My Taoist buddy has practiced surrogacy

Chapter 211 Extravagant Hope
When his great-grandfather came here, many tribes here had no marriages, let alone families.The whole tribe lived together, and men and women would have sex as long as they saw each other.After the child is born, he only knows that he has a mother but not a father.Can't weave, can't make clothes.His great-great-grandfather took the trouble to send a little bit of teaching to these tribes, so that they had the law of marriage and funeral, had a family, and had a name.

It was from then on that their Cuan family became the most respected family by these bureaucrats in the local area, and their prestige was unparalleled.It was also from then on that no matter who came here to be an official in later generations, he had to rely heavily on people from the Cuan family.

In Jianning County, the words of Cuan's family were much more effective than those of the prefect.

Since childhood, Cuan Chen has learned and lived according to the family ancestral precepts: loyalty, filial piety, faith, righteousness, kindness, fraternity, and people-oriented.So when Li Yi, Lieutenant of Nanyi, decided to send troops to Yizhou to help Yizhou governor Luo Shang put down the rebellion of refugees, Cuan Chen joined the team without hesitation.

Since he was a child, he wanted to visit Yizhou, and even Shangluo, to see the place where his ancestors lived, and to see how prosperous and noble the kingdoms of the heavens described in the book were.

However, what happened after the CD made him deeply disappointed.

Be honest and be regarded as a big fool.

Talk about principles, and be scolded as heartless.

Even after he was defeated by the Japanese army that day, what happened in the past few days was even more chilling.

In the past few days, people like them didn't dare to take the official road at all, and walked wherever it was remote.Because there are officials everywhere on the official road blocking the road to arrest deserters like them.

The sixth child was caught once, but escaped at night.According to him, those who were captured were not sent back to the CD barracks at all.Many people were given to those rich families, some were given to them to build Wubao, and some were taken to Tieshan to mine ore and make iron.

After hearing this, Cuan Chen felt even more shuddering.

What happened to the people of Shu land?
What happened to those big households?
The crusade against the refugees is not going, but it is very positive to start this matter.

But the more so, the more he was unwilling to give up his persistence.

Even in the darkness, I will walk alone with the fire.

He woke Xin Wan up, and helped the terrified Xin Wan towards her maroon horse.Suddenly, he stopped, turned around, and said sincerely to brother Shen, the sixth son and the others: "Differences are different, we don't conspire with each other. Let's say goodbye today. My name is Cuan Chen, if someday you come to Jianning , you can come to Wei County to find me."

Cao Jian, a householder in Bodao County, has been suffering but also happy these few days.

What is painful is that Luo Shang, the governor of Yizhou, recruited people from all counties to CD.According to Luo Shang's latest order, all counties and counties along the Pishui River must build long defensive fences to prevent the refugees from having any gaps to cross the river.The prefecture overwhelmed the county with tasks, and the county overwhelmed the tasks with the counties.Every subordinate in every county has been very busy these days.Some were in charge of gathering people to cut down trees, some were in charge of collecting taxes from various households, and some even went directly to some households to arrest people to serve in the army. All of a sudden, there were complaints from all over the place.

Cao Jian has always been liked by Zhang Meng, the county magistrate.In Zhang Meng's eyes, Cao Jian is the most sensible and winsome subordinate.Whenever there are many things that he wants to do but can't say, Cao Jian will be the first to stand up and say to help him.Even every day, Cao Jian would take the trouble to report to Zhang Meng what so many of his subordinates did and said in private.This often made Zhang Meng sigh with emotion that he had been an official in three places, and he had never had a subordinate who was so loyal to him like Cao Jian.

Cao Jian's home is on the other side of Sanjiangkou.Bodao County is located at the Sanchakou where the three rivers converge, like a huge "human" character.The county seat of Bodao is just below the character "人", and Cao Jian's house is on the right of the character "人", so you have to cross the Jinsha River.Zhou Xing's Bodao Hou Kingdom started from Bodao County and went all the way south along the Jinsha River, which was his fiefdom.

