The underground stone room is a very hidden space, but it is so, it can't stand the fire above it. Rao Tu stayed inside for an unknown time, sweating profusely. The stone wall was hot, and she felt that she could hardly breathe. After a long time, the stone gate mechanism was touched, and with a bang, the stone gate hole opened.

The disheveled proprietress was standing outside the door, Rao Tu hurriedly stepped forward, and saw that the proprietress had been hit by an arrow in the leg, and her right arm had been slashed, and the injuries were visible to the bones.

She panted: "Follow me!"

Rao Tu helped her to the ground, the smell of blood and burnt smell came out, and the fire in twos and threes burned Yinjiabao into a mess.

The proprietress urged: "Come on!"

Running out of the outer door of Yinjiabao, but seeing the corpses lying across the ground and the blood flowing into the river, Rao Tu suppressed the nausea in her heart, helped the proprietress on the horse, and mounted another horse herself, both riding wildly in the wilderness.

While holding the reins of the horse, Rao Tu said silently, "Child, hold on, my mother will soon be able to go to a safe place."

The jade seal hanging on her chest was faintly shining, and strands of streamer light kept flowing from the jade seal to her lower abdomen.

The two ran for most of the night, the sky was white with fish belly, and they ran to a moat. The horse raised its hoofs across the moat, and traveled for about five kilometers. It reached the foot of a majestic mountain. There was only a narrow passage between the two mountains in front of it that only one person could pass through.

Line day.

The proprietress fell off the horse, Rao Tu hurriedly dismounted to support her, and saw that the blood on her arm had stopped, but the wound on her leg was red and hot, bleeding non-stop. Looking closely at the arrow, it should be a rocket.

Rao Tu took out the rune dagger, gritted her teeth and said, "Madam, please bear with me, I will help you pull out the arrow."

The proprietress nodded and said in a trembling voice, "Hurry up to the old lady, don't make any ink."

Rao Tu put the dagger against the wound, pressed it outwards, grabbed the hilt of the arrow and lifted it up suddenly, the proprietress snorted and trembled all over. Rao Tu hurriedly sprinkled the Jinchuang medicine on the wound, wrapped the wound, and frowned, "Madam, I owe you something."

The proprietress was sweating profusely, she gritted her teeth and stood up, pointing to the line of heaven in front of her: "You go first."

Rao Tu tore off her clothes and tied it to the waist of the proprietress, "If you can't walk, I'll drag it for you."

The proprietress gave a wry smile: "I don't have any other skills, so it's not easy to die." Pushing Rao Tu into the gorge, gritted her teeth and followed behind her.

The middle of the gorge is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. Rao Tu's body is already very heavy, and she can't walk on her side. She has to kneel on the ground and climb forward. The gravel is sharp, and the flesh and blood that cut her palms and knees is blurred. She doesn't know how long she has been climbing. , there was only one thought in his mind, and he murmured: "Good boy, after this place, mother will never have to run again."

The eyes are getting blurry, she can only see the light in front of her, so close, but she can't crawl. Her consciousness gradually blurred, and her limbs became less and less obedient.

She pressed her forehead against the sharp stone, thinking about taking a break, but when she closed her eyes, she couldn't open them again.

...

In the dream, she seemed to be picked up by someone and drifted far away. It was not the sound of horse hooves, nor the sound of the wheel of a car, but the sound of rushing water.

The sound of the water stopped, and a child's voice sounded in my ear, "Aunt Aheng, wake up, wake up."

Rao Tu opened her eyes reluctantly, and saw a small withered face, a little blurry, and a small hand kept shaking her arm.

She closed her eyes and opened them again, the little face became clear, her eyebrows and eyes were very delicate, as if she had seen it before.

Rao Tu reacted in her mind for a long time before she asked, "May?"

May May said happily: "Aunt Aheng, I am May."

Rao Tu looked around, it was a clean and tidy hut, she asked, "What is this place?"

"This is a small town in Hanzhong called Luoxia Town."

