Jiang Shouyi also showed a bitter but strong smile, feeling excited again in his heart.

"Good boy, you have such a beautiful smile, I like it." He was a bad old man. He wanted to die countless times, but he still had to live desperately for Yan Nu.

It seemed like he lived just for this smile.

"Come on, let's go into the mountains! Yannu, you eat grass, and Aweng digs wild roots! Let's come back when there's peace..." Jiang Shouyi said firmly.

He couldn't help but feel lucky that Yan Nu was so easy to feed and had been eating grass all these years... He could still keep warm in the winter...

Thinking of this, Jiang Shouyi felt sad. He was so useless, and he never gave Yan Nu a good life. Instead, he relied on Yan Nu to survive many difficult moments.

"Will it be peaceful when you come back?" Yan Nu asked.

Jiang Shouyi nodded heavily: "Yes! That Gou Xi has offended the wealthy family, and his good days are numbered!"

The ninth year of Yongping.

The king of Donghai raised troops to Qingjun's side, and Gou Xi led his army to respond.

In order to prevent a fire in the rear, the King of Donghai asked Langya Wang, the leader of Shilin, to come forward, which temporarily suppressed the resentment of the wealthy family and eased the tense relationship between Gou Xi and the wealthy family.

Soon after, Gou Xi was promoted to General of the Eastern Expedition due to his meritorious service in battle.

Each family then converged, recruited refugees, trained local warriors, reclaimed wasteland, and recuperated.

The forests of the Tea Mountain were cleared, and Jiang Shouyi could no longer make a living, so he was forced to go down the mountain to cultivate land, and became a slave under the name of a wealthy family.

The ten-year-old Yan Nu was struggling to pull the plow while swallowing grass.

Jiang Shouyi was also plowing the ground with sweat all over his body. His skin was withered and black, like smoked bacon.

"Aweng, Aweng, when will the world be peaceful?"

"Wait a moment... wait until those feudal lords are at peace, then good times will come."

Yongping ten years.

The King of Donghai invaded the imperial capital, killed the King of Nansha, and took control of the government.

He conquered the east and west, quelled the rebellion of the vassal kings, and immortals came to congratulate him. For a while, the princes were subdued.

Gou Xi successfully quelled the chaos and was promoted to governor of Qingzhou! Governor of the nine counties of Qingzhou!

He became more and more arrogant and domineering, preying on the common people, enriching his treasury with gold and jade, and his relationship with the wealthy families became bad again, and conflicts continued within the country.

Young and old like the grandfather and grandson could only work hard, clearing land during the day, chopping firewood and burning bricks for the wealthy family at night, getting up early in the morning to fetch water, and then continuing to cultivate land.

However, even so, in the autumn, they will still go to build Wubao for the wealthy people.

In the cold winter, Jiang Shouyi relied on Yan Nu to keep warm, and repaired the wall outside the 'New Tea Mountain Castle' on a snowy night.

"Aweng, has Taiping come yet?"

Jiang Shouyi said almost numbly: "The war is over. The world will be at peace. Next year...next year things will get better."

In the eleventh year of Yongping, the barbarians rebelled.

The clans and tribes that originally relied on the Jin Dynasty to help quell the chaos and took advantage of the opportunity to grow, raised armies one after another, ravaged the northern land, massacred and looted.

They were ferocious and unstoppable, and possessed strange powers and sorcery. In just a few months, they swept across the north and south of the river and traveled to various states.

Yongzhou, Bingzhou, Youzhou, Jizhou, and Yuzhou were in chaos one after another, and dozens of counties and cities fell.

Countless hungry people were forced to rebel, form armies to protect themselves, and fled to various places, struggling to survive in search of food.

Gou Xi was in charge of Qingzhou and continuously added taxes, and the wealthy families were frantically building forts and training troops. The heavy hard labor made the life of the grandfather and grandson even more difficult.

One day, Jiang Shouyi was seriously ill and Yan Nu became anxious. Hearing that there was good medicine in the warehouse of the martial arts training ground, he went straight in to get the medicine and fed it to Aweng.

Afterwards, he was whipped half to death under the orders of the nobles in the castle, and almost died.

Seeing the miserable condition of his grandson, Jiang Shouyi felt extremely distressed, and secretly regretted allowing him to be treated as an ordinary person: "Next time, you must not be so impulsive and offend the nobles... If something happens to you, how will Aweng survive?"

Although Yan Nu was miserable, he still stubbornly said: "In what way are you nobler than us?"

Jiang Shouyi was stunned: "Noble people study more and have the knowledge to govern the world..."

Thinking of the chaos in the world, he changed his words and said: "Most of the wealthy nobles have had gods. The gods are immortal, can call the wind and rain, and have unimaginable power for mortals. They are very powerful..."

Yan Nu suddenly understood: "So being immortal and having great power makes you noble?"

Jiang Shouyi couldn't explain clearly at the end of his words, so he just said: "We are all untouchables. When the world is peaceful and you can live a good life, I will be satisfied."

Yan Nu asked: "Can Taiping really wait?"

"Yes..." Jiang Shouyi murmured numbly: "I heard that the noble family wants to invite gods to be born, and the gods will create peace."

