To the south of the Juma River is the boundary of the Great Zhou Dynasty, with important towns such as Xiongzhou and Bazhou to the east; to the west is Yizhou.Yizhou goes south to Dingzhou... Zhao Shuyuan is between Yizhou and Dingzhou.
The place name Zhao Shuyuan is probably because many households in this place have the surname Zhao.
Zhao Hu is an 18-year-old young man in this village. He is the only child of this family. His parents have long wanted to start a family and start a business for him. There are many matchmakers who say that Zhao Hu has always been unwilling to do it; he is thinking about Xu Erniang from the same village.
I'll find someone to propose marriage in a while.
Zhao Hu thought to himself and followed his father through the gate into his own yard.
Both father and son were bricklayers. They just came back from helping people build tiles in the morning, so they watered their arms in the yard.
After a while, his mother came out with water. Zhao Hu took out a bag of copper coins and said: Mom, please help me, I will raise enough money to buy a horse.
His mother muttered a few words, what's the use of buying a horse, and it also costs food, and then nagged that his son should start a family.
Zhao Hu smiled and said: Mom is still worried that I can’t find a wife?I'm looking for Xu Erniang!
I'll ask your third aunt tomorrow.His mother said something.
Zhao Hu hurriedly said: Don’t be anxious for a while, wait until I buy the horse!
After saying that, he looked at the newly built large tiled house in the yard last year and the low wall with rammed earth. He stood there and said without looking back: I have to plant some flowers and plants behind the wall, and I also need to plant two peach and plum trees in the yard.As spring begins, it is full of flowers!
Zhao Hu wanted to make the house look better. After all, it was really not easy to build this house. The family of three got up early and worked on the ground. They not only farmed the land, but also raised pigs, sheep and chickens. The father and son had the skills, and they asked wherever they had work to work, and they built a kiln and burned tiles and sold... In addition, they also had to do labor service and paid a lot of grain.
Fortunately, after years of sweat and frugality, the Zhao family has become better and better.
Now he has a new house, and he has stored grain in his warehouse and copper coins in his cellar.
When the sheep at home were sold and some of the saved copper coins were taken out, Zhao Hu planned to buy a horse... At that time, as a rich young man, under the praise of his fellow villagers, he put on new clothes and rode a tall horse to marry the beautiful Xu Erniang.
Zhao Hu had an imagination in his mind, and was so happy that he almost wanted to dance with his feet. He shouted to the kitchen: I'll have some time to eat, so I'll go out to cut some grass for feeding sheep.
As soon as I walked to the gate of the yard, I suddenly heard a clanging sound of hitting the basin.
Then he saw a group of people rushing to the way to the village, and the fellow villagers shouted: The Khitans are coming!The villagers quickly pack up and leave!
An old man from the same clan cursed: Zhao Hu, why are you still standing there?Go and call your parents, get some food, clothing and leave immediately.Everyone went west into the mountain, or crossed the river south to Dingzhou.
Ki... Khitan people?Zhao Hu was stunned and stood there.
The old man said: The Khitans came on horseback, if you don’t hurry up, you can’t even run away!
At this time, Dad Zhao in the firewood shed and the woman in the kitchen came out to see. People outside kept shouting that the Khitans were coming. Everyone was panicked, and the dogs in the village were barking everywhere.
Soon, another person from the uncle's family came over and asked Zhao Hu's father to leave together.
Everyone talked about it and said that the Khitans were extremely fierce and killed, set fire and robbed.
Take out the sheep... But what to do with my house and the grain in the warehouse... The woman was so anxious that she cried.
Why, why!Zhao Hu stared at his red eyes with anger on his face.
He knew how long it took to accumulate, how much effort and sweat it would take to build this new house; and the grain in the warehouse was cultivated carefully when he was in the field, so he didn't care so much about serving me. He usually ate coarse grains to fill his stomach, and finally saved it.
The animals in the circle have been raised for several months before they grow up.
He has helped his parents work since he was a child, and it is something that the family has accumulated over many years.
