Chapter Twenty-Five: The Young Man in White

The soldier replied, "No, you are still unwilling to pay it."

The ragged woman said, "Official, after years of fighting, there is indeed no harvest in the fields, and there is a great drought, if it were not for the water and food, the county guard would not have opened the door so quickly and surrendered!" Please! Leave us alone! ”

"Let you go, what is the purpose of the fight regardless of life and death, glory and wealth, you let the master let you go, Lao Tzu has done so much, is it not in vain" As soon as the soldier heard this, there were so many things in charge there, and a few of the big soldiers who followed him rummaged in this poor man's house for a long time, except for a few tattered clothes, he really couldn't find anything valuable.

"Bah! Why am I so unlucky, I thought this house had some valuable goods, but it turned out to be really fucking worthless" The soldier who took the lead was still angry in his mouth. Looking at the others, everyone rushed into someone else's house as if they had their own nest, and came out happily with more or less valuable utensils, pots and pans. The big-headed soldier, looking at himself to the right, was sulking with a stomach, and was scattering it sadly, when a soldier found a woman shivering with fear under the bamboo basket.

"Big brother, this family is poor jingling, fortunately, I found this" As he spoke, he pushed the girl out.

"Let go of me, let go of me," the girl shouted reluctantly. Looking carefully, this girl is still a little bit beautiful, in addition to her shabby clothes, her eyebrows are like the moon, her eyes are like stars, her nose is very sharp, and Cherry Ruoxue must also be a rare beauty within a radius of ten miles.

As soon as the old woman saw that her daughter was arrested, she immediately panicked, "Dead Nizi, I didn't let you hide it, how did you give it out?"

The woman was very frightened and shouted, "Mother, save me", she was escorted aside by two burly soldiers, only to see that the old woman wanted to go over, how could she let her daughter get out of danger without being able to restrain the chicken.

"Official, I beg you, my daughter is still young, please let us go, you take all the valuable money in the family, please, this child has a hard life since childhood, her father died young, her grandfather is still sick in bed, please, let my daughter go!" The old woman grabbed the soldier with a puff, hoping that the other party would be able to understand a touch of humanity. But no matter how hard the old woman pleaded, the other party's eyes like hungry wolves never left the nu'e half a step.

The soldier had nothing more to say to the old woman, and walked towards the woman with salivation, "You go, since your family has no money, use her to pay off the debt"

"Mother, don't, don't" Nu'e was escorted by two soldiers, and she could only resist weakly.

Seeing this, the old woman knew that there was nothing she could do, but she still rushed forward with a glimmer of hope, hugged the soldier's leg and said, "Don't you, sir!" My daughter is still innocent, please, let her go! ”

"Get out of the way" The enraged soldier kicked the old woman hard. Then he still said to the two soldiers who were holding Nu'e, "I'll leave it to the two of you outside, don't come in and disturb me" said, the two walked over and beat Nu'e's mother very hard, and Nu'e's grandfather was also pulled from the bed to the ground and hated **.

"Mother, let go of my mother, please, let her go, okay?"

Nu'e was stopped by the big-headed soldier who took the lead, and saw the big-headed soldier stretching out his evil hand to the girl with his true face exposed. "Help, who can save me" The girl cried out without tears, no matter how much she resisted, only to see that the placket of her clothes had been torn open by the hungry wolf.

"Who can save me" The girl shed lonely tears, she seemed to have seen her end, it was nothing more than the willow tree in front of the door, she would understand her own life, and not take away the filth of this earthly world.

The girl was pushed onto a willow tree, which was about a meter thick, and had always been the sacred tree of their ancestors. This may not be a good choice. Just as they were arguing and looking up, there was a young man in white lying on the tree, his sleeves burning with glass.

"It's noisy, who is disturbing my dreams" She scratched her head angrily, and then Ling his clear fan fell from the sky. Sure enough, she really overslept this night, and waking up was a different scene.

