The years in the mountains are stable, but outside the mountains is a different scene.

At the critical juncture of the Song and Jin Dynasty's war of annihilation, especially at the critical moment when the Song Dynasty's army achieved successive victories, the Song Dynasty recalled Yue Fei with twelve gold medals, according to the old soldiers who participated in the Northern Expedition, Yue Fei withdrew on the way, the people knelt beside the road, crying, someone grabbed Yue Fei's horse reins and asked: "When the marshal came, I waited for the king to eat pot pulp to welcome the king's division, fought side by side, and jointly resisted the enemy. Now that the marshal is gone, where are we placed? ”

Yue Fei was speechless, so he could only take out the emperor's edict ordering the class teacher to show the people, and in the end, Yue Fei decided to stay in the army for five days to cover the retreat of the loyal army and the people.

However, as soon as the army of the Great Song Dynasty retreated, the entire north of the Huai River became the occupied area of the Jin State, and where could the loyal army and the people who had followed the Great Song Dynasty retreat?

Yue Fei gave up the results of the bloody battle, let down the brothers of the righteous army who helped him and the people of the Jinzhan area, and returned to the Great Song Dynasty in disgrace.

From then on, Yue Shaobao, who could have millions of soldiers, used the title of "deputy privy envoy" as a clay sculpture and wood carving decoration in the court hall of Lin'an, never mentioning the Northern Expedition and the recovery of territory.

Yue Fei's forbearance did not bring stability.

The following year, that is, on August 9 of the 11th year of Shaoxing, Yue Fei was dismissed as the deputy privy envoy and served as the idle post of "Wanshou Guan Envoy". Perhaps he also smelled the smell of conspiracy in the air of Lin'an, and invited himself to go back to his hometown in Lushan, Jiangzhou, to live idle, wanting to escape the catastrophe.

At this time, Yue Fei had no soldiers and no power, and he was a complete "idler", but there were still people in the court who were not at ease with him. First of all, Qin Hui instructed Zhang Jun to coerce and lure Yue Fei's old capital commander Wang Gui and deputy capital commander Wang Jun to take the lead in denouncing Yue Fei's general Zhang Xian for "rebellion", so as to implicate Yue Fei.

On the seventh day of November, the Song and Jin dynasties reached two "Shaoxing Peace Talks", and the Song Dynasty Emperor Zhao Gou made a statement to the Jin Emperor, and the Song and Jin dynasties divided the Huai River to rule, and all the land north of the Huai River was assigned to the Jin State, and the Song Dynasty also needed to pay 250,000 taels of silver and 250,000 horses of silk to the Jin State every year.

Song Jin signed a peace agreement, and Yue Fei also ushered in the death period.

On December 29, the 11th year of Shaoxing, on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, the emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Gou, ordered Yue Fei to be killed, and Yue Fei, who was Chinese New Year's Eve nine years old, did not die in the army, but died in the Dali Temple prison of the Great Song Dynasty.

"We only heard about these things after we came to Lin'an. We hid in Taihang Mountain for half a year, as the longer we hid, more and more people entered the mountain, and we have also heard about the situation of the fortress of the loyal army under the mountain, none of the uncles of the loyal army who went out came back, and the golden soldiers attacked the fortress and killed all the people, even the baby child did not let go. Finally, another fire was set and the fortress was burned to the ground. Later, Jin Bing often went into the mountains to search, and my mother committed suicide in order to lure Jin Bing away. ”

Dong Xiaoyi recalled that unbearable time.

"I remember that it got colder and colder in the winter, and my grandfather and eldest brother had to go hunting far away in search of food. Once, my grandfather and eldest brother went out hunting, and they didn't come back for three whole days, and my mother took me and my second sister to hide in the cave, and I was very hungry and afraid. A-Niang had no choice but to throw the gnawed bones into the water and boil, and I held the big bones that had no trace of meat on them and gnawed them full of saliva. At this moment, the two golden soldiers slowly searched along the foot of the mountain, and watched them get closer and closer, and soon found the cave where we were hiding. My mother had no choice, she asked me and my second sister to hide in the hole and not make a sound, but she ran out by herself......"

