The woman spoke: "Then rest here for a while, go and ask for directions, and let Rong'er come down to breathe." ”

Tie Zhu said stupidly: "There is such a beautiful voice in the world. ”

Then an old woman next to her lifted the curtain of the carriage, another guard put the stool on it, and the woman slowly got down from the carriage with a little girl in her teens.

At this time, Xue Niu'er and a few people saw the woman's appearance clearly, Li Fu'er thought of the graceful fairy in the mythical story told by her father, and the refugees who passed by nearby were all amazed by the woman's appearance, and they couldn't imagine that there was such a beauty in the family.

The little girl next to the beauty is more like an angel who has fallen into the mortal world, with aura between her eyebrows, a pair of big flashing eyes looking curiously at the new things around her, and the moles in the corners of the little girl's eyes make it even more perfect.

The guard who took the lead rushed straight towards Xue Niu'er and the old man, and the old man was so frightened that his legs kept trembling.

The guard clasped his fists at the old man and saluted: "Old man, is there any other way to Dingzhou besides this Lingzhou?"

The guard was only seventeen or eighteen years old, and the old man calmed down a little, and said: "Yes, yes, but it is very dangerous, this Lingzhou is built between two mountain ranges, there are many small roads to bypass, this Hu people raided Lingzhou through the dense forests in the mountains, but the small roads are mostly sheep's intestine paths, and the carriage cannot pass." ”

"Thank you, old man," said the guard, turning to see the little girl coming to him at some point.

The little girl looked at Xue Niu'er and the refugees next to her, turned her head to the guards and said, "Big brother, Rong'er sees that they are tired and hungry, they must have not eaten for a few days, give them something to eat." ”

When the refugees heard the little girl's voice, they all turned their heads.

The guard saluted and replied: "Miss, we didn't bring a lot of food on this trip, and now that there is a war in Lingzhou, we will have nowhere to supply if we distribute food to them." ”

"The big brother doesn't agree, forget it, Rong'er will find her mother," the little girl ran towards the beauty angrily after speaking.

"Rong'er, slow down, be careful not to fall. ”

"Mother, you see how pitiful they are, they must have not eaten for a few days, give them something to eat, mother. ”

The beauty touched the little girl's forehead and said, "Alas, this child. ”

The beauty turned to the guard and said, "Guard Li, leave our food for half a day's rations, and distribute the rest to the refugees." ”

The guard also wanted to explain, but the beauty smiled, "It's okay, let's go, Lingzhou has been broken by the Hu people, and other paths are not easy to walk and not safe, let's go back the same way first, so as not to worry the master, I just don't know if there is a war in Dingzhou." ”

Li Guards saluted and replied: "Yes, madam, then we will go to yesterday's inn for rest and replenishment, but Madame rest assured, Dingzhou is an important town in the northwest into the Central Plains, and it is also the last barrier in the capital, and furthermore, near Dingzhou is the important town of Bazhou, and its soldiers and horses are transferred to the defense envoy is General Ouyang, with tens of thousands of elite soldiers and horses, Xihu does not have so much strength at present, this time Xihu can break through Lingzhou is only a surprise attack on the mountain trail, and there is already a horse and a flat river in front, and there can be no bigger war." ”

"Well, I hope Rong'er's grandfather and uncle will be safe. ”

When the guards watched the food being distributed, they crowded forward to get some food.

"Hey, little brother, I'm talking to you, why don't you ignore me. ”

Xue Niu'er came back to her senses, "How... What's the matter, are you talking to me?"

The little girl said playfully: "Yes, I'm asking what your name is, by the way, my name is Ouyang Rong'er." ”

Xue Niu'er took his eyes off Ouyang Rong'er at this time, lowered his head and replied, "My name is Xue Niu'er." ”

"Haha, how could anyone call this name, it's so cute. ”

Xue Niu'er raised his head and couldn't see a trace of malice and ridicule in the other party's eyes, so he lowered his head again.

The beauty saw all this in her eyes, and said softly to Ouyang Rong'er: "Rong'er, don't be rude, hurry up and apologize to others." ”

Ouyang Rong'er replied aggrievedly: "Okay, mother." ”

Xue Niu'er hurriedly said: "No, my little sister didn't laugh at me, this name was originally called by others." ”

"Mother, do you see if this little brother is particularly similar to Brother Jun," Ouyang Rong'er said to the beauty.

After hearing this, the beauty walked over and said with a smile: "If you look at it, there are indeed five points of similarity, if you wash up well, there are seven or eight points, no wonder you have been talking here, it turns out that you have seen someone you know." ”

"This little brother is approachable, much better than that handsome brother," Ouyang Rong'er said while holding the beauty's hand.

