Chapter 275: Extermination
Li Xiu has known Ma Ye for a long time, and the two also have a deep relationship, each of them understands what kind of person the other person is, in Li Xiu's heart, Ma Ye has always been an arrogant and iron-blooded man, even if the sword is added, he will not frown. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
But after coming to his old house today, Ma Ye revealed his weak side, especially when he talked about the happy scene of the family, he fell to his knees and cried bitterly, from his narration, it can be known that the Ma family is a prosperous family, but Li Xiu has never seen any relatives around Ma Ye, nor has he heard him mention his relatives, as for where those people went, you can guess without asking.
The first time he saw Ma Ye crying so bitterly, Li Xiu didn't persuade him, because he knew that no matter who experienced such a tragedy in life, it was impossible to stay calm, and it was not a good thing to hold it in his heart all the time, but it would be better to vent it.
It is precisely because of this that Li Xiu has been standing silently behind Ma Ye, until a long time later, Ma Ye stopped crying, and then kowtowed to the Ma family's mansion a few times, then wiped away his tears and stood up, and his face showed a resolute expression again, at this time he once again became the Ma Ye that Li Xiu was familiar with.
"Boy, do you want to know what happened to my family in the first place?" At this time, Ma Ye turned his head and asked Li Xiu.
"Yes, but Uncle Ma, if you don't want to talk about it, it's okay!" Li Xiu replied that he knew that when he asked Ma Ye to talk about the original incident, it would definitely touch the pain in his heart, otherwise he would never have heard him talk about family affairs in the past two years, so it was normal for Ma Ye to be reluctant to say it.
"Don't worry, I'm not that vulnerable!" At this time, Ma Ye took a few steps forward, found a clean stone in the Ma family's mansion and sat down, and Li Xiu also sat next to him.
I saw that Ma Ye sighed at this time, as if he was recalling the original situation, and then he spoke again: "You also know that I participated in the three battles of conquering Goguryeo, and it was during the second expedition to Goguryeo, there was a major event in the Great Sui, that is, the rebellion of Yang Xuangan!" ”
"I know about this matter, Yang Xuangan's rebellion directly led to the failure of the second expedition to Goguryeo, but Yang Xuangan was quickly defeated, but with his rebellion, more and more people were dissatisfied with the Great Sui, which led to more rebellions!" Li Xiu hurriedly said at the moment, Yang Xuangan is the son of the famous Yang Su, and he is also an iconic figure in the Great Sui.
"However, after Yang Xuangan's rebellion, more people followed suit, but you may not know that Yang Xuangan's rebellion also caused a bigger chaos, that is, Yang Guang was angry and demanded that the relevant people of Yang Xuangan's rebellion be investigated, but as a result, more than 30,000 people died tragically, and they have been investigated for several years, causing everyone in the Great Sui to be panicked, which led to more official rebellions!" Ma Ye's eyes were red and he gritted his teeth, and when he mentioned Yang Guang, he seemed to want to eat him alive.
"Could it be that Uncle Ma, your family is also implicated in this incident?" Li Xiu asked in a low voice at the moment, he only knew that Yang Xuangan's rebellion had caused serious consequences, and he really didn't know that so many people were implicated by him, but this can't be blamed on Yang Xuangan, if you want to blame Yang Guang, this guy is simply a brain-dead, the Great Sui is already so chaotic, and he doesn't know how to appease the people, which leads to chaos and chaos, and finally directly causes the Great Sui to fall into ruin.
"Yes, my father used to work under Yang Xuangan, but that was many years ago, when Yang Xuangan rebelled, my father had been stationed in Puzhou for many years, and even when Yang Xuangan's rebels attacked Puzhou, my father personally climbed to the top of the city, commanded the soldiers in the city to resist the rebels, and was seriously wounded in many places to defeat the rebels, which kept Puzhou from losing, but ...... But even so, in the future, it was still calculated by the villain......"
When Ma Ye said this, the tiger's eyes couldn't help but shed two lines of tears again, when Yang Xuangan rebelled, he was fighting in Goguryeo, and then he died nine times before he withdrew, after Yang Xuangan's rebellion was extinguished, his father was not implicated at first, but later offended a villain, which led to the catastrophe of the Ma family.
Puzhou is a military town, in addition to the army, Puzhou also has Zhizhou and other magistrates, and the former Sui Dynasty here is called Zhou Shou, this Zhou Zhizhou is a greedy and unscrupulous person, not only looting the people, even the army's salary dare to deduct, and Ma Ye's father is a hard bone, several times because of the military salary and Zhou Shou quarreled, and even had some fierce conflicts, as a result, Zhou Shou also held a grudge against Ma Ye's father.
However, the Ma family has five generals, Ma Lao's father and son are in charge of the Puzhou garrison, and the four brothers of Ma Ye are even more powerful than one another, especially Ma Ye has repeatedly made military exploits in the army at that time, and is likely to rise to the real top of the army, which also makes Zhou Shou can only endure it, but after Yang Xuangan rebelled, he found an opportunity to deal with the Ma family.
