Chapter 15: The Mysterious Family

(ps: Children's Day is here, I wish you a happy day - although it is more than ten or twenty years late, by the way, ask for a collection and recommended tickets in June.) )

In the early years of Kangxi, only the residential houses in the inner city were neat and tall, prosperous and prosperous, and the two Pingnan palaces in the center were even more magnificent, majestic and magnificent, and luxurious. But it is a pity that, like all the big cities in China in this era, the prosperous and safe inner city was inhabited only by the Qiding Bannermen of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty and their families, and the real masters, the descendants of Huaxia, could only drag their families to live in the dilapidated and dwarfed outer city, which was in stark contrast to the inner city - and in the city of Guangzhou, such a contrast was particularly obvious.

Just after noon on the second day of October, on the official road outside the west gate of Guangzhou City under the scorching sun, a dusty carriage ran over from west to east, and sat in the driver's position to catch the car is an old man who is over the age of sixties, with thick muscles and bones, and his spirit is very strong, one hand drives the carriage, and the other hand holds a hat and snorts the wind, sweating like rain, and scolding a few words with a Cantonese accent in his mouth from time to time, "What the hell is this weather?" It's October, why is it still hot like this? God, do you want us Cantonese people to live? ”

Walking to the west gate of Guangzhou, the old man found a shady place and stopped, fanned the wind and turned around and shouted into the carriage: "Madam, San'er, you have arrived in Guangzhou, didn't you say that you must take San'er to see Guangzhou City, why haven't you come out yet?" ”

"Son, son, it's time in Guangzhou, wake up, wake up." A crisp woman's voice came from the carriage. After a while, the faint snoring sound in the carriage finally stopped, and a rough man's voice also came out, "Mother, it's not dawn yet, I'll sleep again." Immediately after that, the snoring sounded again.

"Silly son, it's time to Guangzhou!" The female voice shouted impatiently, and there were two crisp ** crashing sounds in the carriage, as if the woman gave her son two palms. After being woken up, the man's voice cheered, "What? Arriving in Guangzhou? I'm going to get off, get off! Before he could finish speaking, the curtain of the carriage had been knocked open, and a short, fat, and black half-sized boy jumped out, and a lot of dust and smoke splashed on the ground, and also left footprints two and a half inches deep on the solid ground! Looking up at the Guangzhou City Tower not far away, the half-year-old boy who was only fifteen or sixteen years old suddenly cheered, "It's time to Guangzhou!" The walls are so high! Dad, mother, look, the city wall of Guangzhou is much higher than our Zhaoqing! ”

"Silly boy, have you seen it?" With a loving chuckle, a slender woman also jumped out of the carriage and stood lightly under the carriage. When they saw the woman's appearance clearly, the passers-by around couldn't help but light up their eyes, it turned out that the woman who was called Mrs. by the old man who drove the car was actually very young and beautiful, in her thirties, with handsome facial features and a good figure, and she was an extremely rare beautiful young woman. Looking at the old man in his sixties with gray braids next to him, almost every passer-by couldn't believe that this beautiful young woman was really the wife of this old man, and even more couldn't believe that such a beautiful young woman would give birth to such an ugly son, and almost every passer-by had such a thought in their hearts - a good flower was inserted in cow dung!

("It's a terrible flower on a good piece of cow dung!") "The old man who drove the car roared! )

"Madam, can we enter the city?" The old man wiping his sweat and asked the beautiful young woman, "If we don't enter the city, let's eat something casually outside the city, and take San'er around the city wall and go on the road, and we should be able to rush to Mude tonight to spend the night." ”

"It's rare to take San'er out, of course I have to take him into the city to have a look." The beautiful young woman smiled, grabbed her son, who was already eager to enter the city, and said to the old man who was driving the car: "But before entering the city, let's go to the east gate first, take San'er to see those things, let him have a little more knowledge, and then go to the city to stay." ”

