The general's mansion was confiscated and the family was exiled. We were given three months to travel to Lingnan. My parents, my brother, and I, along with the three sons of my eldest uncle, whose parents had both died in battle, embarked on the journey of exile. Along the way, assassins constantly pursued us, and the escorting officers harassed us in every way. Before we even reached our destination, our entire family was murdered.
First, our frail mother lasted less than three days. The killer kept chasing her. She was cold and hungry, and she caught a cold. Without any medical treatment or medicine, she left us. My brother and I cried our hearts out, but we couldn't wake our mother up.
The three brothers of my uncle's family were raised by our mother since they were young. My uncle and aunt followed my grandfather to fight in the northwest to protect the country and were away from home for many years. The three brothers were very close to their mother. They were saddened by her death, but the road of exile was long, so they could only suppress their longing in their hearts and continue on their journey to avoid the killers. My father and mother were childhood sweethearts and had a deep relationship, so they were naturally very sad. They held on for us, but they became more and more silent day by day.
Then, it was my four brothers who left Dad and me one by one. Finally, that evening, as the setting sun burned like blood, Dad carried me, a dazed and stricken man, on his back, dragging a broken leg as the assassins chased us all the way to the top of a cliff. Dad's knife was bent from the blade, and he was covered in blood. His hand holding the knife was trembling. Dad looked at the assassins in despair and shouted, "Why? Why? Why are you trying to wipe out our general's mansion? Last year, my uncle Qin Chengrui died in the midst of a major battle, starved, cold, and humiliated by the delay in the delivery of imperial rations. My father, brother, and sister-in-law have been guarding the northwest border for years, facing the wind and sand, with neither enough to eat nor warm clothes. Our general's mansion provided half of the Northwest Army's rations and salaries. Now, we've ended up with our family torn apart."
Even from my crouching position behind him, I could sense Daddy's grief and anger. Perhaps seeing we had nowhere to escape, the killer revealed the truth. "There's no reason. We took money from people to help them avoid disaster. Don't blame us. It was the Prime Minister's Mansion who found us and ordered our execution. If there's another life, seek revenge on them."
Dad turned to look at his daughter behind him and said gently, "Ke'er, sweetheart, Daddy will take you to find Grandpa, Granduncle, Uncle, Auntie, Mother, and brothers, okay?"
"Okay, find mother, mother~"
Seeing her father carrying her on his back and jumping off the cliff, Qin Yueke suddenly woke up with sweat all over her head and face. She sat on her carved bed for a while, woke up, opened the quilt, and went barefoot to find her mother and father, crying all the way.
"Mother~, Daddy~, Daddy~, Mother~."
"Mother~, Daddy~, Daddy~, Mother~."
"Miss, slow down! Slow down, Miss. Put on your shoes." The little maid Vanilla was chasing after her, holding the embroidered shoes and shouting.
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