During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, in an unknown town, Mengzhen, there lived a father and daughter, the mother died when her daughter was very young, the father and daughter depended on each other, the father was kind and filial, the father opened a grocery store, although the life was not rich, but also full and happy. The daughter's name is Filibrie, she looks very good, has a gentle and lovely temper, and when she grows up, she sits behind the counter every day and watches the people coming and going on the street, her voice and smile attract many customers who come to buy things, and the business of the store is much better than before.

At noon that day, the weather was hot, the cicadas on the trees were desperately chirping, and even the filigree who had always refused to have a trace of fatigue for the sake of the store's business could not help but doze off, she lay on the counter, one arm supported her head, swaying, and seeing that her beautiful face was about to hit the counter. Suddenly, a voice sounded overhead, "Girl, I'm going to buy a folding fan." Huasi opened her eyes suddenly, and saw a person of the same age as herself, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and a well-dressed person, who looked like the son of a rich family. Huaxi's face was embarrassed for a while, dozing off in front of such a handsome man, the corners of her mouth were salivating, she panicked and took a few fans from the shelf behind her and unfolded them for this boy to choose. Childe looked down at the folding fan, and finally chose the one with the beauty pattern on it, "I want this one," Childe said and picked up the fan to fan the wind, and said to the filigree with a smile, "My Fair Lady, what a gentleman." Filie blushed and hurriedly lowered her head. Give the lady money. Childe said and put a silver ingot on the counter. Huasi said, "The fan is only sold for ten cents, and the son has no zero, this is a small business, and I can't find it." "No need to look, no need to look." After Childe finished speaking, he raised his feet and left, humming as he walked, humming and drifting away. Filigree put away the silver, and her heart rejoiced. At this time, my father came out of the back room and said, "Isn't that the third son of the prefect, I saw him when I went to the city to sell goods, how did he come here?" When Huasi heard this, she was really surprised and delighted, and said, "Maybe it's here to play, we have the best scenery here." ”

The next day, Childe came again, this time buying a box of rouge and a box of pollen, and he suddenly secretly said to Filigree, "Does the girl know how to read?" ”

Filigree, who studied in the school for a few years as a child, said, "I know a few words." ”

Childe smiled slightly and said, "Great." So he pressed a piece of paper folded in half under the rouge gouache box, put it on the counter and put it on a silver ingot, and said, "This rouge gouache has been given to the girl." "Just leave.

Filigree was a clever girl, and she could guess what was written on the paper, and she couldn't help but feel a pang of excitement in her heart, so she pushed off her headache and let her father come to the front of the shop to keep an eye on it, and she hid in the boudoir to read the letterhead.

She put the rouge gouache given to her by her son on the table, and opened the letterhead with almost trembling fingers, only to see that it read, "My Fair Lady, good gentleman." The girl is not married, and the contemptible person is not married. If you have a good relationship, you will have no regrets in this life. If the girl agrees, I will inform you by letter. If not, be a passerby. ”

Filigree took out a pen and paper, "The letter informed." ”

The next day, Filigree was dressed up particularly movingly, her face was smeared with rouge gouache given to her by Childe, and she sat at the counter, her smile more vivid and real.

After Childe came, Filigree took out the letterhead in reply to him and sent it to him, and Childe was overjoyed, picked up the letterhead and left.

Childe went, did not appear for several days, filigree looked forward to it, and gradually became discouraged, she thought that maybe this was the rich boy brother was idle, making fun of the women of small families, so she was disgusted by love.

At night, Filie had just fallen asleep, and she heard movement in the window, she opened her eyes and looked at the window, and the shadow of a person was printed on the window, which startled her, and the person was patting the window edge, and the head was shining, it was a man. "Who?" She asked.

"Me! Li Gongzi who exchanged letters! The man outside the window said in a low tone.

Filie sat up, got out of bed, lit the lamp, and opened the window, and out of the window was Childe's handsome face.

Huaxi said angrily, "What do you mean, although we are poor, we are also dignified, I hope Gongzi will not make fun of us poor." ”

Li Gongzi said: "Where did the filigree girl go, I have a hard time." I have a deep love for the girl, and I wanted to find a matchmaker to propose marriage, but my father disagreed. ”

Huaxi's face softened, and she said, "That's not it, the fate of my parents is greater than the sky, and we have no fate." "When you're done, close the windows.

"Wait!" Li Gongzi blocked his hand and said, "The girl is so ruthless, it seems that she is not the one who takes a fancy to me." Alas! I wanted the two of us to elope, but you see my packages are all ready. ”

Filigree looked at him, and sure enough, there was a big bulging burden on her shoulders. Huaxi's heart was moved, but she still said, "No, Li Gongzi, you have several big brothers, but my father only has one daughter, and I am gone, what should he do?" Go back. ”

Li Gongzi turned around and walked back.

