty to visit in my later years. ”

Miss Liu calmed down and asked again: "The slave family has seen the son, and dare to ask the son's name?" ”

"I won't say my name for the time being, but I'm a scholar of Zuochunfang University in Zhan Shifu." Xu Hao once again offered his invincible official position in Shilin, and a scholar who accompanied Zhu Zhanji suddenly burst into tears.

"Ahh The slave family has seen adults. Miss Liu, like Xiulan's sister-in-law, immediately admired her face, and her eyes became more and more watery.

At this moment, only a loud cough was heard in the courtyard, and someone learned Zhuge Kongming in the thatched house.

"Whoever has a big dream knows it first, I know it in my life; The grass hall sleeps enough in spring, and the day outside the window is late. ”

"Grandfather is up." Miss Liu said with a smile: "He has to recite these four poems before Zhuge Liang came out of his house every day." ”

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the work of Luo Guanzhong in the late Yuan and early Qing Dynasties, and now it is already the first book known to women and children, Xu Hao's academy has also published various vernacular versions and books in the form of villain books, as well as the spread of storytellers in teahouses and alleys.

Xu Hao sneered in his heart, and according to the plot in the book, he smiled without saying a word. I heard Master Liu ask loudly again: "Is there a vulgar guest coming?" ”

Miss Liu grinned and replied first: "There is Shilin Yake Yuzhou here, and he has been waiting for a long time. ”

Let Lao Tzu meet this old traitor of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Hao couldn't help but glance at Miss Liu, who was affectionate on her eyebrows, such a shameless old thing, for her rich and unkind father, he gave birth to such a good girl, it is really fucking unreasonable! (To be continued......)