"You are not allowed to go anywhere, just kneel here for us. Kneel well!"
Poof, when the old man finished speaking, Li Jinglong immediately knelt down straight.
Zhu Yunxi was a little surprised. The old man was generally kind to Li Jinglong. After all, he was the son of his nephew and a relative of the Zhu family. Why did he kneel down as a punishment today!
"Are we going to drink upstairs?" Zhu Yunxi asked with a smile.
"It's nice upstairs, it's cool and ventilated!" the old man said with a smile.
"However, we can't drink too much. The imperial doctor also said that it's bad for your health if you keep drinking!" Zhu Yunxi helped the old man go upstairs, "My grandson will let them prepare food now. Let us drink Shaoxing yellow wine, as you like.
How about making some side dishes?"
"Okay, I'll listen to you!" The old man smiled with a loving look on his face.
After the two men went upstairs, the bastard got up from the ground and looked at Li Jinglong, who was kneeling motionless next to him. His heart softened. He looked upstairs first, then to the left and right, then calmly walked to the chair and swept it away.
A mat, and then with a tip of the toe, the mat slid directly in front of Li Jinglong.
Li Jinglong understood this, raised his knees slightly, put a soft cushion under his knees, covered it with his official robe, and smiled at the bastard's shame.
"Hey, this old man without eggs is more loyal than many real men with eggs!" Li Jinglong thought to himself.
The bastard went outside the palace and asked people to prepare wine and food. Suddenly, he found two unfamiliar eunuchs standing outside the door. These two people came with the old prince, and their clothes were not of any class.
, but they didn’t look away, standing under the shade of the eaves.
When I saw him, the manager of the East Palace, it was as if I hadn't seen him at all. I just glanced at him slightly and coldly.
The bastard was suddenly frightened, and quickly returned to the hall, walked to Li Jinglong's side, turned his back to the door, and raised his palms.
Li Jinglong wondered, what does this mean?
Seeing that he was not moving, the bastard opened his mouth and his lips moved silently.
Li Jinglong looked at his lips, opened his mouth, and said silently, "Look up, look up?"
The bastard nodded quickly in shame.
Li Jinglong raised his knees slightly, and with a swish, the cushion was quickly taken away by the bastard.
"You" Li Jinglong was furious in his heart, but he didn't dare to speak. He could only kneel on the ground that was so hard that his bones hurt.
On the floor tiles.
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On the third floor, the two men sat opposite each other by the window. Downstairs was a sea of flowers, with wine and food on the table.
A jar of 30-year-old Shaoxing yellow rice, dried shrimps mixed with cabbage, mushrooms, diced ham and egg custard, white-cut lamb head meat, and marinated duck feet.
Zhu Yunxi slowly poured wine for the old man. The old man picked up a chopstick of mutton head meat, dipped it in minced garlic, put it in his mouth, and ate it deliciously.
"Grandpa Huang loves mutton!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, "You can't get enough of this white-cut sheep head!"
"Actually, we prefer donkey meat!" The old man said with a slow smile, "But donkeys are also working animals, so eat as little as you can!" He paused with his chopsticks, "Besides, this mutton head meat, right?
Let’s just say it doesn’t mean anything!”
Zhu Yunxi smiled and said, "Is there a story in this? Grandpa Huang, tell me!"
The old man put down his chopsticks, picked up the wine cup and took a sip. He seemed to be savoring the fragrance of Shaoxing yellow wine, and he seemed to be reminiscing, "Your grandmother and I just got married over there. The Mongolian Yuan Dynasty sent Jia Lu, Minister of Industry, to lead ten
Thousands of people besieged Haozhou!"
Zhu Yunxi knew this story. Jia Lu was the minister of the Ministry of Industry in the former Mongolian and Yuan dynasties, and the envoy of river operation. But he was also a good official. He led people to divert the Yellow River many times and cultivated fields to support the people. So far in Henan and Shandong, there are still
Two Jiaru rivers are named after him.
"That's one hundred thousand people. They are all elite military households from the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, coming in overwhelming numbers. At that time, Haozhou was your grandmother's adoptive father, and Guo Zixing was the one who made the decision." The old man said solemnly, "There are only twenty or thirty thousand troops under his command, but the core
Those who can fight are only one or two thousand!"
Zhu Yunxi continued to pour wine for the old man and listened silently.
