When Shi Jin comes back, he brings the deceased Lord Shi Er Aunt.

The seemingly weak woman never stopped crying when she saw her husband's remains, but when she mentioned her husband's funeral, she had a special idea.

"Don't talk about emergency or encountering bandits... just say something happened to the boat and drowned..."

If it is an emergency, it is very unfilial for the son to not be around to serve; if you want to meet a bandit, your daughter's innocence will be gossiped about.

Aunt Shi only has this pair of biological children, so she hopes that after this period, they will be able to return safely.

The deceased ruler is the leader, and Shi Jin has no objection to being a nephew.

But in this way, the Huo family's life-saving grace cannot be made public.

Huo Wu was eager to cover up this matter: "There is no need to mention us, it is a taboo..."

However, Aunt Shi knew how grateful she was. She looked at Huo Bao and was about to kneel down.

How could Huo Bao bear it? He was busy helping him.

Aunt Shi couldn't kneel down, so she pulled Huo Bao's arm: "Those two evildoers are my lifeblood. My brother saved them and was my benefactor. I was stupid and clumsy, and I won't say it nicely, let's look at the future."

"No need to worry, I have already received the gift from Master Ling..."

"The grace of life-saving cannot be resisted by anything outside of your body..."

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The coffin brought by the Shi family buryed the remains of Uncle Shi Er, and the group went into the city.

In the empty yard, there were so many things to buy. Huo Wu had only silver around him, so he took his son to the city to find a money house to exchange money.

When I entered Jinling City, I saw prosperity.

The lively hawking sounds, the peaceful and peaceful pedestrians.

The only drawback is that there are too many beggars, in groups of three or five, and they will beg when they see people, which often leads people to cover their noses and leave.

Huo Wu did not go to the money house immediately and took his son to the east of the city.

I walked along the city wall for a while.

There is a big hole in the city wall about a hundred feet in front of you, and it is useless.

"This..." Huo Bao was stunned.

What's the use of a city wall that is tall or thick? Such a large hole does not require a large army to siege the city at all, and you can go straight into it with a spear.

"When I passed by Jinling, this section was gone. It has been more than ten years, but no one has built it yet."

"Didn't this collapse when I hit the previous dynasty?"

"When Fancheng was lost, the fifth general died for his country. Since the guards of other cities were cold to the court, they did not defend themselves. Those who could surrendered were surrendered, and those who did not want to surrender also abandoned their officials and fled far away. There was no fight in Jinling City at all. This hole was shattered when the earth dragon turned over eighteen years ago."

Eighteen years ago, it was the year when I ascended the throne today.

The local officials did not dare to ask for money to repair the city wall, as if they had found the reason.

The father and son were silent and went to the Xue family on Xianhe Street.

"It's not a distant relative. Then Xue Biao is an old friend of your father many years ago. He is cunning and not a kind person. He just needs to be face-saving and meet him." Mr. Huo Wu had to tell his son about his relationship with the Xue family.

As the father and son talked, they walked to Xianhe Street.

As soon as I passed the intersection, I saw a circle of people in front of me, drawing every stroke to watch the fun.

"The Xue family has scouted the house! He told me that he was the bandit!"

"Oh, isn't Mr. Xue's girl the little grandmother of the prefect's family? Why did she search the house?"

"I deserve it if he lets his family show off!"

"No matter how rich you are, you are still a merchant family. If you get fat, you will be slaughtered!"

With the slightest discussion, the officers and soldiers took the Xue family and sealed the Xue family.

There were about a hundred or ten people, but not counting the servants, there were twenty or thirty concubines, and ten pretty women, seven or eight teenagers, five or six girls, all tied up in a bunch, crying like lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

The father and son stood in the crowd, terrified to see.

After the yamen runners pulled someone away, the father and son left here among the people watching the fun.

"Jinling City is going to be in chaos!" The father and son looked at each other, and their eyes became heavier.

If a merchant like the Xue family can gain a foothold in Jinling, he must have fed all the yamen. At this time, his house was confiscated and it was designated that the yamen was unstable.

The father and son didn't say anything else. They found a money shop near the city gate and exchanged a silver ingot for ten cents of money.

The money is six pounds and four pounds, and ten pounds of money is sixty-four pounds. It is put into a bag and Huo Bao carries it.

When the father and son returned to the yard, Shi Jin was already waiting, bringing two trucks of things, luggage, bedding, pots, pans, and pans.

Huo Wu appreciated it, and did not politely make things easy, just said: "We are not familiar with each other, and we are worried about how to buy things. This is a great help! I will wait a few days to warm up the room and have a good drink."

Shi Jin was a family of wilted. After delivering things, he had to go to his uncle's house to support him and say goodbye and leave.

