(vi) Gratitude
It was late at night, and the dark sky was full of bright stars, which looked particularly dazzling. A waning moon hangs obliquely in the sky, the faint moonlight is like a light veil, fluttering on the ground, blending with our firelight, the breeze blows, the flames of the bonfire beat, and occasionally makes a "crackling" sound, and the gnats and crickets hiding in the grass chirp tirelessly, making this suburban night cheerful and vivid.
Ever since the coachman said that, my heart has not been calm for a moment, and my ears have always been surrounded by the voice of the old man: 'This girl is definitely a virtuous lady, suitable room and IKEA, son, don't miss it...' ’
Although I had never had such an idea about her before, after this old man said this, I suddenly felt that this old man's words were very reasonable.
Miss Yanran has both the gentleness and thoughtfulness that a daughter's family should have, and the strong will and courage of a man, she is tenacious and intelligent, with maturity and stability that does not match her age, at a young age, under the heavy oppression of tigers and wolves, she survives in such a difficult environment, and can also seize the opportunity to protect her younger brother and nurse from the den of tigers and wolves.
And, most importantly, I don't reject her, unlike the high-ranking daughters mentioned by the matchmaker in the past, she is natural, generous, not pretentious at all, and there doesn't seem to be anything I hate about her body, on the contrary, her new brother's way of doing things is something I admire very much......
It's just that there is a lot of age difference between us, she is only thirteen or fourteen years old, while I am already twenty-three or fourteen years old, perhaps, in her eyes, I am very old!
I was thinking about it, and I didn't know how to finish dinner, and after dinner, I saw her take her brother and Mama Zhang back to the car, and put the curtain down......
The night was getting deeper and deeper, because I had been pondering the words of the old coachman, I had not fallen asleep, and when it was almost the second watch, finally some tiredness hit, I closed my eyes, and prepared to fall asleep.
At this moment, there was a faint sound of horses' hooves, which were still some distance away from us, but we could hear that the horses were running in our direction, and there were quite a few of them.
In the middle of the night, who will walk in the mountains and forests?
I woke up suddenly, my years of martial arts practice have made my senses much more sensitive than ordinary people, such as now, my intuition tells me that these people are coming for us, and the people who come are not good!
We sat up, picked up the sword that was beside us, turned on our horse, and met it in the direction of the horse's hooves.
I must stop them before they get closer, for the sword has no eyes, and it would not be good to hurt them or scare them in a moment's fighting.
So, I decided to deal with them before they got close, and save them from scaring or hurting a few of them.
The horses had traveled less than half a mile, and at last I saw the men, a group of rough men, with large swords stuck in their backs, and they were particularly glaring in the moonlight.
The man at the head was a one-eyed dragon, he beat his horse and ran in front, and when he saw me coming alone, he reined in his horse and said in his mouth: "Huh-"
The horses stopped, and so did the dozen or so horses behind them, and the men on the horses looked at me coldly with unkind expressions.
"Boy, your surname is Mu?" The one-eyed dragon looked at me contemptuously, his tone very disdainful.
I nodded: "Since you know me, you probably came here for me, did the eldest princess of Chaoqing send you to kill me?" ”
"Hehe, count yourself smart!"
I was probably already dead in the eyes of the one-eyed dragon, so he admitted very happily: "Boy, learn to be smart when you are a man in the next life, the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, you are presumptuous on other people's territory, and no one will let you go." ”
Another man also made a noise and said: "Your identity is too prominent, the eldest princess is afraid that leaving you will become a trouble, so please send your brother away, if you are smart, you can die happily, remember to go to the eldest princess for revenge in the next life, our brothers are just sent by others......"
"Lao Jiu, what are you talking about with him, let's do it quickly!"
Someone shouted impatiently: "As a result, he has to go to the little girls and cubs, hurry up, and the sky will be bright after a long time......"
Hearing that they were going to kill Yanran, the anger in my heart rushed out, and I pulled out my treasure knife, sneered, and said, "Come on! ”
This treasure knife was given to me by my eldest sister when I was eighteen years old, and I have always regretted that it was useless, and now I can finally kill it justifiably!
