After An Ning was finally willing to leave on horseback, An Nan said goodbye to King Rui.

In order to thank him for giving up his horse and letting An Ning ride enough, An Nan picked a pot of multi-colored lily of the valley from his garden and sent it to King Rui's mansion as a return gift, after all, the relationship between her and King Rui is still clear and clear.

When King Rui saw the beautiful pot of lily of the valley, and heard the porter say that it was a thank you gift from An Nan, the taste in his heart was a little complicated, and An Nan didn't seem to want to take advantage of him at all, and even let the child ride a horse This kind of effort has to be thanked back.

He laughed self-deprecatingly, wasn't that what he wanted to see in the first place?

He glanced at the pot of lily of the valley with complicated eyes, he still remembered that it was because his daughter wanted to pick a few lily of the valley, An Nan was unwilling, and in the end they broke up unhappily, An Nan left the palace and took his niece and daughter to live outside.

"Send this pot of flowers to the county lord's yard." She used to like it so much, and she always wanted to get a multi-colored lily of the valley, but now that she finally has it, she will definitely be happy, right?

"Father asked you to send it?" When the little county lord saw the pot of flowers, he was first very surprised, and then he thought of something, restrained his smile, and asked the servant who sent the flowers, "Where did the father get this flower?" ”

As far as she knew, no one but her stepmother could grow multi-colored flowers, so this pot of lily of the valley was probably obtained from her stepmother.

Why did my father suddenly have such flowers? Is he actually familiar with his stepmother in private? It's just because of myself and my brother that I can't be together openly?

These thoughts flashed through the county lord's mind in an instant, and even the joy of receiving the flowers he liked was discounted, and he became uneasy, for fear that his father would be enveloped by others when he didn't know, and there was no way to be just the father of her and her brother, and he was no longer the husband of the mother concubine......

The servant didn't know the complicated thoughts in the little lord's heart, and he only said what he heard: "It was sent by the princess, and it seems to be a thank you for something." ”

"Thank you?" The little county lord muttered, this shows that the father has helped the princess, which means that the two of them have intersected, Xiao Yu lowered his head, didn't know what he was thinking, and casually sent the servants away.

She looked at the pot of lily of the valley and suddenly sighed.

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No matter what others think, after An Nan sent the gift to the Rui Wangfu, she forgot about it, and she indulged in playing with flowers and grass every day, and taught her nephew and daughter by the way.

On this day, An Nan was holding a small shovel to loosen the soil for flowers, and An Ning, who was catching earthworms on the side, suddenly pointed to something in surprise and shouted: "Auntie, look, there are a lot of wow wow oh!" ”

When An Nan heard the sound, his expression suddenly became solemn, and he saw that several frogs were jumping one after another in the place An Ning pointed to, and they seemed to be running from another direction, and they were jumping to other places at this time.

"Wow! And so many more! An Ning exclaimed again, An Nan looked elsewhere, and sure enough, there were many frogs around, and there were dozens of them at a cursory glance.

It was as if all the frogs around them had run out, bouncing and running in the same direction, and this battle was like fleeing.

An Nan twisted her eyebrows, and an inexplicable irritability rose in her heart, I don't know where it came from, she didn't think much about it, she just thought that she didn't like to see so many frogs running out.

"Did someone dig the frog's nest? Butler, go see if someone has done anything to disturb these frogs? An Nan raised his head and called out to the housekeeper.

The housekeeper was also startled when he saw so many frogs who had collectively "run away from home", and hurriedly said, "Yes, I'll check it out right away." These frogs are too scary to look at, can I have them cleaned up? ”

Scary? An Nan looked at An Ning's two little fat hands and farts to pounce on the frog, and he was having a lot of fun, this little guy was not scared at all.

However, it is really creepy that so many frogs and pestles are here, so An Nan nodded and said, "Okay, clean them out, find a place by the river and grass or something like that, just put them away, don't kill them." ”

It doesn't matter if you kill one or two, but if you kill so many, it's a bit of a sin.

The steward should go down and go find someone.

An Nan didn't think much about it and continued to work.

"Auntie, you see I caught a wow wow! Wow wow......" An Ning excitedly pinched a frog, raised it up and said to An Nan, while talking and screaming, other frogs also barked, frogs came and went, An Ning became more energetic, more and more wow-wow.

An Nan also obeyed her, a little girl, I don't know where she got so bold, if someone else's little girl saw a frog, she would have been scared and cried, but she was not only not afraid, but also dared to catch it.

"People's frogs are 'croaking', not 'wow-wow', you are calling it wrong." Annan reminded her.

"Quack! Croak! So she finally got the voice right, and grinned and tossed the poor frog in her hand.

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An Nan didn't take the matter of frogs running away from home en masse to heart, thinking it was just an accidental accident.

However, that night, when the whole family had fallen asleep, in the middle of the night, when people were sleeping soundly, An Nan suddenly woke up and covered her heart that almost jumped out of her chest, and the unexplained palpitations made her feel inexplicably uneasy, and the hairs on the back of her hands stood up all of a sudden.

Dangerous! This thought flashed through her mind, and she suddenly remembered the large frog she saw during the day, and she had a flash of inspiration, it was not an accident, it was an early warning! A sign of an earthquake to come!

Her pupils dilated at once, she jumped up from the bed, put on her shoes quickly, and before she could put on her coat, she rushed into the peaceful bedroom, picked her up violently, and then ran out of the house as fast as she could, shouting loudly as she went: "Earthquake, get up!" ”

The first to be awakened by her shouts were the maids who were keeping vigil, who jumped up in fright and asked in a daze, "What's the matter?" ”

"It's an earthquake, run out of the house! Shout everyone else up! An Nan shouted loudly, running out with the wind under his feet, and he didn't care to talk to them anymore.

As soon as she ran out of the house and into the wide courtyard, she suddenly felt a strong tremor, and the ground where she was standing seemed to shake and dust, and then she felt dizzy......

It's starting to be an earthquake! In the silence of the night, the rumbling of houses and the screams and cries of human fear erupted...... Soon, these voices mingled and resounded all around, as if they were a call from hell, which was terrifying.