When his great-great-grandfather came here, many tribes here had no marriages, let alone families. The whole tribe lives together, and men and women will have sex as long as they see each other. After a child is born, he only knows that he has a mother but not a father. Can't weave or make clothes. His great-great-grandfather took the trouble to send people to teach these tribes little by little, so that they could have weddings and funerals, families, and names.
It was from then on that the Cuan family became the most respected family in the local area, with an unparalleled reputation. It was also from that time that no matter who came to be an official here in future generations, they would have to rely on members of the Cuan family.
In Jianning County, what the Cuan family said was much easier to say than what the prefecture magistrate said.
Since he was a child, Cuan Chen has learned to live according to his family's ancestral precepts, which include loyalty, filial piety, trustworthiness, righteousness, kindness, fraternity, and being people-oriented. So when Li Yi, the Nanyi captain, decided to send troops to Yizhou to help Yizhou governor Luo Shang quell the refugee rebellion, Cuan Chen joined the team without hesitation.
He has wanted to visit Yizhou since he was a child, and even wanted to go to Shangluo to see where his ancestors lived before, and to see how prosperous and noble the heavenly kingdoms written in the book are.
However, everything that happened after the CD made him deeply disappointed.
Be honest and be treated as a fool.
Speaking of principles is criticized as being short-sighted.
After his defeat that day, his experiences in the past few days were even more chilling.
These days, they don't dare to take the official road at all, and they just go wherever the remote places are. Because there are officials everywhere on the official road blocking the road to catch these deserters.
Naoliu was caught once, but escaped at night. According to him, those who were captured were not sent back to the CD military camp at all. Many people were given to wealthy families, some were given to build Wubao, and some were taken to Tieshan to mine and smelt iron.
After hearing this, Cuan Chen shuddered even more.
What happened to the people in Shu?
What happened to those big investors?
I don’t want to fight against the refugees, but I am very active in doing this.
But the more this happened, the more unwilling he was to give up his persistence.
Even if it is dark, I will hold fire alone and move forward.
He woke up Xin Wan and helped the frightened Xin Wan walk towards her maroon horse. Suddenly, he stopped, turned around, and said sincerely to Brother Shen, Lao Liu and others: "We have different paths and we can't work together. We'll say goodbye today. My name is Cuan Chen. If you come to Jianning someday, , you can come to Wei County to find me."
Cao Jian, a householder in Bodao County, has been miserable and happy these days.
What is painful is that Luo Shang, the governor of Yizhou, recruited people from various counties to go to cd. According to Luo Shang's latest order, all counties and counties along the Pishui River must build long defensive perimeters to prevent the refugees from having any gaps to cross the river. The state puts more responsibility than the county, and the county puts more responsibilityThe task falls on all counties. Every department in every county has been very busy these days. Some were responsible for gathering people to cut down trees, some were responsible for going to various households to distribute taxes, and some even went directly to some homes to capture people for service. Suddenly, there were complaints everywhere.
Cao Jian has always been liked by the county magistrate Zhang Meng. In Zhang Meng's eyes, Cao Jian is the most sensible and discerning subordinate. Whenever there are many things that he wants to do but cannot say out loud, Cao Jian will be the first to stand up and say to help him do it. He even took the trouble to report to Zhang Meng every day. This made Zhang Meng sigh with emotion. He had been an official for three times, and he had never had a subordinate who was as loyal to him as Cao Jian.
Cao Jian’s home is on the other side of Sanjiangkou. Bodao County is located at the intersection of three rivers, which looks like a huge "人" (人). The county seat of Bodao is under the character "人", and Cao Jian's family is on the right side of the character "人", and they have to cross the Jinsha River. Zhou Xing's Bodao Kingdom started from Bodao County and went south along the Jinsha River, which was his fiefdom.
