Lin Yuan didn't expect to see Brother Chen again. After all, he still remembered the night when the original owner and Brother Chen separated. The moonlight was dark and the refugees came like a tide. Brother Chen stopped the carriage, and the original owner couldn't see him at all. Face, only know to listen to his words and run away immediately.
Whenever he thinks of Brother Chen, Lin Yuan can't help but sigh.
Goodbye now, with joy and emotion, he let go of his hand with Brother Jiang, and walked straight towards Brother Chen, his expression not tensed for a while, if he was happy or sad, his expression was very complicated.
"You're still alive." Lin Yuan took a deep breath, but he didn't expect there would be a time when Brother Chen wanted to see him alive.
When he entered this world, Brother Chen alone blocked the refugees, which gave him a great impact.
Brother Chen didn't seem to have any reaction on the surface, he just looked at Lin Yuan with a good look, and his expression was a little dazed.
I haven't seen each other for almost three years, and the young master has become different from before.
"Boss?" The brawny man who followed him shouted suspiciously.
Why did the boss of his own family even recognize his relatives when he took over the escort job
Brother Chen raised his hand, and the man immediately shut up.
He looked at Lin Yuan with complicated eyes, and finally moved slowly. The servant always had to kneel when he saw his master.
He didn't kneel for three years, and he was not used to it.
However, before he could kneel down, Lin Yuan had already clambered on his shoulders - on tiptoe, with a smile on his face: "I really didn't expect it, let's go, I'll take you in and see, this is all arranged by me. industry.”
After speaking, Brother Chen was brought in almost half-dragging and half-cuddling. His expression was so natural that Brother Chen was in a trance for a moment.
A few people in the back followed suit.
In front of the eyes is a piece of fertile land. Men and women are all working in the fields, and sowing is about to start in the spring. Everyone is very busy during this time, but people smile on their faces, wipe their sweat on their hips, and occasionally take a break. Go get a cup of the dried cool white cabbage, and look around, in addition to the shed and Zhuangzi, there is also a large and amazing coffin-style house, three stories high, without any fancy decorations, flat and neat, call Brother Chen and the others All a little shocked.
"Not bad?" Lin Yuan finally felt a little complacent. He said, "We meet again after a long time. I will take you to meet Erliang and her family. They are all in Zhuangzi, and your mother is also there."
Then Lin Yuan turned around and said to Brother Jiang: "Brother Jiang has also traveled for so long, so he must be tired. We will talk about the business tomorrow. I will ask someone to take you down to rest and wash first."
Brother Jiang is not a person without eyesight, and nodded again and again: "Don't worry about me, it's not a big deal to delay for a few days."
Brother Chen's mother was Lin Yuan's wet nurse, and now she was helping out in the back kitchen, and besides that, she was preparing to deliver babies to pregnant women.
Everyone couldn't believe it when they saw Brother Chen.
After all, they never thought that the egg could survive.
When Er Liang saw Brother Chen, she squeezed out a few drops of cat urine from the corners of her eyes, sniffed hard, and wiped her tears with the back of her hands. After the tears dried on her face, she felt panicked again.
The servants of the Lin family also surrounded Brother Chen excitedly and asked him what he had experienced in the past few years, especially Brother Chen's mother, who saw that her son was still in front of her, she never heard the tears. , Brother Chen put his arms around his mother's shoulders helplessly, and saw her crying on his shoulders.
Then Brother Chen briefly talked about his experience in the past few years.
It turned out that the group of refugees did not intend to kill them, but just wanted to find food. As a result, there was not a grain of food in the car except for the dry food for the journey. The dry food was only enough for an adult man to eat for two or three days.
When they found out that there was nothing to eat, the refugees dispersed, and Brother Chen survived.
He had no money on him, and he didn't know where Lin Yuan and the others had escaped, so he could only find a place to live first.
Eventually he stopped in a field.
He made a living by hunting, probably because he had good skills, and many people gathered around him unknowingly.
