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Volume One: The End of Qingping, Chapter 42: A Gentleman Bullies Him

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    The tent was unusually quiet. Apart from the sound of candle wicks bursting, the only sound left was the deep breathing of Han Yong and Guo Qi.  After pondering for a moment, Han Yong looked up at Guo Qi and said firmly: "The dog does not think the family is poor, and the son does not think the mother is ugly. No matter why my mother did this, I know that she will definitely not  She must have had some reasons for harming us. " "Oh, Lian'er, you taught me such a good son," Guo Qi murmured to himself, with a lonely look on his face again, and said to Han Yong with a sigh.  So, I won't say anything anymore. You can go find Xue Junhou, he will arrange all your matters." Han Yong did not move, but he suddenly showed an embarrassed look on his face, and said with some hesitation: "Commanderoh,  No, Uncle Guo, actually I still want to know" "Hahaha, you kid, I thought you could really hold it back." Guo Qi was stunned for a moment, then suddenly became happy and patted him with a smile.  On the desk, he pointed at Han Yong and cursed with a smile: "You kid is so duplicitous that I almost got you fooled. I'm just saying how could you be so calm and mature at your age without any curiosity at all."  Han Yong couldn't help but blush, lowering his head and not daring to speak.  "Nothing to be embarrassed about. At your age, I was much more curious than you." Guo Qi stood up with a smile, walked to Han Yong, patted his shoulder and said, "Since you want to know, then  Let me tell you about it so that you can understand what kind of family background your Su family is like." Han Yong suddenly became energetic and stared at Guo Qi, waiting for the other party's explanation.  Guo Qi took a few steps back and forth, as if he was recalling the past, and seemed to be organizing his language in order to explain relatively complicated things in words that Han Yong could understand.  "The story begins with your grandfather, Uncle Su, and my father." Guo Qi walked back to the desk, sat down slowly, leaned back on the chair, and began to speak slowly.  It turns out that Han Yong¡¯s grandfather¡¯s surname was Su Mingbian. He was from a prominent family in Wujiang Prefecture in the south of the Yangtze River. He was a famous literary master and historian in Chu. He was also proficient in music and chess. He was said to be highly talented and full of knowledge.  He had organized many manuscripts to be edited, and he did not even let go of unofficial histories such as "The Strange History of the Royal Family". He always said that the ancestors worked hard and had their own reasons for it, but later generations were unwilling to understand it in depth.  When he was about forty years old, he was promoted to the fourth rank of the imperial court. He was responsible for handling the affairs between Da Chu and the surrounding foreign races. He worked conscientiously, fairly and impartially, and never missed anything.  He has always been praised by scholars and emperors, and even those barbarians who do not understand etiquette are convinced by Su Bian's way of doing things.  It is just a straightforward thing, and some things in the officialdom have always refused to compromise, and they must never do it.  The Guo family where Guo Qi belongs is also one of the most famous families in Chu. There are even rumors that Guo Buwei, who escaped into Buddhism as recorded in "The Strange History of the Royal Family", is the ancestor of the Guo family.  Although in recent years, due to the Feng family's friendship with the royal family, the Guo family has become more and more powerful on the surface, but everyone knows that in fact, the Guo family has a profound foundation, but the Feng family may not be as good as it.  The contemporary head of the Guo family, Guo Yu, is also an upright person.  Although he was a noble military general who guarded Qiyunguan all year round, he had quite a lot of contacts with some upright officials in the court.  Han Yong's grandfather Su Bian was very close to Guo Yu. The two had close contacts and regarded each other as a good brother and a good brother.  "Even my name was given by your grandpa, Guo Qi. Guo Qi hoped that when I grew up, I would be able to respect the virtuous and not join the ranks of those traitors in the court. "When I was two years old, you  My mother was also born. That day the apricot blossoms were beginning to bloom, and the spring rain was particularly dense. It fell in the pond, and ripples spread out, just like the clearest sound of wind chimes under the eaves So your mother's nickname is,  Lian'er" Guo Qi's voice was light and soft, completely different from his previous speeches. He seemed to have fallen into his own thoughts, recalling the innocence of the apricot blossoms in the spring rain, the tenderness of the catkins flying down, and the return journey at starry night.  