On the streets of a small town outside the city of Lingzhou, the people fled one after another, and with the expansion of the scope of the war, the south of Lingzhou fell completely, and now there is news that the Moro Iron Cavalry began to go to the north to plunder property, grain and farmers at the same time as they stepped towards Liangzhou. Therefore, the people of Lebanon, who were guarding their homeland and could not leave, finally began to abandon their homes one after another and embarked on the road of escape.

The chaotic crowd fled from the west to the east, only to the east, through Liangzhou, to Qingzhou, to the capital, where is the hinterland of the Dongliang Kingdom, is the place that has not yet been attacked by the Moro army, and it is a relatively safe place for the time being.

Strangely, some of the people who were running en masse to the east were also rushing in the opposite direction.

It was a man who looked like a scholar, he stuffed a child into a woman's hand, and reached out to touch the child's tender face, "Qian'er, obediently listen to your mother's words, go to Liu's house in Lingzhou Mansion with your mother, and find your brother Liu Wan - your dumb aunt and sister-in-law are very good, and will definitely receive your mother and son, and settle you well, you wait for me, and when the Moro thief is driven out of my Dongliang land, I will go back to find you." ”

The woman holding the child looked gentle and frugal, and nodded to her husband very obediently, "Husband, you must take care of yourself, the concubine is waiting for you to come back." ”

Liu Xiucai nodded: "Go, after this is Lingzhou Mansion, it is easy to ask the Liu family on the street, they are big local families." When I saw the dumb aunt, I handed her the letter. Let's just say that I, Liu Xiucai, abandoned Wen and went to the army to kill the enemy, and entrusted your orphans and widows to take care of them. ”

At this time, more refugees ran over, and in the chaotic crowd, Liu Xiucai pushed the reluctant woman, "Hurry up, in case there are really Moro soldiers behind you, it'll be over-"

The woman hugged the child tightly and stumbled away.

Liu Xiucai did not hesitate, pulled down a bookcase that had been carried behind him from his back, opened it, it was full of books, he picked up a copy, saw that it was Li Bai's poetry copy, dropped it, and looked for it again, it was Du Fu, and put it away, and when he turned to a book of Xin Qiji, he smiled, shook it open, and sang and read it loudly: "Drunk and pick up the lamp to see the sword, dream back to blow the horn company camp." Eight hundred miles under the command, fifty strings turned over the outside sound. Autumn soldiers on the battlefield. The horse-made Lu was fast, and the bow was like a thunderbolt. But the king of the world, won the name before and after his death——"

Stuffing the book of poems into his arms, he didn't want the rest of the books along with the bookcase, and ran in the opposite direction with his legs, and the poems he recited in his mouth had become his own casual work: "Who said that useless is a scholar, a seven-foot man is also from Rong, killing the enemy to repay the country's military exploits, one day...... Someday......"

The verses that follow are blown away by the wind and melted into the wind.

The box of books was tossed by the wind, making a rattling sound.

In the troubled times, it is difficult to survive, human life is as cheap as grass mustard, in addition to cold clothes, food will be lost there will be people rushing to pick up, books and other useless things, are swept around by the wind, but no one is willing to pick up.

Some of the refugees saw that Xiucai resolutely headed southwest, and an old man shook his head, "I read my brain badly when I read, I knew that going there would be death, but I still went, and I was still singing before leaving——"

The two young men hesitated, "Grandpa, he went to the battlefield to kill the enemy, he dared to go to the show, why don't we two of us go because we are strong and strong, we are driven by the Moro thieves day by day, and the day of escape is the first day - we also want to join the army!"

The old man was anxious: "That's a death--the sword and gun don't have long eyes-"

The two grandsons shouted together: "Fleeing is also death—instead of being tired and scared to death, starving to death, freezing to death, and dying in a nest, it is really better to go to the battlefield and kill the Moro soldiers face to face and die!"

After speaking, the brothers no longer hesitated, and ran away.

The old man was so angry that he stomped his feet behind him, but it was too late.

A few more young men followed.

This walk was like waking up the sleeping crowd, and more men were no longer willing to follow the fleeing team to hide in Tibet, but turned around and ran in the opposite direction.

The days of the Liu family in Lingzhou Mansion were only a little lively for two days with the return of Liu Wan and others, and they soon recovered to a state of stagnant water.

The days are still the same, rigid, dull, and repeated day after day.

In the red mud building, the sixth aunt sat at the table and counted with her fingers, and it had been two months since her daughter Liu Mei last returned to her parents' house, and she missed her daughter.

"Our young lady is back. Yahuan ran in and shouted with a smile.

The sixth aunt was naturally too happy, stood up and hurriedly ran to the door, but she didn't see Liu Mei.

