In the Liang Dynasty, ordinary horses were six or seven feet tall, and the price of each horse ranged from thirty to fifty taels.

The pony he was talking about was not a pony that had not grown up, but an adult horse, which was only available in the remote country of Yunhu, and was scarce in number, ridable, load-bearing, and even more enjoyable. In the capital horse market, the price is as high as 500 taels.

Five hundred taels can cover the expenses of the house for two years. With such a big expense, She Jingchun will also ask.

She could only continue to coax, and when she said a word, She Fei couldn't bear it, and the mother and son were deadlocked. One had a flushed face and a slight sweat on his forehead. One is messing around, kicking his feet around.

There was a chuckle behind him: "What are you doing?" ”

Zhu Hongyan looked back, and a young woman of seventeen or eighteen years old flashed out from behind the tree, dressed in a pink skirt, with crooked eyebrows and eyes, slim and elegant.

"Qingyan is here?"

"Sister." Zhu Qingyan sat beside her lightly and skillfully, "What are you making trouble?" ”

Zhu Hongyan hugged She Feiren, who was dancing with his teeth and claws, "I want to ride a horse, but I don't listen to any persuasion." ”

"Then give him a ride."

"He's still young, it's too dangerous to ride a horse."

"Then I won't ride. I can't bear to come, my aunt hugs. Zhu Qingyan smiled and stretched out his hand to She Feiren, but he snapped open her hand and turned his head and snorted.

Zhu Qingyan was thrown in the face, and his hands stopped in the air awkwardly, and he put it down for a long time.

"No rudeness." Zhu Hongyan complained.

She Feiren slipped out of her arms and ran to the side to look at the ant nest on the ground. The ants look black and small, like sesame seeds that have fallen to the ground. He couldn't help but grab one and put it in his mouth.

Ants crawl around on the tip of their tongues, crispy and numb. But it didn't stop him from pricking up his ears to eavesdrop on the conversation between his mother and aunt.

"Qingyan, you're seventeen, what kind of husband do you want to find?"

"My sister doesn't look down on secular men, she only likes her brother-in-law." Zhu Qingyan smiled.

"Why, even if I let you in, you're a side room. Although the Zhu family is not a big family, they can't be concubines. Why don't you lower the shelf and pick someone who looks thoughtful and honest. When I married your brother-in-law, he was just a student in a boarding school, who would have thought that he would win the top prize and rise step by step? ”

"There are many students, and those who can get ahead are just one out of a hundred, who knows if they can get ahead in the future? If you marry the wrong person, won't you get money unjustly? ”

"But when they come out, it's not your turn to pick."

"Then I won't marry. I waited for my sister to marry my brother-in-law in a hundred years. ”

"Your brother-in-law was an old man then......

The two sisters laughed for a while, and She Fei couldn't help but pick her ears, and she was very disdainful of this aunt in her heart.

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When five-year-old She Feiren was eating ants in the house, the spirit fox was born in the world.

She was born in a small village 100 miles away from the capital, and it was the one where Xuan Liuyao stayed when he left Beijing for Lingshan for the first time. The total population of the village is no more than 100, and it is getting smaller and smaller. One hundred, ninety, eighty ....... Ten......

In less than an hour, the number dropped from a hundred to one.

All this is because of a gang of brutal bandits.

The village was less populated and less armed, and the villagers who resisted quickly fell. Blood flowed all over the ground, and the air was filled with the smell of blood. Mr. and Mrs. Hu 17 rushed out of the house. The iron fork and spatula were under the swords of the bandits, and before they could be raised, they fell to the ground.

The blood, slowly spreading out, gradually fell silent.

The small village, which was quiet and peaceful yesterday, is dead silent in the setting sun. A flock of crows flew silently in the sky, obscuring half of the sky. They circled, circled, and were about to rush down, but they flew again.

