Chapter I: Prologue

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Peacock Mountain is located on the edge of the northern region, and it snows heavily every winter, and the snow is thick enough to drown people's knees. On the day the mountain broke, the fire in the sky turned red at night, melting half of the snow in the village.

"With Little Five! Let's go! ”

"Daddy—"

The bandits were in flames, and the lady of Peacock Mountain took her eldest daughter in a hurry. The girl's cry was terrible, stinging her mother's eardrums. The owner of the village has four sons, all of whom are good hands, and after the shield is broken, the knife in his hand falls and blood is splashed on the spot. The thief couldn't please him, and became more and more ruthless and despicable, so he simply set fire to the house, the fire crackled and rolled up the beams, the roof collapsed, and the father and son became unjust souls under the fire in a blink of an eye.

"Ahh

The back slope of the mountain is steep and slippery, and Mrs. Crushing the village stumbled out of the stockade and rolled down the hill with one foot. The snow was so thick that year that people could still catch their breath when they climbed into the ravine. She struggled to get up, and found that the girl in her arms had fallen out, and immediately panicked, and staggered and groped around despite the pain of crushing the bones all over her body, but fortunately she did not go far to find her unconscious daughter in the snow.

"Little Five! Little Five! She threw herself on the girl's shoulder, screaming and shaking desperately.

When the girl in the arms of the "mother's ......" fell down, she fell on the rocks, and she was not awake at the time, but was blindly confused, muttering in confusion. Mrs. Zhai knew that she couldn't wait, so she grabbed a handful of snow and rubbed it the girl's head and face.

"Little Five! Wake up! Listen, my mother hid you here, and you can't make a sound, you know? The girl's face was rubbed red, and the cold snow fell on her face, and she was indeed a little sober, and she could hear her mother's mournful advice. She subconsciously wanted to reach out and grab her mother's sleeve, but found that she had already lost her strength, and the bones all over her body seemed to be broken, so painful that she almost lost consciousness and couldn't move at all.

The night was long, and the back slope was still dark and dreary, except for the girl's amber eyes, which were clear and transparent, like two stars in the dark. In the distance, the light of the fire was lit, and the noisy cursing could be heard clearly from a long distance. The girl suddenly felt excited, and finally realized what was happening.

"Mother! No......" She didn't have a chance to finish her sentence. Mrs. Zhai covered the girl's mouth forcefully, shoved her into a snow cave, covered her with withered grass and hid it tightly.

"Little Wu, don't make a sound, don't be afraid." The face of Mrs. Zhai was covered with blood, which was far more ridiculous than the Bodhisattva statue enshrined in the village. She should have wanted to touch the girl's face, but in the end she didn't stretch out her hand, just put a finger to her lips and solemnly told again: "Good boy, don't make a sound, you have to live." ”

The distant firelight approached, and there was no longer time to hesitate. Mrs. Zhai immediately made a decision, pressed a handful of dead grass and broken branches at the entrance of the hole, turned around and ran out to meet the road. The girl was curled up in a snow cave, unable to see the scene outside, and her mind was in chaos. The deathly silence was finally broken, and she could hear the desperate cries of the Lady of the Village.

Why, exactly why. The cold through her bones made her more and more sober, biting her lip and not daring to make a sound, her nails pierced her palms, and she was numb from the cold, and she couldn't feel the pain. Peacock Mountain is a mountain of bandits, and her father and aunt are the leaders of the bandits, but so what? So what! She doesn't want to lose this home, why does the sky always disobey people's wishes and always make such heart-wrenching jokes with her?

The pain and cold consumed the girl, and consciousness slowly blurred. The last time I was so hungry and lonely, it was two years ago, and Daddy saw her pitiful, so he brought her back to raise her. Daddy, Daddy...... The girl's tears couldn't be stopped, she didn't know what happened to Daddy, she wanted to come and be with Auntie......

There are no peacocks on Peacock Mountain, and after a fire, there is nothing left. Occasionally, a mountain bird jumps on a branch and flutters its wings, causing a little noise and shaking off a pinch of snow.

The sky has just dawned, and there are already early merchants on the road.

"It's really hard girl, this deserted place, I heard that there was a gang just now, alas...... If something goes wrong, how can it be good? In the carriage, the woman who looked like a maid was full of sadness, lifted the curtain and looked outside, turned around and wanted to pour some water, but when she opened the warm cage, it was cold, and she couldn't help but sigh again: "This, girl, we have been on the road all night, and there is no hot water." ”

The girl in her mouth sat in the middle, the appearance of a young woman, she kept her eyes closed, listening to the big girl's words with unevenness, Fang lifted her eyes and said: "If you say too much, you will lose, don't say these words again, carefully ask others to listen." In fact, the stove in the woman's hand was already cold, and this return trip was just in time for the chaos in Peacock Mountain, so she had to travel through the stars and nights, and made a detour.

In fact, the woman also has complaints, but this time the New Year is approaching, and she has to travel thousands of miles to the realm, so who can calm down? However, he has been subject to others for many years, and he can only pretend to be used to it. Fortunately, there will be no fate of children in this life, this kind of superficial scenery and secretly sad days will be a head for themselves.

"Oops! Hiss...... Oops...... Hurry up, give me a hand. ”

The wheels on the road are rolling, the snow turns into ice, and pedestrians, cars and horses often slip. Seeing that the road was icy, the little servant of this family jumped out of the carriage and wanted to explore the road, but he slipped and fell first, and fell firmly on all fours.

"Go and see, there's no fuss." The woman frowned. The maid retreated, lifted the curtain and went out to check, and soon came back, saying that the little guy didn't fall hard, but was bruised, and it looked strange and terrifying. The woman nodded and ordered to stop and rest: "It's okay, tell the back, it's all stopped, take a break." Tell the boys to boil water in a stove and cook something to eat for everyone. ”

"Oh, okay." The maid ran to the back, ordered two small servants at random, carried the stove to the leeward, smoked some dead branches, and made a fire with a fire. There was no river nearby, and the maid saw that the snow on the trees on the high place was still clean, and tiptoed to collect some of it, and wanted to take it back to melt the boiling water, but accidentally tripped over something, and fell more ugly than the little man who drove the car.

"Hey, really, what...... Yes! Ah—" The maid sighed, sat up to herself, and glared angrily at the stump that had tripped over her, and this sight was a great deal of disaster, and almost frightened her out of her mind, and she cried out like a ghost, "girl! Come on, girl! Come on, there's a kid here! ”

There was a stump in the snowdrift, and it was clearly a frozen little girl. The maid was also bold, and at first glance she was frightened, and she was able to come back to her senses and call people, shouting and digging out the girl, shaking with a glimmer of hope.

When the woman in the car heard the shouting, her hand trembled, and a string of yellow pear beads "snapped" and slid to the ground. She didn't look at it, and got out of the car in a hurry.

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