In the Spring and Autumn and Warring States without women

Xia Yu's first words when she saw Tian Shu were: "Do you know where Xiguohe and the others are buried?"

Tian Shu was taken aback for a moment. On the way here, he was in a state of confusion. He had thought a lot about what Xia Yu would say when he saw him again.Blame yourself?hate yourself?Or turn to yourself for comfort?But never thought that Xia Yu's first words when seeing him again was to ask Xi Guohe's burial place.

Tian Shu was stunned for a long time, and then slowly said: "In the suburbs north of the city." This is what Tian Zhi told him when he was quarreling with his old father Tian Zhi.

Xia Yu nodded, turned around and closed the door, and said to Tian Shu, "Do you have anything else to do?"

Tian Shu said: "No...no." His official position has been dismissed, so there is nothing else to be busy at this time.

Xia Yu nodded and said, "If it's okay, how about taking a trip to the northern suburbs with me?"

Tian Shu looked at Xia Yu, nodded for a while, and said yes.

Xia Yu waited until Tian Shu nodded, said nothing more, went out of the remote house, and found the old man to ask for a transfer.

The elder of the family was a bit hesitant about Xia Yu's request to invite a guest out of the mansion. Xia Yu said calmly about this hesitation: "The elder is worried about his affairs. Yu didn't think about it. He just wanted to collect the corpse for his old friend. The elder of Yu's old friend also It is acquainted, the state government has already condemned the crime, Yu wears the body of the crime, why dare to act recklessly, it is only a thousand years past, and death is also gone, the crime in life is not as good as after death, but the laws of Qi State are not fixed except for the exposure of corpses. There is a law that no collection of corpses is allowed. In any case, Xi Guohe and others have made meritorious service to the country, but if the merit is not worth it, they should not expose their corpses to the wilderness after death, and not let them go to the ground for peace."

The boss of the family who said this was surprised, and stared straight at Xia Yu, thinking that when the person in front of him was staring at this face, it was an impostor.

Xia Yu looked at the elders calmly, and said: "The elders have followed the teacher for decades, and you should know that the teacher is a human being. If the teacher is sober at this time, will he just sit and see the corpses of the soldiers of Qi who fought in the battlefield and expose them to the wilderness?"

As soon as these words came out, the old man felt a pang of pain in his heart. He had followed Tian Biao for decades, seeing with his own eyes how Tian Biao dedicated himself to death for the Tian family, and how he was defeated by Tian Xu, Tian Hu was so angry that he fell ill, and he knew that if Tian Biao was sober at this time, he would definitely not object to collecting the corpses of these unjustly killed Qi soldiers.

Although the old man already felt like agreeing to Xia Yu in his heart, the current situation in the court was treacherous and he had to be cautious about many things, so the old man said: "I still have to ask the master for instructions on this matter."

Hearing this, Xia Yu bowed to the old man with his hands, and said, "Thank you, old man."

Seeing this, the elder of the family hurriedly waved his hands and said, "This...no! No! You are a disciple of the grand master, such a great gift...I can't bear it."

Xia Yu didn't accept the elder's salutation just because of his elder's words, but said: "The elder's business is pushed, and the elder should be thanked by Yu. Yu's thanks are not only for the soldiers on the battlefield, but also for Yu himself. In the past, Yu was willful and wanton. The elders of the family don't think Yu is young and ignorant, so he is so tolerant, Yu should thank him."

Hearing this, the old man was taken aback for a moment, looked at Xia Yu, and was speechless for a while. Then, suddenly, he felt that the boy in front of him, no, seemed to be no longer a boy. He, Xia Yu, Mr. The talented yet somewhat naive and self-willed young general brought back by the grand master seemed to have grown up.

After a while, the elders of the family asked the grand master's nephew for instructions, and got his approval, and seconded three hundred guests and the token of the grand master's mansion to go out of the north gate.

In winter, the weather is cold, so the corpses have not rotted and smelled for several days. The abandoned corpses in the northern suburbs are the places where the people who were condemned and killed by the government were dumped. It was only the five hundred cavalrymen and their families who followed Xia Yu back to Linzi, so it was not too much trouble to identify them.

The [-] disciples of the grand master's mansion brought over to help collect the corpses and roll them up on thin straw mats. These [-] cavalrymen and their families were not all from Linzi City, and many of them were actually from Pingyin and Linqiu. If it is impossible to send them back to their hometown one by one to be buried in their ancestral graves, we can only find an open space several hundred meters away from the northern suburbs, dig their graves and bury them on the spot, and put up a tombstone. The sorcerer was deployed, and at this time he was doing sacrifices to the souls of the dead,

Xia Yu led the 300 people. From identifying people, collecting corpses, to digging, he did everything by himself. After burying each corpse in the ground, he patted the hem of his clothes that had been stained with mud and water, and stood in front of him. On this roughly erected wooden tombstone, the wine master held the wine priest in his hand to perform sacrifices, his eyes swept over the names, and finally fixed in front of the tombstone of Xiguo River, saying: "Brothers, in this life, is the I, Xia Yu, am sorry for you, now, what I say is useless, brother, don’t say anything, drink this glass of wine, go on the road to Huangquan." After speaking, he spilled the water and wine in the glass on the ground.

