Vicissitudes know Jinhua

Mu Zishi bit his lip, and there was a bright red tooth mark on his pink lips: "Auntie, is he from Mrs. Mu? Will he take us back to Mu's house and beat us to death?"

The fat aunt originally wanted to ask Lao Lu to ask a few questions. After all, wearing that indigo leather, she is an official family. Since ancient times, people have not fought with officials. Anyway, these two children are not bad people.

Suddenly touching the blood on Mu Zishi's lower lip, and seeing Qi Shaochong's small back trembling uncontrollably, he couldn't help but move his heroine's heart, and shouted loudly like a thunderbolt in mid-air, and instantly the Yasha tiger possessed him: "Old man Lu! Your heart is broken and your eyes are blind? The government asked you to catch a boy. Here are two brothers. Do you still catch one and give the other away? Are you selling cloth heads? Selling buns? Selling your balls? ?”

The handlebars were timid, and originally they didn't dare to make a sound, but seeing Lao Lu's arrogance was reduced by more than half after being scolded, and his face turned pale, he hurried forward and gently tugged at his sleeve, and apologized in a low voice "Brother Lu! These two are our boss's distant nephews, they are by no means villains..." As he said, he stuffed a small piece of hard silver into his palm through the sleeve - the former shopkeeper specially asked Old Lu to give it to him quietly. He tiptoed up to his ear again: "Brother Lu, you know, our Ren Ji is only in business, and we definitely won't cause trouble. These two children come from poor backgrounds, and they were beaten by the aunt at home... do good deeds every day, Our shopkeeper wants to feel at ease, as for me, let the shopkeeper say a word of praise, as for you... just try to rise up every step of the way!"

The fat aunt and the handlebars are hard and soft, and the reasoning is exhausted. After all the words are exhausted, the money is also handed over, which is reasonable, but Lao Lu doesn't just take a chicken feather as soon as he raises his hand. Ling Jian's idiot stepped aside immediately, and said in a rough voice: "It's almost Chinese New Year, from now on the city gate will be closed an hour earlier than usual, let's go!"

He jumped on the handlebars and whipped a beautiful flower: "Let's go!"

The sound of hoofbeats was brisk, as if in the blink of an eye, they had reached the outskirts of the city.

The people in the car got off one after another and went their separate ways.The fat aunt was out of the city to visit relatives. When she got off the car, Mu Zishi suddenly stood up and knelt down: "Auntie, you saved our brother. Mu Zishi has nothing to repay you. I will kowtow to you and wish you a long life. "

Qi Shaochong was stunned, how much favored was Mu Zishi in the palace?Except for his father, queen and queen, he is rarely seen kneeling. How could he kneel and kowtow to a market woman today?

Unspeakably sad in his heart, he grabbed Mu Zishi's arm with both hands and said loudly, "What are you doing? Get up!"

The fat aunt quickly helped Mu Zishi up, and patted the dust on his knees: "Silly boy, I didn't kneel down because of you... We ordinary people don't understand benevolence and righteousness, we just want not to deceive our hearts. "

After thinking for a while, he took out a few red dates from his arms, and said in his palm, "Son, take care of my brother, he looks like a young master. If you feel hard, eat one. If it tastes sweet in your mouth, you will feel uncomfortable in your heart." bitter."

Mu Zishi pursed his lips and nodded, the jujube in the palm of his hand was red and big, full of sweetness.

The carriage drove to a farm, wiped off the hot sweat on the handlebars, and said with a smile: "The two young masters have to come down, we have to move the preserved fruits and rush back to the city."

Hearing this, Mu Zishi jumped out of the car, stretched his arms, and looked up to see that the winter was sunny and the wind was blowing dry and cold. He took a deep breath of the fresh and cold air, and suddenly felt a feeling in his heart, like desolation and desertedness, but also like stretching out, a bird Fly in the sky, fish return to the sea.

Qi Yupei has gone, so there is nothing wrong with leaving the Dajing Palace. When I was imprisoned in another courtyard when I was young, I always wanted to run out of the courtyard and wander around in the wilderness. This wish was fulfilled six years late. Although there are dangers everywhere, But he is no longer confined by the high walls, and the glorious and rich life in the palace is just a dream. If there is no greed and extravagance in the heart, naturally there will be no loss of nostalgia.

