Peach Blossom Dyeing Jinge

In the 31st year of Emperor Yujian, another group of fleeing people flooded into the capital Anyi.

Ever since the Great Wall fell and the barbarians invaded, the residents of northern Xinjiang have been fleeing to the Central Plains non-stop. The ten-mile peach forest outside Anyi City has been filled with camp tents, and more vehicles and horses are blocked on the official road, making it difficult to move an inch.

Late spring is the time when peach blossoms are everywhere, and the petals sprinkled on the roadside in previous years have now been trampled into puddles of mud by the footsteps coming and going.

In Anyi City, there were more people gathering in the market than before.

A seven or eight-year-old girl was squeezed into the crowd alone, with tears streaming down her dirty face, and she shouted in a childish voice: "Aniang, Aniang—"

Her complexion is dark, she is wrapped in an old leather jacket, and she wears soft leather boots, which are the clothes of herdsmen in northern Xinjiang. There is a smell of smell on the surface of the old sheepskin, which makes passers-by pinch their noses. Dodge right and dodge.

"A Niang, A Niang—" she continued to call out, rolling around like a ball of mud between people, and finally bumped into a strong thigh.

"Who is your mother, go away." The man who was hit was tall and burly, and pushed her away.

The little girl sat down on the ground, crying even more fiercely, tears swirling in her red and swollen eye sockets.

The tall man stared at the little girl on the ground, and was about to yell, but was stopped by the short and fat companion next to him, who lowered his voice and said: "This little girl's eyes are quite bright, she is a good girl, I think it's better to catch her back." Clean it up and sell it to Mr. Jin in the Hongyan Building, he likes to play with pretty little girls the most, hehe, after he enjoys it, maybe we can get rich too."

"It's really you, why didn't I expect it." The tall man took a big step forward, came to the little girl, grabbed the back collar of the leather jacket with one hand, and lifted her into the air like a chicken.

The little girl struggled desperately, punched and kicked, and soon received two loud slaps, slap, slap, two bruises immediately appeared on her delicate face.

The tall man twisted her arm hard again, and cursed: "The untouchable bastard, you have a big temper, shut up for grandpa, do you hear me?"

The little girl didn't dare to say anything more, she lowered her head, and tears rolled down the dirty mud, splashing down her face.

"Oh, you hit it lightly, what if you make such a soft little face look ugly." Humpty Dumpty tried to dissuade her, and at the same time put his fat palm on the little girl's face and rubbed it back and forth, laughing out loud.

"Bold pervert, put her down!" A crisp voice sounded from behind the three of them.

The tall man turned his head and saw a boy standing in the middle of the road pointing his nose with his index finger.

The boy was only in his early ten years of age, with a round face and a height of only half a person, but his imposing manner could surpass two of them.With his head held high, he shouted loudly: "Even little girls are not spared, do you still know shame?"

The tall man's face darkened: "Who's kid meddles in other people's business, believe it or not, I sold you out together."

"Wonderful thinking." The boy suddenly rushed forward, raised his arms, and let the things in his hands scatter into the air.

It was a pinch of plaster just out of the oven, hot and dry, and it floated into the eyes of the two of them along the spring breeze.

The two "prostitution thieves" were caught one after another, screaming and throwing down the little girl in their hands, covering their eyes with their hands, and bending down.

The boy stretched out his two little hands, quickly supported the little girl's shoulders, put them close to her ear and said, "Don't cry, do you see the wall in front, it's the barracks of the Zhenbei Army, run over there quickly , there will be guards to protect you and help you find Aniang."

"What about you?"

"I'm going to stay and clean them up."

After the boy finished speaking, he mustered all his strength and kicked each of them on the knee, then quickly turned around and ran in the opposite direction.

"Stop!" The tall man became furious and chased after him, and the short fat man yelled, and followed closely behind.

"Only a fool would listen to you!" cried the boy as he galloped across the market.

There are many shops on both sides of the market, and Lin Lang's goods are placed on the side of the street. He looked around, kicked over the rotten apple boxes in front of the fruit stand first, and then overturned the soapy water used for washing dishes at the door of the wonton stand. It was slippery with soapy water, and the two men couldn't stop, stepped on it one after another, and fell into the posture of dogs chewing mud together.

Hearing the curse behind him, the boy ran even faster with the wind on his feet.

He slipped in and out of the crowd, he had lived here for ten years, and the streets of Anyi were as familiar to him as his own fingers.

Confirming that the pursuers had been thrown away, he turned a corner at the corner of the street, dodged into a dark alley, and finally stopped, holding his hands on his knees and gasping for breath.

