Chapter 2: The Destroyed Song Family

When Song Mu woke up again, it was already early in the morning.

Although her head was still a little dizzy and she couldn't use any strength, Song Mu still sat up carefully.

Looking at the thin quilt covered with his body, Song Mu looked into the house with the moonlight leaking from outside the house.

The house is simple in shape, but it also has carved beams and painted roofs, with an ancient charm, but the strange thing is that the white walls on all sides are empty, and even the window paper on the carved windows is a bit yellow and tattered.

Looking at the floor of the house, a piece of soil was exposed out of thin air. The ground inside the house was much shorter than the corners, and there were only a few broken blue bricks with missing corners left at the corners.

I guess someone has dug up the blue bricks all over the house.

The bed under Song Mu was just two benches with a bed board. Apart from a pile of books in a corner of the ground, there was no longer any long thing around. The house tables and chairs in the house must have been gone long ago.

Song Mu only remembered that Doctor Liu was treating him yesterday. No wonder he was still sitting in his own medicine box.

Among the people with carved beams and painted buildings, they are so depressed.

Song Mu shook his head and sighed slightly to get up and find water to drink.

The matter is due to humans. Even if this family is now in ruins, Song Mu believes that as long as people live, everything will change.

"Well, Mu Ge'er, are you getting up?"

Just as Song Mu set out to get out of bed, a vague sound came from the corner of the wall, and then he saw a thick and short figure climbing up from the ground and coming towards him. Song Mu heard the voice in his heart that it was quite calm, and when he saw the visitor, he was a little stunned.

"Uncle II, why are you here?"

"I'm afraid you will have an emergency in the middle of the night. I'll sleep here to take care of you. Brother Mu, how is it now? Do you want to eat something? I'll get it for you."

Song Liangda looked at Song Mu with great concern and lit the oil lamp. Only then did Song Mu see a layer of bedding on the ground in the corner of the house not far away. It must be where Song Liangda will rest tonight.

Seeing that the second uncle was so considerate, Song Mu was very grateful. He pursed his lips, but shook his head slightly.

"I'll go and have a drink of water. Uncle Second, I'm fine."

"Ah, don't go around, I'll get it for you. There's still some medicine left in the decoction yesterday, so I'll bring it to you too."

Seeing that Song Mu was about to come out alone, Song Liangda quickly supported Song Mu to sit down beside the bed, and then quickly opened the door and went out. After a while, a voice calling for Aunt Second came from the courtyard.

The courtyard was a little bustling. It was just when it was light in the morning. Song Mu was leaning against the windowsill wearing clothes. There was a bit of fireworks in the yard outside the candlelight.

Song Mu sighed, and at this moment he completely accepted all this, but many things in his previous life were not completed, so he should not die so frustrated in this life.

After a while, Song Liangda walked in with a bowl of water and a bowl of medicine, put it on the head of Song Mu's bed, and a little girl popped up behind Song Liangda.

This is Song Mingwei, the second uncle's only daughter, at the age of seven or eight, with her nickname Yaya.

The little girl was not fair-looking, but her eyes were big, and the candlelight shone brightly. She tied two small and slightly yellow braids. She was carefully taking out a handkerchief from her pocket, then opened it and twisted a brown-black thing from it and put it into Song Mu's hand.

"Brother, I'll give you this candy, I'll take it after taking the medicine."

The little girl said sensiblely, but she clenched the handkerchief again, and forced her eyes to move away from the candy cube placed in Song Mu's palm. At that moment, Song Mu saw that there were only some small pieces left in her handkerchief.

"Okay, Yaya, go and ask your mother to bring the food in. We will have breakfast in Mu Ge'er's room." Song Liangda next to him said to Song Mingwei, and the little girl ran out quickly.

"Brother Mu, let's drink the medicine first. We'll have breakfast later. If you haven't had oil and rice in several days, your body will not be able to withstand it."

Song Liangda said to Song Mu. Song Mu took the medicine and nodded, looked at the turbid medicine liquid without frowning, and drank it all over.

"Slow down, slow down, don't be anxious." Song Liangda hurried up and patted Song Mu on the back. Song Liangda looked at his nephew more than his own daughter.

When Song Liangda was young, he had to replenish medicine and stones, and his body was fat and short. The doctor said that having a woman was a blessing for heaven and earth. Now that his eldest brother Song Liangtong is no longer in the world, he left this only seedling. Song Liangda made up his mind that he must not let Song Mu have any more problems, otherwise he would never see his ancestors and ancestors in the underworld in the future.

