Chapter 560 (1/2)
It was Gu Zheng's mother who came to open the door. Looking at this, she only approved a coat and didn't put on her shoes. She just pulled it and hurried to open the door for Gu Zheng.
As soon as the door of the house was opened, even if there were no lights in the house, with only the hazy light of the moonlight outside the house, the old lady Gu standing opposite Gu Zheng clearly knew that the fuzzy figure in front of her was her own child.
With a trembling hand, she groped up Gu Zheng's face, carefully held it up and down, looked at it carefully, and then hurriedly pulled Gu Zheng into the house.
Then, as if he remembered something, he nervously leaned out his head and looked around. Seeing that there was no noise from the surrounding neighbors, he breathed a sigh. He carefully covered his door. With inexplicable excitement, he turned and looked at the direction Gu Zheng came in.
Gu's father in the house didn't turn on the light. The middle-aged man, with rare wisdom, sat cross on the Kang, waved to Gu Zheng, pointed to the bench next to the Kang, and whispered, ”sit down and talk about how you came back in this time?”
And how can Gu Zheng be polite? He quickly found his foothold, sat down and gave way to his mother on the Kang. Only after that did he completely say his experience on the dam.
Of course, he also added his own post-processing. In order to show the cruelty of the Emperor today and all kinds of chaos in the future, he had to exaggerate.
When Gu Zheng finished talking about what happened before and after, before his father spoke, his mother put tears on one side.
”My son, we always take care of our family, but you are a grown-up baby, that is, you are filial. You have to go to the dam to serve corvee instead of your father.”
”That's good. Nine of the ten people who went died, but it's hard for my son.”
On the other hand, father Gu thought more. He frowned and continued to ask, ”dozens of people have gone out in our village. Tell me the truth, how much is left?”
Gu Zheng told his father about the data of the client's life: ”after the river repair this time, those people in our village won't let them come back at all. They will directly pull them to the Yongji river section in front to continue to build the canal.”
”If my estimate is good, it will take another three years.”
”As far as I know, when I escaped, the imperial court broke down my fellow countrymen for fear of our collusion.”
”But just what I heard, more than ten people have died in our village.”
”There are dead people on this dam every day, especially in the mine.”
”If my son doesn't run, I'm afraid he won't come back in three years.”
After hearing this, father Gu sighed and said, ”I'm afraid I'll be tired to death on the dam...”
”No,” Gu Zheng shook his head heavily. ”If we only build canals, our village will not be completely destroyed.”
”Dad, I heard that the imperial court will use troops.”
Hearing this, father Gu was stunned and didn't take it seriously. ”The imperial court has only stabilized for many years. Isn't it using troops outside every day?”
”But this time it's different.” Gu Zheng's expression was dignified: ”this time the canal is built for the last use of troops.”
”A canal built by the power of the whole country, for what scale of war, Dad, this is not what farmers like us can imagine.”
”I'm afraid that the tens of millions of people who died repairing the embankment will have to go to the battlefield to fill the life of the emperor.”
Hearing Gu's father here, his hand trembled, while Gu's mother next to him was a little excited. She grabbed Gu Zheng's hand, turned her head and said to Gu's father, ”we can't let our son die.”
”His father, come up with an idea.”
Looking at the family in this room, they all stared at him. Gu dad pondered for a while and choked out his plan word by word.
”Son, don't show up. No one has checked here for so many days. I think the river embankment has been pressed down for some reason.”
”You must not reveal your whereabouts. If what you said is true, there will be a second apportionment of corvee in this village when your dam is completed.”
”I can't stay in this place.”
”Do you remember the shabby Valley hut I showed you when I took you into the mountain as a child?”
”No one has passed for many years. Go and clean up first.”
”If the couple of our family disappear together at this moment, it is too easy to arouse suspicion.”
”When we're ready in the village, we'll find you in the mountains.”
”It's good to clean up inside and outside the house.”