Ruan Huai's throat tightened when she heard this, and the careful thoughts she had saved up for a long time were broken by her adoptive mother with a blow.

The adoptive mother's hands were originally very skillful, and from a very young age, Ruan Huai liked to let her adoptive mother tie her braids. At this time, the adoptive mother's injuries were not yet healed, and her movements became a little slower, but she still tied her hair in a beautiful bun.

She cupped the little girl's face, looked at it and was very satisfied, and said, "Ruan Ruan don't be afraid of anything, work hard for what you want, don't be afraid of scruples." ”

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Three months later, inside the city of Hanzhou.

The dilapidated old courtyard of the old street was pushed open with a bang.

Li Qiao's pace was a little hurried, and he opened the curtain and went in.

Under the stove made of red mud bricks, the crude charcoal fire burst out with fireworks and stars, illuminating the room warm and bright.

And the person he was looking for was leaning on the stove and closing his eyes to recuperate, and there was a Songquan sitting cross-legged on the futon beside him, grinding and pounding medicine, looked up at the person who came in, and asked angrily: "It's not enough to work, right?" Don't you see the Major General resting? ”

Li Qiao didn't bother to argue with him, and reported directly to Gu Yutang: "Young General, half an hour ago, there was an avalanche on the side of Hanshan, and dozens of people were buried. Yin Liu: They said that the people they rescued were all from Kyoto...... It was said that a group of students from Linhe Academy came to Hanzhou to collect wind, but they didn't expect to encounter an avalanche when they came from Hanshan. The situation is critical, Major General, go over and take a look! ”

Although Li Qiao's tone was very anxious, Gu Yutang's expression was indifferent when he opened his eyes, as if he only frowned slightly because he was woken up.

He sat up slowly, and when he saw that the light in the stove had dimmed, he added a few pieces of charcoal to the bottom of the stove with his iron tongs, and stirred the embers at random. When it became hot, he put down the iron tongs, spread out his hands to roast the fire, seemed to be thinking, and asked flatly: "Are they all from Kyoto?" ”

Li Qiao nodded vigorously.

Song Quan said heartlessly: "These children are living a good life too comfortably, where to go to pick up the wind is not good, and they come to a remote place like Hanzhou, isn't this a desire to make trouble for our group of routed soldiers?" ”

Songquan muttered again, "It's enough to suffer." ”

Li Qiao heard the rather harsh word "rout".

What is a rout, it is a defeated army that has been spurned by the people, and the remnants of the army are defeated.

And their group of routs is even more humiliating. They were exiled here because of the terrible defeat they had suffered three months earlier.

Because of this, the people of Hanzhou never gave their group of defeated soldiers half a good face, and when they saw the people among them every day, the two words they said the most were "defeated soldiers".

The people called them "defeated soldiers", Songquan had a strong temperament, and at first he would argue with those people with a white face, and later, over time, Songquan gladly accepted this title, and now he laughs at it.

But the most unexpected thing is that they used to be a small military marquis, and now the famous young general Gu Yutang...... After all, he was once a high-spirited little army marquis, but since he came to Hanzhou for so long, no matter how the people insulted and spurned, Gu Yutang never had half of his mood swings.

He repeated day after day, leading their group of routed troops, stationing, changing guards, and maintaining order in Hanzhou.

Such a boring life, but General Gu Shao didn't seem to feel lonely and frustrated, for more than three months,