Chapter 5: Ill-fated (1)
OK! Except for some minor abrasions on her arms and knees, her body was fine, and her clothes were intact.
Mother! Why is Li'er's life so bitter? From now on, what is the point of being alone in this world? Little prince! If you cherish Li'er, let Li'er go with you! Li'er cried and thought about it, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt that following her mother and the little prince was the best relief.
She wanted to jump into the fire again, and was worried that her flower and moon appearance would be burned to a hideous and terrifying place, and when she went to the underworld to see the little prince, the little prince would feel scared, and even disgusted with her appearance, and empathize with her. Go find a big tree and hang yourself, and worry that when you hang yourself, your tongue will show a very long time, and legend has it that the tongue of the hanged ghost has always been very long, and the little prince will still be unhappy because of this. Go and jump into the river and drown, if you soak in the river for a long time, your whole body will be swollen and deformed...... Alas, it's so hard to die!
After thinking about it, she ran out of ideas, and suddenly remembered her mother's words: "If Li'er has the blood of the little prince in her belly, it will be a blessing that God has opened his eyes." ”
She subconsciously touched her abdomen with her hand, and said in her heart: "Could it be that there will be children in the love between husband and wife only for one night?" If you really have a child with the little prince, it should be a great blessing! No wonder my mother has always told Li'er not to die.
Thinking of this, Li'er suddenly had the courage and confidence to live, for the sake of this unmasked child, for him to avenge his mother and the little prince one day, Li'er must live. At present, I am going to Chang'an to find my father according to my mother's instructions, I don't know how my father is doing now? Since her father went out with the army, Li'er hasn't seen her father for ten years.
She folded the futon, pulled a few green vines on the side of the road to tie up the futon, carried it on her back, identified the direction of Chang'an, and walked forward blankly.
Li'er walked all the way, begging all the way, as soon as she saw a courtyard, she mustered up the courage to go to beg for water to drink, begging for food, tired to sit on the ground for a while, sleepy at night, open the futon to sleep for a while, just like that, stop and go, more than ten days later to a market town.
This is a tattered small market town, there are only a dozen households in the market town, there are a few businessmen on the side of the road with some hats and clothes, night pots, hawking, the only one who sells rouge red brocade line The merchant carries the goods on his back, shouting while walking: "Big lady, little lady, look at this side, rouge gouache flower red brocade line!" Rouge gouache! ”
At this time, it is the season of spring flowers, and there are a few peach blossoms and pear blossoms in the dilapidated market town. Li'er looked down at her dirty and old dress, reluctantly looked at the rouge gouache that the merchant was carrying, and turned to walk towards a bun shop.
The hot buns have just come out of the pot, and the fragrance is coming to the nose! Li'er swallowed her saliva, stretched out a hand, and pleaded with the shopkeeper: "Please ask Brother Xiaolang to give you a bun, the slave family hasn't eaten for a day, and the slave family thank you." He said a blessing.
The shopkeeper said impatiently: "Today's bad luck, before it opened, it came to call Huazi, flashed to the side and waited, and when the customer was opened, he would give you charity." ”
Li'er's face turned red suddenly, I didn't expect that the people had not yet opened, and the businessman was the most taboo about this first business, if the first business came called Hanako, then today's business would be extremely unsmooth.
She hurriedly took a few steps back, looked at the tempting pot of steamed buns from afar, and begged the Bodhisattva to bless her to come to the first customer quickly, but even if she begged hundreds of times, the first customer was unwilling to show up.
Li'er's saliva was swallowed dozens of times, and she stood there stupidly, begging the Bodhisattva constantly, but the people in the market town came and went, but no one came to buy the first bun.
Li'er's feet were weak, and she thought that it would be better to go to a family and order porridge to drink. She swallowed another mouthful of saliva and turned to leave.
At this moment, a familiar figure walked up to the steamed buns, "Brother Xiaolang, here are two steamed buns." ”
Li'er took a closer look, wasn't this the merchant who sold rouge gouache just now? It's really a bodhisattva blessing, and the good guy has finally come.
Li'er was about to wait for him to leave, and then be cheeky to ask for a bun, but the merchant smiled and handed a bun to Li'er, "Eat, the little lady dares to be very hungry." ”
Li'er held the steaming bun, and tears flowed down at once, "The slave family thanked Brother Xiaolang." ”
"Eat quickly, it will be cold later." The merchant smiled.