"Luoxia Town? Such a beautiful name." Rao Tu reached out and touched her belly. The child was still there. She sat up and looked out the window, and she saw a lot of vendors and pawns. Outside, it seems to be a market.

"Why am I here, who sent me here."

"It's the fifth prince, Xiao Yanning."

"What about the others?"

"The fifth prince said that my aunt will live here first, and there is no danger here for the time being. He wants to gather the refugees to fight the harassment in the north. At least half a year, as long as a year, and then come to see my aunt."

Rao Tu frowned, "Has he left anything else?"

"No more." Wu Yue blinked Qing Jun's eyes and brought a bowl of porridge, "Auntie, are you hungry? Eat some porridge, this is what I cooked."

Rao Tu looked at the bowl, there were not a few grains of rice floating in it, it was almost clear soup, "Is there no rice at home?"

May blushed and shook his head, "Auntie, drink some first, I'll go out to work and exchange rice for rice."

Rao Tu grabbed May who wanted to run out, "What kind of work? Xiao Yanning didn't leave you money?"

"The Fifth Prince said...it's up to me not to starve to death. I have...the ability."

"What are you going to do?"

"Hanzhong is going to build a city wall. I will go and pick stones from the quarry."

Rao Tu shook his head and said, "How many stones can you pick when you are so young? Let's find another way."

May frowned and whispered: "Although I am small, I can run fast and can change half a pack of rice a day."

Rao Tu smiled slightly and rubbed his head, "Auntie come to find a way, can you write now?"

May shook his head blankly, Rao Tu said: "You are a boy, you need to read and write. The place you should go is the school in the town, not a quarry."

"Oh" in May, "But... we don't even have money to eat. We need to pay for school..."

"I'll find a way." Rao Tu got out of bed and walked to the window, looking out and coming and going. Many people were carrying stone burdens to the east, and many people were carrying empty burdens and went back, she knew what to do. The built city wall is to the east and the quarry is to the west.

Rao Tu turned around in the house. There were three huts. On both sides of the hall, there was a bedroom. The bedroom had a back door. Going out was a small courtyard. Grassy, ​​very clean.

Rao Tu said with a smile: "Xiao Yanning is the shopkeeper, he doesn't pay much attention to everything, only this yard is good."

She looked at May, "Is there anything valuable on you?"

May touched his neck and took out a gold collar from it, a little reluctant: "This...this is what my mother left for me..."

Rao Tu smiled, "Since it's my mother's stuff, hurry up and hide it."

May was stunned. In his impression, Aunt Aheng was not a good-natured woman.

Rao Tu took off all the valuable things on her body, the long jade hairpin, the Xishu jade seal, and the divine rune dagger. These three items must not be pawned. The silver chain on the jade seal of Xishu is not an important item. She stuffed the silver chain into Wuyue's small hand and said warmly: "This silver chain is at least three taels. If you are in Jinling City, you can exchange ten catties of white noodles and a bottle of it. Sesame oil. This place is no better than Jinling City. Take this thing and ask, and see how much you can get back. If you lose ten catties of white flour and a bottle of sesame oil, don’t change it yet, and come back and tell me.”

As soon as May heard that she could change to white flour sesame oil, her eyes lit up and she went out holding a silver chain. Rao Tu stood at the window and listened to the accents of the people here. It was not difficult to understand. Judging from her behavior, she was also very bold and unrestrained.

May came back soon. He carried twenty-five catties of white noodles, two bottles of sesame oil, a gourd of honey, and more than seventy copper coins. Rao Tu smiled and said, "Is this pasta so cheap?"

May Dao: "Workers in the quarry can only earn ten cents a day, and only three hundred cents a month. Three taels of silver is a lot of money here, and they can buy a lot of food."

Rao Tu nodded, pointed to the honey and asked, "Where did you get this?"

"There was an old grandpa, a beekeeper, who gave it to me."

Rao Tu's face did not change, her heart was like a mirror, that old man might not be a beekeeper, Xiao Yanning seemed to care nothing, but he would definitely leave a group of dead men to look after him secretly. After all, it took a lot of effort to bring May and her here.

