Jiaogui Haiying

"No! Don't!" The sleeping boy yelled as if in a nightmare, woke up suddenly, opened his eyes, and found himself in a straw hut instead of the raging fire, and threw himself on him in fear. Next to another child of similar age.

"Brother, I'm so scared!"

Feeling the trembling body in his arms, Li Wenrui sighed helplessly: "It's been so long, why haven't you forgotten it?"

He was just talking to himself when he asked this question, and he didn't expect Huang Su in his arms to answer him.

Being hugged tightly by Huang Su, it was inconvenient for him to move around, so he had to reach for the water gourd beside him, pull out the cork, and feed Huang Su some drink.

"Brother, when will we get home?" Huang Su drank some water and leaned in his arms, feeling a lot more relieved.

The two children were in ragged and tattered clothes.

All the way south from the imperial capital, fleeing from the pursuers, they are like two little beggars, maybe their faces and bodies are full of stains, and they can't tell their original appearance, and they probably escaped for a long time, even the documents arrested on the city gate It's all gone, and the pursuers are no longer chasing after them these days.

He smiled and said, "Hurry up, I'll be home in a few days."

"Brother, tell me about Dad and Mom again!" Huang Su tugged at his sleeve.

Who knows what your parents look like?

Li Wenrui murmured in his heart, but he couldn't bear Huang Su's begging, so he said casually: "Daddy is very kind and kind, and he likes to hug the newborn you to show off to the guests..."

Huang Su pouted and said, "Last time you said that Daddy is very strict and rarely sees us."

"Of course he doesn't see us when he's busy, but he comes to see us when he's not busy." He straightened his face, "Go to sleep, we have to hurry tomorrow morning!"

He and Huang Su are not actually brothers, his father is Prince Li Hong, and he is the eldest grandson of the current emperor.

Since he was taught by a famous teacher since he was a child, he is also very smart and studious. Although he is only one or two years older than Huang Su, he looks very mature.

Huang Su is actually a collateral descendant of the Huang family in Haining. Because he looks very similar to Li Wenrui, he was chosen to be a substitute by his side. They study and practice together on weekdays. If he is assassinated, he can divert the assassin's attention at critical moments.

"Two Rivers and Four Merchants, Xu Mu Pei Huang", although the Huang family is ranked last, they are also extremely wealthy in the south of the Yangtze River. If Huang Su did not come from a side branch, the crown prince would not be able to let the Huang family hand over Huang Su, just to be a substitute.

The prince has always thought that the throne is guaranteed, and this son makes him very proud, so the emperor must feel at ease to pass on the throne to him.It's a pity that the emperor preferred the youngest son more, and let his sons fight to the death, so the prince who had already settled in the East Palace became the first target of the princes.

At the time of the incident, Li Wenrui was studying in Huangzhuang on the outskirts of the imperial capital when he suddenly broke into a group of thieves pretending to be rebels, who burned, killed and looted as soon as they entered.

In a panic, he and Huang Su were escorted out of the village. When the guards entered the village again to rescue people, the beams of the house collapsed, sparks flew everywhere, and no one could come out of the fire.The fire burned the sky in the dark night, and the two children lay down in the grass, not daring to raise their heads for a long time.

He didn't dare to stay in the imperial capital for a long time, so he took Huang Su and left.

At only eight years old, he already understood that since his father was the crown prince, and now that the emperor's grandfather was old, his father would be enthroned soon, so how could he have the intention of treason.

Grandpa Huang was indifferent to this matter, and it was no longer necessary for him to go to Grandpa Huang to appeal for grievances.Although the Tian Family has no father and son, it still chills him to be so ruthless.

He was supplemented with the emperor's art since he was a child, and he calmed down quickly. On the contrary, Huang Su fell into a serious illness after being exposed to the fire. They couldn't speak, thanks to the amount of money in the baggage that the guards had stuffed into them, they didn't die in hardship.It's a pity that he seldom goes out. At the beginning, he didn't know how to use money. He bought a lot of tonics, but soon there was not much left.

Six years old is really too young, and it is inevitable to be unstable when encountering such a terrible fire.He sighed in his heart, completely forgetting that he was not much older than Huang Su.

He was willing to take Huang Su with him. At the beginning, it was because Huang Su was very similar to him. In a critical situation, Huang Su could be regarded as him. Later, he saw that Huang Su was very pitiful, dependent on him like a puppy, and was very thin. Sometimes I saw Huang Su looking at me with wet eyes, and I would rather starve to give him more food.

