Autumn is the season when all things are harvested.
On weekdays, grandparents do not live with them, at least three streets apart. But during the Mid-Autumn Festival, family members always get together, and to make the elderly happy, Yin Guihong's father hired someone to carry a sedan to take the two elderly people to his home. Gui Hong's uncle was still young and had just come to talk about marriage. He still lived with his parents and came to his house to celebrate the festival.
The streets and alleys were decorated with lights and their homes were even more magnificently decorated. The Yin family is very powerful, but Guihong's parents do not need to live with the main family and only have a place to stay in a border town. They just obeyed the orders of their masters and relied on the big shots to feed them. Those are all respectable characters, and the most powerful one is a candidate for the next city lord. Nowadays, the position of the city lord is no longer hereditary. In order to strengthen the control of the large area, the city lord no longer has the saying that "the son inherits the father's legacy" when the dynasties change several times. They all rely on the top to send people down. There are also serious assessments of blood ties. I'm afraid it won't be long before the imperial court will split up all large cities and implement a more comprehensive provincial and municipal system. Even so, being the lord of a city today can still accomplish a lot, and it is very honorable. My father said that by then, it will be easier for them living nearby to do things, they can always get some money and money, and their lives will be better.
Yin Guihong didn't know what his family did, and he couldn't explain it to his brothers and sisters. They felt that Gui Hong was too young and didn't understand what he was saying, so Gui Hong started yelling. It must be that they didn't know either. But no matter what their parents did, they never lost a bite of food. Gui Hong didn't even pick up a piece of his brother's clothes, they were all newly made for him. It shouldn't be a secretive thing. After all, when parents walk on the street on weekdays, they look stunning in appearance and temperament. Gui Hong's brothers and sisters are similar in age, one is sixteen and the other is fifteen. There is another child in the mother's belly, I don't know whether it is a younger brother or a younger sister. They agreed that if it was a boy, his brother would name him, and if it was a girl, his sister would name him. Gui Hong was still unconvinced and felt that he had read many books, so how could he not be allowed to participate. But my mother is already over forty years old. This is a complete surprise. In the future, she will not be able to keep up with her financial resources or energy, and she will not be born again. His father was very worried, but grandpa said it was nothing to worry about. My mother got pregnant earlier this year at the same age as my grandma was pregnant with my uncle. Grandma is still in good health, and my mother must be fine too.
Gui Hong has been very happy since he opened his eyes in the morning. He and his brother and sister went to play in the street for a day and bought a lot of snacks and toys. In the evening, you can eat mooncakes made by grandma. None of them like to eat the mooncakes made by their mother. The crust tastes bitter in their mouths and she always has trouble making alkaline noodles. Gui Hong loves egg yolk stuffing the most. He had already greeted his grandma and she promised that she would make it. This is the second year that Gui Hong has been able to get out of bed and walk. In the past, his health was very poor. His legs would tremble and he would lose his balance even if he stood for a while. I often catch colds on weekdays, so I go to the hospital every three days. The doctor said that this is a very complicated disease with many causes and difficult to treat. Although his brother and sister often complained in front of him, he also knew that they felt that his parents were working too hard. Some people suspected that the parents had done a bad job and suffered retribution. The younger brother and sister, who were still young, actually took the brothers who were having fun and demolished the yard of the gossiper, causing harm to the family of anyone who gossiped, so they shut up. At that time, Guihong knew that the whole family was thinking of him.
The family hired her husband to teach, and since she spent most of her time lying in bed, Gui Hong learned a lot. Two years ago, his parents fed him a medicinal soup, which contained unmelted white powder that felt like sand and stung his mouth. But his parents forced him to drink it, and no residue was left. As soon as he woke up, he could get out of bed and run all over the floor that day, jumping up and down, going to the house and removing roof tiles, playing like a dog and a dog, and no one could catch him.
It was getting late today, and when they returned home, the mud on their faces was washed black by two basins of water. After cleaning up, a family of nine, including the mother's unborn child, gathered around the table to eat, chat, sing and admire the moon.
The joy is about to end here.
They played until they were ready to take a rest. The guest room was missing a bedding, so my father went to another room to get it. When walking through the yard, I saw a few dark figures standing on the wall of my house, and I was a little confused for a moment.
