Chapter 21: First Encounter with Uncle Du
"Awan......" Xuanyuan Chen hugged Wanliang tightly in his arms, and continued to persuade her: "Awan, don't go out to contact the disaster victims anymore, knowing that you go out, I can't feel at ease doing anything outside." ”
"Chen, you're busy, don't worry about me, I'll pay attention. Now seeing so many victims suffering, if you tell me to do nothing but stay at home, I will have a troubled conscience! Wan Liang said.
"But now that the plague is so rampant outside, and no effective treatment has been found, what if the plague is infected?" Xuanyuan Chen said worriedly.
"You let me hide at home, condemned by my conscience all day long, and I don't feel at ease. Chen, you just let me do something for the victims. "Wanliang really wants to do something for the victims.
After a dispute, Xuanyuan Chen finally couldn't resist the stubborn Wanliang, and compromised, so she could only emphasize again and again that she should cover her mouth and nose before going out, and drink a decoction to prevent the plague. In the end, the two who were affectionate and affectionate went to bed after a lingering and sympathetic long kiss.
The next day, Xuanyuan Chen sent someone to check and found out that the "childhood sweetheart" that Awan said originally referred to Du Lianyi. But when did he become a childhood sweetheart with her? No, in order to prevent Lian Yi from going to Awan's trouble again, he has to take care of it. Suddenly, I thought that Lianyi's father Du Heng was not also coming to Zhoushan, and was working with him to control the flood and disaster relief, and told him that it was not better to ask him to take care of his daughter.
Du Heng also learned that his daughter also came to Zhoushan, which was just nonsense! On the same day, he went to the Xinwang Mansion to talk about Lianyi, and asked her to return to Yandu immediately. Now that there is a large-scale outbreak of plague in Zhoushan, how can she stay here? However, thinking about marrying someone else's brother Chen, Lianyi refused to return to Yandu even if she was alive or dead. After some dispute, Du Heng was so angry that he raised his hand and was about to slap it down, but it was thanks to his sister Princess Xin that she persuaded him in time, and Lian Yi didn't get this slap. "Alas! When the children are older, it is difficult to take care of them. Du Heng sighed in his heart. In the end, the extremely angry Du Heng simply didn't care, let her be, flicked her arm, and left. First, he actually knew Lianyi's dedication to Xuanyuan Chen, and second, he still had to do many matters related to disaster relief.
After two days, Du Heng actually came to the place where Wanliang gave porridge, first, because the water control work was almost over, and now the focus of disaster relief is to control the plague, mainly because he has not found a good medicine that can treat and prevent the plague. Second, because he was a little curious about the woman who snatched Brother Chen's brother from his daughter, the "great good man" in the mouth of the victims, what kind of woman was it, who was so highly praised by the disaster victims, and made his nephew, who had never been close to women, suddenly want to marry a wife. When he saw the woman who was serving porridge to the victims one by one and covering her mouth and nose, although he could only see her eyes clearly, he was eight points sure that she was Tanwan's daughter. Others don't know that Tilt Wan's eyes have actually captured his heart, but he buried his love for Tilt Wan deep in his heart. Because he knew that what he loved was his irreversible friend Mu Yiliang. Du Heng thought that she was the daughter of Brother Mu and Qian Wan who entrusted him to bring out of Yandu five years ago, and suddenly became a little excited, the sky had eyes and finally did not let Brother Mu's family die. Five years ago, he was already guilty for failing to rescue Brother Mu and Tianwan's two sons, and later he secretly sent someone to report that even the daughter who was entrusted by Brother Mu and Tianwan to send Yandu to Zhoushan was nowhere to be found, and he blamed himself even more! He must find a way to confirm whether she is the daughter of Tanwan after all.
After Wan Liang finished serving the porridge, she hurriedly distributed the boiled decoction to the victims with her family. Suddenly, a little girl's mournful cry came to her ears: "Don't take my mother away...... Woowoo...... Don't take my mother...... "Wan Liang followed the prestige, it turned out that the officials of the Yamen were dragging those who were sick and dying, and the doctor diagnosed them as plague victims to isolate, so as not to spread the plague more rapidly.......
"Little sister, don't cry, the officials are taking your mother for treatment, your mother will be fine......" Wanliang walked over and comforted the little girl. In fact, she knew in her heart that most of her mother would not survive, and no doctor had prescribed a special prescription to cure the plague.
"Woooooooooo......oo Sister, will my mother really be okay? Woo woo woo ...... "The little girl asked Wanliang in tears.
"Really, my sister doesn't lie to you, good, don't cry." Wanliang continued to coax, and then remembered something and asked, "Little sister, are you alone now?" Where's your daddy? ”
"Woooooooooo......oo Yesterday, they also dragged Daddy away like a mother...... Woowoo...... Sister, when will they return my father and mother...... Woo woo woo ...... "The little girl cried even harder.
"Don't cry, little sister. When your father and mother are well, they will come back to you. Seeing the little girl crying profusely, Wanliang suddenly remembered the fear when the last relative by her side, the nurse, left her five years ago. So he said to the little girl: "Little sister, will my sister take you home with you?" When your father and mother are well, will you go back with them? ”
"Woooooooooo......oo Not good...... I'm going to wait here for my father and mother to come back...... Woowoo...... I'm going to wait here for my father and mother to come back......" The little girl cried and shook her head.
