"What's wrong?" Ma Ye saw Li Xiu suddenly stand up, and asked a little strangely at the moment, just now he was immersed in pain and didn't notice the situation in the outside world. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"It's nothing, just now I saw a figure flashing not far away, maybe it's a nearby citizen, right?" Li Xiu said with some uncertainty at this time, the Ma family's mansion is very large, but the strange thing is that there are no people building houses here like in other places, and even if they have been sitting here for so long, there is not even a figure around, and the figure that appeared just now is indeed a little abrupt.

"Maybe, but there were too many people who died here at the beginning, and now the whole city of Puzhou is rumored to be haunted here, so except for those who are really poor and have nowhere to go, few people dare to come here at night." Ma Ye couldn't help laughing at himself when he said this, he really hoped that the so-called hauntings were real, because those so-called ghosts were probably his relatives.

Hearing Ma Ye's words, Li Xiu didn't dare to speak again, so as not to cause Ma Ye's sadness again, after all, the entire family was wiped out, and even Ma Ye's children died in the enemy army, if this kind of pain was put on him, I am afraid that Li Xiu would have gone crazy a long time ago, which also made Li Xiu secretly glad that he had traveled to a relatively peaceful era, if he traveled to the end of the Sui Dynasty, he didn't dare to imagine how he could protect himself and his family?

"Let's go back, it's getting late, rest early today, and buy some incense and candles tomorrow to worship my relatives!" Ma Ye suddenly sighed at this time and said, tomorrow is his family's sacrifice day, and it is also his father's birthday, every time he thinks of this, he will feel very uncomfortable.

Li Xiu also nodded at the moment, and then helped Ma Ye up, and the two returned to the inn again, Puzhou City is a military town, and there is also a curfew here, so when Li Xiu and they went back, they also encountered several interrogations by patrol soldiers, but when Ma Ye showed his token, naturally no one dared to stop him.

When Li Xiu returned to the room, Yi Niang was coaxing Qi Niang to sleep, it was estimated that the little girl didn't dare to sleep alone outside, which made Li Xiu a little helpless, so he could only go to Qi Niang's room to sleep, but when he just walked to the corridor, he saw Princess Pingyang's room suddenly open, and then saw Princess Pingyang come out and look at him and said, "Where did you and Uncle Ma go, why did you come back so late?" ”

Ma Ye's matter should also be known to Princess Pingyang, so Li Xiu walked over and muttered: "Just now I went to his old house with Uncle Ma and heard him say something about his family, but what happened to Ma Ye is even more sad than I imagined!" ”

"What's going on, what happened to Uncle Ma's family?" Princess Pingyang couldn't help but hurriedly ask when she heard this, she hadn't asked before, but Ma Ye just didn't say it, so she didn't ask later.

I saw Li Xiu sigh at this time, and then told Ma Ye what he told him today, but when he heard half of it, Princess Pingyang couldn't cry, and when she heard that Ma Ye had a daughter who was the same age as her, Princess Pingyang covered her mouth and cried bitterly, she didn't expect that Ma Ye, who had been taking care of herself like a father, would have such a tragic past.

Seeing the crying Princess Pingyang, Li Xiu naturally reached out and took her in his arms and comforted: "Okay, the previous things have passed, although Uncle Ma is sad, he has finally come out, tomorrow we will accompany Uncle Ma to worship his relatives, and Uncle Ma will be our elder in the future!" ”

"Hmm!" Princess Pingyang nodded heavily when she heard this, but the tears still couldn't stop flowing.

"By the way, Uncle Ma's age is not particularly old, I remember that he still has a few concubines, why has he never had children?" Li Xiu suddenly thought of something at this time, and asked immediately, by the way, he could also divert Princess Pingyang's attention.

"I don't know." Princess Pingyang also blushed when she heard Li Xiu's question, after all, she is such a private matter, and she is a woman, so it is really difficult to ask Ma Ye.

"Alas, if Uncle Ma can have a child, it can dilute his grief over the extermination of his family, and I can also see that Uncle Ma likes children very much, and he probably misses his former children!" Li Xiu couldn't help but sigh at this time and said, people are looking forward, but unfortunately Ma Ye has no children, and he doesn't even have the motivation to look forward, which can only make him more immersed in the pain of the past.

The next morning, Li Xiu got up early, he wanted to help Ma Ye buy some incense and candles and other supplies, but he didn't expect Ma Ye to get up earlier than him, when he came to the living room of the inn, Ma Ye was about to go out, so the two went out together, and then purchased a large number of incense and candle offerings, almost emptying several incense and candle shops.

When Li Xiu and Ma Ye came back, Princess Pingyang and Yi Niang and others had breakfast, Princess Pingyang wanted to say something to Ma Ye, but she didn't know how to speak, but Ma Ye smiled faintly, he didn't need Princess Pingyang to speak, he knew what she was thinking, after all, he watched her grow up.