"Madame, do you really want to go?" The old man who drove the car asked solemnly. The beautiful young woman nodded, didn't speak, just pulled her son back into the car, sat down outside the car, picked up the horsewhip and greeted: "Master, you are tired after a long drive, you go to rest in the carriage, I will drive to the east gate, I am familiar with the road here." ”

The old man hesitated for a moment, and finally couldn't resist his beloved wife's decision, got into the carriage and sat down, the beautiful young woman whipped the car, took the half-eldest son around the city, and slowly went around the east gate, the half-grown son who went out for the first time kept shouting in the car, pointing at the city wall of Guangzhou, and was very excited, "Mother, look, what a tall city tower!" Dad, look, what a deep moat! Mother, look, the street is so wide, much wider than our Zhaoqing! Haha, there are so many people! ”

"Yes, yes, San'er, you call quietly, your father and mother's ears are about to be deaf by you." The beautiful young woman replied with a smile. The half-grown boy listened to it for a while, and then hurriedly covered his mouth with a fat hand like a bear's paw, looking extremely nervous, which made the beautiful young woman and the old man in the carriage laugh. But just when the family was enjoying the joy of family, a new shout roared, "Young master, look! Such a high city wall, such a high city tower, and such a deep moat, even Kunming City can't compare! ”

"Okay, okay, Erlang, you just say it once or twice, don't shout like a bun and lose my face!" In the midst of the complaints, thirty or forty men who looked like family members surrounded a carriage and rammed over, and the carriage was driven by a young family member with a handsome appearance but extremely obscene, and said to a white fat man sitting next to him with an intoxicated face: "Young master, why do you say this Guangzhou City is so big?" Why are there so many people? Compared to here, Kunming City is simply a rural place! If you become the prefect of Guangzhou that day, young master, we will make a fortune, not to mention anything else, just to collect fire and consume silver, we will have to make at least 350,000 taels of silver a year, right? ”

"Idiot! Tell you not to say such things, why do you always remember to eat and not remember? The young white fat man knocked on the head of the driver Ding with a chestnut, and said angrily: "You idiot, can Kunming City compare with Guangzhou City?" Kunming is an inland city, with high mountains and dangerous roads, and of course the population is small. Guangzhou is a coastal city, since the Qin Dynasty is the government of Nanhai County, the second largest port in the country, the Song and Yuan dynasties are still the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, and dozens of countries have trade contacts, the population is the largest when there are nearly one million, Kunming can also be compared with here? ”

"The young master knows a lot, and the little one has been taught." The handsome man rubbed his head and smirked. The old man and the beautiful young woman next to him looked at each other, and they were a little surprised by the breadth and knowledge of this fat white man -- in this era of serious underdevelopment of transportation information, it is really not many people from the mainland who can know the situation in Guangzhou so well. At this time, the handsome family suddenly turned his head and saw the beautiful young woman here, and immediately turned into a pig brother again, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but whistle, and said with a smile: "The little lady is so beautiful, do you have a mother-in-law?" ”

"Teng!" Before the words were finished, the beautiful young woman stood up in the carriage with angry eyes. Fortunately, the white fat man also jumped up, slapped the back of the handsome man's head, and roared: "Idiot, if you dare to give me a cheap mouth again, I want you to look good!" After beating the unobtrusive family, the white fat man bowed to the beautiful young woman here and said, "Madam, I'm really sorry, there is no way to discipline him, the family has offended Madame, and the next generation of Jiading will make amends to Madame." As he spoke, the fat white man bowed deeply to the beautiful young woman.