Rao Tu helped May to deliver the pasta to the kitchen. She said, "May, do you want Jinling City's dim sum? I'll make it for you."

It has been a long time since May has eaten a full meal. Thinking of all kinds of delicate desserts in Jinling City, she couldn't help swallowing, nodded vigorously, but suddenly hesitated, "The Fifth Prince said, you are pregnant with a child, you should be five Yue is right to take care of you."

Ratu asked, "How do you take care of me?"

"I should cook for my aunt, but...but I can't make snacks..." May said with a frown.

Rao Tu smiled: "Then you can help me burn the fire, it can't be too big, it can't be too small, you know?"

"Mmmm!" May was assigned a task, and he was immediately excited.

Rao Tu mixed the noodles with sesame oil, honey, and water. Her cooking skills were excellent. She didn't learn it in Jinling City, but learned it from living in the Merlin Washe with Shen Zhu.

Those years were short but unforgettable.

May stared at the square or round snacks pinched by Rao Tu on the chopping board, her stomach growling. Rao Tu pursed her lips and smiled. She knew in her heart that this child was actually very sensible. He did nothing wrong. If he was wrong, it was the Qin Tianjian who was wrong, the Xiao family was wrong, and his birth was wrong.

Rao Tu looked at the sky outside the window, she was a little lost, everyone has a destiny, what about Shen Zhu?

"Auntie, why are your eyes red?"

Rao Tu rubbed her eyes, "It's okay, it's smoky."

May frowned and fiddled with the firewood with a pair of tongs. He was a little puzzled. It was obviously past the smoke. Could it be that the chimney was broken? He got up and looked around the chimney, but found no smoke leaking anywhere.

"May, who sent you to Wuji Island in the East China Sea? Can you tell my aunt?"

May scratched his head, a little embarrassed.

"I really can't say it, that's all."

May shook his head and said, "No, Uncle won't let Lord Shen know, but... I didn't say that I can't let aunt know."

"Which uncle?"

"Uncle Shen, he is Lord Shen's uncle."

Rao Tu's hands trembled, "His uncle?"

May nodded and said, "Yes, Uncle Shen is very pitiful. His hands and feet were cut off."

"Who killed him?"

"Uncle said it was the Xu family in Qingzhou."

Rao Tu stood there, unable to move, as if struck by a thunderbolt.

May reminded: "Auntie! The lid is hot!"

Rao Tu suddenly withdrew her hand that was pressing on the lid of the pot, her fingers were already red, she held the stove, her heart was numb. He murmured, "It was the Xu family in Qingzhou... who killed Shen Zhu's uncle... why?"

Seeing her expression change in May, she realized that she might have said something wrong, and she didn't know what to do for a while.

Rao Tu continued: "Why is it the Xu family in Qingzhou?"

She walked out of the stove leaning against the wall, looking up at the sky, her eyes blurred with tears, "Shen Zhu, tell me, was it because of the Xu family in Qingzhou that both your parents died?"

Wu Yue stepped forward to support Ratu, Rao choked, her lips trembled: "Shen Zhu, tell me...you leave, leave me here to suffer, you...I hate you... "

...

Three years later.

On the top of the hill outside Hanzhong City, the man who proclaimed himself King Yanping stood in the wind, his robes ruffled by the wind, he looked at the impregnable Hanzhong City, and smiled at the woman in white next to him: "Look at this Hanzhong City. , in just three years, it has become indestructible. Can Xiao Yanlie endure it?"

The woman said lightly: "You have calmed down the northern border, and you have taken in 100,000 refugees under your command and accepted the forces of the rivers and lakes. In Xiao Yanlie's opinion, it is no longer a thorn in the eye, but a tumor, and you are waiting for one day to be crushed by his army. Bar."

The man is Xiao Yanning and the woman is Raitu.

Xiao Yanning laughed recklessly: "Okay, then I'll wait, I'm afraid he won't dare."

"madman."

Xiao Yanning ignored Rao Tu's sarcasm, squatted on the ground and grabbed a handful of sand, let go, and let the sand dissipate with the wind.