Cao Jian's family is also a big family in Bodao County, and in terms of strength, it is only inferior to Gongsun's family.Both his family and Gongsun's family are on the right side of the word "人", which has the most cultivated land and the most spiritual fields in Bodao County.But Cao Jian originally had no status in the Cao family.Although he has spiritual veins, he is a concubine, a concubine of Xiaozong.Having suffered all kinds of cold eyes and bullying since he was a child, he has developed the ability to observe facial expressions.In the eyes of the patriarch of the Cao family, Cao Jian is the most hard-working person among the family's children, and the one who considers the family's interests the most.Therefore, he tried his best to send Cao Jian to attend a one-year course at Qiao's house in Shu County.After returning, when the then head of Bodao County recruited subordinates from their family, he strongly recommended Cao Jian, a concubine.And Cao Jian did not live up to the expectations of their patriarch, and the two county magistrates praised Cao Jian very much.

Over the years, Cao Jian's status in the family has been getting higher and higher, and his life has become more and more comfortable.He married a beautiful lady, and one of his three children was a monk with three spiritual veins.For him, a monk with only one spiritual vein, and even for the Cao family, the talent of three spiritual veins is rare in their family's history.

He secretly vowed that he would do his best to train his talented son to be the highest-ranking monk in the history of the Cao family.Fifth grade?Or fourth grade?What an honor that would be!
But how difficult it is to train a monk!

The ancestors of the Cao family were not as rich as the ancestors of Li Xiang, nor as rich as the ancestors of the Gongsun family, and they were not even as rich as the ancestors of the Jian Lan family.Looking back at their family, the highest-grade monk they have produced is only a seventh-rank monk.According to their family's genealogy, their family was the first batch of village households who migrated from Jingzhou when Emperor Shang Wudi opened the Wuchi Road, one of the most common households.I don't know the name of the practice formula passed down in the family, and no one in his family understands the theory. It's just that they have some experience in the past, groping bit by bit, and accumulating bit by bit.Today, their Cao family actually has five monks. Although the rank is not high, it is a family with five monks.Several of the big families here in Bodao are like the Cao family. They are all the descendants of the villagers who migrated from Jingzhou with the Cao family to guard the Wuchi Road for the big merchants.

It was a barren place back then.The local Bo people are very afraid of the prosperous merchants, and let them slowly occupy the best arable land and spiritual fields.His family is so rich, so is Huang Yuan's family over there.Whenever they talk about this period of history, they will be thankful that their ancestors traveled thousands of miles to Bodao, the most frontier place of the empire, to open up the country for the empire, and they have since then owned a piece of spiritual land that will benefit future generations.And as they were civilians back then, it was impossible for them to own Lingtian in their hometown.

However, with the increasing population and more and more children with spiritual veins, the spiritual grains produced in the family are obviously not enough for so many people to use.Instead, this inspired Cao Jian to work harder.

He himself is just a ninth-rank monk, and he probably will be like this in his life.But he is absolutely not reconciled that his son who has three spiritual veins only spends his whole life at the level of ninth and eighth rank.

In Dajin, if one wants to be the magistrate or county magistrate of the ruling party, at least a sixth-rank monk is required, which is the hard standard of Dajin.If you want to become a sheriff, you must be at least a fifth-rank monk.To become the governor of a state, one must be at least a fourth-rank monk.

The goal Cao Jian set for himself was to train his son to be at least a sixth-rank monk.If the son can really fulfill his wish and become a majestic county magistrate in the future, then he will be the No.1 county magistrate and the first official of their Cao family ancestors!

What an honor that is!
And if he wants to raise his son into a talent, it is not enough to rely on the little spiritual grain allocated to him by his family and his little salary.

Ever since, he was very happy when he took over the errand of checking people who came and went after crossing the river.

It's easy to say anything, but it's hard to say anything.

As long as you give this Master Cao money, then you are a deserter or not a deserter.

But if you don't pay, I'm sorry, you are a business traveler who has been here many times, and you will be arrested as a deserter.

On this day, he was still half-lying leisurely in the pavilion by the river.Suddenly, one of his soldiers ran over panting and said anxiously: "My lord is not well, there is a fight by the river."

When Cao Jian heard this, he stood up with a bang, and shouted sharply: "Which person dared to beat the official because he had the guts of a bear? Did he rebel?"

"A man and a woman." The soldier replied: "The man is dressed in tatters, and he still holds a long sword and bow in his hand. He looks like a deserter. The woman looks like a rich lady. .”

