The setting sun swept in like a tide, rolling out the red clouds outside the window.

Yuzhou, Xudu.

Under the red-hot clouds, the birds chirped and spread their wings and soared from the sky, overlooking the black and oppressive crowd, it was a bleak scene, the imperial capital that migrated from here, it can have some improvement, it seems to be crumbling in this plague, with the famine and chaos derived from the plague, and even the entire one-third of the counties and counties in Yuzhou have suffered a huge impact, and the death toll is worrying.

More than a dozen large and small cities, but hundreds of villages fell into the predicament of desertion, but fortunately, with timely rescue and ruthless control, the spread of the plague finally relaxed, and a large amount of grain was transported into Xu Du to distribute several large counties that were severely affected, and this disaster was finally seen.

Walking through the barren township outside the city, the figures of two men and a woman walked here, it was difficult to hear the barking of human dogs around, and the occasional burst of crying was also a desperate scene, the cry of the woman with her hair and the cry of the child were mixed together, a gentleman stood at the door of the house, kept beating the mother and son, and scolded angrily: "Get out, you mother and son both get out of here!" If you get sick, be careful to infect me!! Get out of the house and die a little farther away—"

The gentry is also embarrassed, even though the mansion is heroic, but it shows a decadent atmosphere, the fallen leaves in front of the door are thick, it is difficult to see the figure of the family guard, the mother and son opposite the man cry sharply and hoarsely, and keep kowtowing on the ground in despair. When Cao Ang, Yun Niang and Wu Anguo saw this scene, they just sighed and walked away.

In such a catastrophe and epidemic, everyone is afraid of disease like a tiger, not to mention that many people are not immune to this disaster.

The three of them walked through a long alley, and soon after, they came to the back door of a courtyard, and slowly walked up the stone steps with hesitant steps, and the raised hand hesitated to hover, and after a long time, he knocked on the somewhat dilapidated door, and he didn't know if there were any living people in the courtyard.

"Ziyu, your mother will be fine." Wu Anguo knew what he was hesitating about, and Yun Niang next to him also nodded in agreement.

Cao Ang's face was nervous, and he whispered "I hope so......" The knock on the door has been a long time, his face is faintly pale, his joints are clenched, and when he wants to break into the door, the courtyard door suddenly opens a little, and the old man with pale hair is reflected in the crack of the door, he looks at the three people outside the door, and his cloudy eyes stay on the face of the young man who knocks on the door for a while, and his vigilant look slowly reveals joy.

The door suddenly opened, the old man took two steps tremblingly, reached out and grabbed Cao Ang's arm, in his cloudy eyes, old tears flowed out, and his lips trembled slightly: "The eldest prince...... You're alive...... You're still alive...... Wow......" The old man cried.

"Shou Bo...... I'm not dead...... Aung didn't die. Cao Ang's eyes outside the door were wet red, and he held the old man's hand and comforted him, his eyes looked over the thin hunched body, and looked into the courtyard, "My mother, she...... I've already heard about the things in Cao's mansion, is she okay? ”

"Madame is fine, it's just that I miss the eldest prince too sadly, the gods bless her, her body is fine, come in, come in."

Cao Ang nodded, the old man on the opposite side gave way, he took Wu Anguo and Yun Niang and walked inside, Shou Bo then cautiously looked at the situation outside, and carefully closed the door. The courtyard was not large, and when you turned the corner of the eaves and crossed a long corridor, you could see the location of the wings, and as you approached, there was a faint creaking sound.

The sky was red, and through the open window lattice, Cao Ang saw the woman sitting in the corner of the room stepping on the spinning wheel and weaving, her nose was a little sour, and something hot was flowing out of her eyes.

