The people in the village got up early, dozens of families are the remnants of Yan Fu, after the Yin army entered the city, they were driven from the middle of the city to live in this remote village, although there are few men in the village, most of them are women, but they are all united very, they didn't see this Ning Yao back at night, they were so anxious, at this time they heard the movement outside the house, put on their clothes and picked up the hoe and carefully pushed the door open, sleepy-eyed poked their heads out, watching this Ning Yao and his party of three people pass in front of their own door, and in the end they didn't see a single one.

This Ning Yao is known for her gentle temperament, she was a young lady in the official house in her early years, she was proficient in female red embroidery, and occasionally taught the children in the village to enlighten and read and write, but her own children had no money to go to the school in the city when they were old, so they could only watch her bring out the "On the Dao" and "The Great Plan of the World" when she fled Turned over the tatters, these books are too obscure for children, even Ning Yao can't understand it, seeing that several widows in this village are marrying into good homes to be wives and concubines in order to make a living, and there are no shortage of wealthy children in the family who want to marry Ning Yao and go back to be concubines, this little lady has refused one by one, except for the loyalty of the Yanfu woman herself, but she is worried that her daughter will be bullied when she goes to someone else's house.

The women in the village all poked their heads out to look at Ning Yao and them, the mother and daughter looked haggard, but they were followed by a handsome little boy, holding the child's hand and following Ning Yao, these women suddenly looked at the little boy with wide eyes, this Ning Yao finally couldn't help but bring the man back, this man ...... Phew, it should be that the boy is too good-looking, especially the pair of beautiful purple eyes, just like the fairy, Ning Yao is asking the old cow to eat tender grass, they suddenly forgot to look at it shamefully, and there was a scolding cry from their own man in the house, and they turned their heads and scolded back, and when they turned around, the three of them had disappeared.

Chu Xianzhao looked at the wooden door of the family, very curious and fresh, all the people who can live in Lin'an City are either rich or noble, such a low building is absolutely invisible, and there are wind chimes composed of shells hanging in front of their door, the morning breeze blows the bell and rings, Ning Yao stopped in front of a household at the end of the village, Chu Xianzhao stood in front of the wooden door and stopped a little shyly, the little lady had already pushed away the dream, tilted her head and asked softly, "Why don't you come in?"

Somewhat uncertain, he looked at the stone house surrounded by earthen walls and asked softly, "You live in a place like this?"

"Childe, we are already defeated and outcasts, and it is already a blessing in misfortune to have tiles to cover our heads, it is much better to live in such a place than to lie in a coffin, right?" Ning Yao laughed to herself.

There is a small ditch that diverts from the stream in front of the door of this stone house, this stone house is built on the soil slope next to this small ditch, the stone house is surrounded by a fence, the soil slope in front of the door is also planted with a few pepper seedlings, the bend red is very gratifying, the morning light crosses the ditch and sprinkles outside the grass house, gilding this courtyard with a beautiful golden light, like a dream scene.

Chu Xianzhao took a deep breath and said ashamedly: "I'm sorry, you don't deserve to be treated like this, I was too annoyed last night to hurt people, after all, I am still from the Yin country, I know that even if you say this, you can't forgive me, and I also made you lose your job." I have a little friendship with the city lord in this city, after solving the war, I will let her arrange for you to live in the city, at least it is much more comfortable than this place, I heard you say that your children want to go to school, I can spend some silver to send your children to the school, and the things in the building can also be solved with silver, it can be regarded as a big thing and a small matter, I hope you ...... Don't blame me. ”

Ning Yao lowered her head, no one knew what she was thinking, but her eyes were getting redder and redder.

"Yo, Ning Yao, bring the man back?" A passing aunt quipped, followed by a group of chickens, and more and more people also came around, Chu Xianzhao hesitated whether to go in, would this cause her any unnecessary rumors, his teacher Zuo Ci once said that gossip is more hurtful than a sword.

