Zhou Che sent Li Hui and his party to Dongguan Town before bidding farewell to Li Hui. Li Hui and his party continued on their way and arrived in Liyang City the next morning.
Li Hui did not want to show off, and ordered everyone to rest outside the city. He took Dachun Dazhuang into the city. He wanted to say goodbye to Wang Muzhi.
Xie Xuan made it very clear that day that Wang Mu had recommended him, and he should come to express his gratitude.
But when Li Hui arrived at the Liyang County Governor's Office and asked to see Wang Muzhi, he was surprised to learn that Wang Muzhi had resigned as the Liyang County Governor not long ago.
After Li Hui learned the news, he immediately left the city without saying a word. He originally wanted to stay in Liyang County for a day, but under the current circumstances, he absolutely cannot stay here. After Wang Muzhi left, the identity of the new county governor
I don’t know, this is no longer a safe place and we must leave immediately.
Xie Xuan said that day that Wang Muzhi would leave office at the end of the year. Li Hui originally thought that Wang Muzhi was still in Liyang County because it was not yet the twelfth lunar month. But he did not expect that Wang Muzhi would have left office so early.
In the evening of that day, Li Hui and his party rushed to the ferry, crossed the Yangtze River, and then entered Danyang County. They stayed in a shop on the other side to rest for one night, and continued their journey early the next morning, heading straight for the capital.
The jurisdiction of Danyang County is very large, including eight counties around the capital, as well as Jiankang, the capital of the Jin Dynasty, which falls under the jurisdiction of Danyang County. The seat of Danyang County is Jiankang. In fact, it is the relationship between Jingzhao and the capital.
Danyang County is Jingzhao County.
After traveling east for a day, we arrived at Shicheng County, which belongs to Danyang County. This place is still eighty miles away from Jiankang, and this is where Li Hui's hometown is located.
In the afternoon of that day, Li Hui and his party entered Shicheng County. Following Jiang Sheng's instructions, the group headed all the way to the southeast of the city. They walked through narrow streets and desolate places where people gathered. Finally, the vehicle stopped in a dilapidated alley.
Stopped before.
"Xiao Lang, this is the alley. The house where aunt and the others live is in the alley. It can't be walked more than a hundred steps in." Jiang Sheng came to the mule cart where Li Hui was riding and said.
Li Hui got out of the car and stared around. The surrounding area was actually a dilapidated scene. The walls on both sides of the alley were low and collapsed, and the houses and courtyards were also dilapidated. It had snowed not long ago, and the surrounding area was wet and cold.
The situation and environment are not good.
But for some reason, when he saw the surrounding scene, Li Hui felt a familiar yet strange feeling. It seemed that he had been here before, but he was not sure when he had been here before. This feeling seemed familiar, yet distant.
, feeling a bit out of control.
"Xiao Lang, I'm going to report to the aunt and others first that Xiao Lang is back. They don't know that Xiao Lang is back yet. If they know about it, I'm afraid they will be extremely happy." Jiang Sheng said from the side.
Li Hui waved his hand and said: "No need to report, I will go see them myself."
Jiang Sheng had no choice but to nod in agreement. A group of people stood at the entrance of the alley, looking at Li Hui with his eyes wide open and looking left and right. His eyes were confused for a while and then full of energy. They didn't know what Li Hui was doing.
Of course they don't understand that at this moment, the memory in Li Hui's mind has begun to resurrect. It is the possessed person's childhood memory, which was previously sealed in chaos. But once exposed to such an environment, the memory in his mind
The fragments began to surge, and vivid memories began to be pieced together.
Li Hui's eyes fell on a huge mulberry tree at the entrance of the alley. Li Hui remembered that when he was a child, he climbed up this tree to pick mulberries to eat. There was a deep hole in the branches of the trunk. So Li Hui walked over.
, stood on tiptoes to check, and sure enough, the tree hole on the branch as tall as a person was still there.
Li Hui breathed a sigh of relief, feeling strange in his heart.
Li Hui remembered that there was a pond not far from the entrance of the alley. As a child, Li Hui used to play and swim in the pond, fish, touch shrimps and catch tadpoles with his friends. When Li Hui looked up, he saw sparse gaps in the trees.
The mottled and withered lotus leaves on the water surface looked like black shadows standing on the water surface. Li Hui remembered the scene of green lotus fields and pink lotus flowers in this small lotus pond in summer.
This is it, the home of his childhood. The former residence of Li family in Danyang is here, and all the memories have been restored. Li Hui even remembered the appearance of a middle-aged man, with a thin face, a serious expression, and a frown.
The way people are scared.
That was Li Zhi, Li Hui's father, who had been dead for more than ten years.
Since Li Hui traveled through time, his sense of belonging to this era has been gradually established. But after all, he is a person who has traveled through time, and his emotional sense of belonging is not strong. For people like Gu Lanzhi Chougu, it is actually out of a sense of responsibility and
I am grateful. Not to mention how I feel about my physical father, the man named Li Zhi.
The lack of childhood memories will increase this sense of separation and make the emotional belonging even less profound.
