"This boundary belongs to Guazhou, and the name of the village is Guacun." The old beggar introduced her as he walked, and Lu Qingyu became suspicious when he heard it.

"Uncle, what are you bringing me here for?"

She also wanted to go to Jinling to find her mother Zheng as soon as possible.

"Don't worry, we have to take the waterway, it's best to go to the village first."

The old beggar said this, and Lu Qingyu suppressed his impatience and followed him into the village.

The houses in the village are very dilapidated, most of them are thatched houses, scattered in the village, about twenty or thirty small yards, and in broad daylight, even the sound of chickens and dogs cannot be heard.

Lu Qingyu felt deeply that this was like a no-man's village? Could it be that the old beggar is from this village?

She became vigilant, fearing that she would fall into the hands of human traffickers, and quietly pinched a silver needle in her palm.

The old beggar didn't realize it, led the way, walked to the entrance of the village and shouted, "Come out." ”

Lu Qingyu saw one little head after another, quietly poking out from the yard, and slowly walked out, and then, he saw a group of small heads with black hula lala rushing towards the old beggar, like birds flying into the forest.

"Grandpa Beggar, Grandpa Beggar, why did you come back?"

"You little naughty!" The old beggar put his arm around the children and hugged them happily, "Come, see who I have brought you?" ”

The children raised their heads and looked at Lu Qingyu, Lu Qingyu's eyes couldn't be used, there were twenty or thirty pairs of bright eyes, and they all looked at her with admiring eyes, and she was embarrassed.

However, she soon discovered that the whites of the children's eyes were yellow, and they looked a little crazy.

Are you sick?

"This is my sister who saved my life," the old beggar pointed to her, "don't look at her young age, she is very skilled in medicine." ”

The children called her "sister" one after another, and their little black hands twisted the corners of their clothes, revealing a timid smile.

Lu Qingyu smiled awkwardly, she didn't expect the old beggar to take her to meet a group of children, she knew this, why did she have to buy a bag of sugar, right?

She shook the burden on her shoulder, there was still a bag of baked cakes in it, and she bought it to eat on the way, but she couldn't take care of it much at the moment, gritted her teeth, she took off the burden, took out the baked cakes wrapped in oiled paper, and handed it to the group of children, "Take it and share it." ”

The children looked at the old beggar hesitantly, but when the old beggar nodded, they took the biscuits, tore them apart, and ate them separately.

"Don't just eat it, you should thank this sister." The old beggar touched the two four or five-year-old children in front of him and taught them with a smile.

"Uncle, who are you with so many children?" Lu Qingyu saw that the children were all eating baked cakes, so he quietly pulled the old beggar and asked.

"These are miserable children, whose parents fled from all over the country, some died of the plague, some died of starvation. The government didn't take care of the rest of these lonely children, so I adopted them and put them in this small village. ”

"Uncle, can you support so many children by yourself?" He's a beggar.

"Hey, what's not to feed, just have something to eat!" The old beggar laughed, his voice was careless, but in Lu Qingyu's ears, there was infinite desolation.

"These children, I look like they're sick." After Lu Qingyu finished speaking, he stared at the vicissitudes of the old beggar's face.

Unexpectedly, the old beggar laughed, "Otherwise, I wouldn't have brought you here?" ”

It made her want to come here so much.

Lu Qingyu glared at him angrily, but she had come, of course she had to treat these children.

So, she singled out a twelve or thirteen-year-old child and instructed the other children to line up, one by one.

Some were malnourished, some had jaundice, and some had worms......

In short, there is no good one.

This is a group of orphans without a father and mother, and it is not easy to live.

"After reading it, let's go find medicine now." There is not even a pen, ink, paper and inkstone here, so I don't even need to open the prescription, just look for herbs.

So the old beggar led the way, Lu Qingyu followed, and a dozen or so children followed behind them, went around the front and back of the village a few times, gathered all the medicinal materials, and went to a courtyard, found a big pot, picked up some dry firewood, and boiled it.

The right medicine was prescribed, and several pots were boiled in a row, and every child drank it.

This busy, it came to the dark.

The old beggar put the rice he had begged for into a large pot and boiled out a pot of soft and glutinous porridge, which everyone drank around the fire.

There are also a few older children, who went to the back mountain to pick up some mushrooms, fungus, and some mountain delicacies that can be eaten, and everyone made a table of vegetarian dishes heartily, which can be regarded as full of food and drink.

At night, Lu Qingyu followed the old beggar to rest in a dilapidated courtyard, where there were three thatched houses and a plate of kang.

