"What did Empress Dou say?" Li Xiu asked curiously, Princess Pingyang was still young when she rescued Ma Ye, and there must have been many omissions, but Queen Dou was a talented woman, just by looking at the few children she had educated, so she probably saw something. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"I remember when I asked Uncle Ma to be brought home, my mother just looked at him, then sighed and said, 'Another poor man,' and left." Princess Pingyang recalled, and after speaking, she also showed a sentimental look on her face, if her mother was still alive, I am afraid that the eldest brother and the second brother would not have made such a fuss.

"Another poor man?" Li Xiu couldn't help but savor it carefully when he heard this, there are two key points in this sentence, one is "again", and the other is "poor man", and these two points prove that Queen Dou probably knows something about the origin of Ma Ye, otherwise she would not have said so.

"In addition to this sentence, what else did Queen Dou say?" Li Xiu thought for a moment and suddenly asked again, although this sentence proved that Empress Dou knew something, but there was no other information else, so he couldn't judge anything at all.

"There is nothing else." Princess Pingyang thought about it again, but finally shook her head and said, in fact, she was very curious about Ma Ye's identity later, and she had pestered him to ask many times when she was a child, but every time Ma Ye was unwilling to say, and then she gradually stopped asking.

Li Xiu couldn't help but be a little disappointed when he heard this, and immediately opened the window to look at Ma Ye in front of him, and his heart was full of curiosity, where did Ma Ye take them, and what happened in the first place to make his situation change so much?

After the carriage left Chang'an, it was to the east at first, Li Xiu thought that Ma Ye would take them to Luoyang, but in the afternoon, they began to go northeast, and when it was almost dark, the carriage stopped in a small town, and then the group rested in the town for a night, and finally moved forward the next day, until this afternoon, Li Xiu and they arrived at a big city.

"Puzhou?" Li Xiu was also a little surprised when he looked at the somewhat unfamiliar name on the city gate, to be honest, he really didn't know that there was such a city near Chang'an City, although the scale of the city did not seem to be very large, but the city walls were built very strongly.

"Puzhou here is known as the world by Taishi, the legend of the emperor in the soil of the 'Houtu', refers to here, and there is a very famous Houtu temple here, I heard that the incense is very prosperous, but I have never been here." Seeing Li Xiu's puzzled appearance, Princess Pingyang couldn't help but explain with a smile.

"Wow~, Sister Xiuning, your knowledge is so profound, you even know what your brother doesn't know!" Qi Niang in the carriage couldn't help but exaggerate when she heard Princess Pingyang's explanation, this little girl has seen everything since she left Chang'an, and she didn't sleep until midnight last night, but she fell asleep again in the carriage today, and now she just woke up.

"Hehe, you little girl knows more than me now, I can't learn what your brother said." When Princess Pingyang heard Qi Niang's words, she couldn't help but touch her little head dotingly and said, since she regained her freedom, Princess Pingyang's temperament has become much more lively, and she loves to laugh more, and the whole person feels like a few years younger.

"Okay, we're here, we're going to rest in the city today, and I'll take you somewhere tomorrow!" At this moment, I saw Ma Ye come to the side of the car and say to Li Xiu and them through the window.

"Uncle Ma, what are you doing with us in Puzhou?" Li Xiu finally raised the question in his heart at this time, he had endured it before, but now that he had arrived at the place, he finally couldn't help it.

"...... here" I saw that Ma Ye looked up at the two words on the city at this time, and his eyes showed a sad look again, and after a while, he said, "This is my hometown!" ”

After Ma Ye finished speaking, he sighed and stepped forward, without much explanation, but the word "hometown" alone was enough, Li Xiu carefully pondered the meaning of the word hometown at this time, and sighed after a long time, he had several guesses before, but now it seems that only the most tragic guess is correct.

Under the leadership of Ma Ye, Li Xiu and their convoy entered the city, although Puzhou City was called the world by Taishi, and it is also one of the birthplaces of the descendants of Yan and Huang, but after all, this is a small city, the entire city covers a small area, it is estimated that even Chang'an is less than one percent, and the population is not very much, when Li Xiu entered the city, he found that the business on both sides of the street is not prosperous, and there are few pedestrians, so it cannot be compared with Chang'an.

"Puzhou is close to Chang'an, and it is an important town on the northeast side of Chang'an, in order to prevent the enemy from attacking Chang'an from this direction, so in the former Sui Dynasty, Puzhou was a military town near Chang'an, and my Datang was also stationed here to garrison heavy troops, but it was the first time I knew that Uncle Ma's hometown was here." Princess Pingyang introduced again at this time that as a military general, she also treasured some important towns in the Tang Dynasty.