Feeling panic, recalling the loneliness of wandering in the small courtyard, recalling the despair after searching for Wujiang After a long time, Guo Qicai continued in a daze: "It was that year, the elders of the two families felt that I and I  Your mothers are about the same age and have similar family backgrounds. After some discussion, we decided to get married" At this point, Guo Qi seemed to be unable to speak anymore, and his voice became choked up.  If it weren't for the perseverance and ruthless character he developed in the military over the years, he would have burst into tears.  At that moment, Guo Qi wiped his eyes involuntarily, and then realized that it was not him nowNot one person, but a junior watched, and immediately put down the hand wiping his eyes, and remained silent and stopped talking.  Hearing someone say that he was married to his mother, Han Yong felt extremely weird.  But seeing Guo Qi's sad look, he couldn't help but feel sour in his heart. He really felt sorry for the childhood sweethearts.  But the problem is, the girl among them is his mother Han Yong's mind couldn't help but be confused, and he heard Guo Qi whispering in an inaudible voice: "When will the beauty arrive? The apricot flowers in the small courtyard are blooming.  . The slanting wind passed by in the middle of the night, and the ground was full of sorrow. " Listening to the deep sadness in Guo Qi's words, Han Yong finally couldn't hold it back and secretly raised his hand to wipe his eyes. He was thinking of saying a few words of comfort, but he found out.  Because things are so weird, I really don¡¯t know where to start.  Guo Qi ignored Han Yong. After being silent for a while, he continued to talk about what happened that year.  Maybe it was the venting of emotions just now that made Guo Qi feel more relaxed, or maybe the next thing was no longer full of tenderness and sweetness, making Guo Qi's heart harden again.  Therefore, Guo Qi¡¯s narrative voice gradually became colder.  More than twenty years ago, when Guo Qi and Miss Su were getting married, His Majesty the Emperor, who had just deposed the young emperor and usurped the throne from his nephew, proposed to dig a North-South Grand Canal for some reason.  Said that in order to open up the north and south water systems, in order to prosper Dachu's commerce.  Although a group of upright officials headed by Su Bian believed that the country had just experienced a catastrophe and the treasury was empty, it was not appropriate to carry out large-scale construction at this time.  However, he felt that the excavation of the Grand Canal could be regarded as a matter of benefit to the country and the people, so he had no objection. He only required that a complete plan must be made in advance before construction could begin.  And he expressed on the spot that he was willing to take on the work of measurement and estimation.  ??Then Su Bian took the emperor's imperial edict and the master craftsman from the Ministry of Industry, and personally walked from the capital on the Canglan River to Weiyang City on the Wei River.  Along the way, we traveled through mountains, deep ravines, rivers and lakes, traveled thousands of miles, and lost countless pairs of shoes. In order to understand the difficulty of excavation and the amount of work, we could make a reasonable estimate and try our best to save every expense of the court.  Grains of grain.  When something like this happened, the marriage between Guo Qi and Su Hanzhi was naturally delayed.  But no one expected that before Su Bian and others came back, the imperial court could not wait to start digging the canal without any plan.  The person in charge of this project at that time was Feng Yi¡¯s father, Feng Yan, the head of the Feng family.  I don¡¯t know whether it was the emperor¡¯s intention or Feng Yan¡¯s own idea. All excavation projects were not only started without any drawings, but also without regard to the specific conditions along the way. They claimed to open mountains when encountering mountains and cut off flows when encountering water.  The shortest canal was dug as quickly as possible as a birthday gift to celebrate His Majesty the Emperor's fiftieth birthday.  It¡¯s easy to imagine how difficult it would be to implement the Grand Canal project under these conditions.  