lord and beauty

"Is Qiu'er cold?"

The male voice was mellow and hoarse, and it sounded above Tan Qiu's head. Tan Qiu just felt that he was being embraced in a furnace-like embrace in a daze. This voice was very familiar, but he would find it difficult to remember it for a while.

Tan Qiu wanted to ask the man who he was, but unexpectedly, his whole body seemed to be filled with lead, and he couldn't even move a finger. Tender buds, hooked on Tan Qiu's deeply buried memory, keep penetrating outward.

"Qiu'er bear with it and persevere. It's a bit cold this year. When the snow stops, Dad will go hunting in the mountains. Then there will be money to ask the doctor to treat your mother."

The man was talking in a low voice, Tan Qiu leaned on the man's arms, and could only hear a soft and green voice responding in a daze.

"It's not cold, it won't be cold if Daddy hugs it, there is still medicine at home, last time Grandpa Yu came to show mother..."

The man didn't speak any more, only sighed lowly, Tan Qiu could only feel the man patting his back to lull him to sleep, under the silence, it seemed that even his breathing slowed down, Tan Qiu heard himself speak.

"Daddy, can you take me hunting with you?"

The childish tone was full of anticipation, but in the darkness, the man never answered. Tan Qiu felt the beating heartbeat in her body like a drum.

He was nervous and afraid of the man's rejection.

"Your mother and younger sister need your care." The man was silent for a long time before he replied, "Take good care of them, you can do it, right?"

Tan Qiu shrinks into the man's arms with some regrets, and the man sensed his reluctance, so he spoke in a low voice, all the syllables were blurred in the darkness, he couldn't hear clearly, and the darkness hit him like thick ink Later, Tan Qiu only felt that his eyes were getting heavier and heavier, and he was endlessly sleepy, but there was a voice in his heart that made him wake up, and opened his eyes to have a look.

"Don't be ignorant! Give me the tiger skin!!"

"Boss, don't talk nonsense with him, a brat, why don't we grab it directly?"

There was a loud bang in my ear, which fell instantly like a thunderclap, and the beast-like roar in my heart became clearer and clearer, but Tan Qiu seemed to be strangled by someone's neck, with a sense of suffocation, and the hoarse mocking voice It kept ringing in his ears.

Tan Qiu struggled uncontrollably with both hands, and his throat was held tightly by a hand. That hand seemed to have tremendous strength, and no matter how hard Tan Qiu struggled, it was difficult to escape.

"Heh... no..."

Tan Qiu opened his eyes suddenly, and what he saw was the face of a man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks showing a fierce face. The man was strangling his neck tightly, his eyes were blood red, and he seemed to be hesitating whether to kill him.

Tan Qiu didn't want to die, but the buzzing kept ringing in her ears.

"Boss! Here it is!"

No……!Can't give, this is... this is...

"Oh, just hand it over earlier, let us find it easily, you are smart, and hide under the basket."

The man got the tiger skin, maybe he didn't want to make a fuss, so he relaxed a little.

"Give...it back...to me!"

A sense of despair suddenly rose in Tan Qiu's heart, and this despair gave him the ability to resist for no reason. The moment the man let go, Tan Qiu bit the hand fiercely like a raging beast.

The bloody smell spread from his mouth, and Tan Qiu bit his mouth tightly, as if what he was mouthing was not his palm, but the man's throat.

"Fuck! How dare you bite me?!"

The man was furious, and the next moment, Tan Qiu was slapped on the face, his head became dizzy, his body lost his balance and fell to the side, and this time, Tan Qiu felt as if he had fallen into a bottomless abyss. The cliff, eroded by darkness.

The man's cursing voice receded far above his head, and was gradually replaced by the whining wind, and then the wind disappeared.

"jingle--"

A crisp ringtone broke the silence, and Tan Qiu's ears were filled with voices like a tide, his face became hot, as if someone lifted his face up, his eyes were blurred, and only a few figures could be vaguely seen in front of him.

"It's about to die, forget it, if you can't sell it for a little money, just put it here, it's enough to make a little money this trip."

"Those who are not good-looking, they will be sold to be rough envoys' servants. This one is good-looking, maybe they can be sold for a price."

