Bianshanhan [farming]

Although the family always wanted Li Qingwen to study, but when he thought of him being so far away from home, he couldn't bear it anymore, and told him over and over again that when he arrived in the capital, he only needed to take good care of his health and find time to read.

The day before his departure, Jiang Cong finally found an opportunity to take Li Qingwen out. The two of them rode outside for a long time. He pointed to the little red mark on his neck.

Li Qingwen was stunned. He didn't know when his elder brother's eyes became so sharp, so he explained that it was accidental.

Li Qingrui sighed, sometimes he thought Yaodi was very smart, sometimes he thought he was an idiot, and he didn't say anything in the end.

However, because of the elder brother's reminder, Li Qingwen was very careful when he returned home, taking off his clothes only after the lights were off, and waking up early in the morning, fearing that the second and third brothers would see any clues again.

He got up early, and the rest of the family got up earlier, but he was counting the packages in the dark, especially the house deed and land deed, and he had read it several times in one morning.

Every household got up early, had breakfast with oil lamps on, and after breakfast, packed things one after another and came to the Li family’s yard to wait. Soon, the yard was full, and the later ones waited outside, surrounded by the sledge. A group of elders earnestly exhorted.

At the same time, in the camp, Mayongjiang and Jiang's family and they also drove the sledge outside.

Li Qingwen and the others were packed tightly by Chen Shi and Li Maoyu with various things, so they were afraid that they would be frozen on the road.

Before the sun came out, all the people started to leave.

The sledges had all gone out, but Li Qingwen and the others were still on the road waving to his family, telling them to go back quickly.

Li Maoxian held Jiang Jiahe's hand, and the two elder brothers walked two miles away while talking.

Mao Mao followed with a group of dogs, unwilling to go back, no matter what Li Qingwen tried to persuade, or how Chen Shi and the others yelled, it was useless.

Jiang Cong rode over, "Let them follow, I'll bring them back."

Jiang Cong could only send people to the dense forest. He is not as comfortable as before.

Because of Jiang Cong's pleading, the dogs followed Li Qingwen in a legitimate manner, moving nimbly and flying with their tails flicking.

After several miles, Li Maoxian and the dark crowd behind him finally stopped, watching the sledge disappear into the snow, and then supported each other back.

The Li family has the most things, on several sledges, and the brothers all have to drive the horses.

God is also rewarding, there is no snow in the first month, and the wind is not afraid, they are going south, with the wind.

After leaving the border town, they traveled quickly, and within ten days they arrived at the post station outside the dense forest. Here, Li Qingwen faced the second parting, he, Jiang Cong and the dogs.

Before parting, Jiang Cong told Li Qingwen to take good care of his wounds, and he had made it clear to his family that he would never be forced to get married again, and told him not to worry about the Jiang family.

Li Qingwen was stunned. He saw that Uncle Jiang's family hadn't been very depressed. How did his brother make sense?

He asked for a long time, but Jiang Cong only said that he would talk to him after he finished reading.

Li Qingwen didn't guess it until he left, but he is optimistic by nature, the trouble has been solved halfway, which is a good sign.

From the dense forest to the south, there are people like Ma Yongjiang, and the journey is smooth.

After walking for several days, when they saw the gate of Yuanbei City from a distance, everyone felt mixed emotions.

It has been six years since Ma Yongjiang and the others were exiled, and they stepped into this gate again.

The others came from famine, how panic and despair they were at that time, being blocked by this door, they thought they would starve to death, but they didn't expect to turn around...

The sledges entered Yuanbei City one by one, and they had to spend a lot of effort to change the sledges into carriages here, so they had to stop for a short day.

While the third brother was going to buy a carriage, Li Qingwen and the second brother found the officer and soldier surnamed Zhao in the city defense army in Yuanbei City, and sent them all kinds of dry goods and medicinal materials from the border city, thanking him for his noble hand that night and for restoring Jiang Cong to freedom. Good news for him.

The city defense army surnamed Zhao was shocked. It was a coincidence that he met Jiang Cong.

Li Qingwen and the others stayed at the inn in Yuanbei City for the whole night, and they couldn't wait to leave the next day.

They didn't go home directly, all the carriages went to Fan Yangcheng first.

In the past two years, there was a catastrophe in Bingzhou, and the people were displaced. The nearby Fanyang City was surrounded by bandits and many tragedies occurred.

The caravan was robbed, and Fan Yang City hadn't returned to its former prosperity for a while, but there was still a constant flow of people inside and outside the city. Li Qingwen and his group of hundreds of people were checked for a long time before they were let in.

From Biancheng to Fanyangcheng, it took more than a month to walk. Ma Yongjiang, Qi Min and others had to repair here before continuing south. Those who came back from Yangshu Village and other villages had to sell the things they brought from Biancheng.