In fact, she has been watching from the tree for so long, but she feels that there are thousands of injustices in the world, and not she can help everything, not to mention that in the mountains, the master has already explained, and the Tao she has learned is the way of leisure, let it be, but in the end, she can't help the nature she thinks deep in her heart.

"It's you who disturbed my son's sleep," Er Zhuyan looked at this group of soldiers who were no longer human.

"Stinky boy, don't be nosy" I saw that the big-headed soldier suddenly looked at Er Zhuyan in surprise, disturbing his good deeds, he wanted to cut her with a thousand knives.

Er Zhuyan said: "Everything will come first and come first, I will come first, it is not right for you to disturb me." I don't want to go on a killing spree, so let's go! She shook the fan in a flat tone, for her, repairing these people was only a moment's work, she didn't want to waste time, she just wanted to let these people leave on their own.

As soon as she said this, the arrogant soldiers mocked her very happily and consciously: "Childe has read too many worldly scripts!" Look at your little white face, three points weaker than a girl, can you pick up a sword? Killing people is no joke."

Before one soldier finished mocking, the other said, "Big brother, this beautiful girl will be left to the eldest brother to enjoy slowly, as for this free man, it is better to give it to the brothers!" As soon as he finished speaking, the soldiers couldn't wait to swallow their saliva and stretched out their hands to Er Zhuyan.

Nu'e looked at Er Zhuyan's men's dress, fluttering like snow, and her anger was high, but there is an ancient saying that "Mo Shangren is like jade, and the son is unparalleled in the world" This sentence is indeed not an exaggeration to describe her. Although she has a sense of mystery that people can't see through, her gestures are enough to make this female Jiao'e pour her life into "Pingshui meets, Jun'en is thin dew, muddy water is dirty, son, let's go, don't worry about me"

Er Zhuyan said: "If this son has to go to this troubled water?"

Nu Jiao'e seemed to hear the wrong thing, she only felt that this son was beautiful and picturesque, and he should have no power to restrain the chicken, but looking at this state, he was like a fluttering fairy, not eating a drop in the world.

The soldier looked at him with disdain and said, "That's looking for death," and a few pawns swung their knives straight forward. Er Zhuyan first used a move to shake the big knife of the pawn with the handle of the fan, and then bowed down and turned the fan page with the power of the great shift, and opened the fan page one by one, she easily fanned the breeze, and she couldn't see any martial arts, and the pawn had already fallen into a dog eating.

"Good boy, it's actually hidden, brothers, let's go together" As soon as the big soldier saw that it was not Er Zhuyan's opponent, he called out to about seven or eight people nearby. Seeing this situation, Er Zhuyan still smiled, stretched out the fan and fanned it pretending not to care.

When the big-headed soldiers saw that the brothers were coming, they saw that these big-headed soldiers were wearing bamboo and wood armor and holding big knives to surround her in a semicircle, and then pretended to be calm and shouted "up"

Before the words fell, these big-headed soldiers were all on it, and Er Zhuyan did not flinch at all, hooked her hands, leaped, and fell to the ground with a kick, to deal with these people, Er Zhuyan didn't have to work too hard, she didn't want to hurt people's lives, but just shot to seriously injure these people. During the fight, who knew that the big-headed soldier who gave the order raised a knife behind her back and avoided the crowd and entered Er Zhuyan with anger.

Nu'e suddenly reacted and shouted "Childe be careful"

With a "poof", bright red blood flowed out of the hilt of the sword, and the mother of the female Jiao'e rushed up to block Er Zhuyan's front. "Mother~" Nu Jiao'e cried out loudly, and then she couldn't care about anything anymore and rushed to her mother who was stabbed. The big-headed soldier immediately reacted and drew his knife, and at that moment, the female Jiao'e mother no longer had any strength and slowly fell to the ground, and the female Jiao'e ran in the crowd of fighting.

