Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 589 This Complicated Heart

Outside Zhaoling Village, Han Sanlang's funeral had just been held. As far as the eye could see, the slope full of plane trees was full of tombs.

This is because after Zhang Zhao buried the people of Qianzhou, a dozen volunteer soldiers, and civilian husbands here, the people of Zhaoling Village believed that this was the burial place chosen by the emperor, and it was tainted with royal nobility.

Therefore, they basically choose this place to bury their relatives now.

But according to Li Xiaofeng's original arrangement, he made two preparations.

If he couldn't find it, he took some clothes of his grandmother and father with him, as well as a letter of condolence written by his father. If he couldn't find the tomb, he would set up three tombs here as a memory.

If you can still find some earth bags, you have to dig them out to identify them, because when his grandfather, uncle and aunt were buried, they were all buried with pottery fragments engraved with their names and birth dates.

As for the possibility of digging other people's graves, Li Xiaofeng didn't care about it, and the buried ones around him were likely to be unowned graves.

But now he hesitated, because this tomb was well taken care of.

At this time, the Hungry Ghost Festival had just passed on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, and paper was still floating on the tomb, and there were traces of burnt paper and money around the tomb, and traces of water and rice could still be seen in several broken bowls.

Li Xiaofeng stood under the tallest sycamore tree for a long time, speechless, not knowing what he was thinking.

Seeing that this extraordinary merchant from central Sichuan was in a daze, the Li Chang walked over with a basket on his shoulders.

The basket contained two steamed steamed buns. Steamed buns existed in ancient times, and they were generally called steamed cakes. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Wuhou gave steamed cakes a special mission-sacrifice.

In the Tang Dynasty, it was also called cage cake. Of course, the steamed buns at this time should be called steamed buns for later generations, because they have fillings.

Because of the legacy of the Three Kingdoms and Jin Dynasties, some steamed buns are usually made for this occasion.

Li Xiaofeng mechanically took a steamed bun, mechanically took a bite, then looked at the head of the village and asked.

"I just found out that most of the people buried on this hillside don't seem to be from the village, and many of them are lonely graves that will never be seen. Who is offering sacrifices to them on the Ghost Festival?"

A look of pride appeared on Li Chang's face, "Your Majesty, come with a certain family, you will know after reading this."

Li Xiaofeng followed the head of the village and walked down the mountain for a few steps. There is a flat ground that seems to have been deliberately trimmed. In the middle of the flat ground, there are two stone monuments.

The stone tablet was also taken care of very clean, there was no moss on the body of the tablet, and there were some words engraved on the front, Li Xiaofeng looked curiously.

The stele on the left is engraved with "Qi Bing fell into Fengtian in the second year of Guanghua in the Tang Dynasty, and many people died. Seven hundred and thirty-three bones were collected and buried here, praying for early bliss." '

The stele on the right is engraved with "Da Tang Qingtai three years of rebellious soldiers fell into Qianzhou, nearly half of the people died, and [-] people with no relatives were harvested, and [-] were buried here. There were also three volunteer soldiers from Weizhou, Ten righteous people were buried here together. '

"Most of the solitary graves here are villagers who suffered disasters in the second year of Guanghua and the third year of Qingtai. The saint collected their remains and buried them here. These solitary ghosts can also enjoy sacrifices."

After hearing what the head of the village said, Li Xiaofeng finally understood that all these years they had always thought that their relatives were wild ghosts, and the tombs were not even considered as lonely tombs, they didn't expect to be taken care of so well.

At this moment, Li Xiaofeng was so ashamed that he almost buried his face in his crotch. They were helping to sacrifice to his relatives, but he was here planning to dig up the corpses. Compared with the two, the difference is huge.

The head of the village looked at this businessman in the middle of Sichuan strangely, with an extraordinary temperament but a little mysterious, as if there was some ulterior secret, and he was ashamed.

There must be something wrong!

The head of the village let out a haha, walked quickly to the side, and immediately asked his son Erlang to report to the officials in Zhoucheng.

Zhang Xiaobao liked that young man named Li Yinsheng very much. From this child, he saw the shadow of himself back then.

Back then Zhang Xiaobao was also in his teens, but he had better luck than Li Yinsheng.

Li Yinsheng has only one father who has just climbed to the position of Cheng Xinlang. When he started to join the army, his father and brother were already small and prestigious generals or Marquis Yu in the army.

Zhang Xiaobao liked it even more when he saw these half-grown children performing tactical actions such as formation, attack, bow and arrow under Li Yinsheng's command, and he sent a real long spear to Li Yinsheng's hands.

"Back then, a certain adult conquered Xiazhou and returned victorious. Among the spoils he captured, there was this spear. It was used by the son of Li Ni Yinzhou's defense envoy. I will give it to you today. A certain will stay here for two days to teach You use the lance method."

As soon as this remark came out, Li Yinsheng and his mother Li Hanshi were very excited. When Han Sanlang was buried, it was Zhang Xiaobao who officiated in his capacity as an officer in the army, so their mother knew very well that the lame officer standing in front of him , who is it.

Immediately, Li Yinsheng held a simple apprenticeship ceremony outside the entrance of the village, and Zhang Xiaobao also recognized a disciple, as if what he entrusted was his impossible to continue journey across the world.

At the entrance of the village, Li Xiaofeng, who was about to leave, was stopped by the head of the village and insisted on slaughtering pigs and sheep to thank him for helping him bury Han Sanlang.

How could Li Xiaofeng be willing to waste time here and he has tasted it.

In the village, pigs and sheep are very precious. I just played the suona for help, and Du Yuhou around me helped me beat the drum a few times. How could someone kill pigs and sheep for reward?
So he ignored the obstacles and insisted on leaving, but he didn't want to be surrounded by the five of them as soon as they left the village.

