I slay demons and demons with poetry

Chapter 2 Ruined Song Family
When Song Mu woke up again, it was already early morning.

Although his head was still dizzy and his body was a little weak, Song Mu still sat up carefully.

Looking at the thin quilt covering his body, Song Mu looked into the room through the moonlight leaking in from outside.

The shape of this house is simple and simple, but it also has carved beams and painted buildings, with an ancient charm, but the strange thing is that there is nothing on the four white walls, and even the window paper on the carved windows is a little yellow and tattered.

Looking at the ground of the house again, a layer of soil was exposed out of thin air. The ground inside the house was much shorter than the corners of the house, and only a few broken blue bricks with missing corners remained at the corners.

Someone must have planed the green bricks that filled the house.

The bed under Song Mu is nothing more than two benches with a board on it. Apart from a pile of books on the ground, there is nothing around it. There must be tables and chairs in the house. It's gone.

It was only at this time that Song Mu remembered that Mr. Liu treated him yesterday, no wonder he was sitting with his own medicine box.

Among the people with carved beams and painted buildings, it is so desolate.

Song Mu shook his head, sighed slightly, and got up to find water.

It all depends on human effort, even if the family is dilapidated now, Song Mu believes that as long as people are alive, everything will change.

"Well, Mu Geer, are you up?"

Just when Song Mu got up and got out of bed, a vague voice came from the corner of the wall, and then he saw a thick and short figure climbing up from the ground and coming towards him. People, this is a little dazed.

"Second Uncle, why are you here?"

"I'm afraid you'll have an emergency in the middle of the night, so I can take care of you by sleeping here, Mu Ge'er, how are you doing now, do you need something to eat? I'll get it for you."

Song Liangda looked at Song Mu with great concern, and lit the oil lamp. Then Song Mu saw a bedding on the ground in the corner of the house not far away. It must be the place where Song Liangda rested tonight.

Seeing the second uncle being so considerate, Song Mu was also very grateful. He pursed his lips, but shook his head slightly.

"I'm going to drink some water, second uncle, I'm fine."

"Ah, don't wander around. I'll get it for you. It just so happens that there's still some medicine left from yesterday's decoction. I'll bring it for you too."

Seeing that Song Mu was about to come out alone, Song Liangda quickly helped Song Mu to sit down by the bed, and then hurriedly opened the door to go out. After a while, a voice calling for his second aunt came from the courtyard.

The courtyard was a bit lively. It was just when the sky was slightly bright in the early morning. Song Mu was leaning against the window sill with his clothes on. The courtyard outside the candle lamp was already full of fireworks.

Song Mu sighed, and at this moment he has completely accepted all of this, but in his previous life, he failed to complete many things, so it is better not to die so aggrieved in this life.

After a while, Song Liangda came in with a bowl of water and a bowl of medicine, and put them on Song Mu's bedside. A little girl jumped out behind Song Liangda.

This is Song Mingwei, the only daughter of my second uncle, seven or eight years old, nicknamed Yaya.

The little girl was not fair, but her eyes were big, and the candle lamp was shining brightly. She had two braids that were somewhat withered and yellow. She was carefully taking out a handkerchief from her pocket, and then opened it to twist a brown-black handkerchief from inside. Put the things into Song Mu's hands.

"Brother, I'll give you this candy. Take the medicine after you take it."

The little girl said very sensiblely, but she clenched the handkerchief tightly again, and then forced her eyes to move away from the sugar cube that was put in Song Mu's palm. At that moment, Song Mu saw that there was only Some small pieces.

"Okay, Yaya, go ask your mother to bring in the food, we'll have breakfast in Brother Mu's room." Song Liangda next to him said to Song Mingwei, and the little girl ran out quickly.

"Brother Mu, drink the medicine first, we'll have breakfast later, you haven't eaten oil or rice for several days, your body will not be able to handle it."

Song Liangda said to Song Mu, Song Mu took the medicine and nodded, looked at the cloudy liquid medicine without frowning, and drank it with a gulp.

"Slow down, slow down, don't worry." Song Liangda hurried up to pat Song Mu on the back again. Song Liangda valued his nephew more than his own daughter.

When Song Liangda was young, his body was overfilled with medicine and stones, and his body was puffy and short. The doctor said that it was a blessing from heaven and earth to have a daughter. Now that his eldest brother Song Liangtong is no longer alive, this only seedling is left behind. Song Liangda is determined not to let Song Mu do anything else. There is no problem, otherwise he will never see his ancestors again when he enters the underworld.

