Chapter 1 The Brother and Sister Died in the Han Palace

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1) Luoshui

"Junpi Luo, Wei Shui Lang. The gentleman stops, Flurutz. In order to be the sixth division.

Junpilo, Wei Shui Lang. The gentleman is the end, and the stinger has a stump. A gentleman for ten thousand years, protect his family.

Junpilo, Wei Shui Lang. The gentleman is the same, and the blessing is the same. A gentleman for ten thousand years, protect his family. ”

This poem "Xiao Ya Zhan Pi Luo" when Zhou Xuan Wang Northern Expedition Xuan, Southern Expedition Jingman, Huaiyi, Xu Rong, the princes obeyed orders, the Quartet came to the court, the history is called "Xuan Wang Zhongxing", the poem is written that King Zhou Xuan on the shore of Luoshui with the princes to review the six armies, so not majestic, Luoshui is a vast and peaceful.

At this time, it was the third year of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, and it was nearly a thousand years since King Xuan of Zhou, and Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty was in Luoyang, which was in the north of Luoshui. At this time, the Luoshui was rolling waves, like horses running, like Jiaoteng, carrying branches and stones, rushing to the fields and farmhouses on the outskirts of Luodu, it was an August day, and the heavy rain overwhelmed the unsturdy houses on the outskirts of the city.

However, the palace in this city has occupied more than half of the area, so most of the people live outside the city, and the flood has damaged their homes, and groups of people have been displaced and gathered outside the gate of Luoyang. And the water is not slow, because the displaced people outside the city are gathering more and more, and it is also the hot summer season, there will be a big epidemic after the catastrophe, Henan Yin has stepped up the inventory of the city gates, and does not dare to let these displaced people enter the city to breed the plague.

Outside the city gate, men, women, and children, one by one, lay on the ground, after the heavy rain it was very hot, and there were many mosquitoes, and the food they carried was even less than a mouthful, and they did not know when the flood would pass, and it was really miserable.

Not far from the city gate, under a large cypress tree, sat a group of homeless people, and one of them, a middle-aged woman in her thirties, dressed in coarse cloth clothes, stretched out her hand to greet not far away. But I saw that there were two teenagers, a man and a woman, both of whom looked thirteen or fourteen years old, their clothes were tattered, and their faces were also stained with mud from east to west, and they couldn't see their faces clearly. The two of them were lying in a clearing far away from the city gate, obviously exhausted, and the young man heard someone calling something in a trance, and woke up groggily, and found that he was calling himself, and woke up the girl next to him and pulled her step by step to the woman.

"Child, I'm hungry, I have something to eat, you eat first, the ...... of the house" The woman said to the young man who came to the two and then asked for food from a sturdy middle-aged man next to him, the man was shirtless, full of beard, and his expression was slightly simple, he was obviously taken aback when he heard the woman's words, and the two of them did not have much food of their own, and looked at the young man and sighed, and then hesitantly took out a pocket from the side, took out a piece of cake, and wanted to tear half of it to the two, and sighed and gave the whole cake to the two.

As soon as the two young men heard that there was something to eat, their eyes were shining, as if the fatigue of the front was swept away, and the girl couldn't help but swallow when she saw the cake taken out by the big man, only to see that the cake was black but also thick, and the heavy rain cake was a little moldy these days, but in the eyes of the two young people, it was like a peerless delicacy. The girl was embarrassed to keep staring at the cake, and turned to look at the boy, her big eyes full of anticipation.

The young man also showed an inquiring look to the woman and the big man. The woman nodded kindly and said, "Eat." The boy took the cake excitedly, tore the cake into one big and one small, and handed the big one to the girl, "Sister! We've got something to eat! At this time, the woman and the big man knew that the two were brother and sister.

The girl also happily took the bread from her brother's hand, and after a pause, she said, "Brother, I eat less, but you eat big." So saying, he went to take the small piece in the boy's hand. Seeing this, the woman and the big man unconsciously sighed in their hearts, this brother and sister are so close to each other, it is really rare, the big man couldn't help but continue, "After eating this, there is still ......" said and took out half a piece of cake from the bag and gave it to the girl, the brother and sister looked at each other, and devoured it.

"Son, what's your name? You call me Aunt Fan, are you also a refugee from this nearby county? The woman stroked the young girl's head.

