As soon as Erkui heard that someone was coming, he hurriedly took out a bunch of cloth handkerchiefs from his arms, gagged the women's mouths, and pulled one end of the chain and hid the person behind a straw pile in the corner of the broken temple.

Luo Shi sniffed the peculiar smell of straw mildew under his nose, and through the gaps, he could barely see the situation in the temple.

With a squeak, the door was pushed open, and a handsome man with a handsome posture came in.

Sang Bai walked with him, his expression anxious, and his mouth was dry with persuasion. Originally, they had been close to the Liangzhou territory day and night, but under hearsay, they heard that the fire in He Mansion in Tongzhou City burned to death He Jiang and He Zao's son, and another woman died together.

With Sang Bai talking about it, how to analyze the powerful relationship, the young master just can't hear it. If you care, you will be chaotic, and for the sake of your children's affection, you can't even take care of the urgency of military affairs.

"Young Master! I'll go to Tongzhou for you, you go to Liangzhou to resume your life, you can't afford to delay, I still know that the Liangmen family slave is important, how can the young master be so confused? ”

Uncle Liang was in a state of confusion at night, looking at the clay sculpture of Ma Wangye in the dilapidated temple, and wrinkled his eyebrows without saying a word.

"Young master, Miss Luo Shi Jiren has her own natural appearance, besides, the eldest lady is in Tongzhou, there are more than adults to take care of it, the eldest lady protects her, Miss Luo will be safe, don't worry."

Uncle Liang turned around and said, "Is the pigeon she sent a message to you still there?" ”

"Naturally, the eldest lady said before leaving, if there is any military trouble in Liangzhou, you can send a message back, and I will hide the pigeons...... Didn't the young master want to ask about Miss Luo's safety? ”

Uncle Liang nodded at night, just about to speak-

Hearing a bang, the half-hidden temple door was kicked open, Liang Yu arrived in the dust, and coldly threw down a bag of things and said:

"No need, I'm here"

……

Seeing that Liang Yu was also coming, Luo Xi had mixed feelings in her heart, knowing that it was impossible for Liang Yu to hide the news of her death, so she must carefully talk about it and listen to Uncle Liang at night, so that he could completely stop this infatuation.

lowered her eyes and endured her tears, she didn't want to see Uncle Liang's heartbroken appearance, but providence made people, and still arranged for her to meet them in this small broken temple.

In the afterglow, she saw Uncle Liang unwrap the burden at night - he was stunned in place, his slender fingertips trembled slightly, and he took out two grates in the cloth bag and combed them.

The red velvet thread had long been burned out, and the wood of the grate comb had been blackened by the smoke and fire, and only a shape could barely be seen.

Uncle Liang stroked the crack in the grate comb with his fingertips, and smiled silently: How can this old style, this familiar fracture, be fake?

"What about her body? Sister deceives me once with a lotus arrow......" Uncle Liang said in a deep voice, his face was terrible.

Liang Yu sneered when he heard this, and said: "You have broken off your relationship with her, she may have accepted a dowry, why should I use the death trick to deceive you again?" It's just that I miss you and leave you a relic behind" After a pause, she sighed secretly: "As for the corpse...... The fire was burned clean, and the ashes were collected by Sanniang's family, and they were already buried."

Uncle Liang's hand holding the grate comb hung down weakly, the blood and qi in his body surged, but his face was neither happy nor sad.

Laughter is silent, sorrow is not tears.

How can he bear this ridiculous eternal separation between heaven and man? He and her have never said a word of love, but the traces of his heart can be revealed, this forbearance turned into a kind of silence, he wanted to keep her safe for a lifetime, but if she is gone, what should he do?

He gave up his heart and love, forbears himself, and fulfills her ordinary life, but how did he expect that it was just an unfinished excerpt, she scribbled the curtain call, and he was out of context in this life.

The broken comb slipped from his palm and fell to the ground, and he bent down to pick it up, and a tear touched the grate comb before his fingertips......

Uncle Liang's sad color at night fell on the straw queen's eyes, and she also cried like rain with him.

She was glad that her hands were chained and her tongue was stuffed with a cloth, otherwise she was afraid that her reason would collapse, and she would rush out desperately—

Don't say that this love is a mistake, just say that her voice is hoarse now, her face is ruined, even if they meet, I'm afraid he won't recognize her.

