Datang beauty walk

In the bosom.She was worried that Pu Yu's voice would wake up the sleeping baby, so she said softly:

"Keep down, don't wake it up!"

Hearing what she said, Pu Yu immediately fell silent.In the room, two people were talking quietly, the voice was so low that only they and the mosquitoes around them could hear clearly - if there were mosquitoes, it would not be summer now.

☆, scholarly

Bi'er became a maid of the Xia family, which seemed to be an ironclad fact.In this strange place, facing strangers, she carefully performed her duty as a maid.

Gradually, she also got to know this young lady named Pu Yu from the Xia family——

She is a little girl who is more sensible than herself. She listens to her parents very much and loves to play with her brother and the maids.And she was kind to herself too.

She has a good personality. In the past few days, I haven't seen her lose her temper with anyone.It's not like being at home, always pestering parents to act like a baby and being naughty.

Although the food here is not as rich as in her own home, the young lady is not picky about food. Every time she eats, she always eats deliciously and eats up her own portion.But when I ate at home, I didn't eat as deliciously as she did. It seemed that I didn't want to eat every time.

The only thing is, it seems that she is afraid of spicy food. Last night, when she saw the dish with chili on it, she didn't take a bite. Last time, she ate the same dish without chili pepper, didn't she eat well? ?

Moreover, she seemed a little timid, and when she saw those crawling insects in the garden, she was frightened and hid.

However, Miss Puyu likes to read very much. She can really know a lot of words and recite poems.

Beau was sitting on the front steps of the house, her chin in her hands, and she was looking up at the sky.Just now she and the maid Chunlan finished cleaning Miss Puyu's room, so there is nothing to do now.

"Miss, she and the young master went to learn from the master, and it's time to come back now..."

The sky is very blue, and there are a few sheep-like clouds scattered in the sky.Looking at the lofty sky, Bi'er thought of the home she had lost, as well as her relatives in that home, and tears welled up in her eyes again...

In the morning, Pu Yu went to visit her mother, and after returning to her room, she asked:

"Bi'er, where's my "Thousand Character Essay"?"

"Miss, what did you say?"

Bi'er was cleaning the cabinet, but she didn't seem to understand what she said, so she turned around and asked.

"My "Thousand Character Essay"!" Pu Yu said again.

"Huh?" Bi'er still didn't understand what Pu Yu said.

"It's my literacy book. I read it this morning. I remember it was on this table. Where did you find it?" Pu Yu asked after explaining.

The literacy book "Thousand Characters" that Pu Yu mentioned was a rhyme compiled by an official under the emperor's order seven or eighty years ago.Its content is all-encompassing, the rhythm is beautiful, and it is easy to read, and it has become a literacy textbook for children.Because when Bi'er was at home, her parents hadn't taught her how to read, so she didn't know what a "thousand-character script" was. Now that she heard Pu Yu's explanation, she understood.

"Oh, Miss, do you have your book? Just now, when you were away, the young master came over and said that his book was lost, so he took your book and used it first."

"Brother took it away? How can he take other people's things?" Pu Yu said angrily, "Wait a minute, Mr. teaches, what am I reading? I'll go ask for it!" She said angrily and walked out.

Bi'er also followed Pu Yu, and Pu Yu walked quickly, saying as she walked:

"Bi'er, don't follow me. The teacher is very stingy. If one more person enters the school, he will charge another person's teaching fee. Even if you stand there, he won't allow it."

Bi'er then stopped in her tracks, watching Pu Yu walking towards the school in the front yard, and soon disappeared.

When Bi'er turned around, Chunlan came over with a mattress in her arms and said to her:

"Bihe, take off the old quilt on Miss's bed, and put this clean one on it."

"Yes." Bi'er followed Chunlan into the bedroom.

