With the information provided by the locals, it is actually not difficult to find the place where He Yue once lived.
Lide accompanied her for a walk in Ansheng City, and soon saw the charred house wreckage.
He Yue stood in front of the ruined former residence with folded hands, and after a long time, said:
"Mom and Dad, I'm back."
He Yue opened her eyes, rather than saying she was talking to someone, it would be better to say that she was simply telling something.
It seems that many people will say a few words when they kneel in front of the tombstone, which are mixed with the good expectations of conveying their thoughts, but more may be just a soliloquy. The cold winter wind blew away Heyue's words, and no one else could hear them except Lide:
"When I was sold into the lord's mansion that year, I also resented you in my heart. But then I let it go. I was born in such a world, and I have no right to ask you for more. Everyone wants to live , you are no exception, so everyone around you is doing the same ugly things, everyone influences each other, and walks into the abyss hand in hand... Then, it makes this world worse."
He Yue showed a smile, paused for a while, and continued:
"But now, I can finally do something. Within a year, I will allow most of the people in Tiancheng to have a full meal and put on warm new clothes. No one will be sold into the Lord's Mansion again , her voice is hoarse from crying, but no one cares about her. There will never again be someone who sings in a man's attire in a brothel, who can only greet her with a smile after being stared at. I will not let this kind of pain happen to the people of Tiancheng again, Because I know that I am considered the lucky one among Tiancheng's people, I left here, and the people who stay behind are a thousand times or ten thousand times worse than me."
He Yue's voice trembled slightly.
In fact, there is no point in comparing misery. If even misery has to be introverted, then this world is too sad.
He Yue still remembers that day when her parents bought her new clothes. He Yue felt that she was no longer an ugly duckling at last. . But after changing into new clothes, before he had time to show off to his friends, he was sent into the dark gate of the Lord's Mansion.
It was also thanks to the fact that He Yue was very smart back then, when she realized something was wrong, she immediately changed into men's clothes, and then secretly pulled out a few luodong grasses from the flower bed, and used the grass juice to paint her face and hands until they were sallow and yellow. The lord and the young masters of Tiancheng protected themselves from the lingering gazes.
Many young girls didn't have time to react at first, and many girls felt that being selected by the noble lord was an opportunity to make a fortune, so they consciously expressed themselves.
As a result, He Yue could hear miserable cries and begging for mercy many nights in the lord's mansion.
Human life is just a consumable to them, not even a luxury among consumables, it belongs to the very cheap category. At that time, He Yue had an idea, she hoped that there would be no one living in fear like her in Tiancheng, so she chose to reform, but reform was doomed to fail in Tiancheng.
Later, she went to Yunyang. This period of time seems to be very long, but after careful calculation, it is only two and a half years.
Two and a half years ago she said that Tian Cheng would not be able to survive the next three years, but today she helped Yun Yang personally end Lord Tian Cheng's tyranny.
Revisit the old place, the old dream is now realized, and the old home is now in ruins.
Gratitude and resentment are scattered in the wind.
Li De silently put his arms around He Yue's shoulders, and stood shoulder to shoulder with her.
He Yue's tears came down in a flash, she sucked her nose, suddenly smiled, and said softly:
"In the past, you always talked about who your children would end up with. During the years when I was doing odd jobs in the Lord Tiancheng's mansion, I was beaten and scolded while doing odd jobs. During those years when I was singing in the brothel, I was ridiculed for pretending to be crazy. , now that all the hardships have come to an end, it can be considered as marrying a good family."
The broken walls and ruins naturally couldn't give her any response, but He Yue still silently finished what she had to say:
"Although I'm not a real wife, and I don't have a status, even for a long time—at least until this country is unified, I can't even disclose things about me, but at least I am happy now. When the chaos in Tiancheng is over, I will I used to feel confused, but now I decide to put an end to my past life, raise my head and live with dignity. The kindness of upbringing is unforgettable, and the surviving body will be Xu’s family and country, in exchange for the peace of the world and the well-being of the people.”
He Yue's words seemed to be addressed to her parents who were no longer there, as well as to Li De, and perhaps to herself as well.
Lide listened quietly, and stood with her in the wind for a long time before leaving together holding He Yue's hand.
On the way, Heyue said that he could take Lide to the river where he often went when he was a child, and Lide readily agreed.
But at the last moment before leaving, Lide suddenly turned his head, and he saw a piece of clothes flashing past behind the dark wall. Li De could feel the breath of the other party, it was the child he met when he first came to Ansheng City. The other party didn't seem to want to show up. After confirming that Lide and Heyue had gone far away, he quietly leaned out from behind the wall, carefully checked the place where Lide and Heyue had just stood, and after confirming that there was no damage, he breathed a sigh of relief. Sitting down, he took out the half biscuit that Lide threw from his arms, and placed it on a gap in the wall.
Judging from the location, it should be the family next to He Yue's house.
"Mom, I'm about to eat."
The child showed a silly smile and continued:
"Mom, would you please come back? I heard from them that the bad guys have been driven away, so you don't have to be hungry in the future."
There was no response from the house, only his voice echoed in the empty room:
"Mother, I miss you so much... I shouldn't be mischievous, I shouldn't listen to you. Mother, please come back, please don't leave..."
The child pushed the cake hard into the wall, and half of the sesame seed cake fell from the wall and fell into a pile of moldy food.
No one responded to him, only he was still talking to himself:
"Mom, you eat, I'm not hungry, I can already find something to eat by myself..."
He staggered away.
In Tian Cheng, it would not cause any disturbance for a person like him to die at any time, because it was too common.
But this time, when he was running hungry, he bumped into someone unexpectedly.
The child raised his head and saw that the other party was tall and burly and wearing a military uniform, he immediately turned around and ran away, completely ignoring the man yelling behind him.
"That child should be a little mule... According to the information we found, his father was arrested and sent to serve as a soldier, and only his mother raised him. His mother is not a good person. She asked him to go out to find food. If he couldn't find it, he would beat him up." Later, he seems to have gotten close to some military households, and left him and ran away."
The soldier who was bumped explained to his companion, who complained helplessly:
"Damn it, why did Tian Cheng do such a shitty thing?"
The soldier who was hit also sighed:
"Who says it's not. But we are not qualified to criticize them. If it weren't for the lord and the chief assistant, there would be a lot of bad things on our side... We should take him back to the orphanage quickly, or we will mess with Sister Yayu Not happy anymore."
The companion also stretched his neck and said:
"Harm, yes. Work hard, save one more person."