I promise

Chapter 473
But the truth doesn't just exist if you refuse to believe it.

Mu Yueting knew very well that even if his father did not do all those things, he would never be innocent.

In the past six months, my father has been very abnormal, sometimes even suddenly depressed.Although he tried his best to cover it up, she was his daughter, they were very close, they were father and daughter, and even close friends.

How could she not see the abnormality of her close relative.

He was restless, he was hiding something.

"You have to ask your father yourself this question." The old man said, "Although I gave birth to him, I only had a father-son relationship with him for sixteen years.

He is the pride of the entire Mu family, and I once thought that I had a very remarkable son.Maybe to this day, I still think so.

Only later, I couldn't see him more and more clearly. "

Mu Yueting couldn't see clearly either, and she thought she understood him well.

"Grandfather, can I ask you a question, why did you leave the Green Canyon?"

Mu Yueting asked the question that had been on her mind for a long time.

"It has nothing to do with your father."

The old man saw what was going on in his granddaughter's mind, and patiently explained: "On the contrary, if I hadn't had a son who is up to the challenge, I might have been kicked out of the Green Canyon by the family long ago.

The Mu family has been shouldering the mission of changing the family's destiny and carrying forward the glory of the past since birth, and they have been working hard all their lives to get out of that canyon.

And I am a person who is not very motivated, and I don't have any ambitions. I feel that there is nothing wrong with spending a lifetime of idle clouds and wild cranes in that uncontested world.

They study Confucianism, and I study metaphysics.

They are lacking in talent in swordsmanship, so they go to bed every night and wake up every night to make up for their weakness with diligence.But I love landscape poetry and painting, squandering my talent for nothing.In the eyes of many people, I deviate from the orthodoxy and do not think about making progress, which is disrespectful to my ancestors.

I have a long history of feuds with my family.You can be your own master, but you cannot be your father's master.

He was only 16 years old, and he was the hope of the whole clan, and he went out of the valley with a sword.

On the day he left, his mother cried all night, not knowing if her son would come back alive.

The burden that I escaped was carried by my son.

After he left, I was in Green Canyon, and I had nothing to worry about anymore. "

"Then why didn't you want to go to Luoyang and live with us?"

Later, the whole family was decided by his son, why he still didn't want to go back?I would rather wander alone.

"Your father and I are not fellow travelers."

The old man said indifferently: "I have not fulfilled the responsibilities of a father, and I have limited teaching for him. I dare not teach him what I do.

When he first showed his talent in martial arts, he was forcibly taken away by your great-grandfather. He personally taught him the most orthodox culture of etiquette and righteousness, Confucianism and Taoism.

They taught him to fight, and they taught him to be a saint.What kind of person he eventually became, who knows? "【1】

The old man's tone was a little sad.

Mu Yueting was silent for a while, then said: "Grandfather, Xiao Si'er is back. People outside said that the fire in Julin Garden was set by father, and he wanted to kill Xiao Si'er."

The old man nodded: "I've seen her before."

Mu Yueting was startled, and her face turned pale: "Little Si'er looked for you? How did she know you were here?"

Perhaps because of being adopted elsewhere since childhood, the relationship between Mu Cangping and his parents is not deep.

After his grandparents left Green Canyon to settle elsewhere, he would visit once a year.After getting married, she also took Jin Lianyin there once.

At that time, he was high-spirited and offended too many people, and he didn't want his parents to be exposed too much.After having kids and too many distractions, never went again.

Later, Jin Lianyin and Mu Dianke passed away one after another, and Mu Zijin also left the next year. The series of events hit him too hard, and he was bedridden intermittently for nearly a year.

Mu Cangping on the sickbed began to miss his family and sent people to find his parents who had been missing for a long time.

It was also at that time that Mu Yueting met his grandparents for the first time.

Mu Dian had never seen them before, how did she know that her grandfather was in Chuzhou?If it was found out by the spies of the Ming Palace, then grandfather would be too dangerous.

The old man shook his head and said: "She didn't come to look for me. She was hunted down and fled to me. She doesn't know me, but I know her. Her eyes...are exactly the same as your father when he was young." [ 2】

Mu Yueting was a little nervous: "Little Si'er...was hunted down...when did it happen?"

"Several days ago, there must be—" the old man stopped his work, thought about it seriously, and said, "Is it four or five days?"

Mu Yueting breathed a sigh of relief.As soon as the worry in my heart subsides, melancholy clouds rise again:
"Grandfather, what should I do if the fourth son seeks revenge on his father? Who should I help?"

"You can't help anyone, and no one can help you." The old man said, "You have to ask your own heart about this question. If you don't know your mind, no one can help you."

Mu Yueting didn't think about asking anyone to help her, she just felt sad and wanted to talk to someone.

"The eldest brother has come to Jiangnan, and he has never dared to disobey his father's will. His concubine has always resented the fourth son. She forced the second brother to leave and blamed it on the fourth son... The third brother was sent by his father. After leaving Gansu, he wrote to tell me to keep an eye on my elder brother, lest he do harm to my younger brother...Second brother still has no news..."

"Grandfather, I dreamed about my mother last night. She was crying. She asked me what happened to our family, her children, what happened?"

She also cried, a crystal clear teardrop slid down her white cheek, beautiful and helpless.

The two riders galloped on the streets of Chuzhou City.

After the civil unrest broke out in the city of Chuzhou and caused panic in the surrounding area, the imperial court finally began to pay attention to this matter.There are still a few veteran officials in the court who have retained their integrity. They took off their crowns on the golden palace and went to their shoes, admonishing them to death.Before accepting Ning Yu's money, the ministers who opposed it were much weaker in the face of the tragic casualties reported in the report.

The most subtle thing is the attitude of the Su family.

The Su family has always been only looking forward to the holy will.However, the holy will is not yet clear, Su Hongyu first expressed the pain of the epidemic and the hardship of the people's livelihood in the memorial, and a memorial was written with great literary grace, which moved people to tears.He also quoted the scriptures, from the Three Emperors and Five Emperors to the present, counting the rise and fall of the past dynasties, saying that "the people are the most important, the society is second, and the king is the least."I hope that the Holy One will understand the sentiments of the people, take pity on them, and never abandon them...and so on.

Although full of bookishness, it is a righteous statement.

The Su family stood in the hall, as quiet as a quail.Only Su Jingyi said a few words in a far-fetched official tone, neither agreeing nor opposing, and finally did not express his attitude.

The reaction of the Su family made Su Hongyu's touching memorial quite embarrassing.

　[1] The Mu Family's Past, Volume 58, Chapter 2, The Mu Family Sword Appears [155] Volume [-], Chapter [-], Good Lord

　　
　
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