Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 2373
"What did your grandpa arrange for you to do?"

Guichen sat on the porch holding tea, and Mu Shi placed a plate of cakes next to him.

Having not seen his mother for a long time, Gui Chen felt strange for some reason, so he quickly stood up and saluted.

"Why are you so polite to your mother?" Mu smiled and sat down next to her son, stroking Gui Chen's hair.Xu Wenning appeared from behind her, reaching into the plate with his little paws to steal the pastries.

"Your sister has gone to freshen up." Mu took out a wooden comb from her arms and combed her son's knotted hair distressedly. "I also prepared bath water and a change of clothes for you. Let's go soak in it later. "

Guichen knew how dirty he was and agreed sheepishly.

"It's hard to eat and sleep outside, isn't it?" Mu Shi sighed, "Just come back and have a good sleep tonight."

Guichen hurriedly swallowed the cake in his mouth, "Mom, I'm leaving after taking a shower."

Mrs. Mu paused while combing her son's hair, and her eyes fell on the letter in Gui Chen's hand.She didn't try to persuade her like a normal mother, she just sighed softly, "In such a hurry?"

"The situation is tense now. I want to find people who have returned home as soon as possible," Guichen lowered his head and said, "This is also Grandpa's arrangement."

Mu was silent for a moment and continued to comb her hair, "His decisions are always right."

Speaking of the old man, Gui Chen thought of something.

"Mom," Guichen turned his head, "Have you seen my grandpa?"

Mu Shi's fingers holding the comb trembled, "I've seen it before, what's wrong?"

Guichen held Mu's hand and turned around, looking into his mother's eyes, "Mom, what kind of person is grandpa?"

Because of his father Guichang, Guichen has always hated people from Guijia, and also hated the surname Gui.He never took the initiative to learn about returning home.But Mu You's words made him curious about his grandfather, who had never been masked before.

What kind of person was his grandfather, General Longxiang Guiming, who laid the foundation for his family?

Mu put down her comb and looked at her son's features, "He is a very open-minded old man."

"Speaking of which, you and your grandfather look a bit alike."

After leaving Guichang, Mu rarely thought about returning home.

Guichen also noticed this and said apologetically, "Mom, my son reminded you of something unpleasant."

Mu shook his head, "Your grandfather is different from your father. Besides, even if your father and I reconcile, the fact that you are of the same bloodline cannot be changed."

"If your grandfather was still alive, maybe you and A-Li wouldn't have had such a hard time when they were children," Mu looked at her grown-up son with a complicated expression.

If Guichang's father was still alive, he would not have allowed Guichang to do so many bad things. Guichen and Guili would also have a normal growth environment.

The decline of Guijia began with the death of Mr. Gui.

"Mom, do you think my grandfather is an enlightened person?" Guichen asked curiously, "Where is his enlightenment?"

He did not expect that Mu would use the word "enlightened" when recalling his father-in-law.

Mu hesitated for a moment, "Do you really want to know?"

To Gui Jia, this was not Duan Guangguang's past, and Mrs. Mu had not thought about whether she should tell her son.

"If you don't want to, forget it," Gui Chen was curious, but he didn't want to poke his mother's scar.

"It's not something that can't be discussed," Madam Mu waved her hand and asked Xu Wenning to leave with the plate. She reached out and stroked her son's messy hair, "You and A Li are both so old, it's okay to listen."

"Before mom married your father, she had another engagement."

Mu Shi spoke calmly.

Guichen's eyes suddenly widened.He didn't expect his mother to leave such a shocking secret when she came up.

"With whom?" Gui Chen stuttered in shock, "Why didn't you, didn't you and that person..."

Why didn't I marry that person? Mu Shi smiled bitterly, "It's simple, because the young master I was engaged to passed away before we got married." "

Guichen was stunned for a moment, then suddenly became excited, "Could it be said that the person you are engaged to be engaged to is..."

"You guessed it," Mu's eyes became complicated, "The person I was going to marry was the son of the Jin family."

Return home, Jin family, Mu family...that's it.

Guichen let out a long breath and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

The Gui, Jin, and Mu families are family friends, and it is normal for them to marry each other.He had also wondered before that how his parents, who were childhood sweethearts, could end up losing all affection.

Now it seems that childhood sweethearts are indeed childhood sweethearts, but this is a story of three people.

"So your original fiancé..." Guichen was a little embarrassed to say.

"He is a very outstanding person. He was originally a spiritual genius in the family." Mu Shi raised his head and looked at the mist-filled sky. "Those of us are born because of our family. When our family is destroyed, we will also be destroyed."

When the Jin family was found guilty of rebellion, she was confined in the house by her father and was not able to see that person for the last time.

"That night, there was a fire in Jin's house. He was also in the house."

According to the order of Emperor Taizu, all the men of the Jin family were executed and the female family members were thrown into the Jiaofangsi.To prevent any tip-off, that man, as the most promising male of the Jin family, was originally summoned to the palace and detained along with his brothers in advance.

But the man didn't know what means he used. He actually ran out of the palace and ran all the way back home, rushing to convey the emperor's order before the imperial army arrived.

In order to avoid being humiliated, all the female members of the Jin family hanged themselves and set fire to themselves.

When the Imperial Guard arrived, the fire had already started, and they had to guard the perimeter to ensure that no one from the Jin family escaped.

The fire burned for three days and three nights. After the fire was extinguished, more than 300 bones were recovered from the mansion.

Many of the bones were burned so clean that they could no longer be identified.

Mu only knew that the young man with whom she had made a lifelong promise was among the three hundred charred corpses.

With Emperor Taizu's iron guards personally guarding it, no one could escape the sea of ​​fire.

Even so, Emperor Taizu was still uneasy and ordered his assistant to inspect the corpses. Finally, it was found that no one from the 80-year-old man to the one-month-old great-grandson of General Jin had escaped.

The men who were imprisoned in the palace were all pushed onto the beheading stage before they could see the bodies of the young and old at home.

During those three days, the entire city of Guiyang was filled with the smell of blood and burning.

There were too many descendants of the Mu family. Among the 300 people who were burned to death, there was a cousin of the Mu family who married into the Jin family.Another uncle of Mu family married a daughter of the Jin family. After learning about the death of her relative, the daughter of the Jin family committed suicide by drowning while holding her newborn child.

It stands to reason that the married woman is no longer a member of the Jin family, but Emperor Taizu has made up his mind to exterminate the Jin family's bloodline. After the entire Jin family was slaughtered, he issued an imperial order to exterminate the nine clans.

The three clans of the father, the three clans of the mother, and the three clans of the wife.

The guillotine outside Epang Palace was full of heads of people killed in three days.

If she hadn't exchanged Geng Tie with the Jin family, Mu might not have been able to escape the purge.

Under Emperor Taizu's ruthlessness, everyone and everything related to the Jin family disappeared.

(End of this chapter)