The first few times he said that he wanted to teach her to ride a horse, and these times he said that he wanted to teach Yue'er archery. If Yue'er learned to ride a horse, he would give her the black horse under him, but if Yue'er learned to shoot arrows, he would give her the "Half Moon Sage" in his hand. It's just that not long after, Yue'er didn't learn either, Hei Jun and "Half Moon Sage" didn't get either, and there was an accident on the way, and the "Half Moon Sage" claimed to have died.

Whenever Chongwu wanted to teach Yue'er to ride a horse and shoot arrows, Yue'er looked at Chongwu like a monster, and then looked ahead without squinting and slowly left.

On this day, she pulled the horsehair and sat as far forward as possible, cautiously, for fear that her dirty clothes would stain Chongwen's clean clothes.

At dusk, they settled in the town inn, and there was not much money left on them, so the three of them succumbed to a room. Chongwen asked the shopkeeper to prepare a few sets of clean clothes for Yue'er, and after explaining, he went back to the room first.

said that it was to wait for Yue'er to finish washing, change into clean clothes, and the three of them would eat together. But the two waited outside the screen for a long time, and they didn't see her push it away.

"Brother, I'm so hungry, why isn't Yue'er well?" Suddenly, there was a muffled sound of "gurgling", Chongwu touched his stomach, and squeezed the facial features on his face into a ball.

"Again...... Wait. Chongwen smiled slowly, unhurriedly picked up the tea bowl on the wooden table, tasted the silver silk tea soup, and after some time, moved to stand in front of the window sill of the room.

I waited for a long time, but there was still no movement.

Chongwu leaned against the wall to listen carefully to the movement behind the screen, and said in surprise: "Brother, brother! Come and listen, oops, come and listen. Yue'er's room doesn't seem to be moving......"

Chongwen turned around and held up his hand and tapped Chongwu's head a few times, and said with a smile: "Yue'er is a girl, and now she is taking a bath outside the screen, how can she eavesdrop on other girls' baths through the screen?" Where did you forget Lord Star Swirl's travel admonition? ”

Chongwu smiled, humbly apologized to Chongwen, took three steps back in succession, stood upright, stretched out his hand and gently knocked towards the screen, "Yue'er, Yue'er, are you okay?" I...... I didn't mean to rush you, Yue'er? Yue'er? ”

There was no sound, and no one answered. It was three percent heavier, and the screen was about to be knocked down by him, but there was still no response, Chongwu listened to it for a while, and he was not angry at all. Fang turned around in a panic, and guessed in a shocked voice: "Brother, something shouldn't have happened to Yue'er, right?" I knocked, but there was no movement for a long time. ”

The eyes continued to signal Chongwen, asking for Chongwen's wishes, Chongwen glanced at the screen, penetrated the eyes and instantly burned Chongwu on the side, hearing what Chongwu said, he couldn't help but be a little worried, and hurried to the Yue'er screen, and commanded Chongwu: "Chongwu, you let the shopkeeper find a lady." ”

Chongwu was a little inexplicable, but he had always obeyed Chongwu's orders, and he had a small admiration complex for Chongwen's strategy and wisdom earlier, so he nodded heavily, and hurriedly pulled out and ran downstairs. After a while, he led a middle-aged woman over, saying that it was the shopkeeper's wife, Chongwen nodded in greeting, and motioned her to enter the screen to take a look inside.

Passing through the screen, I heard an exclamation from the shopkeeper's wife. Chongwu was in a hurry and wanted to rush in, but was stopped by Chongwen.

"Chongwu, Yue'er may still be taking a bath. Don't worry, the shopkeeper's wife is an adult, nothing will happen. As soon as the words fell, I saw the shopkeeper's wife push open the screen and hurriedly said: "This girl is covered in injuries and fainted in the bathtub, call the doctor!" Call the doctor! ”

"Don't worry, the eldest lady knows a little about medical skills, so please put on her clothes and help her back to the bed, so that she can visit her pulse." Chongwen was unhurried, humbly bent over, the smile on his face was still spreading, and the gentleman-like elegance was so frank. At a young age, he was only a teenager, and people couldn't help but be impressed by his demeanor.

The shopkeeper nodded, turned back, covered the screen, and soon opened the door again, nodding again to the two people outside the door.

"Chongwu, take the cyan burden from the wooden cabinet." Chongwen stopped Chongwu again. Chongwu trembled on tiptoe, "By the way, I ordered Xiao Er to make a bowl of hot porridge with brown sugar." Chongwu didn't say a word, turned around and ran next door.

After taking care of everything, Chongwen entered, sat down on the edge of the bed, and carefully looked at Yue'er who was lying on the bed and fell asleep.

I saw that her eyes were closed, her face was pale, and her small willow eyebrows seemed to be frowning tightly in pain. Chongwen reached out and tapped his forehead, showing slight signs of fever. Immediately holding her hand to check the pulse, she saw the two blood-red strangulation marks on her wrists, and she couldn't help but smile on her face.

