Chapter 15: Finding the Father
Tianci rode in a carriage and galloped all the way, and arrived at his hometown Qingmu Village in less than half a day.
After getting off the carriage at the head of the village, Tianci carried large bags of things and walked happily along the mountain road to his home.
After a while, they arrived at the land they had cultivated, and saw that the land was overgrown with weeds and thorns, as if it had been barren for a long time. An ominous premonition hit my heart, and I quickened my pace and ran home.
When he came to the familiar flat dam to see where there was still a home. In front of him was a ruined wall, buried in a pile of dirt and stones, and the crooked neck of the jujube tree in front of the house had been smashed by the waist, and there was no sign of life.
Tianci was in a hurry, shouting at his throat and shouting at his father, while running around searching.
The surrounding scene was similar to when he left his home, but he found a newly built tomb on the slope not far from his home. This tomb is very luxurious, up and down is divided into three layers, each layer is nine steps, all have white marble guardrails, the top of the tomb door is two zhang high, there are two stone lions next to it, but the whole tomb has no words and no monument, it is a living tomb.
This makes Tianci a little strange, the tombs of the ancestors of Qingmu Village are all standing on the north slope of this mountain, it is a place of feng shui sitting in the south and facing north, and the mountains and rivers are close to the water, why is this tomb independent on the west slope.
After searching for a long time and not seeing his parents, Tianci sat on the ground in despair and cried with his head in his arms.
After crying for a long time, Tianci stood up from the ground, wiped his tears, patted the dirt on his body, and walked down the mountain.
When he came down the mountain, he came to the door of a house at the east end of the village, stood for a moment, and went up to knock on the door.
Someone in the door answered, and a sister-in-law opened the door and came out, and when she saw someone coming, she asked, "Little brother, is there something wrong?"
"Sorry to interrupt. Tianci asked, "Excuse me, well, that Chu Muyang, is Miss Chu at home?"
"Oh, you're looking for the Chu family, they have already sold this house and moved to the county seat. ”
"He moved out about three years ago, and if you want to find his family, you have to go to the county seat. The sister-in-law added.
Seeing that the sister-in-law was about to close the thanksgiving, Tianci hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Sister, do you know the Zhang family on the hillside outside the entrance of this village, where did they move?"
"I'm sorry, I don't know, but we didn't see anyone on the hillside outside the village when we moved here. ”
After thanking his sister-in-law, Tianci had to turn around and leave. He thought as he walked, it seemed that his father and mother had not been here for a long time, and if he wanted to find out where he went, he was afraid that he still had to find Chu Muyang. Thinking of this, he immediately rushed towards the county seat.
When I rushed back to Tongyuan County, it was already the middle of the night. Tianci went straight to the Yueyang Inn, woke up Zhao Jian in his sleep, and told him everything about it.
Zhao Jian comforted Tianci and promised to help him inquire about Miss Chu, saying that as long as it was a matter in Tongyuan County, there was nothing he couldn't inquire about. If you want God, just rest assured, and go to help him implement this matter early tomorrow morning.
Tianci naturally had no sleep all night, and the next morning, he went out separately with Zhao Jian to inquire, and made an appointment to go back to the store at noon.
When Tianci returned to the store, he found that Zhao Jian was already waiting for him here, and when he saw him coming, he hurriedly stepped forward and told him: "I have inquired, Miss Chu's father Chu is the first, and the current official is in charge of the defense of the county, and the official residence is not far from here on Dongyang Street." In the afternoon, I will accompany you to visit his eldest lady, Chu Muyang, how about it?"
Tianci was very happy to learn that there was news, and he had lunch with Zhao Jian at the moment, went back to the room to freshen up, and changed into a clean robe, and then went out of the inn with Zhao Jian and went straight to Chu's house.
The two came to the door of the Chu family's mansion and informed the family of their names, saying that they were asking the young lady of the Chu family to come out for a while. The family said that the young lady and the lady had gone out together before noon, and if there was anything to do, please come back later.
