Chapter 2 Butterfly Drop Earrings
Later, after getting along for a period of time, Wanliang learned that the eldest mother's surname was Zhang, and it turned out that she was also a hard-working woman. When Brother Niu was five years old, one day her husband went out to sea to fish as usual, but unfortunately encountered a sudden strong wind and waves, and neither the man nor the boat could come back...... Since then, the eldest mother has raised her five-year-old son alone. Without a husband, no one fishes, and the family has no financial resources. So, the eldest lady went to the mountains to dig up medicinal herbs, dried them and then sold them at the pharmacy in the town, and exchanged them for some copper plates to stick to the family. Brother Niu, who is growing up and sensible, always wants to share the burden of the family for his mother when he looks at his increasingly hard-working mother. However, Qingshui Village is all poor families, and no one will hire helpers; A Niu, who only has brute strength and can't read a single big character, is difficult to find work even in the town. Several times I told my mother that she wanted to go fishing at sea like the people in the village, but my mother vehemently objected. Finally, when Ah Niu was sixteen years old, Ah Niu once again told his mother that he wanted to go fishing. The eldest lady saw that Ah Niu had grown into a young man, and the family only relied on selling medicinal herbs to subsidize the family, which was indeed stretched, only enough to buy salt, buy cloth and meat, and it would be good to be able to have it once a year. After some thought, the eldest mother finally agreed to Ah Niu. Brother Niu has been fishing for three years now. In the past three years, every time there is a market in the town, the eldest lady will get fish to sell in the town to subsidize the family. The eldest lady is not so hard after all.
After dinner one day, Wanliang, who cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, was in A-Niang's bedroom, helping the eldest lady who made clothes. Suddenly, Ah Niu came over and said to Wanliang with a little nervousness: "Sister Xiaowan, I have something to ask you for help, can you come out for a while?" ”
"Okay, Brother Niu, I'll come now." Wanliang handed the threaded needle to the eldest lady while responding, and said to the eldest mother: "Auntie, I'll go out for a while." ”
"Okay, let's go." The eldest lady said kindly.
"Brother Niu, what's the matter?" Wan Liang, who walked to the small courtyard, asked Ah Niu.
"Oh...... In fact...... Actually, it's nothing......" Ah Niu said nervously and stammering a little.
"Nothing? When did Brother Niu learn to fool people? Wan Liang said and looked at Ah Niu, and found that Ah Niu's whole face was black and red, so she couldn't help but play: "Brother Ah Niu, why is your face red?" ”
"Huh? ......" Ah Niu heard Wanliang say this, and immediately quickly touched his face with his left hand that didn't hold anything, and found that his face was so hot, and he was even more nervous at a loss. Suddenly, he took two steps forward to Wan Liang, took Wan Liang's hand, put something in her palm, and quickly turned around and left.
was a little stunned by Ah Niu's move, and looked carefully at the things Ah Niu stuffed in her hands, it turned out to be a pair of blue butterfly-shaped earrings, both workmanship and materials are extremely ordinary, even the first-class maids in the palace are better than this. In the past, when she was in the palace, all her headdresses, jewelry, both materials and workmanship were the most exquisite. However, she felt that this ordinary butterfly earring was as valuable as the bun that her mother bought for her, because she knew that such earrings were not easy to come by for such a poor family. Remember, not long ago, Brother Niu asked her what color she liked? She said, "Blue." And asked her what flowers she liked? She said: "I like all kinds of flowers, and I prefer butterflies that shuttle freely between the flowers, fluttering butterflies, and ...... freely." Also, it is no wonder that he, who had never been to the town to sell fish yesterday, insisted on following his aunt to the town for the first time, and said: "Today, the wind is strong and I don't go to the sea to fish, I want to go to the town to see." "These earrings should have been bought yesterday in town.
Originally, she escaped from the palace wearing earrings, but she met gangsters on the way and snatched the jewelry and silver taels that the nurse brought out to make a meal, along with the earrings she was wearing. It was a birthday gift from her father when she was eight years old, and it was also a blue butterfly earring, but it was carved from the most expensive valley sapphire, and the workmanship was first-class and fine.
This time the robbers encountered on the road, not only was the money robbed, but the nurse also died because of it. I only hated the greedy robbers who robbed all their property, and set their eyes on Wanliang again. At that time, although Wanliang was only nine years old, her facial features were exquisite, and she already showed a bit of beauty. Looking at the robber Se Mimi looking at Wanliang's salivating appearance, the nurse said secretly: "Not good! So, pulling Wanliang and running in the opposite direction of the robbers. The robbers pursued them unhurriedly, because they knew that the direction they were running in was a steep cliff, so they were completely sure that they would not be able to escape. What the robbers didn't expect was that the nurse who had no way to retreat would roll down the steep cliff with her in her arms. Seeing this, the robbers stepped forward to take a look at the steep cliff and lamented in their hearts: "Alas! It's a pity for that little beauty! And they all departed.