Although the strangulation marks have been scarred, they have not been medicated, and the wounds have not been cleaned, and now some are black, black, red, and red, and disordered, and some new injuries have not yet healed, and the old wounds have been covered again. The zigzag lining of the child's characteristic white skin on her wrist is extremely hideous.

Chongwen couldn't help but feel a little guilty. Yue'er will be like this, and she will also be responsible for her own negligence. Although he "bought" her, he obviously didn't take care of people, knowing that she should have injuries on her body, and didn't treat her in time, is it because she hasn't complained of pain?

She is only eight years old, so she is already accustomed to this? Unconsciously reached out and lifted her sleeves, and saw that there were more scars on it, thin, wide, long, short, dark, and the colors were different from the old and new, which should have been left at different times.

Or maybe there's more to it?!

Chongwu ran in with his baggage. Chongwen hurriedly put down Yue'er's sleeves and reached out to take the burden.

Actually, it's not too serious. Yue'er's coma was half because of the wound soaked in water, and half because she was tortured by her stepmother and didn't sleep all night and experienced the struggle and running during the day, plus she didn't eat for a day and a night.

Chongwen pinched her small chin, poured some medicine into her mouth, and asked Chongwu to find the shopkeeper's wife to apply medicine to the wounds on Yue'er's body.

After a pillar of incense, the shopkeeper's wife went back after applying the medicine, and Yue'er woke up leisurely.

"Brother, brother, she's awake." Chongwu found out and reported it as soon as possible.

Chongwen turned to look at Yue'er. Her big half-moon eyes surveyed the environment of the room, and then looked at the two people who were vaguely present, as if she didn't know where they were or what they were doing. After a short period of confusion and confusion, Fang struggled to get up and said, "Thank you." ”

This is the first time Yue'er has said thank you to him. In the morning, he "bought" her and took her away from Yangchang Village, but she didn't have a word of thanks, but at this time she suddenly said thank you to him, which made Chongwen a little uncomfortable. However, he still had a signature smile on his face, and his voice was extremely kind: "You're welcome." ”

Yue'er turned her head and leaned out the window, "It's time for you to go to lunch, I'll just lie down for a while, and when you're done, I'll pack up my things and wait...... I won't delay your trip. After Yue'er finished speaking, she closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Her face is still pale, her whole person is much cleaner after taking a bath, her facial features are delicate and slender, her hair is loosely tied, the hair that was originally wet and messy on the pillow is now dry and smooth, her lips are habitually pursed, and there is a stubborn smell in the shallow.

"Don't worry about this half day, we'll leave tomorrow." Chongwen got up and said to Chongwu, "Let the shopkeeper bring the food." ”

Watching Chongwu go out, Chongwen took the peach wood core comb on the side of the bathtub, returned to the bedside and combed all the black hair scattered on the pillow by Yue'er, and neatly went to the side.

Yue'er eats very little. She has always had a small appetite and is not used to sitting with people to eat. In the past, she was never allowed to eat at the same table with her father and brother at home, either until they had finished eating, or simply serving a bowl of white porridge and sitting on the threshold to drink it, and besides, there was nothing to eat during the day.

Chongwu put meat and vegetables in her bowl, she ducked to the side in a panic, and secretly glanced at Chongwen on the side. She is not used to the enthusiasm of others, and with a bowl of white rice, she is already content.

"Yue'er, you have eaten too little, no wonder people who are eight or nine years old look less than seven years old." Chongwu teased Yue'er and said, Yue'er looked up at Chongwen, and then ate the rice in the bowl.

Chongwen put down the dishes and chopsticks, carefully received them, Fang slowly got up and left to sit at another small square table, made a cup of tea and only took a sip, then turned around and sorted out the salute, because Yue'er's body was injured, the cost of medicinal materials, etc., had already taken out all the valuable things, and only some items were left. Chongwen handed Yue'er the clothes she usually wore, Yue'er put them on, a little bigger, loose and loose on her body, some of them were not very suitable, Chongwen tied her with the same belt around her waist, walked back to the bed, cleaned up the bed neatly, and packed the dirty clothes before and another set of clean clothes, packed up and prepared everything, and the three of them started on the road.

He doesn't like to meddle in things, especially girls' affairs, he has traveled for many years, traveled all over the country, similar to accidents like Yue'er, he has seen and heard too much, but he has helped a lot of people, but he has never let himself have one more person around him in vain as today, and moreover, it is still a girl. This matter should also be attributed to Chongwu, or because he had bad intentions and fell in love with Yue'er, Chongwen suddenly felt that he was at odds with each other, and he couldn't help but laugh a little.

Rushing all the way, Chongwu was the happiest, he followed Chongwen out to study for the first time, as if it opened up a new world for him, and he was saved by seeing the unevenness of the road, and his mood was naturally different. Along the way, Chongwen and Yue'er chattered non-stop, even if they were driving a horse, they were rubbing together, wishing that the three of them would ride together.

A shallow wry smile appeared on the corner of Yue'er's mouth, perhaps because her experience had completely failed to make her smile at the world.