161. Bandit Emperor (7) (1/2)

161. Bandit Emperor (7) (1/2)

On the second day after the capture of Yunzhou City, Wei Mingyan sat on the Taishi chair, holding the little girl in his arms, watching her eating snacks one by one, eating with one hand and catching the crumbs with the other, her face I couldn't help but smile.

"Eat slowly before you choke again."

Xiao Yi was wearing a new green dress with a beautiful braid on her head. She finished eating and looked up at him with red and swollen eyes. Her fair and tender face was full of expectation, "Sir, you have found my mother." Yet?"

Wei Mingyan coaxed her softly, "My father is a scholar, my mother works in the fields, and there is a grandma at home. What you said is too common. I am looking for the person who sold you to Yazi, and I will wait until I find her." Then you can find your mother."

The little girl nodded gratefully and expectantly, "Thank you, sir."

Qing Ziyu came in with the letter and said respectfully:

"My lord, there is a letter from my sister."

"bring here."

Wei Mingyan gently put the little girl in his arms on the ground, patted her little head, "Go and play with your sister, don't go to the lake."

Qing Ziyu looked at the cute little girl wearing brand new clothes and holding up a skirt as she crossed the threshold and went out with a smile on her face, "Do you like Xiao Yi very much?"

"I don't know why, but I like her when I see her."

Wei Mingyan chuckled and said, "Maybe it's because she looks a bit like my sister."

"Do you still have a sister in your family?"

Speaking of this, the handsome man sitting on the Grand Master's chair had a smile on his face and said, "Yes, I have a sister."

"Now that my foundation is solid, it's time to bring my family back."

Wei Mingyan opened the letter, looked at the contents, and his eyes gradually softened, "I have wronged your sister. In order to accompany my wife, I went to a place so far away from the capital alone."

Qing Ziyu couldn't help laughing, "Sir, Miss Ji didn't agree to marry you at all."

"You don't understand. We have already exchanged tokens of love. She must be thinking of me as much as I think of her."

Wei Mingyan looked at the details of Ji Xiawan's daily life recorded on it, as well as a page of scriptures handwritten by Ji Xiawan, and the smile on his lips never fell.

He carefully took out the page of scripture and put it in his arms, with a rare expression on his face.

"Assemble some troops and return home with me."

"Where's Mo Da? Let him go with me."

Qing Ziyu smiled and said, "He has found the whereabouts of his daughter. I will accompany him soon."

***

Yunzhou City was breached, and the people were panicked and hid in their homes. Except for the Miao City troops, there was no one on the streets.

Everyone is hiding at home, whether they are old people, middle-aged women, or children, the whole family is hiding in a room with fear. Those with men at home feel more at peace, and those with no men at home and only women are even more worried. I was so scared that I didn't even dare to express my anger.

This was the case in Widow Song's family. She and her husband both lost all their relatives in a flood. Her husband was her only support, but the military conscription took her husband away. She was already pregnant when he left. She was pregnant, but after her husband left, she supported her alone and accidentally had a miscarriage.

It was already very difficult, but less than two months later, the person who went with her came back with a broken leg and the news of her husband's death.

There were no men in the family, and there were no elders to help her. Under such circumstances, Widow Song quickly changed from a gentle woman to a taciturn woman who only worked day and night.

She became a widow, had no elders in the family, and lost her child. Her neighbors advised her to remarry, but she and her husband grew up together, so how could she be willing to leave him.

Later, no one advised her to remarry, but they were worried about what she would do when she got old because she had no children. Widow Song just laughed and said that when she got old and couldn't work anymore, she would find a rope to kill herself to avoid suffering.

Everyone said she was stubborn, so she kept to herself, and ended up picking up a little girl who was beaten and dying. She spent all her savings to hire a doctor to diagnose and treat the child and give her medicine. When others asked, she just said: From now on, this will be her and her husband's daughter, and her husband will be spared every incense.

The child was too young and could only cry and say that a bad guy had beaten her. She couldn't tell her whereabouts, so everyone just ignored her and the two unrelated mother and daughter lived like this.

Widow Song is famous among her neighbors for being timid and afraid of getting into trouble, but now most of the people are simple and simple. They won't bully her when they see a woman pulling a child, and sometimes they will help some. There is only one gangster who always faces her. When the neighbors saw the gangster talking dirty to Widow Song, the grumpy woman would help him to chase him away.

That gangster's parents were washed away by floods when he was a child, and he was raised by his neighbors. At that time, no one had enough to eat, but he was still able to survive because his neighbors took a bite out of his own rations. Come out and give it to him.

