Chapter 5: Awakening
When the sun shone down, I was awakened by my mother's screams.
"Ran'er, what's going on? How did we sleep here? My mother stroked her head and tried to remember something, but she shook her head helplessly, her eyes were full of confusion, like a child who had just woken up.
I looked at my mother, and I didn't know how to speak, but I always had to say. After that, I told my mother everything that happened last night. When my mother heard this, she whimpered: "This damn robber is really getting more and more lawless, poor Xiaohua's family ......"
Maybe it's more than one, last night's dog barked......
I sat on the ground in a daze, and Xiaohua's red and swollen face appeared in front of me...... My heart suddenly emptied, and my chest tightened, as if I smelled the heavy smell of blood again.
"Mother, what should we do now?" I hugged my mother tightly, trying to drive away the cold from my body.
"I can't stay in this place anymore...... Let's go back and pack up and leave immediately. "My hand was held by my mother.
I saw the familiar house again, the same as I saw last night. My mother was the first to go inβ"Ah! β
Hearing my mother's scream, I chuckled in my heart and immediately ran into the house. I saw my mother squatting behind the door, and there was a person leaning behind the door.
Hu Jingfeng!
Even though his face was stained with blood, I recognized the small eyebrows at once. Obviously, my mother also saw it, and quickly moved him to the bed, and asked me to go and get a basin of water.
When my mother wiped his face, the small eyebrows and eyes became clear, but now they were closed.
My mother examined him and found that he was not seriously injured, but the blood stains on his clothes were shocking.
My mother sighed heavily: "It seems that the town is also ...... So you have to go. β
I didn't know what to pack while my mom was packing. I touched the things on my chest, a dagger and a bracelet, and then took a look at the stupid nest in the yard before I walked into the house, and was stunned to see that Hu Jingfeng had woken up!
He was leaning against the railing of the bed at the moment, but his head was deep.
I walked over and walked up to him, "Are you awake?" β
He still didn't look up, and I couldn't help but start worrying, could it be stupid? I was about to run out and call my mother, when suddenly my waist was gently pulled by a pair of hands.
Through a tuft of unkempt hair, I saw the wall across the side that I would see every time I slept.
I stood stupidly for a while, until I was awakened by a sudden chill in my neck, and I realized that he was crying!
I also cried once when I was stupid and died, and once when I was a child, I couldn't fight with Huaxia, but I didn't know that crying can also cry so quietly......
When my mother came in, Hu Jingfeng stopped crying and didn't hug me anymore.
He said that his parents were killed by thieves from the Eastern Wu Dynasty and did not want to go back; He said that the town had been ransacked, dead and wounded, and fleeing; He said that he was going to war, and he wanted revenge!
In the end, he said that he was going to be sorry......
When he said the last sentence, his eyes looked at me, and there was something in it that I couldn't understand. I'm sorry for what, I thought for a while before I suddenly realized that he was no longer married to me.
The mother sighed heavily, but said nothing. Then he said that he would return the silver taels of the dowry to him, but he did not want to live or die, and would rather leave it to us. He said he was a man and could still earn it.
Chen Er is gone, Xiaohua is gone, and now, even this kid I used to hate is leaving. I should be happy, because I don't have to see his small eyes anymore, and I don't have to think about running away from marriage, but the corners of my mouth don't crack that smile.
"He's just a fifteen-year-old."
After sending Hu Jingfeng away, his mother sighed, and then felt that it was a pity to lose such a responsible son-in-law.
I don't understand, and I don't understand what responsibility is, is fighting a war a responsibility? Then I can go too. But I didn't want to go, I was afraid of death, so I didn't say anything.
It's just that the boy who is only a year older than me is really going to war? And my mother and I also embarked on the road of fleeing to the capital.
Along the way, my mother was saying that the capital was far away and was the most lively place in the Western Kingdom, because the emperor lived there.
I didn't care where the emperor lived, I just wanted to find a place to sell hot buns quickly, or lie on the bed and close my eyes.
"Ran'er, do you want your mother to carry you?"
By this time, we had been walking for several hours, and the sun was faintly shining, but my eyes were still struggling. Occasionally, a few ragged people passed along the way, and horse-drawn carriages passed by, but the dust disappeared.
I shook my head, mother, I can too.
After I don't know how long it was, I finally saw more people in front of me, and in the distance, there was a city gate standing. My mother said that it was Wucheng, a small town closest to Wuhua Town, and that she would take a break there, and then take a carriage and go.
I can't wait to pull my mother to walk briskly, no matter what my sore feet are, no matter what Wucheng is, I just know that I can eat steamed buns!
My favorite food is steamed buns, and if it's a meat bun, it's even better. And my mother doesn't do it easily, she only makes wild vegetable tofu, tofu and wild vegetables, because it doesn't cost too much money.
When it got closer, there were really two big characters on it - "Wucheng", and all kinds of people were coming in and out.
"Mother, I want this." Entering the city gate, I pointed to a bun shop and couldn't wait to say to my mother. Then two buns were handed over, smoking. I dragged it in the palm of my hand, it was warm, and I was reluctant to swallow.
"Uncle, are there any inns lately?" My mother asked.
"At a glance, I know that you are from a foreign country, and there are really a lot of strangers who have come recently. There aren't really many inns, but there's a Fengji inn lately, so you can check it out. The old man who sold the buns said with a smile, looking very kind.
I retracted my head and turned it behind me, looking at my mother with empty hands, "Mother, don't you eat?" "I took out a bun and gave it to my mother.
"Mother is not hungry." My mother smiled at me and shook her head.
"Mother, we don't have money, why don't we buy more." I squinted and took a bite, curious.
My mother immediately covered my mouth and whispered, "It's not more expensive to go to the capital than to go to other places and spend money." β
I nodded understandingly.
The Wind Inn arrived quickly. The shopkeeper couldn't stop smiling when he saw us, which reminded me of Chen Er.
After entering the inn, we asked for a room, and it was not until my mother bought back some baked cakes and dry food that we were able to enter the bed safely.
There was a faint light at night outside, and it was always so warm in my mother's arms.
"Mother, why do we want to go to the capital? Isn't that nice here, too? "When I think of the friends who grew up together in Flowerless Town, and the familiar earthy smell, I feel reluctant for a while.
"My mother doesn't have a few relatives in her life, only one lives in the capital, but I haven't seen each other for so long and I don't know what's going on now?" My mother let out a breath that was not light or heavy, as if she was thinking about something.
"Who?" There are still relatives? It's the first time I've heard my mother say it. I always thought that the only relatives I had were my mother and my unmasked father.
"Your uncle."
I stared at my mother's face for a long time, surprised and delighted, "Really? β
"It's true. Your uncle was playful when he was a child, and he liked to go out and run around, and after our father died, he went to the capital, and I still stayed in Wuhua Town. Now that I count it, I haven't seen it for fifteen or sixteen years. My mother's voice showed a hint of tiredness, and finally said, "Sleep, I'll see you when I get to the capital." β
"En......"
In my dream, in the bustling city of the capital, the uncle who suddenly appeared bought me meat buns that I couldn't finish eating, and even the stray dog in Wuhua Town who was always circling around people also came, and I gave it a few buns......