Chapter 36 Chapter Thirty-sixth: Wind and Snow, Qi Lian Bears Grief and Admits a Desolate Female Traveler and Rides Sickly

Yu Jiaolong was full of grief and anger, burning with anger, ignoring the exhaustion like bones, enduring the pain like a heart, braved the bitter wind and snow and galloped towards the direction of Suzhou. There were several feet of snow in the field, but there was a vast expanse, and there were no traces of hooves or cars, and it was hard to tell whether it was a road or a hurdle.Yu Jiaolong only wanted to get back the son who was exchanged, so she didn't care about the safety in front of her, so she just galloped towards the west, a big black horse. The big black horse was also miraculous, not only good at finding the way, without any stumbles, but also seemed to be quite understanding, running more briskly and steadily than usual.Yu Jiaolong bit her lips tightly, resisting the unbearable torture, all the way she only focused on observing the snow field ahead, looking for the traces left by the car in front.She rushed forward non-stop all the way, and the metered distance had run about seventy miles, but the ground was still a vast expanse, and she didn't see the slightest trace.Yu Jiaolong was so worried that she couldn't help but hesitate immediately, she even wondered if she had lost her way.She couldn't help stopping her horse and raised her eyes to look around, she saw Qilian Mountain stretching in front of her eyes, majestic and white, stretching for thousands of miles, stretching westward, endless as far as the eye can see.The direction I was traveling was approaching the foot of the mountain.She also vaguely remembered that this was the Liangzhou Ancient Road, winding westward along the foot of Qilian Mountain, and it was Suzhou.Although the road was covered with snow and the road was unclear, the direction was right.Yu Jiaolong rode his horse forward again, and gradually entered the foot of Qilian Mountain. After a journey, I suddenly found two shallow ruts on the snow.A burst of relief flashed across her heart, and she suddenly felt more energetic. Regardless of the steepness of the plank road, she hurriedly urged the big black horse to move forward.The further you go, the deeper the hoof marks and ruts on the snow.

Yu Jiaolong knew that she was not far from the car that Mrs. Fang and Qin's mother were in, so she galloped like flying horses, and said bitterly in her heart: "Thieves, let's see where you can go!" Turning around again After passing a mountain bend, we came to a pass, only to see that the two deep ruts stretched straight to the edge of the cliff next to the bend.Yu Jiaolong's whole heart suddenly shrank into a ball, and he couldn't help exhaling "Oh my god!" He hurriedly got off the saddle, walked to the edge of the cliff along the ruts, and looked around, and saw that there was a mountain under the steep cliff. On a steep snow slope, a huge snow trough stretching straight to the bottom of the valley appeared on the snow slope, and a broken wheel was left on the snow slope facing the edge of the cliff.There is no doubt about this scene, the car carrying Mrs. Fang Er, Mother Qin and the child has turned over the cliff from here, and rolled down the steep slope to the bottom of the valley!Seeing this scene, Yu Jiaolong felt dizzy and almost fell off the cliff.She let out a miserable moan from her heart, and then sat down on the ground slumped.She looked around in desperation, only seeing thousands of mountains and ravines in front of her, vast and vast, with no trace of people.She cried out for help and was helpless, except for the big black horse and the baby in her arms, she could no longer see any trace of life.

Yu Jiaolong sat for a while, and slowly regained her composure, she thought: Even if my son has been thrown to death, I still want to see my own flesh and blood!So, she gritted her teeth and stood up again, took out a white silk from her bag, tore it into a rope, tied one end tightly to the big black saddle, and the other end hung down the cliff, she followed the silk rope down to the steep slope, Then it slid down the snow trough to the bottom of the valley.When she reached the bottom of the valley, she saw a horrifying sight: a broken body was sunk in the snow, and a blue-and-white horse with a dismembered neck was lying beside it; not far from the blue-and-white horse, Lying down was a man with broken limbs and his head turned around. Judging from the man's clothes, he was definitely a coachman.Although Yu Jiaolong had killed and wounded some people with her own hands, she was not an ordinary woman who is afraid of blood, but when she saw such a messy scene, especially the miserable state of the coachman lying on the ground with his face turned upside down, It made her also feel a burst of horror and nausea.She avoided the corpses of the people and horses she had seen, and searched around for the corpses of women and children.She searched and searched, but there was no trace.She turned over the car body vigorously, and even scraped away the snow covering the car body, but she still saw neither the body of the woman nor the body of the baby.Yu Jiaolong was full of surprises and doubts, but she felt like a god helped her, full of strength, and hurriedly climbed up the slope with difficulty.When he climbed up the cliff with the silk rope, he was overwhelmed with emotions, and with the last remaining strength, he crawled to the side of the big black horse, hugged its front legs and passed out.

