Chapter 21 Chapter 21

As soon as King Lu left, Mao Pijiang suddenly felt empty, and no one talked to him about state affairs anymore.He often slips out to play chess with his neighbors to pass the time. Although the common people talk about state affairs, they don't feel sad. They are just worried. Boring topics such as whether the family's daughter should be raped are always not to Mao Pijiang's appetite.Once, Cao Butcher, a tenant of Zhu Yuan’s family, was drunk and had just finished beating his wife. There is nothing you can do about being trampled by the Qing soldiers. Your little wife should be taken over by the prince to be worth it." Furious, Mao Pijiang rushed up to fight him, but was beaten black and swollen by Butcher Cao.Afterwards, Mingyan asked four or five servants to search Rugao City with sticks for five days and five nights to avenge Butcher Cao. Later, it was Zhu Yuan who went out to apologize and invited Mingyan to have a meal. , and asked two women who fled from northern Shaanxi to let Mingyan have fun, and the matter was settled.

Dong Xiaowan doesn't care about these things either.Every day I just do my own thing in the water painting garden, with a gloomy face, and I don't deliberately look for fun.Mao Pi only thought that she was a little lonely after she married and left, so he let it go and tried to make her happy. Dong Xiaowan packed the calligraphy, paintings, antiques, and gold and silver utensils at home in heavy wooden boxes and numbered them.Two silversmiths were invited to help divide the silver and pack several large sets of broken silver.And put a lot of copper coins on a string, hanging one thousand coins.Sometimes Mao Pijiang came to persuade her: "If you have this spare time, it's better to do more poetry to distract your mind." She just said: "How can poetry be eaten." He shook his head, feeling that Wan Jun had changed. Soon, the bad news of Yangzhou and Nanjing's fall came one after another.Especially when they heard that the Qing soldiers had bloodbathed Yangzhou for 10 days, the neighbors talked about it with great exaggeration, and the whole world was covered in blood, as if they had just escaped from Yangzhou. Of course, the most talked about is the disaster for women. Those who speak bluntly find it disgusting, and the complexion of women has changed, and the sun is so gloomy that people are afraid.

Just when Rugao people were talking about Yangzhou as another world that seemed to have nothing to do with them, news of the Qing army's activities came from fifty miles north of the city, and people realized that one day they might suffer the same fate.Terror enveloped Rugao, and everyone felt insecure. Mao Pijiang was the first to respond.He said to Dong Xiaowan: "It seems that we have to escape to avoid the sharp edge." Dong Xiaowan said: "I've expected this day, I packed my things in advance." It was only then that Mao Pijiang realized that what Dong Xiaowan did a few days ago was not trivial.Embracing her gratefully, Dong Xiaowan took a lot of effort to push him away, saying: "It's a big day, and I'm worried that the servants will see it. Now it's time to think about the next step."

He smiled and said: "I don't worry, with a wife like you who can predict everything first, I don't care what the next step is, anyway, you will arrange it." "It's worthless. That's fine. Listen to me now. First of all, find a relatively safe place to arrange for the master. This place should be remote, and even the Qing soldiers don't bother to go. You can't let the master run around and suffer from being displaced. .” "This is easy. In fact, I imagined the current situation a year ago. There is a kind-hearted family in my family who can let the master live temporarily. There are mountains and lush forests there. Even woodcutters don't like to leave, let alone Qing soldiers. .”

"I also said that I made up my mind first, the young master thought it out a year ago, what am I still doing here with an axe?" "I only thought about this one thing too. The rest is up to you." "You only have the master in your heart, there is no wife and me." "Actually, I wanted everyone to go there." "Now if we don't go with the master, where are we going?" "you guess?" "Shaoxing." Dong Xiaowan blurted out. "Heroes see the same thing. We, Yuan Fang, and Ming Yan will go to vote for the King of Lu together."

"What about the house?" Dong Xiaowan asked, "There are still some gold and silver utensils." She pointed to the neatly stacked black lacquered boxes. " "That's all I'm worried about." "I think these precious things are buried in the mansion. In addition, Mao Quan stayed behind in Mao Mansion, and the Shuihui Garden was guarded by my father and single mother. What do you think?" "fair enough." The two discussed it like this.Go to the mansion and tell Mr. Mao and Mrs. Mao, and the two elders also know that there is no good plan.So he packed his luggage and asked Mao Quan to take a few people to send the master into the mountains.