He said slowly, word by word, "It's a great country, but he asked me to gather and disperse quicksand, Xiao Yanlie...cough...what's the point of him being an emperor?"

Rao Tu looked at his hunched back from coughing, and said softly, "Can your body hold up?"

Xiao Yanning stood up and looked down at Hanzhong City in the distance. He smiled and said, "The layout of Shen's building in the middle of the court is five years. After two years, the temples of Jinling City will be in chaos. I think, how can we kill Jinling City? "

"I heard that Lu Zhouyue is pregnant."

Xiao Yanning looked back at her, "Are you jealous?"

"I didn't ask."

"That time I took her out of the siege. I didn't die, and she didn't die either. She was lucky."

Rao Tu sneered: "I'm lucky enough to meet you?"

"You might as well ask her if she regrets meeting me."

"If you die, what will happen to her mother and son?"

"I didn't give her a title, and she followed me by her own free will. If I die, she may remarry or die in love, and it has nothing to do with me originally."

Rao Tu looked at this understated man, the world is cold and thin, probably no one can stand up to it, right?

Xiao Yanning sighed: "I know what you are thinking, I, Xiao Yanning, was originally a person who was going to enter the Avici Hell. Do you know that he is extremely vicious, and I didn't care about retribution for a long time...I once thought that Shen Zhu was also a mean person. Later Knowing some secrets, it turns out that the most infatuated is Shen Zhu. The coolest is me."

Rao Tu stopped talking. It had been three years, and he had been gone for three years, but when he mentioned his name, she still couldn't help but cut her heart like a knife.

She went down the mountain alone to her own pastry shop. In the past three years, she has converted the main room facing the street into a pastry shop, specializing in exquisite Jiangnan dim sum. Although she is not rich, she has enough food and clothing for her family.

Opened this dim sum shop, there were naturally people in the town who were eyeing Rao Tu, but those who bullied her with crooked thoughts would not end well in the end. People were still puzzled before, but one day they saw the majestic King Yanning walk into the dim sum shop, and everyone gradually realized that the shop's glamorous proprietress had a strong backer.

I'm afraid she is a canary raised by King Yanning, who would dare to attack her. Therefore, although Rao Tu is not domineering, he is also gentle towards others. The neighbors around him appear to be kind, but they are actually fearful.

Rao Tu was walking on the street, it was almost dusk, and in the distance, she saw two shadows in front of the road, the handsome boy May, surrounded by a little chubby piercing.

A faint smile appeared on the corner of Rao Tu's mouth, "Heng Xiu, why are you pestering your brother May again?"

Little Fatty said in a milky voice, "I'm going to pick up Brother May from school." He spoke with a serious expression.

She trotted and threw herself into her mother's arms, and was picked up by Rao Tu, "Eating so much, I'm dead fat! Mother can't hold it anymore, and if I dare to grab your brother Hengwen's food in the future, I'll spank you. "

Heng Xiu blinked a pair of beautiful and bright eyes, and said innocently: "It was Heng Wen who gave me food, I didn't rob it."

"He's your brother, what is Hengwen Hengwen?"

"Uncle Xiao said that Heng Wen was only half an hour earlier than me." The little girl said unconvinced.

"That's earlier than you. I'll listen less to Uncle Xiao's nonsense in the future. He likes to deceive children the most."

Heng Xiu said thoughtfully: "No wonder Uncle Xiao said that good-looking men would deceive people, and also said that my mother was deceived by my father back then, and my father was good-looking."

Rao Tu frowned, thinking that it would be better for Heng Xiu to have less contact with Xiao Yanning in the future.

Heng Xiu buried her head in her neck and said sullenly, "Mother, when will Daddy come back?"

"When you and Hengwen grow up, he will come back."

"But Ah Qing is the same age as me, why is his father here?"

"Aqing's father has something to do here, and your father has something to do outside. So Aqing's father is here, and Hengxiu's father is outside."

Heng Xiu nodded, "but..."

"Don't be so, let's go home, my mother will cook eggs for you to eat."

Rao Tu looked at May next to her and asked, "Is today's class difficult? What did the teacher teach?"

