Gui Lingzi looked at Wei Zhongxian, wondering why he said this.
Maybe, it has something to do with the "home" he mentioned!
However, with such a start, can this "home" still exist?
Wei Zhongxian sighed and looked up at the sky.
"Our little sister is so smart! She's also very sweet-talking. I remember the first person she called wasn't 'Daddy' or 'Mom', but 'Brother'! It was our big brother!"
"At that time, my family was poor and we had no food to eat after we ate the previous one."
"My little sister is three years old and she hasn't even had a decent meal!"
"I remember that when we were little, the only vegetables we could eat, besides wild vegetables, were bean sprouts!"
"Those are white bean sprouts, and they are crispy and sweet in the mouth."
"This is my little sister's favorite food!"
"Later, when my little sister was five years old, my father was ready to sell her, saying it was a waste of food!"
"How much can she eat? She's so young and so sweet, why sell her off?"
"I disagreed and held on tightly, dragging the soles of my feet until they bled!!"
"Guess what happened in the end?"
Gui Lingzi thought about it and realized that in the era when Wei Zhongxian lived, the people lived a very hard life.
It was common to sell daughters in exchange for money and food.
At Wei Zhongxian's age, he couldn't stop this.
"Sold!" When Gui Lingzi said these two words, he couldn't help but think of the feelings of a 5-year-old girl when she was sold by her family for money.
That should be the time when you feel the most helpless, the most afraid, and the most confused!
I remember that when she was a child, her parents, brothers and sisters all loved her very much.
I have never experienced such a day.
However, similar tragedies have happened more than once.
"No!" Wei Zhongxian laughed like a child. "There's nothing I can't do, even though I was only 7 years old at the time!"
"Daddy sold my little sister, and we've been following her ever since. At night, we wait until she's sound asleep!"
"We picked up a stone and smashed his head in!"
When Gui Lingzi heard this, he broke out in sweat on his back unconsciously.
She hadn't sweated in years.
But after hearing this story, one cannot help but be shocked by Wei Zhongxian's cruelty.
A 7-year-old child can pick up a stone and kill an adult in order to save his sister.
Most children at that age are still afraid when they see strangers!
Wei Zhongxian added, "We rescued my little sister. She was crying so hard, thinking we didn't want her anymore!"
"How is that possible! We won't abandon her even if we don't want anyone else!"
Gui Lingzi asked, "Have you returned to that home?"
"I went back! Of course I did! Unfortunately, by the time I got back, they were already dead!"
Gui Lingzi: "Dead? So soon?"
Wei Zhongxian nodded. "He's dead!"
"My family sold my younger sister and bought some food. At that time, every household was struggling to make ends meet."
"A ruffian family set their eyes on our grain and took their family to rob it in the middle of the night! They had a conflict with Daddy."
"Daddy killed two, but my brothers are all dead too!"
"When we returned home, Daddy was already dead!"
"He died in front of our family. He was stabbed three times in the back with a fork. But even so, he still managed to protect Kangmai for our family!"
Wei Zhongxian raised his hand, tears streaming down his face.
"That hand full of chaff and wheat is still stained with Daddy's blood!"
"He said, 'He's sorry to us, sorry to my younger sister, and sorry to me.'"
"But we know that this is not what he wants."
"Of all the adults I know in my family, Dad works the hardest and does the most. But even so, he can't support all these children in our family!"
Gui Lingzi was a little sad. "What happened in the end? How did you deal with them?"
"I didn't pay attention to it at the time. Later, I peeled the skin off and put it under my bed."
Gui Lingzi: “…”
Skinning?
And put it under your bed?
What kind of mental strength does this require!
"Where's your father?"
Gui Lingzi planned to change the subject.
Wei Zhongxian smiled bitterly.
"My family and my younger sister buried Daddy in the land we rented."
"That piece of land originally belonged to my family."
"Later, they took advantage of the famine and bought it at a low price."
"At that time, my father had already made an agreement with their family."
"The land can be sold, but the ancestral tomb cannot be sold. All my ancestors are buried there!"
"But after we buried him, the group of people refused to acknowledge the land, saying it was theirs. They wanted to dig out not only my father's body, but also the bodies of my grandfather and my great-grandfather!"
"Tell me, can I agree?"
"cannot!"
Gui Lingzi said without thinking!
Considering Wei Zhongxian's character, it's hard to say that he was right.
Even if it doesn't make sense, you still have to do it.
Isn’t that how the man who bought his sister died?
"Yes! They dug up my ancestral graves, and I've been fighting with them ever since."
"Then things got out of hand!"
