“Eat slowly”
Cao Yi patted little Deng Ai gently on the back.
"Well, thank you very much."
After Xiao Deng Ai tried his best to swallow it, he thanked him with a grateful face.
Cao Yi asked kindly: "Xie'er, tell me what happened before you and your mother were separated?"
Little Deng Ai stopped eating and stammered about what had happened.
After hearing this, Cao Yi said: "If Pindao guessed correctly, your mother mistakenly thought you were looking for her and had gone south with Liu Yuzhou. Your mother must be looking for you everywhere among the hundreds of thousands of people who have gone south."
When Xiao Deng Ai heard this, he became anxious. He put the unfinished steamed buns into his arms and ran out: "I'm looking for my grandma."
"That's too late"
Cao Yi finished speaking.
A faint, dense cry of killing came from a distance, as if thousands of soldiers and horses were arriving.
"Cao Jun is coming"
Little Deng Ai was so frightened that he stepped back and sat down next to Cao Yi.
Cao Yi touched little Deng Ai's head and comforted him: "Don't be afraid, Pindao will protect you."
"Liu, Liu Yuzhou's men said, said, said that Cao Jun might massacre, massacre the city."
Little Deng Ai's body couldn't stop shaking, and his eyes were full of fear.
No reassurance will help!
Cao Yi took back his hand and had no choice. This famous general who would lead thousands of troops and dominate the world in the future was still just a young boy at the moment.
Suddenly, the shouts of killing stopped.
"Why is there no movement?"
Xiao Deng Ai looked confused.
"I must have discovered that this place is an empty city."
Cao Yi said calmly.
Little Deng Ai was stunned for a while, then suddenly got up, pulled Cao Yi's clothes and walked out: "First, sir, hurry up, there is a cellar in the yard next to me, let's hide in it, Cao Jun will look for it, look for it."
“We can’t be found”
Cao Yi put his hand on the dirty back of little Deng Ai's hand and tapped it gently.
“Oh, so comfortable”
Little Deng Ai, who had received some spiritual energy from plants and trees, had a happy expression on his face.
"You seem to have suffered a brain injury."
Cao Yi frowned slightly, sat down little Deng Aila, and channeled spiritual energy.
Little Deng Ai felt so comfortable that her eyes fell in love.
After a while, Cao Yi put down his hand and asked, "Try saying something and see if you still stutter?"
When Xiao Deng Ai heard Cao Yi mention stuttering, he lowered his head and said in a low mood: "When I was a child, I climbed a tree to dig out a bird's nest. When I fell from the tree, I stuttered. The children in the village made fun of me and even fetched it from me." A nickname for Deng Ai."
"You no longer stutter"
Cao Yi reminded.
Little Deng Ai suddenly woke up, with an ecstatic expression on his little face: "So and so stops stuttering, so and so stops stuttering..."
After a while, little Deng Ai calmed down a little.
Cao Yi asked with a smile: "Xie'er, have you become famous?"
Little Deng Ai shook his head: "My mother told me to go to Yingchuan next year and seek refuge with an old friend of my father's before his death, and ask that old friend to help a certain person."
Cao Yi touched little Deng Ai's head and said, "How about I help you get one?"
"good"
Xiao Deng Ai nodded immediately.
He had great respect for this gentleman who didn't know how to cure his stuttering.
"Deng Ai"
Cao Yi spit out two words.
Little Deng Ai's face froze.
Cao Yi said seriously: "When others laugh at you, just use your name to laugh at them. People who are ashamed and inferior cannot do great things."
Little Deng Ai was confused: "But I no longer stutter?"
Cao Yi smiled and said: "Your heart is still stuttering."
Little Deng Ai showed an expression that seemed to understand. After a while, he nodded and said: "Then I will call you Deng Ai from now on."
As he finished speaking, a sound of horse hooves appeared on the street outside the yard.
Xiao Deng Ai stood up immediately: "They are coming, let's go quickly."
"Don't be afraid, Pindao will take you to wash your face."
Cao Yi stood up, pinched little Deng Ai's dirty little face, and pulled him out of the room.
Because of the moon, it's not that dark outside.
Outside the half-open door, soldiers holding torches and riding horses flashed by from time to time.
Cao Yi took little Deng Ai to a cramped place on the right side of the gate, where there was a well.
"Go, go..."
Little Deng Ai, whose face turned pale with fright, urged in a low voice.
Cao Yi stretched out a hand and shook the wooden handle. The windlass drove the rope to rotate, making an unpleasant squeaking sound, and the water bucket slowly fell down.
"gentlemen"
Little Deng Ai was about to cry.
With a bang, the courtyard door was knocked open.
Six sturdy soldiers holding spears came in.
"Everyone in Xinye has fled, what should we grab?"
"Second uncle, didn't the Prime Minister strictly prohibit the robbery this time?"
"Hey, what do children know?"
"Except for the battle in Xuzhou, when we gave in and grabbed the ball, we didn't grab it every time."
"Don't rob! We are still Qingzhou soldiers."
"That ban does not include our Qingzhou soldiers."
"Ha ha ha ha……"
"But"
"It's nothing, tsk tsk. I really miss those days in Xuzhou. As long as we can get the much-needed food for the prime minister, we can rob as much as we want and kill as much as we want."
…
There was a splash of water!
Very abrupt.
The Qingzhou soldiers who were talking and laughing suddenly became quiet.
Swish!
Six spears pointed at Cao Yi and Deng Ai beside the well.
"gentlemen"
Little Deng Ai pulled Cao Yi's sleeve nervously, his thin body trembling constantly.
Cao Yi lifted the water bucket out of the well, leaned it against the edge of the well, tilted it partially, and said, "Come, wash your face."
Deng Ai didn't seem to hear it and stood in a daze.
"There are still two left"
"Hand over valuables"
"Let him cook some hot soup for me first. I'll eat some dry and hard things along the way."
…
The six Qingzhou soldiers were talking to themselves.
Beside the well, Cao Yina took out a pile of silk from his sleeve, wet it with water, and wiped it with little Deng Ai.
"Bitch, I'm talking to you, don't you hear me?"
One of the Qingzhou soldiers approached with a spear.
Cao Yi didn't seem to see it and continued to wipe Xiao Deng Ai.
"court death"
The Qingzhou soldier looked sharp and thrust forward with his spear.
Then,
The spear seemed to be alive, and the handle hit the Qingzhou soldier's chest.
A muffled sound!
The Qingzhou soldier was thrown several meters away and landed heavily on the ground, groaning in pain.
Little Deng Ai, who was so frightened that he closed his eyes, heard the sound and opened his eyes. He saw the Qingzhou soldier who committed the crime lying on the ground with a dazed face.
“So brave”
"Dare to fight back"
"kill him"
…
Five spears thrust forward together.
Then the same thing happened. All five Qingzhou soldiers fell to the ground, some groaned, and some screamed like pigs.
The movement in the yard attracted the attention of the soldiers passing by outside.
Following a rush of footsteps, a dozen soldiers rushed in, all holding spears.
Seeing the six comrades lying on the ground, they all looked wary.
"He's over there"
A Qingzhou soldier lying on the ground raised his finger.
A dozen soldiers looked over and were all stunned.
Under the moonlight, in a small corner, next to a well, a man in a loose robe was wiping the face of a child.
"Don't underestimate him, he is very powerful."
The Qingzhou soldier lying on the ground said something else.
