The autumn in the north of the Kaiyuan Dynasty was short, when the autumn leaves were not exhausted and the autumn wind was still holding the position, suddenly a cold snap arrived at night, and the cold killed all the way with a thunderous trend, and everywhere it was depressed.

At the beginning of November, the winter solstice has passed, and it suddenly becomes cold outside.

Early in the morning, Zhou Xiaofu wore a padded jacket suit, and put on a cloak of the popular big red treasure bottle persimmon Tiwen. The hair just let Cuihua simply pull her hair into a ponytail, and she didn't put on any headdress, which would wait for Mother Lan and Cuihua to go out with their burdens.

Last night, when he was about to rest, Wang Yousi came with Lan Guard, but he just stood at the door and briefly explained a few words, saying that he was going to make a trip, and asked Wang Yousi to prepare another carriage, and the coachman and the carriage were also rented together yesterday.

The breakfast of the Wang family was prepared very early this morning, presumably Wang Yousi made arrangements in advance in the evening.

After packing up the things, Zhou Xiaofu went out, and the Wang family's meeting had already arrived at the door, and she dared to take the burden from Lan's mother's arms and walked out.

The red lacquer gate was tightly closed, the carriages were all parked at the gate of the courtyard, two carriages, and a horse was led by a man in a dark blue coarse cotton jacket, and when people turned around and saw the scar on their face, Zhou Xiaofu felt strange, remembering that this was the Lan guard he had seen that night.

Seeing Zhou Xiaofu coming, the Lan guard immediately stepped forward to salute, and when Zhou Xiaofu was polite, he got up, and when he looked up, he saw a somewhat familiar face.

Lan Hui took a step back, and unconsciously took a step forward, Zhou Xiaofu turned his head and saw that the person who was staring at the Lan guard was actually Mother Lan.

And Wang Yousi also found out, and immediately felt that what was wrong with Lan Guard, his friend had never been so out of shape, this is Miss's mother, how can he stare at it so presumptuously, this Lan Hui is not a crazy person, if this makes Miss misunderstand, it will be troublesome, and he feels that he is not using people properly, and is about to take a picture of him to remind him.

And when Lan's mother saw a strange man staring at her, she blushed from the beginning to being extremely embarrassed, how could this person be so presumptuous, and she was angry and wanted to open her mouth to reprimand.

"Are you a little flower?" Before Mother Lan could open her mouth, she saw the man ask with a look of surprise.

Zhou Xiaofuton's face suddenly twitched a little, can you stop being so bloody, Xiaohua.

"Who are you?" Lan's mother was very surprised, how could there be a strange man who knew her name twenty years ago, Xiaohua, Lan Xiaohua was her name when she was in her mother's house, except for Miss and the family back then, no one knew, because after being sold into the General's Mansion that year, serving Miss, Miss asked her original name, and felt that Lan Xiaohua was a little rustic, and she was looking for her family, so she couldn't bear to change too much, so she changed her name to Lan Xiaohua, so that she had a thought. After Miss's death, almost no one knew her real name, and even she was about to forget it.

"I am, I'm Lan Hui, cousin Hui, Xiaohua, I'm cousin Hui from Xuyi County." Lan Hui said movingly with a scarred face.

Mother Lan frowned at first, and then suddenly remembered something, and stepped back in fright, Zhou Xiaofu hurriedly made a look, and Cuihua hurriedly went over to help Mother Lan.

"You're Lan Hui? You're alive? Mother Lan burst into tears, and said with a very sad expression. When the flood occurred, the death of the family, the disappearance of the missing, she intermittently looked for her cousin's family, there has been no news, straight ten years ago a fellow villager said that their whole family died, she died to marry a little steward.

Lan Hui nodded with red eyes, looked at this face that was no longer young from a distance, and after searching for more than ten years, he finally found it.

Zhou Xiaofu finally reacted, Lan's mother turned out to be what Lan Escort was looking for, and she did suspect it at the time, but she also doubted how could there be such a coincidence.

Turning his head suspiciously, he glanced at Wang Yousi, and saw that he was also surprised, no matter what, this matter has to be investigated first.

The two just stood awkwardly and didn't say much, Zhou Xiaofu said: "Let's all go on the road, and talk about each other in detail when we are free."

Lan's mother glanced at Guard Lan without saying a word and helped Zhou Xiaofu to get into the carriage, Guard Lan rode a horse, Wang Yousi got into a carriage in front, and the little guy who opened the door last night went over to open the door.

After Zhou Xiaofu got into the car, she took off her cloak, Cuihua hurriedly hugged her, carefully folded it and put it in the innermost cage of the carriage, and then took out a small copper pot from the bag and handed it to Zhou Xiaofu, covering it with a muslin cover.

It was already winter, but it hadn't snowed yet, so it wasn't so cold, and there was no silver charcoal on the Zhuangzi to burn on the wagon, so there was no way to light a brazier.

Zhou Xiaofu turned her head and saw that Lan's mother was still in a daze, so she pointed to the blanket next to her, and Cuihua immediately understood what she meant, and put the blanket on Lan's mother's knees.