Dong Xiaowan and Mao Gongzi started to bury those boxes.Because it is an extremely confidential matter, all the heavy work has to be done by yourself.Mao Bijiang, Dong Xiaowan, and Mingyan were so tired that their backs ached and they pried open the stone slabs on the floor. "According to this progress, the burial will not be finished until the Qing soldiers are killed. The young master will see if there is a trustworthy and capable person, please come and help for two days, okay?" Dong Xiaowan said. Ming Yan slapped his forehead and said, "Why don't you ask Wang Luo to help you?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Mao Pijiang said, "This person is trustworthy." Thanks to Wang Luo's help, a big pit was dug in two days, about twenty boxes were leveled at the bottom of the pit, filled with soil, and the stone slabs were laid out as they were.The excess soil was carried to the other side of the mansion and poured into the lotus pond. In order to prevent someone from recognizing the new mud at the bottom of the pond and guessing that there is a treasure buried somewhere, Wang Luo deliberately went into the water to dig out the dark silt and cover the new soil as a camouflage.On the other side, Dong Xiaowan and others cleaned the place where the treasure was buried as if it hadn't been touched.

So a table of wine was set up just for Wang Luo.During the meeting, Mao Bijiang repeatedly told Wang Luo not to leak.Wang Luo took a sip of wine, wiped his mouth with his thick hand, and sighed, "How can I trust Wang Luo, my lord!"Everyone waited for a long time, but when they didn't see him, they panicked and asked Mingyan to go and have a look.Mingyan stepped into the toilet and screamed.It turned out that Wang Luo had committed suicide in the toilet. "It's a pity." Dong Xiaowan said: "Such a martyr should die for the country." Everyone is miserable.It was to arrange the funeral. Fortunately, Wang Luo was an orphan, and he came and went naked without any worries.

Every family in Rugao City closed their doors and closed their houses, and they all quietly packed up at home and prepared to flee, although everyone was at a loss as to where to flee.When acquaintances met on the street, they all pretended to be okay and stood together to greet each other, which was still a trivial matter of living at home. Everyone knows in their hearts that the peaceful life has been completely shattered. Strange to say, everyone was preparing to flee for their lives, but no one left. They all hid behind the cracks in the door and watched, hoping that someone would be the first in the world.The most important thing was that he couldn't make up his mind where to escape, and longed for someone to lead the way.

When Maoquan came back from the mountains, Dong Xiaowan and Mao Pijiang felt a stone fall from their hearts. Unexpectedly, when everyone was talking, Su Yuanfang suddenly jumped up from the chair, threw herself on the window sill like a demon, stretched her neck and vomited outwards, vomited some mucus, but didn't vomit anything else, but suffocated a few tears.Everyone hurried forward to serve, but they didn't know what disease they were suffering from. Only Shan Ma smiled and asked the maid to bring hot water to wipe the wife's face.Then he said to Pijiang, who was full of sadness, "Congratulations, son, madam is happy!" Only then did everyone wake up, Su Yuanfang was so ashamed that she just lowered her face to her chest.At the moment, they had no choice but to plan to let Maoquan send Su Yuanfang to the mountains to be with the master and the old lady.Take the risk and have to do it.The master and the old lady were very happy when they heard that Su Yuanfang was pregnant with a child. For many years, the old couple had secretly worried about not having a grandson. Contains the old couple's desire to have grandchildren. When Maoquan returned to Rugao, the Qing army could reach Rugao in only one day, and it is estimated that there were spies of the Qing people in the city.Mao Bijiang immediately decided to leave tomorrow.That night, more than a dozen servants were ordered to accompany them. At daybreak, everyone would gather together and prepare the vehicles with lanterns. The coachman was also carefully inspecting them. He knew that the three vehicles would have to withstand the test of long-distance running.Dong Xiaowan stood at the door of the room in casual clothes and directed several servants to carry their luggage. The milky light of the lantern shone on her face, making her younger.The morning breeze is slightly chilly. Just when Maofu was about to flee, other residents of Rugao City also heard the news that the Qing soldiers were approaching, and they all decided to leave at dawn. A family at the east end of the city first got into the car and drove up the street. The wheels rolled over the wooden bridge rumblingly. The man driving the car wanted to calm down, so he raised his whip and shouted, "Drive!" This snort pierced Rugao in the early morning, like an order to charge, people who had already prepared drove their carriages and ox carts to the street one after another.Immediately the city became lively, filled