I don't know how long it took, Yu Jiaolong felt a burst of warmth coming from her cheeks and temples in a haze, and it seemed that a huge and warm palm was patting her constantly, and her mind gradually regained consciousness.She opened her eyes and saw that the big black horse was turning around and rubbing her nose and cheeks against her frequently. The snowstorm has stopped, the sky is full of stars, the white snow reflects the starlight, and the surrounding mountains can be seen more clearly than during the daytime when the snow is flying.Yu Jiaolong hugged the big black horse's front feet and sat on the ground, she was unable to stand up anymore.The body is hot and cold, and the stomach is hungry.

If she hadn't been thinking about her replaced son, she really wanted to close her eyes and go to sleep immediately, never to wake up again. Just when Yu Jiaolong felt powerless, she suddenly heard the faint sound of camel bells coming from behind her.The bell was getting closer and closer, under the starlight, the figure of a camel appeared two hundred steps away.Yu Jiaolong struggled to stand up, staring closely at the hunchback that was approaching.While watching the movement of the man on the hunchback calmly, she reached out to grab the hilt of the sword hanging from the side of the saddle.At this moment, I suddenly heard a question from the hunchback: "Is Miss Chun in front?"

Yu Jiaolong recognized that it was Hei San's voice.She asked suspiciously, "It's you? What are you doing here?" Hei San also recognized Yu Jiaolong's voice, and hurriedly made the camel stop and kneel down.He jumped off his hunchback, walked towards Yu Jiaolong, and said happily: "My God, I finally caught up with you." Yu Jiaolong didn't wait for him to walk in front of him, and asked coldly: "What are you doing here?" The hilt of the sword in his hand tightened even more. Hei San felt something was wrong from Yu Jiaolong's voice, he hurriedly stopped, and said: "I came here with good intentions, please don't misunderstand me, my lady." Then he explained his intentions one by one.It turned out that after Yu Jiaolong left the store in a sudden anger, he and the store owner Hu Chengcheng were deeply disturbed, thinking that she had just given birth, how could she withstand such a storm.The road to Suzhou is very steep, and if you make a mistake, you will lose your life in vain.He thought of what he did last night, and her tolerance of him, and felt deeply ashamed, and he should make up for it.So he decided to come later and send her all the way to Suzhou, first to take care of her, and second to help her lead the way.

After explaining his purpose, Hei San said, "I think there are no villages or shops on this Qilian road. If you don't bring dry food with you, you will be starving. Therefore, I just brought some boiled eggs and flour bread with me. I thought you might It’s really needed.” After speaking, he turned back to the camel, took out a few eggs and two pieces of bread from the bag and sent them to Yu Jiaolong. Yu Jiaolong hesitated for a moment, then stretched out his hand to take the eggs and bread, and began to eat slowly.She was also moved by Hei San's intentions and actions.But she always feels contempt and disgust for a character like Hei San, who is similar to a rogue.Therefore, she couldn't find a proper word for a while, and just ate eggs and cakes in silence without saying a word.

Hei San didn't mind Yu Jiaolong's indifferent expression, and said: "I see you are very tired, how can you support yourself standing like this, why don't you come and sit on my camel, this animal is very warm and has a very tame temperament good." Yu Jiaolong didn't expect such a rogue to have such a heart, she couldn't help being a little surprised.She turned around and sat on the ground with her back against the camel. Suddenly, she felt a burst of heat permeating her whole body. She ate two pancakes and a few eggs in a row, and felt that her energy was gradually growing again.She asked Hei San, "I think you are a pretty good person, how did you do what you did last night?"

Hei San said shamefully: "To be honest, I only did this because I lost money in a bet and lost my mind for a while. I regretted it very much afterwards." Yu Jiaolong: "It's good to know that you regret it. Gambling starts from greed, and greed is the root of all evils. I think your character can still be good, and I believe you will be able to quit gambling." Black Three: "From now on, I swear I will never gamble again." Yu Jiaolong nodded in relief, with a smile on his lips. Hei San took out another liter of oats from the bag and fed it to the big black horse.

Yu Jiaolong was only thinking about the whereabouts of the child, only hoped that Tianming would continue to search, and had no intention of dealing with Hei San. After finally waiting for dawn, Yu Jiaolong forced herself to stand up and went to the pass to look around.Only then did she realize that there were still many dense footprints left beside the deep ruts. It seemed that someone had robbed the carriage first, and then forced the carriage down the cliff.Yu Jiaolong followed those footprints and turned around the billet, and there were two snow trails in front of her: one stretched forward along the mountainside, which was undoubtedly the road to Suzhou; the other went along the valley to the valley.Just before the fork in the road, she saw many horseshoe prints again, and those hoof prints came and went, covering the snowy path leading to the valley.Yu Jiaolong already understood in her heart: the carriage in which Mrs. Fang Er, Qin Ma and their children were riding was robbed by robbers who came out of the valley at this pass. He and the coachman were forced to go down the cliff.After making such a judgment in her heart, she called Hei San to her face and asked, "Are there any robbers in this mountain?"

