Appendix 10: Gongsun Li and Her Home - Winter Tree Hanzhi
【Complete this activity】Gongsunli and her "home"
From that small courtyard to her grandmother's study, and then to her father's shoulders, she stood in the wave of the times and became a distinguished member of the imperial palace in Luoyang. She also followed Que's gaze from behind the fan and walked from Qinglu into her husband's house.
After walking through the house for decades, she finally stopped when she reached the tomb a few feet underground. There was nothing to be afraid of regretting. There were people she loved and loved her in these places, so they
It's all her home.
If you want to introduce the eldest daughter of Duke Yan to outsiders, you must start with the sentence: "The eldest daughter of Duke Yan is twenty-eight years old. She was brought up under the knee of Aunt Gongsun since she was a child..."
Such a standard beginning almost made everyone think that A Li was brought up by his aunt.
Because Mrs. Bian was just a singer with low status in Lehu sent by Cao Zhengxi's family, people thought it was a favor to give Ali to the aunt to raise. Although the Han Dynasty had the heroic spirit of "heroes regardless of their origins", Leji's
The low status and the close relationship between Cao Zhengxi and Yan Gong still made Mrs. Bian's position among the five concubines embarrassing.
And since the main wife, Mrs. Zhao, and the side wife, Mrs. Feng, who had the toughest backgrounds, were not pregnant, everyone thought it would be best to give little A-li to Gongsun to raise, just like when Bian Yu was the first one to get pregnant.
, giving birth to a girl is far more satisfactory to everyone than a boy.
But the aunt obviously has her own ideas about the education of little Ali——
When Gongsun Li was very young, probably around three or four years old, he was confused and confused about the concept of "home".
She seems to have two "homes".
One is the small yard of my mother, Mrs. Bian. There used to be many fragrant flowers and trees planted there. When the flowers bloomed, the buzzing bees and uninvited butterflies made the yard very lively. She seemed to like this liveliness, and the whole family at that time
The fat cats in Gongsun Mansion like to squat in the corner, looking up at the buzzing bees in the shadow of the sun. From time to time, their paws will jump up to flutter at the butterflies and bees, and then they will slither into the grass and wait for the aunt to send someone.
When I came here, the cat’s head had been swollen for some time.
It was fun for A Li to lie down at the window during his calligraphy practice, but Mrs. Bian was so frightened that she confessed to Aunt Jin who was looking for a cat. After a few days, the fragrant flowers and trees in the yard were invited by her mother.
After cutting down, even the roots were dug out. Little Ali squatted by the window and saw the servant holding a knife and chopping on the most fragrant unknown flower tree. The fallen red flowers were trampled to pieces by people coming and going.
Then the servant who was swept away washed it with water, and the mottled juice on the ground looked like blood stains.
Later, the aunt heard that all the flowers and trees in Mrs. Bian's courtyard had been cut down. She didn't say anything, but ordered someone to plant a few green bamboo poles. Little Ali leaned against the wall and could only see the green grass in the small courtyard.
The bamboo leaves were whistling, and a cat walked past this corner, looked at it, and jumped off the wall before Ali could identify it carefully and walked away.
The other home was the hall where my grandmother Gongsun worked. There were not many beautiful and fragrant flowers and trees planted there, and it didn't have the splendor that outsiders imagined of a wealthy family's home, but it was also very "lively".
Bamboo slips and papers filled with bookshelves cut off the indoor spaces on each floor. Dozens of accounting offices were fiddling with abacus day and night, crackling the wooden abacus beads, and the maids and servants coming and going like running water.
Moving among the piles of papers filled with official documents, my grandmother brought news and movements of the Amway thousands of miles away. My grandmother, wearing the pair of glasses that took countless craftsmen to work out, raised her hand and could move with ease.
The Amway, a huge and ferocious beast, bites and plunders across the land of Kyushu.
A Li was practicing calligraphy and reading in the back. Sometimes her aunt would ask her to come and read official documents from Amway and letters from her father. When she grew older, her grandmother would ask her what she thought of what she had just read. Things in the world in Kyushu, thousands of miles.
The changes in China were all influenced by her grandmother's words and guidance to A Li.
As she grew older, she saw her father outside. The concept of home changed. From her mother's yard and her grandmother's house to her father's shoulders. Her understanding of home was no longer limited to the tiles.
the residence below.
Dad, who is black and full of hair, is tall and looks like a big cat (later it was confirmed that the adults in A-Li's family are more like dogs than cats). But it is no longer A-Li who touches the cat;
Father, the big cat, came to tease her.
That was the time when little A-li was most like a child in his life - A-ping and A-ding were boys who couldn't be that close to their father, and A-zhen was too young and preferred the wet nurse and Mrs. Qin's songs to his father's shoulders and arms.
