Mother leaned against the wall and finished the bowl of wild vegetable soup, her face became slightly normal.
At this moment, a wolf howl came from the mountain, and Miao'er trembled suddenly.
"Don't be afraid. This is a Taoist land. Wild animals will not come in. Miao'er, come to mother..."
Miao'er got into the grass and cuddled up with her mother: "Mom, uncle has been away for more than two months. When will he come back?"
The mother's face changed again, becoming extremely miserable...
"Mom, don't think about it, don't think about it, Miao'er won't ask..."
Miao'er was anxious, she was afraid that her mother's disease would happen again.
Whenever my mother thinks of her uncle, she will think of her brother and her father who died on the road to exile. Thinking of these, my mother's body will not be able to hold on.
The mother took a deep breath and suppressed all the sadness in her heart: "Miao'er, if one day my mother is gone, you... you should go find your sister. She was bought on the outskirts of the capital. As long as she is still there,
In this world, you can eventually find it.”
"Mom, don't say that, you have to be good. Miao'er has no father, and Miao'er doesn't want to be without her mother..."
At this moment, there was sudden movement outside, as if something had entered the Taoist temple.
The mother and daughter were startled at the same time, and turned around at the same time, their faces turning pale at the same time.
Although the mother comforted her little daughter that wild beasts would not enter the Taoist land, both the mother and the daughter knew that these were just words of comfort and that the wild beasts did not care about this broken Taoist temple. They had also seen wild wolves come in with their own eyes, but
I just didn't break through the door of this house for a while.
There were footsteps coming, the footsteps of people.
Are they humans? The panic in the mother and daughter's hearts gradually subsided, but soon there was another level of panic, because humans in this world are no better than beasts.
"Don't make a sound!" Mother said in the lowest voice in Miao'er's ear.
There are no lights in this shabby house, and people passing by would not expect there to be anyone inside, but they can only hope...
Their hopes were soon dashed...
The door opened suddenly...
The mother didn't know where the strength came from. She stood up suddenly and blocked Miao'er behind her. She didn't have any weapons in her hands, but she still held the broken bowl placed next to the weeds. This broken bowl seemed to
It's the weapon in her hand...
A loud cry suddenly came: "Mother!"
Following this earth-shattering shout, the old woman used the moonlight to see clearly the person who came in. As soon as her eyes fell on the person's face, her whole body turned to stone, and the bowl in her hand fell to the ground...
Miao'er jumped up from behind: "Sister!"
Cui Ying's eyes were filled with tears. She hugged her sister tightly, rushed to the weeds, and hugged her mother...
"Ying'er...is it really you?"
"It's me, mother! It's me, I'm back..."
"My daughter!" The mother and daughter hugged each other and cried.
For a long time, the mother held Cui Ying's face and looked at the tears on her face: "Ying'er, I really didn't expect that we would see each other again one day. I thought... I thought..." She couldn't speak anymore.
.
"Mom, my daughter was able to see her again because she met a person, and he...he also came."
A figure stepped into the hut, his face filled with the light of the moon. He gently pressed Cui Ying's shoulder: "Auntie, you don't seem to be in good health. Let me treat you!"
"You...you are..." Mother's lips trembled slightly, and she had already guessed something.
On the outskirts of the capital city, selling one's body to bury one's father was a very influential thing in the refugee circle. Everyone knows that a man bought Cui Ying for ten taels of silver. Now Cui Ying is back, followed by a man. If nothing else, it’s this man...
What does that mean?
It means that my daughter is already someone else’s…
"Auntie, there are some things that I will let Ying'er tell you slowly after you recover!" Lin Su put her hands together and pointed at Cui's mother's forehead.
Cui's mother's face quickly turned rosy, but her eyes were misty, and she slowly fell down and fell asleep sweetly.
"Ms. sir...ah...young master, what are you..."
Cui Ying blurted out and called her husband. Although she urgently changed the position, she still had no time to take it back, and her face turned red all of a sudden.
"This is the rejuvenating seedling!" Lin Su said: "Your mother only needs to sleep for a while, and all her illnesses will be gone by tomorrow morning."
"Ah...really?" Cui Miao jumped up suddenly, her eyes filled with ecstasy...
Her cry attracted the eyes of Lin Su and Cui Ying. Their eyes focused on Cui Miao's face, and they were shocked at the same time...
"Sister, why does your face look like this?" Cui Ying exclaimed.
All the women in the Cui family are beauties, including my mother, several aunts, and my sister Cui Miao. My sister has been extremely beautiful since she was a child. Everyone says that she will be the most beautiful one in the Cui family.
But now, there are two long scars on her face, and she is disfigured!
