Besides, Yun Meng, staring at the poems on the stone with his eyes, recited silently several times in his heart, and recalled what Yu Weng said just now, but still did not react, and was still in a trance. Just when Yun Meng was in a daze, he suddenly heard as if someone was calling his name outside the forest. If you listen carefully, it's Daddy's voice. Hurriedly a spirit came to his senses, ran out of the woods quickly, and collided with Li Shan.

Yun Meng hurriedly helped Li Shan and asked, "Daddy, how did you find here?" ”

Li Shan gasped and said: "I waited there alone, and I was always relieved, so I rushed all the way to the outside of the northern city, I didn't want to meet Meng'er here, Meng'er, have you ever delivered all the goods to the old gentleman's house?" ”

Yun Meng helped Li Shan to walk into the forest, and just wanted to tell Li Shan what had just happened, when he suddenly found that the dustpan that was originally on the ox cart was gone, and he took two steps, and then looked at the handwriting on the stone and disappeared. Yun Meng's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe what had happened. Li Shan sat on the stone under the tree and asked Yun Meng with concern, "Meng'er, Meng'er, what's wrong with you?" Dad asks you questions, but you are there in a daze. Are you sick? ”

Yun Meng shook his head, wondering if the weather was too hot and suffering from heat stroke, and hallucinated. So he decided not to tell his father what happened just now, so he calmed down and replied to Li Shan: "Hey, Daddy, it may be that the heat is unbearable, Meng'er is a little dizzy, the goods have been delivered, and I have just arrived in this forest to rest and cool off." ”

Li Shan hurriedly got up and came to Yun Meng's approach, touched Yun Meng's forehead with his hand, and said, "It's not, you see you sweating, sit down quickly, drink more water, and let's hurry when the sun is a little different." ”

In this way, the father and son rested in the forest for a long time, and then Li Shan drove the car, Yun Meng lay on the car, and walked back to Gaoliang Village, Yun Meng didn't say anything along the way, lying on his back on the ox cart, and the scenes that happened in the grove repeatedly flashed in his mind, and he still doesn't know whether these things are really dreams today. There was nothing to say all the way, a day later, Li Shan and his son returned to the house of Sorghum Village, as soon as they entered the door, Yun Meng was really sick, the book implied that Yun Meng was actually sick with his heart, and many entanglements and puzzles in his heart pulled him, many things he couldn't tell his father-in-law, and he couldn't tell it, he needed a period of time to make his brain clear. It's just that Li Shan and his wife don't know the inside story, and Zhang repeatedly complained that Li Shan didn't take good care of Yun Meng, until the child got sick, Li Shan also kept blaming himself. I looked for Tulang in the village and saw it, saying that it was just a summer heat, and I also grabbed some medicine and gave it to Yun Meng.

Yun Meng lay on the bed for three days, Zhang stayed by the bed for three days, Yun Meng basically didn't eat anything, just drank some rice soup. In fact, Yun Meng thought a lot in the past three days, and after recalling it repeatedly, he was very sure that what he heard and saw in the grove that day was definitely not an illusion, it was a real thing. The identity of the old man who called himself Yu Weng is unknown at the moment, and what is the meaning of the quatrain on the stone? On the third day, Yun Meng seemed to realize some of the meanings in the poem, the first sentence "Heaven will descend to sharpen the strong" should say that it is necessary to go through hardships and become steel, the second sentence "Taiyi Hidden Path to visit the immortals" seems to say where to find the immortals, and the third and fourth sentences "Yunzi is not a bird in the forest, but a big peng to rush to the nine heavens." Zhongyunzi seems to be referring to Yunmeng himself, meaning that he should not be ordinary, and he can become a great thing in the future. The four sentences are connected together to tell Yun Meng that he is a pillar of talent, and the misfortunes and tribulations he has encountered are God's tests for himself, and after getting the guidance of a master, he will spread his wings and fly high like a Kunpeng. Just where to look for the masters? Where is the "Taiyi Path"? But since it has been pointed out in the poem, I am not afraid that I will not be able to find it. Besides, the father-in-law and the stepmother have the grace to reinvent themselves, and the second old age is getting higher and higher, and they can't do without people around them, and they have to rely on Yunmeng for their family work, and they must not be ungrateful people.

