On the day Yu An left, I stuffed two roasted "noisy dead people" into his baggage. Si'er hid in the quilt and cried secretly for a night, and when it was time to really part, his two eyes were so swollen that he could barely see the pupils inside.

Actually, I wanted to persuade her, but I didn't know how to say it. Yu An is a feathered phoenix, and she and I are sparrows pecking in the field, even if we get together and eat a few grass seeds, we can't be together forever. What's more, he still has his blood feud.

"Is it safe for you to get out of town now? Is there anything we can do? "My biggest concern now is still Yu An's safety.

"I've been hiding for so many days, so it should be fine. As soon as I leave the city gate, someone will come to pick me up. These days...... Thank you very much! Yu An choked with red eyes.

"Will you come back to see us?" Si'er rolled down two lines of tears in the blink of an eye.

The boy nodded cautiously, turned to look at me, and said, "If I am still alive in seven years, I will definitely come back to you." ”

Seven years, seven years away. In such troubled times, it is not easy for an identity like him to live for seven years. But I nodded vigorously, because no matter how long it will take, I will be here and not going anywhere.

On that snowy morning, the young man in Tsing Yi walked away step by step with his sword on his back.

I think I will always remember the nights when he slept with us, the words he said to me in the dark, the outside world he described to me.

After Yu An left, Si'er was very sad because she lost the second person she liked in her life. But I told her that she would never lose the first person she fell in love with.

"Shameless and skinless stinky girl!" Si'er listened to my words and burst into laughter. She knew that what I said was true.

After a few days, there were finally fewer people coming and going in the house. The housekeeper asked me to go to the study to serve, and I put on my freshly made winter coat early in the morning. By the time I got to the study, the general was already sitting inside. I hurriedly saluted and sat down beside him.

He looked down at the scroll and said casually, "I asked the housekeeper to make you a few new pairs of shoes, and throw away the pair you wore last time you climbed the tree!" ”

My heart warmed, and I kowtowed: "Thank you, the master!" ”

The general hummed and asked, "Do you want to be literate?" ”

"The servant doesn't dare." I doubted in my heart and didn't dare to make a mistake.

"Oh." The general raised an eyebrow, turned his head to look at the scroll, and ignored me.

The study suddenly became so quiet, and all that was left in my ears was the general's long breathing and my pounding heartbeat.

Is he playing tricks on me? Can I really be literate? The last time he bumped into me peeking at a book, I thought I would be flogged, but then somehow I stopped doing it. Today, if I don't know what to do, will I be dragged out and beaten twice? I'm not afraid of being beaten, and if I can read and write after two beatings, I'm too late to be happy. Thinking of this, I simply put my heart sideways, gritted my teeth, slammed my head on the mat, and said loudly: "General Hui, the servant wants to be literate!" ”

"Haha, great goodness!" The general seemed pleased, he smiled and reached out to lift me over and put it at his side, reached out to open a roll of bamboo slips on the desk and said, "Then today, let's start with this volume......

Many years later, I learned that the book that the general taught me to use for enlightenment was the book of war written by Sun Wu, a doctor of Wu State, who was highly respected by later generations and was rarely known at this time. This is only one military book, but it saved my life several times after that, but that's a story for later.

Sometimes, people's fate often depends on a small choice, a small decision, and showing a little courage at the moment when the opportunity comes may change one's destiny.

After a day in the study, the general's favor for me made everyone in the palace drop their jaws. A lowly orphan girl suddenly has a Mujiao (1), she no longer has to stay up all night to peel the linen and rub the rope, no longer have to wash the clothes for the servants in the house, she only needs to sit in the study every day to read, adjust ink, and practice calligraphy.

All this is strange to other people, even I can't believe it.

Because I was a very fast learner, and the general did not have enough time to teach me on weekdays, he chose a master for me who excelled in learning from among his disciples.

Cai Fuzi was originally a native of the Jin Kingdom, but for some reason he moved to the Qin State. He had only been under the general's door for a few months, and when he heard that he was going to raise a child in the general's mansion, he couldn't help but be happy, thinking that his talent had finally been valued by the head of the family, so he had the opportunity to personally raise the young master of his mansion.

With such a belief, Cai Fuzi waited at the door of the house with a bookcase on his back before dawn that night.

The next morning, as soon as the housekeeper opened the door of the house, he saw the old master looking at him with a pair of dark eyes and a smile, and the beard on his chin was already frosty.

Since Master is so enthusiastic, it is said that my path to study should be smooth sailing. Unexpectedly, when the old master saw me, his frozen beard was so angry that he curled up. With trembling hands and unable to spit out a word, he threw away the bookcase and rushed out of the house, never being ill again.

At that time, I didn't understand why the master was sad, but I thought that it was my ugly face that scared him.

"So you're here...... Why, can the Master come back by hiding? "When the general found me, I had been hiding in a tree in my backyard and crying all day.

"I scared the master away... I'm ugly... It's a monster...... "I cried until my eyes turned black, and I just felt that no matter where I went in the future, what I looked like, even if I wasn't seen, my blue eyes would be regarded as a monster."

"It was my negligence, not your fault." The general sighed and jumped up the tree on tiptoe. He gently wiped away the tears from my face and smiled softly, "Don't cry, if the child is born ugly, how can other women in this world deal with themselves?" ”

I grabbed his moon-white collar with my dirty hand and asked with a sob, "General, I'm not a monster or a mountain ghost, am I?" "In the hazy moonlight, his smile was so gentle that I completely forgot that he was a high-ranking general, and that he was just a lowly little slave.

"Yes, those who are afraid of your eyes just can't see through the awe in their hearts." He told me word by word with his back to the moonlight, and the voice made my trembling heart tremble in the darkness with inexplicable warmth.

"General, why do you treat me so well?" I clutched his clothes tightly, fearing that if I let go, he would disappear into the night like a puff of smoke.

"Because you're the treasure I picked up, because I'm looking forward to what you'll look like when you grow up......," he said, picking me up and jumping off the tree, I leaned over his shoulder and stared blankly at the green stubble on his chin, full of anticipation for the first time of growing up and looking forward to the future.

"Sleep when you're tired!" He rubbed my hair with his hand, "I'll have to chase your master back tomorrow!" ”

Listening to his calm and powerful heartbeat, I had already collapsed and fell into a deep sleep in his arms......