A few days later, Li Gongzi came again, still on a full moon night, outside the window, still carrying a package, he said that he didn't think about her tea and dinner, he cried, made trouble and hanged himself, his father was angry and drove him out, and now there is nowhere to go, and I hope the girl will take him in.

The filigree girl thought about it, agreed, and cleaned up a room for Li Gongzi for him to live in and study.

Since then, Li Gongzi has lived in Huaxi's house, in addition to reading and writing, he also helps keep accounts and handle goods.

One night, Flowery's father called Flowery into the room and said, "Since you both have intentions, let's start a family, it's not a way to live like this all the time, and the neighbors want to laugh when they know it." Besides, although this son was kicked out, after all, he is the prefect's own flesh and blood, and I also heard that he is the prefect's favorite son, and this time he was kicked out, but he was just a momentary anger, and sooner or later he would be taken back. If you marry your son, and the raw rice is cooked, his father will agree, and then your blessing will come. ”

As soon as Huasi heard that her father was reasonable, she immediately agreed.

Huasi and Li Gongzi got married. After marriage, the two lived happily. Just when Huasi was six months pregnant, Li Mansion really came, and the leader was Li Gongzi's eldest brother, followed by some guards and domestic servants, and he said to his third brother Li Gongzi in a cold tone: "Third brother! My father has made great contributions, and he has been promoted to the second level, and now he is about to take office in the capital, and we will also go with my father, there is a bigger mansion in Beijing, and our family will be more prosperous, and my father wants you to go with him. What do you think? ”

Li Gongzi said happily: "I'm really happy for my father, I'll go, but I'm married to a wife, so I have to take my wife with me." ”

Grand Master Li sneered and said, "My father has many eyes and ears, and he has long heard about your wife. But he said that if you want to go, you should go by yourself, and you are not allowed to take this untouchable woman. Third brother, come with me, you are smart and good at reading, and you have a bright future, why bother here? ”

Li Gongzi whispered, "No, no, she is pregnant with my blood, and I can't leave her." ”

"Then take your leave!" Prince Li flicked his sleeves and left angrily.

Filigree hid behind the curtain and heard it, her heart was so frightened that "Peng Peng" jumped, she was not happy because her husband stayed, because she heard her husband's last words was so hesitant and powerless, their family was soaring, and he was unwilling to stay.

Filigree looked at her husband's face all day long, and he found that her husband was often melancholy, looking out the window at the distant scenery in a daze, which was the direction to the capital.

Finally one day, Filigree found that her husband was gone, clothes, books, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone were all gone......

After she woke up, she told her father about Li Gongzi's departure, and her father was so angry that he vomited blood and fell to the ground.

His father was ill and was about to step into Huangquan Road, so he asked Huaxi to bring pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, wrote a letter to his family, and told his eldest brother that he would take Huaxian back to his hometown after he died.

With tears in his eyes, his withered hands beat his chest, and he said with remorse, "I hurt you, I shouldn't have been clever enough to let you marry that brute." ”

Filigree washed her face with tears all day long, and her eyes were so swollen that she could barely open them at the moment, she said: "Father, don't blame yourself, your idea is not wrong, but we are unlucky, who would have thought that the prefect would be proudly promoted in the officialdom." ”

The father grabbed Huaxi's hand and said, "Listen to me, don't go to the capital to make trouble, we can't twist our arms and thighs, if you go, not only will you not be able to get justice, but your life will not be guaranteed." Go back to your hometown, give birth to the child secretly, throw it away, and marry a lover. ”

Filigree cried and nodded. After my father said these words, he died with hatred.

Filie's uncle hurried to receive the letter, dealt with his brother's funeral, and returned to his hometown with Filigree.

Filigree lived in the uncle's house, and was taken care of by the eldest aunt, and the filigree hid in the house all day long and did not come out. When it's time to give birth, the eldest aunt is in a hurry, where to go? My residence is densely populated, and when the child cries, how can I make it heard by others? If she doesn't say that she is embarrassed, her niece won't be able to get married, and she doesn't want to raise an old girl for the rest of her life. She consulted with the man and went to the mountains, where there was a deep mountain near the village, which was sparsely populated, and it was a good place to go.

In this way, when it was about to be born, before dawn, the filigree felt stomach cramps, estimated that she was about to give birth, and hurriedly called the eldest aunt, and the two brought food, packed up some soft and sneaked out through the back door.

