Chapter Eighteen: Chung Kwok Leung Blocks the Road and Weeps Part 1
Zhong Ling was dragged and stumbled. When she turned around, she saw that it was her father Zhong Guoliang. She hurriedly said: "Dad! What are you doing?"
Zhong Guoliang wiped away the two lines of tears that flowed from the corner of his eyes with one hand. He glared at Zhong Ling with red eyes and said angrily: "You left your parents behind and ran away! Do you know how worried your mother is about you?"
He also dragged Zhong Ling into the crowd with all his strength.
Shi Jin saw that his future father-in-law was here, but Shi Sangong couldn't stop crying and couldn't help Zhong Ling explain. Zhong Ling said to her father, "Dad, please let go! I can't worry about Da Lang."
, so we chased him."
Zhong Guoliang turned around and looked at Zhong Ling coldly and said, "What stupid things are you saying? You can't worry about him, but you can worry about your parents?"
Hearing these words, Zhong Ling felt a little guilty, and was speechless for a moment. Zhong Guoliang saw that she had lost her confidence, and seemed to know that she was wrong. He pulled her arm hard and walked toward the crowd.
Go outside.
Zhong Ling was knocked down a few steps by this sudden pull. Shi Jin felt uncomfortable when he saw it. After all, Zhong Ling was doing this for herself. Just when he was about to explain to Zhong Guoliang, Zhong Ling cried: "Dad, you teach me...
Are my loyalty, benevolence, and gratitude all lies?"
Zhong Guoliang stopped. He looked particularly ugly in the crowd.
"Dad, it was Dalang who risked his life to protect Shijiazhuang. How could I...how could I bear it..." Zhong Ling cried, feeling so anxious that she was so choked up that she could not speak.
After hearing this, Zhong Guoliang not only was not accommodating, but became angry. He pointed at Shi Jin and said angrily to Zhong Ling: "Is he protecting Shijiazhuang? These ordinary people don't know, and you don't know either?"
Speaking of which, Zhong Guoliang became angry and faced Shi Jin directly: "Shi Jin! In front of the master's coffin lid, do you speak with your conscience, are you doing it for the good of Shijiazhuang? You are rebelling, and this is a crime of beheading.
, we want to kill the nine tribes!”
Shi Jin was stunned by Zhong Guoliang's words. Indeed, these days, he has not thought about the interests of Shijiazhuang. He only used Honghu's great achievements to cover up and numb the pain of losing his father. Is it for Shijiazhuang, everyone?
Are you willing to be more casual? He has never thought about this.
When Zhong Guoliang saw Shi Jin lowering his head and remaining silent, he had something to say clearly in his heart.
"Shi Jin, I was killed by a dog official, but it has nothing to do with you! For a loyal man like Taigong Shi to leave like this, I am really blind." Zhong Guoliang started crying bitterly as he spoke.
He was so excited that his hand pointing at Shi Jin started to tremble: "Shi Jin, tell me, if you hadn't gone up the mountain, would I have died? Tell me, tell me! It was you who caused your father to suffer, you
It’s really unfilial!”
When Shi Jin heard this, he was even more shocked. After thinking about it in his heart, he realized that what he said was not completely unreasonable. For a moment, he was so confused that he couldn't speak, but two lines of hot tears rolled down his face.
Come.
When Zhong Ling saw Shi Jin's appearance, she knew that it had touched Shi Jin's heart again. She was afraid that he would hurt his body due to excessive grief, so she was anxious and threw her hands away, broke away from her father, ran to Shi Jin, and said anxiously: "
Da Lang, don’t think too much, don’t listen to my father’s nonsense. He was also sad about the death of my great-grandfather, so don’t take it to heart."
When Zhong Guoliang saw that his daughter had abandoned him and rushed to Shi Jin's side, his mood became more and more volatile. He stepped forward and grabbed Zhong Ling and dragged her back without paying attention to the attention of the villagers.
It was inappropriate to stage such a farce in front of Shi Taigong's death, but his father's words clearly hurt Da Lang. If Da Lang had to torture himself in his heart and couldn't find a way out, what kind of drink would it be like to drown his sorrows?
How hopelessly decadent. But dad still refuses to give up...
As Zhong Ling thought about it, she felt more and more embarrassed. She couldn't help crying louder and louder, and said to her father: "Dad... Da Lang was kidnapped by Shaohua Mountain... and went up the mountain. You... why did you say that about him?"
!We will be satisfied if he survives the catastrophe. How can we be so harsh?"
Zhong Guoliang stopped and said to Shi Jin: "Dalang, after so many years, you know that I, Mr. Zhong, have always been a reasonable person, and I don't know the embarrassment in your heart, but don't forget, Grandpa, this
What do you do in your life for what?"
Shi Jin knew what his father was doing without even thinking about it. Thousands of people in the village also knew it.
"It's for the prosperity of Shijiazhuang! Taigong has devoted his whole life's efforts to Shijiazhuang. But now, those efforts are about to be destroyed by you! How can you make me bear to watch everything disappear! How can I have it?
Go to the ground and face your grandfather!" Zhong Guoliang said as the feelings in his heart could no longer be suppressed.
He cried with snot and tears: "The dog official wants to do harm to our Shijiazhuang, but our Song Dynasty is not dark enough to destroy the elders of my village. We still have room for maneuver to preserve the foundation of Shijiazhuang."
, continue to fulfill the grandpa’s wish. But you insist on going your own way and want to rebel and bring Shijiazhuang into trouble. How do you face your father’s lifelong efforts? How do you face this old man in the village? "
"Dad! It's not like this. Stop saying it. It's not like this!"
"No, I want to say that although I have a foreign surname, I have lived in this village for most of my life. I don't do it for myself, but I want to speak out about this traitor for my grandpa!" Zhong Guoliang shouted at Shi Jin: "
You can still work hard for a few years when you are young, but look at it." He pointed to the crying old women in the crowd and said, "Do they still have the energy to jump with you, and can they withstand the trouble?
Your father has spent most of his life so that the villagers can live a stable life and enjoy a peaceful life. However, such a good life has been broken by you now."
As he spoke, Zhong Guoliang thought of his great-grandfather again, of his kind-heartedness, and of his painstaking savings. Over the years, he had suffered a lot from the bosses in the county for Shijiazhuang. He swallowed his anger and endured all the hardships.
It is really not easy to get to where we are today step by step. The good life that Shijiazhuang has today is really hard-won. It was achieved after many years of hard work by Shi Taigong and the villagers.
Thinking of this, Zhong Guoliang suddenly felt sad again. He let go of Zhong Ling and knelt down in front of Taigong Shi's coffin, lying on the ground in pain.
"Grandpa, how could you have the heart to abandon Shijiazhuang and leave like this! You just told me that day that you would build our own private school in Shijiazhuang so that our children in Shijiazhuang could one day become officials...
...Have you forgotten, have you forgotten this... You also said that you want to see with your own eyes that people from Shijiazhuang can become good officials and benefit the common people... Grandpa, grandpa, but you left like this...
"
Zhong Guoliang cried so much that Zhong Ling felt pain in her heart. She knelt down in front of her father and wiped his tears. When all the villagers heard his crying, they couldn't help but think of Taigong Shi, his voice and smile in the past.
Everything he did for Shijiazhuang made him feel sad, and he started to cry a lot.
Zhong Guoliang wiped away his tears, kowtowed three times in front of Taigong Shi's coffin, and said every word: "Taiggong, I, Liang, will build this private school for you even if I am just begging for food. We have talented people in Shijiazhuang."