"Remember your birthday wishes?"

"Can you take me there?"

"Yes."

"Today?"

"Well, right now."

In the carriage. I changed into a plain dress, removed all kinds of hairpin ring jewelry, and only had a pair of pearl earrings hanging from my ears.

"Just us?"

"Originally, I told my eldest brother about this, and I went to invite him in the morning, hoping that he could accompany you. But he wouldn't. He said he had a cold and had to stay in his room to sweat. You say, "He insisted, and I didn't force it anymore." ”

"Where?"

"I inquired, and it was in the threshing floor. The horse team must pass through the way in and out of the village. ”

The grain field was clean that day. In the great place, there are only us and our servants. Even the usual frolicking children are nowhere to be seen.

You say, "This is it." The place where Uncle Chen died in battle. "I look at this place. There was a cold shudder all over the body.

You say to one of the old servants who is with you, "Show her." ”

So, the old servant pointed out to me the location of my father's death and said, "That's where General Chen fell. ”

I looked at where he was pointing. I asked him, "Were you there?" ”

The old servant nodded. I said, "Can you tell me about the situation?" The old servant looked at you hesitantly. He said, "The master has instructed that you can't say it until the young lady grows up." ”

You say to the old servant, "Tell her." She's grown up. You can listen to stories like this. It was her biological father. ”

The old servant looked at me again. I said, "Please tell me." I know so little about my father, and I know almost nothing but his name, his portrait, his titles and titles, and his end. I was so unfilial that I didn't even remember my father. ”

When the old servant heard this, he said, "All right." ”

So, the old servant told us about the battle that had been fought more than ten years ago. He talked about the fierce surprise attack of Begi's army that night. Your father was awakened by the sound of hurried horses' hooves, and when he rushed outside with his sword, the north gate of Zhuangji had been stormed by the enemy, and the whole of Zhuangji had been flooded by the tide of black-armored cavalry. They are all over the place. They set fire to houses and killed people of all sight, young and old, men and women. My father hastily organized the soldiers to resist the town, but they were outnumbered. At that time, the leader of the enemy army was the Great Khan King of Ulindenmu Khan, who now unified the Begi tribes. At that time, he had not yet become the king of the Khan, he was in the prime of life, brave and good at fighting, strong and ferocious, and it was he who rushed through the north gate of Zhuangji first. He slashed all the way to the densely populated heartland, leaving corpses everywhere and no one could resist his onslaught. He chased after your father. They fought together. Your father was defeated, and fought and retreated, until he reached the middle of the grain field, and he slashed him on the back shoulder, and fell to the ground, unable to struggle. Just as the Khan was about to rush forward and slash your father to death, my father arrived, raised his sword, and fought to remove the Khan's sword. He cracked a gap in the Khan's sword, forcing the Khan to take a few steps backwards and leave your father.

At that time, my father, General Chen Shizhao, was the chief soldier of Yantang Pass, and that day he caught a spy and happened to know that the enemy army was going to attack the east and west at night, and made a detour to attack the village where your father lived. Because of the urgency of time, my father brought a small number of elite light cavalry and rushed over the small road, leaving behind the large army and more mobilized reinforcements. He came just in time to join the battle just when the Protectors couldn't resist and were about to rout. The arrival of the light cavalry gave the townsmen a respite, and they regrouped and stubbornly withstood the enemy attack, holding the center and protecting most of the inhabitants from being slaughtered. Therefore, it can also be said that if it were not for my father's desperate rescue and desperate fight that night, the young people in the entire village market may not have a chance to be born.

The horse teams of both sides clashed fiercely all over the village. Our two fathers also fought to the death with the Khan's own troops in the valley. My father's bravery left an indelible impression on the Khan and also left a deep scar on his arm. But in the end, my father was left behind. When the king of Khan forced him to this corner of the grain field, Lema stopped his sword. He looked at my father's face and said in stiff Chinese, "You are very brave." I won't kill you. Come to me, and I ask you to be the Grand Commander. "My father did not hesitate to categorically reject him. So, the king of Khan said: "That is a pity. You left me with no other choice. So saying, he swung his broadsword and struck at my father with all the force of his might. Your seriously injured father saw it in his eyes and wanted to come to the rescue, but he was too injured to support it.

This thrilling knife, the old servant said that he would remember it until he died. The knife slashed down like a thunderbolt, splitting my father diagonally in half from shoulder to waist. My father was still struggling to stab each other when he was being split in half. When he fell in half, the saber was still tightly clenched in his hand.

The old servant showed us. My father's upper body fell here, and the other half fell there. At this moment, more Han troops arrived one after another, and the torrential rain of arrows shot at the enemy. Seeing that the sneak attack was futile, and that the main force of the Han army seemed to be coming in a steady stream, the Khan judged that the continued attack would not outweigh the losses, so he gave up the hard confrontation with the Han army and commanded the Beji horse team to roar away.

The old servant said that my father did not die immediately. His eyes were still open, and his body was still moving slightly. The entire ground was stained red with his gushing blood. For a long time, the ground was red. After a few rainstorms, the red color has not completely faded. Your father gritted his teeth and struggled to crawl to my father's side. My father opened his eyes to him, but he couldn't speak. At that time, my father was not yet 35 years old, in his prime of life, and had just renewed his career, and he had not been married for a long time. He looked at your father, his lips moving, blood gushing out of the guttal spring, his mouth was full of blood, and there was no way to say even a word. Your father took him by the hand and swore to him that he would take care of his family, and that he would take care of his family for the rest of his life, just as his own. In the midst of your father's vows, my father's breath gradually weakened, and in a few moments, he took his last breath beside your father. When he died, his eyes were still open.

The old servant said, "After the battle, your father sent someone to Yantang Pass to report the news." As soon as my mother heard the news of her husband's death, she immediately fainted. My parents were very affectionate and affectionate. My mother didn't know at the time that she was pregnant. It was only after she fainted that the doctor came to help. So, she didn't have a chance to tell my father. When my father died, he had no idea that he had left a daughter in the world.

After listening to this heart-wrenching story, I knelt on the edge of the ground where my father's blood had once stained red. I bowed down. My forehead touched the damp ground. My father's blood was surging in my veins. It hit my eardrum with a waterfall roar.

I looked up with tears streaming down my face. I said, "Why is there such a cruel thing?" Why should there be war? Why do people kill each other? Why is that? ”

You reached out and pulled me up. You look at me. You look at my tears. I say to you, "Do people go to great lengths to be born into this world just to cause each other's deaths?" I said, "How can such a ridiculous thing happen!" ”

You say, "Because, sometimes, people think that by killing someone, they can live a little longer, or a little better." ”

You say, "It's because people are afraid of death." Very deep fear. People kill others because of an abyssal fear of their own death. ”

That day, on the threshing floor, I said to you, "I vow never to kill anyone in this life, and I will tell my children not to kill in the future." “

You say, "It's not as easy as you think. ”

Later things prove you right.

Without removing the fear in one's heart, it is difficult for one to stop hurting others.