Xue Chongxun is really not good at comforting women, he said that "people can't be resurrected after death, and when the festival mourns and changes", he felt that it was useless, so he had to wait patiently for the little lady's love to calm down. Sure enough, time is the best medicine to heal a qiē sadness, and after a long time, she gradually stopped sobbing.

"How many days is it? Light the lights. Xue Chongxun said.

The little lady answered, and then heard a few breaths of "whirring", a few sparks flashed in the darkness, and after a while the fire fold was blown alight, and then a flame the size of a bean rose on the oil lamp.

After there was a bright light, Xue Chongxun looked at the little lady curiously, she was holding an umbrella on the street last night, and the light was not very good, so she didn't see clearly. Under the dim and beating light, I saw that she looked very thin, her complexion was not as fair as the woman in Chang'an, and her face was a little dark, so she didn't look so beautiful, but her eyes were shining with the bright light of the lamp, and she was very aura.

At this time, Xue Chongxun noticed that she was wearing trousers, and the collar of her jacket was a little different from that of the Tang people, so he suddenly came back to his senses and asked, "Are you from Tuyuhun?" ”

Xiaoniang nodded and said, "After Uncle Chang left, I didn't have anyone to rely on in Dahua City, so I wanted to save enough money and go back to my sister." ”

Xue Chongxun reached out to his waist and touched it, there was nothing, he looked down and saw that the clothes on his body had been changed, probably the clothes of the "Uncle Chang", he looked left and right, and found that his things were all placed on the wooden table at the head of the bed. He picked up the piece of jade, thought about it and didn't give it to the little lady, and put it directly into his sleeve pocket. Then he picked up the scabbard, picked up the knife on the desk and began to pry the gold ornaments on it. He was busy asking, "What's your name?" ”

Xiao Niang said: "The people in Qinzhou Restaurant call me Dong'er, I was born in winter." ”

"Last name?"

Xiao Niang hesitated for a moment before saying, "Murong, Uncle Chang told me not to say anything about people's surnames casually......

Xue Chongxun smiled dryly: "Tuyuhun has a lot of surnames like Murong, it's not a big deal, if you twist and pinch, others are easy to doubt your origin." ”

"What's your last name?" Dong'er turned around and asked.

Xue Chongxun said: "...... My surname is Chang. ”

Dong'er was stunned and said, "You lied to me!" ”

Xue Chongxun's face was not red or red, and he said, "I'm serious." ”

Dong'er looked at him in a daze, and only after a long time did he shake his head and say, "You are not Uncle Chang!" ”

Xue Chongxun said: "Well, I'm just surnamed Chang...... How did you get me home yesterday? Can anyone help? ”

Dong'er was still looking at Xue Chongxun's face, and blurted out: "The person pulling the car at the fork in the road is an acquaintance with me, I lied to him that you are my relative, and I asked him to pull you back with a cart." ”

Xue Chongxun frowned, a little worried in his heart, but then he thought about it: If you go out at this time, you can't go out of the city and have nowhere to go, which is even more dangerous; What's more, the coolies who pulled the car were at the bottom, and it was difficult to get in touch with the government, at least in a short period of time.

After thinking about it, he quieted down, and continued to pry the knife ornament casually, and finally pry off a few pieces of thin gold, and he found a hammer, put the gold on a brick, and beat it into a shape, so that he couldn't see what kind of gold it was, and then handed it to Dong'er: "Take it, maybe you can use it." ”

Dong'er hesitated and didn't know whether to take it. Xue Chongxun grabbed her little hand, stuffed it into her hand and said, "You saved my life, this little thing is nothing, maybe the carriage and horse are not enough, but it is better than nothing." ”

"Are you a Jiangyang thief?" Dong'er asked timidly. It may be that Xue Chongxun's behavior is too weird, and he has to disguise himself when he gets some valuable goods.

Xue Chongxun smiled: "Do you think I look like? If you are like a thief in Jiangyang, do you still have the courage to bring me to my house? But I have an enemy, so don't tell anyone, understand? ”

Dong'er looked at Xue Chongxun in a daze and nodded, her eyes turned, and she said with a sudden realization: "I know that there is a hole in the west, and some people want to get something out of the city that is not allowed to go out, and they will climb out from there, and not many people know about it, I also know it from Uncle Chang, you can escape from there!" ”

Xue Chongxun said happily: "Really? Dong'er nodded vigorously. Seeing this, Xue Chongxun said in his heart: The government doesn't know that place? This is a big loophole in defense, if there are enemy soldiers plundering the city, using Tugu Hun to make internal responses, open the city gate, Dahua City will not be easily breached?

