What Yi Cui said next was a fragment of what Gu Chaoge never knew, after the two teenagers left her mass grave hut six years ago.

Two and a half teenagers, penniless, incognito, evading the government's investigation, went into exile in the south, where the rebellion was booming. But the south is not a paradise, on the contrary, due to frequent rebellions and looting, farmland in many places has become wilderness, and prosperous villages are now deserted.

The teenagers, who still have a bit of family pride, are unwilling to sell themselves into slavery and insist on only doing short-term jobs to earn money. They are very diligent, but in the troubled times when it is difficult to eat, these jobs with little money also have to be robbed. Yan Zhao went out in the morning and came back in the evening, if he brought copper coins and steamed buns, it was likely to be accompanied by bloodstains, bruises and swollen eye sockets, which was the price of competing for work with adults.

Yan Zhao's good skills come from family tradition, but the initial practical experience comes from fighting with these homeless men and Lai Pi on the streets.

Itri's leg became an obstacle for him to go out to work, so he copied books for others. Everyone in the Yi family writes well, and his memory is very good, and in the six years when he was completely out of school, he had no husband and no books, and he only relied on these copied books and words to study on his own.

And copying is a good job. More often than not, he had to endure the strange stares of many women to take over the work of mending and washing clothes, and even embroidery and combing hair.

Even so, because that damn stump of the leg devoured the hard-earned money of the two teenagers like a bottomless pit, they often lived in the land temple and under the bridge, and there were many people who wanted to rob them.

It was unusually cold that winter, so cold that no one wanted to go out. The upper echelons of Dajing still drank and ate meat and indulged in enjoyment, and no one cared that there were a large number of frozen deaths this winter.

In this case, it was difficult for the teenagers to receive short-term jobs, and Yan Zhao had to go out early in the morning and line up in front of the well-meaning rich family to receive a bowl of thin porridge and half a steamed bun. After waiting in the snow for more than an hour, he would brave the snow to deliver porridge and steamed buns to Yi Cui, and then hurried to the next line.

It was one of the most difficult and memorable days in the lives of the two teenagers. Yan Zhao's size is large, consumes a lot of energy, and the clear gruel and half of the steamed bread cannot sustain him for a day.

In Yan Zhao's opinion, it was useless to heal Yi Cui's legs, and he couldn't let Yi Cui starve again.

In the cold season, the snow is falling, which is not beautiful at all, and the ice ridges on the eaves are as terrible as they can kill. Many wealthy households are not willing to come out to give alms at such a time, and only one of the Wei families is left in Yangzhou who still has a porridge shed.

It was at that time that Wei Tong appeared in Yan Zhao's sight.

Yi Cui always remembered Yan Zhao's eyebrows dancing in those days, and he took the trouble to tell himself how kind and beautiful the eldest lady of the Wei family was, but Yi Cui was not in the mood to listen.

Because he was afraid that if it continued to be cold like this, they would freeze to death here.

When the Wei family's porridge shed became the only one, Yan Zhao was no longer able to queue up twice a day, and when he went to the second time, often the porridge shed had already been almsged. In the cold season when there are no wild vegetables in the field and no wild beasts in the forest, Yan Zhaokong has a martial arts and has nothing to do, and if there is nothing to eat, there is nothing to eat. So the two teenagers began to eat a pitiful little porridge and small steamed buns, even so, Yan Zhao woke up hungry every night, so hungry that he wanted to eat soil.

I don't know if it was the first few days, he fainted hungry on the way to the Weifu queue.

In that kind of weather, that kind of world, who cares about an orphan who has fallen to the ground?

After all, many people fall and never get up.

On that day, it was as if Itsui had a sense. Yan Zhao didn't return after a long time, so he held on to the rough wooden crutch that Yan Zhao made for him, braved the wind and snow, and stepped on the snow one by one to find him. Many households in Yangzhou City are hanging red lanterns, about to celebrate the New Year, on the way, Yi Cui saw a pawnshop that was still open, he gritted his teeth, felt out the piece of jade pendant that was always reluctant to be gone, walked to the high counter of the pawnshop, and sold it.

