"Xiao Wu, wake up...... Xiao Wu, you can't die......"

In a daze, Xiao Wu heard a choked voice calling, opened her eyes with difficulty, and saw Xin Hua covered in snowflakes, her eyes full of tears, squatting on the side of her couch.

"Xiao Wu, you're awake"

"Hmm"

Xiao Wu agreed, feeling that her body was going to die, as if she was going to break her bones, and when she looked at it, she found that there was an extra quilt on her body.

Xiao Wu looked up and saw that Xin Hua had a cut on her face, tears rushed through, and light red blood flowed out, ticking on the fists that the two of them clenched together, and understood that Xin Hua had been beaten again.

Xiao Wu gritted her teeth, "Who did it?"

Xin Hua smiled bitterly and shook her head, "It's okay, don't worry."

Xiao Wu raised her hand to help Xin Hua wipe away her tears in distress, knowing that crying on the wound was like sprinkling salt on the wound, and said weakly: "If you don't cry, it will hurt."

Xin Hua's tears were even more fierce, "Xiao Wu, you've been asleep for a day, if you continue like this, how can you get it?"

"It's okay, my life is hard, I can't die, don't worry, don't cry anymore"

Xiao Wu smiled hard, she couldn't say that she had the idea of begging for death, she was afraid that the timid Xin Hua would be sad.

Xin Hua took out a cloth bag from her arms, opened it, and there was a dough cake in it, she stuffed the dough cake into Xiao Wu's hand and raised it to her mouth.

"Xiao Wu, you must be hungry, eat quickly"

Knowing that Xin Hua got this dough cake, she had to waste a lot of things, and seeing her looking at herself with tears in her eyes, in order to reassure her, Xiao Wu opened her mouth and took a big bite, and the dough with Xin Hua's body temperature was still missing.

Seeing that Xiao Wu had difficulty swallowing, Xin Hua got up and poured water for her, only to find that the water in the pot had frozen into ice lumps, and tears flowed down her face again.

Xiao Wu comforted the sad Xin Hua, "Xin Hua, I...... If you don't drink, come and sit".

Xin Hua didn't dare to stay any longer, because there was an order from above, whoever dared to take care of Xiao Wu, a slave who rebelled against her master, would be punished, and she had already been beaten once for it.

"Xiao Wu, I'm ......"

Seeing Xin Hua standing in front of the table, showing apologetic, embarrassed, sad and panicked eyes, Xiao Wu suddenly understood in her heart that Xin Hua would be implicated by herself when she came here, after all, she offended the big master, Xiao Wu sat up with difficulty, pretending to be fine.

"Xinhua, I'm okay, I'm a sinner, you can't stay here for a long time, let's go, I promise, take care of yourself"

"What about you...... Words count."

"Talk your word, go, you have to ...... Take care of yourself."

Looking at the back of Xin Hua who left in a panic like a frightened bird, Xiao Wu shed tears, it was a tear of emotion, it turned out that there was still true love around her.

Xiao Wu felt cold, so she lay down again and cried silently under the covers.

Soon after, I heard the door squeak open, the cold wind blew in with snowflakes, and a gentle man wearing a black coat and carrying a medicine box walked in.

Xiao Wu saw that the person who came was the imperial doctor Huang Qian, and he hurriedly wiped a handful of tears, not wanting him to see his vulnerability.

"Who is it...... Let you come?"

"Myself"

Huang Qian replied lightly, while looking at Xiao Wu on the bed lightly, patting the snow off his body with both hands.

Huang Qian's words are true, the eldest princess who lives outside the palace is sick, King Zhou ordered him to visit the patient, two days, at the dismount, he did not see Xiao Wu, he has guessed that something must have happened.

Huang Qian had seen Xiao Wu being whipped, and he also saw the suppressed anger in her eyes, he did not step forward to stop him, the Queen Mother personally rectified the chaos in the harem, and any persuasion would only backfire.

"Why...... Coming on?"

Xiao Wu asked in a low voice, she didn't understand why Huang Qian did a thankless job, could it be? Is he entrusted by someone? Xiao Wu wanted to know, who was that person? Zhou Dan? or Zhou Jinnian?

"It is the duty of a doctor to cure the sick and save people"

Xiao Wu was dumbfounded, although he didn't know, how did Huang Qian know that he was sick, why did he come in the snow, and he couldn't really believe the high-sounding words, but seeing that he didn't want to answer, he didn't continue to ask.

"It's snowing, plum blossoms outside the house...... It's time to go."

Huang Qian, who had finished cutting her pulse, said a word without a head or brain, and began to help Xiao Wu unhurriedly, treating whiplash and frostbite, and also lit a water stove to boil hot water, and gave her a handful of black pills.

Xiao Wu knew that no one would hurt Huang Qian, but he still didn't want to drag him down because of himself, and when he was done, Xiao Wu urged him to leave.

"Thank you, let's go"

Huang Qian used Xiao Wu's words to ask him, and asked Xiao Wu, "Why?"

"I don't want to, drag you down"

Huang Qian took out some bottles and cans from the medical box and put them on the little dance couch, and replied softly, "Oh, that's the case, you want to drag me down, I'm afraid it's ...... Not enough to qualify".

This unexpected answer still made Xiao Wu stunned, raised her head suddenly, and met Huang Qian's deep eyes, and after a while, Huang Qianqian explained with a smile.

"Me, to them...... It's useful, they have a request for me, how can they provoke me for some trivial things?"

Xiao Wu frowned and thought, "I, I understand...... But, my identity ......".

