Within the territory of Bao country.

Uncle Zhuang led the two sisters to a small courtyard at the foot of the mountain, and shouted excitedly at the house as soon as he entered the door before putting down the firewood and prey on his body.

"Old woman, come out and take a look, my harvest from this trip is very scary!"

After a night's rest, coupled with the herbs for the treatment of wind and cold picked by the old man along the way, Qizhao's spirit was much better, and he was holding hands with Jin Yang at this time, looking around curiously.

It was a good yard, although it was not as quiet and elegant as the previous home, but it was still neat and tidy.

Woof! ——

A large turmeric dog came out of the house. It yelled at Jin Yang, Jin Yang was startled, and pulled her sister to run behind Uncle Zhuang subconsciously.

"Eh, eh! Brother Tiger, go! At this time, the new little doll, don't scare people! Zhuang Laohan patted the big dog's head twice with his hand, and it squatted on the ground, moving without barking, very well-behaved, but its eyes never left Jianyang for a second.

Jin Yang saw that the big dog was quiet, so he came out from behind Zhuang Laohan, looked up with a small face, stood in front of the big yellow dog proudly, pinched his waist, who knew that the big dog saw this posture, but his ears were back, and he fled in fear.

"Old man, eh, let me see what you did when you came back?" A mother-in-law staggered out of the house, and the big dog rushed a little hard, almost knocking the mother-in-law down. "Eh, Brother Tiger!"

The big dog hunched over and hid behind the mother-in-law, who bent over kindly and effortlessly, and gently touched the big dog's back a few times with her hand, and the big dog was relieved.

When the old man saw his mother-in-law coming out, he excitedly pushed the back of Qizhao and Jin Yang to his mother-in-law, and when his mother-in-law raised his eyes, he saw two little girls, one wearing a goose-yellow dress like a down-and-out housekeeper, and the other wearing an ill-fitting coarse linen dress was no different from the little flower on the street.

"What is this?" Mother-in-law asked.

"These two little dolls are the treasures I picked up from the mountains, and they will be the children of our old dealer in the future." The old man said and smiled at the mother-in-law.

The mother-in-law sighed and seemed to understand something, so she smiled and said, "Look at these two children, they are also pitiful, and this will be your home from now on." As he spoke, he pulled the two sisters into the house, rummaged through the cabinets to find things, and while looking for things, he also beckoned Zhuang Laohan to come over to help: "Eh, I'm afraid there are no children's clothes in this house." ”

"Where is the cloth I brought back from a foreign land?"

"Didn't you say you were going to save it for next birthday and wear it for me?"

"Hey, hey, hey," the old woman was a little embarrassed. said, "Now there are two more little girls in this family, and next year's birthday is afraid that it will be lively to buy a few more horses, and I will pick some good ones when the time comes!" Ha ha. ”

"Eh, what's your name? Do you remember your birthday? The mother-in-law was rummaging through the cabinets with Zhuang Laohan, and she kept chatting with the two sisters.

"Seven Zhao" and "Seven Sumire"

"We were born together, Sister A was a stick of incense earlier than me, and we were both born when we were the ninth son in early September of the Double Ninth Festival."

When the mother-in-law heard this, she stopped what she was doing and came to the two sisters, squinted her eyes and looked at the two sisters carefully. Then he covered his mouth and smiled: "Old man! You see! It's exactly the same. ”

Zhuang Laohan also squatted down to look at the two sisters, "Heh! It's true, if it weren't for the difference in clothing, I really couldn't tell the difference. ”

After speaking, the mother-in-law took Qizhao with one hand and Jianyang with the other: "Don't be afraid, child." In the future, my mother-in-law will protect you, and no one will dare to bully you. ”

The mother-in-law looked kind, and in a trance, the two sisters seemed to see their mother's look on the old man's face, so gentle and reassuring.

And so the days went by......

Seven Showa and Sumire Yang have lived in the dealer for more than 3 years, in the past three years, the mother-in-law and the old man have never asked the life experience of Seven Showa and Sumire, as if they are the children of the Zhuang, so peaceful and joyful life together. Uncle Zhuang is familiar with herbal medicine, and Qi Zhao is getting older, and his frail condition for many years has finally improved, and he is no longer drinking medicinal soup in bed all day long like before. Sometimes he will be dragged into the ancient road (Bao Inner City) to play, and sometimes he will sit in the courtyard and play with his mother-in-law's newly invented musical instrument.

As for Jin Yang, he was old and familiar with the children of the same age in the village early on, and he followed the people in the mountains to catch hares all day long. The mountain she was already familiar with couldn't be more familiar. There is a home on the other side of the mountain, and there is a brother buried in the mountain.

In fact, at that time, for a period of time later, Jin Yang always followed Uncle Zhuang into the mountain, she was looking forward to finding the clues left by her brother Nian'en, but she was afraid that what she would find was just a cold and broken corpse.

Now more than 3 years have passed, and I am afraid that even the corpse capital will not be found.

"Look at you, you're playing with dirt again, my mother-in-law will definitely scold you when she comes back." Qizhao gently wiped Sumire's dirty little face with a handkerchief.

"Eh, sister-you don't care about this for now, what do you think I picked up today?" Sumire Yang mysteriously spread out his palms at Qizhao. A crystal clear red stone lay in the dirty palm of Jin Yang. Qi Zhao picked up the red stone, only to see that the red stone has elegant lines inside, looking at it in the middle, as if a dragon is falling from the sky, so vivid!