Dong Xiaoyi's tears rippled, he and the second sister hid in the hole, and the second sister covered his mouth to prevent him from crying. But his ears were filled with Jin Bing's obscene laughter, and from beginning to end, he didn't hear his mother's voice, and his mother seemed to have suddenly become a mute, unable to make the slightest sound!

"The next day, the eldest brother came back with his grandfather who had broken his leg on his back, and went to look for A-Niang again, only to find a few pieces of torn clothes in the mountains and forests, which were full of blood. The eldest brother did not give up, and chased all the way along the bloodstains, only to find a few bitten stumps in the distant ravine. Poor my aunt didn't know what she was dragged away, and she didn't even leave a corpse ......."

Dong Xiaoyi couldn't cry, his grandfather, eldest brother, and second sister didn't want him to see this cruel scene, but he wanted to see A-Niang again, but he only saw a few stumps, he fainted when he rolled his eyes, and when he woke up, he didn't want to gnaw on the flesh and bones handed to him by his brother and sister......

Dong Xiaoyi calmed down his emotions and continued to tell what happened to the Dong family.

The Dong family brothers and sisters hid in the mountains for more than half a year, and finally waited for Dong Rong. It was learned from Dong Rong that after Yue Fei withdrew his troops, the Jin State negotiated peace with the Song Dynasty while stepping up the suppression of the Baoyi Army in various places. In order to help the Great Song Dynasty, almost all of the Baoyi Army attacked, leaving only the old and weak women and children in the base camp, and the Jin Army copied the back road of the Baoyi Army without much effort.

Knowing that the back road was copied, the Baoyi army was panicked, and they could not compete with the army of the Jin State head-on in terms of troops and weapons and equipment, but now they were about to collapse.

The Baoyi army from all walks of life had to fight and retreat, constantly breaking into pieces, "can protect one is one." ”

The same is true of Dong Rong's Taihang Mountain Baoyi Army. In a retreat, Dong Rong voluntarily stayed behind and covered Liang Xing to lead a large army to withdraw. Who knew that the cunning Jin Man had already laid out his pockets in front of him, just waiting for this Baoyi army to get in. By the time Dong Rong and the remaining brothers rushed to the rendezvous, the leader Liang Xing had already been killed, and the Taihang Baoyi army was almost completely annihilated.

Seeing that his former close comrades-in-arms and brothers were cut off their heads and became a tool for the golden people to ask for rewards, Dong Rong had no time to grieve, he took the few remaining brothers Xiaoxing to stay overnight, constantly twisting and turning, and finally returned to Taihang Mountain in more than half a year, and at this time, there was only a seventeen-year-old soldier left by his side.

"Daddy is the leader of the Baoyi Army with a famous surname, and we can't stay in the Jin Country at all, there is only a dead end. Daddy took us to find a way to leave the Jin Kingdom and go to the Song Dynasty. Daddy said that Yue Shuai had so many generals in the Song Dynasty, and I could be regarded as fighting bloody battles under his command, and he would not miss a bite of food for us. However, Grandpa's leg was broken, there was a lack of medical care and food in the mountains, and his recovery was not good, he was afraid that we would not leave, and even threatened Daddy to jump off the cliff if he didn't leave...... In the end, the little mountain brother who came back with Daddy stayed, he said that he was just a small soldier, and the Jin people might not know what he had done, and he stayed to take care of his grandfather, and he could burn some paper money for the dead brother during the Qingming Festival every year......

"After a few months, we first came to Ezhou and contacted Xie Dacheng, who was in charge of intelligence in the Yue family's army, who was originally the top boss of Daddy. Originally, my father and eldest brother wanted to settle in Ezhou, but Yue Shuai had an accident, and there were many people in Ezhou, and many people saw the arrival of our family. Uncle Xie gave us a new identity, replacing the dead Zeng family, and came to Lin'an in the name of joining relatives. Uncle Xie said that Lin'an is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and sometimes the more dangerous the place, the safer the place. ”

"As for where my older siblings went? I didn't know it when I was young, and then my father never allowed me to mention it, or even ask me, until a month ago, Uncle Xie suddenly found me, and I learned that the eldest brother and the second sister signed up to return to Jinguo to be an undercover agent in order to let me and my father gain a foothold in Lin'an. The second sister died ten years ago, she was sent to the palace of the Jin country, the emperor of the Jin country was cruel and murderous, once drunk and went crazy and killed the palace people, the second sister happened to be on duty and was killed by this bastard in the palace, poor my second sister was just twenty years old when she died, and she had not yet married......"