with the cries of women and children.People yelled, overcoming their fears: "Hey! Brother Wang, where are you going? "" Go to my brother-in-law's house to avoid it. "" The Manchu barbarians of the dog day! "Get in the car, wait to die!" "" No more tatters! " "Hurry up, hurry up!" "" My shoes fell off! "" When is it, you still lead the pig. " Following the first car, people also got on the road one after another.There are also people from poor families who have no car or horse to ride, so they walk away with their burdens on their backs.At this time, people determined the direction and followed the first car. Most people followed blindly. Anyway, everyone ran in that direction. Even if they encountered Qing soldiers, they couldn't kill them all. A few can escape.Along the way, everyone was filled with terror. Dong Xiaowan stood by the gate of the courtyard, watching the fleeing people, and saw that the street was getting less and less people, and it was much empty, so she turned and came back.She asked Mao Pijiang: "There are so many people crowded on the same road, can we still take this road?" "This road is a shortcut to cross the river. Why don't you take it! Tell the vehicles to run faster and get to the front, far away from the crowd." The three chariots and several horses from Maofu were almost the last to leave Rugao.Of course, there are still many resigned people in the city who have not escaped, mainly old people. On the second day after Mao Pijiang fled, Chen Junyue arrived in Rugao with more than thirty riders.Seeing that the general situation was over during the Qing army's encirclement and suppression of Liu Caodong's first division, he led these remnants of the defeated generals to fight a bloody road and escape. Mao Quan had heard about Chen Junyue, so he prepared wine and food to wash him off.Chen Junyue stomped his feet and said: "It's a pity that Brother Maoxian left in a hurry. I wanted to invite him to join us in the cause of righteousness!" While everyone was drinking, a family member hurried in and said to Mao Quan, "The Qing soldiers are not far from the city. Dian Shi killed the magistrate, opened the city gate, and is about to surrender." Mao Quan said to Chen Junyue: "The general should lead the troops to leave quickly, there is still some dry food in the house, please accept it with a smile." Chen Junyue threw his cup to the ground, and said loudly: "I'm not running away. Brothers, at this point, those who want to stay with me will stay, and those who don't want to stay have time to go." These remnant soldiers were originally loyal and brave men or desperate people, otherwise they would have fled early, and they all expressed that they would fight the Qing soldiers in Rugao before deciding on the way forward. Chen Junyue jumped on the horse, waved the iron rod in his hand and said, "Come with me." Thirty or so horses ran on the street, not even daring to pounce on the soldiers, but only pounced on the empty wooden houses on both sides. Rush to the city gate.The gate of the city had already been opened wide, and Dian Shizheng stood respectfully by the side of the road holding a large seal in his hand. Although the Qing soldiers were still far away, another man who looked like a master was holding a tray with the head of the county magistrate on the tray. Dian Shi suddenly saw a group of officers and soldiers rushing from the city, he opened his mouth wide in astonishment, and just about to answer, Chen Junyue rushed in front of him, and with a stick, his brains burst.Dozens of brave men around Dianshi knelt down and begged for mercy. Chen Junyue ignored him, and shouted: "Follow me and kill the Qing dog." He took the lead in rushing towards the way the Qing soldiers came.He thought while rushing, the Qing soldiers were defenseless, why not kill him and set an ambush.Then he reined in the galloping horse and told the soldiers to lie in ambush.He said: "Brothers, I can see that the difference between people and us is the braid. I will fight later, just cut at the braid." All the soldiers hid in the woods. At noon, more than 20 cavalry Qing soldiers came slowly under the leadership of a sentinel, which looked like an outing.They never imagined that they would be attacked and killed.When Chen Junyue and others rushed out, more than a dozen Qing soldiers died without even drawing their swords.Only the last two or three cavalry escaped with their lives, and went back to lead nine hundred Qing soldiers to kill Rugao. Chen Junyue won the first battle. He cut off a dozen heads of thieves and asked the soldiers to carry them with bamboo poles. Braids are the best ropes, like carrying a dozen lanterns.Some people who did not escape from Rugao City greeted them, and some of them stayed and prepared to seek death in order to serve the late emperor of the dynasty.Dong Min is also among them. Chen Junyue knew that the Qing troops would come and kill them, so she thought that these people should not be implicated.He replenished the dry food and led the crowd out of Rugao.The only thing I brought with me was the only green cannon in Rugao City and a few barrels of gunpowder.He picked an important place