Li Baokou's life experience is actually very pitiful.

When she was a teenager, she followed her father to join the army, and followed Guan Duo to fight, killing from the Central Plains to Saiwai. A small child, trekking thousands of miles through mountains and rivers, sleeping in the open air. If there is another wind and rain, the road is muddy; The sky is cold and snowy, the mountains and rivers are freezing, and adult men can't stand it, let alone her?

Speaking of which, it's usually fine. It's a little hard, and with Li Aguan's care, at least safety is guaranteed. But where are the generals who win all battles? If there is a defeat, the front army will be swarmed in the rear, and the brigade will break and flee, and no one will care about anyone. Messing around. Several times, Li Aguan almost lost her. It all relied on Li Dunru, regardless of the danger, and then turned back to her.

Think about the scene at that time: after that, the Yuan army chased after and shouted to kill the heavens; The red scarves on the left and right threw away their armor and fled. As far as the eye can see, there is no edge between the pursuing and the defeated. Only when I heard the neighing of horses and the screaming of people, the earth shook and landslided; I saw stumps all over the place, and rivers of blood flowed like rivers. If you add a little bit of wind and rain, the world will be shaky.

In the crowd, a little girl stood alone in the middle. When the horse's hooves trample over, there is no way to hide; When the defeated soldiers crowd over, there is nothing to hide. Dirty, cold, scared.

Just when I felt that I was about to die, and the sky was about to fall, all of a sudden, I saw a man on a horse galloping over, rolling off the saddle, and picking her up. Sniffing the familiar smell and looking at the surprised and happy face. What should it be like? Leaning on the man's broad and thick embrace, he was suddenly surrounded by warmth and security, as if the wind and rain and the battlefield were all blocked.

To her, Rittenjou was like a mountain. As long as he exists, as long as her father is there, this world is chaotic, but it seems that there will be nothing that can make her feel terrified.

Because she knew that no matter what situation she encountered, no matter where she would be, he, Li Dunru, her father, would always come to her rescue without fear and bravery, take her out of danger, and then give her warmth and safety. Now, however, Rittenru is dead.

Shortly after her mother, Li Aguan, was "forcibly taken away" by Deng She, her father, Li Dunru, was also killed as an envoy to Yidu.

Although all the people, including Li Aguan, told her that it was Wang Shicheng who killed Li Dunru. Isn't she really a three- or four-year-old child who doesn't have the ability to discern at all? If it weren't for Deng She's plot to benefit the capital, how could Li Dunru be killed. Deng She clearly did not care about Li Dunru's life or death, and even in short, he obviously deliberately sent Li Dunru to die. He sent Li Dunru to Yidu, named "messenger", but in fact he paralyzed Wang Shicheng and Tian Jialie.

She still remembered that the night before Li Dunru was designated as an envoy and was about to leave Yidu, she did not sleep all night. A person in the courtyard, looking up at the bright moon, bowing his head and sighing.

She asked, "Daddy, what's wrong with you?" Li Dunru did not answer, his eyes were full of love, sadness, and seemed a little unwilling, and after a long time, he said: "Your mother has long wanted to take you to Pyongyang, you can pack up and set off with your father tomorrow." Just in time to drop you off. ”

She didn't like her mother, although she always thought that her mother was "forcibly taken" by Dunshe, and even heard from the whispers of the maid that it was actually her mother who "took the initiative to seduce" Dunshe, and she still insisted on stubbornly thinking so. However, she still doesn't like her mother.

"Forcible seizure" is not a reason. Watching Li Dunru lose weight day by day, her happy smile became less and less, and all that remained in her heart was anger towards her mother and growing disgust.

She was reluctant to go to Pyongyang, and Ritunru insisted on taking her with him. Li Dunru may be cowardly and courageless, but in the face of power, he does not dare to resist, and let fate go with the flow. But he was a father after all. He sent Li Baokou to Pyongyang and handed it over to Li Aguan. didn't stop long, that is, crossed the sea directly and went to Yidu. From then on, Li Baokou never saw him again.

She didn't expect that that night and that side would be a farewell.

