A night rain washed away the sweltering heat for days and washed the entire heaven and earth wilderness.

After the thunderstorm is a sunny breeze, such weather is very suitable for picking in the suburbs, not to mention that this is still the season of raising silkworms into cocoons, the mulberry leaves washed by the rain are the most tender, and the mulberries have matured, which naturally attracts countless daughters to go out with baskets.

Xiahou Juan also refused to give up such a good opportunity, and went out of the city to pick up with several maids and servants of the same age in his own house.

Although she is a young lady of an official family and a young lady of the Xiahou clan, Xiahou Juan does not have the arrogance of a noble background at all, on the contrary, she is extremely gentle and approachable, and she can always mingle with her own maids and maids, but she does not lose her elegant temperament. Although she is only twelve or thirteen years old now, she has already begun to take shape as a beauty. Even Cao Cao himself was full of praise when he saw this niece, and even made a promise to marry his eldest son Cao Ang when he was sixteen years old.

There is a mulberry forest less than two miles outside the city of Xiaopei, because of the river, this mulberry forest is extremely luxuriant, and there are quite a lot of other wild fruits and vegetables. And because the Cao Jun military camp is not far from here, it is difficult for ordinary people to get close here, but it is a place where all the eldest ladies of Pei County often come to pick up and travel.

When they arrived at their destination, the servants first scattered to collect firewood. The night rain came suddenly, but the firewood room in the house happened to be out of firewood. And Xiahou Juan's uncle Xiahou Yuan has always been frugal, and he does not often buy firewood, and most of his subordinates go out of the city to collect the income for self-sufficiency. In the same way, the clothes and fabrics generally worn are also woven by the ladies and maids of the palace through silkworm weaving.

Here, Xiahou Juan and a few maids are picking mulberry leaves with a smile, and from time to time they take purple mulberries to each other's faces and necks to make a joke, and the laughter like silver bells rings in the mulberry forest, and when they are tired, they sit on the soft grass, or hold the clear and sweet spring water and drink it slowly, and even take off their cloth boots and jump into the cool stream to make fun of each other, which is very happy.

Xiahou Juan and a few maids enjoyed it, but they didn't notice it, not far from the opposite side of the river, behind a bush there were two pairs of peeping eyes that had been peeping for a long time.

The two pairs of eyes are very different, one is round and large, and the eyebrows are rough. The other pair is Danfeng eyes, with deep sword eyebrows.

Finally, finally, when I saw several women in the river and stream wetting each other's light veils and wetting their hair, showing their youthful glow, those round eyes finally stared at the maximum, and suddenly burst out from the bushes, pounced out like a fierce tiger pounced, and rushed straight towards Xiahou Juan. The big eyes of the ring are also huge, so much so that when they got up, they directly crushed the bushes in half, exposing the sword-eyed companion.

Two strangers suddenly appeared in the woods, and one of them rushed straight towards him with bad intentions, and the joy on the faces of the several maids was instantly replaced by panic, but only Xiahou Juan was only startled when he saw the black-faced man with an unkind face rushing towards him, and then immediately pulled up the nearest maid and returned to the shore.

The other maids didn't react as quickly as Xiahou Juan, they were all stunned for a while before they remembered to run away, and one or two of them stood in place at a loss and didn't know what to do.

This black-faced burly man didn't look at those maids at all, and a pair of round eyes just stared at Xiahou Juan alone. I don't know if the body is made of meat or not, but with a slight jump, it easily jumped over a stream of more than one and a half zhang (about 2.3 meters in the Han Dynasty), and landed firmly on the bank of Xiahou Juan.

Seeing this, Xiahou Juan, who was extremely smart, also ran away without difficulty, but turned around and stood still, carefully looking at this strong man who was two or three heads taller than himself.

The Xiahou family in Qiaocai nearby noticed that the situation was wrong and had already run over. And the black-faced and ring-eyed man's companion, the sword-eyed, deep-eyed, angular Yingwuzi, also jumped over the stream and stood behind the black-faced man. Unlike the black-faced man who was bare-handed and only dressed in plain cloth, this British Wuzi appeared with a scimitar on his back.

Seeing that Xiahou Juan suddenly stopped, the black-faced strong man stopped chasing, and stood still about two or three meters in front of Xiahou Juan. His eyes were still staring at Xiahou Juan's little face and refused to move away, looking at the others present as if they were nothing.

Seeing that his young lady was so offended, the little servants of the Xiahou family, who relied on their own large number of people, remembered their identity and mission, so a little maid with a woodcutter stepped forward and said inwardly: "Who are you?" How dare you offend my young lady in broad daylight! ”

The black-faced man was drunk by this, but he was not angry, but just turned his head and glared fiercely at the little guy who opened his mouth to protect the master, and the little guy trembled unconsciously as if he had seen an extraordinary and terrifying scene, and his feet also unconsciously took two steps back.

