The firewood burned more and more vigorously, and the heat in the pot was rising. Yang He unconsciously stroked the exquisitely carved brass protective shell on the scabbard, which was cold and cold.

Suddenly, a dreamy feeling surged into my heart, and there was also the indescribable loneliness, loneliness, as if only I was left in the world.

The ragged reed house, the dirty space, the two pitiful children, the dead bones everywhere outside, everything is in chaos, suddenly being here makes people feel confused and have a deep sense of unreality.

And... the pain in the soul, the deep reluctance, the deep regret, and the deep deepness.

"Father, the thieves are raging, how can the child be gone? Since the student is in the middle of the country, he should be responsible for defending his territory. He is willing to follow his mentor and live and die with this city!"

"You are not a court official, you are a member of your life. What kind of land you are guarding and what responsibility you will do? It doesn't matter if you die, my Yang family will be defeated!"

The memories that are unbearable to look back on come to my heart.

This body was originally from Luyi County, Guide Prefecture. He was smart and studious since childhood. He has read the classics, history, and literature. At the age of fifteen, he finished reading the Four Books and Five Classics and Zuo Zhuan in the Spring and Autumn Period.

While growing up, the world was in chaos. His father Yang Zhun was not a pedantic person. While studying classics, epics and essays, he did not forget to ask famous teachers to teach him martial arts. Therefore, this body can be considered both civil and military in the end, especially the skilled archery and horse skills, and the ability to penetrate the willows with hundreds of steps, and the ability to capture magpies in the air.

In the 13th year of Chongzhen, this body was even more a student at the age of seventeen. It was a sensation in the entire county at that time. Even Ji Maoxun, the magistrate of Luyi at that time, was shocked. Finally, he was accepted as his personal disciple and became his master of preaching.

Ji Maoxun is known in history as an ancient official style. He is loyal, handsome, clean and loving the people. He is deeply supported by the people of Luyi. He was able to get Ji Maoxun as his disciple. How energetic was this body at that time? He always encouraged himself with Li He's poem: "Repay the will of the golden platform and support the jade dragon as his death."

However, in the 14th year of Chongzhen, things took a sharp turn. At the beginning of the year, the bandits rose again. The bandits captured Henan Prefecture, killed King Fu, attacked Kaifeng, Xian bandits captured Xiangyang, killed King Xiang, and conquered Suizhou. The vassal king died, and the bandits prospered and the world was shaken.

The thief was as powerful as fire, and the people of Henan were in panic all day long, afraid that one day the troops would come to the city.

When the emperor appointed Fu Zonglong as the governor of the three borders of Shaanxi, all parties had high hopes for him, especially the people of Henan.

Unexpectedly, the official army was defeated in Xiangcheng, and Fu Zonglong retreated to Chenzhou, and his life and death were unknown.

Just when the blue was bolt from the blue, news came that the Ming Dynasty's troops gathered with the power of the whole country were defeated in Songshan, and the elite troops on the nine sides were destroyed. Everyone was even more worried and confused about state affairs and did not know where to hope for the future.

Everyone felt that national affairs were irreversible and that the thieves were even more irresistible. Henan would be the world of thieves.

In addition, bandits were everywhere, and small groups of thieves were harvesting grain everywhere to shovel the city. The situation was unstable, and the people of various cities fled one after another.

The Yang family was also preparing to escape, but there was a controversy before the escape, whether to go to Guide Mansion nearby, to Xuzhou, or to Fengyang, Luzhou and other places.

After Fu Zonglong's defeat, there were rumors that bandits would attack Guide's mansion. Xuzhou was close to Guide and might be attacked by treacherous people. Moreover, in May of this year, the thieves of Tai'an attacked Xuzhou. The local bandits Cheng Jikong, Wang Daoshan, and Zhang Fangzao also occupied the territory, burning and looting, and there was a problem in survival here.

Going to Fengyang Prefecture, Nanzhi, is also undesirable.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, the bandits once captured Fengyang and besieged Luzhou in the eighth year. They have been ravaged for several years. The only remaining counties in each prefecture are Shouzhou and Luzhou, and countless people have been slaughtered. The people in Jiangbei are already afraid of the thieves like tigers. A child cried at night, and his parents said: "Don't cry, the bandits are coming." The son stopped immediately.

People talk about the disaster of thieves, not only others fear, but also ghosts, not only older and strong people fear, but also children fear it.

In May of this year, Henan's native gangster Yuan Shizhong gathered 200,000 people to invade Fengsi. Although they were defeated by the Governor Zhu Dadian, there were countless small thieves in each county. The land in Jiangbei was decaying for a long time, and it was not a place for peace.

There were rumors that the thieves were attacking Fengyang Mansion in the east, and they were also afraid of the thieves who were rampant in Feng and Lu, and finally their families decided to go to Huai'an Mansion.

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Yellow River flowed all over the Huai River, and the floods in Huai'an Prefecture became more and more serious. The prosperity of fish and rice land was no longer there. In addition, the Yellow River flooded, and the soil in many places was poor, making it a famous land of bad water, with thieves emerging and beggars gathering.

However, in the face of the threat of life of the thief, the relatively stable Huai'an Prefecture is no less than a paradise for the Yang family. Yang's father worked as a department in the Huai'an Prefecture Office in the same year, so he considered going to join the family and surrendering to him.

In fact, this body does not agree with the departure. He feels that he has been hit by a student and a disciple of the magistrate. He should stay and guard his hometown together. Now that he is in chaos, he is running away from other places, which is not necessarily a good thing.

But he was severely scolded by his father, saying that he was just a student, not an official, so why should he guard the country?

In the end, my father's order was difficult to disobey, and my family hurriedly prepared and left Luyi County with the fleeing army.

