Before Gu Qinghuan could react, Lu Bai's mother had already rushed out with her child in her arms.
Lu Qinghuan wanted to rush out, so the two of them ran out separately. Whoever survived would go to Yancheng, but——
The young Lu Bai nervously pulled on Gu Qinghuan's sleeves, which reminded Gu Qinghuan that if she rushed out, hugged Wang'er, and took Lu Bai with her, she would not be able to escape.
She could only look at Lu Bai's mother's disappearing back, and the sound of Lu Bai's sister crying, shedding tears silently, and secretly made up her mind that Lu Bai's mother's wish was granted to her.
Gu Qinghuan made up his mind at that time and promised Wang'er to Lu Bai, because Lu Bai's mother gave Wang'er's life!
"After your mother led the pursuers away, I took you to try to take a detour through the mountains and forests to Yongle City on the only way to Yancheng."
Gu Qinghuan planned to wait for a caravan on that trade route.
However, when they walked out of the forest, they encountered a monster, which pursued them. When they fled in a hurry, they lost their footing and fell into the valley.
Fortunately, there were vines growing all over the valley, so Gu Qinghuan and the child in his arms were not seriously injured, but Lu Bai——
"You hit your head on a stone and you bled a lot." Gu Qinghuan burst into tears thinking about it now and couldn't bear it.
She touched Lu Bai's head.
Although the hair is blocking it, you can still feel the horror of getting a scar if you touch it with your hands.
Gu Qinghuan panicked at that time.
There were herbs to stop bleeding nearby. Although the blood on Lu Bai's head was stopped, seeing that he was so angry that he would not live long, Lu Qinghuan was ready to die.
Her life was bought by Lu Bai's mother.
If she couldn't save Lu Bai's life, even if she died, it would be difficult to repay this kindness and guilt.
Fortunately, there is no sure path.
Gu Qinghuan found a spring in the valley.
The spring water is sweet and has a light grassy fragrance.
After drinking it, although it cannot bring the dead back to life, nor can it cure diseases and strengthen the body, it can make people not hungry or thirsty and give them strength.
that's all.
Lu Bai lay on a piece of bluestone for a day and a night, drinking spring water when he was thirsty and hungry, and finally woke up on the morning of the third day.
However, Lu Bai was in a daze at the time and could only speak incomprehensible sentences.
"Are you stupid?" Gu Qinghuan thought at that time.
However, it was good for a person to survive from the edge of life and death. Gu Qinghuan did not dare to expect too much.
She hugged Wang'er and pulled Lu Bai out of the valley. Using the skills she learned from Lu Bai's mother, they finally arrived at the trade route after hiding.
This time, they were lucky.
After waiting for a long time, we met a group of caravans.
The three of them, Lu Qinghuan, were covered in dirt, and the caravan regarded them as beggars. The leader of the caravan was kind-hearted and took care that Gu Qinghuan was still breastfeeding, and gave them a carriage, food, drink and some medicine.
Later, after learning about the life-gambler business, Gu Qinghuan learned that the caravan leader had another idea at the time - if he encountered monsters eating people, he would send them there, which would save a lot of money for life-gamblers.
Even so, Gu Qinghuan was still very grateful to the caravan, because if it weren't for them, Gu Qinghuan and Lu Bai would not be alive today.
Perhaps because their bad luck had run out, Gu Qinghuan and the others arrived in Yancheng smoothly.
As soon as he arrived in Yancheng, Gu Qinghuan used the caravan to try to get in touch with City Master Gu, but City Master Gu did not see her, but quietly arranged for her to go to Luyuan and told her that the real Miss Gu Si was dead.
In Yongle City.
joke!
"He is my brother, how can he not know my handwriting and appearance?" Lu Qinghuan sneered.
He clearly didn't want to admit it.
Because to them, a dead Miss Gu is more useful to the Gu family.
really.
Half a month later, Gu Qinghuan heard the news that her sister's son had been made a prince.
From then on, Gu Qinghuan knew that the Gu family could not count on him at all.
However, there was also something that made Lu Qinghuan happy.
That is, Lu Bai finally woke up after entering Lu Park. Although he forgot many things, it was a great blessing to wake up.
Gu Qinghuan also decided at that time to raise Lu Bai first, let him marry a wife and have children. As for hatred, if there is a chance, he will repay it. If there is no chance, let it disappear.
For her, the most important thing is to raise Lu Bai and Wang'er and let Lu Bai continue the family line.
But it is also the most difficult thing.
Lu Bai smiled after hearing what Gu Qinghuan said.
He knew everything that happened next.
It was actually in that valley that he traveled through time. He became confused afterwards, probably because he suffered a severe head injury and was unable to adapt to this inexplicable place for the first time.
Lu Bai asked Gu Qinghuan to sit down, "Anyway, what you promised my mother has been completed, and now we have the ability to take revenge, so we should be happy."
