Volume 1: I don't know what it's like to be young

The boy doesn't know the taste of sorrow and falls in love with the floor. Fall in love with the floor, and worry about the new words.

Now I know the taste of sorrow, I want to say that I will rest, I want to say that I will rest, but I will say that the weather is cool and autumn.

--- Xin Qiji's "Ugly Slave"

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001. Life and death

The first day of the twelfth lunar month of the twenty-seventh year of Kangxi. Capital.

After noon, the gray clouds gathered more and more, and finally covered the whole sky.

The wind swept the earth gloomily, and the lonely branches whistled in the wind, and a heavy snow was coming.

A young man dressed in black, walking alone in an alley in the Xuanwu Gate, seemed to be attracted by the rolling clouds in the sky, he raised his head to look up at the sky, and then sat down on the steps in front of a house at random, and let the cold wind roll up the floating soil and dust on the ground around his body.

The man sat like this, his thoughts becoming more and more distant, and his eyes becoming more and more empty.

There was a sound of the door opening behind him, and out of it came an old man of fifty years old, and the man in black did not look back or stand up.

The old man stood a stool in front of him, stepped on it, removed the red lantern, and replaced it with a white one.

The man in black moved his gaze from the lantern to the old man, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Who died?" The old man wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and replied in a low voice: "It's our young lady, who is dead!" sighed, turned inside, took out a large blue and white bowl filled with boiled water, handed it to the man in black who was in a daze, and sighed: "Alas, God doesn't have long eyes!" What a good person our old lady is, the heirs are already thin, and in the middle and end of the year, I was stunned to see a pair of children go one after another, and the white-haired people sent the black-haired people! People, no matter how much money you have, it is better to have a peaceful old age! Alas! After a long sigh, the old man handed the bowl to the man. Drink it! ”

"Thank you!" The man took the bowl with a pair of delicate and slender hands, and drank the water in the bowl under the urging of the old man. The old man took the empty bowl and walked into the door, and before the door closed, the old man probed and said to the slightly decadent man: "Childe, go home quickly, this day, talking is a heavy snow!" ”

The corner of the man's mouth pulled out a wry smile, "Home, go home?" Without Roumei, nowhere is not home! I looked up at the plaque hanging on the house, with gold letters on a black background: Hu Fu. The man took an emerald green flute from his belt, whimpered, and walked out of the alley in the cold wind as he played a tune.

"It's also a heartbreaker!" The old man behind the door shook his head and sighed.

In the Hu Mansion, the old man Hu Zhongzheng and his wife Lin Xiuming in the old mouth of the chandelier lantern are actually only in their forties, and at this moment the two are staying in front of a bed, looking at the daughter who has lost her life under the big red brocade quilt on the couch but has a satisfied smile, Lin Xiuming burst into tears, and held her daughter's hand tightly, as if she could save her daughter's life by holding it so hard. Hu Zhongzheng sat beside Xiuming, raised his eyes to look at the servant woman beside him, the servant woman understood, walked over with the baby in her arms, and handed the baby to Xiuming. Xiuming choked up and took the baby, and stroked his fingers to the baby's face. This child has not cried or made a fuss since he was born, only sleeping quietly, this child does not seem to have woken up yet, probably because he was born too hard just now, and his wrinkled little face is flushed with bruises.

Thinking of this poor child without a mother, and thinking of his daughter who died at the age of seventeen, Xiuming's tears couldn't help it, and smashed straight on the baby's face, the baby was suddenly affected by external force, and opened his eyes in shock, and a pair of black pupils looked straight into Xiuming's eyes, Xiuming's eyes on the child also forgot to cry, and the grandparents and grandchildren looked at each other like this.

Hu Zhongzheng leaned over and looked at the baby. "What a pair of clear eyes!" "What a good boy! It's just that my life is not good, and I lost my mother as soon as I was born, so it's pitiful. Xiuming whispered with sadness, trying his best to suppress the heartache, while picking up the baby, patting it gently in his arms, and saying to Hu Zhongzheng on the side: "Brother Zheng, let's raise him!" ”

Hu Zhongzheng nodded and responded: "Okay!" This child is congenitally deficient, and it is better to put it next to us than to put it next to him Amma, and I wrote to tell him Ama tomorrow. He knew that Xiuming's personality had always been to ignore everything except for his children, and this time he made this decision, which was a decision.

How could he be willing to leave behind his daughter's blood and blood to his son-in-law who was an official abroad, since his daughter is gone, the son-in-law will inevitably remarry, then the child's future life will be unpredictable, put it by his side, he will always be more careful than outsiders. It's just that Ming'er's body has always been delicate, I'm afraid that she can't stand the hard work, and this child is congenitally deficient.