Huang Su forgot everything before the age of six, so he told Huang Su that they were brothers, they were born in ordinary families, they were robbed and separated from their parents, in order to prevent Huang Su from being too young and being cheated out of the truth .

Now that he was gradually going to the Huang family, he, the son of a treason, could no longer drag others down. From then on, he felt a little reluctant to part with the two of them.

Huang Su tugged at his sleeve: "Brother, I can't sleep, tell me a story."

"you are annoying?"

"Just say one, one!"

"What story have I heard that I haven't told you?"

"Just one more word and I'll fall asleep."

Li Wenrui had no choice but to tell a story about the founding general of the dynasty, General Zhao, who fought in the South and the North.He has been surrounded by the prince's counselors since he was a child, so how dare he talk nonsense about those strange powers and gods that are rumored in the market?What he learned was only a collection of classics and history, what he knew was nothing more than the etiquette of monarchs and ministers, and the stories were all boring. He yawned while talking, only Huang Su's eyes were black and shiny.

"General Zhao used a pair of copper hammers, and once he clamped the horse's belly, he went out. Good guy, each copper hammer is [-] catties, and the total is [-] catties..."

"It's really eight hundred catties?"

"The copper hammer is as big as a watermelon, and eight hundred catties is not a miracle."

"Then if he sits on the horse, the horse won't get tired and lie down?"

"...that's a Pegasus horse, beyond the reach of any horse."

"Where is the Pegasus? Brother, I want to see it!"

Li Wenrui missed Huang Su who was delirious some time ago, at least he didn't have so many weird requests, and said casually: "It was not easy to get a horse that day. There is a kind of Pegasus that often lives in the deep sea. When the mare is by the sea, the pegasus will appear from the sea when they hear the mare neighing, and have sex with the mare..."

"What is copulation?"

"If you ask any more, I won't talk about it." He didn't understand this question either, but he just opened his mouth to fool Huang Su.Having said that, Huang Su quickly stopped asking, and begged him to finish the story.

"General Zhao went into battle. He knocked out all the enemy troops to death with a single blow of the copper hammer, and thus won a big victory. Well, the story is over. If you don't sleep, I will sleep!" After he finished speaking, almost immediately Lie down on the clothed floor and close your eyes.

Huang Su pouted and said, "Brother is lying, when you said last time, General Zhao fought the enemy for [-] rounds, how could he win so quickly..."

Li Wenrui closed his eyes and just ignored, Huang Su continued to push him: "Brother, brother!"

Seeing that he was still with his eyes closed, Huang Su could only lie down beside him disconsolately, pulled up the quilt, and muttered something.Fortunately, the child was thirsty and soon fell asleep.

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In the early morning of the next day, the two shared some dry food and continued on their way.

It rained heavily halfway and couldn't find a place to shelter from the rain, so Li Wenrui dragged Huang Su along.

"Brother, I can't walk anymore, carry me!" The rain drenched Huang Su's clothes and hair, and water droplets dripped down from the tip of his hair, making his eyes even more breathtaking.

"No, you have eaten too much recently, and you are as tall as me. How can I carry you?"

"Just a little bit, I'll go by myself when I'm not tired."

Li Wenrui was about to reprimand him, but when he saw that the rain washed away the dust, revealing a face that was very similar to his own, but it was as white as jade, he couldn't help being startled.

Huang Su was very thin and weak before, but now that she has grown up, she looks more and more like him.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Huang Su thought he was acquiescing, and jumped on his back. He staggered and almost fell to the ground.

"Come down, my waist is going to break!"

He is the eldest grandson of the emperor, such a noble person, no one has ever dared to be so rude to him.But he just lied to Huang Su that he was his younger brother, but Huang Su actually took it seriously, and after only two or three months of sobriety, he wanted to climb on top of him.

He pushed hard and broke Huang Su free, but even the burden on his back accidentally fell to the ground, and the clothes inside fell out.

"Look at you, you are doing stupid things!"

Li Wenrui frowned and packed up his things, but seeing Huang Su's ready to cry, thinking that it would be a troublesome thing for him to be scared stupid by himself, he had no choice but to say: "Forget it, just be more careful in the future. "

Huang Su didn't say a word, just looked at him, trying not to cry.

Li Wenrui teased: "I'm still crying at such a big age!"

"I didn't cry!"

"Why is your nose red when you didn't cry?" He lightly scratched Huang Su's nose, feeling his fingertips were slippery and his skin was very soft.

Huang Su was so angry that she forgot that she was too tired to walk and walked ahead.