Chunlan put the bag of things that occupied her hands on Puyu's bed, turned around easily, saw a plate of uneaten snacks on the table, picked one up by the way, and brought it to her mouth, then her teeth clenched and her tongue stirred , After tasting it twice, eat it in your stomach.After the snack was swallowed by her again, she said to Bier:

"Bihe, after laying it out, take the replaced one outside, put it in a basin, and soak it in clean water."

"Yes." Bi'er agreed, while carefully straightening the corners of the bed.

After a while, Chunlan brought a bucket of hot water from the kitchen, mixed it with cold water, and started washing.

An hour later, Pu Yu came back with the book under his arm.

"Miss, are the books coming back?" Bi'er asked.

"Hey, brother, it's true. I don't cherish my books. I lost them and came to get mine. I asked him for it, but he wouldn't give it to me!" Puyu said, and went into the room and put down the book in his hand.

"Then why did you give it again?"

"I said to him: 'If you don't give it, I'll tell daddy!' He was scared when he heard it, and returned the book to me." Puyu said a little proudly.

"Then what will you do if you don't have a book?"

"Brother, he begged my husband to give him another volume of books. After hearing this, my husband became angry and punished him for copying "Thousand Characters" five times. I don't think my brother wants to have fun these days."

Pu Yu said in his mouth, spread out a piece of white paper on the table, grinded the ink, dipped the brush into the ink, and began to write seriously on the paper.Bi'er knelt and sat aside, curiously watching her concentrate on writing on the white paper.

After a while, a few black characters were reflected on the rice paper.Pu Yu breathed a sigh of relief, put down the brush, and looked at the words she had written.

"Bi'er, do you think my writing is good?" Pu Yu asked Bi'er who was watching her writing.

"Okay!" Billy replied confidently.

"Which word is better?"

"All right!" Bea said honestly.

"Do you know how to read?" Pu Yu seemed a little disbelieving in Bi'er's answer, she turned her head and looked at her and asked.

"do not know."

"I don't know, how do you say it?" Pu Yu asked back.

"Just wow!"

Pu Yu looked at those bright, blinking eyes and asked again:

"Bea, do you want to learn how to read?"

"I think!" Bi'er nodded.

"Then I'll teach you. From now on, I'll teach you all the books my husband taught me when I come back. Now I'll teach you how to write." Pu Yu said.

Bi'er nodded happily in agreement.

Pu Yu became Bi'er's teacher with great interest. Every day, she transferred the knowledge she learned from Mr. Xuetang to Bi'er after she came back, every day.Except for special circumstances, almost without interruption.

Strange to say, Bi'er also saw her father and brothers writing when she was at home, and she didn't have any interest or curiosity at that time.But now she really wants to learn, and she doesn't know what kind of mood it is.

It can be seen that sometimes to do something requires a certain timing and situation. If it is not at that timing, it will not work too early or too late; Comprehension or interest to go further.

When Bi'er grew up, she would always remember the day when she learned calligraphy from Pu Yu, and she would never forget the first two characters she learned from Pu Yu.The first character Pu Yu taught her was "human" and the second was "jade".The first two words and the scene at that time were imprinted in Bi'er's mind and existed together with her life.

☆, strange things

It has been raining since dinner time, and the rain has no intention of stopping.Bi'er followed behind Chunlan, the eldest maid, and after Pu Yu, the young lady who served them, fell asleep safely, Chunlan went to her sleeping place—a corner outside the young lady's room, and lay down to rest.Bi'er also went to a wing room in the southwestern corner of the yard, where she slept every day, and fell asleep early.

In the early morning of the second day, the rain stopped, and the fog lingering on the trees in the distance slowly dissipated.The sky was very clear, and the golden light from the newborn sun penetrated through the branches and leaves of the tall trees outside the wall and spilled into the yard.

At this time, the surroundings were extremely quiet, only the fragrance of flowers and plants in the courtyard slowly flowing in the air.