Therefore, although this gangster did not learn how to follow others and became a layman when he grew up, he never did anything to the neighbors. He was a talkative person but never acted in real actions. He was said to be a shameless joker. Two sentences, don’t hold grudges either.

One time, Widow Song's daughter got a cold and she was looking after her haggardly. Unbeknownst to the gangster, when he saw her, he teased her a few times as usual. Widow Song walked away quickly in shame and anger, or ignored Widow Song. He suddenly broke out, holding a pole and beating at the same time crying.

It's not easy to scold him, but for him to treat her like this is really worse than an animal.

The gangster seemed to be frightened after that incident, and never dared to talk nonsense to women again. When he saw Widow Song, he would avoid her from a distance. The neighbors told Widow Song that the boy was guilty. After all, he was raised by everyone, and he knew how difficult it was to live alone. He would never bother her again.

Sure enough, after that, the young gangster never appeared in front of Widow Song again. Even if he appeared, he would avoid her after a glance from a distance. She gradually let go of her worries and lived her life well.

Who would have thought that Yunzhou City would be broken after just a short period of relaxation.

Widow Song hid at home with her daughter. Her family was originally poor, and she had no land to farm. She had to embroider to pay off the debts every day, and then buy food with the money. In the past few days, Miaocheng attacked, and many people did not go out to sell vegetables. They did not buy vegetables yesterday, and could only eat the leftovers.

Yesterday, she only ate a little all day, and today she didn't eat at all. Widow Song had suffered a lot. Although it was uncomfortable, it was not unbearable. But her daughter was less than ten years old. How could she bear to be hungry for two days?

"Be good, bear it for a while, mother will pour you some water." Widow Song looked at her daughter's pale face and covered her stomach, and hurriedly got up to pour water, almost unable to hold back tears.

Her daughter was beaten and injured at the beginning. The doctor said that she should use good medicine to nourish her body, but she didn't use it. She didn't have the money to buy good medicine, so she could only live like this.

Her daughter was in poor health to begin with, and now she hasn't eaten for two days. She is really afraid...

No matter how much suffering she had in her heart, Widow Song turned around and hid her tears and handed the water to her daughter.

The girl took the water and thanked her obediently, "Thank you, mother."

She drank it mouthful by mouthful, her pretty face turned pale, and her stomach was cramped. The pain was like a fine and dense steel needle piercing, but she still held back a sound, not wanting to shout out and make her relatives worry more.

But she didn't shout. Widow Song could still see clearly her pale face and lips without any color.

She had raised this child for seven years and had long regarded her as her own flesh and blood. How could she bear to see her suffer? She gritted her teeth and decided to go out to find a neighbor to buy some rice.

"Mom, don't go."

The girl's cold fingertips grasped her sleeves weakly, and she squeezed out the words from her mouth with difficulty, "Now there are soldiers from Miaocheng outside, don't go."

"I'm fine, I'm just hungry for a few days, it's not a big deal."

"But what should I do if you continue to starve with this body!" Widow Song couldn't help but shed tears, "Mom only has you..."

The girl shook her head and was about to say something else, but the door was suddenly knocked.

The two of them stopped moving suddenly, and panic was in their eyes at the same time.

The door was knocked gently again. After no response, a gangster's voice came from outside, and his voice was particularly light, "Sister-in-law Song, it's me."

Widow Song grabbed her daughter's hand in fear, took a step back, and looked at the door as if looking at some flood beast.

"I know you have no food at home. Here is a small bag of food. I put it at the door. You can take it and eat it."

After the gangster finished speaking, he gently put down the food, carefully looked around, and tiptoed back to his home.

His home was close to Widow Song's home, and he disappeared in a short while.

In the house, both mother and daughter were afraid to go out, fearing that the man who had molested Widow Song had some conspiracy.

After a stalemate for a while, looking at her daughter's pale face, Widow Song gritted her teeth, took her into the inner room and let her hide, and opened the door regardless of her obstruction.

There was indeed no one outside the door, only the food on the ground, quietly staying.

Widow Song's heart was beating like a drum, and she didn't even know how she took the food back to the house. When her daughter asked, she found that she had already cried a lot of tears.

The gangster went home, rubbed his hungry stomach, scooped a spoonful of cold water and drank it. He quietly waited outside the window. From this angle, he could clearly see the door of the Song family.

Widow Song is pretty. Although she has become haggard in recent years due to housework, she is still eye-catching among women. Such appearance may be good when she is a girl, but when the man is gone, she is very eye-catching.

The gangster has always been bold. When the people hid at home and dared not go out, he had secretly run to the street several times. He found that the city gate was wide open and was accidentally seen by the soldiers of Miaocheng. They neither chased him nor drove him away. It was as usual as if they were originally the city guards of Yunzhou.