Hei San was puzzled, "What happened?" Yu Jiaolong pointed to the wheels and snow troughs under the cliff, and then pointed to the hoof prints going into the valley, and said: "Yesterday, the carriage that Mrs. Fang was riding in was robbed at this pass. The carriage was driven off the cliff. , people were snatched into the mountains." Hei Thirty was very surprised, and said to himself: "Heishanxiong also came out to snatch people?!" Yu Jiaolong: "Black Mountain Bear?! Who is Black Mountain Bear?" Hei San: "Heishan Kumamoto's surname is Feng, and most of his brothers are hunters. For decades, the eighteen villages in the Qilian Mountains, large and small, have all obeyed his orders. He is really the overlord of the Qilian Mountains. .” Yu Jiaolong: "Is he a robber?" Black Three: "Yes, and no." Yu Jiaolong: "How do you say this? Hei San:" If you say he is, he never robs people, and he has contacts with the officials of all the state capitals in Liangzhou; if you say he is not, but in this mountain Everyone in the gang has to give him a share of the spoils, and everyone has to act according to his face.However, this Black Mountain bear also made a rule: he never allowed his brothers to rob on this Liangzhou road, and if he wanted to rob, he would go outside the pass or over the mountain.So there hasn't been an accident on this road for many years. "Yu Jiaolong was dubious, pondered for a moment, and asked again: "Where does the Black Mountain Bear live?I'm going to go into the mountains to find him. " Hei San waved his hands again and again and said: "Little lady, it's not easy! This Qilian Mountain has a radius of hundreds of miles, and there are caves everywhere in Heishan. Who knows where he is today and where he will live tomorrow? It is difficult to find him even in the mountains. What's more, now that the mountains are covered by heavy snow, there is no way." Yu Jiaolong looked at the hoofprints on the snowy path leading to the valley, and thought of the group of people leading Mrs. Fang, Qin Ma and her son to the valley, her heart became anxious again.Yu Jiaolong bit her lip, pointed to those hoof prints and said, "If they can go, I can go." Hei San still wanted to dissuade her, but before he could say anything, Yu Jiaolong resolutely turned back to the big black horse, took out a small ingot of gold from his pocket, threw it in front of Hei San, and said to him: "This An ingot of gold can be exchanged for more than a hundred liang of silver, you can use it to pay off your gambling debts, and from now on you will abide by the law and be a good person. You can go back to the shop by yourself!" After she finished speaking, she stepped on the saddle, reined in her horse and walked towards the valley . Hei San rushed forward, grabbed the bridle and tried to persuade him: "Little lady, this valley is called Gui Jianchou: the road is too dangerous: you can't go!" Yu Jiaolong: "I'll go through even more dangerous valleys than this one. Let go!" Hei San still held on to the bridle tightly, and said: "Besides, they are many people, even if you catch up with them, you will suffer." Yu Jiaolong smiled coldly: "I'm not afraid of these rats!" Black Three is still begging hard, refusing to let go.Yu Jiaolong got annoyed, and shouted sharply: "Don't miss me!" Then he pulled the rein, the big black horse swung its head violently, threw Hei San on the ground, and ran towards the valley. Hei San sat on the ground, still begging for advice.Yu Jiaolong ran dozens of steps away, then immediately turned around and said: "Don't tell outsiders what happened today." Yujiaolong rode the horse and followed the hoofprints for about ten miles, and came to a forest. There was a relatively wide snow field beside the forest. Apart from the hoofprints, there were many scattered footprints on the snow.Yu Jiaolong dismounted from her horse and leaned over to examine those footprints carefully. Judging from the scattered signs, it seemed that someone had had a fierce fight here.There were also two lines of clear footprints left on the edge of the snow. Those two lines of footprints were smaller, and it was obvious at a glance that they were the footprints of a woman.The snow path leads to the valley along the edge of the forest, and another trail leads into the forest.Two small paths appeared in front of Yu Jiaolong's eyes, the two paths led in different directions, and hoof prints appeared on both paths.Through careful observation, Yu Jiaolong has already made a judgment in her heart: a group of people brought the looted wealth to this place, maybe because of unfair distribution of spoils, maybe because of disagreement, there was a fight here, and then they parted ways.But among these two paths, which one is the path to take his son?Yu Jiaolong felt embarrassed.She was unable to advance, could not retreat, and was anxious and angry in her heart. She had no choice but to turn to the sky for help and decide where to go by asking divination.Yu Jiaolong had made up her mind, so she raised her palms with both hands, looked