The daughter-in-law of Gu Xiaodong's family, a fragrant powder shop in the east of the city, ran away with someone.

Gu Xiaodong's full name is Gu Xuezhou, his fiancée is the second daughter of the Mipu Liu family who lives on the same street, and when he left, he wrote a letter accusing his parents of being greedy for money and domineering, and he actually wanted to push his own daughter into the fire pit and marry a stupid and ugly stammer, she was forced to run away with her lover with a lot of soft belongings in the family - these money can't be regarded as stealing, it should be counted as her due dowry.

However, the ugliness of the family should not be publicized, and the Liu family also has a little daughter who will have to say goodbye in the future, and begged Gu Xuezhou for everything, but he was soft-hearted, so he agreed to help hide it. This incident was claimed to the outside world because of the sudden epidemic of Miss Liu, and she was not allowed to go to the countryside to recuperate. The Liu family and the Gu family quietly searched for more than a month but did not find a trace of a pair of wild mandarin ducks, but they couldn't do it, the Liu family had to say that the second daughter was sick and died, and the marriage that had been agreed with the Gu family before naturally disappeared.

In fact, this is not the first time that Gu Xuezhou's marriage has failed, when he was fifteen years old, he said that he had a family affair, and he was the youngest daughter of the Wang family. At that time, they had not been in Baiwan Town for a few years, and they were deceived, but even if he learned the truth, he did not withdraw from the marriage, but often sent some medicinal materials to find some prescriptions and sent them to his father-in-law's mother-in-law's house, but even so, the girl of the Wang family died in only one year. He also wore filial piety for Miss Wang, who had not passed through the door, for a year, but in Miss Liu's mouth, this was a sign of his death fiancée and hypocrisy.

No matter what the truth is, anyway, in the eyes of outsiders, he killed two fiancées in a row when he was only eighteen years old. And he does have an indecent face, although his facial features are delicate and his skin is fair, but there is a bluish red dirty patch on his right cheek, if he takes off his clothes, you can see more similar patches - this is his childhood poisoning guide, in the early years it was even more terrifying, the skin is sallow, these years of poisoning has slowly improved a lot, but it will take about five or six years to heal.

The people in the town said: Gu Xiaodong's character is noble and friendly, but it's a pity that his life is too hard. Lost at a young age, has no father, no mother, no brothers and sisters, and dies two wives in a row who have not passed the door, is it a lonely star?

Gu Xuezhou felt that he would probably not be able to marry his mother-in-law in his life.

Gu Xuezhou was depressed, so he set up a donkey cart, and another guy in the same store went to Zhaojia Village outside the town, where he set up a village and hired a helper to grow flowers for rouge gouache.

He had to come back for at least three or five days, and the shop would be handed over to Gu Ning to take care of. Gu Ning is a servant of his family, fifty and three, still in good spirits and tough, so that people call him Uncle Gu, when they came to settle in this foreign land, Gu Xuezhou was only eight years old, thanks to his loyalty and diligence to keep the family business, and now there is a shop Zhuangzi field.

Gu Ning doesn't know how much he sighs in private these days, he has passed the year of knowing the destiny of heaven, I don't know how many years there are still to live, he is very anxious these years, I hope that the little young master will become his own son as soon as possible, and when he goes to the Huangquan Prefecture, he will also have the face to see the master who is lonely in him.

They passed by Zhao Yuanwai's mansion in the west of the city, and a few wisps of tactful and lingering singing seemed to float out, Gu Xuezhou raised his head and saw the branches of the pear tree sticking out of the wall, the snow-white pear blossoms were wrapped □□ the wind and left the branches, falling like a piece of snow, falling between his black hair, but it did not melt.

Gu Xuezhou picked up a fallen flower and sniffed the aroma on the tip of his nose, but unfortunately thought, this flower is really good, and it is best to use it to steam the flower dew to make flower dew rouge.

When the coachman heard the singing, his subordinates couldn't help but slow down a little, and wanted to listen to more tunes, but he didn't have spare money to listen to the opera on weekdays, so he said enviously to the little proprietor: "Did you hear the opera singing there? I heard that it was Zhao Yuanwai's mother's 70th birthday, and she invited a very famous opera troupe from other places to come over, and set up a stage to sing for seven days!"

Gu Xuezhou was not interested in singing, he pondered for a moment, and replied casually: "Zhao Yuanwai is really filial." He was more interested in the flowers in the yard than in singing.

Gu Xuezhou raised his head again, and took another look, but there was a small figure on the pear tree at some point - it was a child about six or seven years old, with long black hair draped heavily, and a small face was paler than the pear blossoms beside him, wrapped in an overly wide pink water-sleeved costume, and his thin body seemed to be blown away by a gust of wind. The picturesque eyebrows were extremely gorgeous, male and female, and the beautiful Gu Xuezhou couldn't take his eyes off for a while, the child seemed to notice him, lowered his eyelashes, and glanced at Gu Xuezhou with two pills of black mercury-like eyes.

The curtain on the car was blown up by the wind to cover Gu Xuezhou's sight, and he went to see it again, there were only pear blossoms flying like snow on the old pear blossom book, how could there be any human figure.

"What are you looking at?" the guy asked.

"It's nothing......" Gu Xuezhou turned his head and muttered to himself, "Could it be that I'm dazzled?"

*

At dusk, the troupe rested and rested in the backyard after eating and drinking.

