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The Zhu family's motorcade was long and huge.

The ruts were deep, loaded with property, and escorted by a guard of a thousand cavalry.

As the sun sets, the convoy stops in the wild to eat and feed the horses.

"Aunt Xiang, let me go. I want to see my father. How could he just abandon Anqiu City and go south?"

In a fragrant car, Miaohan struggled hard, but Aunt Xiang held her tightly.

Aunt Xiang didn't say a word, but opposite the two of them, a lady sat.

He looks to be in his forties or fifties, dressed in fine clothes and elegant.

"Miaohan, stop making trouble. The family is just escorting our women and children south. Your father is not in the convoy." The noble lady is Miaohan's mother, named Leqin.

After she spoke, Miaohan was obedient and stopped struggling.

She just looked tired and said gloomily: "Mother, if you are just escorting women and children south, is it necessary to bring so much property? Eighty percent of the family's accumulation is here, right?"

"Without these, how can we support Anqiu's military, city defense, and civilian expenses?"

"My father pretended to send away the women and children, but in fact he concealed the news, left Anqiu and some of the clan members behind, and moved the whole clan south."

Leqin said calmly: "Your father has his own way."

Miao Han shook his head: "It's enough to send out a thousand escorts. After all, the road is not peaceful, but these thousand people are all the best elites. If you can deceive outsiders, how can you deceive me?"

"The only people who can command this army are my father and my brother."

Leqin still said calmly: "Brother You personally led the troops to escort us and sent us to the Yangtze River. We will come back soon."

Miaohan smiled bitterly and said, "Will he really come back? Didn't he really cross the river together?"

"Mom, are you really going to leave your father and go south with everyone? With people you don't even know?"

"You have never been close to other people in the clan. You almost never interact with them. You only have father in your heart."

"If father is not in the convoy, you would rather die than die by his side, right?"

Leqin frowned slightly, obviously her daughter understood her.

But she still said: "Silly boy, you always like to think wildly. Stop guessing. Your father insists that I leave, so I can only obey."

"Really..." Miao Han said quietly, "Mother, I also hope that these are all my guesses."

"Until I made a fuss to see my father, Aunt Xiang stopped me from getting out of the car."

Yueqin was finally speechless and unable to refute.

Miaohan begged: "Please let me go to see my father. Moving south now is a way to die."

Leqin closed her eyes: "Hu Man is so powerful. If you stay, you will be waiting for death."

Miaohan looked bitter: "The Tufa family is best at cavalry in field battles, but our convoy moves too slowly. How can we reach the Yangtze River?"

"The dragons in Anqiu City are leaderless, and they have taken away elite soldiers and property. The Tufa Clan will defeat it as soon as they attack. The Tufa Clan may even send troops in advance because the news is leaked!"

"If Anqiu City is lost, not only will everyone be devastated, but we won't be able to escape either."

"Every time the Tufa clan comes to a city, they will loot property. We carry so many things, but we have lost the support of Anqiu's 100,000 soldiers and civilians. In their eyes, we are just sheep that escaped from the sheepfold!"

"Don't think that the cities along the way will protect us. Without Anqiu City, the Zhu family would be like a tree without roots."

"The enemies I have to face are not just the Bald-Faced Family... I must stop my father."

Leqin shook his head: "You are too careless. This is your father and brother's decision. How can you stop it? It will definitely make your father angry. Your brother will reprimand you and lock you up. In case... I am doing this for you. Hello."

"Hey, why can't you settle down?"

Miaohan's eyes were wet and she said: "Because this world is so restless! Mother..."

Leqin remained silent, determined not to let her go.

Miaohan closed her eyes for a long time, then opened them suddenly, seeming to have made up her mind.

"Mother, you have been living in seclusion in a separate courtyard. You have never interacted with anyone except your father. After Shiliu arrived, you didn't even leave the house."

"It seems like you are afraid of something... At first, I thought you were afraid of my aunt, but later I found out that you were not."

"You have a big secret. I have been thinking about and searching for this secret for a long time, and finally I discovered it..."

Leqin glared and said, "What secret?"

Miaohan shed tears and said: "I would never tell this secret, but now I have no choice, mother, I can only do this..."

"Unless you kill me, or let me go...otherwise I will tell the secret loudly, even if you knock me unconscious, I will tell everyone one day."

"How outrageous!" Leqin was shocked and angry: "You dare to threaten me? This is disobedience and unfilial piety!"

Miaohan murmured: "Three..."

Leqin's eyes widened: "You've grown up, haven't you?"

"Two..." Miaohan only looked at the empty space.

"one!"

"Go ahead……"

Finally, Miaohan got out of the carriage and went to look for his father and brother somewhat distractedly.

Threatening her mother made her feel very painful.

In fact, she didn't even know what the secret was. But she knew that her mother was very sensitive and sad.

After so many years, the feeling of always worrying that the secret will be exposed is almost beyond words in Miaohan's eyes.

For the sake of this secret, her mother would even become cowardly, and Miaohan took advantage of this cowardice, which undoubtedly broke her heart.

"found it……"

Miaohan first followed the army's figure forward, and then saw a circle of temporary defenses formed by carriages.

Among them, there is also a large tent, and there is no doubt that both father and brother are in it.

When she arrived at the door, she hesitated a little. Reason told her that her father and brother would not listen.

As a result, he will only be imprisoned.

Although she had thought of some countermeasures, after all, it was her father, her brother, and this was her family. Forcing her mother like she just did was already her limit.