Li Wenrui was afraid that he would go the wrong way, so he hurried to catch up.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, the heavy rain gradually stopped. Li Wenrui asked Huang Su to take off his clothes and wring out the water to avoid the wind and cold.

Huang Su pouted and didn't speak, and he didn't care about Huang Su's childish temper, so he directly stripped Huang Su's clothes.

The two had been disheveled to hide their whereabouts. Now that it was raining, Li Wenrui helped Huang Su wipe his face, and he couldn't help being a little dazed.Although they are very similar to each other, for some reason, Huang Su looks better than him, which is strange.

Li Wenrui originally wanted to ask him to smear some dirt on his face, but it is a pity that such a delicate appearance has been hidden all the time, not to mention that he will be on the property of Huang's family, so that Huang Su's relatives can see his face and recognize him earlier he comes.Now that there are no pursuers, there is no need to be so cautious.He didn't have to show his face, he just sent Huang Su home. If someone found out that the branch of Huang's family had contacts with the former prince, it would be wrong for Huang Su.

Huang Su was still sullen and refused to say a word to his brother.

Just now, he didn't want his brother to carry him, but he just felt that his brother had become a lot stranger to him recently.

Although nothing could be seen on the surface, his brother was still so kind to him, but how close the two of them were, this subtle feeling made him feel it, and he wanted to make trouble with his brother.My elder brother always pampers himself, so he will definitely treat him as before.Who knew that elder brother would reprimand him with a cold face?

Li Wenrui knew that he likes to be petty, so he didn't take it seriously. When he saw a village in front of him from a distance, he smiled and said to Huang Su: "Some people live here."

Huang Su still kept his mouth tightly shut and did not speak. Li Wenrui didn't expect that he was not angry yet, but he was full of anger and couldn't help laughing.

Now is the busy season of farming, and many people are working in the fields, but there is a man in his twenties squatting on a big rock by the roadside, looking around, looking idle.

Huang Su stepped forward and asked, "Brother, do you know that Haining County is going in this direction?"

Li Wenrui had something different in his heart, but it was too late to stop it.

The man saw the two children covered in mud and water, with disgust on their faces, and was about to drive them away, but seeing Huang Su's fair and lovely face, he couldn't help showing joy, and grabbed Huang Su's wrist with one hand, He called to a thatched hut behind him, "Father, come out quickly, there are fat sheep!"

Li Wenrui's face changed color involuntarily.Along the way, he was careful everywhere, and he would never enter a wild shop in a lonely village. This place looks like an ordinary farmhouse, so there are villains hiding there?

He is still young and inexperienced, so he doesn't know that besides black shops, evil ways are everywhere in this world. What this family does is to kidnap and sell young children. They wander around the city every day, and arrest children who are alone To sell, to make a living.It's just that the wind has been very tight recently, and it's hard to start. It's raining again today, so I don't go out to shop, just sit at home.Unexpectedly, while sitting at home, a fat sheep broke into the door. Isn't this a gift from heaven, which should be obtained by their father and son?

"What are you calling for? I'm not afraid of calling someone from the government!" A rough voice replied, and a middle-aged man with a hemp rope tied around his belt and a long knife hanging from his waist came out from the door.This middle-aged man had similar features to the young man at the door, but he was much older, half of his face was covered with beards, and his expression was very ferocious.

Li Wenrui knew something was wrong, clasped the young man's wrist with both hands, and tried his best to unscrew it.Although the prince's staff had taught him boxing and kicking for two or three years, but after all, he was young and young, so Huang Su broke free with all his strength.

"Hurry up?" Li Wenrui yelled, bringing the horrified Huang Su back to his senses. Seeing the middle-aged man draw out the long knife at his waist and slash at his brother, he lost his footsteps and fell to the ground.

The young man's wrist was broken by a boy who was many years younger than himself, and he felt annoyed for a while. Seeing that Li Wenrui's face was dirty and his body had a faint rotten smell, he said, "Father, this brat is so troublesome. It can't be sold for a few pennies, so it's better to slaughter it first. The fat sheep's legs are weak, so don't worry about him!"

"I can't even do this little thing, so you can practice your fists and kicks if you have nothing to do on weekdays, but you just don't listen!" The middle-aged man frowned.

"This kid is tricky, he seems to have practiced!"

"Really? Wait for the old man to try!" The middle-aged man grinned, and slashed at Li Wenrui's neck with the horizontal knife.