The men did not know that their death was near, and they swarmed up with a large number of people, and they raised their big knives and slashed at me, thinking that I would soon become their ghost.
However, I was much faster than theirs, and their swords had not yet fallen, and as soon as my arms were stretched, the swords had slashed like lightning.
Suddenly, four or five bloody arms fell, and my hands remained in the position of holding knives, and I swung my sword and swept these fallen arms aside, so that the knife still in my hand would not hurt me.
Several big men whose arms were cut off were first shocked by this sudden scene, and then screamed, fell off their horses one after another, and lay on the ground rolling around with their broken arms and howling......
The blood and screams of the enemy did not quell the anger in my heart, if I were unfortunately killed by them, wouldn't Yanran and her brother also die because of the innocence of these gangsters, these robbers who killed people and goods, they all deserved to die!
The treasure knife given to me by the eldest sister is very useful, the knife is cut down, the knife in the hands of the gangsters is like paper paste, and I can't help but cut it at all, their knives are cut by me, and people have fallen off the horse, in less than a quarter of an hour, more than a dozen gangsters are lying on the ground, dead or wounded, and none of them are able-bodied!
Some of the living fainted, and those who did not faint were either crying out for their lost limbs, or crying and begging for mercy.
In the middle of the night, in this barren mountains and mountains, the howls of these men are really terrifying.
I didn't do anything about it, and when I saw that they were all crippled, I left the lives of the survivors, turned around, mounted and left.
They were still in the carriage, and I was worried that there would be wild beasts in the mountains, and I was worried about their safety, so I hurried back.
When I went back, I didn't wait to walk to the place where everyone was camping, and I saw a thin and petite figure in the distance, wandering there anxiously.
"Yanran, why did you come out?" I hit my horse and ran over, rolled over and dismounted.
Yanran looked at me, suddenly sniffed, and said, "It's a heavy fishy smell, is it bleeding?" What happened? ”
It was dark at this time, and although she could see my general outline, she couldn't see the color of my body clearly, and my body was stained with the blood of the gangsters, so there was a heavy bloody gas, and she was quickly noticed by the night wind.
I didn't lie to her, even if I wanted to, I couldn't fool her, she was such a smart woman, and she couldn't be fooled by others.
"The eldest princess of Chaoqing sent someone to kill us, but those killers have been solved by me."
Speaking of tonight's assassination, I can't help but be secretly glad that I had made my decision, and if I hadn't taken the Yanran siblings away, they would probably have suffered misfortune by this time. However, although they escaped by luck this time, it is difficult to ensure that they will not be calculated by the eldest princess of Chaoqing next time, for the sake of long-term planning, the old woman of Chaoqing will not be able to stay.
I was thinking about it, my eyes were dark, and at this time, a soft voice suddenly came from my ear: "Are you hurt, come with me to the fire, and I'll help you see!" ”
I moved my arm and smiled, "I'm fine, it's okay, you don't have to worry about me." ”
However, Yanran was not at ease, and when we returned to the campsite, she pulled me to the fire and looked at me seriously, looking very nervous.
In the firelight, she looked at me worriedly, wearing only a middle coat, not even a gown, her long hair was softly draped behind her back, and she didn't have time to pull her bun.
Looking at her nervous little face, I felt a warmth in my heart, and said with a smile: "Silly girl, I'm not a nerd, how can I not know that I am injured?" You can rest assured. ”
Seeing my repeated assurances, Yan Ran gradually relaxed, she turned around and got into the carriage, and after a while, walked out with a wet handkerchief. He knelt beside me, took a handkerchief and began to wipe my face.
I was so startled by her move that I stiffened and forgot to dodge. She didn't feel anything wrong, and wiped it for me seriously, as if she was doing the most important thing in the world.
After wiping it twice, her breathing suddenly froze, and when I looked at it, Yanran was already in tears.
"What's wrong with you?" I was startled by her rolling tears, and I held her cold little hand in a hurry.
