The crowd continued to Liaodong, and another 2 days passed.

At midnight on the fourth day, when the sun was setting and the sky was full of red clouds in the west, the impeachment bowl suddenly grabbed the reins of the horse, and saw a series of city walls appear in front of him.

It is better to say that it is a city wall than a mound of earth, but the bricks and tiles on the tall undulating mound can still vaguely show the grandeur of the city wall back then.

There was also some snow here, covering the mounds of earthy yellow.

The walls were covered with snow inside and out, and where a few dead trees grew, their branches were nearly shriveled, like the dried corpses guarding the door.

And this sunset season, people can't help but give birth to a sense of gloom and desolation.

In the past 5 days, a group of people galloped on the endless grassland, and from time to time they could encounter some small villages with more than 100 people.

And at this moment, there are some bleak and magnificent landscapes that appear like this, and everyone is holding the reins of the horses and stopping to watch.

Looking at these, the four people were dumbfounded.

The little fat man sitting in the carriage grew his mouth in shock and said, "There can be such a poignant scenery in this world. ”

Ah Guta also recited with deep feelings: "This is really 'the ancient city of the remnant sun is bleak, and the snow is falling and the vines are lonely mounds'!" ”

Tianci said at this time: "Listen to Abba, more than 70 years ago, our ancestors fought with the Liao people here, and finally the city was broken, and we withdrew to the north. ”

At this time, he said: "It's really a change in the world, the vicissitudes of life, let's go in and have a look." ”

A group of more than 10 people rode horses to find a dilapidated low-lying place and walked in, and the remnants of bricks and short tiles in the city were piled up on the ground, and some of them became a mound of earth, covered with a thin layer of snow, which was even more desolate.

There are dead branches and leaves everywhere, and there are a few ruins in front of you, and you can vaguely imagine the glory and majesty of the past.

Looking at such a landscape, Aguda was amazed in his heart.

And Brother Wan Yan Ying, who walked in at this moment, looked at the scenery and said to the impeachment bowl in front of him: "Big brother, cross here, this is the boundary of the Bohai Sea in Liaodong." ”

Impeachment sighed: "I haven't been here for more than ten years, and it's a lot more desolate." ”

Brother Ying nodded and said, "Yes, big brother, this city has been abandoned for nearly 70 years. ”

Impeachment said with some sadness: "It has been more than 70 years since we Jurchens left here, and time has really passed quickly, but our situation is becoming less and less optimistic, and I really don't know when we will be able to recover these lost lands of our Jurchens." ”

Everyone suddenly fell silent, and slowly walked through this land, and at this time they officially set foot on the boundary of Liaodong.

The crowd did not stop and continued on their way.

On the second day, they rushed to Shenzhou, an important town in eastern Liaodong, Shenzhou is an important border town, if you want to go from the north to the south, you must pass through this important town, where the city wall is high, there are heavy troops of the Liao army, and here is also to facilitate the management of the Jurchens, so a large number of Bohai Jurchens were driven here, and this place has also become a gathering place for the Bohai Jurchens.

And this city, for Gao Yongchang, for Wanyan impeachment bowl has a different meaning, so it used to be this city, the rebel army led by the leader of the rebel army Gao Shun and the Liao army battled, impeachment bowl looked at the city with some nostalgia, and vaguely could still see the color of the past.

Impeachment Bowl randomly led everyone into the city.

I saw that the sand was flying in the city, and the people who came and went were either unclothed slaves or Liao merchants and nobles who were white and bloated in an open-air palanquin, wearing silk and satin.

Those aristocrats hugged a few young and beautiful Jurchen slaves left and right, and their hands were still caressing those young slaves.

With their mouths open, they waited for the young and beautiful Jurchen slaves to feed them with all kinds of bright and tempting fruits and delicacies.

And those ragged male Jurchen slaves, some of them struggled to carry the sedan chair.