Sometimes A Li would be put on the shoulder by her tall father, and everyone could see her joyfully speechless as she clapped her hands and kept shouting "Master, Master". She was not Gongsun Xun of Yan Gong who needed dignity and attention.
Infected by her daughter's happiness, her youthful arrogance and detachment - to put it bluntly, she was unreliable when she came back to life, grabbed her daughter and threw it into the sky, and then continued, watching the civil servants and generals below dumbfounded. After they were full of wine and food, they loved to take care of their daughter.
I went out for a walk and asked what it was. Even if it was a ghost weapon, I would buy it. As a result, the door god holding a child became popular in the late Han Dynasty and the early Yan Dynasty. Until a thousand years later, the merchants posted on the back of the lucky cat not the god of wealth, but a dark complexion.
The big man was holding a cute little girl with cinnabar on her eyebrows.
When he was tired from playing, Ali fell asleep on his father's shoulder. For some reason, he was surrounded by a big black dog in his arms in his dream. He moved his hands and feet, and the big dog started "purring" in a very interesting way.
Laughing at the top of his lungs.
Decades later, she still remembered the scene in the dream very clearly. Even when she became the eldest princess, it still seemed like yesterday when she thought of this experience in front of the coffin of Yan Emperor Gongsun Xun, who was covered in frost and snow. Her hair was covered with white hair.
Gongsun Li couldn't hold back and laughed. No one around her could clearly see her position, identity, and status. She didn't dare to say anything when she saw her smile. But this time, she was frightened and everyone around her was watching.
, a little granddaughter who is still new to the world.
The little girl was her eldest son and only daughter, and she had always cherished her. Just when Gongsunli was about to say something, the little girl had already obediently taken out the handkerchief from her sleeve - just now, Gongsunli, who was both a mother and grandmother, was laughing and crying at the same time.
Already.
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The number of younger brothers and sisters gradually increased, and they began to become sensible and intentionally or unintentionally diluted the father's love that A Li received.
But A-Li is no longer a child who is confused about whether to plant flowers or bamboos in the yard [perhaps she thinks that, even if the eldest daughter is only a few years older than her younger siblings, she is still the sister who can laugh at A-Ping for wetting the bed].
And as my father's broken blade began to sweep across the world, the behemoth Amway also began to grow, expand, and annex crazily on the land of Kyushu. As the children grew up, Auntie also began to teach them many things that she had never taught before.
Things happened. The world that Ali came into contact with began to change.
The most intuitive way to feel this shocking change was when A Li stood behind Gongsun Lady one day and watched the servants slowly unfold the newly made pictures.
The sphere of influence controlled by the Gongsun family is outlined with thin gold lines. Other forces are constantly being reduced due to constant changes, and the chaos is circled with residual colors. As the white horse Yi Cong advances, the world changes, and the golden line The lines flowed and changed, as if a golden dragon was marching in the clouds, and the Chinese Qi flowed by it surged. The surrounding people shrank dimly, and could only tangle and bite into a ball.
With a smile, the aunt said to the shocked A Li, the ignorant A Zhen, the excited A Ping, and the eager A Ding, the sensible and oldest juniors: "This is the world of our Gongsun family."
At that time, the mountains and rivers looked down below me, they were majestic, majestic and boundless. The small concept of "home" was defeated by the two words "world" with the overwhelming momentum.
A Li used his hand to compare the city he was currently in, which was only about the size of a thumb. However, the entire picture was vast and wide, and the hanging shadows obscured everyone standing below.
Aunt Gongsun looked at her children and grandchildren, and all she could see was that their small faces were shadowed by the pictures with lights on their backs, but the light refracted by the golden threads on them made the pupils of the children light up. There was a burst of fire-like flames.
The aunt had already been thinking about it, but at this moment, without saying a word, she touched the back of the cat that suddenly jumped up.
That picture made Ali seem to have a better understanding of the value of his surname, family, and status overnight. His heart surged with pride, and he opened his eyes to see the world. He suddenly felt enlightened. Many things that happened in the mansion, It seems that with the in-depth exploration of the essence of things after this understanding, there are more directions for expansion.
For example, why did Aping and Ading still play together when they were young, but they were always deliberately separated by the slaves on both sides. By Kaimeng, they were already sitting on both sides politely and distantly. For example, when I heard that as long as Ading was sent to his father alone, Feng Auntie's expression changed on the spot. For example, why Aunt Cai, Aunt Ren, Aunt Qin and Aniang always went to grandma's house to pay her respects. For example, when they heard that Dong Bai was appointed as A Ping's wife, everyone looked like...
