Three thousand miles in exile

As the name suggests, the fat tiger is as strong as a meat mountain. He is the son of the head of a hundred households in Dongliu Village, and his name is Guo Donghu.

No one in these villages on Qiyun Mountain knows that the village tyrant Fat Tiger of Dongliu Village is said to have beaten a child to death when he was ten years old in a fight.

After the child was a refugee, he had no power or power, and his father compensated the other parents with two taels of silver, but under coercion and temptation, this matter was suppressed and nothing happened.

After that, Guo Donghu became even more domineering, and his young age has already changed people's faces.

Liu Zhan also heard a little about this person, because Tiancang Village and Dongliu Village are separated by Shangqiao Village and Xiaqiao Village, and they hardly communicate with each other on weekdays, so he didn't take this person to heart. He took the initiative to come to the door.

The news that Guo Donghu brought people to smash the scene quickly spread among the teenagers in Tiancang Village. When Liu Zhan brought people there, many teenagers from the same village had already surrounded the open space. Seeing Liu Zhan coming, everyone spontaneously stood by Liu Zhan's side. camp to go.

In the past two years since he came to Tiancang Village, Liu Zhan has been exercising every day. The originally thin boy has become much taller. Liu Zhan estimates that he should be 1.7 meters now. In two or three years It should not be a big problem when the head grows to 1.8 meters.

He himself is very satisfied, but standing with Guo Donghu, even Liu Zhan felt that the opposite was like a mountain of meat!

Guo Donghu clasped his hands and looked at Liu Zhan with contempt. "You are Liu Zhan? The Liu Zhan who killed the wild boar? Why do you look like a bean sprout? Could it be that you made up the killing of the wild boar? Hahaha."

The people from Dongliu Village also laughed and laughed.

Liu Zhan was not in a good mood, and he was too lazy to argue with the brat. "How about a best-of-three match?"

Guo Donghu came here to provoke and ridicule the other party. He was planning to irritate the other party so that he could fight to let Liu Zhan know his reputation as a fat tiger. He didn't expect Liu Zhan to initiate a fight.

"What kind of fight?" Guo Donghu became interested.

"You play three people, I play three people, two wins in three rounds, one-on-one fighting, you, Fat Tiger, are the boss of the party anyway, how embarrassing is it to end in person?"

Guo Donghu always likes to do things himself by picking quarrels and provoking troubles everywhere. After being told by Liu Zhan, he also feels that it is really embarrassing for the boss to do it himself!

The boss should order his subordinates to fight, just like his father led people into battle to kill the enemy!

"Okay, if you lose, you have to kneel and kowtow to me!" Guo Donghu was full of confidence.

Liu Zhan sneered in his heart, he had observed the people brought by Guo Donghu since he came, and he saw that they were shrimp soldiers and crab generals. The Cao brothers could easily knock them down. Defeat his prestige.

"Boss, I'll go first!" Cao Zhuang was the first to stand up without Liu Zhan speaking.

Although Cao Zhuang is not as fat as Guo Donghu, he is not small, and his body is full of solid muscles, not as fat as Guo Donghu.

The younger brothers brought by Guo Donghu felt a little stage fright when they saw Cao Dazhuang standing up, and they all shrank back silently. Guo Donghu casually slipped a person forward and pushed him forward. "you go."

The man had no choice but to bite the bullet and fight Cao Zhuang, and it was no surprise that he was beaten to the ground within three rounds.

Guo Donghu's face was very ugly, and he pushed another person out to fight Cao Zhuang, and he was beaten down in one round. Then Guo Donghu pushed out two younger brothers unwillingly, and they were both beaten back by Brother Cao Zhuang.

"Boss Guo, according to the fighting rules we agreed upon, you lost." Liu Zhan clasped his hands with a half-smile.

Guo Donghu's face was flushed red, regardless of his martial arts rules, he immediately rushed forward to beat Liu Zhan.

Liu Zhan had expected such an incident a long time ago. When Cao Ming left the field, he had already winked with Cao Zhuang. After a while, the two of them would attack Guo Donghu together. Only a fool would fight Guo Donghu one-on-one.

The scene was chaotic for a while, Liu Zhan's younger brothers all rushed forward, beating the dusty one and rolling it all over the ground.

Guo Donghu's body was covered in flesh, and it didn't hurt to hit him with his fists. Liu Zhan had to change his strategy and use wrestling to attack him.

