Guoan took his grandson down the ancient city wall and returned to He Yuan, where he happened to meet Dehai in the courtyard and said, "Father, where have you all been?" ”

Yuchen rushed forward and said, "Grandpa took me to wait for the ancient city wall to see the sunrise." ”

"Is the sunrise pretty?" Dehai said with a smile on his face.

"Beautiful."

"Dehai, did you call Decheng and them?" Guoan stood aside and looked at Dehai with a cane, and said.

"Hello, we'll meet at the station intersection."

"Okay, let's hurry up and eat, don't let Decheng and them wait too long."

After the meal, Guoan, Dehai, Xiugu and others walked out of the gate of He Yuan, and several people got on a bus and met Decheng at the intersection of the station. Xiao Cui stepped forward and said, "We have already bought the ticket, let's hurry up and enter the station, the passenger bus is coming soon." ”

"Sister-in-law, you see you've broken the bank again."

"The family doesn't talk to the two families, it's polite."

Xiu Gu looked at them, there were only two people, Xiaocui and Decheng, so she said, "Why don't you bring Xiaolan with you?" ”

"Xiaolanzi is going to start school tomorrow, so I didn't bring her. Let's make a pit stop. ”

Subsequently, Guoan, Decheng and others entered the station, got on a passenger car, and drove towards the southern county of their hometown. The passenger car was driving in the middle of the mountain road, and Guoan, who was sitting in the passenger car, kept looking out the window, looking at the mountains, fields, and houses under the mountains, it was so quiet, and the poplar trees on both sides of the road were guarded like rows of guards, straight and upright. The passenger car quickly entered the southern county, entered the passenger station and stopped, and turned to the car in Fuhu Town. At the beginning of liberation, Fuhu Town was still in ruins, tiled houses were lined up, and there were more vicissitudes and vicissitudes of a hundred years.

After Guoan and the others got out of the car, they looked at the bicycles and large vehicles coming and going on the street, as well as the pedestrians, who were so sparse. Guoan walked down the road with crutches, and Dehai, Decheng and others followed closely behind, standing outside the gate of the old mansion. Decheng came forward and knocked on the door, and it was a middle-aged man of the same age as Decheng who came forward to open the door, this man was about thirty years old, and after opening the courtyard door, he said, "Who are you?" ”

He Guoan stepped forward with a cane and said very humbly: "He Guoan, I hereby come to visit Zhu Si." ”

"It turned out to be the eldest young master of the He family, and his father passed away more than ten years ago. Master, please come into the house and sit down. This person first invited Guoan and others to enter the house, and there was a door plaque above the gate of the house, which read: "Yingchun Hall," and there was a couplet on both sides, on which was "Spring is full of flowers in the world," and below it was "Fulin Courtyard is always safe in all seasons." After Guoan walked in, he pointed his finger and pointed out, I don't know who left this ink treasure back then?

This person stepped forward to look at this couplet and said, "This is the true handiwork left by the Taigong back then. ”

"Grandpa," Guoan said silently as he looked at the couplet.

This person stood in front of Guoan and said, "Young Master, please come into the hall and speak." ”

Yuchen stood aside, looked at Guoan, and said, "Grandpa, grandpa, who is Taigong?" ”

"It's your grandfather, your grandfather is a very learned person, these words are what your grandfather left back then, and when you grow up, you will be like your grandfather and be a very learned person."

"Grandpa, I want to be a scientist when I grow up."

"Okay, grandson has good ambitions."

Guoan brought his grandchildren into the hall, followed by Decheng, Dehai, Xiugu and Xiaocui. After Guoan entered the lobby, he looked at this person and sat down, and said, "You can sit down too." Only then did this person sit down, and Dehai, Decheng and others sat aside. Guoan said: "I don't know how your father died?" ”

"This has to start from the night when the second young master was killed. It was a tumult night late that night in October 1898. On the third day after the second young master was taken away by the officers and soldiers, Uncle Qin ran around to find my father. This day was also the day of the execution of the second young master, and my father went to the court in person after settling my mother. The wind was very strong that day, the wind swept up the fallen leaves on the ground, the second young master stood on the torture car, there were many officers and soldiers behind him, and in the front there were the governor and the prefect riding a tall horse walking in front, and there were many onlookers on both sides of the road. Two rows of officers and soldiers rushed forward to block the onlookers. The second young master stepped down from the torture car, wearing a white prison robe, with long braids hanging down his back, wearing heavy anklets and bracelets, and walking with a clanging sound. The second young master walked slowly up to Xingtai, looked at these people, and with three drums, the governor and the prefect walked out and sat in front of the desk. The prefect sat aside and said, "He Guozhi, you raise troops to rebel, this is a capital crime of destroying the door, do you know." ”

After hearing this, the second young master laughed three times and said: "If you want to add to the crime, there is no excuse, if you want to kill, come and kill, why do you come with so many words, the head falling is just a big scar at the mouth of the bowl, and after twenty years, he will be a good man." ”

"Slash!"

"Slow!" The Governor immediately said.