"Auntie" Er Zhuyan also reacted immediately, she waved her fan, and the fan page scratched the throats of the two soldiers who were entangled in her. She hooked the old woman with a strong walk, and the old woman spat blood and said six words to her, "Take care, my daughter", and then fell into her arms with a whimper.

"Damn! You inhuman executioners" Suddenly, Er Zhuyan could no longer hide the resentment in her heart, she turned around and waved, pulling away the big knife closest to her soldier, and all the people fell to the ground one by one in a brilliant spin. The big knife drank the blood and drooled, and she swung the knife in a cold breath, just piercing the back of the big-headed soldier who was about to escape.

"Mother~" Nu Jiao'e hugged her mother and cried with her eyes full of puffs, and her grandfather, who was paralyzed in bed, crawled to the door and saw the scene of her daughter-in-law and everyone bleeding. Looking at his dead daughter-in-law, he didn't want to burden his granddaughter too much, so he picked up the knife closest to him on the ground and threw it at himself.

"Grandpa, grandpa," the woman crawled from her mother's body to her grandfather's place in panic. Er Zhuyan also walked over quickly.

Er Zhuyan asked puzzledly: "Old man, why are you doing this?"

The old man replied weakly: "Shaoxia, I know that you are a good person, I beg you, please take care of my poor granddaughter, her mother is dead, my crippled body can only be her burden, whether it is a slave or a maid, just ask Shaoxia you, take care of her, praise her three meals a day, and repay the great kindness of the son for the ox and the horse in the next life."

Nu'e kept shaking her head and said, "Grandpa, don't, grandpa"

The old man finally looked at the girl helplessly: "Girl, live well, live" After speaking, the old man swallowed. Nu'e kept holding the old man and refused to leave.

The world is impermanent, the world is hot and cold, although Er Zhuyan has the heart to save people, but helplessly, in troubled times, there are many things like this, and it is not her own power to turn things around. The old man used his death to give Er Zhuyan a question that she couldn't escape, and indeed, she didn't know whether it was right or wrong for her to do so.

Er Zhuyan said: "People can't be resurrected after death!" Let's go! She stood up coldly and turned to stare at the woman.

Nu'e said with scars: "I want to see them again, please"

Er Zhuyan said very calmly: "The fallen leaves return to the roots, there is always a certain place to go, and if you are doing something else, it is in vain, if you don't leave, the chasing soldiers will come in a while." Er Zhuyan glanced back at her, didn't say anything else, and waited at the door.

After about half a pillar of incense, the maiden carried a russet bag wrapped in the same color as her clothes. Er Zhuyan didn't say anything else, put down her hands and waited indifferently.

Nu'e said: "I haven't buried my grandfather and mother yet, is it really okay to go like this?" ”

Er Zhuyan replied: "No, as long as you think about them in your heart, why do they need these false courtesies, with the sky as the bed, people, after all, they want to return to nature, and return to nature" walked about 50 times, Er Zhuyan hooked an arrow and missed, the arrow sparked on the ground, Er Zhuyan picked it up and shot straight towards the girl's house. Nu'e watched the place where she had grown for more than ten years turn to ashes overnight, and couldn't help but leave sad tears.

"Let's go! From now on, you will be a new version of yourself. Er Zhuyan said in a conversation with her heart

Er Zhuyan asked, "What's your name?" ”

Nu'e: "I don't have a name, my father died early, and I haven't had time to name me, A-Niang keeps calling me girl, and girl is my name"

Er Zhuyan: "How can a girl not have her own name, the name of the girl is your father and yours, since you don't have a name, I'll give you one." ”

Nu'e said excitedly: "Okay! I beg my son to give me a name."

Er Zhuyan lowered her head and pondered for a moment, and then two words slowly came out of her mouth: "Mei Dai" is better than Mei Dai, the ancients said: "The sheep is beautiful, and the eyebrows are black for Dai" The girl has a good face, and her eyebrows are black like Dai, and she will live up to the title of Mei Dai. Er Zhuyan saw that she was silent, so she had to look down. "Don't you like the title of Mei Dai?"