The folk customs in the Northland are tough, when will the young people in the village not fight?The villagers were used to seeing it, but it was the first time that it was so loud like this time, and it was soon spread to Liu Xueyuan.

"Mr. Liu, your kid has brought someone into a fight again, and it's over there at the grain drying yard." Someone yelled in front of Liu's courtyard.

Liu Xueyuan walked out of the room with a dark face.

The fight didn't last long, Liu Zhan deliberately let the water go to make the two sides a tie on the surface, Guo Donghu put down his ruthless words and said that he would come back another day and left angrily.

This Guo Donghu's father was recalled to the barracks last year as the commander-in-chief. He was the only head of a hundred households with real power in Qiyun Mountain. Liu Zhan didn't want to offend anyone.

When Liu Zhan came home, Liu Xueyuan was waiting for him at the door, and the teenagers who had won the battle were chatting and laughing happily, but now they all faded away.

Five teenagers were punished to kneel with their hands raised under the courtyard wall.

"Guo Donghu is nothing more than that." Cao Zhuang was very proud of his victory.

"Your martial arts are better than him, but he is physically strong." Zhang Xiaoman said.

"I can still be this strong if I eat a little more." Cao Zhuang objected.

Although they were fined to kneel down, the teenagers chatted happily and didn't pay attention to Liu Xueyuan's departure and return. As a result, each of them was punished for an extra half an hour.

Later, in Midsummer, Mrs. Li gave birth to a girl. Liu Xueyi named her youngest daughter Lan.

When Sister Lan was born, Liu Xueyuan and Liu Xueyi happened to accompany Lu Shusheng to Wuyuan County to take the exam. This is Liu Xueyuan's first student taking the exam, so naturally he attaches great importance to it.

In the Dachu County Examination, you need to take the exam twice, one for the main exam and one for the re-examination. After three days, the person who passes the list is a scholar.

There are no class privileges for scholars in Dachu. Privileges such as not paying homage to officials and exempting land tax can only be enjoyed by the masters, but all the common people flock to them if they only have one point. A petty official below the grade.

Today, since the Zhou Dynasty, there has been the practice of hereditary inheritance and donation of officials. As long as you spend a little money, you can replace your father with your son. As long as you become an official, even a low-level official can become a powerful person. The people of Dachu, so just a county examination can attract the attention of the Quartet.

Three days later, the list was released, and Lu Shusheng was admitted as a scholar!

This incident can be described as a sensation in Tongtian Peak Ten Miles and Eight Townships.Lu Shusheng was an unknown son of a wealthy family, and he was instantly known by everyone.

Lu Shuiqiao and his son brought a cart full of gifts to Liu's house and beat gongs and drums to thank their teacher. The gift contained 20 taels of silver in addition to cloth, food and raw meat. Liu Xueyuan wanted to politely decline, but Lu Shuiqiao and his son refused to accept anything.

After Lu Shusheng was admitted as a scholar, Liu Xueyuan's reputation also spread locally. Almost every other day, people came to study because of his fame. When they saw Liu Xueyuan, they called Mr. Liu, and when they met the old lady, they called Mrs. Liu.

At first Liu Xueyuan wanted to politely decline, after all he was a guilty person and always felt ashamed of his status as a teacher.

On the contrary, Liu Zhan moved his mind. Now that Liu Xueyuan is a little famous, opening a school is also a way out.

Those who came to beg Liu Xueyuan were ordinary people at the bottom, and they were not afraid of attracting the attention of the emperor. Besides, the emperor was too busy to control them because of the war, right?

Liu Xueyuan himself had no intention of starting a school at all, but Liu Zhan couldn't help but brainwashed the old lady first, and then encouraged the whole family from time to time, but the reason Liu Xueyuan finally nodded in agreement was because of Liu Xueyi.

Don't look at Liu Xueyi giving up on himself now, in fact, he also has the reputation of a scholar.

Liu Jiafeng was in a hurry.

First, they spent four taels of silver to enclose an open space behind the Liu family's house. Since the Liu family is a military household and the house they live in is considered public, the land bought with their own money is considered private property and can be bought and sold by the Liu family.

After buying the land, the next step is to build a house. Building a house on the mountain does not require money to buy materials, and only needs to provide two meals for the villagers who help.

Liu Xueyuan designed it according to the style of a courtyard house, using mud embryos as the outer wall and straw roof. Although it is simple, it has a neat style.