She wept, she went crazy, she made a lot of noise, not only did she feel that she had lost the only support in the troubled times, but she also felt that her sky had really collapsed. Then she was calm, she was serene, and her hatred took root every day and night. She hates Lee Aguan, she hates Pyongyang, she hates everything in Haedong. Whenever she hears someone mention "King Yan" and "His Royal Highness", her little fists will always clench involuntarily.

Later, she met Luo Guannu. Luo Guannu had no scheming, she bent to flatter, and soon coaxed her, and got Luo Guannu's sincere friendship.

Later, she met Yan Shurong. Yan Shurong has read a lot of books, can tell stories, and told them a lot of legends about ancient women. There is Hua Mulan from the Northern Wei Dynasty who joined the army, Ti Ying in the Han Dynasty who saved his father, and Wei Wuji in the Tang Dynasty who avenged his father and so on. Yan Shurong's original intention is not wrong, Ti Ying saved her father, Wei Wuji avenged her father, these stories are all recorded in the "Biography of the Daughters" in the history books of the past dynasties.

"The Biography of the Daughters" is equivalent to a model for women. It's just that Yan Shurong doesn't know Li Baokou's life experience, the speaker has no intention, and the listener has a heart.

A woman can wear a hair plug at the age of fifteen, which is for adulthood, and Li Baokou is about to reach the age of fifteen. During the day, she listened to the story, and she forced a smile; In the dead of night, tormented by hatred, missing her father, hating her mother, hating Dunshe, she reminded herself over and over again that she said to herself, "I am no longer a child, I am almost a child, I am already an adult." What Ti Ying did, I didn't. If Wei Wuji can do it, why can't I? ”

Mulan, Ti Ying, and Wei Wuji are examples for her to learn.

Later, for some unknown reason, after learning that Deng She was going to take Luo Guannu into Yidu, Li Aguan did everything possible to make peace with Luo Guannu and stuffed Li Baokou into the fleet. So, Li Baokou followed Yan Shurong and Luo Guannu to Yidu together. Before leaving, it was another night. Li Aguan came to Li Baokou's room and said something to her.

Li Aguan said: "Mother knows, you look down on Mother." Mother also knows that you miss your daddy. What kind of world is it now, when there is chaos everywhere? You followed your father and your mother from your hometown to Saiwai, and from Saiwai to Haidong. How many homeless people have you seen? How many corpses have you seen frozen to death and starved to death? You follow your mother's side, you eat anything delicious, and you wear good clothes, and you don't learn how much to suffer. But don't you know? How many of your childhood playmates in the army do you have left? Where have they gone?

"Some died in battle; Some parents are dead, no one cares, left on the side of the road, what can they do but starve to death and be killed? Wei Niang has never told you, when you were a child, your favorite brother of the Huang family, his father was a hundred households, and he died in battle, do you know where your brother of the Huang family went?

"I was met by Sha Liu Er's people, arrested, cooked and eaten. Your uncle Guan Duo also quarreled with Sha Liu Er for this. So what? Dead and dead, eaten and eaten. If people are hungry and red-eyed, let alone a child who has no father, the king of heaven can't take care of it! If you want to survive, you have to have a backer.

"You're about to become an adult, just like your mother, we're all women's families. What is a woman's backer? It's a man. If you want to survive, you have to have a man! If you want to live well, you have to have a good man! What makes a good man? A powerful man is a good man. After the New Year, your mother will be thirty. A woman's good years are only a few years, your mother is old, your father is dead, who will take care of you?

"Your Highness is a good man. Powerful, powerful, capable, capable, and good-looking. You see that after my mother got rid of him, she didn't lack clothes, a lot of food, and she never got angry, and she didn't even suffer a word of scolding. Where to find such a man? You listened to your mother's words, for you, and for your mother, you went to Yidu and served Your Highness well. You're young and beautiful, and Your Highness likes people like you. Look at your official slave sister, how good life is. I haven't heard rumors, His Royal Highness may still make her a concubine! Where are you worse than her?

"Don't you want to live like her? From now on, there is nothing to fear or fear you. If a man wants to live a good life, a man can kill people, a man can go to school, and a man's fame can come right away. What about women? Only rely on your face, only rely on your looks, only when you are young, only rely on your intimate and careless to serve men.