Fortunately, my nephew has been modest and polite since he was a child. In addition to being a little dull, he was unexpectedly smart in school. The second year after his elder brother left, he actually passed the exam for Tongsheng alone, which made the Song family, which finally had some hope.

But what Song Liangda couldn't understand was that his nephew would have to tell him even if he went to the county school on weekdays, why did he do such dangerous things the day before yesterday?

Song Mu, who had just suppressed the bitterness of his throat, wouldn't have thought about what Song Liangda thought at this moment? He just felt that his body was too weak, and he might have to exercise more in the future to survive.

After a while, the second aunt Zhu had already come with the food, and Song Liangda also helped to move the table and stool. Song Mu originally wanted to come forward to help, but was stopped and refused to take action.

Second Aunt Zhu is a woman with a back and a waist, and she looks quite strong. Song Mu also learned from his memory that Zhu is a farmer. When the Song family married her second uncle, she really couldn't get much silver. In addition, the second uncle was a little ill. In the end, the old man took the initiative to find a strong girl from a poor family from the past farm.

Since Song Mu's parents left, this dilapidated family has relied on the support of second aunt. Although they are diligent, they only barely fill the four people.

"Mu Ge'er, eat more. This is the chicken stewed for you. Yesterday you only drank a little soup, and today I ate it all."

On the table with the missing corners, Song Liangda picked up all the chicken on the table into Song Mu's bowl. Song Mu nodded and asked his second uncle and others to eat together, but he didn't move his chopsticks when he saw them.

Song Mu sighed, then put a piece of chicken into his mouth, and then picked a chicken leg from a bowl to Song Mingwei.

"Yaya helps my elder brother eat chicken legs, I can't finish it." Song Mu said this, but it blocked Song Liangda and pressed the chicken legs straight into Song Ming's micro bowl.

The few people shuddered again. Seeing that Song Liangda was about to be anxious, she was afraid that she would get sick again, so she asked Song Ming to thank Song Mu.

Song Mingwei sat on the bench, shaking his two thin legs, eating chicken legs with joy, while Zhu next to him was tearful.

"Which god can kill me? My brother Mu is usually hilarious, but he almost left the gates of hell."

"Mu Ge'er will become a Jinshi in the future, and he will also study the Jinshi archway in the future. He will do evil."

At this time, Zhu wiped his tears and said softly, probably the pain that day was Zhu.

Song Liangda stopped Zhu from talking about these bad things on the dining table, but Song Mu smiled. Song Liangda's face changed a little, and he still asked.

"Brother Mu, tell me honestly about the second uncle, why did you go out of the city to Yanggang the day before yesterday? Don't you know that you can't go to that place?"

Song Mu was stunned for a moment, but shook his head helplessly.

Song Mu has no memory of why Song Mu seeks death. He only remembers that after leaving the city, Song Mu was heading towards a deserted tomb, but that place was not Yanggang.

"Second uncle, I really don't remember it." Song Mu could only say to Song Liangda like this. Seeing that Song Mu looked sincere, Song Liangda didn't dare to ask, so he had to give up.

However, he talked about this year's government examination. Song Mu was about to prepare for the exam in the government city, but the expenses were not yet settled.

"Brother Mu, you can keep your body well. My second uncle and second aunt have some strength. You can still get some money. If you don't have to... Shiyang County will build a high city wall in the past few days, I will also go to work."

"Yes, this time, we will never bewitched by the traitor again. We will let them move all our wealth and even dig out the blue bricks..." Zhu said with tears in his eyes.

Song Mu knew that the construction of the city was a corvee service arranged by the government and was very laborious.

The Song family inherited the Song family and Song Liangtong's scholar Wen Xiao Yinze, and had Song Mu's current status as a child, so they barely spared labor. However, if they go to work, they can get dozens of cents a day.

When Song Liangda said this, he almost gritted his teeth. For the sake of his nephew, his current status as a legitimate Song family, this time he completely ignored it.

Song Mu also put down the bowl and clenched his fists in his left hand.

Since I have survived in this world, there is no saying that I have sat down and had a good meal.

There is also the matter of going to Yanggang. I didn’t go to that dangerous place. Who is going to kill me?

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(End of this chapter)
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