After they have people, they are like bandits with no fixed place to live and make a living by robbing mountain bandits.
To sum it up, Brother Chen now has a group of people. In a wild place, he himself took up the job of escorting the merchants this time, and he came out with the most powerful ones under him. As a result, he encountered a few bandits and had to flee first. Entering the mountains, after getting lost, I brought Jiang Guang here.
Lin Yuan touched his chin: "I always feel that there is a divine will, and it was God who called us to reunite."
The nurse nodded vigorously: "Exactly!"
Father Lin also said on the side: "Since everyone has come, I will definitely stay in the future. It's always a family!"
Brother Chen said, "I still have many brothers out there."
He is also big in size now, and he always has to take care of the livelihood of his brothers.
At this time, Lin Yuan didn't answer the call. He wasn't overwhelmed by the joy of reunion. What's more, the source of his feelings for Brother Chen was only the memory of the original owner. We haven't seen him for three years. What is Brother Chen like now? He has no bottom in his heart.
And listening to his tone, the people under him are all gangsters, and if they dare to rob the gangsters, their combat effectiveness must not be weak.
If he hastily let Brother Chen bring those people in, something is wrong... Even if he wins, the people he has finally cultivated now will definitely pay a lot, and he can't afford that price now. .
Brother Chen stood up. Three years ago, he was only a little taller than Lin Yuan. Now standing next to Lin Yuan, he is almost a head taller than Lin Yuan. No matter what, he should be 1.8 meters tall.
"I don't ask you to bother, I naturally have my own way." His expression was stern, showing a hint of a different response.
That is the momentum that he cultivated after fighting against bandits many times.
Father Lin swallowed his saliva, and also knew that the egg in front of him was no longer the same as before, so he said very wisely: "Since you are back, you still have to stay for a few days. Besides, you and Yuan'er haven't seen each other for a few years. There is always something to say.”
The nurse took her son's arm. After so many changes, she didn't look like someone in her forties. Originally, she was a nurse in the Lin family. , but now she looks no different from someone in her fifties.
He had a goosebumps skin, wrinkles all over his face and neck, and even age spots appeared on the backs of his hands.
Ever since she found out that her son was missing, her spirit had long since disappeared. If she hadn't continued to serve her master, she might have died long ago.
The nurse was a widow. After she became pregnant, her husband died in a fight in the field, but both sides felt that the other party had taken up more of their own land. The quarrel at the beginning gradually escalated into a fight. She lost her husband.
Unable to bear the blow of losing their only son, my parents-in-law passed away within a month one after another.
She was pregnant and had nowhere to go. It was the Yang family who heard about her and told her to go to the Lin family village to raise a baby first. It happened that a girl in the Lin family was also pregnant. When the baby was born, if the milk was insufficient, she would still be able to milk child.
The nanny just stayed in the Lin family for more than ten years.
"Niudan." The wet nurse called out her son's nickname, and reached out to touch his face. With tears in her eyes, she touched his son's facial features and arms over and over again.
Brother Chen's sleeve was pulled up by the nanny, revealing his arm full of scars, with knife wounds and scars left by blunt instruments, which looked extremely ferocious on his arms.
The nurse bit her lip: "How much suffering did this have to..."
Brother Chen smiled at the nanny: "Mother, it's just a little injury, it's not life-threatening, it's not really suffering."
The nurse carefully touched the scars: "Does it still hurt?"
Brother Chen: "It's been a long time since the pain."
That night, everyone in the Lin family had a family dinner together, while Brother Chen's subordinates went to the cafeteria with the people from Zhuangzi.
The family banquet was quite rich. Lin Yuan specially ordered the kitchen to kill two chickens and three bamboo rats. He also made egg custard, fried a few wild vegetables that were only available in spring, and brought out the rice wine that was captured by the bandits last time.
Father Lin sits at the top of the dining table facing south. He doesn't care about anything now. He can live a good life by relying on his son. Everyday he laments that he has given birth to a good son, who is much better than his friends.