Qizhao asked, "Where did such a beautiful stone come from?" ”

"I picked it up from the mountain, and my uncle and I went to the mountain to check the trap to collect the prey, and found it in the trap. And, sister, look! As he spoke, Jin Yang put the red stone in his palm, clasped his hands together, leaving only a small gap, and held it up in front of Qizhao's eyes.

Qi Zhao looked at the gap, and the bright red stone was faintly glowing blue in the dark palm. "Wow, what a wonderful and magical stone?" Qizhao looked at Sumire Yang excitedly, his eyes lit up.

"Sister, give it to you." Nanachi really liked the red stone.

"What about you? Don't you have it anymore? Qizhao asked.

"Sister has it, it's me. Besides, Sister Ah married Ruyi Langjun one day and set this gem on the laurel crown, which is beautiful! Hahaha. "Jin Yang deliberately looked for Qizhao to be happy.

Qizhao is also unbearable, "Which of the two of us is not necessarily the first!" At that time, I don't know which family's father and mother can rest assured, whether their son can accept your naughty little girl. ”

Father. Mother. ……

Nanaki and Sumire stopped talking for a while, and they invariably remembered their father and mother. Although Uncle Zhuang and his mother-in-law treat them as their own, after all, this is not the home with a father and a mother.

"Daddy! Mother! Save the children, save the children. ”

A strange man suddenly broke into the yard and called his father and mother as soon as he opened his mouth, and Brother Tiger ran out of the inner courtyard and jumped and jumped around the man excitedly.

The mother-in-law came out of the back room, first stunned, and then waved her hand to beckon Uncle Zhuang from the back room to come out.

As soon as the man saw his mother-in-law, he knelt down with a thud and cried loudly. "Mother! ——————”

The mother-in-law couldn't bear it, sighed and stepped forward to help the man up, and asked gently, "What's wrong?" What's going on? ”

"Old woman, don't pay attention to him." Zhuang Laohan stood at the door and said with a frown.

After the man was helped up by his mother-in-law, he looked at the old man and happened to see the two sisters sitting under the eaves chatting.

The man's eyes lit up, wiped his tears with his brocade sleeves, ran forward and pointed to the two sisters and asked, "Dad, this is the little girl you picked up?" At this time, Qizhao and Jianyang have faded from the appearance of little girls, and have become slim girls, the two sisters have better skin than snow, lips better than red lotus, faces like peach and plum, a pair of black cherry-like eyes, a smile is even more fascinating, although they are wearing the linen clothes of a people's woman, but they are also stunning beauties that cannot be covered. Sister Qizhao is sitting upright on the chair, playing with rubies with her clean hands, her eyes are like blue waves and tenderness, and she really looks like a fairy from afar.

Zhuang Laohan was a little annoyed, and asked loudly, "What are you doing here?" ”

The man seemed to know the answer from his uncle's expression, and he laughed wildly: "Hahaha, it's okay, I don't have to die, I don't have to die!" ”

"She, she, she can save me." The man vigorously pushed away the dirty, boy-dressed Jin Yang, and stepped forward to pull Qizhao.

Qizhao was so frightened that he hid behind his uncle.

Uncle Zhuang was on fire at this time, and he picked up the shovel in his hand and was about to hit the man: "Get out!" You still know to come back! Get out of here! ”

The mother-in-law sat on the ground and cried.

The man saw that the old man's face was flushed, and he didn't dare to make a mistake, so he left in a gloomy manner, and when he left, his eyes were still staring straight at Qizhao, full of greed.

Jin Yang staggered up from the ground to help her mother-in-law, but her mother-in-law still cried non-stop, "Evil, evil...... How did I give birth to such a son? ”

It turned out that the man's name was Zhuang Xin, the son of his mother-in-law and Uncle Zhuang, and he was also the slave of the court's great Situ foreign mission. relied on the abduction of the daughter of a good family who was not out of the cabinet, and gave the big Situ a fun and was also a quiet petty official in the court.

The old couple knew that their son was doing something unreasonable, but there was no way to do it. The atmosphere in the court is declining, and the magistrates rely on the knots to add officials to the rank and become knights, who cares about the affairs of ordinary people. So the family members of those girls spread their anger on the old couple, the second child was blinded by the angry villagers, and secretly ran into the mountains one night and there was no news, and the young third child was the angry father who didn't know which family, and took advantage of them to go out and kill them with a stick.

The sad second elder had no choice but to leave his hometown and choose to live away from the foot of the mountain in the ancient road.

When Zhuang Xin heard about the second elder's residence, he always sent some delicious food and clothes to the door, but the second elder always didn't take it, and let the wandering beggars move in piles of them. Later, after a long time, he couldn't send it anymore, and the second elder didn't have this son.

Now he came back suddenly, and he didn't know what to do with the house. "Mother-in-law's tears will not stop."

Qizhao gently helped her mother-in-law wipe away her tears.

"Rebel—" Uncle gasped and slammed his fist on the table. said to his mother-in-law: "You see the way he came back to see Zhao'er, it must be some kind of errand." ”

The mother-in-law cried even more fiercely and hugged the two sisters.

"No, Zhao'er and Yang'er must not fall into his hands!" The old man slammed the table.

"So what do we do? My good Zhao'er, my good Yang'er...... Boom Boom. The mother-in-law asked with teary eyes.

"Mother-in-law, don't cry." Nanaki and Sumire Yang saw her mother-in-law crying sadly, and she was a little distressed, so she wiped the endless tears on her mother-in-law's face with her hand.

"Tomorrow morning, we will go to the mountains, so that he will not find you! I'll see what else he can do! As he spoke, the old man got up and began to pack his things.