"When a bird is about to die, its singing is sad; when a person is about to die, its words are good. Three things that a gentleman values ​​are: moving his appearance is far away and violent and slow; correct color is close to faith; when speaking out, it is far away and despised... If there is a Sicun in the matter of borders and beans?"

The sky above the grassland is extremely clear, with the blue sky endlessly looking, like a jasper-clear, and white clouds dotted on the blue sky, just like white flowers blooming in the air.

Under the blue sky is an endless grassland, and the green grassland is as peaceful as a blanket, with felt tents and herds of cattle and sheep.

At this time, a seventeen-year-old boy was lying on the grassland that was as green as a blanket. He was looking at the old book of "The Analects of Confucius" in his hand. There were several cows, sheep, and horses around him, eating grass leisurely.

The boy was reading hard while reading, but as he read, he got stuck. He couldn't understand many of the meanings in the book, and at the same time, many of the words in the book were also unrecognizable to the boy.

So the boy turned over and lay on the grass, holding up the worn "Analects of Confucius" in his hand, so that it was directly shining by the sun. In doing so, the boy seemed to be able to understand it.

But the boy stared at him for a while and still couldn't understand, so he had to put the book away and put it carefully in his arms. He reached out and pulled out a few green grass, put it in his mouth and chewed it, and put his hands behind his head, looking at the blue sky and white clouds and thinking about his own thoughts.

The young man loved Sinology since he was a child, but his family was poor and could not find a famous teacher. The only few books of Han were obtained by his mother secretly using several sheep.

The young man suffered from the lack of a wise teacher, so he could only learn by himself, but the ingenuity of Sinology was so exquisite that a young man on the grassland could completely learn by himself?

No, no matter what, I have to go out to visit a master of Chinese studies. The young man secretly made up his mind at this time.

But after leaving by himself, what should I do at home? The boy then thought to himself in distress.

"Shitou, Shitou, go home quickly..." At this moment, a slave named Gun'er rode a bad horse and ran to the boy panting and said.

Gun'er was a Han Chinese, a slave in the young man's family, and was about the same age as the young man.

The young man's family was poor. According to common sense, there was no possibility of slaves at home. But Gun'er's ancestors were slaves from the young man's family, and his status as slaves was passed down from generation to generation. Therefore, Gun'er became a slave in the young man's family and was loyal. No matter what the situation was in the young man's family, Gun'er always followed him loyally unless Gun'er gave him or sold him.

"Gun'er, what happened?" asked the juvenile boy named Shitou, who jumped up from the ground after hearing this.

Although Gun'er was a slave to Shitou, Shitou never regarded him as a slave, but as a brother. The two lived together since childhood and were like brothers.

"Go back quickly, your father can't do it..." Gun'er replied anxiously when she heard this.

"What?" Shi Tou was shocked when he heard this. He quickly led a horse eating grass and asked, "What happened to Daddy? Is it still okay to go out in the morning?"

These horses, cattle and sheep are grazed by stones for others, and are generally not allowed to be used.

If the horse is damaged, Shitou's family cannot afford to pay, but now something happened to his father, Shitou doesn't care much about it.

"You yeah, you just got carried back, covered in blood, you're almost out of reach. Why

So, I don’t know much about this.” Gun'er said anxiously when she heard this, “Oh, go back quickly, it’s too late to be too late…”

Shi Tou nodded, and with a slight force on his arms, he turned over the bare-backed horse in front of him without any harness. He clamped his legs with his belly and urged the horse to gallop towards his own felt tent.

People who grew up on the grasslands are like using their fingers to control horses. The horse under their crotch does not have any harnesses, but the stones steadily ride on the extremely bumpy horse's back and can handle horses very skillfully.

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"How is Daddy?" Shitou and Gun'er rode their horses and ran to their own felt tent. Before they got off the horse, Shitou asked the person standing in front of the felt tent.

"Hey... it's almost impossible, Shi Tou, please go in quickly." A Khitan woman saw Shi Tou coming back before the felt tent, hurriedly held the horse and said to Shi Tou.

Shi Tou nodded, handed the horse to the Khitan woman beside him, and rushed into his old felt tent.

"Empress... Daddy?" After Shi Tou rushed into the felt tent, his father was lying on a worn sheepskin, his eyes were closed, his face was pale, and his mouth was covered with black and thick beards, constantly gasping for breath, just like a worn bellows. At the same time, sheepskin was wrapped around his right chest, and blood was still seeping outwards, falling drop by drop on the broken sheepskin under Shi Tou's father. Shi Tou asked in surprise when he saw this.

"Shitou, your father...he was injured by an arrow." Shitou's mother, who was sitting beside Shitou's father, replied sobbingly.

"Assed as an arrow? Didn't he hunt with the driver? Why did he get an arrow?" Shi Tou walked quickly to his father and continued to ask.

"It was just a mistake!" A Urudo folk house who carried his father home replied: "Your Majesty has rewarded him with two fat sheep."

