In late winter and early spring, the sun pours on the snow on the roof of the house on a slightly warm and lazy afternoon, warming up the winter chill a little. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The molten snow dripped down the eaves tiles and smashed on the stone steps of the doorway, splashing tiny droplets of water, accompanied by a crisp sound of "tick, tick".

In the rare good weather, Han Yuan and her eldest daughter-in-law Ye Jiang took out the bedding at home and dried it on the bamboo pole erected in the courtyard with her eldest daughter-in-law, Ye Jiang, and packed up some clothes.

The sun was warm but not cold, and the warm water was poured into the barrel as soon as it was poured into the barrel.

"Mother, when the third brother comes back this time, his relationship with the eldest sister of Linxian County should also be settled early!" Ye Jiang asked casually while washing his clothes.

"Hmm." Han Yuan responded. I don't know what's wrong, since a few days ago, she has been restless and her chest is tight, and she feels as if something bad is going to happen. A deep furrow furrowed from his brows, he let out a long sigh, and then took Ye Jiang's words and said, "When I go back, I'll ask your father, it's time to settle down." ”

Ye Jiang thought for a while, "Then the eldest sister is also sixteen this year, right?" ”

"Half a year younger than Yan'er, if I'm not mistaken, it will be sixteen after the vernal equinox." Han Yuan straightened her waist and thrashed, worried about her two sons who were far away in Yiyang City, and she didn't know how the battle was going, how were they now? Her heart has been uneasy, it can't be that something is wrong, right? Thinking of this, Han Yuan hurriedly spat twice, "Phew, bah-" Such an unlucky thing, what is she thinking about!

Ye Jiang lowered his head and only cared about the laundry, but he didn't notice Han Yuan's movements, and said with emotion: "It's not small, the family should be in a hurry." After finishing speaking, he also sighed, and secretly glanced at the main room with the door closed as if he remembered something, lowered his voice and continued: "Thinking that my brother-in-law has been going to give birth for a few years, should the second brother also ask for another daughter-in-law, what does Dad think......?"

Han Yuan shook her head, looking a little absent-minded, "I think so...... Your father has his own plans. He won't let me meddle in these things, and I can't do it. ”

Ye Jiang was stunned, nodded, and said, "Yes." She didn't continue to speak, turned around and threw the washed robe in her hand into the wooden bucket on the side of her left hand, poured some grass ash from the clay pot into the water, rolled up her sleeves and stirred vigorously in the water, until the laundry water was accompanied by a small whirlpool of plant and wood ashes, she took another deep coat to be washed and threw it into the water, just about to knead it, Yu Guang caught a glimpse of Han Yuan from the wooden bucket containing the washed clothes and took the robe she had just put in and was about to throw it into the dirty water, and hurriedly exclaimed: "Mother, mother!" Washed, that one has been washed! ”

"Ah......" Hearing Ye Jiang's shout, Han Yuan came back to her senses, looked at the clothes in her hand in hindsight, was stunned for a while, sighed and put it back in the barrel, "It's old, confused!" ”

"Where are you old?" Ye Jiang shook his head and sighed, "You have been restless for the past few days, are you worried about the second and third brothers?" She doesn't have to think about it to know that she is also a mother, and the life and death of the child are unknown on the battlefield, how can a mother not hold a heart, and hurriedly comforted: "Isn't there no news from Yiyang yet?" As he spoke, he looked up at the clear sky, and his thoughts seemed to go back to a few years ago. That year, she was pregnant with her husband and her daughter was born before she was full-term, and the bad news of her husband's death in battle came from the shore gate, leaving them orphans and widows. Her heart hurts like this, not to mention that the white-haired person sends the black-haired man's mother, such a blow is enough to break the liver and intestines. Hesitantly, he put his hand on Han Yuan's arm and shook it tightly, then thought about it and said firmly: "Mother, no news at this time is the best news, don't worry, the second and third brothers will be safe." ”

Han Yuan lowered her head, tears slowly overflowed her eyes, looking at the ashes of the grass and trees gradually sinking in the water, she was stunned, and muttered: "It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's going to be safe and sound, ......" seemed to respond to Ye Jiang and seemed to comfort herself.

