After being a widow for half my life, I found out that my husband was not dead.

Aunt Zhang took the child out of Liu Yunxiang's arms, coaxed it to stop crying, put it in the basket, covered it with a bloody cloth, took a deep breath and walked out.

When she came to the courtyard, she lowered her head and said: "This afterbirth must be buried in time, the smell of blood is too strong."

Empress Lu and Shangguan Xu both turned their heads away and covered their noses with their hands.

Just as Aunt Zhang was about to leave, Queen Lu looked at the basket and frowned, "Wait a moment."

Aunt Zhang paused, her heart in her throat.

Queen Lu was about to ask her mother-in-law to take a look, when a loud cry came from the room. Queen Lu's thoughts were suddenly drawn to her, and she quickly asked her mother-in-law to come in and take a look.

At this moment, Aunt Zhang quickly took the basket and left.

The old lady went in to take a look, then came out and said to Queen Lu: "Your Majesty, it's a girl."

"Girl? Can you see clearly?"

"You can see clearly, it's a girl."

Empress Lu looked at Shangguan Xu. The two looked at each other and seemed to be relieved.

Jin Yan glanced outside, returned to the kang and said to Liu Yunxiang: "Girl, everyone outside has evacuated."

"Where is the child... where is the child?"

"Aunt Zhang took her away."

Liu Yunxiang looked at the child lying next to him. It was the orphan of the woman in the east courtyard. The little girl was three months old. When he showed her just now, he only dared to let her look down.

"Let's leave here right away." Liu Yunxiang gritted his teeth.

She held the attention of these people so that Aunt Zhang could safely send her child away from them.

"Jinyan, go find Aunt Zhang."

"Girl, I can't leave you!" Jin Yan said anxiously.

Liu Yunxiang grabbed Jin Yan's hand and said word by word: "Good girl, I entrust the child to you. After we go far, you ask Zhang Qi to communicate with Doctor Qu. I told her before, She knows how to accommodate you.”

Jinyan shook his head, "Girl, where are you?"

Liu Yunxiang held back tears, "As long as I don't meet my child and run away from him, I will be safe and so will he."

One or two wolves were gone, and there were also hyenas and vultures. The night was still full of dangers.

Liu Yunxiang dragged his limp body and got into the carriage with the little girl in his arms. While Zijin was driving, Aunt Yan was still chanting sutras quietly in the car.

The road was not easy to walk at night, with constant bumps.

They had just descended the mountain and not long after walking, a dozen men in black surrounded them.

Zi Jin was injured originally, and now he could only grit his teeth and fight for his life.

At this time, an arrow pierced the carriage. Liu Yunxiang was shocked and quickly got out of the carriage with his child in his arms. Aunt Yan was behind, following her staggeringly.

Sharp arrows came through the air, and they dodged with difficulty.

At this time, just as he dodged an arrow, another one came. Liu Yunxiang's legs felt weak and he was suddenly unable to move. He saw the arrow coming towards his vital part. At the critical moment, Aunt Yan stood in front of her tremblingly.

An arrow hit the chest.

"Aunt Yan!" Liu Yunxiang was shocked.

Just then, another group of men in black came and quickly protected them.

Liu Yunxiang fell to the ground holding Aunt Yan, "Aunt Yan..."

Aunt Yan opened her mouth and spit out a large mouthful of blood, "Zi Yuan..."

Ziyuan is the name of Lao Houye.

"Hold on, we're going to find the doctor right now. When you get better, I'll take you to Mobei to find the old Marquis!" Liu Yunxiang said in a panic.

"I...I can't see...him..."

"You can see it."

"The farewell that year... turned out to be... a farewell forever..."

"Let me help you stop bleeding first."

"Find him for me..."

Aunt Yan took out a jade pendant from her arms with difficulty, "The Xie family's ancestral jade pendant... he gave it to me... saying that in his heart... I am his... only wife..."

Liu Yunxiang caught the jade pendant, and Aunt Yan closed her eyes with reluctance.

At this time, a man in black came forward and took off his mask. He turned out to be a beggar.

"Madam, Lao Qi asked me to protect you. The demons and demons are out. We have to leave quickly."

Liu Yunxiang closed his eyes, put Aunt Yan down, and hugged the child tightly in his arms, "Let's go."

In the dark night, a carriage galloped on the official road.

The beggar drove the car. In the car, Liu Yunxiang helped Zijin bandage his wounds.

The little girl was hungry and started crying. But now we are running for our lives, there is nothing to eat.

Liu Yunxiang held the child who cried so hard that her face turned purple, and felt guilty. This child had protected her child from danger, and he would have to endure hardship if he followed her.

After a moment's hesitation, she untied her clothes and fed the baby.

But I wonder if her child is hungry and has milk?

"Girl." Zijin glanced at the beggar outside and asked Liu Yunxiang with his eyes.

Liu Yunxiang was silent for a moment and shook his head at Zijin.

She still remembered the words Yan Mu said to her, which she remembered in her heart and engraved in her bones and blood.

No one in the palace or Dongchang can be trusted.

After dawn, they came to a ruined temple. The beggar asked them to rest first while he rode a horse and cart to a nearby town to do some shopping.

Zijin helped Liu Yunxiang scrub his body and change into clean clothes.

"Girl, why don't we leave now?"

Liu Yunxiang shook his head, "Yan Mu asked the beggar to protect us. He must have weighed it up. I just listen to his arrangements. Besides, we can't escape without Dongchang's cover."

Not long after, the beggar came back.

Give them a paper bag with hot meat buns inside.

The beggar sat on the ground and took another paper bag of meat buns to eat, not to mention how sweet they were.

"Your hands are so dirty, you should wash them before eating steamed buns." Zi Jin said with some disgust.

The beggar laughed: "Have you ever seen a clean beggar?"

"But you are not a beggar."

"Girl, how do I look like a beggar?"

"It's like everywhere."

"Isn't that right? I'm just a smelly and dirty beggar."

After the beggar had eaten two buns, he had time to ask Liu Yunxiang.

"Where should we go next?"

Liu Yunxiang was startled, "You didn't have a plan?"

The beggar shrugged, "My mission is to protect you. I will go wherever you go."

Liu Yunxiang thought for a long time and said, "Let's go north."

"Looking for Yan Mu?"

"What I want to do with him is just to see the scenery of Mobei."

"The Mobei is covered in ice and snow, and it's war-torn. We might as well slow down and wait until spring begins before heading north."

Liu Yunxiang looked at the little girl in his arms and said, "That's fine."

Adults can hold it, but children who are too young cannot.

Since we are leaving in the spring, we need to find a place to hide. The beggar thought for a while and said, "I have a place that should be safer."

They drove further north for two days, arrived outside Jingzhou City, turned up the mountain, and finally heard in front of the gate of a manor.

The beggar came forward and knocked on the door. After a while, a boy wearing a green cloth jacket came to open the door. The beggar showed the boy his badge. The boy looked towards the carriage and then closed the door.

The beggar came back and said to Liu Yunxiang: "Wait a minute, that boy has gone to report to the master."

"Who is this Zhuangzi?" Liu Yunxiang asked.

"Yan Mu's property."

Liu Yunxiang raised his eyebrows, "Since it is his property, then who is the owner who lives here?"

The beggar coughed dryly and looked away, "That person likes peace and quiet and won't see you, so you don't need to know."

Liu Yunxiang was silent for a moment, "Isn't it the outer room where Yan Mu is kept here?"