It was already noon on the second day when Yang Xiaohu returned to Zhang Mansion. Everyone looked at him in surprise as soon as he walked in. In just one day, Yang Xiaohu was already unkempt and disheveled, and his legs were shaking when he walked in.
Meng Ge couldn't help but ask when he saw Yang Xiaohu: "Xiaohu, where is Shisuo?"
Yang Xiaohu said with a bitter face: "Uncle Meng, I won't be able to come back if the stone lock comes back. I threw the stone lock away..." As he said that, he sat down on the ground. Meng Ge asked in detail what happened and couldn't help but shake his head.
Shake his head.
"You are in trouble. Your Excellency wants me to supervise you. If you don't see the stone lock, I will ask you to go to the Wu County stonemason to make two more." After Meng Ge said this, he went to the front hall, because it was time for dinner.
Yang Xiaohu sat on the ground and panted for a long time, and couldn't help but think: "It's better to make two more than to carry two back more than a hundred miles away. Let's eat first." Yang Xiaohu managed to stand up and walked to the front hall. He entered the hall and saw
Everyone was there, so he found a deserted place and sat down at the table. Unexpectedly, as soon as he picked up the chopsticks, Meng Ge said from the opposite side: "Master Zhang ordered you not to eat."
Yang Xiaohu almost cried when he heard this: "Uncle Meng, I haven't eaten since yesterday. Just let me eat before I go."
Meng Ge shook his head like a rattle, and Yang Xiaohu couldn't help getting up and walking out of the hall in frustration. Looking deep into the courtyard, Yang Xiaohu couldn't help but shed tears. His life was so miserable. The more Yang Xiaohu thought about it, the sadder he became.
He squatted at the foot of the wall and started crying. At this time, someone walked up to Yang Xiaohu. Yang Xiaohu looked up and saw that it was his adoptive father.
Dakui walked here with the support of his family. Looking at Yang Xiaohu in a mess, Dakui sighed: "I heard someone said you didn't come back all night? Where have you been?"
Yang Xiaohu shed tears and told her story. Dakui asked with a sneer: "Is this why you cry?"
Yang Xiaohu lowered his head and said nothing. Dakui turned around and ordered his servants to bring a chair to sit on. Then he said to Yang Xiaohu in a serious voice: "Back then, your father and I guarded Anfeng City together after four years of bloody battles. You can
Do you know how we got here?"
When Yang Xiaohu heard this, he raised his head and looked at Dakui in confusion. Dakui continued: "At that time, there was no food and grass in Anfeng City and no reinforcements outside. In order to support the army, the people took out all their own food reserves." Dakui looked into the distance and said: "
At that time, your father and I could only eat one full meal every two days, and we usually ate grass roots and tree barks to satisfy our hunger. Even so, we fought hard against the enemy soldiers every day. This is how we got here for four years."
Yang Xiaohu was stunned when he heard this, and Dakui said again: "The people of Anfeng would rather starve themselves than support the red scarf soldiers. In the end, the people actually ate the dead and used Guanyin soil to satisfy their hunger. In the past four years, the people of Anfeng were hungry.
Countless people died. As red scarf generals, how can we let the people's expectations go down the drain?"
Dakui ignored Yang Xiaohu and just said: "Later, the food and grass were exhausted, and there was nothing edible in the city. Seeing that the city was about to be destroyed, Prime Minister Liu Futong asked us to escort King Xiao Ming to break out. Your father and I led 20,000 fine cavalry to kill
Out of the siege. When we arrived at a safe zone, only Prince Xiao Ming and I and dozens of soldiers survived. Most of the people we brought out were killed in the battle, including your father."
When Dakui said this, he shed two lines of tears on his face. But he still said: "Outstanding people always endure all kinds of hardships. Often they still have to work hard and endure hardships in times of extreme hardship.
The only way to become a great person is to overcome hardship." Dakui paused and said, "I hope you can be like your father and be a good man who stands upright and upright. Do you understand my painstaking efforts?"
At this time, Yang Xiaohu was in tears and choked with tears. Dakui sighed again and said: "If you are hungry, go and eat." With the help of his family, he slowly returned to the back house.
Yang Xiaohu lay on the ground for a long time before getting up. Instead of going to the front hall, he strode out and ran towards the way he came. He didn't know where the strength came from, until he exhausted all the strength and fell to the ground.
Now is the time when spring is warm and the flowers are blooming. There is clear river water in the roadside ditch. Yang Xiaohu went to the ditch and drank water. When the cold river water flowed into his belly, Yang Xiaohu suddenly felt comfortable all over. He waited until he could breathe again.
He got up and continued running. In order to run longer, Yang Xiaohu did not go all out, but walked at a medium speed.
When it got dark, Yang Xiaohu gritted his teeth and persisted even though he was dizzy and exhausted. It was not until the middle of the moon that he arrived at the place where the stone lock was abandoned. For more than 150 miles, Yang Xiaohu ran for five and a half hours (11 times).
Hour).
The stone lock was left by Yang Xiaohu in the grass on the roadside without any markings. In desperation, Yang Xiaohu stumbled and searched carefully on the roadside. It took him half an hour to find it. After Yang Xiaohu found the stone lock,
After carrying it on the road, I was already exhausted and exhausted. How could I go back like this? I needed to find something to eat, otherwise I would not have the energy to go back.
Looking around, it was pitch black. But through the moonlight, he could see there seemed to be a farmer in the distance. If there is a farmer, there must be someone else. Yang Xiaohu shuffled towards the direction of the crop field, waiting to be close.
Only then did I realize that this was actually a vegetable patch.
In the spring, the farmers had just planted the seeds, and there were only a few inches of seedlings on the ridges. Yang Xiaohu looked far away but saw no human beings, so he had no choice but to pick the seedlings on the ridges and eat them alive. The surroundings were pitch black, and Yang Xiaohu couldn't help but
If you dare to eat the grass stems in the grass, if they are poisonous, the sky and the earth will become inoperable.
Although Yang Xiaohu didn't recognize what was planted on the ridge, he knew it was definitely not poisonous. At this moment, Yang Xiaohu was so hungry that he couldn't care less about whether it tasted good or not, and what he was eating. He picked and stuffed it randomly.
I ate for nearly half an hour before I suppressed my hunger pangs.
Yang Xiaohu returned to the road, picked up the two stone locks and walked back. The two stone locks seemed to weigh a thousand kilograms. Before walking a hundred steps, Yang Xiaohu was already sweating profusely. It was as if he had just eaten and drank water.
It was like sweating profusely from the body. He must go back and not let his adoptive father down. This was what Yang Xiaohu thought in his heart. Although it was difficult every step of the way, Yang Xiaohu still walked firmly. When he walked back step by step, Yang Xiaohu
He kept chanting: "When heaven entrusts this person with a great responsibility, he must first suffer his mind, strain his muscles and bones, and starve his body and skin. My foster father is right, if you don't endure hardship, you will be a master..."