Then……

There are bandits everywhere in the world, but it’s okay to meet small groups of bandits. There are dozens of relatives from various Yang family members and more than a dozen males. They all know how to archery and horses. Small groups of bandits are not afraid. And on the way to escape, they heard that although Fu Zonglong was captured and killed, the thieves also headed towards Nanyang Mansion.

So after walking to Bozhou, the second uncle wanted to change to Yongcheng to pick up his daughter and son-in-law's family. After everyone discussed it, they felt that the situation was good now, so they agreed with the second uncle's opinion.

When we finally arrived at the Bianxiji, we met a large group of troops from Xuzhou thieves Cheng Jikong, Wang Daoshan and Zhang Fangzao.

"... I am in chaos and killing people in a mess. The rapport has become desolate. My superiors cannot repay my country, and my subordinates cannot protect my hometown and their parents. I am ashamed of being a son of man."

The tragic scenes always devour his soul. The tide of thieves, the males fought to the death. In order to avoid being humiliated by the thief, the woman ended up committing suicide with her own knife.

In order to protect himself, his father, uncle, second uncle, and cousins ​​fought desperately, but he could only tie up his younger brother and sister. Under the protection of the book Tong Minister Yang, he finally managed to break through the siege by chance, and the rest were all killed in battle.

Afterwards, I went to the local area with the book boy Minister Yang to search. The scene was in a mess, and the remains of relatives were all ruined.

Crying bitterly, with anger like fire and hatred like sea, in my heart, but misfortune never came alone. Shortly after burying the bodies of relatives, I encountered a wave of bandits at that time. After a fierce battle, I was separated from the book boy Minister Yang again.

The depths of my heart were deeply scratched, and a series of blows and tortures made my body exhausted and supported by a sense of perseverance.

After escaping to a relatively safe place, he finally fell down and let his soul occupy his body.

However, it turned out that the soul was extremely obsessed with it, and the remaining consciousness in the body was tormenting him and affecting him at all times. In the end, it made me unable to tell which one was which one.

"I feel ashamed..."

Yang He felt dizzy, and suddenly he heard a sound of "Brother...Brother..."

Yang He suddenly woke up. It turned out that he had a headache and fell asleep unknowingly. Then he heard the call of his younger brother and sister, and the sound of water boiling in the pottery jar.

"Brother, it's the minister's brother..."

"What?"

"Ying'er heard the voice of the minister's brother."

Yang He listened carefully, and sure enough, a voice came from outside: "Young Master, Young Master..."

"Sir..."

Yang He was overjoyed and rushed out of the reed house. His younger brother and sister followed him out happily, "My elder brother..."

Yang He raised his eyes to the sound. There was also an abandoned village site on the left side of Xiaozhuangzi. There was a continuous weed around, and there was no one to see. However, at this time, there were still figures flashing among the weeds, and a faint angrily shout came: "...Dare to steal my things... and seek death..."

Then there was a shrill scream and dying sound, someone fled in the weeds, and then a figure chased after him, waving the stick-like things in his hand, knocking the man to the ground, "kill you to death", he kept waving the stick until the man didn't move.

"Sir..."

Yang He saw it kindly. It was indeed his own book boy, Minister Yang, and he couldn't help but shout.

The figure raised his eyes to look here, and then his tone was extremely surprised: "Young Master?"

"Young Master, you are not dead."

With the cheerful sound, a figure was seen running towards this side with a stick, as if something was strung on the stick.

The figure ran very fast, and soon a simple and sturdy boy appeared in front of Yang He, with a folded scarf wrapped around his head, a short blue robe, a tangled foot, a short knife and a dagger around his waist, and a large package behind him.

He was holding a stick in his hand. The stick was covered with dark yellow metallic light, and was covered with various patterns, giving people a sense of power and heavyness. However, it was Yang He who was filled with the handle of the long-handled knife, and at this time it was a hare strung on it.

This is Yang He's book boy, Minister Yang. He gave birth to a son, and was only one year younger than Yang He. The two grew up together and were as close as brothers.

Minister Yang's tears fell in a bunch of tears. He flew over, hugged Yang He's thighs and wide mouths and cried: "Young Master... Woo... I thought I would never see you again..."

Looking at the book boy who was crying and tears came out, Yang He felt warm in his heart, and he comforted softly: "Okay, isn't this okay? Get up quickly."

The younger brother and sister were also cheering: "My elder brother."

Seeing the two, Minister Yang opened his mouth and laughed. He picked up the two children and turned around, making them giggle, and said happily: "It's really great that the two little masters are fine."

His joy comes from the heart. Needless to say, Yang He has always regarded him as his biological brother, Yang Qian and Yang Ying. He has always regarded them as younger brothers and sisters.

In fact, compared to Yang He's family, he took care of two children since childhood.

Then he remembered something and lifted the thing in his hand like offering treasures: "Look, what is this?"

My sister Ying'er clapped her hands and said, "Wow, rabbit."

...

Lao Bainiu: The new book has been released, and it is about to start a long creative journey again. Like Xiaobing, this book is also a rigorous historical time-travel article, passionate and passionate song. After all, there are many people and things worth telling in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

I won’t say much about it. You can find out if you read it. I have prepared a lot for this book, and I have specifically inspected the geography, terrain, humanities, water and soil in many provinces, cities and regions such as Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Inner Mongolia and other provinces and regions.

Especially in Fengyang and Huaian, the areas such as Huaian are running more meticulously. Everything is just to write about the realism. People with obsessive-compulsive disorder have no choice.

What criticized me for the introduction of the Little Soldier is that I am very upset. I will learn from the lessons and will continue to update this book. Of course, sometimes I am tired and sleepy, so it is normal to take a break for three or five days. After all, writing is a very energetic thing.

And I will inform readers in the chapter before I have to rest.
Chapter completed!