Time is the wind chimes at the corner of the eaves, alternating in the slow or rapid ringing of the bells.

In the blink of an eye, it is the remnant of autumn after the frost and solar terms. The ninth month of the lunar calendar will come to an end, the sky is high and the clouds are scattered, and the frost is dewed. The emerald color fades, and all things are in ruins.

A gale carried the rain and knocked all the leaves off. The newly issued jacket and skirt were worn like pieces of paper on the body, and they still made people shiver from the cold.

In addition to the necessary movement, Xiao Niangniang and I curled up on the bed for two consecutive days and wrapped ourselves in the quilt and began to hibernate. It's really good for me to stay in the storm room at the moment, and I don't have to run between the harem and the court all day.

Early in the morning of the last day of September, it was still half dark, and I was sleeping in a daze, but I was called up by Xiao Niangniang.

"Why haven't you fed your pet lately?"

I rubbed my eyes: "When did I have a pet?" ”

She smiled wickedly: "Hey, little girl, don't think I don't know. A while ago, I made a bowl of meat and put it outside, did you do it? ”

"How do you know?"

She patted me on the head: "Living under the same roof, I said earlier, my nose is not ordinary." Get up, get up, it's time to feed my pet. ”

"Huh? Your pets? The dragon king in the well? ”

I was dragged out of the hot quilt, quite a bit of getting up, so early in the morning and very cold, I had to drink the northwest wind in the courtyard.

She pointed to the rope hanging from the derrick and said, "Just sent it a piece of meat." ”

That's when I suddenly realized, "Wow, wow, wow!! Mother, your eyes can see!! ”

She was also stunned, and it took a long time for hysteria to come back: "Yes, I can vaguely see the appearance of people!" She clapped her hands happily, and then came to rub my face after patting: "Xiaosu, you look exactly like what I imagined, no wonder I didn't do the 'first meeting' just now!" ”

We jumped happily in the yard until we heard the gurgling of the well cradle. Xiao Niangniang hurriedly went to the well and whispered to me: "Come on, come on, it's starting to eat." ”

I felt something was wrong: "Huh? Mother, where did you get your meat? ”

She was refreshed: "Your elbow in the cupboard." ”

"You...... I deliberately left an elbow for Lidong to invite friends over for dinner! Yes...... My heart! ”

She stroked my back: "It's the same, it's the same, my pet is also important." ”

When the well rope hanging in the water stopped moving, Xiao Niangniang said with a smile: "It's finished." Then he gently shook the wheel and rolled the rope up.

To my great surprise, there was only one bone left in the rope of the well, and the meat had been eaten clean!

Xiao Niangniang looked at me and was shocked, so she said in a deep tone: "Now believe it, I'll just say that there are water monkeys underneath, and their teeth are sharp!" ”

I covered my mouth and wanted to gag: "I, I'm not going to drink the water from this well anymore." ”

Then, Xiao Niangniang told me the story of her and the water monkey.

Xiao Niangniang's real name is Xiao Yuan, and she was born in the Xiao family of the previous dynasty. Since childhood, there are many aunts and aunts in the family, and there are more brothers and sisters, as a child who is not valued, even if she forgets the time to eat in the courtyard, it does not make the elders find that she is missing from the dinner table.

She is not affected by anything, she feels that others do not value her as someone else's business, and what does it have to do with herself. Unfettered from love.,If you're not favored, you're not controlled.,The private school at home is simply not up.,Play mud every day until you are twelve or thirteen years old.。

Time is like water, I thought that the days would flow down every day, and I didn't know how to live a life, so it's not good.

It's just that later I always heard from my family that there was a war outside, and the money in the clan was used to pay a lot of military salaries. Later, the number of servants in the family was reduced, and the situation was still getting worse, and she could feel that everyone was cutting back on food and clothing.

So much so that the number of times vegetable sellers send fish and meat to their homes is also decreasing. So a group of greedy children heard that the small reservoir behind the manor had grown a lot of wild fish and shrimp this year, so they made an appointment to go and see what was going on.

The family's fields are hundreds of dumps, so the original intention of the establishment of this reservoir is also to accumulate the floods of the Yellow River and the rainwater during the ordinary times, and use it for seedling irrigation in the fields.

She and several brothers and sisters of the same age secretly ran to the embankment, and sure enough, the long-term worker of the family was right, there were a lot of fish and shrimp, and from time to time there were fish jumping and splashing on the water.

It's just that everyone else is busy fishing and casting nets, but Xiao Yuan is moving along the embankment, because a wild peach tree grows in front of her.

At that time, the early summer had arrived, and the peach like pink snow and hydrangea on the tree was full of branches, and it should have been the sun and the moon to give birth so well.

The fragrance of peach fruit is rich and sweet, she chose the one she liked the most, and took it to the water's edge to wash off the layer of fluffy white hair on the surface.

was rubbing the peach skin, and suddenly a small head appeared in the water, which turned out to be the appearance of white velvet.