Fortunately, my nephew was humble and polite since he was a child. Apart from being a bit dull in dealing with people, he was surprisingly smart in reading. In the second year after his eldest brother left, he was admitted to Tongsheng by himself, which made the Song family who had fallen into the bottom of the valley finally have Look forward to it.

It's just that Song Liangda couldn't figure out why his nephew had to tell himself even if he went to the county school on weekdays, why he would do such a dangerous thing the day before yesterday.

Song Mu, who had just suppressed the bitter taste in his throat, would never have thought of what Song Liangda was thinking at the moment, but felt that his body was too weak, and he might have to exercise more in the future to live well.

After a while, the second aunt Zhu came with food, and Song Liangda also helped move the table and stools. Song Mu wanted to go forward to help, but was stopped.

The second aunt Zhu is a hulking woman, she looks quite tough, and Song Mu also learned from his memory that Zhu was from a farming family. When the Song family married the second uncle, they really couldn't afford too much money. , and the second uncle's health was a little sick, and finally the old man decided to find a strong girl from a poor family from the old village.

Since Song Mu's parents both left, this dilapidated family has relied more on the support of the second aunt. Although they are diligent, they can barely feed the four of them.

"Mu Geer, eat more. This is stewed chicken for you. You only drank a little soup yesterday, but you ate it all today."

On the table with missing edges and corners, Song Liangda picked all the chicken on the table into Song Mu's bowl. Song Mu nodded and asked the second uncle and the others to eat together, but they didn't move their chopsticks.

Song Mu sighed, put a piece of chicken in his mouth, and picked out a chicken leg from a bowl to Song Mingwei.

"Yaya help elder brother eat a chicken leg, elder brother can't finish it." Song Mu said so, but blocked Song Liangda, and pressed the chicken leg directly into Song Mingwei's bowl.

Several people tried to evade again, Song Liangda saw that Song Mu was in a hurry, fearing that he would fall ill again, so he asked Song Ming to thank Song Mu slightly.

Song Mingwei sat on the bench dangling his two slender legs, eating chicken drumsticks with joy, while Zhu Shi beside him was crying.

"Damn it, I, Mu Ge'er, is usually alive and kicking, but I almost walked away from hell."

"Mu Ge'er will be a Jinshi in the future, and he will be a Jinshi archway in the future, what a crime."

At this time, Zhu Shi was wiping away tears, and whispered in his mouth, presumably Zhu Shi was the one who howled in pain that day.

Song Liangda told Zhu not to say such unlucky things at the dinner table, but Song Mu laughed it off, Song Liangda also changed his face a little, and asked again.

"Mu Ge'er, tell Second Uncle honestly, why did you go out of the city to go to Yanggang the day before yesterday? Don't you know that you can't go to that place?"

Song Mu was stunned, but shook his head helplessly.

Song Mu also has no memory of the reason why Song Mu sought his own death. He only remembers that after leaving the city, Song Mu angrily went towards a deserted grave, but that place was not Yanggang.

"Second Uncle, I really don't remember." Song Mu could only say this to Song Liangda. Seeing Song Mu's sincere expression, Song Liangda didn't want to tell the reason. Song Liangda didn't dare to press him, so he had to give up.

But instead, they also talked about this year's government exam, and Song Mu is about to prepare for the exam in the city, but the cost of the journey has not yet been settled.

"Brother Mu, you can take good care of your body. My second uncle and aunt both have a lot of strength, and I can scrape together a few taels of silver. No matter how bad it is... Shiyang County is going to build a high city wall in the next few days, so I will go to work too. go."

"Yes, this time, we will never be fooled by that traitor again, let them take away all our property, even the blue bricks..." Mrs. Zhu also wept beside her.

However, Song Mu knew that the construction of the city was a corvee labor arranged by the government, which was heavy and tiring.

The Song family inherited the Song family and Song Liangtong's literary status as a scholar, and Song Mu's current status as a child was barely exempted from hard labor, but if he went to work, he could earn dozens of pennies a day.

When Song Liangda said this, he almost gritted his teeth. For the sake of his nephew, he completely ignored his current status as the descendant of the Song family.

Song Mu also put down the bowl, secretly clenched his fist with his left hand.

Now that I have survived in this world, there is absolutely no such thing as sitting around and eating.

And the matter of going to Yanggang, I obviously didn't go to such a dangerous place, who wants to put my original self to death?

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(End of this chapter)