At the feet of the old man was piled up with the straw mats that had just been knitted and stacked together, and he had not had time to unfold them, holding the rush grass in his hand and continuing to intersperse, his fingers were very flexible, he took out the time and gently touched his granddaughter's head, without looking up:

"Did your father ask you to come?"

"It's not. I want to come and see my grandfather. Mu Yueting said: "There are still some things I don't understand, and I want to come and ask my grandfather." ”

"Oh," said the old man's voice, old and hoarse.

"Grandfather, father, what kind of person is he?"

As soon as the words came out, Mu Yueting was a little confused.

Her father, handsome and dashing, outstanding in martial arts, talented, upright and heroic, is the most perfect man in the world. She adored him from an early age. But overnight, the father in her heart was unrecognizable, and there was a world of difference between what her eyes saw and what her ears heard.

Everyone said that he destroyed the Jin family and that he murdered Xiao Si'er.

She didn't believe it.

But the truth doesn't exist if you refuse to believe it.

Mu Yueting knew very well in his heart that even if those things were not all done by his father, he would never be innocent.

For nearly half a year, my father has been very abnormal, and sometimes he even suddenly feels depressed. Although he tried his best to hide it, she was his daughter, they were close, father and daughter, and they were close friends.

How could she not see the abnormality of her loved ones.

He was distracted, he was hiding something.

"You're going to ask your father himself this question." The old man said: "Although I gave birth to him, I only had a father-son relationship with him for sixteen years.

He was the pride of the entire Muhammad family, and I once thought I had a very remarkable son. Maybe to this day, I still think so.

It's just that later, I can't see him more and more clearly. ”

Mu Yueting couldn't see clearly, and she once thought she understood him very well.

"Grandfather, can I ask you a question, why did you leave the Green Canyon back then?"

Mu Yueting asked the question that had been in his heart for a long time.

"It has nothing to do with your father."

The old man saw what his granddaughter was thinking, and patiently explained: "On the contrary, if I hadn't had a competitive son, I might have been kicked out of the Green Canyon by the family a long time ago."

The Mu family has been burdened with the mission of changing the fate of the family and carrying forward the glory of the old times since they were born, and they have been working hard all their lives to get out of that canyon.

And I'm not a very motivated person, and I don't have any ambitions, and I feel that there is nothing wrong with that indisputable world, and there is nothing wrong with idle clouds and wild cranes for a lifetime.

They study Confucianism, and I study metaphysics.

They lack the talent to learn swords, and they sleep three times and get up five times to make up for their clumsiness with diligence. But I love landscape poetry and painting, and I squander my talent in vain. In the eyes of many people, I was deviant and unenterprising, which was a great disrespect to my ancestors.

I have a long history of discord with my family. He has been Lord of himself, but he cannot be Lord of your father.

He was only sixteen years old, and he was the hope of the whole clan, and he went out of the valley with a sword.

On the day she left, his mother cried all night, wondering if her son would come back alive.

The burden that I have escaped, but it has been borne by my son.

After he left, I was in the Green Canyon, and I had nothing to worry about. ”

"Then why didn't you want to go to Luoyang and live with us later?"

Later, the whole family was decided by his son, why did he still not want to go back? I'd rather be alone and wander outside. Bunny Fly

"I am not the same fellow traveler as your father."

The old man said indifferently: "I have not fulfilled the responsibilities of a father, and I have limited teaching to him. I don't dare to teach him that way.

As soon as he showed his talent for martial arts, he was forcibly taken away by your great-grandfather, who taught him the most orthodox culture of etiquette and righteousness, Confucianism and Taoism.

They taught him to fight and to be a saint. Who knows what kind of person he will eventually become? ”【1】

The old man's tone was a little sad.

Mu Yueting was silent for a while, and said, "Grandfather, the fourth child is back. People outside said that the fire in Julin Yuan was set by his father, and he wanted to kill Xiao Si'er. ”

The old man nodded: "I've seen her." ”

Mu Yueting was taken aback, and her face was pale: "Xiao Si'er has looked for you?" How did she know you were here? ”

Xu was raised elsewhere since he was a child, and the family relationship between Mu Cangping and his parents was not deep.

After his grandparents left the Green Valley to settle elsewhere, he visited once a year. After getting married, I also took Jin Lianyin once.

At that time, he was high-spirited, offended too many people, and didn't want his parents to be exposed too much. After having children and having too many distractions, I never went again.

Later, Jin Lianyin and Mu Dianke passed away one after another, and Mu Zijin also ran away the following year, and a series of events hit him too hard, and he was bedridden intermittently for more than a year.

Mu Cangping, who was on the sickbed, began to miss his family and sent someone to find his parents who had been missing for a long time.

It was also at that time that Mu Yueting met her grandparents for the first time.

Mu Dian hadn't seen them, how did she know that her grandfather was in Chuzhou? If it is found out by the spies of the Ming Palace, then the grandfather is too dangerous.

The old man shook his head and said, "She didn't come to me, she was chased and killed and fled to me." She doesn't know me, but I know her. Her eyes...... It's exactly the same as when your father was younger. ”【2】

Mu Yueting was a little nervous: "Little Si'er, she... Hunted down... When was it? ”

"It's been a few days ago, and there must be—" The old man stopped what he was doing, thought about it seriously, and said, "Four or five days, right?" ”

Mu Yueting breathed a sigh of relief. As soon as the worry in my heart fell, the clouds of sorrow rose again:

"Grandfather, if the fourth child seeks revenge on his father, what should I do? Who should I help? ”

"You can't help anyone, you can't help anyone." The old man said: "This question, you have to ask your own heart, your mind is not clear, no one can help you." ”

Mu Yueting didn't think about asking anyone to help her, she just felt sad and wanted to find someone to talk to.

"The eldest brother has come to Jiangnan, and he has never dared to disobey his father's wishes. His concubine has always resented Xiao Si'er, and she forcibly blamed Xiao Si'er for her second brother's departure...... The third brother was sent to Gansu by his father, and he wrote to me to keep an eye on the eldest brother to prevent him from being unfavorable to the fourth child...... The second brother still hasn't heard from ......"

"Grandfather, I dreamed of my mother last night. She cried. She asked me, what happened to our family, what happened to her children? ”

She also cried, a crystal clear teardrop, sliding down her white cheeks, beautiful and helpless.

The two horses galloped through the streets of Chuzhou City.

After civil unrest broke out in the city of Chuzhou, causing panic in the surrounding area, the imperial court finally began to pay attention to this matter. There are still a few old ministers in the court who have retained their integrity, and they took off their crowns on the Golden Palace to perform their duties, and they committed a dead sentence. After receiving Ning Yu's money before, the ministers who were opposed to it were much weaker in the face of the tragic casualty figures that came up.

The most subtle thing is the attitude of the Su family.

The Su family has always been only holy and visionary. However, the holy will is not yet clear, Su Hongyu first made the pain of the epidemic chaos and the difficulties of people's livelihood in the recital, and the letter was written in a brilliant and tear-jerking manner. Quoting scriptures, from the three emperors and five emperors to the present, the rise and fall of the past dynasties have been counted, and it is said that "the people are precious, the society is secondary, and the monarch is light", and the people's prosperity is the foundation of the consolidation. I hope that the saint will observe the feelings of the people, pity them, and do not abandon them...... And so on.

Although the book is full of anger, it is a righteous word.

The Su family stood in the court, as quiet as a quail. Only Su Jingyi made a few inconsequential official words, neither agreeing nor opposing, and finally did not show his attitude.

The reaction of the Su family made Su Hongyu's touching twist and turn seem quite embarrassing.