Thinking of this, the confusion in Yun Meng's heart disappeared all of a sudden, and he suddenly sat up from the bed and said to Zhang: "Mother, the child is hungry." At this time, Zhang's back was wiping his tears with his back to Yun Meng, the child had been sick for so many days and had not improved, how could a mother not worry. As soon as he heard Yun Meng's call, he turned around and was startled, the child was like no one, and he didn't see the sickness he had before. Zhang was surprised in his heart, and hurriedly prepared some food for Yun Meng.

Three months have passed, and it should have been autumn harvest time. But the people of Gaoliang Zhuang can't be as busy with the autumn harvest as they did last year, the reason is that just a few days ago, a disturbing news came from Yecheng: Hou Zhao's 200,000 army is about to come to Yecheng, Yecheng is the main city of Wei County, in addition to Wei County also has seven county seats, the current situation is that five of the eight counties of Wei County have fallen, and the remaining three cities are also in danger, and the rich businessmen in Yecheng are in a hurry to sell their real estate and utensils, and then take advantage of the war to flee from the land of right and wrong.

Now, even the sorghum village, which is farthest away from Yecheng, is panicked. Many people ran to Cao Zheng's house, hoping that Li Zheng could help everyone get an idea. Cao faced such a problem and did not know what to do, so he convened several respected elders in the village to discuss together, and everyone quarreled for a long time, and finally formed two opinions, one side advocated taking advantage of the Zhao army to move to Luoyang, and the other side thought that the homeland was difficult to leave, and was unwilling to leave. Just when people were still arguing about whether to leave or stay, there was a depressing news: Yecheng was lost. However, this objectively prompted people who were still hesitant to make up their minds: leave. There are nearly 300 men, women and children up and down the sorghum village, as well as many cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks, and almost all the families have brought everything they can with them, those who have cars are carried by carts, and those who do not have cars are carried by burdens, and the procession is very slow, and after all, they are forced to leave their homes, and there are crying and lamenting voices from time to time in the crowd.

Cao Zheng was anxious when he saw this, and if he walked like this, he would soon be caught up by Zhao Jun, and then it would be like a wolf entering a flock, and he had to think of some way. At this time, Yun Meng once again showed his extraordinary ability, and he suggested to Cao Zheng that some of the descendants of Zhuang Shang form a team, on the one hand, he could command and urge the team to speed up, and on the other hand, he could send people to cut off the rear and pay attention to the movements of the Zhao army at any time. This suggestion was quickly adopted by Cao Zheng, and soon a team of twenty or so people composed of a group of fifteen or sixteen-year-old students in Zhuang Shang was organized, and Cao Qi served as the leader of this team. With the help and urging of Cao Qi and his partners, the speed of the crowd really increased a lot.

But Zhao Jun still caught up, one day at noon people were resting on the side of the official road, suddenly in charge of the broken queen of a descendant named Huzi ran in a panic, while running loudly shouted: "Zhao Jun is here!" Zhao Jun is here! It turned out that they found a small group of Zhao army team was marching in the direction of the crowd, the news spread, and suddenly the crowd was shocked, an uproar, a mess, and began to disperse, Cao Zheng was also overwhelmed, Yun Meng saw this and comforted his father, so he rushed to Cao Zheng and said to Cao Zheng: "I heard Huzi say that this team of Zhao Army only has a small team, and there are more than ten people, and we are enough to deal with it." The most important thing now is not to mess with oneself. ”

So he asked Cao Zheng to shout to the crowd to stabilize people's hearts. found Cao Qi to explain to him again, Cao Qi kept nodding yes, and then sent people one by one. At this time, the Zhao army was approaching, all holding knives and guns, as if they were vicious, and the team leader was about to order to rush to kill and plunder, but saw that this group of villagers was not scattered and fled, but gathered together, and there were more than 20 strong men holding machetes, steel forks, iron rakes, and wooden sticks on the periphery, wanting Zhao Jun to form a confrontation. Dodge in his heart: "This chaotic people saw that we were not scattered before the killing, but were extremely calm, and seeing that the number of people was still hundreds, it was still difficult to deal with the fight." ”

But at this time, some soldiers shouted to him: "Look at the southwest direction!" The leader of the Zhao army looked fixedly, and saw smoke and dust billowing in the woods to the southwest of the crowd, and there seemed to be a war horse neighing. At this time, someone in the crowd shouted: "Help has arrived!" Help has arrived! Shi Chang was shocked: "No wonder the refugees don't run away, it turns out that there is backup!" We must not fight when we are alone. Then he hurriedly ordered to retreat, and Zhao Jun ran for his life like a lost dog.