Now his old friends don't know where they are wandering.
Did he find the son he sent out, or has he become a refugee.
Father Lin had thought about it before, but after thinking about it for two days, he thought about it.
Anyway, other people's affairs have nothing to do with him, want to ask him to find someone? That is definitely not possible.
"Yuan'er is also grown up now." Father Lin took a mouthful of yellow wine and sighed comfortably, "I have enjoyed Yuan'er's blessing."
The servants at the bottom flattered: "Master, this is a blessing from a previous life, and this life is a blessing."
Father Lin laughed: "I think so too!"
The banquet was full of fun, but Lin Yuan turned his head to look in Brother Chen's direction from time to time. He hadn't seen him for three years. This man was mature, and he was a little unpredictable.
Brother Chen is comforting the nanny: "Mother, if you miss me, come with me, and I won't let you live a hard life."
The nurse asked blankly, "Go? Where are you going?"
Brother Chen: "Go to my village... where I am."
The nanny quickly shook her head: "I'm not going anywhere, Niudan, you stay too, you forgot, you have been with the young master since you were a child. Our mother was rescued by the master and his wife, and people learned of the kindness."
She has been in the Lin family for more than ten years, and has long regarded the Lin family as her own.
The master is not very temperamental, the wife is a kind-hearted person, the young master is capable, and this village has a city wall. Because of her old age, she has received a lot of care and has not done any heavy work. Now that her son has returned, she is nowhere to be seen. do not want to go.
Brother Chen couldn't make sense with the nurse, but when he turned around, he found that Lin Yuan was looking at him.
He looked at Lin Yuan, not knowing what it was like in his heart.
He is responsible to his brothers and loyal to the young master who grew up with him.
But loyalty is never difficult.
When the banquet was over and everyone was full, Lin Yuan stood up and walked in front of Brother Chen, patted Brother Chen on the shoulder: "Let's go out and talk."
Brother Chen did not refuse, and followed Lin Yuan to the outside. It was dark now, and the cold wind was blowing in the early spring. Lin Yuan tightened his padded coat, but found that Brother Chen was wearing a thin bunt and was not afraid of the cold wind at all.
"Don't you feel cold?" Lin Yuan asked curiously. It's all made of meat. No matter how you're not afraid of cold, it won't make such a big difference
Brother Chen smiled: "I'm used to it."
"Master, how have you been in the past few years?" Brother Chen asked suddenly, "I wanted to catch up with you at that time, but I didn't know where you went."
Lin Yuan felt that he really needed a lonely cigarette at this time, and then pretended to say a few words full of life philosophy, but unfortunately he didn't have the conditions for him to pretend, he could only say: "At that time, my two and I The two fled to Wucheng and lived in a ruined temple outside the city. They were penniless, but they found the two hundred taels that my mother hid on me to get through the difficulties."
"Don't talk about me, what about you? Now you're the owner of the village?" Lin Yuan's ears were sharp. When he heard Brother Chen just said a word for village, he immediately thought of the stockade. Since there are a group of brothers in his hand, he must have settled down. At this point, relying on robbing the surrounding bandits to make a living is actually not a good method, it can only be said that it is a desperate situation.
Brother Chen looked at the night sky: "Actually, at that time, I thought I couldn't live anymore, young master, but people always want to live, and a day is a day."
"By the way." Brother Chen said suddenly, "There is a gentleman in the stockade who gave me a new name. It's not good to keep calling Niudan."
Lin Yuan couldn't hold back and laughed.
Thinking about it, every time the village owner goes out, the group of younger brothers behind him say, "Brother Niudan! Come back safely!" I feel very happy.
There is absolutely no momentum.
Lin Yuan asked, "What has been changed?"
Brother Chen said, "Chen Bosong."
Lin Yuan: "This name is good, and Bai Song has a good meaning."
Chen Bosong smiled.
"You still want to leave here?" Lin Yuan suddenly said, "Nanny won't leave."
Chen Baisong is also having a headache for this: "My mother, she..."