Suddenly, there were a few crisp birdsong from a distance.For a moment, it seemed that everything around him suddenly came to life again.The branches, which were soaked by the rain, shook slightly, dripping crystal drops of water.The cute little drops of water fell into the green grass with an exclamation, flashing and shining with joy; some of the little drops of water on the leaves jumped into the round water tank in the yard, ticking and ticking. Play a joyful symphony.

Bi'er stood in the yard, looking up at the scenery of this late spring and early summer morning. This seems to be the most pleasant and beautiful morning since she left home!He only heard the brisk footsteps behind him, and Pu Yu's joyful words:

"Ah! The weather is so nice today! Bea, why didn't you call me? Let's go and say hello to our parents!"

Bi'er turned around, looked at Pu Yu in front of her, and said:

"Miss, you haven't washed yet! If you go out like this, won't all the sisters outside make fun of you?"

Pu Yu pouted and said:

"Okay, I'm going to wash my face now."

After Bi'er waited on Puyu, the two of them walked out of the room, along the corridor, out of the courtyard door, and came to the main room on the side of Mrs. Xia's courtyard.When they entered the main room, Madam Xia and Master Xia were drinking tea and chatting in the main room.

Puyu greeted her parents and sat down beside her.Her elder brother Pu Shan also came to greet his parents at this time, after Pu Shan greeted his parents, he sat next to his father Xia Mingde.Usually, when Mrs. Xia was at home, Xia Mingde and the others would go to the main room of the old lady's courtyard to have dinner with her.In the past few months, Mrs. Xia went to Yangzhou and was not at home. Mrs. Xia and Mrs. Xia ate in their yard.

Like every day in the past few months, Puyu's family of four sat around the square table in the west of the main room and began to eat breakfast.

A servant girl and a woman brought the prepared breakfast from the kitchen to the main room. Chunxiang and Chunmei took the plates from them, and after setting out the food and spoons in front of Master Xia and the others, the maid I went out with my mother-in-law.Bi'er stood aside, and the other servants waited on the steps outside the main room.Chunxiang and Chunmei stood beside the young master and young lady, serving them for dinner.

Today the kitchen prepares delicious glutinous rice flax porridge and toon steamed cakes, which are steaming, and there are two shredded side dishes, red, green and green.Pu Yu waited for her father and mother to move the chopsticks before she picked up the chopsticks herself, and without letting others help, she carefully picked up a steamed cake and put it on the small plate in front of her.She was afraid that the steamed pancakes that had just come out of the pan would burn her mouth, so she ate them carefully, one bite after another.While eating steamed cakes and drinking porridge, Puyu listened to her parents talking.

I only heard her father Xia Mingde say to her mother:

"It will take about two or three months for me to go out this time. You have to be optimistic about Pu Shan's studies and don't let them go to waste."

"I know," her mother replied.

Xia Mingde said to the son again:

"Pu Shan, don't just be playful, but take the time to read more books, so that you will be successful when you grow up. During the time when I'm not at home, you have to listen to what your husband and your mother have to say, you know?"

"Understood, father." Young Master Pu Shan obediently agreed, and he lowered his head to drink the porridge in his own bowl.

"Father, where are you going?" Pu Yu asked.

"Father is going to Taiyuan, Puyu, you and your brother are at home, you must listen to your mother, remember?"

"Yes, father." Pu Yu nodded in agreement.

"Yesterday my second brother sent someone to bring a letter. The letter said that the old man is already on his way. He will be back around the tenth day of this month. You can clean the main room at the back so that the old man can live there when he comes back." Xia Mingde said to his wife again .

"I'll clean up today, who will send mother back?" Mrs. Xia asked.

"The letter said it was my nephew Xia Kai and the housekeeper Xia Zhong."

"Xia Kai's child is not yet 11 years old, and it's so far from Yangzhou to Chang'an Road. How can the second brother rest assured that Xia Kai will come with him?"