Xiao Yuan was a little startled at first, but found that it was an unusual little monkey. It has white hairs at the tips, yellow hairs at the roots, and light green hairs interspersed with them, and the hairs are short, stiff, and divergent. But the little face is no different from other little monkeys.

I saw its two elven eyes looking at the peach in Xiao Yuan's hand, and its ruddy little tongue licked the crescent mouth.

"You want to eat too. Oh, this is for you, it must be delicious! At a young age, Xiao Yuan felt that sharing was a happy thing.

She turned around and picked another one among the peach branches, so one person and one monkey squatted by the water and nibbled on the sweetness, and her heart was full of simple happiness. The little monkey ate beautifully, and put his little paw on Xiao Yuan's arm, which was considered a thank you and a closeness.

It wasn't until someone from a short distance called her back that she remembered what the reservoir had been about. Before leaving, she plucked a few more fruits from the tree and put them by the water's edge, and said to the little monkey, "I'm going home, I'll put these fruits here, and when you want to eat them, swim ashore and get them yourself." ”

After this incident, Xiao Yuan has a mysterious friend. But she didn't dare to tell her family, because she remembered that the elders said that the water monkeys that live in the water are called water ghouls, so the suffix of this word is ten thousand bad.

"Is it really bad? But it loves fruit and has no fangs. ”

Indeed, every time Xiao Yuan brought fruit to it, it ate happily. Even though a year has passed, it has grown bigger and bigger, but its face does not look fierce at all, and it is still full of white teeth. Sometimes when Xiao Yuan uses a stone to float it out, she is still chewing on a root of aquatic plants in her mouth.

"This should be a good water monkey who is a vegetarian!" Xiao Yuan made up her mind in her heart.

And the turning point of things is that it is the height of summer again. A rare rainstorm caused the Milky Way to pour down for five days and five nights, causing the reservoir to burst its embankment. The flood flooded a large area of farmland, and the people who went to stock up on the water and control the water picked up a "monster" in the waterlogged field. They cut it upside down, carried it home with wooden poles, threw it into a wooden cage, and claimed that they would sacrifice its blood to the god of water on the fifteenth day!

The whole family came over to watch, and when Xiao Yuan tried to squeeze into the crowd, she found that she was her good friend, but no matter how much she pleaded for it, it turned into a helpless cry, and it was useless to rely on her own strength.

But it was also on that day that a big man came to the family.

The patriarch summoned the cardamom women of the entire family, and asked the heads of each house in front of the big people: "At the beginning of the new dynasty, the Son of Heaven must be an abundant harem, which room takes the initiative to recommend his own children to be sent to the palace to inherit the grace of heaven and shine on our clan?" ”

No one dared to speak out loud, but their hearts exploded.

Xiao Yuan no longer wanted to care about the joys and sorrows of others at that moment, so she made a decision in an instant, and said in two steps: "I am willing." ”

The patriarch Xu was startled by her recklessness and shyness, and wanted to blame, but was blocked by the applause of the big man.

"My lord, but the little girl has one condition, I want to take the water monkey caught in Fuchu today to Kyoto."

Xiao Yuan said that she didn't understand for a long time that bravery had so much power. The big man inexplicably recognized her, and not only agreed to her request, but also said that in order to let them see each other often, he threw the monkey into the artificial lake in the newly built palace, the West Sea.

When Xiao Niangniang said this, I couldn't help but interrupt her: "Isn't the monkey in the West Sea of the harem?" How to run under this well. ”

She patted me on the head again: "There is no common sense, there is a dark river in the underground water, and you can swim along the current." Moreover, even if it is not passable, the water monkey grows bigger and bigger, burly and powerful, with sharp and strong claws, how can it not be dug through such a little road! ”

"Oh, I see." I nodded, and I wondered about the big man, so I tried to ask, "Niangniang, who is the big man you are talking about?" ”

At this time, Niangniang's eyes suddenly became long, and her eyes, which were still a little cloudy, revealed four words that were far away.

only said lightly: "It's old, did he fulfill me, or did he mistake my life......

Before she finished telling her story, she fell into a trough and turned around and entered the house, leaving behind a lonely back and a relative: "If you want to know, you will know." He is the brother-in-law of the current queen, the cousin of the current emperor, and the current king of the north, Li Can. ”

Three "nows" in a row, positioning the target on the horse-faced prince.

So? Twenty years ago, the prince's draft was used for palace fighting, and twenty years later, the prince's draft was used for slaughter, and the intention and change in this were really unconnected for a while according to the known information points.

But at present, the persecuted by the prince is the girl who died in Lishan, Xiao Niangniang, and Fan Yusu, who has two time and space.

That's right, why don't I ask Aunt Su Xiao more about the other little one...... Why did I somehow replace her?

If you can get the real her back, everyone will be able to return to their place.