Before he could catch his breath, his eyes suddenly darkened.

The tall man actually jumped off the roof, his body was covered in soapy water and fruit puree, he looked down at him viciously.

Humpty Humpty also followed, blocking the entrance of the alley with his fat body, blocking the skylight.

"Little devil, I remember who you are," the man said viciously, raising a finger to poke his forehead.

Looking carefully, there is a scar on his forehead, slightly darker than the surrounding area, slightly reddish, about the length of a knuckle, with two forks at the end.

"You are the tree branch brought out of your mother's womb. I can't find the second one in the whole Anyi city. You are Di Xiangcheng's son."

"My name is Di Dongqing, I'm not a cub, and the birthmark on my head is not a tree branch, but a unicorn horn!"

"Kirin horn?" The tall man laughed loudly, "Oh, you are indeed a high-ranking general, and everyone around you is a master of sycophants."

Holly arched her mouth and stared at the other party with horizontal eyebrows: "Whoever wants to slap a horse's ass, I will punish you!"

As he said that, he picked up a broken wooden staff from the trash pile behind him, held the end with both hands, and put on a posture of facing the enemy: "I will deal with you with the Di family's sword technique!"

"Hahaha, what a sharp sword, it scares me." The tall man yelled with a strange expression in his mouth, but he didn't slow down at all, and approached him with his fists clenched.

Dongqing took a step back involuntarily, her back pressed against the cold wall, and her palms were covered with cold sweat.

He gritted his teeth and said silently in his heart-what am I afraid of, I am the son of Di Daxia.

After a while, the alley returned to silence.

Di Daxia's son was lying on his back in the mud, the wooden stick broke in two and rolled down beside him.

He ate the fist firmly on his face, his cheeks were hot and sore, and there was a fishy smell in his mouth.

The tall culprit was still dissatisfied, and kicked him hard in the stomach: "What a son of Hero Di, his strength is not as strong as a little girl's, if it hurts, call for grandpa a few times. "

It hurts, of course it hurts, Dongqing's scalp is numb from the pain, but he clenched his teeth and forced himself to open his eyes: "You...don't even think about it!"

"The mouth is still quite hard, watch me knock out your teeth."

Taking advantage of the time when the other party bent down, he propped himself up with both hands, squeezed a handful of soil from the ground, and raised his hand to sprinkle it.

It's a pity that his wrist was caught in the air, and the other's five fingers were like pokers, pinching his bones fiercely, and he couldn't help but let out a howl.

"Hmm... let me go!" Dongqing tried to struggle, and got another slap on the face.

"It's your fault that your heroic father didn't teach you martial arts." The tall man picked up his collar with one hand, and raised the other hand high, "Master, I slap you down, your Will the unicorn horn break off?"

"Well..." Holly gritted her teeth and closed her eyes.

The expected pain did not come, replaced by a tall man's doubtful voice: "... who are you?"

Holly opened her eyes a little, and saw a long, thin shadow behind the tall man.

The sunlight penetrating into the alley was somewhat dazzling, and it took Holly a few seconds to distinguish that it was a tall and thin person with long hair hanging behind his shoulders.

This person was wearing a dark black gown, like a shadow melting into the light, but his face was surprisingly pale.

Facing the tall man's stare, the man said calmly, "I'm just passing by and want to mind my own business."

The tall man sneered: "You dare to meddle in my business, I think you are impatient?"

"Thanks to the child's mother, I am living well."

Under Dongqing's blank gaze, he put his palm on the tall man's shoulders. The next moment, the tall man's facial features twisted into a ball, his knees bent, and he knelt limply on the ground.

Dongqing didn't see his movements clearly at all, only heard the tall man hissing in pain, and begged in the middle of his mouth: "Big... Hero, calm down..."

"If you want to appease me, you'd better get out of my sight."

"Yes... yes... the little one, just get out of here..." The tall man stood up tremblingly, took a few steps back, picked up the short fat man's arm, and rolled and crawled. out of the alley.

The man walked up to Holly and held out his hand to him: "Are you okay?"

Holly raised her head and looked at him, the man stood with his backlit, his loose clothes were blown up by a gust of wind, like a black bird spreading its wings.

Holly raised her arms and took his hand.

The complexion on this person's cuffs was as pale as his face, as if he hadn't been exposed to the sun for a long time, and his palms were cold, as if he had just walked from a snowy winter day.

"It's you! I remember you!" Dongqing suddenly raised her voice.

The other party was a little surprised: "Do you remember me?"

He poked his head like garlic: "Of course I remember, you are a patient treated by my mother, and I have given you medicine several times. Your name is Lu Zhengqiu, isn't it?"

