When Zuo Aoran came to the door of the study room, he heard the two elders hissing and sighing from inside the house. Zuo Aoran gently pushed the door open, and the smell of medicine hit his nostrils. When he looked inside, he saw that
He saw his father Zuo Yuwen lying on the bed, with a quilt covering his lower body.
Seeing that the old man's face was sallow and thin, his eye sockets were sunken, his lips were chapped, and his beard was curled up. On the table in front of the bed, there were medicine pots, medicine bowls, and medicine pills. Mother Liu sat beside her father and sighed. Zuo Aoran
Seeing this scene, I feel sad. I haven't been in front of my father for more than nine years. The old man has gray hair on his temples, and my mother has wrinkles on her face. My father was hurt so badly. I just came back to fulfill my filial piety. I'm really sorry for my parents!
As the saying goes: "Parents should not travel far away when they are at home, they must have a good way to travel!" This is indeed a wise saying. Thinking of this, I knelt down, knocked my knees as my feet, crawled to the bed on my knees, and said:
"Mom and dad, the two elders are on top. The unfilial son Ao Ran is polite." After saying this, he kowtowed to the ground.
"Ah~~! It's Ran'er." Mrs. Liu said.
Zuo Yuwen and his wife were overjoyed when they saw their son come back. Thousands of melancholy and worries were over. Mrs. Liu's eyes were so happy that she shed tears. She pulled her son and said, "Ran'er! You are finally back. This time you can't do anything."
Don't leave, your father is old and sick, and he still has to take care of the family shop, so you should take care of the family affairs."
"Mom! I'm not leaving!" Zuo Aoran said.
Liu said happily: "Oh! That's right."
When Zuo Yuwen heard this, he was very happy. The child had been with the teacher for nine years and was successful again. His body was strong and his words were listened to. He said to Zuo Aoran: "Ran'er! Get up." Then Zuo Yuwen thought.
He sat up and asked his son what he had learned in the past nine years as a teacher. He forgot that his hip was injured. When he got up and was about to sit down, the wound hurt so much that he staggered a few times and almost fell down.
Zuo Aoran was so frightened that he quickly held him up and asked, "Dad, what's wrong with you?"
Zuo Yuwen didn't want to say it, but Mrs. Liu couldn't help it. With tears in her eyes, she said "Ouch!" and said: "It's not that... ugh... ugh... oh!... ugh... nothing." Zuo Aoran thought about it.
"What's wrong with my mother?" It turned out that Zuo Yuwen pinched Mrs. Liu's thigh hard to prevent her from talking.
Zuo Yuwen quickly changed his words and said: "My father fell off his horse a few days ago and was slightly injured. He is almost healed now... um... go down and see your sister Xue Jiao! She is tired at home."
"Father! I heard that you were beaten?" Zuo Aoran said.
Zuo Yuwen's face darkened and he said, "Who said that?"
"Family." Zuo Aoran said.
Zuo Yuwen said: "They are talking nonsense. After all, my father is a member of the Zuo Family Village. He is rich and powerful. Who dares to lay a finger on my father? Don't listen to the nonsense of my family and get out of here quickly."
"Dad, tell me who bullied you. I will catch him and avenge you." Zuo Aoran said.
"Well! Slave, you want to make your father angry as soon as you come home! Get off!" Zuo Yuwen said.
"Yes." Seeing that his father was getting angry, Zuo Aoran did not dare to say anything. Knowing that it was not good, he turned around and came out. Zuo Aoran did not leave, he hid outside the window and eavesdropped, and then his mother said: "Master, you have been wronged.
, talk to your son, what’s wrong?”
"Oh! What do you know? Ran'er has a bad temper. If he knew that I was being tortured, why wouldn't he turn Zhending County upside down? How many lives could be lost? Don't tell him, and don't call his sister Xue
Jiao tell him." Zuo Yuwen said.
Mrs. Liu nodded and said, "That's right. I'm still thoughtful, so I'll go and tell them."
