The tent was extremely quiet. Apart from the sound of the candle wick bursting, there were only the low breathing of Han Yong and Guo Qi.

After pondering for a moment, Han Yong looked up at Guo Qi and said firmly: "Dogs don't care that their family is poor, and their sons don't care that their mother is ugly. No matter why the mother does this for, I know that her mother will definitely not harm us, and she must have her last resort."

"Oh, Lian'er, you taught me a good son."

Guo Qi murmured to himself, a lonely look appeared on his face again, and sighed to Han Yong and said, "Since that's the case, I won't say anything. Go and find Xue Junhou, he will arrange everything for you."

Han Yong did not move his foot, and suddenly showed an awkward look on his face. He said in a vainly manner: "Commander... Oh, no, Uncle Guo, I still want to know..."

"Hahaha, you guy, I thought you could really hold it back."

Guo Qi was stunned for a moment, suddenly became happy, and smiled and patted the book case, pointing at Han Yong and scolded: "You guy is right and wrong, and you almost confused you. I said, how could you be so calm and old at your age, without any curiosity."

Han Yong couldn't help but blushed, lowering his head and not daring to speak.

"There's nothing to be embarrassed about. I'm much more curious than you at your age." Guo Qi stood up with a smile, walked to Han Yong, patted his shoulder and said, "Since you want to know, I'll tell you so that you can understand what kind of family background your Su family is."

Han Yong suddenly felt energetic and stared at Guo Qi with a bright look, waiting for the other party's commentary.

Guo Qi walked back and forth for a few steps, as if he was recalling the past, and as if he was organizing language so that he could explain the originally relatively complicated things in words Han Yong could understand.

"The matter starts with your grandfather, Uncle Su, and my father." Guo Qi walked back to the back of the desk, sat down slowly, leaned against the chair, and began to slowly talk.

It turned out that Han Yong's grandfather was named Su Bian, and he was born in a prominent family in Wujiang Prefecture in Jiangnan. He was a famous literary and historical master in Da Chu. He was also proficient in music and chess. He was very talented and knowledgeable. He had organized many manuscript editing, and even unofficial history like "The Legend of the Royal Family". He always said that his ancestors had their own principles, but later generations were unwilling to understand them in depth.

At about 40 years old, he was appointed as the fourth-rank Grand Prix of the imperial court, and was responsible for handling matters between the Great Chu and the surrounding foreign races. He was responsible for doing things with all his heart and responsibilities, fair and just, and did not lose all. He was always praised by scholars and emperors. Even those barbarians who did not understand etiquette were convinced by Su Bian's way of dealing with things.

He is just honest by nature and never compromises with some dirty things in the officialdom, and he will never be able to do anything invisible.

The Guo family where Guo Qi is located is also a famous family that is numerous in the Great Chu. There are even rumors that the Guo Buwei, who had become a monk, was the ancestor of the Guo family, as recorded in "The History of the Royal Family". Although in recent years, due to the good friendship between the Feng family and the royal family, the Guo family is slightly inferior to each other, but everyone knows that in fact, the Guo family has a deep foundation, but the Feng family may not be able to match it.

Guo Yu, the head of the Guo family, is also a straightforward person by nature.

Although he was a military general who had fallen nobles and had been guarding Qiyun Pass for many years, he had a lot of contact with some upright officials in the court. Han Yong's grandfather Su Bian was very close to Guo Yu, and the two had close relationships with each other and called each other a virtuous brother, which was a good match for the family.

"Even my name is given by your grandfather, Guo Qi, Guo Qi, just hopes that when I grow up, I can learn from the good and not be tragic with the traitors in the court.

Just when I was two years old, your mother was born. That day, the apricot blossoms were blooming, and the spring rain was particularly fine, falling in the pond, and ripples spread out, just like the clearest wind chime under the eaves...

So your mother's nickname is called Lian'er..."

Guo Qi's voice is light and soft, completely different from his previous words, as if he has fallen into his own thoughts, recalling the innocence of the apricot blossoms in the spring rain, recalling the tenderness of the willow catkins flying, recalling the imitation of the journey back at night, recalling the loneliness of wandering in the courtyard, and recalling the despair after searching for Wujiang...

After a long time, Guo Qi continued in a daze: "That year, the elders of the two families felt that I was about the same age as your mother and had a similar family background. After some discussion, we made a marriage for us..."

Speaking of this, Guo Qi seemed to be unable to speak, and his voice became a little choked. If it weren't for the perseverance and coldness that had been developed in the army over the years, I would probably have cried.

At that moment, Guo Qi couldn't help but wiped his eyes, and then realized that he was not alone now, but a junior looked at him, and immediately put down his hand that was wiping his eyes, and silently stopped talking.

Hearing someone saying that he was married to his mother, Han Yong felt extremely strange. But when he saw Guo Qi's sad appearance, he couldn't help but feel sad. He felt really sorry for the childhood sweethearts back then.

But the problem is that the girl among them is her mother...

Han Yong couldn't help but feel a chaotic feeling in his mind. He heard Guo Qi sing softly in an inauspicious voice: "When will the beauty arrive? The apricot blossoms in the courtyard are blooming. The wind passes in the middle of the night, and the redness is everywhere."

Listening to the strong sadness in Guo Qi's words, Han Yong finally couldn't help it. He secretly raised his hand and wiped his eyes. He was thinking of saying a few words of comfort, but found that because the matter was too weird, he really didn't know where to start.

Guo Qi ignored Han Yong, and after a while, he continued to talk about what happened back then.