These things allow his whole family to live a down-to-earth life, live like a person, and get praise from people far and near.
I was waiting for my family to be better in the future, save more money and food, and buy a few more land...
Zhao Hu became more and more annoyed and shouted: I won’t go anywhere. Whoever enters my house will kill the dog god!
Zhao Hu was already strong and could win when he fought with others occasionally. At this time, he was angry and went into the wood shed to find a hatchet.
His parents were so scared that they could not bear to see this, and their relatives advised that the Khitans came with a strong and strong stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern
My parents advised him and his relatives to leave first. They watched at home, but Zhao Hu refused to leave.
At this time, there was a lot of chaos outside.
The old man from Zhao said that his son was the most important person in the family, and he was anxious and afraid that he would cause trouble instead, so he found a rope, tied Zhao Hu a strong body, and asked his uncle's donkey cart to take away.
...As early afternoon, there was indeed a rumbling sound of horse hooves outside.Old Man Zhao and the old woman bolted the doors and windows, held the things in hand, and hid at home with a hatchet.
Soon, he heard a loud bang knock on the door, and then a loud bang. Old man Zhao was shocked and held the hatchet tightly against the wall and stared at the door.
Suddenly, several big men in armor rushed in. They looked at the hatchet in Old Man Zhao's hand and started yelling, carrying the iron hammer in front to their shoulders.
Suddenly, an arrow flew over and hit the middle of Old Man Zhao's eyebrows. He fell down without even shouting.
The woman was stunned and immediately burst into tears and rushed to Old Man Zhao's body.
A big Khitan man came over, kicked her over, grabbed the woman's arm and dragged her out, throwing her into the yard.
On the dirt road outside, some walking soldiers with only a small amount of iron on their bodies rushed in and rushed into the house to search everywhere.
The woman lay on the ground and couldn't move. She watched a group of people pull the pigs and sheep in the circle, and some people carried out with sacks of food.
Later, someone threw a torch into the woodshed, and the firewood burned, and soon it spread like a tile house, and the whole house gradually ignited a raging fire.
...Zhao Hu broke free from his ties the next day on the way to Xishan and returned along the main road.
Before he could get to the place, he saw thick smoke in the village. He hurried back home and saw a few darkened earth walls left, with smoke still coming out inside, nothing was gone... Zhao Hu suddenly felt cold in his hands and feet, sad and angry.
He hurried into the yard and saw his mother curled up on the ground. He quickly ran over and helped her up.
When the woman saw Zhao Hu, she said with red eyes: Your father is dead, dead... Why are you going back? Run away quickly.
Zhao Hu cried loudly, helped his mother to the wall and leaned against it. He hurriedly took a wooden pole and ran to the ruins to search. Finally, he found a corpse that was burned to death in the black ash.
He dragged the body out of the ruins, sat on the ground, and pounded the ground and cried.
After crying for a while, he remembered another person and ran out of the yard with a wooden pole.
When I ran to the Xu family's house, I heard a cry inside, and walked in. I saw that the courtyard was in a mess, and all kinds of debris were thrown everywhere, but the house had not been burned yet.
A body was parked on the door panel, and an old woman was crying loudly, her eyes were swollen.
Zhao Hu went up and saw that the dead man was a young man, Xu Erniang's younger brother.
He hurriedly asked: Aunt, has the second mother escaped?
The old woman was still crying and pointed at her finger.
Zhao Hu looked in the direction and it was a straw shed.
He walked over and saw some broken women's clothes inside, and there were blood on the grass.
His head buzzed, he clenched his fists and knocked on his forehead, turned around and choked and said: Where is the person?
The old woman said: Hidden in the cellar... she was stolen...
Zhao Hu was in a state of grief and anger. He lifted the wooden pole and rushed out suddenly. There was ruins around him. He woke up for a while. Where did he find someone to vent his shame and anger?What if you find the Khitan people?
……
On the Yizhou city wall, the Jiedushi Sun Xingyou, who was armed with heavy armor, stood there with a blue face, and an official robe next to him was talking: The Liao army burned, killed, looted, and the Jieshuai was watching like this?
