Zheng Rong said

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Mother Ling fell ill.

But he insisted on refusing to seek medical treatment with the only silver ingot or a dozen or so copper coins left at home.

Yun Jie couldn't help but pretended to agree.While Ling's mother was asleep, he secretly invited the doctor.

Shen Ke became ill from overwork, and it was difficult for Shen Ke to cure it. Even if he took ginseng tonic, it would not last long.

The doctor wrote a prescription and asked him to take the medicine according to the prescription.

Yun Jie took back a pair of medicine with a hanging copper plate. Seeing that this was the case, Mother Ling couldn't do anything about the money, so she had to drink the medicine.

A pair of medicines can't be used for a few days, but Ling's mother is really energetic, so Yun Jie tried her best, and only thought of borrowing money from Master Zhang.

This day when he was doing night work in Zhang's mansion, he sneaked into Mr. Zhang's study room and knelt for two full hours before Mr. Zhang came to see him angrily after being repeatedly told by his servants.

It was kindness and kindness not to beat him out of the house, but the boy from the Ling family actually asked him to borrow a piece of silver.

Master Zhang is notoriously stingy with his servants, let alone a piece of silver, he would not pay more than a copper coin.

But this time, he discovered his conscience, threw Yun Jie two shillings of money, fired him, and warned him not to appear within one mile of Zhang's mansion again.Master Zhang was worried that Yunjie's mother and son would not be able to tear off the dog-skin plaster sticking to Zhang's house.

It doesn't matter if he is dead, he got two dongs of money, and he went to the pharmacy overnight to get the usual prescription.

Unexpectedly, when he got home, the candles were brightly lit. When he entered the door, his mother had miraculously recovered, and was sitting neatly dressed at the small table waiting for him. There were several plates of vegetarian dishes on the table.

Yun Jie thought he was starving, dizzy and hallucinating, so he stood blankly at the door.Until Mother Ling called three times to take him to his seat, he felt those warm hands,

At this moment he almost collapsed.

"You didn't cry when you were young. Why are you crying now that your mother is cured? Men don't cry easily." Mother Ling wiped the golden beans from Yunjie's face with the back of her dry hand, and poured a large bowl full of white rice. Put it in front of him, "Be hungry, eat, mother has something to say to you."

Yun Jie sniffed fiercely, held back his tears, picked up his rice bowl and devoured it voraciously, he hadn't had a bite for three days.

Only after I was half full did I realize that his mother hadn't moved a chopstick.

"Mom, you can eat too."

Mother Ling looked at him with a smile all the time, and pointed to the empty bowl in front of her, with a grain of rice in it, "Mother has eaten it."

In the end, Yun Jie emptied the food under his mother's strong request.

After tidying up, Mother Ling took out a spotless jewelry box.

Pass a cloud-carved jade pendant to Yun Jie.

"In the past, my mother's family was not well-off, and she didn't have to worry about food and drink. Later, the war broke out, the wealth was scattered and people died, and my mother saved some personal belongings. I originally planned to use them for your marriage in the future..."

Yun Jie felt something was wrong, "What are you talking about, mother..."

"Just listen to what mother said, this Yunli Linglong Pendant was handed down by the ancestors, so it must be kept well. Don't you want to join the army? Since joining the army, you must be famous..."

Yun Jie was anxious, and blurted out, "No, I won't join the army, I will serve my mother well!"

"Mother didn't drive you away, and you didn't leave her behind. Jie'er is filial and mother knows. Mother is telling you that she agrees with you to join the army, but you have to promise mother to live well. Mother will wait for the day when you return home in fine clothes. You decide."

Under the candlelight, his mother's smiling face was peaceful and stable, Yun Jie finally smiled and nodded in agreement.

After saying this, Ling's mother got up and went into the narrow room of Yunjie, and spread out the mattress.

Yun Jie's lingering uneasiness was overwhelmed by the sudden surprise, and he fell asleep happily clutching the jade pendant.

The fire in the room was quickly turned off, and Ling's mother's voice came from the outer room a few steps away in the darkness.

"Jie'er, from now on I can only say that your name is Ling Yunjie."

"it is good!"

That night, Yun Jie, who was rarely full, had a good dream. He dreamed that he sat down on a white horse and wore a golden armor, and came back to see his mother in a beautiful way. The young man stared at him coldly, which woke him up.

Is there such a person? I didn't notice it at the time.The jade pendant was still in his hand, tied with a red string. He hung it around his neck, stuffed it into his coat, and was about to get up and make breakfast.

Walking to the outer room, he saw two gleaming silver ingots beside his mother's pillow.

"mother……"

In fact, at this hour in the past, Mother Ling got up early and was busy.