The bandits had just walked on the other side of the village, and two more people had walked on the other side, one tall and one short. The short one looked up at the crows gathered in the sky and frowned: "I'm afraid something has happened to this village." ”

His voice was gentle and gentle, with a hint of immaturity, and his tone seemed to be wrapped in anxiety in the vicissitudes of life. He was a ten-year-old boy, handsome, mild-looking, wearing a light-colored robe, and a half-length light yellow wooden sword hanging from his waist, with two quaint small characters lightly engraved on the hilt: Shuoyue.

It was Xuan Liuyao who came to find the reincarnated spirit fox Hu Yiyi.

As soon as he entered the village, he smelled a strong smell of blood. There was not a trace of cooking smoke in the twilight, but the sky was full of crows.

"Let's go!"

He lifted the Shuoyue Sword and rushed towards Hu Seventeen's small courtyard.

In the courtyard, Hu and his wife lay on the ground, blood flowing from under them, like red egg whites from two fragile eggs broken on a stone.

The gate of the courtyard and the door of the house were wide open, and everything was turned into a mess, the chicken coop had collapsed, and the yard was littered with chicken feathers, and the bandits did not spare even a single chicken.

Xuan Liuyao's heart sank, and he and Ah Jiu rushed into the house, the house was equally messy, but there were no babies. But there were already baby cots, small clothes, and diapers in the house. He rushed to the courtyard again and carefully turned over the body of Sister-in-law Hu, whose stomach was already deflated and the child had been born.

What's more, he has already calculated the birth of his child in the capital.

Could it be that it was taken away by robbers? Is it going to be a little robber in the future?

Xuan Liuyao was about to calculate the direction of the robber's departure, he was about to save it, when his fingers were just crossed, and suddenly a loud "Wow---" sounded in his ears. It was a baby's cry, coming from under an upside-down bamboo sliver.

He was pleasantly surprised to open the bamboo strips, and a small baby appeared in front of him. It was wrapped in swaddling clothes, with only a layer of fluff on its scalp, the skin on its face was wrinkled and red, and its eyes were as small as beans, and it was ugly.

Xuan Liuyao gasped and couldn't help muttering: "So ugly, how can you see people when you grow up?" ”

Ah Jiu replied quietly behind him: "Childe, you were uglier than him when you were first born, aren't you also very handsome now?" ”

"Oh?" He had never seen a newborn baby. He looked at it again, and it didn't seem so unsightly.

The baby only cried, then put his hand in his mouth and stared at him with small eyes like beans, and looked very attentively. It seems that it also knows that he is handsome, Xuan Liuyao smiled and nodded his nose: "Hu Yiyi, are you here?" ”

Hu Yi likes to gnaw on his hands, which Xuan Liuyao found when he fed him rice soup. After drinking the rice soup, he sprinkled a large soak of urine, and the hot urine soaked through the wrapping, staining his robe yellow, yellow and white.

Stinky boy, this is giving him a horse.

Xuan Liuyao smiled while breathing and put it on the bed, unwrapping the swaddling clothes, but he froze...... It's not a stinky boy, it's a stinky girl.

When he was in the fairy world, he never picked up the spirit fox to see if it was male or female.

Now I know.

Alas.

He was so disappointed that he didn't even want to change her diaper. If he is a kid, he can be his right-hand man in the future, either civil or martial, even if he achieves nothing, he can also help him build some merits.

But what is the use of a girl?

Nothing worked.

In the future, I only know that I want to eat, drink, and play with myself, and then one day when I grow up, I will come to him and say: I want to get married.

He put the clean little quilt on top of her, and sat on the edge of the bed by himself, not wanting to speak. But she kept kicking him with her little feet, and a pair of small black eyes glared at him angrily: You changed it for me.

"Yes, Little Ancestor." He reluctantly got up and waited for this useless little ancestor.

He carried her out of the house.

Ah Jiu had already dragged the bodies of Hu Seventeen and his wife to the gate of the courtyard. Seeing him come out, Ah Jiu asked, "Childe, this village is full of corpses, should we continue on our journey or stay for one night?" ”

"Let's stay one night first. Tomorrow they will be buried. ”

"That's a lot."

