The little girl he had bought with his usual money early this morning was still borrowed from a relative. Although he is a little expensive, he has not married a wife in his forties, and people within a radius of several miles and even adjacent villages, where is anyone who knows that he is thin and pleasing to the eye is willing to marry him a poor and lame man? That is, the stepmother of Yue'er's family was greedy for money, so she entangled her biological father and agreed to come down.

Now that a gold ingot is in front of him, the golden one is full of ten taels, and it is within reach, what is he to hesitate about? I can't get along with anything, and I can't get along with this gold ingot! Besides, with this deposit ingot, it is enough for him to buy dozens of daughters-in-law with better appearance, and he pays back the money to his relatives, and the remaining silver is enough for his family to live a good life for half of his life.

The crowd of onlookers sighed, and the focus fell on Chongwen for a moment.

Chongwu hurriedly ran over to untie the rope on Yue'er's wrist. The rope was tied very tightly, and it was a dead knot, Chongwu didn't untie it for a long time, Chongwen shook his head, and simply took out the dagger on his waist and cut it with a knife.

The rope fell to the ground, and the dark red color was clearly the blood stain on Yue'er's wrist. The scar on the wrist is as deep and distressing as a ravine.

Chongwen took three steps closer to Yue'er, looking at the strangulation marks on Yue'er's small wrists like ravines, his expression did not change, and he seemed to be close but there was a touch of alienation, Ruosi was stunned, and smiled slowly and faintly: "Send you home, or do you go back by yourself?" ”

Yue'er's body trembled unconsciously, her face struggled to maintain calm, she looked up at Chongwen, and suddenly knelt down. She knew that if she went back, she would only face another sale.

"Brother, brother......" Chongwu stretched out his hand and pulled Chongwen's sleeve, and said dissatisfiedly, "Brother, let her go back, she will still be sold." Let's take him away, shall we? ”

"Chongwu...... But ......"

"I'm not going back!" Yue'er still knelt down, just raised her head to look at Chongwen, and shook her head desperately at him, with childish strength and stubbornness on her face in vain.

"We have something to do along the way, and it's inconvenient to take you with us." When he flatly refuses people, he often has a smile on his face, and he stands behind a person with his back, and he is alone there in the wind of the jade tree, elegant and kind.

Yue'er's body collapsed, she sat down on the ground, biting her lip and shaking her head at Chongwen. Tears finally couldn't help but slide down, blurring her vision, Chongwu lost his words for a while, time was quiet, and the air suddenly condensed into frost. And Yue'er cried more and more fiercely on the ground.

"After all, she is just a girl, and now she doesn't even want her relatives, if we don't take her away, she is helpless, fatherless, motherless, alone, how do you want her to live? Besides, brother, you originally bought her with gold ingots. ”

He only knew the purpose of his trip, as well as the perception and benefits of traveling. He came out to sharpen himself, not to be generous and gracious.

Chongwen looked at Yue'er, who was crying but didn't cry, and watched her small body slumped on the ground, dirty and messy from beginning to end.

Thinking of the scene when I first saw her yesterday, the calmness on her face and the chilling anger, and now combined with her stubbornness, combined with the narration of outsiders, she can be regarded as calm about her misfortune, and there is nothing out of the ordinary.

Suddenly, at this moment, he clearly felt that she was just hiding all her emotions in the deepest part of her heart, real and coexisting, but she was really suppressed.

It was the first time he had seen so many contradictions in an eight-year-old. He thought that according to Yue'er's temperament, he wouldn't be able to cry. In fact, Yue'er didn't cry either, she just couldn't help but shed the tears that had been accumulated in her eyes for a long time.

Chongwen's heart suddenly overflowed with compassion, and he couldn't bear it. The portrait on the wall of the temple suddenly came to mind, the voice "I won't go back!" "It came to my ears, and the pain was in the sky. He smiled slightly, bent down, ignored the dirty smell on her body, hugged Yue'er, got on the horse, and before leaving, half-hugged her, and said, "From now on, you have to listen to me." If you can't do it, or want to go home halfway, you can get off the horse immediately whenever you want. ”

Yue'er shook her head, her small body sat on the back of a horse, hunched over and leaning on Chongwen's warm chest, sometimes knocked away, dangerous, and a little scared.

has walked out of Yangchang Village Wuli Road, Yue'er still poked her head out from time to time to look behind. "What? Regretted it? Even so, there is no point in going home to say goodbye. Even if you ...... right now No matter how reluctant we are, we still have to move forward, and we won't stop for half a point because you escaped halfway and pretended to be pitiful. Chongwen grabbed the reins with one hand, clamped the horse's belly between his legs, and galloped the horse away.

Chongwu rode his horse with joy and followed. Although he has been studying with Chongwen for several months, it is the first time that he has encountered such things as those encountered yesterday and today. In an instant, he felt as if he had done a good deed, and he had returned to justice, and the taste of heroic righteousness made him complacent, and his little face was suddenly covered with the pride of the spring breeze.

After all, the three of them are still young, Yue'er is eight years old, her body is not fully developed, and she is thin and small, where can people have a sense of men and women, and ride a horse all the way, which saves a lot of embarrassment.

Chongwu seems to be unconventional as Yue'er's life-saving benefactor, and along the way, he is shushing Yue'er and asking for warmth, and he is asking long and short questions, and he cares about it all the time.

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.