In fact, Lin Yuan still hoped that Chen Bosong would stay. After all, he was the original owner's playmate from childhood to adulthood, and he has relatives here. He is better than a brother if he is not a brother with the original owner. If he really wants to leave, Lin Yuan has no regrets in his heart.
"Is there enough food in your stockade?" Lin Yuan asked.
Chen Bosong didn't pretend to save face, he nodded and said, "Otherwise, I wouldn't come out to pick up the escort, usually I don't pick it up."
Merchants are rich, and they want to do business even if the world is in chaos, and the more chaotic it is, the prices will go up a lot, especially food and medicinal materials, both of which are huge profits.
After all, they haven't seen each other for three years, and the two sides are still a little strange when they meet suddenly.
Especially Lin Yuan, although he has a memory about Brother Chen, the memory belongs to the original owner, and he does not inherit the feelings of the original owner.
Chen Baisong looked at Lin Yuan: "Master, you have grown up."
Lin Yuan was stunned: "It's like you're much older than me."
Chen Bosong is also a few months older than Lin Yuan.
Chen Bosong didn't speak, but there was a smile on the corner of his mouth. The young master in his memory, who never grew up, had a kind heart, treated everyone gently, and could not see the suffering in front of him.
If all the people in this world were like this, there would not be so many incidents, there would be no wars, and there would be no displaced people.
Master has changed.
Chen Bosong stretched out his arm and patted Lin Yuan's shoulder.
Nothing in this world stays the same, everyone changes.
It's just that some people are fast and some people are slow.
Lin Yuan said: "Since you still have a brother out there, I won't force you to stay. I will take good care of the nurse. If there is anything, just come to me, and I will do whatever I can."
Brother Chen's life-saving grace to the original owner, he will repay - although it does not seem to be able to save it.
"Master..." Chen Bosong looked at Lin Yuan with a smile in his eyes.
Sure enough, no matter when, the young master will always be the young master.
After the long-awaited reunion subsided, Lin Yuan rarely got a good night's sleep. In his dream, he seemed to see the original owner smiling at him.
The next morning, the sun was shining, Lin Yuan climbed out of the quilt, walked into the house with a water basin on both ends, and served Lin Yuan to wash. Lin Yuan's hair was very long. Haircuts, but generally small trims.
In the Tang Dynasty, the word haircut already existed.
"Two liang, by the way, cut my hair for me." Although Lin Yuan's hair volume is not too much, but it grows too fast, it is already very long, plus it has not been trimmed for three years, a black hair can reach thigh.
Erliang tied Lin Yuan's hair, and said, "Young master's hair is so good, it's so good to cut it, it's black and smooth, so there's no need to cut it."
Lin Yuan: "It's too troublesome, it takes time to groom every day."
Because of the long hair, the ancients seldom shampooed their hair, and they did not have a hair dryer. Generally, they did not wash their hair when the weather was cold. It is common to not wash their hair in autumn and winter. Yuan is all plant ash mixed with water to wash hair.
Lin Yuan found that many people in Zhuangzi became alopecia areata because they did not wash their hair for a long time and the oil clogged their hair follicles.
- The trouble of hair loss is really present in any era.
Erliang used a comb to comb Lin Yuan's pain, and said, "I think Brother Chen is very different from three years ago."
Thinking of the current Brother Chen, he said excitedly, "I'm even more manly! I will grow up to be like Brother Chen in the future!"
Erliang, this half-hearted young man, used to yearn for Brother Dao.
Even if he experienced Brother Dao's foot odor, he didn't change his mind.
Now that someone more in line with his aesthetics came, he immediately abandoned Brother Dao.
Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Then you have to work hard, eat more, and work more."
Twenty-two: "I also have strength now."
After finishing her hair and changing her clothes, almost half an hour has passed since she woke up.
Sure enough, long hair was inconvenient, and Lin Yuan didn't dare to cut it too short. After all, those with short hair are either monks who are vulgar, or criminals who have been sentenced.