Gu Qinghuan waved his hand.
She glanced at Lu Bai and said, "I still have to wait for you to get married."
Lu Bai made a joke, "You really plan to betroth Wang'er to me."
Lu Qinghuan asked him, "Are you unwilling?"
Lu Bai shook his head, "That's not the case, she was carved out of the same mold as you, very beautiful, and they grew up together -"
Lu Bai stopped talking.
He suddenly felt that there was something wrong with what he said.
He scratched his head.
In his previous life, he couldn't find a partner because he was not very sharp-tongued and always said the wrong things. "I mean, it depends on whether Wang'er is willing or not. I still want her to be with the person she likes."
Gu Qinghuan rolled his eyes, "Who do you think this little girl likes now?"
"Well--"
Lu Bai changed the subject, "What is the hatred you are talking about? Why did the Lu family want to kill you to silence you?"
This is the most critical question.
In the battle of Shuobei City, the city lord died in the battle, Lu Bai's father died in the battle, Gu Qinghuan's family was ruined, and they were displaced. Not only did the Lu family suffer no losses, but the genius of the Lu family, Lu Yiqiu, was instructed by the God of War to become an immortal on the same day.
In this case, why did the Lu family want to kill Gu Qinghuan?
This is unreasonable.
Gu Qinghuan took a sip of tea and was silent for a long time before saying: "About this matter, your mother and I were just suspicious, but the Lu family's persistent pursuit made us know that there must be something fishy in it, and this catty——"
Gu Qinghuan paused, "If word gets out, I'm afraid it will cause an uproar."
So Gu Qinghuan was very cautious.
She told Lu Bai that what she was going to tell him later was that after Wang'er's father was defeated, Wang'er's father and some remnants of the defeated soldiers told her the facts after they escaped and returned, and then she obtained it through reasoning based on these facts.
The answer, whether it is really the case, I am afraid we will need to investigate to find out.
The only thing Gu Qinghuan could guarantee was that the words City Lord Mo and others brought back after their defeat were true.
He had no reason at the time to make up a lie.
"The story probably starts more than ten years ago, when you were five or six years old."
When winter came that year, the Northern Barbarians encountered a heavy snowfall that had never happened in a century.
Although they occupied the northern part of the original Southern Dynasty, they only herded horses to the north of the Yangtze River, and they burned, killed and looted wantonly, causing farmers to stop producing, and heavy snows killed most of the livestock.
The northern barbarians were in danger of running out of food.
At first, they just plowed grass and grain frequently, and raiding everywhere turned into plundering food.
However, the heavy snow cannot penetrate into the ground, so threshing the grass in the valley cannot solve the coming famine at all.
As a result, the Northern Barbarians invaded the Southern Dynasties brazenly, trying to find a way to survive.
"They chose Shuobei City."
Among the border cities, Shuobei City is the most fertile city because of its superior geographical location - Shuobei City is southeast of Yancheng and northwest of Yongle City.
Follow the road to the north gate of Yongle City and follow the mountain road. After exiting a valley, a large plain will appear, and Shuobei City is on this plain.
There is also a black water river in Shuobei City. The fertile soil accumulated all year round near Shuobei City makes the fields in Shuobei City very fertile and produces a lot of grain every year.
"Shuobei City was once known as the small grain storehouse of the Southern Dynasties!" Gu Qinghuan said.
The lords of Shuobei City have been named Mo for generations.
The Mo family is one of the four major families.
The successive lords of Mo City managed Shuobei City well. Not only were the city walls very high, but they also had strong soldiers and horses.
Generally speaking, the Northern Barbarians would not easily choose Shuobei City when they invaded, because for them, this is a hard nut to crack.
However, that year, the Northern Barbarians were really hungry.
They came out in full force and surrounded Shuobei City, vowing to break through Shuobei City and seize the food that the Mo family had hoarded for generations to alleviate their urgent needs.
The reason why they did this was that Shuobei City was out of the valley and on the plain, hanging alone outside the cities of the Southern Dynasties. It was difficult to get reinforcements for a while.
But after all, they still underestimated the rich wealth accumulated by the Mo family through generations of business operations.
City Lord Mo was flying pigeons to pass the message, asking the imperial court to send troops to support him, and at the same time he was holding on to the city gate, vowing not to come out and to hide to the end.
This battle lasted for nearly a month.
Clouds were gathering in the sky all day long, and heavy snow kept falling.
The meals of the Northern Barbarians soon changed from two meals a day to one meal a day, or even once every two days.
They were so hungry that they desperately attacked the walls and gates of Shuobei City, hoping to burst through them and fill their bellies.
The generals of the Northern Barbarians also kept provoking, hoping that the people inside would open the city gate and fight with them so that they could take advantage of the opportunity and seize the city.
However, City Lord Mo was too determined.