There are two brothers Xia Mingde, the second master in Yangzhou is his younger brother.Xia Kai is the second master's son, more than three years older than Pu Shan. This is not because the second master Xia married earlier than his brother Xia Mingde, but because the second master Xia married a maid of his family before he got married. Xia Kai.

Master Xia Er was married in the year following Xia Mingde's marriage, and he had only two daughters with his main wife whom he later married.Not long after the second master got married, he went to Yangzhou to pursue his career through his father-in-law's acquaintance.

Although Xia Kai is a concubine, but now he is the eldest son and only son of the second master Xia, so he is also a serious son, loved by the second master.Mrs. Xia was a little worried about letting such a young only son travel far away.

"It should be fine with Xia Zhong following me!" Xia Mingde put down the bowl and chopsticks, stood up and said, "Okay, I'm going on the road!" He went to the door and called, "Xia An, are the carriages and horses ready?" ?”

Xia An, in his 40s, who was standing outside the main room, came over and said:

"Master, everything is packed, shall we go now?"

"set off!"

"Husband," Madam Xia called, she walked up to her husband, and said: "Be careful on the road, go early and return early!"

"Do not worry!"

Master Xia walked out.Mrs. Xia followed Master Xia across the threshold to see her husband out.

Pu Yu and her elder brother also followed their mother out of the room, leading their father all the way to the door of the house, and they turned inside after watching his father leave.

After Xia Mingde left, Mrs. Xia called her family, and Pu Yu followed, to the courtyard where the old lady lived, to clean the courtyard.

The old lady of the Xia family always liked to grow flowers, so she planted a lot of good flowers and grasses in her courtyard, such as poppies, begonias, red peonies, peonies, etc., as well as several fruit trees.In the two-acre back garden in the northwest of Xia's house, the flowers and plants planted are not as delicate as those grown in the courtyard of the old man's house.

During the several months when the old lady was not at home, Mrs. Xia would come over every once in a while to water the flowers and clean the garden, so there was nothing messy in the courtyard.In the past month or so, she has asked people to water more frequently, and the flowers and plants in the yard have grown lush.

Today, as soon as she stepped into the gate of the courtyard, Madam Xia felt a little different. Before she understood what was different, she heard a scream from the servant girl Chunxiang behind her:

"Ah! Look at it!"

When everyone heard this, they all looked in the direction Chunxiang was pointing at, and their eyes widened after seeing it.

I saw many small white flowers blooming on the old peach tree that had withered for many years in the southeast corner of the courtyard.Some of the dots of slightly pink flowers have already opened, and there are many that seem to have not yet opened. Under the sunshine, they look extremely bright and white, and there are bursts of fragrance from time to time.Moreover, the little flower that has opened seems to have just opened today.

It's really strange! The other peach trees have already bloomed and produced young peaches at this time of year.This tree only spit out its pistils at this time, everyone was amazed.

This peach tree was planted by Puyu's grandmother Mrs. Xia when she was young, and it is more than 40 years old.In the past, the peaches on this peach tree were red and big. They tasted juicy and delicious, sweet and honey-like, and the whole family loved them.

But for some unknown reason, the old peach tree has been drying up year after year in the past few years, no longer blooming and bearing fruit.Even if the weather is good in a year, there are only a few small flowers blooming sporadically, and they die in less than two days, and the leaves are very few.

Xia Mingde saw that it occupied a large area of ​​the courtyard, and the branches seemed dead, so he wanted to dig it up and plant a new peach tree.

But the old lady had already had years of affection for this old tree, and she was reluctant to be pushed down and dug up.She said that even though the tree no longer bears peaches, seeing it reminds me of the time when I ate peaches.

In this way, seeing that his mother disagreed, Xia Mingde gave up.

Unexpectedly, today, the old tree bloomed suddenly, and it bloomed so lushly that everyone was amazed.Moreover, the flowering season has passed, and the other peach trees in Chang'an City have already bloomed and produced young peaches.