At that moment, Li Xiu and they got into the carriage again, and then Ma Ye rode a horse to lead the way in front, and the group went out of the city and came to a low mountain in the west of the city, and then Li Xiu and they got off the car, and the group personally took the incense and candle offerings and hiked up the mountain, and when they came to the halfway up the mountain, they saw that there were many mausoleums built here.

"Ah~" But at this moment, suddenly only Qi Niang screamed, and her little face was frightened and white, Li Xiu followed her gaze, and saw that on the right side of these mausoleums, there were a lot of shelves, and on the shelves hung one after another white bones, although only bones remained, but it still looked a little scary.

"Qi Niang, don't be afraid, these are all bad people, so I hang them all here as punishment!" Seeing Qi Niang's scared look, before Li Xiu could speak, Ma Ye next to him had already come over with a smile and comforted, Li Xiu next to him heard this, and immediately reacted, these people are probably Zhou Shou and others who killed Ma Ye's family in the first place, but I didn't expect Ma Ye not only to cut them up, but also tied their bodies here to the sun, but if it was Li Xiu, it is estimated that he would do the same thing.

"Well, Qi Niang is not afraid of bad guys!" Qi Niang also patted her little chest at this time, and her face recovered, this little girl has become more and more bold since she followed Li Xiu, and even Li Chengdao usually has to let her, otherwise she may suffer something, which is also the reason why Yi Niang wants to teach her to learn female popularity, otherwise she will not be a girl at all.

Looking at Qi Niang's cute appearance, Ma Ye also rubbed her little head with relief, and then came to the family's mausoleum, the largest of which was Ma Ye's father's, I saw Ma Ye kneel down in front of his father's tombstone, and then opened the food box in his hand, took out the sacrifice from it and placed it in front of his father's mausoleum, and tears poured out.

There are too many people in Ma Ye's family, and the tombstones here are also one after another, while Ma Ye was sacrificing his father, Li Xiu also signaled to Princess Pingyang and Yi Niang, who were also in tears, and then several people acted together to place the sacrifices they brought in front of these tombstones, Li Xiu secretly counted, and found that there were definitely more than two hundred people, of course, not all of them were Ma Ye's relatives, in addition to those other generals and family members who resisted with the Ma family and were slaughtered, Slaughtering two hundred generals and their families at one time, it would be strange if the former Sui did not die.

In addition, Li Xiu also sent a point, that is, there are no tombstones behind the tombstones here, only one tombstone after another, but it is not strange to think about it, after Ma Ye's family was slaughtered, the Great Sui Imperial Court will definitely not be kind enough to collect the corpses for them, it is likely that the corpses will be dragged to the mass graves, and when Ma Ye comes back, the bones of his relatives are rotten, and it is impossible to distinguish them, so he may collect all the corpses here, but because he can't distinguish them, he can only set up a piece of tombstones.

Thinking of the above, Li Xiu couldn't help but feel a little sad, no wonder Ma Ye would stand the corpses of those enemies by the mausoleum to atone for his sins, and not only did Li Xiu find out about this problem, but Princess Pingyang also seemed to find out, and she cried even more.

I saw that after Ma Ye paid tribute to his father, he stood up and burned paper for each tombstone one by one, and sometimes when he met someone he might know, he would stop and hold the tombstone and say a few words, and the whole person's body was rickety, and it was really at this time that Li Xiu found that Ma Ye, who was just in his early fifties, had become much older.

The memorial of more than 200 people, Ma Ye was personally completed, Li Xiu wanted to do it for them, but they were rejected by Ma Ye, among the people lying here, they were either his relatives and friends, or his familiar neighbors or colleagues, and even some brothers who fought with him since childhood, but unfortunately these people are not here now, he can only talk to them today, and he plans to wait for a few more years, when Princess Pingyang and Li Xiu really get married and have children, he will move here by himself, and have been with these family and friends.

By the time the memorial service was over, the sun was about to set, although Ma Ye was still a little reluctant, but he still stood up and prepared to leave, Li Xiu called Princess Pingyang and Yi Niang at this time, and then kowtowed a few times to the tombstone of Ma Ye's father and others, although they have no blood relationship with Ma Ye, but they all treat Ma Ye as an adult.

After kowtowing, Li Xiu and Ma Ye went down the mountain, and then sat in the carriage and prepared to go back, Qi Niang is young, and everything is fresh, so he has been climbing on the car window to look out, Li Xiu and Princess Pingyang did not speak at this time, and the atmosphere was a little dull, but at this moment, I suddenly saw Qi Niang speak: "Brother, look, there are people following us outside!" (To be continued.) )