Before leaving Qinzhou, Yuwentai went to Tieniu Village outside Tianshui City and found Zheng Da's home.

It was two thatched huts, with four walls. An old mother who is sick in bed, and four children who are hungry and clothed.

Zheng Da was boiling gruel on the earthen stove behind the house, and the smoke of the wood smoked his face black and white. Two older children, one seven or eight years old, were washing clothes by the wooden basin on the side, and their small hands were red from the cold. The other, five or six years old, was buried in a pile of pine cones that he had picked up, smashed the pine cones open with stones, and picked out the pine nuts inside and set them aside. The younger child, about four or five years old, squatted on the ground, and from time to time, he didn't know what to pick up and put in his mouth, grinning, muttering something he didn't know what to say. The youngest child was still crawling around on the ground, covered in mud.

Yu Wentai, who was originally here to "seek justice", saw this scene and softened his heart.

He walked over, crouched down and asked the little boy who was crouching on the ground, "What are you eating?" ”

The boy looked up, grinned at him, showed a mouthful of white teeth, and said inarticulately, "There's an egg here." He grabbed his hand on the ground and put it in his mouth: "It smells so good." Then he looked at the ground, "There's another meatloaf." He grabbed it and put it in his mouth: "Ah, the meatloaf is sweet, as sweet as honey." ”

The child, who looked to be four or five years old, had never even tasted a meatloaf.

Zheng Da heard someone talking to the doll, and looked up from the fireworks, all of them were gorgeously dressed and extraordinary, and the one headed by him was tall and slender, like a celestial man. He was so frightened that he crawled over, and fell to the ground with a plop and kowtowed: "My lord, spare my life!" Spare your life! ”

The forehead hit the ground and there was a clang.

He didn't know what they were coming for, but he was already so scared when he saw these people in fine clothes. In order to live, people can be despised so much.

Yu Wentai thought of the tragic situation when the woman died, and still hated the incompetent man in front of him. He stood in front of him, put his hands behind his back, and said in a cold voice, "Zheng Da, your wife has died. ”

Zheng Da, who knelt on the ground, heard this, his skinny body shook violently, and then he whimpered and cried: "What the hell is the child...... ...... I'm sorry for you......"

Who would want to send a mother of four to die if she wasn't forced to do so? He would rather go by himself, but when he died, she was a weak woman, how could she take care of her sick old mother and raise four young children?

"Are you guilty of taking a wife and not treating her kindly?"

Listening to this cold and majestic questioning, Zheng Da stopped crying, raised his head from the ground tremblingly, and said, "The grass people are guilty...... I also have a seriously ill elderly mother and four young children at home. We can't live anymore......"

A miserable cry came from the grass hut not far away: "Adults spare my son!" ”

Everyone looked up and saw a gray-haired old woman, standing tremblingly by the wood door, kneeling down with trembling legs, kowtowing and crying: "I am willing to die on behalf of my son, please spare my son!" ”

When Zheng Da saw this, he immediately got up from the ground, threw himself to his mother's side to support her, and called out mournfully: "Mother! ”

The old woman was still crying, and said, "They don't want my old bones, so we have to ...... I had to let my daughter-in-law go...... The kids are starving to death!! My son once told him to go, but if he goes, how will my daughter-in-law take care of me and my four children alone? The children have to live! ”

In a hurry, he coughed desperately and could no longer speak. Only Zheng Da anxiously helped her and called: "Mother! Mother! ”

There was silence all around.

Yu Wentai only felt sour in his nose. He glanced up at the gray sky and said to Zheng Da: "Your wife's body is now in the Qinzhou Prefecture, go and bring your wife's body back for burial." The food provided by the government will soon arrive, and you will be able to live. ”

He said no more, turned and left.

Hou Mo Chen Chong opened his mouth and asked, "Childe ......"

At this time, the child who was looking for something to eat reached out and grabbed the corner of Yuwentai's clothes-

This action made Zheng Da surprised: "San'er! ”

If you stain the clothes of the big man, you are afraid that you will be killed!

Su Rang immediately stretched out his hand to comfort him: "Don't be afraid, we are not bad people, we are from Chang'an." ”

Yuwentai squatted down, squatted in front of the child, looked at his innocent and bright eyes and asked in a soft voice, "What's wrong?" ”

The child looked at him with a pair of dark eyes, and asked in a milky voice, "Lang Jun, when will you put my aunt back?" ”

When Zheng Da heard this, he quietly lowered his head and wiped his eyes with his tattered sleeves.

Yuwentai looked at the child in silence. He was skinny and his face was like a vegetable, but his eyes were so innocent and bright, full of kindness and anticipation for this vicious world.

"Lang Jun." The boy called again.

He stretched out his hand and touched his head, and said, "Your aunt is the most chaste and kind, cutting meat and feeding eagles, and has entered the Bodhisattva path and become a Buddha." ”

The child didn't understand and asked, "What is Buddhahood?" I miss my mother. I don't want her to become a Buddha, I want her to come home soon. When will she be back? I miss my mother. ”

Yu Wentai stretched out his hand to pick him up, looked at the shadowy mountains in the distance, and said: "Your aunt has become a Buddha and left, if you miss her in the future, go to the temple to see." The Buddha statue was made by her. She will always watch you from heaven and bless you to grow up safely. ”

When the older child heard this, he also walked to Yuwentai's feet, raised his head and asked, "Childe, can A-Niang see us in the sky?" ”

"She can see it," Yuwentai said. You must never forget that she sacrificed herself for you. ”

He put down the child in his hand and walked away.

As he walked, he ordered: "Build a Buddhist hall here to enshrine the life-size Buddha statue of this lady, which will be funded by the state government and offered at four o'clock." ”

Zheng Da was stunned in the back, chased two steps behind, and asked loudly: "I don't know who the benefactor is?" ”

Su Rang, who was walking at the end, turned around and whispered, "This is Prime Minister Yuwen." ”

Zheng Da was stunned for a moment, then fell to the ground and cried at Yuwentai's back: "Prime Minister! Why are you here!! ——”

Yu Wentai was on the horse, and said to Hou Mo Chen Chong in a low voice: "You have seen it all." Lone entrusted Qinzhou to you. ”

"Yes-" Hou Mo Chen Chong understood what he meant, and felt the weight of the trust and the great responsibility, and couldn't help but make a big gift right away.

On the way back to Chang'an, everyone had time to talk about the search for Yuwentai and Ran Ying. Monaro said: "At noon that day, I did not see the Prime Minister and Ah Ran come back, and when I knew that there was an accident, I immediately went into the mountains to search, but I found nothing until dark, and I don't know whether the Prime Minister and Ah Ran stumbled and fell into the valley, or whether they encountered bandits or wild beasts." The Qinzhou Mountains are continuous, and blind search is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and we have no clue at all, and we are anxious. The prime minister must not have guessed who had come to report your situation and location. ”