Chang'an, Sanyuan County.
For thousands of years, as a remote suburb of Chang'an, Sanyuan County has always been like the most unknown child in the class, forgotten in the corner by the world and never taken seriously. Even many people in Chang'an don't know that there is such a place as Sanyuan.
However, since Xiao Han was born many years ago and was enfeoffed here, the unknown Sanyuan County has begun to undergo earth-shaking changes!
during the first few years.
Various cement workshops and iron smelting workshops have sprung up in this land quickly!
These novel things surprised the people of Sanyuan County who have lived in this land for generations: It turns out that a person does not need to farm or watch the sky for food, but can support a family just by working!
Later, when the wave of workshop construction passed, some small workshops disappeared one after another, leaving countless people in Sanyuan County feeling lost for a while.
But soon, they discovered that the workshop had faded, but the environment here had also improved!
The sky here is no longer gray!
The air is not always filled with an unpleasant burnt smell!
And on the sites of those workshops, more schools, chambers of commerce, and hospitals are being quietly built.
More and more outsiders are pouring into Miyuan!
Those people in Sanyuan County who no longer have a place of work only need to open a small stall in front of their home, and they can earn more copper coins than before by relying on the flow of people!
Are businessmen cheap?
Nonsence!
Who dares to say they are businessmen? Haven't you seen that every family has a field?
Although they don’t have much land, as long as they have it, they are farmers! Even if you do a small business, it's just a living in your spare time! Your Majesty didn't issue an order prohibiting farmers from doing business, right?
The gradual affluence of life has given people in Sanyuan County a completely different life.
People here no longer face the loess with their backs to the sky, and their bones will fall apart after a day of exhaustion! They have more time to think about other things or enjoy life.
Of course, for the Xiao family who brought about all these changes, everyone here has the greatest respect for him from the bottom of their hearts!
In Sanyuan County, you can yell that the county magistrate is a fool, the chief clerk is a fool, and the security chief Li Zheng should have fallen into a manure pit and drowned!
Maybe, people here will agree with you and echo you a few words.
However, if you criticize the Xiao family here, you will be scolded at least, or... it will be hard to say at worst!
Once upon a time, there was an official censor who could not sue Xiao Han in Chang'an, so he "had an idea" and ran to Xiaojiazhuangzi, preparing to mobilize the masses to fight against the bullies!
Later, the masses mobilized! But it was not the bully who was hit, but the "smart" Yanguan Yushi.
Hey... when I heard about that incident, it definitely made those who heard it sad and those who saw it shed tears!
The poor censor was put in a sack and beaten from the street to the end of the street! That’s a whole dozen miles of street!
When he was rescued by friends who came to inquire about him, his original body like a stick had been swollen, and his head had turned into a pig's head, making those friends who came to rescue him unrecognizable and thought they had rescued him by mistake. people.
After that incident, on the cement road from Sanyuan County to Chang'an, no Yanguan Yushi dared to step on it easily. This road was also nicknamed the "Shut Up Road" by many civil servants and generals who hated Yanguan...
At this moment, shut up... No, it's on Xiao's main road. A pair of grandparents and grandchildren are walking slowly towards the north in the afterglow of the setting sun.
"Grandpa, how long is this road?"
The grandson, who was holding his little hand, stood on tiptoes and looked into the distance, but he could only see the road leading straight to the north, and couldn't see where the end was.
"How long is this road?" The old man heard his grandson's question, and a smile appeared on his wrinkled face: "Silly boy, if you ask how long this road was before, grandpa can still tell you, but Now, even the people building the road probably don’t know how long it is.”
"Ah? Why?" Grandson scratched his head and asked curiously.
"Because..." the old man smiled and gradually looked into the distance: "Because the road was very short at first, with only a section in front of the village owner's house.
Later, our village owner felt that the road was too short, so he slowly began to build it towards Chang'an. When he reached Chang'an, he felt that there was no road to the north and it was troublesome, so he started to build it north again.
And this cultivation took several years! Many of your uncles and uncles are building this road. Because it is too far away, they rarely go home once a year. So, how long do you think this road is? "
"Can't you come back even once a year?" The little grandson's eyes widened. The farthest place in his memory was his grandma's house, but that was only a day's journey away. A year? How far!
"Yeah, listen to them, they want to build all the way to the north!"
"North? Where is north? Is it that far away in a year?"
"Haha, the north! Even if your calves walk for a year, you can't reach there! Oh, our village owner is also in the north now."
"Our village owner? That Mr. Xiaohou? I hear people in the village mention him every day, but why have I never seen him?"
"Silly boy, you have seen him! But you were still young at that time, and you were held by your grandfather to see him. He also gave you a silver bracelet at that time, which is the one you are wearing now."
"Ah? Did he give me this silver bracelet?" The little doll opened his eyes again and curiously looked at the blackened bracelet on his wrist.
"Yes!" The old man smiled and nodded, and there seemed to be some memories in his dim eyes: "At that time, he was not so busy. He would hang out in the village every day, so everyone here knew him! But later, He has become very busy and no longer stays in the village often. A kid like you should have no impression of him."
"That's it..." The little doll turned the bracelet on his hand and pouted a little disappointedly: "Then why is he so busy now?"
The old man touched his grandson's head and replied slowly: "Because he is very capable, His Majesty needs him in many places."
"Then if he goes to the north, does His Majesty want him to go to the capital? What is he going to do?"
"He went..." The old man's movements suddenly froze, and after a long time he sighed: "He went there to fight!"
"Fighting? Fighting bad guys?" The boy's eyes lit up and he clenched his little fists.
"Yes, beat the bad guy!" The old man was amused by the boy's appearance, and the trace of melancholy in his heart disappeared immediately.
When the little boy heard his grandfather's affirmative answer, he immediately waved his fist vigorously and said excitedly: "Then he will definitely beat the bad guys to death!"
The old man seemed to be infected by the boy. He looked up to the north with firm eyes: "Yes, he will definitely win!"
At this point, the conversation between the old and the young came to an abrupt end!
Because the next second, in the north of the road, a burst of rapid horse hoofbeats suddenly sounded!