A gong rang bang, and the villagers who were chatting with him just now, who seemed to be very grateful to him, changed in an instant.

In the last second, he was still a simple and honest farmer, looking easy to bully, no different from those farmers who were conscripted into labor that Li Xiaofeng and others had seen in Sichuan.

But in the next second, they were armed with sticks and even agricultural tools, and their fighting spirit was overwhelming. They were even more difficult to deal with than the most difficult villains in Sichuan.

Du Yuhou took out the long knife hidden in the bag, trying to intimidate the farmers who were holding sticks, but found that no one was afraid.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Jun Yuhou, who had some inconvenience in his legs and feet, looked at Du Yuhou coldly.

Du Yuhou immediately seemed to be chained by a poisonous snake, not daring to move an inch.

Zhang Xiaobao sneered coldly, "This big man, a certain family still advises you not to move around, the important place in Guanzhong, there are loyal followers in every village, you can't get out."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Xiaobao let out a breath and shot an arrow eighty paces away. The arrow flew past the head of Marquis Yu, the capital of Shu.

Li Xiaofeng smiled wryly, what kind of country is this Zhou country?Even a cripple who retired from the army is a sharpshooter.

However, he also has a way to deal with it, he quickly arched his hands and said with a wry smile.

"Everyone misunderstood, this class is not a traitor from Shu, but came to Zhaoling Village to find relatives."

Since it's going to be exposed anyway, it's better to choose the lesser of two evils. It's better to be regarded as someone who came here to find relatives than to be beaten to death as a traitor.

"Hmph! If you are here to find relatives, why don't you just tell me? You and your followers both speak with a Sichuan accent, so why do you have relatives in Guanzhong? Besides, all the people in Zhaoling Village are here, so tell me who you are Blood relative?"

The chief snorted coldly, and looked at Li Xiaofeng with disdain, not even looking for an excuse.

"That's right! The whole village is here, tell me, which of our relatives are you?"

The surrounding villagers also laughed and asked, only Lin Yinsheng's mother, Li Hanshi, heard Li Xiaofeng's Sichuan accent, and her face was a little cloudy.

Li Xiaofeng's complexion was also a little bad, because this also involved an embarrassing past that the Li family didn't want to mention.

His father, Li Hao, was separated from his grandmother during the war when he was seven years old. It had been 19 years since he found his grandmother, and Li Hao, who was still a child, was already 26 years old.

In these 19 years, Li Xiaofeng's grandmother, a woman, could not survive in such a troubled world without a man to rely on.

So when his father Li Hao sent people to find his grandmother, the grandmother ran away from her husband and abandoned her son, and followed her eldest son to live a wealthy life in Sichuan.

After all, at that time Li Hao was already a member of Zhongshushe and a Hanlin scholar in Shu Kingdom, and it was better for Li's mother to go to Shuzhong with her than to suffer in Guanzhong's farmhouse.

And at that time, she was afraid that her husband's family would stop her, so Li's mother ran away quietly in the middle of the night, leaving behind her honest husband and ten-year-old son.

This kind of behavior of abandoning husband and son is morally flawed.

When Li's mother was young, in order to live a good life and reunite with her eldest son, she could forcefully put this paragraph behind her.

But now that she is getting old, she still feels very guilty when she thinks about it. She often talks about Guanzhong, so she is not without guilt and longing.

This is a shame!

But Li Xiaofeng had to say it, he could only brazenly bow to the villagers, especially those elderly people.

"Weng and others can remember that in the fourth year of Liang Zhenming more than [-] years ago, there was a family here who was also surnamed Li, and he had a mother-in-law suddenly."

When Li Xiaofeng said this, he was actually a little ashamed, "She left a thousand dollars, but suddenly left without saying goodbye. Back then, she still had a son, who was about ten years old."

"Oh! Oh! Yes! Yes!"

The old people in the village immediately became excited. This was a miracle in those days!

A big living person, if he says he doesn't see him, he disappears. Is the answer to the mystery about to be revealed now?

Moreover, they also collectively looked at Li Hanshi and Li Yinsheng.

This one said, "Brother Sheng, I'm afraid it wasn't your mother who sent someone here."

The one said, "Li Hanshi, your Dalang used to say when he was a child that his mother would come to pick him up and go to Shu to enjoy the blessings, but now he really came."

Li Yinsheng was ignorant, but Li Hanshi's eyes were red. She was a tough, virtuous and virtuous woman who did not covet wealth. She held Li Yinsheng's hand.

"Let's go, Brother Sheng, this has nothing to do with us, and our family doesn't have any aunts in Sichuan."

Zhang Xiaobao squinted his eyes, everyone could feel that the matter was definitely not as irrelevant as Li Hanshi said, he slowly raised the bow and arrow in his hand, and said loudly on purpose.

"On the other side, it seems that you have told a lie, so take a certain arrow!"

Li Hanshi's footsteps of resolutely leaving suddenly paused, and then slowly stopped.

Li Xiaofeng is also in a hurry, because according to the virtues of warriors in this era, there is no reason to shoot you, let alone reason, who dares to bet that a lame warrior will lose his nerve immediately?
But he didn't say anything yet, Du Yuhou beside him was already frightened and collapsed. He was almost shot by an arrow just now, and he almost peed at that time, why not?
"This sister-in-law, don't dare to talk nonsense! I'm waiting for these five lives!"

Li Xiaofeng gave this coward Du Yuhou a hard look, not because he thought he was cowardly, but because this Li Hanshi was probably his aunt.

(End of this chapter)