Everyone was amazed, Chunxiang and the others talked a lot.Mrs. Xia looked at the tree, feeling suspicious in her heart, not knowing if it was a good thing or a bad thing.

Bi'er followed Pu Yu and raised her head, watching the pure white flowers on the tree, and sniffing the fragrance of the flowers with her nose.At this time, the whole courtyard was filled with the fragrance of peach blossoms.

In the evening, Mrs. Xia had dinner and leaned on the couch, still thinking about this strange incident during the day:

"This tree hasn't bloomed and bear fruit for several years. Why did it bloom at this time? Recently, it has been raining frequently, and the rain is more than in previous years. Is there any relationship between the flowering of this tree and the excessive rain?... Cough, how many days later? Grandmother Tian is coming back soon, she will be very happy when she finds out, and I don't want to think about it here."

Mrs. Xia thought for a while, blew out the lamp, and went to bed.

☆, Distress

A few days later, Mrs. Xia returned home.On the way, she learned about the resurrection and flowering of the old peach tree from the mouth of the family who picked her up.So, as soon as she entered the house, the old lady couldn't wait to go straight to her back yard.

Mrs. Xia came to her courtyard and saw that it was exactly as the family said, the courtyard was full of fragrance of flowers, on the old peach tree, clusters of peach blossoms crowded each other and filled the branches of the peach tree.As for the rest of the flowers and plants in the courtyard, it was too late to appreciate them, so the old man happily just looked at the peach blossoms under the tree.

The old lady looked up for a long time, and when she inadvertently lowered her head, she suddenly saw a three or four inch long bud protruding from the soil beside the trunk of the peach tree. A small newly grown peach sapling.

The old lady hurriedly asked someone to bring her a small shovel for weeding. When she took the shovel from the servant girl, she knelt down and carefully collected soil around the sprouts.Worried about being trampled on the sapling, the old lady asked someone to make a small fence to enclose the sapling and ask people to take care of it.

Puyu and Bi'er would come to Mrs. Xia's courtyard to play every day. They would lie down next to the young tree, watching with wide eyes, hoping that the little peach tree would grow up quickly.Two pairs of curious eyes, twinkling like stars in the dark night.

"Grandma, the little tree will grow taller in the future, what should I do if it can't grow in this place?" Pu Yu got up, ran to grandma and asked grandma, holding her hand.

"When the little peach tree grows a little taller, it will be moved to another place!" Grandma said with a smile.

"Can it be moved to the garden in front of my house? Grandma, do you think it's okay?"

"Okay, before next spring, I'll have someone transplant this small peach tree into the garden in front of your house." Grandma thought for a while and said.

"Thank you grandma!"

Pu Yu happily ran to see the young sapling again. She and Bi Er knelt down in front of the young sapling, looking at the young sapling, discussing and guessing that when the young tree grew up, the big peaches on it would really Will it be as delicious as the adults say?

Before the spring of the second year, Mrs. Xia taught people to transplant the young saplings to the garden in front of Puyu's house according to the foreword.In spring, the young tree grows up, and its branches turn green and tender again.

Both Puyu and Bi'er consciously gave the little tree water every few days, and ran over from time to time to see if the little tree had sprouted, how much taller it had grown, and how many tender leaves it had grown...

At the beginning, Pu Yu was very diligent in watering the young trees, but gradually she became lazy.From then on, it was always Bier who watered the little peach tree and pruned the branches.

In their opinion, the small peach tree grows too slowly, as if it only grows a little bit every year, although every year, the branches of the small peach tree become thicker, the branches become longer, and the leaves become greener and denser.

Bi'er and Puyu grow up together with Xiaoshu, this is a piece of paradise, a piece of pure land.No matter what changes are happening in Chang'an City at this moment, it is just something the grown-ups are talking about and has little to do with them.Because they are too young, they seem to understand the big things that the adults are talking about anxiously; and because they haven't seen those things with their own eyes, they still grow up happily and healthily with Little Peach Tree.