Li'er picked up the bun and sent it straight to her mouth, eager to swallow it in one bite, just after eating two bites, suddenly the people in the market town shouted! While shouting, he ran towards the outside of the market town as if he was dying!
Before Li'er came back to her senses, she was jerked by the merchant, "Run!" The army is coming! Li'er ate the buns while running, and before she had a bite left, she was hit by a man behind her, and the rest of the buns were knocked out!
"Oops! Bun! Bun! Li'er shouted. Inevitably, the pace slowed down.
"What's the matter? This army kills people when they see them, aren't you afraid of death? The merchant turned around and came back, picked up Li'er and ran.
Li'er thought that her father was also in the army, and she had never heard him talk about killing people when she saw them, so it could be that the people listened to the rumors, so they were afraid of becoming like this.
Li'er wanted to ask something, but at this time she heard the sound of horses' hooves behind her! The merchant shouted nervously, "Don't run! Find a place to hide! It's too late later. ”
The two of them looked around for a while, and found a firewood stack, and the merchant pulled Li'er and flew towards the firewood stack! Before they ran in front of the firewood stack, the ground suddenly sank, and the two fell down one after another!
Li'er was terrified! When I stepped on my feet, I found that it was a potato cellar, and there were some sweet potatoes in it, some of which had rotted and emitted a musty smell.
The potato cellar was only half a man deep, and the merchant hurriedly jumped up and picked up a lot of firewood and grass to cover the hole, and as soon as it was finished, the hooves of the horses galloped over!
Li'er buried her head in her knees, trembling and waiting for the sound of the horse's hooves to end. But the sound of the horse's hooves continued to sound like flowing water, and an hour had passed, and there was no intention of stopping.
"Little lady, don't worry, I'm afraid there are more than 10,000 people in this army, and it will take another two hours for the team to finish." Seeing Li'er's anxious look, the merchant whispered to comfort her.
Li'er nodded, she didn't want to speak, it was the first time in her life that she was so close to a strange man, and she kept her distance from the merchant, worried about what he would do to her.
The merchant smiled: "I am not a wicked person, the little lady should not worry." ”
Li'er remembered that people were buying buns for herself just now, so why was she worried about what other people would do? She also smiled and whispered, "The face of the wicked will not be engraved with words." ”
The merchant said: "Under the surname Zhang, he is really a good person, he has been doing rouge gouache business throughout the Central Plains for ten years, if he is a wicked person, he would have been hacked to death by the enemy in the wilderness, how can he still have his life." ”
Li'er thought of the death of her mother and the little prince, and she said in her heart, lovers also have evil retribution, is it possible that those who are hacked to death are wicked people? But at this time, she didn't want to reason with him, but said lightly: "It turned out to be Brother Zhang, the slave family believes that Brother Zhang is a good person, the slave family's surname is Xie, the name is Li'er, and the Chang'an family is from Chang'an. ”
Li'er didn't want to tell Brother Zhang the truth, so she made up some lies, and she was inevitably a little embarrassed after speaking.
"Li'er Hugh should be polite, this is a long way to Chang'an, just by the way, if you want, I can walk with you." Brother Zhang is very refreshing.
Li'er thought that it was indeed inconvenient for a girl's family to walk on the road, and it would be good to take care of her if she walked with Brother Zhang, so she immediately recognized Brother Zhang as her brother and agreed to go with him.
A few hours passed, the air in the potato cellar was thinner, and it was becoming more and more difficult to breathe, Brother Zhang stood up and cut some of the firewood and grass on it, he looked through the hole and saw that there was no movement outside, and he said happily: "Let's go, the army is over." ”
Li'er climbed out of the potato cellar with him, took a big breath, and asked, "Big brother, why does this army kill people when they see them?" ”
Brother Zhang said: "I haven't heard of the power of this army, this army is a Hu people, they never bring military rations when they march and fight, they rob the people's food when they see it, kill people if they can't grab food, pickle the corpse and use it as military food." ”
When Li'er heard this, her scalp immediately went numb, and she was so scared that she was terribly afraid, if it weren't for Brother Zhang's cleverness and hiding, wouldn't the two of us be used as military rations now?