"Forget it bro, this person won't live long after looking at it, is that old woman willing to spend money to buy a half-dead person? Hmph, I've been thinking about using vegetable money to buy meat all day long, so we two brothers are still willing." Do her business."

The man seemed to be hesitating a bit, the hands pinching his face were loosened, as if he wanted to leave.

Tan Qiu listened to the whole process, but her mind was dazed, she couldn't help reaching out to pull the man's clothes, muttering "Help me..."

Sure enough, the man hesitated, and the shadow shrouded Tan Qiu, and the man seemed to squat down again.

"Brother, what are you doing? If you don't leave before dark, you won't have time to enter the city." The young man seemed a little impatient.

"He's still breathing, take him with you."

The older man finally made a decision, no matter how much the young man objected, he just kept silent, Tan Qiu felt that the young man did not dare to disobey the older man, as expected, no matter how unhappy the young man was, Tan Qiu still I felt someone hug me up.

The sound of the wind is gradually covered by the sound of silk and bamboo, the crisp sound of cups touching each other, the woman's coquettish smile and the man's rough and unrestrained laughter, entangled and wrapped in the extravagant music, turning into a sharp knife covered with icing sugar, talking Qiu's body was engraved with large and small scars.

The fine and sharp stings are like thousands of thin needles piercing Tan Qiu's body, and the old bustard's sharp curses are still in my ears.

"You bastard! I spent so much money to heal your wounds, why did you do this?! Master Shi is willing to pay for you, but you still leave it here to take Joe! Hit! Hit me hard !"

"Hey, I really don't know what those rich people are thinking." The woman's voice was far away and near, with a trace of resentment and envy in her tenderness, "I have only been here for a few days, and I was delisted, but I still don't want to go."

Tan Qiu was trembling all over, the pain had already numb his body, the memories flooding into his mind caused him unceasing pain, the sound of cursing mixed with the whip kept falling, shattering what little hope he had left.

"You guys... kill me..."

Tan Qiu murmured unconsciously, staring blankly at the darkness, the pain in her body increased instead of diminishing, the woman was enraged, and even took a whip to whip herself.

Tan Qiu closed her eyes and lay motionless on the ground.

"Take good care of mother and sister, Qiu'er can do it, right?"

The man's familiar and deep voice sounded, and in an instant, all the cursing and whipping pain disappeared, just like the moment when the sun rose to dispel the haze.

"father……"

Tan Qiu fell to the ground with all his strength, and the man's figure gradually became clear. It was a cheek with vicissitudes of life, his temples were slightly white, and his face was handsome. There was warmth in his eyes, and he looked at Tan Qiu tenderly.

"Take good care of mother and sister, Qiu'er can do it, right?"

The man's voice kept repeating, the sunlight broke through the darkness, and fell on the man's body, first the face, then the upper body, little by little, piece by piece, the sunlight flooded the man's body until it covered his whole body in a layer of warm light among.

"Father..." Tan Qiu's eyes burst into tears, she stared blankly at the man not far away, and tried to reach out to him, "Father..."

The man seemed to have heard Tan Qiu's call, and stopped repeating his words, only looked at Tan Qiu with a gentle smile, stepped forward and stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to hold Tan Qiu's thin and cold hand,

"My son..." The man sighed softly, his figure gradually faded away, but the hand stretched out towards Tan Qiu never stopped moving forward.

"Father..." Tan Qiu's nose turned sour, and he began to cry, like a cub that had lost its shelter, howling hoarsely, as if this could relieve his pain, "Father...!"

The hands gradually turned into a phantom, almost disappearing under the sunlight, but at the moment when they were about to touch, Tan Qiu seemed to really feel the warmth.

A hand with well-defined bones gently held him, and the heat continued to spread from the man's hand to Tan Qiu's body. With tears in his eyes, Tan Qiu could barely tell that the man holding his hand in front of him was not his father.

Who is he then...

The man was tall and tall, standing against the light, his entire face was covered by shadows, Tan Qiu stared at him blankly, but there was no memory of him in his heart.

"Qiu'er."

The man opened his mouth, his voice very familiar.

Looking at the figure of the man, Tan Qiu murmured, "Who are you..."