It is said that the Cao Jian family is also a big family in Bodao County, and in terms of strength, it is only lower than the Gongsun family. His family and Gongsun's family are both on the right side of the character "人", which has the most cultivated land and the most spiritual fields in Bodao County. But Cao Jian originally had no status in the Cao family. Although he has spiritual veins, he is a commoner, a commoner of a small sect. Having been cold-eyed and bullied since childhood, he has developed the ability to observe faces and emotions. According to the patriarch of the Cao family, Cao Jian is the most hard-working and uncomplaining person among the family's children, and the one who best considers the interests of the family. Therefore, he overcame everyone's objections and sent Cao Jian to attend a one-year course at Qiao's family in Shu County. After returning, when the then Magistrate of Bodao County was looking for subordinates to their family, he strongly recommended Cao Jian, the son of a concubine. And Cao Jian did not live up to the expectations of their clan leader. The two county magistrates praised Cao Jian highly.
Over the years, Cao Jian's status in the family has become higher and higher, and his life has become more comfortable. He married a beautiful woman, and one of his three children was a monk with three spiritual veins. For him, a monk with only one spiritual vein, and even for the Cao family, the talent of three spiritual veins was rare in their family for generations.
He secretly vowed to do his best to train his talented son to become the highest-quality monk in the history of the Cao family. Fifth grade? Or fourth grade? What an honor that would be!
How difficult it is to train a monk!
Their ancestors of the Cao family are not as wealthy as the ancestors of the Li Xiang family, nor are they as wealthy as the ancestors of the Gongsun family. They are not even as wealthy as the ancestors of the Jianlan family, who have a profound skill that has been passed down from generation to generation. practice experience. Looking back, the highest-grade monk their family ever produced was only a seventh-grade monk. According to their family's genealogy, their family was one of the first batch of rural households to move from Jingzhou when Emperor Wu of Shang Dynasty opened the Wuchi Road. They were one of the most ordinary rural households. I don’t know the name of the cultivation formula circulated in his family, and no one in his family understands the theory.The past dynasties have gained some experience, groping bit by bit and accumulating bit by bit. Today, the Cao family actually has five monks. Although their grades are not high, they are still a family with five monks. Many of the big families here in Bodao are like the Cao family. They are all descendants of the villagers who migrated from Jingzhou with the Cao family to work as big merchants to guard this five-foot road.
This place was deserted back then. The local Bo people were very afraid of the prosperous merchants and allowed them to slowly occupy the best farmland and spiritual fields. His family was so prosperous, and so was Huang Yuan's family over there. Whenever they talk about this period of history, they will be grateful that their ancestors traveled thousands of miles to Bodao, the most remote place in the empire, to open up territory for the empire, and they have since then owned a spiritual field that can benefit future generations. And as civilians back then, it was impossible for them to own a spiritual field in their hometown.
However, as the population increases, and as more and more children have spiritual veins, the spiritual grain produced at home is obviously not enough for so many people. On the contrary, this inspired Cao Jian to work harder.
He himself is only a ninth-grade monk, and he probably will be like this for the rest of his life. But he was absolutely unwilling to accept that his son, who had three spiritual veins, wasted his whole life at the level of the ninth and eighth grades.
In the Great Jin Dynasty, if you want to become the county magistrate of the ruling party, you must be at least a sixth-grade monk. This is the hard standard of the Great Jin Dynasty. If you want to become a county guard, you must be at least a fifth-grade monk. If you want to become the governor of a state, you must be at least a fourth-grade monk.
The goal Cao Jian set for himself was to train his son to become at least a sixth-grade monk. If his son can really achieve his wish and become a powerful county magistrate in the future, then he will be the first county magistrate and the first official that the Cao family has produced for generations!
What a glory that is!
In order to train his son to be successful, it is not enough to rely only on the spiritual grain allocated to him by his family and his salary.
So, when he took on the job of checking people coming and going after crossing the river, he was very happy.
Everything is easy to say, but nothing is hard to say.
As long as you give money to Mr. Cao, you are a deserter and not a deserter.
But if you don’t pay, I’m sorry, you are a business traveler who has been here many times, and you will be arrested as a deserter.
On this day, he was still lying leisurely in the pavilion by the river. Suddenly, one of his soldiers ran over panting and said urgently: "It's not good, sir, there's a fight on the riverside."
When Cao Jian heard this, he stood up with a crash. Come on, he yelled sternly: "Who dared to fight against an official because of his bravery? Are you rebelling?"
