Empress Chu

Hearing their discussion, Ah Fu raised his head expectantly: "Masters, you also know about General Chu."

"Who doesn't know about General Chu?" A post soldier muttered, but coughed again, and did not continue the topic.

The boy looked at the wine bowl in his hand and asked, "Where's your father's letter? You must have it with you, right?"

Ah Fu hurriedly took out a small cloth bag from the ragged cotton jacket on his body, opened it carefully, and there were several letters inside: "This is it."

It can be seen how cherished these letters are and kept close to the body.

The boy stretched out his hand: "Let's take a look."

The postman next to him was a little embarrassed, and whispered to the young man, "Ah Jiu, it's not good to read someone's letter."

"What's wrong?" The young man didn't care, and looked at Ah Fu, "Is there any shady content in the soldier's family letter?"

Ah Fu had already stood up, holding the small cloth bag in both hands, and put a few letters into the boy's hand. The boy's hands were slender and fair-skinned, but there was a scar on the palm, which ran across the entire palm, which was very hideous.

Ah Fu hurriedly lowered his gaze, not daring to look any further.

The young man distributed several letters to others, and opened one by himself. He scanned the handwriting first, and smiled: "Instead, the handwriting of those rough masters in Bian County wished to write every word as big as an egg, as if written If you get big enough, the other party will recognize it."

The post soldiers also laughed. Looking at the letter in their hands, a post soldier followed suit: "Actually, it really works. I don't know much. When I saw the big characters, I thought I could read them."

The young man held the letter in one hand, and the wine bowl in the other, and drank while reading it. He read the letter very quickly, with ten lines at a glance, and read the letter from home.

"The content is all right." Zhang Yibing understood the boy's intention of reading the letter, turned his head and said in a low voice, pointing to the letter paper, "everything between the lines is the taste of Bianjun."

The boy also finished reading, nodded, and glanced at Ah Fu: "Put it away."

A few post soldiers handed over the letter and watched the girl carefully wrap it up before putting it in her arms.

Only then did Yicheng come forward: "Ah Fu also let me read these letters, I also want to entrust a letter to pass, but the letter keeps coming back and forth to delay time, it is better to send the two sisters directly."

Zhang Yibing knocked on the table: "It's too far to go to Bianjun."

"As far as you can take it." Yicheng said, "They stay at the station when they can't walk, even if this is the case, Yang Dachun can find it faster."

As he said that, he winked at Ah Fu who was standing blankly by the side, it should be done, he knelt down and kowtowed and cried.

But before Ah Fu knelt down, the boy stood up.

"Go and meet this lady of the Yang family." He said, his phoenix eyes glanced at Ah Fu and Yicheng, with a half-smile, "Listen to what she said, after all, this is not Yicheng's family affairs, nor is it a child who can decide of."

Yicheng couldn't help but swear in his heart, this kid is so stubborn, he doesn't look like a poor man, but he came to be a hardworking post soldier, he was demoted because of his temper, right?

You middle-aged soldiers, armed with weapons and force, can two [-]- or [-]-year-old girls kill people or set fires under your noses?

The torture was endless.

Yicheng really didn't want to talk anymore, so he waved his hand at Ah Fu, "Go, go, while your mother is still awake, let her beg the military master herself."

Ah Fu didn't feel that he was being made things difficult, he looked happy, and ran out "Mother, mother, the soldiers are here-"

The voice was both sad and joyful, and the post soldiers who heard it, especially those who were old with wives and children, felt sore.

Alas, they are all military families, think about what if they—

"This Yang Dachun is also a waste, let his wife and daughter fall into this situation." Ah Jiu's disdainful voice sounded, "It's really shameful."

He drank the rest of the wine in the bowl and strode out.

Forget it, they didn't want to admit that they were also trash, and they didn't want to be ashamed, so the post soldiers hurriedly followed after feeling sad.

Chapter 3 Weak woman

In a narrow room next to the kitchen of the station, the stench of cooking and slops is mixed, permeating through the wall.

The young Ah Jiu stepped in, immediately raised his hands to cover his mouth and nose, and coughed in disgust.

In addition to Ah Fu who ran in earlier, there was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl standing in the narrow room. She was dressed in a shabby padded coat, with a round face and big eyes, a little dazed, holding a spoon in her hand. Helping in the kitchen next door.

"Mother, mother." Ah Fu knelt in front of a makeshift bed, eagerly calling to the lying woman, "Where is the military master, go to father, mother."

The woman seemed to be in a coma, but she woke up slowly when she was called out. Her face was yellowish, she looked very old, her breath was like a hair, and when she woke up, she let out a rapid cough.

