The night is already deep, Yi Niang has already fallen asleep, and there will be some strange noises outside the window from time to time, it is the locusts that have slipped through the net are devouring the green leaves in the yard, which also reminds Li Xiu that the locust plague outside is still continuing, thinking that the various crops in the fields outside are devoured by endless locusts, Li Xiu can't sleep. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Stayed up until nearly midnight, Li Xiu still didn't feel half sleepy, and finally simply got up from the bed, put on his clothes and came to the yard, today's moonlight is very good, the semi-circular moon hangs obliquely in the air, illuminating the entire night sky and not seeing a few stars.

"Huh?" As soon as Li Xiu came to the courtyard, he found that there were a few bright lights coming from the corner of the courtyard, as if there were candles lit, which made him stunned for a moment, who would be fine to light a candle in the corner of the wall in the middle of the night?

With the doubts in his heart, Li Xiu quietly walked over, but when he approached, he heard a woman's whisper, which matched the surrounding night, and people couldn't help but feel a chill, and even Li Xiu was a little hesitant at this time, not knowing if he should go back and call someone?

But at this moment, Li Xiu suddenly found that the woman's voice was very familiar, which made him can't help but be bold, and he walked over lightly again, only to find that the candlelight came from behind a rockery in the corner of the courtyard.

At that moment, Li Xiu walked gently to the rockery, and then poked his head out to look behind, only to see that in a small open space behind the rockery, a woman was kneeling there with her back to Li Xiu, two candles were lit in front of the woman, and in the middle of the candle, there seemed to be something standing, but I couldn't see clearly for a while?

Although the woman had her back to Li Xiu and it was dark, Li Xiu was too familiar with this woman, so he recognized it at a glance, and he couldn't help but come out and say, "Yuechan, what are you doing here?" ”

The woman kneeling there was Yuechan, Li Xiu was naturally familiar with his personal maid, in fact, when he heard the voice just now, he already suspected that it was Yuechan, and now it seems that he did not guess wrong.

"Old man......" Hearing Li Xiu's words, Yuechan, who was kneeling on the ground, was also startled, and stood up in a panic at the moment, wiped the tears on her face at the same time, and wanted to cover the candles and other things on the ground, but it was in vain.

Li Xiu stepped forward, and was surprised to find that in addition to the candles on the ground, there was a small tablet, because the light was a little dim, so Li Xiu couldn't see the words on the tablet for the time being, but there were still a few fruits in front of the tablet, and there was even a plate of fried locusts, which seemed to be a tribute to someone, but it was really strange to use locusts to pay tribute.

"Yuechan, you ...... Paying tribute to your loved ones? Li Xiu looked at the things on the ground, and asked Yuechan with some hesitation, he knew that Yuechan's life experience could not see the light, especially her father, could it be said that she was paying tribute to her father?

"Hmm!" Now that Li Xiu has seen it, Yuechan has also given up the idea of concealing it, and in this world, the only person who can make her fully believe in it is Li Xiu, so I saw her nod lightly, but there was still a little panic on her little face.

"It's human nature to miss your loved ones, and you don't have to hide it!" Li Xiu also said softly at this time, he was also very sympathetic to Yuechan's life experience, but the matter had already passed, and he could only comfort Yuechan a few words.

"Thank you for your understanding, the slave suddenly thought of my mother today, so I wanted to take advantage of the night to quietly pay tribute, but I didn't expect to wake up the master!" When Yuechan said the end, she couldn't help but bow to Li Xiu apologetically, she thought that her voice was too loud, so she woke Li Xiu up.

"Hehe, I wasn't woken up by you, but I couldn't sleep, I wanted to come to the yard to walk around, but I didn't expect to find that there was a light here, so I came over to take a look, and I just found that you were here." Li Xiu explained with a smile at this time.

When he said this, Li Xiu stepped forward and took two steps, only then did he see that on the tablet in the middle of the candle, it was written "Xian Yan Xiao Qin's position", which also made him stunned again, the so-called "Xian Yan" is actually a good name for the deceased mother, and the Xiao Qin family in the back obviously refers to a woman, that is to say, Yuechan is here to commemorate her mother, not the father that Li Xiu just thought.

"Your mother, she ......" Li Xiu hesitated for a moment and finally asked, he only knew that Yuechan's father died at the hands of Li Yuan, but he had never heard her mention her mother, and he didn't even know that she had died, so he asked.