The piece of the emperor's imperial gift, the best Hetian mutton fat white jade, was carved by the Shangbao Bureau for half a month, and the jade pendant delivered to him by his mother, Princess Changjia, was only ten taels of silver.

Itsui didn't have nostalgia, and he didn't dare to be nostalgic. When he came out, he turned his head and bought two meat buns, which he was reluctant to eat, so he put them in his arms, just waiting to find Yan Zhao and give him a big surprise.

Perhaps in the dark, the ancestors of the two families blessed these two young men in the sky, Yi Cui Shun found Yan Zhao, and Yan Zhao was carrying a delicately embroidered money bag in his hand, although the bag was small, but it was full of broken silver with white flowers.

"I, I fainted, the carriage of the eldest lady of the Wei family passed by, she fed me water, fed me, and gave me so much money! Her name is Wei Tong, I know, her name is Wei Tong! Yan Zhao's face was red with excitement, it was the excitement of the young man meeting the lover of his dreams: "Ah Cui, we won't die!" He carefully took out a small bag of delicate snacks from his arms: "Miss Wei gave it, I didn't want to eat it, Ah Cui, give it!" ”

Yi Cui was stunned, smiled bitterly, and took out two meat buns from his arms: "Oh, this is also for you." Seeing this, Yan Zhao was stunned: "Where did you get it from?" ”

Knowing that Yi Cui had sold the only piece of jade pendant that was passed down from his family, Yan Zhao became excited, and he wanted to exchange the money Wei Tong gave him for the jade pendant, but Yi Cui shook his head.

That little bit of broken silver, in exchange for a jade pendant, how much is left? Now they are very short of money, money, the more the merrier, jade pendant, if the holders are all dead, what else do they want it to do?

After that heavy snowfall, they quickly left Yangzhou, not that Yangzhou was bad, but that the things here were more expensive than elsewhere, and so was the inn, and the teenagers couldn't afford it.

In the end, he took root in Nanqiao, made a group of friends, and later rebelled together to fight for the world, which was also laid by the money obtained by the kind-hearted Miss Wei and Yi Cui's jade pendant.

Hearing the halfway through, Gu Chaoge couldn't help but reddened his eyes, and tears fell down. Yi Cui saw that she was sad, so he quickly omitted the arduous process of the two of them from Yangzhou to Nanqiao, and hastily ended it, who knew that as soon as the story was finished, Gu Chaoge's tears burst like a flood, and they couldn't be stopped.

"Alas, you, don't cry," Yi Cui also got up from the bed, without a handkerchief, only hurriedly wiped her tears with his sleeve, and sighed while wiping them, "So don't blame me, I didn't like you to cry when I first saw you, just because I had a hard time in those years, and I always felt that tears were the weakest thing, and they should not be shed at any time." ”

Gu Chaoge's cry choked in her throat, she looked at him, her face flushed, but she refused to cry again.

Then she heard Izri say again, "But now I think it's good to cry." No matter how difficult it is now, crying out will make my heart feel comfortable. "And when you cry, it's not annoying.

His sentence provoked Gu Chaoge's wow, and the flood broke the embankment again: "I knew it earlier...... I knew you were having such a hard time...... Woo, I'll give you all my money...... Woo woo, the silver chopsticks are also for you, woo woo woo, anyway, those pair of chopsticks are in the end, woo woo woo, I was used as a change of money, woo woo woo, I'm so stupid, why don't you leave a little more money for you, what are you doing when you go so far to buy medicine, woo woo, I'm really useless, woo woo woo! ”

She cried so much that she was so angry that Yi Cui was stupid on the spot, only to realize that it was a small fight when she cried before, but today is the real big scene, and the big scene that can't be closed. Fortunately, there was no one late at night, otherwise everyone would have thought that he had bullied Dr. Gu again.

"Who would have thought of what would happen after that, I can't blame you, don't cry, good," Itsuri tried to touch her soft hair to soothe, "What's more, I probably wouldn't be alive without you." ”

As a result, when she mentioned her legs, she cried even more fiercely, and hiccups while crying: "Woo woo, blame me, blame me for being useless, otherwise your legs wouldn't be like this, woo woo woo!" ”

The invincible and easy to use touch the head to appease the big move is now completely ineffective, and Yi Cui really doesn't know what to do this time, and he even wonders why she can have so many tears.

