We took the few taels of rice we had left and everything we could eat on the road.

When I walked out of the border, I passed by Nanshan, I stopped and looked at it for a long time, and Mo'er said, "If Miss wants to go, go and have a look!" ”

In fact, I didn't really want to go in my heart, because there were too many memories of me and Chu Muxiu in the peach blossom forest, in fact, I only realized that I didn't hate him as much as I imagined, even if I hated him desperately, I couldn't hate it. Look at the portrait of the mother on the shoulder, the mother loves the peach blossom very much, thinking that the mother may want to take a look at it.

I nodded to Mo'er, and then the three of them went up to Nanshan together. The peach blossoms are one after another, looking like a sea of pink flowers from a distance, and from time to time a few bees fly in, and they buzz to bring us the breath of spring.

But I always feel that the peach blossoms on Nanshan this year are not as good as those of that year.

I took down the portrait of my mother on my shoulder and opened it, so that my mother could enjoy the peach blossoms all over the mountain, "Mother, have you seen it, I took you home!" ”

As soon as I turned my head, Xuanwu stood in front of me with a bouquet of peach blossoms, and he grinned at me with his little mouth, "Sister, you are so good-looking, this peach blossom is just right for you." ”

I was absurd, remembering that Chu Muxiu put peach blossoms on my head like this at that time, for a moment I really thought that the person standing in front of me was Chu Muxiu, and he also smiled at me like Xuanwu, and we seemed to be back to the original way.

"Sister, sister." Xuanwu shook his hand vigorously in front of me before I came back to my senses and caught the flower in Xuanwu's hand.

"What were you thinking about just now, I called you several times and you didn't answer me?"

I looked at the peach blossom in my hand and said, "I suddenly remembered someone." ”

"Who?"

"Someone who was very important to me before."

"Before?" Xuanwu didn't seem to understand my words, scratched his head and went to Mo'er.

In fact, carefully calculating that I and Chu Muxiu have really not seen each other for a long time, this land seems to have the shadow of Chu Muxiu, I always think of him for no reason, and those good things that come to mind him, when I think of it, I feel pantothenic acid in my heart, and sometimes I almost forget that I should have hated him.

"Mother, hurry up!"

"Slow down and don't fall!"

I looked down at half of the mountain and saw a mother and son, the child was about the same age as Xuanwu, a middle-aged woman wearing a long dress, a towel wrapped around her head, and carrying a basket full of peach blossoms.

I used to ask them if they wanted to make peach blossom wine, and the middle-aged woman said yes, but this year's peach blossoms are not very good, not fragrant enough and not red enough, and now that there is a war outside, I don't know if the peach blossom wine will be sold at a good price as in previous years.

There was another war, and nine out of ten things I encountered at the border were because of the war. I finally know why Daddy reads military books every day, and Lu Huai trains every day.

We went down the hill with the mother and son, and they picked a basket full of peach blossoms, and after walking for a while we parted ways, and the child walked by the corner of his mother's clothes.

On the third day, Mo'er's leg was completely healed, and we stopped and walked along the way, sometimes in the cave, sometimes in the ruined temple, and the food and drink were probably enough for us to get to Huancheng, and everything went well.

Xuanwu told me about the changes in Chenjiazhai in the past two years, and said that the year we left, the rice sprouted, and it began to rain in the spring, and the harvest in the past two years was good. The hen of the aunt's house next door gave birth to a litter of chicks, and the people in the village learned to make peach blossom wine, and the peach blossom wine market was good, and everyone made a lot of money. Uncle Chen at the head of the village became a grandfather again, and their daughter-in-law gave birth to three, and finally had a boy who opened a descendant for the old Chen family.

I began to envy Xuanwu, not that he ate big fish and meat for two days and two nights, but that he could live in such a paradise-like place, surrounded by a group of simple and kind people.

When Xuanwu happily asked me about the changes that have taken place in my family in the past two years, I couldn't say a word for a long time. I can't tell him that in the past two years, my father and Aunt Song have died, and our family has been in ruins, and I have been reduced from the daughter of a dignified prime minister to a homeless wild girl, nor can I tell him that he will not only not be happy but will suffer if he follows me.

Seeing that I couldn't say a word for a long time, Mo'er called Xuanwu aside and asked him to help him collect firewood.

On the fourth day, when we were about to reach Huancheng, we encountered a group of Xiliang troops on the way, and I thought it was the Xiongnu who subconsciously pulled Xuanwu and Mo'er to run.

As soon as we ran, we caught the attention of the group of Xiliang, and the two men on horseback chased after us, and then dragged the three of us to the army.

I looked at the man sitting on the horse in front of me, his headdress and clothes were not at all the same as those Hun soldiers in the previous days, and after they said a few words, I realized that they were originally from Xiliang.

The Xiliang people look quite clean, not like the Huns with a beard, the face is as rough as linen, the one sitting in front of him should be the head of this group of Xiliang people, he is not too old, probably the same as His Majesty, he sat on the horse and looked at me for a long time, and then asked me, "Are you from Tianyue?" ”

I glanced at him and didn't say anything, Tianyue and Xiliang are fighting now, I'm afraid that if I say that I am from Tianyue, they will definitely kill us.

