Chapter 209 The dual identity of general and prince
"mother!"
In a small farmyard, a boy of seven or eight years old shouted into the house with a rice bowl in his hand.
"Oh, my little ancestor, what's wrong?"
Hearing the shouting, a middle-aged woman wearing an apron from the kitchen came out while wiping her hands. There was some impatience between her eyebrows but more of concern.
There was meat in the boy's bowl, although it was only three or two pieces, but it could still be seen that the conditions of this farmer's family were not bad. Although there are many people who can eat meat these days, they could see it every time.
The meaty ones are rare.
Perhaps seeing dust on the boy's body, the woman came over and knelt down to dust him off.
The boy did not struggle, picked up a piece of meat, put it in his mouth and said to his mother.
"Mom, Li Daniu from the next village has gone to school. He knows many words. He can also write his own name. Next year, I will go to school too."
"Okay, okay!"
The woman dusted herself off and nodded in agreement. The family had a good harvest in the past two years and had accumulated some money. The couple had already planned to send their child to school, but it was rare that the child took the initiative to propose it.
"When you grow up next year, mother will ask your father to send you to school. Then you must listen to the teacher and study hard. If you can get a good name in the future, it will be regarded as a honor for your Wang family."
The child was still young, so naturally he didn't understand the big principles of honoring one's ancestors. He only knew that his mother had promised to send him to school.
Swinging his body and struggling to break free from his mother's arms, the boy happily ran towards the house, shouting towards the house as he ran.
"Dad! My mother promised to send me to school, Dad! I will go to the school tomorrow to check it out."
The middle-aged man who was packing farm tools in the house also stood up and went to meet the child, and then picked up the boy who was out of breath after running.
"Hahaha, as long as you are willing to study, dad will send you to school no matter how hard or tired you are. Dad will take you to meet the teacher tomorrow."
The woman in the distance looked at the father and son in front of the house in the courtyard and smiled gently. She was very happy in her life, and she felt that God had treated her well. There were two men, one big and one small, who liked her. She had already left.
Nothing more to ask for.
The peace and warmth of this family of three filled the whole yard, but what this family of three didn't know was that these scenes all fell into the eyes of one person.
Next to the yard is a lush vegetable garden. The variety of vegetables in the vegetable garden is much richer than in previous years, so much so that people standing outside cannot be seen at all.
It's half a month's journey from Wangyou City to Qingzhou City at the junction of Lingzhou and Bianzhou. Although it takes far less than half a month for these people, it's still a long journey.
It is unavoidable to eat and sleep in the open on the way.
And Jiang Ergou and his group are not the kind of people who carry dry food with them, so that evening, the job of finding food fell to Jiang Ergou, who was always familiar with the road, and the nearby family had suffered from Jiang Ergou.
The farmers with the vicious hands of Ergou were targeted again by the evil Jiang Ergou.
Jiang Ergou picked a cucumber from the melon stand nearby and made a crunching sound when he opened his mouth. However, the family of three in the dean were still immersed in happiness and did not notice it.
For Jiang Ergou, he had not experienced the scene in the yard for a long time. It was not until today that Jiang Ergou discovered that the old man had been gone for more than four years. It was also after the old man left that he
Only then did Jiang Ergou realize that he was the only one left in the world.
Jiang Ergou stood quietly in the vegetable garden and watched everything happening in the yard. He had even forgotten the purpose of coming here.
But while Jiang Ergou was still lost in thought, the woman in the yard who was smiling at the father and son suddenly walked over to the vegetable garden.
You know besides
In addition to the crops in the fields and the pigs, ducks and other livestock raised across the vegetable garden, this vegetable garden is another source of income for their family of three, so the woman comes in to take care of it every day, and the weeds on the ground appear when they appear.
The signs of it were uprooted by her.
Seeing the woman's move, Jiang Ergou hurriedly picked some fruits and vegetables and walked out of the yard. However, before leaving, he dropped a ten-tael silver ingot.
"Her grandma's, that damn one came to steal your aunt's vegetables and fruits again. If you can steal it, don't run away if you can. See if your aunt doesn't scold you like a bitch, you..."
Just after Jiang Ergou got out of the yard and hadn't run very far, a burst of earth-shattering shouts and curses came from the yard. This sound was as good as or even better than the internal strength of those first-level masters.
However, the scolding sounded and disappeared faster. Maybe the woman discovered the silver on the ground and was already busy identifying the authenticity of the silver. She would not care about the trivial things she just threw away.
Fruits and vegetables.
…
In the middle of a clearing in a dense forest, He Huaichun and others were sitting around a fire, waiting for Jiang Ergou to come back.
He Huaichun and Lin Yuanhuan were both staring at the fire in a daze. Neither of them wanted to talk to each other. The young monk Qingfa was sitting in the evening class. Although he had left the temple for many years, he had never forgotten the rules in his temple.
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As for the little girl Taohua, she is currently putting her hands on her knees, then putting her head on her hands and watching Qingfa silently reciting Buddhist scriptures. Ever since she followed Qingfa, she has watched him reciting Buddhist scriptures like this.
, I haven’t gotten tired of watching it for many years.
"Here, eat!"
Jiang Ergou suddenly jumped out of the forest and put the cucumbers and other things he had brought back on the ground.
He Huaichun was the first to react, but when he found out that what Jiang Ergou brought back didn't have meat, he seemed a little uninterested. He picked up a cucumber and sat back, mouthing
Even muttered.
