44 Shandong Past
The breeze, the sun, the earthen walls, the fence gates, the willows, the old women, the little praying mantis crawling out of the shells, the praying mantis eggs......
I thought, what's the use of dreaming? Childhood is over, I'm an adult, damn it, don't dream so naively!
I strained and woke up.
The guards came and said, "My lord, someone...... Uh, your dad begged...... Uh, I want to see you. ”
Me: "Let him in." ”
I stood and waited for him to come over, and then we hugged each other.
We have been dependent on each other for 20 years, and we are still familiar with each other!
I wanted to serve the food to the guard, and my father said, "No need! What are we talking about? It's too late to speak. ”
Me: "Okay. ”
Dad: "What's going on now?" Are you really in rebellion? ”
I said, "It's hard to say a word, and you won't be able to say it for a while, so you don't care." All I can say is: I'm in charge of my business. The world is in turmoil, there are not many who rebel with me, and many who rebel with me. Oh yes, why did you leave when I joined the Shi? ”
Dad sighed: "Hey, I'll go find your mother." ”
Me: "My mother ran away from home when she was 10 years old!" You lied to me that she died! She doesn't care about us so much, we don't care what she does! After so many years, does she have us in her heart? ”
Dad said, "You can't say that." Your mother saved my life. Without me, without your mother, where did you come from? Moreover, when she returned to Qicheng, she did not want to leave us, but to avenge the Chen family. I...... Don't dare to go back...... So it's me, not your mother! ”
I'm dizzy!
Me: "Slow down, what's going on?" Is there still a deep hatred in our family? ”
Dad: "It's your mother!" In fact...... I don't have it......"
I held his hand anxiously: "Say it quickly! ”
Dad said: "I didn't have a home or a mouth, I wandered around, and one day I arrived at Chen's house in Qicheng, Shandong. You haven't heard of Qicheng Chen now, only Shandong Kong. But more than 20 years ago, the Qicheng Chen family was the twelfth family of Tianzi, even more powerful than the Kong family! That day, I arrived at Chen's house, and the Chen family wanted to castrate me and let me be a staff member, or go to the meeting. I pretended to be stupid, and finally became a monk in the Chen family's house, ringing the bell and chanting scriptures every day. There is an eldest lady in Qicheng Chen, who is really beautiful. What's her name? Ah, I forgot. But she's so pretty, with big eyes and beautiful collarbones......"
I nudged him: "Dad, get down to business!" ”
Dad said, "Yes." The eldest lady has a maid, who is your mother Chen Qinghua. Your mother was beautiful when she was young. You think, it is also very unusual to be the personal maid of the eldest lady of the 12th family of Tianzi. Your mother was dressed in green and had jade earrings......"
I nudged him again: "And then! ”
Dad said: "Hey, later the eight princes rebelled and chased the crown prince. The whole world has rebelled, and there is only one Shandong left. The head of the Chen family in Qicheng is a big fool, and he has to be loyal to the crown prince! Tell me, who is the emperor is different? Besides, they are all surnamed Zhu, which one can't be the emperor? You are a fart citizen, why do you care about the affairs of the court? The head of the Chen family in Qicheng was the governor and overseer of Shandong Province at the time, and he was the only one who supported the crown prince. As a result, the whole of Shandong became a sea of fire, and Qicheng was besieged for two whole years, and the people in the city ate people. ”
Me: "It's going to be hard in there, right?" ”
Dad: "It's okay. I became the leader of the Qi City family's army, responsible for protecting everyone. Without me, the Chen family would have been finished. That's when your mother married me. Oh, by the way, you were also born in Qi City! So, you're also from Shandong. ”
Me: "And then! ”
Dad: "Later? Later, the city of Qi was breached, and then the city was slaughtered. I hid in a well with you and your mother, and thousands of my family were killed! What impressed me was that the Senate suddenly dispatched bombers to blow up all the troops around Qi City, whether it was the crown prince, the eight princes, or their millions of troops. We buried ourselves in the well for a few days, and then climbed out, and happened to meet Uncle Zhao, who raised chickens for the Chen family, and his hometown was the Central Plains, so the four of us ran back to Zhaojiazhuang in Luobei County together. ”
I was shocked: "You also know the Senate?" You also know about bombers? I didn't hear about it until half a year after I arrived at the palace. ”
Dad: "I don't know, this is what I heard from your mother." She is the maid of the eldest lady, she knows a lot, I am just a monk who recites scriptures and hits the bell every day. ”
I sent my dad away and thought about it for a long time.
What Dad said was not detailed at all, and it was not even the same as what I remembered.
It's probably not that he's trying to lie to me, but everyone's memories are different – that is, people lie to themselves.
For example, I remember that my mother was a young lady from a large family, but she was indeed a maid, which may be that I lied to myself.
When I was a child, what I heard was actually a maid, but I didn't want to accept it, so I changed my mother from a maid to a lady.
I decided to ask my mother.
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I gave her a lot of silk and silk, gold and silver, and made her so happy, that she did not mention my rebellion.
