Sha Po Lang

The Shen family didn't pay attention to "eating without talking, sleeping without talking". While eating, Mr. Shen taught Chang Geng a lesson on "University", and the main point was lost during the lecture, interspersed with "How to maintain steel armor in winter". He is a miscellaneous person, he thinks of what to say, once, for some reason, he told Chang Geng how to prevent and treat horse plague with great interest, even the deaf Master Sixteen couldn't stand it, so he forced him to shut up .

After eating and talking, Mr. Shen packed up the dishes and said to Chang Geng: "Today I have to finish cleaning up these respects. They don't take care of them, and some of their joints are rusted. I might have to go out this afternoon. Pick some herbal medicine, Ge Pangxiao and the others have asked for leave to play, what are you going to do?"

Chang Geng: "Then I'll go to Jiangjunpo to practice..."

Before the word "sword" came out, when he turned around, Shen Shiliu had already hung his iron sword on the wall, and announced, "Son, let's go, the giant kite may be entering the city, let's join in the fun."

Chang Geng was powerless: "Father, just now I told Mr. Shen..."

Shen Shiliu: "What? Please speak up."

OK, here we go again.

Juyuan came and went, it was the same every year, Chang Geng couldn't think of anything new and beautiful, but before he could protest, Shiliu had already pulled him up involuntarily, half dragged and half pushed him out go.

The summer heat still persisted, and the clothes on his body were thin, Shiliu's whole body was stuck to Chang Geng's back, and the faint scent of medicine in his bosom enveloped Chang Geng, just like what he dreamed about.

Chang Geng became inexplicably uncomfortable, lowered his head to avoid his little adoptive father, covered his nose, turned his head away, and pretended to sneeze.

Sixteen smiled and teased: "Someone misses you, is it the round-faced little girl from the old Wang family?"

Chang Geng finally couldn't help but turn his face down at him, and said bluntly: "Is it appropriate for foster father to make such a joke with a junior?"

Shen Shiliu didn't take it seriously, and said with a playful smile, "Isn't it suitable? Oh, I've never been a father before, so I don't know how to measure it. I must be careful next time."

If anyone was serious with Shen Shiliu, he would surely explode his anger.

Chang Geng shook off the gangster's hand that was about to put his shoulder, and walked out first.

Mr. Shen urged from behind: "Sixteen, come back early and chop the firewood!"

Shen Shiliu rubbed oil on his feet, and said shamelessly, "I can't hear you, see you later!"

Pushed by him, Chang Geng trotted all the way, and asked, "When have you been deaf?"

Shen Shiliu smiled and said nothing, with an inscrutable expression on his face.

At this moment, the two of them happened to pass by the main entrance of Chang Geng's house, and the door suddenly opened with a "squeak".

A woman in a plain long dress came out, and when Chang Geng saw that woman, the irritability mixed with helplessness and annoyance instantly froze.

He seemed to have been poured from head to toe by a ladle of cold water, and the eyes that were still suppressing the anger just now suddenly became hollow, and even the anger and vitality disappeared silently.

The woman was Xiu Niang, Chang Geng's nominal mother.

She is no longer young, but her beauty is not damaged at all. Standing in the morning light, she looks like a demure and quiet beauty.

Such a woman, even if she is a widow, really shouldn't be wronged by a small family in a small border town.

Xiuniang bowed her head and bowed her head, Yingying bowed down, blessed Shen Shiliu, and greeted Shen Shiliu, "Master Shiliu."

Shen Shiliu only plays hooligans with Shen Yi, and when he meets a woman, he immediately transforms into a handsome gentleman.He turned sideways slightly, not looking directly at Xiu Niang's face, and greeted politely: "Mrs. Xu, I'll take Chang Geng out to relax."

"Don't worry about it," Xiu Niang smiled without showing her teeth, and curled her lips, then turned to Chang Geng, and said in a soft voice: "Today when your father comes back, if you go out, remember to bring back a box of rouge for your mother."

Her voice was as soft as a mosquito, and she could blow it away with one breath, but before Chang Geng could answer, Deaf Shen had already answered: "Hey, Madam, don't worry."

Chang Geng: "..."

At this time, he had roughly grasped the law of his adoptive father's deafness—he couldn't hear anything Shen Yi said to him, and he could selectively not hear what other people said to him, depending on whether he liked it or not. Big girl and little daughter-in-law, even if it's a female mosquito buzzing, he can hear every word.

It's okay to be lazy, but it's still a color embryo!

The phrase "gold and jade on the outside, but on the inside" seems to be tailor-made for him.

When the giant kite came back, there were children waiting to pick up goose food at the gate of the city, and people from the nearby villages came to see the fun. When there were more people, some people came out to sell food with their brains, and gradually formed a scale in the local area. It is not a small market, and the locals call it "Yanziji".

Shen Shiliu never looked at people's faces—he pretended not to see them.

He didn't seem to notice the gloomy mood of his godson at all, he walked around the overcrowded geese with great interest, and he was very interested in everything he saw.

Chang Geng was facing a lawsuit on his forehead, but he still had to follow him every step of the way, always taking care that he would not be squeezed out.

The world is not good these years, the common people are poor, most of the goods bought and sold in the market are small things produced by the farmers, the food is not delicious, the drink is not good, it is boring to death.

It is said that life is difficult because of the war, and the tax burden is getting heavier every year.But in fact, they played in the past, and after a game, they could always recuperate for a while, but these years, I don't know what happened, people always seem to be unable to breathe.