"What are these? There is no meat at all. How can you fill your stomach with just these things?"
Compared with He Huaichun, the remaining three Lin Yuanhuan were not picky eaters, and even ate with gusto, so no one took He Huaichun's muttering to heart.
After resting around the fire for a night, the group of people started on the road again. As they got closer and closer to Qingzhou City, Jiang Ergou became more and more excited, especially when he saw an orchard in front of him. This excitement reached its extreme.
However, when they got closer, Jiang Ergou was a little disappointed, because the orchard was already a bit dilapidated, and it was obvious that no one had taken care of it for some days.
Although there are still some fruits on the fruit trees in the orchard, they have grown in different sizes because no one has taken care of them.
"Ergou, we were so happy just now. This kind of fruit will definitely not taste good."
Lin Yuanhuan walked to the edge of the orchard and took a look inside, then turned to Jiang Ergou and said.
Jiang Ergou smiled helplessly at this.
"It's nothing to be happy about. It's not far from Qingzhou City. If you insist, we can go to the city and have a good meal."
Lin Yuanhuan thought that Jiang Ergou was also helpless. The fruits in the orchard were all bad, but only Jiang Ergou himself knew what he was helpless about. Five years is not a long time, but it is not a short time.
, enough to change a lot of things.
As they walked down, Jiang Ergou felt more and more helpless. The charming woman who had given them water and stayed with Su Ruyu for one night also disappeared.
At that time, Jiang Ergou's strength was low, so he was not aware of the woman's strength. And the woman named Mei Niang was masked in the subsequent assassination, so until now, Jiang Ergou still doesn't know that the woman is also from the Ange.
Killer.
This helplessness did not get better until Qingzhou City, where he and Su Ruyu met the man named Liu Tie.
He recognized the little girl as his sister back then. After so many years, I'm afraid that little girl is almost old enough to get married.
However, although he thought a little too much about the little girl Liu Tiequan, when Jiang Ergou entered Bianzhou from Lingzhou and arrived at the site of Baquan Villa, he did not choose to take a trip to Baquan Villa.
Jiang Ergou's original intention was to go to Baquan Villa, but seeing so many people with him, he gave up in the end. It was not because he was afraid that Uncle Liu would be angry if he brought so many people to Baquan Villa.
, but when he got here, it was not far from the capital. He thought it would be best to wait until he got to the capital and ask that brat Su Ruyu to come with him.
Then walking towards the capital, we should arrive at the place where Jiang Ergou and the others were intercepted and killed. It was also here that Jiang Ergou saw the true strength of that sloppy old man for the first time. It was also here that Jiang Ergou saw the real strength of that sloppy old man for the first time.
I made up my mind in my heart that I would practice swordsmanship well.
On the previous trip to the rivers and lakes, Jiang Ergou had an extremely easy time because the old man stood in front and resisted everything for him. But when he re-walked the same road this time, he could no longer find him.
I don’t feel the same way I did back then.
Although there were more people following him this time, and the experiences on the way were more lively than before, some things are always irreplaceable. Along the way, Jiang Ergou finally understood what he felt back then.
The feeling is different this time.
Jiang Ergou calls this feeling growing up, because he feels that people will grow up sooner or later. Growing up here does not mean the increase of years, but your sudden awakening one day.
After picking himself up, Jiang Ergou didn't reveal any of his emotions along the way, let alone tell He Huaichun and the others what he had experienced five years ago. He buried everything in his heart, because of this
The joys and sorrows are only his own, and he doesn't want to bring this feeling to others.
In particular, people's sorrows and joys cannot be understood. Even if he told He Huaichun, they would not be able to understand his feelings...
With this kind of joy and sorrow, Jiang Ergou finally walked to the capital and once again saw the top of the most majestic city in the world. He still remembered the shock when he saw the top of the city last time, but now it seems that some
It's something indescribably deep.
"Let's go, Ergou, we have finally arrived in the capital. But just by seeing this majestic city head, I know that this trip to the capital is well deserved. It is much more spectacular than the shabby city in the Prairie Royal Court."
Hearing He Huaichun's emotion, Jiang Ergou laughed.
"That's natural. Don't think about how many years of civilization history our Da Chu has, and how many grassland barbarians there are. Comparing with them is not bullying them!"
He Huaichun did not answer Jiang Ergou's words, but put the knife on his shoulder and stretched out.
"Stop talking about this, I'm going back to Menglou to drink wine tonight. I don't know how long I've been craving for you along the way. And along the way, you can forget it. Even the monk brought a woman with him.
I have long been impatient to see you around."
Regarding He Huaichun's words, although Lin Yuanhuan did not show it, she naturally accepted it happily. Not only that, she also boldly glanced at Jiang Ergou.
As for the little girl Peach Blossom, she had never been made a joke like this before. The boldest moment was just to persuade the young monk Qingfa to stop being a monk, so at this time she naturally lowered her head in embarrassment, but soon
She raised her head again and looked at the young monk Qingfa with burning eyes, as if she wanted to eat this handsome young monk alive.
Jiang Ergou did not see the changes in the expressions of these people, but even if he did, he would not care. The young monk Qingfa's return to secular life is not something he should worry about, but his master who is far away in the south of the Yangtze River should worry about.
What Jiang Ergou is worried about now is whether his friends in this large capital city are still the same as before.
After all, as the old saying goes: As time goes by, it’s hard to keep old friends as they were before!