to station and pointed the earth cannon at the intersection. Several soldiers began to build medicine, and it was impossible to build any more.Chen Junyue stepped on the body of the cannon with her hands on her hips, imagining in her heart that one cannon would bring peace to the world.However, it was this earth cannon that killed him.At that time, Qing soldiers rushed to the front, and he decisively ignited the fuse of the medicine. "Boom" a loud noise.The Qing soldiers were startled, but they didn't fall down. It was Chen Junyue and a few people around him who fell down.It turned out that the cannon had exploded.The remaining officers and soldiers and the Qing soldiers charged for a while, but none of them survived. Chen Junyue was blown off with half of his head and a leg, and his body was blackened by the medicine. Next to it is half of the earth cannon glowing with green light.That night, the moonlight was very good.His body floated in the moonlight.Someone came to the corpse and sat playing a bamboo flute. It was Dong Min. He felt that living and dying were like playing or not playing the bamboo flute.The sound of the flute attracted a group of Qing soldiers and cavalry.Dong Min didn't care, and blew the favorite song "Five Lanes of Plum Blossoms" several times in his life.After listening to the song, the leader of the Qing soldiers said softly: "This song should only exist in the sky, you should go to the sky and play it." Then he swung his machete, as if the moonlight flashed, Dong Min's head flew three feet away, The corpse was still sitting, still holding the flute in his hand. As soon as Dong Min died, Shan's mother would die, and she fell ill within a few days.Ever since she lived in Shuihua Garden, she and Dong Min have been living together, and they have developed a deep relationship.Maoquan invited a doctor to see her. She took several medicines, but they didn't work.Shan Ma also embarked on the road to Huangquan, and when she was dying, she only cared about Dong Xiaowan. Let's say Dong Xiaowan and Mao Pijiang drove out of Rugao City, and soon caught up with the refugees ahead.The road was dusty, and she urged the coachman: "Hurry up and overtake them." But on the crowded road, who is not fleeing?The same act wipes out identities at once, and no one can dictate to another.People take the family as a unit and consciously resist other people, even if they are neighbors who have lived with each other for decades. A car in front suddenly broke down, broke a wheel, and had to stop.Immediately the road was blocked.On both sides of the road are green wheat seedlings.At first people waited noisily, talking obscene words to relieve their boredom, but then they got impatient and drove forward through the wheat fields.So people ran over the wheat field one after another, and a new road appeared immediately beside it. It wasn't until it was getting dark that Dong Xiaowan breathed a sigh of relief.Because their car finally passed the family in front.The road has been widened, and you can run as fast as you want.She hoped to cross the river earlier and arrive in Shaoxing earlier, not because she missed Xixi too much, but because she would feel uneasy if she stayed on the road for an extra day. Their car only galloped for a while before they had to slow down.There were many people and cars on the road again.Only then did Dong Xiaowan realize that there are endless refugees.These refugees are people from another place.That night, they slept in a lowland area, and they lit a bonfire to barbecue dried meat. The smell of meat attracted many people, and they also set up camp nearby to barbecue food.The clamor gave Dong Xiaowan a headache.She stared wide-eyed at the branches above her head and the moonlight. At dawn, when I arrived at the riverside, I heard the shallow singing of the waves passing through the reeds from a distance.Mingyan shouted loudly from the front: "The Qing soldiers have come." Everyone was startled.Dong Xiaowan looked out the car window and saw several burned houses on the side of the road, and several mud walls were blackened by smoke, standing on a ruin.Mao Bijiang also saw it, held her hand, and said worriedly: "Perhaps the Qing soldiers have blocked the river." "I thought so too," she said. "Looks like we'll have to find another way out." "For the moment, it seems that we can only go to the salt official to avoid it." On the way to Yanguan, there were still some refugees following behind, and another group of refugees appeared in front, but they came head-on.The two groups of refugees came together, and after inquiring about each other's news, they were all frustrated and at a loss. Many people cried and didn't know where to go.Once people lose their purpose, they will scurry around like headless chickens or become numb and able to bear everything. Dong Xiaowan guessed that there were countless refugees swimming in the entire river beach, and they rushed blindly to the area they thought was safe, but they encountered a wave of people coming from there and rushing to the place where they escaped. refugee.People are full of depressing mood.Dong Xiaowan is glad that he did not lose his goal. One