The other party nodded and said, "Yes."

Dongqing's father was the Great General of Zhenbei who was conferred by the crown prince himself, and he was in charge of Wanying.Half of Di's Mansion is operated as a medical clinic, receiving and treating patients all year round, and there are many people coming and going. Lu Zhengqiu did not expect this young master to remember his name.

"Because you are the most special patient," Dongqing explained, "I go to deliver medicine to others, and they are willing to get close to me, but when I go to find you, you ignore me every time."

Lu Zhengqiu: "...I just didn't notice you."

"By the way, other patients often talk about you, saying that you have an unknown background and a bad background. You really don't look like a good person and cannot be trusted."

Lu Zhengqiu: "..."

"There was also a fortune teller who told me that you are... what are you, a person with a different horoscope and an ominous fate, and told me not to talk to you, not to play with you."

Lu Zhengqiu: "..."

Dongqing finished speaking in a breath, nodded in satisfaction, and said triumphantly: "So, for someone as special as you, I will never forget it after hearing it once."

Lu Zhengqiu sighed lightly: "Since you have listened to those advices, you should stay away from me."

Unexpectedly, Dongqing suddenly raised her voice and said: "No, don't try to scare me. The fortune teller also said that I am blessed by a unicorn, and my luck is more prosperous than ordinary people. I am not afraid of you."

"Those are just kid jokes."

"How could it be a joke, I was in danger just now, didn't you just come?"

Lu Zhengqiu blinked in surprise, this straightforward answer made him unable to refute it.He stared at the child next to him for a while, then turned to walk away.

Dongqing immediately caught up and clung to him like a ball of fur: "By the way, why are you here? Didn't mother tell you to stay in bed? Didn't you sneak out too?"

"I..." Lu Zhengqiu hesitated to speak, seeing Dongqing's childish gaze, he finally swallowed his words, nodded and said: "...well."

"Then we are accomplices!" Dongqing seemed to forget the pain, and pulled out a smile on her red and swollen face, showing two rows of white teeth, "You have lived in my house for half a month, but you have never spoken to me. I thought you were fierce."

"Fierce?" Lu Zhengqiu looked at him, not knowing how to answer.

Dongqing has moved closer to him and raised her neck high: "Don't worry, I won't sue my mother, but you have to keep it a secret for me, and you can't tell her that I lost the fight today."

Lu Zhengqiu said indifferently: "You are only a ten-year-old child, who would blame you."

"Ten years old is not young, you must have been practicing martial arts since you were ten years old, right?"

Lu Zhengqiu was startled, as if he was at a loss, but the other party had already grabbed his sleeve, and said impatiently: "You know martial arts, don't you, teach me martial arts!"

He shook his head and said, "I can't go against your mother's will."

"Just don't let her know!" Dongqing immediately replied, "She makes me read every day, memorize the pharmacopoeia, memorize the medical records, I don't want to listen to her words anymore." Hitting the opponent's waist, "Did she also let you take medicine every day? Your body smells like medicine, and your mouth must be very bitter."

Lu Zhengqiu said: "Medicine is inherently bitter."

After speaking, his face turned cold again, his expression was as blurred as clouds in a cloudy sky.

Holly blinked, as if remembering something, she reached into her pocket and fumbled for a paper bag: "I brought candy for you to eat!"

The ten-year-old child spread out his palms and held out a candy wrapped in paper.

He stood on tiptoe and stretched his arms so as to bring the candy closer to the other party, his round face flushed with joy and excitement.

Lu Zhengqiu took it and opened the candy wrapper, but what came out were a few crystal clear pieces.

"Ah, why is it broken?" Holly lowered her shoulders, seeming a little annoyed. "It must have been crushed during the fight just now..."

Lu Zhengqiu held the crushed sugar in his hands, this is Anyi's famous peach blossom candy, the sugar crystals are made into five pieces of peach blossom, with a real peach petal embedded in the center.After the sugar piece was broken off, a part of the peach petal was also exposed, lying on his pale palm, glowing with clear pink.

He pinched a petal and put it in his mouth for a while, his cold expression gradually changed slightly, the wrinkles between his brows gradually released, and his eyes gradually became rippling, like a ray of sunshine peeking out from the hazy clouds.

Seeing the ray of sunshine, Holly's heart jumped up again: "Is it sweet?"

He nodded, and the next moment the child beside him grabbed his hand: "Let's go, let's go home, there are still many at home, I'll bring them to you."

There was a chill on his body, but Dongqing's palm seemed to be wrapped in a ball of fire.