The siblings were swept away by the rushing river, and the little girl was washed ashore by the river. The little girl fainted on the shore, when the rain had stopped, and the sun penetrated the clouds and sprinkled on the earth as if to dispel the haze of the world. At this time, I happened to meet a fisherwoman who came to the river to fish and rescued the little girl, and took the little girl back to her small hut not far away.
After the siblings fell into the river, the adjutant took people back to the general's mansion to wait for the general's order. At this time, the general was still meeting the emperor in the palace.
In the palace, General Lu was half-kneeling and presented the box containing the head of the Seventh Prince to the emperor. The emperor did not speak, nor did he call anyone to take the box, and the eunuch beside the emperor did not dare to do anything. Because that box contains not ordinary things, but the emperor's half-brother, the Seventh Prince.
The emperor looked at the box, his eyes blurred, his expression dark and unclear, but everyone could not see what he was thinking. Since ancient times, the unpredictable heart of emperors has been this truth. The emperor's expression was both painful and relieved, and he stared blankly at the box. It was not until Li Desheng, the great eunuch next to him, called him softly, "Your Majesty..." The emperor came back from his drifting thoughts, and let Eunuch Li take the box and General Lu to retire.
After General Lu left the Zichen Palace, the emperor asked the eunuch to take a few jugs of wine and let the palace people retire. At this time, the rain was majestic, the dark clouds pressed the sky overcast and gloomy, and the candles in the Zichen Hall were a little wobbly. The emperor took out the head of the seventh prince from the box, held the seventh prince's head and said softly: "Brother Jie... are you complaining about me... why are you looking at me with such eyes." Putting his head to one side, he filled the wine glass by himself, then picked up the wine glass and drank it, and then said in a furious and sarcastic voice: "But... you want to take away my power! I don't want to... I only have your little brother! If you don't die, it's you who speaks with my head today! Hahahahaha..." After speaking, the emperor threw the wine glass to the ground, making a crisp sound.
Li Desheng heard the sound from inside the house, and hurriedly went in to serve. He was kicked away by the emperor as soon as he walked to the side of the lost emperor, "Go away!" Li Desheng didn't dare to make a sound, and could only hunched his back and retreated outside the palace.
After two hours, there was no sound in the house, and there was no sound of scolding and laughing for a while. Li Desheng called softly at the door: "Your Majesty..." There was no response from the room, not even a single word. Li Desheng nervously pushed open the door to the palace, and saw the emperor fell drunk on the floor while the head of the Seventh Prince rolled to the side. Li Desheng nervously picked up the head of the Seventh Prince, feeling fear in his heart, and had goosebumps all over his body, but he didn't dare to look at the Seventh Prince's head. Because the Seventh Prince was dead, the eyes of his head were always open. Li Desheng put the head of the Seventh Prince into the box, and called two little father-in-laws to come in and move the emperor to the bed.
It was late at night now.
And General Lu returned to the general's mansion, listening to the adjutant's report, the index finger and middle finger tapped the table rhythmically. When I heard that the Seventh Princess was dead, but the two children ran away, I slapped the table hard, and the table cracked a few times.
"What are you doing? Can't even catch two children?" General Lu's tone was sullen.
The adjutant was sweating coldly on his forehead and back: "But General...they fell into the river, and the water is so fast that they can't survive." The adjutant seemed to be trying to explain something to himself, and seemed to be responding to General Lu's anger.
After being silent for a while, General Lu gritted his teeth and said, "I want to see people in life, but I want to see corpses in death." After he finished speaking, he walked away. The adjutant responded with a sound and then withdrew.
It had been five days since the little girl woke up. Because she ran wild in the heavy rain and soaked in the river for a day or two, she had a high fever when she was rescued. Under the careful care of the fisherman's daughter, her fever subsided. Now that the fever has subsided, and because of the empty stomach, he has woken up leisurely. After the little girl woke up, she found herself in a thatched hut, wearing a burlap shirt. Because she hadn't eaten for a long time, she was dizzy and had no energy. At this time, she heard it seemed as if someone was coming outside the house. She looked at the door vigilantly and shouted, "Who is it?!"
