The night smeared like a splash of ink, and the stars in the sky flickered and blinked tirelessly, looking down on everything on the earth.

A small village in the remote part of the Northern Liang Kingdom shrouded in darkness was silent at this time, and the villagers who had been busy all day had already fallen asleep, and occasionally heard a few dog barks and the croaking of frogs in the pond, adding a bit of color to the silent night.

In a room in the far west of the village, the oil lamp was still burning quietly, and on the right side of the room was a simple wooden bed, the quilts on the bed were neatly folded, and a long wooden table was placed on the left.

There was a young girl sitting on the stool next to the wooden table, about thirteen years old, only to see the eyebrows and eyes, the skin was like congealed fat, the snow white was full of powder, as if she could pinch out the water, the long black hair was draped over her shoulders, and a wooden hairpin was obliquely inserted in the hair.

With a "squeak", the door was pushed open from the outside, and the sound was particularly clear in the quiet night. A middle-aged woman in an old linen dress walked up to the girl with a bowl of steaming soup and said softly, "Miss, drink a bowl of chicken soup."

The girl slowly opened the box, took out a jade pendant hanging from a red rope, and seemed to have made up her mind and said: "Mother Chen, I want to take the jade pendant with me, you will come and pick you up after I settle down here."

After hearing this, Chen's mother hurriedly said, "Miss, do you really want to go?" That's the Longtan Tiger's Den, I can't go there. After speaking, he looked at the girl with a worried face.

The girl held the jade pendant in the palm of her hand until the palm of her hand was pressed out by her nails with a few crescent-shaped deep marks, and said with hatred: "I have more than 100 members of the Lin family, all of them have lost the hands of traitors, this revenge is not revenge, it is for unfilial piety, now only I can find out the truth for my father's injustice, in order to comfort my father's soul in the sky!"

The girl's eyes were red, tears slipped down involuntarily, she would never forget that day, the blood all over the ground stained the entire Lin Mansion.

Five years ago, on the summer solstice, the people of the Lin Mansion were busy preparing the items for the solar terms, and suddenly a holy decree was issued, stating that Lin Yuanzhi was in the position of the secretary of the criminal department by the grace of the saint, and should be diligent and loyal, and benefit the country and the people, but in vain he ignored the holy grace, colluded with foreign thieves, and intended to rebel, and the crime was unforgivable.

The general with the troops gave an order, only to hear the screams of the whole house, the mourning continued, Mrs. Lin hurriedly hid her daughter in the tunnel, the daughter begged her father and mother together, Mrs. Lin tearfully instructed: "How can your father and I abandon the people of the whole house and steal life alone, this is the catastrophe of the Lin family, you can't escape, Mo'er, you have to learn to take care of yourself in the future, your mother can no longer accompany you."

Lin Yumo desperately pulled Mrs. Lin and cried: "Mother, you can't leave me, I want to be with you."

Mrs. Lin raised her hand when she heard this, and she was reluctant to gently touch Lin Yumo's face, and said, "Mo'er, my father's only wish is that you want to live, live well, listen to your mother's words, leave Yundu, and never come back."

Then, Mrs. Lin instructed the people behind her: "Mother Chen, Miss will entrust it to you."

Mother Chen hurriedly knelt down and choked up: "Madame, don't worry, the slave will protect the young lady even if she dies, if it weren't for the lady, the slave and the maid walked on the Huangquan Road ten years ago, the slave and the maid's life was given by the lady, and the slave and the maid must take good care of the young lady."

Chen Ma is a native of Qing'an County, 500 miles away from Yundu, ten years ago the flood was raging, houses and farmland were all destroyed by the flood, the people had to leave their hometowns to go out to beg for a living, after the flood and the plague was rampant, there were countless deaths and injuries along the way, Chen's mother's husband and son died in this natural disaster.

Chen's mother came to Yundu alone after burying her relatives, fainted outside the Lin Mansion due to excessive sadness and hunger, and happened to meet Mrs. Lin returning to the house, so she ordered the servants to carry Chen's mother into the mansion, and Chen's mother gradually recovered after a few days, and since then she has settled down in the Lin Mansion.

Mama Chen thanked Mrs. Lin for saving her life, was loyal to Mrs. Lin, and did her best, so Mrs. Lin chose Mama Chen at this time of crisis.

