Clan House

Three years later.

In the second year of Renxi's reign, the Gu family went down, the new law was first enacted, and the Daluo Dynasty was waiting to be revived.

In three years, Emperor Renxi will take care of the mess left by Emperor Xuanqing.The streets and markets in the capital are increasingly prosperous, and the trade between the north and the south is gradually showing signs of recovery.

That is, a few years ago, a new Hujia Dim Sum shop opened on the East Street, and the candied flower cakes sold there were all the rage in Beijing.The Hu's shop has a very small frontage, and the queues are always long.The little girl was still at the age of learning language, and was placed on the corner of the street by her family, holding a bamboo grasshopper in her hand, obediently waiting for the adults to line up and come back to pick her up.

She has a pair of buns on her head, the hair rope is tied with gold thread, and a few small agate leaves are tied on the bottom.A thin emerald-colored cloak was draped over his body, with dark golden dark lines printed on it.There are a pair of lamb boots under the feet, which are supposed to be taken out by the family to play, so that it is convenient for running and jumping.

The breeze blew over, lifted the girl's cloak, and exposed the accessories around his waist.A bag embroidered with jade rabbits, red agate beads sewn on the eyes, a gourd-shaped sachet of silk and five poisonous poisons, and a waist knife studded with precious stones.

The line to buy pastries was quite long, and the girls waited for a long time without making any noise, just reciting their newly learned poems by themselves.

"The bright moon rises from the Tianshan Mountains, boundless... between the sea of ​​clouds. The wind blows for tens of thousands of miles, blowing across the Yumen Pass. Han Xia Bai Dengdao, Hu... Qing...

what? What……"

She couldn't catch it, so she stopped talking, took out a few candied lotus seeds from her bag, and stuffed them into her mouth.

Behind the gable, there was a man in ragged clothes, who could not tell whether he was a man or a woman.He stared at the girl for a long time, and was aroused greedy by the gemstone on her waist.Seeing that no one was paying attention, he hurried up to the girl and grabbed her waist knife.

The girl was eating candied lotus seeds, when she was attacked suddenly, she choked in fright, and let out a "hmmmm" sound from her mouth.

Unexpectedly, although the waist knife is not big, it is fastened tightly.The thief didn't pull it off all at once, but with another force, he pulled the child forward and fell forward.

"Where did the thief come from!"

With the loud shouts behind him, a man in white wearing a bamboo hat flew down out of thin air and kicked the thief away.But seeing the girl's face flushed from choking, the knight in white didn't care about the thief, and hurriedly slapped the child on the back.

"Ahem..." The girl coughed twice and spat out half a piece of candied lotus seeds.

"There are tartars! Hurry... catch the tartars!" The girl choked her throat, gasped twice, then rolled her eyes, pretending to pass out in the arms of the knight.

The knight was not surprised, he picked up the girl with one hand: "Don't be in a hurry, Daddy will take you to catch the tartar!"

The girl opened her eyes when she heard the words, and tilted her head to look at the knight: "Are you my father?"

"Why don't you recognize your father?" the knight laughed.

"I met a thief just now," the girl said, "If someone pretends to be a father with his face covered, wouldn't I not be able to tell the difference?"

"How can it be good?" the knight exaggeratedly asked.

The girl thought seriously for a moment, and said: "Father is very skilled in martial arts, as long as you can beat that tartar into a mother, it will prove that you are my father!"

The knight laughed loudly: "This plan is very clever, let's go!"

Tong Sannian hadn't eaten for a few days, and just now he pulled the child's waist knife, but he couldn't pull it off in the end.Fortunately, when the knight kicked him just now, his hand slipped onto the handle of the knife, but he pulled out the knife.He ran so far away that he couldn't see the knight when he turned around, so he dodged and hid in the alley.

Only then did he have time to take a look at the waist knife, and he saw that there were many precious stones inlaid on the handle of the knife. Even if it was not as gorgeous as the scabbard, it should be able to sell for a good price.

A white shadow flashed by at the entrance of the alley, Tong Sannian raised his eyes and saw a corner of the bamboo hat.

"Dizzy?" Tong Sannian rubbed his eyes, how could anyone be so quiet in the alley.

After a while, the white shadow floated back again, holding a girl in his arms, and asked him strangely: "I've been waiting for you for a long time, why don't you run away?"

Tong Sannian let out an "ow" and ran out of the alley.

He ran away from Dongjie desperately, he couldn't distinguish the way, and he was out of breath from exhaustion.This place seems to be away from the market, with people's houses on both sides.He repeated his old trick, found a small alley and hid in it.At the end of the walk, a child's laughter was suddenly heard overhead.Tong Sannian raised his head tremblingly, and saw the girl sitting on the eaves, making a funny face at him.

"Damn it!" Tong Sannian threw away his waist knife and ran away in fright.

He was probably really hungry, afraid of ghosts and wanted money, so he only ran two steps away and came back, picked up his waist knife and continued running.

"Am I acting like a ghost now?" The girl giggled twice, then stretched out her tongue.

Tong Sannian at the bottom continued to run for his life, he was not familiar with the topography of the capital city, and he only liked to drill into small alleys, and accidentally got into a dead end.

Tong Sannian wanted to cry but had no tears. He planned to walk out along the original road, but ran into a big black dog head-on.

That dog is really vicious, it looks like a good housekeeper.Tong Sannian was so frightened that she turned her head and ran towards the dead end, almost bumping into the white corner of her clothes.

"My mother, I'm dead!" Tong Sannian knelt on the ground with a "plop", crying loudly.

