Jiangning City is like the corpse of a huge wild beast.

A section of the city wall to the west of the city collapsed and no one repaired it. The golden autumn is coming, and small flowers blooming on the top of the grass, some white and some yellow.

Ning Ji stood near the city gate and looked for a while. It was rare for a young man who was only fifteen to be sentimental. But after watching for a long time, he felt that the entire city had given up treatment in terms of city defense.

The crowds near the city gate were bustling, trampling the entire road into a dilapidated mud. Although some soldiers were maintaining order, they would occasionally cause a lot of abuse and noise due to blockages and jumping into the line. The team entering the city stretched along the road beside the city walls, and various gray and black people looked like an ant colony gathering on the corpses of wild beasts from a distance.

He remembered the things that his brother told him about in Chengdu last year that he was learning from his father. A road in the city could only pass through at the same time. If the pedestrians on the road were kept at the maximum speed, how to expand and diversion when the road was not enough. Ning Ji was bored and said, "Build another one, if one is not enough, then repair another one."

The brother just shook his head and looked at him with a silly child, carrying his hands on his back as if he knew everything: "Oh, the planning and governance of the city are a big problem."

Who do you look down on? My sister-in-law doesn't understand at all... He thought at the time.

...

"Oh, urban planning and governance are a big problem."

Ning Ji sighed among the crowd and walked forward slowly.

He was often the most impatient child in the past, and he hated queuing slowly. But at this moment, Xiao Ningji did not have too much impatience in his heart. He followed the team slowly, watching the wind blowing from afar, blowing the thatched grass in the fields and the willow trees by the river, and looking at the dilapidated tall city gates in Jiangning City, and the black bricks were traces of war...

When I was at home, it was usually the mother who talked about Jiangning City in detail.

My father is a person who does great things and is often not at home. When they were young, there were rumors that his father had passed away for a while. Later, although he returned home, he mostly got along with each child in pieces, or talked about some interesting rumors in the world, or took them to eat something delicious. It was easy to recall, but there were not many such days.

The aunt supports many industries around her home and often has to watch the inspectors. When she is at home, she cares about all the children's homework most. Ning Ji is a poor student. He often sees the aunt smiling and asks him: "Xiao Ji, what are your recent homework?" Ning Ji felt guilty.

The aunt never beat him, but would just pull him to say a lot of things with great thoughts. Sometimes he would press his forehead while talking. Ning Ji knew that this was a problem caused by the aunt's overwork. For a while, the aunt tried to give him a small meal and accompanied him to do homework for several days. The aunt's studies were not good. Apart from math, the two couldn't discuss the other courses, so they had to go to Aunt Yun Zhu to ask.

Of course, when the aunt arrived, she finally gave up the idea of ​​having to improve her grades. Ning Ji breathed a sigh of relief. He was only occasionally asked about his homework by the aunt. When he said a few simple words, Ning Ji knew that she really felt sorry for her.

Aunt Hong is the most powerful martial arts, but has a very good personality. She is from Luliang. Although she has experienced many murders, her sword skills have become more and more peaceful over the years. She rarely plays with the children, and she often feeds the pile of chickens in her family. Two years ago, Ning Ji felt that Aunt Hong's sword skills were becoming more and more ordinary, but after experiencing the battlefield, she suddenly discovered the terrible sacredness in peace.

Due to work, Aunt Hong doesn’t spend much time with everyone. Sometimes she would look at the surroundings from a high place at home, and often patrol the situation of the wards. Ning Ji knew that in the most difficult times of the Chinese army, people often tried to come to arrest or assassinate their father’s family. Aunt Hong always guarded this home with a highly vigilant attitude.

She often watched her group of children playing in the distance, and as long as she was there, others would definitely not worry too much about safety. Ning Ji only realized after experiencing the battlefield. Aunt Hong, who often looked at everyone not far away but couldn't come to play with them, was so reliable.

Aunt Gua's martial arts are completely different from Aunt Hong. She rarely goes home, but because of her lively personality, she often acts like a child king at home. After all, "Liu Dabiao, a domineering family" is not a false reputation. She occasionally brings a group of children to challenge her father's authority. In this regard, Aunt Jin'er is similar. The only difference is that Aunt Gua provokes her father and often quarrels with her. The specific outcome of the victory or defeat has to be made with her "privately", saying that it is to take care of her face. When Aunt Jin'er does such a thing, she is often teased by her father.

My mother is the housekeeper.

She doesn't care about too many things outside, but only cares about the lives of everyone in the family. A group of children have to prepare when they go to school, the clothes the whole family has to wear every day, the bedding during the season, and every meal... As long as it is at home, it is mostly handled by her mother.