up at the sky, silently prayed to God, and begged the gods of the past to show her the direction to find her son. After she finished praying silently, she pulled out the gold hairpin from her head, and silently said: "Yang enters the valley, and Yin enters the forest." Then she threw the gold hairpin into the sky. When the golden hairpin fell to the ground, she leaned over and saw that it was Yang.Yu Jiaolong picked up the gold hairpin, stepped on the horse, and galloped towards the valley without any hesitation.After walking for a while, I saw those hoofprints on the ground leaving the snow and walking up the mountain.The hoofprints went up a section of the hillside, but because of the steep slope, the hoofprints disappeared, leaving only some snow troughs.Yu Jiaolong looked up, and saw the steep hillside, connected with mountains, soaring into the clouds: there are ridges behind the ridge, and peaks beside the ridge, and the peaks and ridges are connected, vast and white, and it is impossible to distinguish the end.Yu Jiaolong sat on the horse blankly, her heart was like the scene in front of her, she just felt a turmoil.Although she still wanted to follow and forge ahead, she was unable to do so. Suddenly she became dizzy and almost fell off the horse.Yu Jiaolong hurriedly crouched down and hugged the saddle. After a long time, she raised her face and looked at the snow-capped mountains again, with two lines of sad tears streaming down her eyes. Yu Jiaolong only felt that she was getting weaker and weaker, so that she couldn't even support her own body, so how could she still have the strength to walk all over the mountains connected to the ground to find her son!But how could she abandon her lost flesh and blood halfway!She immediately stepped forward, in a dilemma.The big black horse pawed its hooves for a while, but there was no movement, but it seemed to be psychic. It didn't wait for the master's command, turned its head, and ran steadily towards each entrance along the old road when it came. Yu Jiaolong returned to the pass, she struggled to straighten up, looked down at the hoof prints on the ground, then looked up at the mountains in the valley, and secretly swore in her heart: "After my body recovers, I will definitely walk all over the mountains and search all over the place. Dongzhai, if you don’t find your son, you will die!” She was about to ride her horse forward, when the child in her arms started to cry again.She couldn't help but feel disgusted, the resentment accumulated in her heart was suddenly transferred to the child.She immediately dismounted from the horse, took off her belt, threw the child on the ground, and said bitterly, "If you want to blame, blame your heartless mother!" Then she bit her lip and got on the horse, galloping west without looking back. Yu Jiaolong rode his horse and ran away within a stone's throw, and the cry of a child came from behind.The cries were intermittent, high and low, and in the quiet mountains and fields, it was even more desolate and touching.Yu Jiaolong clenched her lips, determined to let the horse go. She had already run for more than a mile, and the crying of the child still came from behind intermittently, sadly, leading back to the four fields, scattered in the sky, darkening the long clouds and darkening the white snow.Yu Jiaolong couldn't help but stop her horse, her heart skipped a beat.The sage’s words taught by Mr. Gao echoed the child’s cries: “Everyone has a heart of compassion.” Seeing the dazzling swaddle on the snow far away, it seems that it is wriggling desperately.Her own heart also unknowingly fluttered along with the peristalsis.At this moment, Yu Jiaolong suddenly saw a vulture flying from the mountain peak, circling in the air, aiming at the child, and was about to swoop down. Yu Jiaolong couldn't help but let out an exclamation, quickly reined in the horse's head, and galloped towards the child like flying.That vulture was really cruel, and he had folded his wings and swooped down on the child.Yu Jiaolong was in a hurry, and hurriedly took out the curved bow from her side, just when the vulture's sharp claws were about to grab the child, she snapped an arrow, which hit the vulture's heart.The vulture rushed up suddenly, then twirled and fell to the cliff.Yu Jiaolong rushed in front of the child, and before the horse's hooves stopped, Shi jumped off the horse, picked up the child, and pressed it tightly to his chest, a burst of unspeakable guilt and heartfelt relief aroused in his heart.She lowered her head to look at the child, and saw that her facial features were well-proportioned and unusually delicate on her rosy face, and she was constantly sucking from her small mouth.After sucking for a while, he opened his small eyes to look again, cried a few times, and sucked his little mouth again, looking very pitiful like that.Yu Jiaolong thought to herself: She must be hungry.But what to feed her? At this time, as the child kept sucking, she suddenly felt that the pair of breasts on her chest also