Not only did the cost far exceed the normal budget, but accidents occurred frequently in various river sections. In the end, millions of civilians were recruited from all over the Central Plains, and at a cost of nearly one million casualties, the project was finally basically completed in three years. It originally took eight to eight to  It took ten years to complete the Grand Canal project.  Logically speaking, if something like this happens, it will definitely cause a commotion in the world.  However, due to some reasons, the imperial court only recruited people from the Central Plains. Jiangnan, Chunan, Yuexi, Yanbei and other places were not affected at all. Therefore, no one paid attention to the sufferings of the people in the Central Plains. In the end, this matter  It will slowly fade away as time goes by.  At that time, Su Bian and others naturally refused to agree. They made several requests to stop the excavation project and advised the emperor to cherish the people's power and not to ignore the people of the world for their own selfish desires.  It's a pity that the current emperor, for some unknown reason, always agrees verbally, but there is no movement afterward.  When the news that nearly one million civilians were killed or injured reached the capital, Su Bian and others could no longer sit still.  They vaguely guessed that this should be the emperor's intention, otherwise Feng Yan would never have such courage.  " However, they also knew that there was no evidence at all for this kind of thing, and there was definitely nothing the emperor could do. In the end, they had to settle for the next best thing, asking the emperor to deal with Feng Yan, who had harmed the common people, so that he could at least give an explanation to the people of the Central Plains.  Needless to say, Han Yong also understood the final result. If Su Bian succeeded, there would probably be no Han Yong born, and naturally there would be no Feng Yi to show off his power in the world.  "At the beginning, I didn't know that something would happen to your grandfather, because at that time, I followed my father to Qiyunguan. According to the top secret information obtained by the court, the Prairie Royal Court was preparing to attack Qiyunguan again, and we, the head of the Guo family, needed to go there in person.  sit down??, so that the emperor can rest assured.  And I asked my father to promise that he would never let the tragedy of thirty years ago, when my grandfather was suddenly transferred from Qiyunguan pass, caused the prairie barbarians to break through Qiyunguan pass and massacre in Yuexi and Yanbei, happen again" Guo Qi  His face showed resentment, but in the end it turned into a bitter smile and he said: "I'm afraid even you can tell that this is just to distract my father and make your grandpa lose his most steadfast support.  In the end, they did succeed. While my father was going to Qiyunguan, they actually framed your grandfather as being in the brothel, jealous of a dandy, and even found a girl from the brothel, saying that she was the widower raised by your grandfather.  The sages said: A gentleman can deceive others.  That's actually a good point.  Your grandpa is upright and knowledgeable. If he talks about poetry or country governance, he can naturally speak eloquently. Even if he talks about how to appease the surrounding foreigners, he is also an expert.  But he didn't know how to respond to such a dirty trick.  At that time, your grandma passed away due to illness, and your grandpa was already sad and depressed. How could he withstand the shameless slander of a group of officials of the Feng family?  He was so angry that he vomited blood in the court. Soon after returning home, he resigned and returned to his hometown.  And during this period, no one stood up to speak, and no one came to visit your grandpa. The reason for this makes people think a lot.  Your grandfather must have seen through the harsh world, so he would rather die in a foreign country than return to Wujiang. In the end, he entrusted your mother to your father" This was a bit awkward. Han Yong's mother naturally had to be entrusted to him.  Han Yong's father is the right one, can he still entrust it to someone else? But Guo Qi said it very naturally, even calmly, as if to say, your mother should have been entrusted to me, but it's a pity that fate has played a trick on people.  Let the two of them be separated from each other Han Yong was fascinated by what he heard, and his emotions were agitated and extremely complicated. He had admiration and pride for his grandfather, disgust and resentment towards the Feng family, and even regret and regret for his mother.  Regret, and perhaps also lamentation and understanding of the hot and cold world
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