The price of these dry goods is higher in Fanyang City, and the big guy wants to earn more for a copper coin if he pulls it back from such a long distance.

They just settled down at the inn without taking a sip of tea. Ma Yongjiang, Qi Min, Lao Sun and others, along with Li Qingwen, sent the wood to the bow and arrow shop in Fan Yangcheng. Thankfully, the shop was still open.

When the people in the shop saw these carts of wood, they waved their hands and said they didn't buy them, and asked if they had sent them to the wrong place.

Of course there was no mistake, Li Qingwen said to the old man who came out at the end: "Master, my second brother, Li Qingfeng, do you still remember that he promised to get you some good logs last time... He didn't come back this time, so I deliberately Tell us to bring it over."

Most of the forests in the border town are pine, fir and birch. Li Qingfeng selected the wood in the forest and chopped them to make sledges. This time Li Qingwen and the others used these sledges.

When they were in Yuanbei City, these sledges were dismantled into wood, and those that were not used were sold, and those that were useful were pulled up.

Of course the old man remembered Li Qingfeng, he thought that the reckless boy said those words just to please him, but he didn't expect that after so many years, they would actually be delivered.

A group of people unloaded the wood, and the old man went into the house and brought a pair of bows and arrows to Li Qingwen, asking him to take them back to Li Qingfeng.

When Li Qingwen was in the capital, he saw a lot of bow and arrow shops, and heard people tell a lot about how to distinguish them. He thought the old man's bows and arrows were quite good, and then saw a few shop assistants hesitate to talk, so they left some money.

The old man was stubborn, so he returned the silver to Li Qingwen, and Li Qingwen could only exchange it for a bag of mushrooms and a jar of honey.

This time, he accepted it.

It would be much easier to dispose of these logs, and Li Qingwen helped the people who came back together to sell things.

He still went to the old medicine shop, but the shopkeeper didn't recognize him for a long time, and asked where the medicinal materials were picked, and they were all good.

Hearing that it was a border town, the shopkeeper looked up at Li Qingwen and his brothers for a moment, overjoyed, "Oh, it's you, you've grown taller, and you're all handsome, I don't even dare to recognize them..."

Counting the medicinal materials with the pharmacy clerk, the shopkeeper knew that their hometown was Bingzhou, and lamented with Li Qingwen and others how many people died of the drought in those two years, it was not easy to live.

Yangshu Village and those fleeing famine left Bingzhou early. After they left, many horrible things happened in Bingzhou. Even though it has been two years, talking about this makes everyone shudder.

Everyone stayed in Fanyang City for three days. Even though they were very reluctant to part with each other, Ma Yongjiang and the others had been away from home for many years, thinking of their family members, and the Li family brothers sent them away first.

In Yangshu Village, there are more than 30 households who came back from the border town, and there are about [-] households in other villages in total. In addition, the Li family brothers, and those who are going to work in the capital, left Fanyang City in a mighty way, and went to Bingzhou.

This journey was incomparable to what they had traveled before, and soon, they set foot on a familiar land.

Liushan County was even more dilapidated, Huichuntang closed the shop, and Li Qingzhuo went to the master's house. For so many years, although there had been correspondence, Li Qingzhuo and Dr. Lu hadn't seen each other for many years.

Suddenly seeing his once thin apprentice turned into such a graceful appearance, Dr. Lu was excited and happy, and could not hold back the tears.

Knowing that the second brother was going to reunite with the master, Li Qingwen and the others didn't wait, bought some things in the town, and then went back to the village with the others.

The decree of the imperial court has been issued long ago. With the help of various state capitals, many people who fled famine returned to their homeland. It is not because they care too much about the refugees, but because there are too many refugees, the safety of the town is poor, and there are orders from above, so that's it. Done.

When others came back, they were all dressed in rags and unkempt. They were in a group of horses and horses, young and old, and most of them were dressed in thick fur.

So Li Qingwen and his group were very eye-catching, no matter which village they passed by, someone would come to ask them.

They were asked which village they were from, where they fled to before, etc., and some people asked them if they had met their relatives, and they started to cry while talking.

During the catastrophe in those two years, those who fled scattered in all directions, some lost their children in their dreams, and some ran away when they encountered robbers... As long as they didn't see their relatives die with their own eyes, there was a glimmer of hope in their hearts.

Originally, the big guys were very excited to go home, but after hearing the cries all the way, they realized that they were lucky to go to the border town. Others who fled really experienced too much suffering. Almost every household There are dead relatives.

The carriage entered the empty village, and most of the doors and windows that were closed before leaving were opened. The firewood that had not been burned before was also empty. Every household was turned upside down, and some houses were even blackened by fire. Paint, mess everywhere.

Obviously, after the whole village left, some refugees fled here to find food.

Li Qingwen's family was not spared either. When they left, the house and yard were clean, but now they were all in dilapidated condition. They rushed to fetch water to clean up.