In the process of going from Jingnan to Jinyang, I learned why my father couldn't go home for so many years.

"The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles."

This was originally just a sentence from a book, but now it appears to us in a cruel way. My father is essentially a more emotional person than me, and I am afraid that Uncle Chu promised him some kind of "national peace and security" rhetoric, so that my father has been fighting for him all the time.

We took food and money with us, and we encountered numerous malicious attacks along the way. Fortunately, we were all in the township to join our father, and there were a large number of people, except for a few people who were injured, there was not much loss.

Hungry people eat everything, and I have seen many unspeakable pains that war will take away everything from us, money, family, life, and dignity.

I think if I had the ability, I would have found a way to end this troubled world. No matter who wins or loses, there are enough people who have died, to the point that they can't bear it.

We arrived in Jinyang and met my father.

I will never forget what my father looked like when he saw us. It's a kind of big hole in your heart, and then you force yourself to show an expression of indifference.

The mother was very calm from beginning to end, and that calmness was even more moving. Dad has always been afraid that his mother would look expressionless if she didn't speak, but now that her mother didn't even move the corners of her mouth, Dad soon knew that Dao Niang was angry.

We were all properly settled, and my father promised to take us with him wherever he went, and that nothing could separate us unless we died.

But the wounds in our hearts can't be filled after all.

Dad had a lot of friends, and there was a very handsome uncle who called himself a "military advisor" who often came to our house to play. Uncle Chu also often brought Chu Rui over. Chu Rui is Uncle Chu's eldest son, one year older than me, with a very cold personality and not very talkative. But Uncle Chu liked him very much and took him with him wherever he went.

When I got to my father's place, I still didn't put down my homework, and now I'm already watching "university" on my own. My father's uncle, Zhang Yun, saw my annotations in the book and asked me with a twinkle in his eyes, "Who wrote these annotations?" ”

"I wrote it. I don't have a husband, and sometimes when I see a doubt, I write it down and look for the answer. These are the answers I found. ”

Uncle Strategist's eyes lit up even more terrifyingly.

"My name is Zhang Yun, I am the patriarch of the Zhang clan in Jinyang, I want to take you as an apprentice, are you willing?"

I've been looking for a gentleman for a long time, and although I have never forgotten these books, some of the truths are too profound, and I don't know if I'm right or not.

Dad is too busy now, he has to train new recruits, and he has to lead soldiers into battle, so he doesn't have time to talk to me in detail.

But this uncle seems to be a very powerful man, and I have to ask my parents whether I can learn from him or not.

"I have to consult my father and mother on this matter."

"I'll say it myself. Just get ready to kowtow to me. Uncle Da Lu smiled and left.

The next day, I was led by my father to kowtow.

I heard that formal apprenticeship is a very serious matter, and even the emperor Zhu Jiu clan, one of which is a master clan. The role and status of the Master can be seen from this.

I kowtowed to Master and his wife, presented them with restraints, and listened to the teachings of Master and his wife, even if I officially entered his discipleship.

My father continued to lead his soldiers, I studied with my husband, and my mother took care of our daily life, and sometimes helped to heal the wounded and sick, sew and mend or something.

In fact, as the wife of General Niang, she didn't have to do this, but her mother just couldn't be idle. It's really lonely in the barracks, except for my mother, there are no female dependents, and my father's relatives will only bow their heads and withdraw five meters away when they see my mother, and my mother will suffocate to death if she doesn't find something to do by herself.

After the entire Jinju was taken, we finally didn't have to live in the barracks, Uncle Chu gave our family a big house, and next door was my husband's house, which made it even more convenient for me to go to class.

We lived in this house for a long time, until my second and youngest brothers were born, and we also lived in Master's niece's family.

The first time I met her was in the courtyard of Master's house.

When my father went on the expedition, he brought back many unique books from the previous dynasty, and he himself was very fond of reading, and his love for books was even greater than gold, silver and jewelry. I chose a few of them and prepared them to give to Master.