The old beggar insisted on letting her sleep on the kang, "It's still cold at night, your girl's family, don't sleep on the ground." ”

"And where do you sleep?" Lu Qingyu got along with the old beggar for two days, and felt that he was a good person, so the vigilance in his heart relaxed, and he couldn't help but worry about his body, "Your illness is just right." ”

"I'll squeeze in with the kids later."

Lu Qingyu nodded, this is fine.

The two of them sat in the courtyard for a while, and Lu Qingyu looked at the galaxy of the day, silent.

The old beggar suddenly said, "Don't worry, the people chasing you are afraid that they are still looking for you everywhere, and if you go back to Jinling at this time, I am afraid that you will be intercepted." This village is a well-known death village, ordinary people dare not come, you can stay for two days before leaving. ”

Lu Qingyu looked at the old beggar in surprise, he didn't expect him to be able to see his thoughts, he was really not a simple beggar.

"Don't look at this group of children who are sick, they are all good at water, the village is close to the Grand Canal, and there are a few boats, wouldn't it be faster to let them paddle you when the time comes?"

Lu Qingyu's eyes lit up, it turned out that the old beggar was confident.

As soon as he said this, her heart suddenly lit up, and she sincerely thanked her, "Then thank you uncle." ”

The old beggar waved his hand and walked out in a figure-eight step.

After sleeping all night, Lu Qingyu was woken up by a chirping child early in the morning, and when he opened his eyes, he was so frightened that he almost didn't fall off the kang.

In front of me is a magnified little face, lying on the kang head to look at her and smile, a pair of bright eyes staring at her tightly, she is ignorant, suddenly a spirit, turned over and sat up.

"Sister up?" Several children asked her with a smile, and some children couldn't wait to reach over their little black hands, "Sister, what do you think this is?" ”

"Mom." Lu Qingyu screamed and jumped onto the kang.

The kid was holding a fluffy thing in his hand, and he could still move.

The children giggled.

Lu Qingyu stomped his feet angrily, and when he looked carefully, he saw that the child was holding a fledgling bird in both hands.

"My sister is so timid!" A child wrinkled his nose and looked down on Lu Qingyu for being so timid.

"This, falling from a tree?" Lu Qingyu, who saw the bird clearly, didn't care about these bear children, stepped forward and carefully took it from the child's palm and looked at it carefully.

The chicks are like the cubs of the gray finch, and there are a few tufts of feathers on the gray body, which is not beautiful at all.

Seeing that she was not angry or screaming, the children began to chirp around her and said, "Sister, I don't get dizzy this morning." ”

"My stomach doesn't hurt anymore, so I went to the toilet early in the morning and pulled out a big lump of worms."

The children are very simple, and they say everything to Lu Qingyu.

Lu Qingyu listened with a smile, and slowly had an idea in his heart, these children are left here and no one teaches them, whether they can grow up by relying on the old beggar alone is still a question, even if they are lucky enough to grow up in the future, there is no one who is making a living, can't they follow the old beggar to beg?

In these years, there is a shortage of soldiers, and I am afraid that there is not even a place to beg.

Instead of this, it is better for her to take it back, give it to Hongyu, train for a few years, and have a place to go in the future.

Thinking so, she asked the children, "Do you want to go out and see the world?" ”

The children looked at each other, obviously not knowing how to answer, and I am afraid that no one had ever asked them such a question.

After a long time, the eldest child timidly asked, "Sister, how are you outside?" ”

"Of course it's good, there are great rivers and mountains, and picturesque landscapes, you can still read and write, and you won't be illiterate in the future, isn't it?" Lu Qingyu tried his best to use simple words to describe the outside world.

"It's good, it's good, it's just that we want to follow Grandpa Beggar." A child said.

The other children nodded in agreement.

Lu Qingyu's eyes moistened slightly, "Your beggar's grandfather and grandfather will come with me." ”

The children were immediately overjoyed, and jumped out with a shout of joy, apparently to tell the old beggar about it.

Every day, older children are at the head of the village, watching if there are any unknown people coming.

Unexpectedly, the next day, they hurried back and said that there was a group of strong men, with swords in their hands, standing in front of the village, as if they wanted to come in, but they didn't dare, and finally left stupidly.

They also heard the group of people shouting, "She can't run far by herself, maybe she's hiding in the town, let's look back." ”

Lu Qingyu was afraid for a while, if he really went all the way to Jinling, he was afraid that he would soon be caught up by them.

The old beggar was right to bring her.

Now that the children's condition has been relieved, it is time for her to hit the road.

The old beggar packed up with the children, made some dry food and brought it, then went to the canal to launch three small boats, and took Lu Qingyu to sit on it.

The journey was smooth, and soon entered the Yangtze River and went all the way to Jinling.