Tian Shu, who had been busy following along sideways, watched Xia Yu's actions at this time, feeling sore in his heart, and tried to comfort him: "Ayu, don't be sad, this... this is not your fault."

Xia Yu turned her head to look at Tian Shu, with a different kind of indifference between her brows, and said, "Isn't it? Isn't it my fault?"

Tian Shu never thought that Xia Yu was at fault, if he was wrong, no, if he was guilty, it would be the fault of Tian Xu and his ilk, but at this time Xia Yu's indifferent expression made him a little bit afraid for no reason. , actually opened his mouth, but couldn't speak.

Xia Yu didn't want Tian Shu to answer him at all, she turned her head and looked at the rows of tombstones, Xia Yu said quietly: "It's my fault, these are all my faults, I have been doing this since the beginning. I didn't think about why I came to this world. From the very beginning, I didn't think about how to go in the future. I didn't carefully weigh the pros and cons, and I didn't look at the overall situation. I just ran amok on my own. You don't have to die, I killed them."

Tian Shu opened his mouth to comfort, but for some reason, he felt that Xia Yu didn't seem to need others to comfort him at this moment.

Xia Yu poured another glass of wine, looked at these simple tombs, and said: "When people die, everything is over. Now I can't say anything to make them come back to life. It's useless to say anything else. The dead are gone. There's only so much I can do right now."

After finishing speaking, Xia Yu held the wine-lord again, paid respects to him, and said in a loud voice, "Today, Yu sacrifices to the souls of the dead. Yu wears the body of a sin, and cannot accompany you every day. If we say goodbye today, we may not know each other someday. When will Ran Yu live in this world, no matter where he is, his heart will be dedicated to the kings, and his heart will sacrifice to the kings, even if he dies, he will not change!"

Sprinkle wine in front of the tomb, offering sacrifices to the princes, and behind him is the voice of the wizard like a ghost crying soul.

After the salute, Xia Yu bowed with full sleeves, got up after bowing, and took a last look at the new graves, then called back three hundred guests, turned around and mounted the horse, but was grabbed by Tian Shu.

Tian Shu grabbed Xia Yu's rein, lowered his voice, and asked, "Ayu, you can't go back."

Xia Yu's expression was very flat, and he said, "Aren't you going back? Where are you going?"

Tian Shu said anxiously: "You can go anywhere! You just can't go back to Linzi! The old grand master's time is running out, he can protect you for a while but can't protect you for a while, what will you do after the old grand master goes!? Don't you still Do you want to enter the doctor's mansion again!?"

At the mention of "Going to the Doctor's Mansion", Xia Yu froze for a moment, and Tian Shu, who was so close to him, naturally felt it, and instantly wanted to slap herself.

Since the time we met again, Tian Shu has never asked about what happened in the doctor's mansion in the past few days, whether there was..., yes, he was timid, he didn't dare to ask, he was afraid that he would get one to bear At the same time, since the moment he opened the door, his unwavering composure prevented him from asking, but at this moment, he subconsciously felt that maybe it was because of something that happened that made Xia Yu It seems to have grown up overnight.

However, the stiffness was only momentary, and Xia Yu quickly regained her composure, patted the horse's neck lightly, looked at the Linzi city wall in the distance, and said: "The old lady is seriously ill, I am sorry for the old lady." Master and disciple, how can you leave at this time."

Tian Shu gritted his teeth, suppressed the chaotic thoughts in his heart, forced himself to focus on the urgent task, and said: "If the old grand master goes, you won't be able to escape."

Xia Yu looked at Tian Shu indifferently, and said, "Run? Why should I run?" After speaking, without waiting for Tian Shu to say anything else, he raised his hand and commanded the three hundred guests to gallop back to the city.

Seeing Xia Yu's return, Grand Master Neizuo was taken aback for a moment, but Xia Yu looked at Taishi Neizuo very calmly, then knelt down and saluted, "Master Zuo."

Taishi Neizuo looked at Xia Yu who was kneeling there, moved his mouth, and wanted to ask "Why didn't you leave?", but finally swallowed the question back, but Xia Yu seemed to see that Taishi Neizuo Wei Out of the question, he looked at Grand Master Neizuo very calmly, and said: "A teacher for one day, a father for life, Yu is headstrong and frivolous, and has survived so far because of the protection of the teacher. How can Yu leave at this time. Yu I would like to stay and serve the teacher with my teacher, and fulfill my responsibilities as a disciple."