Hearing that there were only two people, Cao Jian immediately felt relieved, picked up his long sword, and said: "Go, take me to see. I want to see what these two people look like? A deserter Dare to be an official? Do you really think that your neck is harder than a steel knife?"

The man and woman making trouble by the river were naturally Cuan Chen and Xin Wan.

When Cuan Chen came, he took the road on the side of Yuefeng County, but when he returned, he had to take the five-foot road on the side of Bo Road.Xin Wan has gone through the accidents on the road, and she has long lost the enthusiasm and drive to ignore when she just ran away from home.After being rescued from Brother Shen by Cuan Chen, she matured all of a sudden.She began to think about many issues that she would never have considered before.

Changes and tribulations are what can best promote a person's growth.

Go to Jordan?
Qiao Deng's family has already married a wife, so what is my status to stay there, and I am willing to be someone's concubine?The point is, even if you are willing, will others be willing?Is your wife willing?I'm afraid they will send someone to send me back to the Xin family.

That being the case, should he tell Jordan about the shady things his father did in secret?

Once these things are exposed, not to mention his father, the entire Xin family may collapse.Then what will happen to me as a weak woman?At that time, don't talk about being someone else's wife. I'm afraid that if you want to be someone else's concubine, they will still dislike your identity.

She shuddered when she thought of the scene where Brother Shen, Lao Liu and others captured her.Without Cuan Chen, she knew what would happen to her.

Life is not only about distance and poetry, but more importantly, it is about the present and the struggle.

If you can't grasp the present, how can you talk about grasping the future.

Those who can talk about distant places and poetry at every turn are those who live a carefree life.

Confused and helpless, when Cuan Chen said that she was going to pass through Bodao, she remembered that she knew Wang Tianyun and Zhou Xing on the other side of Bodao.She didn't dare to think about what she would do when she went to Bodao and met Wang Tianyun and Zhou Xing, she just didn't want to wander alone anymore.Even if Wang Tianyun sends her back to Xin's house, she thinks she will recognize her.

The reality is so cold, and the home is so sheltered from wind and rain.Even if the things her father and her brother did were inauthentic, she no longer wants to think about those things.

In just a few short days, this little girl who used to live a carefree life and loved reading and fantasizing most on weekdays grew up.She suddenly realized that she used to be a little girl who didn't understand anything and was willful.

For Cuan Chen, a young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes although not particularly tall, she didn't know how she felt.She was very dependent on him along the way, but she didn't have the feeling of jumping like a deer when facing Jordan.Along the way, she listened to him talk about the customs of Ningzhou, the mountains and rivers there, the people there, the endless Dian Lake, and the snow-capped mountains.

There are snow mountains in the south of Yizhou?Isn't it supposed to be hot in the south?

Xin Wan was very curious, but she knew it must be beautiful there.

Along the way, she knew the status of Cuan's family in Ningzhou.This surprised her, and made her look at Cuan Chen in front of her in tattered clothes.

Cuan Chen is the eldest grandson of the Cuan family.A person of such status, who joined the army without hesitation and came to Yizhou to help Yizhou suppress the rebellious refugees, unexpectedly ended up like this.

At the same time, she thought of her father and brother.She wondered if Cuan Chen would hate her too if he found out about it.The 5000 people from Ningzhou also completely collapsed that night, fleeing and dying.Whenever Cuan Chen mentioned this matter, he would feel heartbroken and even cursed.Scold Luo Shang, scold him for blindly directing the five thousand righteous men in Ningzhou to perish before they can perform their duties in the future.

According to Cuan Chen, after he returned to Ningzhou, he would not join the army and come to Yizhou if he was killed in the future. There would be no good people in CD, they were all a bunch of scammers.

Because of this, originally Xin Wan thought about following Cuan Chen, but after hearing this, she also dispelled her own thought.

Let Wang Tianyun send someone to take her home, and go to Jingzhou with her family. I'm afraid that's what's going to happen to me.It's ridiculous that I used to have a higher heart than the sky, but it turns out that my life is thinner than paper.If I can marry a good husband in the future, and live a peaceful life with my husband and children, I'm afraid it is already a luxury.

(End of this chapter)