In the dense bamboo forest, there are small bamboo buildings standing in the middle, and the breeze blows, making a rustling sound.
These small buildings are scattered in a dense forest, seeming to have no rules, and they seem to be arranged according to some mysterious layout.
In the middle is a small building that is four stories high.
If someone can look down from a high altitude, they can see that these bamboo buildings are centered on the four-story building in the middle and surrounded by the distribution pattern of Tai Chi and Bagua.
At this time, in a certain room in the four-story building.
A girl wearing southwest minority costumes is holding a white and plump baby, with a worried look on her face.
"Oh! Young master, please don't cry, the lady will be back soon!"
"Look at this!"
Ding ding dong dong…
The girl picked up a bamboo drum and shook it in front of the doll, trying to make him happy.
But the doll only stared at the little drum for a short while, then cried "Wow" again, and there was a vague tendency to be difficult to coax.
The girl was so anxious that she was sweating. She picked up the doll and walked around the room.
But the baby still didn't stop crying, with its small mouth open, and the pink gums inside could be vaguely seen.
Looking at the appearance of this little baby, her complexion is white and rosy, she has a pair of handsome eyebrows, her eyes are ridiculously big, her small nose is delicate and straight, and her lips are slightly dry from crying for a long time, looking at the girl.
I feel so distressed.
Just when the girl was confused, the bamboo door suddenly opened with a creak.
The girl's face looked as if she had seen the savior, and she breathed a sigh of relief, "Miss! You are finally back!"
And the person called Miss has a slender figure, stands tall and graceful, wears ethnic minority costumes, and has jingling silver ornaments all over her body.
There was a heavy silver waistband around her waist, which highlighted her slim waist and showed no trace of having given birth to a child.
If a knowledgeable person sees this waist ornament, he will know that it is something that can only be worn by people with a very high status among a certain ethnic minority in the southwest.
Looking further up, the man was wearing a bamboo hat, which was surrounded by translucent gauze. Only a delicate and small chin was exposed, but it was enough to attract attention.
One can't help but imagine what kind of stunning face must be underneath this tulle.
She walked over quickly and took the doll from the young master's girl's hand.
The baby seemed to recognize the scent of her mother. She moved her little nose slightly and smelled the familiar fragrance, so she immediately stopped crying.
The girl breathed a sigh of relief, "Miss, I still have a way."
The person under the gauze laughed softly, and the sound was sweet.
"Qingzhi, if he is so naughty next time, just slap him twice on the butt. He is a naughty boy anyway! Don't be afraid of spanking!"
It turns out that this girl is Qingzhi, and the woman under the veil is Qin Rushuang, who escaped death and gave birth to Lin'er.
Although Qin Rushuang said she wanted to spank the baby, she actually held the baby more carefully than anyone else. When the breeze blew and she lifted the gauze, she could see the gentle look of a mother in her eyes.
Qingzhi gently took off Qin Rushuang's bamboo hat and muttered: "Young lady, you are so beautiful! You have just given birth, why are you running around?"
Qin Rushuang gently patted the baby's little butt and said teasingly: "Aren't you going to find Taoist Lianqing to prescribe medicine? Does our baby want to be kissed by his mother?"
Hearing Qin Rushuang's words, Qingzhi's eyes showed a hint of sadness.
She looked up at Qin Rushuang's face and saw an ugly and terrifying scar on her originally beautiful face.
The scar was just above the eyebrow, like a burn from fire, and it snaked all the way to the corner of the eye, almost hurting the eye.
Qingzhi sighed.
"Miss, these are all external things. Now I wish you didn't have to suffer any more. Just keep this scar. Why bother to use that kind of bone-breaking grass and suffer in vain?"
Qin Rushuang just smiled and said, "Didn't I tell you not to call yourself a slave? Now I am just an ordinary woman, and you are just my little sister."
"okay, I get it."
