The night soon came, Shen Yao sat on the bed and rubbed his fingers against the thin iron piece in his sleeve, imagining whether the iron piece could cut the other party's neck. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The door was squeaked open, and the man who came in seemed to be surprised by the presence of someone in the room, but soon he understood.

"How old are you?" he sat at the table, drinking his tea, and didn't come closer.

"Eleven. Shen Yao lowered his head and looked at his toes back.

"Why did you get here as a child?" he waved his hand, "Go out, and remember to close the door." ”

I was a little surprised in my heart, and the hot thin iron piece I held in my hand was useless.

Shen Yao thanked this master. ”

He got up and saluted and retired, but was stopped by this man again, he held a thin piece of iron and looked at him vigilantly, this person didn't regret it.

"You say, your surname is Shen?"

"Yes. ”

"Who are you in Kyoto?"

He was talking about his nominal father's name, and his gaze was seen by the man opposite.

"Do you have a sister named Shen Jiayuan?"

Shen Yao still knew this name, he had heard his mother mention it countless times, this was the name of the prostitute who gave birth to her daughter.

"My mother said that I do have such a sister. ”

"That's good," the man smiled with his palms on his hands, "I came here this time to bring you people from the Shen Mansion back, your sister is now the mother of the Xia Shang country." ”

He was very excited when he heard the news, he didn't understand what it meant to be the mother of a nation, but his mother was saved.

"Mother is sick now, can you heal her first?"

"Of course, take me there!"

All the "sisters" and "aunts" were so happy to receive this message that they often went to their mother's tent to pray for her speedy well.

I think their prayers are real, because as soon as their mother is well, they will be able to leave the barracks and ride to Kyoto in a carriage.

But when she heard the news that she could return to Beijing, her mother was not very happy, on the contrary, Shen Yao saw worry in her eyes.

"Mother, you look a little unhappy. ”

The mother touched the top of Shen Yao's head comfortingly, "Ah Yao, the capital is not a good place. ”

"Is it worse than in the barracks?" I had never been out of the barracks in my life, and when I heard that there was something worse than here, I only felt fear in my heart.

"It's not the capital that's scary, it's the hearts of the people. ”

"Ah Yao, she is about to become the queen, although I am her nominal mother-in-law, but I am also her stain, I know everything about her, and the first thing she wants to get rid of must be me. ”

"Then we won't go back. He replied naïvely and innocently.

But the mother didn't speak, didn't say whether she could stay here, but Shen Yao grew up day by day, and I was afraid that this man would be difficult to hide.

"It's not okay to stay, it's not okay to leave, is there really no way?"

"Let me think about ......"

A sigh from her mother came from the oil lamp flickering and flickering, and Shen Yao thought that she was ready to die at that time.

But even if her mother was unwilling, she couldn't stop the carriage back to Beijing, Shen Yao listened to the laughter and laughter on the other carriages, they discussed their former glory, and talked about the prosperity of the capital.

As the mother-in-law of the future queen, her mother stayed alone in the carriage behind her, and her mother did not invite anyone to ride with her, and after a long time, even Shen Yao could hear the sour words of other Shen family members.

But what they didn't know was that the mother couldn't sleep all night, and she kept lifting the curtain and looking out of the car.

Until the yellow sand outside the car turned into a shade of trees, until it was rarely populated to being able to stay in the town.

At night, my mother wouldn't let me undress, and even she slept in her clothes, and I knew what my mother was preparing, but I felt distressed when my mother was so cautious.

We sat in a horse-drawn carriage for more than 20 days, and finally we had to change our ship to the waterway.

It was the first time in my life that I had seen so much water, the water waves, the smoke, and the white mist formed by the vaporization of the water blowing on my face with a characteristic moistness and coolness.

The Shen family was arranged alone on a boat, and standing at the bow of the boat, the mother was very worried.

"Shen Jiayuan doesn't want us to go back alive at all, Ah Yao, we have to go. ”

"Where are you going?"

"Go to the capital. ”

Shen Yao was a little puzzled in his heart, if they went to the capital, wouldn't they arrive on a big boat, why did they have to leave?

On the eve of the boat, the mother went to take herself to the officer.

"This lord, our mother and daughter have lived in the military camp outside the gate for many years, and now they are going to see the queen, I always feel a little worried in my heart, after all, it is a royal family, and my daughter is also dressed too shabby, so ......"

The mother bowed to the man in a solemn manner.

"The concubine saw someone selling rouge gouache at the ferry just now, so she wanted to go over and buy some, but she was shy in the bitter cold at the border...... I would like to ask you to help me. ”

The man looked at the merchant who was carrying the burden not far away, and then nodded.

"It turns out that this is the case, Mrs. is the queen's mother-in-law, and this little thing can still be helped. ”

The man searched in his sleeve for a long time before he found two pieces of silver, and he handed them to his mother, probably thinking that it was too ugly, so he handed out another silver ingot.

"Mrs. Shen, it's okay to go, it's just that this boat is coming soon, Madame should be faster. ”

"Thank you, my lord, the concubine will not delay the ship. Mother put the broken silver in her sleeve.

"Ah Yao, my mother will help you pick out some rouge gouache, and when you see your sister, you must be grateful to this adult. ”

Shen Yao obediently bowed to the man, "Ah Yao remembers." ”

My mother took me to the merchant, what the merchant sold that day, Shen Yao can't remember clearly, the only thing he remembers is what his mother did.

She opened the burden she had been carrying, chatting with the merchant about rouge gouache, and at the same time changed the clothes on Shen Yao's body into men's clothes.

Shen Yao didn't expect that the first time he wore men's clothes in his life was under such circumstances.

Shen Yao, who had changed his clothes, squatted on the ground to give his mother the wind.

The inferior incense powder was applied to her cheeks, and then the peach-pink rouge, and when her mother put the beads on, she looked like a lady in front of her.

"Mother, you're so pretty. ”

"It's all things I played with when I was a child, and I didn't expect it to be useful one day. ”

The mother handed the broken silver to the merchant, and she took out the silver ingot.

"Do you want it?"

Shen Yao saw the greed and covetousness in the merchant's eyes.

"You have also seen that my daughter and I are being followed by bad people, and we have no choice but to make this decision, we are going to go out of the city today, if you want this silver ingot, you will wait at the city gate in the evening to go out of the city with our mother and daughter, and when you send us outside the city, this silver ingot will be yours. ”

"Don't forget, don't forget the evening, at the gates of the city." ”

My mother took me to pick a direction and left slowly, Shen Yao was a little worried in her heart, "Is this person reliable?"

"People who don't know each other and see money openly, such people can't be believed. ”

"Then you still ......"

"But what we want is his unreliability. ”