The weather is cold, Lan's mother's knees are always sick, and she can't get out of bed when she gets a little cold, a few days ago, she asked Cuihua to buy wormwood and safflower to cook it to soak her knees is much better, but there is no cure, so I have to pay attention to keeping warm, Zhou Xiaofu thought that she would go directly to her grandfather's house after this time, and there is a Situ handle, let him show Lan's mother, maybe it will be cured.

Mother Lan just sat there mechanically covered with a blanket, without any focus in her eyes, and Zhou Xiaofu motioned to let Cuihua calm down.

Zhou Xiaofu paid attention to the state of Lan's mother from time to time, and from time to time used her mental power to scan the state of the Lan guards outside, but the Lan guards were riding on horses, but they kept staring at the carriage of the carriage, and their expressions were surprised and heavy.

When the carriage had been walking for two hours, Zhou Xiaofu felt that the carriage had stopped, but she didn't ask anything, and after a while, she heard Wang Yousi say outside the car window: "Fourth Miss, the road is halfway through, the little one sees an inn, rest for a while and use some tea before leaving." ”

Zhou Xiaofu answered, and saw that Lan's mother seemed to be awakened, and looked at Zhou Xiaofu at a loss.

Zhou Xiaofu soothingly put her hand around Lan's mother and said, "No matter what happens, isn't there me, don't think about it." ”

Mother Lan's eyes turned red as soon as she heard Zhou Xiaofu's words, and Nuo Nuo nodded in response.

The three of them got out of the carriage, Zhou Xiaofu put on a hat and cloak, this is a small inn on the pipeline, although it is small, there are a lot of people, and the bustling people are afraid that they are resting here in the early morning.

Wang Yousi asked the shopkeeper to take the chauffeur to wait for the horses first, and then hurriedly settled into the room for food and rest.

Escort Lan didn't follow, and stood silently behind Zhou Xiaofu and Mother Lan, but his eyes must have been staring at Mother Lan's back, as if there were a thousand words, but some of them couldn't be spoken.

After a while, Wang Yousi came to report with a guilty face, saying that there was no one in the guest room, so he could only set up two tables in the backyard to provide them with a team of people to eat and drink. It doesn't matter if they are men, but the young lady is a woman and a lady, how can she eat and drink outside, Wang Yousi was a little melancholy.

Zhou Xiaofu nodded and said, "That's it, just eat and drink together, there is not so much attention to going out." ”

Wang Yousi arranged for a while before he brought a man who looked like a shopkeeper to the backyard and led him to the backyard, there were no guests in the backyard, and the shopkeeper set up two tables neatly. After wiping it, I hurried out to prepare the meal.

And Cuihua took out the handkerchief in her arms with a disgusted face, wiped the table and stool, and waited until she finished wiping before helping Zhou Xiaofu to come over and sit down. ”

Zhou Xiaofu's face did not change, but quietly stared at Guard Lan's face, not missing any of his subtle expressions, at this time, Guard Lan's expression was firm and did not hesitate, Zhou Xiaofu relaxed, turned her head to look at Mother Lan, and saw that she was surprised but did not say anything.

"Let's get up first, and then we will return to Zhuangzi when this time is over." Zhou Xiaofu said indifferently, but he was a lot relieved in his heart, and he was willing to sign a death deed, which shows that the reliability of this Lan guard is more than half, after all, selling himself as a slave is not a good thing, and ordinary people who have a slightly better life will never sell their children into slavery, especially if they sign a death deed, they can't find the door if they make a mistake and are beaten to death by the master's family, at most a few taels of silver are just given to the family to appease, and even some are killed and thrown directly to the mass grave.

However, there are still a lot of children sold when the harvest is bad in disaster years, after all, there is still a glimmer of life in selling one's body, but at home you can only wait to starve to death.

And Escort Lan is already in his thirties, and it is okay to go there to be a nursing home with all his martial arts, and there are indeed very few single men who sell themselves at such an age, which shows his intentions for Lan's mother.

Cuihua went to the back kitchen to ask for hot water, and waited for Zhou Xiaofu to wash her hands, Mother Lan was already much better, but she still looked very worried.

The meal came, it was very simple, a large plate of cooked donkey meat, a bowl of hot soup for one person, a large pot of pot helmet buns, this pot helmet is the name of Xishan Province, it is to make the dough with two round iron pots together, buried in the fire to burn out, there are big thick, and slightly thin, the middle is soft, both sides are crispy and used to match the soup is excellent.

Zhou Xiaofu took a car all the way, and she was very hungry from the bumps, and she didn't care about eating in the yard, so she took off her hat and used it, ate most of the cakes, drank two bowls of soup, and ate half a plate of donkey meat before she felt that her stomach was full.

Mother Lan and Cuihua stopped their chopsticks early and waited on the side, both of them did not have a large amount of food, a small piece of cake, a bowl of soup, and a few slices of donkey meat were full.

Several men at the other table were still drinking soup, and Zhou Xiaofu saw that the donkey meat was delicious, so he ordered Cuihua to let Wang Yousi buy some more to eat on the way.

After simply packing up, he went on the road again, but this time it was much better, and there was a red charcoal fire in the carriage, which must have been bought by Wang Yousi at the inn.