"Rong'er, let's go back. ”

"Mother, don't you go to your grandfather's house?"

"Well, your grandfather is now in the capital, not in Dingzhou, he will come to see us in a while. ”

Ouyang Rong'er stuck out her tongue at Xue Niu'er and made a grimace: "Remember to come and play with me, don't forget."

After saying that, he followed the beauty into the carriage. Xue Niu'er watched the convoy gradually disappear into her eyes, and thought to herself: Where should I go to find her, Dingzhou or Bazhou, where is Dingzhou, where is Bazhou, and who is Brother Jun.

On the way to the south, everyone encountered several groups of mountain bandits, all of whom were teams of more than a dozen people, and the bandits could be dressed in shabby clothes, and their equipment was even more rudimentary, and occasionally one or two old horses and thin horses were mixed with homemade broadswords and spears.

At the beginning, a handful of mountain bandits snatched all the rations brought by the fleeing crowd, and the mountain bandits in the back could not grab anything, so they took the young and strong young people away to expand the team, but they did not dare to arrest them all, because the grain stored in the village could not feed too many people.

The three of them followed the homeless people every day to dig wild vegetables, eat leaves, boil tree bark and wild insects, and the wild fruit trees along the way have long been plucked out of nowhere.

After more than ten days, the three of them were already hungry and skinny, especially Li Fu, who was not very strong, but now he basically couldn't walk on the road, and he could barely keep up with the team every day with the support of Tiezhu and Xue Niu'er.

On this day, Xue Niu'er and the three of them fell behind the team again.

Li Fu whispered: "Have you noticed it, the child who is still nursing in the third child of the Zhang family is missing today." ”

"Oh, I may have been robbed by bandits a few days ago, but listening to you, I think the eyes of the brothers of the Li family are a little different these days," Tie Zhu continued.

Xue Niu'er saw that there was a shady place under the tree on the side of the road, so she walked over and sat down, and said, "Be quiet, not only the child of the Zhang family is gone, but also the child of the old Li family a few days ago, and... And why haven't we met bandits in the past few days, do they put children... Lose... I also found that they were very enthusiastic and concerned about the three of us in the past two or three days, and they always got close to us. ”

"Lose your own children, don't you, alas, forget it, no matter what you do, we're going to starve to death here, and we don't know where we're going to die in this wilderness," Iron Pillar complained weakly. “

In short, it's not wrong to keep an eye on it, let's go. ”

In the evening, I don't know when the dark clouds have quietly covered the moonlight, Xue Niu'er and the three of them are huddled in a dirt pit, after all, it is late autumn, and there are cold winds constantly hitting at night.

"Hey, you see if that's Zhang Laosan, how sneaky he got into the woods," Tiezhu patted Xue Niu'er and said to Li Fu'er. “

You stay here, I'll take a look," Xue Niu'er finished speaking, and then got up and followed the black shadow.

In the depths of the poplar forest, several black shadows were muttering in low voices, and the conversation between several people seemed to be very unpleasant, occasionally mixed with a quarrel or two, Xue Niu'er quietly climbed behind a tree not far from the black shadows, trying to hear the conversation between several people clearly.

But although it was not far away, it was not clear that Xue Niu'er was afraid of being discovered, so he was ready to quietly go back. But thinking of what happened to me these days and my two friends, I mustered up the courage to hold my breath and crawl forward.

"Zhang San, you are too lacking in morality, what, do you want our brothers to starve to death with you, or do you have a conscience?"

"Li Laosan, what are you talking about, your brothers called me here, what the hell is the matter. ”

"Okay, okay, don't quarrel yet, Brother Zhang, it's like this, I heard the second brother say that you don't agree to do those three wild children in the mountains, so our brothers called you over to ask. ”

When Xue Niu'er heard this, she was so frightened that she hurriedly covered her mouth with her hand, afraid that she would make a sound and be found out, she would definitely die.

Xindao: The three wild children in the mountains, aren't they Li Fu, Tie Zhu and himself, they don't have any grudges against the four people in front of them, but why did these people in front of them discuss and murder them.

The man who spoke paused and said, "You see, through our cooperation in the past few days, you should understand that although we are brothers, we have not taken advantage of you, so how can we have a disagreement in a good way." ”

"Haha, this is really fresh, I actually have the face to say that I haven't taken advantage of you brothers these days. Xue Niu'er heard that this was Zhang San's voice. "The surname Zhang, don't be embarrassed, if you can't say it clearly tonight, don't think about getting out of this wood. ”