After coming out, the two of them walked straight to the direction of the deep mountain, an old woman dragged a pregnant woman, slow to move, walked and rested, and before they were halfway, they were already on the sun. They did not dare to delay, for fear that someone would see and recognize them, so they could only walk towards the uninhabited place without arguing the direction, and finally walked into the deep mountains.

The mountains are densely wooded and overgrown with weeds, sheltering the sky and the sun, and it is indeed a good place to hide from the crowds. As they walked around, they saw a dilapidated yard not far away, which seemed to have been abandoned for a long time and uninhabited, so they found a corner in the courtyard and sat down to rest. After walking such a long way, both of them were already sweating hot, and their legs and feet were sore. They untied their burdens, ate some dry food, and when they were coming out of their minds, there was a sound of footsteps in the house, it turned out that there were people living here, and Filigree was so frightened that she hurriedly covered her face with her sleeves, and the eldest aunt was also alarmed, and she looked up and saw that it was an old woman, who had gray hair and walked tremblingly. The old woman asked them who they were and where they came from, but the eldest aunt was at a loss for answers. The old woman's round and deep-set eyes stared at the bulging belly of the filigree, and then showed a smile that understood, she said I know, just rest assured that I am here, I will not go down the mountain, and I will not be able to say anything. The eldest aunt smiled with relief and said thank you, the old man. Filigree put down her sleeves at this time, and showed her face, she looked at this kind old woman, and found that although she was old, her eyes were very bright, sunken in dry and shrunken eye sockets, round and smooth like pitch-black well water, and she noticed that when she talked to her aunt, she stared at her stomach from time to time, and when she stared at her stomach, her eyes were brighter, flashing, like curiosity, more like greed.

The old woman led them into the house, wiped the tables and chairs, and let them sit down and rest. In the evening, the amniotic water broke, and the eldest aunt and the old woman delivered the filigree together、、、、、、

Soon, Filigree gave birth to a white and tender little boy, the child cried wow, the aunt and the old woman laughed, only Filigree couldn't laugh, she didn't know what to do now, her father's last words and the child's smiling face disturbed her heart, what should she do?

The eldest aunt saw what she was thinking, and when the old woman was cooking porridge for Huaxi, she said, "Huaxi, what do you want to do?" Do you want or throw it? How good this kid is, I wonder if that boy will accept you when he sees the child? This is your fate, and I don't dare to give you an idea, so you can do it yourself. ”

Filigree stroked the child's head, looking at the child's sleeping appearance, her heart was shaken, how could she bear to throw her flesh and bones in this deep mountain and old forest, not to mention that he was still a boy. She couldn't make up her mind for a moment.

In a flash, Filigree and her aunt stayed at the old woman's house for four days. In the past few days, Huasi made a decision, she wanted to bring the child back, she was going to the capital to find Li Gongzi, if he didn't recognize his wife and children, she would not be reluctant, she returned to Mengzhen to continue to do grocery store trading, and raised the child alone.

I don't know why, since she made this decision, she is in a better mood and feels that the future has meaning, this is the power of maternal love.

On the fifth day, the sun was shining, Filigree walked out of the house with the child, this was the first time she saw the sun since she gave birth to the child, the sun stinged her eyes, she squinted her eyes, and when she opened her eyes, an old face was close at hand, it was an old woman, elusive, scared Filigree a lot.

"Can you go out?" The old woman asked.

"yes." Filigree nodded. Although the old woman helped her, she still couldn't help but hate her, this old woman was weird, especially her smile, laughing faintly, laughing fakely, as if hiding an unknown secret, and this old woman loved to snore when she slept at night, the purring sound was as low and thick as a beast, and what made Filigree even more unbearable was the way the old woman looked at her child, she seemed to love this child more than Filie, and when she saw the child's black eyes, she shining, as if she saw her grandson, Filigree thought, Even if the old woman likes this child again, she should restrain her feelings, after all, it is not a child of her own family, there is really no need to be so happy, it will make people feel awkward.

"Where's my aunt?" Filigree asked, sitting down from a bench in the doorway, she wanted to bask in the sun.

"Go out and pull wild vegetables, let's make wild vegetable gnocchi soup tonight." The old woman said.

"Oh. Thank you so much for taking me in these days, and we'll go back tomorrow. Filigree said.

"Huh? So fast. The old woman looked reluctant.

"There's a lot going on at home." Filigree said.

"Well, well. Sit down, and I'll go see your aunt and see how much she's pulled." The old woman walked to the door.

Huasi sat alone in the yard, closed her eyes, shaking the child in her arms, the child slept, she was also confused, she did not dare to fall asleep, for fear that the child would slip off her hands, restraining sleepiness, and playing sleepy eyes there.