"Sister!" Cui Miao cried, throwing herself into her sister's arms and crying until her shoulders were throbbing.
Over the past year or so, she has gone through all the suffering in the world, but she has never cried, but tonight, she cried, and all her depression and pain were released in her sister's arms...
Listening to her sister's narration, Cui Ying's eyes turned red.
Lin Su was also extremely sad...
There is a reason why the Lei family wants to sell Cui Miao to a brothel. Cui Miao is a little beauty and can be sold at a high price.
The four members of the Cui family ran out of the Lei family overnight and hid in Daliang Mountain. However, in the spring of the next year, they were still found by the Lei family. They came to snatch Cui Miao. Cui Miao's brother was furious and chopped Lei with a knife. The second son of the family sent himself to prison.
The Cui family has become enemies with the Lei family, and without the protection of his brother, he cannot escape the fate of being sold into a brothel.
But Cui Miao did not just accept her fate. She picked up the tiles on the ground and made two bloody wounds on her face. The villains were frightened by her and knew that even if they took her away, they would not be able to sell her. Cui Miao was able to stay with her mother.
Lin Su sighed softly: "Ying'er, don't worry, my rejuvenation seedlings can cure her! Let tonight be their last nightmare. When they wake up tomorrow morning, it will be a brand new world!"
He pointed at Cui Miao's forehead, and the horrific wounds on Cui Miao's face squirmed at the same time. For about ten minutes, two pieces of tapeworms slipped from Cui Miao's face. Her appearance had changed drastically. Cui Miao fell down and fell into a sweet sleep.
Cui Ying shed tears from her eyes: "I left home that day because the Lei family had an idea for me, but I didn't have the determination of my sister. I chose to leave. If I had ruined my life like my sister that day, With my appearance, there is no need to run away, and my father will not come out to find me, nor will he die..."
Lin Su's eyes shot out a ray of cold light.
That day, she left home because the Lei family wanted to sell her to a brothel?
The Lei family is really damned!
A voice came to his ears: "There is nothing to eat in the Taoist temple. I shot a few pheasants and rabbits and put them next to the door."
The cold light in Lin Su's eyes disappeared, and he circled his hands behind his back and made a gesture.
receive!
Cui Ying didn't know, and no one knew, that there was someone accompanying Lin Su, Little Witch Zhou!
She is his bodyguard!
Even though with his literary skills, he can travel all over the world, he is not afraid of ten thousand, just afraid of the unexpected, so Little Witch Zhou still faithfully performs her duties.
The next day, noon!
When Cui's mother woke up, she already felt a long-lost strength.
The disease that had never really gone away for more than half a day disappeared completely at this moment.
She suddenly thought of what happened last night, and suddenly became extremely excited. She got up from the grass, and when she reached the door, she saw her little daughter. The little daughter looked at the other side of the door crazily. Half of her face was as smooth as jade. She looked as bright as yesterday.
The stubborn scar disappeared without a trace.
Cui Miao turned around and saw her mother. She stopped her mother urgently and whispered to her mother: her sister and brother-in-law are cooking...
Brother-in-law? My mother suddenly overturned the five-flavor bottle...
"Mom, look, my brother-in-law is so kind to my sister..."
Through the crack in the door, her mother saw a picture that she could never imagine.
The daughter was cooking on the broken stove in the Taoist temple, and the young man used chopsticks to bring vegetables to her. The daughter ate a piece of unknown meat and looked at the man with a smile that was extremely happy.
With this smile, the last pain in Cui's mother's heart disappeared.
Although it is a good story among the people that a daughter sells her body to bury her father, the word selling her body is also a hidden pain in her heart. She has dreamed back countless times late at night, thinking about her daughter's delicate body being insulted, and her heart is bleeding, but today
, she saw her daughter’s smiling face with her own eyes. With this smile, all the humiliation was nothing.
Who is this man?
I'm definitely not a scholar. Scholars don't hang around the stove.
Only the lower classes have this possibility.
However, this son-in-law had good medical skills and healed all the injuries on her and her little daughter's faces overnight.
It is a blessing that his daughter followed him...
At this moment, Lin Su whispered something in Cui Ying's ear. Cui Ying almost dropped her spatula and her face suddenly turned red. She rushed over, opened the door and called out, "Mother, sister,"
The meal is ready, please eat quickly...
This meal was extremely rich, almost all game, including pheasant and hare. It was extremely delicious and sweet, but Cui's mother still couldn't bear to eat it.
"Yinger...has your uncle found you?" She was hiding here. Cui Ying could find her. There was only one possibility, that is, her brother found Cui Ying and pointed them to this place.