When the crowd saw Zhao Jun fleeing, they cheered loudly, but everyone wondered, where did the reinforcements come from? But seeing a three-person man running out of the forest, only Cao Qi and two young people from Zhuangshang, it turned out that this was all Yunmeng's plan, on the one hand, Cao Zheng stabilized the crowd, let the crowd gather together, and the young man was armed to confront Zhao Jun on the periphery, and Cao Qi rode the only horse with two people into the woods, cut down many branches and dragged them on the ground, and dragged the branches back and forth before taking Zhao Jun, swinging up billowing smoke and dust like thousands of horses and thousands of troops. People called Yunmeng Qizai, and no one of them retreated from the Zhao army and reversed the situation.

Besides, the fleeing squad Zhao Jun immediately reported to the commander of the Zhao army that he had encountered a large number of enemy troops, and the commander of the Zhao army was named Shi Lei, who was also a relative of the Later Zhao clan, young and vigorous, and wanted to make war merits when he first entered the battlefield, so he ordered the army to pull out and personally led 20,000 cavalry to chase down all the way. The fleeing crowd could not walk the elite cavalry of the Zhao army, and after a while, they were caught up, and they were directly covered up, and the crowd was immediately dispersed, and many were slashed, knocked down, and trampled, the scene was chaotic, this time even Yun Meng had no choice but to take his father and mother to choose the way to escape, and fled to a dry ditch, and saw that there was a boulder, looking back that the Zhao army did not catch up, he hid Li Shan and his wife behind the boulder, and said: "Father and mother will hide here for a while, and the child will go back to rescue other villagers." After that, he rushed back alone, and met the villagers who escaped from time to time along the way, but he didn't see Cao Qi's family, and the straight track was originally scattered by Zhao Jun, and the dead bodies were all over the ground, and it was miserable to see, only to see Cao Zheng kneeling on the ground, with multiple knife wounds on his chest and back, and he had already died of exhaustion, but he couldn't look at Cao Li when he died. Yun Meng found a few straw mats to cover up Cao Zheng's corpse hastily, and he couldn't see Cao Qi around, and he was worried about the safety of his father and mother, so he didn't dare to stay for a long time, so he immediately rushed to the hiding place of Li Shan and his wife. After a while, Yun Meng came to the boulder, and after turning the stone wall, he found that there was no one there, and there was no trace of Li Shan and his wife, Yun Meng was very anxious, and he did not dare to call loudly, for fear that Zhao Jun would be invited. Yun Meng comforted himself while looking for it, maybe his father and mother were just taken away by the same villagers first, maybe he was waiting for him not far ahead. So Yun Meng chased after the traces left by the fleeing crowd, and whenever he caught up with a wave of crowds on the way, he searched for and inquired about the whereabouts of Li Shan and his wife, but always got disappointing news.

I chased after it for three days in a row, but I didn't find it. In the end, Yun Meng was exhausted, knelt on the ground, cried loudly, and said: "Father-in-law, the child is not filial, let the second elder suffer this great disaster, and the whereabouts of life and death are unknown, this is all the fault of the child!" ......" remembered what had happened to him, and he was even more sad, and looked up to the sky and shouted: "Heaven! Could it be that this is the so-called grinding of me, why do you always let the people closest to me suffer, why do you always let me suffer the pain of parting? ”

Yun Meng was overly sad, and his body was already tired, so he fell asleep crying and crying. I don't know how long it has passed, Yun Meng in his sleep feels cold on his face, as if there are droplets of water on his face. A spirit woke up, it turned out that it was raining at some point, and it was dark when he looked around, and there was no light, not to the east, south, west, north, west. The rain is getting heavier and heavier, and it is now the late autumn season, Yun Meng's clothes have been wet, and the autumn wind blows, and it is cold to the bone. Yun Mengqiang cheered up and stood up, brushed his loose hair, rubbed his eyes vigorously, and walked towards the darkness step by step.