Part 2: Juvenile Tour

"Youth Tour: Rain and Clouds"

The rain is sunny and the clouds are clear, the fireworks are surging, and the mountains are blue.

Drive to ask for the road and enjoy the spring breeze in Nanmo.

After the rain, the pear blossoms are bright white.

Regret hurried and passed Jincheng.

There is no time to return home, and the news of drunkenness is explored.

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"Where is Brother Ren going? Did you go to Chengdu Mansion to find Qi Yuanzhen for revenge? Li Shun looked at Wang Ran, who had just proposed his resignation, and asked.

"Qi Yuanzhen is in a high position, in addition to the servants and guards on the left and right, Brother Ren must not be impulsive and put himself in danger." Wang Xiaobo said worriedly.

"Naturally, sooner or later, I want Qi Yuanzhen to take revenge, but I think about it today, and it may be difficult to assassinate me, so I am going to go to Chengdu Mansion for a trip, so I can inquire about Qi Yuanzhen's habits and temperament, and then make a plan." Wang Ran smiled, and said with a straight face: "In addition, before going to Chengdu Mansion, I am going to go to Pengshan County first, Song Yufeng said that he still has a mother and a pair of children at home, presumably these years have been very bad, I want to go and see, can I help one or two." ”

Speaking of Song Yufeng, Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun showed pity on their faces, and they also admired the two righteous men who sacrificed their lives to save everyone, and it was a pity that they couldn't drink with them.

Wang Xiaobo pondered for a moment and said: "Brother Ren, why don't you rest in this county for two more days, and in a few days, our two brothers will go to Pengshan with you." ”

"Now that the rebel army has just started an incident, it is when the chores are busy, and Brother Wang is leaving?" Wang Ran was puzzled, Wang Xiaobo has been so busy dragging his injured body that he can't touch the ground in the past few days, Wang Ran knows it.

Wang Xiaobo explained: "The local people have been very exploited by the government, and they have long been dissatisfied, but the news of our actions has spread, and the people are all happy and welcome us, and there are not too many difficult things to deal with. And many peasant households took the initiative to sign up to join the rebel army, and now we have 2,000 available soldiers, and it is time to pursue the victory with all their might. I went to Pengshan with you, firstly, I also want to repay the Song brothers for their life-saving grace, and secondly, this Pengshan County is only 100 miles away from Qingcheng County, and I have already heard that Pengshan County has made Wu Jindong a tricky and ruthless corrupt official, and he has been exploiting the people for a long time in conjunction with the local big households, and it is boiling with public resentment. ”

"I'll go with Brother Wang Ren, my brother-in-law is now the leader of the rebel army, don't risk your life easily." Li Shun said worriedly.

"It's okay, it's only been a few days since we waited, and the Pengshan County side definitely didn't expect us to be so bold and ambitious, and we were ready to attack them, besides, we were just small people in Shengdou before, who can recognize us. Besides, even if something happens, don't you still have you, General Li, who is braver than the overlord of Chu, to protect me? Wang Xiaobo didn't care.

Li Shun and Wang Ran couldn't say anything more.

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Pengshan County, famous for Pengzu Mountain, was formerly known as Wuyang County, and was renamed Pengshan County in the first year of Tang Xuanzong, which belongs to Meizhou. Because Peng Zu once spread the way of longevity here, coupled with the mountains and streams here, the air is fresh and the climate is pleasant, and the average life expectancy of the local people is quite high, and the people have always been simple. Peace and tranquility.

But Wang Ran and others walking on the street of Pengshan County did not feel this at all, only to see that almost all the people on the street had vegetables, and the people sitting in the restaurants and tea shops on the street were all brocade clothes, glamorous, none of them were ordinary people with short brown knots, Wang Ran, Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun looked at each other, it seems that as the rumors say, the people and farmers in Pengshan County have been exploited and miserable, although Qingcheng County is also a barren land, but there are also people who occasionally have enough money to go to the street shop to relax, It's not as clear as this Pengshan County.

The three of them walked around the city, roughly found out the location of the county government and the strength of the guards, and inquired about the location of Yihe Village, where Song Yufeng's family was located, and then left the city. After walking for about an hour, I finally found Yihe Village, and saw an old woman sitting under a tree at the entrance of the village, taking care of two children with hanging buns playing on the side, so I stepped forward and asked, "Mother-in-law, where is Song Yufeng's house?" ”

The old woman looked at the three of them suspiciously, and said, "What are you looking for in his house?" Their family is gone. ”

Wang Ran was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "Song Yufeng's mother and two children are also gone?" ”

The old lady said: "His mother died last year, child, Song Dalang can occasionally see a figure, and the girl doesn't know, I haven't seen it for a long time." ”

Wang Ran hurriedly inquired about the location of Song Yufeng's house, thanked the old woman, and the group rushed over.

