At noon in winter, the warm and hard-boiled egg-like sun hangs in the sky, and it does not radiate any heat, sometimes obscured by a thin layer of clouds.

With the flag swaying in the cold wind still hanging there, Gao Wei didn't expect the old woman to answer, after all, he just asked casually, "...... It's not easy to come out and set up a stall to do business in such weather, why do you only see a small child, your children have gone? ”

The old woman was suddenly stunned, and forced herself to support the smile on her face, revealing infinite sourness in the process. Gao Wei was also stunned, and realized that he was stepping on someone's heartache, so he forced a smile and said: "I just asked casually, you don't have to take it seriously." ”

has been in the upper position for a long time, even if he pulls down this shelf, there is still a feeling of arrogance and domineering. Cushman & Wakefield secretly blamed himself, just wanted to explain something more, apologize or something. The old woman suddenly said, "The guest has drunk all the soup, do you want to add a bowl?" It can be regarded as giving Gao Wei a step down, Gao Wei nodded and said, "I'm tired", Gao Wei drank it in one gulp, and the old woman said to herself:

"Originally, I shouldn't have come out to work at my age, but if I don't come out, there is no way, life always has to go on...... Otherwise, my little grandchildren will have to live a hard life. The old woman said: "My old man and two sons are soldiers, the old man is more than ten years older than me, I just married him a few years ago, he died with General Dou Tai in Xiaoguan, leaving two sons and a daughter, the eldest died in a war when he was a teenager, and there is a second child, finally married a daughter-in-law, just had a child, the court sent the general to fight the Zhou State, he was taken with the lord, Wuping died in the winter of the second year, died in Hedong......"

Not long after the death of the second child, the daughter-in-law couldn't stand this hard life, so she threw down the child and remarried. The old woman and I were so helpless that I had to come to marry the daughter of Yanmen, but after I came, I couldn't find anyone, and after all kinds of inquiries, I knew that they had moved away, and I didn't know where they went. Fortunately, after the death of the old man in World War II, the imperial court gave me a pension, and I took it to buy a house and a few acres of land, planted the land on weekdays, slaughtered the sheep in winter, built a small shed, and came out to sell my crafts, and my life was quite passable......"

The little boy was nibbling on a piece of bread, his lips drooping with snot, and he looked up and giggled when he noticed that his grandmother was looking at him. Gao Wei was silent, his heart was very blocked, and he felt that the very sweet delicacy was not a taste to chew at the moment.

Speaking of which, part of the tragedy of this family is caused by him, in order to implement the strategic oppression of the Zhou State, he does not know how much national strength he has drawn, how many soldiers have been recruited, and several years of crusade to the east and west, although he has achieved great results, but the loss is also inevitable. In order to achieve his great cause of Gao Wei, he doesn't know how many people have been ruined, and I don't know how many people like the old woman!

Gao Wei was stunned for a while, and he didn't know what to say when he opened his mouth several times, and only said after a while:

"I ...... I heard that the emperor clearly ordered that those over forty-five years old do not have to join the army, those under the age of fifteen do not have to join the army, and those who are the only children in the family do not have to join the army. ”

“…… Where can the soldiers themselves? Everything but obey the generals, the generals let the lords follow the war, who dares not to listen, who dares not to go? At last the old woman could not bear it any longer, and hid her face and began to weep:

"The eldest of my family is only thirteen years old, didn't he pull the Lord to the battlefield with a word, and before he was tall, he let him rush into the pile of dead people with a spear and a big knife, and then his robe was carried back with a corpse, and his head was cut off!"

The old woman wiped her tears, but the muddy tears still kept falling, "I hope that they will come back safely every day, but none of them will come back safely!" I'm really scared, I'm afraid that in the future, my tiger head will also be dragged to the battlefield, so I left Jinyang and ran to Yanmen, I just don't want him to be a soldier, not a soldier, no longer a soldier......"

"Your family is from Liufang?"

"Exactly ......"

"......" Several ministers saw that the emperor Mu was there, and the soup in front of him was cold and never drank a sip again, knowing that the old woman's words touched the emperor's sadness, Wang Lin was usually exquisite, but he didn't know what to say at this time, Tang Yong was mixed in the civil official team, and after thinking about it, he came out to play a round and said:

"The mutton soup and steamed cakes in the store are very authentic, you have a lot of customers here, I don't think it will be long before you can open a big store, bigger and stronger, and pass on the craft to your little grandson in the future, and no longer have to worry about him starving and being poor, isn't this a beautiful thing?"

Thinking of her little grandson's future, the old woman finally had a smile on her face, touched the back of his head and said: "How can it be so easy, this realm can be very cold on weekdays, but it is the northern court and the Turks who have fought, and the people in the north have run to the south, and business is much better." ”

The war made her business much better.

Tang Yong was stunned for a moment, and suddenly smiled and said: "This is also a blessing in misfortune, I think your grandson is a child who can be easily supported." ”

"The child is fine, but I don't know if the old woman can live until he grows up......"

"Hey, how many children have you raised, don't you know that? The child can eat and sleep, and he grows up quickly, yesterday you saw that he was still a little bean dice, and in the blink of an eye he jumped up like a drum ball. More than ten years have passed, and it is just a blink of an eye! Your body is so tough, not to mention watching him grow up, it is more than enough to hold his great-grandson! ”

People always like to draw big pies, so as to give themselves the motivation to persevere in difficult times. Although it was still a distant thing to hold her great-grandson, the old woman had already begun to look forward to it involuntarily, and naturally she did not mention those sad pasts.

Gao Wei looked at the child, and also remembered his little boy who might still be spitting bubbles in his mother's arms. That grandmother doesn't hurt? As long as he is a normal person, the dirtier his heart is, the more tired he is, the more vicissitudes of life, and the more weathered he is, the more he likes children, and there is no exception. Because children can touch the most innocent and beautiful side of their hearts, watching him grow up happily, you will feel that you are also wrapped in happiness.

Gao Wei sat for a while, drank the cold soup, paid and left, silent and silent. The three ministers glanced at each other, and finally Fu Fu stepped forward and persuaded: "Your Majesty's focus is on the great cause of a thousand years, and there will always be casualties in this process. Your Majesty should not be overly sorrowful......"

"Dapeng spreads its wings for 80,000 miles, it can't see the ......ants on the ground," Gao Wei said: "War is such a thing, unless it is a last resort, it should only happen in the words and poems, the so-called hegemony of the heroes is built on the bones of countless people, and we who live above the temple can not touch it, so we will feel that this is a great cause, and the ants and civilians will never feel that there is anything to praise for this endless killing." ”

"But don't you do it? If I don't fight, this endless war and endless killing will come to every corner of this river and mountain forever and ever! The north and the south are opposed, and the Hu and Han are opposed, and if it goes on for a long time, how can there be a day of peace? When will we get the real peace in the world? ”

In the cold wind, Gao Wei's words were low, but they were categorical.

"If I can't ask for a world peace, then I will make a world peace by myself."

Snow fell from the sky again, and the endless snow, like the troubled times of the past few hundred years, never ended. A trace of pain and sorrow flashed in the emperor's eyes, not for himself, but for the common people in this world...... The snow was falling all over the sky, dyeing his jet-black sideburns white. Yet his body was so tall and strong, and he didn't move.