"Brother Yuan, is this Brother Yuan..."
On the official road, a thin figure suddenly appeared from the grass beside the road, and then stumbled to stop Li Yuan and his party.
I don’t know where this inexplicable appearance came from. The cavalrymen at the front of the team who were responsible for clearing the way quickly tightened the reins in their hands, then raised their spears in tacit agreement and shouted angrily: "Where are you from? How dare you rush into Yu Hou?" Your Majesty’s car?”
After all, Chuzhou is close to the border between the two countries, and there are still some unrest. The soldiers of the Forbidden Army drew their swords one after another and observed their surroundings with caution.
Li Yuan looked around and saw that the person blocking the road was really in a mess. She was wearing a green skirt, but it was stained with a little mud, and her bun was very messy. There was also a delicate crescent bead flower stuck on it, so she was clearly a woman.
Seeing that the woman was trembling with fear at this time, her hands were clutching the hem of her skirt that had been scratched, and she didn't seem to have any malicious intent. Li Yuan hurriedly raised his hand to stop him: "Don't do anything! Girl, why are you blocking the road?"
Hearing the words, the woman raised her head timidly, letting tears fall down her dirty little face. She stared at Li Yuan in confusion and whispered: "I, I am Jingyao! Brother Yuan! Don't you recognize it?" I am..."
Maybe there was some dirt on this woman's face. Li Yuan stared at it for a long time, but couldn't recognize it for a while. Then he tilted his head in confusion and asked, "Jiang Sheng, do you recognize him?"
Liu Jiangsheng immediately dismounted, stepped forward to take a look, and then turned back with a confused face: "Brother Yuan, I don't really recognize him either..."
But the woman just looked at Liu Jiangsheng gently for a while, then she trembled all over and said in a voiceless voice: "You are Brother A Sheng! Yes or no?"
"Wow, why don't you recognize me?"
The two brothers looked at each other. Luo Erhu narrowed his eyes and cast an intriguing look, then stepped forward and said: "Eldest brother and second brother, do you really not know this little lady? Could it be that she was sent by Wangjiazhuang to stir up trouble?"
When the woman saw Li Yuan and Liu Jiangsheng, they still had strange cold looks. It seemed as if the belief in her heart had collapsed. Coupled with the lack of physical strength, her waist softened and she curled up on the ground.
Li Yuan was not a cruel person after all, so he quickly got off his horse and went to check.
Then Liu's trembling voice came from behind: "Brother Yuan, why did the carriage and horse stop? What happened?"
Seeing my mother leaning out, the three brothers hurried over. Li Yuan comforted him softly: "Mom, just sit back and relax, you'll be fine..."
"It's good if nothing happens, it's good if nothing happens..."
The woman struggled to find her voice and took a look. At this moment, as if she had grasped a life-saving straw, she gritted her teeth with all her remaining strength and shouted: "Aunt Liu! Aunt Liu!... I am Jingyao! Aunt Liu!" "
Mrs. Liu's slightly stooped figure stagnated for a moment, her face changed, and then she responded: "Jingyao? Is she Yao?!" After saying that, she turned around and grabbed Li Yuan and the other three, insisting on stepping forward to identify her.
After Li Yuan and the other two slowly walked over with Mrs. Liu on their hands, the woman was caught off guard and pounced on the old man, frightening the three brothers and almost making a move.
Mrs. Liu just stared blankly at the crescent bead flower on the woman's head, and then for some reason, she burst into tears with excitement, hugged the poor woman tightly, and burst into tears.
"Wow!!! Aunt Liu, I finally found you!"
"What a Yao girl! How could the poor child be like this..."
Inexplicably, it became a touching scene of family reunion. Although the three Li Yuan brothers were a little uneasy, seeing my mother's determination and joy, they could only let her go for now.
Mrs. Liu did not dislike the dirt on the woman's body at all, but hugged her with a distressed face, patted her back gently, and muttered to Li Yuan: "Brother Yuan, why are you so confused? This is Mr. Wang My daughter, Wang Jingyao! When you were five years old, your mother hired a gentleman to teach you how to read and write, have you forgotten?"