"They came after me, but I was small and ran slowly, so they caught me!"
"In order to force me out, they beat my little sister to death!"
"What?"
Gui Lingzi looked at Wei Zhongxian in astonishment.
His beloved sister was beaten to death.
Besides, that little girl is only 5 years old!
How could that group of people do that?
Gui Lingzi drank another cup of tea.
Given Wei Zhongxian's character, that family would probably have a miserable life.
"And then?"
Wei Zhongxian laughed. "We went to the city and made enough money by stealing, robbing, and working for others. After two years, we bought enough oil and set that house on fire!"
"Later, our family left that place!"
"And then you entered the palace?"
"No! At that time, we didn't even think about entering the palace!"
"But I met a Taoist priest!"
"The Taoist priest from Guamen!"
"From Guamen?" Gui Lingzi frowned. She didn't know that Wei Zhongxian had such experience.
Could it be that Wei Zhongxian has such a relationship with Guamen?
"That Taoist priest saw me and told me something!"
"He said that if a farmer harvested 100% of the grain, the landlord would take 40% and the government would take 40%."
“Farmers do the most work, but get the least, 20 percent of the food.”
"The government collects taxes, but not from the literati and noble families. It only collects taxes from the common people!"
"The government and the aristocratic families of scholars are the root cause of the tragedy for ordinary people like us."
"If you want to change the conditions of the people of the world, you must obtain the greatest power in the world."
Hearing this, Gui Lingzi fell silent.
Is this the purpose of Wei Zhongxian entering the palace?
At first, was this the reason?
"Then, you entered the palace?"
"In!"
"We are a poor family, and we can't read a single word. If we want to gain power, there is only one way."
After saying that, Wei Zhongxian walked back to the courtyard. The light circles formed by the 12 descendants of the demon mother slowly gathered into a huge circle.
There was a look of relief in Wei Zhongxian's eyes!
"Don't you think this is boring?"
Gui Lingzi nodded. "A little bit! And you said you were doing this for 'family,' but does that have anything to do with what you're doing now?"
"Yes!" Wei Zhongxian laughed. "In my life, I have had two families. One of them was lost at the hands of ruffians and landlords."
"The other one is the Ming Dynasty! Unfortunately, it was also destroyed."
Gui Lingzi: "So, you are cruel to Chongzhen?"
"I don't hate him! He's a good kid, just a little dumb!"
"What our family hates forever are those families of scholars."
The tone Wei Zhongxian used when he said this was like an elder looking at a younger person!
"I have spent most of my life serving in the palace."
"I've served too many people and seen too many things!"
“The most gratifying thing is that I can have a home there!”
"I have my own lover and my own child to love."
"Lover?" Gui Lingzi was stunned. "Are you talking about that Keshi? Who is that child?"
Wei Zhongxian nodded. "Keshi is a kind woman. There's light in her eyes. We often see my younger sister in her eyes!"
"She is Youxiao's wet nurse, and Youxiao respects our family."
"The child we are talking about is naturally from the school."
"That period was the happiest time for our family!"
"The Imperial Palace at that time was our home, the warmest place."
"However, our family has never forgotten what the old Taoist priest said."
"A family of scholars is a parasite to the state."
"Those scholars don't want to see their power taken away by the emperor, and they don't dare to say anything to the emperor, so they speak ill of our family!"
"They have the pen in their hands, so they can say whatever they want!"
"But what is the reality? They are the termites of the Ming Dynasty."
"What happened later proved everything!"
"You Jian, that is, Chongzhen, borrowed money from them, but none of them had any. When the Tartars came, how much could they plunder?"
"Haha, Yu Jian! He just doesn't know what he should and shouldn't want."
"You said that our family was powerful at the time. Don't you know that establishing a young emperor would make it easier for him to take power than Zhu Youjian?"
"We know."
"But we don't want to! That's Yuxiao's idea. He's our child, the child of Keshi Niang!"
"We can't bear to go against his wishes!"
"If our family remains in power for a while longer, the world will still belong to the Ming Dynasty!"
Gui Lingzi: "So, all the things you did were to help the Ming Dynasty restore its rule?"
"Why did this happen to you?"
Wei Zhongxian sighed. "Youxiao, that kid, left early! What I'm most worried about is the Ming Dynasty."
"He told our family to protect the Ming Dynasty and the world."
"In fact, if God only gives us a little more time, the Ming Dynasty will definitely be much better and stronger than before. By then, the Tartars will not come, and You Jian will not hang himself on Coal Hill!"
At this time, Wei Zhongxian fell into deep self-blame!
"Our family is ultimately unworthy of the Emperor's grace!"
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