In Qiushui Hall, the people in the troupe are busy, and the mourning hall is almost built. Qin Yan got out of the car and walked in, senior brother Tianshou ran out, saw the junior sister coming back, turned around and ran back, Qin Yan heard the cry of the senior lady in the room.

When he entered the house, the master on the kang had already put on his shroud, and his face was covered with a white handkerchief. Qin Yan's heart welled up with sadness, remembering the kindness of the master to take her in, and knelt on the ground and cried bitterly.

But the master came to pull her up, and Qin Yan cried: "What kind of illness did the master have, why did he go well?" ”

Shi Niang smiled bitterly: "It's not sick, I was fine last night, I said a lot of things before going to bed, and when I woke up, he was cold." If I say I have been poisoned by coal, why am I fine? ”

"Ugh." Qin Yan sighed and asked about what happened after getting up.

The master said with a sad face: "Your master has earned a lifetime of money, and I don't know where to use it, and the family is not very rich for the Chinese New Year the year before last." Since you left, Qiushuitang's business has been far behind, your junior brother and sister have been idle for five out of ten days, and your master did not leave a word when he was dying, and he did not tell me anything outside. Alas! Now we owe it to others, or do we owe it to us, and we don't know anything? Now I can't do business, and I can't get a few rents for a few houses outside the alley, and after the funeral is over, I'm afraid that life will be even more difficult. ”

Qin Yan sighed with her, walked to the room where she lived before, was stunned for a while, and took the package she brought, and she didn't know how many silver ingots she had, about fifty or sixty taels, and said to the master: "I don't know how much this bag of silver, Mrs. and grandmother's holiday rewards and moon silver." ”

Her sister was unceremoniously, took it and weighed it, and said, "You are a blessing from your previous life in Xu Mansion, and I heard that you have entered a corn garden?" Probably saved up a lot of money, right? Oh, I know you're not good at it, and my wife told you, don't be deceived. Keep yourself a snack in the future. It's good to save an extra penny, I have no children and no daughters, and I will rely on you in the future. ”

Qin Yan lowered her head and said: "The things that the girl rewards are all sporadic playthings and clothes, and there is very little money, anyway, it's useless for me to keep it, and I will come to honor my master again." ”

Shi Niang nodded with satisfaction and said, "This is a child with a conscience." ”

got up and put the silver in the drawer, Qin Yan turned around and came out, the guys outside were messing around, and Wu Mazi came over with a bag of filial piety clothes. followed by Su Lan and other senior sisters and sisters.

They stepped aside to talk, Qin Yan asked about Changqing, Su Lan said a little about the recent events, and said, "Since you came back, you took a few days off?" ”

Qin Yan said: "It was Hu Sheng who came to sue Sù, and I didn't tell Miss, so I came out like this, saying that I would go back after the funeral, but there was no limit to a few days." The girl is good, she must be considerate. ”

"I have to take a month's off, and it's good to go to the funeral." Su Lan said: "Otherwise, I can't live with your master, what do you say?" ”

"Hmm." Qin Yan thought of Shi Niang's philistine. Nod your head slightly.

Su Lan said: "Just take a long vacation, don't rush back, you didn't sell it to the Xu family anyway." ”

Senior sister Huifang said: "When I think of Hu Sheng, I get angry, and I see that we are all the same. Arrogant, has he forgotten the art he learned together? At that time, he was the most lazy and oily all day long. will coax those who can't listen to the play. Who knew that as soon as he entered the Xu Mansion, he seemed to be an official, and in turn looked down on us. Occasionally talking to us, he looks like an old-timer, but in fact he is the same age as me, which is really disgusting. ”

"yes." Qin Yan frowned and said, "Today he said to me: 'Your master is dead'. Could it be that if you are out of the teacher, you can't be a master? ”

Hui Fang sneered: "You don't know, he wants us to call him Uncle Hu now, otherwise he will ignore him, hum!" Who doesn't pay attention to him? He also pretended to be a veteran in front of his younger brothers and sisters. Don't you remember that Sister Su Lan used to beat him in the backyard? Now that I see Sister Su Lan, I don't look at it, and I still remember my old hatred. ”

"Whatever, I don't ask him for anything anyway." Su Lan turned to ask Qin Yan, "What kind of temper does the third young master have?" Why did you go into a corn garden again? ”