"Your young lady? Who told you it must be your young lady? Now Uncle Ben has taken a fancy to it, it is our Zhang Yide's daughter of a good family, and it is the daughter-in-law of my old Zhang family! At a glance, the little guys didn't dare to come out again, and looked back at Xiahou Juan again, Zhang Fei's big black face was red in the dark, and he stammered for a while, Zhang San still revealed his familiar arrogant and unreasonable nature, no longer stared at Xiahou Juan's big eyes, and walked directly forward to hug Xiahou Juan.

How could those little guys watch their young lady being robbed, and rush forward to protect them at the moment, but their amateur level is really not enough for Zhang San to make a move, and they kicked four or five little guys on their backs with one leg. Xiahou Juan instinctively dodged, but he didn't get faster than Zhang San's shot, and was pulled into Zhang San's arms.

Zhang Xiu stood behind Zhang Fei, but he closed his eyes, and couldn't bear to look at Zhang Fei's reputation as a mess of the old Zhang family. Xuzhou's charm matchmaker, everyone is beautiful, you can't look down on any of them, how can you fall in love with this twelve or thirteen-year-old Lori. Although this Lori is a beauty billet and her personality seems to be good, I don't understand how you dare to do such a unconscionable thing under this bright world.

In fact, Zhang Xiu's own concept of the 21st century is too deep-rooted, not to mention twelve or thirteen years old in ancient times, it is common for ** to marry at the age of **, and even more than thirteen or fourteen years old to give birth to children and become mothers. This phenomenon of early marriage is actually better in the upper class, and the average lady is married around the age of sixteen, and no matter how old she is, she is an old girl and a leftover girl. Moreover, today is also a troubled time, and troubled times have their own rules, so to be honest, it is not an exaggeration to say that Zhang Fei robbed the girl this time.

Xiahou Juan was held in Zhang Fei's arms, his composure and calmness were gone, and his hands struggled with tears and cried and cried for help. However, Zhang San, who was rough and simple in Zhang Xiu's impression, disappeared completely at this moment, but he was hesitant and cautious about Xiahou Juan struggling and calling in his arms, and even took the initiative to let go of his arm several times for fear of hurting Xiahou Juan who was struggling in his arms.

This scene stunned Zhang Xiu, but Zhang Xiu was not in the mood to comment on and appreciate Zhang Fei's unusual tenderness and anxiety at the moment. There was already a maid around who had run away, and a servant had turned around and fled early when he saw that the situation was not good. Zhang Xiu didn't want to create indifferent killings, so she could only urge Zhang Fei.

"What's the matter, you still want to take her to Shangpeicheng to propose!" Zhang Xiu was unceremonious and said bluntly to Zhang Fei.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Fei had an expression of thinking carefully and considering Zhang Xiu's proposal, which made Zhang Xiu cry and laugh for a while. It turns out that there really exists love at first sight in this world, and there are examples of being carried away by love.

In desperation, Zhang Xiu could only take special measures to take out a folded handkerchief from his arms, spread it out on his hand, and directly covered Xiahou Juan's mouth and nose.

With just one breath, Xiahou Juan was anesthetized by Zhang Xiu's scarf. Looking at Xiahou Juan, who no longer moved his hands and feet as if he had fallen asleep in the past, Zhang Fei's face was full of gratitude.

Zhang Xiu didn't want to talk nonsense with Zhang Fei, who had a temporary short-circuit in his mind, and casually grabbed a petite maid who was stunned next to him and hugged him in his arms, signaling that Zhang Fei should withdraw.

Zhang Fei ripped off the cloth clothes he was wearing, and while carrying the petite Xiahou Juan bag in his arms, he asked Zhang Xiu with his eyes: Are you okay with this?

Zhang Xiu was speechless for a while, Lao Tzu just wanted to bring back a servant girl who could make you familiar with the young lady you robbed, you think everyone is the same as you!

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In a few moments, Zhang Xiu and Zhang Fei had already appeared outside the mulberry forest, and they both stepped on the healthy horses and galloped straight to the east.

After galloping along the official road for a while, six or seven horsemen jumped out of a forest on the side of the road, followed by Zhang Xiu and Zhang Fei to the east. Except for two of these six or seven horsemen, Zhang Fei's personal soldiers, the rest were Hu Che'er, Zhou Cang, Li Feng, and Cao Xing, the four Zhang Xiu's personal generals.