Although there are many doubts about the cave in the ground that Dong'er said, he is already a turtle in the urn at this time, and it is not that he can't try it, so he immediately said: "Without further ado, we will set off now!" ”

Dong'er hesitated: "It's not dawn yet, there's a curfew in the city, and I don't have a household registration, what if I don't patrol and catch being treated as a spy?" ”

Xue Chongxun breathed a sigh of relief, tried to calm his mood, and agreed: "It makes sense, it's not easy to be noticed when you go out after dawn...... You take me out of the city, and when I escape, in return, you can leave it to me to do everything you need to do about your return to your hometown. ”

Dong'er was stunned and said, "I'...... Am I going to go with you? ”

Xue Chongxun thought about it, she only knew herself last night, if she hadn't passed out and died to win her sympathy, the two of them would be complete strangers, so she could completely trust and entrust a stranger? He thought for a moment and said, "Why don't you take me out first, and then wait for me in Dahua City, and I will definitely come to you after I promise you peace." ”

After a moment of silence, Dong'er suddenly raised her head and said, "Uncle Chang take me with you!" ”

Xue Chongxun was a little surprised, looked into her eyes, and paused: "Okay, just decide." After dawn, let's go. ”

Maybe she couldn't bear the helpless life here for a long time, but after hearing this, she was a little excited, and hurriedly stood up to pack her things, "Oh, my clothes are still in the restaurant...... This is where Uncle Chang used to live, and my stuff is not here. ”

Xue Chongxun said: "You don't have to bring anything. ”

Dong'er thought for a while and said, "I have to go back to the restaurant first and tell the master." ”

Xue Chongxun hurriedly said: "No need, the sooner we are, the better!" She shook her head: "I am a slave of Aunt Li's family, if I don't go in the morning, she will think that I have escaped, so I have to ask people to look for me everywhere...... She took a lot of Tuyuhun people as slaves, and she also knew the cave in the west of the city...... I'm a little scared, so it's better to tell her first, just say that the relatives are coming and will be delayed for a long time, stabilize her first and then let's escape! ”

Xue Chongxun listened and groaned: "...... Well, you can go and come back quickly in a while, so that you don't have too many dreams at night. ”

Dong'er glanced at the window and said, "You're hungry, I'll cook for you first." ”

She was busy for a while, and then she broke a large bowl of steaming soup. Xue Chongxun sat in front of the desk and lifted the chopsticks, the light was not very good, he really didn't know what this bowl of paste was. Yesterday morning, he was sent to Dahua City by the villagers, and he didn't eat for a day and night, and now he was really hungry, and he didn't care what was in the bowl, so he blew and drank at the same time.

It's a little salty, and you can't taste the other flavors. originally thought that he would be able to eat a meal of delicacies from the mountains and seas when he arrived at the county office, but he was entertained by four or five strong men with weapons...... But in this dilapidated house, a Tuyuhun lady entertained a meal with coarse tea and light rice, no matter whether the things were delicious or not, at least it was very hot. At this time, Xue Chongxun's heart was filled with a sour feeling.

But he quickly regained his self-confidence, and although the current situation is very bad, fortunately, there is at least hope and a place to return.

"You eat too." Xue Chongxun beckoned, "Anything else?" ”

Dong'er was a little embarrassed and said: "There is no food, you don't have to worry about me, I can have food in the restaurant." ”

Xue Chongxun looked down at the empty bowl, he actually ate it cleanly, and he knew that there was only one bowl that should be given to her.

After a while, there was a rooster crowing outside, and the windows were white. Dong'er said, "I'll go first, you wait for me at home, rest for a while." ”

Xue Chongxun nodded and said, "Go and come back quickly." ”

After Dong'er went out, Xue Chongxun looked around to observe the surrounding environment.

He thought of Jiang Changqing again, why did that thing take the risk of exterminating the clan to plot against himself? Even if Jiang Changqing is the former prince's person, what is the need to harm Xue Chongxun at this time? If necessary, it is useful to deal with Princess Taiping. In short, Xue Chongxun couldn't guess the relationship, originally he was here for the first time.

When Xue Chongxun was thinking hard, suddenly there was a sound of talking outside the door, he hurriedly stood up vigilantly, walked to the door, looked out from the crack in the door, and saw two people in shabby clothes, Xue Chongxun breathed a sigh of relief.

One of them said: "I heard that the Tang Dynasty is going to fight with Tubo, and we Tuyuhun people are afraid that life will be even more difficult here in the future." ”

The other was suddenly surprised: "Hey, why are there officials here?" ”

"Let's go!"

These Tuyuhun people have lived in the Tang Dynasty for a long time, and the Chinese language is more comfortable than their own people, fortunately, it is the Chinese dialect, Xue Chongxun can understand, he heard that there is an official errand, and hurriedly looked everywhere through the crack in the door, but he didn't see anything for a while.

He did not dare to hesitate to think about it, hurried back into the room, walked to the back window, opened it gently, climbed out of it, and then closed the window carefully.

Dressed in the ragged clothes of Tuguhun and a straw hat, he walked north from the middle of the dilapidated house with his head down, surrounded by densely built and simple houses, which reminded him of the slums.

Walking to the edge of an earthen wall, Xue Chongxun held back the pain, climbed over the wall, and followed an alley outside to Guò and came to the street. I saw people coming and going on the streets, and there were many people who wore the same tattered hard labor as him, and it was only by blending into the crowd that he felt a little at ease. There was nothing unusual outside, and it was obvious that Jiang Changqing and the others were also weak-minded, and they didn't dare to search for a county king with great fanfare!

At this time, he pondered: Dong'er's house must have left many clues, and those clues found by the official messenger can almost conclude that she is implicated! After some investigation, I am afraid that I will be able to find the Qinzhou restaurant where she is located.

Does Xue Chongxun want to go to the restaurant to find her, will he fall into the net? M