"Follow me." You Miao took the people to the warehouse, which was empty and the food was gone. He bowed and pulled the wooden plank away. Inside was a cellar. You Miao said, "Come on, come down."
The cellar was surprisingly large, and there was still a lot of wine. Zhao Chao took the lantern and said, "How did you know this place?"
You Miao said, "When I was a child, I used to play here with the proprietress's son. Let's sleep through the night before dealing with it."
You Miao spread out the straw and let the female relatives sleep in the cellar. Zhao Chao arranged for some people to sleep in the front yard and some to guard the back yard. You Miao said, "I'll go explore the way."
Zhao Chao stopped him and said, "It's too late, let's go tomorrow."
This night, Youmiao was lying on a table in the front hall, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. Li Zhifeng knew what he was worried about and came to hug him. When the two woke up in the first ray of sunshine in the morning, Youmiao rolled over and got on his horse. , and let Zhao Chao and others stay in the abandoned restaurant for temporary shelter. He and Li Zhifeng went to explore the way.
There was black smoke all along the way, Qingfeng Mountain in Liuzhou had been burned to ashes by forest fires, and light rain fell from the sky. The tea forest for more than ten years was destroyed like this.
"The old man's property is all over." You Miao said, "I don't know how the relatives in Liuzhou City are doing now."
Li Zhifeng and You Miao rode together, and when he heard the words, he just touched his head. You Miao couldn't stop thinking about his father, even if there were all kinds of bad things and all kinds of bad things, they were still father and son with blood relationship. And this tea forest was also planted by his mother Qiao Ke'er back then.
It has been in business for more than ten years, and it was planted when he was born, and it was all gone.
When the tree is gone, it can be planted again, but when a person dies, it will never come back. You Miao thought that when he was a child, his father still hurt him. When he was a child, he didn't understand anything, so his father would drink tea in the study and muttered: "The return date is not yet due, Bashan night is raining and the autumn pond..."
You Miao went to Yu Dechuan to act like a spoiled child, and You Dechuan put his arms around him and patted his head.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel sad. Since he returned to Liuzhou, he hardly gave the old man any good looks. The last sentence was on the Shangyuan Festival three years ago. When he went home for dinner, he quarreled with the old man. Curse him to die soon. When he went to Beijing to take the exam, the old man asked Qiao Jue to bring him money and praise him for his growth.
Li Zhifeng hugged You Miao tightly, You Miao shook his head, and Li Zhifeng said, "Don't cry, everyone has to leave your father. It is only right and proper for the young eagle to leave the nest."
You Miao remembered that Li Zhifeng had never mentioned his father to himself, so he wiped his tears and said, "How did your father treat you?"
Li Zhifeng thought about it and said, "He never talks to me, and he rarely talks to my elder brother."
"Never?" You Miao asked in surprise.
"Once, when I was very young, I played a bird to show him." Li Zhifeng said, "He said 'OK'. That was the last word he said to me. One night he died of illness, brother. Don't let me see him."
You Miao was a little surprised that King Quan Rong was like this, and he asked again, "Where's your mother?"
Li Zhifeng said, "My mother is a Han Chinese."
You Miao: "… "
"Your mother is a Han Chinese?" You Miao said, "Can you find her?"
Li Zhifeng shook his head and said, "My mother was kidnapped by the Quan Rong people. After returning to her village, she died within a few days and was buried next to the Crescent Moon Spring."
You Miao asked again, "Where's your elder brother?"
Li Zhifeng said: "His mother is from a small clan outside the Great Wall, that's all I know."
You Miao sighed and said, "You probably don't have much affection for your father..."
"I understand the filial piety of your Han people." Li Zhifeng said: "You explained it to me when you were studying before, but the people of Quanrong don't need to support their father. Besides, your father also has his own ideas, so you don't need to be too sad."
Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and filial piety. You Miao knew that these are the concepts of Han people. The Saiwai tribes rarely contacted these. Some barbarians even killed each other, while some tribes depended on family affection to maintain their families. It is sometimes difficult for him to imagine that nomads without Confucius and Mencius, without books, don't they seem to be living in a long night of human nature? The carved railings and painted buildings were burned cleanly, and gold and silver and other things were taken away.
The Han people also gradually formed their own rules after the sages and sages wrote books and biography. And a nation with books and culture, shouldn't it be growing stronger and stronger? Why was it destroyed in the hands of such backward barbarians
"It's here." Li Zhifeng said.
Biyu Villa was in front of him, You Miao suddenly woke up, looked up and saw that the plaque had fallen on the ground and was trampled in half. He didn't even dare to go in and see, Li Zhifeng asked, "I go in?"
You Miao said: "Let's go together."
His voice was trembling, Li Zhifeng hugged him, calmed him down, and drove his horse into the main gate of the villa. The scene of the chaos and chaos, the entire villa was completely destroyed, and it seemed that it had undergone a huge looting. The charred mountains are shrouded in moist clouds, surrounding this dilapidated villa.
The windows in the hall were shattered, and the paintings and calligraphy were torn and thrown on the ground. Fortunately, there were no corpses. You Miao dismounted from the horse and walked toward the garden, but was taken aback as he walked through the corridor.
The housekeeper was dead, holding the pillar and nailed to it by random arrows. You Miao avoided him and recognized that it was the new housekeeper brought by the Wang family. He continued to walk towards the backyard, and saw several domestic servants who were trampled to death with gut-wrenching stomachs. Li Zhifeng always followed silently behind him, You Miao's lips trembled, and finally shouted.
"father!"
There was a cry in You Miao's voice, but no one answered in the empty villa. He ran across the corridor and pushed open the door of his father's room, which was completely empty. Walking through the door, all the valuables were looted, but there was no body. He gradually calmed down, searched the whole villa, and even went to the trails in the back mountain. Finally, he was relieved that his father, You Hango and others were not here.
It was past noon, You Miao sat down to think, and now he settled down, it seemed that they all ran away ahead of time. Of course they could have been captured, but what did the Hu people do to capture them? Even if the housekeeper was killed, the maids and servants would not be able to escape.
The only explanation is that You Dechuan ran away early, while the housekeeper and the servants stayed behind to watch the house, but were killed by the invading Tatars.
You Miao got up, went back to his father's room, and said to Li Zhifeng, "Hold your hand and remove the wardrobe."
Li Zhifeng tried it, lifted the wardrobe, and threw it aside to make a loud noise.
You Miao reached out to probe, and found an empty grid. After wiping it for a long time, there was nothing in it, so he was relieved.
Li Zhifeng said, "What is it?"
"Title deed, IOU, bank note." You Miao was almost exhausted, leaning on Li Zhifeng and saying, "The old man ran first."