The main room is the Zhenzhi Hall for the students who are determined to take the imperial examination, the east wing is the Mongolian School, as the name suggests, for the children to teach the children, and the west wing is separated by three rooms as a dormitory. The inside is Datongpu, a room can accommodate ten people, and the porch The corner room on the left is the kitchen, and the corner room on the right is the public study of the students.

Liu Xueyuan named the college Yunzhong Academy. When the plaque of Yunzhong Academy is hung on the gate, it is quite imposing in this remote mountain village.

The Liu family chose an auspicious day to worship heaven and earth.

That day, all the folks from ten miles and eight villages near Tiancang Village came. This is the first college on Qiyun Mountain. The heads of hundreds of households from several nearby villages personally brought gifts to congratulate. Even the magistrate of Pei County sent someone to send them congratulatory gift.

On this day, the three Liu Xueyuan brothers all put on newly-made robes, white Taoist robes with black sleeveless skirts, black gauze scarves on their heads, standard teaching attire.

Although they are all made of ordinary fabrics, everyone has already been convinced by this whole-body demeanor, and Liu Xueyuan also has long-lost self-confidence on his face.

There were 24 students enrolled in the first batch of Yunzhong Academy, because all the students who came to study were ordinary people, Liu Xueyuan did not set a high training limit, and could give money or food.

Liu Xueyuan also set a series of rules for Yunzhong College. Students living in the nearby villages can go to school as long as they come to class on time every day, and they should bring their own dry food.

As for the boarding students, the academy charges [-] copper coins for a bed and [-] copper coins for board.

Students should bring their own pens, inks, papers and inkstones. Meng Xuetang does not need pens, inks, papers and inkstones for the time being.

Compared with colleges in other counties, Yunzhong Academy's admission threshold is quite low. Even after the start of school, there are still wealthier farmers sending their children to school.

Liu Zhan made a calculation for Yunzhong Academy. It cost him 15 taels to buy land, build a house, build tables, chairs, furniture and buy books and textbooks. There is some surplus in Zhenzhitang.

Calculated for a year, Shu Xiu's income is deducted from the daily expenses of buying pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and the net profit of ten taels of silver is not bad.

One tael of silver is one thousand Wen, and ten taels is ten thousand Wen. Now the price of coarse grain on Qiyun Mountain has risen to three hundred Wen per bucket, and ten Dou is one stone. The annual income of the academy is about three stones of coarse grain. It is unrealistic to rely on the income of the academy to support a family.

Of course, the absurdly high price of grain on Qiyun Mountain is an important reason. Buying grain with money does not count, and even money is not as valuable as grain.

This inflated food price probably won't drop in a short time. If you want to feed your family, you still have to farm. The ten mu of land is still the foundation of the Liu family.

Liu Zhan was slightly disappointed but not discouraged. He earned a little money and gained a reputation. After Qi Yunshan had connections, he didn't have to worry about having no way out.

At this time, Liu Zhan's thoughts came alive. The paddy field on Qiyun Mountain is about 11 taels to [-] taels of silver per mu. There are still [-] taels of gift money from Lu Shusheng and his son, and the newly harvested bundles can buy an acre of paddy fields. .

From now on, the college will earn [-] taels of profit every year and can buy one mu of paddy fields every year. This is a private field, and it only costs [-] taels of tax to pay taxes!

Thinking about it this way, Liu Zhan couldn't sit still and hurriedly went to Liu Xueyuan and said.

Liu Xueyuan almost agreed. "My son has a very good idea. The land is our foundation. After slowly accumulating private property in the future, our life will get better sooner or later."

The matter of buying the land should not be delayed. The three brothers of the Liu family went to find Chen Baihu in Tiancang Village in person. Chen Baihu's three and four sons all entered the Meng School of Yunzhong Academy, so they were naturally very concerned about Liu Xueyuan's purchase of the land.

Three days later, he found a seller for Liu Xueyuan, the Niu family in the same village.

The second daughter of the Niu family is about to get married, and the youngest son is sick. It is time to spend money. The price released by the Niu family is 12 taels per mu. Hearing that the field is sold to Mr. Liu of Yunzhong Academy, he immediately let go and is willing to pay the market price of 11 taels. Two and one acres for sale.

Liu Xueyuan saw that the land of Niu's family had been plowed and planted with seedlings, and the seedlings were growing well, so he added [-] Wen. Both parties were very satisfied with this.

So far, the Liu family has become a rich household with private property. Liu Xueyuan handed over the land deed to Mrs. Zhao for safekeeping. Mrs. Zhao declined because she thought it would be inconvenient for the old lady to poop, so Liu Xueyuan made it clear.

