Volume 1 Yang Guandong Chapter 18 The Life of My Father (3)
A year later, I came to this world with a croak.
Perhaps because people miss their homeland more and more after middle age, my grandfather named my eldest grandson Yi Jincheng, the word hometown, to express his longing for Jincheng County, his hometown.
In the next two years, my mother gave birth to two boys one after another, and added two younger brothers to me.
Grandpa simply followed my name and named the second brother Yi Wuwei and the third brother: Yi Changan.
The arrival of my mother completely changed the dilemma of my grandfather's thin family, and brought about a prosperous situation of both people and wealth.
is already a father of three children, and he has a capable and beautiful wife like his mother.
The whole family thought that my father would grow up and mature, and at least he would not have any thoughts about the Sassanid girl named Dani.
More than ten years of time is enough to make people forget anything in this world, including the beauty who once made me tempted.
Because in the area of feelings and women, my father is not empty, he has always mixed in the pile of women as he likes.
Even after getting married, his mother didn't interfere too much, just regarded him as an unweaned child.
In the autumn of the year when I was 5 years old, my grandfather felt that my father was already a big man, and he had been with the caravan for so many years, so he should be given a chance to practice as a merchant alone.
In the future, I will take over my own class and pass on the ancestral business of this businessman.
At this time, Grandpa happened to have a batch of silk that had just arrived in Middle-earth, and the owner of the goods was the merchant of the Kushan Kingdom, Pilusa and his son.
They arrived at Jiankang, the capital of the Jin Dynasty, by sea, where they bought a large amount of silk and hired caravans to transport the goods to Khotan.
The caravans of Middle-earth were reluctant to go any further south, so they unloaded the silk goods of the Pilusa father and son at the "Qingfengze" inn, and after purchasing some jade from "Chang'anfang" and dry goods from Wangcheng's specialty, they hurriedly set out on their way home.
They must get out of the Huanglong Sand Sea in front of them before the harsh winter arrives, otherwise they will have to wait until the spring of the following year to go back.
It is said that in the middle of the night in the sand sea in the harsh winter, the living camels will be frozen into ice sculptures, and the living people under the sheepskin tent will be wrapped in more than a dozen layers of fur bedding, and they will also be frozen to death.
Therefore, every winter, the southbound caravan will stop when it reaches Yangguan, and the northbound caravan will also stay in the "Qingfengze" inn for half a year.
The destination of this batch of goods was Peshawar, the capital of the Kushan Kingdom, and it was only at the bitter request of the father and son that the grandfather took over the deal.
Because my family and Chang'an Fang's grandfather Lu Yu's caravan have always turned over their own goods, and rarely carry goods for others.
Caravans that simply carry goods have always had very thin profits, and they can only make some hard-earned money from the private goods they carry along the way.
If you encounter a harsh owner and don't bring private goods, you will make less money along the way.
is engaged in the business of killing heads, and earns money from the belly, which is such a businessman.
Only those temporary caravans made of camels and horses from eight families would do such a deal.
After some consideration, the grandfather handed over the task of this delivery to his father.
There are several reasons for this, my father has been with the team for more than ten years, and he has generally learned the survival tricks on the business road.
Peshawar is not far from Khotan, and after crossing the green ridge, it is the border of Kushan, all of which are spoken in Tocharian, and the people along the way are simple and simple, with few risks and obstacles.
In addition, Pilusa himself had several guards who escorted the goods, and the caravan only needed to transport the goods and its own safety.
The main reason is that my father has always strongly asked to lead a team to do business alone, and this time is just an opportunity to test him.
In order to be sure, grandpa also specially arranged more than a dozen loyal and reliable men for his father to accompany him.
After everything was arranged, on a sunny morning, with the blessings of his family, my father led his camel caravan along the ancient road to the south.
Two months later, the accompanying men drove the empty camel caravan and returned to the "Qingfengze" dejectedly, but the father was nowhere to be seen.
In the gossip of the guys, my mother and grandfather generally understood what was going on.
After the caravan arrived in Peshawar, late one night, my father secretly took the caravan's customs clearance papers, his most trusted attendant, Bai Mang, all the money, and four fast horses of the caravan, and went out of the city overnight.
The next day, when everyone found out and went to chase after them, the guards at the checkpoint on the border of the Kushan Kingdom told them that their father and Bai Mang had already left the country and entered the territory of the Sassanid Kingdom.
There is no doubt that my father took this opportunity to go to Babylon to find his Dani.
And for this escape, he seems to have premeditated and made careful plans.
Hearing this, the grandfather fainted after scolding the "evil son", and the grandmother Murong Qionglin even shouted to the grandfather for her only son.
The poor mother silently returned to her room, she never dreamed that her husband, who had been cared for like a child, would betray her like this.
Three days later, my mother finally recovered.
She summoned the whole family in the reception hall and said: "Yi Fengnian's departure is not allowed to be mentioned by anyone in the family in the future, my husband will naturally come back when he is tired of playing outside!" ”
From then on, my mother devoted all her energy to the management of the inn and the education and training of our three brothers.
It seems that she has never had a husband, and she has never met a man like Yi Fengnian.
My grandfather, Chi Biao, has also resigned from the position of the head of the Wangcheng Forbidden Army, and came to "Qingfengze" to spend his old age, teaching our three nephews kung fu and eighteen weapons every day.
Grandpa and grandma also slowly transferred their longing for their beloved son to our grandchildren, and "Qingfengze" returned to its former joy.
And our abominable father never returned, completely disappeared from this world.