Everything went as Sun Xueli expected. The mother and daughter of the Liu family became more and more dependent on him. However, Sun Xueli had no intention of marrying Liu Xiuxia at all. It would be more satisfying for the eldest girl to lose her integrity and be spurned than to kill her with a knife.
However, something unexpected happened that shattered Sun Xueli's wishful thinking...
The anniversary of Liu Mingzong's death on May 7th coincided with the New Year, and every household was celebrating the New Year at home. As soon as it dawned in the morning, Guan and Liu Xiuxia went to Qingshui Beach outside the city to pay homage to Liu Mingzong with incense and candle offerings.
I asked three married girls to go together. The mother and daughter walked through the snow. It was quiet and quiet with no one on the road. The shops had all closed years ago. Only two sets of footprints of the mother and daughter were left on the bluestone on the street.
, Qingshuitan is the burial mound on the village, surrounded by water on three sides and deserted and populated. Guan and Liu Xiuxia came to Qingshuitan, and Liu Mingzong’s cemetery is on the high ground of Qingshuitan, facing the water.
"Xiugu, look, there seems to be a person lying on the beach." Guan walked up to the high ground and saw a person lying on the beach not far below.
Liu Xiuxia raised her eyes and saw a person lying sideways on the river beach. One hand was clenched into a fist, and the other was pressed under her body. Her hair was scattered and her face was difficult to see clearly.
"Xiu Gu, if you have good legs and feet, go and see if anyone in the village got drunk and fell into the water."
"Well, I'm going to take a look right now." Liu Xiuxia put down the sacrifice basket in her hand and hurried down the slope towards the beach. Guan picked up the basket and followed her. The mother and daughter took a closer look and saw that
Half of the man's body was buried in the snow, and only the light mink fur on his body was not afraid of the ice and snow. The snow scattered from the fur coat and piled up outside the fur coat.
"Mom, look at the way this person is dressed, he definitely doesn't belong to the village."
Guan sighed: "I don't know if anyone in the village recognizes this person. There is no one in Xiugu's area. You go find a donkey cart to pull him back to the village and ask someone to identify him. Today, Brother Sun is going to visit the master."
The church member has gone, it would be nice if he was here."
"Mom, then I'll find a car. You can find a sheltered place and wait for me for a while." Liu Xiuxia strode to the village, and soon she came back with someone driving the car...
Who in Zhuangzi doesn't know Liu Xiuxia from the Tofu Xi tribe? When the beauty asked for help, people flocked to her. After figuring out what was going on, those with carts came out and those without carts helped. Two donkey carts were prepared at once, and five or six young men followed.
Liu Xiuxia arrived at Qingshui Beach. Everyone turned the man over in the snow, and it turned out to be a young and handsome man, but no one recognized him. This was difficult. The only Zhu Langzhong in the village had disappeared a few months ago.
The man was nowhere to be found, and no one knew whether he could be saved. Immediately, everyone began to argue about what to do...
"Okay, don't argue anymore. First drag him to my tofu shop. Maybe he is here to visit relatives and friends in Zhuangzi. If no one wants it, then you brothers can help you drag him to Gusu City.
Let's find a doctor here and take a look. I, Guan Yuhua, will bear all the expenses." Guan's kindness made everyone present feel embarrassed, so she didn't say anything, put people on the donkey cart and drove to Liu's Tofu Shop.
In less than half a day, everyone in Zhuangzi knew about it. There were more people in the Liu family’s tofu shop than when they were doing business. Some people came to recognize people, and some came to watch the fun. The room was full of people and warm as spring. By the time
When everyone said they didn't know this person, Guan asked the young man who had just driven the donkey cart to carry him into the cart and go to Gusu City to find the doctor. Unexpectedly, he woke up by himself while carrying the donkey cart and vomited wildly.
Looking nervously at the 100 people in the tofu shop...
"Where is this place? Who are you?" The little brother reluctantly stood up with his hands on his body. He stumbled weakly and was about to walk out. However, he staggered around and collapsed after less than three steps.