When a group of children were young or at home during some holidays, they often gathered with their mothers. In spring, their mother took them to smash green balls under the eaves, and in summer, they were tired of playing in the yard and drank sour plum water under the eaves... At these times, the mother would tell them about the years when the whole family was in Jiangning.

The yard with white walls and green tiles, the small flower beds that were once carefully cared for in the yard, the two-story building with antique wind chimes and lanterns hanging on the building, and at dusk after the shower, the sky was as bright as a dawn, and lanterns lit up in the yard... There are also festivals, grand occasions during the market, the cruise ships on the Qinhuai River were weaving, the parades danced long dragons and lit fireworks... At that time, my mother, according to her father, was still a stupid but cute little maid with two bags of bags...

Of course, my mother claimed that she was not stupid. She and Aunt Juan and Apricot Xing grew up with Aunt Juan and Apricot, who were about the same age as sisters. At that time, many people in the Su family were not talented, including the now very powerful Uncle Wenfang and Uncle Wending, who were just young people who were eating and drinking at home. The aunt was interested in doing business since she was a child, so her grandfather took her to and from the shops at that time, and later she also let her take care of part of the family business.

At that time, the aunt and her mother were only thirteen or fourteen years old, so they had already been in contact with these things. One year, when they were about fifteen years old, several trucks of goods could not come back in the heavy rain outside the city. The master and servant came out in the rain and urged a group of people to go on the road. A large truck slid on the sunken slope on the side of the road. The people escorted the cart were tired and stayed on the side of the road and slacked off. They mocked the girls with their mother and Aunt Juan braved the heavy rain to push the cart in the mud, and Aunt Xing went to the farmhouse beside her to buy hot tea and eat. A group of workers in the cart finally couldn't bear it anymore and helped the girls carry the cart up in the heavy rain... Since then, the aunt has officially begun to take charge of the shop. Thinking about it now, the aunt named Su Tan'er and the mother named Chan'er are exactly the age she is today.

My mother would also talk about her father's situation after she arrived at the Su family. As an old lady's spy, she followed her father to go shopping and walked around Jiangning City. At that time, her father was beaten to the head and couldn't remember what happened before, but her personality became very good. Sometimes she would ask this and that, and sometimes she would deliberately bully her, but it was not annoying. Sometimes, even a very knowledgeable old man could talk to the other party and make jokes without losing the upper hand.

Then my father wrote that amazing poem, which scared everyone and gradually became the number one talented man in Jiangning, which was extremely powerful...

The vague memories in Ning Ji's mind started when he was Xiao Canghe, and then he went to Liangshan, Zhangcun and Chengdu. He had been passing Jiangning in the future, but the Jiangning in his mother's memory was so vivid that he could think of these things effortlessly.

When he left the southwest, he just wanted to join in the fun and went all the way to Jiangning. But at this time he realized that his mother might be the one who had been thinking about Jiangning.

My mother followed her father to experience the rampage of the Jurchens, and the war and the displaced life. She had seen bloody warriors and civilians lying in pools of blood. For everyone in the southwest, those bloody battles had unquestionable reasons, and they were all necessary struggles. My father led everyone to fight against invasion, and the anger burst out was as magnificent as a melting flow. But at the same time, the mother, who arranged the lives of everyone in the family every day, of course, missed the past during her past days in Jiangning. In her heart, perhaps, she had always missed her peaceful father at that time, and also missed her and her aunt when she rushed into the mud on the roadside to push the truck. In that rain, there was also her mother's youth and warmth.

Ning Ji had never experienced such days. When he occasionally saw the concepts of youth or peace in books, he always felt a little pretentious and distant. But at this moment, when he came to Jiangning City and recalled these vivid memories in his mind, he could understand a little.

If you want to return to Jiangning, more of it actually comes from your mother's will.

He looked up at the broken city.

My mother is still in the southwest today, and I don’t know when my father will take her back here again…

After queuing for a long time, he entered through the west gate of Jiangning City. After entering, there was a chaotic market near the city gate. This place was originally a small square, but now it was full of various wooden sheds and tents. One by one, the fair party members with strange eyes seemed to be waiting to sell things here, but no one spoke explicitly. Shit Baby's flag was hanging in the center of the square, proving that this was his territory.

The small square passed by, and it was a dilapidated but relatively lively street after the war. Some shops were repaired and repaired. In Chengdu, they could only be considered a slum to be repaired. All colors were mainly dirty gray and black, with dirty water flowing on the roadside. Most of the trees in front of the shops had withered, and some had only half of the yellow leaves. The leaves fell underground and dyed dirty water, and immediately turned black. People from all walks of life were walking on the street.

