Ah Fu turned into a street.

Entering the city from the West Gate, she had an indescribable sense of weirdness all the way.

There were far fewer people on the streets, especially women, and I hadn't seen a single woman except two elderly women. Even the man's face showed a nervous and worried look.

The street was deserted, Ah Fu was uneasy, and his steps were faster.

In fact, she was in such a hurry when she entered the city that she did not look up at the notice posted by the city gate. Ah Fu has the impression that in addition to urging labor, paying food, and being wanted...... Basically, there is never a good thing that can be put on it.

The street is even more bizarre, with the doors of every house closed, and you can't even hear the roosters and dogs barking. The oil shop on the corner is also closed, and the oil shop used to be a grocery store with a locked door, and then its own pickle shop, all closed.

Is something going on?

This kind of situation Ah Fu saw once when he was a child, that time the old emperor died and the princes competed for the throne, and everyone dared not go out to the street for a month.

The door of his house is also closed, Ah Fu has not been back for more than a year, and when he saw the familiar courtyard gate, although he was nervous now, he still felt that his nose was slightly sour.

She took two steps and turned her head in confusion.

Around the corner of the street, a figure quickly vanished.

The man couldn't be stalking her, was he?

She slapped the door twice hard: "Mother, brother, open the door!" ”

After a long while, someone in the room answered: "Who?" ”

"Brother, it's me, Ah Fu!"

Hurried footsteps came, the door Huo Ran was opened, one hand pulled Ah Fu into the door, and slammed the courtyard door slammed again!

"Ah Fu! Why are you back? ”

Seeing his sister who hadn't been home for more than a year, his brother Zhu Pinggui's face was full of panic and surprise, and he didn't look overjoyed at all. He is a little taller than the last time Ah Fu saw him, his shoulders are wider, and he looks like a responsible young man, the people of the Zhu family are not short, but Ah Fu is an exception, even Ah Xi, who is two years younger than her, is half a head taller than her, but she still maintains a round and short appearance and has never grown taller again.

"What's wrong? Why are there so few people on the street, and ...... in broad daylight"

"Alas, don't talk about this, you won't come back sooner or later, what are you going to do when you come back now? Hurry up, I'll send you out, you go back to the mountains! ”

"What the hell is going on? I've been walking for most of the day, so I'll give me a drink first. ”

Zhu Pinggui turned a deaf ear, and was anxious to pull her out, but suddenly stopped: "No, no, you have to change your clothes!" ”

"Brother!"

Ah Fu was really confused by the second monk, and turned his head to see a woman in a green cloth dress standing by the door, her eyes lit up: "Mother, brother, what's wrong?" What about Ahi? ”

The woman waved her hand and stopped Zhu Pinggui. He was holding a long robe of his own in his hand and insisted on putting it on Ah Fu.

"It's not right to go now, the city gate is not allowed to enter or leave, it is easy for her to come in, but it is not easy to go out. Come into the house first, wait until it gets dark, and then see if you can think of a way out. ”

As soon as the mother said this, Ah Fu also remembered that when she entered the city gate, the guards at the gate looked at her face several times, and looked more carefully than usual, but at that time she was hungry and thirsty, and she was anxious to go home, and she didn't pay attention to this.

"Mother, what's wrong? Where did Ah Xi go? Ah Fu had a very bad premonition. Brother's performance and mother's expression are as if a catastrophe is about to come.

Ah Fu's mother is only in her thirties, with black and thick hair, fair skin, and small almond eyes. But Ah Fu looks like his father who died early, with a big mouth and small eyes, a round figure, a round face, a round forehead, and round fingers - Ah Fu muttered to himself in the mirror countless times: "It's like a turnip......"

Fortunately, the radish is not big and the tassels are long, but Ah Fu's hair is with his mother, it is black, dense and long, and his skin is white......

"Why did you come back at this time...... "Niang's expression was worried: "Didn't you hear about the selection at all on the mountain?" ”

Picking?

Selection, you know - that is, the emperor forcibly recruited a good woman to the harem in the name of righteousness and strictness, and the one who looks good is the little wife, and the one who looks bad is to be a cow and a horse...... No wonder people are so panicked in the streets, as if they had been robbed. Aren't they robbers? The emperor is the biggest robber in the world, and you have no place to reason if he robs you.

Ah Fu shook his head dumbly: "I haven't heard of ......"

"Then why did you come home at this time!"

Ah Fu suddenly jumped up: "What about Ah Xi? Ah Xi has not been arrested! ”

"Be quiet!" The brother rushed up to cover her mouth: "You want people to hear that you are coming home?" ”

The mother shook her head, with a little guilt on her face: "Ah Xi got married, and she was carried away last night." ”

Marry, marry!

Ah Fu's mouth is wide open, let alone stuffing an egg, even a goose egg can be stuffed into it.

Ah Xi is only thirteen, Ah Fu's impression is that this little sister is still chubby and loves to eat fingers, and she wants to pinch the flowers on the wall next door, but she was scraped by the thorns of the flower branches and cried all the way home as a child!

