Hua Xian'er didn't think that Hua Jin would come back alive. The bandits were all very vicious. When they were choosing the two girls from the Hua family, Hua Xian'er pushed her sister and pushed Hua Jin in front of the bandits.
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They chose Hua Jin, so if it fell into their hands, even if Hua Jin was not tortured to death, she would still have to suffer from half of her life at the hands of these bandits.
The Hua family used the money from selling Hua Jin. After arriving at Beidi City, they found out that Hua Cheng had become the captain of the city guard army, and Hua Xian'er had risen from a village girl to the direct daughter of the captain's mansion.
And she is the only legitimate lady.
That was really the end of all the hardships.
Hua Xian'er is very satisfied with her current life. The only flaw she feels is that her brother Qu, who has become a captain, has been engaged to Hua Jin since she was a child. Although brother Qu said that the person he likes is her, Mr. Qu
My wife has always been dissatisfied with Hua Xianer.
The Hua family and the Qu family live in the same village, and the relationship between the two families has always been very good. Back then, my father and the Qu family went to the north to join the army, and Mrs. Qu personally pointed out the marriage between Hua Jin, who was kind-hearted, and her brother Qu.
In order to win the favor of Mrs. Qu, Hua Xianer had to make this Bodhisattva gesture even if she didn't want to.
"Just take a look, Brother Qu is very capable. He will definitely be more than a school captain in the future."
Hua Xian'er looked at her clean hands and applied a thick layer of hand ointment on them, determined to develop a pair of delicate hands like her elder sister.
She must marry brother Qu, become the father of a colonel, and in the future become the wife of a lieutenant general, or even a general's wife... she must.
Outside the Duwei's mansion, which was surrounded by flowers and fine clothes, the refugees sat on the roadside with herbal medicines, stuffing herbal medicines into their mouths.
Suddenly, a child had herbs in his mouth, his body twitched, his eyes rolled up, and he fell directly to the ground.
Beside him, a man was crying and shouting,
"My child, my child, what's wrong with you? This medicine, this medicine is useless, my child..."
He pulled and pulled out the herbs stuffed in the child's mouth, holding his own flesh and blood and crying out in pain.
Someone next to him shook his head and sighed,
"I'm foaming at the mouth. Go and bury him quickly. He won't survive for more than a few days."
According to the symptoms of the deceased in the past few days, those with weak constitutions would only have a high fever at first, and later they would have convulsions, foaming at the mouth, and finally they could not be woken up no matter how they screamed, and they would lose their breath at any time.
The man holding the child cried anxiously, and another old man hurriedly said:
"Hurry up and take your child to the Earth Temple outside the city. Princess Li is quite effective in saving people there. All the children who went in survived. It is said that the first child who fainted woke up."
When the child's father heard this, he quickly threw away Hua Xian'er's herbs, hugged the child who was foaming at the mouth, and ran out of Beidi City.
I don’t know how the news spread. Along the way, there were parents carrying their children out of the city. When they arrived near the rumored Earth Temple, it was already crowded with people.
A group of men in casual clothes were organizing the queue of refugees in an orderly manner.
The night was high, and a large open space had been cleared outside the ruined temple. Beddings, haystacks, and even beds from nearby villagers were neatly placed in the open space... On which lay people of different ages.
child.
All the parents were blocked from entering, and all the children were accepted into the open space.
The night wind blew by, lifting up the cloths in the open space. These cloths formed compartments, and each child was placed separately.
Hua Jin held a lantern in her hand and walked around the open space. She was about to return to the ruined temple. As if she had a telepathic connection, she looked up and saw Li Yunqing standing on the sharp ridge of the ruined temple with his hands behind his hands.
"Didn't I tell you not to get close to me? Are you so worried about me?"
Hua Jin looked up at him, carrying a big and round moon on his shoulder like a knife.
The young man looked down at her with a solemn face, stubborn,
"I'm not close to you."
He was standing on the roof and she was on the ground. How could he be considered close?
Hua Jin couldn't help but laugh. The bright yellow lantern in her hand swayed, and the corners of her coarse cloth skirt also moved with the wind. She started to get excited again,
"Hey, those who don't know would think that you, the little Prince Li, really can't bear to leave me, so you have to keep an eye on my safety all the time. Tsk, tsk, I'm so touched. It's really a legend in the world~~ right, Xiaolangjun."
After saying that, she winked at Li Yunqing on the roof, raised her hand, put her fingers against her lips, kissed her, raised her hand, and made a gesture of throwing it to Li Yunqing,
"Then, kiss you~!"
Li Yunqing's face suddenly turned red. Even though he knew there was no such thing, he still moved his body to avoid the flying "kiss".
He said angrily:
"Can you be serious even for a moment?!"
Hua Jin definitely couldn't do it. She put on a "what can you do to me" posture with a playful smile and walked towards the ruined temple.
As soon as I walked to the door, I saw many black lacquered wooden trays placed outside the threshold. On them were brocade dresses, hairpin rings, bracelets... At first glance, they were all worth a lot of money and could be sold for a lot of money.
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She held the lantern and ran back to the moonlight again. She raised her head and looked at the roof. Li Yunqing was no longer there.
So Hua Jin raised her voice and asked:
"These clothes and jewelry are all for me?"
No one answered her, so Li Yunqing didn't bother to answer such an obvious question.
On the second day, in the Beidi City, Hua Xian'er was dressed freshly. She looked at herself from the bronze mirror. Her head was full of pearls and emeralds, her long skirt was draped in silk, and her skirt was made of hibiscus petals. She looked like herself in layers.
Of grace and splendor.
The girl on the side smiled and complimented:
"The young lady is so beautiful, just like a fairy daughter in the sky."
"It's just your sweet mouth."
Hua Xian'er glanced at the girl, and when she saw that the girl was about to bring the curtain, she frowned and blocked it.
"It's better not to wear it. I look so good today, so don't cover it up."
She expected that after yesterday's porridge and medicine, there would be more refugees coming to Huaduwei's mansion today, so she deliberately dressed herself up today, just to add another North City title to the reputation of the Living Bodhisattva.
A title for a beautiful woman.
Beauty, beauty, that was praised by the world. No one has really seen her beauty, how can it be widely spread?
Everyone in the world is vain. Mrs. Qu believes in Buddhism. Isn’t the reason why she likes Hua Jin so much because Hua Jin is beautiful and kind-hearted?
Marrying Hua Jin, who has such a good reputation, back to the Qu family is worthy of the Qi family.
The girl understood and held Hua Xian'er's hand, highlighting Hua Xian'er's weak figure, and walked out of the Duwei Mansion.
Sure enough, the gate of Hua Du Wei Mansion was crowded with refugees in ragged clothes.
Hua Xian'er, wearing a head full of pearls and emeralds, came forward and spread porridge and medicine as she did yesterday.
The refugees took the porridge and thanked them gratefully. But when it was their turn to get the medicine, seven or eight of the ten refugees refused.
Hua Xian'er didn't care at first, but when the porridge was finished and there were still a lot of medicinal ingredients, she felt strange and hurriedly asked a beggar:
"What? Your illnesses are all cured? No need for medicine anymore?"