Chapter VI: Extermination and Exile
As soon as Zhu Cairen heard this, he knew that his father and eldest brother could no longer be saved, but he also knew that this was Li Yuexu on the sickbed, who had saved the Zhu family to the greatest extent. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info couldn't help but tears rippled, turning into gratitude to Li Yuexu: "Thank you, Your Majesty." ā
Li Yuexu glanced at Zhu Cairen with pity, and said to Empress Zheng: "Zhu Cairen, after all, she is Chengyu's biological mother, and it is not appropriate to condemn her, so let her be grounded in the palace forever." ā
Empress Zheng smiled, stood up, squatted slightly to Li Yuexu and said, "Since the emperor has already planned for his sister, the concubine will do it." ā
Zheng Ange heard his sister talk about Li Yuexu's arrangements for the Zhu family, and said angrily: "Your Majesty, this is fascinated by that woman!" This Jurey has a son, is he also a child? With this pardon, Zhu Leiyi's family can not die, this grass is not eradicated, and the future will be endless! ā
Empress Zheng said with a smile: "Brother is really worried, the emperor just said not to kill, but did not say that the living crime can be avoided, if they find a place where life is worse than death and exile, as a result, they themselves will not be able to endure the hardship and death, but it is not that we will not pardon them." ā
Zheng Ange looked at his sister's smiling face, patted his head, laughed, sighed slightly, and said: "Sister, this idea is very good, my brother knows a place, between Jiangnan Road and Lingnan Road, there is an unknown island, don't talk about eating and drinking, hehe, there are poisonous insects and beasts everywhere." The main thing is that there are natives there, and those natives are cannibals...... Gangnam Province and Lingnan Province don't want anyone there, and Prince Eryun came to me yesterday to make a noise, saying that the desert island belongs to him, but he doesn't care about the money and grain taxes there...... Others fight for territory, and the people in these two places are pushing the territory out......"
Everything was decided in the dialogue between the two brothers and sisters, the Zhu family flew into trouble, and all the men of the Zhu family over the age of sixteen were killed. Zhu Lei Yi suddenly became the only person in the Zhu family who could be called a man.
The cold wind mixed with snow particles hit the face and hurt. Fifteen-year-old Zhu Leiyi looked at the crowd in front of him. A gray-haired old man, that is the teacher Hua Chenliang leading the little grandson Hua Yangbo. The rest were all servants of the Zhu family, about fifty or sixty people. Luckily, Jurey thought to himself. Although there are more women in this crowd, there are still young adults.
Sister-in-law Wen Shushen led her niece Zhu Wanxi, and beside her was her personal maid Xiaohong. His wife, Mei Jiani, was holding her son Zhu Le'an, and beside her was the maidservant green pothos, carrying a small burden, which was Le'an's belongings. Only these people were left in the Zhu family, and the other uncles and cousins, as well as the cousin's children, all died.
The aunts and sisters-in-law, watching all the men in the family be killed overnight, had no way to survive in exile, starting from the first person who hanged himself, out of control, these women died one after another. My grandmother and mother felt that they were too old to endure the exile, so they hanged themselves together in order not to drag them down.
Thinking of the tragic deaths of his grandmother and mother, Zhu Lei couldn't help but shed tears in his eyes. But he hurriedly wiped it off, at such a time, it is useless to cry, in the eyes of the clansmen, it is a sign of timidity, if this is the case, before the departure, it will be deflated first.
He needs to take such a group of people to that unknown wild land, where he must survive. The great luck in the misfortune is that in these nine cold days, they are going south. This is a good sign that it will get better and better in the future.
When Zhu Leiyi and his entourage helped the old and the young, and staggered under the escort of the soldiers, Ye Qiguang was wrapped in layers of white cloth on his face, hiding in the cave under the royal high view, and chatting with three strange-looking people.
Dagaoguan was a royal Taoist temple from the Zhu Liang Dynasty, and when it came to the Li Xuan Dynasty, Dagaoguan was not deposed, but became more prosperous because of Li Yuexu's yearning for immortality. Especially recently, Li Yuexu was seriously ill, and Dagaoguan simply lived in the palace. Li Yuexu offered the Dajiao Palace to the west of Da'an Palace for dust to practice and live.
Located on a hill in the westernmost part of the Imperial Palace, the main hall is stretched and solemn, with huge arches under the eaves, flying eaves wings, and a soft and smooth roof. Surrounded by mountain springs and gardens, the waterways are vertical and horizontal, the ancient trees are towering to the sky, deep and quiet. It is a place where the royal family worshiped Lao Tzu and practiced meditation.
Dagaoguan is located in the dense forest halfway up the Wanquan Mountain in the northwest of Luoyang City, and the roof of the Taoist temple is half-hidden under the dense and lush canopy. But Ye Qiguang's cave is not under the main body of this great high view, but in the mountain village at the foot of the mountain with red bricks and green tiles for lay disciples to live in.
The owner of the house on top of this cave is Hua Chenliang, the former prime minister of the Zhu family. The person who now lives in this small two-entry courtyard is Hua Yangtao, the eldest grandson of Hua Chenliang. Hua Chenliang because Hua Yangtao was weak and sick, and sent him to Dagaoguan early to be a lay disciple, this small courtyard, including the surrounding small grange, was purchased by Hua Chenliang for his eldest grandson.
Hua Yangtao, as a lay disciple of Dagaoguan, was protected by the dust son, so that he was blessed by misfortune due to his frailty, and was exiled without following his grandfather.
Hua Yangtao was sitting in the small study above this cave in the ground, studying Taoist classics borrowed from the Taoist temple. Of course, he was just putting on a show, his main thought was to put it on the dirt road outside the courtyard, and once he found an abnormality, he would immediately warn Ye Qiguang.
Hua Chenliang has been hiding Ye Qiguang in this cave for more than a month, and Hua Yangtao has bid farewell to his grandfather and younger brother in this month, and now he is alone, but he still guards Ye Qiguang with his ten-year-old weak body. This was Grandpa's last entrustment.
The cave in the ground is not a hole, it is a very spacious stone house, the hole in the wall of the four walls is inlaid with oil lamps, through the dim light of the oil lamp, you can see that there are all kinds of things such as bed tents inside, and there is even a four screens embroidered with a picture of flowers and rich peonies separating the inside and outside.
In the outer room of the stone cave, three strange people and Ye Qiguang, who could not see his face, sat on the four futons. These three strange people are three old brothers who practiced in the bitter cold land of Tibet, because they used to practice penance on the ice cliff, like devils, and all of them were dressed in miserable white robes, gloomy and gloomy, so they were nicknamed "Ice Cliff Three Ghosts".
The ghost sitting on the right side of Ye Qiguang, known as the "chameleon", has a ruddy face, slender Danfeng eyes often narrow, and his hair is black and bright like black jade, combed back from the forehead to the temples and fixed with a white hairband. He said to Ye Qiguang with a hoarse voice like a male duck, and said to Ye Qiguang with a quacking smile: "Brother Ye, will the little old man call you Brother Ye in the future, or will he call you Brother Shi?" ā