"What? Two fat sheep? Is one life worth two fat sheep?" Shi Tou stood up and grabbed the clothes on the chest of an Orudo civilian and asked angrily.

"You ask me?" The fat Oluduo family broke open the stone and threw the stone hard and said, "I want to ask you, ask the emperor, what do I do?"

"The sheep are tied behind the tent, we are leaving." Another Oludo folk household said to Shitou and his son with some sympathy.

"Shitou, forget it, forget it!" Shitou's mother saw that Shitou still looked angry, so she advised: "You should go and see your father..."

At this time, Shi Tou's father had reached his last dying moment, but his face turned from pale to flush, and it was extremely red, and his breathing became more and more rapid.

Mother Shi Tou had no idea at this time and just kept crying.

"Dad...Dad...Persistently, Shi Tou will find a doctor for you...Search a man's doctor... Will definitely cure you..." Shi Tou didn't know what to do, but just kept saying.

"No need..." At this moment, Shi Tou's father finally opened his eyes and looked at Shi Tou and said, "Shi Tou comes here, Dad has something to say to you."

"Dad... are you awake?" Shi Tou said in surprise after hearing this.

"Shitou, Dad is going..." Shitou's father said weakly: "Shitou, before leaving, Dad has something to tell you..."

"Dad, don't say anything more...I'm going to find a doctor for you now.

...It will definitely heal your wounds..." Shi Tou's tears finally flowed down and she said crying.

"Stop your mouth, don't cry!" Shi Tou's father said angrily and coughed violently: "How can the descendants of the Great Sage, the Great Ming God Lietian Khan cry? Shi Tou, remember that you are the descendants of the Great Sage, the Great Ming God Lietian Khan, and your blood is shed from Tian Khan."

"Dad, the boy knows." Shi Tou said with a sob.

"Dad has been mediocre all his life and is ashamed to be the descendants of the Khan of Heaven, but you can't do it. You can't be like Dad. You must... you must... revitalize..." Shitou's father said intermittently, his voice getting smaller and smaller until it was silent.

Shi Tou's father was the seventh generation grandson of Yelu Abaoji, the Emperor Taizu of Liao, and Shi Tou was the eighth generation grandson of Yelu Abaoji. He was born in a commoner. After seven or eight generations, after the name was released, almost no one remembered that Shi Tou's family was the descendant of Yelu Abaoji, the blood flowing from the blood vessels of Shi Tou had long been washed away so that it could not be diluted.

The Shitou family is almost the same as the civilians.

As we all know, Yelu Abaoji implemented the system of Oluduo. According to Yelu Abaoji's ancestral system, every emperor ascended the throne, the direct descendants of the former emperor belonged to the former emperor's Chingluduo, while the new emperor established his own Chingluduo, which led to the Liao Palace tent army of the twelve palaces and one government. In other words, as the seventh and eighth generation grandson of Taizu, Shi Tou's father and son were Chingluduo, a Chingluduo family, and a Chingluduo.

This time, Yelu Yanxi's spring Nabo temporarily recruited Shi Tou's father to hunt, but unexpectedly, Shi Tou's father was injured by a bow and arrow, and his life was in danger.

Apart from that, nothing else

Liao also implemented the system of "worldly selection". The so-called "worldly selection" means that "all officials must first choose a clan surname". For example, the official positions of the Southern Prime Minister's Office are mostly selected by the four royal family accounts. In addition, officials from the two royal family departments, officials from other tribes, and important local military and political chiefs such as the five capitals are also mostly held by members of the royal family.

In this way, Shi Tou's father and son were orthodox royal families, and were born in "horizontal tents", rather than those royal relatives from three houses and two houses. According to the Liao "Selected World" system, he would get an official position and thus receive a salary from the court.

But because of the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate, Shi Tou and his son were excluded.

"Although the evil of the common people is good, they cannot be chosen by the world." "The uncles of the two countries, the nobles of the north and south royal palaces and the nobles of the country are not allowed to be appointed as officials of the headquarters."

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As a concubine, Shi Tou's father and son cannot be "chosen in the world", that is, they can only be considered as a slaughter of Lu Duo or a soldier at most.

If you can't be "chosen for the world" and be a white man, of course you will live a poor life. There is nothing else in your family except a broken tent and a few cattle, sheep and horses.

You should know that the Liao nobles not only own vast pastures, but also have a large amount of land and industries in the five capitals.

As the descendants of Yelu Abaoji, Shi Tou's father was certainly unwilling to accept it, but he was helpless. For the Khitans, if they wanted to have a background, they could either have a "world choice" or military achievements.

But since the "Tanyuan Alliance" of Liao and Song dynasties, there has been almost no war, so the life of the Shitou family has become increasingly poor.

Therefore, if Shi Tou wants to make a difference and revitalize the lintel at this time, what should he take?
Chapter completed!