swelled up.She couldn't help reaching out to rub it, and the child also turned his face, shaking his head to search around her chest.A tinge of numbness accompanied by a ray of affection penetrated into Yu Jiaolong's heart.She couldn't help but feel a sweet shyness, her heart beat, and her face flushed.Looking around for no one, she simply unbuttoned her skirt, stuck out her nipple, and gently put it into the child's mouth.The child took a bite of the nipple and sucked it with all his strength.Yu Jiaolong seemed to feel that the nipple was implicating her whole body, she couldn't help trembling, and suddenly felt intoxicated like a melting heart. She closed her eyes, buried her head in feeding the child, and listened quietly to her even swallowing sound.Although it was freezing cold on the snowy ground, Yu Jiaolong's heart was filled with warmth. She clearly felt that the milk that the child swallowed was the blood that flowed from her heart.The child's mouth sucks and gives, and her nipples expand and shrink accordingly. What is sucked is love, what is stretched is compassion; what is given is gratitude, and what is shrunk is tenderness.In this silent expansion and contraction, Yu Jiaolong opened her heart to the child and filled her chest with love. The child is full, still holding on to the nipple, but has fallen asleep sweetly. A charming smile floated on Yu Jiaolong's mouth, gently patted the child.Thinking of her behavior just now, she couldn't help arousing a burst of resentment towards herself.From the moment she nursed the baby, she felt that the baby was her own.Even if the Second Mrs. Fang regretted it and came to exchange the child, she would never agree.She will take back the son she exchanged, and take the child back to Xijiang. When Yu Jiaolong was changing the child's film, the little silver bottle wrapped in swaddling clothes rolled out again.Her heart skipped a beat, and she thought: The child needs a name, so let's name her "Xue Ping". Having made up her mind, she leaned over and kissed the child, whispered "Snow bottle", and wished: "Snow bottle, snow bottle, endless blessings, good luck for a lifetime!" Yu Jiaolong tied the snow bottle in his pocket, tidied up, then climbed on the saddle and got on the horse, feeling half exhausted, so he urged the big black horse to gallop towards Suzhou. The Liangzhou ancient road is so dangerous that the birds startle, and the desolation makes the pedestrian heartbroken.Yulongjiao endured hunger and exhaustion, and traveled all the way until it was getting late, before arriving in Suzhou.Seeing that the city gate was still open, she rode her horse to a small street near the west gate, planning to find a quiet inn to stay.She looked at several houses in a row and was not satisfied, and finally came to an alley, and saw a lantern hanging in front of a door, with the words "old friend coming to the inn" written on it.She saw that the signboard was elegant, and she felt a little bit at ease; she also saw that there were many households near the entrance of the alley, and it didn't look noisy, so she decided to stay in this shop.As soon as Yu Jiaolong led the horse to the door of the inn, she saw an old man coming out of the inn with his back slightly hunched.He asked with a Hebei accent: "May I ask if my sister-in-law is here to find someone, or to invest in a shop?" Yu Jiaolong heard this voice very familiar, she hurriedly glanced sideways under the dim light, and couldn't help being surprised: So this old man is none other than Xianggu's uncle He Zhaolai.She couldn't help but asked in her heart: "Why did he get here?" Yu Jiaolong didn't have time to think about it, she immediately regained her composure and said, "Take a shop. Find me a room." Then she put on the reins Throwing it into He Zhaolai's hands, he walked towards the store. He Zhaolai took the reins, and shouted loudly into the store: "A lady guest has come, she wants to go to the room." As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a woman in her mid-thirties greeted her from the inner hall. come out.The woman smiled all over her face, and greeted her very affectionately: "It's been a hard journey." She looked at Yu Jiaolong briefly, and then asked, "Do you have luggage?" Yu Jiaolong: "I still have my luggage, please send someone to fetch it for me." The woman beckoned Xiao Er to pick up her luggage, and at the same time accompanied Yu Longjiao to the inner hall. Yu Jiaolong: "Find me a quieter room, and I can pay you double the rent." The woman smiled: "Each room has a clear price, so I dare not charge more. There is a quiet upper room in the inner hall, but it is a little out of the way." Yu Jiaolong was exactly what he wanted, so he took the upper room.As soon as she entered the room and sat down, she suddenly felt a chill in her heart, her chest felt swollen and felt like vomiting, and her whole body couldn't help shaking.She unconsciously moaned softly.The woman was cutting and drying, and when she heard her groan, she looked back and saw that her face was