A big border city like Beidi is not as expensive as the capital and has a prosperous population.

The huge city, the people are not much, the houses of each family are built wide, and they are not as delicate as the small town in the south of the Yangtze River.

The stones are big, and the wood used to make the beams is also thick, and when the house is built, I don't feel that it has collapsed into the mess in front of me, and it is not easy to excavate and tidy up.

The same is true of the Zhenbei General's Mansion.

Jiang Muyuan estimated the time and said, "We will dig for two and a half hours at most, and it will snow tonight, so we can't delay it in the north." ”

Try not to stay overnight, this is something that has been agreed upon before you come.

The Hecheng and Shankou Passes, where the Di people were stationed, if the cavalry rushed to the north, it would be two hours smaller.

Yesterday, I heard Xiang Wei say that the Di people had only snatched a lot of food and winter clothes from Guliang Town the day before yesterday and returned to Hecheng, and it was unlikely that there would be any more action in the next few days.

Don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case, you still have to be careful.

They have only just arrived in the north, and they have to explore the situation, collect intelligence, and provide enough early help for Suningbo, who will lead troops to recover the north, and at the moment, the conflicts that can be avoided should be avoided as much as possible.

Gu Yunyan bowed his head, compared with the Ge family, roughly determined a few locations, and said: "Grandmother's courtyard, father's courtyard, and ancestral hall, let's find them from these places first." ”

This is the most likely location for Mrs. Tian at the moment.

Ge and Zhu took Pang Niangzi to take a look around the city first to see if they could find anyone, and the rest of the people were tidying up little by little in the courtyard of Old Lady Tian.

The Gu brothers and Jiang Muyuan helped each other carry the beams, and Gu Yunjin and Nian Xia pulled large and small stones.

In the past life and this life, after so many years, Gu Yunjin does not have a deep memory of the courtyard and house of the General's Mansion, but when he came back from his dream that night, he remembered some.

If what she saw in front of her was the complete General's Mansion, she could still walk along the memory, leaving only such a broken wall, she would be completely unable to match.

This strange taste really makes people panic.

In order to keep warm, each of them wore thick gloves on their hands, and with this layer of cover, the broken stones would not cut their hands, but they were still a little prickly.

Gu Yunjin dug a corner, and a few pieces of porcelain were exposed under the corner of the wall, and she quickly dug them out and blew away the ash on it.

Gu Yunxi caught a glimpse of Gu Yunjin staring at the porcelain piece in his hand in a daze, came over to take a look, and said: "This pattern looks like the pair of amphorae of my grandmother, it has been resting in the West Room, you find it from here, this seat is the West Room." ”

Gu Yunjin really didn't remember what the furnishings were in Mrs. Tian's house, Gu Yunxi said this, she responded like this, squatted down again, and turned it in hard.

"Fourth master! It's the fourth master of the Gu family, right? ”

An old, hoarse voice came from behind, causing everyone to turn their heads.

Gu Yunxi looked up and down at the old man who appeared not far away, and said, "It's me." ”

"The old man guesses you'll come back...... the old man wiped his face with his black hand and squeezed out a smile, "You probably don't know the old man, the old man is the one who begged for food on the street in the city, he robbed someone to eat last winter, and he broke one of his legs, and it was the second aunt and the second aunt in the house who saved the old man's life."

That night, the Di people entered the city, General Gu asked the defenders to open the city gate, and told the people to walk as far as they could, but the old man couldn't run, so he found a corner to hide, and was lucky not to be discovered by the Di people.

After the Di people left, some escaped came back to find their relatives, and went to Yumen Pass together, the old man had a broken leg, and he couldn't hold up Yumen Pass, so he simply stayed in the north, anyway, everyone left, just turn over some food and clothing, and he could live for a few days.

Later, on the steps of the north city wall, I found the second aunt and their brothers, as well as the second aunt and grandmother, but they were all angry......"

A "out of gas" made everyone's eyes suddenly darken again.

Gu Yunxi glanced at the direction of the north city wall, then turned his head and asked the old man, "Are they still on top?" ”

The old man shook his head: "I'm afraid that staying on it will be ruined, so the old man moved to the empty house on the back street, thinking that if he goes around the General's Mansion every day, he will always meet the Gu family and come back, and he will hand everyone over to you." Without the second grandmother, they came to the rescue, the old man was gone last year, a waste person, he couldn't do anything, so he could only use this little strength......"

Jiang Muyuan looked at the old man and said, "Listening to you, I understand the ins and outs very well, but I studied when I was young?" ”

"I have read it," the old man smiled, full of bitterness, "I have studied, studied business, followed my brothers to the north and south to do business, through the desert grassland, but it was folded in the hands of the Di people, the brothers died, the old man was hard, and he escaped alone." If you want to join the army, you can't join the army at this age, and you are alone, so it's better to be a beggar. ”

The old man's experience eventually became a sigh.

Gu Yunxi had heard that these businessmen who walked outside and inside the customs made a lot of money, but they also begged for a living on the knife edge.

Lost in the desert, without water and food, encountering sand fox wolves, or encountering robbing horse bandits and Di people, this trip is too dangerous, and it is difficult for her to connect the traveling merchants she hears with the old man with the broken leg in front of her.

The old man's hands were so thin that he was wearing ill-fitting winter clothes, and he didn't know from under which house, so he dragged his broken leg to show them the way: "Even the house in front of it, it doesn't look badly ruined, so stay inside, lest you encounter snowstorms and wild dogs, and people will suffer if they are gone." ”

Ge and Zhu also happened to come back, so they followed.

The house was not far away, and when he walked outside, Gu Yunxi frowned and asked Gu Yunyan: "Is this the third aunt's house?" ”

Gu Yunyan recognized it carefully and bowed his head.

Gu Yunjin also took a look, the third aunt Gu Wei, who was the person the queen mother had asked her about, passed away a few years ago.

And now, in the corner of the half-collapsed house, she saw four bodies covered with white cloths.

The old man opened them one by one: "The old man only recognizes so few, the people next to him can't distinguish their identities, and they haven't found it, after the city is broken, there are officers and soldiers who have come, and the old man hasn't caught up, otherwise, it would have been handed over to them at that time." ”

Gu Yunjin sniffed the tip of his nose.

The year she left Beidi, the second sister Gu Yunchan was discussing marriage, Gu Yunchan did not change much from her memory, but she lost her life.

And her second brother-in-law Jiang Yi, a young general who was raised by her grandfather Gu Jin, Gu Yunjin thought she had never seen it, but looking at his appearance carefully, she seemed to have some impressions.

None of the three brothers of the Jiang family survived.