Because of ignorance, people will behave without fear of disasters or dangerous things that will happen, such as children.

There are also people who really know what is happening now and what is going to happen, but they will still go their own way.There is a difference between the brave and the fool here. As for which is right and which is wrong, it is not possible to simply draw conclusions and make a judgment.

A brave man will not stand still because of danger.For Lu Xiaotian, who has excellent martial arts and chivalrous courage, when he sees that others are in danger, he will definitely stand up without fear.

After Lu Xiaotian left the Liang Mansion, he arrived home one month later, and lived at home for more than a year.One day, he suddenly told Qiqing that he was going out to Shou County.

"Father, didn't you say it's a mess outside now? Why are you going to Shou County?" Qi Qing asked.

"I went to Shou County to meet an important friend. I had an appointment with him half a year ago. We will meet in a few days. I can't break my promise. I will return after the meeting."

"Father, how long will you be going? Mother's death day will be in 20 days, have you forgotten?" Qi Qing said with his head down.

Lu Xiaotian listened, his two black eyebrows squeezed slightly to the center of his brows, and said:

"I will try my best to get back before the death day on the third day of next month."

Lu Xiaotian arranged the family affairs properly, and after a little preparation, he set off for Shou County.He rode on a horse, entered Luoyang City through the west gate, and left the city through Dingding Gate, the south gate of Luoyang, and then traveled eastward for two days.

On this day, Lu Xiaotian walked on the official road for a long time, and when he came to a place, it was already afternoon, he let the horse walk slowly.The wide and flat official road extends forward for about 20 miles, then gradually narrows and becomes uneven.Continue to move forward, and gradually become a mountain road.

Lu Xiaotian sat on the horse for a long time, so he dismounted and walked. He ate some dry food first, and then he exercised his muscles and bones while walking.On one side of the road is a cliff with lush vegetation below; on the other side is a high mountain with jagged rocks above.Lu Xiaotian led the horse for a walk while looking at the terrain beside the road.

"Da da..." Suddenly there was a sound of carriages and horses behind him. The sound was like a summer rainstorm hitting the roof tiles, and at the same time, it seemed that someone was violently hitting the door panel with something.The voice quickly fell into Lu Xiaotian's ears, he turned his head quickly, and saw a wide-covered carriage galloping towards him, making a loud noise, a stone's throw away.

The horse pulling the cart seemed to have lost its madness, rushing forward recklessly; the coachman on the carriage was already frightened to death, holding the reins of the horse in his hand, and stood still; from the green velvet carriage came the lady and child. exclamation.

Seeing this situation, Lu Xiaotian groaned inwardly—this black horse seemed to have been frightened and lost its temper, driving on such a rugged mountain road, if it was not stopped, it would cause car crash and death.

His horse was also a little panicked by the noise, he hastily pulled the bridle and ran along the horse's neck at the same time.

In an instant, the carriage was approaching, Lu Xiaotian turned sideways slightly, when the horse was about to fly past, he jumped onto the carriage seat, and grabbed the reins from the driver's hand.The coachman turned around in a panic and hugged the body of the carriage with both hands.

Lu Xiaotian Yungong stood firmly on his feet, and pulled the rein with both hands.This pull was so strong that the black horse tilted its head and twisted its neck back. The horse let out a long neigh; but with the four kicks, it was still galloping fast.

The road was uneven, and the out-of-control carriage was driving on a mountain road with a valley on one side and a cliff on the other, rolling over stones on the road from time to time, causing violent shocks.

The road became narrower and more difficult.The carriage swayed from side to side and jolted, almost falling apart.Lu Xiaotian's hands were already red, and his palms were slightly sweaty.He pulled the reins tightly so that the carriage slowed down after another distance.

"Okay, it's all right!" said the coachman.