"I don't know." Qin Yan shook his head, "Speaking of the third young master's temper, it's not very weird, but it's also unpredictable. But no matter how good Hu Sheng is, he has never touched a nail, and it is probably fate. Hu Sheng is very good at improvisation, he can answer anything, and it is difficult enough for him. ”

"I've heard of it too." Su Lan said: "There is no one in the house who does not scold him, even the old man is polite to him, and Master Xia calls him brother all day long." ”

Su Lan hurriedly asked, "Master Xia has moved away, I don't know where it is now?" ”

"Xia Jue?" Huifang said with a smile: "People can make a fortune, live in Hongji Temple outside the city, and play with Xi Shiyi, Pan Laosan, Yang Ba, and other bastards all day long, or they gamble, and Zhang Zhongyu doesn't have anything to do with him." ”

Qin Yan suddenly wanted to speak and stopped, and Su Lan said knowingly: "Are you going to ask Young Master Run?" I was here a few days ago. Due to the avoidance of this imperial examination, the family affairs have also been delayed, and they will have to wait for another three years. ”

Speaking of this, Su Lan chuckled and said: "I am very happy to see the appearance of others, and I always show a sentimental look when I drink, I don't believe you ask Huifang." ”

"I don't mean anything about it." Qin Yan smiled bitterly.

Huifang said: "People are back, so I have to invite those gentlemen to get together, I don't know if it will be tomorrow?" ”

"I don't really mean anything else." Qin Yan hurriedly said: "The master has just died, and it is in the way, at least in a few days." ”

"You'll be back in a few days." Su Lan took her hand: "But everyone is talking about the old days, just talking, you are not a filial daughter, what are you afraid of?" ”

"We'll talk about it in a few days." Qin Yan insisted on refusing.

"Three days later, then." Huifang pouted towards Nunu in the house, "You are filial, the master would like us to accompany the guests to make some money, open your mouth to be poor, poor." ”

"Okay then." Qin Yan reluctantly agreed, changed into filial piety clothes, and asked Wu Mazi to go to Xu Mansion to ask Hu Sheng to take a month of leave on his behalf, and wait for the funeral before going back.

Not long after, Xu Yunning sent someone to send covered clothes and ten taels of silver, Qin Yan was grateful to the girl in her heart, and she was relieved.

In Yisu Garden, Xu Yu took the material embroidered by Zhu Mingzhi himself and looked at it again and again, and said to Qingyan: "Yun Sucheng said that she wanted to learn from Aunt Cuiliu to live independently, but you see that a button fell off her clothes, and she had to be sewn by her nurse. Yunyu shouted that she wanted to learn embroidery, and she hadn't seen her needlework for half a year. Look at Mingzhi's sister again. How good is the embroidery of the princess? Who in our family can catch up with her? ”

Qingyan said: "In the previous generation, there was no needlework in the house, who is not like this in the aunts and grandmothers?" However, His Royal Highness is indeed rare, and Miss Lanxiang is not good at needlework. ”

"It's not that my father won't let her learn?" Xu Yu couldn't help but complain: "Am I bound to be unproductive?" My mother taught her how to do things every day. It's okay, I'll just be a hands-off shopkeeper in the future. ”

In the northland, there is not a trace of wind, not a single green leaf, only the dazzling glare of the blazing sun, and the endless desert is filled with scorching heatwaves.

In the vast sandy plain, a crooked procession was trudging through it, and people and livestock were panting. No matter how thirsty they are, no one is willing to drink a sip of the few life-saving water in their skins.

"Da Geer and Zhuo, let the big guy take a break." One of the warriors gasped.

"Brothers, out of this desert is an oasis, to the homeland of our ancestors, the steppe of our Islamic Mongolian tribe, the holy land where the great golden family found, and where our relatives will bring out mare's milk wine to welcome us back to our homeland and help us establish a place to settle. Then let's recuperate. Conquer the rebellious Western Regions, unite Tatar and Warat, convert all Mongols to the divine Allah, and drive out the brutal Han Chinese. Grab back our steppes and recreate the glory of the Golden Khanate! ”

The man, known as Da Geer and Zhuo, finished speaking in one breath, and his eyes couldn't help but burst into golden flowers, and his mouth was so dry. Trying to finally say: "Now drink some water, eat some jerky, and cheer up, brothers." Get out of the desert and fight back to your hometown. ”

After saying that, he almost fell headlong, hurriedly raised his skin and poured a mouthful of water, fed his beloved war horse, and wiped his dark and thick arms exposed to the sun on his black and thin face, and took off the white hood of the Islamic world.

