"Huh?!" Li Yingyue turned around in shock and looked directly at Ye Yuzhou, as if she felt that Yu Zhi was tricking her.
"I didn't lie to you. So, does Dragonfly really have no memory of what happened before he was six years old? In the past few years, not even a single fragment has appeared?" Ye Yuzhou said.
Li Yingyue stood there and nodded, looking a little weak and frightened.
"You are so forgetful at a young age. How could you forget the fish porridge one day?" Ye Yuzhou joked with a smile.
"I won't!" Li Yingyue said firmly. In response, she relaxed a little and walked towards Ye Yuzhou.
"Huh..." Ye Yuzhou took a deep breath, then stretched out his right hand and spread his palm.
Li Yingyue put her left hand up.
Ye Yuzhou grabbed it, shook it with strength, and began to say:
"Your father's name is Li Mingting. I have told you before. He was the second best in the imperial examination in the first year of Xiankang. Before he was sent to prison and exiled, he served as a Zuo Jianyi doctor. He probably has a bright future, but I don't know much about it. Your mother, My name is Song Yu."
"My father's name is Ye Chongcan. He started out as a soldier and became a general in Yuzhou before the accident. He is famous for his bravery and good fighting skills. He has the ability to practice in the five realms."
"Is he as powerful as the bear-headed official today?"
Li Yingyue probably didn't know what to say on the topic of her "strange" parents, so she answered the conversation here instead.
"This is the public statement. But when we were surrounded and killed that night, I vaguely heard several people on the other side yelling in terror, Six Realms, he is Six Realms!" Ye Yuzhou's eyes showed a look of recollection, and there was blood and fire in them. Shake, "My mother's name is Jiang Pei."
"In the eighth year of Xiankang, my family was taken from Yuzhou to Chang'an. I met you and your mother in prison. Later, our family and some other people were exiled together." Ye Yuzhou continued.
Li Yingyue's eyes turned red, "What did we commit?"
"I don't know exactly why your family was convicted. I was still young at the time. It's something that adults didn't dare to mention in prison or in exile, so naturally they wouldn't tell me."
"...Hmm. What about the fish porridge family?" Li Yingyue shook her hand gently and asked.
"My family actually gave a specific reason to find out that my father violated the order and killed indiscriminately. But I remember that incident. At that time, the court wanted to recruit a group of bandits who were powerful in the mountains and forests of southern Anyu Prefecture. They seemed to be from which country. The remnant ordered my father to go to negotiate with me with the edict.
"The negotiation itself probably went well. The bandits even held a banquet for my father. During the dinner, the bandit leader suddenly said that he wanted to kill a child and cook it for my father to taste."
"Ah?!" Li Yingyue's eyes were horrified and she clenched her hands tightly.
"My father tried to stop him again and again, but the other party still wanted to do it. He actually set up a fire and boiled the hot water. It seemed that he was used to doing it on weekdays and didn't think it was such a cruel and terrible thing."
"Kill him! Please Uncle Ye kill him!"
"Yes. When the man said, 'This fifteen-day-old baby is not fishy,' my father drew his knife and killed him. Where the knife passed, the bandit leader's head flew up and landed right in the hot pot."
"Well done! Is this a sin?" Li Yingyue was indignant and confused.
Ye Yuzhou slowly shook his head, with a thoughtful look in his eyes, and said to her:
"Not at that time. At that time, my father killed the bandit leader, broke through the bandit camp, came out, and led the ambush troops at the foot of the mountain to attack the mountain, directly annihilating the group of bandits. I remember that the court forgave them and even gave them a reward. My mother also did this He was happy and proud to tell me his father's deeds.
"But I don't know why, more than a year later, when this matter is investigated again, it becomes a huge crime. Therefore, I think there must be something hidden in it. The so-called investigation is most likely just a superficial excuse."
The sky was dark at this time, and the heavy snow in the courtyard had not yet melted. The light from the torch on the side was swaying violently in the wind, sometimes bright and sometimes dark.
The atmosphere of this scene is actually very similar to that snowy night in the wilderness six years ago. But that night, there were hundreds of torches and hundreds of weapons...
"Later, they were exiled. Our family and some other people, about twenty people, were exiled to northern Xinjiang."
Ye Yuzhou continued to say to Li Yingyue while recalling:
"I had a conflicting memory before. I remember that on the way to exile, the adults didn't seem very panicked. Although they were depressed, there was no such feeling of despair on everyone's faces. They even occasionally laughed with us.
"I thought for a time that I had remembered it wrong. Then I checked carefully and found out that not long after that, there was a general amnesty. The adults should have known in advance that there would be such an amnesty, so they didn't panic. .”
That's good. When she heard about the amnesty, Li Yingyue's tense nerves relaxed a little. She even felt a little happy in her heart... and then she immediately realized something was wrong.
