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Liu Zhong's tone was strange, and his throat should have been injured at that time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 "They only asked the woman about her appearance and whereabouts at the beginning, and I think it was to confirm the identity of the child. I didn't say anything after that. I watched them leave, and then I remembered that the piece of white bi was still in my hand, and I wanted to catch up and return it to them, but I thought about it, maybe I would see her again one day......" Liu Zhong looked lonely and said: "At that time, there were three people, two middle-aged people and one young man, and you can see that they are from extraordinary backgrounds by looking at their appearance......

Mu Yun stood in front of the bookcase, stunned for a long time, and the pen in his hand fell onto the paper. The woman in the painting is gentle and beautiful, smiling slightly. She slowly held the small statue in front of Liu Zhong and asked, "You...... Have you ever seen this person?"

Liu Zhong raised his head, his expression froze for a moment, and he looked at this portrait in disbelief, wanting to ask why they knew about Gong Niangzi...... But in the end, it was difficult to speak, he clutched the piece of white bi tightly, and only said: "She is the woman who held the child back then, and the woman who claimed to be surnamed Gong......

Mu Yun took back the portrait in a daze, walked back to Li Shuci's side, turned his back to Liu Zhong, and tears fell silently. Li Shuci patted the back of her hand comfortingly, and asked Liu Zhong with a face: "After this incident passed, did anything abnormal happen......?

Liu Zhong clenched his fists: "Yes...... There is an anomaly ......"

They looked at Liu Zhong's eyes oozing tears, and his muscles were pulling, making his face look even more hideous, "In the next month, my father and mother had an accident, first my mother disappeared inexplicably when she went up the mountain to pick wild vegetables. The people in the village helped to find it for several days but did not find it, and everyone said that it must have been eaten by a fierce beast and could not be recovered. A few days later, my dad somehow fell down the hill and broke his neck...... Just die......"

Liu Zhong, who was already thin, looked rickety and decadent because of his burns, and he was only in his early thirties, like an old man over half a hundred years old, curled up on the ground and cried bitterly: "I noticed the strangeness of my father's death." I vaguely felt that it had something to do with the child, because apart from those few people, how could our family cause a murderous disaster? I was a little scared, and I felt that one day I would be unaware of the tragic disaster...... So in addition to working in the fields with the villagers during the day, every day after dark, he hid in the house and dug the cellar, hoping to escape. And the drought came at this time. ”

"Not only Xiaoliu Village, but also a large number of surrounding villages have been affected, with water sources drying up and famine...... There is less and less food at home, and at first, you can still eat with Guanyin powder, but if you eat too much Guanyin powder, you will die, but there is no way, I am too hungry, and gradually people are really dead. Later, everyone had to chew on the grass and soil, and the roots and turf of the trees were all scavenged, and after the drought came the locust plague...... At that time, people were dying every day, old and young......"

Locust plagues often go hand in hand with severe droughts, and there is a saying that 'locusts must be there after a long drought', Li Shuci frowned and listened, and he could imagine what a miserable scene it was at that time. Helian Tao wondered: "What is Guanyin powder? Could it be the incense ash under the feet of the Bodhisattva?"

Li Shuci said helplessly: "Guanyin powder is white good mud, delicate and white, and half of the glutinous rice flour is steamed with water, which can be used to satisfy hunger." But after all, it is not food, and if you eat it in your stomach, it will be difficult to restrain it for a long time, and if you stagnate your stomach, you will naturally die. ”

Helian Tao was shocked, he had never heard of someone eating mud to satisfy his hunger. Liu Zhongdao: "Without a road guide, the villagers have nowhere to go, so they can only wait for relief from the prefecture and county." At first, everyone buried the dead, but then more and more people died, and the living people had no strength at all, and they couldn't even take care of themselves...... Xiaoliu Village is the closest to the water source, and it is also the richest village in the neighboring villages, since the famine, people from the surrounding villages have been constantly running to us, so Xiaoliu Village is the earliest place where the epidemic appeared. ”

His voice began to tremble, "I have been in fear for months, but no one has come to take my life. I followed another group of young and middle-aged people who wanted to leave the village before the epidemic broke out, even if it was begging, even if they were homeless, as long as they could save their lives...... However, the village was soon surrounded by officers and soldiers, and no one was allowed to enter or leave. Some people say that the county lord ordered the village to be burned to spread the epidemic disease to the outside. But at that time, there were obviously not a few people who had the epidemic, and most of them were fine. At that time, there were nearly 100 households in Xiaoliu Village, and there were as many as two or three hundred people who poured into the village later. Everyone wanted to escape, but the officers and soldiers stood outside the village, and they showed no mercy when they saw any abnormal movement, and many people were hacked to death with knives in the chaos. ”