Some slaves were carried together by two people to hug the thick and thin trees, and they were transported under the custody of the Liao soldiers, they had already been crushed by the big tree weighing thousands of catties on their shoulders, and the Liao soldiers who followed behind were whipped with whips, they were thin and skinny, their eyes were dull, their bodies were extremely swollen, and they walked barefoot on the cold snow.

Brother Wan Yan Ying sighed in a low voice: "The people of Liao have become even worse than more than ten years ago, and the environment here is also a lot worse." ”

When the eighteen-year-old eighteen-nineteen-year-old Wan Yan Lou on the side saw those white and chubby Liao merchants and nobles, he was angry and said hatefully: "Yes, these damn vampire-like Liao mongrels, I really want to cut off their dirty hands and plunge my saber into their throats." ”

Wan Yan Libo beside him hurriedly said: "Now we are in other people's territory, don't be impulsive, this time we are here to calm down the incident, not to cause trouble." ”

Brother Wan Yan Ying also said, I am not familiar with life here, so I must be careful.

Wanyan Lou Room saw the uncle's stern eyes, and immediately wilted, lowered his head, and hurried away without saying a word.

It is close to the mountains and forests, there are not many tall and thick trees that have been cut down, and the land is also rich in minerals, so it is rich in porcelain, and because it is a transportation hub between the north and the south, the transportation is developed.

Moreover, there are nearly 200,000 Bohai Jurchen slaves gathered in the city, and the manpower is sufficient, attracting many Liao merchants to do business.

Impeachment of the bowl and his entourage continued to move forward, not far in front of the mine camp, where there are tens of thousands of Jurchen slaves, responsible for the production of pottery, hundreds of Liao soldiers at the door with scimitars patrolling, inside a stretch of several miles, there are some tents inside, as well as boilers that make porcelain on fire, Liao soldiers with leather whips in their hands, and the most are ragged Jurchen slaves.

At the door, a Liao merchant dressed in gorgeous costumes negotiated with the guard, the Liao merchant was in his 50s, with gray hair and crutches.

Behind him were a few strong men with swords and more than 50 Jurchen slaves, both men and women, who came here not only in the ceramic business, but also in the most odious slave business.

They all paid a high price to bribe the governor of Liaodong to get the privilege of buying and selling slaves, but these are worth it, if these slaves are transported to Zhongjing, the price will be more than 20 times, even if most of them will die on the road, then they will make a lot of money.

The Liao merchant squinted his eyes, staring at each slave like a commodity, looking up and down.

Then he pointed to a skinny young child, and said to the guard: "My lord, look at the quality of this year, how can there be a seventeen or eighteen-year-old child, how can this damn child stand the bumps on the road, even if he can, it will cost me a lot of food, and when he grows up, you can help me see if I can change people, this is a little heart." As he spoke, he shoved a cloth bag full of coins into the hands of the soldier at the head of the leader.

The soldier brushed it with his hand, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, but he pretended to be impatient and said: "You can go in and pick it yourself, I don't bother to care about you, remember to hurry." With that, he left.

The merchant of the Liao Kingdom was overjoyed, nodded and said, "Don't worry, Master Jun." As he spoke, he waved his hand and walked into the mine camp with a few sturdy guards behind.

This scene fell in the eyes of the impeachment of Libo and his party not far away, and he was not surprised, because he was used to the greedy faces of those damn Liao merchants for more than ten years.

At this time, several soldiers drove out a dozen ragged Jurchen civilians pushing a simple four-wheeled wooden cart.

And the car was piled with corpses, flesh and blood were flying, miserable, their faces were hideous, and when they died, it seemed that there was a thousand hatreds.

This scene deeply shocked the underage Akuta, he clenched his fists, he could feel the feeling of blood connection from these ragged slaves, yes, his ancestors came from here, these are his compatriots.

Wanyan Sacai and Tianci, who were traveling together, turned away, not daring to look at the cruel scene.

But he didn't look away, he had to remember all the tragedies here, he knew that as a great descendant of the Wanyan surname, he had to be strong, and he knew that he would face even more cruel difficulties in the future.

