Chapter 3: The Scholar
The more the firewood and grass burned, the heat in the clay pot rose, and Yang He unconsciously stroked the delicately carved brass shell on the scabbard, which was cold and cold. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Suddenly, a dreamlike feeling came to my heart, and the indescribable loneliness, loneliness, as if I was the only one left in heaven and earth.
The tattered reed hut, the filthy space, the poor two children, the bones of the dead everywhere outside, everything is chaotic, and suddenly being in this place only makes people feel confused, there is a deep sense of unreality.
And also...... The pain in the soul all the time, the deep unwillingness, the deep remorse, the deep feeling.
"Father, the thieves are raging, how can the child go away? As a middle student, it is the responsibility to defend the land, and I am willing to live and die with this city with my teacher! ”
"You are not an official of the imperial court, you have been a member of the court all your life, what kind of soil do you guard, and what responsibilities do you do? It doesn't matter if you die, my Yang family will be the last! ”
Unbearable memories came flooding back to my heart.
This body was originally a native of Luyi County, Guide Prefecture, and he was smart and studious since he was a child, and he recited the subset of history, and at the age of fifteen, he read the Four Books and Five Classics, and passed on the left in the Spring and Autumn Period.
At the same time as this body grows up, it is when the world is chaotic, and his father Yang Zhuang is not a pedantic person, and he does not forget to ask a famous teacher to teach him martial arts while learning the scriptures and epic texts, so this body can be regarded as both civil and military in the end, especially the bow and horse are skilled, and the archery has a hundred steps to penetrate Yang, and the ability to take magpies in the air.
When Chongzhen was thirteen years old, this body was born at the age of only seventeen, which was a sensation in the entire county at that time, and even Ji Maoxun, the then governor of Luyi, was shocked, and finally accepted him as a disciple and became his teacher of preaching and teaching.
Ji Maoxun is known in history as an ancient follower, his people are loyal and dignified, clean and love the people, and are deeply supported by the people of Luyi. I always encourage myself with Li He's poems: "Repay the king's intention on the golden platform, and carry the jade dragon to die for the king." ”
However, the time entered the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, things took a sharp turn for the worse, and the thieves rose again at the beginning of the year, and the thieves trapped Henan Mansion, killed the King of Fu, attacked Kaifeng, and offered the thieves to trap Xiangyang, killed the King of Xiang, and Kesuizhou. The vassal king died, the thieves prospered, and the world shook.
The thieves are like fire, and the people of Henan are in panic all day long, afraid that one day they will come to the city.
When the emperor appointed Fu Zonglong as the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, all parties had high hopes for him, especially the people of Henan.
Unexpectedly, the official army was defeated in Xiangcheng, and Fu Zonglong retreated to Chenzhou, and his life and death were unknown.
Just when this sunny day was a thunderbolt, more news came, the Ming Dynasty with the strength of the whole country gathered soldiers and horses in Songshan defeated, the nine-sided elite was destroyed, everyone was more worried about the state affairs, and did not know where the future hope.
Everyone has a feeling that the state affairs are irretrievable, and the thieves are irresistible, and Henan will be the world of thieves.
In addition, the rogues in various places were flooded, and small groups of thieves rode everywhere to shovel grain and shovel the city, and the situation was unstable, and the people in various cities fled one after another.
The Yang family was also ready to flee, but there was a dispute before fleeing, whether to go to the nearest Guide City, or flee to Xuzhou, or to Fengyang, Luzhou and other places.
After Fu Zonglong's defeat, there were rumors that thieves would attack the city of Guide, and Xuzhou was close to Guide, and it could also be attacked by thieves. Moreover, in May of this year, Tai'an thieves attacked Xuzhou, and the local bandits Cheng Jikong, Wang Daoshan, and Zhang Fangzao were also entrenched in the territory, burning and looting in all directions, and it was very problematic to survive here.
It is also not advisable to go to Nanzhi Fengyang Mansion and Luzhou Mansion.
Chongzhen's seven years of thieves had trapped Fengyang, eight years of siege of Luzhou, several years of ravage, the only survivors of the states and counties are only Shouzhou and Luzhou, the people were slaughtered innumerable. The people of Jiangbei are already afraid of thieves like tigers, and some children cry at night, and their parents are afraid of them and say: "Don't cry, the thieves are coming." "Stop.
People say that the scourge of thieves is not only feared by people, but also by ghosts, not only by the old and strong, but also by children.
In May of this year, Henan Tukou Yuan Shizhong also gathered 200,000 people to commit Fengsi, although he was defeated by the governor Zhu Dadian, but there were countless small remnants of thieves in each county, and the land in the north of the river was a place for thieves to erode for a long time, and it was not a place to live.
It is rumored that the thieves will attack Fengyang Mansion in the east, and they are also afraid of the Gezuo thieves who are rampant in Feng and Lu Mansions, and finally the family decided to go to Huai'an Mansion.
In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Yellow River flowed all over the Huai, the flooding of Huai'an Mansion became more and more intense, the land of fish and rice was no longer prosperous, and the Yellow River was overflowing, and the soil was barren in many places, and it became the famous hometown of bad water, thieves and beggars gathered.
However, in the face of the threat to the lives of the thieves, the relatively stable Huai'an Mansion is no less than a paradise for the Yang family.
This body actually disapproves of running away, he feels that he has been a student, and he is a disciple of the county, so he should stay and guard the township together, and now there is chaos everywhere, and it is not necessarily a good thing to run away from the countryside.
But he was severely reprimanded by his father, saying that he was just a student, not an official, what kind of soil did he guard?
In the end, his father's fate was disobeyed, and the family hurriedly prepared and left Luyi County with the fleeing army.
And then......