When he spoke, the convoy had already entered the city, Ma Ye did not alarm the local officials, but directly found a clean inn, and then directly wrapped the entire inn, so he barely stayed, after all, Princess Pingyang must bring some guards with her when she travels.

At dinner, Princess Pingyang, Yi Niang, and Qi Niang were eating in the room, and Li Xiu went out of the guest room to the hall, only to see Ma Ye sitting there drinking alone, Li Xiu immediately walked over and sat opposite Ma Ye and said: "Uncle Ma, why do you drink alone, do you want me to chat with you?" ”

"You're a clever kid, have you guessed what I brought you here?" I saw that Ma Ye looked up at Li Xiu at this time and said, after speaking, he raised his neck, and another glass of wine entered his stomach, and the expression on his face also looked quite sad.

"I did guess a little, but the previous things are in the past, so you have to relax!" Li Xiu comforted at this time, in fact, he didn't know what happened to Ma Ye, but he could just guess a rough idea.

Ma Ye shook his head when he heard this, and then held the wine jar with both hands and drank half of the jar in one go, and then suddenly stood up and said, "Go, I'll take you somewhere!" ”

Ma Ye stood up and left the living room after speaking, but at this time he drank a lot of wine and walked a little swaying, which made Li Xiu also very uneasy, and hurriedly followed, and when he got out of the inn, Ma Ye did not ride a horse, just walked on the streets of Puzhou.

At this time, it is getting late, there are almost no pedestrians on the street where there are few pedestrians, and even the shops on both sides of the street have begun to close, which makes Li Xiu frown again and again, now it is summer, the shops in Puzhou City are closed so early, and the streets are even more sparsely pedestrianized, so it seems that the business here is really poor, and it seems that it will take a long time for the Tang Dynasty to come.

Li Xiu and Ma Ye walked north along the street of Puzhou City, and finally turned east for a long time, it is estimated that this should be the northeast corner of Puzhou City, and this is obviously the slum of Puzhou City, and there are some simple and low small houses everywhere you see, but around these small houses, there are many broken yards, the houses inside have collapsed, wood and bricks have been taken away to build houses, only some broken ruins are piled up there, it looks like there is an indescribable dilapidation.

Ma Ye looked at the ruined scenery in front of him, to be precise, it should be those courtyards that had become ruins, and the sad look on his face was more serious, and finally slowly said: "More than ten years ago, this was not the case, Puzhou was a military town, and heavy soldiers were stationed in the former Sui Dynasty, and some generals in the army settled here, and moved their families here, and this is the residential area where the generals in the army are most concentrated. ”

"Uncle Ma, you...... Your home is also here? Li Xiu asked tentatively at this time, just looking at the scene in front of him, it was difficult for him to imagine what this place was like at the beginning.

"It's not just me, from my father's generation, this is my home, my father is the Guoyi Lieutenant of the Sui Army, the official position is not high or low, to my generation, a total of four brothers, all entered the army, and my father is very strict with our four brothers, since childhood, they have practiced literature and martial arts, after entering the army, everyone has been promoted by their own ability, and the last position is not worse than my father's, at that time, our Ma family was famous in Puzhou City!" When he said this, he saw that Ma Ye's face also showed a look of pride, as if he remembered the glory of the family again.

Li Xiu also nodded secretly when he heard this, thinking that Ma Ye was really from a military family, and he had been trained in the Sui army for many years, and had participated in the three major expeditions against Goguryeo, with these backgrounds, it was no wonder that Princess Pingyang would grow into an excellent general.

While they were talking, Ma Ye took Li Xiu to the corner of a street, where there was a ruin that was bigger than the others, and it could be seen that if this place had not been destroyed, it should have been a mansion that occupied a large area.

"This is it, more than ten years ago, this is my home, I, my father, and my brothers, several families live here, and this is also known as the Ma family mansion, my father is a very serious person, and the requirements for our brothers are also very high, but he likes children very much, whether it is the children of my brother's family, or the children of my brother and me, my father likes it very much, every time the child makes a mistake, when our brother wants to teach them a lesson, those boys will run to my father for help......"

Ma Ye said and spoke, but his voice became whimpering, and finally he couldn't go on, and Li Xiu also sighed at this time, although he was mentally prepared, but he didn't expect that Ma Ye's experience was even more tragic than he expected. (To be continued.) )