Chapter 125 Imperial Land

On the second day of the Lantern Festival, Su Qing'an, Su Qingliu and others arrived at the store and found that not only Su's father came early in the morning, but Su's mother also came.

Xiao Qingxing and Xiao Qingyang jumped up happily. The two little things were sent to the town early and did not spend the Lantern Festival at home.

"Why is mother here? Dad, didn't I tell you to come back in two days? There is no rush in the store." Su Qing'an said.

"Something happened." Su's father sighed.

"What happened?" "Something happened at home?" Su Qing'an and her sister asked together.

Su's mother pulled the two children over and sighed: "All your uncles ran away. Your grandma didn't want to tell us. It was yesterday when your dad saw that they had been away from their mother's house for so long and didn't come back, not even for the Lantern Festival, that he asked your grandfather, and your grandfather told us."

Su's father sat on a chair, supporting his head with both hands, looking depressed.

Su's mother choked up as she spoke: "Why did your grandfather treat your father like this? Isn't your father his son? He wanted to go out to avoid disaster, but he left your father behind. He didn't even tell your father. He even told us that they were going back to their mother's home with your aunts. Your grandfather, why did he treat your father like this..."

Ah? Going out to avoid disaster?

Seeing his children's surprised faces, Su's father rubbed his face and said: "Many families in the village went out to avoid disaster. When they heard that there would be conscription in February, most of them left. Almost all the men in the village left, leaving only some elderly and children who couldn't walk."

"Ah, where can they go? If they are caught, this evasion is a serious crime." Su Qingliu was stunned.

"The village says that the law does not punish the masses. Even if they are caught, they will just be sent to the barracks. The result is the same. But what if they escape?"

Su's mother wiped her tears and glanced at Su's father. Sons and sons-in-law died, and some were unforeseen. If her father were to leave again, her world would fall.

"So many people left the village, didn't you notice it before?"

"Your mother and I were sent by your grandfather to do this and that, and your uncles and aunts took their children back to their mother's home, and all the family affairs fell on your mother and me, so we didn't pay attention. The village was quieter than in previous years, and we just thought that everyone was having a hard time this year, and didn't think about anything else. We didn't see some people, and we all thought they were visiting other people outside, but we didn't know that everyone was hiding from the war..."

Su Qing'an hadn't spoken all the time, and only asked after listening: "Dad, did you go to the nearby villages to take a look? Other villages are also like us. Same?"

Su's father nodded: "Dad asked the village chief, he said that many families nearby are like ours, the men have all gone out to hide."

"Where can we hide?"

"Hide in the mountains. The trees are tall and the forests are dense in the mountains, so we can hide as long as we can. If we are caught, it will be the same fate, so we can live a few more days."

Su's mother said, and then she hurriedly grabbed Su Qing's hand: "Qing's, do you think your father should go out to hide too? If your father is also taken away, how can mother live? Your father has no skills at all, and he will die on the battlefield..."

Su's mother cried so hard that Su Qing's mother felt uncomfortable. She looked up and saw the twins, one holding Su's father's hand tightly, and the other hugging him tightly, as if he was going to the battlefield immediately, and she felt a little uncomfortable.

"Dad, you and mother rest in the backyard, I'll go out for a while."

Su Qing's mother left the shop after she finished speaking.

She hurriedly walked on the street of Fengting Town, and was surprised to find that the town was so deserted. The Lantern Festival was just over yesterday. Normally, the first month of the lunar year should be bustling with people. Unexpectedly, she walked through the whole street and saw few people.

On the 16th day of the first lunar month, there was only a cool breeze blowing on the street, which made people's faces hurt.

Su Qingmei sat in the gatehouse of the Liu family for a long time before Liu Juye came back.

This was her first time to the Liu family. After Lu Bocheng left, Liu Juye always took good care of her, often exchanged news with her, and was also good to Xiaobao. Su Qingmei was grateful and didn't bother him casually, fearing that she would cause trouble for him.

After receiving the news of conscription in the year, she didn't expect that before she could figure out a clue, all the men of the family who were of military age had gone out to avoid disaster, leaving only Su's father.

"Come in quickly. I've been busy these days. I've been running around outside every day. My father has also been away from home every day except for the first two days of the New Year."

The two sat in the flower hall of the Liu family. Seeing that Su Qing'an looked embarrassed, Liu Juye said, "Are you talking about the conscription?"

Su Qing'an looked up at him and nodded, "Yes. My parents came over this morning and I learned that many people in the village went out to avoid military service."

Liu Juye nodded, "I know. People with good news moved their families away before the New Year."

"Move away with your family? Where can you go? Isn't conscription limited to Guangning Prefecture? Even if you escape to other places, won't all men be arrested?" Su Qing'an was a little confused.

She has been thinking about this matter for the past year, how to let her father Su avoid this conscription. But she has never thought of escaping. In this era where the world belongs to the king, where can you escape to?

"Escape to the mountains, escape to the south."

"Ah?" Su Qing'an looked at him in surprise. What was he doing...

Liu Juye nodded: "If my father had not had a good reputation in my family, and if my father and I were the only two people of the right age to be drafted, we would have left too."

Seeing Su Qing'an staring at him blankly, he added: "Now the local governors are in power. After the change of the capital, the governors are even more unwilling to obey orders. No one knows whether the one who fled to Sichuan can finally counterattack successfully. It is still unknown whether anyone will execute the orders he issued in the end."

Su Qing'an even forgot that there was a Da Qi.

I heard him say again: "But now, there should be no one who wants to quarrel with him at this time. It seems that he still has to do something. My father and I both guessed that there are many secrets and secrets. The south is far away from the hinterland of the Central Plains and has never participated in the court. If they are caught in the war, they can only serve as local soldiers. However, the governors in various places are conserving their strength and will not send out their soldiers easily. They still have to stay alive before they can do it. Something else.”

Liu Juye spoke from the bottom of his heart.

It was also because Su Qingyu was one of our own and tight-lipped.

Su Qingyu nodded gratefully towards him. She really didn't expect this.

The whole world belongs to that person, where can I escape to? Thousands of miles of territory are all under the imperial power, so where can we avoid it? Unexpectedly, the Dashuo Dynasty has now reached the point where local military governors support their own troops and do not listen to the central government's orders.

"Do you know what vassal towns there are now? How are they divided?"

After Su Qingyu finished speaking, he saw Liu Juye go out and bring out a map. Su Qingyao was not surprised at how their family could have such a thing. It’s normal for people with rich background to hide things that ordinary people don’t have.

The two of them lay on the map and looked at it for a long time. Liu Juye pointed to the areas under the jurisdiction of each feudal town. He told Su Qingyu a lot about the character of each military governor, and told her everything he knew without hiding anything.

Finally, he looked at Su Qingyu steadily.

He said: "You have to go out early. No one knows what the county government will do now, and no one knows who they are. Whether they will stand still or set up strict barriers, no one knows. I Dad used to be able to guess a little bit of the county prince's thoughts, but now he can't figure out his thoughts at all. "

Su Qingyu nodded.

When Su Qingyu was about to leave, Liu Juye stopped her again: "If you go out, remember to send a message back to our family. We will not leave. By then, Bo Cheng will have information sent back, so I can pass it on to you."

"good."