Seeing Huang Xiaoniu's confused look, tears burst into Shui's eyes.
"I had a daughter who was as old as you, but unfortunately she died young." After saying that, she couldn't help wiping her tears.
Huang Xiaoniu didn't know what to do, and he didn't know how to comfort his mother who had lost Qiu Ruoshui, who was as old as himself.
She was holding the new wide-sleeved clothes she wore for the first time, feeling uneasy.
Shui Shi kept sobbing while wiping her tears.
"Poor mother, you are so beautiful and touching when you grow up." Shui cried while staring at Huang Xiaoniu, as if she was her mother.
Hearing that Shui missed her daughter so much, even though Huang Xiaoniu was not her daughter, she was moved by maternal love. Her eyes couldn't help but turn red, and she felt tears welling up in her eyes.
Shui didn't seem to notice all this and continued to wipe her tears and sob.
"Mother, mother, why don't you call me mother when you see me? Have you forgotten my mother?" Shui Shi stared at Huang Xiaoniu, unable to take his eyes away.
Looking at Shui, who was about the same age as his mother, with the same loving expression and the same longing eyes, Huang Xiaoniu couldn't help it any longer and blurted out: "Mother, mother, mother."
"Mother, for mother's mother." Shui stepped forward and held Huang Xiaoniu tightly, her sobs turning into tears.
Huang Xiaoniu was hugged tightly by Shui Shi, and suddenly felt something was wrong.
How could I be so possessed that a strange woman considered me my daughter and called a stranger my mother?
Thinking of this, Huang Xiaoniu couldn't help but push Shui away.
Qiu Ruoshui also felt something was wrong. Huang Xiaoniu was obviously the little saint's personal guard, so why did he become his sister?
When Shui saw Huang Xiaoniu pushing her away, she cried even harder: "Mother, mother, I am your mother, why did you refuse my mother's kiss?"
Not only did she not let go of her hands, she hugged Huang Xiaoniu harder. It seemed that she really regarded Huang Xiaoniu as her mother.
"Mother, mother, I am your mother." Seeing Huang Xiaoniu pushing her away hard, hugging her tightly for fear of losing her, there was a look of despair on his face.
Seeing Shui's despair, Huang Xiaoniu suddenly felt like he had seen this look before somewhere.
Huang Xiaoniu couldn't help but fell into deep thought and searched this look carefully.
Seeing Huang Xiaoniu staying there motionless, Mrs. Shui thought she was ignoring her and shouted loudly: "Mother, mother, don't ignore me, mother can't lose you."
"Mother, mother, you are the mother of this slave family." Huang Xiaoniu finally remembered that her mother had this grief-stricken look in her eyes after her brother died in infancy.
Mothers all over the world feel the same heartache for their children.
It seems that the Shui family does regard herself as his dead mother, and she treats herself as her mother, so what?
Thinking of this, Huang Xiaoniu no longer flinched, but hugged Shui tightly, crying and said: "Mother, you are the mother of the slave family. Mother, the slave family is your mother."
"Mother is indeed back, never leave her again." Shui hugged Huang Xiaoniu tightly, her tears not only did not stop, but flowed even more violently.
Seeing Huang Xiaoniu and Shui Shi hugging each other tightly, Qiu Ruoshui couldn't help but be stunned.
How could she not expect that when the two met for the first time, they would recognize each other as mother and daughter.
Not only that, but what made Qiu Ruoshui jealous was that the Shui family actually gave Huang Xiaoniu a pair of jade rings she got from her mother's family.
She kept staring at this jade ring, but she didn't expect that her mother would be so partial and gave it to Huang Xiaoniu, whom she met for the first time.
She was surprised, and Huang Xiaoniu was even more surprised. She didn't expect that this mother really treated her as a daughter.
Seeing the unhappy look on Qiu Ruoshui's face, she realized how precious this pair of jade rings was.
Huang Xiaoniu felt embarrassed and immediately took off the jade ring from his hand and returned it to Shui: "Mother, this is too expensive, I don't want it."
"Since you are my mother and you call me mother, of course I will give it to you." Shui couldn't help but put it on her wrist.
In fact, Huang Xiaoniu doesn't like Yuhuan because she has always been in military uniform and is not used to wearing accessories.
However, this woman who treated her as her own daughter when they met really made her feel the warmth of home.
She has been fighting for more than a year. Although she has a good reputation, they are all men, so they don't know the pain of their daughter.
She must hide her female identity at all times, she must lower her voice deliberately, she must bind her breasts tightly, and if she wants to take a shower easily, she must sneak up on someone.
Especially when Tiangui came, it was excruciatingly painful, but on the battlefield, one had to grit his teeth and keep fighting.
