Chapter 3 Section 2 Wuthering Heights

After the funeral, the young Liu Xiu followed his uncle Liu Liang, who lived in Xiaoxian magistrate, to Xiaoxian County, Peiguo, where he was raised by Liu Liang and entered elementary school.Another five years later, in the eighth year of AD, there was news that Wang Mang had usurped the throne. In this year, Wang Mang performed euthanasia on the Western Han Dynasty. . Hearing the sad news of the country's subjugation for the first time, Liu Liang looked forward to Chang'an and wept bitterly.He asked himself that he was powerless to regain Liu's lost country, and he also lacked the courage to die for the country, but there was at least one thing that must be done, and that was to abandon his official position and hang his seal.This county magistrate is already useless. Although he cannot avenge the Liu family, he must not be a running dog for the Liu family's enemies.

Liu Liang then ordered the mansion to pack up and prepare to return home.Madam persuaded: "Although the new emperor is coming, he didn't say that he would withdraw your official position. Why did you do it in such a hurry?" Liu Liang said angrily: "This world is no longer our Liu family's world. How can this official belong to us?" Are you an official of the Liu family?" Madam said: "Then it won't be too late to leave until the imperial edict arrives. After all, dozens of people in the whole family are still counting on the master's salary to support them." Liu Liang put down his luggage, He didn't leave, but he cursed angrily: "It's really difficult to raise only women and villains!" In his opinion, the reason why he couldn't be a loyal minister and filial son was because he was held back by these women and villains in the mansion. .

Liu Xiu also heard the news in the school. After school, she asked Liu Liang for verification. When she learned that the report was true, she couldn't help being very confused. At the time when she learned the "Historical Records: Biographies of Assassins", she blurted out: "I want to kill you." Wang Mang, one assassin is enough. Considering the size of the world, there is no strong man who can take Wang Mang's head?" Liu Liang turned pale in shock, covered Liu Xiu's mouth, and reprimanded: "Don't talk nonsense. Otherwise, there is a risk of extermination. disaster."

In short, in the seat of the magistrate of Xiao County, Liu Hao had to wait for another two years.In the tenth year of AD, Wang Mang's regime was already stable, so he issued an imperial edict that all descendants of the Liu family would be expelled, that is, dismissed from public office, expelled from titles, and demoted to the people.Liu Liang was mentally prepared long ago, but he was calm. After the delivery of Yinshou, he led his family back to his hometown Chongling without mentioning it. Liu Xiu is actually not familiar with his hometown Chongling.He has traveled around with his father since he was a child, and lived with his uncle Liu Liang in Xiao County for seven years. From birth to now, he has stayed in Chongling for less than a year. Everything seemed both close and strange.Because of this, he was able to quickly see the true face of his hometown as an outsider—behind the idyllic pastoral in Chongling, a storm of anger and mania was brewing, and its edge was faintly directed at the new emperor Wang Mang. .

For ordinary people, it doesn't matter who is the emperor. Anyway, there are only two kinds of emperors, the fucker and the worse.The things above the temple, these small people like Shengdou can't care about it at all, and have no right to care about it.They lived humblely in the world, tried hard to prove their insignificant existence, and then passed away in a hurry, as if they had never appeared, but disappeared forever.They will always be the silent majority. They have been making soy sauce for hundreds of years and will continue to make soy sauce for nearly two thousand years.

Regarding Wang Mang's usurpation of the throne, the children of the Liu family in Chongling could not be so detached.Generally speaking, the fall of the ancestor's foundation is not only a national enmity, but also a family hatred. After Liu Bang, the great ancestor, how can he sit back and watch his peace!In a nutshell, since Wang Mang usurped the throne, their once noble royal lineage has been branded with a mark of shame, and they have become no different from pariahs. All their dignity and privileges have expired and become void in the new dynasty. . Like Liu Liang, the elders of the Liu family are probably tired, numb, and unwilling to fight. They think that when things prosper, they decline, and that the universe is constant.The Han Dynasty is exhausted, even if there is no Wang Mang, there will be Zhang Mang or Li Mang, who will change the life of the Han Dynasty and establish a new dynasty.However, the younger disciples of the Liu family were not interested in this set of dialectical materialism. They were dissatisfied with a stable and boring life. They were eager to rebuild the Han Dynasty and return to glory, and they were even afraid of sacrificing their lives for it.

The storm of revolution hovered obscurantly over Chongling, and gradually became stronger until it turned Chongling into a Wuthering Heights.What surprised Liu Xiubei was that the center of the storm was actually his elder brother Liu Yan.