When I walked to the door of the Song family's house, I saw that the rope pivot urn was not to say, the door on the left was completely gone, and when I entered the door, the yard was empty, only some weeds and stones, and when I walked into the house, I saw a rope bed in the corner of the wall in the house, and there was a small body lying in the black quilt, Wang Ran hurriedly stepped forward to check, and saw that it was a little girl, her eyes were closed, and her little yellow face was not as big as a palm, according to Song Yufeng, his girl should be ten years old this year, but this little girl was very thin and weak, and seemed to be only six or seven years old. Wang Ran stretched out his hand to probe under his nostrils, but fortunately he was still breathing, and it seemed that he should be asleep.

Wang Ran hurriedly woke up the little girl, and saw that she seemed to be weak and couldn't open her eyes, so she took out the dry food in the bag and reluctantly fed it to the little girl, and then scooped out some water from the water tank next to her and gave it to the little girl.

The little girl gradually regained consciousness and opened her eyes, looked at Wang Ran intently, and thanked her gently: "Thank you." ”

Wang Ran and the others were a little relieved, and then asked, "Where is your brother?" They searched all over the house but didn't see anyone else, for fear that Song Yufeng's son would also encounter an accident.

"My brother went out to beg for food." The little girl said timidly, "Do you have anything to do with my brother?" Could it be that he is causing trouble again? ”

"We are friends of your father, and he has commissioned us to visit you." Wang Xiaobo said.

"Grandpa's friend?" The little girl's eyes suddenly lit up: "Then what about my grandfather, where is he?" Grandma and grandma are gone, Xiaoruo and brother miss grandpa so much. ”

Wang Xiaobo thought about it, afraid that this little heart, who seemed to have suffered a lot, would not be able to bear the bad news again, and couldn't bear to tell her the truth that Song Yufeng was no longer alive, so he had to say: "Your father still has some things that he can't leave, let us pick you up to find him." "If these two children are left here, they are only afraid of bad luck, and Wang Xiaobo is ready to take them to Qingcheng County to take care of.

The light in the little girl's eyes dimmed, and she was a little disappointed.

Wang Ran saw that the little girl was still very weak, so he asked her to eat some dry food, and then rested for a while, and saw that the girl's spirit was gradually getting better, so he began to talk to her. The little girl's name is Song Xiaoruo, and her brother's name is Song Yuanzhi, and since their father Song Yufeng was arrested for beating an official messenger the year before last, the family has been in dire straits. People in the village said that her mother was a broom star, and her father was imprisoned because he married her mother.

Later, when she heard that Song Yufeng was sentenced to prison, her mother became more and more depressed, and one night, while the family was asleep, she quietly committed suicide by hanging herself, the orphans and widows were sad, and Song Yufeng's mother was even more blind from crying. Later, I heard that her father escaped from prison and killed the priest and Zhou Xiaoqing who bullied her mother, and then disappeared, and her grandmother became even more ill under the horror, the two children could not continue, and the family land was not taken care of. The elders and relatives of the same clan said that they could transfer the land to them, and they paid for the grandmother's medical treatment and helped their family to live, but the grandmother had to agree.

Who knew that not long after the land property was transferred to them, those elders and clansmen who had sworn at the beginning ignored their family, and said that her father Song Yufeng killed the official messenger and caused a lot of trouble to the clan, and wanted to drive them out of the village. But the livelihood of the family of three was gone, so they could only pawn all the valuable things in the family for food.

Grandma had no money to see a doctor, and she was dying of illness, and she still didn't survive the cold winter of the year, and the valuable things in the family were all pawned, and his brother Song Yuanzhi wanted to work for others to earn food in order to support himself and his sister, but people said that their family had caused a life lawsuit, and they didn't dare to use him, so they had no choice but to beg on the street every day. Xiao Ruo wanted to go with his brother, but his brother said that the beggars on the street were used to bullying people, and he was afraid that his sister would be bullied, so he only let her guard the house.