"Mother...... Aang, it's back. ”

The weaving hand stopped, the woman's body trembled slightly, her eyes opened wide, looking at the kneeling figure at the door, her lips opened and closed: "It's my son's ......" The words were trilled, and the tears overflowed the eyes, the body suddenly left the spinning wheel, rushed over and hugged Cao Ang, the irrepressible emotions fell with tears, and screamed: "It's really my son back...... It's really my son! ”

Tears dripped down and fell on Cao Ang's face warm and moist, he choked up and couldn't say anything else, just kept kowtowing on the ground, and kept saying: "It's the child who is back, the child is back, and the child ......is coming back."

Outside the door, the afterglow turned orange and shone on the courtyard, Wu Anguo, Shoubo, and Yun Niang stood there quietly, and the girl couldn't help but wipe her moist eyes, sniff, and watch the touching scene of the reunion of mother and son.

After half an hour, the two figures crying to each other in the house gradually stopped, and the woman wiped her tears to help her son up, and she also knew about the battle of Wancheng in her crying, and a guard replaced him, and then escaped by jumping into the water.

"God blessed, the ancestors of the Cao family and the Xiahou family blessed me, so that my son escaped from danger." Ding folded his hands and raised his head to the sky and whispered, and then, looking at Wu Anguo and Yun Niang outside, he saluted them, and the strong man was so frightened that he dropped the hammer and hurriedly waved his hand: "Mrs. Ding can't help it, you are the wife of the prime minister, your status is noble, Yun Niang and I are just people in the mountains and wilderness, where can we afford it." ”

"You deserve it."

Ding's eyes still had residual wet marks, but his face had already melted away from the sorrow of the past, and he thanked the brother and sister again, and then turned his head and took his son's hand: "You are not dead, can you tell your father that you have not?" ”

On the other side, Cao Ang hesitated for a moment and shook his head: "The child came here today to see his mother, and that family doesn't want to go back." ”

"You are the eldest son of the Cao family, how can you do it if you don't go back!" Ding's gaze became serious, and then softened, "...... Since you don't want to go back, where do you go? You can't wander the mountains. ”

"The child wants to go to the north and continue to lead the army to fight against the aliens, instead of nesting at home and fratricidal, since God has given Aung a chance to start over, I will ......"

"Then you can go."

Cao Ang was stunned for a moment, originally thinking that his mother would dissuade him, but when the words came, he was a little unconvinced. Ding pulled him to sit down and poured a bowl of warm water, "My son has other ambitions, it's not easy to be a mother, you can go if you want, my mother is sitting in Xu Capital City and watching you come back on the day." ”

"Yes!" Cao Ang excitedly kowtowed again, got up and walked to the door and bowed to the woman: "The sky is far away, the child is about to leave, wandering in a foreign land, do not forget the teachings of his mother." ”

There was a decision between the words, and the words became decisive, Cao Ang put down his hand and raised his head, his eyes became clear and focused, and he strode out of the courtyard with the two brothers and sisters beside him. The woman bowed her head, wiped the tears that had fallen again, she got up and walked to the eaves, looked at the back of the striding away, and whispered to the old man beside her.

"Uncle Shou, when the chaos in Xuchang calms down, you ask someone to send a letter to Cao Mengde and ask him to come and pick me up....... Since my son is still here, then I can't let her and her son take away what belongs to her son. ”

The orange light drooped westward, and the three people who walked out of the courtyard gate came to the carriage that was parked not far away, he glanced back at the courtyard, took a deep breath, and helped the girl into the carriage, in which an old man was bound and gagged.

"Taigong, Ang is offended, you have medical skills, just walking around the village and alleys to see people, some overkill, I know there is a suitable place for you......"

Outside the carriage, the whip sounded, Wu Anguo waved his palm and shouted: "- Drive!" The wheels slowly drove away, slowly heading northwest.

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Northwest, go far to Hanoi.

In the camp temporarily stationed at the foot of the mountain, the night insects were crying in the corner, and the tent was quiet, Gongsun Zhi looked at the information that had been transmitted from the north to Shangdang, and then to his hands, and sat behind the long case, closed his eyes and was silent for a long time...... It was the news that someone was seriously ill and dying.

"Oriental ....."