"This time, even a ten-year-old girl ......" The mother shook her head: "Your sister is thirteen, of course, she can't hide, so she has to marry her off in a hurry." ”

The mother said as she wiped away her tears. Ah Fu automatically and consciously wiped her face with a handkerchief, forgetting for a moment that she was hungry, hungry and tired, so she set off down the mountain before dawn and walked for most of the day to get home.

"If you get married in such a hurry, won't the government people be looking for trouble?" Ah Fu vaguely knew that during this kind of selection period, women were not allowed to rush to marry.

"I stuffed money for Li Zheng and the servants, saying that I had already made a marriage, which allowed Ah Xi to escape the catastrophe...... "The mother's voice was very low, and her face was turned to the side.

Have you already made a marriage? But they don't have a good character in this area, and it's not so easy to talk to. Besides, people near and far also know it, so you can't hide it......

Ah Fu suddenly remembered: "Who did Ah Xi marry?" ”

Mother and Brother Ping looked at each other, Brother turned his head away, Ah Fu Niang didn't dare to look at Ah Fu's expression: "That's it...... The Liu family! ”

Ah Fu felt like he had been hit on the head: "Liu family? Which Liu family? ”

It won't be ...... Married to Ah Fu, Liu Yu's scholar, right?

It was a family that his father booked for Ah Fu and the Liu family when he was still alive, Ah Fu used to go to the Liu family to play, the Liu family is bigger than the Zhu family's house, and there are handmaids and maids, Liu Yushu looks like an adult at a young age, speaks with a straight eye, has a scholar's towel on her head, and calls her always "Zhu Pingfu Zhu Pingfu" with her name and surname, and was later taught by his mother, and changed her voice to shout: "Sister Pingfu." ”

"Liu Yushu?"

Ah Fu muttered out these three words, look at Ah Niang, Ah Niang's heart is empty.

Look at my brother again, my brother is ashamed.

The mother was embarrassed and said: "Ah Fu, this thing can't help you, but the fire is burning your eyebrows, otherwise it is really ...... I had to let Ah Xi marry in your name......"

Ah Fu stood for a long time, exhaled slowly, sat down, and felt that he really had no energy at all.

"That's ......"

Ah Fu always thought that he would be a wife of the Liu family for the rest of his life, and he lived with Liu Yushu, who was a little dull but had a good heart...... The last time Ah Fu saw him, he was already very long, well, although Yushu Linfeng can't say it yet, but after reading books for more than ten years, the bookish spirit is very full.

If Ah Xi marries him, he should live a very happy life, right? Liu Yushu's mother is very good, and his grandmother is also very good, his father is a little stricter, and he was an official in his early years, but he is still very tolerant of his children. Liu Yushu is an only son, and he has an older sister who has already married, and he is a good mother-in-law who is difficult to find with a lantern.

"That's ...... No way. Ah Fu's fingers were tightly twisted together: "Who let this matter catch up, once I enter the palace, I don't know if I can release it in ten or twenty years, and I can't really let Ah Xi be recruited......"

If it was Ah Xi who went up the mountain at that time, then ...... now

In fact, it should have been Ah Xi who went up the mountain.

After the death of their father, their family situation has deteriorated, the small pickle shop is only enough to make a living, but the mother is sick, the Yang Pozi on the street, there is a Taoist aunt, who lives in the mountains and repairs, and wants to find a little girl to work.

It's been like this since I was a child, there are good things, but it's always Axi's turn, and when something bad happens, I always replace her by myself.

Ah Fu really doubts, who is the mother of himself and Ah Xi? Aren't you biological?

The mother wiped away her tears for a while, and then asked, "Why did you come down the mountain now?" ”

Ah Fu said dumbfoundedly: "My master is gone, it's been almost a month, and the person who delivered the rice and firewood is not here, and I haven't eaten since last night......"

"Gone?"

"Hmm."

said that he was a master, but in fact he was the master, and Ah Fu was nominally an apprentice, but in fact he was a maid. This Daoist aunt is not very old, and Ah Fu only knows her common family name Wang. A few days ago, she only told her to go down the mountain, and she didn't let Ah Fu follow, so she got into an ox cart and left. I didn't come back after this trip, and the people who came regularly to deliver rice and firewood didn't know why they didn't come, and they had run out of food, so Ah Fu cleaned up the house, locked the door, and went home first to make plans. But I didn't expect it...... When I came back, I encountered such a situation.

"Pinggui, you bring money, Ah Fu can't stay at home......"

Her words were interrupted.

The door was slammed, and someone shouted outside: "Open the door!" Open the door! ”

Someone else was saying, "That's right, I saw his daughter." It's not the one who got married yesterday, it's another! ”

The faces of the mother and brother changed all of a sudden, but Ah Fu was a little sluggish, and only then did he understand what the people outside the door were talking about and what they were here for.

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The story of the palace maid......

==If there is no accident, I won't be a concubine or something.。。 Cough.