But this year's drought, the people are not rich, Song Yuanzhi has not begged for food for two days, it is because Xiaoruo fainted from hunger today, fortunately Wang Ran and others arrived in time, otherwise Xiaoruo is afraid that there will be more than lucky. Speaking of this, Xiao Ruo raised her tearful eyes and looked at Wang Ran and the others: "What I think about most every day is when Grandpa will come back to us, because before grandma left, she said that Grandpa would definitely come back, so that my brother and I should live well, but my brother always didn't believe it before, saying that Grandpa couldn't come back, and Grandpa would definitely be gone." Now Grandpa has finally asked his uncles to pick me up and my brother, Xiao Ruo is so happy. Where is Grandpa now? What are you doing? Why didn't you come back to us for so long? ”

Wang Ran and the others were silent, not knowing how to explain.

Xiao Ruo looked at Wang Ran and the others silent, and a trace of ominous thoughts rose in her heart, but Xiao Ruo, who had persevered in suffering and disappointment for many years, was obviously used to how to comfort herself, and said to herself: "Grandpa must have something very important to do, otherwise he will definitely not ignore Xiao Ruo and his brother, Grandpa used to love Xiao Ruo the most." Yes, it must be, they all said that Grandpa escaped from prison and killed someone, Grandpa must be innocent, Grandpa must have cleared his grievances before he can come to Xiaoruo and his brother. Now that Grandpa has asked Engong to pick us up, Grandpa must be fine. ”

Wang Ran looked at Xiao Ruo's pretending to be strong, and felt distressed. Song Yufeng was afraid of affecting his mother and child, so he didn't dare to go home, thinking that with the family's land, the old mother and the child would always have a livelihood, and it was better than being a homeless beggar with him, and being frightened every day, but how did he expect that the clansmen were so cold-blooded and cruel, and deceived the orphans and widows of the land and property that they relied on for their survival, if he knew the truth, I was afraid that he would take the mother and child away anyway.

Suddenly there was a sound of footsteps outside the house, which caused Wang Ran and others to be alert, and quickly hid by the door, and quietly looked out through the leaky window, and saw a young man about eleven or twelve years old limping into the yard, it should be Song Yuanzhi, the eldest man of the Song family, and the three of them were a little relieved.

Wang Ran saw that Song Yuanzhi was holding a greasy paper bag in his hand, carrying a bag of rice on his shoulder, and he seemed to have money in his arms, his face was full of bruises but he was happy, and he wondered in his heart, could this kid go and steal money?

Song Yuanzhi happily walked to the door, saw his sister on the rope bed, and said happily: "Xiao Ruo, my brother brought you roast chicken back, and rice, we don't have to go hungry for at least a month." So saying, he crossed the threshold and entered the house.

As soon as Song Yuanzhi entered the door and found three people hiding in the house, a trace of panic flashed on his face, but he quickly calmed down, quickly turned around and quickly retreated to the bedside, while carefully protecting his sister, he said viciously: "Who are you?" What to do in my house? ”

Xiao Ruo behind him hurriedly said: "Brother, don't panic, these are Grandpa's friends, Grandpa invited them to pick us up for a reunion." ”

Song Yuanzhi is not as simple and easy to deceive as Xiao Ruo, since the accident at home, he has seen a lot of people's warmth and coldness, and even watched himself grow up, the kind and kind clan elders have done things to deceive and seize family property, bullying orphans and widows, and the words of strangers are even more unbelievable, and he turned around and warned: "Xiao Ruo, don't be stupid, if Daddy wants to take us to reunite with him, why didn't he come himself, Daddy must have died, otherwise how could he ignore us all these years, these people are definitely not good people, maybe it is a kidnapper who wants to kidnap us." Then he turned his head and looked at Wang Ran and the others with a vigilant face: "You said that you are my father's friend, so where is the other person?" Isn't the government looking for him? Where do you want us to be with him? ”

"Don't get me wrong, Da Lang, we are indeed friends of your father Song Yufeng, Brother Song... He is now doing business in Qingcheng County under a pseudonym, and the government is still wanted by the government, and he is afraid that he will be recognized when he comes back, so let's pick you up and Xiaoruo to reunite with him. Wang Xiaobo explained.

But Song Yuanzhi's face was still full of indifference, and years of despair and helplessness had eroded his trust in others, leaving only vigilance and suspicion.

The three of them were helpless, Li Shun's ears moved, and he turned his head to look outside the house vigilantly, signaling Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun to be careful.

Suddenly, I saw a group of catchers rushing into the courtyard with double-hooked guns and ropes, and surrounded the house, and finally a person who entered the courtyard was wearing a soap-colored round collar uniform, wearing a cross-legged head, and an iron ruler hanging from his waist, dressed as a head catcher, I saw him clear his throat for a long time, and shouted loudly into the house: "You and the others have been surrounded, come out and surrender quickly." ”