By the time I left the plum grove and came out of the mountains, the pink and purple sunset had just faded. In the distant village, the milky white smoke and the silver-gray twilight blend together, and everything is covered with a thin veil, faint and fluttering. I haven't even drunk a sip of water since I came out in the morning, and the only thing that has entered my mouth is a deadly poison. At this time, when I saw the curling smoke, my stomach couldn't help but scream several times.

If you don't want to marry into the prince's mansion, there is a heaven-sent opportunity in front of you. Once the red medicine is discovered, everyone will start tracking down my whereabouts, so the top priority now is to quickly find a place to hide, and wait for this limelight to pass, and then find a way to contact Wuxian and Si'er.

This is a small village on the shore of Weishui. At the entrance of the village, when several children who were playing in the mud ditch on the side of the road saw me, they all stood up and looked at me blankly, their little faces full of muddy water full of surprise and curiosity. I stopped and waved to them, and the four children crawled out of the ditch in a panic, and the older one pulled the younger one and knelt in front of me.

I thought it strange at first, but then I realized when I saw the scarlet embroidered gold thread dress on my body. These children should have been taught by their fathers and mothers, and they must bow their heads and kneel when they see nobles.

"What's your name?" I walked over to the tallest girl and asked softly.

She seemed to be startled, knelt down and took a few steps back, knocked her head on the ground, and replied tremblingly: "Chun Niu, the slave is called Chun Niu." ”

"Chunniu, where is your home? Can I go beg for a drink? "I tried to keep my voice as soft as I could, not wanting to scare the young children.

The little girl raised her head, and her two round eyes were shining: "The noble girl wants to come to my house to ask for water?" ”

I smiled and nodded, and reached out to pull her and the other three little hairy heads up: "It's late, hurry up and go home to find A-Niang!" ”

The three little hairy heads, you look at me, I look at you, they all ran away at once, ran out and turned their heads to look at me with a smile.

Chunniu walked beside me with her head down, and she didn't know how many times she wiped her two muddy hands, and her little shoulders shrugged very nervously.

"Is it almost there?" I asked.

"Well, the one with the wooden fence in front of it is." Chunniu pointed her finger, and when she saw me smiling and nodding, she ran home, shouting as she ran: "A-Niang, A-Niang boils water-"

Chunniu's home was a low rammed earth house, with a roof paved with millet poles, a fence made of tree branches, and the lock on the gate had long been broken, except for a hemp rope that hung diagonally to bolt the door. I pushed open the courtyard door and walked in, only to see Chunniu pull a woman in her forties out of the house.

"Pickled girl, what are you pulling me for? I only know how to play mud, and I'll herd the cattle for your brother Niu tomorrow! The woman took Chun Niu's ears in one hand and wiped them heavily on her face with the other.

"A-Niang, let go-" Chun Niu tore off the woman's hand and pouted at her with a red face, "A noble person has come to the house." ”

"What kind of noble man is here to die......" The woman snorted, rubbed her hands on her body, and turned her head in a curse.

"Auntie, I'm here to beg for a drink." I, a noble man who had died of death, laughed awkwardly.

The woman was stunned for a moment, then her body shook and knelt down: "The cheap slave should die, damn it......"

I was shocked by her appearance, and hurriedly stepped forward and pulled her up: "Auntie, what are you doing, I'm just here to beg for a drink." Well—if you have anything to eat at home, can you sell me some too? I took out two coins from my pouch and handed them to the woman, "Whatever you want, I've been hungry all day." ”

The woman was very surprised, she looked at me and then at the money in her hand: "What is this, noble girl?" ”

"Auntie, take it! I am the daughter of the Wu clan in the capital, and I was robbed halfway out to worship the spring. Can my aunt take me in for two days, and when I return to the house, I will send someone to thank me! ”

The woman breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, and hurriedly said, "Yes, some of them, the noble lady will go and sit in the house first." I'll boil water for you and get ready to eat! ”

"Thank you, Auntie."

"Are you really a noble lady in the capital? Do you really want to live in our house? After the woman left, Chun Niu approached me and asked cautiously.

"Well, can I sleep with you at night?" I took Chunniu's little hand and walked into the room.

There was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl standing by the door, with curved eyebrows, round eyes, and her skin was a little dark but bright, and she looked very energetic.

"Sister, this is a noble girl from the capital, she wants to sleep with me at night!" Chunniu ran over and grabbed the girl's hand, turned to me and said happily: "Noble girl, my sister will get married the day after tomorrow!" ”

"Really? Congratulations to the girl! I smiled and looked around, and saw a handful of corn and two feet of red linen in front of the altar, and it seemed that the family was really going to have a happy event. I looked down at myself and said embarrassedly: "I am too embarrassed today, I don't have any congratulatory gifts to give, and I ask the girl to forgive me." ”

The girl blushed and waved her hand, and said with a smile: "It's a happy event for the noble girl to come." After she finished speaking, she turned around very neatly and took a roll of reed mats from the room and spread it on the ground, "The noble girl will sit down first, and I will help A-Niang boil water." Chunniu, go and see if the grass flowers have laid eggs? It's been a day. ”

"Huh!" Chun Niu ran out barefoot and happily.

A moment later, dizzy with hunger, I drank a bowl of hot wild vegetable soup in this small mud house, and the new eggs of the grass flowers quickly entered my stomach.

The woman had no name and was a widow in the village. Two daughters, the eldest is Chunya, who is about to get married, and the younger is Chunniu, who is only six years old. The three of them are all spicy, and after chatting for a while, they no longer restrain me.