Ning Ji asked about the direction of the Qinhuai River and walked towards the other side.

When in Liangshan, in addition to her mother often talking about the situation in Jiangning, Aunt Zhu occasionally talked about the matter here. She redeemed herself from the shop selling people and lived in a small building by the Qinhuai River. Her father would sometimes run past there - that was a bit weird at that time - she couldn't even kill chickens, spent all her money, and set up a small stall with her father's encouragement. Her father painted in the small car and painted very well.

Aunt Zhu had some rifts with the aunt at that time, but after passing Xiao Canghe, the two sides stayed together, and these rifts were resolved. Sometimes they would say bad things about their father, saying that he was eating the bowl and looking at the pot, but many times they also said that if he had not married his father, his life might not be good, and he might have lived a worse life. Ning Ji didn't understand it very much, so he did not participate in this kind of discussion of the three aunts and six wives.

When Aunt Zhu talks about Jiangning, the one who talks the most is Grandpa Qin who is sitting on the Qinhuai River. It is very, very powerful and very special for his father to make friends with Grandpa Qin, because the old man is indeed a very powerful person. I don’t know why, but he became friends with his father who was just married to him at that time. According to Aunt Zhu, this may be a keen eye to recognize heroes.

Of course, if my father joins the topic, he will sometimes mention another old man who married into the city of Jiangning. Grandpa Kangxian from Princess Chengguo’s Mansion is a bit shameless in playing chess, and his mouth is quite unforgiving, but he is an admirable good person. When the Jurchens came, Grandpa Kangxian died in the city for his country.

The Qinhuai River, Aunt Zhu’s small building, the old house of the Su family, the place where Grandpa Qin sets up a stall, and the Grandpa Kang’s house of Princess Chengguo are the coordinates that Ning Ji thought about in Jiangning City.

He first advanced according to the obvious coordinates of the Qinhuai River, passing through the bustling streets and alleys, and through relatively remote paths. The dilapidated, black houses, gray walls, and the mud on the roadside smelled smelly. In addition to the various flags of the Fair Party, the brighter color embellishments in the city were just fallen leaves in autumn, and there were no beautiful lanterns or exquisite street embellishments.

When he came to the Qinhuai River, he saw some places where there were crooked houses, black wreckage burned into shelves, and there were still small sheds on the roadside. Refugees from all sides occupied sections of the area, and some stinky smell came from the river, and strange duckweed floated.

For a moment, it seemed that I couldn't find the small building that Aunt Zhu mentioned and the place suitable for chess stalls.

He made a kind gesture and inquired again at the food stall on the roadside. This time, he asked easily about the original residence of the inner demon Ning Yi and the old house of the Su family in Jiangning.

"...I want to go to the old house of the inner demon. Let me tell you, the young man, it's not peaceful there, there are two or three kings fighting for it."

"Why?" Ning Ji stared at his eyes and asked naively.

"Oh, this is not clear. Some people say that it is a place where dragons are prosperous. If you occupy it, you will have dragon energy. Some people say that there is good business there. It is the place where God of Wealth lived. Take a brick to build a house in the future and you will be prosperous in business. In addition, it seems that some people want to burn that place and establish their power... Hey, who knows who has the final say..."

Ning Ji was speechless for a moment, asked clearly the place and headed towards that side.

When we arrived at the Su family's house, it was Shen Shi 2 in the afternoon. It was approaching dusk but it was not yet here. The sun in autumn was lazily emitting light without any power. The original Su family's old house was a large house, and there was a side courtyard next to this courtyard. At the highest number of people, there were 300 people living there, consisting of dozens of courtyards. At this time, what caught our eye was an uneven courtyard wall. Most of the walls on the outside had collapsed. There were broken houses in the outer courtyards. Some places had tents like the streets, and some places opened shops based on the original houses. One of them was obviously a casino with the flag of King Yama.

There is no door head or plaque, and the door frames of the original courtyard have been completely removed.

Ning Ji stood outside and looked inside. The walls of many courtyards inside seemed uneven. Unlike the ordinary post-war ruins, this large courtyard looked like it had been removed by someone with bare hands, and most of the various things were moved away. Compared with other buildings around the street, it was like it was "eated" by some strange monster. There was only half of it staying on the ruins.

Even if the surrounding houses were burned by fire, the ruins seemed "complete"...

He remembered the scene when his mother sat in the courtyard and talked about Jiangning with their group of children during those difficult days.

Xiaochan's words were gentle, talking about everything she had experienced during the ups and downs, and talking about the warm hometown and destination, the little child listened on the side.

That all,
Chapter completed!