After Mu Qing and his party entered the city, they parted ways with Ubud, who had repeatedly told him to come to him for a drink in the future.

Wang Xiuwei looked at everyone and entered the city without spending a gold or silver, his red lips pursed slightly, and he smiled helplessly and sighed: "The ten families of Jinguan City, generally speaking, are the ten families of Qingchuan Prefecture, if it weren't for the guidance of the Liu family this time, maybe it would ......."

Speaking of this, Wang Xiu smiled, feeling that this useless assumption was meaningless, so he didn't continue, turned slightly sideways, and looked at the man next to him seriously from the corner of his eye.

Since entering the city, Mu Qing has been quiet for a long time.

Among the people who walked in the front, it was Tangtai Jing who was more energetic, not at all like she hadn't eaten for a few days, a pair of clear eyes looked left and right, and from time to time she also showed "Shu Le City is like this", "here is ordinary" gaze, in contrast, the thin woman who was still holding the child was the most restrained, always keeping her head down, tightly holding the swaddling clothes in her arms, and unhurriedly embellished behind Mu Qing.

Wang Xiuwei's gaze stayed in the woman's arms for a while, with some doubts in his eyes, and he looked at Mu Qing and said, "That Wu commander said that my mother is a living bodhisattva, but I don't know that you want to save them." ”

Mu Qing shook his head, and there was no emotion in his tone: "He's right, but it's just a waste of effort." ”

Wang Xiu's eyes moved slightly, and he sighed: "In troubled times, it is already difficult to stand on your own in the world, and one person is always weak. ”

"My sister is right. Mu Qing said with some understanding in his eyes: "I was a little out of shape before, and I still wanted to let those people enter the city, but it is true that as Ubu said, after entering Shule City, there may be another city waiting for them behind." Actually, I didn't think about what to do after that, and I couldn't let them follow me all the time. ”

The melancholy and powerlessness in Mu Qing's heart was also felt by the Taijing next to her, she came over at this time, her big eyes were extremely bright, and she seemed to collect a lot of clear light, "What's this, Brother Gongzi, as a cultivator, already acts in a chivalrous style." My father said that a real hero, if he encounters a thief on the road, he will be saved, but as for what happens later, why do you have to think so much? Do you have to keep the person you saved safe all the way because you are worried about the thieves' retaliation afterwards? ”

"Otherwise, this river and lake will inevitably be too boring, I won't see so many good stories of Zuo Pingshui meeting and pulling out a knife to help each other, leaving no name and only a back. ”

Shantai Jing's words did not pause, and Wuling was a little foggy, but Wang Xiuwei understood, the smile in her eyes was shallow, and her red lips opened lightly: "Sister Shantai is right, although you should be thoughtful before doing something, but if you think too much and go against your original heart at that moment, it will not be beautiful." ”

"What's more, it's hard to cross the mountain, who is sad and lost?"

Tan Taijing blinked her eyes and said seriously: "Sister's sentence is really good! I remember that there is another sentence called 'Pingshui meets, all are guests from other places'." ”

Wang Xiu hummed slightly, Taijing obviously received a good education, but the surname of Tangtai is extremely rare, and he has never heard of someone surnamed Tangtai in the imperial dynasty.

Wang Xiuwei saw that the depression in Mu Qing's heart seemed to be much less, and continued to explain with a smile in his eyes: "My mother said that people are born to suffer, leave their hometown when they are alive, and think about returning to their hometown when they are dying. The vast majority of people, who never learn from history or the lessons of others, should leave their hometowns or leave their hometowns. ”

"But we're a little different from them. Wang Xiuwei looked at the shrunken and thin woman and said, "We can still know where we are." ”

Where do you return......

Mu Qing's eyelids moved slightly, a few pictures flashed in his mind, he sighed lightly, turned to look at Yutai Jing and said: "It's not just a meeting in Pingshui, but also a guest in another country, I don't know what you plan to do next, do you want us to provide you with some entanglements so that you can go home?"

Tan Taijing's little face that deliberately blackened with mud plaster collapsed instantly, and she guessed that she must have been unable to help but be active just now, and was suspected by Mu Qing.

She held her mouth and her eyes widened, and she looked at Mu Qing with a "I know, whatever" look and said, "I'm just a poor little girl who ran away from home and was stolen and entangled, whatever." ”

Zhang Shaoyao often coquettishly behaves to Mu Qing like this, Mu Qing knows that the identity of Taijing should not be simple, but he still eats this set very much, and no longer investigates deeply, and smiles helplessly: "Then it's up to you, everyone has been delayed for so long, find a place to eat first." ”

Mu Qing's gaze fell seriously on the thin woman at this time, and said seriously: "You also follow." ”

In the dining room, the woman chose the most inconspicuous seat, and when the food was served, she was obviously very hungry, but she just kept picking the food in front of her.

Wang Yeqing had already seen his wife this time, especially when his eyes fell on the swaddling clothes, he predicted many times.

Mu Qing said: "I don't know what Mrs. Wang is going to do when she returns to Vermilion Bird City, do you still need servants?"

