"Cough", "Cough", Li Xin coughed twice and said embarrassedly: "Do you know all these? It seems that good things don't go out, bad things will spread thousands of miles."

Li Mou continued to ask with a smile: "What happened? Is it that the fourth brother is so disobedient?"

"Uh" Li Xin saw that Li Mou was very curious and seemed to be unsuccessful if he didn't say it clearly, so he hesitated and explained: "That's right, in the ninth year of Chongzhen, my second brother and I accompanied my cousin to take the martial arts exam."

"Zhuting?" Before Li Xin finished speaking, Li Mou interrupted and asked, "Is it Chen Gou's cousin Chen Zuting?"

"Yes, it's the Chen family cousin."

Li Mou agreed and said: "My cousin of the Chen family is very good at kung fu, and boxing and archery are not inferior to you. It should be no problem to take a martial arts."

Li Xin sighed, "Oh! We think so too. However, when my cousin Zuating was riding and shooting, there was a problem. He shot out Feng Huan Nest (the arrow shot at the same position as the arrow before), and the target report reported him to an off-target. Zuting's cousin was not convinced, so he went to argue. But the target report was very rude. Zuting's cousin didn't suppress his anger and kicked the man. Unexpectedly, the target report report was too weak and he died."

"Hahaha," Li Mou laughed wildly and said, "My cousin Zuating must be angry and forgot to stop the force. He can even kick the stone tablet off, let alone a human being?"

Li Xin did not care about Li Mou's gloating and continued, "When we saw a life, the two of us jointly reported were involved, so we and my second brother and he fought a martial arts performance venue. We didn't dare to go back, so we hid in my father's place (Li Xin was adopted by Li Chunyu, Li Chunyu, whose courtesy name was Jingbai and his pseudonym Jingbai). My second brother taught boxing at my aunt's house, and I worked as an accountant in this grain store. Later, my second brother and I were also extinguished and were chased by the yamen. If it weren't for the chaos everywhere, I would have been in the county jail."

Li Mou smiled and said, "I haven't returned to Huaiqing's house, but I just came here for Uncle Chunyu's food service. However, you definitely did not give filial piety to the examiners and officials, so you deliberately made things difficult for the cousin of the court."

"Xu Ting's kung fu is so good, it's really good to put it there. I didn't expect it, alas." Li Xin regretted it now. If he had known it would be the result, they wouldn't have saved dozens of taels of money no matter what.

Li Mou took a sip of tea and said disdainfully: "Isn't it just the fame of a tribute student? Isn't the second brother just a teacher? What's the matter? You have lost your original intention, the fourth brother who is worthy of being."

"It seems that you have experienced it in the past few years," Li Xin said with emotion: "Our family is also a family of scholars. After my uncle passed the Jinshi, the family's hope for our younger generations will be greater. In the end, the glory of the clan and the ancestors still have to rely on the imperial examination. Unfortunately, alas! Let's not talk about it, now my second brother and I have no hope."

Li Mou advised: "Fourth brother, be more aware of the Ming Dynasty. The country of Ming Dynasty is over. When the new dynasty is in power, you will take the exam again."

"I also figured it out. Isn't it just a fame?" Li Xin said frankly: "Now the world is in chaos, and it's time to get fame and fortune immediately. Our martial arts have a place to use. It's just that when we come back, we have a serious illness and dream about some irrelevant dreams. I told them, but no one believed it, so I said I was crazy."

Li Mou asked curiously: "What kind of dream is it? Have you encountered a fairy and wild fox? Have you given you anything? Is it gold or something else?"

"I have read too many strange novels!" Li Xin said angrily.

"What is that?" Li Mou continued to ask persistently.

Li Xin fell into memories and said, "I don't know, it's bizarre. There is an iron bird that can carry many people to fly in the nine heavens. There are four-wheeled iron carts that do not use horses and mules, but can speed continuously. There are also moving and sound paintings that appear in detail, just as if they really happen in front of you. Incredible, incredible."

"What kind of ghost dream is this?" Li Mou said in disbelief: "This is stranger than the fact that I met a god and gave gold to him at night!"

"So they said I was crazy." Li Xin smiled helplessly and said, "I also think this dream is incredible, but I really dreamed that even after more than a year, I can still remember every detail clearly."

Li Mou thought for a long time but couldn't understand how there could be an iron bird flying in the sky with people, and how could there be an iron cart that could speed without dragging mules and horses. He had to give up and said, "Fourth brother, don't think about these things. If you say these things, anyone will think you are crazy."

"Aren't you asking all the time?" Li Xin said casually: "So what should you do after the New Year? Wait for the recruitment?"

Li Mou said disdainfully: "Recruitment? I'm just a fool! I'll be able to survive if I return to my hometown. Don't look at the eight kings of Xiying Zhang Xianzhong and Cao Cao who have been recruited, they will rebel again in a short time. Now the court cannot even pay the food and salary of border soldiers, let alone the surrendered soldiers. After the Chinese New Year, I will find out where the invasion will be, and then go over to meet him."

"How many people can he have left?" Li Xin said disdainfully: "If it weren't for the help of Donglu, the entire army would have been wiped out. I heard that Lao Huihui is also in contact with the court now."

Li Mou frowned and thought for a while, then slapped his thigh and said, "If there is no news in the general, we will do it ourselves! I have seen it clearly. In this world, good people have no way to survive! If you don't want to be starved to death, you have to get up and earn it yourself! Go and grab it! In recent years, drought, locusts, hail, and natural disasters have been constant, and the East Captains are rampant, this is the heavens will perish the Ming Dynasty!"

Li Xin glanced at Li Mou, who was a little excited, and said, "Where are you staying? After I have purchased the food, wine and meat, will I send it to you or will you pick it up?"

Li Mou hesitated for a moment and said, "We are in a fort outside the west of the city. The fields there are deserted and all the people are running away."

"Yeah, I understand." Li Xin thought for a while and ordered: "The food is the most precious now, and it is not peaceful outside the city. When you wait thirty morning, you will wait outside the Xicheng Gate."

"Okay," Li Mou stood up and bowed, "Brother, thank you for your fourth brother first."

"Brother, why be so polite?"

Li Mou said tentatively: "Call the second brother to come together. Anyway, your fame will be gone. Why don't we brothers join forces?"

Li Xin hesitated for a moment before saying, "Let me discuss it with my second brother. Besides, I have to look at your quality first. Just relying on the hungry people to make up the number of people, I will still be defeated by the government army again and again."

"Okay, we will see you thirty years old." Li Mou bowed again and said, "Brother, let's go first."

"Be careful, don't be locked up by the yamen." Li Xin said jokingly.
Chapter completed!