Chapter 5: The Mysterious Iron Pill
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Liangzhou City is located in the northwest border, in late autumn, the cold wind penetrates the bones, and many people wear heavy and bloated cotton clothes early.
After noon, the clouds on the foggy sky were like lead blocks pressing straight to the ground, and in a moment small snowflakes fell from the sky mixed with cold rain, and the pedestrians on the street shrunk their necks, wrapped in cotton clothes, and ran quickly towards their homes.
There was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old woman kneeling at the door of the Gu family's courtyard.
Her thin clothes were soaked with sleet, her body trembled, her face was pale and her cheeks were swollen high, and her lips were bruised from the cold, murmured:
"Miss Gu, the slave and maid know their mistakes, it is the slave and the maid who do not distinguish between dignity and inferiority, and it is none of our young lady's business, please forgive the slave and maid."
Wanbi, who came to ask for sin, repeated the words of asking for sin over and over again.
When the sky and earth are covered with sleet, the lonely Wanbi is particularly pitiful.
How kind of mean people are ruthless enough to let a delicate girl suffer from rain and snow?
The weather is so bad, there are very few pedestrians on the street, and there are almost no people who see the excitement or feel distressed.
Everyone in the Gu family's neighborhoods knows Gu Mingnuan's conduct, even if they are pitiful, they will not condemn Gu Mingnuan for being arrogant.
With a creak, the door of the Gu family's small courtyard opened, Wanbi raised her eyes with great difficulty, and a pair of twins of twelve or thirteen years old walked out of the courtyard.
There was a red mole on his eyebrows, holding up an oil umbrella to keep out the rain and snow, "Why are you still here?" Sister Xiao Nuan has already asked you to go back. ”
"Ignore her!" Another girl in a silver and red jacket pursed her lips, mentioning that Gu Mingnuan's eyes were full of reverence, "Sister Xiao Nuan said that those who die don't need to be sympathetic. ”
She stomped her feet hard, and the cold stagnant water on the ground splashed Wanbi's body, holding her sister who had a mole on her eyebrows: "It's not that Uncle Gu wants to listen to Sister Xiaonuan study, can she still live well?" Sister Xiao Nuan is too kind-hearted to treat things that are not as good as pigs and dogs as a person. ”
"How can the second sister speak?" The girl with a mole on her eyebrows said angrily: "Don't insult pigs and dogs, okay?" ”
"Sister, I was wrong." The girl smiled and admitted her mistake.
Wanbi's body trembled like chaff, did their sisters speak human words?
The numb knees couldn't hold on any longer, and leaned forward and fell to the ground, and the small stone kicked by the girl with a mole on her eyebrows smashed right on Wanbi's mouth.
"Ahh Wanbi hurriedly covered her mouth, her palms sticky, "It's bleeding-"
Then Wanbi spit out four bloody teeth from her mouth, and when she opened her mouth again, she didn't have her front teeth that blocked the wind, and the cold wind could pour into her mouth and speak leaky, pointing to the sister flower in front of her: "You're so bold." ”
"God has eyes! Anyone who calculates Sister Xiao Nuan will not end well! Today it's you, tomorrow it's your hypocritical Miss Liu. ”
The two sisters looked at each other and smiled, and left arm in arm.
Their biological father is Gu Yan's own soldier, the two sisters themselves have good skills and strength, and they have been taught by Gu Yan, and three or five men have never beaten them.
Gu Yan was worried that someone would take advantage of her absence to bully her daughter, so she asked their sisters to come to the Gu family to accompany and protect Gu Mingnuan.
Their sisters have long regarded Gu Mingnuan as their master, and they obeyed his words, and they couldn't tolerate others to say bad things about Gu Mingnuan.
Wanbi deceived the door to ruin Gu Mingnuan's reputation, and they would naturally give Wanbi a little 'blood' lesson.
In the room, Gu Mingnuan sat on the warm kang and read the book, reading aloud helped to overcome the stammering, and the symptoms of her stammering were much lighter than when she first woke up.
Turning a page of the book, Gu Mingnuan took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, raised his eyes to see Gu Yan's legs on the mahogany pedals, leaning back against the back of the chair and closing his eyes to recuperate...... He was asleep, and screamed, "Daddy! ”
Bang, Gu Yan was suddenly awakened, and kicked down the pedal in a hurry, "What?" Xiao Nuan Ken asked me to beat the slut kneeling at the door? ”
In an uproar, Gu Mingnuan turned the pages of the book hard to get angry, and said in vain with what she had just said, she didn't object to Gu Yan moving her fists, but could she use her brain first?
"Xiao Nuan, you're angry."
Gu Yan cautiously approached the side of the kang and explained flatteringly: "I have been listening to you reading, Xiao Nuan's reading voice is very good, and then ...... Afterward...... It's all because the house is too warm. ”
"So you're asleep?" Gu Mingnuan rolled his eyes, "I read like a lullaby?" ”
Gu Yan shook his head again and again, a little aggrieved: "It's good for you to read, it's just that books make me doze off." ”
"I can make my dad fall asleep when I read travelogue books, but once I come across a subset of scriptures and histories, what can you do?" Gu Mingnuan faintly felt a headache.
Since the failure of Emperor Chu's crusade against Beidi, the leading generals of the court and the central government have to pass the guò literary examination.