morning, a group of refugees walked past the car, dead-faced and dusty.After they passed, the car stopped suddenly because there was a woman in the road who could be heard gasping. Dong Xiaowan got out of the car and saw the woman squatting in the road.There is a baby in her arms, a few months old. "What's the matter with you?" Dong Xiaowan asked. "I'm sick and can't keep up with them." "Where's your man?" "Leave too, think I'm a burden." Dong Xiaowan thought for a while and said, "Get in the car." She got into the car and squatted again, just like she was on the road, holding the child, not looking at anything, just swaying with the bumps of the carriage.Dong Xiaowan asked her if she wanted something to eat, but she didn't answer as if she didn't hear her. Walking to a place with dense trees, she said, "I want to get off here." Dong Xiaowan said: "How can this work, there is no one here." "No, my man's in the woods, they're all there." "how do you know?" "I smell them." The car stopped, she got out of the car, and walked towards the woods. There was an exclamation in the woods: "Ma Defu, your wife has followed again." The group of refugees were really in the woods. On the way, they met many old people who were abandoned.An old woman even pulled the car shaft, begging Dong Xiaowan to take her away, she just wanted to see Leifeng Pagoda before she died.At that time, Dong Xiaowan was also powerless to give kindness, so she had no choice but to comfort her and give her two coins.I was not willing to give food, and there was not much food left. There are rumors of bandits attacking and killing pedestrians everywhere.Dong Xiaowan and Mao Pijiang were worried that they would run into robbers.One night, both of them were surprised to find that they hadn't been gentle for a long time.This makes her and he can't wait to make each other comfortable.The result was not satisfactory, mainly because there were too many people around and I couldn't enjoy myself to the fullest. At dusk that day, what Dong Xiaowan and Mao Pijiang were worried about happened.They met a person who came running in a hurry, and the person said to them kindly while running: "Guest officer, run for your life, there are green forest heroes ahead." A servant named Lu Xiaoda ran to the car, jumped off the horse, and said to Dong Xiaowan: "Young lady, hurry up, you and the young master ride this horse. Let me drive them away." Mao Pijiang got on the horse first, and Dong Xiaowan rode behind him, holding his waist tightly with both hands. Mingyan took the silver bag from the car behind and carried it on her back.As soon as he was ready, he saw a group of masked robbers coming to kill him on horseback.They heard shouts: "There's a car, there's a car, it's a rich man." Lu Xiaoda shouted: "My lord, run quickly." After saying that, he drove in another direction, the drivers of the two remaining cars were so frightened that they lost their cars and ran away for their lives. Like a nightmare.Mao Pijiang and Dong Xiaowan rode wildly for a while before suddenly realizing that they were already safe.It's getting dark, and I don't know where to go? The two were sweating profusely, and they were tightly pressed together, and they only had the strength to breathe.It was as if everyone died suddenly.There are no servants around. At this time, the sound of horseshoes came from behind.Both of them cheered up with surprise.Immediately, a voice was heard: "My lord, wait for me, wait for me." "It's Mingyan." Dong Xiaowan said. "Mingyan! Mingyan!" Mao Pijiang also shouted. The three reunited under the night.Only Mingyan followed his master closely, and his loyalty was touching. They travel through the best of weather, but not in the best of moods.Because it is spring, I feel even more sad that human life is not as good as vegetation.Two horses and a donkey were lazily walking on the dirt road. The donkey was bought from a refugee family, and Mingyan's horse was given over to Dong Xiaowan, who rode the donkey.The wheat fields on both sides of the road are overgrown with weeds because no one takes care of them, and they are truly idyllic and barren.They have lost their way and don't know where they are.They were extremely tired and sleepy, and they only thought about their destination, Yanguan.They asked many people, and people replied in various dialects: "I don't know." Dong Xiaowan seemed to have changed, with a shell covering his appearance.Mao Pijiang was a little annoyed, if Dong Xiaowan hadn't been there, he would have led Mingyan to rush towards the tall rolling waterwheels by the water. In these turbulent years, fate loves deprivation.When they met Qing soldiers for the first time, they had to give up their mounts in order to save their lives. At that time, they walked into a declining town.Starved and dazed, they were pleasantly surprised to find a hotel open.They ate a lot of meals—the most delicious dinner in their life, and they spent a full ten taels of silver.How the Qing soldiers were killed, no one knows.They only had time to follow the boss into the gap between the ceiling and the tile cornice. From the cracks in the tiles, they could see the Qing soldiers