Chapter 1: The Girl on a Donkey
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The tea shed next to the official road is simple, but there are many people sitting near noon, and the elderly tea doctor holds a long-spouted copper kettle to shuttle around, adding tea and pouring water for the guests in time.
It is more than ten miles away from Baoling City, and the people who leave the city casually talk about the interesting things that have happened in the city recently, and the guests who are going to Baoling City listen with great interest.
At this time, a person mentioned that there were several young sons in Baoling City today, who sounded like they were from the capital, all of them were handsome, and one of them was a figure like Pan An and Song Yu.
Some people didn't believe it: "Can it be compared to Jiafeng Qiaojia Yulang?"
Jiafeng is located in the south of Baoling, and it takes two or three days to go down by boat, so the reputation of Qiaojia Yulang can be spread here, which is enough to show what an outstanding person he is.
The person who spoke before poured a few sips of herbal tea, and smiled and showed a crooked tooth: "I haven't seen Qiaojia Yulang, but if you want to say that you can catch up with the son I met in the city, I don't believe it." ”
As soon as these words came out, many people immediately jumped out to refute them, and several people who had also seen several princes in the city argued with them.
"Uncle, have a pot of tea and two plates of sweet cakes. A voice interrupted the argument.
When they followed the prestige, they saw a man in his thirties stop not far from the tea shed, turn around and help a girl of twelve or thirteen years old from the back of a donkey.
When the man saw that everyone was looking, he tied the donkey to the tree by the roadside, blocked his body, covered most of the girl's body, and shouted a little impatiently: "Hurry up, my daughter is not very comfortable, hurry into the city." ”
"Haole—" Dr. Tea hurriedly brought a pot of tea and two plates of sweet cakes.
The man pushed a plate of sweet cakes in front of the girl, and said in a loud voice, "Eat." ”
After he finished speaking, he grabbed the tea bowl and poured a few sips.
Ordinary people don't pay attention to it, and it's common for girls to ride donkeys to hurry, so everyone retracted their gaze. Only a few sharp-eyed people were surprised by the girl's beauty, and couldn't help but glance at it a few more times.
The man was obviously not happy that others were looking at his daughter, and snorted heavily.
He was born tall and big, and it was not easy to provoke him, and the people who sat in this simple tea shed and drank tea were ordinary people, and they didn't want to cause trouble, so they stopped paying attention to this side and resumed the topic just now.
"If you want me to say, the son from the city is definitely not as good as the Qiao family Yulang! Although the capital is good, how can it be as beautiful as our side, especially the place where Jia F County is famous for its beauties. ”
The honest girl, who had been very well-behaved since she sat down in the tea shed, couldn't help but look up and glance at the person who was talking.
"What, how did I hear that the Qiao family Yulang is also from the capital?"
"It's true that Qiaojia Yulang is from the capital, but he is an authentic Jiafeng person. Mr. Qiao passed away the year before last, and returned to his hometown with his family to guard his grandfather's system. ”
"Ah, it turns out that Qiao's Yulang is Mr. Qiao's grandson......"
When it comes to Qiaojia Yulang, the locals have to add a prefix: from Jia F County.
But when it comes to Mr. Qiao, then everyone in the world will think of the same person: Mr. Qiao, the former Guozi Priest, the world-famous Confucian, and the first person in the world in his early years.
It's a pity that Mr. Qiao passed away more than two years ago.
Regrets rang out in the tea shop.
The girl lowered her eyes to hide the strangeness under her eyes, and she could no longer hear those voices in her ears.
As soon as she opened her eyes, Qiao Zhao, the wife of Shao Mingyuan, the general of the Northern Expedition, and the granddaughter of Mr. Qiao, became a thirteen-year-old girl Li Zhao, and fell into the hands of human traffickers.
Grandfather......
Qiao Zhao muttered in his heart.
After marrying in the capital, she never imagined that she would be so close to the place where she had been in the center of her countless midnight dreams in another capacity and in such a way.
Jiafeng, where her most beloved grandfather is buried, also lives with her loved ones who have returned from the capital.
Counting it up, now the father and brother have removed their filial piety.
Qiao Zhao quietly clenched his fists and glanced at the man who was drinking quietly.
In the memory remaining in his mind, the little girl Li Zhao has tried to escape several times since she fell into the hands of this person, but all of them ended in failure.
In the most intense time, the little girl found a chance to break free, and cried that she was abducted and sold by this person while running, attracting many passers-by to watch.
The man chased after him, spoke earnestly, and said while wiping his tears: "Girl, my father knows that you hate me and stopped you from eloping with Wang Erniu next door." But no matter how much you hate it, Dad can't watch you go the wrong way! Don't make trouble, go home with Daddy, your mother's eyes are about to cry blind......"
The little girl's hoarse cry did not keep the onlookers, and the man gave her a hard lesson when he got to no one, and from then on he kept an eye on her even closer. And being able to have this bit of comfort now is the result of Qiao Zhao, who came back to life instead of the little girl, who has been extraordinarily honest in the past two days.
"Let's go. The man left a few copper plates on the table and stood up.
Qiao Zhao hurriedly stood up, followed the man out without squinting.
Because of this movement, those eyes fell on her again.
The girl walked in style, and the grace that was inadvertently revealed made the man frown.
This time the goods were the best he had in years, but they were too good, and they were so eye-catching just walking so casually.
Why didn't you feel it two days ago?
The man sighed, and secretly made up his mind that it would be better to change the carriage when he entered the city.
An hour later.
Qiao Zhao rode on the back of a donkey, looking up at the word "Baoling" on the city gate.
Baoling: She has been here.
Grandfather Qiao was uninhibited, impatient to be an official early, and after resigning, he took his grandmother to indulge in the landscape with her, and then his health was not good, so he returned to Jiafeng to live in seclusion.
She had made two trips to Baoling for her grandfather's illness.
The city is still the same city, but she has become too thorough.
The caution of the past few days finally relaxed a little at this moment, and a self-deprecating smile flashed at the corner of his mouth.
The man took Qiao Zhao into the city, looked for a place to sell the miscellaneous donkey, and walked on the bustling street, worried that the little girl who had just been in peace for two days would make trouble again, so he whispered and comforted: "You are obedient and obedient, I will take you to a good restaurant for dinner, and then hire a carriage again, so that you will not be exposed to the wind and sun." ”
"Where else are you going?" Qiao Zhao, who had always been silent, suddenly spoke.
The girl and the man looked at each other, their eyes clear, like the softest waves of water in spring wrinkled by the breeze.
The ghost sent the god, and the man replied: "Yangzhou." ”
When he came back to his senses, the man was a little annoyed, and then comforted himself: What does it matter if the little girl knows? After this treasure tomb, Yangzhou City will soon arrive.
Yangzhou.
Qiao Zhao's face did not change, but he sighed in his heart, and the secret way was not good.
From here to Yangzhou will take another way, from her hometown Jiafeng is getting farther and farther away, and even if she escapes in a completely unfamiliar place, the little girl who is only twelve or thirteen years old will probably come out of the wolf's den and fall into the tiger's mouth.
Qiao Zhao didn't think about how to recognize his relatives in his current appearance, but at least he knew that his father and brother were both gentlemen, and they would not have bad intentions in the face of the little girl in distress.
She has to go home no matter what, in this case, she must get out of Baoling City!