flushed, she was startled, and hurriedly touched her temples, and unconsciously exclaimed: "God, your head is burning!" It's so hot, she must be sick!" "Yu Jiaolong only felt that her eyes were dark, the lights and figures were blurred, she was unable to respond, she just hugged the snow bottle and struggled to get on the bed, and then passed out. This is very urgent. The shopkeeper lady who picked her into the room was asking for a doctor, making medicine, and taking care of the child on her behalf. The shopkeeper lady guarded her day and night, guarding her for two days and two nights. Jiaolong gradually regained consciousness. As soon as she opened her eyes, the shopkeeper lady sitting next to her was so happy that she shed tears. While wiping away her tears, she smiled and said to Yu Jiaolong: "Bodhisattva bless you, you finally woke up. "Then pointed to the snow bottle that was sleeping soundly next to her and said: "Look at your child, I took good care of you and didn't froze or starve her at all. "Yu Jiaolong felt a surge of sincere gratitude, and hurriedly lowered her face to look at the snow bottle. She felt that it was for her that she had struggled back from the underworld. The shopkeeper's wife kept telling Yu Jiaolong who she had invited to see her doctor in the past two days, how she fed the child, how she worried about her, and so on. Yu Jiaolong listened gratefully.She felt that in such an ordinary woman, there was something she had never felt in those eunuch women in the capital.At this moment, she suddenly remembered that disgusting He Zhaolai.After thanking the woman repeatedly, she asked, "Who are you in this shop? What should I call you?" The shopkeeper smiled calmly: "What do you call me! The customers call me shopkeeper He; the shop assistants call me shopkeeper Liu, and the neighbors call me Ersao Lin. You can call me whatever you want." .” Yulong was as delicate as a fog, and couldn't figure out why she had so many different names. I want to ask again, but I don't know where to start.The woman seemed to have seen Yu Jiaolong's bewildered expression, and said frankly: "Don't be surprised, I am a miserable person who has a good family but married a second-class man." Then she told herself Yu Jiaolong's life experience was clearly revealed in front of Yu Jiaolong: it turned out that her surname was Liu, and she later married Lin Er, and the husband and wife opened this "Old Friends Come" inn.With Lin Er's sincerity and hard work and her enthusiasm and thoughtfulness, the business is booming and the husband and wife live happily ever after. Unexpectedly, Lin Er died of illness four years ago, and she has no children under her knees, so the inn is supported by her alone.As the saying goes: "Liquor is hard to drink, and widows are hard to be." The covetousness of relatives, the beating of ropes in the street, and some villains and scoundrels who often come to the store to eat and eat on credit, made her unable to cope, and could only cry and swallow.Just in the early winter of last year, Hebei escorted a group of exiles to Western Xinjiang to stay here. One of them, He Zhaolai, was seriously ill on the way, and he was dying here.The escort officer decided that he was hopeless and thought he was in the way, so he was thrown away in the store, and he took the rest of the criminals and went on their own way.Seeing him pitiful, out of kindness, she invited a doctor to treat his illness, and asked the waiter to take care of him. Finally, he was brought back to life and recovered slowly.She learned that He Zhaolai also had no children and no wife in Hebei, and now he has no family to return to, so she left him in the shop and helped to take care of him.Unexpectedly, after a long time, some gossip and gossip were attracted, and those relatives who had been coveting the inn all the time stirred up trouble and spread rumors to slander.Seeing that He Zhaolai can write and calculate, and is also dedicated to taking care of the business in the store, she was so angry that she simply recruited him to her door and formally remarried him.Therefore, the guests who came to the store believed that He Zhaolai was the shopkeeper and called her the shopkeeper's wife. Changed her words and kept calling her Second Sister Lin. After the woman told about her life experience, she couldn't help sighing, and said: "I'm not afraid that you will laugh at me, just from the three different names everyone calls me, it can be seen that it is difficult to be a human being!" Yu Jiaolong is most concerned about He Zhaolai.She bowed her head and murmured, and after careful consideration of these three titles, she said, "Sister Liu, did He Zhaolai ever tell you what crime he committed when he was exiled to the army?" The woman let out a series of crisp laughter and said, "'Sister Liu'? Well, no one has ever called me that! This is called intimacy. "After she laughed for a while, she said again: "You asked why He Zhaolai was sent to the army. He said he was wronged, but I said it was not wronged.It was