and those who were captured, and they dared not breathe, their throats were blocked with their hearts.Those who were captured stood in two rows along the street, and a general of the Qing army rode slowly past the people, picking out some people and beheading them with a ghost knife.On this day, anyone who is slightly different from the crowd will be doomed, such as taller or shorter, handsomer or uglier, clean or dirty.Only the most ordinary people get a life.A few days later, Mao Bijiang also said to Dong Xiaowan: "If we are caught, all three of us will be singled out and beheaded." The second time I encountered Qing soldiers was in another unknown town.They are used to not asking about place names.This time Mao Pijiang was caught, but Mingyan and Dong Xiaowan accidentally escaped from the search.But there is no danger.The people were gathered together, and an officer from the Qing army came on horseback, and it seemed that he was going to pick someone out to kill again.Mao Pijiang felt that he was a little tall, so he quickly shrank his neck; he also felt that he was more energetic than others, so he made a listless posture compared to the person next to him, hoping to get away with it.The first one to be picked out was a white-haired old man in gorgeous and clean clothes. The old man said to General Qing, "You dare not kill me!" General Qing looked at him in surprise and said, "Why didn't you?" The old man said loudly: "Ning Wang, I am my nephew." After speaking, he stroked his snow-white beard with his hand, and sneered with squinting eyes. General Qing rolled off his saddle, threw his braids backwards, slapped his sleeves twice, touched the ground on one knee, and sang, "Tie!", performing a Manchu kowtow.Then he got up and said: "So it's Prime Minister Ning's uncle, he will be guilty in the end." The old man pointed to the crowd and said, "These people can't be killed either." "Follow the order." General Qing took a few steps back, jumped on the horse, waved his hand, and shouted: "Send the order, withdraw." The Qing soldiers left in strict discipline.Mao Pijiang and the others survived, and they all went to thank the old man.The old man spat and said, "Damn, I owe that big man Ning Wang my life." The people had nothing to lose, except that Mao Pijiang didn't find his horse. With the loss of his mount, the road has become more difficult than ever.Dong Xiaowan was inconvenient to walk, let alone a long distance walk.The most inconvenient thing was that her appearance was too attractive, which made all three feel uneasy. They saw a lonely house on the side of the road, and there happened to be a woman standing at the door to examine them.Dong Xiaowan took a fancy to her peasant clothes, wearing them could weaken her brilliance and avoid some troubles. The woman couldn't believe her ears.She looked at Dong Xiaowan, and saw that although her clothes were dirty, she was beautiful, just what she had dreamed of.The village girl didn't believe that she would want her rags, so she asked, "How much will you pay?" Ming Yan said, "How much do you want to sell it?" The village girl said indiscriminately: "Ten taels of silver." After she finished speaking, she blushed, her simple nature made herself uncomfortable. Mingyan took out an ingot of ten taels of silver and stuffed it into her hand, "I bought it. You take it off." He originally thought that the village girl would go into the house to take off, but the village girl looked at the shiny silver in her hand and was so happy that she took off her clothes and pants on the spot.She stuffed the clothes into Dong Xiaowan's hand, waved the silver in her hand and ran towards the woods behind the house, shouting as she ran, "Father, dad, there is money, there is money!" Mingyan looked at her back, thinking just now Almost saw her tits. Dong Xiaowan changed her clothes, arranged her hair to look like a peasant, and suddenly became a village girl.It confirms the old saying that people depend on clothes.Later, they were lucky enough to buy a donkey.Dong Xiaowan leaned on the back of the donkey, holding the silver bag that Mingyan untied in his hand. Mao Pijiang drives the donkey at the back, Mingyan leads the donkey at the front, Dong Xiaowan sometimes sings to cheer them up. After about two months on the road, I still couldn't reach Yanguan City.At this time, the Qing soldiers had already controlled this area, and bloody killings were rare.They are in danger of encountering Qing soldiers at any time.For the sake of safety, they set foot on the mountain road with their donkeys. One morning, Dong Xiaowan woke up from a dream, and they spent the night in the cave.She found that Mao Pijiang had disappeared, so she hurriedly woke up Mingyan. She and Mingyan walked out of the cave and searched for a long time before finding him by a spring.He came out to find water in the middle of the night, accidentally fell down the steep slope, hurt his waist, and was moaning on the shallow grass, unable to stand up, let alone walk.It took Mingyan a lot of effort to carry him to the side of the mountain road.Dong Xiaowan didn't know what to do, she sat beside him and just cried. Fortunately, I