Seeing that we didn't speak, the little soldier didn't know what he said in the ear of the Xiliang man, and the Xiliang man sitting on the horse looked at us and smiled, and then said, "It just so happens that we are missing two cooks in the war, and seeing them like this, they must also be going to flee, so let's take them on the road with us." ”

"We're not cooks!" Mo'er screamed in a hurry.

Xiliang laughed contemptuously again: "It turns out that you can speak, so you can tell me who you are?" ”

I held Xuanwu's hand tightly: "It doesn't matter who we are, it doesn't matter to you, you can't just take us away at will!" ”

"The little girl's tone is not small, I don't know if the cooking is delicious."

"Hahaha......" Several of the leading minions laughed along.

I could clearly feel the fear of Mo'er and Xuanwu, when I held their hands, they were in cold sweat, there were many of them, and they were all in the prime of life, we might not be able to run away this time.

When I went, I met the Huns and died nine lives, and finally came back and met the Xiliang people, I can only say that God really wants my life. It's okay to take my life, but don't take Mo'er and Xuanwu with you.

We were taken back to their tents by the Xiliang people, and as soon as we entered, they told us to cook. How can I cook, last time I made a pine flower cake and burned the whole kitchen.

The two soldiers brought a bag of rice and still put it in front of us, and then said to us coldly, "Cook the rice before dark, or you will look good!" ”

Mo'er was really scared, she didn't dare to say a word, she honestly lit a fire on the side, she didn't say anything, but her heart was no less bitter than me. Our family has fallen, and Mo'er can go home to find her brother and sister-in-law, but Mo'er didn't say a word, and has been following me until now. Xuanwu is also very sensible, and he helps Mo'er hand firewood on the side. It's just that sometimes I come to me and ask when I can go back to Huancheng, and I shake my head and say I don't know. I don't have the luxury of returning to Huancheng now, I just want to save their lives.

We were all so smoked that we couldn't open our eyes, and when it was almost dark, the two Xiliang soldiers just now carried a large wooden barrel to carry the food. We were relieved when they had taken the food away, thinking that they should let us go when they were full of food and drink.

Before our buttocks were hot, the two little soldiers came again, saying that the food clips we had made were very raw, and as soon as they came in, they violently pulled us hard, and wanted to take us to His Highness.

I finally knew that the person was actually Shen Linxiao, the eldest highness of Xiliang, the queen had three brothers, and Xiliang had three princes. When it comes to people related to the queen, I have a little resentment in my heart, in addition to my family's affairs, Xiliang also maliciously provoked a war with Tianyue, which made the lives of the people miserable, and the people were miserable.

When we were escorted into the big account, Shen Linxiao was sitting on the high seat, and some other generals and senior guards were sitting under the seats. As soon as we entered, they all stared at us as if they were going to eat us.

Shen Linxiao was caught off guard and threw a big bowl of rice from the front, which frightened me a few steps back, and the rice was still steaming on the ground, "Look at what you are cooking, how can people eat it when it is half raw and half cooked?" ”

When the two soldiers brought the rice, I opened the bag and took a look, and there were all kinds of rice inside, including old rice and new rice, whole rice and half a meter, and I knew that it was scavenged from the common people. In this way, the rice mixed up is difficult to cook, or even undercooked.

I sneered, "How can the grain and livestock that have been looted from the people be eaten?" ”

Shen Linxiao became even more angry when he heard me say this, and his eyes were on fire, "Who do you say is an animal?" ”

I also glared at him: "Whoever is in a hurry will say whom?" ”

He jerked out of his seat, walked up to me, and grabbed me by the neck. Mo'er pulled his hand in a hurry, Xuanwu pulled the corner of his clothes, the more they wanted to save me like this, the harder His Highness worked, green tendons appeared on his forehead, I was pinched by him and my face was red and I couldn't breathe, I tried hard to break away from his hand, but I really didn't have the strength.

Seeing that I didn't seem to be able to do it, Mo'er bit Shen Linxiao's arm violently, His Royal Highness frowned and shouted, then let go of me and slapped Mo'er hard.

I was pushed aside by him, my throat was choked dry, my face was hot and red, and I was coughing with my hand on my chest. Before I could react, His Royal Highness pinched Mo'er as hard as he had just pinched me, Xuanwu was struggling and crying on the side, I saw that Mo'er couldn't shout, and suddenly took out the dagger that Wu Deqing gave me from the pocket of his clothes and stabbed it at his arm.

I just stabbed him in the right bone in the arm, and blood spurted out like a flood. His Royal Highness let out a cry of pain and then pushed me to the ground, he was finally willing to let go of Mo'er, I felt a hot thing flowing down my head, I reached out and touched it, and there was bright red blood on my palm, and my forehead was broken, and I didn't feel it at all.

The generals and guards who were seated at the table stood up together and raised their swords around our necks to kill us.

I went over to help Mo'er, the three of us hugged each other, Mo'er was crying, Xuanwu was also crying, I was the only one who didn't cry, and there was desperate stubbornness in my eyes.

At such a time, I really miss Daddy in my heart, I especially miss Chu Muxiu, I hope they can come to save me soon, but I know that they will never come again.