Li Yuan was a little confused. After all, he was a soul-piercing person, and he still needed time to think about those longer memory fragments.
Liu Jiangsheng suddenly exclaimed: "Brother Yuan, I remembered it! She is really a Yao girl! She is a Yao girl who has lived in our house for a year! Look at the pearl flower on her head, it was given to her by her mother when we parted. !”
Li Yuan was stunned, and the childhood memories flashed vaguely in his mind.
Smoke was curling from the kitchen chimney, and on a spring afternoon, the gentleman in plain clothes and a humble face led a little girl with a ponytail to this simple hut. Mrs. Liu quickly put down the firewood in her hand and told Xiao Jiangsheng to go to the village to get some drinks. Then she took out two large strings of money that she had saved for a long time from under the pillow and handed them to the husband with a warm smile.
The little girl with sweet dimples stretched out her hand towards the equally ignorant little Li Yuan, showing her little fangs childishly: "My name is Wang Jingyao, what is your name?"
Little Li Yuan only felt that the girl's little hands were soft, and he smiled shyly: "My name is Wang Jing, oh no, my name is Li Yuan."
...
The cicadas were chirping. Mrs. Liu wiped the sweat from her forehead and drank the cool water from the well. Xiao Jiangsheng was hanging the freshly washed clothes aside and looked at his mother distressedly. From time to time, the loud sound of reading can be heard in the room: "Read it once for the teacher, and you will follow. Learn and practice it all the time, you can't say that!"
Xiao Jingyao: "Isn't it true that you should practice it when you learn it?"
Xiao Liyuan: "Learn and practice from time to time, no, no, no way."
Xiao Jingyao: "Giggle..."
...
The stream was gurgling, and Xiao Li Yuan held Xiao Jingyao's hand and walked crookedly along the stones in the shallow stream. Xiao Jingyao said softly: "Brother Yuan, please pull gently, it hurts!" Xiao Li Yuan chuckled, but used more strength, and then said to the girl whose eyes were watery with grievance: "Nonsense, why don't I pain?"
Xiao Jiangsheng sat on the bank with a silly smile, holding the freshly picked dates in his hands. Accompanied by the fallen leaves beside him, he shouted softly in the gentle breeze: "Brother Yuan, sister Yao, mother said, the water is fast, you be careful! Come up and eat the dates!"
...
Snowflakes were falling, and in front of a carriage outside the village, Ms. Liu pressed her hand on the unhappy little Li Yuan, and bowed to Mr. Wang.
The wheels began to turn slowly. Little Li Yuan broke away from Mrs. Liu and trotted forward with all his strength. He stumbled and fell into the snow, shivering in the cold: "Sister Yao!"
Under the hopeful gaze of little Li Yuan, a pair of small hands gently opened the car curtain. Little Jingyao waved the crescent moon beads in her hands and cried out: "Brother Yuan, you must come when you grow up." Find me!"
...
"Brother, brother?"
A familiar call suddenly brought Li Yuan back to reality from the vast white snow.
Luo Erhu looked suspicious, and then lost his voice: "Brother, why are you crying?"
Li Yuan closed his eyes and tried to hold back his tears, then stepped forward and knelt down on one knee, taking Wang Jingyao who had collapsed from Mrs. Liu's arms: "Sister Yao! Don't cry! It's my fault for not recognizing Out of you!"
Then she pushed aside Wang Jingyao's messy bangs with a look of pity, gently wiped the dirt on her face with her sleeves, and muttered: "Can you tell me, what happened? Who bullied my Yao girl into this?" Looks like this? I won’t let him go!”
Wang Jingyao suppressed the sobs at the bottom of her throat, tightened Li Yuan's sleeves with both hands, and sobbed: "Brother Yuan, I know you have become a high official now! I..."
Then a pair of peach blossom eyes gradually came back to reality, and then as if they remembered some terrible scene, they gritted their teeth and broke away from Li Yuan's arms with all their strength. Under the surprised eyes of everyone, they bent their knees and knelt down in front of Li Yuan: "I, my little girl, beg Mr. Li to make the decision for me. Please save my little girl and save my poor brother!"