"A man and a woman." The soldier responded: "The man is wearing the same clothes. She was in tatters, and she was holding a sword and a bow and arrow in her hands. She looked like a deserter. She looked like a young lady from a wealthy family.Sample. "
Hearing that there were only two people, Cao Jian suddenly felt a lot more at ease. He picked up his long sword and said, "Let's go, take me to see them." I want to see what these two people look like? How dare a deserter serve as an official? Do you really think that your neck is harder than a steel knife? ”
The man and woman causing trouble by the river were naturally Cuan Chen and Xin Wan.
When Cuan Chen came here, he took the road from Yuesong County and returned. At that time, she wanted to take the Wuchi Road on the Bo Road. After the accident on the road, Xin Wan no longer had the passion and recklessness she had when she ran away from home. After being rescued by Cuan Chen, , she matured all of a sudden. She began to consider many issues that she had never considered before.
Chances and hardships are the best things to promote a person's growth.
Go to look for Jordan?
Jordan is already married, what right does he have to stay there, and he is willing to be his concubine? The key is, even if he is willing, Is he willing? Is his wife willing? I'm afraid they will send someone back to Xin's house.
In that case, should he tell Jordan about what his father is doing secretly? Those shameful things about him?
Once these things are exposed, let alone his father, the entire Xin family will fall apart. What will happen to a weak woman like him? Let alone being someone else's wife, I am afraid that if she wants to be someone else's concubine, they will still dislike her identity.
When she thought of the scene when Brother Shen, Lao Liu and others captured her, she became confused. She shuddered. If it were not for Cuan Chen, she knew what would happen to her.
Life is more than just distance and poetry, life is more about the present and the uncertainty.
How can we grasp the future when we live in the present?
Those who can talk about distant places and poetry are those who live a carefree life.
She is confused and helpless. When Cuan Chen said that she was going to pass through Bodao, she remembered that she knew Wang Tianyun and Zhou Xing on the other side of Bodao. She didn't dare to think about what would happen when she arrived at Bodao and met Wang Tianyun and Zhou Xing. She just didn't want to. Wandering alone again. Even if Wang Tianyun returns her to Xin's house, she thinks she will accept it.
The reality is so cold, even if her father and her family are so sheltered. The things her brother did were unreasonable, but she no longer wanted to think about those things.
In just a few days, this person who used to live a carefree life usually loved reading and fantasizing the most. The little girl grew up. She suddenly realized that she was just a little girl who knew nothing and acted recklessly.
As for Cuan Chen, this young man is not particularly tall but has thick eyebrows and big eyes. , she didn't know how she felt. She relied on him a lot, but she didn't feel like a deer jumping around when she faced Jordan. Along the way, she listened to him talk about the customs and customs in Ningzhou. Landscape, over thereThe people, the endless Dian Lake, and the snow-capped mountains.
There are actually snow-capped mountains in the south of Yizhou? Isn't it supposed to be very hot in the south?
Xin Wan was very curious, but she knew it must be beautiful there.
Along the way, she learned what the Cuan family’s status was in Ningzhou. This surprised her, and made her take a new look at Cuan Chen, who was now wearing tattered clothes.
Cuan Chen is the eldest grandson of the Cuan family. A man of such status joined the army without hesitation and came to Yizhou to help the Yizhou rebels, but he ended up like this.
At the same time, she thought of her father and brother. She wondered if Cuan Chen would hate her too if he found out about this. The five thousand men and horses from Ningzhou also completely collapsed that night. They fled and died. Every time Cuan Chen mentioned this matter, he would feel sad and even curse. He scolded Luo Shang and scolded him for giving blind orders and allowing the five thousand righteous men in Ningzhou to perish before they could do anything.
According to Cuan Chen, after he returns to Ningzhou, he will not join the army again and come to Yizhou if he is beaten to death. There are no good people over there in CD, they are all a bunch of traps. goods.
Because of this, Xin Wan originally had the idea of following Cuan Chen, but after hearing this, she gave up the idea.
Let Wang Tianyun send someone to take her home, and then go to Jingzhou with her family. This is my fate. It's funny that I used to have a high ambition, but it turns out that my life is thinner than paper. If I could marry a decent husband in the future and live a peaceful life with her husband and children, I'm afraid it would be a luxury.