Lu Xiaotian felt relieved. He had just breathed out, and the driver's voice had just finished. Suddenly, they heard a loud "click" under the car, like the sound of a broken axle, and then the left wheel swayed, followed by Sink down and turn to the left.Before Lu Xiaotian had time to escape, he fell down the valley together with the chariot and horses.

The valley is a hundred feet deep, and the vegetation is dense below.At the same time as the carriage fell, the people in the carriage were thrown out of the carriage.

The moment Lu Xiaotian fell, he wanted to jump off the car and leave, but with his kung fu, he could do it.However, after he jumped into the carriage earlier, he wrapped his hands tightly around the reins of the horse. A sudden accident prevented him from loosening the reins wrapped around his wrists in time. Just a little later, he fell down the valley with the carriage and horses.

However, he survived the catastrophe and woke up in the second half of the night.The moment he regained consciousness, he felt pain and stiffness all over his body, and his body was cold.When I opened my eyes, by the moonlight, I realized that I was lying in the wilderness, surrounded by darkness and eerie.

Lu Xiaotian stretched his body a little, and felt that there was nothing serious about his body. He adjusted his breath for a while, and then turned over.After standing up, he realized that he was lying on the horse that was driving the carriage. The horse had already died, and he himself was saved from death because of the back of the horse.

He looked around again, and saw that the carriage was broken into pieces, and the people in the carriage fell to nowhere, whether they were alive or dead.

☆, night in the valley

Lu Xiaotian fell into the valley with the carriage. After he woke up in the middle of the night, he searched for survivors around him.After walking a few steps, he saw a person lying in the bushes. Lu Xiaotian looked down and saw that he looked like a coachman. When he touched it, the coachman's body turned cold, but he was dead.

"Woooo..." Suddenly there was a woman's cry, the cry was small but clear, like a devil's cry in this dark valley, Lu Xiaotian couldn't help feeling his scalp go numb, the one that had been placed on the coachman and hadn't been taken back His hand also trembled suddenly.

But he quickly calmed down and searched for the sound of crying. A few meters away, he vaguely saw a woman kneeling in the grass and crying.

The woman was crying sadly, when she suddenly saw a tall black figure in the shape of a human appearing in front of her, she was so frightened that she screamed:

"what!"

Lu Xiaotian saw how terrified the woman was when she saw him, and hurriedly said, "Don't be afraid, I'm not a ghost, I'm a human!" He touched his arms, took out a torch, opened it and blew on it. set fire.

With the light from the fire, the woman carefully looked at him—it was indeed a human being, not a ghost.She let go of her heart, but immediately began to cry again.

The woman wept bitterly.Lu Xiaotian saw a person lying on his back next to her, so he held up the torch and bent over to look.The man lying on the ground was covered in wounds and died of breath. He looked like a Japanese in his attire.

The dead man had one arm bent upwards, and at the bend of the other half-stretched arm, there was a child lying on his side.Looking at the way the child was lying and the man's posture, it seemed that before they fell, the man held the child in his arms and kept protecting it tightly with his body and arms.

The child's clothes are also similar to those of the man, but the woman is dressed in the Central Plains.

Lu Xiaotian reached over and touched the child's heart, feeling that it was still hot.He hurriedly turned the child's body so that he was lying on his back, and quickly pressed the child's middle with the tip of his thumb.After pinching for a while, the child let out a breath.

The child breathed and breathed gently. When the woman saw it, she hugged the child and screamed again and again.The woman spoke Dongying dialect, but her accent was from the Central Plains.

"Ma'am, is there anyone else?" Lu Xiaotian asked.

"There is also a coachman." The woman replied, stopping her crying.

"The coachman has died."

The woman sobbed softly again.At this time, it was not yet dawn, the road ahead was unclear, and there was no one in the back, so they could only stay where they were, and wait for dawn to deal with everything.

It turned out that this woman's nickname was A Cai, and her natal family was not far from here.During the day today, she was going back to her natal home with her husband and son to visit relatives. The family walked halfway, but they didn't want such a catastrophe to happen.

