The underground stone chamber is a very hidden space, but even if it is so, it can't withstand the fire from above. Rao Di stayed inside for an unknown amount of time, sweating profusely. The stone wall was hot, she felt that she could barely breathe, and after a long time, the stone gate mechanism was touched, and with a bang, the stone door opened.

The proprietress with her hair was standing outside the door, and she hurriedly stepped forward and saw that the proprietress had been hit by an arrow in the leg and a knife in her right arm, which was visible to the bone.

She gasped and said, "Come with me!" ”

Rao Di helped her to the ground, the smell of blood and scorching came to her nose, and the firelight burned Yinjiabao into a mess.

The proprietress urged: "Hurry up!" ”

Ran out of the outer gate of Yinjiabao, but saw the corpses lying all over the place, and the blood flowed like a river, Rao Tuqiang held back the nausea in her heart, helped the proprietress onto the horse, stepped on another horse, and the two rode wildly on the wilderness.

Rao Di held the reins of the horse and said silently: "Child, if you hold on, my mother will soon be able to reach a safe place." ”

The jade seal hanging on her chest was faintly shining, and the wisps of light kept flowing from the jade seal to her lower abdomen.

The two ran for most of the night, and the sky was white, and they ran to a moat. The horse hoofed up and crossed the moat, and after about five kilometres, he came to the foot of a majestic mountain, with only a narrow passage between the two mountains that could only be passed by one person.

A glimmer of heaven.

The proprietress fell off the horse, and Rao Di hurriedly dismounted to hold her, and saw that the blood on her arm had stopped, but the arrow wound on her leg was red and hot, and the bleeding did not stop. If you look closely at the arrow, it should be a rocket.

Rao Tu pulled out the rune dagger, gritted her teeth and said, "Boss, bear with me, I'll help you pull out the arrow." ”

The proprietress nodded and said in a trembling voice: "Hurry up for the old lady, don't ink." ”

Rao Tu pressed the dagger against the wound, pressed it outward, and grabbed the handle of the arrow and lifted it upwards suddenly, and the proprietress snorted and trembled. Rao Di hurriedly sprinkled the golden medicine on the wound, wrapped the wound, and frowned: "Boss, I owe you a favor." ”

The proprietress sweated, gritted her teeth and stood up, pointing to the line of heaven in front of her: "You go first." ”

Rao Tu ripped off her clothes and tied them around the waist of the proprietress, "If you can't walk, I'll drag you over." ”

The proprietress smiled bitterly: "I'm a person, I don't have other skills, but it's not easy to die." He pushed Rao into the gorge and gritted his teeth and followed her.

The middle of the gorge is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, Rao's body is already very heavy, and she can't pass sideways, so she has to kneel on the ground and crawl forward, the gravel is sharp, and the flesh and blood of her palms and knees are blurred, she doesn't know how long she has climbed, there is only one thought in her heart, and she murmurs: "Good boy, after this place, my mother will never have to run again." ”

Her eyes were getting blurry and blurry, and she could only see the light in front of her, so close, but she couldn't climb it. Her consciousness was blurring, and her limbs were becoming less and less obedient.

She pressed her forehead against the sharp stone and tried to rest for a while, but when she closed her eyes, she could not open them again.

……

In the dream, she seemed to be picked up by someone, and floated long away, not the sound of horses' hooves, nor the sound of wheels, but the sound of rushing water.

The sound of the water stopped, and a child's voice sounded in my ears, "Aunt A, wake up, wake up." ”

Rao Tu barely opened her eyes and saw a small yellow face, a little blurry, a small hand constantly shaking her arm.

She closed her eyes and opened them again, and her little face became clear, and her eyebrows and eyes were very delicate, as if she had seen them somewhere.

Rao Di reacted in her mind for a long time before she asked, "May?" ”

May said happily: "Aunt A, I am May. ”

Looking around, it was a clean and tidy hut, and she asked, "What is this place?" ”

"This is a small town in Hanzhong, called Luoxia Town."

"Luoxia Town? What a beautiful name. Rao Tu reached out to touch her lower abdomen, the child was still there, she sat up and looked out the window, and saw a number of peddlers and pawns. Outside, it seems to be a bazaar.