But the gangster did not relax his vigilance. He knew a lot of people from all walks of life in the past, and heard a lot of beastly things that the Xiongnu did when they entered Jin State. He knew how the defeated party would be treated.

He was alone and a grown man, so it was better. Widow Song's family had two beautiful women and no man to support them. In this case, it was the most dangerous.

Last night, he sneaked out and knocked on the door for a long time before buying this bag of grain from the person he had traded with before. He noticed that the Song family had no food.

The gangster was hungry, but he didn't take it seriously. A man is hungry, so he stared at the door of the Song family with his small squinting eyes.

As he stared, he couldn't help wanting to sleep. He closed his eyes, and didn't know how long he slept. Suddenly, he heard uniform footsteps.

The gangster shuddered in his dream, opened his eyes suddenly and looked over. As a result, he was shocked to find that a group of soldiers wearing Miaocheng clothes stopped at the door of Widow Song's house.

The tall and strong man in front seemed to be the leader knocking on their door.

The gangster felt cold in his heart. He had heard many people talk about what would happen if a woman fell into the hands of soldiers. If he took care of it, his life might not be saved. No matter...

Finally, he gritted his teeth, opened the door and walked over.

They were listening to the knocking on the door outside, and the mother and daughter, who were holding each other in fear, heard a familiar voice.

"My lord, my lord...what do you have to do with this family? I'm familiar with them. If you have anything, just ask me."

Mo Da frowned and looked at the person who suddenly appeared in front of him carefully, "Do you know this family? Is there a woman and a ten-year-old child living inside?"

The gangster's eyes changed, beads of sweat gradually appeared on his forehead, and he still smiled shyly, "Master, look at what you said, no one has lived here for a long time, how can there be any women and children?"

"What's the matter with you? I grew up here, just come to me directly."

Mo Da looked him up and down, "No one lives inside?"

"Come on, open the door for me."

"No, no, no!"

The gangster who had been trying to remain calm just now panicked and subconsciously rushed over to block the door, "Master, if you have anything, just tell me..."

"I'll ask you again, is there a mother and daughter living here."

"Yes! Yes!"

When Widow Song heard this, her eyes were full of despair, and she carefully protected her daughter in her arms.

if……

Then she would rather die than let those people succeed!

But then, the gangster's voice came from outside again, "Master, those mother and daughter are ugly. I'm afraid you'll see them. What do you want to do with them? Just tell me!"

He had a flattering smile on his face, but he was always guarding the door, holding on tightly, always on guard against the person in front of him breaking in.

Mo Da was already anxious, but seeing that he still refused to give way despite his ramble, he simply walked forward and said, "Let them come out, I have something to ask."

"Master!! Master!!"

The gangster's voice immediately became tense, "If you like beautiful girls, hello to the girls from our Yunzhou Flower House. I have some silver coins here. You can use them to have a drink. The one here is a widow. I'm afraid you will have bad luck..."

What and what.

Mo Da frowned and was about to force his way in. Qing Ziyu followed him and whispered, "Master Mo, he thinks you have a crush on the woman inside."

"I?"

Mo Da opened his eyes wide, and then he realized what he was doing. He looked up and down at the gangster in front of him. He was slovenly dressed, average-looking, with twinkling eyes. He was actually willing to risk his life to protect someone who had nothing to do with him.

"Okay, let me ask you directly if the woman inside picked up a baby girl seven years ago."

The gangster was on guard, but he didn't expect that he would jump right here when he opened his mouth.

He was confused in his heart, thinking that the little girl was beaten to the last breath when she was picked up. He was a little afraid that the person in front of him was an enemy, so he was a little cautious, "Our neighbors all know that Sister-in-law Song has a daughter. It looks like it should be his own.”

The light in Mo Da's eyes suddenly dimmed. He clenched his fists and looked disappointed.

Qing Ziyu had a headache and glanced at Mo Da, who believed him without any doubt, and looked at the gangster, "Master Mo's daughter was lost seven years ago. She was only three years old when she lost her. Now she is ten years old. We found out It's because this woman picked her up in the first place. If you know the truth, tell me quickly. If you don't tell the truth, we still have ways to verify it. "

The gangster's expression suddenly became hesitant. Mo Da saw hope and said quickly, "My daughter's nickname is Xuan Niang. She has a red birthmark on the back of her neck, which is very small..."

The girls in the room were still afraid, but Widow Song opened her eyes wide. She looked at her daughter in her arms, and there was a small red mark hidden on the back of her fair neck.

The author has something to say: Second update, good night everyone, red envelopes will be distributed to the top ten little angels