Chu Xianzhao hesitated for a moment, but still dispelled this thought, and touched the little girl's head: "The war will start soon, don't go if you stay at home during this time, I will come to you again after the war is over, you take this jade pendant, if there are any soldiers who come to harass you later, you can take this jade out and show him." ”

He stuffed Peiyu around his waist into the little girl's trouser pocket, and turned around to leave, the little girl pulled the corner of his clothes, Chu Xianzhao still didn't stop, and the people around him also began to leave, probably because he felt embarrassed to scare people, Ning Yao said softly: "Childe, I don't blame you, I understand...... For a son like you, such a door is indeed impossible to enter, and it is not easy to enter......"

The young man stopped, turned around and said ashamedly, "No...... That was not what I meant. ”

The little lady took out the jade pendant that still had his body temperature from her daughter's trouser pocket, squeezed it in her hand, and her eyes were red: "Stay and leave after eating noodles, I just heard that my son said that I want to wash ......"

Speaking of this, she blushed, Chu Xianzhao thought about it, walked into the house, the little girl followed him in, Chu Xianzhao looked around the room, to be honest, this is the smallest room he has ever seen, there is only one bed in the room, but it does not look boring, the room is cleaned up, the little girl took him to the table on the left, she can only babble a few times because she can't speak, and by the way looks up at the hero who saved her and her mother, the two sit side by side on the stool, and the table is full of the girl's calligraphy of practicing big characters.

"You wrote all this?" Chu Xianzhao smiled, and the girl nodded vigorously.

"This word is much better than when I was a child, it's so beautiful, this word ......" The big characters written by the little girl are square and round, I don't know if it is the reason for loving the house and Wu, Chu Xianzhao always thinks that these words are simple and cute, the little lady makes water for Chu Xianzhao and beckons him to take a bath, after some cleaning, a big bowl of noodles has been placed on the dining table, and it is covered with a yellow and clear egg, sprinkled with green green onions, which looks exactly the same as the noodles made by the young slave sister for herself, and there are two large bowls of white porridge next to the egg noodles.

Chu Xianzhao was also polite, after drinking a lot of wine last night, the egg noodles and white porridge at this time tasted extremely delicious, the eggs were fried fragrant and tender, and even the two bowls of porridge were solved by him, and the two mothers and daughters watched him drink porridge and eat noodles quietly, Chu Xianzhao seemed to realize something and stopped his chopsticks: "Why don't you eat breakfast?"

Ning Yao was probably infected by this warm atmosphere, and there was always a smile on the corner of her mouth: "Childe really likes to joke, we poor families only eat two meals a day, and there is no such thing as breakfast." ”

Chu Xianzhao was stunned, most of the way in this world is two meals for the poor and three meals for the rich, like he used to have the red bean syrup made by the young slave sister for himself in the afternoon, and there were all kinds of fried noodles and the like at night, as long as he wanted to eat.

"The child grows physically, and two meals a day are not good. Chu Xianzhao pointed out with a slightly reproachful tone, and the little lady smiled gently, smiling a little helplessly: "I know...... I know. ”

He finally put down the dishes and chopsticks and said satisfied: "I haven't eaten such delicious noodles for a long time, at least for more than half a year." ”

"Childe is joking again. ”

Chu Xianzhao really didn't joke, since the young slave sister left, he really hadn't eaten such delicious noodles for a long time.

Chu Xianzhao wiped his mouth and smiled, looking at the little girl: "What's your name?"

The girl babbled two words, and the little lady said it for her: "Lin Qing, her name is Lin Qing, what a good child, but unfortunately she can't speak." ”

"Your mother said you want to go to the academy?" Chu Xianzhao asked with squinted eyes, and the little girl looked at him like a chicken pecking rice.

Ning Yao patted her daughter's little hand, the girl sensibly packed up the dishes and chopsticks and went back to the kitchen, now there are only him and Ning Yao, Ning Yao took out the jade pendant and put it on the table: "Childe is a good person, what happened last night, I'm afraid it will make Childe get into trouble, I really don't know how to repay Childe, but this jade pendant is too valuable...... I can't take it. ”

Chu Xianzhao didn't look at Yu Pei, but just looked at her deeply.

The overly hot eyes made her heart skip a beat, and her face flushed.

Chu Xianzhao said calmly: "Take it, it can be regarded as some compensation from me for your Yanyu people, the Yin army entered the city back then, and killed 30,000 people in ten days of burning the city, maybe there are your family and husband among them, I don't know why my brother allowed such atrocities to happen, if it were me, I would never let such a thing happen...... At least not that many people died. ”

The little lady looked at him blankly, she didn't understand what he meant, she just felt that this son's power was very great.