That was the first night that A Li, who always had a spacious and innocent temperament, did not fall asleep. She thought of her father's face in her mind, but gradually added many details that she had not cared about before.
This kind of trouble bothered her for a long time, so much so that as the eldest sister, she had the responsibility and rights to discipline all her younger siblings. During that period, she felt like a thorn in her back when exercising her responsibilities and rights.
Her younger sister Ah Zhen, who had always been close to her, was puzzled by her restraint. He put his arms around her neck and asked her sister why she no longer joked with them, but Ah Li couldn't answer.
She no longer feels unjust about the flowers and trees in the courtyard, but also understands the sincerity of her mother Bian Yu's embarrassment. She also knows that neither her father nor her grandmother, nor Mrs. Zhao, the eldest lady in the courtyard, despise their children because of their common birth. .
But after realizing the existence of "this thing", the invisible emotions were like a thin thorn faintly attached to the skin. When my father sent me a letter from afar, when I listened to Mrs. Zhao’s instructions for the backyard mansion...it felt cold and stuck on my skin inch by inch, with no way to distract or express my thoughts.
Because she had experienced such feelings of confusion and powerlessness, Ali was very grateful to her grandmother. The old man's solution prevented her from getting lost in the intertwined life of glory and gloom, and directly shaped her personality with firm beliefs.
Auntie Gongsun’s method of teaching these children who had various problems as they grew up and changed their status was to
——Take them to see dead people.
One of the reasons why there will be a great epidemic after the war is that without outside intervention, the withering population cannot deal with the dead bodies left behind. These dead bodies pollute the drinking water and air during the decay process. Therefore, the work of appeasing a major town is particularly important.
Important. If a city turns into a disease-ridden dead city, conquering it has no significance beyond its strategic position. And the management of a dead city and a plague city is almost diverting resources from other places, and this reverse transfer will disappear within a few years.
There is no turning point in sight.
Therefore, after the princes annexed the new territory, they often spent a lot of time reorganizing the territory and preparing logistics. During this process, many small towns in serious condition were directly abandoned and turned into places where wild foxes and wolves roamed. People said that these places
Wild beasts are different from beasts in peacetime. Their eyes are red at night, and they are not afraid of people or fire at all, because they are transformed from the ghosts who died on the battlefield, and they like to eat the flesh of living people.
When Ah Ping told this story vividly in the car, Ah Zhen was so frightened that Ah Zhen hid in Ah Li's arms. Ah Ping felt that it was not enough, and while imitating a wolf and laughing strangely, he even pulled his sister's sleeves and said she was timid.
Seeing that A Zhen's sleeves were about to be torn apart by A Ping, A Li hugged his sister and glanced at him for a long time. Perhaps A Li had been constrained by his worries in the past few days and had not shown his eldest sister's majesty for a long time.
Boys of Ping's age were the most disgusting and refused to stop. Seeing tears in his sister's eyes, A Li hit his younger brother with a fan: "Did you see the ghost on the battlefield turn into a wild wolf with your own eyes?
"
Of course A Ping covered his nose and said no. He had never even seen a battlefield. He was only a little better off than girls like A Li. He participated in the autumn hunting and shot a rabbit. But he said that this matter was told to him by his family general.
, and specifically said that this family will be Baima Yicong. A Ping, who turned up his nose, meant that Yi Cong, who followed his father all over the world, could lie to others.
A Li covered his sister's ears and continued to ask: "Then the wolf also wants to eat meat."
"Of course, what they like most is the meat of noble people with fine skin and tender meat."
"Then they must be alive."
"Of course it's a live wolf."
"Then, as long as it's alive, it can definitely be killed, right?"
"That's true... but that's a ghost turned into a wolf."
"When my father was pacifying the Yellow Turban, he saw tens of thousands of thieves crossing the sea and dying. The young and strong men who died fighting with the Yuan family's swords wiped out more than a dozen villages we saw on the road. The ghosts of so many people turned into wolves. They must have died first.
Go find daddy."
"Sister! How can you say that! Our father is here to bring peace to the world and for righteousness. Those ghosts must know it. How dare they disturb you!"
"We are still my father's family, will those wolves come to us? And if they knew that my father was a righteous man, how could they go against my father when they were alive?"
"...Then, that's because your Excellency defeated them, and they realized that Your Excellency's side is the orthodox and righteous one."
"Is justice determined by swordsmanship? Or do you also think it is true that people outside say that my father is violent and uses power to control things?"
A Ping couldn't tell Ajie apart, so he could only mutter: "Ajie is always good at telling the truth. Isn't it just a story? She has to teach people a lesson."