His gray face was wiped by him, his face was covered with sweat stains, and the stiff beard on his face was also stained with sweat and sand, making him look even more old and wolf.

In fact, he was not yet forty years old, but he looked like he was in his fifties. However, his gaze shone with the cunning, brutal and stubborn light of a prime of life, and he tried his best not to show the slightest tiredness.

This is a patchwork team that is struggling to survive, Da Geer is very uncomfortable, looking at the vast Gobi in front of him, he has indescribable sadness. He wants revenge, he wants to gather the people and horses of his hometown, and go back to take revenge, where there is the land, cattle and sheep and slaves left by his ancestors, there is the blood and bones left by his ancestors, and there are the corpses of his countless brothers.

Over the years, Dagel fled everywhere incognito, because he was a descendant of the Golden Family, a descendant of Genghis Khan.

At that time, there were four khanates in Mongolia, among which the Ilkhanate was established by Hulegu, the son of Genghis Khan's fourth son, Tulei.

In 1221, Genghis Khan led his army to defeat Khwarazm and capture the cities of eastern Persia.

In 1231, Ögedai sent an army of 30,000 to completely destroy Khwarazm and conquer most of the Persian region.

In 1251, Möngke, who succeeded to the throne, sent his younger brother Hulegu to defend Persia, and led his army to continue to conquer the countries that did not surrender.

Hulegü first destroyed the Iranian kingdom of Mutsai, a small Shiite sect of Islam known as the Ismain, a historically famous Muslim Assassin faction that trained Assassins to assassinate the leaders of rival forces, whom the Islamic world called "heretics."

Ismain sent 400 Assassins into the territory of the Mongol Khanate in disguise in an attempt to assassinate Möngke. Therefore, Hulegu was ordered to completely destroy Ismain and kill all men, women, and children.

Two years later, Hulegu led his army to capture Baghdad, killing the last caliph and destroying the Abbasid dynasty of the Arab empire.

In 1259, Hulegu invaded Syria in three directions. In the spring of the following year, learning of Möngke's death in Sichuan, he left the vanguard to continue the march, and he led the rest of his army back to Persia.

In September, the remaining army was routed by the forces of the Sultan of Egypt, and the Mongol-occupied cities of Syria were lost.

Hulegu, who returned to Persia, learned that Kublai Khan had become the Great Khan, and a dispute broke out with his younger brother Ali Buge, and the ambitious Hulegu swore in public that he would not return to the east, but sent an envoy to express his support for Kublai Khan's orthodoxy while accusing Ali Buge.

Kublai Khan, who reciprocated the favor, made a decree to assign the Persian territory west of the Amu Darya River to the border of Egypt, and the Mongol and Arab soldiers and civilians in the region to rule by Hülegü, thus establishing the Ilkhanate.

After that, in order to maintain their rule, Hulegu's descendants made Islam the state religion.

With the collapse of the Yuan Dynasty, the Ilkhanate also quickly collapsed, and the disintegrating forces attacked each other, and the rising Turkic Timurid Empire was destroyed.

Dagger is the descendant of the last Ilkhan, and now the short-lived Timurid Empire has also been divided and declined, Dager's grandfather tried to take the opportunity to restore the country in Persia, but the mantis catcher and yellow finch were wiped out by the Turkmans' Black Sheep Dynasty and White Aries Dynasty.

Shaharu, the fourth son of Timur, who was cowering in Herat, Afghanistan, changed his father's hostility to the Ming Dynasty in his later years, and sent tributary missions year after year.

As we all know, Afghanistan has an extremely important strategic position, as it is a transportation and trade hub in Central, West and South Asia.

Because Shaharu was both civil and military, he quickly stopped the decline, withstood the attack of the black and white sheep, and actively maintained the relationship with the Ming Dynasty. Although Xu Hao wanted to get involved in Afghanistan, in order to maintain stability in the Western Regions and balance the Mongols, he finally dispelled the idea, and the Ming Dynasty supported Shaharu instead. (To be continued......) R1292