Chapter 29 6. Birth and separation

I left Jiyang almost in a fit of anger, and even refused the luggage cart provided by Liu Yan when I left.In fact, it's not really that they don't accept it, they deliberately made their own two legs suffer, it's just that when they think that they are about to attack Wancheng, the army's supplies are not sufficient, so it's better to save some if you can. This was my good intentions, but I followed Liu Xiu's style, not telling the truth, and pretending to be "who wants you to give me alms", which drove Liu Yan crazy on the spot.As a result, on the day before we left, under the watchful eyes of everyone, Liu Yan and I really started fighting in the yard.

It is said that fists and feet have no eyes, I was angry at the time, let alone Liu Xiu with thick skin and rough flesh, even Liu Xiu with thin skin and tender flesh, I can still beat him.In the end, Liu Yan didn't pay attention, and received a roundabout kick from me, and flew upside down two meters, scaring Pan, Liu Huang, Liu Yuan and other female relatives to death. "Girl, why don't we go south, but go north instead?" I have long been used to walking. Although Yanzhi is a slave, she has never done rough work, never suffered such hardships, and she sighed along the way.

"Are you in such a hurry to go home?" I stopped and waited for her to catch up, and smiled softly, "Aren't you afraid that my elder brother will expose you?" Yan Zhi turned pale, and tremblingly said: "Girl, don't scare the slaves, but if the eldest son is punished, please ask the girl to intercede on his behalf, so that the slaves will not suffer more." I smiled, unloaded the burden from her shoulders, and carried it on my back: "Let's go, I hope I can get there before dark." Yanzhi didn't dare to let me carry my luggage. After arguing for a long time, she couldn't grab me, so she could only ask with a bitter face: "Where does the girl want to go? Although the girl is very capable, but now the army is in chaos and there are refugees and bandits everywhere. After all, she is still a delicate girl..."

"I'm going to Little Chang'an." I sighed quietly, my heart filled with bitterness, "I promised my cousin that I would take her home..." Then I thought that Deng's family had been reduced to ashes, and even the graves of her ancestors had been dug up. If I hadn't been able to bring her body back to Xinye that day, her bones would have been abused and exposed to the wilderness now. Shivering shiveringly, seeing the gloomy sky, she hurriedly urged Yanzhi: "Go! Go! It's best to run." Little Chang'an is actually a village, whether it is big or small.When Yanzhi and I arrived at the entrance of the village, it was already dark, and snowflakes suddenly fell on the gray top of our heads.

The snow fluttered like flocs, the tugging continued, and the reasoning was still chaotic. That night we stayed in a farmhouse. Because the house was shabby and there was no verandah, Yanzhi and I had to squeeze in a room next to the pigsty where the sundries were piled up. Next to the pigsty is the latrine. Not only did I suffer from the cold that night, but I also had to hold my breath. I managed to last until dawn. When I went out to see it, I couldn’t help being dumbfounded. When Deng Chan was buried in Caoye, I didn't know the terrain very well, but after asking Liu Xuan, I knew it was Little Chang'an.I originally thought that no matter how big Little Chang'an was, I searched slowly, and I could always find the location by relying on my memory.But who would have thought that the heavens would not help me, the good snow this night actually dyed the whole world into white.

Looking at it at a glance, there was a vast expanse of whiteness. I breathed, put my hands on my face, and felt lost. Deng Chan, Deng Chan, where are you?How can I find you? Yan Zhi was trembling in the wind and snow, waiting impatiently for me to make a decision, but I had no choice right now, so I had to bite the bullet and say: "When the snow rests, even if we turn this mountain over, I will also turn my cousin's body." Found the grave." It is easy to say this sentence, but it is more difficult to do it.God made things difficult for me on purpose, the snow fell for three days and two nights before it stopped, and before the sky cleared, Yan Zhi felt weak and had a fever because of the cold at night.

After procrastinating like this for four or five days, Yan Zhi's condition showed some improvement. However, the sky and the earth were covered with snow and ice, and even wearing clogs was slippery. Half a day's work. When I woke up this morning, a thick layer of fog floated in the humid air. I was overjoyed to see it, and Rouge asked me why I was so happy instead.I smiled and said, "After the fog, there will be sunshine. This means that tomorrow will be sunny. Let's just wait and go out after noon." The two of them were chatting and laughing, when they suddenly heard a loud noise from the front hall, and the owner of the house ran over in a panic, gesticulating: "Run! Run! The officers and soldiers are here!"

Yanzhi jumped up from the bed reflexively, grabbing her bag and was about to rush out, I quickly grabbed her and asked calmly, "The officers and soldiers are not robbers, why did they run away?" The male protagonist slapped his thigh, and said dejectedly: "Didn't the robbers also come together?" Before I could ask any more questions, he turned around and ran away. Yan Zhi panicked: "Girl! Robbers are scary, but officers and soldiers have to guard against them!" I nodded, and immediately ran out with Rouge.It happened to be cold and foggy, and when we went out, we could only hear the cries and the knocking of weapons mixed with each other, coming from all directions, but we couldn't see anything five meters away.