It was also when Ma Ye participated in the third expedition to Goguryeo, Zhou Shou colluded with the local officials in Puzhou to report to the upper head that the Ma family was the remnant of Yang Xuangan, on the grounds that Ma Ye's father had done something under Yang Xuangan, and although Yang Xuangan's rebellion had passed for a long time, the investigation of the remnants of Yang Xuangan was at a peak, and almost all those implicated were executed on the spot.
It was in that situation that the experience of Ma Ye's family can be guessed, when Ma Ye was in the army of Goguryeo, he didn't know about the family at all, and later he learned that it was his father's fiftieth birthday, and his three brothers came back from other places to celebrate their father's birthday, but suddenly a large army from other places rushed into Puzhou City to surround the Ma family's mansion, and rushed in to kill people without saying anything.
In the face of this situation, the father and son of the Ma family were naturally unwilling to wait for death, and the father and son also resisted desperately, and the people living around were their old subordinates and brothers, who saw that the Ma family was attacked, and they also spontaneously came to the rescue, but the army instead included all the surrounding people in the scope of the massacre.
Although the father and son of the Ma family and their subordinates were heroic, they were outnumbered after all, and in the end, the entire residential area was razed to the ground by that army, and all the people who resisted were also slaughtered, including the Ma family, it is said that this land was full of blood and dead bodies at that time, and then everyone in the Ma family was listed as the remnants of Yang Xuangan, including those soldiers and family members who died with the Ma family.
Ma Ye, who was far away in Goguryeo, didn't know the situation at home at all, and when he retreated from the Goguryeo battlefield with nine deaths, he was suddenly arrested, and then learned that his family was exterminated, which made Ma Ye go crazy all of a sudden, and found the opportunity to seize the weapon and kill it, but then he was chased and killed by the Sui army, until he was seriously injured and fell to the ground, which was rescued by Princess Pingyang.
In addition, as far as Ma Ye knows, there are not a few people like him, at that time, the conquest of Goguryeo mobilized a large number of soldiers and troops, and many people were implicated in Yang Xuangan's rebellion, which also led to the fact that after the war, the Great Sui carried out a secret purge of Ma Ye, so as not to rebel because they knew the situation at home, and Ma Ye was one of the very few people who were lucky enough to escape.
"After that, Uncle Ma shouldn't let go of the enemy in the family so easily, right?" Li Xiu was silent for a moment when he heard this, and then he asked, Ma Ye is definitely not a generous person, let alone this kind of blood feud.
"Of course, it is impossible to let go, but after being rescued by the princess, I also calmed down, if I want to avenge the blood feud in the family, I must have enough strength, and the princess has a great kindness to me, I must also repay, and then I found out that the Li family seems to be plotting rebellion, which makes me even more excited, and after the Li family raised troops, I and the princess have also accumulated a lot of troops, and later when attacking Chang'an, I personally found Your Majesty, asked to attack Puzhou, and told him about the blood feud in my family, Your Majesty thought about it and agreed."
When he said this, I saw Ma Ye pause for a moment and then said: "Since my father's death, the Puzhou army has also separated from the Great Sui, so when my army captured Puzhou very smoothly, that Zhou Shou was also captured alive by me, and I also learned the truth of the year from his mouth, taking advantage of that opportunity, I collected the bones of my family, and then escorted Zhou Shou and other related people to my father's grave, and scraped them alive with a knife!" ”
When Ma Ye talked about the final revenge, he didn't have a particularly excited expression, but looked a little lost, and then was silent for a while before he said: "But even if you take revenge, what can I do, my father, my brother, and my children and descendants have not been able to come back, and the Ma family has been ruined, and I don't even have a relative in this world." ”
Seeing Ma Ye's lost appearance, Li Xiu also sighed and patted Ma Ye's shoulder, he understood Ma Ye's emptiness and confusion, when there was no revenge before, he still had the belief of revenge to live, but after revenge, the previous belief that supported him was gone, and he didn't even have the motivation to live, this emptiness and confusion was even more uncomfortable than death.
"Tomorrow is my father's sacrifice day, I used to come to burn some paper money for them every year, the princess was grown up by me, it was a coincidence, the princess and my eldest daughter are the same age, whenever I see her, I seem to see my daughter, the princess herself used to be very miserable, I don't want her to know about me, so I haven't told her, now you have helped the princess regain her freedom, so I think it is necessary to take you to meet my family, and when I die, you will also help me and my family to be buried!" Ma Ye smiled reluctantly at this time, these things have been accumulated in his heart for many years, and now after telling Li Xiu, the whole person feels much better.
"Uncle Ma......" Li Xiu just wanted to say something at this time, but suddenly the corner of his eye flashed, and he seemed to see a figure flashing in the corner of the wall not far away, which also made him stand up immediately. (To be continued.) )