"How did I end up here, who sent me here?"

"It's Xiao Yanning, the fifth prince."

"What about others?"

"The fifth prince said that my aunt will live here first, and there is no danger here for the time being, and he will gather the displaced people to fight against the harassment in the north. At least half a year, more than a year, and then come to see my aunt. ”

Rao Tu frowned, "Did he leave anything behind?" ”

"Nope." May blinked her handsome eyes and brought a bowl of gruel, "Auntie, are you hungry, eat some porridge, this is what I cooked." ”

Rao Tu looked at the bowl, there were not a few grains of rice floating in it, it was almost clear soup, "Isn't there any rice at home?" ”

May blushed and shook her head, "Auntie, you drink some first, and I'll go out to work for rice to eat." ”

Rao Tu grabbed May, who wanted to run out, "What do you do?" Xiao Yanning didn't leave you any silver? ”

The fifth prince said...... Don't starve to death by your own ability, I have ...... Competent. ”

"What are you going to do?"

"Hanzhong wants to build a city wall, and I will go to the quarry to pick stones."

Rao Tu shook her head and said, "You are so small, how many stones can you pick?" Let's find another way. ”

May wrinkled her eyebrows and said in a low voice: "Although I am small, I can run fast, and I can change half a bag of rice a day." ”

Rao Tu smiled slightly and rubbed his head, "Auntie come and find a way, can you write now?" ”

May shook her head blankly and said, "You are a boy, you have to read and write." The place you should go is the town school, not the quarry. ”

May said "oh", "but...... We don't even have money for food, and we need to go to the academy to get a scholarship......"

"I'll figure it out." She got out of bed and walked to the window, and looked out at the people who were carrying stones to the east, and many others who were carrying empty loads back, and she knew that the wall to be built was on the east side, and the quarry was on the west side.

Rao Tu turned around in the house, it was three huts, on both sides of the hall, there was a bedroom in each room, the bedroom had a back door, and there was a small courtyard outside, and there were stove rooms, wells, old trees, and some flowers and plants in the courtyard, which were very clean.

Rao Tu said with a smile: "Xiao Yanning is the shopkeeper, and he doesn't pay much attention to anything, only this yard is good." ”

She looked at May, "Do you have anything of value on you?" ”

May touched her neck and took out a gold collar from it, a little reluctant: "This ...... This is the ...... my mother left me."

Rao Tu smiled, "Since it's my mother's thing, I don't want to hide it quickly." ”

May was stunned, in his impression, Aunt Ah Yu was not a good-natured woman.

Rao Di took off all the valuable things on his body, the long hosta, the Xishu jade seal, and the rune dagger, these three pieces must not be taken away. The silver chain on the Xishu jade seal was not an important object, she stuffed the silver chain into May's little hand, and said warmly: "This silver chain has at least three taels." If you are in Jinling City, you can exchange ten catties of white flour and a bottle of sesame oil. It's not as good as Jinling City, you take this thing and ask to see how many things you can get back. If you are missing ten catties of white flour and a bottle of sesame oil, don't change it yet, come back and tell me. ”

As soon as May heard that she could change to white sesame oil, her eyes lit up, and she went out with a silver chain. Rao Di stood at the window, listening to the accent of the people here, it was not very difficult to understand, and looking at his style of acting, he was also very bold, not the style of businessmen on Jiangnan Road.

May came back soon, he carried twenty-five catties of white flour, and also hugged two bottles of sesame oil, a gourd of honey, and the remaining more than seventy copper plates. Rao Tu smiled: "Is this pasta so cheap?" ”

May said: "Workers in the quarry can only earn ten yuan a day, and only three hundred yuan a month, and three taels of silver is a large amount here, and you can buy a lot of grain." ”

Rao Tu nodded, pointed to the honey and asked, "Where did you get this?" ”

"There's an old man, a beekeeper, and he gave it to me."

Rao's face did not change, her heart was like a mirror, the old man may not be a beekeeper, Xiao Yanning seems to care about nothing, but he will definitely leave a group of dead soldiers to take care of it secretly. After all, it took a lot of effort to bring May and her here.

