The Hu people used to be a nomadic people in the north, they liked to eat meat, and they did not leave chickens and dogs wherever they went, and Xiyang County is now a veritable dead city, with no dogs barking at night and no chickens crowing in the early morning.
Mo Wen was injured, but also attracted the wind and cold, bedridden for three days, Xiao Wu was busy before and after, with a board car from the coffin shop in the city to pull a coffin into a coffin to bury Mrs.
Mo, and then searched everywhere in the city for the remaining food, on the fourth day Mo Wen's injury and condition improved, so he struggled to get up and set up a mourning hall for his mother in the main hall, burning paper and keeping filial piety.
At noon on the fourth day, Xiao Wu went out to look for food, and did not return until the sun was in the west.
As the night darkened, Mo Wen began to feel apprehensive in his heart, he was not afraid of his dead mother, he was worried about Xiao Wu's safety.
Xiao Wu still didn't come back after the unitary time, Mo Wen couldn't sit still, and slowly moved to the gate, it snowed again yesterday, leaving a line of footprints in the snow, according to the footprints, Xiao Wu went to Dongcheng.
After hesitating for a moment, Mo Wen turned around and went back to the house with a wind lamp to look for the footprints, the footprints showed that Xiao Wu was looking for food from house to house, but the fleeing people would not leave food, plus the looting of the Hu people, so there were very few things in the city that could satisfy the stomach, and Xiao Wu's footprints extended to the lecture hall where he had studied before, and the footprints had been eastward into the mountains since the lecture hall came out.
The door of the lecture hall was open, and it was pitch black inside, so Mo Wen didn't have the courage to go in to find out, but if he didn't enter the lecture hall, he couldn't figure out why Xiao Wu would enter the mountains to the east after leaving here.
After hesitating for a long time, Mo Wen finally did not enter the lecture hall, but followed Xiao Wu's footprints to the east.
After not taking a few steps, he noticed the anomaly, and the footprints in the snow to the east of the lecture hall were obviously much deeper than before, indicating that Xiao Wu had left the lecture hall with something heavy.
When the Hu people invaded, not all the residents of the city fled, some old and weak women and children chose to stay, their choice was obviously wrong, because the city was full of corpses half buried by the snow, and every time he saw a corpse, Mo Wen's fear in his heart increased by a point, he wanted to turn back several times, but after repeated times he chose to continue to search.
The footprints went east into the mountains on the east side, and when he reached the edge of the city, Mo Wen stopped again, not far in front of him was the dark woods, he really didn't have the courage to go in, the most important thing was that he couldn't figure out why Xiao Wu wanted to enter the woods, and there was something that Xiao Wu took away from the lecture hall.
Although the light of the wind lamp was very dim, but the dim light gave Mo Wen a sense of security, after stopping for a long time, Mo Wen thought of a way, took off the cover of the wind lamp, and lit a pile of grain grass stacked next to the house with an oil lamp, the fire quickly ignited, the more it burned, the more it burned, and finally ignited the house, the houses in the city are all in pieces, once burned, the fire will not be extinguished for a short time.
After the house was set on fire, the surroundings suddenly lit up, and Mo Wen's fear was greatly reduced, and he carried the wind lantern into the east side of the mountain.
In winter, the villagers will hoard grass for the winter, so there are no weeds and shrubs in the mountains except for the big trees that the government prohibits from cutting down.
After walking through the woods, Mo Wen saw a large grave mound, which was the cemetery of Xiyang County, where the dead in the city would be sent for burial.
Mo Wen should have been frightened when he saw the cemetery, but he was not afraid, because he saw Xiao Wu digging a soil pit in the northwest of the cemetery with his head waving his head, and a corpse lying next to him.
Although he couldn't see the corpse from a distance, Mo Wen could guess that it was the body of the old master, Xiao Wu should have entered the lecture hall when he was looking for food, Xiao Wu knew that he respected the teacher, so he would bring the old master's body here for burial after he found it.
Mo Wen carried the lantern and walked to the side of the grave that Xiao Wu was digging, the grave had been dug three feet at this time, Xiao Wu was leveling the soil at the bottom of the pit, Mo Wen walked to the old gentleman's body and bowed in remembrance.
Seeing Mo Wen's arrival, Xiao Wu immediately sped up the excavation, and Mo Wen waved his hand when he saw this, "Don't worry." ” Xiao Wu nodded when he heard this, quickly leveled the bottom of the grave, and then picked up Mr.