People with weapons swarmed over him, and my father was stabbed through the heart and died on the spot. The children who were still playing in the back room didn't know what was going on. There was no need to wait for my mother to leave the house to look for her, and the thieves would rush in. For a time, the scene became chaotic. The uncle only used the broom on the side to protect the two old people with handicapped legs. Naturally, they couldn't resist, and they soon fell to the ground. After the three people screamed, the remaining people stumbled and fled. In order to buy them time, my brother threw a lot of broken things in the courtyard to block the way, and they caught them and killed them with one blow. Gui Hong only turned around for a moment and saw blood splashing from his brother's throat. He felt as if his heartbeat had skipped a beat, his crossed legs felt numb, and he suddenly fell. My sister pulled him and pushed him forward with all her strength. She was struck by an arrow and fell forward. The thieves trampled her to the ground, and many people trampled over her. His mother, with her pregnant belly, pulled each other to the backyard. Although there were no manpower deployed here, and the thieves only entered the door from the front, they both knew that there was no way out. The backyard door was already filled with debris because it was not frequently accessed and there was no time to clean it. At this moment, his mother suddenly reached out to him and pushed him into the well. He was so frightened that he choked several times after falling into the well, and then he clung to the well rope. The autumn water was bitingly cold, and the sound of splashing water was mixed with the mother's hoarse screams, which lasted for a while. His whole body froze in the well, as hard as frozen and as cold as frozen.
Autumn is the season when all things undergo death.
The thieves either didn't notice him or thought he was dead, so they just kicked open every door looking for the remaining people who might be hiding. They didn't get nothing, at least they robbed many treasures, calligraphy and paintings, which were the favorite collections of their parents. They must have robbed everything, but someone set a fire. Gui Hong raised his head and saw a red, round night sky.
He felt wet on his face, and it wasn't just well water. The liquid squeezed into the corners of my mouth was bitter, like my mother's mooncake skin.
At this time, a shadow suddenly fell from the bright sky. Gui Hong raised his head in fear and did not dare to let go of the well rope in his hand. Those noisy carnival sounds should have been moved away, so why are there still people there? The man was wearing a curtain hat, and because the light was behind him, Gui Hong couldn't see his face clearly. But he had an impression of this man just now. When he turned around, he saw that man following the thieves calmly, as if he was the one giving them instructions.
And those people, without exception, all had their left lapels pressed down, like a bunch of desperate gangsters coming from hell.
He didn't seem to notice himself...just glanced at it. Then someone called him, and he turned back and left. Yin Guihong hid in the well, soaked in the water, and endured a strange numbness all night. Until the next day, before the rooster had time to crow, dozens of townspeople who had heard the noise immediately came in groups to check. When they saw the mess on the ground, they all sighed. Yin Guihong faintly heard people talking one after another. They said this:
"Oh my god, what a sin..."
"Could it be that the whole family was driven out and killed?"
"There's nothing left, it's all been taken away."
"Who have I offended so much that I have such deep hatred?"
"I told you earlier, this is retribution..."
The thieves may have left, but Yin Guihong couldn't care less and used his last strength to cry out for help. Although the sound was weak, the leading hound heard the movement and rushed to the well in the backyard to bark. Only then did people discover that there was a child hiding underneath. The strongest butcher pulled him up, and the first thing that caught his eye was his mother's violently dead body. Yin Guihong was like a living fish emerging from the ice and was immediately frozen into a stone. At that time, my mother's eyes were wide open, full of fear and unwillingness. Her stomach was brutally cut open, and the umbilical cord was connected to a formed mass of flesh and blood. At this moment, their hearts had already stopped beating.
"It's a girl." Lord Xueyue shook his head and sighed, "This should be your sister. Then she should be called Gui Que according to the name given by your sister. Your brother's name is Guihe, and your sister's name is Guihu. You brothers Sisters, they are all named after birds. Your father hopes that you will spread your wings and fly high. Your mother was afraid that you would fly too far and lose your home, so she added the word "gui" to your names, hoping that you would still remember you when you grow up. Come back. Unfortunately, there is no home to go back to now, and no one can go back..."
"What the fuck-"
As soon as Yin Guihong slapped the table, Lord Xuyue suddenly pointed the cigarette rod directly at his face, but he did not move. He stopped his previous frivolity and just responded coldly:
"Think about it carefully. The person you should be angry with is not me, the person who reminded you - but the person who caused all this."
"..."
Yin Guihong knew where his anger came from, but the feelings that had been suppressed for many years were a little unfamiliar. Once they showed their signs, they would burst out. He suppressed the fire and forced himself to take a few deep breaths to calm his congested mind as much as possible.
"The old guy said... what my parents did offended people, they sent people from the Zuojinmen to kill us all. He didn't tell me who he was, he only told me that he was not allowed to think about revenge when he was alive, otherwise , he stopped raising me. I knew I didn’t have the strength, so I agreed. Over the years, he taught me a lot..."
"What your adoptive father said is not accurate enough. I will tell you the truth in the future. You are lucky enough to meet an expert who has retired from the world, and you have learned a lot of skills."