Huo Wu and his son delivered it to the door. Huo Wu took out a few deeds from his arms and handed them to Shi Jin: "We are a guest residence, so we can't leave Jinling one day. It's useless to keep it. So I ask Brother Shi to help me change my hands. The faster the better. Don't waste the market price, it's okay to lose 20% or 30%."

This is the reward given by the Shi family. It is also convenient for the Shi family to redeem it.

Shi Jin glanced twice, delivered it back, and advised: "My cousin is the eldest daughter of this generation. The dowry is all the best paddy fields, and the house is also a rent-collecting house near the government school. It will be difficult to buy it after selling it! Brother Huo Wu has just arrived in Jinling today, so why did he say that he left? With the Jia family and our family, we can help each other. If I don't get the money together, I still have it there."

"Jinling is good, but it's too close to Huainan! Huainan is in chaos, and it's only a river away from Jinling..."

Shi Jin was well-informed in the army and no longer advised each other. Instead, he remembered a message he had just obtained: "The Baishan Army occupied Xuzhou, and the imperial court was dispatching troops from Shandong to Xuzhou to quell the rebellion!"

The four provinces of Xuzhou meet and the important towns in Huaibei have been a place that must be fought for by military strategists since ancient times.

Xuzhou was lost, but the court could only transfer troops from other provinces, which showed that the entire Jianghuai River was in chaos and there were no available troops.

Huo Wu frowned, not expecting the situation to be corrupt so quickly.

Huo Bao felt that he was expecting it.

The imperial court has heavy taxes and has suffered great disasters for years. If there is no way out, the people will rebel.

For example, the Yellow Turban Army, Red Turban Army, and Taiping Army in the previous life all rebelled in the years of great disasters. After the rebellion, it expanded rapidly. By the time the court responded, it had already occupied half of the territory.

Shi Jin left worriedly.

The people in Nanshan Village were worried and were happy around the things in half of the yard.

"Let's all be divided!" Huo Wu explained, then went to the west chamber with a set of bedding and made the bed for his son.

The two small houses in the west wing, each with their own doors, the Shitou and the Tiger and Leopard brothers, and Huo Bao, the uncle, naturally owned one.

"Dad, come by yourself..."

"It's better for my dad. Xiaobao has grown up in a blink of an eye. I still don't know how many years my dad can take care of you!"

"No matter how old you are, your father's son, what are your father worried about?"

"Dad originally thought that Jiangbei was not peaceful, so we were avoiding in Jinling. Unexpectedly, Jinling looked wrong. There were too many refugees and beggars, and it was easy to cause trouble. The yamen was trying hard to collect money, and the official had other plans. And the city wall, if there was a big deal, this Jinling City was the meat on the chopping board..." Speaking of this, Huo Wu paused and frowned, "It really doesn't work. Dad will take you to Songjiang and go to overseas islands to avoid them for a few years..."

"Dad, if Jinling is corrupt, we won't go out to sea..." Huo Bao whispered: "Let's go find my third uncle!"

"Ah?!" Huo Wu was startled and stood up, "No, no, that's not possible. Dad is just your only seedling. Our family inheritance has fallen on you. You can't become a monk!"

"Shh!" Huo Bao made a ban on sound.

Huo Bao leaned into his father's ear and whispered: "That year, the third uncle came to his house. I saw such a thick green worm lingering his third uncle, and he had two claws. It disappeared in the blink of an eye. I pretended to be narrowing myself and didn't tell my parents... The night before killing the pig, I dreamed of my third uncle again. The worm was still there, with two small bags bulging on my head..."

Huo Wu grabbed his son's shoulder and was stunned.

The dear baby, Huo Wu, even if he beats Huo Wu to death, he can't think his son would lie to him, just think it was true.

When I was peaceful and old, I heard such a dream, even if I was a little confused, I just thought about it.

In times of trouble, this is the point God gave him.

"The dragon is entangled, and the dragon turns into a dragon... I really can't see that Tu Xiaosan has such luck. Our Huo family's ancestral tomb is really smoked..." Huo Wumei smiled: "Okay, okay, let's settle your uncle and others, and we will go and find your third uncle!"

It is easy to add icing on the cake, but it is difficult to provide timely help.

Even if he wants to hold his brother-in-law's thighs and make his son more generous, Huo Wu wants to stand up by himself so that his son can stand up and speak, instead of just relying on others' faces.

Lunch is coming, and there is no food, rice, oil and salt. Now it is too late to prepare, so I have to buy buns and pancakes from outside.

In the afternoon, Huo Wu sent a few nephews to take a few stakes of copper coins and went out to purchase firewood, rice, oil and salt. He took half a box of silver ingots to meet Uncle Huo.

Huo Bao was not idle, so he practiced using maces according to the book "Nine Mace Styles".

He didn't want to live like a broken dog. He was so anxious that he had already lie, but he didn't think about letting his father fight for military merits, so he still did it himself.

Even if the dynasty is not the uncle, he can protect himself with more force and will not live like an ant.

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