In order to protect her as little as possible, the nurse used her whole body to protect her, but despite the nurse's care, she still suffered more than a dozen abrasions on her face, hands, and body, and her clothes were also scratched by the branches and stones on the hillside. But the nurse suffered not only abrasions, but also scratches and hanging wounds almost all over the body, and the most serious thing was that she saw that the left side of the nurse's head had been bleeding, probably the nurse's head, and hit the tree that stopped them from continuing to roll down. When she saw the nurse like this, she panicked and didn't know what to do, "Nurse! The nurse ......" she cried desperately to the nurse with her eyes closed. Maybe God saw that she was really pitiful, and just after she cried for a quarter of an hour, the nurse actually called out weakly: "The county lord ......"
"Nurse! Nurse! I'm ...... here," Wan Liang wiped away her tears and choked up.
"County Lord, you must live well...... Lord and Princess, I did everything I could to protect you, send you out of Yandu, and entrust the old slave to take care of you, and now, you are their only bloodline......" The nurse said with difficulty, the blood on her head had not stopped, and she saw a wisp of blood overflowing from her face.
"Nurse! Nurse ...... Please don't scare me......" Wan Liang looked at the nurse who was getting worse and worse, and cried out in a godless voice. After all, she is only a nine-year-old child, and she is still a child who grew up in the palm of her parents' hands and never knows a little about the suffering of the world.
"County Lord, remember that you must live for the sake of the prince and princess...... Lord and Princess, the old slave is afraid that he will live up to your trust...... The old slave didn't ...... the last sentence, and the nurse spilled a mouthful of blood from the corner of her mouth again, closed her eyes heavily, and there was no more life......
"Nurse! ......" Wan Liang threw herself on the nurse and cried heartbreakingly, but no matter how she cried out to the sky and the ground, all that responded to her was the echo of the hillside shock......
She is already the only bloodline of her father and mother in this world, and she is protected by the nurse with her life, so she told herself that "she must survive"! It seemed like in an instant, she had grown up. The nurse has been running with her so far, and she finally knows that life is not only happy and worry-free, but also the misery of a broken family, the coldness of being helpless, the hardships of running around, and the helplessness of being killed...... Too much suffering that has occurred and that will be unpredictable in the future...... And the initiator of all this is the tyrant Emperor Wu of the current dynasty. Although, she knew that her father, mother, brother, and nurse all hoped that she could survive safely, and it was good that she could survive safely, not that she would survive to avenge them! However, if she can't avenge her relatives while she is alive, she would rather follow them! Without her father, Wang and her brothers, even the nurse has left her, so what's the point of leaving her alone to live! "Revenge" is the belief that sustains her survival. She must survive! Be sure to let the Dog Emperor pay for his blood debts!
In a full day, she climbed up the cliff halfway up the cliff with great difficulty, and then walked along the path, hoping to find a family to eat, but she did not know how she came to the street of the town, and it had been three days since she had fallen off the cliff......
"Sister Xiaowan, do you like it?" A Niu who ran away just now, and fell back into the courtyard, looked at Wanliang who had been looking down at the butterfly earrings she gave her, thinking that Wanliang must like it, she said that she liked blue, she liked butterflies, with a little shyness, and asked cautiously.
"Huh? …… Like. This voice finally pulled Wanliang back from her memories.
"Really! That's great! That...... Sister Xiaowan, can I put it on for you? Ah Niu happily continued.
"Okay." Wan Liang said and handed the earrings to Ah Niu.
"Sister Xiaowan, it's so good-looking!" Ah Niu, who took the earrings, fiddled clumsily for a while, and finally put the earrings on for Wanliang, looking at Wanliang's face and saying stupidly.
"Brother Niu, the eldest lady is sewing clothes, the eldest lady's eyes are not good, and it is very laborious to thread the needle, I will go back to the room to see if the eldest lady needs to wear the needle and thread." Wan Liang, who was a little at a loss by Ah Niu, said.
"Okay......" Ah Niu said a little reluctantly.
"Brother Niu, I'm in." Wan Liang said and then turned around and went back to the room.
Ah Niu looked at the wooden door that the figure stepped over, and couldn't retract his gaze for a long time......