Hongyu and others interrogated Xiao Er in the inn in a meticulous manner, and finally found out the juggling troupe at the door of the Yuelai Inn that night, arrested their class master, and found out that they were instructed by others, first bought Xiao Er to light the agarwood with drugs in Lu Qingyu's house, and then, using the trick of changing people to cover people's ears and eyes, the inside should be combined with the outside, and Lu Qingyu who had fallen asleep was hung down from the back window, carried to the dock with a sedan chair, and loaded directly onto the boat.

It was another group of people who were driving the boat, and they didn't know where it was going.

However, the head of the troupe explained that the person who instructed them had a northern accent, not like they were from Jinling, let alone Fuyang.

There were a few northern among the dead soldiers, and Hongyu asked them to speak their hometown, and in the end, they confirmed that the person behind the scenes was the Xichu accent.

Hong Yu immediately thought of Chu Yunlang, the second prince of Western Chu.

When Xiao Heng knew Chu Yunlang, his face turned white with anger, slapped the table, and scolded, "Okay, he is Chu Yunlang, people dare to play yin under the nose of this palace, see that this palace will not destroy him." ”

Chu Yunlang was just a proton of Western Chu in Nanliang, Xiao Heng didn't take him seriously, and immediately ordered all the people to kill him angrily to the post house.

Hongyu didn't stop him, he wanted to take advantage of Xiao Heng's personal back-to-back turn to search the post house to see if Qingyu was hidden by Chu Yunlang.

Chu Yunlang is naturally not a vegetarian, and when he saw that the crown prince Xiao Heng had brought so many people into the post house where he lived, he immediately greeted him with a smile, "Your Royal Highness the prince, what do you mean by this?" ”

"Phew, what do you mean, you don't know?" Xiao Heng took a sip at his face, showing no mercy at all, "Acquaintances, hurry up and hand over Doctor Lu, otherwise this palace will order someone to serve you this place!" ”

Chu Yunlang blinked, leaning against the door frame for a long time, "Your Highness, when did Doctor Lu come to me?" This is the territory of Nanliang, you can take it as you like! ”

Xiao Heng was angry, his face flushed, and he couldn't speak.

When Hong Yu arrived, he happened to see this scene, he narrowed his eyes slightly, this Xiao Heng is not Chu Yunlang's opponent, he is too impulsive, and he will be taken advantage of by others in just a few words.

"You're just a discarded proton, and you don't pee to see where you are?" Xiao Heng scolded Chu Yunlang angrily.

Chu Yunlang didn't care, straightened out his inky black clothes, and smiled unhurriedly, "Your Highness is a person who understands. ”

This is a trick and a thousand pounds!

Xiao Heng was like a heavy punch on cotton, and he didn't know what to do with this guy for a while.

He had the intention of killing him, but after killing him, Xichu was bound to take the opportunity to send troops.

Now that the war in the south has been ignited, if Xichu adds a handful in the back, won't Nanliang suffer from the enemy on his back?

If the Northern Qi sits on the fisherman's profits, the Southern Liang will be finished.

Although he is impulsive, he still understands these truths, and presumably Chu Yunlang understands them better, so he has no fear, and he is not afraid of Xiao Heng's coercion at all.

"Your Highness, Dr. Lu is gone, and I am also very sad, after all, my illness can only be cured by Dr. Lu." Seeing that Xiao Heng was panting with anger, Chu Yunlang kindly explained to him.

Xiao Heng really wanted to tear his mouth apart, but he still disdained this kind of shrewd behavior.

Hongyu's arrival broke this embarrassment, as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw, he grabbed Hongyu's arm and said urgently, "What should I do?" He said he didn't see it? ”

Hong Yu patted his hand to show comfort, now they are bent on finding Lu Qingyu, and Xiao Heng is in the same line as himself, so they have to pry Chu Yunlang's mouth open together.

"Your Highness Shao'an, don't be impatient!"

With Hongyu's words, as well as his cold eyes, Xiao Heng suddenly quieted down for some reason.

Seeing Hong Yu take a step forward, he saluted Chu Yunlang before he said, "Your Highness's old illness has recurred in the past few days, and you are looking for Dr. Lu to be missing, and you are also anxious, and I hope that Your Highness Haihan!" ”

Chu Yunlang nodded, "It's easy to say!" ”

Although his face was light, his heart had already set off turbulent waves I heard Yu Ziyuan talk about this person, he was the first person in the dead at the beginning, and it was said that they were just puppets who killed people without blinking an eye and had no feelings, but he didn't expect him to be able to advance and retreat so well now, not only did he become Lu Qingyu's father-in-law, but now he can speak in front of Xiao Heng.

In time, this man will be extraordinary!

In addition, he is a member of the Northern Qi royal family, and with the blessing of this identity, he may be able to compete with the Northern Qi Emperor in the future.

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