Ye Jiang didn't speak again, just sighed softly, at this time, any words of comfort would be pale and weak, it was better not to say anything. It was cold, the warm water would soon cool down, and the steaming heat would gradually dissipate, so the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law sat quietly for a while, "The water is cold, I'll go add some hot water." Han Yuan took a deep breath, turned around to avoid Ye Jiang, and was about to get up with the empty wooden barrel on the side.

"Mother, I'll go!" Ye Jiang was about to snatch the barrel, but Han Yuan stretched out his hand to block it, and then he understood and stopped fighting. The old man of the Ye family has a bad temper and is stubborn, and Han Yuan, who has no assertiveness and is submissive, has endured grievances by his side for many years, at least to leave a trace of dignity in front of his daughter-in-law. Ye Jiang shook her head helplessly, the world is like this, how much better can she be without a husband and children? With a sad expression, she watched Han Yuan walk to the main house, holding a wooden bucket in one hand, and the back of her tears with her sleeve with the other hand, sympathizing with her mother-in-law who was suffering was also sympathizing with herself.

Seeing his mother-in-law enter the main house, Ye Jiang sighed for a while, and continued to lower his head to wash clothes. The courtyard door was ajar, and there was a very heavy footstep at the door, which sounded like about three or four, and she looked up at the sound, and saw a man dressed as two horses standing at the door, and then two soldiers in leather armor stood behind him, holding two heavy-looking wooden boxes in both hands.

Looking at the scene in front of her, Ye Jiang's heart sank, she was too familiar with such a scene, so familiar that she felt a piercing pain just thinking about it.

The three people stood at the door with their waists straight and neat, and before they entered the door, the two Sima took the lead in asking, and their voices were rough and loud: "But the surname is the Ye family?" ”

Ye Jiang got up slowly, wiped his hands on the curly fur with his eyes blankly, his tongue froze, and he stammered and asked, "Lord Liangsama, you, what's the matter with you?" ”

The two Sima sorted out their leather armor, stood upright, and said in a solemn voice: "Apprentice Ye Ju, crossbow soldier Ye Ao, mourning-!" The king has an order to bury the meritorious ones and give them to their parents. ”

It happened that Han Yuan came out of the main house with half a bucket of hot water at this time, and when she heard the words of the two Simas, she stood on the stone steps stupidly for a long time and didn't come back to her senses, almost fainting, half a bucket of hot water in her hand smashed on the ground, and the hot water was sprinkled on the curly skirt, and she was unconscious. When he came back to his senses, he sat down on the cold ground and began to howl and cry, "My son! My poor son...... Why don't you leave your mother, let your mother live! ”

Ye Jiang stood there motionless and panicked, and only Han Yuan's hoarse cries remained in the small courtyard.

Such a big movement, Ye Shen in the main room also heard it clearly, Yiyang City fell, and his sons could never come back, thinking of this, he only felt that there was a blackness in front of him, and he almost fell to the ground under the rush of fire, but after all, he was in charge, and he had to come out to clean up the situation. endured the heartache, hurriedly went out, walked past Han Yuan and didn't have time to pay attention to her, walked to the door with vague steps, trembled and took the relics of the two sons from the hands of the soldiers, held them in his hands, and held them in his hands with old tears, and did not forget to thank the two Sima and the soldiers who came, and sent them away with a few thoughtful gifts.

A few years ago, in the Battle of Anmen, and now in the Battle of Yiyang, the battle between Qin Yan took the lives of the three sons of the Ye family, and now only the youngest son Ye Yan remains, Ye Shen secretly gritted his teeth, thinking in his heart that even if he tried his best to protect the only bit of blood of the Ye family.

The blow was too huge, and before they survived Ye Ju and Ye Ao's funerals, Han Yuan and Ye Shen fell ill one after another. In desperation, many matters of the funeral had to be borne by Ye Jiang and Ye Yan, and the matter of taking care of the housework and taking care of the two elderly people naturally fell to Ye Yan's child daughter-in-law Zheng Ji. However, Zheng Ji has been smart and clever since she was a child, and she has been carefully taken care of by Ye Shen and Han Yuan when they were sick in bed, and she is even more satisfied with this little daughter-in-law.