"......, my mother has been with His Highness for a long time, and she has some experience in serving His Highness, and she also has some skills, I want to tell you in the past, but you are not happy to listen. You're leaving tomorrow, so let's talk about it tonight. Mother will tell you everything. Mother is your mother, can it harm you? It's all for your good! ”

What are Lee Ah Kwan's "experience" and "skills"? What did she tell Li Baokou? Outsiders don't know. And Li Baokou didn't want to listen to it before, why did he change his mind this time, and he endured hatred and disgust, and listened honestly for a night? Her thoughts are unknown to outsiders.

On the fourth day of coming to Yidu, she had never seen Dunshe again except the night before.

Mrs. Wang arranged her in a pavilion at the far edge of the backyard, and she was still passable in terms of face, and she also assigned two maids. It's just that, maybe it was on Deng She's order, or maybe Mrs. Wang figured out Deng She's intentions and arranged it privately, from day to night, from morning to night, and from night to dawn, there was always someone on duty outside the pavilion, unless Luo Guannu sent someone to find her, she was not allowed to come and go freely at other times. It's like house arrest.

The so-called "experience" and embarrassing "skills" that Li Aguan taught her seemed to be useless for a while. This seems like a good thing. But the thoughts hidden in her little head that are not known to outsiders seem to have no chance to be implemented for a while.

This inevitably makes her live like a year. She was like a small trapped beast, confined in a narrow space. If you have no ambition, you can only grind your teeth and rub your claws. Day after day, night after night, restless.

Every day, Dunshe was discharged from the hospital; Every night, when Dunshe returned, she could hear and see her. The enemy was close at hand, but she couldn't do anything about it. She is sensitive, she is suspicious, and a casual look from the maids, or an unintentional remark, is very likely to cause her to speculate. It is very likely that they will make her think that they are laughing at her, laughing at her and her mother, laughing at Rittenjou.

"A little more patience. Don't be in a hurry. She said to herself.

Once, she went to talk to Luo Guannu, deliberately picked some topics that Luo Guannu was interested in, and deliberately stammered to make him happy. Trying to delay Luo Guannu sending her back in time. She knew that when Deng She returned every night, she would come to see Luo Guannu first. She was almost on the verge of success, and she had heard Dunshe's footsteps in the outdoor hallway, but the abominable one suddenly appeared, and without saying anything, took her and left. And Luo Guannu immediately forgot about her, left her without hesitation, and ran out alone. She had no choice but to leave.

Around the corner, she saw Dunshe's back.

According to the rules, even if she only saw Deng She's back, she had to bow down with the maids and the women. Just like the night she first came to Yidu, she was restrained and respectful, her etiquette was impeccable, and her external performance was like that of a young girl, thin, helpless, and pitiful.

She fell deep on the ground. She kept her head down, and no one saw her eyes. Her hatred grew even deeper. Like a flame, it burns strongly.

Then, for many days, she went out early and returned late, and she stood on her pavilion like a little wolf watching her prey in the dark. She noticed that Deng She was discharged from the hospital earlier and earlier, and that he had returned later and later. Often the fourth and fifth watches go out, and the second and third watches are not returned. Wear the stars and the moon. Although she didn't know what was wrong, she could guess that something big must have happened in Yidu.

She was very cautious, and although it was strange, she refused to ask Luo Guannu. She was also very clever, and by knocking on the side, sure enough, she knew the reason from the mouths of the maids. Indeed, there is not a small thing, and not one, but three. However, none of them happened in Yidu.

One happened in Hanshan.

Hanshan is close to Jinan. The Yuan army in the city of Jinan went out to prey, and the patrol force of Haidong met here, and there was a conflict, and there was a skirmish. The specific process, the maids are not very clear. I only know that Haidong's army was caught off guard because of the haste of the incident, and suffered a small loss.

Li Baokou was glad to hear the news.

The second thing happened in Laiwu.

Laiwu is also not far from Jinan, and Tai'an is to the west. The confrontation in Hanshan, although it was quickly quelled. But Deng She attached great importance to this, and specially sent an official of the Privy Council, who heard what was called "Ju Sheng", to investigate. Passing by Laiwu, I found one thing.

