Chapter 7: The Fate of the World (I)

For the rest of the night, Ning Ziming found that he had been dreaming all the time.

But he couldn't remember what he dreamed of.

As a result, I slept until almost noon the next day before I could barely wake up from my drowsy state. Just as I was about to turn over and get out of bed, I suddenly found that the legs were cold and sticky. The layers of clothes inside and outside were wet and transparent at some point.

"Yes!" The young man sat back all of a sudden, blushing.

The clothes on my body were collected by Old Man Tao yesterday, and it was just like this from the inside out. I had no spares to replace them. In broad daylight, the wet marks on the outer robe were too obvious. As long as someone passed by face to face, they would definitely be able to see clearly.

Just when they were so embarrassed that they were at a loss, the door of the house was pushed open from the outside with a creaking sound. However, Chai Rong and Zhao Kuangyin practiced a round of fist in the open space in the yard and walked back with sweat.

"Three, you are awake! My brother and I just discussed whether to wake you up!" Zhao Kuangyin recovered well. Seeing Ning Ziming sitting on the edge of the bed in a daze, he immediately approached and greeted him carelessly.

Ning Ziming was furious and coldly warlike, as if he was scared. He quickly pressed his hands on the edge of the bed, bowed and lifted his thighs, and could take a fatal blow to those who were approaching him at any time.

"Hey! Ziming, what's wrong with you?!" Zhao Kuangyin was very skilled in martial arts and instantly noticed the danger. He immediately stopped, leaned back, and crossed his hands to protect his crotch and lower abdomen. "Is it because of Sandsickness? I am your second brother!"

"Second brother?" Ning Ziming raised his eyes as if he had woken up from a big dream, his eyes were covered with blood. After a while, he smiled embarrassedly, and the tense muscles on his body slowly relaxed. "Second brother, brother, are you back? I..."

Suddenly, he looked like he was caught stealing a chicken. He shrank back and covered his thighs with his whole life. Zhao Kuangyin quickly turned his eyes and pulled the quilt open, laughing and ridiculed, "Ha! I said why were you so fierce just now, you were like a mad dog? It turned out that he wanted to kill someone to silence him! Third brother, you really have you, everyone is so tired that you still have the energy to have a dream!"

"Second brother, don't make a fuss, don't make a fuss!" Ning Ziming tried to snatch the quilt back with his hands, and protested with a red face, "I, I just drank a little too much water last night. No, no, not what you thought!"

"Come on, you! Fool me? You're tender! My elder brother and I are both experienced people, not like you, a boy chicken!" Zhao Kuangyin was overjoyed and let go of the quilt, doing his best to exaggerate. "It's rare to see you at this age. When you were princes, didn't you have a baby chicken? Isn't it true that you didn't have a personal palace maid? No, even if you are a wealthy family, at your age, you should have arranged a girl to teach men and women step by step! Alas, pitiful, pitiful..."

"I, I don't remember what happened before. I really don't remember it!" Ning Ziming felt that his head was messy, like a pot of porridge being cooked. His face turned red and white, and his face turned red and red, and his changes were uncertain.

"Okay, Yuan Long, Ziming's face is not like you. He has long been a famous passionate young man in Bianliang City!" At the critical moment, Chai Rong was still as good as an elder brother, and he was unwilling to let Ning Ziming continue to be embarrassed, so he smiled and spoke up for justice.

"You are just protecting your head!" Zhao Kuangyin complained with a smile, turned around, took two new sets of clothes from the bed opposite, and threw them into Ning Ziming's arms. "Don't be ashamed, change into this set! Mr. Tao has long seen that our three brothers are penniless at the moment. So, I asked the aunts and aunts in the village overnight to sew out the clothes they changed on the road. Two sets for each person, no more or less. These two sets are yours. I saw that you were sleeping soundly just now, so I helped you put them away first!"

"Thank you, second brother!" Ning Ziming raised his head embarrassedly and gave Zhao Kuangyin a friendly smile.

"You can change your clothes quickly. Brother and I will wait for you outside. After changing clothes, let's go for a second meal. We didn't have someone to keep breakfast for you!" Zhao Kuangyin felt so angry that he was laughing. He waved his hand, turned around, and left quickly with Chai Rong.

The sunlight outside is very poisonous, but the mountain wind has a faint cooler feeling. The two brothers are waving the mountain wind in the shade while looking around. In addition to the continuous distant mountains, there are dense forests, which are already relaxed and happy without realizing it.

"This place is good, the mountains, the water and the people are good!"