's body and put it into the pit to backfill the soil.
"Sir has the grace of enlightenment and preaching to me, and it should be restrained with a coffin, which is too hasty."
Mo Wen sighed and spoke.
Hearing this, Xiao Wu turned his head and glanced at Mo Wen, then turned around and continued to fill in the landfill.
The grave pit was not big, and soon Xiao Wu backfilled it, Mo Wen put down the wind lantern, knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
Kneeling to worship the dead should kowtow three times, but Mo Wen only kowtowed one and was picked up by Xiao Wu, Mo Wen looked at Xiao Wu suspiciously.
"I am ashamed of your great gift for the children of the teacher."
Xiao Wu said.
Mo Wenyan's hairs stood up in an instant, and Xiao Wu's words were not only the tone of the old gentleman, but even the voice was exactly the same.
"Don't panic, don't worry, as a teacher, you just want to be in the ground, and there is no malicious intent."
Xiao Wu spoke again.
Mo Wen was stunned in horror, trembling and retreating.
"The way of Confucius and Mencius cannot be used in troubled times, and act only by one's own heart."
Xiao Wu shook his head and sighed, "There are too many souls here, it's not a place to stay for a long time, so let's run for your life early." ” Mo Wen's injury had not healed in the first place, and he fainted again after being frightened.
When he woke up again, he found himself lying on Xiao Wu's back, thinking of the previous scene when Xiao Wu was possessed by the old man, Mo Wen suddenly screamed in fright.
"Young Master, what's wrong with you" Xiao Wu hurriedly put down Mo when he heard the voice.
"You, you" Mo Wen looked at Xiao Wu in horror.
"Young master, why did we go to the cemetery" Xiao Wu was also stunned.
"I don't know, there are too many ghosts here, it's not appropriate to stay for a long time, we have to get out of here as soon as possible."
Mo Wen came back to his senses and repeated Mr.
's words.
"Okay, I'll carry you back first."
Xiao Wu promised to bend his knees again.
"No, I can walk on my own."
Mo Wen shook his head and said, at this time, he was not far from home, and the fire behind him was still burning.
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After experiencing this change, Mo Wen no longer worries about letting Xiao Wu go out alone to find food, no matter where he goes, the two of them go together, and at night he will set fire to the house to try to make the city as bright as possible.
After two days like this, Mrs.
Mo finished the coffin and put it into the ground, the two prepared incense and candles, and came to the river to burn incense to pay tribute to Lao Wu and Master Mo.
Then Mo Wen took Xiao Wu to the Mo family ancestral hall and took out the golden cakes that his father buried here that day, these golden cakes were his father's preparations for his future livelihood, but he didn't expect to use them so soon.
Mo Wen didn't take all the eight pieces of gold cake away, he left one piece, which he learned from his father, no one knows what will happen in life, but he always wants to take precautions.
"Young master, where are we going now" Out of the ancestral hall, Xiao Wu asked.
"Don't call me young master in the future, call your name."
Mo Wen sighed and spoke, the master and servant of the tribulation no longer have the dignity of the world.
"You are a young master no matter what time it is."
Xiao Wu shook his head resolutely, the ancestor of the Mo family saved the lives of the ancestors of the Wu family, and the Wu family was grateful and never forgot it, and followed it from generation to generation.
"My father has passed away, and it is disrespectful to call the young master impolite and disrespectful to the ancestors."
Mo asked.
"Sir."
Xiao Wu immediately changed his name, after the old man passed away, the young master should be renamed the master, in order to show the inheritance of father and son, and the continuation of the bloodline.
"Let's call the name."
Mo Wen didn't like this title with a humility overtone.
"Master, where are we going now?"
asked Xiao Wu.
"Old Five, where do you want to go" Mo Wen also changed his title, which is closer and can also dilute the dignity and inferiority of "master" to a certain extent.
"Master, I listen to you."
Xiao Wu did not refuse Mo Wen's change of address to him, because he also had no parents.
"I've heard that not all of the people captured by the Hu people will be eaten by them, and some will be sold, and I want to go north, and if I meet my wife, I may be able to redeem her with the money."
Don't ask for the advice of the fifth child, after all, it is a very dangerous thing to go north.
"Okay."
Lao Wu nodded immediately, it was not that he didn't know how dangerous it was to go north, but that he was used to listening and doing it.
After the agreement, Mo Wen left Xiyang County with the fifth child, left his hometown, and went north to find his wife: