When Mu Ziru woke up from his sleep, he found that his shoes had been taken off and placed neatly on the footrest next to the bed, and he was lying on his side on the bed, covered with an old quilt that was not thin or thick.

Looking at the old quilt covering his body, a smile appeared on the corner of Mu Ziru's mouth, not the evil smile he usually had, but the faint smile that made people feel like a spring breeze.

After seven years away from home, Mu Ziru finally felt the peace, warmth and peace of home again.

Lifting the quilt and getting up, putting on his shoes, Mu Ziru walked slowly to the door, raised his hand to open the door, outside the house, there were a few red glows floating in the sky, the sun had set in the west, and only a faint afterglow was scattered to the world, leaving a lifetime of brilliance.

Looking into the center of the courtyard, the coffee table and low stools there had been removed, and a low square table that would reach the knee was placed in favor of two low stools opposite each other.

On the square table, there are two pairs of chopsticks with white rice and four plates of different colors, which are placed in a circle on the table, and there is a little space in the middle of the table.

Looking at the familiar layout in the courtyard, Mu Ziru's thoughts were a little ethereal, and he unconsciously returned to the past-

"Yu'er, my mother has made you your favorite osmanthus cake! It's so fragrant and sweet! Come and taste it!" In the same courtyard, the same furnishings, and in the same evening, a plainly dressed and demure young woman pinched a milky white pastry with her right thumb and forefinger, and said to a little doll about one or two years old standing opposite her.

"Niangniang, I want to eat cakes!" the little doll expressed his thoughts in sticky words, and swayed towards the young woman as she spoke.

The young woman picked up the little doll that had finally come to her, smiled and handed the pastry in her hand to the little doll's mouth.

Watching the little doll bite the cake one by one, the young woman smiled gently: "Eat slowly, you can eat as many osmanthus cakes as you want! No one will grab osmanthus cakes from our her." ”

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"How are you doing with the Hundred Herbs today, and how many herbs have you memorized?" asked the young woman, who was about four years old, sitting on the side of the desk, holding a thick book.

When the little boy heard this, he raised his head and smiled at the young woman and said, "Mother, I have worked hard, and today I have memorized the names of more than ten kinds ......of herbs and their effects!

After quietly waiting for the little boy to memorize the herbs he had learned today one by one and correcting some small mistakes, the young woman smiled gently, raised her hand to stroke the top of the little boy's hair, and praised: "As long as you study hard, you will definitely be able to be a great doctor like your father in the future, healing the sick and healing people." ”

Hearing the young woman's praise, the little boy smiled very happily: "Well, I want to be like my father! I want to be a great doctor to heal the sick and cure people!"

Putting away the thick book held by the little boy and putting it on the desk at hand, the young woman took the little boy's little hand and walked in the direction of the kitchen, laughing warmly as she walked: "Hao'er, Daddy must be tired from going to the clinic today, can we cook for Daddy today?"

"Yes, yes, yes! You can help your mother wash the vegetables and make a fire! and pinch the tofu and mix the meat filling!" the little boy smiled very happily.

"Okay! Yu'er is the best, she already knows so many things at a young age......

The originally warm scene was transformed into a mountain overgrown with vines and grasses, and the plainly dressed and demure young woman was now lying pale on top of the weeds, beside her was a medicine basket and a medicine hoe containing herbs that had fallen to the ground, and her neck was marked by a snake bite, and a sharp-nosed pit viper (commonly known as the five-step snake, the seven-step snake) was swimming in the distance.

A little boy about five years old lay beside the young woman with tears in his eyes, shouting the word "mother" again and again.

Looking at the little boy, even though she was on the verge of death, the young woman still smiled softly: "Yu'er, my mother can't take care of you in the future, don't complain about my mother's ......!"

A mouthful of black blood suddenly spurted out of the young woman's mouth, splashed on the little boy's face, and also splashed on the little boy's originally innocent heart, and thus changed the little boy's life......

"Mother...... mother" Mu Ziru murmured, his mind in a trance.

At this moment, he saw that the crepe doctor walked out of the kitchen in a corner of the courtyard with a somewhat shabby gray and yellow cloth towel on each palm, holding a steaming white porcelain soup bowl.

Put the soup bowl in the deliberately vacated position in the center of the square table, turned his head, and saw Mu Ziru standing at the door of the room, the crepe doctor grinned and said: "Yu'er, Dad is just going to call you! The food is ready, come and sit down to eat." With that, the crepe doctor sat down at the table.

Retracting his wandering thoughts, he didn't answer, Mu Ziru just smiled at the corner of his mouth, walked quickly to the table, and sat down on the low stool opposite the crepe doctor.

Doctor Crepe didn't eat with chopsticks, but looked at Mu Ziru sitting opposite him with a smile, and beckoned: "Hurry up and taste it, see if the dishes made by Dad still suit your appetite?"