Chu Xianzhao continued: "It's really uncomfortable for a Yanfu homeless person like you to live, if most of the money in the family is also plundered by the soldiers, how many silver taels, one hundred taels, one thousand taels did they rob you? But you can't help it, right, the soldiers in the city won't let you go back to Yanfu, nor will they let you go to Yinguo, you are a lot worse than the Xilin homeless people, and you can only survive in the cracks between the two countries, right? If it weren't for that, your daughter wouldn't have been hurt, and the two wouldn't have died, and you would have taken your daughter and two of them to make a living, how far could a widow and a little mute go? I can only help you this time, maybe there will be no chance to meet in the future, your daughter wants to study, this is very good, I can send her to the school so that she can get fame in the future, not to mention anything else, if you are really admitted, your mother and daughter can move to Lin'an City to live, no matter what homeless people are not homeless, although Yinguo is strong on the battlefield, but always has great respect for scholars, just when I do good deeds and accumulate virtue, okay?"

She nodded slightly, "No?"

Chu Xianzhao couldn't cry and laugh: "Why can't it?"

Ning Yao suddenly said: "I know that Gongzi is a very powerful person, and he is not short of this bit of silver, but the truth is the truth after all, sending a widow's child to the school will be scolded by someone pointing at the backbone." ”

"Who dares to scold me?" Chu Xianzhao flicked the scabbard, the little lady was frightened by the murderous aura on his body, and said softly and weakly: "I know that Gongzi is very powerful, but Gongzi is here to defend the city, he must be a big official in the military camp, and I just saw that Gongzi was covered with scars, such a thing, there is no need to trouble Gongzi." ”

Chu Xianzhao smiled strangely, and did not explain any reason, he looked at the woman and stopped thinking for a while: "Actually, it's not what you think, the reason why I am good to you and your daughter has a lot to do with my background." ”

"Origin?"

Chu Xianzhao looked at the pile of pepper seedlings in the courtyard, and said to himself: "I was born without a mother, my brothers and sisters are the same, there is only one father and aunt in the family, and there are no other relatives, but even so, my family is still very big, there are many servants, and there are so many acres of land that you can't walk for a day, even if it is such a home, it is difficult for me to feel warm." Dad is usually busy with work and has not taken care of me, my brother is only drinking, and many other things don't care, speaking of such a big family, only my sister and aunt will take care of me, although my sister always bullies me, but everything I know, all kinds of books and Buddhist scriptures are taught to me, such a family of many people I don't know, on the bright side they respectfully call my name, maybe there is a knife hidden behind the back, may cut at me and my family at any time, water drops through the stone, such a home seems to be strong, can not be shaken, but if it is really pushed will collapse on its own, there is no need to continue to exert force, so I have always been afraid that my family will be hollowed out, because I want to become stronger, stronger than my previous self, so I came to Jingnan City to defend the city. ”

Ning Yao didn't speak, chewing on the meaning of his words, Chu Xianzhao continued: "When I was your daughter's age, I played all day long, and it was absolutely impossible to practice calligraphy or anything, I felt that my father was the most powerful person in the world, and he would support him when the sky fell." I have always thought like that, until I grew up, and I saw a lot of his hard work, all of which he built with his own hands, in order to establish all this he spent a lot of money, and even killed people, killed many, many people, killing this kind of thing is useful to kill once, killing too many people will only be afraid of you, and even like getting rid of you, so that my father will work harder, and the family thief and the thief have to guard together. Some time ago, there was a family thief who rebelled, and almost wiped off our family, and then my father was angry, in addition to being angry, he was more remorseful, so my father asked me to come to Jingnan City to defend the city, maybe I won't go into battle to kill the enemy, but he actually wants to sharpen me, let me see what a real war is, let me see how the real homeless people live, so I met you and your daughter, I also saw, you live a life that is not called a day at all, along the way there are male prostitutes and female thieves, selling women to make a living, selling themselves to bury their fathers, and you have no way to get rid of such a predicament, you can only live, live in this terrible moment！”