During the battle with the barbarians, she really wanted to ask for leave.
But if she asks for leave, the barbarians will kill her with a single blow.
She tried to escape several times, but the barbarians surrounded Jiading.
If she doesn't kill the Hu people desperately, her family will be killed by the Hu people.
She could only endure the pain and physical discomfort and continue to fight.
In this way, I survived step by step and finally achieved success.
She is a woman hiding among soldiers and horses, and she is homesick all the time.
Although he didn't return home, he had another mother who loved him.
Thinking of this, she felt like the Yellow River bursting its banks, hugging Shui and crying loudly: "Mother, mother, you are my little girl's mother."
Xiao Niu was her nickname. At this moment, her heart really opened up to the Shui family and she truly regarded her as her mother.
"Little girl, now that you are at home, if you have any grievances or pains, please tell mother. Mother will always protect you." Shui said lovingly while stroking Huang Xiaoniu's hair.
Huang Xiaoniu's heart collapsed at this moment. He hugged Shui and said, "Mother, I want to be a good woman."
Huang Xiaoniu's brain was confused at this time. He was a mother for a while, and a chick for a while.
In fact, Yi Niang and Xiao Niu are both her nicknames, and they are the same at home.
"Mom, I will treat you well and make you a little lady that others can envy." After saying that, Shui gently touched the tears on Huang Xiaoniu's face and asked her to sit down.
Huang Xiaoniu nodded, feeling a little embarrassed when he saw that he was still lazily in Shui's arms. Mr. Shui shouted to the study: "Official, come and see your mother quickly."
Xixian Refugee Camp, on the Hu side, has hundreds of thousands of refugees.
Chen Tian and Chen Gui are ten and seven years old. They are both refugees from the Central Plains and are biological brothers.
Their clothes were in tatters and they had been hungry for several days. They usually drank water or picked up food from the ground.
They came from the Central Plains and gnawed tree bark and ate weeds.
Even so, they can barely make ends meet.
The two of them also have family, a mother in her thirties, and a five-year-old and three-year-old sister.
It turned out that the two had a father, but the father was fighting and dying.
The pitiful pension provided by the Hu people was not enough for the family, and it was used up after half a year.
The mother had no choice but to discuss with them and prepared to sell her sister.
What, to sell two lovely sisters, the two of them felt that the sky was going to collapse.
Chen Gui and Chen Tian knelt in front of their mother, crying and begging their mother not to sell their sister.
"If I don't sell my sister, will the whole family starve to death together?" My mother asked while sobbing, looking at the two of them.
Chen Gui and Chen Tian hugged their mother Liu's thighs and refused to let him sell their sister.
Chen Gui thought for a while and suddenly shouted loudly: "Mother, I heard that there is a place in Xingyuan Mansion called Xi County, which is a paradise on earth. Why don't we try to live there."
"Will the barbarians let us go? The government has set up checkpoints on the road, why would they let us go to Xi County?" Liu shook his head, not believing it at all.
Mrs. Liu not only didn't believe it, but said to her two sons: "My son, even if I sell my sister, the new owner's family is much better than ours. If my sister can survive, so can we, mother and son."
It's over, it's over, the two brothers tried their best to intercept, but the mother was determined to sell the two sisters.
Seeing that Chen Gui and Chen Tian wanted to intercept her, her mother was furious: "If you don't want to sell my sister, then I'll sell one of your brothers."
Seeing the two brothers hugging each other and crying, Ms. Liu asked, "Then you have to choose, sell your sister or sell one of you?"
Somehow these words were overheard by the two younger sisters, who ran away crying from the drafty home.
"Dang, dang, dang." The Baochang gong sounded again.
Mrs. Liu couldn't help being shocked. The family relied on her to spin yarn to make some small money, and the chief security officer came to collect taxes.
But the two sons don’t even know how to cultivate the soil, and the family has no meal left. Could it be that God doesn’t want people to live?
The security chief shouted loudly in his rough voice: "Those who want to go to Xi County, the government will open a way to guide them. One person will follow the lead. It is limited to three days. If it is overdue, they will not care."
"Bao Zhang Wang, is this true?" Mrs. Liu pushed open the broken door and looked at him and asked loudly.
The security guard is in his forties, looks about fifty, and has very dark skin.
He stopped playing the gong, glanced at Mr. Liu, and couldn't help but shake his head.
The Hu people often fought wars and suffered many casualties. He had seen many families like Liu's.
Even if he wanted to ask Liu for help, he couldn't do anything.
Even though he is a guardian, he can only guarantee the family's livelihood, nothing more.