, fortunately there were many people to support him.
Guan said: "Young man, you are lucky enough to survive being buried in the ice and snow for so long. If you go out like this now, you will only freeze to death. Why don't you take a short rest, eat something warm, and change your body?"
It's not too late to go home again." Everyone also agreed with Guan's words.
"It's okay, it's okay. Let's all disperse. Liu's Tofu Shop didn't open until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. I have nothing to sell today." Everyone laughed after hearing Guan's words and began to disperse.
.After a stick of incense passed away, the Guan family, mother and daughter, and the strange boy were left in the Liu Family Tofu Shop.
Liu Xiuxia took a bowl of rice porridge from the iron pot that she and her mother had not eaten in the morning, brought it to the man and said: "This young master must be hungry too. Let's eat something. This porridge has been heated, please be careful when scalding it."
." When Liu Xiuxia looked at this handsome young man, she felt like she had never felt like she had hit a deer...
"Xiu Gu, go and boil some hot water, and then go find some of your father's dry clothes."
"I understand, mother." Liu Xiuxia got up and went to the inner hall.
The young man just held the porridge bowl and neither ate nor spoke, his face full of infinite sadness. The Guan family on the side was very strange, saying that it was a blessing to survive the catastrophe. But instead of being happy, the young man in front of him was still expressionless.
With a sad look on his face, he asked: "My child, what's wrong with you? Is there something difficult?" The little brother still held the bowl motionless like a clay sculpture...
"I said it's not a big deal for you to be like this. If you don't eat or drink, you have to think about your parents as well as yourself. You are young, how sad would your parents be if they knew you were like this?
"The young man raised his head and looked at Mrs. Guan for a long time before he picked up the chopsticks placed on the bowl and ate the rice porridge in three or two bites...
After taking a hot bath and changing into Liu Mingzong's dry clothes, the stranger's face already had a touch of rosy color. Liu Xiuxia and her daughter began to ask him his name, who he was, where he lived, and why he fell into the water.
thing……
The younger brother remained silent at first, but later he noticed the mother and daughter's concern and said: "I am from Lin'an Prefecture, my surname is Xu. My family was robbed by my enemies and my family members were killed. I fought to my death and jumped into the river to escape."
After a disaster, it's hard for me to go home now..." The mother and daughter were horrified when they heard that Xu Ruoyi, who was dressed in mink fur and brocade, was already homeless.
In fact, only half of what this handsome young man said is true. This person's surname is not Xu but Zheng. He is Zheng Ruoyi, the fourth son of Zheng Sanyou, the deputy chief of the third-rank imperial department at that time. He is only nineteen years old.
Two years ago, Xiaozong was fortunate to receive help from Chen Mengsheng. Ma Rulong, the commander of the Forbidden Army, led the rebels to force the Jinluan Palace into the palace. In the end, he failed and was besieged by Prime Minister Zhang Jun in front of the Jinluan Palace. He committed suicide in front of the Imperial Army. Among the rebels at that time, there was that
Zheng Sanyou, Xiaozong and Zhao Shen punished the rebel imperial army by taking all the generals and above back home to self-reflect, while the rebel soldiers were reorganized and transferred to Lin'an Prefecture to guard the border. Zheng Sanyou was Ma Rulong's direct adjutant and followed Ma Rulong to the south.
Thirty years of the Northern War. He was proficient in bow, sword, horse and foot, and escorted Emperor Gaozong all the way from Yingtian Mansion to Lin'an Mansion. However, such a fierce general asked Ma Rulong to recruit him to rebel...
Zheng Sanyou, who returned to the governor's house, was monitored by the imperial army, and everyone in the house was summoned back to the house. Zheng Sanyou married three wives and gave birth to five sons and three daughters. Two sons and a daughter.
They had already started their own families, and now they were all summoned back to the mansion to wait for Emperor Xiaozong's final fate. Among Zheng Sanyou's children, the fourth son born to his concubine Xu was the most outstanding, capable of swords, guns, swords, halberds, harps, chess, calligraphy, calligraphy and painting.
