In a blink of an eye, the Mid-Autumn Festival has passed, the weather is getting cooler day by day, several autumn rains have fallen, and the sun has not shown for seven or eight days in a row, becoming more and more cold. In the courtyard, thick moss had grown under the roots of the wall, and a few yellow dogtail plants at the head of the wall were shivering in the autumn wind, and the courtyard was desolate.

The steward had just come, and sighed and told Yuehua that the rent in the field had not been collected. Those tenants seem to have been instigated by someone, or colluded, and used all kinds of excuses to excuse themselves, saying that they could not take the lease.

This year's wind and rain are smooth, it is a good year, the fields are fertile, they are all good fields, if there are two households are really poor, Yuehua does not mind exempting their rent, but such a coaxing refusal to pay, it is obvious that someone secretly instigated it, deliberately did it.

Business in the store has been sluggish these days, and I have long been looking forward to the rent being collected so that I can supplement the wages of the payers, who would have thought that someone would interfere with it. Ill-intentioned. The old shopkeeper used his connections to inquire, and it was really the credit of the Lian family.

Is this to be exterminated? I have long known that Lian's eyes will be repaid, and she will definitely not give up easily, but I didn't expect her to use such shady means.

Do you tear your face to the court, or let go of your dignity and beg everywhere in a loud voice?

Yuehua secretly smiled bitterly, the door of the public court was never opened for people like her, even if the Hou Mansion fell, but for her Chu Yuehua, it was also a grasshopper shaking the tree. Ask everywhere, and who can you ask?

Yuehua stood in the courtyard, looking at the heavy sky, and stood for a long time, feeling that the dense dark clouds seemed to be hanging over her head, and the raindrops were shaky, so that her heart was suffocated. She walked towards the door, a little lost, and Xiangshen hurriedly chased out: "Miss, what are you going to do?" Looks like it's going to rain in a while. ”

Yuehua turned around and smiled: "It's not in the way, I'll go out for a walk and I'll be back in a while." ”

"You wait for me to get the umbrella."

Xiang Shen looked at Yuehua's face, and the smile that was barely bent was as thick as the clouds in the sky, which weighed down her heart, and she felt distressed, and she ran into the house in a hurry.

"No need, I'll just walk around the neighborhood, you can help me stew the pear, and I'll come back and drink it later."

As Yuehua spoke, she had already left the courtyard, and when Xiangshen took the umbrella and chased it out, there was no trace of the person.

Yuehua tightened her collar, lowered her head, and walked aimlessly along the long street, and before she knew it, she arrived at Bei'anmen, and less than two miles west of here, there was a maple forest, which was the mausoleum of Yuehua's parents.

In such weather, there are not many people out of the city, let alone a single woman? Yuehua's thin figure was a little eye-catching, and the soldiers guarding the city whispered a few words behind her.

She only turned a deaf ear, and the gossip of these days had filled her ears, and the rest could no longer enter. She lowered her eyes, staring at the moon-white skirt slowly blooming under her feet, she embroidered a picture of the smoke and rain in the south of the Yangtze River on it, but it was a few strokes of the pattern, the silk thread outlined the distant mountains, pavilions, the lonely boat on the river in the smoke and rain, she chose dozens of different shades of cyan or gray embroidery thread, lifelike. With his own footsteps, the smoke and rain became more and more ethereal, and the mountains and lonely boats came alive.

Every time I pick up the embroidery needle, I always can't help but think of my mother, these days, she misses more and more, just like A-Niang just left, she lived in Changle Hou's Mansion for a few days, tossing and turning at night, always in front of A-Niang's voice and smile, and the silk thread that stretches endlessly.

She wanted to go to see A-Niang and tell her about her hardships and grievances.

The maple leaves all over the forest have been tempered by wind and frost, and after the baptism of rain for several days, they are blazing red, red and charming, in full swing, revealing full light.

This cemetery was chosen by his father for himself in his early years, he said that when the autumn wind blew, the red like fire was his heart to defend Chang'an to the death, and it was also the warmth dyed by the blood of his soldiers, but now in Yuehua's eyes, she felt a stinging pain in her eyes, and her eyes couldn't help but be full of tears.

She walked along the forest path, stepped on a place of fallen leaves as dark as blood, and called softly twice: "Ruber? ”

The woods were silent.