because he had a niece named Xianggu who worked as a girl for Miss Yu in the mansion of Lord Yu, the admiral of Nine Gates in the capital.Later, Xianggu eloped with a young man surnamed Chun, and went to visit him together.Of course Xianggu did not say that she eloped. But he had doubts in his heart, so he went to Yufu in the capital to inquire.He told me he was just trying to find out, and I figured he was probably trying to get some money out of it.Yufu began to push that Xianggu was ill and refused to let him see.He begged desperately to see him, but later the Yu Mansion simply told him that Xianggu had eloped and the mansion was looking for her, and the kind young lady gave He Zhao a hundred taels of silver and sent him out of the mansion.I didn't want him to reveal his secrets because of this.As soon as he returned home, the men sent by the Yu Mansion to secretly follow him arrived, immediately tied up Xianggu and the young man surnamed Chun and took them back to the mansion.Poor Xianggu, I don't know whether she is dead or alive.Thinking about it, it was his uncle who harmed her.Before leaving, the person sent by Yufu to capture Xianggu said he was going to testify and took him to the capital, but he was locked in the cell of the admiral's office.I imprisoned him for two months, and confusedly convicted him of kidnapping and hiding, so I put him here. "Yu Jiaolong understood in her heart that her father was afraid that He Zhaolai would leak the news and did this in order to stop his mouth. Therefore, after hearing this, she didn't feel unfortunate or sympathetic for He Zhaolai's wrongful crime, but only Feeling deeply ashamed and disturbed by the thought and pains her father had put into her actions. At this moment, the shop waiter led an old man with white eyebrows into the room. The old man caught a glimpse of Yu Jiaolong sitting up on the bed, he was a bit surprised and a bit relieved and asked Sister Liu, "When did you wake up?" Sister Liu: "It's been a long time since I woke up, we've been chatting for a long time." The old doctor's face was full of doubts, and he hurriedly came to feel Yu Jiaolong's pulse.Cut off the pulse, stared at her for a moment, and then said: "The dead pulse has weakened, and the living pulse has become strong. The turning point of the little lady's disease is not due to the power of the medicine: I have God's blessing, forgive the old man, if it wasn't for the suffering of the second brother It’s hard to invite me, the old man doesn’t want to come again.” Yu Jiaolong didn't expect her illness to be so serious, so she asked the doctor: "Old man, I don't know what disease I have, so serious?" The old man said: "Being tired and exhausted before childbirth, and suffering from postpartum disorders, the two are combined together, which is already Shenhe; the little lady has both, and the wind and cold enter the body, soaking the viscera, which is really terminally ill. But the little lady can Turning the crisis into safety is really a result of good luck. Although the current pulse condition has overcome the danger and become peaceful, it still needs to take good care of itself in order to be safe. Otherwise, even if there is the art of returning to heaven, it may be powerless." Only then did Yu Jiaolong realize that she was suffering from postpartum cold, and she couldn't help feeling grateful to the old doctor and Sister Liu, and thanked them again and again.Then the old doctor gave her a prescription to disperse blood stasis, invigorate qi and drive away the cold. Before leaving, he told her earnestly: "Calm down and recuperate, refrain from labor and anger. Be careful." Then he left. From then on, Yu Jiaolong had to stay in the inn. Under the personal care and care of Sister Liu, her health improved day by day, and she was able to go out of the room to take care of some daily chores.One day, she came to the outer hall due to some business, and saw two travelers gossiping in front of the hall. One of the travelers said: "Master Fang, the magistrate, offered a reward of five hundred taels of silver to find a woman with a baby girl. For some reason? This woman and Who is the baby girl?" Another passenger said: "There are a lot of discussions in the city, and the legends are also very strange. I think the woman is probably Mrs. Fang's concubine, and the baby girl is probably Mrs. Fang's daughter. Otherwise, how could he hang out such a big one?" Silver reward!" Yu Jiaolong was startled when she heard this, and was about to listen to it, when she saw He Zhaolai walking over, she hurriedly withdrew and went back to the inner hall. In the evening, Yu Jiaolong took advantage of the opportunity of Sister Liu to bring her medicine to the room, and turned to her to inquire, and then got some news from her mouth: After the Chinese New Year, Master Fang saw that the heavy snow had stopped, so he sent someone to the inn to pick her up. Mrs. Fang, I just found out that Mrs. Fang had left the inn the day before the Chinese New Year and hired a car to go to Suzhou. Mrs. Fang