"I've just met the master, and now I'm going to see the eldest lady in the middle courtyard. After seeing it, it will come to our red mud building. Yahuan reminded with a smile.

The sixth aunt smiled too much, holding her hand on the door, "yes, I should go to see them first, how confused am I-"

A figure rushed in, pushed open the ring at the door, and sneered at the sixth aunt who was waiting all over her face, "Pulling your neck and waiting for your heart and liver?

It's Liu Shen.

She soaked with Liu Ying all day long, and followed the ass behind others to make a fart, and at this time she must have been idle by others and ran back.

The sixth aunt was so angry that she rolled her eyes, and sat on the edge of Liu Shen's bed with her, "You, the boss is not small, you said that you don't follow us to learn women's black tea and rice for a day, what is the matter with spending time on other people's side in the morning and evening? Besides, it's not angry every day to go there." ”

Liu Shen raised his eyebrows, "Go and go, don't listen to your nagging! You feel uncomfortable when you see me angry? Let me tell you, if you have the ability to give me birth to a daughter, you will naturally not be angry! It's not because you don't fight for yourself, and you want to be an aunt and wife for others, so that I was born a head lower than others. I am really unlucky, I have been wrong in the womb, I have been wrong since my mother's womb, and I can't hold my head up in this life! Who told me that I am not a concubine, but a concubine's daughter, and I am destined to be inferior everywhere. ”

The sixth aunt was so angry that tears fell, but she still patiently persuaded her daughter: "What's wrong with the concubine? The concubine is also a human being, let's be our people and live our lives well, what's wrong, why do you want to think about what to be born and concubine every day, why make yourself so hard?"

Liu Shen suddenly stood up and yelled at the sixth aunt: "You said it easily, if you are not me, you will not know how difficult it is for me to live in front of Liu Ying and them!"

After yelling, he began to cry.

"Why is that, why are you crying?" asked a soft voice at the door.

With the voice, Liu Mei came.

The sixth aunt grabbed Liu Mei's hand, tears dripped down, and Liu Shen said: "Find fault with me when it's dark one day, blame me for not having the ability to make someone else's concubine." ”

Liu Mei raised her hand to wipe her mother's tears, "Who stipulates that our daughters will not live well? My daughter, who was born from a concubine, is doing very well now, my husband loves me, and my parents-in-law are also very satisfied. So I think that as long as we are kind people, we will also have our own happiness. ”

Liu Shen stopped crying, got up and sneered at his sister, "Hmph, I look down on you for unproductive and ambitious goods!"

While scolding, he pedaled and ran away, and went to continue to tie Liu Ying.

The mother and daughter were left with a wry smile and were speechless.

Liu Mei turned his head to look around, and found that the red mud Zhuli was still elegant, but those Puya tea sets and the taste of boiling tea were gone. Doesn't my mother drink tea anymore?

The sixth aunt took her daughter's hand and whispered to her: "I seem to be pregnant, since you took away that prescription last time, and the last time you secretly grabbed medicine for me according to the prescription and sent it to me, I quietly boiled it up and ate it." After eating these days, it turned out to be there. I just don't know if it's a man or a woman. If only I had been a boy, I would have hope for the rest of my life. ”

Liu Mei was overjoyed, and grabbed her biological mother's hand tightly, "It's really good - but don't make a noise, even sister, don't let her know." If it gets over there, it's going to be a problem!"

Aunt Sixth nodded, "That's for sure." Look at the current appearance of the third aunt, the news that I have a body is really going to spread, and I am the next third aunt! ”

Liu Mei thought about it and was worried, "It's not a way to hide it like this, there will always be a day when you will be pregnant, and you won't be able to hide it at that time." ”

The sixth aunt also had a sad face, "Yes, I was very happy to hear that Brother Wan was back, thinking that she would definitely come back together, as long as she came back, maybe there would be a way to check and balance the eldest wife." But Brother Wan actually gave her a break. What do you think I'm going to do in the future?"

Liu Mei accompanied her mother to worry, "The recipe she left behind before leaving is so effective, you took a few doses of medicine and got pregnant, but if she doesn't come back for a long time, I'm afraid we won't be able to keep this baby...... Otherwise, I'll go back and beg my husband to try to ask around to see where she has gone, and whether she can go back to our Liu family!"

The sixth aunt shook her head, "This method is not appropriate, even if you look for her, it is the master and the eldest lady who speak, and it is only right for the Liu family to come forward to find her." ”

The sixth aunt and Liu Mei are both honest women, trapped by this problem, the mother and daughter sit and worry, the sixth aunt who has been infertile for many years suddenly became pregnant, which is a great joy, but the current poor living environment of the Liu family has turned the happy event into a sad event.

In silence, Liu Mei muttered: "Where did she go?