"What!?Tan'er was beaten again!?" Qin Su sat down in shock, and the old ginseng chicken soup in his hand spilled out a small half and sprinkled it on Hu Buwei's body. Qin Su was flustered, put the soup bowl on the coffee table casually, and rushed out of the door with the little guy who reported the news.

As soon as I arrived at the partition wall of the middle courtyard, I heard Hu Tan's sad cry.

At the edge of the small flower pond in the vestibule, a large group of maids gathered at this moment, chirping and discussing, and everyone looked at the pool with a sad face.

The pond was just repaired yesterday, and it has not had time to be carved in detail, and the rockery in the pool has not been modified in the slightest, and the mud marks on the big round stone on the edge of the masonry have not been cleared.

There used to be a small half pool of clear water in the pool, but now, this half of the water has been frozen into sharp ice picks by magic, piercing the sky like a cluster of thorns. Hu Tan was now lying in the ice spikes, lying on an angle, unable to move. More than a dozen clusters of sharp ice blades were sharp beside him, and Hu Tan's whole person was as if he was being picked on the knife mountain. His two arms, shoulders, and legs, were frozen in ice, and his arms and faces were covered in blood, which were the wounds that Bing Feng had cut.

"Tan'er!" Qin Su shouted, his heart panicked like a hammer blow. A step from afar jumped up and fell into the pool. White light surged under his feet, and he crushed all the sharp edges and corners under his feet.

Seeing his aunt coming, Hu Tan cried even more sadly, but he couldn't move, so he could only let the tears roll down.

A disciple of Hejiazhuang was roasting ice cubes, but he was afraid of hurting Hu Tan, so he didn't dare to move too much, so he could only slowly penetrate the heat into the ice.

"I'll come!" Qin Su was anxious in his heart, so he let the disciple dodge away and step forward. A cut palm first cut off all the sharp edges and corners around Hu Tan's body. "Don't be afraid, aunt let you down. ”

"Auntie—" Hu Tan burst into tears. I don't know if it was sad or frostbite, my face was red. Qin Su's heart ached. Unexpectedly, if I didn't have time to take care of it in the past few days, Xiao Hu Tan would be bullied, and my aunt should be extremely derelict in her duties. Look at the edge of the flower pond, Mrs. He is surrounded by a group of maids, with a slight concern on her face, and she is also looking at her. Beside her, Zha Feiheng grinned, shaking the shadow puppet villain he snatched from Hu Tan's hand.

Hu Tan couldn't cry silently, and complained to Qin Su: "Auntie." He...... Rob...... Rob...... My shadow puppet, woo-woo. ”

Qin Su was angry in his heart, but he didn't know how to vent it. The little guy who reported the news just now told her all about the situation, saying that Young Master Cha and Hu Gongzi were playing by the flower pond, and they didn't know why they quarreled, so the young master accidentally pushed Hu Gongzi into the pool. But when Hu Gongzi fell into the water, he just grabbed the young master's sleeve, and both of them fell into the pool. After Young Master Zha came ashore, he used ice spells to freeze the water in the pool, and Hu Gongzi was trapped in it and couldn't get up.

It turned out that it was Zha Feiheng who was bullying Hu Tan!

"Bang!" pressed your palms against the ice. The dense energy spread like a spider web along the ice, covering the ice around Hu Tan's body in a moment. Qin Su was angry, and regarded the ice cube trapped in Hu Tan as an enemy in face-to-face combat, and all his anger was transmitted with the aura. "Bang bang!" The air web stretched like iron wire, shrinking deep into the ice, and all the large ice that had become lumps of ice was instantly cut into finger-sized pieces. The fine white chips are pressed by the force of qi and protrude towards the sky. Raise a tree more than two feet high snow mist.

Mrs. He loves Cha Feiheng very much, which is a well-known thing in the He Mansion. Zha Feiheng's mother and Mrs. He have aunts and cousins. With this relationship, the old lady has always been protective of Zha Feiheng in everything.

The thing is clear. It must have been Zha Feiheng's covetous shadow puppet on Xiao Hu Tan's hand, and he robbed him after unsuccessfully asking for it. With the old lady as a backer, the child still has any scruples, so he pushed Xiao Hu Tan into the pool and froze it. A child's fight was not a big deal, but as an elder, Mrs. He didn't even say a word of scolding to Zha Feiheng who made a mistake. It's very unpleasant.

As an elder housewife, she can't distinguish rewards and punishments, which is not much different from conniving at evil.