The prefect sat aside and said with some surprise: "Lord Li." ”

The Governor stood up and said: "Guozhi, this official admires you very much, but this is the queen mother's decree, and this official has no other way, at this time, if you have anything to say, just say it." ”

Only then did the second young master stand up and look at these onlookers, and said: "I don't go to hell, who goes to hell, it's not a pity to die for this, I hope to use this life to wake up you who are sleeping, fight for our country, drive out those overseas enemy countries, restore my rivers and mountains, and restore my great country in China, in exchange for the peace of the country and the people, and the peace of the world." ”

Then the second young master picked up the robe with one hand and knelt on the torture platform, and the governor ordered: "It's three o'clock in the afternoon, behead!" ”

On top of the table stood two executioners, one of whom picked up the braid that was placed on his back, and the other who raised his broadsword and splashed blood on the table.

"Master, Master," my father rushed to the execution platform, knelt in front of the body of the second young master, and cried, "Master, master, we are late, we are late," Qin Bo knelt under the torture platform and kept beating his legs, "Young master." ”

Then he found a tailor, sewed the head and body of the second young master, and sealed the coffin into the burial. Within two years, the Great Qing Kingdom had forgotten. On this day in July 1921, my father joined the Chinese Communist Party. On April 21, 1927, a dark day, I saw that the right wing of the Kuomintang led by Chiang Kai-shek betrayed the revolution and staged a coup d'état in Shanghai, massacring the Communists, the Kuomintang and their masses, and my father was also shot dead by them. ”

After Guoan heard his words, he burst into tears and said, "Brother Zhi, I'm sorry for you." Then he stood up, walked very slowly to the window, and wept secretly with his back to them. Decheng stepped forward and stood behind Guoan and said, "Father." ”

Guoan turned around, wiped away the tears on both sides, and said, "Decheng, it's okay for my father." Then he came up and sat down and said, "Son, what is your name?" ”

"Zhu Guosheng."

Guoan looked up at the heavens, wet his face with tears, and said, "Child! It's me He Guoan who can't stand you, you are the heroes. When I was young, I was full of complaints and complaints about God's injustice, and when I was old, I understood the truth of virtue and blamed myself for it. I, He Guoan, personally sent my family, my father, and this younger brother of mine to the guillotine, that is my stupidity, I'm sorry for you! My father named me Guoan, my younger brother named Guozhi, when I am old, I understand the deep meaning, the country is well governed in order to be the country and the people, my father hopes that we can become such people! ”

The two brothers, Dehai and Decheng, stood aside and said, "Father." ”

"Okay, okay, I've been wandering all my life, and I haven't come back for ten years, where is my brother buried? Take me to see it. ”

"Eldest Young Master, I'll take you to visit Second Young Master and your family."

Ten years of life and death, without thinking, unforgettable, thousands of miles of lonely graves, nowhere to talk about desolation. Even if you don't know each other, your face is dusty, your temples are like frost, and you return home in a dream. Guoan stood in front of the tombstone of Guozhi with a cane, thinking about the past, there were thousands of mistakes, there were no words for each other, and there were only thousands of tears in the broken intestines every year. Every mid-autumn night, I think about it very much. Now I see it, but it is a cold grave, and it is too late to regret, and it is too late to regret.

"Brother Zhi, it's because my brother couldn't live with you back then, I couldn't stand you, you see, I brought my grandchildren to see you, and my family." After finishing speaking, Guoan looked behind him and said, "Grandson, come here, hurry, hurry." ”

Dehai and his wife stood behind Guoan, and Yuchen stood next to Xiugu. Xiu Gu squatted down and pushed Yuchen on, and said, "Go, hurry, hurry." ”

Yuchen stepped forward and stood next to Guoan, pointed to the tombstone of Guozhi, and said: "Grandson, this is your second grandfather, your second grandfather was amazing back then, he was able to write and martial arts, he was not afraid of the powerful, and he did a lot of big things for the country and the people, and your second grandfather will be your role model in the future, do you know?" ”

"My grandson knows."

"Come and kowtow to your second grandfather three times, your second grandfather will bless you if he has a notice underground."

"Okay."

Yuchen stepped forward, stood in front of the tombstone of the country, knelt down three times, then got up and folded his hands in front of him, closed his eyes, as if in silent prayer. He walked to the tombstones of the grandfather, the wife and his father, pointed to their tombstones, and said, "This is grandpa, grandfather, and grandmother, kowtow to them." Yuchen stood in front of them, raised his head, suddenly his eyes were dull, at this time Yuchen saw a woman in red walking out of the woods not far behind his tomb, the breeze blew her long scattered hair, her face was pale and bloodless, and her eyes rolled to face Yuchen, showing a very weird smile.

"Mom, Mom, I'm scared, scared." After Yuchen saw this scene, he was very frightened. Xiugu, Dehai, Decheng, Xiaocui and others rushed forward, gathered around Yuchen, and said worriedly: "Xiaoyu, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Oh, where is there a person," Yuchen pointed to the woods behind the grave, and shouted, "Mom, I want to go back, I want to go back." ”

Guoan looked behind the grave, but didn't see anyone, so he turned to face Decheng, Dehai and others, and said, "You guys go back to Chengdu first, the child seems to have hit an evil spirit, and after going back, find an onmyoji to see." ”

"We know, father, won't you go back with us?"

"No, Father has some things to attend to here."