Despite the scolding and provocation from outsiders, he could not hold on. Moreover, the food in the city was enough for the people of the city to consume for several months, and the number of elite soldiers they had in hand was very small due to the defense of the city, which was enough to support them.
"The Northern Barbarian soldiers rushed upward one after another, but they were all repelled." Gu Qinghuan still remembers that when she went to deliver food to City Lord Mo, she saw the city wall.
The entire side is black.
Blood stained black.
A fishy smell filled the sky, and the thick blood even made the city walls look like tumors.
People inside had food and drink.
The Northern Barbarian soldiers outside were hungry and anxious.
After being unable to attack for a long time, they became more and more hungry. They first killed the horses, boiled the belts and other things on them that could be cooked to satisfy their hunger. Later, they simply dragged the corpses of their dead companions back to eat, and finally even ate the injured ones.
Lost.
By the end of the twelfth twelfth lunar month, there were even screams of people going crazy with hunger and being devoured.
It is heartbreaking, shocking, and makes people dare not look directly.
If he could find a word to describe it, Gu Qinghuan could only say it was hell.
City Lord Mo was very happy.
He told Gu Qinghuan that as long as they dragged them down until the reinforcements arrived, and then joined forces to pursue the victory, they could put these hungry northern barbarian soldiers with their chests against their backs, unable to even lift a knife, and who had lost their mounts.
Annihilate in one fell swoop.
If these Northern Barbarians are wiped out, the effective strength of the Northern Barbarians will be wiped out, and they will no longer be able to organize any decent confrontation.
By that time, the Northern Barbarians will be nothing more than a piece of meat on the chopping block, left to the Southern Dynasty to control, and the Southern Dynasty will soon be able to take over Jiangbei.
When the army led by Lu Yiqiu arrived for reinforcements from thousands of miles away, City Lord Mo told Lu Yiqiu his battle plan. Lu Yiqiu immediately agreed and couldn't agree more - if this group of northern barbarians can be defeated, the army led by Lu Yiqiu will be able to march straight in.
Jiangbei, collect and pay old cities.
By then, being famous in history will no longer be a dream.
But the generals of the Northern Barbarians were not idlers either.
After they saw the thousands-mile-long army led by Lu Yiqiu, they knew that the situation was over and ran away without even having time to clean up the stove.
The soldiers of Shuobei City merged with the army led by Lu Yiqiu and pursued the victory all the way to the Heishui River.
The Blackwater River is a seasonal river, roaring in the summer and almost drying up in the winter. Even if there is a little water, it has already frozen into ice.
The fleeing Northern Barbarians were in a panic and didn't care about their formation. They rolled and crawled away in a row, stumbling towards the opposite river bank.
As a result, the Southern Dynasty army no longer cared about their formation, and chased after them with shouts.
In their opinion, they were full and full of energy, but the northern barbarian soldiers now only had grass roots in their stomachs and were no match for them. They could fight ten of them each, so they charged very bravely.
It's a pity that God's calculation is not as good as that of man.
Just as the Southern Dynasty army was crossing the river, there was sudden lightning and thunder in the sky. The sky in the twelfth lunar month turned out to be as irritable as summer, and in the blink of an eye there were raindrops as big as chess.
This is nothing.
Although the Southern Dynasty army was puzzled but did not relax its pursuit, the Southern Dynasty army spread all over the river bed.
City Lord Mo, Lu Yiqiu and others took the lead and fought bravely to kill the enemy, still dreaming in their hearts of unifying the country, leaving a name in history, and being famous for generations to come.
boom!
In the upper reaches of the riverbed, the rushing Black River water was like thousands of troops, which instantly destroyed their dreams. Countless soldiers died tragically in the river and became water ghosts from then on.
"etc!"
Lu Bai was tempted, "You just said that there is lightning and thunder in the twelfth lunar month, and the Blackwater River is a seasonal river and almost dries up in winter?"
Gu Qinghuan nodded.
"Then this rushing water -" Lu Bai couldn't help but doubt, "Auntie, you can't remember it wrong, right?"
Gu Qinghuan shook his head, "I won't remember it wrong. I won't remember it wrong until I die."
It was the twelfth lunar month that year, and the river bed was dry. Suddenly, a flood swept away everything in the river bed.
Lu Bai pondered, "This is unreasonable and very mysterious. It is almost impossible to drain such a large amount of water at once on a dry river bed."
"It is indeed unreasonable." Gu Qinghuan stood up, "But if you take this as a fact, then think about it, why is this happening?"
Lu Bai touched his chin, "If this is true, then this person must be very powerful, no, very powerful. His realm must be more than the mountain-moving realm."
It is easy to move mountains, but difficult to move water.
If this person could silently make the river run in such a short period of time and thus deal a fatal blow to the Southern Dynasty's army, then he must not be a practitioner, but an immortal, and he must be a powerful immortal.
The powerful immortal who was in Shuobei City at that time——