Chapter 3: An Ping meets the prince for the first time
When An Ping was six years old, he was brought into the palace to play by his uncle Longqi, who was a big eunuch in the palace. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
At that time, it was in the imperial garden, An Ping pointed to the lotus pond and wanted to pick the lotus canopy in the pond with a childish voice, Long Qi saw that he was innocent and cute, and was about to pull up his trouser legs and go into the water, the little eunuch came to report to the Queen Mother to ask him about things, Long Qi had to tell An Ping to stay obediently and not move, and his uncle would come when he went.
After his uncle left, An Ping stood in place for half a pillar of incense, and when he saw that his uncle was still not coming, he stomped his little feet that began to be sore, looked at the big lotus pod in the pool and swallowed his saliva.
The weather is very hot, and the knowledge of the Imperial Garden is high and low and endless, and the sun is in full swing.
An Ping was waiting anxiously, and a woman in a splendid dress as beautiful as a fairy walked over with a boy the size of An Ping. The little boy was carved in pink and jade, like a boy holding fish on the New Year's painting at home, Anping was dumbfounded, thinking that he had seen a fairy.
However, the two immortals were very unfriendly, and looked at An Ping, who was dressed in an earthy style, with a rather disgusted look. An Ping felt disdain, so he lowered his head and looked at his little feet with two eyes, nervously afraid to move.
"Hey...... hey" Suddenly, the little boy rushed over, and with his two little hands, he pushed Anping down the lotus pond.
Although the weather was very hot and it was cool to fall into the water, An Ping was still frightened, and after a while in the pool, he realized that he knew how to water, so he poked his head out of the water and looked for a place to climb ashore.
An Ping, who poked his head out, landed on a large lotus pod that rose out of the water for the first time, he didn't think about it, he swam towards the lotus canopy, grabbed the lotus stalk, and used the strength to eat milk, before he picked the lotus pod into his hand, and the pimple on the lotus stalk grinded his little hand painfully.
At this time, the fairy on the shore covered her stomach and laughed, and it was beautiful to laugh so that the flowers and branches trembled, but the little boy pouted and shouted that it was not fun or fun.
After eating the lotus seed meat, he still had to make green nails from the lotus seed shell and wear it on his hand to show his uncle!
A fairy's lark-like voice came from the shore: "Little villain, you're so bad. ”
Until the two walked away, An Ping climbed ashore with difficulty for the second time, the little man sat on the edge of the lotus pond and grinned loudly, crying for a while, seeing that there were still many big lotus pods in the lotus pond, he was not particularly sad, he thought that when his uncle came, he would pick a few more.
Eight years later, when An Ping was fourteen years old, he looked like eleven or twelve, although he looked delicate, his small body was so thin that a gust of wind could blow to the sky.
Anping's parents rely on the river to support the ferry to live, so Anping knows how to water when he is young, in addition, don't look at him thin, but his strength is not small, and he often adds an oar to his father.
On this day, An Lu and Shen Yi started another day's work, and the family got on the ferry early. Anping, as before, gave his parents a hand.
Today is not a special day, by the time of the fourth trip, there were few guests, and before the number was made, a sister-in-law on the boat was waiting impatiently, urging the boat to start, An Lu glanced at the embankment, knowing that he could not wait for more people, so he opened the oars.
There were five guests on board, two middle-aged sisters-in-law, one was a big man, one was short and fat, and one was thin and tall.
The ferry departs from the wharf, to cross to the other side, usually almost a stick of incense time arrived, today the river is windy, Anping added an oar, the boat is still struggling. Finally rowed to the middle of the river, the hull suddenly did not move, no matter how the family of three exerted force, the boat was as if it had been immobilized by the spell, and there was nothing to do.
"Do it!" Suddenly, the big man on the boat shouted, and several boatmen who looked extremely ordinary jumped up, deceived An Lu and Shen Yi respectively, and snatched the oars with their hands, and at the same time, Humpty Dumpty and the thin man took out daggers and aimed them at An Lu and Shen Yi's throats.
"What are you doing?" Shen Yi's voice trembled in fright.
"Pretend! Shen Yi Shen San, if you know each other, hurry up and hand over the "Snow Meditation Gong", otherwise, hum ......" Humpty Dumpty said in a muffled voice, and the dagger pushed forward and cut through a layer of skin and flesh on Shen Yi's snow-white neck, and the red blood dripped down the dagger onto the ship's board.
"Let go of my mother!" An Lu shouted, he saw that his wife was bleeding and wanted to struggle, but he was kicked the stomach, and he could barely stand in pain.
"I don't have any cheats, I haven't heard of any snow skills!" Shen Yi was so frightened that he already cried.
"Miss Shen San went to the Snow Peak Temple with a sister to offer incense, do you remember?"