The two of them stood at the door, not knowing whether to go or stay, when they suddenly heard a female voice behind them, shouting, "Wolf boy!
Tianci turned around and saw a slim girl, dressed in a pleated skirt with scattered flowers and green grass, and a pale green water and thin smoke veil, walking towards them quickly, and a little girl who looked like a maid behind her supported a dignified-looking middle-aged woman to follow.
When the woman came closer, God saw that the woman's face was like a hibiscus, her skin was like clotted fat, her mouth was full of Danzhu, her words were smiling, the green silk on her head was combed into a Chinese bun, and there was a bit of naughtiness hidden in her beautiful and graceful appearance. Jingran didn't dare to recognize each other, it was really the eighteenth change of the female university, where is this still the Muyang of the year.
Mu Yang stepped forward and grabbed Tianci's hand and said, "What's the matter? I don't know, wolf boy." ”
As he spoke, his smile suddenly turned into sadness, with tears in his eyes, and he looked like pear blossoms with rain, which made people feel pitiful.
Tianci was about to explain, but he heard Mu Yang say: "Where have you gone for so many years, and you can't tell each other about what happened to your family, it's really sad." ”
Tianci was shocked when he heard this, and was about to ask, but saw Mrs. Chu come forward and say, "Is this the wolf boy back then? ”
After Tianci stepped forward to pay homage to his wife, the two were invited to the mansion to talk to each other, and Muyang told Tianci about the changes in the Zhang family.
It turned out that after Zhang's father received the letter from the wolf cub, he and his mother felt a little relieved, no longer worried about the worries, and still lived a life of mountain farming at sunrise and sunset.
One day, Chen Youcai, the housekeeper of the rich man's family in the village, came to the Zhangjia firewood house on the slope and told Zhang Laohan that the old man of the Wang family wanted to repair the ancestral hall, and asked Mr. Feng Shui to see it, saying that it was calculated according to the old man's birthday, and the old man's ancestral hall had to be built on the slope above the Zhang family on the western slope. And the place where the Zhang family is located just blocks the feng shui of the ancestral hall, so the Zhang family wants to move out and find another place to live.
Zhang Laohan didn't do it, firstly, he had lived here for many years, which was already a habit, and secondly, he had relied on the wasteland that had been reclaimed and went into the mountains to hunt and collect medicine for his livelihood, and moved to other places, how to make a living is a problem, if he went to another country, how could the wolf cubs find them when they came back in the future. After thinking about it, he couldn't think about it, so he politely rejected Chen Youcai's proposal and the silver taels he brought.
Later, after three times and two failed to negotiate, the rich man Wang didn't care, and invited craftsmen to start building the tomb.
After the ground started, one was that the mountain was loosened, and the other was that a lot of stones were deliberately piled up on the hillside, and the slope was overwhelmed. In the early morning after the rain, the mountain suddenly landslided, and the mud, sand and stone were wrapped down, just to smash and bury the Zhang's firewood house, and poor Qin's sister-in-law was buried at home.
Zhang Laohan went to the mountains early in the morning to collect medicine, and when he came back to hear the bad news, he naturally looked for the Wang family's theory, but he was beaten all over his body.
With the help of the villagers, Zhang Laohan dug up the body of Qin's sister-in-law and buried it, and then went to the county government to sue the rich man Wang for forcibly occupying the house and disregarding people's lives.
The eldest lord of the Wang family is the son-in-law of the defense envoy Pan Tianshou sent by the imperial court to Tongyuan County to quell the rebellion.
Zhang Laohan had to return home, find the title deed of the real estate from the ruins, and submit it to the county lord for review.
This is unbelievable, and after review, the title deeds of this property are all forged. Falsification of official deeds deserves the death penalty. Fortunately, Mu Yang heard about this and asked his father to mediate and deal with it, so he was only sentenced to prison and is still imprisoned in the county jail.
When Tianci heard this, he was already tear-stained and heartbroken, but he just endured his grief and anger, but when he saw that the bricks under his feet were already broken and invisible, everyone was shocked.