The general said angrily: This time the Liao people invaded, not only to attack Caogu, but at least tens of thousands of cavalry!I won’t defend Yizhou City first. If the city is broken, can you have good fruits to eat?
Someone said: Hurry up and go to Xiong and Ba cities to seek help.
Sun Xingyou raised his head and took a deep breath, turned around and said: It's useless.The Liao army invaded, and the city was the main defense of the town. There was no force to be transferred out to fight the Liao army in a large field. What's more, who will lead the army?The general has sent 800 miles to report to the court in an urgent manner, and everything will be passed by His Majesty.
He said coldly: You are going to be out of your arms at night now, inspect the defenses of all gates and cities, arrest spies, and beware of the Liao army's capture of the city!
The generals clasped their fists and said: Here.
Sun Xingyou looked up and saw a big blue flag floating in the wind, with two words on it: Dazhou.
Sun Xingyou and the military generals and officials around him did not say a word.
At this moment, a group of people holding long poles came from the post road under the city. There were no pedestrians around, just a crowd of people.
Sun Xingyou and others looked alertly.
After waiting for a long time, the group of twenty or thirty people walked to the city and looked up and shouted.
A general in the city shouted loudly: Who is coming?
A young man said: Let’s join the army!
The people on the city muttered: Is it a spy bought by the Khitans at this time?
The general who was calling said loudly: Whose person is named? Who is his name?
The young man replied: Zhao Shuyuan’s people, their family was killed by the Khitans, and we will join the army to take revenge...
The general said: The whole city is now martial law and cannot enter and exit.I'll come back in a few days.
The group of people didn't respond, but refused to leave under the city.
A few arrows were shot out from the city soon, and they retreated for a while.
The person who called out to the city just now was Zhao Hu. Zhao Hu was at a loss when he saw this. Another young man said: The Khitans are in Yizhou, and the generals in this city dare not come out, so they must be a coward!I heard that the emperor who had just ascended the throne in Tokyo was the one who killed tens of thousands of Liao cavalry in Zhuozhou that year. We might as well go to Tokyo to vote for the Imperial Army!
The place name Zhao Shuyuan is probably because many households in this place have the surname Zhao.
Zhao Hu is an 18-year-old young man in this village. He is the only child of this family. His parents have long wanted to start a family and start a business for him. There are many matchmakers who say that Zhao Hu has always been unwilling to do it; he is thinking about Xu Erniang from the same village.
I'll find someone to propose marriage in a while.
Zhao Hu thought to himself and followed his father through the gate into his own yard.
Both father and son were bricklayers. They just came back from helping people build tiles in the morning, so they watered their arms in the yard.
After a while, his mother came out with water. Zhao Hu took out a bag of copper coins and said: Mom, please help me, I will raise enough money to buy a horse.
His mother muttered a few words, what's the use of buying a horse, and it also costs food, and then nagged that his son should start a family.
Zhao Hu smiled and said: Mom is still worried that I can’t find a wife?I'm looking for Xu Erniang!
I'll ask your third aunt tomorrow.His mother said something.
Zhao Hu hurriedly said: Don’t be anxious for a while, wait until I buy the horse!
After saying that, he looked at the newly built large tiled house in the yard last year and the low wall with rammed earth. He stood there and said without looking back: I have to plant some flowers and plants behind the wall, and I also need to plant two peach and plum trees in the yard.As spring begins, it is full of flowers!
Zhao Hu wanted to make the house look better. After all, it was really not easy to build this house. The family of three got up early and worked on the ground. They not only farmed the land, but also raised pigs, sheep and chickens. The father and son had the skills, and they asked wherever they had work to work, and they built a kiln and burned tiles and sold... In addition, they also had to do labor service and paid a lot of grain.
Fortunately, after years of sweat and frugality, the Zhao family has become better and better.
Now he has a new house, and he has stored grain in his warehouse and copper coins in his cellar.
