When his great-great-grandfather came here, many tribes here had no marriages, let alone families. The entire 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 a little bit, so that they could have weddings and funerals, families, and names.
From then on, their 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, the words of the Cuan family were much more effective than those of the prefect and county magistrate.
Since childhood, Cuan Chen has learned to live according to his family's ancestral precepts, which include loyalty, filial piety, trust, righteousness, kindness, fraternity, and 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 visit Shangluo, to see where his ancestors lived before, and to see how prosperous and noble the heavenly kingdoms written in the books are.
However, everything that happened after the CD made him deeply disappointed.
Be honest and be treated as a fool.
If you stick to principles, you will be criticized as being short-sighted.
Even after his defeat that day, what he had experienced in the past few days was even more heartbreaking.
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.
That Lao Liu was caught once, but escaped at night. According to what he said, 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.
Cuan Chen shuddered even more after hearing this.
What happened to the people in Shu?
What happened to those big players?
He didn't want to fight against the refugees, but he was very active in doing so.
But the more this happened, the more unwilling he was to give up his persistence.
Even if there is darkness, 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 will not seek each other's will. Let's 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 past few 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 the burden on the county, and the county puts the burden on the counties. Every department in every county has been very busy these days. Some were responsible for recruiting people to cut down trees, some were responsible for going to various houses 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. Even every day, Cao Jian would take the trouble to report to Zhang Meng what so many of his subordinates did and said in private. 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 "human" character. 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.
The Cao Jian family is said to be 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 treated coldly and bullied since childhood, he has developed the ability to observe faces and emotions. In the eyes of the patriarch of the Cao family, Cao Jian is the most hardworking 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 year's 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 into the highest-quality monk in the history of the Cao family. Fifth grade? Or fourth grade? What an honor that would be!
But how difficult it is to train a monk!
The ancestors of their Cao family were not as wealthy as the ancestors of the Li Xiang family, nor were they as wealthy as the ancestors of the Gongsun family. They were not even as wealthy as the ancestors of the Jianlan family, who at least had a profound skill and had cultivation experience passed down from generation to generation. 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 the family, and no one in his family understands the theory. They just have some experience through the generations, and they have been exploring 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 farmers who migrated from Jingzhou with the Cao family to work as big merchants to guard the 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 glad 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 will 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 just 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 and 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 governor, 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 an honor that is!
And 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.
Ever since, he was very happy when he took on the job of checking people coming and going after crossing the river.
It’s easy to say anything, but it’s hard to say anything.
As long as you give money to Mr. Cao, then 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: "My lord, something's wrong, there's a fight on the riverside."
When Cao Jian heard this, he stood up with a crash and shouted sternly: "Who dared to take advantage of the courage of a bear and a leopard to be an official? Are you rebelling?"
"A man and a woman." The soldier responded: "The man is wearing tattered clothes and holding a long sword and a bow and arrow in his hand. He looks like a deserter. The woman looks like a young lady from a rich family. .”
Hearing that there were just two people, Cao Jian 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? A deserter." How dare you work as an official? Do you really think 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, he took the road on the Yuesong County side, but when he returned, he had to take the Wuchi Road on the Bo Road side. Xin Wan has gone through the misfortune on the road, and has long lost the passion and recklessness she had when she first ran away from home. After being rescued by Cuan Chen from Brother Shen, she suddenly matured. She began to consider many issues that she had never considered before.
Accidents and tribulations are the best things that can promote a person's growth.
Go to look for Jordan?
The Jordan family is already married. What right does it have for me to stay there, so I am willing to be a concubine? The key is, even if you are willing, will others be willing? Is my wife willing? I was afraid that they would send someone to take me back to the Xin family.
In that case, should he tell Jordan about the shameful things his father did secretly?
Once these things are exposed, let alone his father, the entire Xin family will probably fall apart. Then what will happen to a weak woman like me? Don't talk about being someone else's wife then, I'm afraid if you want to be someone else's concubine, they will still dislike your identity.
She shuddered when she thought of the scene when Brother Shen, Lao Liu and others captured her. If it weren't for Cuan Chen, she knew what would happen to her.
Life is more than the distance and poetry, life is more important than the present and the contentment.
If you can't grasp the present, how can you talk about grasping the future?
Those who can talk about distant places and poetry at all times are those who live a carefree life.
Confused and helpless, she remembered that she knew Wang Tianyun and Zhou Xing on the other side of Bo Dao when Cuan Chen said they were going to pass through Bo Dao. She didn't dare think about what would happen to her when she arrived in Bodao and met Wang Tianyun and Zhou Xing. She just didn't want to wander alone anymore. Even if Wang Tianyun sends her back to the Xin family again, she thinks she will admit it.
The reality is so cold, and the home is so sheltered from wind and rain. Even if the things her father and her brother did were unreasonable, she no longer wanted to think about those things.
In just a few days, this little girl who used to live a carefree life and loved reading and fantasizing the most grew up. She suddenly realized that she used to be a little girl who knew nothing and acted willfully.
She didn't know how she felt about Cuan Chen, a young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes although he was not particularly tall. She relied on him all the way, 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 in Ningzhou, the mountains and rivers there, the people there, 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 so that the five thousand righteous men in Ningzhou perished before they could do anything.
According to Cuan Chen, after he returns to Ningzhou, he will not join the army and come to Yizhou again even if he is beaten to death. There are no good people in CD, they are all a bunch of scammers.
Because of this, Xin Wan originally had the idea of following Cuan Chen, but after hearing this, she gave up the idea.
Just let Wang Tianyun send someone to take you home, and then go to Jingzhou with your family. This is your 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 good husband in the future and live a peaceful life with her husband and children, I'm afraid it would be a luxury.
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