Gu Yan has the ambition to expand the territory on the border, if he wants to really be in a high position as a general, he can't avoid the examination of the literary examination and the war book.
Hearing this, Gu Yan broke out in a cold sweat and muttered, "I'm not so unlucky that I need to read the subset of Bible history." ”
Seeing Gu Yan frequently wiping the sweat on his forehead, Gu Mingnuan suddenly couldn't bear it, completely forgot about his worries and anger, and comforted: "It's okay, Dad, when you go to the capital, you will meet the literary exam, and I will help you bet on the question." ”
It really didn't work, so she tried her best to get the exam questions.
Whether it is the imperial examination or the military general's literary examination, there are always loopholes to be found.
It's a pity that in her previous life, she only thought about closing Ning Hou's heart early and living a leisurely and prosperous life, and never paid attention to the exam questions or the situation of the struggle for power and profit between the DPRK and China.
She didn't even know how many terms General Zhengxi had changed, and she didn't remember the ending of General Liu Lei and Gu Yan who were transferred back to the capital.
Gu Yan didn't doubt that Gu Mingnuan couldn't do it, he smiled so much that he couldn't see his teeth, and suddenly grabbed Gu Mingnuan's shoulders excitedly, "Xiao Nuan will say a few more words, you...... You didn't ...... Stammer. ”
"I-I-"
"Don't worry, don't worry, Xiao Nuan said slowly."
Gu Yan's eyes were slightly red and he was almost moved to tears: "One day you will be like other people's daughters, no, speak more fluently and have a crisper voice than them." ”
Turning his back, he wiped the corners of his eyes: "You're good, your mother won't blame me anymore in the spirit of heaven, I was useless back then, I couldn't protect your mother and daughter, you were so frightened that you were speechless, and your grandmother died four years ago because of the banditry. ”
"Wasn't that group of bandits who burned, killed, looted, and pretended to be barbarians already been wiped out by my father?"
Gu Mingnuan remembered that she and her grandmother were hiding in a hole in the ground, and her grandmother used her body to block the sharp arrows that the bandits tried to shoot in, and she couldn't remember her biological mother's face sacrificing her life to lead away the bandits who did all kinds of evil!
'Xiao Nuan, my mother can't take care of you anymore, live well. ’
These were the last words left by her mother!
Compared with Yin Ru, the biological mother in the previous life, although the biological mother in this life is only the daughter of a poor Xiucai, she is much better than Yin Ru, but Gu Mingnuan cannot repay her with filial piety.
"Not enough, not enough!" Gu Yan's waist was straight, his fists were clenched tightly, and his muscles were tense, "It's not enough for me to kill bandits and barbarians, because I still have hatred, and I can still kill." When I can't hold a gun, and I can't get on a horse when I'm too old, I can be considered to avenge your mother! ”
Gu Mingnuan's quiet eyes were covered with a layer of mist, and Gu Yan's body looked particularly majestic, "Dad, I'll make you honey wine stuffed meatballs tonight." ”
"I ...... Can I eat three bowls of meatballs stuffed with mead? ”
Gu Yan turned to face Gu Mingnuan, his eyes were full of anticipation, and when he heard a dissatisfied cough, he changed his words: "Two bowls, no less." ”
Gu Mingnuan: "......"
It's not that he is reluctant to let him eat to his heart's content, but that if you eat too many meatballs stuffed with honey wine, you will be constipated!
"I'll go see Ma Sanba tomorrow." Gu Yan put his purse down, trembled, and muttered: "I ate him a lot last time, how can I have a treat this time, I ...... I don't have any money."
When, a thumbnail-sized black bead fell out of the purse, and the grunt black bead rolled on the ground.
"Hey, when did I get an extra bead?" Gu Yan was very puzzled, and recalled for a while: "It may be that the person who hit me yesterday fell, and at that time I thought that I had encountered a pickpocket, and he didn't steal my silver and left me a bead of unknown value." ”
Gu Mingnuan picked up the beads that rolled to his feet, raised them and looked at them carefully for a long time, "It's not pearls or expensive obsidian, but like iron beads." ”
"You stay and play, I can't find the person who hit me yesterday."
Hearing that it was worthless, Gu Yan was relieved that no one would find this black bead.
"Xiao Nuan, hehe, silver."
"Daddy will go out tomorrow, and I'll give it to you."
Gu Yan is generous and can't save money, and always likes to buy some strange gadgets for Gu Mingnuan.
Gu Mingnuan has seen too many treasures, and her real life is only five or six years younger than Gu Yan, she is more mature and stable than Gu Yan, she is really not interested in gadgets.
It is very important to meet Ma Sanba, although Gu Mingnuan restrained Gu Yan from buying small toys indiscriminately, he would not let Gu Yan lose face, and would naturally give him plenty of silver.
It was completely dark, the sleet had stopped, and the cold wind was still strong.
Gu Mingnuan pushed the finished honey wine-stuffed meatballs to Gu Yan, "Eat slowly." ”
The sparkling balls in the porcelain bowl are round and round like beads floating in the clear soup...... Gu Mingnuan suddenly thought that the bead could be a thousand machine pills?
Ordinary people can't use the Qianji Pill that is not bad in case of fire and water to deliver news.
Gu Yan took the soup spoon and put the balls in his mouth, his ears moved and he stopped moving, and then blew out the candle with a pop, and said softly: "Someone, Xiao Nuan, you hide first!" ”