Yun Jie gently shook Ling Mu, but suddenly stopped, his face suddenly sank, and he stretched his slightly trembling hand under Ling Mu's nose, without breathing.

He stood motionless by the bed.

After a long time, when the tears were falling, he raised his hand to wipe them away, knelt down on his knees, and tightly held Mother Ling's already stiff hand.

"Yunjie? Are you there?"

Pushing open the door softly, Zhang Zhixiao probed his head and saw Yun Jie kneeling beside the small bed in the corner, trotted over in a hurry, and couldn't help but stuff the two warm meat buns hidden in his arms to him,

"This is for you, I sneaked out, and there are some broken silver, you take it..."

Yun Jie didn't raise his head and didn't say a word.

"what happened?"

Zhang Zhixiao noticed something strange, and then looked at Mother Ling who was lying ill in bed, her face was horribly pale.

"Aunt Ling, she..."

Yun Jie spoke, his voice choked and hoarse, "My mother passed away."

Zhang Zhixiao was silent for a moment, turned around and kowtowed three times.

With the little money in hand, Mr. Yin Yang couldn't afford to hire Mr. Yin Yang to beat the grave, so he could only choose a well-fitted coffin and clean shrouds, and the cemetery could only be simpler, and he could only find an unnamed wilderness for burial.Yun Jie felt guilty for ending the funeral so hastily, but he didn't want to beg Master Zhang.

He planned to wait for his success and fame, and then properly attend to his mother's funeral.

Just as he was moving the coffin back home, Mr. Zhang came to the door with a group of servants.

The tone is a bit begging.

At the beginning of the war, the imperial court implemented conscription every two years, and those who joined the army at the age of [-] could of course join the army voluntarily.

The former is on the bright side, while the latter is aimed at poor households with too many children who cannot support them. Age does not matter, and the imperial court will reward them with a certain amount of money.

This time Zhang Xiaoxiao's name is also on the roster.However, the Ling family's mother and son didn't even have their household registration in the government archives, so Yun Jie was not listed.

In order to avoid their children being conscripted into the army, many wealthy households pretended that they could not escape being weak and sick, so they spent money to buy children from poor families to replace them.Once you enter the battlefield, life and death are unpredictable. It doesn't matter who is who.

Master Zhang explained his intentions in good words, and as long as Yun Jie agreed, he would take full responsibility for Ling's mother's funeral.

Yun Jie is not stupid, he put forward conditions.

"Good nanmu coffin."

"can."

"Pretty shroud."

"can."

"Good cemetery."

"can."

"I also need to ask the eminent monk to chant sutras for seven days."

"Can……"

Master Zhang's face was getting darker and darker, but he still responded with a smile.

Seven days later, Zhang Zhixiao learned about this, and after repeated begging, Master Zhang finally let him see Yunjie for the last time.

The moonlight leaked into the hut, Lingmu's spiritual seat was soaked in the cold white moonlight.

Yun Jie is tidying up the house, and tomorrow he can leave in the newly added clothes, shoes and socks.

He really wanted to see Zhang Zhixiao and thank him for his assistance these years, but the old master would definitely refuse.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and Yun Jie turned around, seeing Zhang Zhixiao holding the door frame and panting.

"Why are you here?" Yun Jie greeted him with a smile.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know about this..." Zhang Zhixiao looked apologetic, and his eyes sparkled with water.

Yun Jie understood what he was referring to, "Don't be silly, I planned to join the army, don't blame me for cheating Master Zhang."

"When did you make the plan? I haven't heard you say it..."

"It was a whim at first, but later my mother agreed, and she left."

Zhang Zhixiao had nothing to say, so he sat down silently.The so-called right family, but he doesn't like those dandies who think of themselves as arrogant and rude, but prefers Yun Jie's temperament, everyone despises him, but he doesn't despise himself.

This time, the mountains are high and the rivers are far away, and he doesn't know when the day of goodbye will be. When he realized this, he couldn't help but feel very sad. He took out a pendant from his collar, an emerald green emerald, the peace stone he had worn for 16 years.

Zhang Zhixiao walked around behind Yunjie and put the pendant around his neck.

"What is this?" Yun Jie pressed his movements and asked.

"I'm safe, I'll give it to you, I hope you will come back..."

As he spoke, he burst into tears.

Yun Jie also lowered his hand and let him put it on, and he looked down at the emerald in the shape of a water drop.

"Yunjie, I will wait for you. When you come back, I will go with you."

The words were abrupt and ambiguous, the clouds were unclear, he turned around and looked up, but the soft kiss under the corner of his lips, wet and cool, immediately made his face burn red and his heart beat like a drum.

He froze for a blink of an eye, and Zhang Zhixiao ran away without a trace. In the dark night, he saw only two lanterns flickering,

Finally, it merges with the stars in the sky.