Wang Yeqing smiled and asked elegantly: "After I go back, depending on what my daughter means, if she still wants to do her previous business, she will come, does Mu Qing Gongzi have any suggestions?"

Mu Qing shook his head and smiled bitterly: "What advice can I have." But I took this woman into the city on the spur of the moment, and finally felt ......"

Mu Qing was a little eager to speak, but Wang Xiuwei understood what he meant, and there was an inexplicable light in his bright eyes and asked seriously: "Does my brother want to take this woman in, follow us back to Vermilion Bird City, and be my family's maid when the time comes?"

Mu Qing's face was a little unnatural, and he nodded: "This is really difficult for a strong man, after all, Madam, you haven't settled down yet." ”

Wang Yeqing smiled slightly, and motioned for her daughter to continue, Wang Xiu shook his head slightly and said: "It's not for this reason, I see that she hasn't spoken all the way, and her identity is not clear, how can I let her be my family's domestic servant casually, besides, my mother and I depend on each other, and we have long been accustomed to doing housework by ourselves, and we don't need to be served." ”

Mu Qing nodded, and didn't say anything more, Wang Yeqing asked with some curiosity in his long and narrow eyes: "Is it because Gongzi is so helpful because he knows this woman, or is it for some other reason?"

Mu Qing raised his head and looked directly at Wang Yeqing, his eyes were clear, and he said, "Don't misunderstand, madam, I just think this person is a little too pitiful." ”

"Too pitiful?" Xiao Wuling was also together, and at this time, Taijing was the woman, and couldn't help but look at the woman.

The woman had actually been listening to Mu Qing and them, and when she found Xiao Wuling's eyes, she just lowered her head and didn't get too scared.

Tan Taijing was not shocked at this time, and after a pause, he still said: "The baby in Auntie's arms is so quiet, not crying or making trouble, it seems to be out of breath." ”

"Huh?" Xiao Wuling was surprised, but he was very surprised to find that he was the only one, and he didn't understand that everyone had found out for a long time.

Mu Qing nodded silently, involuntarily recalling the gaze just now.

Among the many dark-eyed refugees, it was not difficult to find this thin woman, and the swaddling clothes in the other party's arms easily attracted his attention.

As for the recent moonlit night after escaping into the state of psychic perception, Mu Qing's spiritual sense has become very sensitive to the things around him, even if he does not release it, he has become very sensitive to the things around him, he never expected that he inadvertently looked at the swaddling snooping action, but just witnessed the process of a little life passing away in her mother's arms.

Mother and son are connected, presumably although the thin woman was looking at him at the time, she also felt the temperature of the swaddling clothes in her arms no longer beating, and the eyes Mu Qing saw at that time, he couldn't describe it at all, it was a kind of numb eyes that met the last ray of hope and escaped into extreme sadness.

Somehow, the image he remembered most seemed to come to mind automatically, it was also a city gate, and he seemed to be lying in the swaddling clothes of a woman whose arms were warm enough and milky enough to nurse him when he was most likely to die.

Now that I think about it, the woman was probably Peony's mother, but Peony was not the same age as him......

Mu Qing fell into deep memories by himself, his face showed a faint but extremely sad face, Wang Yeqing did not let go of any of his emotions, the light flashed in his eyes, and at this time he opened his mouth and asked the woman, "What is your name?"

The thin woman did not reply, but ate two more bites of the food in front of her, and was about to untie her neckline, as if she was impatient to breastfeed her child.

"He's dead. Mu Qing sat opposite the woman, and said in an unusually indifferent tone from the memories just now: "He died just now." ”

The thin woman listened to the breastfeeding movements, so thin that she could already see the skeleton's shoulders shrinking and trembling, and her dry eyes silently squeezed out tears that had not been seen for many days, lying on her fair cheeks, the woman cried without a sound, but looked at the swaddling clothes in her arms with love and said: "Good child, good daughter, why don't you cry to your mother, your mother has milk-water, you can take a bite." ”

Wang Xiuwei looked at this scene, her red lips were slightly faint after all, and she didn't make a sound, but when she turned her head, her eyes just met with the master who had already been regarded as a mother next to her, and there seemed to be a kind of happiness in their eyes.

Mu Qing seemed to be the first to slow down, he stood up and walked to the woman's side, forcibly snatched the swaddling clothes from the other party's arms, and when he held it with both hands, he was slightly stunned, feeling like he was holding a feather.

"I'm sorry, I found out late. A small quiet eyebrow can be vaguely seen next to the clean and soft cotton cloth, Mu Qing's movements are cautious, he only glanced at the swaddling clothes, then shifted his gaze, and looked at the woman who grabbed the swaddling clothes even if he cried and cried all over his body: "You are easy to die in this state, I can also save you, you can't say that you are dead before you repay it." ”

"My child ......"

"When you get out of town, you can choose a place to bury her. Mu Qing looked at the woman and calmed down a little, and returned the swaddling clothes to her, "You can now tell me what your name is and what happened." ”