sentences:  During that same year, he and his older brother went to visit their ailing father in Hunan.After Xue Xiang died, the two brothers spent over a year settling their father's affairs and remaining bureaucratic duties.In the spring of 1860, the two brothers hurriedly traveled back to Wuxi when they heard of the Taiping rebels’ invasion of their hometown but was unable to locate their mother and siblings who had fled Wuxi.