"This child is delicate and white, and it must be very refreshing to eat."

After a while, Blossom suddenly heard a voice, so frightened that her hair almost stood on end, and she heard the voice of the old woman, and the old fellow must have thought she was asleep, and ran back. Filie didn't dare to open her eyes, so she forced her composure and pretended to be asleep. The old woman didn't know that Filigree had woken up, but still admired her food. Filigree secretly opened a little slit of her eyes, and saw that the old woman's face was completely missing the kind appearance she had before, at this moment she was hideous, her black eyes were terrifyingly glared, full of greedy desire, this strange look almost scared Filigree out of breath, but she thought rationally, she must not startle the snake, so she continued to pretend to sleep, thinking in her heart, how to escape the clutches of this ghost.

Fortunately, the eldest aunt came back at this time, "The wild vegetables are so tender!" She walked into the courtyard and said.

"That's what a lot."

The old woman said that the tone of her voice had returned to its original appearance.

Only then did Filigree dare to open her eyes, and she saw the old woman turn around to pick up the basket in the hand of the eldest aunt.

In the evening, while the old woman was making soup in the kitchen, Huaxi hugged the child and pulled the eldest aunt away, the eldest aunt was puzzled, and Huaxian whispered, let's go, don't talk, just go quickly. The eldest aunt was frightened by her mysterious appearance, and did not dare to say a word, and walked out of the dilapidated yard with Filigree.

Out of the courtyard, the two of them ran wildly. "Youkai! That old woman is a monster! She wants to eat children. Filigree said. As soon as the words fell, I heard a hysterical scream from behind, and when Huaxi and the eldest aunt looked back, their souls were almost frightened, and the old woman was crazy, and her hair was scattered, and she chased after them at a very fast speed.

The two screamed in horror, and fled to the bottom of the mountain for their lives, they fled, fled, but were still overtaken, Filigree ran behind, the old woman grabbed her first, her claws tore Filigree's clothes, Filigree instinctively resisted, the old woman's two canine teeth became sharp and long at the moment, grinning, Harazi went straight down, she went to bite the child in Huaxi's arms, Filigree took her arm to block, the sharp teeth bit on the arm, Filigree shouted in pain, fortunately, the eldest aunt took a stone and went around behind the monster old woman, knocked her unconscious. Seeing the monster falling, the two did not dare to relax, and ran back to the village in one go、、、、、、

I heard that there were monsters in the mountains, and the uncle gathered the brave strong laborers and hunters in the village to look for them in the mountains during the day the next day, not because they were stupid and bold, but because they felt that since a woman could knock the monster unconscious, this monster was not very capable, and it was better to get rid of it as soon as possible, lest it come down the mountain to eat children when the villagers were unprepared. They went round and round in the mountains, and at last they found the broken courtyard, and crept under the window, which was open, and when they looked inside, the old monster was sleeping on the kang, and its snoring was as low and thick as that of a wild beast. The uncle pointed to the firewood stack next to him, and the big guy understood、、、、、、

After a while, the fire flashed, the fire surrounded the house, the old monster was awakened by the smoke, howling and rushing out, Orion had already set up a bow and arrows, he aimed at the monster's round black well water-like eyes, drew the bow, let go of his hand, the arrow flew out, hit the target, the monster's cry became even more terrible, in order to prevent her from jumping out, Orion continued to set up arrows, and the rest of the people threw stones at her. In the end, the yokai was burned to ashes.

Huaxi's injured arm was coated with ointment, it didn't hurt anymore, she didn't want to stay in the village for too long, she wanted to go to the capital to find Li Gongzi quickly. After learning that the yokai had died, she immediately packed up some packages and set off with the child on her back.

"Good boy, let's go find your father."

Filigree walked on the road, and whenever the child cried, she coaxed him like this.

After walking for five days, she finally arrived, and she saw a lot of shadows in front of her, like the walls and gates of the capital. At this time, it was twilight, there was only a shadow left in the sky, the filigree walked on the desolate dirt road, on both sides of the dirt road were crooked, sparse trees, her dry food had already been eaten, she was tired and hungry at the moment, the wound was faintly painful, she couldn't hold on, just sat down on a tree stump on the side of the road, she heard the sound of the child sleeping on her back, heard the sound of her stomach growling. "I'm so hungry~" she sighed, she really wanted to eat meat, she thought to herself. She seems to smell the smell of meat, where is it? It's on the back. Her eyes suddenly widened, releasing a greedy glow, meat! I want to eat meat! She screamed, jumped up, untied the child from her back, and held it in her arms, her two canine teeth became sharp and long, and the hara went straight down, eat! She took a bite of it、、、、、、