In the end she had no choice but to persuade.

Miaohan took a deep breath and walked into the tent resolutely.

Sure enough, when she tried her best to talk about how to fight against the barbarians and the disadvantages of moving south at this moment, her father and brother couldn't listen at all, just because she spoke tactfully and not angry.

"What did you say!"

"All the great families are moving south in preparation for the Northern Expedition in the future. If they can move, why can't we?"

"Now Anqiu can't be defended. Moving south is just a helpless move. We haven't given up on Anqiu. Your third uncle is still in the city."

Seeing how weak Miaohan was, he could only say sternly: "Father! We were able to move south back then because the current situation was still stable and the barbarians were not yet in danger."

"Now that the Tufa Clan's army is sweeping across Qingzhou, the situation has become corrupted, and the world has completely changed. It's too late to move south now, and the clan will be in danger of being exterminated."

Brother Zhu Boliang scolded: "Is this your business? It's alarmist!"

"This time we go south to Xuzhou, then pass through Huainan, and go straight to the Yangtze River. All along the way are Dajin cities. Where can there be danger?"

"It doesn't matter if you walk slowly. Could it be that Hu Man has passed several wealthy families to pursue him?"

Miaohan finally couldn't help but talk back: "Brother, do you know what troubled times are?"

"Cao Mengde never thought that his father would die in Xuzhou!"

"Today's world is more chaotic than in the past! One hundred thousand soldiers and civilians in Anqiu are the foundation for a stable life!"

"If you don't manage it until it is impregnable, but abandon it, your whole family will be destroyed, and you will die without a burial place."

Snapped! Zhu Boliang slapped her directly.

He didn't tell Miaohan why, this slap was better than any answer.

Zhu Xiazhi felt a little distressed: "Okay, Bo Liang, she is still young and not sensible. Send your sister back."

Miaohan covered her face and knelt on the ground, feeling extremely cold.

Hearing this gave her a glimmer of hope.

"Father, you love me the most. You have taught me to read since I was a child and taught me the principles of saints! Tell me what righteousness is, what family and country are, what righteousness is, and what it means to cultivate oneself, manage one's family, govern the country, and bring peace to the world."

"When I was a child, I saw you speaking eloquently and high-spirited, pointing to the bamboo forest and saying, 'A gentleman loves bamboo and would rather break it than bend it'; pointing to Mount Tai, he said, 'A man's ambition is as high as the sky'."

"You are the person I admire most, have you forgotten all this?"

She remembered that her father loved her when she was a child, and now she tried her best to wake her father up.

After hearing this, Zhu Xiazhi was speechless and looked away, with shame flashing in his eyes.

He has read a lot, but he can't understand why? He could talk to people for three days and three nights, explaining the truths in the classics and history.

But at that time, wasn't it a prosperous time...

Miao Han's voice is still echoing: "Now that the world is in chaos, we, the scholars, should help the country, manage the world and benefit the people, and save all people from the fire and water..."

Zhu Boliang frowned and said, "You are not a scholar."

This sentence immediately stunned Miaohan.

She has read so many books, is she not a scholar? Is it because she is a woman?

"But you are! Father is!"

"Father, you are a famous person of a generation and the governor of a place. Now at this critical moment, the people of the whole city are tied to you. You must not leave."

Zhu Xiazhi finally found a chance to speak: "I have given the seal of the prefect to your third uncle. He has a good strategy and will definitely be able to defend Anqiu..."

Miaohan said excitedly: "If we can keep it even if we take away the elite soldiers and property, why should we leave?"

Zhu Xiazhi really couldn't get off the stage and shouted angrily: "Enough! You are becoming more and more presumptuous. I have taught you to read so many books. You should know that before you can govern a country and bring peace to the world, you must cultivate yourself and your family!"

"How can we save the country if we die and our entire family is destroyed?"

"Now Anqiu is a dead place. A gentleman should not stand under a dangerous wall. He should retreat to the south of the Yangtze River and wait for the opportunity."

"It's not like you who just know how to read! There are some truths that you wouldn't understand unless you were in the position of being a father!"

Miao Han said in a trembling voice: "Moving south now is a death. We can't reach Jiangnan at all... No, there is another way. Abandon all our belongings... Our family may be able to survive."

Zhu Boliang was furious and said directly: "It's just a woman's opinion! If you defend the city and are defeated, don't you know what will happen to you?"

"And if all the property is abandoned, what will happen when we get to Jiangnan?"

"What my father did was all for this family! You are still here and you are ignorant!"

"I would like to ask your mother how she taught you!"

He slapped Miaohan again, but this time Zhu Xiazhi didn't stop him.

Miaohan said dullly: "Brother, don't disturb my mother."

"Bo Liang, don't rise to Qin'er." Zhu Xiazhi waved his hand and said, "Let her think about her mistakes in the carriage at the end of the team and wait until she crosses the river."

Miaohan was taken away in despair. She said all the good, bad, soft and hard things. She also used the emotional card and the provoking method.

Can't wake them up at all. She fully understood what her father and brother were thinking, and this was the outcome she had already foreseen.

My father has changed a long time ago. As long as he is still as unruly and unruly as before, Miaohan still has some tricks up his sleeve.

But since he became the head of the family, and since the situation has become more and more dangerous, his father has become more 'sensible'.

In these troubled times, sensible people have become sheep.

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p.s: Sorry.