"Yes, I will comprehensively advance this matter, and it will be on the agenda later."
Tian Guizi put down his job and wiped his mouth: "Since I have taken over this matter, I will not let it go until all problems are resolved."
"Then you should also pay more attention to rest. You have worked so hard in the past five years, and it is indeed too hard. I will give you a period of leave after that, so you can rest more."
Su Yonglin took a bowl of broth and gave it to Tian Guizi.
Tian Guizi thanked me and accepted it, then smiled and said: "On vacation... I haven't had a rest for a long time. I am too busy with many things, and I have gradually become accustomed to this kind of life. If I suddenly take a vacation, I may not know how to rest."
"Spend time with your family and your children. Your daughter is only two years old. This is the time when you, the father, should spend time with her."
Su Yonglin smiled and said: "No matter how busy you are at work, don't forget to go home. By the way, the Yellow River Project is over and our financial pressure has been greatly reduced. So next I plan to resolve the Jiangnan War within this year and complete the project." Unite.
When I went south with the army, you stayed in Zhongdu. After I come back, I will give you a two or three-month long vacation. You can go back to your hometown to live for a while, see the mountains and rivers of your hometown, visit the folks in your hometown, and also take your children back. , by the way, visit the graves of your parents and sister. "
After saying this, Tian Guizi put away the smile on his face and put down the soup bowl he was holding unconsciously.
"So many years have passed. What will my hometown be like? Are there any living folks or even living people in my hometown? Those are things I dare not think about. I dare not imagine that when I return to my hometown, if a familiar house You can’t even see it, not even a familiar person can see it, so how will you feel..."
Su Yonglin also fell silent.
Tian Guizi is a native of Songyang, Chuzhou. His ancestors were three generations of poor peasants and two generations of sharecroppers. For five generations, not only were they rich and powerful, but they were also cattle and horses for generations. They were the kind of cattle and horses that got worse as they got worse. Finally, they reached Tian Guizi's generation, because A snowstorm wiped out even the sharecroppers.
Not only was his hometown hit by snowstorms that year, but also many surrounding areas. His hometown was in a slightly better situation, so many refugees poured in and were in urgent need of job opportunities, so they started a fierce infighting with local tenants.
Tian Guizi's parents had to raise two children, but they couldn't win over the hungry single high-quality refugees who accepted the 28-year-old contract. They lost their status as tenant farmers and were driven away.
In the twelfth lunar month of winter, with heavy snowfall, Tian Guizi's family of four, his parents and sister froze to death and starved to death one after another on the way to escape. He was the only one left alive, trekking hard.
It can be regarded as a coincidence of fate. In the winter when Su Yonglin was nine years old, he followed his father to Chuzhou to open up a new market for Sujia's private salt sales. On the way, he met a group of refugees fleeing and saw Tian Guizi, who was nine years old like him at the time, fall down. Unable to get up from the ground, I felt compassion.
So he got down from the warm donkey cart, took Tian Guizi into the cart, wrapped him in a blanket, and started to revive him by spoonfuls of warm porridge.
From then on, Tian Guizi never returned to his hometown. Even if the Su family's smuggling salt trade came to Chuzhou, Tian Guizi deliberately avoided it, not wanting to return to that sad place.
It wasn't until Su Yonglin decided to take everyone north to Shandong to start a revolution against gold that he returned to Chuzhou once, with the purpose of building a grave for his parents and sister.
Unfortunately, a long time had passed, and the corpses of his parents and sister had probably returned to dust. He had no choice but to buy his parents and sister's favorite food according to his memory, as well as a set of clothes for each person, and buried them in the They were buried in the soil and cenotaphs were erected for them.
What he thought at that time was that he would probably never come back, and that he would most likely die in Shandong. He would probably die on a battlefield and become nutrients for the earth, so this was the first and last time to pay homage to his parents. and sister.
It doesn't matter if he is a lonely ghost, his parents and sister always have a grave, even if it is a lonely grave, it is better than none.
From then until now, Tian Guizi has survived and has become one of the most powerful figures in the most powerful country in the world. However, he has never returned to Chuzhou, and he does not know whether the tomb is still there.
Like Su Yonglin, he focused almost all his energy on work and dedicated it to the Ming Dynasty. When the country was about to be unified, Su Yonglin made suggestions to him.
"Go back and have a look. You always have to go back. Although the past is unbearable to look back on, it is precisely because of this that you must face the past bravely. It is your past, an inseparable part of you, and your journey along the way. Our original intention to this day should not and cannot be forgotten.”
Su Yonglin sat next to Tian Guizi and hugged Tian Guizi.
Tian Guizi rubbed his eyes and nodded slowly.
"I know, I will go back."
Su Yonglin smiled.
"This time you are no longer alone. You have a wife and a daughter. You are a man with a family. Take it back to your parents and sister and tell them that the Tian family has a heir. They know what they know. It will definitely be gratifying.”
"Um."
Tian Qizi pursed her lips and smiled slightly.
Su Yonglin and Tian Guizi set out from Kaifeng and finally arrived at the estuary of the Yellow River in Binzhou. Standing at the water monitoring station not far from the estuary of the Yellow River, looking at the endless sea, the two could not help themselves.
The crippling start imposed by the sinners on the Central Plains and the Ming Dynasty was forcibly overcome by their absolute will, courage and tenacity. The biggest threat and the biggest obstacle have been solved by their "foolish deeds" like Foolish Old Man moving mountains.
If the "foolish act" has an effect, if it benefits the country and the people, then Su Yonglin will not hesitate to complete it, whether it is five years, ten years, or twenty or thirty years.
As long as possible, he must persist and must do it.
“I have been waiting for this day for five years. During these five years, I kept telling myself that I must persevere and believe that our people can create miracles and complete projects that are not favored by others. Man can conquer nature!
But I also had doubts. I also doubted whether this thing could be done. I doubted whether such a terrifying river could be successfully led into the river channel all the way east. If not, if it failed, where should we go..."
Su Yonglin looked at Tian Qizi and smiled: "Qizi, thank you, thank you all. You have convinced me that we can even successfully complete the diversion of the Yellow River. So what else can't we do?"
"From the very beginning, you and the Ming Dynasty have been invincible in the world."
Tian Guizi pointed to the depths of the sea: "No matter it is a known enemy or an unknown enemy, no one can shake our Ming Dynasty!"
"Absolutely."
Su Yonglin held Tian Qizi's hand and smiled happily.