The snow-white knife light flashed, and Li Wenrui clasped his palms, almost clamping the back of the knife. The middle-aged man tilted the blade slightly, and Li Wenrui felt severe pain in both palms one after another, and blood slid down his wrist.

His strength was not as strong as this man's, and he bled again, holding the blade like this, but the edge of the knife moved closer to him inch by inch.

"Don't hurt my brother!"

Huang Su yelled, with strength from nowhere, rushed forward and grabbed the middle-aged man's arm, opened his mouth to bite, almost a living piece of flesh was about to be bitten off by him.

The middle-aged man couldn't take it anymore, so he let go of the knife, and it fell to the ground. Li Wenrui stretched out a blood-stained hand to pick it up, but the young man stepped on the back of the knife with one foot and kicked him with the other. In his heart.He grunted and fell limp to the ground.

"Is he your brother?"

The young man looked at Li Wenrui for a while, Li Wenrui's chest hurt like a fire, his palms were also burning hot, and his body couldn't move an inch.

He was powerless to think at this moment, and he didn't know what the young man was up to. He saw that man entered the room, took a bucket, scooped water with a ladle made of a gourd, washed away the stains on his face, and looked at his face After a while, he said joyfully to his father, "Father, it's actually twins!"

The wealthy family may have some taboos about twins, but if they are sold as male concubines, they are very popular, not to mention such a beautiful couple with beautiful features, it is really rare.

The middle-aged man was not as careless as his son, and after looking at it for a long time, he said: "It still doesn't look like it when you look closely. My brother has single eyelids, his skin is a little thicker, and his eyes are slightly smaller. I think he is just a compatriot. It's more like ordinary people."

The young man did not give up: "Why don't you ask them."

The middle-aged man asked Huang Su: "How old is your brother older than you?"

How did Huang Su know, he looked very fierce, and there was a crying sound in his throat: "He is my brother, don't you want to hurt him..."

No matter how hard the middle-aged man asked, Huang Su just shook his head, but his son was much smarter, and asked kindly: "Did your brother always take care of you and play with you since childhood?"

Huang Su only heard the word "take care", and began to nod indiscriminately.

Seeing Huang Su's ineffective appearance, Li Wenrui wanted to beat him up.If it is said that he and this silly boy are blood brothers, he will not believe it to the death.What's more, the two people live in different places, one is in the imperial capital and the other is in the south of the Yangtze River, one is surnamed Li and the other is surnamed Huang, they are not even related by blood.

The young people still refused to give up: "If we sell the twins, we can earn at least 200 taels. If we sell them separately, the smaller one is worth 80 taels, and the older one is worse. It is worth four or five taels at most. Why don't we sell them? Dress up and wear the same clothes, and it will definitely look like it."

Four or five taels of silver... I didn't expect the nobles of the Tian family to be so downcast, even a merchant's son.

Li Wenrui didn't know whether he was angry or his heart was hurt, he couldn't even speak, but he heard the father and son discussing how to sell them as twin brothers, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

If it hadn't been for the goddamn rain, if it hadn't been for him to wipe the rainwater off Huang Su's face by accident, if he hadn't walked to the door of this pair of thieves, father and son, I'm afraid he might not have encountered such an unlucky thing.

"Brother, are you okay?" Huang Su became even more flustered when he saw blood spilling from the corner of Li Wenrui's mouth.

Li Wenrui felt even more depressed when he heard him call him brother.This idiot, he can't even escape by himself, and even makes himself humiliated.He wanted Huang Su to shut up, but he couldn't make a sound. He was so angry that he passed out.

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When Li Wenrui was awake, his chest hurt and itched, and he couldn't help coughing.

Hearing his voice, Huang Su was both surprised and happy: "Brother, are you awake?"

"Shut up! Don't call me brother, I'm not as stupid as you!"

Huang Su had never been scolded so harshly by him before, she stayed for a moment, and two tears slowly filled her eyes.

Li Wenrui was speechless immediately.

Li Wenrui struggled to sit up, but found that his hands were tied behind his back with ropes, but the wound on his palm was wrapped up with a thick layer. Seeing Huang Su's torn clothes, he wanted to use the cloth to cover the wound. It is from him.

This group of people was quick and vigilant. Although he was injured, he knew some superficial martial arts and was more dangerous than Huang Su, so he was tied instead of Huang Su.

"Don't you untie the rope on me?"

"I tried it. The knot is so strange that I can't untie it."

Li Wenrui was too angry to speak, but seeing Huang Su's frightened and wronged eyes, he took a deep breath and smiled a little: "It's okay, it's fine if you can't solve it."