"Good. Laughing and answering, Mu Ziru picked up the bamboo chopsticks on the table in front of him, and put a bamboo chopstick dish into his mouth, chewed it carefully and swallowed it, and then took another bamboo chopstick dish and sent it to his mouth......

After tasting all the dishes, under the eager gaze of the crepe doctor, Mu Ziru finally pulled the corners of his mouth and laughed: "It's delicious! Dad's craftsmanship hasn't changed for so many years, and it still tastes the same as before." ”

Hearing Mu Ziru's words, the crepe doctor seemed to be relieved, and finally raised his hand to pick up the bamboo chopsticks in front of him, and said to Mu Ziru while busy picking up vegetables for Mu Ziru: "Eat more if it's delicious, and if it's not enough, Dad will do it." ”

Eat all the dishes that the crepe doctor gave him, and Mu Ziru also gave the crepe doctor some dishes: "Dad, you also eat more." ”

"Good, good!" said the crepe doctor, his eyes narrowed with a smile.

This small courtyard reflected by the red glow in the distant sky is like a small paradise.

It's just that the father is filial to the son here, so what about the other side?

At the same time.

The northern border of the Great Liang State.

Since Leng Qing signed the deed of sale at Wanchun Building on March 16, and Leng Qing embarked on the road north with Yan Ziming and Mu Wen at dawn on March 17, the carriage carrying Leng Qing, Yan Ziming, and Mu Wen has been driving safely and steadily for seven days today.

Because they were going north, it became colder and colder along the way, so Leng Qing asked Yan Ziming where they were going, and Yan Ziming replied that they were going to the Red Ice Country, the northernmost part of the Tiancheng Continent.

Yan Ziming said that he was from the Red Ice Country, and he came to the Great Liang Country this time because he had something to do, and now that the matter is done, he naturally wants to go back to the Red Ice Country.

After that, Leng Qing didn't ask anything more, and for the thick covers and big sheets that were prepared at the beginning, Leng Qing could understand.

By the evening of the seventh day, that is, tonight, because there was no post station to spend the night, Leng Qing and his party could only stay in the ridiculously large carriage, and those bedding finally came in handy at this time.

Because the dry food prepared several times later was not as much as prepared, as of tonight, Leng Qing and the three of them had no dry food to eat.

Before it was dark, Yan Ziming asked Muwen to park the carriage on the side of the wide official road, leaving Leng Qing to guard the carriage, while Yan Ziming took his subordinate Muwen to the mountain not far from the official road to hunt game and collect dry firewood.

Seeing that Yan Ziming and Mu Wen had gone to hunt game, Leng Qing was idle, so she folded a thick quilt in half along the wide side, spread it on the wheel, and then hugged a thick quilt and put it on the side of the wheel as a cover.

Leng Qing thought so, although Mu Wen was definitely not as comfortable sleeping in the carriage as he was sleeping on the wheel, but this wheel was so long, if he made the bed and quilt, he could lie down and sleep, right?

said that it was three people, but in fact, when there was nowhere to sleep, the only people who really slept in the carriage were Leng Qing and Yan Ziming, and Mu Wen, as a subordinate, was going to stay outside the carriage for vigil.

After laying the cover of Muwen, Leng Qing returned to the carriage, folded the two thick quilts in half along the wide side, and then spread them in the empty space in the carriage, leaving a space nearly forty centimeters wide in the middle, just for people to walk.

Finally, the remaining two thick quilts are spread on the two thick quilts folded in half, one left and one right, and you are done.

Looking at the bedding she had laid out, Leng Qing stood up, clapped her hands, walked to the side of the carriage at the door and sat down, and quietly waited for Yan Ziming and Mu Wen to come back.

After seven days of getting along, Leng Qing found that although Mu Wen looked cold and unsmiling on the surface, he was extremely respectful to Yan Ziming, what about her...... Although it is not as good as his master Yan Ziming, it is relatively not bad.

Leng Qing remembered that once they stayed in the post station at night, because she casually said that the food at the post station was not delicious, and the roast pigeon and golden lamb chops eaten during the day met her appetite, so Mu Wen used light skills to "fly" back to the town where they stayed during the day, and bought her roast pigeon and golden lamb chops back.

Although it was already midnight when Mu Wen came back later, and Leng Qing had already fallen asleep, Leng Qing still got up and put on her clothes and ate the roast pigeon and the plate of golden lamb chops.

Later, there was another time, in the early morning, Leng Qing suddenly had a stomachache, and he was so hurt that he couldn't even straighten his waist, but because they walked all the way on the official road, except for the fields on both sides, the mountains behind the fields, and there was no town or post station at that time, and there was no place to see a doctor, Mu Wen once again exerted his excellent light skills, and went directly to the town in front of him to carry a doctor back for Leng Qing......