Biting his lower lip tightly, he unconsciously exerted force, and a trace of red blood appeared in the pale.

Outside the straw, Liang Yu saw that Uncle Liang couldn't suppress the pain at night, and his heart was wheezing rapidly, and he thought to himself: I'm afraid that Gu poison is going to attack! She immediately stepped forward and dropped her knife to knock him unconscious, and then said to Sang Bai:

"Let's go, tie up and go to Liangzhou! With his current body, if he doesn't take the antidote, the lining will be wasted! ”

"Good! Miss, what about you? ”

Sang Bai picked up Uncle Liang who had fainted, turned his head and asked Liang Yu.

Liang Yu's eyes were gloomy, the October cold clothes had passed, Luo Shi must have returned to the present world, and her time was short, but Uncle Liang was like this now, she couldn't rest assured, so she had to go to Liangzhou again.

"I will go with you in disguise, and I will install a position in the army at will, and when Uncle Ye can take on a big responsibility, I will travel to Kyushu and never get involved in the war again."

Sang Bai didn't have anything to do, he carried Uncle Liang out of the temple gate first, Liang Yu followed, and the three horses galloped onto the official road and left.

After the people left, Er Kui stepped out from behind the straw, although Er Zhang couldn't figure his head, but he was still secretly glad:

Fortunately, they encountered some major event of life and death, it seems that it was still a matter of war? That's why I didn't notice the movement in the corner, otherwise such a bunch of people were hiding, and if you pay a little attention, you can find out, Amitabha, if he loses the goods, he will definitely kill his father.

Looking back, seeing Luo Shi crying into a tearful person, he felt even more guilty, and secretly made up his mind that when she arrived in Liangzhou, she must help her get away, and she couldn't ask her father to sell it.

*

Along the way, they stopped and stopped, and it took almost a month for them to reach the territory of Liangzhou.

At the end of October, the weather is cold, and the yellow sand here is full of sky, desolate and desolate, even if there is a good field, it is called frost to seal the soil, the official road looks at the side, the soil is a mountain col, and the wasteland is too far away from the good field village in the suburbs of Tongzhou.

Because he wanted to sell women, Li Dahu picked a remote mountain nest in Kushui Township, Liangzhou, where there were about three or five villages, which were a little closer to Kushui Town, and he was not poor to the roots, so he wanted to buy a daughter-in-law with some silver.

found his eldest concubine as a connector, Li Dahu drove the carriage to the entrance of the village and dragged all the women in the carriage down.

The chain was forcibly pulled, Luo Shi staggered, subconsciously protecting the child in her lower abdomen, she pursed her chapped lips, and stepped on the gravel ground - at this time, most of the people in the village got the letter, and they all rushed to see the excitement, surrounded by two layers inside and out, and laughed endlessly.

The folk customs here are simple and backward, there are few scholars, and there are not many people who know etiquette, righteousness and shame, and they feel that buying a daughter-in-law is a common thing.

The women wept and hid behind Luo Shi, and one of them, named Que Rong, did not forget to push her and push her in front of everyone.

Seeing this, Li Dahu was stunned and scolded: "What are you doing standing in front of you, you dare to be Lao Tzu's signboard when you are ugly like this?" Squat in the back! ”

Luo Shi was silent, dragged the heavy chains on her feet, staggered, stood on the very edge, lowered her head and secretly thought:

She just wants to find a stable place to give birth to her child, and chooses to come to Liangzhou, one is coerced by the situation, and the other is also out of selfishness, neither can she stay with Uncle Liang at night in this life, and she doesn't want to look at her across Kyushu, and she will be a little more down-to-earth in Liangzhou. If she has the opportunity to let the child see him in the coming year, she will be satisfied.

As for the way to get out, Erkui got up last night, she secretly discussed it with him, and when Li Dahu sold other women almost, she turned around and pretended to be sick, how could the villagers sell a sick woman, according to Li Dahu's character, he refused to feed a mouth that ate for nothing, and he would not spend money to see her sick, and it was likely that he would leave people in the barren mountains nearby and fend for herself.

Most of these unfortunate things fall on Erkui, and then it will be the time to get out of trouble.