"A lot of them have to be buried, and they can't just be exposed."

Ah Jiu pursed his lower lip and nodded: "Yes." ”

He went to the well again to fetch water, but when he lifted it, he couldn't help complaining: "There is blood in the water, and I can't drink it." I also want to boil some bath water for my son. ”

Xuan Liu looked at the water in the bucket from afar, it was already dark, and the color of the water could not be seen in the dim light, thinking that the blood of Hu Seventeen and his wife had flowed into the well.

It's just blood mixed in the water, what's it?

In his previous life, he had drunk human blood without water, which was sticky and turbulent, fresh and sweet at first, and salty in his throat. On the battlefield strewn with corpses, there is no water to be found, and if you want to live, you can only thirst for blood and hungry for raw meat, whether it is the enemy's or your companion's.

"Just use this water."

He turned and went into the room, took out the Night Pearl, and placed it on the table. The beads emit a bright glow that illuminates the whole room.

There were still some boiled rice grains in the bowl, and he thought it would be better to feed them to her together, so as not to be hungry at night.

He caged Hu Buyi in the crook of his arm, picked up a grain of rice with bamboo chopsticks, and carefully fed it to her small mouth. The grains of rice swirled around on the tip of her wriggling tongue, but she didn't swallow it.

Ah Jiu came in and saw it: "She's so small, I'm afraid she won't be able to eat." You can only drink rice soup. ”

"How do you know?"

"Childe, when you were just born, I followed my grandmother every day to watch you."

"Oh." Xuan Liuyao replied expressionlessly, feeling very uncomfortable in his heart: Then haven't I been seen by you?

Puff puff......

Out of nowhere, Xuan Liuyao looked at Ah Jiu blankly, thinking that he had farted. Then there was a heavy, strange smell under my nose, and a hot, familiar feeling on my knees...... Ah, it's not appropriate for Hu to.

Ah Jiu put down the work in his hand and walked over with his fists: "I'll wipe her butt for her." ”

"Nope." Xuan Liuyao blurted out.

He hugged Hu Yi and went to the back room, she was a little girl, how could anyone see the light?

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All night long the crows croaked and flapped their wings outside.

Xuan Liuyao asked Ah Jiu in a daze: "Can the bodies of Brother Hu and his wife be covered?" ”

Ah Jiu was very familiar and did not respond. Xuan Liuyao wanted to go out and have a look, but Hu Yi twisted it twice, he patted her chest for a while, and fell asleep.

When they went out to see it in the morning, Hu Qiqi and his wife had been pecked half flesh and half skeleton.

Ah Jiu looked at Xuan Liuyao with a weak heart, and hurriedly found a shovel and went out to find a place to bury the body. Xuan Liuyao hugged Hu Yiyi and slowly checked the situation in the village.

In the village, almost all the corpses lying on their backs were like this.

Tomorrow the sun is shining, the flowers and plants are lush, and the eyes are full of life, but it is the yin wind and compassion, and the wind is full of whimpering, as if the soul is entangled and refuses to leave.

Xuan Liuyao let out a long sigh, looked at Hu Yiyi, who was gnawing his fingers in swaddling clothes, and let go of the idea of chasing the bandits.

Ah Jiu dug a big pit by himself, and he was so tired that he was sweating. He looked at Xuan Liuyao, who was holding the baby on the ground, lowered his head, put his foot on the edge, and stepped on it hard.

By the time all the bodies in the village were buried, it was already dark. They could only stay one more night.

This night, it was very quiet.

On the second day, they continued their journey.

Xuan Liuyao hung a piece of cloth in front of him, held Hu Yi in his arms, and walked unhurriedly. Hu Yiyi looked at him all the way, and he was very fascinated. She didn't know what she thought, grinned, and laughed out loud.

He looked down at her.