Yang Lotian was very conflicted in his heart, but he trusted the master, and he would not disobey Yang Huairen's teachings, since Yang Huairen said so, it was better to listen to what happened back then, and it would not be too late for him to make a decision.

Father Yang knew that Yang Huairen was talking for him, and he was grateful, remembering the past when he was like smoke, and the guilt hit his heart again, making his eyes cloudy again.

"That year, I was in my early twenties, and I followed Master around......"

When Yang Huairen heard his first sentence, he felt that something was not right, Yang Le was just sixteen years old, that is to say, when Yang Le Tian had Yang Letian, he should be twenty-seven or eighty years old and nearly thirty years old.

He wants to say that the past doesn't matter, but suddenly it is so far away, and there are at least six or seven years before Yang Lotte was born, why is this?

Yang Huairen was a little puzzled, it could be seen that Yang Lotian looked like he was listening attentively, and it was not easy to interrupt Father Yang, so he decided to listen to him first.

Father Yang's expression gradually immersed himself in the past time, and his eyes looked out the window.

The back kitchen of Weiyuan Building happened to be open, and the billowing smoke came out of the chimney, and the eyes of the father sheep seemed to have traveled through twenty years in the smoky cooking smoke, and saw the green years.

"Master was a famous chef at that time, so I traveled with a few brothers and sisters, learning Master's cooking skills and increasing my knowledge in various places.

Wherever Master goes, he likes to look for the most local and simple delicacies in the market, and when he tastes them, he will learn from the local chefs to make them, and then teach these cooking skills to us......"

Yang Huairen said that your master's hobbies are a bit the same as mine, for a cook and foodie, eating all over the world is a very lofty ideal.

It's just that what Father Yang said didn't seem to have much to do with his abandonment of his wife back then.

Father Yang continued to tell the story, "After three or four years, Master has eaten almost every state and county in the Great Song Dynasty.

At this time, one of Master's best friends passed away, and Master was so grief-stricken that he decided not to cook anymore.

But the master couldn't live a quiet life in the Great Song Dynasty, and people kept coming to the door and asking the master to go out of the mountain, but since the master had made up his mind not to cook anymore, he rejected the requests of those people one by one.

Later, the master made another decision, to leave the Great Song Dynasty and go north to the Liao Kingdom, because he wanted to stay away from that sad place and go to Mobei to live a real wandering life of idle clouds and wild cranes.

At that time, Master drove us brothers and sisters to leave him and go our separate ways. Several senior brothers understood the master's intentions, so they knelt down and quit the master and went to find their own piece of the world.

But I felt that the brothers and sisters were gone, and there was no one to wait with the master, and the master was old, and if he went to Mobei in the future, life would be very inconvenient, so I stubbornly stayed by the master's side.

Master rushed several times, but when he saw that I still refused to leave, he agreed to take me to Liao. But after we arrived in Liao, just in time for the Shixiang injustice case in the first year of Dakang in Liao, Yelu Hongji was furious and ordered Yelu Yixin to kill the servants in Liao.

However, Yelu Yixin took this opportunity to eradicate dissidents in the court, and a large number of nobles and officials in the Liao court were falsely imprisoned or belittled by him.

At that time, not only was everyone in the court in danger, but even the people were also in the rumors, and everyone was afraid of being involved in such a thing.

Originally, the fight between these immortals had nothing to do with us ordinary people, but unfortunately there was a great drought in Tokyo Road that year, and the main grain producing areas of Liao were almost not harvested.

As a result, a large number of hungry people arose in Tokyo Province, and these hungry people were displaced, so they left their hometowns and fled to the Nakakyo Province in the northwest, and then became displaced people again.

When the displaced people went to Zhongjing Road, they also thought that Zhongjing Dading Mansion was the capital of the Liao State, and the emperor lived in the city, so they must have stored a large amount of food and materials.

But they were wrong, not only in Liaodong, but also in the grasslands of Zhongjing, Xijing, and Shangjing, because of the lack of rain, the grass was not fertile, and a large number of cattle and sheep began to die because there was not enough food.

At this time, Yelu Hongji only cared about Empress Xiao betraying him and blaming the natural disaster on this matter, so he allowed Yelu Yixin to arbitrarily rule in the court.

For the suffering of the people, they turned a blind eye, not only did not open a warehouse to release grain to relieve the victims, but in order to prevent a large number of hungry people from pouring into Dading Mansion to cause chaos, Yelu Yixin actually ordered the city to be closed, and saw thousands of hungry people starving to death outside the city.

When I remembered the scene at that time, it was as miserable as purgatory outside Zhongjing City, and when the master saw the misery of the hungry people, he gave up all his entanglements and wanted to buy some food to give porridge to the hungry people.

But at that time, the price of grain was speculated and sold dozens or hundreds of times that of usual, and Master's little bit of entanglement could not help many people.

Later, there was starvation outside the city of Dadingfu, and there was an epidemic, Yelu Yixin refused to open the city gate even more, and the master unfortunately contracted the epidemic and died outside the city of Dadingfu. ”

Father Yang shed tears of pain as he spoke, Yang Huairen had the heart to comfort, but he didn't know how to speak, remembering the disaster in Father Yang's description, although the people of Liao were starving to death, but he still felt very sorry.

The more Yang Lotian listened, the more confused he became, and he didn't understand what the inevitable connection between his father leaving their mother and son and the great famine in Liao that happened more than 20 years ago.

Father Yang sighed, "Go on, after Master died, I buried Master, and looking at Master's grave, I don't know where my future is.

In order to survive, he wandered for some days in several places around Dading Mansion, eating grass roots, eating tree bark, and even eating soil when he was hungry and dying.

Finally, the epidemic outside the city passed, and the Dading Mansion opened the city gate, and I dragged my skinny body into the city, hoping to survive by begging, but the situation in the city was not very good, and the people in the city did not get relief from the imperial court, and many people also starved to death.

I begged for food everywhere, but I couldn't get anything to satisfy my stomach for several days, and finally I was hungry and lost the last bit of strength in my body, and I lay like a dead dog under a wall and waited to die.

Just when I thought I was going to die, maybe God thought that I should not die, a young woman from the young Han family gave me a nest.

I ate that nest and survived. For the next few days, the woman came to me every day to bring me a nest, and that was how I got through the most difficult days......"