He glanced at Mrs. Liu sympathetically and nodded: "Of course it's true, but it's very difficult for you. Do you have the money to buy the government road guide?"
"Where can I find this money? If I can't support my children, how can I still have money?" Mrs. Liu smiled miserably, and tears flowed from her eyes.
Wang Baochang thought for a while and suddenly asked: "Ms. Liu, why don't you find a man to marry yourself, so that you can support your family."
"Marry someone? The Nu family is ten years younger. Let's see if there is anyone else. Not to mention the Nu family has four burdens. Who would want an old woman like the Nu family?" Mrs. Liu smiled sadly again.
Although she was only about thirty, she had been overworked for many years and the man died in the war, so she looked about forty.
Under all kinds of blows, Liu's ability to survive was a blessing among misfortunes.
She knew that if she fell, her family would be doomed.
Wang Baochang looked at him for a few times, nodded and said, "Indeed, there are widowed families everywhere in the Central Plains."
"Wang Baozhang, can you give me a solution?" She knew that she was mediocre in appearance and would have been married off long ago.
Wang Baochang thought for a while, looked at Liu's house, and asked, "Have you decided, do you really want to go to West County?"
"Of course, please ask Wang Baochang to make it happen." Mrs. Liu gave a Wanfu salute and said gratefully.
Baochang Wang nodded and sighed: "For Chen Dalang's sake, your house will be priced at 10 yuan. This way, you can also have travel expenses and road diversion money, how about it?"
Liu's house costs about fifteen guan, and Wang Baochang's offer of 10 guan is barely enough.
"Wang Baozhang, it would be nice if you could add one or two more, even if it's consistent. It's at least a thousand miles from here to Xi County, and my family has four children." Mrs. Liu begged again, and after saying that, she took her two sons and got off together. kneel.
"Your house is leaking from all sides, and ten strings are enough. Let me add two strings for Chen Dalang's sake. How about it?" Wang Baochang looked troubled, looking at the family with tattered clothes, and finally added two strings. Huizi.
Mrs. Liu and her two sons knelt down and kowtowed respectfully to Chief Wang Baozhang.
Wang Baochang gave Liu seven guans, and Liu entrusted him with the remaining five guans to guide the road.
Although Mrs. Liu still had seven guans in her hands, after traveling thousands of miles, begging and spending money, she only had two guanshui in Xi County.
Ms. Liu thought that at first it was just her family, but on the road there were more and more people, dozens, hundreds, and thousands.
Seeing so many people going to Xi County, the Hu people were shocked.
On the way, they were intercepted by barbarians at a checkpoint on the grounds that they, the refugees, wanted to rebel.
An elder who could read took out a road guide, and the foreigner took a look at it before sending it off.
Those who had no way to lead were intercepted by the barbarians and asked to return the same way, otherwise they would be shot without mercy.
Mrs. Liu was uneasy and didn't know whether she could pass the test.
It is no longer possible to go back, and the house has been sold. It can be said that there is no place left.
The barbarian people looked at the family, all of them had disheveled faces and were trembling in the cold wind. They waved their hands and let them go.
These people are a burden, let them harm Zhaojiazhuang.
When they arrived in Xixian County, the Liu family discovered that there were too many people coming to Xixian County, including hundreds of thousands of people.
The entire hillside and foothills were full of refugees, all of them in tattered clothes, and some even half-clothed.
Liu's face turned pale when he saw it. Would Xi County still take in so many refugees?
The key point is that the Hu people are still at war with Xi County, and the Hu people will let these refugees pass.
If they are not allowed to pass, they refugees will only starve to death.
Here they have almost no food. Some of them dig up weeds and even tree bark to eat.
While waiting, they prayed to heaven, hoping that the barbarians would let them go and reach the West County in their dreams.
Finally, two days later, when these refugees were desperate, the Hu people finally agreed to let them go to Xi County.
Although they agreed to let the refugees pass, the Hu people had one condition, that is, all the money they had with them must be handed over.
An elder of about sixty came forward to ask for the reason. The Hu man glared at him and ignored him.
Another barbarian simply waved the scimitar in his hand without saying anything.
Finally, a Han man came out to explain: "Zhaojiazhuang is a paradise. You have money and food. You can guarantee food and clothing in the past. Since it is a paradise, you don't care about the small money. The Ya people also charge commissions. The Khanate introduced you to Zhaojiazhuang. Naturally There is also a commission charge.”
The refugees were talking a lot. If they gave the last bit of money they had to the Hu people, what else could they do? Are they really going to be beggars?
"We have traveled thousands of miles, and now we are just a few dozen steps away. No matter how difficult it is, if we don't have money, we have to grit our teeth and get through it." Refugee A, about fifty, thought for a while and said.