What can I do about this? Say anything, everything is wrong, and appeasement is ineffective, do you really have to wait for her cry to attract everyone?

Itsuri was really flustered for a while, and finally suddenly thought of the situation in prison, and reached out to her shoulder.

Gu Chaoge felt a soft force press on her shoulder, and then she fell forward, just like the time in prison, against someone's chest.

Only this time, closer, his hand gently patted her back, helplessly reassured: "Grandma, be quiet, don't let others think that I bullied you." ”

Anyway, you often bully me, and one more time won't make a difference. Gu Chaoge's crying was a little sweet, and her heart was sweet, she grabbed Yi Cui's shirt hard, nestled in his chest and sobbed. The clothes he wore were not of precious fabric, because he got up from bed, and he was not even dressed very neatly, a little loose, and occasionally a little collarbone was faintly exposed during the activity. His chest was not strong, so thin that he could feel the bones of his hands, and he definitely did not have the strong sense of security that Yan Zhao gave people.

But his chest was warm, and there was a faint smell of medicine, and that smell of medicine was due to her.

Not only did she enjoy the smell, but perhaps ...... Also loved the taste of the hosts.

It may be that the day is too hard, or it may be that someone's chest is too comfortable, Gu Chaoge is very embarrassed, tugging at his clothes, crying and crying like this...... Fell asleep.

Poor Yi Dagongzi, after being appeased, he suddenly didn't hear any movement. He was frightened and tried to see if she had recovered, only to find that the empress of Yangzhou City had slept soundly in his arms, and smeared his clothes with suspicious water stains.

Hopefully it's tears, not snot, or saliva......

Thinking so, Yi Cui pushed her little head aside, and opened her mouth to call someone to send her back to her room, but suddenly remembered that even Sheng San, who was keeping vigil, had slept.

He looked down at his misshapen leg hidden under his robe, estimated the distance from the antechamber to the backyard, and immediately realized that he would never be able to complete this challenge alone.

So...... Wake her up?

No, absolutely not. Remembering the terrible scene just now, Yi Cui immediately vetoed this suggestion.

In this way, I had to let her sleep here.

Idri sighed, lifted her lightly into her lap, and then led the wooden wheelchair under her seat to a makeshift bed in the inner room of the main hall.

This sleep was very sweet for Gu Chaoge.

may have been refreshed after crying, and she didn't even have a dream when she slept darkly, although her eyes were amazingly swollen, but she was not afraid.

Stretching comfortably, listening to the birdsong outside the window, she sat up from the bed, and then realized that she was not in her room!

This is...... This is the inner room of the main hall!

Remembering the humiliating thing she did last night, Gu Chaoge quickly put on her clothes in a panic, hurriedly tied her braids, and carefully whispered: "Young Master Yi? Epi? She didn't see him in the inner room, and she thought he must have gone back to sleep, so she breathed a sigh of relief and walked out lightly.

Then she saw that in front of the desk, the man was holding his head and closing his eyes, nodding his head again and again, like a chicken pecking rice, and finally couldn't support it, and fell asleep with his head leaning on the desk.

Gu Chaoge froze there.

He—he didn't sleep all night? Right here, guarding yourself?

The huge guilt and joy were like two surging tides, drowning Gu Chaoge at the same time. She crept up and secretly looked at him sleeping, obviously he didn't look good, and even looked very bad, but she just liked it, so much so that she bit her lower lip with her teeth, and snickered at him who was asleep.

She really likes Yi Cui, Gu Chaoge has never been so clear as at this moment.

Then, as the devil did, she lowered her head, leaned over, and gently attached a wet kiss to the sleeping man's side face.

Ahh She covered her mouth, ashamed and embarrassed, intuitively feeling that she had done something unseemly, so she straightened up in a panic and looked left and right to see if anyone was peeping. Then he stood on tiptoe and ran away in a panic like a thief, and when he pushed open the door, he almost tripped over the threshold.

Gu Chaoge didn't know that just as she was running away in a panic, the man who was asleep on the desk slowly opened his eyes, he turned his head, straightened up, and looked at the door in front of him that had not had time to close, and his expression was a shock that could not be hidden.