When the sheep at home were sold and some of the saved copper coins were taken out, Zhao Hu planned to buy a horse... At that time, as a rich young man, under the praise of his fellow villagers, he put on new clothes and rode a tall horse to marry the beautiful Xu Erniang.
Zhao Hu had an imagination in his mind, and was so happy that he almost wanted to dance with his feet. He shouted to the kitchen: I'll have some time to eat, so I'll go out to cut some grass for feeding sheep.
As soon as I walked to the gate of the yard, I suddenly heard a clanging sound of hitting the basin.
Then he saw a group of people rushing to the way to the village, and the fellow villagers shouted: The Khitans are coming!The villagers quickly pack up and leave!
An old man from the same clan cursed: Zhao Hu, why are you still standing there?Go and call your parents, get some food, clothing and leave immediately.Everyone went west into the mountain, or crossed the river south to Dingzhou.
Ki... Khitan people?Zhao Hu was stunned and stood there.
The old man said: The Khitans came on horseback, if you don’t hurry up, you can’t even run away!
At this time, Dad Zhao in the firewood shed and the woman in the kitchen came out to see. People outside kept shouting that the Khitans were coming. Everyone was panicked, and the dogs in the village were barking everywhere.
Soon, another person from the uncle's family came over and asked Zhao Hu's father to leave together.
Everyone talked about it and said that the Khitans were extremely fierce and killed, set fire and robbed.
Take out the sheep... But what to do with my house and the grain in the warehouse... The woman was so anxious that she cried.
Why, why!Zhao Hu stared at his red eyes with anger on his face.
He knew how long it took to accumulate, how much effort and sweat it would take to build this new house; and the grain in the warehouse was cultivated carefully when he was in the field, so he didn't care so much about serving me. He usually ate coarse grains to fill his stomach, and finally saved it.
The animals in the circle have been raised for several months before they grow up.
He has helped his parents work since he was a child, and it is something that the family has accumulated over many years.
These things allow his whole family to live a down-to-earth life, live like a person, and get praise from people far and near.
I was waiting for my family to be better in the future, save more money and food, and buy a few more land...
Zhao Hu became more and more annoyed and shouted: I won’t go anywhere. Whoever enters my house will kill the dog god!
Zhao Hu was already strong and could win when he fought with others occasionally. At this time, he was angry and went into the wood shed to find a hatchet.
His parents were so scared that they could not bear to see this, and their relatives advised that the Khitans came with a strong and strong stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern stern
My parents advised him and his relatives to leave first. They watched at home, but Zhao Hu refused to leave.
At this time, there was a lot of chaos outside.
The old man from Zhao said that his son was the most important person in the family, and he was anxious and afraid that he would cause trouble instead, so he found a rope, tied Zhao Hu a strong body, and asked his uncle's donkey cart to take away.
...As early afternoon, there was indeed a rumbling sound of horse hooves outside.Old Man Zhao and the old woman bolted the doors and windows, held the things in hand, and hid at home with a hatchet.
Soon, he heard a loud bang knock on the door, and then a loud bang. Old man Zhao was shocked and held the hatchet tightly against the wall and stared at the door.
Suddenly, several big men in armor rushed in. They looked at the hatchet in Old Man Zhao's hand and started yelling, carrying the iron hammer in front to their shoulders.
Suddenly, an arrow flew over and hit the middle of Old Man Zhao's eyebrows. He fell down without even shouting.
The woman was stunned and immediately burst into tears and rushed to Old Man Zhao's body.
A big Khitan man came over, kicked her over, grabbed the woman's arm and dragged her out, throwing her into the yard.
On the dirt road outside, some walking soldiers with only a small amount of iron on their bodies rushed in and rushed into the house to search everywhere.
The woman lay on the ground and couldn't move. She watched a group of people pull the pigs and sheep in the circle, and some people carried out with sacks of food.
Later, someone threw a torch into the woodshed, and the firewood burned, and soon it spread like a tile house, and the whole house gradually ignited a raging fire.
...Zhao Hu broke free from his ties the next day on the way to Xishan and returned along the main road.