Zuo Aoran listened very clearly outside the window and thought to himself: "My father is a loyal man. Although he is not very capable, he can be regarded as a good man who is willing to do good. Who can I offend? Who dares to hurt my father? I
You have to ask for clarification."
"Who should I ask? My parents won't tell me, and my family won't tell me. Who should I ask? Oh! Yes, I'll ask my sister Xue Jiao." Thinking of this, he ran to Xue Jiao's house.
At this time, Xue Jiao was sitting in front of the bed, counting the days until Zuo Aoran left home, hoping that he would come back soon. At this time, Zuo Aoran came to Xue Jiao's door and knocked on the door.
, I heard someone inside ask: "Who is it?"
"Oh my! Jiaojiao, what's wrong? You can't even hear your brother's voice?" Zuo Aoran said.
Xue Jiao was overjoyed when she heard this, and quickly opened the door, invited Zuo Aoran into the room, and said, "Brother, you have been away from home for more than nine years, and you haven't sent any letters or brought you with you. I really miss you."
I saw a woman, with cicada wings in the temples, eyebrows lightly brushing the spring mountain, red lips decorated with a cherry, white teeth lined with two rows of broken jade, spring peach brushing her face, her mood was subtle, the flowers were not yet bright, and her skin was tender and jade was shining. Zuo Aoran looked at
I couldn't help but stay for a moment before I came back to my senses. I couldn't help but secretly praise that there was such a beautiful woman in the world, such as Diao Chan, Xi Shi, Yang Guifei, Wang Zhaojun, they were nothing more than that!
"I'm back now, aren't I!" Zuo Aoran said in a daze.
Xue Jiao said: "Brother, sit down quickly, I will make you some food."
"Don't be busy, Jiaojiao, I have something to ask you, do you know it?" Zuo Aoran asked.
Xue Jiao asked: "What's going on?"
Zuo Aoran asked: "Who injured my father?"
Xue Jiao didn't know how to lie. When her brother asked, she stopped smiling and said, "Hey! Forget it. Our father can save his life because of his ancestors' virtue. It is almost as if our family's lives are not saved."
"Don't be nagging, what's going on?" Zuo Aoran said anxiously.
Xue Jiao said: "Can't I say this slowly?" After a pause, he added: "This happened not long ago. A new magistrate was appointed in Zhending County, and all the big families in the surrounding area sent gifts and congratulations.
, everyone else gave gold, silver, jewelry, longevity mountain, and blessings to the sea, but my father didn’t give him anything. Now he was offended, and he colluded with Zuo, the shopkeeper of my brother’s noodle shop, and said that the noodle shop made
There was something wrong with the food, and people got sick after eating it, so the noodle shop was closed down."
"Shopkeeper Zuo?" Zuo Aoran muttered in confusion.
Xue Jiao said: "Yes! It's this shopkeeper Zuo who is the worst. He colluded with the county magistrate to close down his brother's noodle shop, and he opened another noodle shop elsewhere, also called Zuo's Noodle Shop.
"
"Let's not talk about this first, what happened to father's injury?" Zuo Aoran asked.
Xue Jiao snorted and said, "That's what happened. On the third day after the county master took office, a group of bandits suddenly came. There were more than two hundred bandits in this group. The leader was a man from Sanzhai on the mountain.
Master, when he came to the village, he rushed directly to our house, surrounded our house, broke down the door of our house, and more than fifty bandits poured in. Zuo Aoan rushed up with a few servants, but they didn't
They killed him in just a few moves. The old housekeeper, Grandpa Zuo, quickly came out to stop him, but was pushed down by the cottage owner, who knocked his head on the stone steps and died on the spot."
When Zuo Aoran heard this, he was so angry that Lao Gao's hair stood up and he screamed: "Okay! Thief! If I don't cut you into shreds, mince it into minced meat, and chop it into pieces, my grandpa Zuo will sacrifice you."
spirit!"
When Xue Jiao heard Zuo Aoran's words and saw Zuo Aoran's look, as if he wanted to eat someone, she was so frightened that she shuddered. Zuo Aoran saw that Xue Jiao stopped talking and quickly asked: "What happened next? Daddy.
