Shu Blossoms

Chapter 33

The midsummer afternoon was getting hotter and hotter, and He Li and others who were guarding outside hid under the shade of a tree to watch their grandparents and grandchildren play together with Zheng Wei.

Liniang poured a basin of cold water to wash Qi's face, and Qi's wife raised her head in a hurry and asked, "Liniang, will you serve me?"

Liniang wrung out the sweat towel and replied softly, "Yes."

"Nan, let's go back to our hometown to see, I miss your grandfather!"

Qi Qi continued.

Liniang wiped her face dry, replied "Okay", and then the water in the basin was poured to the door.

After cleaning up, Liniang coaxed Qi Qi to sleep, and sat down beside Zheng Wei by herself.

The two were silent for a moment, before Liniang spoke first, "You must have felt it long ago, I'm not a girl."

Zheng Wei didn't know how to answer, just looked at her sideways and waited quietly.

At this moment, Liniang is willing to tell the story of herself and Qi Yu, and she happens to be the right person.

The story begins 15 years ago. At that time, it was still the former dynasty. At that time, the emperor was faint and weak, and there were frequent uprisings and wars in various places.Every year, countless soldiers died in the war that suddenly broke out, leaving old mothers, wives and children waiting hard.

This is the case with the Qi family.Qi's hometown was in Jingkou, Jinling County. At that time, the first emperor was only a new general who had risen not long ago.

Qi Nu's son joined the army with the late emperor, but he was just an ordinary sergeant under the late emperor's command. He had the same fate as countless Paoze. He died in an encounter with the enemy.

At that time, the situation was not good, and the late emperor was in a hurry to transfer the army, and the sacrificed brothers stayed there.

In the end, their old mother, wife and children only got a bad news and a poor pension.

There is an old saying that the house leaks happen every night when it rains. In the days when they first received the news, Qi Qi and her daughter-in-law were in a trance and couldn't care about their four-year-old granddaughter.

According to Qi's previous cry, the granddaughter was playing in front of the door that day, and the daughter-in-law fed the sick Qi's medicine. She cried and made some meals to call for her to go home for dinner.

After shouting for a long time, I haven't seen Nannan come back. I went from house to house and said that I didn't see it. Some people said that they seemed to see a woman carrying a child out of the workshop.

Neighbors all came out to look for it together, until the curfew did not find the shadow of Nannan.

Everyone said that the child may not be found.

Qi's daughter-in-law sat in front of Qi's kang all night, and the two wept silently, but couldn't say anything to comfort each other.

Early the next morning, Qi's daughter-in-law kowtowed to Qi's head and said, "A family, I'm going to find Nannan and come back!"

Seeing the haggard appearance of her daughter-in-law, Qi Yan could only nod weakly.

At this point, the Qi family was left alone, waiting for her daughter-in-law and granddaughter to return.

This wait is one year.A year later, someone came and told Qi Qi that her daughter-in-law had been thrown into the mass grave.

Qi Qi asked her uncle from the same clan to rush to the mass grave together.

The more chaotic the world, the more crowded the mass graves!

Madam Qi searched back and forth twice before she found her dying daughter-in-law under an old locust tree.

The sackcloth on her body was dyed blood-colored, her face paler than the moonlight above her head, and the bright red lining the corners of her mouth was extremely dazzling!
She held her breath, just to wait until Qi Nuan and begged her to bring her back.

Later, she found out that her daughter-in-law, Qi, had been looking for her in the city for several months, and one day she finally saw a woman carrying her child and hurriedly boarded a carriage out of the city.

But she soon lost the track of the carriage, but she did not give up, chased for a month, and finally caught up with a Zhuangzi outside the city.

Zhuangzi was heavily guarded, and she couldn't get close for a while, and for another ten days, the carriage pulled a few children into the city in the dark.

Later, the Qi family tried their best to get close to the coachman, and with the help of the coachman, he sneaked into the main house.

She originally wanted the coachman to get him into the Zhuangzi, but the people in the Zhuangzi were personally selected by the master, and they were not allowed to enter unless they were confidants.

She had worked in the Lord's house for several months, and had also secretly visited the children locked in the darkroom in the front yard.

But never found her daughter.

She was anxious and dragged on for a long time. It was very likely that the child had been sent to an unknown place. She didn't want to spend any more time here, and wanted to find a chance to leave.

One day, she was temporarily arrested to help deliver food to the inner courtyard, saying that the host family was entertaining guests.

Before leaving, she was more concerned, and wanted to go to the main house to see if she could find anything.

It is strange to say that the study in the inner courtyard, which was strictly guarded in the past, has no one to guard it today.

She took the opportunity to slip into the study.

She found a letter in a very secret compartment in the main study room. She couldn't recognize the content in it. She always felt that it was something very important, so she secretly hid it in her underwear.

She hurried outside with her things, and bumped into someone coming here. She wanted to hide, but found that there was an open space in front of the study, and there was nowhere to hide.

She could only hide back in the study. The two spoke very seriously, and they didn't look at the study carefully. They only faced each other on both sides of the desk, and said something incomprehensible.

What good goods are sent to the health, and the second goods are sent to the north. Last year, those little ones were broken. This year, I will send a few more to the north!

The two talked in detail for half an hour. During the period, no servants came in to deliver tea. The two ended the conversation with dry mouth and left the study together.

After a while, Mrs. Qi hurriedly left the study. She pondered the words of the two, unaware that she was being watched shortly after she left the study.

She pondered for a long time at night, and suddenly remembered that she once asked the coachman what the delivery was, and the mysterious and dumb fat man said that it contained good goods!

Qi Shi suddenly woke up, and beads of sweat slid down her cheeks.

The goods are those children, and the little she is as big as the nannan...

Her daughter may not be sent away, but she will soon be sent to the devil's lair...

She couldn't wait to save her child and wanted to sneak away that night.

But as soon as she walked out of the house, she saw a few men with gloomy and terrifying faces standing outside the house, their eyes were like poisonous snakes waiting for her to fall into the trap.

Those people didn't really find that Qi entered the study and overheard their conversation.

But there is no doubt that she appeared near the study, so she will be censored. After some whipping, Qi insisted that she had never entered the study, but she had not entered the inner courtyard and had gone the wrong way for a while.

But she was still beaten to the brink of death, and if no one was healed, she would undoubtedly die.

I don't know if it was good luck or what, but when she was carried out of the house in a grand manner, it was clear sky and daylight, surrounded by some people watching the fun, one of the men was Qi's neighbor.

Qi's eyes widened with all his might, and he kept staring at him.

The man obviously recognized her, and his eyes widened suddenly.

The servant of the master shouted: "It's scattered, this old woman stole the lady's gold utensils, and the loot was not repented. She was punished by the master, and now the master has graciously spared her life and sent her to her. Go to the Mass Burial Mound and see if she can survive to see her fortune..."

(End of this chapter)