Yinghua didn't know what to say for a while, and wanted to ask about the situation in detail, for fear of provoking her sadness again, so she hesitated for a long time and couldn't speak.

It was Mu Qing who took her hand and rubbed the two newborn calluses in her palm, "Have you worked hard these days?" Tell my sister about the battle. ”

Yinghua thought that she diverted the conversation and asked her to say the shape of the battle, but she didn't want to mention the loss of the child, so she lowered her head and meditated for a moment and said: "I don't understand the infantry battle, and it is all up to my brother-in-law and Erlang to agree. My brother-in-law didn't ask me to go into battle, I was depressed for a while, and then I once called the bandits to raid and break up the team, and in a hurry, I didn't care about that much, so I went into battle with Erlang to fight the enemy, and I didn't want to be able to withstand it, and since then my brother-in-law has stopped blocking ......"

She said carefully, deliberately jumping away from the dangerous ones, and only figuring out that she had chosen a smooth victory to tell her. Mu Qing looked at her intently, and suddenly interrupted: "Yinghua, don't go into battle again in the future, okay?" ”

Yinghua paused in surprise, and saw a pool of tears welling up in Mu Qing's eyes, and when he lowered his eyes, the tears slid down. "Sister can't lose any of you anymore, I can't stand it anymore......"

Yinghua was suddenly at a loss, and her eyes turned red. "Isn't that good for me, sister, don't think nonsense." As she spoke, she plucked the shiny black ebony from her waist, "You see, this thing is so good that you can even avoid it with a blade." Another day, I will go to find two more for my sister and brother-in-law, keep them useful, and teach my sister to feel at ease. ”

Mu Qing lowered his head to wipe away his tears, closed his eyes and calmed down, and let out a breath from his chest faintly: "It's my sister who is confused." ”

The two sisters leaned and talked for a while, and Ah Liu came in with a bowl of strong-smelling medicinal juice, and there was a small plate of white dried apricots on the plate, the medicinal juice was bitter and unpalatable, she took the bowl and drank it all, but she didn't feel bitter at all, and she didn't need those white apricots to pass her mouth.

After staying on the bed for three or four days, He Suizhao and Kang Saburo set off for the Eastern Capital. Yu Li and Du Ruhui sent them out of the city together, Mu Qing was inconvenient to go out to say goodbye to them, so he only asked Ah Liu to hand over a few words, thanked them for escorting them all the way, and solemnly thanked He Suizhao for sacrificing his life several times. He Suizhao touched his face and sneered: "I can't protect her thoroughly, how can I have the face to bear this thanks, and when we meet again in the future, it's up to me to ask her for guilt." ”

Ah Liu came back and taught her what to say, but it aroused her doubts. When he saw Du Yan that day. How to go red-eyed and want to come forward to kill. In the evening, Du Ruhui came to visit her, and when she mentioned this, he was stunned, "Has he never talked to you?" ”

Mu Qing shook his head, "I didn't talk about it." ”

"You really don't remember him?" His words aroused her suspicions even more, and when Yu Li first saw He Suizhao, he said that he seemed to be familiar, and even Ah Liu was not sure whether he had seen it.

Du Ruhui sat down beside her and recalled: "It's about the second year of the Great Cause. When I arrived in Yuhang, it was supposed to be the day of the stove, and the stove was just delivered that day, and there was no curfew at night. The people of the city went to the city to be lively. At that time, when I first arrived in Jiangnan, I saw that it was fresh, so I also went to the street to wander around. Until the second half of the night, on the way back, I passed by a secluded earthen temple. I saw the carriage and horses of the Gu Mansion from a distance, surrounded by a circle of beggars, and saw Brother Yu leaving with you and Ah Liudeng. You were young that year. Xu doesn't remember what happened at that time. ”

Stove day, earth temple ...... Mu Qing thought about it for a while, talking about the stove day, every year on the evening of the stove when she was a child, there were hundreds of plays in the market, she always pestered Yu Li to take her to the stubborn, and the small food bag she carried was filled with rubber tooth baskets and other food snacks, and the servants hugged her to watch the hundred operas, which was like this every year, and there was nothing special.

But the earth temple, she thought about it hard, and vaguely had a faint impression, it was indeed one year, passing by a dilapidated earth temple, among the beggars who lived in the temple, there were a few little girls, young and handsome, she went to scatter some scattered copper coins and food, because she felt so stubborn, she went back to take two of them into the house, but the mother thought that they were unknown and were not allowed.

