Chapter 9: The Past (1)

"The villain is indeed not surnamed Zeng, nor is he from Ezhou, the villain's surname is Dong, and his ancestral home is Yongan Town at the foot of Taihang Mountain."

Since Zeng Xiaoyi was willing to confess, Fan Zeng asked Xiao Liuzi to call the jailers guarding outside to take him down, and by the way, he also sent some hot food.

Zeng Xiaoyi has been in prison for a few days, eating leather whips and drinking the northwest wind, he has long been hungry, and when he sees the food, he immediately looks like a starving ghost reincarnated, and he devours it for a while, and when the hunger in his stomach is suppressed, he will reveal his family's origin and inventory.

The Dong family has lived in Yong'an Town for generations, and is a hunter in the area of Taihang Mountain, with the courage of the artist, Zeng Xiaoyi, who should now be called Dong Xiaoyi's father, Dong Rong, often goes deep into the hinterland of Taihang to hunt, and every harvest is quite rich, so the days are also quite moist.

In the second year of Jingkang, Dong Rong was twenty-eight years old, and already had a son and a daughter, the eldest son Dong Congjia was six years old; The second daughter, Dong Yue'e, is four years old. Wife, Liang Xiaoyu, is the only daughter of a distant branch of the local wealthy Liang family.

After the Jin army captured Bianjing, the entire Central Plains was full of smoke, Dong Rong did not want to get involved in the dispute, and led his wife and children to hide in Taihang Mountain.

Dong Rong thought too naively, where is there any paradise under the clouds of war? There are not a few people in the Taihang Mountain area who have the same idea as Dong Rong, and they have dragged their families into the Taihang Mountain to avoid the military disaster, and the originally quiet mountains and forests are as lively as a market town.

Where there is dissension. There was a lack of food and clothing in the mountains and forests, and as time went by, this contradiction became more and more prominent, and Dong Rong had to fight with people almost every day to protect his shelter and food. In addition, the heroes under the mountain rise together, people often go into the mountains to recruit soldiers, and some defeated soldiers often come to harass, Dong Rong's children are young, and Liang Xiaoyu is a cowardly little lady. Fortunately, Dong Rong's father is also from Orion, and the two fathers and sons support each other and barely survive.

It is not a way to do this in the long run, it just so happens that Liang Xiaoyu's uncle, who is also the current head of the Liang family, Liang Xing pulled up a team to fight against the Jin people, Dong Rong discussed with his father and simply went down the mountain to join Liang Xing's rebel army. At that time, there were many teams like this in the Central Plains, and they were all spontaneous resistance organizations of the people.

In the first year of Shaoxing, Yue Fei ordered people to get in touch with the anti-gold teams in various places to prepare for the joint anti-gold resistance, and these teams also had a unified name "Zhongyi Baoshe", and later, Yue Fei reorganized the "Zhongyi Baoshe" into "Yuejia Army Loyal and Righteous Army". Liang Xing is the leader of the Taihang Mountain Zhongyi Protection Society, and the commander of the Yuejia Army's Zhongyi Army and horses. Dong Rong relied on his strong martial arts, dared to fight, and was soon promoted to Liang Xing's deputy.

At that time, in addition to obeying and cooperating with Marshal Yue's military operations during Marshal Yue's Northern Expedition, the loyal and righteous troops in various places were more responsible for collecting and probing intelligence on weekdays, providing reference for Marshal Yue to formulate military action plans. To find out information, you need to enter the market town in disguise, and you have to walk in the mountains and forests, and my father was soon selected to be the director of the spy department of the Taihang Mountain Loyal Army. Under my father's influence, my brother and sister also became his helpers. ”

"Dong Rong? Dong Congjia? Dong Yue'e? Fan Zeng pondered, "In the second year of Shaoxing, the imperial court recruited people from the rivers and lakes to serve as spies, and the military information saucer lists of the border armies were archived in the secret spy department, why didn't the old man see the names of the three of them?" ”

"This is what my father asked. He once told me that he was only forced to collect intelligence, and my father still liked the mountains and forests and freedom, and when I was very young, he said more than once that he hoped that the war would end soon, and he took me to hunt in the Taihang Mountains and pick mountain fruits and mushrooms. It's a pity that although Song and Jin don't fight anymore, we can't go back to Taihang Mountain. ”

Fan Zeng ignored the remembrance in Dong Xiaoyi's words and asked, "How did you come to Lin'an City?" Where exactly did your brother and sister go? ”

"Why did we come to Lin'an, it has to start with Yue Shuai's last Northern Expedition——"