Qingzhi stared blankly at Qin Rushuang who was teasing the doll. Who would have thought that they could still come out alive?
Qingzhi's memories drifted unconsciously to the day when the fire broke out in the other courtyard.
That day, after Qin Fanghao locked their master and servants in the room, only a crazy Sumei man was left.
Qin Rushuang was burned on one side of her face in the fire, and her flesh and blood were very bloody, which was very harmful.
Qingzhi originally thought that they were all going to die, but when it was a matter of life and death, under the leadership of Qin Rushuang, they found a trap. After opening the trap, they found a dark and moist secret passage.
It turns out that Mrs. Qin bought this villa from someone else unintentionally, and the original owner left a secret passage under the bed in the bedroom for unknown purposes.
When Qin Rushuang was young and summering in a courtyard, she went exploring and accidentally discovered this secret passage, but she didn't tell anyone.
More than ten years later, at the moment of life and death, Qin Rushuang suddenly remembered that there was a secret passage under the bed. She could only take a gamble and let Qingzhi, Aunt Yang, and the old man guarding the courtyard break open the secret passage.
At that time, the Sumei people were already going crazy, and they tried their best to drag them to death together. In the end, the old man guarding the courtyard resolutely threw the Sumei people into the fire, and he himself...
They didn't dare to look back and groped their way out of the other courtyard.
Fortunately, they were lucky and the other end of the secret passage was not blocked.
After they stumbled and crawled out along the secret passage, they entered a forest behind the courtyard...
Every time he thinks about this, Qingzhi will always break into a cold sweat in the middle of the night.
At that time, Qingzhi thought they had been saved, but just as she breathed a sigh of relief, she turned around and saw that Qin Rushuang was unconscious.
Aunt Yang once delivered a baby in the village, and she knew at first glance that Qin Rushuang had lost her strength and had fainted!
This is the most feared situation during childbirth. Before the baby comes out, the mother loses her strength. This situation will most likely kill two people.
However, there is always a way out. Just when Aunt Yang and Qingzhi Liushen were at a loss, an old man with gray hair and a childish face suddenly came into the woods.
The old man had a very weird temper. Faced with their request for help, he initially said he wanted to help, but after seeing what Qin Rushuang was wearing, he snorted and turned to leave.
He was still mumbling something, "The people from Prince Huai's Mansion will never save him! The stinky old man's apprentice will definitely not save him!"
Qingzhi was clever and said that Qin Rushuang had been abandoned by Xie Xun and was desperate, asking him to save Qin Rushuang.
The old man suddenly changed his mind.
I don’t know where the old man came from. He was very good at using silver needles, but Qin Rushuang woke up after just a few needles.
Aunt Yang had delivered babies for others before. In an emergency, she had no time to move, so she delivered the baby in the small woods behind the courtyard.
And that scene is something Qingzhi doesn't want to recall.
In her chaotic memory, she only remembered that the princess's body was covered in blood. She had just given birth to the child and passed out before she even had a chance to take a look.
In the end, the old man took them back to the southwest border while muttering that it was troublesome.
And they followed the old man back to this small bamboo forest in the southwest border, and were treated as honored guests by the people in the village. Only then did Qingzhi know that the old man was Xie Xun's master, Taoist Lianqing, a fellow disciple of Taoist Yiqing.
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Qingzhi retracted her thoughts amidst the giggles of the children and couldn't help but sigh, "It's great that the lady is still here."
"Why are you lamenting again? What happened in the past is in the past. We all have to learn to move forward. As for the scar on our face..."
Qin Rushuang slowly touched her cheek, "Although I really want to use this scar to remind myself, I still think it's better to go. After all, our baby should have a good-looking mother, don't you think so, baby?"
The child seemed to understand what his mother said and started laughing too.
"I just don't know if Mr. Shen can finish the work for the young lady in Kyoto."
Qin Rushuang lowered her eyes, "Don't worry, you should believe in my brother's ability."