Qin Su was angry, Xiao Hu Tan didn't know how many grievances she had suffered in the past few days! Holding Hu Tan's small palm, the cold touch made her feel sad again.

"Auntie, we don't live here, let's go. Xiao Hu Tan cried and begged, and he hid in Qin Su's arms and sobbed lowly.

Since he was born, Hu Tan has not known what home is. I don't know that there should be a place in the world where you can shelter from the wind and rain and hide in and rest after being injured. In a hurry, he followed Hu Buwei and Qin Su all over the world, but he never felt the warmth of home. He was wronged somewhere, and he was sad, and he would only say to Qin Su: Auntie, let's go, don't live anymore.

In Hu Tan's view, the wind and dust roads that cannot shelter from the wind and rain sometimes make him feel warmer and more at ease than the houses where people gather.

Wind and frost urge people to grow old, and suffering is easy to understand. Although he is still young, Hu Tan has been able to distinguish between good and evil, and he has tasted the bitterness and cold of the world early since he can remember. Seeing all kinds of suffering in the world, and experiencing the sadness that children of the same age never know in ordinary times, Xiao Hu Tan grew up in this day after day of grinding, and in his heart, the shape of the world is slowly becoming clearer.

Qin Su's heart was like a knife, and he gently wiped away the tears on the child's face, but he could only sigh faintly underneath. "Tan'er, listen to your aunt, if he grabs things from you in the future, you just give it to him, don't fight with him. "It's not the third day of the eighth month yet, Hu Buwei hasn't recovered his soul yet, how can they leave?

Hu Tan shook his head and sobbed in her arms, "That's my shadow puppet, it was bought for me by Uncle He, and I won't give it to him." "No one has ever bought a gift for Hu Tan, and the preciousness of these little shadow puppet figures in his heart can be imagined. In Hu Tan's simple heart, he only knows that others should not snatch the things that belong to him, and he doesn't want others to snatch his things.

The little one does not yet know that sometimes, whether he wants it or not, he has to give up something. Compromise and renunciation are originally the ways of life that people all over the world learn to survive.

"Tan'er, we don't want shadow puppets. Qin Su said gloomily.

"Yes! That's mine, don't let him take it. Hu Tan couldn't understand why he didn't want his own things, and why his aunt didn't help him get the shadow puppet back. Instead, let him give up. "Uncle He gave it to me, I want it. ”

"Tan'er. Qin Su said softly, "Do you want Daddy?"

Think. Absolutely. So Hu Tan snorted, nodded vigorously, and said, "Yes." ”

"But if you want a shadow puppet, Daddy won't be able to come back. Do you want daddy or shadow puppetry?"

It's a tough question.

Hu Tan didn't cry and roll, he had to ask Qin Su to obey his will. The hard life has exhausted all the childish aura in him. His sobs were lowered, and he was really thinking about whether he wanted his father or a shadow puppet? If his father didn't come back, Tan'er was very scared. But...... Shadow puppetry is really fun, and he is not willing to give it to others. He was conflicted, weighing which one was more important to him. The little doll didn't think that why should there be no father for shadow puppetry, and if you want a father, you have to give up shadow puppetry.

The world of adults is not yet understood by children.

For the sake of one, it is necessary to give up the other. This is the first truth that Qin Su taught Hu Tan. Creation always gives people the opportunity to choose their fate, and at the fork in the road, people can only choose one of them. It doesn't matter which one you choose. At the same time, it is also abandoning other paths.

And in this renunciation, it also includes forbearance and compromise. Suppress your unwillingness and choose what is more important.

Three-year-old Hu Tan. Distressed.

In the long years that followed, compromise and renunciation were placed in front of him countless times, and every choice he made. All of them deflected the trajectory of his life and led him in another direction. But that's another story. The current Hu Tan has not been exposed to such a complicated event. There are only two things in front of him to choose from, daddy, or shadow puppetry?

He finally made his choice. There is only one father, but there is another set of shadow puppets. Although the white-faced Cao Cao's shadow puppet is the best one in it, he still has Yu Zhang Fei, Huang Chao Zhou Yu, and Daddy? I haven't talked to Tan'er for a long time, Tan'er wants to listen to Daddy sing and coax him to sleep, wants Daddy to help him catch butterflies, and wants Daddy to pick grass leaves and weave hats to wear......

He looked at the shadow puppet Cao Cao in Zha Feiheng's hand reluctantly, but in the end he gave up his unwillingness, turned around, pulled Qin Su's sleeve, and said, "Auntie, hug." ”

"Good boy. Qin Su smiled slightly, but he felt a little sad in his heart. Isn't it a cruel thing to let a three-year-old child with a heart like a crystal start to choose and give up? It's just that the situation can't help her, she has no way, for the sake of nonsense, Qin Su himself has given up a lot of things, and now it's Hu Tan's turn.

