He really didn't expect that after a nervous night, he could pass the test so smoothly.

"Thank you for your hard work, how many years have you and the big brother outside been here?"

"How many years?"

Hearing Yu Zhengqing's words, the old yamen runner's thoughts seemed to have drifted away. He tried hard to recall, and couldn't help but frown slightly, and the wrinkles on his forehead became deeper and deeper.

"Brother Zhuang, why are you confused again? You have been forty-one years, and I have been twenty-three years!"

The younger yamen runner walked in with two skewers of super large barbecue and happened to see the old yamen runner looking hard and recalling.

After laughing, he brought one of the barbecue in his hand to the old yamen runner and couldn't help but tease him!

"Yes, yes! It's been forty-one years, and I've been here forty-one years. At that time, we still have more than a hundred people. Now we have a group of people here. Those who come here voluntarily have no relationship with us. Those who have been exiled here will not slip away quietly. After all, ordinary people can't get out of the Jiushan Mountain. Even if they have the ability to go out, their wives, children, and old people can't get out, so they stayed. For this reason, the court slowly withdrew the others. The remaining brothers were all dead one after another, and we were left."

Listening to Old Man Zhuang's words, Yu Zhengqing felt a little impressed from the bottom of his heart!

"You have been here for most of your life, and your life has been dedicated to the court. You are the most amazing people."

Listening to Yu Zhengqing's words, the two looked at each other and laughed again!

"Yes, I have devoted myself to this wild land and to the court for most of my life. This is how our life is. By the way, what's your surname? Have you brought us something this time? We haven't paid our salary for three months, and we have saved up for a year. When you go back, remember to go from the post station and help us send our salary for this year home."

Salary?

Yu Zhengqing was stunned by the question!

He didn't know how much the salary of these two yamen runners per month, so how did he give it to him?

"I just took over this time. I haven't adapted to too many things yet. The above did not remind me, so I forgot about the things I have made about. When I come next time, I will bring them to you. But I brought some white rice noodles and I will give them to my brothers later."

"Okay, we have been eating rice and noodles for two months. We want to buy it in the city. We are really taking risks. We barbecue every day, so we eat it all over the place, so we just cook some white rice porridge, which is also good."

When Old Man Zhuang heard that he had forgotten his salary, he still had white rice and flour, and immediately felt better.

But when Yu Zhengqing heard his words, he felt a little uncomfortable.

To be honest, if he hadn't been exiled here, he wouldn't have known that there were two such persistent people in this wilderness. They had been away from home for decades, and had nowhere to spend money, and they were alone and kept here.

Think about the powerful people in the capital, including wine, ponds, meat, forests, wind, flowers, snow and moon, and these two people who devoted their lives to the court were lonely and hard in this bitter and cold place, but they kept sticking to it.

They are even more miserable here than those who come to exile.

If those exiled criminals have the ability to survive, at least they still have hope. When the emperor suddenly comes to pardon the world, they may not be able to go back, but what about them?

They seemed to have been forgotten, no one remembered their existence, and the court did not replace them with new people...

Who can remember the hardships of the lowest class people, those noble and powerful people?

"You two haven't been home for many years, so you haven't thought about going back. After all, there must be relatives you haven't seen in decades at home, right?"

"I thought, why don't I? I joined the army at the age of sixteen and was still a teenager when I left home. My parents, brothers and sisters were still there, but who knew that time had passed and I had no hope of returning home again after leaving?"

The two of them were lonely for too long when they looked at each other. When Yu Zhengqing opened up the conversation, they seemed to be unable to stop.

Old Man Zhuang said, and his eyes were wet.

The younger yamen runners on the side burst into tears.

"I am forty-three this year. I joined the army at the age of 18. My family has been engaged, but I have been arranged to come here after a while. Except for Liang Chao who came before, I helped us bring some letters and money back, and I have no contact with my family. My fiancée probably has been married to someone else for a long time, and even now she has a lot of children and grandchildren?"

In ancient times, people became married early. Thinking about the people they thought about day and night, the tears of the young yamen runners fell down.

Looking at him like this, Old Man Zhuang slapped him on the shoulder and suddenly became corrected!

"Why are you crying? Look, Liang Chao can be transferred, maybe you are also possible. Didn't you say that before joining the army, your mother told you fortune, will you be rich and prosperous in this life? You also said that you must have a lot of children and grandchildren, only forty-three years old, you have a chance, but I am old, I am at this age. If I die one day, you have to find a place for the old man to face my hometown and bury it for me!"

"Don't, Brother Zhuang, don't die. If you die, if the court doesn't send people down, I will be lonely."

When the young yamen runner heard this, he wiped away the tears from his face and said hurriedly.

Old Man Zhuang laughed and said, "Okay, then let me live for another twenty years, and stay with you for twenty years!"

After the optimistic old man Zhuang laughed, he suddenly looked at Yu Zhengqing, who was infected by the emotions of the two.

"Little brother, I'll make you laugh. We both have nothing to do all day long, and we have nothing to do except homesickness."

Yu Zhengqing came back to his senses and waved his hand with a smile, "It's normal for human nature, understand and understand."

Thinking of the hardships of the two, Yu Zhengqing hurriedly took out the silver bill he had originally planned to save and gave them one directly to each of them.

"By the way, the status of the exiled person in this industry is not simple. The Yu family now has two daughters in the capital, one is the princess and the other is the wife of the Shangshu. They have provided a lot of money. They asked me to give the two of these 200 taels of silver."

"Oh, it turns out that these people are very good. They have a good relationship. Although Yuefeng did not arrive in time, they can live a good life with this hundred taels of silver and the Yuefeng they saved up before.

Old Man Zhuang held the silver notes and couldn't help but checked the silver notes carefully, until he determined the amount on the silver notes, his smile became bigger.

It seems that the sadness just now no longer exists.

"Yes! If it were that boy Liang Chao, I don't know how much we had to hide. We have not encountered such a good thing for many years. It's up to you, brother, that the money they respected will be given to us."
Chapter completed!