Chapter 725: The Old Man

"Yes...... But it was just an swaddling baby. Xu Qiao said stubbornly.

It was indeed a swaddling garment, with exquisite materials and exquisite embroidery.

But it's just a swaddling baby.

"Hmph." The people in the room snorted coldly, revealing disdain and contempt.

Xu Qiao's face was red, he admitted it to himself, he had seen the box.

"Xuefang, that's for your child, you left it as a thought, right?" Xu Qiao said softly.

The people inside were silent for a long time, and said faintly: "Aqiao, you came to me in the middle of the night to ask this?" Could it be that you took out the contents of it? ”

"No, no", Xu Qiao hurriedly waved his hand, from childhood to adulthood, when he talked to her, he would involuntarily get nervous. He said, "That's the case, you also know about my family, the box can't be taken back, so I put the box in the clan camp Zhou Zilong's house......

"What? What did you say? ”

Before Xu Qiao's words were finished, the originally closed wooden door opened from the inside, and under the bleak moonlight, the woman's long hair was scattered, and she was dressed in a moon-white middle coat, like a ghost that suddenly appeared in the dark night.

"Xu Qiao, you lied to me, you liar, you give me back the swaddling clothes, give it back to me!" The woman's heart-rending shout startled Xu Qiao, it was the first time he had seen her like this.

When I first met Huang Xuefang, he was fifteen years old and she was fourteen.

In the Mid-Autumn Festival chrysanthemum banquet in the palace that year, officials above the third grade could bring their families into the palace, and the nobles and clans had a share.

A group of teenagers looked at the ladies in the pavilion in the distance, Xu Qiao was also among them, that was the first time he saw Huang Xuefang, he asked a few people, only to find out that she was the granddaughter of Huang Wanqiu, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, who was engaged, and her fiancΓ© was Shen Ruogu, the youngest son of Shoufu Shen Yuan.

Xu Qiao felt sorry for himself for several days, even if Huang Xuefang was not engaged, he was a toad and wanted to eat swan meat. A scholarly family like the Huang family has always been pretentious and high, and he has always looked down on martial artists, not to mention, their Xu family is still the worst mixed in the Xungui, and he is just the youngest son who has no chance with the title.

Even so, on the Shangyuan Festival that year, when he met Huang Xuefang again at the Lantern Festival, he still gave her a lotus lantern with his own hands.

That time, he had the courage to say to her: "I am Xu Qiao from the Protector's Mansion, you can call me Aqiao." ”

He thought he would meet her again, but never again.

After she married, the wedding date of the two families was also set. She was detained at home embroidering a dowry, and in March of the following year, she married into the Shen family.

On the day of the wedding, Xu Qiao chased the sedan chair to the Shen family, and it took him a lot of effort to ask a friend who had been invited to take him to drink the wedding wine.

He didn't know what he was thinking, he just wanted to drink a glass of her happy wine.

Half a year later, he also became a relative, married to a girl from a county Cheng family, she was not beautiful, and she couldn't read a few words, and his mother took a fancy to her strong body and good birth. He thinks this is also very good, the precious orchid should be raised in a good purple sand pot, and his coarse porcelain pot is not worthy of the precious and delicate flower.

Later, something happened. The Shen family was beheaded and the nine clans were wiped out.

His heart was empty, and after more than ten years, he had not been to the Lantern Festival, once his wife brought back a lotus lantern, he opened the window and threw it out.

He also once thought that if Huang Xuefang didn't marry Shen Ruogu back then, but married him, would he have escaped?

But he thought about it again, this kind of family of the Xu family, this big family that can't be on the stage, if she really marries, it will be wronged her.

In this way, after thinking about it, eighteen or nine years have passed.

His son is married, and his daughter is about to get married.

Next year he will be a grandfather.

And he finally got into a position he couldn't have imagined when he was a teenager.

Except for the mess at home, he can be said to be doing everything well.

Xu Qiao didn't expect that many years later, the person he thought had been dead for many years suddenly appeared.

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"Xuefang, I really didn't expect this. Before, all my things were collected by Zhou Zilong, his family is a clan, and his senior family has the final say. Over the years, I have given him all the good things to keep, and when I need them, I can say hello and he can take them completely. That day, you asked me to put the box away for you, and I gave it to him. But I didn't expect that when I asked him to bring the box today, it was empty, really empty. ”

Xu Qiao swallowed his saliva with difficulty, after so many years, he has long lost his love for Huang Xuefang, for him, Huang Xuefang is his lost old friend.

He wanted to take her in and protect her.

The Central Plains Army hit Shunde Mansion, the imperial court transferred troops everywhere, and all the vicinity of the capital were fortified.

On that day, the people of the Jingwei camp clashed with the people of the Shifeng camp and killed people.

In a fit of rage, the people of the Shifeng camp arrested nine people from the Jingwei camp and brought them back to the Shifeng camp, which was two hundred miles away from the capital.

One of these nine people was a relative of the military department Shangshu.

Fortunately, Xu Qiao had a little friendship with the people in Shifeng Camp, and he personally went over and brought the nine people out.

Xu Qiao only cared about smiling at Shifeng Camp, and he didn't even drink saliva. When he got out of the Shifeng camp, his mouth was dry.

There is a tea shed on the side of the road, where many passing cars and horses are sharpened.

He was about to go in when he heard the woman's crying and cursing.

When he looked at it, he realized that a woman had hired a donkey cart, but halfway there, the driver told people that this woman was his wife.

The woman knew that she had encountered a kidnapper, and she wanted to get out of the car, but the car was so fast that the woman didn't dare to jump, so she cried all the way. When he walked here, he was stopped by a few well-wishers who were fighting here, but the crutch insisted that the woman was his wife.

Xu Qiao was wearing an official uniform, and the group of them walked over, but the woman suddenly stopped crying and covered her face with a burden.

Xu Qiao asked about the situation, and a soldier under his command scolded with a smile: "This woman hired a car to hurry away, it shouldn't be a fugitive concubine from any family." ”

The woman did not speak, but her body shrank even more.

Another soldier said: "In my opinion, even if it is not a concubine, it may be a Jiangyang thief, and there are many women in the True Immortal Sect." ”

A while ago, I was going around to catch the True Immortal Sect, and there are still notices here.

The previous soldier didn't say a word, and stepped forward to snatch the burden that the woman used to cover her face.

The woman was frightened, like a frightened fawn.

At that moment, Xu Qiao thought that he had seen it wrong, he actually met her here, Huang Xuefang.

Although she was no longer what he remembered, he recognized her.

It's really her, it's her, her skin is still fair and delicate, her eyebrows and eyes are still beautiful and exquisite, although she is dressed in coarse cloth, but her black hair and slender jade fingers exposed outside her sleeves, she is still the best lady of the year.