Ah Fu and the girl holding the spoon were feeding water and petting in a panic.

"Master Jun." The cough made the woman more sober, and she looked at the doorway——

The room was too small to hold the soldiers, and the young Ah Jiu came in because of the smell, and then retreated.

The woman asked tremblingly, "Are you going to the Daqingshan camp?"

Young Ah Jiu covered his mouth and nose, and said in a buzzing voice, "No, but we're going along the way, what's your husband's name, how old is he, who's under his account—"

He actually asked the previous question again, Ah Fu who was guarding the bed looked over, puzzled but timid.

Standing at the end to avoid suspicion, Yicheng let out a few hehes in his heart, and confessed to him!

The lady of the Yang family answered it breathlessly, more detailed than what A Fu said, even Yang Dachun's birthday was mentioned, and she was still groping around, "My family made him a pair of shoes, and I must take them with me."

Ah Fu hurriedly took out a bundle from under the quilt, "Mother, it's here."

The boy Ah Jiu didn't want to check the shoes this time, and looked down at the woman with a pair of phoenix eyes.

"Ugly speaking, we have urgent military affairs. We travel fast and travel hard, so we can't take care of your children." He said in a flat voice, "When the time comes, just follow. If we can't keep up, we don't care."

The lady of the Yang family supported the bed and kowtowed to him: "Master Jun, you can take as far as you can, and you can always be closer to her father, so that his father can be found faster, otherwise, just leave it in this far away place. When they are found, no one knows if there are any more, Ah Le, Ah Fu, hurry up and kowtow to the military master—”

After the woman said so much in one breath, she lost the strength to kowtow and started coughing again.

Ah Fu knelt down to the soldiers, and the girl Ah Le, who was holding a big spoon, also knelt down, kowtowed and took care of the woman.

"Mother, my sister and I must be able to keep up, and we must see Dad soonest." Ah Fu held the woman's hand and cried, "Let Dad pick you up."

The woman coughed and the girl cried, and the postmen with wives and children outside the door felt sorry for each other, but to the young man Ah Jiu, he didn't feel that people were miserable, he only felt that the smell was more suffocating, and he backed away again. step.

"That's all right, you pack up, we won't stay overnight, take a break for lunch, and then we'll start our journey," he said.

They will be separated soon, and it is very likely that they will never see each other again, and the woman is even more distressed.

"Master." The lady of the Yang family raised her hand slightly to the soldiers outside the door again, her frail face was filled with grief, "If you are lucky enough to see my man, tell him that the slave family will marry him I will die without regret."

It's really touching, the couple must have a very good relationship, the eye circles of the postmen are about to turn red, but the young Ajiu frowned even more, and stared at the woman——

"Mother—" Ah Fu threw himself on the woman, crying in grief, interrupting the woman's mourning.

Husband and wife are farewell to life and death, and children and mother are farewell to life and death. It is even more painful. The post soldiers couldn't stand it any longer, and hurried to leave. In life and death, I don't know the suffering in the world, and take other people's misery as fun.

"There are two more people, the horses must be carefully selected." Zhang Yibing ordered.

He looked at the weeping mother and daughter again, and the eldest sister named A Le also moved to the bedside, weeping silently, although she couldn't bear it, she still wanted to tell her.

"Clean up as soon as possible. We have a fixed date for our trip, so we can't stay longer."

Ah Fu burst into tears and answered yes.

The young man Ah Jiu didn't say anything else, he turned his eyes away and followed everyone.

The whimpering and crying in the narrow room gradually calmed down and gradually became silent.

"Sister, pack up your things." Ah Fu said, wiping away his tears.

The girl at the side, Ale, put down the spoon in a panic, and didn't know what to clean up.

"Just bring two changes of clothes." Ah Fu said softly, "Leave the rest to mother."

The eldest sister responded yes, and went to the side to pack her bags.

The woman was lying on the bed, furious: "You don't need to keep it for me, you all take it away, I don't need it anymore..." She said with tears streaming down her face, looking at the girl, her eyes were filled with sorrow and self-blame, "You guys have to take care of yourselves."

Ah Fu held her hand with his little hand, tears rolled down his cheeks, and he looked at the woman with dark eyes: "Why did you say that so much just now?"

The woman's face froze, and she subconsciously squeezed out a smile. At this time, tears were in her eyes, and she squeezed out a smile again, her expression became a little weird and funny.

"I am dying, I miss your father, look back on the past—" she murmured, looking at the girl, "It was also caused by love, I couldn't help it, I was moved—"

Ah Fu's voice was light: "He is about to die, how could he be so uncontrollable!"