Refugee B is also about fifty, with worry all over his face: "I'm afraid that if we give the money we have to the barbarians, and Zhaojiazhuang doesn't give out money or food, we will starve to death."
"I heard that West County is a paradise on earth. Zhaojiazhuang has always had a benevolent heart and cannot ignore us." Refugee C, who is also about fifty, followed.
Refugee Ding, who is in his forties, saw the crowds everywhere and suddenly realized: "What the Hu people did, through collecting routes and commissions, not only squeezed all our money, but also treated us as a burden." Leave it to Zhaojiazhuang."
"That's it. Look at these refugees. There are almost no young adults. They are either old or weak, or they are women and children." Refugee A said.
Refugee B looked around and asked, "What should we do now?"
"You are a slave, and I am a fish. Only by handing over all your money can you pass this test." Refugee Ding thought for a while, with a bitter look on his face, and shook his head.
Refugee C gritted his teeth and his eyes turned red: "We sold all our family property to come here. I didn't expect that the barbarians would plunder everything before letting us go."
"We can hide it on our bodies, so what if we don't hand it over?" Refugee A's eyes were filled with unwillingness.
"Ah, ah." Suddenly I heard a scream coming from the front.
"What's wrong?" Refugee C asked the person in front.
About a cup of tea time, news came from the refugees in front.
It turned out that two refugees were unwilling to hand over the last money they had, so they hid it under their armpits. They were searched by the barbarians, and their heads fell to the ground immediately.
When Mrs. Liu heard this, she hurriedly took out the two huizi hidden under her arm. Her face was pale and tears could not help flowing.
She held the last two strings in her hand tightly and prayed to the sky: "May God bless me, overcome this difficulty, and keep my whole family safe."
After speaking, she looked at the four children behind her with extremely complicated eyes.
Chen Gui and his family came to the pass set up in front and saw that the pass was similar to the county seat. It also had a gate and an arrow tower. There were also a thousand barbarians riding bows and firearms that they could not recognize.
Seeing the ferocious barbarians, the whole family lowered their heads.
While collecting the money, the Hu man looked at the five members of their family.
She respectfully handed over the Liang Guan Hui Zi in her hand, and the barbarian glanced at them up and down, hoping to find any hidden money or objects on their bodies.
When the barbarians saw that their clothes were in tatters and could barely cover their bodies, they waved their hands and let them pass.
Ms. Liu took her four children with her and walked about fifty steps when she suddenly felt dizzy and couldn't hold on any longer, so she fell down with a thud.
I don’t know how long it took, but when she woke up, she saw a little lady in a red dress in front of her, feeding her porridge.
It was a large room with many refugees lying on the bed like her.
When she saw this little lady looking at the clean and beautiful skirt while her own clothes were in tatters, she couldn't help but bow her head in shame.
What Ms. Liu didn't even know was that she hadn't taken a shower for a month, and her whole body had an overwhelming stench.
But the nurse didn't seem to notice and kept feeding her porridge with a spoon.
Mrs. Liu thought it was a skirt, but later she found out it was a nurse's uniform.
Seeing her open her eyes, the little lady smiled slightly and said, "You haven't eaten for a few days. You were so hungry that you fainted. You have to eat slowly. If you eat too much, you will die because your intestines and stomach can't bear it."
Oh, Mrs. Liu understood. It turned out that she fainted from hunger.
Mrs. Liu glanced around and couldn't help but change her face: "Where are my children? They won't be sold, right?"
Could it be that Zhaojiazhuang also wanted to buy and sell people? Could it be that he had just escaped from the wolf's den and entered the tiger's mouth again?
Mrs. Liu pushed the little lady away to feed her, and couldn't help crying loudly.
I had calculated everything, but I didn't expect that my children would be sold by Zhaojiazhuang.
The nurse knew that she had misunderstood and said hurriedly: "Your four children are fine. They haven't bathed for a long time and are taking a bath. They will come to see you after bathing."
Excuse, excuse, Mrs. Liu didn't believe it at all, beating the wooden bed and crying loudly.
"Mother, mother. I'm looking at you, baby." Ms. Liu heard two voices, which were indeed Chen Gui and Chen Tian.
Mrs. Liu hurriedly got out of bed and hurried forward to hug her two sons. She looked at them and stroked them, fearing that they were missing some parts.
Seeing that her two sons were safe and sound, Ms. Liu felt as if her son had been found again. She couldn't help but hug her two sons' faces and kiss them again and again.
Mrs. Liu looked at Chen Gui and Chen Tian, and her expression suddenly changed: "Where are your sisters? Where have they gone?"