Grand Master Neizuo looked at Xia Yu, actually he knew that he should refuse, but he already knew that his heart had softened when he agreed to the old man's secondment of [-] guests to Xia Yu, maybe it was Xia Yu's existence that made this empty The Grand Master's Mansion has really gained a bit of popularity, perhaps because his wife who has been with him for decades is dying, which really makes him feel a little bit unfit for his title, perhaps because he is really old and hard-working, and can no longer support himself like in the past In short, at this moment, he really hopes that someone will be by his side to accompany him through this difficult journey.

It was the Taishi nezuo who nodded and agreed to Xia Yu's request.

For more than a month after that, Xia Yu couldn't take off her clothes, and personally assisted the grand master's nephew in front of the old grand master Tian Biao's bed. The old grand master was unconscious and unable to eat, so Xia Yu personally fed water, food and medicine; The grand master couldn't move, so Xia Yu turned over the old grand master with his own hands, massaged him, and wiped the old grand master's body with a towel; Feces, wipe and change clothes.

These things, even some of the servants are disgusted and not far away from accepting them, but Xia Yu has no expression of reluctance, and does her best, using all kinds of gentleness and strength to take care of these things that are about to drive people crazy trivia.

Every time even the grand master's nephew advised Xia Yu to take a break, or not to do it herself, and leave it to the servants to do it, Xia Yu always refused lightly: "It is the responsibility of the servants to take care of the teacher, and Yu takes care of the teacher. , is to promote the disciple's duty, to promote the disciple's filial piety, can filial piety be carried on by others?"

For more than a month, when the government personally issued an order to arrive at the Taishi's mansion and agreed to the Yan envoy's marriage proposal, the Taishi Neizuo who received the order sat on the old Taishi's couch for a long time, tears streaming down his face, and murmured: "I know If you are sober, you may not agree, but... In this lifetime, we husband and wife have exhausted our efforts for Tian, ​​and there must be... there must be a selfishness. You have worked hard for Tian all your life, but you can't do it yourself. These days when you have been ill, did any of those people who worked so hard to get into the mansion in the past come to visit? I know you don't care about this, and I am impatient to see those people who follow others, but... But Xiao Yuer, I can't bear it, I really can't bear it. In this life, we have devoted our hearts to Tian's, that's enough, in this life, please allow me to be self-willed once."

At the end of the speech, Grand Master Nezuo took an inventory of the treasury. Tian Biao, a veteran of the three dynasties, was highly respected, and his title was at the top of the Qi Dynasty. Most of them moved out in one go, and Xia Yu was given birth as a companion.

When Xia Yu went out, Grand Master Nei Zuo personally ordered the weavers in the mansion to make a large dress, and led Xia Yu to worship the family temple in person, and personally took the sacrificial utensils and cut off the ancestral tree fruit from the ancestral hall tree of Tian Biao’s family temple for Xia Yu to eat. Said: "You are a disciple of the grand master, just like the son of the grand master, worshiping the family temple of my grand master's mansion, serving the fruits of my grand master's mansion, and going out from my grand master's mansion, it is dignified and upright."

Xia Yu was very peaceful and obedient the whole time.

On the day of sending off, just the gold and silver ritual utensils accompanying the delivery and all kinds of finances, and the family of nearly ten thousand slaves and guards, and the caravan stretching for ten miles, it scared everyone in Linzi city.

Many officials of the Qi State Government discussed and said: "This old grand master's mansion has spent a lot of money, so we must evacuate the treasury."

There was also an official from the state government who wondered: "Everyone said that Xia Yu is a dog in the water. Be good, look at this battle, how is it like a dog in the water, such a scene, such a family, you can't finish it without doing anything! "

Some officials joked: "You are envious, you are also suitable for others!"

The official who was envious of Xia Yu's brilliance quickly waved his hand and said, "Excuse me, my face is suitable for people, can you see it? Who wants me! If you want me to say, it's Xia Yu's ability, this ability on the battlefield No need, just with that face, I can't finish it."

Everyone looked at the ten-mile-long convoy, with more than ten thousand escorting Teng Hu, talking about it, but when the convoy passed, it dispersed, whether it was a good sight or a humiliation, it was just a joke in his mouth.

There was only one person on this ten-mile long street, who was hugged tightly by this family servant. He watched the convoy going away, bleeding from his teeth, but he couldn't stop the person he cared about from going away. Next, Tian Shu knelt on the snow-slushy ground, tears streaming down his face, beating the dirty muddy ground desperately, crying silently.

End of Qi Kingdom

The author has something to say: Huh, this chapter is long enough, sweat, I am exhausted.

The chapter on the country of Qi is just over, and the next one is the chapter on the country of Yan.

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