"Hehe, my surname is Xiahou, just call me Uncle Xiahou." Before the young man could answer, the big man on the side grinned, but was met with a roll of the eyes of Aunt Fan.

"Ah, Aunt Fan, my name is Zhao Zhong, and I ...... My sister's name is Zhao Yan, and we ...... ...... from Jizhou," Zhao Zhong replied with his mouth full of cakes.

"And what about your parents?" But it was the man surnamed Xiahou who asked, who knew that he was glanced at by the woman again, and he was wondering, only to see Zhao Zhong put down the remaining cake in his hand, with a sad expression, "My father died early, my mother pulled me and my sister, but I was seriously ill two years ago, and all the valuable things in the family were sold to buy medicine for my mother to treat the disease, and the doctor who saw the disease a month ago said no, and the pavilion chief said let us sell the family's field to the big family in the township to buy some delicious food for my mother...... and the coffin of the shroud......" Speaking of this, Zhao Zhong was already choked up, and the girl on the side listened to her brother's words and cried on her brother with a "wow", which was unbearable to watch.

Aunt Fan on the side has already followed with her tears to wipe her tears, but because the woman and the big man also have a son, and this young Zhao Zhong is the same age, the year before last, the imperial court forced conscription Ding to defend Xiqiang, each family needs a man, the son can't bear his father's service, so he stole to join the army, the woman saw Zhao Zhong and the two remembered her son, so she called the two of them, at this time I heard what happened to the brother and sister, and the thoughts of my son were even more tears.

The man listened to what happened to the two brothers and sisters, and he was also sad in his heart, but he saw that the three people in front of him were crying really sadly, and he didn't mean to stop for a while, and he didn't know how to persuade him, and suddenly he had an idea, and remembered what the young man had just said, "The little brother said that he came from Jizhou and went all the way so far, but what relatives do he have in Luoyang?" ”

This question really stopped the three of them from crying, "No, there are no relatives, I'm going to be here...... Government official...... The official ......" This answer really surprised the Xiahou couple, and the big man immediately said angrily, "The man's head is up to the sky, his feet are on the ground, what is he not doing well, how can he be that eunuch!" Those eunuchs are harming ......"

Before the man surnamed Xiahou finished speaking, Aunt Fan hurriedly covered her husband's mouth to prevent him from continuing, but saw that Zhao Zhong was so frightened that he stayed in place and didn't dare to say anything more.

The young Zhao Zhongsheng was born in the township, only farming and chopping firewood since he was a child, and he knew little about the eunuch court, etc., or the pavilion chief who helped his family buy a coffin told him, saying that the eunuch was an errand to serve the emperor, and there was a lot of oil and water, and the reward in January could catch up with planting for a year. also said that they themselves are not good, they are too old, and only these thirteen or fourteen teenagers in the palace can hold this position, and they are still sighing on the side and saying that it is too early for their parents to send them and so on...... Zhao Zhong listened to it before, and thought that if he could do what the pavilion chief said, his sister and himself would no longer have to go hungry in the future, and they would be able to live a good life, be well fed and clothed, this is a good thing, why did this Uncle Xiahou blame himself, he really couldn't figure it out, but he was stunned by the man's words just now......

Syllable! Just when the four of them were silent, a horsewhip sounded from not far away, and in the blink of an eye, a carriage had come closer, which horse neighed and the two front hooves were raised high and stopped in the middle of the road, and under the horse's hooves, one person fell to the ground, it was the big man surnamed Xiahou. It turned out that he had just heard Zhao Zhong speak, and the big man was excited, and he unconsciously stood on the official road to enter the city gate, and he was angry, and he didn't notice that a carriage was driving by, and it was too fast for the carriage to react.

Rao is the coachman is fast, so he didn't hit the Xiahou Han, but the carriage stopped suddenly, the people in the car were not light, the big man secretly screamed in his heart, looking at the carriage beam carved with fine patterns, you know that the characters sitting in the car are extraordinary, and today is uncertain.

Sure enough, there was an angry shout, "Dog, don't die!" But it was the coachman who shouted, and then a whip flashed, and the whip was whipped on the big man, and a blood mark appeared on the big man, and the Xiahou big man screamed.

The coachman hurriedly dismounted, went around to the back of the carriage with trepidation, opened the curtain and said, "Master, you and the little boy are not hurt, there is a pariah who is blocking the official road and startling the horse, and he should really ......cut the horse with a thousand cuts," and went in to help the people in the carriage out.

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