Mother Liu has been holding Shu Miao since she was born, watching her grow up little by little, and she is afraid that she has more affection for her than Shu Yao's mother. She also has a son herself, but her husband is at home alone, and he didn't take good care of the child, and one accidentally fell into the big water tank, and it took a long time to find out. When it was fished out, the child had already swallowed his breath.

When she received the letter, she rushed home like crazy, and fainted after just one look. After waking up, I cried for a whole day, and then I rolled up my baggage and went back to Li's house. Since then, she has devoted herself to Shu Yao, and Shu Yao has inherited all her maternal love.

At this moment, she and Shu Yao sat next to each other, and while running Shu Yao's hair, they looked at her carefully, and said:

"After the New Year, by the twenty-third day of the first month, you will be fifteen years old! What a good age, like a flower. When the time comes, my mother will make you a new dress, and it will be okay if you can't wear it that day, and you will wear the same one later. ”

Shu Yao leaned on her and said with a smile:

"Mom's clothes must be excellent, I'll wear them that day!"

The smile on Liu's mother's face deepened, and the two said something else, and when it was time to be a child, Shu Yao was so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes, and Liu's mother smiled and asked her to lie down and rest, covered her with a quilt, and came out of it.

The family banquet was dispersed late, the people were almost gone, and the smell of wine wafted from the hall.

The night was dark, and a small servant carried a lantern in front, and the dim light could only illuminate a little of the road under his feet.

Shen Junzhuo barely looked at the road, and only walked along the lake. The snow on the road has long been cleared, and only the lake still has the appearance of the first snow falling. A faint, twinkling star shone on it, shimmering faintly.

He was followed by the deputy general Zhao Feiyong, who had just come out of the palace and brought an official message to him, ordering him to see how the prime minister and the uncle of the country spent this year. He was in his heart, the prime minister is the father of today's saint, the uncle of the old country, and the uncle of the country is the elder brother of the saint, the uncle of the small country. Now how many yamen in the court and the central government are pinched in the hands of these two people, and after the New Year, they are designated to be a hundred times more lively than others.

Think about the former official family, the first to ascend to the great treasure, full of ambition, regardless of the dissuasion of the government and the opposition, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, must be the royal driver to conquer the Northern Xiongnu. Were the Northern Huns so easy to fight? The imperial court and the Northern Xiongnu have been involved in each other for more than 50 years on the border, and both sides have their own victories and defeats, but neither dares to go further.

The official family came like this, the momentum was surging, the army waved north, and for a time the attack was invincible, and the imperial court was looking for someone to write praise, and suddenly the situation took a turn for the worse, and the army went deep into the hinterland of the Northern Xiongnu, and soon was confused by the vast wind and sand without knowing the direction. The Northern Xiongnu took the opportunity to outflank and divide the 300,000 army into four places, wanting to break them one by one and capture the commander alive.

The situation is unusually critical. Seeing that the battle was about to be lost, the official family wore the clothes of the Huns at night, dressed up as the Huns, and wanted to escape from the camp.

A eunuch and a group of guards followed him, and he was recognized by the Huns before he ran far, and when he was chased in the desert and cornered, he met him with more than a dozen people as scouts.

The scouts were good at camouflage, and soon hid these people from the official family in the grass of the sage, in the sandbag, and under the red willow roots, and pointed the chasing Huns in another direction in the Xiongnu language. Only then did the official family escape. He took the official family and other armies to converge, who knew that there were Hun spies in the army, and the official family had an arrow, and his throat was almost cut, and he rescued him from the blade.

Since then, the officials have felt that they can't do without him, and they have asked him to follow him everywhere.

The army finally broke through the encirclement of the Huns, but when it went there was 300,000 men and horses, and when it returned, only 60,000 remained. Defeated and returned to the court, the king of Qi, who was the opponent when he was fighting for the crown, was ready to move, contacted the 50,000 horses stationed outside the capital, and joined forces with the people in the Jiuzhong Palace, intending to usurp the throne.

At that time, when he first returned to the Beijing Division, he was fledgling, and he could not dispatch the forces of the Beijing Division, so all he could do was to stay by the side of the official family and protect his safety.

Outside the palace, it was all the credit of the prime minister, holding the token of the Son of Heaven, risking being strangled in public to find the Tiger Camp. I don't know what he said, the tiger camp finally obeyed the order to protect the Beijing division, and stubbornly guarded the city gate overnight, the 50,000 people outside did not attack, and the inside had already killed a river of blood and cut off the head of the king of Qi.

The palace has changed, and the prime minister's position is even more unshakable. The prime minister was a former emperor, and later became the father-in-law of the official family, and then he had a life-saving grace for the official family, and that little bit of thought became more and more inflated, and there was a time when he repeatedly collided with the official family above the court.

The dissatisfaction of the official family has accumulated day by day, and it has been saved for six or seven years, but it has never been able to do anything with the prime minister's father and son. Now he can only order him to watch them and monitor them.

If there is anyone else around the official family who can be trusted today, except for the eunuch Fuquan who fled with him back then, he is the only one left. Therefore, the official family handed over to him the last thing he could rely on and be able to support himself - the defense of the entire Jingshi.

When he appeared on the street, dressed in black armor, he was immediately made out of the way without clearing the way wherever he went. In the eyes of those people, he is not to protect the safety of Jingshi, on the contrary, he is a demon who kills people like hemp, and a monster who drinks blood.

He didn't bother to explain, he didn't bother to tell them. What they think of him is that it affects him, as long as he gets what he wants.

The situation is calm on the surface, but in fact, it has already been turbulent. He had to find a way to protect himself and his loved ones in this turbulent time.

He walked for a long time, pacing back and forth from the Magnolia Courtyard to the Lanyue Building where he lived. Suddenly, I remembered that I still had a long box in my hand, and then I remembered that it was Shu Yao's girl who left the banquet after leaving the table.

When Shen Yu gave her something, he saw it clearly, and when he saw her face full of anger, he didn't know why. He was just curious, to see what it was. When I opened it, there was a warm white hosta lying on the red silk in the pure black box. The hairpin is carved into the shape of a half-open magnolia, which is a valuable masterpiece at a glance, but it is a good match for her.

He was unhappy in his heart, this Shen Yu was so young, what is wrong with giving away other girls, learn from those gentlemen to send this thing. I don't know if the girl knows what it means for the man to give the girl hairpin, but fortunately it didn't reach her, if not......

There was a sudden turmoil in his heart, what if not? He didn't want to think about it, anyway, he was not satisfied, uncomfortable, and unhappy. Therefore, when the maid in Mrs. Yu's house gave him this thing, he didn't want to return it to the girl. I put it in my sleeve, pinched it in my hand, and I really wanted to throw it out.

In the night, Shu Yao's big black and bright eyes with water seemed to appear in front of him, and he always seemed to be a little afraid when he looked at him. He suddenly thought of something, and said to Zhao Feiyong behind him:

"Don't spread the rumors on the street that I'm scary."