Rao Tu helped May deliver the pasta to the stove room, and she said, "May, if you want to make dim sum from Jinling City, I'll make it for you." ”

It has been a long time since May's eaten a full meal, thinking of all kinds of exquisite snacks in Jinling City, she couldn't help swallowing her saliva and nodded vigorously, but suddenly hesitated a little, "The fifth prince said, you are pregnant with a child, and you should take care of you in May." ”

Rao asked, "How do you take care of me?" ”

"I'm supposed to cook for my aunt, but...... But I don't know how to make dim sum......" May said with a sad face.

Rao Tu smiled: "Then you help me light the fire, not too big, not too small, you know?" ”

"Uh-huh!" May was assigned a task, and it was immediately exciting.

Rao Tu used sesame oil, honey, and water to mix the proportions of the noodles, her cooking skills are excellent, not learned in Jinling City, but lived with Shen Zhu in the Meilin Tile House to figure it out.

In those years, the days were short, but unforgettable.

May stared intently at the square or round dim sum on the board, her stomach rumbling. Rao Tu pursed her lips and smiled, she understood in her heart that this child was actually very sensible, he didn't do anything wrong, if he was wrong, it was Qin Tianjian who was wrong, the Xiao family was wrong, and his birth was wrong.

Rao Tu looked at the sky outside the window, she was a little distracted, everyone has a fate, what about Shen Zhu?

"Auntie, why are your eyes red?"

Rao Tu rubbed her eyes, "It's okay, it's smoky." ”

May frowned, flicked the firewood with fire tongs, and wondered, obviously the smoke has passed, can't it be that the chimney is broken? He got up and looked around the chimney, but found no smoke leaking.

"In May, who sent you out of Wuji Island in the East China Sea? Can I tell my aunt? ”

May scratched her head, a little embarrassed.

"I really can't say it, that's it."

May shook her head and said, "No, Uncle doesn't let Lord Shen know, but ...... I didn't say I couldn't let my aunt know. ”

"Which uncle?"

"Uncle Shen, he is Lord Shen's uncle."

Rao's hand trembled, "His uncle? ”

May nodded and said, "Yes, Uncle Shen is very pitiful, his hands and feet have been cut off. ”

"Who killed him?"

"Uncle said that it is the Xu family in Qingzhou."

It was like a thunderbolt from the sky, and she stood there unable to move.

May reminded: "Auntie! The lid of the pot is hot! ”

Rao Di suddenly withdrew her hand that was pressed on the lid of the pot, her fingers were already red, and she held on to the stove, her heart was numb. muttered: "It's the Xu family in Qingzhou...... harmed Shen Zhu's uncle...... Why? ”

Seeing her look change, May realized that she might have said the wrong thing, and she didn't know what to do for a while.

Rao Di continued: "Why the Xu family in Qingzhou? ”

She walked out of the stove room with her support for the wall, looked up at the sky, tears blurred her eyes, "Shen Zhu, you tell me, when your parents died, was it also because of the Xu family in Qingzhou?" ”

May stepped forward to support Rao Di, Rao Tu choked up, her lips trembled: "Shen Zhu, you tell me...... As soon as you leave, leave me here to be tortured, you ...... I hate you......"

……

Three years later.

On the hill outside Hanzhong City, the man who proclaimed himself the king of Yanping stood in the wind, his robe was blown by the wind, he looked at the impregnable Hanzhong City, and smiled at the woman in white next to him: "Look at this Hanzhong, in just three years, it has become indestructible." Can Xiao Yanlie still endure it? ”

The woman said lightly: "You pacified the northern border, and your command received 100,000 displaced people and accepted the forces of the rivers and lakes." In Xiao Yanlie's opinion, it is no longer a thorn in the flesh, but a tumor, you are waiting for the day when you will be crushed by his army. ”

The man is Xiao Yanning, and the woman is Rao.

Xiao Yanning laughed unscrupulously: "Okay, then I'll wait, I'm afraid he won't dare." ”

"Maniac."

Xiao Yanning ignored Rao's sarcasm, squatted on the ground and grabbed a handful of sand, let go of his hand, and let the sand disperse with the wind.