"He hasn't been beaten yet, why is he called a mother, what's the point of this." The girl said in embarrassment.

Naturally, Tong Sannian couldn't understand what they were saying, and offered his waist knife with both hands, kowtowing and begging for mercy. "Spare the heroine, spare the life of the little aunt! Spare the life of the heroine! Spare the life of the little aunt!"

Tong Sannian was kowtowing, when the top of his head was trampled hard, almost crushing him into the ground.He bared his teeth and protected his head, and then he heard the knight in white ask, "Who do you call a heroine, and who do you call your aunt?"

"Of course I'm calling you a heroine, and this little..." Tong Sannian raised his head, only to realize that the man in the bamboo hat was tall, and he really didn't look like a woman.

The knight said "hmm".

Tong Sannian immediately knelt down and kowtowed in fright: "Forgive me, hero! Who would have thought that you, an old man, would wear white clothes and light gauze, and even cover your face!"

"Do you still hit him, Daddy?" the girl asked, obviously agreeing with the call just now.

"I didn't want to fight at first, but I wanted to send it directly to the government." The knight-errant said, "It's just that I want to kill this bastard now."

"The Tartars should be killed!" the girl clapped her hands.

"What tartar," Tong Sannian cried, "I'm not a tartar, I'm a good citizen, I'm a commoner who fled from the northern border!"

"There has been no war in the northern border for the past few years, who are you to make alarmist remarks here!"

The knight seemed to have good kicks, so he kicked Tong Sannian again.

Tong Sannian was also very desperate. He escaped from the northern border all the way, and not only told the chivalrous men about it, but no one believed it.The better ones just thought he was crazy, and the more suspicious ones wanted to turn him over to the government.He was not particularly smart by nature, and he was able to escape all the way to the capital because of the good luck left by some ancestor.

When he left the northern border, he also brought a lot of money.Along the way, he was beaten and blackmailed, but he dared not fight back.It was the first time in his life that he robbed the girl's waist knife.If it were a child who was two years older, he might not even have the courage to rob other people's things.Being so cautious, he was blocked in an alley and beaten like a tartar.

The more Tong Sannian thought about it, the sadder she became, and she was so sad that she didn't want to live.He caught a glimpse of the waist knife on the ground, stretched out his hand to reach it, and with all his strength, he cut into the abdomen with the knife in both hands.

It hurts...it really hurts, but why didn't I insert it, it felt like my intestines were broken.

Tong Sannian was in so much pain that she missed her mother, and she did not dare to commit suicide if she didn't succeed.He was dizzy, and heard the girl say: "The knife is not sharpened, is this man a fool?"

"Perhaps there is something hidden." Seeing that Tong Sannian behaved differently, the knight stretched out his foot and hesitated for a while, then went around and kicked his fleshy ass.

"Don't cry, just tell me what happened to you."

Tong Sannian sobbed a few times, and organized his words slightly: "The villain is a villager in Baijia Village, Nanji Mountain in the north. Our village is very close to Mongolia, and it's in a ravine. He probably has never heard of it."

"Baijia Village, I know." The man said, "Hurry up and stop talking nonsense."

"Yes!" Tong Sannian said resolutely: "Because our village is remote, we rarely communicate with the outside world, and the local garrison can't take care of it. Sometimes the Mongolian side will come to fight the autumn wind, but they just grab some food and haven't killed anyone. .When you meet kind people, you can trade some skins with them. But two months ago, for some reason, the Mongols rushed into the village like crazy and slaughtered everyone..."

Thinking of the tragic death of his family members, Tong Sannian sobbed twice, worried that the knight would be impatient, and hurriedly continued: "The villain was hiding in the kang cave and escaped unharmed. When I came out, I found that everyone in the village was dead, so I went out to find The defenders asked for help, only to find that the entire town had been slaughtered!"

"Where's the defender?" the knight asked.

"I didn't see it," Tong Sannian said, "Not a single person, not even a ghost!"

"You just fled all the way to the capital? Why don't you find a place to live nearby?" the knight asked.

"The villain has a cousin who married into a family in the capital and wanted to join him." Tong Sannian said, "Who knows that the capital is so big and the cousin has no name, so the family calls her third sister, and I can't find her at all." People. I met a lot of villains along the way, and my money was robbed long ago, so I robbed my sister-in-law's things."

"It's so poor," the knight took off the scabbard from the girl's waist, and threw it in front of Tong Sannian, "I'll give it to you if you want it, you really have no vision, the only waist knife on my child is the most worthless."

"Daddy, I still want that knife!" the girl shouted.

"Daddy will buy you the exact same one tomorrow," the knight coaxed, "this one got dirty by him, so we don't want it anymore. You see, he just stabbed his stomach with a knife, and the stomach is full of intestines, it stinks to death!"

"Hey! Don't, don't!" The girl slapped her nose and reminded her: "Be sure to give me the same one."

"Daddy will give you a better one. These are sold in the market, and the gems are not real." The knight said, "Your uncle has received a lot of rewards recently, including gems from the Western Regions. Let's go to him to fight the autumn wind." !"

Tong Sannian picked up the scabbard and began to have doubts about life.He turned it around and looked at it a few times, the gem was shining brightly, no matter how he looked at it, he didn't think it was a fake.Some places were covered with dust, and he spat on his sleeve, rubbed it, and it was brighter.

"Really...for me?" Tong Sannian asked cautiously.

The knight in white gave him a blank look, and was too lazy to answer the rustic question: "You follow me to the military governor's mansion first."

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Retired prince with baby at home