"After Yue Fei's death, Xie Dacheng entered the Lonely Mountain Camp, and he hasn't seen you for a decade or two, right? Why did you believe him when he said it? ”

"Of course there are tokens. Otherwise, the villain, a soup and cake seller, has a wife and children, how can he take unnecessary risks? ”

"Tokens? Isn't it this? ”

Fan Zeng smiled and took out a plain silver hairpin from his sleeve pocket, and handed it to Dong Xiaoyi to show him.

Dong Xiaoyi recognized at a glance that this was his mother's hairpin, and it was also a certificate that Xie Dacheng could say that he was able to move him to deliver materials to the Gushan Battalion.

The hairpin is plain silver, there is no decoration, only a few small plum blossoms are inlaid in the hairpin tail part, one of which is missing a petal, which was asked by his mother for ignorance when he was a child, and accidentally broke.

This hairpin is a birthday gift from his father to his mother, his mother is very precious, he knocked off a petal of plum blossoms, his mother was very distressed, but when his father wanted to beat him, his mother was the first to pounce and protect him.

On the day when my mother went to lure away the Jin Bing, before leaving the cave, she pulled out the hairpin and inserted it on the head of the second sister, and whispered: "My mother is gone, and you will take good care of your younger brother for your mother in the future." When your father comes back, remember to let him drink less, and your eldest brother let him be less reckless, your grandfather is old, don't fall into a bad ......"

The second sister nodded, and tears fell down like beads of broken threads, he wanted to ask what was wrong? What are the mother and second sister crying about? The second sister hugged him tightly, covering his mouth with one hand, not letting him ask.

Xie Dacheng sent the hairpin back, he naturally believed his words, and knew that the second sister was really dead, otherwise she would not hand over the hairpin to outsiders.

Dong Xiaoyi nodded dejectedly, he didn't want to say anything, and he wasn't even interested in knowing how Fan Zeng found this hairpin, with the means of the secret spy department, as long as he stared at him, it was useless for him to hide it well.

"How did Xie Dacheng find you? What are you and their plans? ”

"Uncle Xie found me, and he asked me if I wanted to avenge my second sister? Do you want to find a big brother in Jinguo? Do you want to know the news of grandpa and little mountain brother? Of course I want to! He said that the emperor of the Jin Kingdom wanted to annex us, but our emperor of the Great Song Dynasty did not want to fight, and he was bent on avoiding this issue, only by making some noise, so that the emperor had to face the fact that the Jin State was about to invade, the territory of the Great Song Dynasty could be saved, my father, eldest brother, second sister, and many people who did not hesitate to shed blood and sweat in order to protect the Great Song Dynasty, blood and sweat will not be in vain, and the flesh and blood divided by the Huai River can hope to be reunited! ”

"The ambition is not small, and he even wants to confuse the Holy Hearing! So what's next? What else are you going to do? ”

Dong Xiaoyi smiled bitterly: "I really don't know, I'm just a soup cake seller, and all I can do is rough benzene." Besides, Uncle Xie is dead, and now I don't know if my eldest brother is dead or alive, and I don't know how to contact him. Now that I think about it, whether to fight or not is a matter for His Majesty and Xianggong to worry about, what do I care about selling soup cakes? ”

"What about your lady and children? Why is it so mysterious? ”

Dong Xiaoyi smiled bitterly: "My mother is a hard-working person, her parents died when she was a child, and she has suffered a lot, I can treat her well and give her a stable life, she is naturally willing." My father did all of this, and it was about a long time since I hid in Tibet, so I always had to keep one hand. The dark room in the well was also secretly dug by my father after the disappearance of my eldest brother and second sister, and he always said that if there was a case, there was no need to hide in Tibet, it would be safer to hide at home, we would not have to go up the mountain, and my mother would not die. Probably his mother's death hit him hard, and it has always been a hidden pain in his heart. ”