Chapter Twenty-Six: The Blue Bird
At night, the wind rises.
An autumn rain came unexpectedly, an autumn rain and a cold. The air is filled with the damp chill of autumn.
In the guardhouse of the General's Mansion, half a figure was tossing and turning on the bed, squirming and convulsing, as if in great pain but without making a sound.
Sunan, who heard the movement over there, immediately ran to Subei's bedside and called twice, "Xiaobei, Xiaobei, what's wrong with you?" ”
But Su Bei didn't respond, his hair was wet and sticky to his face as if it had just been washed, his face was pale, his eyes were closed, and his eyebrows seemed to be twisted together. The base of his nose is still oozing sweat, and his lips are dry. He clenched the corners of the quilt tightly, and his mouth was closed without saying a word.
Sunan tried to shake him lightly again, and called Subei twice.
Su Bei opened his eyes faintly, his eyes were full of vigilance, and he saw that it was Su Nan, and he moaned lowly
"Water ......"
Hearing the other party's demand, Sunan immediately went to the table to get tea, came over, helped Su Bei to sit up, and gently fed him, "Are you better now?"
After seeing Su Bei nodded, Su Nan went out again to fetch water to wipe Su Bei's body, looked at the pillow and futon that were already soaked and said, "I'll go and take a bath in water for you, by the way, I changed this mattress, you are all soaked."
Su Bei just lowered his eyes for a moment, then raised his eyes and looked at Sunan Dao, "I'm sorry for your trouble, Brother Nan"
"What are you talking about, I ...... Go and come."
After turning around, Sunan's eyes were a little moist in an instant, this smart young man they watched grow up, both civil and military. If he goes to take the examination this year, whether it is the liberal arts examination or the martial arts examination, they believe that Subei will be able to take the examination and come back.
And now, the young man who is both talented and the brightest in the general's mansion can only be paralyzed in bed like this, unable to take care of himself for three meals a day, and even needs help from others to go to the toilet. They all looked extremely sorry, and they couldn't wait to kill Ning Daoshen immediately. It's just that now there are more important things.
And Su Bei on the bed just looked weakly at a small wooden blue bird in the most conspicuous place on the shelf at the foot of the bed.
Wishing for the blue bird, the clothes perched on the river.
And he can only be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, his eyes are full of despair. That day, he finally waited for the general, told the general about his discovery, and all his missions were completed. Now dragging such a corpse makes your brothers grieve every day, and he doesn't want to.
It's just a glimmer of selfish desire to see that person again and see if she's doing well. The man who brought back a starving beggar to death in the dead of winter to give him a home.
She was five years old at the time, and it seemed that because her mother wanted her to move out of their yard to leave her alone, she felt abandoned and ran away from home secretly.
It's just that on a cold night, she wandered the streets, and soon was robbed of her valuable belongings by gangsters, and almost sold. It's just that the little girl cleverly jumped out of the carriage and fled while those people were exchanging money from the pawnshop again.
Not knowing the way home, she took refuge in the nearest ruined temple, where she met him, but he had not eaten for several days and was so hungry that he had no strength.
"So there are still people here" The little girl patted her chest as if relieved, she looked at the four heavenly queens on both sides of the temple, and sat down at an angle where she couldn't see them, as if she was afraid.
She looked at him again, then slowly sat down closer to him and asked, "Are you alone here?" ”
"Hungry ......."
"What?"
"I'm so hungry....... This young lady should give me something to eat."
"It turned out to be a beggar."
The little girl herself was hungry, and she seemed reluctant to share the food with him, but when she heard the other woman's stomach thundering in protest. She eventually took out the meatloaf she had hidden and gave him half of it. It was the best thing in the world in his memory.
When he had finished eating, he had the strength, and he made a ball of firewood out of flint, and the inside of the temple was warm. The two ended up chatting with each other.
He listened to her complain about her parents, her father was very kind to her but had not been around, and her mother had always been cold-faced, and now she had been kicked out of the yard, and it would not be long before she was driven out of the house. She couldn't wait for her father to come back to administer justice, and she wanted to go out to find him herself.
As she spoke, the little girl began to cry and shout that she was looking for her father. He was helpless, he didn't know how to coax people. He can only tell the little girl about the things he sees in the market, and he often begs in a teahouse, and he can memorize the martial arts stories of those storytellers.
He told her those stories, and the little girl didn't seem to make trouble, and then he actually took his hand and asked him to take her to see the martial arts rivers and lakes. In the early morning of the second day, officers and soldiers came to look for her, and she turned out to be Su Man, the only daughter of Su Cheng, the upstart of the imperial court.
He thought that the other party would leave like this, but she actually took him back to the house with her, she said that she likes to listen to his stories, she now has her own yard, and it is not easy to add a small house. Later, after Su Cheng returned to Beijing, she kept mentioning him in front of Su Cheng, probably out of some kind of vigilance from his father, he was asked to go over for training, and he never appeared in Lanting Yuan again.
Because he was a little beggar without a father or mother, she used to call him Eleven because of the eleven of February when she saw him. Later, Su Cheng gave him a new name, Subei.
He remembered that when he moved out of the small house in Lan Tingyuan, she gave him a little blue bird. said that Su Cheng told her that he was a good seedling for martial arts, and being a little guy was too much to bury his talent, and she hoped that the other party would not forget to take her to see the rivers and lakes in his story after becoming a hero in the future.
Su Bei closed his eyes, there was no chance, he couldn't do it in his life.
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"You saw with your own eyes that there is someone to take care of Xiaobao, and he is all right now"
"Yes"
"Then tell me where he has a birthmark on his face?"
"Birthmarks?" Su Dong frowned and said, "I didn't see any birthmarks on his face." But I did hear those mothers-in-law say that the baby was captured by the widow of Anping Village."
He was drenched at the moment, if it weren't for Su Man giving him a hat that accused him of the benevolence and righteousness of the General's Mansion, he wouldn't have been idle to listen to this eldest lady's random errand. He's not the stupid boy in northern Jiangsu.
"No birthmark, it's my little treasure" Mrs. Qi looked at Su Dong with some gratitude, "Thank you, Brother Su"
"You ......." Su Dong can be regarded as reacting, the widow in front of him was just testing him, does he Su Dong need to tell such a lie? His face suddenly became a little ugly.
"He hurt you like this, and it should be right to help you go and see if the child is okay" Su Man looked at the interaction between the two in front of him and shook his head slightly. The guards beside her father are very good at kung fu, but their brains are not good.
Hearing this, Su Dong's face turned a little bluer, and he hugged his fist at Su Man and said goodbye directly.
After he left, Mrs. Qi was a little embarrassed, the little girl in front of her looked white and chubby, but her eyes seemed to be able to understand what she was thinking. After all, she used some careful thinking first, and heard that this girl had a personal grudge with the young master of Shuntian Mansion.
She wanted to borrow the other party's hand to snatch her son back and evaporate in the world, like a blue bird, and let the birds fly. As for what the other party will face later, she naturally can't think about it. And at this moment, the other party was willing to help her find a way when she knew what the outcome would be, but Mrs. Qi only felt that her cheeks were hot at this time, and she was embarrassed.