"It doesn't matter if Madam holds it. When she was still living in the Liu Mansion, mother handed over the power of Zhongji to you. Now that the family is in trouble, it's nothing more than the title deed of an acre of land. It doesn't matter whoever holds it."

Mrs. Zhao also wanted to understand that she was overly cautious because she thought that the private property of this mu of land was hard-won.

Since she wanted to understand some suggestions, Mrs. Zhao wanted to make them. "There is still two taels of silver left in the house. I want to buy some new bedding and household items for a few rooms. There is no shortage of clothes. The cloth Lu Shuiqiao gave is just enough to make new clothes for the family."

Liu Xueyuan hurriedly said: "Ma'am is thoughtful, I was negligent, I only thought about the opening of the college and didn't consider the cost of each room."

"It's not too late to buy now, anyway, hasn't it been like this for the past two years." Zhao smiled gently.

Liu Xueyuan was worried about it, so he decided to spend one or two of the pen, ink, paper and inkstone to renovate Zhao's house. It is not a problem to always repair it by yourself, it is better to invite a craftsman to fix it once.

Unknowingly, it has been two years since the Liu family was dispatched to Qiyun Mountain, and the children are getting older, so the room seems tense.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liu Xueyuan decided to build another house on the west side of Liu's house. The craftsman didn't take more money because of Yunzhong Academy's face.

There are four small rooms in the newly built house, one for each of Liu Zhan and his four older children, and one for Li Xiaolian.

So far, the ups and downs of the Liu family finally quieted down, only the sound of Lang Lang reading from the Yunzhong Academy next door every day.

The three Liu Xueyuan brothers are teaching during class, and after class, they still have to work on the fields they should work on, and they still have to save if they should save. The only change is that people from all over the world in Qiyun Mountain respect Liu's family more and more.

Liu Zhan is not a material for studying, and he is unwilling to stay in the academy all day long because he can read almost. Liu Xueyi is not as strict as Liu Xueyuan in taking care of children. As long as Liu Zhan finishes his homework for the day, Liu Xueyi will not restrain him.

In the fall of this year, Mrs. Zhao is pregnant. Whenever Liu Zhan has free time, he will go up the mountain to hunt some wild animals for Ms. Zhao to replenish her body.

Liu Zhan knew that it was impossible for him to have children, and he also hoped that the Zhao family would give birth to a fat boy so that Liu Xueyuan would have a descendant, so that he would not be used to carry on the family line in the future.

It was also at the age of 14 that Liu Zhan had menarche. Since he came to ancient times, he hadn't thought about it for a long time. The ups and downs in the dream made him still have endless aftertaste when he woke up, but it was a pity that the dream was a blurred face. Let Liu Zhan regret endlessly.

Afterwards, the days were uneventful. In the midsummer of the next year, Mrs. Zhao gave birth to Liu Xueyuan's second son. Perhaps Liu Zhan's feeding played a role. The boy's voice was loud when he was born, and his small arms and legs kicked vigorously to help deliver the baby. The women all said that the boy was very strong.

Liu Xueyuan named his second son Cong, and his real name was Liu Mingcong.

Many things happened in Dachu in the year Cong'er was born.

Great Chu and Xixia have been fighting for a long time to no avail. The power in the court changes a lot every year, and only a little change every half a year.

Wars on the frontier continue, nobles in the DPRK and China are addicted to crony disputes, domestic prices are soaring, local powerful land annexation is serious, refugees in the middle of the country can be seen everywhere, and the people of the world are gradually unstable.

The war between Dachu and Xixia finally ended in peace talks, and Dachu made Xixia retreat at the cost of ceding the land of the three states.

This ending was like a powerful slap in the face, which swollen Emperor Xuan's face. As soon as he ascended the throne, he took a series of measures to suppress the power of the family, and what he got at this time was the great rise of the family.

With this battle, the aristocratic family once again occupied the top spot, and the situation of the aristocratic family was even more serious than when Emperor Wen was in power.

In order to save face, Emperor Xuan opened Enke in the spring of the next year, intending to cover up the embarrassment of defeat through the imperial examination.

This time, Enke Yunzhong Academy has three scholars taking the exam, and all three of them are Liu Xueyuan's favorite students.

Liu Zhan followed Liu Xueyuan to the county seat to see the three of them off.

Downstairs of the city gate of Wuyuan County, Liu Xueyuan could not leave the boundary of Wuyuan County because he was guilty of a crime, so he could not accompany the three of them to the county town to take the exam, so they had to say goodbye in the county town.