The girl looked at Er Zhuyan and didn't react for a long time. Seeing Er Zhuyan looking at her, she immediately replied, "No, it's not." I just think this name is too good, if it is a child, it will live up to this good name, and the girl's vulgar appearance will tarnish these two words. ”

After hearing this, Er Zhuyan suddenly cried and laughed, she looked at the girl and said: "Nonsense, my little girl has clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, how can she tarnish these two words, but these two words are not enough to set off my girl's flower and moon appearance, since the girl doesn't like it, then the girl will tell me, what name does the girl like, I will take it for the girl." After speaking, she put her hands on the girl's shoulders, and she could feel the fear and fear in the heart of this little girl who had just undergone a great change.

After that, Er Zhuyan looked at the girl and said slowly: "Don't call me Gongzi in the future, I will return to my surname Zhuge and the word Mu Qing, just call me Mu Qing."

Nu'e said: "Zhuge Muqing" chattered, chattered, this name seemed to be in her heart, she had been silently recited hundreds of times, and the more she recited it in her heart, the more ruddy her cheeks became. "Mu Qing, good name, can I ask for the name of the son" She asked her a little shyly.

"Ah" Er Zhuyan was suddenly at a loss, Zhuge Muqing was just that she walked the rivers and lakes as a boy to get an alias, but she didn't expect it. The girl would be so happy to hear her name.

"If you like my name, I'll give it to you. However, if there are two people named Mu Qing, it seems a bit strange. It's better for you to call..."Er Zhuyan stared around, the place where they were was was a teahouse, and in addition to the tea guests, there were blue and white porcelain chopsticks, cages, cups, bracelets and the like. When he looked down, he saw that in his small cyan cup, there was a tea leaf of Biluochun wafting in it.

"Qingluo, why don't you call Qingluo, Mu Qingluo, beautiful eyes and smile, beauty smiles at the city, two smiles at the country, always about sweet and smiling, just like this tea on the table, although bitter, but also sweet. Knowing the bitterness of the bitterness, you can think of its sweetness"

Nu'e said: "Okay, Qingluo likes the name given by Gongzi" Nu'e smiled abruptly, Er Zhuyan felt that although this girl had tasted the bitterness of life, she did not forget her original heart, and pondered it carefully, but she did not hide her beauty.

"When the meal is finished, you come with me to a place." Mu Qingluo was taken by Er Zhuyan to the guest room on the second floor, the room was simply furnished, surrounded by white curtains hanging around the bathtub one by one. Red flowers are scattered inside the tub.

"Childe, this is!" Mu Qingluo lowered his head and blushed

is also a woman, Er Zhuyan didn't feel that there was anything wrong, her face did not change, and her heart did not beat, and she said, "Go wash up!" It's a bit of a long way to go today, and it's a lot more comfortable to go to a bubble bath."

"Hmm" Mu Qingluo turned around shyly, turned her back to Er Zhuyan and glanced at her with a slightly red face, only to see that Er Zhuyan didn't look at her behavior very obviously. She blushed and slowly undressed herself layer after layer. Then slowly stretched her white legs into the bathtub and sat in the bathtub very carefully, looking through the curtain, Er Zhuyan sat by the window, staring intently at the books in her hands.

Er Zhuyan also glanced at Mu Qingluo, thinking that she was embarrassed, and then looked at Qingluo's tattered clothes that were torn in the morning, a girl has experienced that kind of thing in the morning, and when she sees these clothes, she will inevitably feel sad. But in her baggage, except for a few men's clothes, there were no girls who could use things, so she had to jump out of the window.

Qingluo, who was originally shy, didn't dare to look at Er Zhuyan a few more times, and still secretly stared at what Er Zhuyan was doing, but she was in a trance for a while, and Er Zhuyan disappeared, and she didn't see the sound of the door opening. "Childe, it's gone" silently in her heart, she dared to amplify her voice a little bit to wash.