Qi Shaochong was carrying the package on his back, and stood beside him quietly, but the handlebar was wearing a smile, staring at Mu Zishi: "This trip is very tiring... Old Lu lost his temper at the gate of the city, my heart hurts!" I'm about to pop out, you can't see it, my back is soaked, if I didn't give Lao Lu the ingot of snowflake silver that the shopkeeper rewarded me, you two would be squatting in the army right now I'm in jail, don't you think?"

As soon as Mu Zishi heard it, he knew that this man wanted a few rewards, but he traveled thousands of miles to the border of Shenxia, ​​and he didn't know how many troubles and hardships were waiting ahead. The money in the package was limited, so he was reluctant for a while, so he pretended to be confused and said: " Thank you, uncle!"

The handlebar laughed angrily: "Oh, you are used to being a young master, aren't you? With just the touch of the upper and lower lips, my snowflake big silver should be given to someone else to save you two? In this case, it's boring, what do you think?"

Mu Zishi couldn't help sneering: "Uncle, what do you mean that if I don't give you this ingot of silver today, you will take us back to the city to meet the shopkeeper Ren?"

With a handlebar-style neck: "You can't decide whether you can see the shopkeeper or not. Old Lu at the city gate may be waiting to arrest you two, isn't it?"

Mu Zishi gritted his teeth, touched the package as a last resort, and was about to give him a hundred or so copper coins to send him away. He stared at him intently on the handlebars, and laughed aloud: "That's it, you are a rich man." My son and brother, the family’s gold and silver are piled up like a mountain, and if you give us a few bites of food to repay your life-saving grace, we can’t be considered greedy, can we?”

Qi Shaochong heard it clearly, and couldn't stand the car handlebar style's face of cutting off his nose and eating noodles. He raised his chin slightly, picked up a piece of silver from his waist purse, and threw it into his hand: "Reward you Already!"

Mu Zishi watched from the sidelines, and almost fainted out of breath. This ingot is twice as big as the four coins in the morning, which means it is worth at least 200 big white steamed buns!This prodigal child is really hopeless!

The handlebar type smiled so hard that he couldn't see his teeth, carefully hid the money: "Thank you for your reward!"

Half an hour later, Qi Shaochong couldn't help asking innocently: "Zi Shi, why are you ignoring me?"

Mu Zishi was feverish from walking, and happened to see a half-dry stream not far ahead, so he went to sit on a rock beside the stream, and beckoned, "Sit down and rest for a while."

Qi Shaochong was very obedient, he sat down and washed his hands, looking at the clear stream water: "Zi Shi, I'm thirsty."

Mu Zishi had checked the parcel long ago. Although the Luo family was ruthless, he was also meticulous. Back then, he went from Jiangnan to Chenjing alone in search of remarriage. Therefore, the parcel contained all the small items needed for traveling, including firewood. Knives, flint, shoes, socks, clothes, and even a knife, a thin soft iron pot, and a small bottle of fine salt.

Mu Zishi was also thirsty, and ordered: "Go and pick up some dead branches, and I'll boil the water before drinking."

Qi Shaochong hesitated for a moment: "Okay...but how many do you want to pick?"

Mu Zishi has done these jobs before, so he is no stranger to this, and he gestured to the size of a bundle: "That's enough." Looking at Qi Shao's handsome face, he said again: "Don't go far. "

Although Qi Shaochong is a prince, he has struggled with his body since he was a child. He walks vigorously and lightly. Shaking his arms, he said loudly, "Is it enough? I'll pick it up if it's not enough!"

Mu Zishi felt relieved, it seemed that after Qi Shaochong's ten fingers were dipped in the spring water, he showed a bit of tenacity to adapt to adversity and do it, he smiled and said: "Enough, it's too much!"

Boiling stream water in a soft iron pot, Mu Zishi took out two more steamed buns, roasted them on the fire, and said, "You have to change your mouth in the future, don't call me Shi Zishi."

Qi Shaochong looked at the steamed bun, and his stomach grumbled: "If I don't call you, what will Zishi call you?"

Mu Zishi stared at the flames intently: "Call me brother."

Qi Shaochong was a little unnatural: "This...I, I can't call it out, I never thought that Zishi was my brother..."