met a priest named Song Chu.He is about sixty years old, has a little knowledge of medicine, and has a chivalrous heart.Mao Bijiang healed his wounds in the Taoist temple.This is a very desolate and decaying small Taoist temple. It has been in disrepair for a long time, and due to the turmoil of the war, all the Taoist priests have run away, only Taoist Master Songchu is alone.During the healing period in Maopijiang, the seven or eight wooden houses that were already in a mess, became bright and clean after Dong Xiaowan cleaned them up. Although simple, they are a good place to live at home.There is a small village not far from here where food can be obtained. In order to prevent Dong Xiaowan's beauty from causing disaster, Daoist Song Chu designed several masks for her, and no flaws could be seen when they were pasted on her face.Daoist Song Chu looked at her, satisfied at first, then shook his head and sighed.She asked, "Is there any flaw?" "This is a fatal flaw." The Taoist priest said, "It is an irreparable flaw." "Your eyes," said the Taoist priest, "are so beautiful. No matter what you do, you can't hide their light. They have three colors, gray, brown, and black, and they change according to your mood." Lying on the bed turbulently, he was startled and felt ashamed when he heard what he said.He has been with Dong Xiaowan for so long, although he has also observed the tone of her eyes, but he has never connected it with the change of her mood. This is a difficult time of mutual dependence. This dilapidated Taoist temple stands like a profound tablet in the hearts of Dong Xiaowan and Mao Pijiang. Every night, Mao Pijiang would be woken up by the pain in his waist, and Dong Xiaowan was always by his side.He never expected that it would be endlessly long once he lay down, in fact, no one expected it.She comforted him and said, "Young Master called me back from the dead back then. I don't believe that a living person as big as you can't stand up." Dong Xiaowan fulfilled her duty as a wife.She wiped his sweat, cleaned his excrement, and gave him medicine.Sometimes Mao Pijiang wanted to write a poem, he dictated it, and she copied it aside.She sang long and long miscellaneous songs for him.He often falls asleep in her arms. On a full moon night, Dong Xiaowan would lean against the door frame.One day, she suddenly figured out a truth: "Love means living with each other, not anything else." During these days, Mingyan also worked very hard.He even made a few friends in the village not far away. The Taoist leader is even more enthusiastic.Once, Mao Pijiang couldn't urinate for several days, and he was so choked to death.It was also the Taoist priest who traveled more than a hundred miles and invited a doctor.The method of treating this disease is extremely cruel. First, Mao Bijiang was bound tightly, and then a long iron needle with a spoon on the tip was inserted through the opening of his penis, and the blocked urethra was forced open. Wet with bloody urine. It was summer when they first arrived at the Taoist temple.It is now the second spring.Mao Bijiang's disease also improved day by day, and in April, he could stand and walk.Dong Xiaowan's hard work for a year was not in vain.The Taoist priest adjusted his diet with medicinal diet.By the end of May, he had recovered, but his body was still a little weak.In fact, I was able to walk around last autumn, but it took so long because Mao Bijiang was too strong, and he was still sicker than before. With the decisive departure of the disease, the lust of the flesh is on the rise again.Both he and she realized that it had been a long time since they had sex.They did it again and again, endlessly.In order to prevent Mingyan who was separated by the wall from hearing the sound, she tried her best to suppress her moaning, but she still couldn't help crying out when she climaxed. In fact, Mingyan had already heard the movement and knew what they were doing.He quietly put on his clothes and slipped out the door. In the somewhat cool dark courtyard, he stared at the starry sky for a long time in a daze, looking up to the sky and sighing. The next day, Mingyan went to the small village to play.He didn't enter the village, but was waiting for something on the mountain road.Finally, a village girl came over and saw him playing with an ingot worth two taels of silver, so she said, "Little brother, the silver is not for playing, can you give it to me?" Mingyan winked at him and said, "Let me touch it." I'll give it to you in one go." The village girl smiled and led him into the dense bamboo forest with a blushing face.Mingyan did it to her heart's content.Then he watched the village girl leave with the silver in her hands.This kind of thing happens once and there will be a second time, and Mingyan succeeds frequently. However, the good times didn't last long, and his behavior actually attracted a Qing soldier. Since the Qing basically controlled the Yangtze River, the Shunzhi Emperor's laws were also in effect everywhere.The displaced people returned to their hometowns one after another, and they found that the Qing Dynasty was no different except for braids.Among the decrees of