Before he could get to the place, he saw thick smoke in the village. He hurried back home and saw a few darkened earth walls left, with smoke still coming out inside, nothing was gone... Zhao Hu suddenly felt cold in his hands and feet, sad and angry.
He hurried into the yard and saw his mother curled up on the ground. He quickly ran over and helped her up.
When the woman saw Zhao Hu, she said with red eyes: Your father is dead, dead... Why are you going back? Run away quickly.
Zhao Hu cried loudly, helped his mother to the wall and leaned against it. He hurriedly took a wooden pole and ran to the ruins to search. Finally, he found a corpse that was burned to death in the black ash.
He dragged the body out of the ruins, sat on the ground, and pounded the ground and cried.
After crying for a while, he remembered another person and ran out of the yard with a wooden pole.
When I ran to the Xu family's house, I heard a cry inside, and walked in. I saw that the courtyard was in a mess, and all kinds of debris were thrown everywhere, but the house had not been burned yet.
A body was parked on the door panel, and an old woman was crying loudly, her eyes were swollen.
Zhao Hu went up and saw that the dead man was a young man, Xu Erniang's younger brother.
He hurriedly asked: Aunt, has the second mother escaped?
The old woman was still crying and pointed at her finger.
Zhao Hu looked in the direction and it was a straw shed.
He walked over and saw some broken women's clothes inside, and there were blood on the grass.
His head buzzed, he clenched his fists and knocked on his forehead, turned around and choked and said: Where is the person?
The old woman said: Hidden in the cellar... she was stolen...
Zhao Hu was in a state of grief and anger. He lifted the wooden pole and rushed out suddenly. There was ruins around him. He woke up for a while. Where did he find someone to vent his shame and anger?What if you find the Khitan people?
……
On the Yizhou city wall, the Jiedushi Sun Xingyou, who was armed with heavy armor, stood there with a blue face, and an official robe next to him was talking: The Liao army burned, killed, looted, and the Jieshuai was watching like this?
The general said angrily: This time the Liao people invaded, not only to attack Caogu, but at least tens of thousands of cavalry!I won’t defend Yizhou City first. If the city is broken, can you have good fruits to eat?
Someone said: Hurry up and go to Xiong and Ba cities to seek help.
Sun Xingyou raised his head and took a deep breath, turned around and said: It's useless.The Liao army invaded, and the city was the main defense of the town. There was no force to be transferred out to fight the Liao army in a large field. What's more, who will lead the army?The general has sent 800 miles to report to the court in an urgent manner, and everything will be passed by His Majesty.
He said coldly: You are going to be out of your arms at night now, inspect the defenses of all gates and cities, arrest spies, and beware of the Liao army's capture of the city!
The generals clasped their fists and said: Here.
Sun Xingyou looked up and saw a big blue flag floating in the wind, with two words on it: Dazhou.
Sun Xingyou and the military generals and officials around him did not say a word.
At this moment, a group of people holding long poles came from the post road under the city. There were no pedestrians around, just a crowd of people.
Sun Xingyou and others looked alertly.
After waiting for a long time, the group of twenty or thirty people walked to the city and looked up and shouted.
A general in the city shouted loudly: Who is coming?
A young man said: Let’s join the army!
The people on the city muttered: Is it a spy bought by the Khitans at this time?
The general who was calling said loudly: Whose person is named? Who is his name?
The young man replied: Zhao Shuyuan’s people, their family was killed by the Khitans, and we will join the army to take revenge...
The general said: The whole city is now martial law and cannot enter and exit.I'll come back in a few days.
The group of people didn't respond, but refused to leave under the city.
A few arrows were shot out from the city soon, and they retreated for a while.
The person who called out to the city just now was Zhao Hu. Zhao Hu was at a loss when he saw this. Another young man said: The Khitans are in Yizhou, and the generals in this city dare not come out, so they must be a coward!I heard that the emperor who had just ascended the throne in Tokyo was the one who killed tens of thousands of Liao cavalry in Zhuozhou that year. We might as well go to Tokyo to vote for the Imperial Army!