"The place where Mr. Wuliu's descendants live is no matter how bad it is? To be honest, I have too much concern in my heart, otherwise I would have wanted to live in seclusion here!"

"That's not possible! Brother, you promised to recommend Ziming and me to Sumi Guo!"

"I just said that, how can I really spend my whole life in the mountains and rivers? Besides, here seems quiet now. Once the Liao people invade the south again, they may become what they will look like! Although Mr. Wuliu is determined to be noble, what he does will be of no benefit to the country and the people after all!"

"If you are poor, you will be able to protect yourself. If you are rich, you will help the world!" Zhao Kuangyin thought for a while, and his face suddenly turned a little serious. "I always thought that Mr. Meng's statement was too stupid. What's going on in the world? It's nothing to do with me, Mr. Zhao! Looking back now, I was the ignorant and fearless at that time."

"Yes, how can there be a complete egg when the nest is destroyed?" Chai Rong sighed softly and nodded slowly.

The Liaodong delegation’s influence on the two was not only the broadening of their horizons and the familiarity of the terrain. On the inner spiritual level, the two were also tempered toward maturity. The perspective of considering the problem was no longer limited to family interests and gains and losses, personal life and death, honor and disgrace, but had a new understanding of the country and ethnic group.

When troubled times come, it is not only ordinary people who are unlucky. From phoenixes and grandchildren to peddlers and pawns, it is difficult for everyone to survive alone. And the decline of the country is not only affected by emperors, princes and ministers, and all people, regardless of wealth or poor, will become potential bullying targets for enemy countries.

As for Zhao Kuangyin's own experience, if the Han Kingdom was half as strong as the Tang Dynasty in that time, the Han family in Youzhou would probably beg for marriage to the generals of the Han Kingdom. Han Kuangsi would not have begged to marry Jingniang to a Khitan Hu who was nearly twenty years older than him, and would not have killed his daughter with his own hands in order to show his loyalty to the Emperor of Liao.

The moment he shot the feather arrow at his daughter, Han Kuangsi completely cut off the relationship between his family and the Central Plains. From then on, the Han family in Youzhou will never be the children of the Han family, but the most loyal hawk and dog of the Khitans. As the head of the family, Han Kuangsi believed that even if he was a hawk and dog for the Khitans, his family's future would be much brighter than the pillars of the Central Plains dynasty!

"Brother, second brother, let you two wait for a long time!" Ning Ziming's voice came from the door of the house, interrupting the heavy thoughts of Chai Rong and Zhao Kuangyin.

"It's okay!" The two waved their hands together, and then their eyes lit up.

In just one night, Ning Ziming gave them the feeling that he had grown up several years ago. It made people no longer think of him as an ignorant boy, but completely regarded him as a peer.

"I can't tell that oil leakage has this effect!" Zhao Kuangyin pointed to the teeth, and then joked with a smile.

Jing Niang's death hit him far more than it showed on the surface. So before he knew it, his temperament changed a lot. Recently, he has always adopted this aggressive method to relieve his inner pain.

Ning Ziming just smiled kindly and did not take on this matter, "Let's go, eat, and keep on rushing after eating!"

Zhao Kuangyin's attacks all fell into the empty space, and he suddenly felt very bored. He glanced at Ning Ziming with his eyes slanted a few times, and continued to laugh and joke, "Is he trying to leave now? Don't give me an explanation to Miss Tao? He is a young girl who is waiting for her to be called, and you held it in your arms last night..."

"Yuan Long, don't talk nonsense!" Chai Rong couldn't listen to it, frowned and stopped whispering, "We three brothers can joke no matter how much we are, don't involve others. After all, as you said, people are still in the boudoir. If you lose your reputation because of your few jokes, how can you and I feel in the future?"

"Brother said, brother, I'm reckless!" Zhao Kuangyin was not bad by nature and reacted quickly enough. After hearing Chai Rong's words, he immediately realized his rudeness. He quickly bowed his hand and apologized in a low voice, "Ziming, don't go to heart. I don't know what's wrong with me these days, and I don't care about speaking and doing things!"

"It's okay, second brother, there are no outsiders nearby!" Ning Ziming smiled and bowed back very generously. "Didn't I almost give me a heart-warming moment just now? Even if we are even, don't blame anyone!"

"That's it, that's it!" Zhao Kuangyin immediately realized that he was not the only one who performed strangely. He was stunned for a moment and nodded with a smile.

A slight red suddenly appeared on Ning Ziming's face. He quickly looked around and asked tentatively: "Brother, second brother, have you two met the Tao family and that spring girl in the Tao family today? Although yesterday's incident was unintentional, I think it would be better to apologize to her in person!"

