Because of the conflict at the dock in the afternoon, which caused a lot of delays, Boss Wang finally had to pay Ding Li and others some more fees to temporarily work overtime, although he took some more money, but it was already very late when he left the dock to go home, but Ding Li actually found that the righteous Saiyi Gard actually brought more than a dozen young people from Fanbang to wait for him, because he was worried that Liu Sanye, who refused to give up, and Leper Wu secretly sent people to attack.

For this kindness, Ding Li still politely refused, if he really let Saidgard and others send him home, I am afraid that the family will not be able to prepare that little dinner is not enough to stuff his teeth, after a simple joke, Ding Li still insisted on going home alone, of course, in the end, it was indispensable to the enthusiastic advice of Saidgard and others, and a young man patted his chest to guarantee.

On the way home, Ding Li simply sorted out the news he got from the dogs, the Wang brothers and Saidgad and others, the two largest chambers of commerce in the Guangzhou port area are the Zhang family and the Cao family, and the backstage behind these two is also very tough, the force behind the Zhang family is the Lingnan Dongdao Jiedu envoy Li Yuan, and the backstage of the Cao family is the Lingnan Dongdao observation envoy Cao Wei and the city envoy Tian Gaolang.

The Jiedu envoy combines military and political power, but in Guangzhou, which has the largest port in the entire Tang Dynasty, the huge financial power cannot be controlled by the Jiedu envoy alone. The duty of the observer envoy is to check and balance it, and the special position of the city envoy is to firmly grasp the maritime tax revenue of many ports in Guangzhou and even the entire Lingnan Province.

The competition and checks and balances between military power and financial power, Ding Li is keenly aware of what happened at the dock not long ago. The distribution of the two major forces of the Zhang family and the Cao family on the dock is very clear, why did Leprosy Wu dare to suddenly break the rules, and even Liu Sanye, the boss of the Chaozhou Gang supported by the Cao Chamber of Commerce, happened to appear there?

As for the appearance of Uncle Xiang, the chief housekeeper of the Zhang Chamber of Commerce, Ding Li heard from a few people that the other party often appeared at the wharf, especially the Fuxu Port located in the South China Sea outside Guangzhou, whether it was the Zhang family or the Cao family, the largest maritime business was there.

However, no matter how much he pondered, Ding Li still had too little information, except for what he knew on the surface, the rest was speculation, almost groundless, just subconscious judgment and prediction.

"Huh?" Ding Li, who was slowly wandering the streets at night, frowned suddenly, sniffed vigorously a few times, and looked up in the direction of the pungent burnt smell.

Not good! Ding Li secretly said in his heart that something was wrong, and he rushed out immediately, staring at a cloud of black smoke and a faint fiery red light in the mid-air night. has always been worried that he will be attacked by someone on the road, but Ding Li forgot that he still has a home, and even more forgot that he provoked a leprosy like leprosy.

A few streets away, Ding Li, who was full of strength, had already rushed to the mouth of the alley of his alley in a blink of an eye, and the smoke was pouring out of the alley, which was not so deep, that Ding Li had to squint his eyes and fan under his nose with one hand.

The sixth house in the alley is Ding Li's small courtyard, which has been surrounded by raging fires at this time, how can you still see the slightest, even the courtyard walls of the neighbors on both sides were engulfed by the fire, and the nearby residents were busy putting out the fire with buckets, and almost no one noticed Ding Li's appearance.

"Liu Sheng! Sheng'er?! After quickly getting out of the shock in front of him, Ding Li's first reaction was Liu Sheng, who stayed at home, and rushed into the alley like crazy, screaming desperately: "Liu Sheng, Liu Sheng!" Where are you? I am back! ”

The view was greatly obstructed in the billowing smoke, but the fire could not stop the heart-rending shout. Soon, a voice familiar to Ding Li sounded, and he immediately stopped and looked over.

"Ahri! Come on, your family is here! It was the voice of the neighbor Aunt Zhang, who was squatting against the wall with her daughter Peilan, holding a ceramic bowl in her hand, and it was Liu Sheng who was leaning on her arms.

"Liu Sheng! What happened to you? Ding Li panicked, and didn't care about participating in the firefighting team, so he rushed straight to Aunt Zhang, and took the unconscious Liu Sheng into his arms, looking at it anxiously.

"Iniquity, iniquity!" As soon as Ding Li came, Aunt Zhang found a gas bag to complain, and after getting up with Peilan's support, she complained with a complaining face: "Ah Li! How can you provoke those people like the Fifth Master of Leprosy? Those outsiders, what can't be done, how did this good home suddenly become like this? What a sin! ”

"Mother! You say a few words! Brother Li definitely doesn't want to do this! Pei Lan couldn't stand it anymore, reached out and pulled her mother, persuaded her in a low voice with some dissatisfaction, and then turned her head to Ding Li to comfort her: "Brother Li, you don't have to worry, Sister Liu Sheng is fine, it's just that she fainted after rushing out of the fire just now, I have seen it with my mother, and I am not injured, it should be because the smoke is too big!" ”

Ding Li didn't respond, and he didn't even listen to Aunt Zhang's complaints, and at this time all his attention was focused on a tablet with Liu Sheng's hands clasped on his chest, the spiritual seat of the deceased mother Ding.

