After saying this, Mr. Zhou did not continue to shout, but chose to wait quietly. He firmly believed that as long as he said his name, the people in the room would definitely come out to meet him. However, while waiting for the response, he always looked at Ze Yuhui beside him intentionally or unintentionally. Fortunately, he did not care too much about what he had just said.

"Are you really Uncle Zhou?" After a while, after a rustling sound, a middle-aged man suddenly heard the sound of a somewhat excited and anxious man from the room.

"Yes, you are Ge Lie, right? I hugged you when I was a child?" Mr. Zhou was a little familiar with the voice and responded.

"Ah! Uncle Zhou is really you. It's so great. Please wait for a while and I'll open the door."

Soon, a man about forty years old carefully looked through the crack in the door and quickly opened the door. After seeing Mr. Zhou and others outside the door, he became very excited. He quickly welcomed the three of them into the medicine shop, then stretched his head out for a few more glances and quickly closed the door. The whole process was tense and quick, giving people the feeling of a thief being thieves.

"Uncle Zhou, I didn't know that you were suddenly visiting me. I'd forgive me for being so negligent." Ge Lie preached to Mr. Zhou apologized, while leading the three of them to sit and rest around a wooden table. He never expected that he would meet an old friend again after decades.

"Where is it? I haven't seen you for many years. This time I happened to pass by Shiyuan Town. I happened to take this opportunity to visit you again." At this point, Mr. Zhou paused for a moment and asked, "I wonder if Senior Ge is still alive?"

"Uncle Zhou, my father has passed away for many years. He mentioned you on his dying day. If you hadn't rescued my father from Kuhan, I'm afraid he would have long since..." Ge Lie said sadly.

When Mr. Zhou heard this, he felt sad and emotional: Life is short and decades long, and it is fleeting. If he had not embarked on the journey of seeking immortals and asking for the Tao, he would have long since turned into a cultivation of loess and disappeared forever.

"The dead are like this, please feel sorry for me," Mr. Zhou sighed and comforted him.

At this time, a woman dressed in plain clothes, with a haggard face, and a similar age to Ge Lie, carrying a pot of tea and slowly walked down the attic, and the wooden ladder made a "squeaking" sound.

"This is my wife." Ge Lie gently looked at the woman who was pouring tea for the elders and the other two, and preached.

"Thank you, Aunt Ge!" Ze Yuhui, who had not spoken for a long time, said.

Mrs. Ge did not speak, but just smiled at him with a forced smile, but the fatigue that fell from her smile was clearly seen by everyone present.

"You go and prepare some food. I'll chat with Uncle Zhou and the others." Ge Lie said with pity after seeing his wife pouring tea.

"Yeah." Mrs. Ge responded softly, then smiled apologetically at everyone, and walked towards the kitchen.

"Why does Aunt Ge look so unhappy? Do you not welcome our arrival?" Tong Yan Wuji, Ze Yuhui deliberately lowered her voice and asked Kunpeng sitting aside, but his voice still clearly reached everyone's ears.

"Ahem... I almost forgot to introduce you. This is my friend Kunpeng, this is..." Mr. Zhou looked a little embarrassed when he heard Ze Yuhui's words. He quickly pointed to the two people beside him and introduced to Ge Lie. Of course, he could see that Mrs. Ge did not show any dissatisfaction with their arrival, but he could not guess what exactly made Mrs. Ge feel so depressed.

"Uncle Ge, my name is Ze Yuhui. I am 9 years old this year, and I am from the leader of Kuhan." Ze Yuhui snatched the conversation before Mr. Zhou finished speaking, pointing to the distant West and speaking.

Ge Lie looked at Ze Yuhui kindly, and then greeted him.

"Brother Ge, since we stepped into this town, we found that both the residents and merchants on both sides of the road were closed, and it was difficult to find people along the way. Is there something happening here that scares the residents of the town? Mrs. Ge was pouring tea for us just now, and is it related to what happened in the town?" Kunpeng, who had been silent for a long time, finally couldn't help but ask.

"Also, when I saw Aunt Ge pouring tea for us, she looked worried and sad. Is it related to what happened in the town?" Ze Yuhui also asked about her confusion.

These confusions bothered Mr. Zhou and the other two for a long time, so at this moment they all looked at Ge Lie with a desire, hoping that he could tell the reason.

Seeing the three of them showing such expressions, Ge Lie sighed, then took another sip of the tea in the cup, and then spoke out the matter of changing the situation of the town with a serious expression.