The door was pushed open, and walked in a smart girl with a basket on her back, surprised: "Are you awake?"
The girl still looked at the girl vigilantly and said, "Who are you?"
The girl also didn't care about her attitude: "I saved you. You passed out on the edge of the river a few days ago, and when I woke you up, you still had a fever." The girl looked at the girl spiritually, flickering and flickering. Very cute.
After the girl learned that the other party was her savior, she gradually relaxed her vigilance. At this time, the girl's stomach growled loudly, which relieved the embarrassing atmosphere.
"Are you hungry? I'm going to warm up the fish soup for you. I just caught the fish this morning." The girl was like an elf, with a smile in her clear eyes.
"Well..." The girl's embarrassed and shy face was blushing, adding a little color to the pale face after the high fever, and then she suddenly thought of something that made her cheeks pale instantly: "That... girl, have you seen me? younger brother?"
The girl at the door set a fire with a stick. The smell of fish wafted from the simple pot. When she heard the question from the girl in the room, she seemed to lower her head and ponder for a while, then shook her head and said, "No. I only saw you lying there in a coma all by yourself."
The girl didn't hear the girl's reply, so she quickly put down the stick in her hand and went into the back room to see the girl's condition. I saw the girl leaning against the simple wall, biting her lower lip tightly, biting the skin of her lip due to excessive force, oozing a little bit of blood. And she was strong and didn't want tears to flow from her eyes. Surprised, the girl quickly grabbed the girl's hand and hugged the girl into her arms. The girl didn't say anything, just fell into the girl's arms and cried. Perhaps the tears were all gone, or the girl had accepted the fact that her brother might die, and she stopped crying.
The girl was afraid that when she went to the hot soup, the girl would not be able to think about it, but when she looked into the girl's eyes, the firmness and strength in the girl's eyes made her feel relieved, so she left the girl alone in the room to cook the fish soup. When the girl brought the fish soup into the house, neither of them said anything. When the girl wanted to feed the soup to the girl, the girl said that she could drink it herself. The girl didn't argue with her too much, and after giving her the soup, she pounded the herbs beside her.
When the girl drank all the soup, she looked at the girl and said to her gratefully and warmly, "Thank you, and this soup is delicious."
The girl smiled slightly and said, "It's fine if you like it."
The girl looked around and found that there was only enough room for one or two people to live here. She looked into the girl's clear eyes and asked, "What is the girl's name? Where is the family?"
The girl was slightly stunned, then she smiled bitterly and said, "My name is Xiaoyu, and it was my father who picked me up. I used to go fishing with my father, but then my father went to the mountains to chop wood, fell down a pit, broke my leg, and had no money. He got sick, and he died."
The girl was stunned when she heard Xiaoyu's words, and there was a look of pity in her eyes, "My name is Ji Yueqin, and I'm just like you." He had reservations, and he didn't say all the words, "Xiaoyu, you can go with me in the future, one is to repay your kindness for saving my life, and the other is that we have both lost our parents in this world. , three come... I like you very much." Ji Yueqin thought for a while, then said.
Xiaoyu originally lived alone, and when he heard Ji Yueqin's words, he also felt dependent on each other, so he nodded.
Ji Yueqin touched her body and found nothing, so she asked Xiaoyu: "Sister Xiaoyu, can you see a jade pendant on me? Can I... call you sister?" Looking into Xiaoyu's eyes with some expectation.
When Xiaoyu heard Ji Yueqin call her sister, a warm current flowed through her heart. It was the first time that someone treated her so warmly after being alone in the world for so many years. Xiaoyu took out the jade pendant that her mother gave to Ji Yueqin before she left, and a suet jade butterfly pendant that had been stuck on her head before.
Ji Yueqin held the jade pendant that Xiaoyu gave her, carefully touched the inscription "Southern" engraved on the jade pendant, raised her head abruptly, looked at Xiaoyu's clear eyes and said, "Sister Xiaoyu, let's leave this place tomorrow. , we're leaving."