"Yes mother."
"Then did your uncle tell you about your brother..." When she said this, her heart beat at least twice as fast.
"Auntie, please don't worry. After dinner, we will pick up my brother." Lin Su replied with a smile.
Cui's mother's heart almost stopped: "Your third uncle has already said hello to the prefect, right?"
This was the only possibility she could think of.
If the son can be released from prison smoothly, it must be his third brother-in-law who opened the joints.
The third brother-in-law is a member of the officialdom, a sixth-rank official. Only he has this kind of energy.
Cui Ying answered angrily: "My uncle went to see his third uncle, but he ignored him and even sent someone to beat him up. How come he is willing to stand up and say hello?"
Cui's mother's heart suddenly sank: "Then... what should we do?"
Lin Su smiled: "Auntie, don't worry, we are going to the government now."
Cui's mother had no confidence at all, and followed Lin Su on the road with a basic attitude of grabbing life-saving straws whenever possible.
Where is Cui Ying? She is excited and nervous at the same time...
My husband is a man in the officialdom and has repeatedly achieved miracles in the officialdom. How will he perform in this prefecture today?
In terms of official positions, Xianggong is the fourth-rank official, and he is a capital official. The fourth-rank capital official is obviously more important than the fourth-rank magistrate. What's more, he also holds the position of supervisory envoy. What does the supervisory envoy do? He specializes in investigating official problems, as follows
Who is not afraid of officials? Therefore, in theory, there is no need to be afraid of the prefect.
However, she was his little daughter-in-law, and she knew her husband-in-law better. Lu Yi analyzed her too much on weekdays, letting her know some very bad things.
That is, almost all court officials are the enemy of the husband, and the officials below also look at the court official's face.
Your Majesty doesn't like your husband, and the court officials want to eat him.
God knows who this prefect could be?
No matter whose person he is, he will never be the same person as your father-in-law!
Anyone who is not my husband seems to have a reason to go against my husband.
If this happens, how can Xianggong break the situation?
With a lot on her mind, she followed Lin Sushen into Chiyang City and into the prefecture...
Cui Ying never expected that what happened today was completely beyond her expectation...
There is no fierce officialdom game, no arguments citing scriptures, only peace, as peaceful as a dream...
Lin Su entered the prefect's house and showed her identity. The prefect's expression changed and she greeted her politely. When she mentioned her brother Cui Yanzhou, the prefect found a step and went down. He took her brother out of the prison, served tea and comforted her.
He wanted to invite them to have a drink, but after being rejected by Lin Su, the prefect called a carriage and took them to the dock and put them on the big ship. The ship sailed far away, and the prefect was still bowing on the dock...
No one knew that the prefect Cao Zheng's back was covered in cold sweat.
No one knew that after the magistrate saw this big ship disappear from sight, he almost collapsed.
Someone ran over from behind, kicking, kicking, kicking...
It was an old man in rich clothes, and even his belt was made of silver. As soon as this rich gentleman ran to the prefect, he started to complain: "Master prefect, how come I heard that you released the murderer?
This person is so bold that he stabs people with a knife in broad daylight. It’s really..."
The person who came was none other than Lei Zhengdao, the head of the Lei family.
The Lord Magistrate suddenly turned around and gritted his teeth, "You old man, you still dare to mention this. It's your business to seek death for the Lei family, but you still want to drag me down to the underworld? Do you know how much trouble you have caused?"
Lei Zhengdao was confused. Sir, was he joking? Is it because someone came from above? Who doesn't know that Mr. Cao, you have a big tree and deep roots. There are people in the court and in the capital. Who are you afraid of in the officialdom?
The prefect was completely blown away...
Is the tree big and deep-rooted? Is the tree big, Zhang Wenyuan, Minister of War? Is the tree deep-rooted by Qin Fangweng, the magistrate of Quzhou? Does Zhao Xun, the left doctor, have His Majesty’s back, does it count as someone behind him? Under his hands, death is easy, and he can wipe out the whole family at every turn.
!
Lei Zhengdao's expression changed drastically. Sir, he...he...who is he?
He is Lin Su who debuted as the number one scholar, has no taboos in his actions, and leaves no grass growing wherever he goes!
Lei Zhengdao was sweating on his back. Although he was just a country squire, he had always been closely connected with the officialdom. He had also heard about Lin Su, a troublemaker in the officialdom. He was wondering why this person would focus on an unknown person like Cui Yanzhou?
Cao Zheng gave him a reason...
Lin Su came to Chiyang City today just for one thing. He took in a girl from the Cui family named Cui Ying. Today he made a special trip to welcome Cui's mother and Cui Yanzhou to Haining.