He said slowly word by word: "The country is very good, but I was asked to gather and disperse quicksand, Xiao Yanlie...... Ahem...... What does it mean for him to be an emperor? ”

Rao Tu looked at his back that was a little stiff due to coughing, and said softly: "Can your body hold up?" ”

Xiao Yanning stood up and overlooked Hanzhong City in the distance, and he smiled: "Shen Zhu's layout in the court is five years. Two years later, the temples of Jinling City will be in chaos. I thought, how can I kill Jinling City? ”

"I heard that Lu Zhouyue is pregnant."

Xiao Yanning glanced back at her, "Are you jealous?" ”

"I didn't ask."

"That time I took her out of the siege, I didn't die, and she didn't die. She was lucky. ”

Rao Tu sneered: "Lucky to meet you?" ”

"You might as well ask her if she regrets meeting me."

"If you die, what will happen to her mother and son?"

"I didn't give her a name, it was all up to her to follow me, if I died, whether she remarried or martyred, it had nothing to do with me."

Looking at this understated man, the world is cold, probably no one can stand out, right?

Xiao Yanning sighed: "I know what you're thinking, I, Xiao Yanning, was originally going to enter the hell of Ah Nose. Extremely vicious, do you know, I don't care about retribution for a long time...... I used to think that Shen Zhu was also a cool person. Later, I learned some hidden secrets, and it turned out that the most infatuated was Shen Zhu. The coolest is me. ”

Rao Di stopped talking, three years, he was gone for three years, but at the mention of his name, she still couldn't help but cut her heart like a knife.

In the past three years, she has converted the hall on the street into a pastry shop, specializing in exquisite Jiangnan dim sum, although it is not rich, but it is also enough for the family to eat and wear.

opened this dim sum shop, and naturally some people in the town were eyeing Rao, but those who bullied her with crooked thoughts ended up with no good end. People were still wondering before, but one day when they saw the majestic King Yanning walking into the dim sum shop, everyone gradually understood that the beautiful proprietress of the shop had a tough backer.

I'm afraid that she is a canary raised by the king of Yanning, who would dare to beat her idea. Therefore, although Rao Tu is not domineering, she is also gentle to others, and the surrounding neighbors are kind on the surface, but they are actually afraid.

Rao Tu walked on the street, it was almost dusk, and she saw two shadows in front of the road from a distance, the handsome young May, surrounded by a bouncing little fat pier.

A faint smile appeared at the corner of Rao's mouth, "Hengxiu, why are you pestering your May brother again?" ”

The little chubby dun said in a milky voice: "I'll pick up Brother May from school." "He spoke with a serious expression.

She trotted into her mother's arms and was picked up by Raodi, "Eat so much, I'm fat to death!" My mother won't be able to hold it, and if I dare to rob your brother Hengwen of food in the future, I will spank you. ”

Hengxiu blinked a pair of beautiful and bright eyes, and said innocently: "Hengwen gave me food, I didn't rob it." ”

"He's your brother, what's Hengwen Hengwen?"

"Uncle Xiao said that Hengwen was only half an hour ahead of me." The little girl was not convinced.

"That's earlier than you, and I won't hear Uncle Xiao talk nonsense in the future, he loves to deceive children the most."

Heng Xiu said thoughtfully: "No wonder Uncle Xiao said that good-looking men will deceive people, and also said that my mother was deceived by my father back then, and my father is very good-looking." ”

Rao Di frowned, she was thinking that it would be better to let Hengxiu and Xiao Yanning have less contact in the future.

Hengxiu buried her head in her neck and said sullenly: "Mother, when will Daddy come back?" ”

"When you and Hengwen grow up, he'll be back."

"But Aqing is the same age as me, why is his father here?"

"Ah Qing's father has something to do here, and your father has something to do outside. So Ah Qing's father is here, and Hengxiu's father is outside. ”

Hengxiu nodded as if he didn't understand, "But ......"

"Don't do it, let's go home, and my mother will boil eggs for you to eat."