"The isolated city cannot be defended. We are leading outside the city. We led the army in two battles and killed many brothers. We had to retreat to the city. People in the city were panicked, thinking that the army would definitely break the city!" The old man smiled bitterly and said, "If Haozhou can't be defended, who will?
They can't survive. So after we entered the city, we asked people to spread rumors. We said that we heard with our own ears that the officers and soldiers said that if they don't seal the sword after breaking the city, they will massacre the city!"
In the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, everything the officers and soldiers passed was scorched earth. At that time, Xuzhou was not able to recover for thirty years even though the prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty was ordered to massacre the city.
"In this way, not only the soldiers in the city risked their lives, but also the common people. Men, women, old and young went into battle and finally blocked the imperial army!" The old man continued, "The officers and soldiers had no other choice, so they began to siege the city.
Just five months!”
"In the city!" At this point, the old man's hand shook slightly, "There is no food, not even a grain of food, and all the rats have eaten them all. In the end," the old man drank his glass of wine, "they started eating people!"
"We saw with our own eyes that Tang He killed his concubine, cooked it and distributed it to his sons!" The old man chewed the meat, something seemed to flash in his eyes, "Everyone knew it was human flesh, but no
If you eat it, you will die! No one wants to die!"
Zhu Yunxi didn't know why the old man suddenly mentioned this story, but he felt uncomfortable.
"Grandpa Huang, there is nothing we can do about it!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, "People in troubled times are not as good as peace dogs, and the world in that world is one where people cannibalize people!"
"You think we ate it?" The old man suddenly smiled and shook his head, "We didn't eat it. We are related to the commander after all. Although we are not full, we are not going to eat people!"
As he spoke, he smiled again, sighed and continued, "Later, the Chinese New Year will soon come. The officers and soldiers outside the city are still surrounding them, like iron barrels. They are killing pigs and sheep to make dumplings outside the city, and we are in the city.
There’s no place to look for branyan vegetables!”
"We're anxious. Damn it, why should good guys like us have to suffer this?" The old man's face gradually became ferocious, "That night, we had people secretly open a hole in the city gate, and took Tang He and Shao with us.
More than three hundred people including Rong, Guo Xing, Guo Ying, Zheng brothers, and Wu brothers were killed!"
"We kicked down three camps of the army and the army, snatched several large vehicles and ran away. I don't know how many people came from the army in the middle of the night, but we were actually frightened!"
Speaking of this, the old man became arrogant and his expression was full of arrogance.
"When I returned to the city, I saw, damn it! There was really a lot of delicious food and drink in the cart we snatched! We were so happy that we gave half of it to our brothers, and the remaining half was sent directly to the marshal's house!
"
"Didn't you keep it yourself?" Zhu Yunxi asked.
The old man shook his head, "Brothers followed us out to fight, and half of what we were given was missing. The Marshal is our benefactor and father-in-law, so we have to give it to him during the Chinese New Year!" As he said this, a trace of anger flashed in the old man's eyes.
, "Besides, we and the Marshal are one and the same family. If we give him half, doesn't it mean we keep half?"
"But the commander also scolded us, saying that Zhu Chongba just wanted to show off, and if the officers and soldiers chased him into the city, everyone would die without a burial place!" The old man continued, "After scolding me,
, I was scolded so hard that I couldn’t hold my head up! We went home dejected!”
"We are also angry, thinking about who we are working so hard for, damn, we sent them food and drink, and he actually scolded us? How unreasonable!"
"It's New Year's Eve in a few days, and your grandmother went to the handsome man's house early in the morning." The old man sighed, and then said, "Let's comfort the brothers in the military camp. The brothers are hungry, so hungry that their eyes are full.
They were all red. At noon, your grandmother came back with a sheep's head and said it was given by the commander."
"We were so happy that we smashed the mutton and stewed a big pot of soup. The brothers drank it all and chewed the bones!" The old man smiled and his eyes changed, "But when we get home,
, but watching your grandmother eating chaff!"
"Bran, it's used to feed livestock!" The old man's eyes turned red, "It's Chinese New Year, and my wife will eat chaff!"
"Yes, there are many soldiers in the city, and many people can't even afford chaff. But that's our mother-in-law. We work for the commander-in-chief, helping him manage the army, helping him appease people's hearts, and helping him fight and fight. Besides,
Your grandmother is his goddaughter, how can she celebrate the New Year? He is full of food, leaving your grandmother to eat the chaff!"
The old man gritted his teeth, "We went angrily, and when we arrived at the handsome man's house, his Guo family was eating white noodles!"