Presumably this knot is a special knot, which is not easy to untie.He tried to struggle, but the rope was made of cowhide and he couldn't break free.

He sighed, seeing that Huang Su was still very wronged, he could only sit up with difficulty, and spoke to him softly: "Why didn't you go when I asked you to go?"

"If I leave, brother will be killed by them..."

Li Wenrui couldn't help but find it a little interesting: "Yeah, if I was killed by them, what would you do?"

Huang Su's eyes were red: "Then I... I will die with you too!"

Although Li Wenrui knew that Huang Su regarded him as the only one to rely on, and he didn't know anyone except himself, but his words were very sincere, and Li Wenrui couldn't help being very moved, and the unhappiness of being dragged down by Huang Su disappeared a lot, and his heart Slowly pondering the words of Huang Su.

The crown prince has passed away, and all the "rebellious parties" have been executed. From now on, he has no relationship with those royal relatives. For him, Huang Su is the closest to him.

Suddenly, Huang Su recalled the way Huang Su rushed up to hug the old thief and then bit the old thief regardless of his life. He really looked like a little wolf cub.

Li Wenrui was extremely intelligent since he was a child, which made his masters very pleased, but they couldn't help but be surprised at his old-fashionedness secretly.At the beginning, he took care of Huang Su, which meant to take advantage of it and pass the time, but now... it's a little different.

Li Wenrui couldn't help but smile.

Huang Su's cheeks were flushed, as if he was a little angry: "Is brother making fun of me? What I said is true!"

Li Wenrui smiled and said: "If you could have escaped, you would have saved me. Their target was only you, and they had no intention of targeting me. Besides, didn't you listen to what the old thief said? They are still afraid of the government. If you run away If I ask for help in a place where there are other people, they will only let me go earlier, and they may not even want the old nest. The thatched hut is so narrow, and they don’t plan to live there for a long time.”

Huang Su was stunned, and tears welled up in his eyes: "I'm so stupid, I can't do anything..."

Li Wenrui had no choice but to comfort him with his tears: "You have just been seriously ill, and it hasn't been long. If you count from the time you recovered from the serious illness and just regained your sanity, you are only half a year old. I have never seen a half-year-old doll." You know everything, and you can learn it slowly in the future.”

"It's my fault, I didn't listen to your words..." Hearing his comfort, Huang Su could no longer hold back and threw herself into his arms, crying bitterly.

Li Wenrui only felt that the clothes on his chest were getting wet, and sighed: "It's okay, if they don't kill us, they still have a chance. Brother will teach you everything in the future."

Huang Su raised her head from his arms and asked with red eyes, "Will my brother never leave me?"

"Of course."

Li Wenrui said casually, but felt helpless in his heart.Those two father and son sold them as twins. I'm afraid they will be together for a long time, even if he wants to get rid of this idiot, he can't help it.

Li Wenrui felt a bit of vibration under his body. He looked around and found that the two of them were in a very narrow room with the doors and windows closed, and it was impossible to estimate the time.

"Where is this?"

"Those two villains sent us to a big boat, took the money and got off the boat."

"How long have I been asleep?"

"One day and one night."

Huang Su didn't know much about many things, so Li Wenrui asked him many details carefully, and vaguely calculated that they had gone astray before and came to Quanzhou.

Quanzhou is very close to the sea, so it is easy to go to sea.Those two fathers and sons would have been discovered long ago if they hadn't had a quick transfer channel for this kind of murder and extortion.

There were many people crying and wailing around. It sounded like there were other women and children besides the two of them who had been trafficked.The reason why they were imprisoned separately was presumably because they paid a high price, so they paid more attention to it.

A prison with a large number of people is very prone to infectious diseases. If Li Wenrui lived with other people, he would have been injured, and he might not live long.It can be seen that fortune and misfortune are unpredictable, but this time it is thanks to their reputation as twins that they can have such preferential treatment.Since Huang Su could not return to Huang's house for a long time, Huang Su would not know the truth.If it's good for you to pretend to be a twin, why not?

Li Wenrui accepted this very calmly, and when chatting with Huang Su, he hinted that the two were actually born on the same day, and his name was Huang Ting, who was born only an hour earlier than Huang Su.

Huang Su had wanted to ask this question a long time ago. Hearing him bring it up, he felt a lot closer to Li Wenrui, and was extremely happy. He supported Li Wenrui's shoulder and said, "Brother, when I grow up, I will protect you."

Li Wenrui naturally wouldn't take it seriously, and just smiled: "Then thank you in advance."