Mrs. Lin hurriedly helped Chen's mother, grabbed Chen's hand tightly and said, "Chen's mother, you and I will never see each other again in this life, in the future, you and Miss will depend on each other, everything will depend on you, hurry up." After speaking, he didn't look at Lin Yumo again, and walked out quickly.

Lin Yumo shouted heartbreakingly: "Mother, don't, don't leave Mo'er, mother, you come back ......." Chen's mother persuaded: "Miss, hurry up and go with the slave maid, if you don't leave, it's too late." Lin Yumo cried and was about to climb up, but Chen's mother hurriedly grabbed Lin Yumo and said, "Miss, the only wish of the lord and the lady is that the young lady is alive, does the young lady even have to abandon this last wish?" When Lin Yumo heard this, she stood up in a trance, Chen's mother supported Lin Yumo with one hand, and stumbled along the tunnel with the candlestick in the other, and the screams outside became smaller and smaller until they disappeared completely.

After Lin Yumo and Chen's mother escaped, they went out of the city overnight and traveled a long way, and finally came to this remote mountain village. Chen's mother claimed that her husband had died, and her in-laws could not tolerate her and her daughter, so she had no choice but to leave her hometown and find another place to live.

The people in the village were simple and kind, and when they saw that a woman was alone with her daughter and homeless, it was really pitiful, so he gave them a house in the west of the village that had long been abandoned.

In the past few years, relying on Chen's mother to sew and mend in a big family, the life of the two can be regarded as barely passing, but Lin Yumo has become more and more silent, and she is no longer as lively as before.

Chen's mother saw it in her eyes, the sudden great change in the Lin Mansion brought a fatal blow to Miss, she also persuaded her, but it was useless, seeing Miss like this all day, Chen's mother was distressed but helpless.

"Miss, if you don't drink chicken soup anymore, it'll be cold," Chen's mother's words interrupted Lin Yumo's memories, Lin Yumo put the jade pendant into the wooden box, stood up, helped Chen's mother sit down and said, "Chen's mother, there is only a chicken at home, and it is still waiting to lay eggs and sell them for money, what a pity to kill."

Mother Chen looked at Lin Yumo's thin body, remembered the hard life that Miss had lived in the past two years, and couldn't help but reddened her eyes and said, "Miss, Mother Chen is useless, she has failed to live up to Madame's trust and failed to take good care of Miss."

Lin Yumo hurriedly comforted: "Mother Chen, don't blame yourself, although these days are harder, but also at ease, if it weren't for Mother Chen, I don't know if I can live until now, now I only have one relative, Mother Chen, don't say these words in the future."

Mother Chen listened to Lin Yumo's words, and became even more sad, the young lady is kind-hearted and kind-hearted, just like the wife when she was alive, but why do good people suffer so much?

Chen's mother suddenly remembered something and said, "Miss, is Miss Xiao really not good?"

Lin Yumo said sadly: "Well, Sister Xiao has been sent to the temple since she was a child, saying that she is praying for her grandmother, but listening to Sister Xiao's meaning, it is that the Xiao family doesn't care about her daughter at all, and no one has come to see her all these years, and some people in the temple are snobbish, seeing that she is not valued by the Xiao family, they naturally despise her.

Mother Chen sighed and said: "Miss Xiao is also a poor person, she can't go back to her home, and the people of Xiao Mansion are inevitably too ruthless, even if she was born to her aunt, she can't be treated like this, so Miss Xiao is also a descendant of Xiao Mansion." Miss, are you really going to Xiao Mansion? What if I am recognized by the people of the Xiao Mansion? ”

Lin Yumo took Chen's mother's hands and said, "Chen's mother, since Sister Xiao was sent to the temple, she has cut off contact with the Xiao Mansion, and the people of the Xiao Mansion naturally don't recognize Sister Xiao. Sister Xiao and I are very close to each other, just like sisters, and Sister Xiao's only wish is to go back to the house to see her poor mother. Xiao Fu sent a letter, and took her back to her house a month later, Sister Xiao was afraid that she would not be able to wait for a month, she asked me to go back instead of her and fulfill her wish, which is one of them; Second, in order to investigate the case of the Lin Mansion and restore the innocence of the Lin Mansion, it is necessary to return to Yundu. ”

Chen's mother said worriedly: "Miss, you go to Yundu alone, Chen's mother is really not at ease, you just let Chen's mother go with you."

Lin Yumo comforted: "Don't worry, Mother Chen, I'm already old and no longer a child, you just wait for me here, and I will come to pick you up."