This pig origin is located in the extreme west, backed by the bitter and cold territory, away from the Shangdu government and the country. Even the change of dynasties will not have much impact on the place. Therefore, people's lives here have been very leisurely and comfortable for hundreds of years. However, since seven years ago, the peace here has been broken little by little. First, from the conscription, the residents of the town did not think anything was wrong at first, because in the past, the idle young men in the town would have filled the conscription quota. But this time it was different: not only the quota of enlistment was several times that of previous years, but the conscription also changed from the previous independent participation to compulsory, and at least one man in each household was forced to join the army. Fortunately, the conscription lasted for three days and ended, and most residents in the town used money to bribe the officers to purchase the quota. Therefore, this incident did not have much adverse impact on the town.

However, things were not as simple as imagined. Just when the residents of the town were relieved, another group of soldiers came, searching from house to house, and dragging them away directly when they saw the young man. This behavior aroused strong dissatisfaction among the residents of the town, so they united to resist, but the final ended: many people who participated in the protest were hung in a forest not far from the town. Later, two recruitment teams from different camps even fought due to recruitment reasons, and the ending was very tragic, because the two teams forced the recruited people to participate in the battle. Some of them were brothers, friends, and relatives... because the teams were different, they had to be forced to fight each other.

"The entire Song Dynasty is now completely in chaos. It is relatively better for you to have a remote geographical location. The central and eastern regions have long been ruined. If this trend continues, I think the Song Dynasty's energy is really coming to an end. In the end, it is the people in the world who suffer," Mr. Zhou said helplessly when he heard this.

"Hey, yes! The recruitment lasted for a year. During this period, the towns that had been prosperous and prosperous in previous years were destroyed and everyone was in danger. And the young and middle-aged men who were forcibly conscripted to join the army completely lost the news, and none of them came back, not knowing whether they were life or death." Ge Lie's eyes seemed to spit out fire, and he preached angrily.

"And our only son was forcibly taken away by a group of beasts at that time. He was only 14 years old at that time! So many years have passed, and we have gone to inquire about his news many times, but we have not even received any useful news." Mrs. Ge, who came at some point, was standing behind Ge Lie. After saying this sentence with sadness, she could no longer help but burst into tears.

At this point, the three elders and the other two finally realized the reason why Mrs. Ge’s expression was so haggard and lost: she missed her son who was unknown.

"Uncle Zhou should know that we who run pharmacies go to the bitter cold collar to pick medicinal materials every years. It was because I happened to go to the bitter cold collar to pick medicinal materials during that time that I survived not being arrested. But our son was...ah... I have been deeply guilty for so many years. If I were at home, maybe my child would not be taken away by them. When their mother and son needed protection the most, I failed to show up. I am such a waste!" Ge Lie held back the tears in his eyes and preached. He could feel that he had really lived in self-blame over the years.

After Ge Lie finished speaking this sentence, he gently brushed away the tears in his eyes and fell into silence. For a moment, there was no other sound in the room except Mrs. Ge's crying. Ge Lie stood up from the chair, turned around and hugged Mrs. Ge gently, without saying comfort, but just gently stroked her back. However, the sadness and despair in the eyes of the two made Mrs. Zhou and the other two feel very heartbroken.

"Does Mrs. Ge still remember your son's appearance? You can draw a portrait of him for me. We will leave here soon. We can help you find his traces." Kunpeng, who has always been talking less, took the lead in breaking the sad atmosphere and suddenly spoke.

"Are you saying true?" Hearing Kunpeng say this, Ge Lie suddenly had a more radiant look in his eyes, and he responded in disbelief.

Kunpeng looked at Ge Li and his wife without saying anything, but answered in a very firm tone: "Yeah". Similarly, Mr. Zhou and Ze Yuhui on the side responded to Ge Li and his wife with the same expression.

Seeing the three of them with such a firm expression, Mrs. Ge seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw, trying hard to calm down the excitement in her heart, and said, "That's really great thanks to the Kunpeng brothers (I don't know how Kunpeng, who has been in history for thousands of years, felt when he heard the word "brother". Our son was called Ge Dao. He was taken away. He was only fourteen years old that year. Although so many years have passed, I still clearly remember his voice, appearance, and I went to draw his appearance." After saying that, before I could thank the three, I hurried to the house beside him to draw a portrait of Ge Dao.
Chapter completed!