"Then no one dared to rush out again, I remembered that I had dug half of the tunnel, and thought that it might be a way to escape, so I dug in the tunnel for a long time, thinking that I would dig all the way outside the village...... I remember very well that night, when I came out of the tunnel, the village was foggy, with a strange smell of fragrant and ugly, and I felt a little dizzy after a few breaths. I thought it was poisonous gas, so I hurriedly returned to the tunnel and hid, and when I came out again after a while, the fog was about to disperse, and I vaguely saw many torches surrounding the village in the distance, and there was no movement in the village, I am afraid that the villagers have been fascinated by the fog...... Those officers and soldiers started from the periphery, and burned little by little, and the fire lasted for three days and three nights, and the whole village burned to the core......" Liu Zhong's tears flowed from his knicked and pitted cheeks.

Helian Tao was shocked: "Were the villagers burned alive? So how did you escape and survive?"

"I ...... I pretended to be unconscious and lay in the house, trying to fool them, and when they lit the house, I ran out and hid, but not only did they stun the villagers, but they also poured fire oil on the outside of the house, and there were fires on all sides, and I couldn't get out at all, so I had to go into the tunnel...... But the tunnel still couldn't withstand the scorching fire, and the entrance was blocked by some wooden beams, and my face and hands were almost melting...... Every part of my body was extremely painful, just when I was about to suffocate, I heard a bang in a hazy way, it seemed that the house had fallen, and a trace of cool air was poured into the hole, I felt that I could breathe, and then I fainted deeply......" Liu Zhong's hand kept stroking his skin, his eyes were full of fear. "When I woke up, the whole village was in ashes...... I desperately fled into the mountains and healed my wounds with herbs......"

Li Shuci couldn't imagine how much pain and suffering could not be clearly expressed in words behind this messy few words. "So then you left the village and kept running away, right? Are there any other living people in Xiaoliu Village?"

"Yes...... I can't tell others that I'm from Xiaoliu Village...... So I could only pretend to be crazy and stupid, begging on the side of the road, and my appearance was ruined. The other beggars beat me, drove me away, bullied me, and all these years I have ...... A few years ago, I had an illness, and when I was about to die, it was Peach's grandfather who saved me. So I promised him to take care of little Momoko after he died...... Little Peaches is not afraid of me...... In the past few years, Little Peach and I have been dependent on each other...... There were other living people in Xiaoliu Village, who were working in the county seat at that time...... I've seen it before, but they don't recognize me......" Liu Zhong mentioned Little Peach, as if he had captured the only warmth in his life.

Li Shuci heard the irrepressible pain and the strong desire to live in his broken thoughts. She said, "Don't worry, no one will bully you in the future." Little peaches will grow up well......"

Liu Zhong covered his head and face, fell on the ground and cried, holding the alminating white bi in his hand, because he was crying so much, his whole body was almost twitching. His lips moved, but he couldn't squeeze out another word anyway. Several people in the room glanced at each other, and they all saw pity and sympathy in each other's eyes.

Liu Zhong was sent away, and before leaving, he left the piece of white bi, and Mu Yun's eyes were full of guilt...... That woman should be her mother!

Helian Tao was stunned for a long time and asked Li Shuci: "What's going on with this?"

Li Shuci looked at Mu Yun: "Mu Yun, you should already be convinced in your heart, right?"

Mu Yun looked at the two pieces of white bi and put them together, if you add the one that Mu Shan carried, it would be a complete circle. She said: "Sure enough, my father's death is not that simple...... Is the person who chased and killed my mother the one who went to pick up the child? The identity of the child my mother is holding is not simple, right? Who is he?"

Li Shuci glanced at Helian Tao, pulled her over and sat on the chair, and said: "Mu Yun, you have to remember that the life of your mother and your whole family is at stake, and I can't hide it from you, but this matter, out of my mouth and into your ears, no one can mention it except your eldest brother." ”

Mu Yun's eyes were red, and he nodded in agreement. Li Shuci said: "Seventeen years ago, Empress Xianshen was burned to death in the palace by a fire on the night of her birth...... That child, Jun Shang had always suspected that someone had dropped his bag, and he did not die that night. So I've been tracking down that kid all these years. According to what Liu Zhong said, it should be Empress Shen's henchman palace maid who secretly escaped with the prince, entrusted the child to Liu Zhong halfway, and left a token. And that palace maid should be your mother......"

Mu Yun's hand trembled...... "My mother is indeed from Chongnan, what did she say to me...... Could it be that my mother was hunted down and killed all the time, so she entrusted the child to someone else on the way? Why didn't you send the child back to the Shen family and seek refuge from the Shen family?"

Li Shuci said: "Because neither the king nor the Shen family will let an informed person live in the world, the only ending will definitely be murdered and ......killed."