was very surprised. The situation before and after changing the daughter for a son and leaving the store in a hurry in the snow; and how the woman surnamed Chun chased to the pass of Qilian Mountain, found that the car and horse fell off the cliff, and how to find the valley from Hei Sankou. After talking about the news she heard, Sister Liu said: "The government has posted reward lists everywhere, and the investigation is urgent. I heard that they even sent people to interrogate Jiayufu. As long as they are single women with children, they must He was released only after strict interrogation." Yu Jiaolong smiled and said: "It happens that I am also a single woman, and the child I brought with me is also a daughter. When I leave Jiayuguan with a full illness, let's see if they let me go." Sister Liu looked at Yu Jiaolong, and said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "This is indeed a coincidence. What's more, you happen to be riding a big black horse! To be honest, when I heard this When I heard the news, I was suspicious and worried about you. After thinking about it carefully, I realized that you are definitely not the woman Mr. Fang offered a reward to find. "Yu Jiaolong:" Where did you come up with this determination? " Sister Liu: "You love this child so much, even in a coma, you keep calling her name, you are not your own flesh and blood, how can you be so connected. So I believe you are not the one whose son was replaced by someone. woman." Yu Jiaolong looked at Sister Liu, and said with a half-smile, "What if I'm really that woman?" Sister Liu was startled for a moment, then retreated for a moment, and said with emotion: "If you are really that woman, I will definitely protect you and never exchange you for a reward." Yu Jiaolong smiled, said "You are such a kind person", and changed the subject. The next day was dry, and Yu Jiaolong found He Zhaolai swinging in the corridor outside the room, turning her head to look into her room from time to time.Seeing his strange expression, Yu Jiaolong hurriedly hid behind the window and watched his movements.After a while, he hurriedly retreated to the outer hall again.Yu Jiaolong felt a little suspicious, so she couldn't help being on guard, so she hurriedly packed the scattered things into her bag, in case she was in a hurry.She had just finished tidying up when she suddenly saw Sister Liu rushing into the room with an angry expression on her face.Seeing that Yu Jiaolong had packed her luggage, she hurriedly asked, "Are you leaving?" Yu Jiaolong watched her and nodded silently. Sister Liu: "You haven't recovered from your illness, and you should take care of yourself for a while, but... it's good to leave." Yu Jiaolong: "Sister Liu, I understand a little if you don't tell me. Why did you marry such a person as He Zhaolai!" Sister Liu was ashamed and ashamed, so she could only sigh and said, "It's all my fault that I have no eyes, and I have encountered such a wrong! After hearing some rumors, he already became suspicious of you. He discussed with me last night and said that he was going to report to the official to receive the reward, but I robbed him of it.I couldn't find him just now, but I heard from a store clerk that he left the store and went to the government office on the other side of North Street.I think he might do something harmful to morality, so I came here to let you know whether to leave or not, you know it well. "Yu Jiaolong:" Sister Liu is so loyal to others, I will always remember her forever.事不宜迟，我打算立即动身，烦刘大姐就去关照一声，叫店小二给我把马备好。 " 玉娇龙等刘大姐刚一离房，便忙将雪瓶用兜带紧紧系在怀里，挽着行囊来到前堂。 店小二亦已将大黑马牵来，玉娇龙搭好行囊，牵马向店外走去。不料她刚走到门口，正好碰着何招来匆匆从外面进来。何招来见了玉娇龙先是一怔。张大一双惊诧的眼睛注视着她，脸上露出一种古怪的神情，嗫嚅地说道：“你……你……是谁？”。、玉娇龙嗔了他一眼，也不答话，牵着大黑马宣向门外走去。 何招来急了，忙上前将她拦住，说道：“你还不能走。” 玉娇龙忍住心头的厌恶，冷冷问道：“你想干什么？” 何招来听到玉娇龙的口音，不禁又是一惊，他忙从头到脚将玉娇龙打量一番后，惶惑地问道：“你究竟是谁？我好像见过你来？” 玉娇龙鄙夷地瞟他一眼，说道：“谁耐和你叨唠，我还要赶路去。”说完又向门外走去。 何招来忙又抢步奔到门口，拦住她的去路，说道：“你要走不妨，只是得把你怀里的孩子留下。” 玉娇龙不由勃然怒恼起来，她一挑眉，眼里闪过一道亮光，喝了声：“闪开！”随即一掌向何招来胸前击去。何招来顿觉眼前金星直冒，还未及呼叫，便已跌出一丈开外的街心去了。玉娇龙出了店门，正欲翻身上马，忽见街口那边涌出一群衙役，押着一名带着锁链的人犯直向客店走来。玉娇龙一看就已经明白那些衙役是为她而来，她不愿和他们纠缠，便忙一跃上马，准备冲过街口奔出城去。这时，只听一位领班衙役大声呼喊道：“休要放走那姓春的妇人！”不料玉娇龙刚一勒转马头，何招来已从地上爬起，亡命地扑了过来，张开双手拦住马的去路，仰面瞪着玉娇龙说道：“你也姓春？！我何招来眼尚不花，你以为我就认不出你来！” 玉娇龙见何招来似已认出自己来了，着实吃了一惊。她一咬唇，心里暗说道：“非是我容你不得，是你自来寻死了？”迅即从鞍旁抽出剑来，正要挥剑斩去，却猛然想起香姑，不禁又停下手来去何招来乘机转到马后，伸手揪住大黑马的马尾，大声呼喊道：“快来捉住这妇人……”不料他喊声未落，那被他激怒的大黑马，猛然飞起后蹄向他胸前踢去。只听他一声惨叫，口里喷出一滩鲜血，便躺在地上不动了。 就在这时，那群衙役已围上前来，玉娇龙正想挥剑纵马冲出入群，忽然认出那个被押在前面的犯人正是黑三。她见黑三神情惨戚，狼狈不堪，不由又收住缰绳，问黑三道：“他们为何捉你至此？” 黑三惨然道：“方二太太被人抢走，官府疑是我黑三干的；他们已经知道了方二太太以女换子的事，押着我前来认人。” 那位领班衙役手提齐眉棍上前一步，指着玉娇龙盛气凌人地说道：“你一个妇道人家，竟敢纵马行凶，定非善良之辈，还不快快下马，将拐骗的孩子交出，乖乖随我见方大人去！” 玉娇龙哪里受过这等侮辱，早已激怒得变了脸色。但她仍强按捺住心头的怒火，用剑指着那位领班衙役冷冷说道：“回衙转告你方大人去，抢走他二太太的乃是祁连山的黑山熊，与这位赶骆驼的黑三无关。作官应廉明清正，休要诬良为盗。至于换子之事，纯属乌有，休去轻信讹传。” 领班衙役瞪着玉娇龙说道：“你行了凶还敢这般桀骜！管你乌有不乌有，且随我见方大人去。”说完将手中齐眉棍一摆，就向玉娇龙马头逼来。其余衙役也举棍提刀一涌而上。 玉娇龙正想放马冲出，那领班衙役却猛然将齐眉棍向马头打去。大黑马受惊，倏然腾起前蹄，差点把玉娇龙颠下马来，她怀里的雪瓶也被惊得呱呱直哭。领班衙役不等马蹄落地，又是一棍向玉娇龙腰际点来。玉娇龙恼怒已极，忙用剑挑开棍梢，顺势翻手一剑向他咽喉刺去。只见锋光一闪，领班衙役便栽倒地上，玉娇龙柳眉高挑，杏眼圆睁，勒马提剑，忽对众衙役道：“敢来挡路的，有如这厮！” 众衙役已被惊呆，谁个还敢上前！玉娇龙环顾众衙役，冷笑一声，然后将马一带，大黑马昂首奋鬃，荡开四蹄，突出西门，直奔嘉峪关而去。