May shook his head: "It's not difficult, I read the "Book of Documents" today. A new gentleman came to the school and gave lectures under the curtain.

"Lecturing in the curtain? Don't be the prince's person, right? Can you see what he looks like?"

"I can't see clearly, but the voice is not an old Confucian scholar, it should be a 30-year-old gentleman."

Rao Tu asked, "There are only a dozen students in the school, but now there are two gentlemen?"

"The teacher is old now, and that gentleman will teach us in the future."

Rao Tu nodded, "Tomorrow is free, I'll go to see the new gentleman, just read with ease." Fu You smiled, "The gentleman doesn't want to show anyone, so I don't know if we can meet him."

Heng Xiu raised his hands: "I saw it, I saw it!"

"Oh? How did you see it?"

"When I was waiting outside the door for May, my husband asked me to go in, but I didn't sneak into the curtain." The little girl looked at her mother's face a little wrong, and she beat a small drum in her heart, and the more she talked, the less confident she became.

Rao Tu patted her on the forehead, and said with a sullen face: "If I dare to do such nonsense in the future, I won't talk to you anymore."

"Oh……"

"You met the gentleman, and then what? Is the gentleman annoyed?"

"No, when he saw me, he really beckoned me over! He even asked my name and gave me candy."

Rao Tu frowned, "Don't go to school to make trouble in the future!"

"Oh... Mr. looks good, it will deceive people, I will never go there again."

Walking into the shop, Heng Wen was lying on the table, holding May's old book to read.

"Hengwen, what are you looking at?" Heng Xiu opened Hengwen's book and looked at her face. Heng Wen is not as savage as Heng Xiu, he is handsome and has a quiet temperament.

Seeing his sister ask, he said rudely, "I tell you you don't understand."

Heng Xiu frowned, "If you don't tell me, how do you know I don't understand?"

Rao Tu said with a smile: "Okay, Hengxiu, you go to play in the yard, don't disturb Hengwen, brother May is also reading."

Heng Xiu was unconvinced and pulled on May's sleeve, "Brother May's book is good, don't read it, I want May to play with me."

Heng Wen said: "No, brother May wants to teach me the Book of Songs."

May rubbed Hengxiu's head with a smile, "Otherwise you can come and listen, so that you can know what Hengwen is watching."

Heng Xiu was very obsessed with May, and listened to May's words. Hearing that, he considered the pros and cons in his heart, nodded and sat down on the stool, looking up at May with his head raised.

Rao Tu looked at the three children, one big, two small, and only hoped that they would be like this forever. But she knew that such a day was one day less.

In May, he was in a big beam of luck, and Hengwen absorbed five points of the remaining national fortunes of the old Xishu, and even Hengxiu also absorbed two points. She couldn't imagine what would happen to these three children in the future.

On the second day, Raota personally sent May to the school. The school was at the end of the city road, very close to the shop. On weekdays, she went there by herself in May. Because a new gentleman came, Raota went to see him. For a moment, it was deliberately early for half an hour.

But didn't see the gentleman. heard from the boy in the school that the gentleman had just arrived, and he was sick because of the soil and water.

Rao Tu didn't care. After returning home, he prepared school funds and a few boxes of snacks from the shop for May, and asked him to visit Mr.

I came back in the middle of May and said that my husband had received snacks, but he had forfeited the tuition fee, and he had not seen him.

Rao Tu was a little puzzled, and after hearing May, he said again: "Mr. said that he likes to eat sweet-scented osmanthus cakes in the shop, so he asked me to bring a box every five days, so that I can use it as a scholarship."

Rao Tu said: "A box of Guizi cake is only five cents, and it is only thirty cents a month, sir, do you know?"

"I told Mr., Mr. said no harm."

Rao Tu smiled: "Then let's do this first. This gentleman, I really want to meet him."

May was a little dull, as if there was something to say.

Ratu asked, "What else is there?"

May shook his head: "It's okay, I just think that Mr.'s voice is a little familiar, maybe I'm overthinking."

"Familiar? Where have you heard it before?"

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