There is a poem in the Han Dynasty called Hu Tian in August, that is, flying snow.

Guo Yi used to fight on the Western Front, thinking that he had seen the bad weather, but he didn't believe this poem very much, thinking that the poet exaggerated it in order to create an atmosphere. But when he really got to the north, he didn't get used to it. It was only the beginning of September, and it was already snowing every night in Datong City.

The night before yesterday, Xu Decai returned to Datong City with the army, and the army in the light snow was like a white river. The 20,000 soldiers and horses sent by Yuhuzi to escort them braved the snow overnight and returned to the main city of Yan non-stop. At this moment, Guo Yi was wearing a heavy cotton robe and a gray coat draped over his shoulders, and with a tael of silver to find a vendor to lead the way, he turned around and went into an alley. The alleys are sunny, cold and damp, the residual snow on the ground has not disappeared, and the alleys, which are not warm, are even more depressed.

"My lord, right here." The peddler smiled, his eyes almost glowing, and pointed to the end of the alley.

Guo Yi took out a tael of silver from his arms, but his face was a little strange, and asked, "This is General Shuhu's house?" ”

The peddler stared at the flickering silver tael in Guo Yi's hand and said, "It can't be wrong, there are few people in the entire Datong City who can find here." “

"So how can you find it?" Guo Yi still didn't give him the silver taels, and asked.

"My family's shop sends rice to General Shuhu every month." Speaking of this, the vendor patted his head and said, "By the way, his family's rice money hasn't been paid last month, and I still have to come over." As he spoke, he led Guo Yi into it.

Guo Yi listened, grabbed him, and said: "In the future, General Shuhu will no longer buy rice, and I will give it together with the amount of rice last month." ”

"Last month, it was four taels of silver." Said the vendor.

"How much?" Guo Yi's hand in his arms stopped, he frowned, feeling that he had been tricked.

The hawker was also alert, and when he saw this, he knew that Guo Yi had misunderstood, and said: "My lord, you don't know, there are many people eating at General Shuhu's house, and these four taels of silver are considered to be less." Many of the sick people in the army went to the ground, and they were all raised by General Shuhu. ”

Guo Yi was stunned, no one had ever talked about this before, but thinking about Shuhu Mu's face with black masks, he was relieved. Few people knew his name, and a few people paid attention to what he did.

Guo Yi took out four taels of silver, took the one tael just now, and gave it to the vendor who led the way, and said, "General Shuhu won't live here in the future, so there is no need to send rice again." ”

The peddler took the money and said with a bright smile: "Okay, you take your time, I'll go." After saying that, he took the silver into his bosom and slipped away.

Guo Yi went in along the alley, and after a few steps, a large dilapidated courtyard appeared in front of him. The wooden door was mottled, and the fence was cracked in several places. Xu De heard a faint sound of speech inside, so he knocked decisively on the door.

"Here we are." The answer was a girl, and it sounded like she wasn't very old.

The door opened, and a woman with a delicate face looked at Xu De. The woman wore a gray-black cotton robe, but a golden hairpin was pinned to her head. Seeing the strange face of the visitor, he asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”

Just as she was asking, Xu De also spoke, but asked, "Is this the Mansion of General Shuhu?" ”

Guo Yi is not good at dealing with women, and there is still a girl on the other side, the two are naturally embarrassed, a touch of red appeared on the woman's face, but a young man's voice came again, "Sister, who is it, is my father?" Before he could finish speaking, another young man came out of the house, holding a basin of water with bloody gauze in it.

"I'm here to find your father." The woman turned her face away and said to the young man, "You come to entertain guests, and I still have to look at the medicine." With that, he hurried into the house.

Guo Yi followed the woman's back and saw three old houses, and there were still some traces of flooding on the eaves, which must have been left after being in disrepair, poor drainage, and snow melting.

"Sir." The young man handed the woman the basin in his hand, and he stepped forward and saluted, "My father is not here, if anything happens, please come back another day." ”

Guo Yi looked at the young man's face, there were many similarities with Shuhumu, and it was not difficult to guess that he must be Shuhumu's only son.

"I'm Guo Yi." Guo Yi didn't answer anything, just said his identity, and when the young man heard this, his body shook, and the woman who was about to enter the house heard this, and the basin in her hand also fell to the ground. The attack on the general army of Datong is not hidden in Datong City, and everyone knows that Guo Yi will have a blessing if he does not die. But no one knew that a general named Shuhumu gave Guo Yi a cushion.

"You are Guo Zongbing, then my father ......" The young man did not continue, but his eyes were already red.

"General Shuhu died outside Yinzhou City, and his coffin was parked in the General Army's Mansion." Guo Yi continued, he did not beat around the bush, he firmly believed that long pain is better than short pain.

The young man was still in place, and the woman was the first to react, picked up the broom at hand and threw it at Guo Yi, tears couldn't stop falling, and said, "Why don't you die!" After saying that, he squatted on the ground, hugged his knees, and cried loudly.

The young man didn't cry, grabbed the broom, the green tendons on his hands burst out, and said: "Mr. Guo, you go back first today, the cold house can't entertain you, tomorrow I will personally come to the door to collect my father's bones." ”

Guo Yi wanted to say something, but when he saw the sad look on the young man's face and the woman squatting on the ground crying, he felt that he had no reason to continue to stay in this dilapidated courtyard, so he saluted and said, "I will come to the door again tomorrow to discuss the future of General Shuhu." Then he withdrew from the courtyard, and the mottled door slammed shut.

Xu De withdrew a few steps, turned to look at the bleak courtyard, and finally walked firmly, but he had returned to the street, and he felt as if he could still hear the woman's cry.

War cannot avoid the dead.

Guo Yi comforted herself.

War cannot avoid loss.

Guo Yi sounded this sentence in his heart without warning, he stayed where he was, no longer stepping, and provoked the sideways of passers-by.

He threw off his steps again, but instead of going to the General Soldier's Mansion, he went to Liu Pu's house.