"Hey! Are you addicted to being beaten or not?" Hearing this, Zhao Kuangyin immediately couldn't control his mouth, looked up and down at Ning Ziming, and questioned in a narrow way.

"All right, I can't let her misunderstand her heart and treat me as a disciple!" Ning Ziming seemed to have not heard the teasing in his words, smiled and added very seriously.

Since he insisted on apologizing, Zhao Kuangyin and Chai Rong could not stop him. He smiled and shook his head, and then took the initiative to come up with an idea, "We didn't see Sister Chun, but since her family is here, let's go and ask Mr. Tao and ask, and we will definitely know if she is back."

"Well, when you apologize, it's best if both Mr. Tao and Dachun are present. In this case, even if the woman wants to beat you up, it will be difficult for her to kill her father and brother!"

"It shouldn't be possible, at most I'll curse a few words. Ziming, if you apologize sincerely, just listen without saying a word. She scolded herself enough, and her anger would naturally disappear!"

"Well, my brother is right. Women usually have a sharp mouth and a tofu heart!"

"I've written it down, thank you two brothers!" Whether it was a good idea or a bad idea, Ning Ziming accepted it with a smile. He was not ashamed to apologize to a woman in person. On the contrary, deep down, he still had some expectations. He seemed to hope to take a look at the other party again and see what kind of female Chinese hero is the Taoist girl who fought with him yesterday!

The three of them said one sentence, without a word, while walking. Soon, they came to the main hall where the Tao family entertained distinguished guests. However, unexpectedly, not only Tao Dachun and Tao Sanchun were not there, but even Tao Zheng, who had always treated them, were not at home. Looking through the window, there was only a huge square table in the empty main hall. It was filled with wine and food, but the host and the villagers who accompanied the guests last night did not know where to go.

"What happened?" Chai Rong's reaction was very sharp, and he almost instinctively judged that the situation was not good. He turned his head and quickly looked around for objects that could be used as weapons.

"There is a weapon rack next to the west wing. I remember this family likes to practice martial arts!" Zhao Kuangyin was not bad at risk. He ran to the wing room with a low voice and found the weapon rack from the shady position. He first pulled out an iron stick with eyebrows, then picked up the rod Bu Shuo and threw it far away to Chai Rong's hands.

Ning Ziming's mental strength has been increasing over the past year, and ordinary weapons are not easy to use. He followed Zhao Kuangyin and looked around. Soon, he picked up a Daguan knife specially used to make strength from the stone lock under the courtyard wall, held it in his hand, and quickly returned.

The three brothers all got the weapons, and the confidence in their hearts became more and more. They walked out of the gate in two steps, looked up again, and soon they found that there seemed to be dozens of heads surging on the threshing ground in front of the village.

"It shouldn't be for us!" Chai Rong turned his ear and listened to the movement, and then made a judgment on the situation. "It may be that the people in the village are in trouble. As the junior and the fellow villager, Mr. Tao and the others must come forward!"

"No, it's not that girl Chun, right? She ran around in a dark and lit place!" Zhao Kuangyin opened his crow's mouth and carried any pot without opening any pot.

As soon as he finished speaking, a young man named Erniu hurriedly ran over. Seeing the three brothers from afar, the man was slightly stunned at first. Then, he stopped and gasped and said, "Three young masters, don't blame me, three young masters, it's my grandfather who deliberately treats you slowly. He has something to do now, so he specially ordered me to go home to send messages to the three. The banquet on the table is specially prepared for the three young masters. You three can do it first. When he arranges the things at hand, he will send someone to see you off immediately!"

"Don't worry about eating! What happened? Tao, what about the Tao family's younger sister? Did you go home safely last night?" Ning Ziming was confused about his concern, grabbed Erniu and asked loudly.

"This..." Erniu stared at Ning Ziming with his eyes wide open, his face full of surprise.

Seeing this scene, Ning Ziming was panicked for no reason. He pulled the man hard and asked viciously, "Don't lie, tell the truth. Chun, has something happened to the Tao sister? Tell me quickly, I can help you while the three of us are still there! Otherwise, as soon as the three of us leave, the sky falls, you have to bear it yourself!"

"Me, my grandfather won't let me say it!" Erniu was pulled and his eyes began to turn red immediately. "Aunt Xiaochun was caught by people from Lijiazhai, and Uncle Dachun was also injured by them. They, they were in the market a few days ago, and they also injured his grandfather. They fell in love with the large area of ​​water irrigated land in front of our Taojia Village, and insisted that the two villages be merged into one..."
Chapter completed!