Half a month later, Ye Shen reluctantly left the bed, although he had passed the age of the sixtieth year, his eyebrows and eyes were still clear and handsome, and he did not see the slightest old age, and now his beard and hair were all white, and the whole person had lost his spirit and completely became a shriveled and vicissitudes of life. After a few days of being sick in bed, he was sad and had to seek a way back. For example, the general trend today is the strife of the princes, the war is continuous, and it is not very stable to go anywhere, I am afraid that only that place can protect their family.

Ye Shen thought about it, remembering that when he was young, he traveled around the world with his friends, and stumbled upon a secret place in the deep mountains in the territory of Qi Kingdom, which was extremely difficult to find. It is quiet and rich, far from the world, but it is a good place to escape the current war. At that time, he was young and from a family, and it was when a few people were in high spirits, only looking forward to making meritorious achievements and achieving fame, and no one thought of escaping the world and living in seclusion, so that secret realm was only regarded by them as an accidental beauty, and they left one after another, and it is estimated that no one has remembered it over the years, but Ye Shen left more thought at that time, and secretly made a mark and drew a map according to his memory, although many years have passed, he still carefully collects the map, and now, he is indeed thinking about moving his family.

Ye Shen knew in his heart that he could not avoid it for a while, no matter whether he could still find that paradise-like place in the territory of Qi after more than 20 years, just in terms of the current national strength of Qi State, he could at least bless their family to live.

Ye Shen did not exclude his daughter-in-law, called his family into the main house, and said his thoughts, but he did not expect to be strongly opposed by his youngest son Ye Yan.

Ye Yan was just over sixteen years old, he was still a young and vigorous teenager, his eyebrows and eyes were excellent, he looked gentle and handsome, but his temperament was the most like Ye Shen, stubborn and stubborn. "Dad, I don't agree. Yeyi is where our ancestors have lived for generations, how can we turn our backs on our ancestors because we are greedy for life and afraid of death, and we don't know if you can find the place you said, so you can't just travel so long distances to adventure. ”

Ye Shen was used to being arbitrary, he just informed them, and did not want to listen to their opinions, and at this moment, seeing Ye Yan opposing him, he was so angry that he blew his beard and glared. "That's what I decided, do you want to disobey my father?!" glanced at the furnishings in the house, although his face was angry, but Ye Shen's eyes were full of helplessness, the Ye family's old mansion was their root, he had guarded it all his life, if it wasn't forced by the situation, where would he be willing to leave?

Being glared at by Ye Shen like this, Ye Yan didn't have the momentum of Fang Cai, he lowered his head in a daze, and said, "My son doesn't dare." ”

"Don't dare to be the best." Ye Shen restrained the reluctance in his eyes, knocked the stick used as a cane twice on the ground, and said resolutely: "Go back and pack up, we will leave in three days." ”

Han Yuan just sat on the side and listened to the father and son silently, although she was reluctant to live in the place where she had lived for most of her life, and she was reluctant to leave her three dead sons, but her husband's order had to be obeyed. Seeing that her mother-in-law didn't speak, Ye Jiang and Zheng Ji glanced at each other and didn't dare to say a word.

Three days later, at night, the Ye family secretly left Ye Yi, took all the valuable things, and entered the territory of Qi through the Chu State, and only arrived at the unknown lonely mountain that Ye Shen said after more than half a year.

At that time, it was autumn, the blue clouds, the faint mist, and the red maple leaves all over the mountains were so beautiful that they were smacking. The climate in the mountains is refreshing, the fruits are abundant, the hares and pheasants, the flowing water and swimming fish, it is indeed a fairyland with rich products and beautiful scenery.

The Ye family is satisfied with this place, and it is really their great luck to find such a victory in the troubled times. The family worked together tacitly, built a wooden house, set up an iron pot, and packed up the clothes and bedding that they brought up the mountain, even if they settled down in this deep mountain.