Shen Yuguan, the head of the troupe, lowered his voice and said in a slightly sullen voice: "He wants to be beautiful! I have been raising this kid for four years, and the old animal wants to buy it for only 500 taels to play with it! Where can I buy a boy with such a beautiful face and a beautiful voice?"

Another person chimed in: "Exactly, he has practiced well, and he sings well, and when he grows up, we will give him some fame, and then we will sell it for more than a little silver." ”

Shen Yuguan frowned: "That old pervert is really difficult...... I'll have to figure out a way to get rid of him. ”

The child they were talking about was in this room. He lay quietly on the bed, breathing evenly, as if he was sleeping very deeply, only a pair of small hands clenched into fists, trembling slightly.

Seven days later.

Ferry terminal.

Shen Yuguan rented a boat, he ordered people one by one, no matter how he found it, there was one child missing, his most valuable people and goods, a little beauty who had been pampered for two years.

Shen Yuguan scolded: "Are you blind? When did you disappear and no one knew?"

Someone shrank and replied, "I didn't see anyone when I left the house." ”

Shen Yuguan trembled with anger, he spat on the ground, and said hatefully: "It must be that bastard who saw that he couldn't buy it and hid someone, so go back with me and ask for someone!"

So the guys of the troupe rushed to Zhao Yuanwai's mansion with Shen Yuguan, leaving only an old man at the dock to watch the luggage. When everyone walked away, the lid of a box behind the old man was gently pushed open, and the little beauty that Shen Yuguan couldn't find quietly crawled out, he changed into an inconspicuous linen clothes, wiped his face, tied his hair with strips of cloth, looked around, and saw a group of children playing in the street, so he tiptoed over, mixed in the children's pile, and followed the children.

He followed the group of children for a long time, and the children gradually dispersed and went home, and he wandered a few steps through the street, suddenly at a loss, not knowing where to go, and he had to find a safe place to hide.

He walked slowly along the corner of the wall and stopped at a donkey cart parked next to the tea shop, which he had seen when he climbed up to the pear tree that day to look at it, and there was a very ugly man sitting in it.

He ducked under the car and heard the occupants get out of the car.

"Let's rest here, I invite you to drink a cup of tea to moisten your throat. ”

"Eh, thank you. ”

"No thanks, you've worked hard to catch the car. ”

When Gu Xuezhou and the coachman turned around and didn't pay attention, he got into the car neatly, as light as a swallow. As soon as he entered, the fragrance of fragrant and fresh flowers came to his face, and there were many large bamboo baskets in the car, with bamboo lids, he walked over and opened them, which contained sun-dried flower petals.

Gu Xuezhou sat down and took a sip of herbal tea in a large white porcelain bowl, feeling refreshed.

This tea shop is open on the side of the road, specializing in the tea of the small people in the market, helping the idle, the servants, and the people who are driving the car, are willing to come here to rest, spend a copper plate to drink a bowl of herbal tea, moisten their throats, and can't help but gossip with the people around them.

The old Li thief, who was carrying water, said awkwardly: "I just saw those singers go back to find Zhao Yuanwai! ”

The people laughed and expressed their disbelief.

Lao Li's face turned red with laughter: "Really, I went to listen to it, it was a lot of trouble, I still heard something 'dropped a shoe', or something, those singers also said that they were going to the government to sue Zhao Yuanwaili!

Gu Xuezhou listened to the gossip, drank tea, and when he had rested enough, he went back to the car and prepared to go on the road.

As soon as he returned to the car, he frowned, and his eyes wandered between the bamboo baskets in the car a few times, he felt that something was wrong, but after a cursory look, it seemed that there was nothing unusual.

Gu Xuezhou moved his nose, keenly and carefully distinguishing a touch of fragrance that was not there before.

"Little owner, sit tight. The coachman said outside.

Gu Xuezhou suppressed his uneasiness and sat down quietly, "...... Good. ”

Don't startle the snake first.

He pretended not to notice anything, and after a while slowly approached one of the baskets and carefully lifted the lid.

In the flower basket, a child curled up and holding his shoes in his arms lay among the flowers, his eyes closed, his brows tightly locked, as if he was very tired, and as if he was enduring great pain in his dreams.

Gu Xuezhou first gave a mouthful, and then saw the child's face, and was stunned - didn't he see the little beauty on the pear blossom tree before?—— he rubbed his eyes, and then opened them, the child in the flower basket did not disappear. He reached out and touched it gently, it was alive.

Not long after, the car stopped, and the driver shouted outside: "Little owner, it's here." ”

Gu Xuezhou hesitated for a while before coming out. Gu Bo walked over, rolled up his sleeves and was about to help, when he saw Gu Xuezhou's expression of wanting to speak and stopped, he asked thoughtfully, "...... Did you pick up the cat again?"

Since he was a child, his little master has loved to pick up dirty kittens and puppies to go home, and he has been taught repeatedly!

Gu Xuezhou shook his head weakly: "No, I really didn't pick up the kitten, you come in and take a look." ”

Gu Bo looked at him puzzled, why was it so mysterious? He squeezed into the car and saw the child sleeping soundly in the flower basket.

- Well, this time I just picked up a little doll and came back!

Gu Xuezhou said softly: "Look, how well-behaved he is, and he knows how to take off his shoes." ”

Gu Bo: "......"