Calculated, but only 20 years later, Daliang first went to the Northern Expedition, and then to the Western Expedition, the Celestial Dynasty is a big country, and the four directions come to court, what kind of majesty is that?

It's really strange that the common people are getting poorer and poorer.

Chang Geng was so bored that he wanted to yawn. He only hoped that Shen Shiliu, a country bumpkin who was curious about everything he saw, would enjoy himself sooner and let him go back sooner. He would rather go and help Mr. Shen.

Shen Shiliu bought a pack of coarsely salted beans that had been roasted black, and he ate them with his hands as he walked, stretching out his hand like eyes in the back of his head, and accurately stuffed a salted bean into Chang Geng's mouth.

Chang Geng was caught off guard, and accidentally licked his finger, biting the soft flesh of his mouth in a panic, blood came out of the bite immediately, he hissed in pain, and stared angrily at Shen Shiliu, the great scourge.

"A flower blooms forever, and no one is young again." Without looking back, Shen Shiliu picked up a bean, lifted it up, and pointed it in the direction of the sun. His hands were really good, slender and fair, like a pair of The hands of the son of the aristocratic family, which should hold scrolls or play chess, are very incompatible with the baked beans stained with black ash.

Shen Shiliu said old-fashionedly: "You will know when you grow up. A person's youth is only as big as a bean, and it is gone in the blink of an eye. You will never go back in your life. At that time, you will understand how much time you have wasted. .”

Chang Geng: "..."

He really couldn't figure it out no matter what, how could Shen Shiliu have the face to say that others "wasted their time"?

At this moment, the people near the city gate suddenly burst into cheers.

Even if you are half-blind, you can still see the "giant kite" pressing down from the far horizon.

Countless fire wings shot up to the sky, and all the white steam exploded out at the same time, and the steam was like a ball of cotton wool falling from the ninefold sky.

Then, a huge boat loomed out of the misty mist, and the eight giant dragons at the bow were vividly entrenched on the sides, moving towards the clouds in awe.

Shen Shiliu was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly turned his ears. There seemed to be a red light flashing on the cinnabar mole on the earlobe. He frowned and said in a low voice, "Why is this boat so light this year?"

But the surroundings were filled with the deafening rumble of giant kites and the loud shouts of the crowd, his sigh-like whisper quickly disappeared without a trace, even Chang Geng, who was closely beside him, didn't hear it.

The children began to hold their own small bamboo baskets, pushing and shoving each other to get a seat, waiting for the geese to eat.

A group of officers and soldiers trotted out from the city in line, and the messengers stood behind the three-foot-tall "Bronze Roar" and stood by for orders.

The "Bronze Roar" is like a big trumpet lying down on the city wall, with a circle of green copper rust on the outside, which is so rusty that it looks like a carved pattern.

The messenger took a deep breath, pointed at the end of the copper roar, and spoke a long voice. The sound came out from the huge "copper roar", which was amplified dozens of times, and echoed endlessly like a torrent of bells.

"The geese return, open-dark-river-"

Two rows of officers and soldiers responded by holding the handle of the huge wooden wheel on the tower, and shouted loudly at the same time. They were all naked to the waist, their muscles and bones were exposed, and they exerted their strength together. The avenue of stone slabs split into two at the sound, countless interlocking gears twisted, and the stone brick soldiers on both sides split into two ways, walking opposite each other.

The ground split open, revealing a deep underground river running through the entire town of Yanhui.

The orderly blew the hoarse and long horn, and the copper roar came out, penetrating everything and wandering away.

The giant kite also echoed a trombone, and then, countless fire wings fired at the same time, and the steam surrounded by clouds and mountains surged crazily—it was about to land.

The first handful of "Goose Food" flew down like a celestial maiden scattered flowers, and the kids below went crazy, stretching out their hands to grab it.

It's a pity that the road where the geese were sprinkled was not long. Soon, the giant kite sank into the dark river, landed firmly on the surface of the water, and landed in front of people's eyes.

The hull of the ship was fortified, and there was an indescribable murderous aura in the twilight of the cold iron. The sound of the trumpet from the ship was inexplicably tragic and reverberated for a long time, and the whole Yanhui Town was resonated by the sound of "wuwu". , like the thousand-year-old souls waking up in the battlefield, singing in harmony.

The giant kite slowly drove into the city along the dark river, the sound of the water was uproarious, and the messenger gave another long voice.

"Lights off--"

The fire wings of the giant kite's two wings were extinguished at the sound, and there was a slightly burnt smell of firecrackers in the air. The giant kite moved forward along the water, and the dragons around it seemed to be some kind of totem frozen in time, with a demonic divinity.

Chang Geng watched the giant kite from far to near in the crowded crowd. Even though he said he didn't want to come, he had seen the giant kite return many times, but when he faced it directly, he would be shocked by the giant's figure.

If the giant kite on the northern tour is like this, what kind of demeanor will the three major black iron battalions of the country's sharp weapon have?

The young man was trapped in the remote and narrow corner of Yanhui Town, and he couldn't even think about it.

As the giant kite approached, the remaining warmth of its extinguished flame wings rushed toward his face. Chang Geng subconsciously grabbed the people around him, and told him: "The giant kite is coming, there are too many people here, let's step back."

No one answered, he grabbed the empty space, Chang Geng turned around, and found that his troublesome adoptive father had disappeared at some point.