Local officials embezzled and bought and sold grain seeds, cattle and other goods brought from Haidong privately, and most of them were not truthfully distributed to the common people, but sold to wealthy households at a price. It is said that Deng She was so angry about this that he almost went out in person to investigate. I was persuaded by Hong Jixun. Zhao Guo was assigned instead, and he was given the "right to make decisions on the spot, life and death", and he just set off two days ago and went to Laiwu.

Li Baokou was also very happy to hear the news.

The third thing happened in Anfeng.

The messenger sent by Dunshe to Anfeng returned with a message. King Xiao Ming was very concerned about Deng She, and knew that he had not yet set up a concubine, so he thought it was very inappropriate, and said, "The throne of Yan is high, and he is in charge of a country." The land is thousands of miles away, and the people are tens of millions. If there is no marriage, there will be no heirs, and if there is no heirs, the country will be difficult to stabilize. Moreover, the marriage is based on the origin of the king, the common thing of heaven and earth, and the great ceremony of the country. It is advisable to go to the house".

According to this, he hoped that Deng She could establish a concubine soon, and he also believed that "King Yan is talented, loyal and benevolent, and it is difficult to match him if he does not have a good family." In order to show his favor, he went around and said his ultimate purpose,—— planning to marry Liu Futong's daughter to Haidong.

Li Baokou was not happy to hear the news at all.

She wasn't unhappy that King Xiao Ming wanted to set up a concubine for Deng She, she was unhappy with King Xiao Ming's praise of Deng She. Such a sinister, mean, shameless villain! What is it to be praised? He is also "gifted, loyal and benevolent". She added another crime to Deng She in her heart: hypocrisy and deception.

Of course she didn't know about her hatred for Deng She.

Only these three things have already kept him busy. It was late at night, and he was still in the front yard, discussing with Hong Jixun, Wen Huaguo, Ji Zongzhou, and Luo Lilang and other ministers.

If it is said that the conflict in Hanshan was resolved because of Chahan's temporary weakness, but also because of Yidu's temporary fatigue; Laiwu's corruption, it is estimated that Zhao Guo is also about to arrive, although it is infuriating, it is not difficult to clean up. Only King Xiao Ming wants to marry Liu Futong's daughter to Haidong, how should he deal with it? Accept? Or rejection?

The ministers disagreed.

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1, Wei Wuji avenged his father.

"Jiangzhou filial piety girl Wei, the word is unscrupulous, and the people of Xia County are also. At the beginning, his father was killed by the villager Wei Changze. Wuji was six years old, his mother remarried, and he had no brothers. and long, often thinking about revenge. Mowgli from the Bo standing feast for fun, long time also pre-sitting, Mowgli with bricks to kill. If you are a magistrate, you will be punished and killed, and you will be punished and killed. The patrol ambassador and the waiter of the Yellow Gate, Chu Suiliang, heard that Taizong Jiaqi was filial piety, and he was specially ordered to be exempted, and he was given a ride to Yongzhou, and he was given a field house, and he was still ordered to marry him with a courtesy. ”

There are many examples of avenging the father in ancient times.

During the Tang Dynasty, the great poet Du Xianyan was framed and imprisoned by his colleagues Zhou Jizhong and Guo Ruone. Ji Zhong was killed by a sword, and he has seen harm." Zhou Ji was dying, sighed and said: "I didn't know that Du Xianyan had a filial son, and Guo Ruone misled me so far." ”

The ancients paid attention to filial piety and encouraged filial piety, and every time they encountered this kind of thing, the parties often got a good reputation. In many cases, the emperor did not punish either. For example, Wei Wuji, "Taizong Jiaqi filial piety, special order to be exempted, to pass on the migration in Yongzhou, and to the field house, still order the state and county to marry him." Not only is there no punishment, but it is also like a reward.

Another example is Du He, after he stabbed Zhou Jizhong to death, Du Zhenyan was dismissed because of this. However, it was Su Ying who wrote the epitaph for Du He, and it was Liu Yunji who wrote the memorial to him. Both men were well-known at the time. Su Ying and Zhang Shuo are equally famous, and Liu Yunji and Wang Bo are also called. Du reviewed the words and personally wrote a memorial to Du He. Later, Wu Zetian summoned Du Xianyan again, "I was very surprised, and repeatedly moved the staff of the catering department." Not only was his career not affected, but he was also promoted many times because he raised a filial son.