Yan Zhi had just recovered from a serious illness. When she saw this situation, she was so frightened that her legs became limp. I gritted my teeth and dragged her forward desperately in the snow.Before we had walked ten steps, there was a bang, and a gleaming long knife swung down through the air, hitting our feet. Rouge screamed "Ah——" in fright. The long knife was tightly held in one hand, the wrist was connected to the upper arm, and the upper part was cut off neatly, and blood gurgled from the cut, and the spilled blood was dotted on the snow like red plums. Here, shocking!

Rouge stared at the severed arm, jumped up and down frequently, and kept screaming. I covered her lips and said fiercely: "If you don't want to die by the knife, you'd better shut up." She is also a smart person, although she was suddenly frightened by the incident, she still understood the stakes, so she nodded with tears in her eyes, trembling. I let go, bent down and broke the long knife from the five fingers of the broken arm, turned around and stuffed it into her hand.She shivered a bit, and finally held the knife awkwardly in her hand, but after all, she was an innocent girl, and the knife was shaking like chaff in her hand.

"Would you kill someone?" She was so frightened that she almost dropped the knife: "Slave... slave girl no... no..." "Then would you kill a chicken?" "Will...will..." I closed my eyes and forced myself to be hard-hearted, ignoring the fear in her eyes: "Then you just think you are killing chickens!" I know it's cruel to say such words, not only forcing her to face the cruelest thing, but also forcing myself to do the cruelest thing! Dragging Yan Zhi, he staggered and ran for a hundred meters, but the fighting sound became more and more fierce, and his ears were filled with shrill screams, like Shura hell.I secretly rejoiced that thanks to the cover of this thick fog, Rouge was not allowed to witness the horror of the war with his own eyes. After finally running out of the village, I was about to heave a sigh of relief, when suddenly, without warning, a delivery cart jumped out of the front, and the cow pulling the cart was obviously overly frightened, and bumped into me crookedly.The visibility in the fog was too low, and when I saw what was bumping into me, I only had time to push Rouge away. The bull's horn brushed against my shoulder blades. Fortunately, my limbs were extremely resilient and I could dodge fast enough, otherwise I would have been poked into a bloody hole by the sharp horn. Yan Zhi was so frightened that she burst into tears and rushed over, "Girl! Girl!" She didn't know where she got the courage and strength to slash at the cow with a knife. Two figures quickly jumped out of the car, one jumped at Rouge and snatched the knife from her hand, and the other jumped at me. I was lying on the ground and hadn't gotten up yet. When I saw a figure rushing towards me, I lifted my foot and kicked the man's waist. At the same time, I jumped up from the ground with my strength. The man said "Ouch", he took two steps back while clutching his waist, looked up at me with pain on his face: "It's me." I didn't have time to think, so I answered him casually: "Whoever you are!" "Miss Yin, it's me..." She raised her hand to protect her face, lest I hit him again, "I'm Liu Jun." "Liu Jun?!" I finally came to my senses and ran two steps forward. Isn't the person in front of me exactly Liu Jun?Looking further ahead, the cart was full of men and women, and there were actually four people squeezed into the narrow flat ox cart. They were all old faces I was familiar with—Aunt Liang, Mrs. Pan, Mrs. Liu Xing, Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Liu Zhong’s wife. Looking back, the person who snatched the long knife from Yan Zhi's hand was Liu An, Aunt Liang's eldest son. "You guys...why are you here?" My brains turned sharply and I was shocked, "Didn't you mean to go to Wancheng?" Liu Jundao: "I was going to Wancheng, but I encountered an ambush on the way. In such a foggy day, I didn't know where our people were or where the recruits were. They were fighting together... The cow ran away in fright. , we got lost." "Girl." Aunt Liang waved at me in the car, "Did you get separated from Xiu'er too? Get in the car and squeeze, let Liu An and Liu Jun walk with the car." My heart was sour, I dare to feel that Aunt Liang didn't know that I had left the Han Army, so she said politely: "If Aunt Liang and the two sister-in-laws don't mind, can I allow my maid to get in the car and rest for a while, she is still sick , I really don’t have the strength to hurry.” Rouge wiped her tears and said: "Girl... slave, slave can walk by herself..." Aunt Liang is a kind person, before Pan Shi and Wang Shi could answer, she beckoned pitifully: "Come on, all come up, although there are many people, it's better to squeeze than to walk." I took a quick look, and counting the rouge, there were already five people crowded in the cart, basically no different from a can of sardines.I can't squeeze in no matter what, unless I drive Mrs. Pan or Mrs. Wang out of the car. "I'll walk with Big Brother Liu and Second Brother Liu." I was actually more worried that the car was seriously overloaded, and the old scalper was already foaming, and I was afraid that he would not be able to run fast even if he wanted to. This time, he was running for his life, and speed