"You're smart!" Stretching out his hand and not beating the apology person, the white fat man apologized very sincerely, and the beautiful young woman could not attack even if she was angry, so she could only snort coldly and shouted hatefully: "Next time you call your dog's legs to have some eyes, and then dare to fart randomly, the old lady will tear his mouth!" ”

"Yes, yes, I must discipline you well." The white fat man apologized repeatedly, and the dog-legged man who slapped his mouth and walked away first. The beautiful young woman sat back in her place angrily and said to the son next to her: "Son, if someone talks to my mother like this in the future, you will immediately rush up and beat my mother, and kill and injure my mother and pay for my life!" ”

"Good!" The black fat half-grown boy happily agreed, and clapped his hands, making a sound that seemed to be gold and iron. The old man in the carriage hurriedly said: "Madam, don't teach the child badly, what will kill and injure you and pay for your life?" This is Guangzhou, not Zhaoqing! Besides, the fat boy just now immediately taught the evil slave a lesson, and apologized to you, which is already rare, you look at his posture of hugging in front and back, how many such people will be so reasonable? ”

"Master, that kid is molesting me, you don't care if you molest your wife, and now you are still here to teach me a lesson?" The beautiful young woman pouted, and tears were already rolling in her eyes. The old man who drove the car was most afraid of his wife like this, so he had no choice but to quickly raise his hand to surrender, and said helplessly: "Okay, good, it's not right for the husband, but it's really hard for the husband just now, the fat man apologizes so sincerely, why do I still take action to clean him up?" In this way, if there is such a thing in the future, the husband will come forward immediately, so it's all right, right? - Madam, I beg you, this is on the official road outside the city of Guangzhou, you must not make trouble like at home. ”

"That's pretty much it." The beautiful young woman burst into tears and laughed, and then whipped again, and drove the carriage to the east gate. The black fat half-grown man smiled stupidly: "Mother, I liked the white fat man just now, I have grown so big, and I still see me and the same fat person, walking with him, no one will laugh at me anymore for being fat......." ”

While talking, the family of three finally went around to the east gate of Guangdong, but the beautiful young woman still did not rush into the city, but drove the carriage to the east. The half-grown boy asked curiously, "Mother, why don't we go into the city?" The beautiful young woman didn't answer, and the old man behind him whispered, "San'er, don't speak, your mother will take you to see something." The half-grown child obeyed his parents' words, and obediently shut his mouth.

The carriage traveled two or three miles along the official road, turned into a remote path, and after a few more miles, the beautiful young woman finally stopped the carriage under a high bushy mountain, pulled her son down from the carriage, pointed to the green hill thirty or forty feet high, and said softly: "Son, do you know what this is? ”

"Mountain." The half-sized boy replied obediently. The beautiful young woman said kindly, "Son, do you know how this mountain came about?" ”

"I don't know." The black fat half-size man shook his head. The old man who drove the car next to him said in a deep voice: "San'er, dad is here to tell you, this mountain is piled up with the ashes and corpses of the dead, and now it's better, a few years ago in Guangzhou, you can smell the corpse smell here across the ten miles of road!" ”

"Such a high mountain, piled up with the ashes and corpses of the dead?!" The black fat half-grown man was taken aback and exclaimed, "How many dead people must there be?" Fifty thousand? Lakh?! ”

"It's 800,000!" The beautiful young woman was shocked, and said with a slight choked voice: "Seventeen years ago, the Han Dynasty Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao took the Manchu Tartars to attack Guangzhou, and they didn't fight for nearly a year, and then there was a Han Zhan named Fan Chengen in the city, opened the gate of Guangzhou, and the two Han Anniversaries took the Manchu Tartars into the city, killing people everywhere and setting fires, ** captivity, in 12 days, enough to kill our 800,000 Cantonese people!" Later, Master Shi Zhen outside the city of Guangzhou paid for people to collect all the corpses and moved them here to burn ashes, and piled them up into this mountain ....... ”

At this point, the beautiful young woman was already crying, and the old man who drove the car continued: "Since then, this mountain has been called Gongzuka, which means big tomb, you know? The black fat half-grown man nodded as if he didn't understand, and the old man who drove the car ordered again: "San'er, kneel down on the mountain." ”

"Yes." The black fat half-grown boy must kneel down respectfully against the mountain, and then he turned around and asked, "Dad, mother, why should I kneel?" ”