Du Ruhui paused for a moment, and then continued: "After you leave, I will also go to the earthen temple to take a look." A group of beggars gathered around and said auspicious words and begged for copper coins. There was only one young man, who was huddled in the corner, holding a piece of basket and was stunned, looking at his unkempt hair, ragged appearance, he was already hungry in his stomach, and he had food in his hand but did not eat, which was particularly eye-catching. ”

When it came to the basket, Mu Qingru was empowered, and suddenly remembered that on the twenty-third day of the lunar month of that year, on the way back to the house, she passed an abandoned earthen temple, and encountered a beggar blocking the car, because she remembered that they had a hard time in the cold winter, so she stopped the car and went in to distribute some scattered copper coins. All the beggars sat around the fire to keep warm, and only one sat in the corner with his head bowed and his body folded, and a thin middle-aged man was lying beside him, covered only with rice straw. She dared to reach out and touch the man, who was still breathing, and seemed to be hot and humming.

The man sitting next to him straightened up vigilantly, pulled past the middle-aged man, and stared at her with round eyes, only then did she see clearly that he was about sixteen or seventeen years old, dirty face, unable to see eyebrows, only showing a pair of crystal eyes, vigilantly and ferociously kicked her, bluffing her two or three steps back. Seeing that the people lying on the ground were afraid of being bad, she left all the remaining copper coins to him, and she didn't know if it was enough for him to call a doctor to save his life. At last she took out the last piece of basket from the small food bag, stuffed it into his hand, and when she heard Yu Li calling her, she turned and left. When she walked under the broken door frame, she looked back again, and the young man was holding the basket and watching her leave in a daze.

"I saw his relatives lying on the ground, with bloody wounds on his back and shoulders, ulcerated and bleeding pus, and the high fever was caused by this wound. I asked the boy how he was hurt like this. He didn't want to say more, but in just three or two sentences, he could hear that he spoke clearly, his mind was quick, and he was not an ordinary beggar. I sent Du Qi to the hospital, paid a lot of money to the doctor to treat him, and used the medicine, and within a few days, he gradually got better. ”

Hearing this, Mu Qing had already understood seven or eight points, "That beggar, is He Suizhao?" ”

Du Ruhui nodded, "It was He Sui who I saved that day." With this kindness, he told me that his family had moved to Zhuo County since his grandparents, and because of the excavation, his father, brother, and younger brothers, and a male family had all been conscripted into forced labor. Within a few months, my brother could not bear the labor, coughed up blood and died, my mother could not bear it, lost her mind, the family was all on the fortifications, no one took care of her, she went to the Cao River every day to look for the eldest child, and finally fell into the water, and could not be found again. ”

Mu Qing was shocked when he heard this, and he felt more and more nostalgic for how comfortable and quiet he was living happily and carefree under the knees of his father and mother in the past, but he didn't know that there was a lot of grief outside.

When He Sui's old illness recurred and could not be treated, and his younger brother was too young to bear the hard labor, and there was no one left and right at home, He Suizhao had the intention of escaping. It was easy to take advantage of the lack of strict guards, and he escaped with He Sui's steward and younger brother, and went all the way to Wu County. I wanted to change my name and surname to settle down, but I didn't know that I met Du Yan to build a palace in Jiangdu with labor, and because he couldn't get the nationality book, he took it as a fugitive and used it as a fugitive. He Suizhao was a man who was at his disposal, in order to ask for more food every day for the laborers, and the steward of He Sui and his younger brother were whipped in public with him, and the younger brother was already weak and died on the spot. Fortunately, the caretaker respected him and took advantage of the night to secretly let go of the father and son, and he fled all the way south to Yuhang, which was the chance encounter in the earthen temple. Later, I recommended him to the Eastern Capital, he was outstanding, stoic and alert, and soon won the appreciation of Tang Guogong, plus he was reliable and neat, and after a few years, he had today's errand. ”

Mu Qing thought about it carefully before and after, and it was no wonder that Du Ruhui said that he had a fateful relationship with He Suizhao, and he actually had this layer. Yu Li felt that it was not wrong to see him before, but it was dark at that time, and his face was full of dirt, so he didn't recognize his appearance, so he didn't know him again. She suddenly remembered that he had inexplicably said to her in the stone building of Jilusai, "I am not blessed, and every time I meet you, it is the wrong time." Thinking about it at this point, she could roughly understand his thoughts.

"Why, then, did he never speak to me about this? Hippie smiles and gags. Mu Qing let out a long sigh.

Du Ruhui frowned, if his guess was right, He Suizhao admired her, although he had no fate, he didn't want her to know what he looked like when he was the most wolf. He said softly: "He is not such a light wave, he does not say, he has his own reason, you should not know, when he wants to say it, he will tell you in person." (To be continued......)