The woman seemed to be interested: "Ah Fu, you are still young, you don't understand this, this feeling——"

"Okay." Ah Fu lowered his voice and shouted.

She was twelve or thirteen years old, and her voice was immature, but it made the woman shut up immediately, and turned her eyes away, not daring to look into the girl's eyes.

The girl's eyes were a bit scary, but they were not filled with tears at this time, and they were no longer covered by long eyelashes hanging down. They were as dark as a deep well.

There was an eerie silence beside the bed.

In the narrow room, another girl who was packing the bundle beside the bed, as if she didn't hear or see, just lowered her head to tie the bundle.

"Ah Fu—" Yicheng's voice came from outside the door.

Ah Fu immediately turned his head, his big dark eyes were covered with tears: "Master Xu——"

Yi Cheng stepped in with a smile on his face: "Finally, we have settled down. I will ask them to pick a docile horse for you."

Ah Fu paid homage to Yicheng: "Thank you, Master Xu, for your great kindness."

The girl is incoherent and can't speak, only this sentence is upside down.

Another girl can only salute.

It was still the woman on the bed who forced herself to stand up: "Master Xu is very kind and virtuous, and I will repay my family with grass in the next life."

The postman asked her to lie down: "I can't help you with some small things. You are lucky in your misfortune. You met the postman who happened to go to the border county so soon." He then told the two girls, "Follow the postman on the way. It's very hard, you must persevere, but if you can't persevere, don't force yourself, if you lose your life, you will suffer in vain, as long as you are alive, you will have a chance to see your father."

Ah Fu's tears fell like rain, he bowed his head and put his head on his hands: "I will definitely live well, and I must see Daddy."

Chapter 4 One Farewell

Time flies like an arrow, a day and a night are nothing more than closing and opening eyes, and a lunch break is almost just a blink of an eye.

The post station came and went, some newcomers settled down, and some set off again.

There were two more people and four horses in the team of young Ah Jiu and his team, and the assembly outside the post station became even more noisy.

The two girls also put on hats and scarves, and wore thick padded clothes, carrying small bundles, round like a ball.

They said goodbye to Yicheng again.

Yicheng waved his hand: "Okay, okay, let's go, don't worry, I will take good care of your mother."

The two girls wept and looked into the station. Due to physical reasons, the woman could not be sent out, and they did not move for a long time.

After this farewell, mother and daughter may never see each other again.

Although several post soldiers got on their horses, they couldn't bear to urge them.

"Hey." Only Ah Jiu could bear to urge him. His face was covered by a hat and scarf, revealing a pair of phoenix eyes, and his brows were cold. "Let's go? Otherwise, you should stay with your mother."

This kid has a very perverse temper, and he can turn his face if he says that he can turn his face. Yicheng hurriedly pushed the two girls to the front of the horse: "Let's go, let's go, go early, find your father early, let him come back to see your mother soon."

The two girls got on the horse without any hesitation, and their movements were very steady, which showed that they really knew how to ride a horse.

Ah Jiu withdrew his gaze and urged the horse: "Drive!" He was the first to go forward.

The other post soldiers were also urging the horses, and the two girls who were wrapped up in them also galloped away, and went away in the blink of an eye.

Yi Cheng stood outside the door and watched, with a rather emotional expression.

"Your Excellency, you have done another good deed." A postman stepped forward to compliment him.

good deed?Yicheng patted his belly, his chubby belly, and his belt couldn't be fastened, and there were two full money bags hanging on his belt, this is the reward for being a good person.

"Good man." The woman thanked her on the bed angrily, "You are doing good deeds by accepting the money, otherwise I will die, and my two children will also die. What is the use of keeping the money, it is better to give up It, use it to buy a way of life for my two children, as long as they are sent to their father, even if they have no money, they can still live."

He took money to do things without deception, and found a way out for the two children. When the woman died, he would bury her and not let her corpse be left in the wilderness. Well, in this way, he is indeed a good man.

"Go to work." Yi Cheng said with a smile, patted his belly, turned around and walked in leisurely.

But early the next morning, there was another knock on Yicheng's door.

"What's wrong? Is that lady from the Yang family dead?" Yi Cheng asked a little surprised.

The invited doctor said that the lady of the Yang family would not live long, and she has been living with a breath in the past few days. Could it be that the two daughters were sent away, put down the heavy stone, and died in one breath?

"No." The postman said, "The lady of the Yang family hired a car and said she wanted to leave."

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A donkey cart was parked in the backyard, and the Yang family's wife was half lying in it wrapped in a torn cotton coat.