"Snow Peak Temple...... I used to go when I was a girl. ”
"One year, you and a sister named Fuyu went to Xuefeng Temple to finish incense on a snowy day in Layue, and an old beggar took a book to exchange silver with you, and you saw that the old beggar's clothes were thin and pitiful, so he gave him some broken silver taels, and the old beggar didn't bargain, and threw the book into your incense basket, but is there such a thing?"
"There is such a thing. But I couldn't read, and when I came back, I threw the book into the firewood room. ...... Is that the book you want?"
"That's right, what about the book, get it out!"
"I told you that I threw the book away, and I don't know where it happened after that. ”
"Don't be honest! Grab that kid and bleed him. As soon as the voice of the biao-shaped man fell, An Ping was picked up by a middle-aged sister-in-law, and then the sister-in-law took out a short knife and slashed into An Ping's left shoulder.
"Don't touch my son!You bastards, he's just a kid!" Shen Yi screamed, heartbreaking.
"Ahh
"Dad, mother, ...... Jump into the river!" "Anping's family will be in the water, they were too frightened just now, and now they think of escaping.
"Ping'er, jump quickly!" Shen Yi bumped into the middle-aged sister-in-law and pushed An Ping into the water, but at this time, he was also hit by a fatal knife in his body, shook it, and fell to the edge of the boat, and then An Lu also let out a miserable scream.
An Ping listened to it in the water, and when he surfaced, he saw his parents lying motionless on the boat.
"Catch him!" the big man pushed the tall and thin man into the water.
An Ping hurriedly dived underwater, endured the pain, and rowed to the river. He has always had a good water nature, he does not show his head in the potential water, the river water is turbid, and he is thin and tall and has blurred underwater vision, and he doesn't know which direction An Ping is swimming.
An Ping escaped with his life and swam to the reeds across the river to hide. He peeked at the remaining four people on the boat and turned around on the boat, and finally searched the bodies of the Ann couple, but in the end they found nothing empty-handed. The four of them threw the bodies of the husband and wife into the river, rowed the boat to the shore, and drove away, and the thin and tall man Anping also walked with him.
With tears in his eyes, An Ping dived back into the river, fished the bodies of his parents ashore with great difficulty, dug a pit with stones, and buried them in the grove on the bank of the reeds. An Ping lost his parents for a while, and his heart was sad and he fainted with a knife wound on his shoulder.
When he woke up, it was noon on the second day, the sun shone into the grove, which made An Ping's body warm, he rubbed his stagnant chest, got up, kowtowed three times to his parents' tomb, shed tears for a while, found some herbs and put them in his mouth and chewed them on the wound, picked a few wild fruits to satisfy his hunger, and then picked some herbs and stuffed them in his clothes, and dived into the river.
An Ping spotted a large passenger boat swimming over, he often ferries in the river, knowing that the boat was going to Suining Mansion, he wanted to take a boat to the capital to find his uncle. Now his uncle, who is a big eunuch in the palace, is his only relative.
An Ping is slender, and he climbs high and low on weekdays, although he doesn't know any martial arts, he is very cunning. Taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the ship, he slipped into the cabin.
This big ship usually only looks at it from a distance, but now that it enters the cabin, it is only to find that there is a hole in it. There are people who drink tea and chat, there are people who roll dice and gamble, there are people who sing songs, and there are people who tell stories...... , all the excitement of visiting the temple fair is here. An Ping cowered in a corner, but no one came to drive him away, and he thought that someone's subordinate was beaten by his master.
In this way, I arrived at Suining Mansion smoothly. The wound on Anping's shoulder was miraculously healed by the herbs he had brought aboard the ship, but the arm was so sore that he couldn't sleep at night.
When he arrived at Suining Mansion, Anping repeated his old tricks, nested under the carriage of a wealthy family in Beijing, and hitchhiking.
Needless to say, the bumps and hardships along the way, Anping almost couldn't hold on a few times, but in order to see his uncle earlier, he gritted his teeth and endured it. An Ping vaguely learned that the carriage he was riding was a young lady named Lu Luer, who entered Beijing to marry someone.
When they arrived at their destination, after the eldest lady got out of the carriage, An Ping got off the bottom of the carriage and got into the carriage, thinking that there should always be something valuable in it, and he could use it as a few hot steamed buns to eat.
When he was on the boat, An Ping ate what was left over from others, and later entered the Sui Ning Mansion, he stopped on the street, pretended to be a beggar and begged for a few bites of food, and he never ate anything when he got into the carriage, he had been hungry for two days and two nights, and he was almost blind.
lived up to expectations, rummaged through it, and was picked up by Anping in the corner of the car, several pieces of broken silver, and a gold ingot.
Anping was ecstatic.
Just as he was about to get out of the car, suddenly the curtain of the car was lifted, and a hibiscus-like beauty looked at An Ping in a daze, and there was no response for a long time.
By the time the beauty reacted, An Ping had already jumped out of the car, turned around and bowed apologetically, and wanted to run away.
"Stop!" the beauty suddenly screamed, grabbed the whip from the saddle and slashed at An Ping.