"We were angry at that time. People in the city are eating people. Brothers can't straighten their waists. Your goddaughter has eaten chaff. Why do you still have white flour at home?"
"At that time, we didn't think about anything, we just felt like our blood was rushing to Tian Ling Gai!"
The old man continued, "Brothers worked hard for the Guo family, and your family hid to eat white flour? Your own goddaughter came to the door, and after begging for a long time, you gave her a sheep's head and a bag of chaff!" As he said this, the old man laughed.
, "That's the sheep, we risked our lives to go out of the city that night and snatched it back!"
"Shuai Guo said that we will commit the crime below!"
"We all wanted to laugh at the time. We were originally rebels, so what the hell are we talking about?"
"Without so many people following you, are you just a bird feather?"
Zhu Yunxi listened and said, "No wonder the Guo family can't make a living. Everyone is starving. They hide and eat alone. Even if there is not much food, those who are celebrating the New Year should have their close brothers shouting, let's have a meal together!"
"We think so too. Whether it is an adopted daughter or a subordinate, he is an outsider after all. Even though he, Marshal Guo, is sitting in the city, he has already planned it. Once the city is really unable to be defended, he will take his family and bring him with him.
Get a hundred and ten elite hardcore men and run!"
The old man took another sip of wine and said, "Since then, we have also understood a truth. All kindness, love, and righteousness are all fake. Only blood relations are real. Parents, parents, brothers and sisters, these
That's my dear! When we are all at peace with each other, Pi will give you small favors and sweet words to make you fall in love. But once disaster strikes, everyone only cares about themselves."
"We also swore in our hearts that we would never be dependent on others or be spoiled by others in this life! Otherwise, even if I die, my mother-in-law will not be able to live a good life. I will sacrifice life and death for others in exchange for my own mother-in-law.
Eating chaff! In order to escape, people secretly raised war horses, which fed better than humans."
"The next year, the commander-in-chief of the army, Jia Lu, died of illness in the army, and Haozhou was relieved! Let's take more than 20 brothers out of the city and work alone!"
"Since then, whenever there is a festival or something festive at home, this white-cut sheep's head must be served!"
“I eat it not because I like it, but because I don’t want to forget the injustice and suffering I suffered in the past!”
After saying that, the two men sat opposite each other without speaking.
After a long time, the old man smiled and said, "That's too far off topic!"
Zhu Yunxi looked at the old man and took his big hand, "Grandpa, if you come today, you may have something to say to your grandson!"
"You kid, I can't hide anything from you!" The old man laughed, "We have something to say, but we don't know where to start, so we can only talk nonsense about old things from the past!"
"Do you know anything?" Zhu Yunxi asked tentatively.
"We understand!" The old man nodded heavily, then grinned with difficulty, "You don't have to worry about us, we came here in strong winds and waves. We haven't seen anything in our life, so we are not so easy to get angry!" After saying that, he sighed.
, "Besides, we actually thought about it too!"
"When disaster strikes, everyone flies away. Since ancient times, there has been no father or son in the royal family!" The old man sighed sadly, tears flashing in the corners of his eyes.
Zhu Yunxi felt heartbroken silently, "Grandpa Huang, you"
"We went to your father's grave a few days ago and talked for a long time!" The old man interrupted Zhu Yunxi, "All our lives, we have been soft to our own family. We always think that the world is big and blood relatives are the greatest. But we have forgotten that future generations will
Most of them are unfilial people who only have eyes for themselves and no family!"
"Some things are more troublesome the more you are soft-hearted. Instead of causing trouble in the future, it is better to cut the mess quickly!"
Zhu Yunxi thought quickly in his mind, what did the old man know?
Is it the Alliance of Five Kings? Or is it Zhu Di’s small actions or other people’s small actions?
What is certain is that it is definitely not Lu’s old story!
Because if that really happened, and knowing that his eldest grandson and daughter-in-law were assassinated, no matter how strong the old man was, he wouldn't be able to stand it.
It is impossible that King Qin was poisoned to death! Otherwise, the old man would not be so calm.
So what does the old man know?
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I owe five, I know.
I haven't saved my manuscript now. I have been writing all day today and suddenly I got stuck. There is something in my mind but I just can't describe it.
Sorry, I owe another one, six in total.
I am guilty, but as the saying goes, if you love someone, you must be tolerant. I am shameless, shameless, and shameless. Please continue to love me.
This chapter has been completed!