Chapter 699: Helpless
In Xuanzhou City, there are almost no idlers in the streets and alleys.
On the north city gate, the soldiers waited for the day.
Thirty miles outside the city, there were enemy troops stationed, and the cavalry of Chaoge often made long-distance raids, breaking into various villages, taking away the burned grain, capturing the laborers in the prime of life, and executing the old, weak, sick and disabled.
Xuanzhou really didn't have the energy to fight fires everywhere, so he had to pretend not to see it.
Every time there is a quick military report, the people have to be worried for a while.
Many old people who have gone through the war have urgently made preparations, and those who can be exchanged for gold and silver have been replaced with gold and silver, and those who can buy grain have bought more grain to hide well, and the tablets of their ancestors are carried with them, and those who have relatives in the village can take refuge in the city, while the city gate has not yet been closed down, they hurriedly go to their relatives.
The Sun family is in Xuanzhou, it is an ordinary middle family, Sun Mei's grandfather and father are both scholars, and his grandfather is also famous, but he has no money to dredge up relationships, he can't be an official, and he has no hope of being admitted to the Jinshi, so he can only say that he is better than the poor who have no family wealth, but he is not an official eunuch's family.
But the Sun family attaches great importance to reputation.
The grandfather must make his daughter a martyr.
"If the Guo family can pass this level, you will be a good daughter-in-law of the Guo family in the future, a great hero, no one can surpass you, Guo Ji doesn't care how many concubines he accepts in this life, but also respect you, otherwise he is ungrateful, and the spitting stars of the world will drown him."
"If the Guo family can't get by, and the family is exiled, you have to accept your fate."
The atmosphere in the room was oppressive and eccentric.
The grandfather looked at his daughter and spoke earnestly.
Sun Mei: "......"
She didn't want the respect of a husband who seemed destined to take many concubines, and she didn't want to know anything and be exiled and beheaded for no reason.
Besides, the enemy is all coming to the city, why is her father, her mother, and her uncles and uncles not worried about becoming the soul of the Jinta clan's iron horse, and they still care about her?
didn't have time to communicate with his parents and explain his thoughts clearly, so his grandfather listened to a lot of sour words from other people's mouths - like what Sun Mei and her sister-in-law have been separated for several months, and I don't know what happened.
Today's Sun Mei is very different from the little family Jasper in front of her parents a few months ago.
She is now not used to talking with her head down, not used to communicating with people, not looking at each other, and not used to hunched over her chest.
She is not used to everything at home.
She knew in her heart that people were afraid of being different, and now that she had become different, she was particularly eye-catching in the crowd, and others insulted and slandered her, most of them were out of envy and jealousy, and she didn't need to care.
It's just that she doesn't care, her grandfather has listened to all kinds of sour words, and he is already very sensitive, very angry, and completely unable to communicate.
"If you don't want to marry, you have to marry, this is your life."
Father Sun squinted his eyes and said coldly, "Could it be that you really did something unseemly?" ”
Sun Mei: "......"
If it had been before, she must have been scared to death.
It's just a little helpless at this point.
"Dad, if you, who is a father, slander your daughter like this, I will be innocent, and I am afraid I will not be able to say clearly."
The grandfather frowned, and finally closed his mouth.
Sun Mei sighed, she remembered the photos she had seen before, and it was also a world similar to that of the Daxi Dynasty, where her fiancé committed a crime and was waiting to die, and the woman ran around to save him, trying her best, waiting for her fiancé to get out safely, but she suspected that she had become an official's concubine, forcing her to die to prove her innocence.
At that time, the classmates discussed together, what did the fairy say?
Fairy Mu said: "She has seen those who remarried to be queens, and those who have become queens after their husbands died, these women are all amazing and have a good life, but they are virtuous and virtuous, those who work hard and complain, and they have been soaked in bitter soup all their lives, and from birth to death, there is no temporary happiness." ”
"I really don't understand, the good and the bad are so obvious, why do the girls turn a blind eye?"
"Alas!"
When Sun Mei was in the capital, she was worried about her parents and wanted to go home to report her safety, but now, the only thing she wanted to do was to return to Roaring Spring Mountain immediately.
In the past fifteen years, only a few months on Roaring Spring Mountain have she really lived.
For the current Sun Mei, the friends on Roaring Spring Mountain are not relatives, they are better than relatives, and even more intimate than relatives.
But she has been a good daughter for fifteen years, she can't only take care of herself, ignore her parents, and face what happened to her fiancé's family at this time, she also feels that the mention of quitting her family at this moment makes her a little unable to open her mouth.
Sun Mei thought about it, three generations of Uncle Guo's grandfather and grandson have been stationed in the frontier at Dazheng Pass, loyal and good for generations, old and young, and there are many clansmen, and it is a joke to say that he collaborated with the enemy and treason.
Mistakes must be made.
Uncle Guo has always had the problem of arrogance and arrogance, and he was defeated in a battle against the wind.
Maybe she can help Uncle Guo avenge her grievances first, and then dissolve the marriage contract when the Guo family is safe.
Grandfather refused to wait for one more day, and didn't discuss with Sun Mei for half a sentence, and when she knew, Liuli only greeted him in person.
"Hurry up with the power, don't have to throw away the fee, everything is simple."
With his father's words, Sun Mei was stuffed into the carriage and went directly into the gate of Guo's house.
Sun Mei: "......"
She has been weak since she was a child, she has no power to restrain chickens, she can't do anything in the face of her father, brother, uncle, and uncle, and she doesn't want to cry, go on a hunger strike, hurt herself and waste her strength.
Therefore, what comes is safe.
After following the homeless people for such a long time, she turned around on the Roaring Spring Mountain and saw the most beautiful scenery in the world, Sun Mei felt that her biggest change was in her thinking - there is nothing important in life except death.
Among the homeless people, she met children who were sold by their fathers to cook for others, there were more girls and some boys, and those who survived met miracles.
Miracles are things that are difficult to encounter, and there are not a few in 10,000 miles, and most of them will die when they encounter such things.
The wind whined.
The Guo family was gloomy, and on the third day of Sun Mei's entry, her mother-in-law was crying, and pointed to her nose and scolded: "You Kefu's mourning star, if Ji'er has a good one, I will pick your skin!" ”
Sun Mei: "......"
Because Guo Ji invited herself to join the death squad, Sun Mei didn't even see her 'husband'.
Now the war between the Xi Dynasty and the Jinta tribe is about to break out, there are daily battles outside Xuanzhou City, and Xuanzhou Zhizhou has set up a death squad, which contains criminals, displaced people, and people who can't survive, and these people are responsible for carrying out dangerous tasks such as espionage, assassination, and breaking off.
If you earn military merits, you can be exonerated as appropriate.
Guo Ji obviously didn't have such good luck, and the first mission of his death squad unfortunately disappeared when it was broken.
The so-called disappearance, in the eyes of people outside the Guo family, is basically dead.
At this time, Mu Qingyun, who received Sun Mei's letter of request for help and complaining, rushed to Xuanzhou City. (End of chapter)