There are bandits everywhere in this world, but it's okay to meet a small group of bandits, dozens of relatives of the Yang family who have fled, more than a dozen men, all of whom can practice bow horses, and the small group of bandits are not afraid. And on the way to escape, I heard that although Fu Zonglong was captured and killed, the thieves also went to the direction of Nanyang Mansion.
So after going to Bozhou, the second uncle wanted to change his route to Yongcheng and pick up his daughter and son-in-law's family.
When I finally walked to Suixiji, I met the Xuzhou thieves Cheng Jikong, Wang Daoshan, and Zhang Fangzao's brigade.
“…… Since the thieves are chaotic, the killing is incalculable, and the spread is all barren, I can't report to my family and country, and I can't protect my parents from the country, and I am ashamed to be a son of man. ”
The tragic scene was devouring his soul every time, the tide of thieves, the men resisted desperately, and the women committed suicide with their knives in order to avoid being humiliated by the thieves.
In order to protect themselves from the encirclement, the father, uncle, second uncle, and cousins fought desperately, only they tied up their younger brothers and sisters, and under the desperate protection of the scholar Minister Yang, they finally got lucky to get out of the encirclement, and the rest were all killed.
Afterwards, he and Minister Yang, the scholar, went to the local area to look for it, and the scene was a mess, and the bodies of relatives were all ruined.
Crying bitterly, the anger like fire, the hatred like the sea burned in the heart, but the disaster is not alone, not long after burying the bodies of relatives, and encountered one of the bandits at that time, after a fierce battle, and the scholar Minister Yang was separated again.
The depths of the soul were deeply slashed, and under a series of blows and tortures, this body was exhausted, and it was all supported by perseverance.
After escaping to a relatively safe place, he finally collapsed and let his soul, the soul of the afterlife, occupy his body.
It's just that the soul is very obsessed, and the residual consciousness in his body tortures him all the time, affects him, and finally makes it impossible to tell which one is which.
"I'm ashamed ......"
Yang He only felt dizzy for a while, and suddenly he heard a burst of "brother...... Brother ......" voice.
Yang He woke up suddenly, it turned out that he had a headache, and he fell asleep unconsciously, and then he heard the call of his younger brothers and sisters, and the sound of boiling water in the clay pot.
"Brother, it's the minister's brother......"
"What?"
Ying'er heard the voice of the minister's brother.
Yang He listened attentively, and sure enough, there was a faint voice outside: "Young master, young master......"
"Minister'......"
Yang He was overjoyed, and hurriedly rushed out of the reed house, and his younger brothers and sisters also followed out happily, "Brother minister......"
Yang He raised his eyes to look at the sound, and there was also a village ruin on the left side of Xiao Zhuangzi, surrounded by artemisia grass, and no one was faintly visible. However, at this time, there were still figures flickering among the weeds, and there was a faint angry shout: "...... Dare to rob Lao Tzu's things...... Looking for ...... death"
Then there was a terrible scream of death, and a figure fled through the artemisia grass, and then a figure chased after him, waving something in the shape of a club in his hand, knocking the man to the ground, "Kill you provocate", and he kept waving the stick until the man was motionless.
"Minister'......"
Yang He looked kind, and sure enough, it was his own scholar, Minister Yang, and he couldn't help but shout with joy.
The figure raised his eyes to look this way, and then his tone was extremely surprised: "Young master? ”
"Young master, you're not dead."
With a cheerful voice, I saw a figure hurrying towards this side with a stick, as if there was something strung on the stick.
The figure ran fast, and soon a simple and stout young man appeared in front of Yang He's eyes, with a folded scarf wrapped around his head, a short blue robe, a line wrapped around his feet, a short knife and a dagger around his waist, and a large package on his back.
He was holding a stick in his hand, which was a metallic dull yellow glow, covered with various patterns, giving people a sense of strength and heaviness, but it was the handle of Yang Hechong's long-handled knife, and at this time it was a hare strung on it.
This is Yang He's scholar Minister Yang, the son of the family, only one year younger than Yang He, the two grew up together, like siblings.
Minister Yang's tears fell in strings from afar, he flew over, hugged Yang He's thighs and opened his mouth and cried: "Young master...... Whining...... I thought I'd never see you again......"
Looking at the scholar who was crying with tears and snot coming out of his feet, Yang He's heart was warm, and he comforted softly: "Okay, isn't this okay?" Hurry up. ”
The younger brothers and sisters also said happily: "Brother Minister." ”
Seeing the two of them, Minister Yang opened his mouth and laughed again, he picked up the two children and spun them around, making the two giggle, and said happily: "It's really good that the two little masters are okay." ”
His joy comes from the heart, needless to say, Yang He has always regarded him as his own brother, and he has always regarded Yang Qian and Yang Ying as younger brothers and sisters.
In fact, compared with Yang He's family, he has taken care of two children more since he was a child.
Then he remembered something, and lifted the thing in his hand as if offering a treasure: "Look, what is this?" ”
Sister Ying'er clapped her hands and said, "Wow, Tutu." ”
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Old White Bull: The new book has been released, and we are about to start a long creative journey again. Like Xiaobing, this book is also a rigorous historical travel text, impassioned, passionate and sad, after all, there are many people and things worth telling in the Southern Ming Dynasty.
I have prepared a lot for this book, specifically examining the geography, topography, humanities, water and soil of Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Inner Mongolia and other provinces and cities.
Especially in areas such as Fengyang and Huai'an, they run more meticulously, everything, just to write that sense of reality, people with obsessive-compulsive disorder can't do it.
The criticism of the last little soldier is that it is a big break.,Learn a lesson, this won't be.,It will continue to be updated.。 Of course, sometimes when you are tired and sleepy, it is normal to take a break for three or five days, after all, writing is a very nerve-burning thing.
And I will inform the reader in the chapter before taking a break.
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