Lin Yuan went to see Jiang Guang first.
Jiang Guang is a businessman who has no fixed address and no family. However, he has a wide network of contacts, so he dares to walk in this season.
"Jiang, I sell everything." Jiang Guang and Lin Yuan sat cross-legged, with breakfast on the table, and said with a smile, "In addition to medicinal materials, food is also sold. If there is a shortage of people, people can also sell it."
Lin Yuan asked, "What about the knife and the horse?"
Jiang Guang's smile changed instantly, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked simple and honest with a little cleverness: "Although there are, but the price..."
Lin Yuan didn't even have to think about it to know that the price must be terrifyingly high.
"Money is not accepted." Jiang Guang said, "Now this season, only silver and gold are accepted."
His so-called money is the banknotes issued in the Yuan Dynasty. It has now become waste paper and is only useful in relatively stable cities and towns, but the amount is getting bigger and bigger. Ordinary people may buy a few hundred taels of banknotes. Not much food.
Lin Yuan can also understand, after all, a country in modern Africa can only buy a pair of slippers when inflation reaches several hundred million.
But he doesn't have much gold and silver now, and he asked Yang Zian to take away most of the silver, and the gold is only Yang's jewelry.
As a last resort, Lin Yuan really didn't want to use Yang's things.
But the advantage is that the Lin family used to have a big business, and the jewelry that Father Lin bought for the Yang family was all made of real gold and silver, without gilt or tin gold.
"Brother Jiang." Lin Yuan suddenly said, "Although there is no gold and silver, I have something else here."
Jiang Guang raised his head for unknown reasons. Without gold and silver, how can we talk about business? Merchants are chasing profit, and it has been the case since ancient times.
Lin Yuan: "What do you think of this thing?"
Jiang Guang heard the sound and looked, but saw Lin Yuan took out something.
That is a huge jade jade that Jiang Guang has never seen in his life. Fei, it is hard to see in the public, Jiang Guang swallowed his saliva, his eyes glowed.
Lin Yuan was relieved to find that Jiang Guang didn't see it.
This jade is of course not real, it was made by Chen Banxian's group, and they don't know how to ask them to study a recipe for explosives, how they learned to fake the stone.
Of course, the quality of artificial jade cannot be compared with real jade, but they are meticulous. In this era without professional equipment, if analyzed with the naked eye and hand feel, it is almost invincible, no one can see it, and the selected stone is also found. It took them all over the mountains to find it, and it took them a month to get this piece alone.
Originally, Lin Yuan was worried that jade would lose its value now, but looking at Jiang Guang's eyes, he knew that there was still a market for this thing.
No matter how chaotic the world is, the princes and nobles at the top will still enjoy themselves. If the knife is not around their necks, they will not know how to be afraid.
"This thing..." Jiang Guang, "how precious!"
Lin Yuan: "This thing also fell into my hands by chance. If you want to come and exchange for your carload of medicinal herbs, Brother Jiang, is it more than enough?"
Jiang Guang looked at Lin Yuan: "Jiang does not lie to Mr. Lin, it's more than worth a car."
"I want to change some more horses." Lin Yuan said.
Jiang Guang touched his chin: "If it was a few years ago, it would be enough for ten horses, but now, I can only take three."
Lin Yuan didn't care about this either. It was pure profit in exchange. Anyway, as soon as this "fake jade" came out, Chen Banxian had experience and became more and more handy at counterfeiting.
But jade can still be valuable, and it is only for this period of time.
Of course, you can get as much as you can.
"Brother Jiang is really happy." Lin Yuan raised the teacup, "I will replace the wine with tea and toast Brother Jiang."
Jiang Guang also raised his teacup. He had already thought about who he would sell the jade to after he got it. The people below were poor, and the people above were extravagant. Those people were more rare in jade than gold and silver, and he would definitely be able to sell it for a good price.
Lin Yuan and Jiang Guang were secretly delighted.
Chen Banxian and the others didn't know that their workload was going to increase again.