Chapter nine hundred and sixty-seven: give a happy word
The old man wiped his tears, "I don't say anything about the tragic situation along the way. If you don't tell me, you know. If you are hungry, then it's nothing. At that time, I was thinking about how to survive. Three of you, do you know how much we escaped from you back then? So many of you suddenly ran away, and the people were not prepared at all. When they reacted, the Mongols also came. Along the way, we didn't dare to say that you were a soldier. In that case, if you were not killed by Mongols, you would be scolded to death."
Wei Xin lowered his head in pain.
"Your wife has suffered a great sin. I can't bear to say what you suffered along the way in order to protect your son. Fortunately, we finally met a cavalry from the Northern Army. Under their protection, we fled all the way to Yizhou, and then we settled down." The old man said.
Wei Xin nodded, "At that time, Yizhou was still safe. How can you live on when you went there?"
"At first, it was relying on relief. Prince Zhengbei was a good person. After we refugees went there, we had porridge every day. Although we couldn't eat enough, we finally survived. By the way, your wife suffered a serious illness, and fortunately the doctors there were timely treatments, so we survived by chance."
"You didn't say I was a soldier, did you?" Wei Xin asked carefully.
"Where can you dare to say it? All you hear along the way are scolding you. Later, when we arrived in Yizhou, the people there hated you so much that they hated you. You are all officers in the town army, and we dare not vent our voices." The old man sighed.
"What happened later, I don't think you have suffered a lot of hardships when you look like you are?" Wei Xin said in confusion.
The old man smiled satisfied, "After two years of hard life, the situation stabilized. The prince of Zhengbei distributed land for us and built houses. We are all farmers. As long as there is land, the monarch will not come, and we will never starve to death. Later, life has gotten better and better. Now in the northern land, our Wei family has dozens of acres of land, and the tax paid is low every year. During the busy farming period, we can also borrow cows and cultivate fields in the village. Last year, our family finally bought a cow and also laid a calf this year. This day, we are getting more and more successful."
Wei Xin nodded with relief, hesitated for a moment, and asked: "Shuxian, how about she? Where is there a tiger head?"
"Your wife is doing well now, just waiting for you after death. Three of us are all thinking you are dead. My uncle once advised her to remarry. It was too hard to live alone with a baby, but she just refused and said that you were definitely not dead and would definitely go back to find them. I had nothing to say, so I could only help her live together. A woman was dragging a child with another child. You can imagine the difficulties she encountered."
Wei Xin covered his face in pain, "I'm sorry to them."
"Don't worry too much. Their life is much better now. Your son, Hutou, is now promising! Sanyuanzi, do you still remember how old Hutou was when you left?" asked the old man.
"Are you eight years old or nine years old?" Wei Xin's memory was a little blurred.
"Eight years old. It's already nineteen this year. You don't believe it. He is now an official in the North!" The old man said proudly.
"Be an official?" Wei Xin could not think of this, "How is this possible?"
The old man glared, "What's the point? Hutou is smart. Sanyuanzi, you don't know that in our Northland, children must go to school when they reach age. There are special teachers who teach, and there is no money. Your son Hutou is very smart. He can do it once. Isn't it just that the first scientific examination in our Northland? Hutou has gone there. No one expected that he would pass the exam as soon as he was. He became an official."
Wei Xin said excitedly: "My son can also study and become an official, it's so great." Suddenly, he said guiltily: "If you want to become an official, you must have a clear resume, Tiger Head?"
The old man smiled bitterly and said, "We also know that if you died back then, you would have died in the run. It would be bad for Hutou to say it. If you were not dead, then you would be the enemy of our northern region now. How dare you say it? At that time, we all thought you were dead, so I took the initiative and made up a lie to make up an excuse. However, the government in the northern region is so powerful. After a few months as an official, they found out that you not only did not die, but also became a high-ranking official in the Southern Dynasty. You don't know, we were happy and scared at that time, especially your wife, who had not slept for several days and nights, Hutou didn't go to the yamen, just waiting for that matter, Hutou said what the corpus came to capture him."
"Jobs. The officer!" Wei Xin said nervously.
"By the way, by the way, the official Fangsi is this name. Anyway, Hutou was very scared when he said this yamen. He even said that he had killed you. The Wei family would kill you this time!" The old man sighed.
"Why is it okay later?" Wei Xin looked at the old man and asked.
"Later, the official of the rank of the rank of Fangsi did not come. Instead, the chief of Hutou came. He scolded Hutou, saying that he neglected his duties and did not go to the yamen to do things, so he slacked his skills and fined him a month's salary. He still remembered something. Anyway, I don't understand, but we all understand that Hutou is fine, we are all fine, and no one pursues this matter."