But at this moment, when scenes from childhood emerged in Li Hui's mind, and people and things deep in his memory emerged, all the past origins of the possessed body and the course of his nineteen-year life were instantly connected.
Where did it come from and where is it going? The broken parts seemed to be stitched up immediately, and the sense of separation between the spirit and the body was instantly merged into one place.
It was not until this moment that Li Hui truly felt that he had completely integrated into this young man's body. He had inherited all his past hopes, his memories, his joys and sorrows, and his emotional ups and downs. Until this moment,
The time traveler truly became the Li Hui of this era.
This feeling is amazing and weird.
Li Hui asked everyone to wait at the entrance of the alley. He didn't want to disturb his mother and Azhu. He straightened his clothes and walked slowly deeper into the alley. The alley was narrow, and the bricks and stones on the ground were broken and crooked, and they were in disrepair.
.But every time he took a step forward, Li Hui remembered some trivial things that happened here. The little boy had jumped in and out of the bluestone alley countless times.
A house appeared in the field of vision ahead. The dilapidated blue-tiled gatehouse was tilted and covered with long withered grass. Thick vines were entangled on the low walls, and the adobe walls were black and green.
The main house is tall, but it is also in a dilapidated state. The roof is covered with matted grass, and the walls are damp, as if it has been soaked by rain and has not yet dried.
But Li Hui's eyes were shining, because this was a house layout he was familiar with. This house was exactly the old house of the Li family in his memory. Li Hui grew up here in his childhood.
The dead vines and weeds on the low wall blocked the view of the courtyard, but when Li Hui walked to the courtyard gate he heard voices in the courtyard.
"Zhu'er, take a rest and stop working. Taking care of the yard doesn't take a day or two, so don't be so anxious. You cut your hands yesterday, so don't be so anxious."
Li Hui recognized the voice of his mother, Gu Lanzhi.
"Auntie, it doesn't matter. I can do these jobs. I used to do them when I was a child. It's not hard. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, so I have to tidy up. The young master wants me to take good care of you. You can't let the yard be full of weeds.
Isn't it? I'm not tired at all, the aunt and the ugly girl can just go and rest."
Li Hui's heart skipped a beat. It was Ah Zhu's voice. He leaned closer to the crack of the door and looked in. He saw Ah Zhu dressed in coarse cloth and holding a sickle in his hand, mowing grass on the west side of the yard. There were already people in the middle of the yard.
A clearing was cleared, but there were still many weeds growing around it.
Mother Gu Lanzhi was standing on the porch looking at Azhu, holding needlework in her hand. Chougu was sitting on a horse in the porch, leaning on a crutch next to her, holding a small dustpan in her hand and picking something.
"This child is so sensible. He is so sensible at such a young age. He takes good care of us. Madam, what I said is right. Our young man is lucky to meet such a good boy like Azhu. He is really
What a blessing." Chou Gu said with a smile.
Gu Lanzhi said with a smile: "Yes, yes. Hui'er is really lucky. We have a baby. But this fool never comes back to see us. It's been a year. How busy is he? He won't come back even in the twelfth lunar month.
Do you want to see us?"
After hearing this, Chou Gu also said: "That's right, next time I see Xiaolang, I have to spank him. Just like when I was a child."
When Li Hui heard this, he pushed the door open and laughed loudly: "Who is saying bad things about me behind my back? Don't you know that walls have ears?"
The three women in the yard all turned around in shock. Isn't that Li Hui or who is it that walked into the yard under the sun?
"Ah...is it Hui'er? Am I dreaming?" Gu Lanzhi dropped the needle and thread in her hand to the ground, stood up and said blankly.
Li Hui quickly stepped forward, lifted up his robe, knelt down and kowtowed, and said, "Hui'er kowtows to my mother. My child is unfilial. I only came back today, and my mother has suffered."
Gu Lanzhi shed tears of excitement, stepped forward, hugged Li Hui and cried: "Hui'er, my son, you are back. You are back."
"Yes, my son is back. My mother has suffered, and you all have suffered." Li Hui also shed tears.
The ugly aunt also limped over, reached out and patted Li Hui's shoulder and cried. Li Hui kowtowed to the ugly aunt, which scared the ugly aunt and quickly got out of the way. She was a slave, how could she dare to accept the gift of the master?
, but in fact, in Li Hui's mind, Chou Gu is already the elder in the family.
After a long time, the three of them calmed down. Li Hui stood up and looked at Azhu who was standing aside. There were tears in Azhu's eyes, her red lips were trembling slightly, her hair was messy on her forehead, and she was standing aside and watching.
Li Hui.
Li Hui smiled and said: "Azhu, what's going on? Don't you recognize me?"
Ah Zhu's chest rose and fell, and she held back her tears and said, "I've met the young master."
Li Hui stepped forward and pinched her face, saying in a low voice: "Thank you for your hard work."
Ah Zhu shed tears and shook her head and said: "It's not hard work, the young master is considered to be back."
Due to the presence of his mother and ugly aunt, Li Hui couldn't do anything drastic, so he only reached out and patted her shoulder to express comfort.