A Li was wiping A Zhen's tears. Hearing his brother complain, he pursed his lips, but saw his grandmother's voice coming from outside: "It's for your own good that your sister taught you. Why don't you thank her quickly? Wait until you show off like this outside."
It's really embarrassing to be scolded mercilessly."
The children saw their grandmother wearing glasses holding Aunt Jin's hand, followed by A Ding who called over to talk. Everyone from the slaves to A Li bowed and bowed. A Ping glanced at A Ding and was a little unconvinced.
He greeted me slowly and said, "My grandmother always favors my sister and speaks for her. She is like my sister, she always likes to talk sense, and even a weird story will stop people's mouths."
A Li thought to himself that even though A Ping was pampered by Mrs. Feng before, it was clear that he was not on good terms with his siblings in front of the elders, which is what has changed in the past few days. A father's success has unknowingly affected and changed Gongsun.
Home.
"Your father, if he hears what you just said, he will take off your pants and beat you until you dare not make up lies to scare your sister and sister again." The aunt touched the faces of the two girls, A Li and A Zhen.
, completely ignoring A Ping's blushing face.
"I'm not lying..."
"Then what is the name of the storyteller Yi Cong you mentioned? When did he follow your family? Where did he see a ghost turn into a wolf? And how did he come to tell you this story?"
"He...he is...he...just said he was, and then...told a story...and then..."
Even little Ah Zhen realized that his brother was lying. He pouted with a tear on his cheek and made a face to Ah Ping: "Brother is lying, so shameless."
Everyone in the room except A Ping laughed together.
But then, Ah Ping understood that he heard this story when his servants were whispering in the corner. They sat down, and the aunt held the clingy cat and A Zhen in her arms, and began to teach the children: "These
Wolves do exist around battlefields and in dilapidated cities and villages and eat people, but they are neither ghosts nor gods, nor do they necessarily have red eyes. But they are not afraid of people because they eat human flesh."
"Human, human flesh!"
Several children were surprised. They had indeed heard in the book that they had to exchange their children for food, but... those wolves were just beasts, some beasts whose fur color was not good enough even if they were killed to make furs. How could they...
"Because they are so hungry that they have nothing to eat. During wars and famines, they can't even feed people. When they are hungry, people will change their bodies and eat. Those soldiers who died on the battlefield and the victims who died of starvation are naturally their food, and those who have eaten
After eating human flesh, they will no longer be afraid of humans."
"At first, the letters received by the Amway only said that the wolves were infested by the carrion corpses on the battlefield, and then the small villages with a withered population were attacked by wolves, and then the wild wolves wandering outside the town attacked pedestrians during the day, and now they have begun
At night they attacked the caravan in swarms."
It was already evening, and the place where their Amway caravan, escorted by thousands of elite soldiers, was walking was in the wilderness, and a wolf howl could be heard in the distance in the dusk of the mountains and valleys.
A Zhen shrank even smaller in the aunt's arms. A Ping and A Ding both turned pale and clenched their hands. A Li didn't know how he was doing, but it took a lot of effort to speak to his grandmother: "Grandma, what you mean is,
Is the world just like these attacks by wolves, getting worse day by day?"
"It started with the party incarceration during the Heng Ling period, then the Yellow Turban rebellion, and then the Qiang people in Liangzhou, and then a weird guy like Fatty Dong appeared. The situation in the world is like those evil wolves, getting worse day by day.
, but the wolves turned into evil wolves because before that, they were hungry. They had been hungry for too long. They started to eat human flesh because they could not survive. They actively attacked the weak because the situation did not improve. The reason why they became more and more ambitious was because
I found that I can live better in this way... The shocking evil images today are just because of the word "hungry"."
Grandmother sighed longly: "The world is so chaotic, so chaotic that even the animals are so vicious that they are not afraid of swords and fire. It's not because they are animals, but because some people have done things that even animals would not do, and they have sown seeds."
, they naturally have to swallow the fruit. But those who accompany them to swallow the bitter fruit are tens of millions of people in the world who have already suffered so much. So the world is in chaos, and innocent people cannot stop those who are unwilling to join in the evil, such as your father.
Fu Nanrong, an old friend of yours. A crazy person who wants to avenge the injustice done to him by the world, such as Dong Zhuo, your father's old friend who was later killed by your aunt Ren. People who have made enough from it and think they have the opportunity to take advantage of the chaos die.
There are so many thieves under your father's Broken Blade... Those who want to save this world realize that they can only kill to stop killing. He naturally knows that he is righteous, but those wolves eat the most meat.
But he was also the one he killed."
"The world is righteous... Your father has the largest territory, and he is the one who has killed the most people. Why do you think he can afford this righteousness?"