Mu Zishi glanced at him, and said indifferently: "Your Highness thinks that the humble minister is deceiving the emperor, and the mere companion arrogates to be your emperor's brother?"

Qi Shaochong was tongue-tied and hurriedly waved his hands: "No, that's not the case!"

Mu Zishi laughed and said, "Whether it is true or not, you have to be called brother, and you have to get used to it no matter who you are before or after."

Seeing that one side of the steamed bun was roasted brown, and then changed the other side, his voice was cold and thorny: "Don't say that Your Highness is not willing to condescend, in fact, I also don't want to be the elder brother of the Seventh Prince, but Your Highness is just a bereaved dog now, if you don't call me , There are many obstacles, and there will always be shrewd officials who will become suspicious. He is clearly a brother, but why does he call his brother by his name? So if I leak the word, I will die, and the future of His Highness is hard to say..."

When Qi Shaochong was in the palace, he knew that this person was tight and difficult to deal with, so he hurriedly interrupted and called out: "Brother."

Mu Zishi's eyeballs were staring at him at the end of his eyes, and his eyebrows were slanted, seeming indifferent and hiding a smile.Qi Shao rushed to his stomach again, and Mu Zishi handed over a steamed bun, took out two spoons from the package, and spread out the shredded pickles wrapped in oil paper on the stone: "Eat the pickles with hot water, eat with the pickles Steamed buns, just drink hot water with steamed buns... Look, this is not worse than the palace, right?"

As he said that, he laughed first, scooped up hot water with a spoon, blew on it and took a sip: "It's nothing more than fine nectar and nectar."

Seeing that he was in a good mood, Qi Shao Chong couldn't help but wondered: "The car handlebar was vicious and greedy just now, why aren't you angry?"

Muzi sneered between his teeth: "Why are you so angry? You think there are all kind people like the shopkeeper's fat aunt outside? There are more people like the handlebar style than the shopkeeper. If you want to be angry , This journey is not starved to death, but also angry."

Talking thoughtfully, the eyelashes drooped to cover his eyes: "This handlebar style is finally a kindness to us, and it is also a good word for money. I met a person when I was young. If you don't give it to me obediently His money, he can strip you off in cold weather, and you can use whatever you get. Once you didn’t take advantage of it, you just pulled out the fire stick that was still emitting sparks from the stove..."

Qi Shaochong was filled with righteous indignation, and said angrily, "Why didn't you report to the officials?"

Mu Zishi was silent for a moment, then smiled and said, "I made up a story to trick you... Besides, how can I report to the police if I can't escape?"

But he accidentally knocked over the package in his hand, and a few ingots of silver rolled out.

Hastily put down the steamed buns and packed up the money, suddenly remembered something, said angrily: "I'm angry with you!"

Qi Shaochong's eyes widened, with steamed buns on the corners of his mouth: "Why? No wonder you ignored me just now!"

Mu Zishi pointed at him tremblingly: "The ingot of silver you threw to the handlebar is enough for our one-month ration!"

Qi Shaochong was startled: "Don't coax me, that time when I went out of the palace to Sanxi Tower, I saw Long Shuowei pay the bill, it was several big silver coins, but it was just a meal."

Mu Zishi bit the steamed bun and sighed: "Did you eat sparrow tongue soup? Have you eaten golden hook wings? Have you eaten fresh mandarin fish? Have you seen a shadow puppet show while passing it on?"

When he asked a question, Qi Shaochong nodded, and finally added: "I also brought a box of snacks back to the palace, and I shared two pieces of fruit cakes with you."

Mu Zishi stared at him for a long while, only to feel that his hair was turning gray: "You come out this time, it can be regarded as reincarnation."

Qi Shaochong was slightly dissatisfied: "What about you?"

Mu Zishi raised his eyebrows: "Me? I'm just going back to my original shape... Well, it's a hundred times better than getting back to my original shape."

Qi Shaochong didn't know about his background, he was just puzzled when he heard the words: "How can you be a hundred times better than you in the Qingpinghou Mansion when you are living among the people?"

Mu Zishi didn't bother to explain to him, so he said in a low voice: "It's a pity that I promised His Highness, I will be dragged down by you for the rest of my life, otherwise I will be alone, I don't know how happy I am."