At this moment, a sedan chair carried by more than a dozen people suddenly appeared in front, on which was a middle-aged couple dressed in gorgeous aristocratic costumes, the man was dressed in a standard Liao general's uniform, wearing a white mink velvet hat, with armor inside, and a golden satin outside, and a sword hanging from his waist.

The woman's figure is graceful, brocade and satin, apricot eyes and peach cheeks, noble and charming.

The man saw Wanyan Haili Chi walking in front, hugged his fists and said: "Wanyan Patriarch, I haven't seen you for a long time, in the lower Liaodong General Gao Wen, I am here to receive you on the order of Prime Minister Xiao Zuo, presumably Wanyan Patriarch must have traveled a long way, go to the despicable cold house to rest for the night, and then go to Nanjing." ”

Wan Yan looked Gao Wen up and down, and said with a smile: "You and I have known each other for many years, so you don't have to be polite, but more than ten years ago, when I said goodbye to Shenzhou, and today I saw Brother Gao Wen, and I actually became the general of Liaodong, which is really surprising." ”

Gao Wen smiled awkwardly and said, "Creation makes people, I didn't expect to meet the impeachment brothers here, let's go, let's go to the cold house to rest and rest." ”

Wanyan Haili Chi nodded, urging the horse to go hand in hand with Gao Wen's sedan chair.

But even Tianci, who was beside Gao Yongchang and thought about how to comfort Gao Yongchang, didn't pay attention to it, Gao Yongchang's eyes flashed a trace of hatred when he looked at Gao Wen, and then flashed, smiling and chatting with Tianci while walking.

At this time, Gawain pointed to the woman beside him and said to the impeachment bowl not far away: "This is my wife, and she is also the daughter of Prime Minister Yeluzuo. ”

Wanyan hurriedly clenched his fists and said: "It turned out to be General Gao's wife, the daughter of Prime Minister Yelu, disrespectful and disrespectful." ”

The woman didn't even raise her head, but said lightly: "It's okay, did Hai Dongqing bring it this time?" It must be the best, and if something goes wrong, you will all die without a place to bury! ”

At this point, the impeachment bowl felt that this woman was speaking so aggressively, and her face was a little displeased.

At this time, Gawain started the round and said with a smile: "Madam, don't worry, my brother is doing things properly." ”

Impeachment sighed, since he decided to compromise, he had to put his mind down, so he bowed down and said, "Don't worry, madam, everything is arranged." ”

The three of them had their own hearts, and they were embarrassed along the way.

Or Gao Wen said: "Brother, this time you come to Shenzhou as a guest, the environment here is average, if you have the opportunity to come to Tokyo Liaoyang Mansion as a guest, it is called prosperous, I will take you to see it when I have time." ”

Impeachment smiled and said, "Okay, if you have the chance, you will be bothered." ”

When a few people arrived at the inn, Gao Wen arranged a few first-class nights, and Tianci and Gao Yongchang lived together.

When Brother Wan Yan Ying was leaving, he walked in front of Tianci and said in a low voice: "I arranged you and Gao Yongchang together this time, Yongchang's father has just died, you can comfort him." ”

Tianci nodded obediently.

Gao Yongchang was sad because his father had just left him, so he was silent.

Tianci always comforted him and found some topics to talk about, but found that Gao Yongchang was a little absent-minded.

Soon, Gao Yongchang was shouting.

Tianci also felt a little bored, and because he was exhausted while walking, he soon fell asleep as well

In the dead of night, Tianci had fallen asleep deeply, at this time Gao Yongchang tiptoed from the cloth pocket placed next to the bed to take out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, lifted the pen, with tears in his eyes, thought for a moment, hurriedly wrote some words on the paper, and sandwiched the paper under the teacup.

Walking out of the house alone and blending into the night, Tianci was the only one left in the house, sleeping soundly.