Ding Li has not seen this mother, but the residual memory in his brain can't make him forget the mother he once had, and more importantly, Ding Li has no father in his memory, and the information derived from the memory fragments in his brain has been taken by his mother to live in a slum area since he can remember, but the life of the Ding family has always been good, because every year a mysterious person will send a lot of living expenses, including those good musical instruments stored at home, which makes Ding Li feel very confused.

Reaching out to open the tablet, he found that Liu Sheng was holding on to it, and even his brows were tightly twisted together, as if someone wanted to take away some of her treasures. In the end, Ding Li had no choice but to give up, but found that under the tablet, there was a booklet loosely sandwiched between Liu Sheng's fingers and the tablet.

Ding Li had never seen such a booklet at home, and when he saw Liu Sheng put it tightly with the tablet, he was extremely curious, and after slowly pulling it out, it reflected the firelight, and found that it was a genealogy.

After opening it, Ding Li was even more curious, the preface and family profile on the first and second pages were empty, although there was handwriting at the beginning of the third page, there was only a regular 'Li' character, and the name was replaced by X, and the following book was the year, June of the seventh year of Tang Dahe.

It is not until the third page that the two full names appear, as well as the year.

Ding Li, Ziyi, male, 17th month of the twelfth year of Tang Dazhong.

Concubine, Liu Sheng, female, Tang Xiantong for two years.

This is an extremely non-standard family tree, but Ding Li was very shocked, why is the first person from the family tree to be surnamed Li, and there is a year of birth but no year of death, doesn't it prove that his father is still alive?

"Brother Li, you, are you back?" In the confusion of thoughts, Liu Sheng in his arms squirmed his weak body slightly, and as soon as his eyes opened, two crystal tears poured out, and the ash and dirt on his face were washed out of two furrows along his cheeks, and he pouted, and cried with grievances in his eyes: "We, our home, was, burned!" Whining.. ”

Hearing this, Ding Li was also uncomfortable in his heart, although he had been a special soldier who had wandered homeless, but after coming to this world, Ding Li had to return to the small courtyard behind him that had been completely engulfed by fire every day, and he was also full of feelings for it like Liu Sheng, but now, with the crackling sound behind him, it would soon become a ruin.

"Don't cry, don't cry, if you burn, you will burn, and there will be more in the future!" Ding Li also felt a little speechless, so he could only hug Liu Sheng tightly and comfort him softly, but every time the soft body in his arms twitched, Ding Li's heart seemed to be pinched by something, more like a sharp dagger slowly slashing at his heart.

"Hey! Ahri! In silence, Aunt Zhang'er's elderly man walked slowly to Ding Li's side, casually threw the bucket with the bottom left, glanced at Ding Li helplessly, shook his head and sighed: "Don't blame Uncle for being cowardly, after all, we are a big family, the person who is the fifth master said, if you dare to continue to stay, you will come to burn the house every day in the future, and say that you will beat us once!" Today, a few young men next door wanted to stop them, but they were beaten by that group of people! Ay.. ”

"Uncle Wang, I'm causing trouble to everyone! I'm so sorry! Hearing this, Ding Li was shocked, he didn't expect to poke such a big basket, the other party actually wanted to kill them all, even his neighbors were threatened by the open, and after answering without raising his head, he lowered his eyes again, Liu Sheng's eyes were full of panic and fear, and his heart tightened again, gritted his teeth and held his breath, and hugged Biliu with both hands.

"Don't be afraid, with me, there will be a home!" The corners of Ding Li's mouth raised, he smiled slightly, his tone was full of confidence and firmness, especially the dark eyes that shone with a strange light, which seemed to give Liu Sheng enough courage in an instant, his red lips pursed, and he nodded heavily, his eyes became soft in an instant, full of trust and perseverance.

"Ali, this is some money I found from home when I was fighting the fire, take it with you, you need it on the road!" Uncle Wang's voice sounded from behind again, and he raised his hand with a small bag of copper coins, which was all Ding Li's savings in the past few months, but in the fire just now, Liu Sheng forgot in order to snatch the spiritual position of the deceased mother.

"I'm making trouble for everyone this time, so I'll trouble Uncle Wang again, and give the big guy a penny, the money is not much, just take it as a little expression of my guilt!" Ding Li still didn't look back, but his tone was very calm, after saying that, Yu Guang glanced around, took a deep breath, lowered his head and glanced at Liu Sheng, smiled faintly, raised his leg and took an extremely heavy step towards the outside of the alley.

"Brother Li! Where are you going? This is your home! Aunt Zhang's Pei Lan was anxious when she saw this, her relationship with Liu Sheng was not shallow, and she did treat Ding Li like a brother, but her shouting did not stop Ding Li's pace.

"Dead girl! What to shout! I'm not afraid to cause trouble for our family! Aunt Zhang next to her immediately stretched out her finger and poked her daughter's forehead twice, and then stretched out her hand and pushed Pei Lan behind her, as if she was afraid that Pei Lan would catch up and stop her.

"Hey! What a musical instrument! Just burned it as firewood! If you sell it, it's worth a lot of money! Without waiting for Ding Li to turn out of the alley, Uncle Wang turned around and sighed in a low voice towards the fire that was about to be extinguished, then checked the broken money bag in his hand, rolled his eyes, quickly reached out and took out a small handful and stuffed it on his chest, looked at the shaking money bag with reluctance, and turned to distribute it to the neighbors who had suffered losses.