Wen Neng and Wu knew everything, and Zheng Sanyou even gave him a light sable fur gift from the late emperor...
Although he was under house arrest, there was still hope as long as he didn't die. Zheng Sanyou and his family hoped that Emperor Xiaozong would forgive him every day, and waited until the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month. Chu Jiangfeng came with the imperial army to give Emperor Xiaozong the gift.
Given a jar of dove wine, Zheng Sanyou knew it was over. He asked Zheng Ruoyi to put on heirloom clothes and wait for an opportunity to escape, and drank the dove wine with his whole family...
After Chu Jiangfeng saw that everyone in the Zheng family had drunk dove wine and died, he left two hundred forbidden troops to clean up the dead bodies. He took the remaining forbidden troops to return the order, and the dead bodies of the Zheng family were carried to the hall one by one and poured with fire.
Oil. But he didn't expect that when he caught up with Zheng Ruoyi, the kid suddenly jumped up from the ground, knocked down the two forbidden soldiers and fled. However, the entire capital was surrounded by the forbidden troops. Zheng Ruoyi was unable to defeat everyone with his fists.
He fled and was forced to jump into the Qiantang River. Thin ice floated on the cold and freezing river. The Imperial Army soldiers were sure that the boy would not escape and froze to death. After patrolling the river for a while, they returned...
Zheng Ruoyi, who was fighting hard, was agitated by the biting ice water and fainted instantly. If it weren't for the protective mink fur clothing on her body, she would have been frozen to death in the Qiantang River. The strong wind for several days made Zheng Ruoyi unconscious for two days.
He was taken to Qingshuitan outside Mudu City, and after being rescued by the Guan family, Zheng Ruoyi did not dare to tell anyone by her real name, so she lied about her birth mother's surname and called herself Xu Ruoyi.
Guan asked Xu Ruoyi if she had any relatives she could seek refuge with. Xu Ruoyi shook her head sadly. Mother and daughter Guan looked at each other with a look of embarrassment on their faces. They pitied her for her misfortune, but it was inconvenient for her to be a widowed mother and an orphan with a grown man at home.
What's that?
Xu Ruoyi also knew that people's words can be frightening, so she stood up and bowed to thank Guan and her daughter for saving their lives. She took the mink fur next to her and put it on the table and said: "Xu has nothing but this fur coat which is still worth some money.
This garment is not afraid of severe cold or water, so please accept it, my benefactor."
Guan said: "It's the cold winter season now. If Mr. Xu doesn't have anything to keep out the cold, wouldn't he be freezing to death?" Xu Ruoyi didn't answer and walked out with empty hands.
"Sir, please stay. Where do you plan to go?" Liu Xiuxia asked.
Xu Ruoyi smiled bitterly and said: "There is a place in the world for everyone, so don't worry about it, girl."
"Mom, aren't we short of manpower in our store? Why don't we leave him here to help with the work in the store, and then let him leave when the weather warms up. Mom, what do you think?"
"This..., this is good, but we are just mother and daughter, and it is inconvenient for him to be a man."
"Then let him live in the front hall. If we lock the inner room, there will be no inconvenience." After thinking for a while, Guan agreed with Liu Xiuxia's words.
Xu Ruoyi temporarily settled down in Liu's Tofu Shop, chopping wood and carrying water every day, only working and not talking much. After the New Year's break, she was grinding pulp and lighting fires. In a blink of an eye, she lived in Mudu for more than half a month. Until February
When Sun Xueli came back from abroad, Sun Xueli frowned when he saw that there was suddenly a handsome boy working in Liu's tofu shop.
Seeing the displeasure on Sun Xueli's face, Mrs. Guan smiled and said, "Nephew Sun, you are back from visiting teachers and friends." Then she told Sun Xueli one by one about rescuing people in Qingshuitan.
Sun Xueli laughed inexplicably after hearing this...