Wu Zhengze, Zhou Qinglin, and Lu Shusheng went to the county to take the exam this time. All three are young and vigorous, and they are also full of ambition to take the exam this time.

Liu Xueyuan and his students were saying goodbye, while Liu Zhan was squatting under a tree to enjoy the cool air, looking around boredly.

At this moment, there was the sound of driving in the distance. It was a few prison cars. There were more than [-] people in the prison cars, old and young. Looking at those ragged people, Liu Zhan couldn't help thinking of the scene when he first arrived three years ago.

"It's getting late, you go." Liu Xueyuan raised his hand to signal the students to hurry up and get on the road, watching the carriage go further and further until it disappeared at the end of the road before turning around with a lot of emotion.

"Father, I'm hungry. Let's go to Linji to eat a bowl of noodles before going back." Liu Zhan was really hungry. The young man was growing up, and no matter how much he ate every day, he always felt that he couldn't get enough.

Liu Xueyuan naturally agreed, after three years of rest and reorganization, the Liu family's family situation is much better than when they first arrived, at least it is not a problem to have enough food and clothing.

Perhaps it was Liu Xueyuan seeing off the students and remembering that he had taken the exam in the same way back then. Liu Xueyuan ordered two plates of side dishes, two scones and two bowls of big stewed pork noodles with his son for the first time.

Wuyuan County is very small, and Lin Ji, where Liu Zhan and his son ate noodles, was diagonally opposite the county government office. When Liu Zhan was eating noodles, he saw those new prison cars parked at the entrance of the county office waiting to be resettled.

Boss Lin looked at the prison cars and whispered: "Mr. Liu, that prisoner came to me to buy dry food just now, and I heard from his subordinates that there are royal relatives among the prisoners."

Liu Zhan loves to gossip and immediately became energetic.

Liu Xueyuan said in surprise: "There are not many heirs to the emperor of Chu, and there are not many families who can be regarded as relatives of the emperor. The only few relatives of the emperor are all appointed as marquises and ministers. How can they be assigned at will? The words of the chief officer I'm afraid it's not true."

"Of course the people in the frontier fortress don't know whether it's true or not, but I often hear from merchants that the Son of Heaven is at odds with the late emperor's relatives." Boss Lin whispered.

Liu Xueyuan had some guesses in his heart, isn't the first emperor's relative the Song family of An Guogong?Could it be?Liu Xueyuan's heart skipped a beat.

At this time, Liu Zhan noticed a prison car, and there were only two people in the prison car, a sick adult man and a teenager. The boy had been hugging the sick man all the time. It seemed that the two should be father and son.

There must have been many sufferings along the way, and it would be strange not to get sick, Liu Zhan thought to himself, stood up and walked over.

"Here, it's hot tea." Liu Zhan handed over the bamboo tube filled with water.

The young man looked at him in amazement, because his body was covered in filth and he couldn't see his appearance, only a pair of black and white phoenix eyes made Liu Zhan couldn't help but look at him for a while.

"Drink, it's okay to come here, and the local government officials will send you up the mountain after the handover papers are completed by the officials in a while." Liu Zhan broke a piece of cake in half and gave it to him to chew. the other half.

The boy hesitated for a while before taking all of them, but he didn't eat and drink first, but fed them to his sick father. "Father, there is water, you drink some."

The man looked like he had a fever, and he was already a little confused. He drank the water his son was feeding him in a daze.

Liu Zhan leaned against the side of the prison cart. "Hey, I heard that the royal relatives sent this time are you?"

Who would have thought that someone would ask such a direct question?The boy was stunned.

"Nizi, you're causing trouble again after not holding you for a while!" At this moment, Liu Xueyuan mercilessly grabbed Liu Zhan's ear and pulled it back.

"Hey! Dad! It hurts!"

"The county government also let you inquire about the prisoner's life experience before? You really don't know the heights of heaven and earth!" Liu Xueyuan slapped him on the back of the head again.

Liu Zhan called Qu. "I'll just say it casually. Besides, Dad, aren't you curious?"

Liu Xueyuan glared at his son, he didn't seem to want to talk to the stupid son but put a piece of untouched elbow meat in his bowl into his bowl.

"Hurry up and eat. If you don't go back, you won't be able to catch up with dinner. Your mother should worry again."

When Liu Zhan saw the big meat in the bowl, he didn't have any grievances, and he ate it so much that his mouth was full of oil.