Er Zhuyan, who jumped out of the room, jumped to the ground softly, she first went to the place where the pearl hairpin was sold on the street and selected a few kinds of pearl hairpin for Mu Qingluo, and the proprietress who bought the pearl hairpin thought he was a man, so she stared at him with envy.

In front of the small stall, Er Zhuyan stared for a long time, and suddenly thought that the girl's messy bun had not yet been tied, and looked at the shiny pearl hairpin on the upper right, and he had an idea

The shopkeeper looked at the handsomely dressed young man in front of her stall very enthusiastically, Er Zhuyan, "The son is bought for his sweetheart." ”

Er Zhuyan didn't answer, surrounded by all the bead hairpins, and finally decided to buy the hairpin with the butterfly mark "That's it" Saying, she picked it up and stared at it, "Boss, how to sell this"

"Sanwenqian, a handsome and amorous young man like Childe, I only charge Sanwen for everything" The proprietress saw him, and immediately scratched her head and said, "Childe really has a vision, this ......" The proprietress also wanted to take the opportunity to look at Er Zhuyan, a young man, Er Zhuyan reacted to her very creepy, shuddered, and then randomly selected a few buns, threw down a silver nugget and left

"No need to look for it" While walking, Er Zhuyan shuddered with goosebumps all over her body.

Immediately afterwards, she went to the clothing store and chose a few clothes suitable for Mu Qingluo, and then quickly bought some girl's supplies and hurried back to the inn.

Er Zhuyan pushed open the door as if she had been hurt by 10,000 points in her heart, and then closed the door quickly, and she was terrified. "Childe, you" Mu Qingluo wore her old clothes and walked towards Er Zhuyan as if she was chasing soldiers. "But someone is chasing you"

Er Zhuyan walked quickly to the table, poured a glass of water and drank a glass of water in a shocking gulp

"Is it a chaser?" Mu Qingluo asked worriedly.

"Outside, those women are so terrible, I don't even know what I did, they just ran after me" Er Zhuyan didn't finish speaking, Mu Qingluo couldn't stop laughing.

"Did Childe do something sorry for them?"

Er Zhuyan was stunned for a moment, didn't she go out to help her buy some personal supplies, and she didn't steal or rob it, what could she do to be sorry for people.

"I thought, there's going to be time, too!" Er Zhuyan looked helpless.

"Then I can only blame you, son, for being too good-looking, so you have become the target of public criticism."

After Mu Qingluo finished saying this, Er Zhuyan suddenly felt helplessly silent. "Why are you still wearing this, go ahead and change this one" Er Zhuyan grabbed a bag and threw it to her.

"This is" Mu Qingluo opened the burden with a little doubt, there were several girls' clothes inside, which were bought for her, and suddenly she couldn't say the emotion in her heart, "Son, you are going out" Seeing that Er Zhuyan's face was still so calm, Mu Qingluo was inexplicably happy in her heart.

After waiting for a few minutes, after she changed her clothes, she walked out with her hair hanging down, and Er Zhuyan gently combed her hair and tied it in a bun for her. In fact, when she was in the General's Mansion, Pu Juan would always comb her all kinds of hairstyles, and later she quietly went to apprenticeship alone, and she also learned a lot of ways to survive, which was more vivid than what the elders told her in the General's Mansion. After dressing up, Mu Qingluo, although it is not a country and a city, is also refreshing and lovely.

Chen Qingzhi's northern offensive was fierce and fast, and all over the country, I don't know how many places like Huo Qiu would be destroyed overnight, and the city would be completely destroyed. Er Zhurong's intelligence agents quickly spread the news to the Taiyuan General's Mansion, and Er Zhurong was also ready to gather the Erzhu family and guests to discuss the attack of the Southern Liang.