Wei Xin was also very nervous, "Then why didn't they pursue it?"
"Tiger Head later asked their superiors, and they said, "You are you, Tiger Head is a tiger head. When you run away, Tiger Head is still a baby. What does it have to do with him? Moreover, Tiger Head is born in the North and grew up in the North, and is also the pure and honest man from the North. It has nothing to do with you! It just allows him to do things with peace of mind and benefit the countryside."
"I didn't expect that the Northland is like this!" Wei Xin sighed very much. In the south, he was used to the fact that the Nine Clans were implicated. The Northland was so generous, but it was beyond his expectations.
"By the way, you should be doing well now as a high-ranking official, right?" the old man asked.
"Okay, okay, haven't you seen it already? San Shengzi is not the little officer of the past. Your nephew is now a general, with 20,000 people!" Paused, "Uncle, I married another wife and added a girl to Hutou."
When the old man heard this, he was stunned and the smile on his face also pulled down, "What should Shuxian do if you marry a new wife? She has been waiting for you for eleven years."
Wei Xin lowered his head, "I thought you were all dead, I, I, I am also a woman who just married again the year before."
The old man was stunned for a while before he said depressedly: "It's okay. You are now a high-ranking official, and it's not uncommon to have three wives and four concubines, but I tell you that Shuxian must be the right wife, and this must not be changed. If you dare to divorce Shuxian, our Wei family will not have a person like you."
Wei Xin sighed: "What are you going to say? Uncle, I am like this now and it is impossible for me to go back to the north. We are fighting fiercely now!"
The old man opened his mouth and was about to speak, but at this moment, the guard brought in a large tray, which was filled with bowls and plates. The old man immediately stopped.
The personal soldiers arranged the wine and food on the table, and walked out after a greeting. Wei Xin picked up the wine pot, "Uncle, come, let's have a few drinks, we have not seen each other for more than ten years. You are all alive and are living well. I am so happy. Come, Uncle, I wish you."
The old man covered the wine glass with his hands, "San Shengzi, you are wrong, why can't you go back? Now the Xingyi Division, the King of the North, is almost fighting you, why can't you go back? You can do it anyway, you are holding a large army now, if you can go back, there will be light on your tiger's face!"
Wei Xin was stunned and looked at the old man for a while before saying, "Uncle, I was about to ask you, how did you come here from a thousand miles away? And how did you find me? It was Yun Zhao and the others. No, no, it was the one sent by the official Fangsi, right? They came for me."
"Bah!" the old man said angrily, "Your uncle, I am willing to come here by myself. Do you know? Hutou is now an official in the north. Since he knew you were still alive, Hutou has paid special attention to your news. Later, in the official documents of the government, he knew that you had become a high-ranking official and also where you were. Hutou went to see his superiors. He wanted to come to the south to persuade you to go back, but Shuxian could not feel at ease that her son, who had been raised after a lot of hardships, took this risk? He refused to live or die, but Hutou tried his best to live and live.
Come, there is no way, I said I'm here. The old man has lived a long life and is not afraid of death, so he came here. Along the way, it was indeed the Zhengbei Army escorted me here, but no one forced us. We came voluntarily. Three Yuanzi, look at your uncle's current appearance, and think about the life of your uncle and your parents before, you will know how wise the Prince of Zhengbei is. If you don't help such a prince, you won't help him, but you will be against him. I will not tolerate you!"
Wei Xin looked at the excited old man, not knowing what to say.
"You ran away back then, and the people of the Northland scolded you. Now you are against King Zhengbei again. Aren't you going to ask for scolding again? Do you want Hutou to be a human being forever?" The old man slapped the table and said angrily.
"Uncle, this is not something you can talk about casually, please be gentle." Wei Xin said.
"Isn't this your territory? Are you the biggest? What am I afraid of? Three remaining sons, let me tell you that everyone in our northern region is rich now. People like us are well-dressed and have enough food. Every family has surplus food. Every family has the prince's tablet of immortality. I have heard them say along the way that if you can do it anyway, then this battle will be easy. The prince of the North can easily defeat the enemy." The old man said, "If you don't give me a good word, I can't drink this wine."
"Uncle!" Wei Xin was both angry and funny, "This matter is not that simple. You always eat and drink first, let's discuss whether it's good?"
"So, did you agree?" The old man turned angry and happy.
Wei Xin was both angry and funny. Looking at the stubborn uncle, he sighed, "Uncle, I don't think they would let you come alone, where are their people? You ask their people to come to see me, and then talk about it after seeing them. Is this okay? I'm not a joke, I said it, you don't understand!"
Chapter completed!