I went around the front, but I didn't find Master, so I went straight to the backyard. It's not in front, it's definitely in the master's place.

Then I saw her.

This girl squatting on the ground and picking out the autumn leaves is the most beautiful girl I have seen in so many years. Of course, I don't go out much on weekdays, and I've always lived in the barracks before, and I haven't seen many girls.

Her name is Zhang Shaoguang. Shake the light, and break the army star. Who would give their daughter such a murderous name? Later, I learned that her "shaking light" has nothing to do with the stars in the sky, and takes the meaning of "light flashing".

Although she suffered the destruction of her family in the troubled times, she did not have the slightest sense of panic, and her eyes were resolute, much like my mother. Perhaps it was that perseverance and intelligence that attracted me to her and made me enjoy talking to her so much.

We have all experienced wars, and we have all faced the terrible scenes of the loss of our loved ones, and we all began to awaken after our loved ones left, and for a while, I thought I had found another self in the world.

She had extraordinary ambitions, and I knew that from the beginning. But I don't think her ambitions conflict with mine.

One day, I will grow huge wings and soar above the nine heavens. And every feather of her is shining, and like her name, it is not destined to be silent forever.

I also have extraordinary ambitions. Those Hu people who were ravaged in the year of famine and treated us like pigs and dogs, one day, I will drive them all back to Moxi.

My father wants to wait for the world to be peaceful and return to the field, and I want to wait for the world to be peaceful and enter the new court and regain the vitality of the Central Plains.

Those ten rooms and nine emptiness, those that change children and eat, I want to let them end in my lifetime.

Chu Rui suddenly began to appear frequently in Mr. Mansion. Although he was his uncle, he did not come to his house very often. Although Chu Rui is the eldest son and is also very popular with Uncle Chu, after all, he still has two younger brothers, and it is not good to openly win over his father's henchmen and cronies.

I sensitively smelled something wrong, especially when I met Chu Rui and Zhang Shaoguang talking. The smiling expression on Chu Rui's face made me know what he was going to do.

It's a momentum that is bound to win.

I've been thinking a lot since I was a child, and I'm not easily controlled by emotions. If it were any other man, he would probably have been carried away by jealousy, questioned or left heartbroken, but I stood behind the tree and calmly watched their conversation.

They were talking about the war in Tongzhou. Zhang Shaoguang originally lived in Tongzhou. Chu Rui put forward some strategies he wanted to carry out on Tongzhou, and kept supplementing them, telling him that the terroir and human feelings of Tongzhou determined what could be done and what could not be done.

The sparkle in her eyes was the same ambition I had seen more than once.

Chu Rui is not a person who will fall in love with others at first sight, let alone do such a thing as "snatching love with a knife" when he knows that he and Shaoguang are very close. He is a man who plans and then acts, and never does anything that he is not sure of.

So, why would Chu Rui do this? He was giving Zhang a hint that her ambitions could be easily realized. This is not a temptation for him to call the shots.

So, is Uncle Chu?

Yes, my father has great prestige in the army, and Mr. was the patriarch of the Zhang clan in Jinyang, and his family has also married countless big families, and they have mastered the logistics, military strategy and other key points in Uncle Chu's army.

It's that he is too naïve, even if his father and Uncle Chu have a good personal relationship, Uncle Chu can't rest assured that he will not be able to see a military commander with a heavy army and the head of the civil minister smoothly married. If Uncle Chu is suspicious, the terrible consequences may make everything that everyone is working now disappear.

In order not to irritate anyone, Chu Rui could only do this.

Many thoughts were just for a moment, and when I figured it out, Shao Guang and Chu Rui were even there discussing whether to take the waterway or bypass the back of Python Mountain.

I silently turned and left.

It's a knot that can't be unsolved, and I can't find a way to do both.

In the second month, the news came that Zhang Shaoguang and Chu Rui were married.