Emperor Shunzhi, the hair cutting order was the most resolute and arbitrary. The small village not far from the small Taoist temple where Mao Pijiang took refuge also had to force their hair to be cut. The men were a little shy when they heard that they wore braids, and they were a little uncomfortable. One evening, Lizheng led a Qing soldier and a barber into the village along the dusty mountain road. That Qing soldier was a bit scary, not to mention he had a big knife pinned to his waist.The crowd accepted the haircut with great reluctance.After shaving first, he hugged his head and slipped back home.When it was the last one's turn, he yelled and was not convinced. The villagers all knew that recently, this kid got money from somewhere, bought a turban of a nobleman and tied it on his head, and swaggered in the village. There is no way to show off. The Qing soldiers drew their sabers in their hands and said, "Leave your hair but not your head, you kid wants to die." The man said: "It's not that I didn't follow orders, it's that you were unfair. There are two men in that Taoist temple, why don't they shave their heads?" "How do you know?" the chief security officer asked. The man said: "Why don't I know, recently a man often gave my wife money." Only then did the villagers peeking from the window know the origin of his money. It turned out that the two refugees were rich people. Qing Bing said: "Shave your head first, then go shave theirs." The man had to obey.He muttered, "We should have bullied foreigners first, and then bullied locals." The Taoist priest, Mao Bijiang, Dong Xiaowan, and Mingyan are eating together, and Dong Xiaowan has basically arranged the diet for the past six months, which has improved his taste, and he even wants to return to vulgarity!Without paying attention to Lizheng, the barber and the Qing soldiers walked up to them, and they stood up in fright.After hearing that it was a shave, Mao Pijiang felt desolate, and said with a mournful face, "Isn't it okay not to shave?" The Qing soldiers drew their swords in their hands with a bang, and shouted loudly: "Leave your hair but no one, keep someone but no hair. If you don't shave your hair, I will kill you." Seeing such a scene, we can't lose our lives for a few hairs, not to mention the saying "if you keep the green hills, you won't be afraid of no firewood".He and Mingyan had no choice but to obey.Looking at the broken hair falling on the ground, chest, and shoulders, he felt that Daming Jiangshan had just drifted away. Watching the Qing soldier walk out of the observation room, Mao Pijiang said with emotion: "The general trend is over. A Qing soldier dared to go deep into this barren mountain alone, and acted firmly and confidently, which shows that the outside world has been completely conquered." Dong Xiaowan walked up to him, touched his clear forehead, and shed tears.The two hugged each other and cried.After a long time, Dong Xiaowan said dreamily, "Let's go home!" Back in Rugao, the home looks more like a ruin.The butler bravely limped on one leg, and stood by the crooked courtyard gate to meet them, tears streaming down his face.The disaster is over and the homeland needs to be rebuilt. Mao Quan said: "Our house in Rugao was the most astonishingly destroyed by the Qing soldiers. The Qing soldiers fell on the crops like a swarm of locusts, and swept Maofu and Shuihui Garden in an instant. "Your son's books were all taken away. The leading civil official of the Qing Dynasty was Zhu Yizuo. He was a man who was addicted to books. It seems that the officials were not young. A Qing soldier scattered the books on the ground and trampled them with his feet.被他当场叫人拖出去砍了头。那些未曾收拾的字画也被他抢劫一空。他还说：'公子空有江左名士的虚名，收藏的字画没有水平。'” 冒辟疆咬牙饥齿道：“无耻的朱衣祚，当年孔庙闹事该把他杀死。” 董小宛道：“他怎么知道咱们埋藏的才是珍宝呢！” 冒全继续道：“瓷器也砸碎了。清兵懒得打开柜子，都用斧头劈开了事，里面的东西也抢走了，房子里的装饰品也抢走了。少夫人的画和诗稿也被他们翻出来乱扔，散一地，稿笺上留有清兵肮脏的脚印。少夫人的琴总算保留下来。那次来抢劫的都是清兵军官，有个军官想把琴砸烂，幸亏丫环翠珠不顾性命抱住琴哭骂，那军官火了，拔刀要杀翠珠，另一个军官推开他道：'别耽搁了。'他们扔下琴，去抢劫别的值钱的东西…… “楼上的房间破坏得最严重。老夫人那只精美的大柜子原先是用一面上好的镜子作门的，现在镜子碎了，里面的衣物荡然无存，地板也被劈开。每只大柜子、每个抽屉都被打开，整个屋子满是碎布烂衣。老爷的大柜子也被打开了，他们抢走里面那把弯月似的波斯刀。他们冲进少夫人的房间，打碎了镜子，摔坏了瓷器，把床杆扯下来，椅子和床上尽是碎片…… “在抢劫大衣柜时，他们发现了少夫人的一件荷叶边的淡红色薄纱裙，一个军官便用长矛挑着四处兜游，后面跟着瞎起哄的清兵，他们用刀把那件裙子刺破，直到破布小得无法再戳为止。那些清兵披着抢来的衣物发疯似的冲到街上胡闹，人们说他们疯狂到顶了。” 董小宛呷了一口茶，抹掉一颗泪珠，关切地问：“你的腿？” 冒全道：“被清兵打的。我因为无法忍受他们对财物的糟蹋，便对他们喊：'求求你们啦，穷人家经不起糟蹋的。'为首的那个清兵军官道：'他妈的，布置得这么考究的屋子老子从来没见过，敢说他们穷？'他便叫人打我，一个清兵用长矛刺穿我的大腿，这不，都跛了，还算好，没掉命。” 他们尽了最大努力重新恢复往日的家园模样。幸而埋藏的财物还在，发挥了极大的作用。那真是一段忙乱的岁月，连董小宛都没有闲暇好好休息一下。 家园重新收拾一新，往日的仆人们也纷纷回到府上，冒府重新兴旺起来。眼见去年未收一分银子的地租，首先要解决的便是重新建立收租的办法。另一方面，董小宛本想投资一部分银子从事商业，但一问之下，都说生意不好做，唯一好做的只有假辫子生意，由于大家新近都剪了发，都想买假辫子遮丑。而这个生意，董小宛不屑为之。 一切整治有序之后，冒全去山中接回老爷夫妇及少夫人苏元芳。苏元芳为冒辟疆生下一个儿子，冒老爷为他取名为冒久长字安生。 冒老爷和冒辟疆一见面，都为剪了发而感到羞愧，对不起先朝皇帝。当冒辟疆跪下时，出乎意外的是，冒老爷也跟着儿子跪下了。旁边站着的苏元芳，董小宛赶忙跟着跪下，一家人跪着哭了一场。 在修复家园的过程中，为了一根巨大结实的杉木，冒辟疆曾和如皋另一家财主发生了口角，那杉木通长十来米竟无一疤痕，实在太好了，两家都舍不得放弃。后来，由于冒辟疆出价高，那家财主忍气吞声让了步，从此，心里生了怨恨。 两年以后，这家财主找到了一个报复的机会。那时，董小宛也为冒辟疆生下一个女儿，取名为冒浣莲。她原以为从今以后就可以安安静静享受宁静的生活。且想法上已发生了和年轻时的虚荣想法截然不同的变化，认为只要丰衣足食就无需什么功名之类。但是，一个注定与众不同的人，就不可能过普通的生活，当她这样生活时，总有来自另一类人的阴谋暗算从侧面袭来。所以与众不同的人应该作好永远过动荡生活的准备。这不，为了一根杉木的仇恨，那家财主告冒辟疆通逆，此杀头之罪啊。 当衙门当差的王熊风风火火来到冒府时，正在赏花的董小宛便预见到命运的可怕变化。当天，冒辟疆便逃避他乡。董小宛站在星空之下，心里惴惴不安，总觉得有更不测的凶恶命运正冲着自己而来，她将无法逃避。