Rao Tu looked at May next to her and asked, "Is today's homework difficult?" What did the teacher teach? ”

May shook his head: "It's not difficult, I read the "Shangshu" today." There is a new gentleman in the school, who lectures in the curtain, and speaks very well. ”

"Lecturing behind the curtain? Don't be the prince's man, right? Do you see what he looks like? ”

"I can't see clearly, but listening to the voice is not an old Confucian student, it should be a gentleman who is still in his life."

Rao Di asked, "There are only a dozen students in the school, but now there are two gentlemen?" ”

"Now that the teacher is old, he will teach us in the future."

Rao Di nodded, "Tomorrow is free, I'll go to meet the new gentleman, you can study with ease." Fu You smiled, "That gentleman doesn't want to show people, I don't know if I can see it." ”

Hengxiu raised his hands: "I saw it, I saw it!" ”

"Oh? How did you see that? ”

"I was waiting outside the door for May, and my husband called me in, and I didn't sneak into the curtain." The little girl looked at her mother's face a little wrong, and beat the small drum in her heart, and the more she talked, the more she lost confidence.

Rao Tu patted her on the head and said with a calm face: "If you dare to mess around like this in the future, I won't talk to you." ”

"Oh......"

"You met the gentleman, and then? Is the sir annoyed? ”

"No, when he saw me, he really beckoned me over! He also asked me what my name was and gave me candy to eat. ”

Rao Tu frowned, "Don't go to the academy to make trouble in the future!" ”

"Oh...... Mr. looks good, it will be deceiving, I will never go again. ”

Walking to the shop, Hengwen lay on the table, holding the old book of May to read.

"Hengwen, what are you looking at?" Hengxiu opened Hengwen's book and put his face on it. Hengwen is not as savage as Hengxiu, handsome and upright, and has a quiet temperament.

Seeing his sister ask, he said very unceremoniously: "I told you that you don't understand." ”

Hengxiu twisted her eyebrows, "If you don't tell me, how do you know that I don't understand?" ”

Rao Di smiled: "Okay, Hengxiu, you go to the yard to play, don't disturb Hengwen, Brother May also wants to read." ”

Hengxiu was not convinced, and pulled May's sleeve, "May's brother's book back is good, don't read it, I want May to play with me." ”

Heng Wen said: "No, Brother May wants to tell me the Book of Songs." ”

May smiled and rubbed Hengxiu's head, "Otherwise, you can also listen to it, so that you can know what Hengwen is looking at." ”

Hengxiu was very entangled with May, and also listened to May's words, and when he heard the words, he considered the pros and cons in his heart, nodded and sat on the stool honestly, looking at May with his little head up.

Rao Tu looked at the three children, hoping that they would be like this forever. But she knows that such a day, one day is one day less.

In May, Hengwen absorbed the remaining five points of national fortune in the old Western Shu, and even Hengxiu absorbed two points. What will happen to these three children in the future, she can't imagine.

On the second day, Rao Di personally sent May to the school, the school is at the end of the city road, very close to the pastry shop, and he went to May himself on weekdays, because a new gentleman came, Rao Di wanted to go to meet him, deliberately half an hour early.

But I didn't see the gentleman, and I heard the little guy in the school say that the gentleman had just arrived, and he was sick because of the water and soil.

Rao Di didn't care, and when she went back, she prepared a school fee and a few boxes of snacks from the shop for May, and asked him to visit her husband.

When he came back in the middle of May, he said that his husband had received snacks, but he had confiscated his tuition and had not seen him.

Rao Di was a little puzzled, and listened to May and said: "Mr. said that he likes to eat osmanthus cakes in the shop, please ask me to bring a box every five days, and I will be used as a scholarship." ”

Rao said: "A box of cinnamon cake is only 5 yuan, and it is only 30 yuan for a month, does Mr. know?" ”

"I told my husband, and he said it was okay."

Rao Tu smiled: "Then let's do it first." I'd love to see you, this gentleman. ”

May was a little dull, as if there was something to hold back and not say.

Rao Tu asked, "What else is going on?" ”

May shook her head: "It's okay, I just think that gentleman's voice is a little familiar, maybe I'm too careful." ”

"Familiar? Where have you heard it before? ”

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