Perhaps it was the emotional venting just now that Guo Qi felt a little relaxed, or perhaps it was the next thing that was no longer full of tenderness and sweetness, which made Guo Qi's heart become cold and hard again.

Therefore, Guo Qi's narrative voice gradually became colder.

More than 20 years ago, just when Guo Qi and Miss Su were preparing to get married, His Majesty the Emperor, who had just abolished the young emperor and snatched the throne from his nephew, proposed for some reason to dig a Grand Canal in the North and South. On the surface, it was said that in order to open up the North and South water system, it was to prosper the business of Great Chu.

Although the upright officials led by Su Bian believed that the country had just experienced a catastrophe and the national treasury was empty, it was not appropriate to build a large-scale construction at this time. However, they also felt that digging the Grand Canal could be considered a matter of benefiting the country and the people, so they did not object, but only required that a complete plan must be made in advance before construction could be started.

And he said on the spot that he was willing to take on the work of measurement and estimation.

Then, Su Bian took the emperor's imperial edict and the master craftsman of the Ministry of Works to walk from the capital by the Canglan River to Weiyang City on the edge of the Wei River. The road was high, deep valleys, rivers and lakes, and the journey was more than thousands of miles. I don't know how many pairs of shoes were broken, so that they could understand the difficulty and project quantity of excavation, make a reasonable estimate, and try their best to save every grain of food from the court.

When encountering such a thing, Guo Qi and Su Hanzhi's marriage naturally dragged down.

But no one expected that before Su Bian and others came back, the imperial court could not wait to start digging the canal without any plans.

The person in charge of this project was Feng Yi's father, Feng Yan, the head of the Feng family.

I don’t know if it was the emperor’s intention or Feng Yan’s own idea. All excavation projects not only started without any drawings, but also ignored the specific circumstances along the way. They claimed to open mountains and break the flow when encountering water. They dug out the shortest canal at the fastest speed to celebrate His Majesty’s fiftieth birthday.

The difficulty of implementing the Grand Canal Project under such conditions is just to imagine.

Not only did the cost far exceed the normal budget, but accidents occurred frequently in various river sections, which eventually led to millions of civilians collected from all over the Central Plains, at the cost of nearly one million casualties, and the Grand Canal project, which originally took eight to ten years to complete.

Logically speaking, if such a thing happens, it will definitely cause trouble in the world.

However, for some reasons, the court only solicited the people of the Central Plains, Jiangnan, Chunan, Yuexi and Yanbei, and was not affected at all. Therefore, no one came to pay attention to the suffering of the people of the Central Plains. In the end, this matter gradually faded away with the passage of time.

At that time, Su Bian and others naturally refused to agree. They repeatedly submitted a statement, demanding that the excavation project be stopped, and advised the emperor to cherish the people's strength and not to ignore the people of the world for their own selfish desires. Unfortunately, His Majesty, the current emperor, for some reason, always agreed, but there was no movement afterwards.

After the news of nearly one million casualties spread to the capital, Su Bian and others could no longer sit still. They vaguely guessed that this should be the emperor's intention, otherwise Feng Yan would definitely not have such courage.

However, they also knew that there was no evidence for such a thing, and they would definitely have no choice but to take the emperor's help, so they had to settle for the second best, asking the emperor to deal with Feng Yan, who was harming the people of the people of the Central Plains, and at least they could give an explanation to the people of the Central Plains.

Needless to say, Han Yong also understood the final result. If Su Bian succeeded, he would probably not have been born as a person, and naturally there would not have been Feng Yi, who would show off his power in the world.

"At the beginning, I didn't know that something happened to your grandfather, because at that time, I followed my father to Qiyun Pass. According to the top secret information obtained by the court, the grassland royal court was preparing to sneak attack Qiyun Pass again, and we need our Guo family head to take charge in person so that the emperor could feel at ease. And I asked my father to promise that he would never allow thirty years ago, because my grandfather was suddenly transferred from Qiyun Pass, the grassland barbarians broke through Qiyun Pass and killed a large number of people in Yuexi and Yanbei to repeat the tragedy... "

Guo Qi showed anger on his face, but eventually turned into a wry smile and said, "I'm afraid you can even hear that. This is just to send your father away and make your grandfather lose the most determined strong support. In the end, they did succeed. When his father went to Qiyun Pass, they actually framed your grandfather for being jealous of a playboy in the Qing Building, and even found a woman in the Qing Building, saying that she was a polite prostitute raised by your grandfather.

The wise man said: A gentleman can deceive him in a way. It is true.

Your grandfather is honest and knowledgeable. If he talks about poetry or strategy for governing the country, he can naturally speak very well. Even if he talks about how to appease the foreign races around him, he is still an expert. However, he doesn't know how to take on such despicable means.

At that time, your grandmother happened to die of illness. Your grandfather was already sad and depressed, so how could he bear the shameless slander of a group of officials of the Feng family? He was so angry that he vomited blood in the court. Shortly after returning home, he submitted a memorial to retire and return home.

During this period, no one stood up and no one came to visit your grandfather. The reason for this has to be thought about. I guess your grandfather has seen through the cold world, so he would rather die in a foreign land than return to Wujiang, and eventually entrust your mother to your father..."

This is a bit awkward. Han Yong's mother naturally has to entrust it to Han Yong's father. Can she still entrust it to others?

But Guo Qi said it very naturally, even calmly, as if he was saying that your mother should have entrusted me, but unfortunately, the fate of the people made people separate...

Han Yong was a little fascinated by hearing this, and his emotions were turbulent and extremely complicated.
Chapter completed!