was more important than anything else! Facts proved that my worry was not unfounded. The ox cart ran less than half a mile, and the wheels suddenly got stuck in a hole. I was hesitating, when I heard the sound of fighting around me, a group of officers and soldiers of the new dynasty rushed out from nowhere, and it was impossible to know how many troops there were in the fog, so I pulled out the long sword I carried with me and shook my wrist , pulled out a sword flower, and raised the sword.With one enemy against all, I was so red-eyed and tried my best, but Liu Jun suddenly snorted behind me.Turning his head to glance, he saw a big cut on half of his body from his right shoulder to his chest, dripping with blood, staining his clothes. I shuddered, and was about to rush over to rescue me, when he suddenly raised his left hand and pointed backwards, screaming, "Hurry up and save my mother—" The group of women on the cart was frightened. Liu An held a firewood machete and fought with three or four recruits. He was clearly at a disadvantage. I rushed to the side of the carriage in three steps at a time, cut two out of five times, hacked and hacked, and mercilessly knocked down the frame of several recruits who were about to climb into the carriage.At this time, many cavalry had surrounded the carriage, and the horses kept circling around the carriage. "Girl!" Aunt Liang yelled sharply, "Go—one by one!" My heart skipped a beat, my chest seemed to be blocked by something, the movements of my hands were slightly sluggish, and there was a sharp pain in my back. The huge momentum forced me to take two steps forward and almost fell down. There was a burning pain on my back, and I didn't have time to think about the reason, so I heard a scream, Liu Jun spurted blood, and fell to the ground with a bang.Suddenly, she heard Pan's voice screaming in dismay behind her: "Yin Lihua! Please——" "Mother—mother——" Liu Xing was thrown towards me by Pan's arms. I didn't dare to be careless, so I quickly stretched out my arms to catch it. This simple movement caused a heart-piercing pain on my back. . Liu Xing ignorantly kicked and struggled in my arms, crying endlessly: "I want my mother! I want my mother—" I snorted, a fishy-sweet breath surged up from the base of my tongue, and I broke out in a cold sweat.In a blink of an eye, someone got into the car, and Aunt Liang argued with that person to protect Pan and Wang, but was pushed out of the car by that person, and the horseshoes ran over and stomped on Aunt Liang's body in turn... Liu An yelled loudly, his eyes cracked, and he threw himself on the man to fight for his life, but was nailed to a dead tree trunk by seven or eight bamboo arrows flying over. "Sister-in-law, I beg you to do something..." I hugged Liu Xing and dodged from left to right, but Wang suddenly yelled, "I failed to give birth to a boy and a half girl for my husband, but I beg sister-in-law to remember you and my sister-in-law." For the sake of this fight, if Xing'er is lucky enough to be saved, let him be my son..." After a long while, there was no answer from Mrs. Pan. I cried to myself that something was wrong, and after a quick glance, I saw that she was holding a spear with both hands, and the point of the spear had sunk into her chest. Bloodshots slipped down the corners of her lips, and I vaguely saw her smile sadly: "Well... Xing'er will definitely... be your son..." I burst into tears, hugged the crying Liu Xing in my arms, opened a bloody path, and rushed to the scalper.Raising the sword in his hand, he cut off the rope hanging from the cow with one sword. Seeing me robbing the cattle, those recruits surrounded me one after another, and I jumped on the back of the cattle with Liu Xing in one go.Liu Xing was probably completely petrified at the moment, screaming and crying frequently, but no longer struggled. I gritted my teeth and held my breath, and stabbed the bull's butt lightly with my sword. The exhausted old cow kicked and galloped in pain.The bumps shook the wound on my back, I only felt a hot stream of heat flowing down my back, and my eyes turned black. Indistinctly, there seemed to be a scream from Yan Zhi's ear: "Girl—don't leave your servant—" I waved my sword to parry a spear away, hugging Liu Xing softly and trembling. I'm sorry, Rouge... I can't take you away!Just give in and surrender. As you are, the new army should not embarrass you too much.But...Xing'er, I have to take him away. Liu Yan's rebellious behavior is a felony of beheading everyone. If Xing'er falls into the hands of officers and soldiers, he will definitely die. Tears fell like rain, I choked up and hugged Liu Xing tightly. Driving the cow to break through the encirclement, I collapsed from exhaustion, the weight of my upper body pressed Liu Xing, he seemed to feel it, and wriggled in my arms uncomfortably.After a long time, I don't know when he stopped crying, touched my cheek with his small black hand, and said in a childish voice: "Don't cry, aunt, don't cry, aunt... I'll give this to you. " He took out a small thing from his bosom, and put it in my palm solemnly: "Third uncle said, when you want to cry, look at this, and you will laugh again..." Looking at a grass-woven dragonfly in my hand with tears in my eyes, I suddenly felt a great pain in my heart. I closed my five fingers, squeezed the grass dragonfly tightly, and wept bitterly.