Li Dahu saw Luo Xian's depressed appearance, and he was angry in his heart when he looked at it, and scolded secretly: "If no one buys you, you wait to die!" ”

"Eh, boss in the south, what kind of price are you selling, no matter how you look skinny, it's not easy to give birth!" The onlookers of the villagers pulled out their voices and said to Li Dahu.

Li Dahu rubbed his hands and smiled:

"I'm not selling pig fans, the fatter the better, and I pay two pounds for a bite, this is buying a daughter-in-law! Each one is a different price, you take a look at this - it looks white and good-looking, don't look thin, but the pair of is big, and the milk is absolutely indispensable to give birth to a doll in the future, this one is more expensive, twenty taels"

Li Dahu pulled out the banyan and pulled up her little face, telling the buyers to take a closer look.

"Yo, what an expensive price, the new daughter-in-law that the old man Jing's family bought last year is good-looking, with a big buttocks, and she is honest and does not make noise, and she is only fifteen taels of miles, why do you want twenty taels?"

An old woman carrying a basket of turnips and a blue cloth headscarf wrapped around her head walked up to Li Dahu, looking up and down at the banyan banyan, touching her buttocks and milking her milk, not at all for people to look at, just want to buy melons and pick vegetables in the market, just to see if it is worth the twenty taels of silver.

"Haha, Shanzi damn it, old man Jing heard that it was a kiln sister, how many people have used broken shoes, fifteen taels to buy a skin, what do you envy? If it's a yellow flower girl, twenty taels won't be a loss."

Someone on the side accosted, and the vulgar words came as soon as they opened their mouths.

Li Dahu smiled, nodded at Luo Shi, who was standing on the very edge, and said: "This is cheap, as long as five taels, it will burn your face and throat, or you don't dislike the skin to buy her."

The old woman followed what Li Dahu pointed at, glanced at Luo Shi, and rolled her eyes in disgust:

"It's better to buy her than to beat a singleton, it's disgusting to be in the house all day long, I can live a few years less, and I don't buy five taels of silver, and I won't buy one or two! Phew, I'm blind, I'm going to turn around like this, I can't take care of anything to earn this black-hearted silver."

Li Dahu's eyes were gloomy, because she was a customer, so she couldn't scold, but said impatiently: "You can't buy it yet, don't block it if you don't buy it!" ”

"Don't talk nonsense, just this fifteen taels, I'll pull it away immediately, and give enough cash and don't offset your food, you can do it!" The old woman glanced at the banyan banyan, and in her heart, she lifted the cloth covering the basket, revealing a pile of broken silver bills—

She only looked at Li Dahu for a corner, and then re-covered it. The poor family saved a lifetime to continue, just to marry a daughter-in-law for their son, but now the war in Liangzhou continues, and the female dolls are going out to marry and marry the local daughter-in-law, ten taels of dowry is the least, counting the money for getting married and doing things, how can you get seventeen or eighteen taels of silver, sometimes it is really better to spend money to buy one, the mountain is high and the road is far away, and she has not to take the mother-in-law's family to supplement the lady, and she is scolded, so that it is very.

Li Dahu was a little hesitant, because most farmers did not have enough cash, and they would use grain to offset some, and he had to pull the grain to the town to sell it and convert it into silver, which was very troublesome, this old woman didn't need food to pay, fifteen taels and fifteen taels, a good start!

"Okay, I'm a happy person, just fifteen taels, Erkui, unlock her feet"

"No, no, the newly bought daughter-in-law hasn't fallen into the rules yet, don't run away, the hemp rope at home is not strong, or borrow the chain, come, and ...... with me"

The old woman counted out fifteen taels of silver to Li Dahu with some distress, took the chain handed by Erkui, and dragged the banyan to the village, saying as she walked:

"The original name is not easy to call, go back and ask Shanzi and his father to get one for you, if you don't run or make noise, you will suffer a few less beatings and a few hungry meals, do you understand?"

Que Rong struggled and cried, sat on the ground and refused to go, the old woman raised her hand is an ear scraper, and she was stunned, scolding and dragging back.

When the banyan left, it took Li Dahu more than an hour to sell the women, more than fifteen taels, less than seven or eight taels, but no one cared, that is, Li Dahu pressed the price to three taels, and no one was willing to buy it.

He was furious, and looked at Luo Xian's sick and dejected appearance, and he turned his hand to pick up the whip on the horse, and was about to whip it—

"If no one buys you, then I'll kill you!"