His eyes stopped at the baby's body, and he secretly made up his mind, only to bother his righteous brother, with the righteous brother Saihuatuo by his side, the child's body will always get better when he slowly adjusts.

Xiuming turned back to the servant woman and said, "Sister Wan, you tell me to go down and find a few nurses with sharp hands and feet and a stronger body to serve the little master, and from now on, the little master will be taken care of by you personally!" ”

Sister Wan nodded in response, "Yes!" Miss! Then he turned and walked out the door, and when he came to the door, he turned back and glanced at the woman beside the young lady. Seeing this, the woman walked up to Xiuming with a slight nod, lowered her body and said, "Miss, you haven't eaten for a day, so let's eat some food first!" ”

Xiuming shook his head: "Sister Ru, I'm not hungry, let me accompany Qi'er!" He wiped away his tears as he spoke. Sister Ru and Sister Wan are both Xiuming's wedding girls, they know her temperament well, and seeing her insistence, they know that it is useless to persuade again, so they have to look at Hu Zhongzheng for help.

Hu Zhongzheng looked at his deceased daughter on the couch, then looked at Xiuming's painful look and the sleeping baby, reached out to support Xiuming and picked her up, and said softly: "Ming'er, this house has withdrawn the fire, this child is too weak to stand the cold, you can go back to the house first!" I'm here! Xiuming nodded hesitantly, looked down at the baby in his arms and looked at his long-dead daughter with nostalgia, tears couldn't stop flowing down again, Hu Zhong was busy blocking his wife's sight, turned sideways and led her to the door, and said as he walked: "Now you have a heavy responsibility, you have to raise this child yourself, you can't be sad anymore!" Your body is crying badly, how can you take care of him? ”

Xiuming held back her tears and hugged the baby in her arms, then looked back at her daughter, and walked out of the door with Sister Ru in her arms.

Hu Zhongzheng turned around and walked into the house, sat down on the chair in front of his daughter's bed, held his daughter's cold hand against his cheek, lowered his head, and did not speak for a long time, his eyes seemed to be unable to bear the weight of tears anymore, and fell heavily.

Qi'er, your brother is gone, and now you're gone again.

Qi'er, this child was bought by you in exchange for your life, Ama and Eniang will raise him healthy and healthy, and will give him all our love. Don't worry!

Qi'er, now our Hu family only has this one bloodline! Amma and E-Niang will never let her have any trouble again. You can go with confidence!

The slender hands in the palms of her hands became colder and colder, and her father's warm hands could no longer warm her.

Qi'er will no longer smile at him, will not be coquettish at her, will not shout 'Amma' at him, will not stand in front of him. The father-daughter fate in this life is only for these seventeen years, what a deep relationship!

"Give Qi'er, let's prepare for the future!" Holding back his heartache and tears, Hu Zhongzheng spoke with difficulty.

"Yes!" The housekeeper Fu Bo looked at the back of the old man and responded worriedly, there were two funerals in this year, and the old man personally sent away a pair of children, under his strong appearance, the pain and sorrow he endured must be too heavy to dissolve. Fortunately, there is still a child left, then, in order to take care of this not very healthy child, the lord and the lady will definitely hold back their grief.

"Send someone to find Heming and tell him I need his help! Block the news of Qi'er's birth! Please Ziang reorganize the Hu family's secret guards! Hu Zhongzheng held his daughter's hand with both hands, his eyes fixed on his daughter's face, and the pair of radiant phoenix eyes were closed at this time, and he could no longer see Amma. Daughter, do you hear, Amma assures you that Amma will let him grow up healthy and happy!

'Invite the master's righteous brother, the divine doctor Qin Heming, to come to Beijing! Block the news of the young lady's birth to protect him from external forces! Ask Chen Ziang to reorganize the Hu family's secret guard. Butler Fu Bo digested the master's words, and reorganized the Hu family's secret guards, which means adjusting the direction of operation in the past seventeen years, and the focus of the protection of the secret guards has shifted from the young master and the young lady to this newborn baby. It seems that a group of babies and toddlers who have grown up with the young master are going to be added to the dark guard, but fortunately, there are many infants and orphans in this world that no one wants.

"Yes!" Fauber agreed and walked out.

The snow outside the door has been getting heavier and heavier, and God has witnessed the life and death, happiness and sorrow of the world, and the wordless response to this joy and sorrow.