Huang Qian closed the medicine box, raised his head and smiled at Xiao Wu, smiling peacefully and sincerely, "I am the son of a slave, does it matter if my identity and ability are related?"

"Ah?!......h

Xiao Wu really didn't be surprised, opened her mouth wide, stared at the faint Huang Qian, and didn't know how to answer for a while.

Huang Qian put on the big hat, put the medicine box on his back and left, and when he was at the door, he paused and looked back at Xiao Wu, who was stunned.

"Little girl, it's not easy to be a human being, so it's worth it. It's snowing, and the plum blossoms ...... It's true...... It's about to open, don't ...... Don't let it down."

Seeing Huang Qian's sympathetic smile, he opened the door and walked into the wind and snow.

"It's not easy to be a human being, and it should be worth it. Million...... Don't let it down."

Xiao Wu kept chewing on this sentence, and began to pretend to be expectant in her heart, looking forward to the first plum blossom blooming.

With Huang Qian's medicine, the injury healed quickly, and the first thing Xiao Wu did when he went out was to see the old plum tree at Xiema, except for the shuttle car and horses, Xiao Wu would often stay under the plum tree.

Xiao Wu is looking forward to the first flower blooming.

It had snowed heavily for a day, and the branches of the plum tree were covered with a thick layer of snow, and when the wind passed, a snow mist was raised, and the bare black branches could be seen, which had faint protrusions, which were flower bones hidden under the bark.

In addition to Xiao Wu likes the old plum tree, the horse parked around the old plum tree also likes it, the plum branch is often pulled or chewed by the horse with his mouth, Xiao Wu keeps expelling, attracting a lot of scolding from the coachman and his entourage, Xiao Wu still insists on guarding the old plum tree.

"Xiao Wu, use your brains more in case of trouble"

The master's words lingered in his ears, and Xiao Wu finally decided to make a fence for the old plum tree, so that it could block both the horse and the person who folded and climbed the flower branches.

Just do it.

When she was not on duty, Xiao Wu went alone to the hill where she had practiced swords, where she remembered seeing a pile of abandoned white stones, or superfluous materials to build a palace, and under a thick layer of white snow, Xiao Wu found a stone.

When measuring the size of the old plum tree, Uncle Xia, who was on duty together, saw it, and he stepped forward curiously to ask, knowing that Xiao Wu had the idea of building a guardrail.

The two chatted for a while, and Xiao Wu found that Uncle Xia was actually a stonemason, and the two of them could shoot it together, and Uncle Xia, who was itchy, was very willing to help Xiao Wu.

Under the guidance of Uncle Xia, the two re-measured the size of the old plum tree, and after that, as long as the old and the young were free, they would go to the empty hill to beat the stones, which became a place for the two to relax and chat, find something to do Xiao Wu, and gradually unload a lot of resentment in their hearts.

Uncle Xia is really a skilled craftsman, not only the stone is smooth, but also can carve some lifelike flowers and moire patterns as he likes.

Xiao Wu sighed in admiration, "Uncle Xia, your hand ...... What a coincidence! You don't need to draw a picture to carve so realistically."

Uncle Xia smiled honestly, "Little girl, it's not that Uncle is skillful, it's because ...... Too familiar with these patterns...... It's been engraved in my heart for a long time."

Xiao Wu answered, "Practice makes perfect, right?"

Uncle Xia stopped carving, looked up, the eastern sky was already reddish, and looked meaningfully at Xiao Wu, who was moving the stone slab, and replied slowly.

"Yes, when I learned art with my master, the master once said, do something after practicing a thousand songs and then knowing the sound, watching a thousand swords and then knowing the instrument...... You have to persevere, don't go crazy and don't survive, and in the end, practice makes perfect, and you will learn the real skills."

Xiao Wu nodded, "Well, that's the reason."

"Little girl, the old man saw it, that day, you practiced martial arts, you were quite good, don't throw it away easily. The older generation often says that if you have a daughter, it is better to have a skill, you are still young, and there are many roads in the future...... You can choose, if you are in trouble for a while, it is nothing? Don't lose your confidence."

Xiao Wu looked at it in a daze, Uncle Xia's face was full of vicissitudes of life, and the first rays of morning glow were falling on him, making his whole person instantly brighter.

Xiao Wu suddenly understood that no matter how ordinary a person is, there is also the light of wisdom in his body, and his lowly status does not mean that his heart is also lowly and barren.

"Okay, uncle, I made a note of it."

Looking back at Uncle Huang, who was full of love, Xiao Wu replied firmly, for a long time, she looked up at the gorgeous morning glow, and felt that it was unprecedentedly bright.

Xiao Wu could feel that the dark haze in her heart gradually dissipated, like the morning glow in front of her, becoming more and more red and bright, and warmer.

"Well, even if fate fools me, then I can't ...... It's easy to admit it, since you're not afraid of death, you're still afraid...... Do you want to give it a go?"

In the imperial study, King Zhou was listening to Yi'an's report, "...... The little musician, the injury has healed, and he has not hurt anyone anymore, it is quite normal, but he goes to the hill every morning and evening, and is busy hammering and chiseling stones."

King Zhou frowned, his face full of puzzlement, "Knock on the stone?

The minister didn't know, seeing that she was very attentive, her hands were broken...... She refuses to rest, and there is an old slave with her, or will the minister send someone to ask?"

"No, let her go, don't disturb her"

"Yes!"

Yi An responded with a puzzled face, he really couldn't understand, what was the king thinking in his heart? Obviously he cared about the little musician very much, and kept letting him investigate, but he knew that she was bullied and punished, but why didn't he ask?

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