Yuechan hadn't wiped away the tears on her face at this time, and when she heard Li Xiu ask about her mother, her little face also showed a bit of sadness, and after a while, she said softly: "If the master can't sleep, can you listen to the slave tell a story?" ”

"Of course, how about we sit down?" Li Xiu also saw that Yuechan's expression was low, and seemed to want to find someone to talk to, which also made him nod immediately, and then stepped forward and pulled her to sit down on the rockery next to her, at this time, a gust of night wind blew, messing up the hair in front of Yuechan's forehead, and a few strands of hair were stuck to her face with tears, which also looked a little distressing.

When Yuechan stretched out her fingers and brushed the messy hair on her forehead behind her ears, she looked at the tablet not far away, and then said softly: "Once upon a time, there was a girl, her mother was from a humble background, and she was accepted as a concubine by a county order, and then gave birth to her, this county order has a wife, and several concubines, and many children, so this girl is almost unnoticed at home, and even his father almost forgot that he has such a daughter. ”

"Later, the world was in turmoil, and this county order took advantage of the situation to establish a small kingdom in one fell swoop, and established itself as the emperor, so that this little girl naturally became a princess, but even if it is a princess, she is still not as good as her brothers and sisters, and no one will notice her, and then another powerful country attacked the country of the county order, and the county order could not beat the other party, so it could only surrender, and the family was also escorted to the capital of the enemy country as a prisoner of war."

"When the county order surrendered, the palace was also in chaos, countless people wanted to escape, the little girl's mother was also ready to escape from the palace with her, but in the end it failed, and in desperation she could only dress up as an ordinary palace person, hoping to escape, their mother and daughter were inconspicuous in the palace, and there were too many people who escaped that day, so no one cared about them at all, and in the end they didn't find out their identities."

"However, what they didn't expect was that the general of the enemy country locked up all the palace maids and prepared to give gifts to the emperor of the enemy country, and the girl's mother was worried that others would recognize the identity of their mother and daughter, especially the identity of the girl, so she thought of a good way, that is, to let the girl eat desperately......"

When she said this, Yuechan's nose suddenly became sore, and tears could no longer stop pouring out, and at this time Li Xiu also sighed lightly, as long as her eyes were not blind, she could see that Yuechan was actually telling her own story, the emperor from the county order was her father Xiao Miao, which he had guessed before, but it was the first time Yuechan opened her heart to him.

I saw Yuechan shed tears for a while, and finally continued to speak: "Because the war in the south has not been settled, so those palace maids can't be sent away for a while, so they are locked up in the garden on the side of the palace, and every day someone sends food, the girl's mother lets the girl eat her own food, and she is desperate to find something to eat, frogs, snakes, locusts, etc., as long as it is something that can be eaten, she has forced it into the girl's mouth, even if she can't eat it, she has to eat, and she sleep......s after eating."

When Yuechan said this, her body couldn't help trembling slightly, although the matter had passed, it still left an indelible shadow in her heart, at this time, even if she just thought about it, it seemed to make her return to that desperate time again, which also made Li Xiu couldn't help but feel pity, and stretched out her arm at the moment and gently took Yuechan in her arms.

Yuechan did not resist Li Xiu's movements, but instead rested her head on Li Xiu's chest very obediently, feeling his solid chest, which made her finally get rid of her fear, and her body slowly recovered the trembling that had stopped.

After a long while, only to hear Yuechan speak again: "During that time, the girl's mother seemed to be crazy, desperately letting the girl eat anything she could eat, but in just a few months, the girl really doubled in weight, and the appearance of the whole person has changed a lot, if it is not a particularly familiar person, she can't recognize her at all, and then her father and siblings were all beheaded, but she was not recognized, so she finally escaped her life, and these are all thanks to her mother!" ”

"That'...... What happened to her mother? After listening to Yuechan's "story", Li Xiu asked again after a long while.

"Dead!" Yuechan said with a sad expression at this time, "The night before they were to be escorted to the enemy capital, the girl's mother climbed the wall of the palace and jumped from it, because she was afraid that she would be recognized and thus implicated in the girl's true identity, so she chose to end her life, and before jumping down, she even scratched her face, so that others would never recognize her!" ”

At the end, the tears on Yuechan's face couldn't stop flowing down, which also made Li Xiu even more distressed, and at the moment he hugged her trembling body tightly in his arms with both hands, and said softly: "If you want to cry, cry out, don't hold back and hurt your body!" ”

As soon as Li Xiu's words came out, Yuechan's grief was finally detonated, and she cried non-stop in his arms at the moment, and the tears quickly wet the clothes on Li Xiu's chest, as if she wanted to vent all the grievances of these years.