Ah Cai spoke with tears in his eyes, Lu Xiaotian sat on a rock beside him and listened quietly, he had already put away the fire folder.At this time, the night sky was vast and dark, and the surrounding darkness was slightly lightened by the dim moonlight.

The few dim stars in the sky hide behind the clouds from time to time, unable to find them.The figure of the moon was also intentionally covered by the black clouds around it, showing half of its face for a while, and then hidden in the clouds for a while, until it was about to brighten before it was revealed and hung in the sky.

At the age of 17, Ah Cai was married to a man from his hometown, Shan Po.When she first married, the life of Shanpen's family was quite affluent. There were more than ten acres of fertile land in the family, and her in-laws were also in good health.After the industrious A Cai married Shan Po, the life of the Shan family became more harmonious.

But there are worries hidden in the harmony, who would have thought that Shan Pot was actually a gambler.Previously, he just gambled a few small money with the men in the village in his spare time, making small troubles.Ah Cai, who just married, didn't pay any attention to this.

Later, the family's harvest got better, and when Ah Cai was busy with housework, Shan Pot secretly took out the family's money and went to the gambling house in the town to win money.Later, his parents found out that Shan Pot went to the town to gamble. After his father scolded him severely, for a while, Shan Pot seemed to restrain himself, he stopped going to the casino to gamble, and concentrated on studying at home.

However, not long after, his single-pot gambling addiction relapsed, and he stole money from the family again, went to the casino to gamble, and did not return for several days and nights.But the money that was stolen is always lost.

But Shanpen is still unrepentant. Not only is he ignorant of his family's advice, but he is even more blatant. As long as it is something that can be exchanged for money at home, he will take it. After the money is exchanged, he will gamble, or go to pay back the bet. money owed.In this way, ten times and nine times, he soon made a good house, and he made a lot of troubles, and lost everything impoverished.The two old men were also so angry that one died and the other became ill.

Ah Cai took care of his sick mother-in-law at home, and went to work in the fields himself.

However, what he never expected was that one day, when he had lost all his family's money in a single pot and had nothing left to repay his gambling debts, he actually sold Ah Cai to a brothel.

Ah Cai, who had already despaired of life, spent several years in a brothel with humiliation and humiliation.One day, a man came to the brothel, met Ah Cai, liked her very much, and told her that he wanted to redeem her body.

Sure enough, that person redeemed her that day, and soon married her. This person is her current husband, a dead Dongying native.Although he is a foreigner, he treats Ah Cai very well.

This Dongying person partnered with others very early, and opened two gold jewelry shops in the city's street market, and the business was doing well.A few days ago, he promised Ah Cai that he would send her back to her mother's house for a few days, and he would personally send her and the child there.

Yesterday, her husband quit his job early, took Ah Cai and the child, and the family of three happily rode in a carriage to A Cai's natal home.

Unexpectedly, on the way, for some unknown reason, the horse driving the carriage neighed suddenly, was not controlled by the driver, and galloped wildly.Along the way, no one dared to stop the horse. Just as they were terrified, they suddenly saw a man, Lu Xiaotian, flying on the carriage and driving the carriage.But misfortune still happened, and both her husband and the coachman died.

In the end, Ah Cai choked with grief and began to cry again.

It was dawn, and Lu Xiaotian took a closer look around.When he walked up to the dead horse again, he found a black blood stain that had clotted on the upward right belly of the horse.Looking closely, the bloodstains flowed from the horse earlier, and half of the iron plate was exposed outside the wound.

Lu Xiaotian took out his sweat towel, protected his hands, and carefully pulled out the piece of iron embedded in the horse's body.Take it in front of you and take a closer look. It is a round iron sheet with a diameter of three inches. The thin gray iron sheet has sharp serrations on the edge, and it is sunken into the horse's body.