In the twelfth year of Yongping, monsters were born in the year of great disaster, and evil spirits were born in the great chaos.

Now the chaos has lasted for more than ten years, and evil spirits are gradually appearing in the world, and evil spirits are everywhere!

There is a giant golden-horned demon in Bingzhou, ten feet long, who leads his beasts to eat humans and feeds them as sheep! He eats three hundred women a day!

Countless heroes went to crusade, only to become the meal of the 100,000 wolves under his command.

There is a drought in Yongzhou that is devastating to the world. It neither lives nor dies. Wherever it passes, not even a blade of grass grows!

Twelve San people from Jiming Mountain were born with swords to slay demons, but they fell into Tianshui and turned into zombies.

In Qingzhou, there are nine dragons that pull up the mountain, and a huge blue and white peak rises from the flat ground. The climbers are struck by the calamity clouds.

Eighteen demons live in it and set up eighteen levels of purgatory to torture the immortals. It is known as the "Nine Dragon Demon Cave".

Seeing this chaos, the family finally woke up and asked their own immortals to come out and succumb to the devil.

As everyone knows, there are also powerful people among the barbarians. Since the previous dynasty, they have attached themselves to the Central Plains and developed, and now they have become a trend!

They join forces with demons and are extraordinary.

On the other hand, among the monks in the Central Plains, there are only a handful of them. The great masters of the Immortal family are all in a leisurely state of mind, are unrestrained and unrestrained, avoid the world, and live far away in the mountains and seas.

Those who occasionally respond are doing so casually! They come floating in the air and leave as soon as they say...

The secular situation in the Jin Dynasty was also extremely unfavorable. The top aristocratic families and first-class families suffered heavy losses. They simply gave up their ancestral land and retreated to the war-free Jiangnan to cultivate their lives.

All the wealthy families moved their clothes and clothes southward, making the barbarians in the north even more arrogant.

Only many local small and medium-sized powerful people stayed and inherited the property of the big families in the North.

"Ah, ah, ah, the nobles are all crying. It seems that some ancestor has died?" Yan Nu gnawed on the grass and said the news he had inquired about.

Jiang Shouyi let out a long sigh. He knew that many of the wealthy families in Langya County had died in the blue-white magic mountain that suddenly rose up thousands of miles away.

He looked a little confused, the world was getting harder and harder.

Looking at myself again, I am already over sixty years old, with gray hair, as thin as firewood, and my body is getting worse day by day, almost like a withered bone in the grave. How long can I stay with Yan Nu?

He hugged Yan Nu tightly and said feebly: "Remember, Aweng will die one day. Don't cry when the time comes, but live bravely and strongly."

Yan Nu murmured: "Stay alive..."

Jiang Shouyi stroked him: "Yes, alive, you can eat, you can laugh, you can miss, you can protect the people you love..."

"You are still young. If you survive, you will surely see peace one day."

Yan Nu nodded vigorously: "I know Aweng, I will always live!"

The thirteenth year of Yongping.

A barbarian tribe named Tufa swept into Qingzhou.

Although the entire tribe only has 30,000 people, its military power is extremely fierce.

Gou Xi, the governor of Qingzhou, was shocked. While gathering a large army to meet the enemy, he also ordered the powerful families of various counties to send troops to help.

However, the wealthy families hated him deeply, and they only sent out some old, weak, sick and disabled people, and Jiang Shouyi was among them.

"Good boy, don't be afraid. Aweng is not here, so you have to be alone." Jiang Shouyi, with white hair on his head, said goodbye to Yan Nu with a weapon in hand.

Fourteen-year-old Yan Nu is almost as tall as him, with a lean body, slightly dark skin, and big eyes as bright as stars.

Yan Nu was eager to try: "I want to go too, Yan Nu has never been separated from A Weng!"

"No! Don't!" Jiang Shouyi said seriously: "You must be obedient and wait for my return in peace in the fort. Remember not to cause trouble! Work hard..."

"Those noble people are born nobler than us. If they bully you and don't give you food, you can dig grass secretly..."

"If they beat or scold you, don't fight back, but if they want to kill you...you must run! Kill whoever blocks your way! Go for it with all your might!"

Jiang Shouyi didn't know if he could come back after leaving. He was too worried about Yan Nu.

Yan Nu is innocent and fearless, with a fiery temperament. He is also a bit silly on weekdays, and he always cannot figure out many common sense things.

On the other hand, once he has figured it out, he will never change what he has decided, and even ten cows cannot pull it back.

When you are here, you can still control him, but what will you do when you are gone?

Without Xue'er, Yan Nu's magic has stagnated. He can eat grass and other strange abilities, but he is still resting on his legacy as a baby.

Thinking of this, he asked again: "Remember, child... you still have a family member. Her name is Zhu Yanxue, and she is the noble daughter of the Zhu family in Anqiu..."

Jiang Shouyi has kept his promise over the years and has never been to the Zhu family's territory. He doesn't know what happened to Xue'er. She will probably grow up to be a lady among all the people.

At this moment, he told Yan Nu everything about Xue'er, fearing that he would not have a chance to talk about it again in the future.
To be continued...