Seeing Qin Su pick up Hu Tan and fly up to the edge of the pool, Old Madam He stopped her.

"Tan'er, do you hurt? Let grandma help you see. Old Madam He softened her voice and approached to ask Hu Tan. Hu Tan was unwilling to get off Qin Su's body, and resolutely refused to let the old lady hug him. "I've got the medicine ready, so rubbing it won't get in the way. This sentence was said to Qin Su.

Old Madam He sighed, "Heng'er is young and too naughty...... Miss Qin, don't blame him. I had already told him harshly just now, and he would never dare again. ”

Zha Feiheng, who was 'ruthlessly', raised the shadow puppet and made a vicious grimace at Hu Tan, who turned his head away from him.

Qin Su smiled bitterly in his heart, and could only nod and say yes. Under the fence, if there is a request for help, what else can she say? Brush her sleeves away? Strict words to each other? No, if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, if you are delayed in a momentary mood, Brother Hu will be in trouble.

"I have one more thing to ask you...... "Old Lady He said, "and you must not talk about it at the master's place...... You know the temper of the lord. He wanted to know that Heng'er was doing this, but he was afraid of ...... Yes...... Yes...... Very bad. ”

Old man He is extremely strict in training, Zha Feiheng has been beaten several times for beating Hu Tan before, this incident is far worse than before, if you let the old man know, the consequences are really terrible.

Qin Su responded one by one, refused a large pile of turtle Ling healing ointment and blood sealing three yellow stickers sent by the old lady, and walked to the backyard with Hu Tan. I can't leave Tan'er to those people to take care of anymore, Qin Su thought to himself. There are still two days to spare, so let's take him with me, although it is very bad for Tan'er to see Brother Hu crying wildly, but anyway, it is better than throwing it in strangers and letting others bully him.

Quiet in the backyard. Qin Su walked through the Moon Gate and saw that in the backyard except for the two disciples on duty standing in the corridor like javelins, there was not a single maidservant serving tea. The doors to all the rooms were closed, and the wounded inside were probably still sleeping.

After several days of intensive construction, the entire village has basically been restored to the old view, and the backyard has been almost repaired. Flowers and trees are replanted, rockeries, landscape stones are placed in place, all the collapsed stone walls have also been built and painted, only in addition to some carving and painting fine work can not be completed in a short time, the original carved wooden windows are temporarily replaced with solid boards, and the lintel eaves are also bare.

This was originally a place for people to stay, but it has not been replaced since the last time it was temporarily turned into a healing room.

To the left of the main entrance of Fan Tongyou's room, the fourth room is closed, and there are two charms pasted on the door, the thunder rune and the fire rune. Hearing that there was no sound inside, Qin Su knew that they hadn't solved the mystery of the piece of iron yet.

"Forget it, don't think about it first, there are two days left until the third day of August...... When the day after tomorrow, Brother Hu has molded his soul, let's move to the inn, don't stay in other people's homes. Qin Su thought, walked into the room with Hu Tan in his arms, closed the door, and took out the jade rhino powder to heal him.

In Fan Tongyou's room, Old Man He, Ding Hui, and Tao Qu were all here, as well as Qingkongzi and You Ping, the head of Needle Huatang. Six people sat around the table, staring at the ground in front of them.

Copper coins, warm jade, and yang stones, these things are arranged into a small fire array, and the outside is covered with the Yang Talisman of the Blue Void. Eight cinnabar yellow talismans were attached to the ground, and each was tied to the iron order of the torturer in the middle of the formation with red threads.

In the basin-sized fire formation, the flames were churning, and a few blue and white touches appeared in the orange flames from time to time. These carefully selected props were much more vigorous than the previous Broken Iron and Jade Yang Qi, and the effect of the Fire Array was far stronger than before. Under such high temperature baking, even gold and iron will melt into juice in less than a breath inside.

But around the iron order of the criminal soldiers, there was not a trace of flame in the area of the size of the bowl. It was as if there was an impenetrable barrier wrapped around the iron sheet, and all the flame seedlings automatically deflected to both sides when they burned to this range, and in the eyes of the six people, it was as if there was a hollow eye in the array, and all the hot gas swirled around the array into a flame vortex.

"Awesome!awesome!" Fan Tongyou muttered with wide eyes.