"Little sister, don't cry, my sister will take you to eat something delicious, okay?" Wanliang was a little at a loss, she really didn't know how to comfort the little girl, because she had also deeply felt the horror of losing her loved ones, panic, helplessness, and fear...... She remembers it vividly when she thinks about it now.
"Not good! Not good! Woowoo...... I want my mom and daddy! I want my father and mother ......," the little girl yelled, still crying.
"Ying'er? Ying'er? ......" Just when Wanliang was thinking about how to appease the little girl in front of her, she couldn't wait to know if she was Du Heng, who was Wanwan's daughter, walked behind Wanliang and shouted tentatively.
"Ying'er" father and Wang Eniang's two brothers called her like this, they haven't heard it for more than five years, and when they heard such a call again, Wanliang was shocked at first, and her brain paused for half a moment without obeying the call, and then she turned her head and looked at the source of the sound, at this time she was already full of tears in her eyes.
"Ying'er? Are you really the daughter of the Tilt Wan? Du Heng saw Wanliang's teary eyes, and he was even more sure that she was Wanwan's daughter. Du Heng thought that because he was afraid of seeing Tann Wan who had become a wife, he was lonely, so after Tam Wan and Brother Mu got married, he rarely went to Mu Wang's Mansion, I remember that when he learned that Tan Wan gave birth to a daughter for Brother Mu again, he still went to Mu Wang's Mansion when she was full of age, Ying'er must have no impression of her, so he said softly to Wan Liang: "Ying'er, I am Uncle Du, and I am a good friend of your father." Five years ago, it was your father Wang Eniang who entrusted me to send you out of Yandu, but the people sent later came back to report, and you will ...... when you arrive in Zhoushan I don't know where I am...... It's okay, it's okay, you're fine, otherwise I'm really ashamed of Brother Mu......"
"Uncle Du? ......" Wan Liang didn't remember this Uncle Du in her mind.
"Yes, I'm Uncle Du. Ying'er, your mother may still be alive......" Du Heng said uncertainly.
"E-Niang is still alive...... E-Niang is still alive...... Uncle Du, are you telling the truth? Is it true? Wanliang was so excited that tears came out of her eyes and asked eagerly.
"Uncle Du is just guessing. Ying'er, can you trust Uncle Du? Would you like to talk to Uncle Du alone? Du Heng saw that there were still officials and errands around him who were dragging away the victims who were infected with the plague, and it was inconvenient to say something here, so he said to Wan Liang.
"Yes, Uncle Dub." Wan Liang also saw the official messenger not far away, and knew that if there was anything, she couldn't be heard by the official, after all, she was a person who should not have lived in this world five years ago. Although she really couldn't remember this Uncle Du, she didn't know why she just believed what he said. Maybe it's a "Ying'er" that evokes too many good memories for her.
"Girl, where are you going?" When Wanliang was about to leave with Du Heng, Xiao Cui, who had already come to Wanliang's side, suddenly shouted.
"Oh, I see that this little girl is crying pitifully, and I want to buy her something to eat and coax her. Xiaocui, why don't you go and buy it, just buy jujube cake. "How could Wan Liang forget the personal maid Xiaocui sent to her by Xuanyuan Chen, she had to break her up before she could go with Uncle Du.
"Okay." Xiaocui looked at the little girl who was crying beside Wanliang, so she believed Wanliang's words, answered, and went to buy red date cakes.
Seeing that Xiaocui's figure had disappeared around the corner of the street, Wanliang followed Du Heng to a private room in a teahouse called "Shanshui Tea Room" in the town. At this time, the eldest lady was busy delivering decoction to the victims who had already vomited and collapsed, so she didn't notice that Wanliang was no longer in the porridge shed at this time.
What Du Heng and Wanliang didn't know was that Du Lianyi, who was planning to come to Wanliang to trouble again, happened to see the person who was looking for trouble talking about something with his father ten meters away from the porridge shed. "How did she know her father?" Lian Yi said in her heart. So, she and Zhutao kept hiding around the corner and watching, and later saw that her father had left the porridge shed with Wanliang, so she and Zhutao followed all the way and followed the Shanshui Tea Room. gave Xiao Er a certain amount of silver, and smoothly asked the room where Du Heng and Wanliang were talking, and she and Zhutao hid in the window of that room and eavesdropped.
"Uncle Du, is my mother really alive? Is it true? As soon as she arrived at the private room, Wanliang couldn't wait to ask.
"Ying'er, Uncle Du is just guessing. Five years ago, at noon in October of Xuanwu 157, the Mu family was beheaded at the execution ground of Yannan Street. But among the more than 100 corpses, I carefully searched them two or three times one by one, there is your father and two brothers, but there is no your mother. I had been hiding in the vicinity since your father and the king had just taken them to the place of execution, and had not found anyone dragging the body away, so I was sure that there was no one in the execution. It's just that later I sent a lot of manpower to secretly find Tilt Wan's whereabouts, but to no avail, so I don't know where Tilt Wan is? Isn't it still alive......"