First of all, it's not where Gao Yongchang's child went, but in the room where Li Bo and Ah Gu lived, the two of them finished washing and lay on the bed.

Ah Guda said to his father with some melancholy: "Father, you said that the Liao people used this kind of terrifying rule to suppress the Bohai Jurchens, and the people only saw that kind of great terror, and it was difficult for them to resist." ”

Impeachment shook his head, gently covered Ah Gu with a quilt, and said: "Creating terror can make people afraid, but it cannot completely restrain the people's resistance, and that fear is still gradually accumulating in the hearts of the people. ”

Impeachment sighed, his eyes fell into memory, and said: "Shenzhou has really changed now, I remember the first time I came, it was more than ten years ago, I received a secret letter from my father in the Liao State military camp, and rushed here non-stop, at that time this was not the current situation.

At that time, nearly 100,000 Bohai Jurchen people and soldiers occupied Shenzhou, killed the Liao soldiers, Liao officials and nobles there, hung the heads of those fat Liao officials and merchants on the city gate, they opened warehouses to release grain, several granaries as high as a hill were opened, and those ragged people happily received grain, that scene was really happy, they blew up the mine camp, blew up the Shenzhou mansion, and I was fortunate to participate in the righteous army.

At that time, your uncle Gao Shun was heroic and high-spirited, and he was elected as the leader of the rebel army. He was 22 years old at the time.

When we were together, we struck down the 2,000 Liao troops who came to suppress us, and we won a great victory.

It's a pity that my father's letter became more and more urgent, and I had to leave, but I didn't expect that this departure would be more than 10 years, but now I see such a field. ”

Ah Guda was a little dazed and imagined the heroic scene of the year, and said with some yearning: "Father, do you think I will do something in the future, or do nothing, will I achieve great things like Uncle Gao and you?" ”

Impeachment smiled and said: "As the so-called Shishi makes heroes, the situation is more turbulent now than it was back then, I am already 30 out of 8, what is the future, it depends on you and your eldest brother in the Liao army camp, our Wanyan family has always been the glorious family of the Jurchen tribe, as a descendant of the Wanyan family, don't live up to the glory left by your ancestors, do you remember the family motto of our family?" ”

Ah Gu said consciously: "Tough and tenacious, endless." ”

Impeachment nodded with a smile and said to Aguta: "Never forget the glory of our family, when you encounter difficulties, the great ancestors will use the ancestral teachings to give us strength and let us overcome everything." ”

As he spoke, he fell asleep and snored faintly.

He still remembered that he was just 6 years old at the time, and his mother pointed to a flag, which was a huge Haidongqing (eagle) soaring in the blue sky and said to him: "This is the banner of the Wanyan tribe, children, you have to remember that the family motto of the Wanyan tribe is tenacity and tenacity, and life is endless." ”

Mother briefly recounted the ancient history of the Wanyan tribe in a soft and magnetic voice: "At that time, our ancestors were the weakest tribe of the four major tribes, and after the friendly Tudan tribe went to the north, we were the first to be driven out of the southern plains by the powerful Sushilie tribe, but our ancestors did not give up, and our ancestors led the tribe to the north, which is now our place, all of which are hills, and it was already the middle of winter, and the snow covered the mountains, and the people of our tribe were all hungry, The food has long been cut off, the ice and snow, the cold wind is bitter, and many people have died, but our great ancestors did not give up, they ate grass roots and bark.

Finally, winter passed, spring came, nearly 500 Wanyan tribe people, only more than 50 people survived, but a few years later, the Wanyan tribe took root and grew up here, and became a large tribe of 10,000 people, so the great ancestors positioned the ancestors of the Wanyan tribe as tenacious and unyielding, endless.

And our totem is the most tenacious Haidongqing (eagle). ”

His mother told him more than once about the history of his ancestors, which filled his young heart with glory, and this spirit, through his mother's telling again and again, penetrated into the blood of Jina Guta, making him feel the inheritance of the ancestor's bloodline.