"I'm sorry...... It's me who has caused you to be a burden, and you and Dong Qi are not counted, and you almost died because of us......"
Her thin shoulders trembled, and she cried breathlessly.
In order to make her happy, I coaxed her to say: "How can it be said that it is a burden, if it weren't for you, I might have been calculated by the Dong family and was about to marry their daughter, if I married such a woman by mistake, it would make my life worse than death." So, not only did you not bother me, but you are still my benefactor, I just saved you, and it can be regarded as a peach and a reward, so you don't have to be grateful to me, let alone guilty. ”
Yanran knew that I was coaxing her to be happy, so she sensibly wiped the tears on her cheeks and said, "Anyway, it was you who saved us, you not only saved us from the sea of suffering, but also protected us from dying under the knife, your kindness, my brother and I will never forget." If one day our brothers and sisters have the ability to repay you and go to heaven and earth, we will definitely do it......"
That night, Yan Ran didn't sleep again, she forced me to take off my clothes, and went to the stream to help me wash my clothes in the dark, and dried them with fire, and when I woke up in the morning, a set of dry and neat clothes had been placed beside me, and I put them with my sword.
"Morning!"
Seeing that I woke up, Yanran hurriedly put down the guy in his hand and said, "Breakfast will be ready soon, you can sleep for a while, and I will call you when breakfast is ready." ”
"Ready for breakfast?" I asked curiously.
I remember that a few cakes and a few eggs she brought were eaten by everyone yesterday, where can I find breakfast at this time?
"Hmm!"
Yanran pointed to the ground and said shyly: "I picked some mushrooms, I plan to wash and roast them for a while, I remember that when I lived in the capital, your Bafu barbecue restaurant sold grilled mushrooms, which tasted delicious, but I don't know if I can make them." ”
I looked at the mushrooms on the ground and smiled.
Luckily, I woke up early, otherwise if these mushrooms were eaten by this stupid girl, her little life would be over.
"You are poisonous mushrooms, you can't eat them, you will die if you eat them."
I grew up in the countryside and have picked mushrooms countless times, so I am naturally familiar with the types of mushrooms, unlike children like Yanran, who grew up in the city, who only know the shape of mushrooms, but do not know anything about the types of mushrooms.
"Huh?"
Yan Ran was dumbfounded, and a cute look appeared on her delicate little face, "These mushrooms are so beautiful, how can they be poisonous mushrooms?" ”
I squatted down and pointed to the mushroom to tell her that the more beautiful the mushroom, the more poisonous it is, and the more beautiful the mushroom, the more poisonous it is, and gave her some examples of people who died after eating poisonous mushrooms in Mujia Village when I was a child.
Yanran listened very carefully, and at the end, she said to me enviously: "I didn't expect that you had experienced such days in your childhood, it was so interesting!" ”
As she spoke, her expression darkened. Because her childhood was very miserable, when she was a child, she and her mother had been hidden by Dong Yuma in a small courtyard that did not see the light of day, and they couldn't go out once a year, not only that, but their mother and daughter had to live in fear every day, lest they be known by the eldest princess of Chaoqing, and their lives would be at stake!
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"Spoiling the Stunning Poison Doctor" Gongzi An Ye
Everyone in the world says: An Yiqing wants to save the person, and the Lord of Yama also wants to give three points!
The world also said: Gu Yelin is the emperor who came out of the dark blood!
…… Only she can cure him, and only he is the medicine that heals her.
Affection: An Yiqing asked: "I heard that you like me?" ”
"Yes!"
An Yiqing's eyes drooped: "But I can't be with you." ”
"Reason." Gu Yelin's voice was dark, and his heart was throbbing.
"I have an incurable disease."
"You live and I live, you die and I die!" Gu Yelin's voice was low and sonorous.
An Yiqing's drooping eyes turned red, and the corners of her mouth were slightly hooked: "Every time I see you, my heart beats faster, I have difficulty breathing, and my face is red." Master said, "This is an incurable disease, and only you can heal me." ”
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