"Because in this mountain, there are the ashes of your grandmother, your uncle and many of your relatives." The old man who drove the car said slowly: "Seventeen years ago, your grandfather's family lived in the city of Guangzhou, and also participated in the bloody battle to defend Guangzhou....... ”

"Then I should kowtow to them." The black fat half-grown man suddenly became sensible, kowtowed three times towards the corpse mountain, and said loudly: "Grandma, uncle, I came to see you, do you know?" ”

"San'er, your grandmothers must know." The beautiful young woman stroked the top of her beloved son's head, choked up and said slowly: "San'er, my mother took you to see this mountain today, just to tell you that the Manchu Tartars and the Han Dynasty annihilated Shang Kexi, Geng Jimao brought us a deep sea of blood and hatred, we must never forget, we want to take revenge, we want to expel the Manchu Tartars, and kill the Han Dynasty Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao with a thousand knives, and Ling Chi will be executed!" ”

"Mother, I remember." The black fat half-grown man agreed loudly, and immediately asked: "Father, mother, where are the Manchu Tartars and the Han anniversaries?" I'm going to kill them!" With a roar, the black fat half-sized man opened his arms and clenched his fists violently, and his whole body immediately made a crackling joint sound, which was very powerful.

"Silly son, there are a lot of Manchu Tartars, and the Han Destroyers also have a lot of doglegs, how can you beat them alone?" The beautiful young woman scolded with tears in her eyes, and choked up and said: "Mother brought you here, just to let you remember these blood feuds first, and then your father and mother will take you to learn skills, and take you to meet some anti-Qing heroes who also have a deep hatred for the Manchu Tartars, so that you can ......." ”

"Madame!" The old man who was driving the car suddenly interrupted: "Someone is coming." ”

Of course, you can't talk nonsense in front of people you don't know, the beautiful young woman got the police and quickly stopped, and when she turned her head to look, she saw a group of people slowly walking towards this side, and then took a closer look at the person's appearance, the beautiful young woman's family couldn't help but be a line, it turned out that it was no one else, it happened to be the group of people who were flirting with the beautiful young woman just now, and it was no one else who walked in the front, it happened to be the white fat man who was very reasonable and polite. Seeing that the beautiful young woman's family was also here, the white fat man was also a flurry, and some wanted to open his mouth to say hello, but he didn't dare to talk nonsense because he was afraid of the group of people behind him, and when he was hesitating, another tall entourage had already shouted, "Lord Lu, it's almost time to leave, right?" If you enter the city early, you may be able to have a meal at the house of the prince of Pingnan! This kind of ghost place, it will definitely be haunted at night, and if you don't leave, it will be dark, if you are scared, our brothers will not be able to go back to Kunming to explain to the prince. ”

"It turns out that it's also Han Jian!" The old man who drove the car and the beautiful young woman raised their eyebrows together, and swept away the only little favor they had towards the white fat man, who was naturally our Lu Yifeng, Lu Fat Man, and Lu Daxian Ling.

"Got it." Lu Daxian Ling, who took the initiative to come here to receive class revolution education, agreed angrily, and squinted at the three members of the beautiful young woman's family, and secretly said, "What is this family doing here?" Seeing that woman's eyes are red and swollen, and there are tear stains on her face, she must have just cried, and she must be crying here for the people of Guangdong who were slaughtered by the Manchu Tartars, but I don't know where they came from, could it be that my teacher asked me to get acquainted with my heart in the coastal and Jiangnan areas to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty? However, looking at them, one old and one young, and a murderous woman, it is unlikely that they will be the last few names of the anti-Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, and it should just be the survivors of the Guangzhou Massacre who came to mourn the victims. ”

(ps: The mysterious family that appears in this chapter is not flooding, but a very important character appearance, every name of their family, it can also be said that every friend has heard it, but I don't know if any friends can guess it - extremely difficult!) )