The Zhou family is just an ordinary family in Xinhui County. Zhou Shixiang clearly remembers that his father Zhou Shanyuan made a living by hopping wooden barrels for people and was honest. His mother He was also a kind-hearted woman. She believed in the Bodhisattva and could not stand the pitiful people in the world. The old couple were typical residents of this era, and they were so ordinary that they could not be more ordinary.

Zhou Shixiang was the only son in the family. He gave birth to him when he was almost forty years old. Therefore, Zhou Shanyuan and his wife loved him very much. Just like many parents in later generations, they were really afraid that their son would be hot in summer and cold in winter, and they wanted to hold their son in their mouths to protect them.

Zhou Shanyuan, who was honest and loyal to his whole life, knew that he had suffered all his life and did not want his children and grandchildren to continue to suffer as much as he did. Therefore, he specially named his son a famous scholar and insisted on asking his son to study so that he could pass the exam and become a superior person, and would shine on the lintel of the Zhou family in the future.

In order to support his son in school, the couple spent a short time and wanted to break a penny of copper coins into two, but they would eat whatever they had when they had something delicious, so they couldn't bear to eat it. They really felt sorry for parents in the world.

Zhou Shixiang was also talented and lived up to his parents' expectations. He was successful in his studies. He passed the scholarship at the age of fourteen, which attracted the attention of the people of Xinhui County. They all said that the Zhou family was about to produce Wenquxing, which made Zhou Shanyuan and He family happy.

At that time, Guangdong was still in the Ming Dynasty. Zhou Shixiang originally planned to strike while the iron was hot and went to the provincial capital to participate in the rural examination the next year. However, the Qing army in the north suddenly came to kill, and the Ming Dynasty could no longer be held. The Qing Dynasty was also busy fighting with the Ming army for Guangdong, and he didn't care about the imperial examination for the first time, so he delayed the matter of taking the imperial examination in this way.

When Zhou Shixiang was eighteen years old, Zhou Shanyuan and He saw that their son was old and could not be tested for their fame for the time being, so they wanted to hold their grandson and asked someone to arrange a marriage for him. The other party was the daughter of the Zhao family who opened a rice shop in the city. They were well-off and looked good. If Zhou Shixiang had not had the fame of scholars and had a great future in the future, the Zhao family would never marry their daughter to the Zhou family. Compared with the Zhao family, the Zhou family was really poor.

Zhou Shixiang was not satisfied with this marriage at first, but later when he met Zhao, he fell in love with him. After a few days, the couple felt as if they were in a stalemate and were so loving.

Less than two years after the marriage, Zhao lived up to her husband's hope and added a fat boy to the Zhou family. Zhou Shixiang, who became a father, happily named his son Zhou Bingzheng, which means that he is upright in nature and his nickname is An'er.

With An'er, the couple in the Zhou family were happy, and the old couple was even more happy. They lived a harmonious and joyful life. For them, whether it was the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty, the change of dynasties was too far away from them, and the people just wanted to live a good life seriously.

Isn’t it the good life that the people have been looking forward to all their lives? As long as the knife is not on their own neck, as long as their life can be lived, who can be full and fight with the knife to work hard for the old Zhu family.

Besides, although Zhou Shixiang was a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty also recognized his fame and fortune, and the benefits he deserved were equal. Even compared with the Ming Dynasty, the Qing government attached great importance to them, such as scholars with fame.

The Southern Ming Dynasty was already in the west, and only a few provinces in the southwest remained. Anyone with discerning eyes could see that the Ming Dynasty was over. Now it was just a matter of perseverance. It was a foregone conclusion that the Qing Dynasty was in power. Therefore, Zhou Shixiang did not intend to keep the rituals for the Ming Dynasty. Just live like this. When the situation in Guangdong completely stabilized one day, he planned to take the provincial examination of the Qing Dynasty, and at least he had to take the exam for a juren. If the old man was truly in line with his wishes, he could be able to make him become a Jinshi in Zhou Shixiang, which would be really smoke from his ancestral tomb.

As for what is the case of a barbarian or a barbarian or a barbarian, he, a little scholar, should have considered it. Then several emperors of the Ming Dynasty died, and so many ministers and generals died, and the territory was getting smaller and smaller. What could he do after a small show? Follow the heavens and respond to people, and follow the heavens and respond to people.

Unexpectedly, people's plan is not as good as God's plan. No one expected that Nanming, who was almost finished, would fight back to Guangdong in the tenth year of Shunzhi. The following year, the head coach of the Ming army, Li Dingguo, led his army to attack again, and surrounded Xinhui County. The siege lasted for eight months!

The Ming army besieged the city and the Qing army defended the city. The residents of Xinhui in the city were not worried at first. The Ming army attacked Guangdong once last year, but in the end, they were defeated by blood in the end. Although the old thief Li Dingguo came to attack himself this time, the Qing army was strong and strong, so he could not defeat Xinhui City. When the food and grass were cut off, where did he come back?