I said to her, "Mother, tell me about what happened twenty-five years ago." ”
Mother: "I am the personal maid of Chen Xiaxia, the eldest lady of the Chen family in Qicheng, Shandong, one of the 12th families of Tianzihao." I was born in the Chen family, so I am a real Chen family, and those who sell themselves in are two different things! ”
Me: "Yes, for example, my father, who was born cheap!" However, how do I remember that you said you were a young lady! ”
Mother: "What's the matter! ”
Me: "I remember it very well! It's as clear as a dream. You said that my father was a monk from Yunyou, and you said that you were the young lady of the Chen family in Qicheng, and your sisters were all insulted...... Ah, I remembered again, you took me to the bath, and there were so many women next to me, and you cried to them and told them about your background. ”
Mother: "How can you remember! I'm only three years old when I say this, are you misremembering? Ah, I remember, it was me bragging to the countrymen in the bathhouse, you were only three years old! How do you remember? ”
Me: "How do I know how I remember...... But I just remember. What's going on in your house? ”
Mother: "Hey! Emperor Zhu Dingfu died, eight princes rebelled, and the crown prince Zhu Zhaoqian fled to Shandong. The world is so big, only my loyal Shandong people still support the crown prince. At that time, Qicheng was inseparable, and a generation of people died in Shandong. Qicheng has been besieged for two years, and people inside have eaten people. Your father has a good heart, he goes out every day to beg for food for us, and sometimes steals things......"
Me: "My dad begging for food?" Isn't he the commander of the army? ”
Mother: "He can't even ride a horse, what else is he going to do?" I didn't even look down on him, but it was because he begged for food that I was deceived by him. That night I was walking in the garden......"
Me: "Alright...... I don't want to know how I got here, so you get down to business. ”
Mother: "The senators will support the eight princes, and the crown prince has no way to ......"
Me: "You know the Senate too?" The Senate actually supported the rebellion? Sky! ”
Mother: "I don't know what the Senate is, I listened to my head of the family." In fact, no one in the Senate supported it, because just as the crown prince and the eight princes were fighting, the Senate suddenly sent something called a bomber to blow up the entire Qi city into ruins! Tens of thousands of people were killed in the bombing, including my eldest lady and her son! ”
I'm still thinking about the senators: "God! The Senate actually killed the crown prince and eight princes together! No wonder the later emperor Zhu Zhaotian was so wasteful! ”
The mother continued: "I have no father or mother, and my young lady treats me like a sister. We had a son at the same time, and I said to replace my son with hers, and I ran away. She disagreed. In the end, their whole family was killed by the forbidden army, and that little child is so pitiful, just like you. ”
I was furious: "Her son is a man, but your son is not a man?" Why do you want to change me! You're murdering a parent! ”
Mother: "But I didn't change it." You're not good? ”
Me: "Maybe she secretly changed?" You see I'm so smart......"
Mother: "No." I've seen a mole on your ass since you've been there, and you've been with me ever since. ”
I subconsciously touched the black mole on my buttocks.
Mother: "You must avenge the emperor!" You must avenge the tens of thousands of people in my family! You go to the emperor to report the patriarch to rebel! ”
Me: "What are you talking about?" These things are messing with each other! I don't care. I don't care about the affairs of your previous life, you are responsible for your affairs. Don't say anything about your eldest lady, even if your father and mother are killed, don't let me take revenge. You are responsible for your business, and I am responsible for my business! ”
Mother: "Monarchs, ministers, fathers, sons, fathers, sons!" What a sin of rebellion! Son, turn back to the shore! Why did I go back to Qicheng in the first place? It's about revenge! Life is the Chen family, death is the Chen family ghost. ”
Me: "You're going to take revenge on me?" I really don't want to report it. However, you're lucky, I'll help you report for free. I've basically killed the 'Senate' you mentioned. Eleven of the thirteen elders have died, and only two are in Qi City, and there are no soldiers left, and there are two puppets. ”
Mother: "Thirteen elders? I heard our head say that he is the Fourteenth Elder! ”
Me: "Fourteen elders? Impossible! They have always been thirteen patriarchs, one patriarch, one vice-president, and eleven patriarchs. ”
Mother: "I heard from the head of our family that there is an elder, a vice president, eleven eleven elders, and a royal elder. ”
I was taken aback: "The elder of the royal family? ”
The mother said: "Yes, it's called Zhu Zhaoding." The head of my family said that he was the one who asked the Senators to bomb Qi City, and he was a big villain! ”
Former Ming prince Zhu Zhaoding! Now the money of the Shi clan is still set! He's actually a senator too! This guy is hiding so deeply, something must have happened!
I stood up and walked around from side to side, my mind spinning fast.
The mother said: "Hurry up and report to the emperor, you said that Zhu Zhaoding was the mastermind of the Qicheng tragedy twenty-five years ago." ”
I shouted, "Someone, bring the telegram out at once!" ”
I'm going to send a telegram to Liu Xingchao. Although I betrayed him, this gesture can help when it comes.
I'm not doing this for revenge at all, I'm really indifferent to the hatred of my father and my mother, how can the hatred of the previous generation be passed down from generation to generation, tired or not?