"What about us? How do we..."
"The exile team did not enter Gucheng. After a detour, they went directly into the wilderness. It snowed heavily that night, probably as heavy as last night. We were intercepted and killed in the wilderness."
Li Yingyue tried hard to control her emotions, "Who wants to kill us...the horse bandits? Or the Beiqi barbarians?"
"I don't know, the scene was so chaotic at that time. I just remember hearing a lot of voices, including those from Beiqi people, Beiwan people, and us Han people..." Ye Yuzhou said, "There were probably more than a hundred of them. Two hundred people are definitely not wilderness horse bandits. Every one of them is an elite, and there are very powerful practitioners among them."
"There are not many people in the exile team who can fight."
"The escorting officers and soldiers ran away without any resistance at all."
"My father broke free from the shackles and shackles, killed hundreds of people with one force, and saved the two of us even though he was seriously injured. After hiding, he went back to fight..."
Li Yingyue was crying, already sobbing.
Ye Yuzhou stretched out his hand and rubbed her head, then stopped narrating and said, "After that, we have been in Gucheng for six years."
"Woo, woo woo..."
Li Yingyue tried her best to control herself and not cry loudly. She choked and asked, "Then except for the two of us, are they all... all dead?"
Ye Yuzhou nodded slowly.
Li Yingyue threw herself into his arms and cried.
"Actually, I was almost dead. Maybe even God thought I had frozen to death at that time." Ye Yuzhou hugged the dragonfly, just like lying in the snow that night, wrapped her in his own clothes... and turned his eyes to the direction of the wasteland. The dark sky said in my heart.
He is not dead. At that time, when he was dying, a large number of strange and distant pictures, words, and sounds suddenly rushed into his mind... very tall buildings, many faces, things called cars and airplanes, countless books, countless test papers, There was a particularly clear person wearing a strange black hat who jumped up and said, I have finally graduated...
When Ye Yuzhou realized that those things were actually another person's life, he was already that person. To be precise, they both existed and had become the same person.
Two individuals, knowledge, information, memory, emotions...especially emotions, fierce collision and fusion. This process is long and painful. Ye Yuzhou's stupid year was precisely because of going through this process, during which he almost lost control several times. He drowned and died in his sleep, and finally survived.
Later, he named himself Ye Yuzhou. This is not the name of either of them, but the father of one of them once stationed troops in Yuzhou, and the hometown of the other was historically called Yuzhou.
"Are you ready to cry? Are you ready to cry? Put all these things in your heart and don't tell anyone." After waiting for a while, Ye Yuzhou spoke in a gentle tone and patted Li Yingyue's back.
"Well, I know... I know, don't worry about the fish porridge." Li Yingyue raised her head from his arms, sniffed, and raised her arms to wipe away her tears.
Ye Yuzhou looked at her:
"After all these years, I chose to tell you tonight, firstly because I suddenly realized that you have grown up, and secondly, because we may be leaving soon."
"Although if we don't leave with the storyteller tomorrow, we may have to stay for a while depending on the situation, but no matter what, our time in Gucheng won't be too long."
"The old man has a special identity. His appearance here will inevitably attract countless pursuit and prying eyes from all subsequent forces. And because we are closest to him, we will definitely receive the most attention... Gucheng no longer means anything to us. It couldn’t be safer.”
"..."
"Go back to the house, otherwise Yun Niang will come out to look for her." Ye Yuzhou said.
"But my eyes are red, Yun Niang will see that I just cried." Li Yingyue said.
"Just say you just had a fight with me..."
"...Ah~~Stinky fish porridge! I hate you so much!" Li Yingyue roared a few words, turned around, and ran back into the house cursing.
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The unpainted small square table was very old and had been cleaned up after dinner. There was a small oil lamp at the end of the table, and its yellow flame was weak and warm.
Zheng Yunniang sat on the side of the small table, supporting her left elbow on the table, holding her cheek with her palm, frowning and saying nothing, occasionally sighing.
She was worried about the inevitable decrease in income and the family's livelihood after the old storyteller left. She worried about this almost every day, especially tonight.
Li Yingyue sat on the other side, silent and only moving, taking the dried fruit preserves out of the cloth bag with both hands, dividing them into four piles and placing them.
The fruit rubbed against the table, making a rustling sound.
She must still be thinking about what Ye Yuzhou said just now, but her mood swings can no longer be seen. She looks serious and focused, constantly making adjustments to ensure that the four portions of dried fruits are evenly distributed...
The fruits ranged from big to small, and seemed to be unevenly divided. So she ate one, and it turned out to be evenly distributed.
Ye Yuzhou came over after washing up.
"Everyone, go to bed early. Get up early tomorrow and let's go see the storyteller off."
