When Yun Kexin shouted that mother, everyone present was stunned.
Even Yu Sanniang, who was crying bitterly, stopped crying.
She turned her head, opened her tearful eyes and stared at Yun Kexin.
It was a long time before she found her voice and asked with a sob.
"Kexin, you, you can talk?"
Li Qingyan was also shocked.
So that his hand holding Yun Kexin was a little loose.
Yun Kexin took the opportunity to break away from the arms of Li Qingyan, rushed over and knelt down beside Zhou's grave, crying and shouting.
"Mother, mother!"
She can only say this word, repeatedly and repeatedly.
He shouted a little hoarse.
Li Qingyan finally recovered.
He went over, knelt down in front of Zhou's grave and promised earnestly.
"Mother, don't worry. Since I have worshipped heaven and earth with Kexin, she is my wife. I will take good care of her and don't let her suffer any injustice. I will live up to her in this life!"
With that, he bent down, bowed his head and knocked his head three times.
A gust of wind blew and rolled up some fallen leaves.
One of the fallen leaves just fell in front of Li Qingyan.
It was as if Zhou was responding to his promise.
Xiao Lingfeng found a flat stone to serve as the tombstone of Zhou.
Li Qingyan, with his pen, ink, paper and inkstone, wrote the words "mother's Tomb of Yun Zhou's family" on the tombstone, and finally added a small line of time, month and day.
Next to the Zhou family is the tomb of Yun Changsheng.
The couple's graves stand side by side and closely depend on each other.
We can't find so many stones suitable for tombstones at one time. Many tombs can only make do with wood.
Li Qingyan inscribed words for each tombstone, so that they could have tombs to live in, so as not to expose their bodies in the wilderness and become poor lonely ghosts.
The conditions in the mountains are limited. There must be no Yuanbao paper money or anything.
Fortunately, Li Qingyan brought some fruit and candy this time.
They put these food in front of each tomb, which can be regarded as a sacrifice to these tragically dead stronghold people.
When they finished, they packed up and prepared to go down the mountain.
Yun Kexin and Yu Sanniang are reluctant to leave Dafu stronghold.
But they knew that Dafu stronghold was gone. Even if they stayed, everything would not return to the past.
And they two weak women, it is difficult to survive in the deep mountains and forests. Leaving here is their only way out.
Xiao Lingfeng sent two horses to ride for Yun Kexin and Yu Sanniang.
With horses on their way, they can walk a lot easier.
The party left Dafu village and went downstairs slowly towards the mountain.
Yun Kexin and Yu Sanniang couldn't help looking back and finally took a look at Dafu stronghold.
This is the place where they were born and grew up and their most cherished home.
Today they are leaving the house.
I don't know when I will come back from this trip.
Maybe I'll never come back.
Everything in the past has been reduced to ashes.
The road to the future is still vast.
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When he got out of huafushan, Xiao Lingfeng sent someone to inquire in nearby villages and towns to see if he had seen Yu Jiu and his gang.
Li Qingyan took Yun Kexin and Yu Sanniang to the county government.
The magistrate of Raohe County said that he had never heard of the existence of Dafu village before.
He also went to Dafu stronghold yesterday and saw more than 100 charred corpses with his own eyes. He knew that there was such a big stronghold hidden in Huafu mountain.
In recent years, the government has collected taxes and enlisted soldiers, and has never been to Dafu stronghold.
Strictly speaking, this should be regarded as his dereliction of duty at work.
If the people in Dafu village are alive, the county magistrates will surely be able to put all the data of these people into registered residence books, and order them to make up all the taxes that have been missed in those years.
But the people in the stockade were almost dead, leaving only two poor and weak women.
What else can the county magistrate do?
I can only hold my nose.
As Dafu stronghold has been living in seclusion for many years, it has never paid taxes or served in the military service. The records in the official archives are blank.
This means that Yun Kexin and Yu San Niang have no registered residence.
To put it bluntly, they are two black families.
Li Qingyan brought them to the county government in order to give them a registered permanent residence so that they can walk in the world openly in the future.
There is a fierce and gentle saying that the official of the official department is watching himself. The county magistrate of Rao County does not have the slightest neglect. He helps to carry out the registered residence with the fastest speed, and writes the name of Yun Ke Xin to the registered residence of Li Yan.
In this way, they become officially recognized legal couples.
Li Qingyan took the people to the restaurant for dinner.
Because Yun Kexin and Yu Sanniang are still in mourning, they order all vegetables. They don't even have tea. They can only drink clean water.
Li Qingyan said to Yu Sanniang as he sandwiched vegetables for Kexin.
"Kexin is already my wife. She must go back to Shengjing with me. Are you going to Shengjing with us? Or do you have any other plans?"
Yu Sanniang is very tangled.
Both her mother's family and her husband's family are from Dafu village. Now they are all dead. She has no relatives in the world. Yunke Xin is the only person she knows. She doesn't want to separate from Yunke Xin.
But she and Yun Kexin are just neighbors and not serious relatives. If she follows Yun Kexin to take refuge with Li Qingyan, she will not appear too cheeky.
Yun Kexin put down the dishes and chopsticks, took Yu Sanniang's hand and said slowly word by word.
"Come on, let's go."
Since she called out her mother, she seemed to have been opened to Ren Du's two veins and could finally speak.
But because she is not used to it, she speaks very slowly and has a strange tone.
Yu Sanniang was very moved when she looked at her hand.
At this time, Li Qingyan also opened his mouth.
"Kexin just lost her mother. If you can stay with her, you can make her feel more relaxed."
Yun Kexin nodded vigorously and agreed with Li Qingyan's words.
Yu Sanniang looked at the couple and couldn't help blushing her eyes.
She choked and replied, "thank you."
She had always lived in Dafu stronghold, had never touched the outside world, knew nothing about people and things outside, and had no money.
If Yun Kexin and Li lightly say they don't want to take her in, she really doesn't know how to live, and the future will be very rough.
Li said lightly, "have a meal. When you are full, go to the Inn and sleep. When you have enough spirit, let's set off for Shengjing."
After his efforts, the tax reform in Fengyang County has been on the right track.
And he also trained some reliable people in Fengyang County.
Even if he left Fengyang County, those people could take over his work and continue to supervise the tax reform.
The next day, the party left Raohe County by carriage and returned to Shengjing along the official road.
Taking advantage of nothing to do on the road, Li Qingyan began to teach Yun Kexin to speak hand in hand, and introduced his family situation to her carefully.