Mi Niang's voice was very low: "I still have a brother, I am the eldest, so I am called Mi Niang." ”

Xiao Tao didn't speak, she had already asked about her mother's life experience. Her mother is one year older than her, she has no father, the plague in her hometown, her mother and eldest brother died, she ran out alone, begging for food all the way to make a living, and went to Yunwan Village, the people in the village are quite kind, and they did not use sticks to drive her away like people in other places. I also met Xiao Tao. I lived in this village.

Mi Niang pursed her lips and said, "But after my mother and brother died, only you called me Mi Niang." The girl's voice lowered again, "They all call me a broom star, a mongrel-----"

The appearance of the girl is different from ordinary people, the nose is higher and straighter, the eye sockets are deep, but the eyelashes are very dense and long, and they are curled upward. His eyes glowed with a faint blue light. When she first arrived in the village, many people called her a "demon girl" and ran away in fright. Some knowledgeable old people speculated that Mi Niang might be a child of the Han and Shatuo people, so she would have the outline of the Han people, but it was the eyebrows and eyes of the Shatuo people. The people in the village are better, but they also think that she is an ominous person and avoid her.

Xiao Tao raised her chin, blew lightly at her eyelashes, and said with a smile: "I don't care what others chew, I think you look good." You're a broom star, and I'm still a mourning star. Xiao Tao touched the birthmark under her neck and pouted. This peach-colored birthmark, she took it out of the womb, but the shape is a little weird edges and corners, the family invited a fortune teller to look at it according to custom, and the hexagram master said that the shape of her birthmark is dangerous, not a good omen, it is a "peach blossom robbery". Coincidentally, a few days later, Xiao Tao's father chopped wood and fell down the cliff and died, Xiao Tao was regarded as a mourning star by the whole family, and even Xiao Tao's mother who was not out of confinement was driven out. Later, Xiao Tao's mother took Xiao Tao to marry Ye Laosan, who had a dead wife in the village, and an idle son.

The girl tore a leaf in her hand and smiled faintly: "I really envy your heart." ”

"Originally, crying and crying is a day, and being happy is also a day." Xiao Tao pulled the long scarf around her neck down, revealing the birthmark, "It's hot, this thing is really cumbersome to wear." Xiao Tao Niang was afraid that others would see the birthmark and scold her daughter, so she specially sewed a towel for Xiao Tao to tie around her neck.

The young lady helped her pull up the collar: "Let's cover it some." Others see you and scold you. ”

"it." Xiao Tao smiled, stood up and patted the soil on her buttocks, "It's not early, I have to go to work." After saying that, he ran away, and turned back to his mother as he ran, "Wait for me to come back to you." ”

Xiao Tao's job is to ferry, support a bamboo raft in Qilixi in Yunwan Village, and ferry the guests from Xiangao Town upstream to Anpingdu downstream. Anping Town, where Anpingdu is located, is a place that extends in all directions, from Hongdu Mansion in the south, to Chudi in the west, and to Quzhou in Wuyue in the east. Qili Creek is the only waterway connecting Xiangao Town and Anping Town, but the stream is narrow, with towering mountains on both sides, and two mountains in the middle are almost squeezed into a "line of sky", and larger boats can't pass. Moreover, the boat has a deep draft, and Qili Creek is a shallow stream, so this waterway is full of bamboo rafts to transport passengers back and forth. Xiao Tao's raft can seat seven or eight people at a time, go back and forth a day, and earn a few copper plates to buy medicine for her long-sick bedridden mother.

Although the weather is good today, the business is not very good, and there are several people who are grabbing business. After shouting for a long time, except for an old man surnamed Wu who often sits, there was no one else. Uncle Wu was originally a scholar, and he made a living by ghostwriting letters before he passed the exam, and went to Anping Town every other day, which was equivalent to taking over the business of two towns.

"Let's go, it seems like I'm the only one today." Uncle Wu said and got on the bamboo raft.

"Wait." Xiao Tao hurriedly pulled the scarf.

As he was talking, two people came to the ferry from a distance, Xiao Tao hurriedly ran over, and before he could see the person clearly, he hurried and said, "Childe, take a raft?" to the town of Anping. My raft is light and fast-----" Xiao Tao's mouth has always been sharp, crackling like popping beans, but as soon as he said a word, he was a little stunned, and his voice became lower and lower.

The two men in front of her were almost shaking her eyes in the sun. A cyan robe, with slender eyebrows and eyes, looking gentle and elegant, Xiao Tao doesn't know how to describe it, anyway, she has never seen such a man, he is good-looking, and his clothes are good-looking. It's like a piece of fine jade, with a hint of cold and clear. I can't take my eyes off it after one glance. Another man in a crimson robe was more angular, but his eyes were cold, and he looked a little scared.