Unexpectedly, the nightmare of the residents of Xinhui came so quickly, and it was still the Qing soldiers they thought they were relying on. The Ming army's food and grass were not broken, but they broke first!

In order to defend the city, the Qing army general ordered the plunder of all the food in the city. The Qing soldiers plundered from house to house. The residents had no surplus food, so they could only dig rats and sparrows to make a living. Later, they even used duckweed in the river and clear grass on the ground to feed. In this way, the Qing army did not let go of the plunder of the people in the city, and they often rushed into the residents' homes to search for it. If they saw that there was something stuttering at the homes of the people, they would immediately sweep the butcher's knife.

The old man said that it is better to be a peaceful dog than a troubled world. In this troubled world, people are worse than dogs!

Four months after the Ming army besieged the city, the Qing army began to plunder people for food, and they slaughtered the residents in the city as meat to eat.

In the early days, the Qing army only ate those ordinary families, and those who had fame and fortune were able to escape this disaster. However, later, whether they had fame or no fame, they became edible meat in the eyes of the Qing army.

When the Ming army cleared the siege and retreated, Li Shutai, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi appointed by the Qing Dynasty, led his troops into the city, he found that the Qing army in the city had horses and grains, and the remaining grains were still available for the Qing army to last for three months. Only the bones of the people everywhere, but I don’t know who to complain to!

When prosperity occurs, the people suffer; when death occurs, the people suffer.

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It was exactly the same as the tragedy that was performed everywhere in Xinhui County. When the Qing soldiers rushed into the Zhou family to capture Zhou Shixiang, their father Zhou Shanyuan stepped forward and was willing to die for their son, while their mother He was willing to die for their husbands, and their daughter-in-law Zhao was also willing to die for their aunts. In the end, the Qing army killed Zhou Shanyuan and He, and then came to kill Zhao three days later. Even An'er, who was in her infancy, did not let go, and fell to death in front of Zhou Shixiang's face.

The family of five was left with Zhou Shixiang. This was because his wife Zhao begged before his death. The Qing soldiers let him go, otherwise they would not be able to escape death.

When his parents died tragically, Zhou Shixiang, who was cowardly, was so scared that he hid in the house and did not dare to come out. When his wife and children died tragically, he was so scared that he fainted. When he woke up, his soul had been possessed by people from later generations, and the original Zhou Shixiang was gone.

It was really a joke made by God. Less than ten days after Zhou Shixiang's parents, wife and children died, the Ming army rescued and retreated.

Ten days, only ten days!

Zhou Shixiang, who fully carries the memory and emotions of the owner of the body, beats his chest and stomps on the ground, and cries on his back. He feels ashamed of the owner of the body, and watches his parents, wife and children die. Zhou Shixiang, Zhou Shixiang, are you still a man? How can you survive by surviving! Why don’t you die? Why don’t you fight the Qing soldiers? Why!

All your relatives are dead, what's the point of living alone in this world!

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The two new tombs in front of me, which did not even have tombstones, were piled up by Zhou Shi, a later generation, with nothing in the tomb. They were two empty tombs.

The bones of parents, wife and children have long disappeared, and there is no place for mourning in the world!

Whether it is a grave or no grave, what's the use?

The country's hatred and family hatred, Zhou Shixiang, a later generation, stood quietly in front of these two empty graves, his heart full of sourness and sorrow.

As a Han Chinese, the Yanhuang blood flowing in his bones made Zhou Shixiang naturally reject all foreign races. In his previous life, the society he was in was a society that belittled the main ethnic group and advocated the beautification of foreign rule. Although he was a soldier in the only few cavalry companies in the Republic at that time, he had no choice but to curse the society. However, after the journey, the death of his parents, wife and children made him unable to become a silent majority again!

The first time the national hatred and family hatred were so bloody in front of you, no one can be the turtle that shrunk, no one can ignore it! No one can stand up and take revenge!

Zhou Shixiang, since you have lost your blood, let me, a later person, reshape your backbone for you!

In my mind, scenes flashed...

In the courtyard, the father with white hair looked at the wooden barrel with a hand-held hand and smiled satisfied;

Under the light, the elderly mother looked at the soles of her son with needles and threads, and her eyes were full of kindness;

Next to the desk, the wife looked at her husband who was studying with her prepared midnight snack, her face full of happiness;

In his infantile, his son, who was only a few months old, looked at his father with a giggle, looking full of curiosity.

Scenes of scenes kept flashing in his mind. Zhou Shixiang felt his nose was sore and uncomfortable. He wanted to cry out loud, but he couldn't cry, and there were no tears in his eyes.

Dad, mom, Qing'er, An'er, I, Zhou Shixiang, will definitely avenge you, and will definitely avenge you!

At some point, Zhou Shixiang turned around and left the two empty tombs.

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