Is Rubeus not there, and has gone into the city to buy grain and rice?

Rubeus was originally one of his father's subordinates, but he was seriously wounded in the leg during the war and retired. When he learned the bad news of his father, he consciously settled here and became a grave keeper. Although his legs and feet are not dexterous, his ears are excellent.

Yuehua went straight inward in confusion, and when her eyes suddenly opened up, she couldn't help but be stunned in place, as if she had been hit by five thunderbolts.

The mausoleum of his parents in front of him is taken care of by Ruber on weekdays, and the incense is filled every day, and the front of the tomb is also tidy. Today, the offering table overturned, not to mention the mess, the white marble tombstone was also broken, and many bluestones on the grave were picked down and thrown everywhere!

It's raining again, and the red leaves are everywhere, full of scarlet!

She stood there stunned for a long time, and the energy and thoughts that had been suddenly withdrawn from her body slowly returned, and her eyes widened in disbelief, thinking that it was just an illusion.

"Daddy! Auntie! She called softly, a cold shiver in her voice.

Then, the tranquility of the maple forest was torn apart, and a terrible exclamation was like a crack, instantly shattering the almost frozen air around it.

Yuehua stumbled two steps, then fell to the ground, crawled to the front of the mausoleum on his knees, hugged the broken tombstone and cried bitterly! Almost hysterical.

Who did this? Why did you destroy her father's grave? What is the grudge? Who is so mad?!

Yuehua's eyes were cracked, and she fell down in front of the mausoleum on her knees, and opened her arms to hug her parents' graves, but there was only a cool loess in her tentacles, mixed with cold rain, which made her feel a chill from the bottom of her heart.

She reacted suddenly, stood up, and stumbled around looking for Rubeus, shouting as she went, like an elk cornered with nowhere to escape.

There was no hut, no woods, there were hollows everywhere, only her cold and desolate cry echoed in the woods.

Rubeus was not there either.

Patches of maple leaves struggled to fall from the branches in the bleak autumn wind.

She walked back to the mausoleum in despair, kneeling almost numbly, and with trembling hands caressing the broken tombstones and the scattered tombstones, her body like autumn leaves on the branches. She picked up the tombstone piece by piece from the ground on her knees, and carefully stacked it on the grave. Tears mixed with dirt and piled up together.

"Daddy, Auntie, I'm sorry, it's Yuehua who is not filial, Yuehua is useless, living such a messy life, being laughed at, losing the face of my Chu family, and causing you to be affected by children, and you will not be at peace after death."

"Auntie, why are you so ruthless, you left Yuehua to follow your father in the first place? Do you know what kind of life your daughter has been living all these years? ”

"Daddy, Auntie, if you know Jiuquan, can you say a word to Yuehua? The daughter is lonely and alone, and she lives so hard. ”

......

She cried and cried, Ruyu's fingertips were already cold and numb, completely unconscious, and she had no thoughts of her own, just doing the same thing over and over again. It's going to rain again, and she can't let her parents get drenched in the rain like this.

The bluestones were piled up one by one, just like the hatred in her heart was accumulating little by little.

"Dad, you said that you want your daughter to be loyal and patriotic, you said that the red of this maple forest is your blood and sincerity! You have defended their glory and wealth with your life, and you have been happy and peaceful, even if you have sacrificed your life for the country, you still have to guard the north gate of the city, overlooking the western coolness, and the battle report of longing for a great victory will pass in front of you. But now, do you open your eyes and see what they have done to you? What did you do to your daughter?! ”

She complained one by one, and the tears in her eyes became less and less, and in the end they only turned into hatred.

She wants to question the Lian family, and she also has to question the high-ranking young son of heaven, who is so vicious and does such a heartbreaking thing? Even if he fights for his life, it is better to atone for his parents under Jiuquan.

As the sky grew darker, a hideous flash of lightning slid by, and a thunderclap rang out on the ground. Orr, the bone-chilling rain began to fall in small pieces, accompanied by a whimpering cold wind.

Nearly September, there were even thunderstorms, such cold weather is rare in previous years, this cold wind together, tantamount to worse.

Mo Guhan stood silently in the maple forest behind Yuehua, like a stone cast, standing still for a long time. A pair of dark eyes darkened as the twilight deepened, as if they swept away the fury before the storm, or like the dark tide contained under the calm sea.

Rage, steaming.