Lie Junhou [Rebirth]

"It was a little girl, about the same age as me at the time, six or seven years old, and she got separated from her family. She was dressed like a wealthy family, and she was seen by the housekeeper of Shao's and took her back."

Shao Chongyou looked hesitant and dazed, as if this past incident confused him and trapped him for a long time.

At that time, Shao Chongyou's mother was ill. The Taoist priest said that adopting a girl would save her life from bad luck. The little girl happened to be brought back to Shao's residence, so Mrs. Shao decided to keep her.

But the next day, the servants of the little girl's family searched from house to house in the city. When they found Shao's house, naturally, the whole house denied it.

Mrs. Shao even entertained the other party with great concern and said a lot of comforting words.

The Shaw family can be regarded as a respectable family in the local area, and the other party is very grateful for this kindness.

They had no idea that the jewel they were looking for at home was being detained in the mansion by the hypocritical Mrs. Shao in front of them.

That little girl was very smart, maybe it was a child's natural sensitivity, but within a day, she had already become wary of the Shao family.

At that time, six or seven-year-old Shao Chongyou had just been beaten and locked up in the firewood room. Someone from the little girl's house was in the front hall, and the Shao family would not let her go to the front yard.

She pretended to be well-behaved, and sneaked into the side courtyard while the guards were not paying attention.

"Hey, why are there people living in this place?" The little girl looked in through the narrow window, and saw Shao Chongyou who was injured and sitting in the dark woodshed.

Shao Chongyou raised his eyes to look at her, he didn't want to pay attention to her at first, but he felt strange, how could this beautiful child in rich clothes appear here.

"Who are you?" he asked.

"They said that I will be the eldest lady of this family in the future, but I am not." The little girl's eyes were naturally smiling, and she was full of aura. Dasuo, "I see - you don't live here, you are locked here!"

"Don't try, they will let me out tomorrow." Shao Chongyou was used to it, he looked down at a deep wound on his leg nonchalantly.

"Why are you locked?" The little girl really couldn't open the lock, so she jumped onto the woodpile again, her fair and delicate face was turned against the light, trying to see Shao Chongyou clearly from the only light source in the firewood room, "You are injured Yes, a lot of blood."

"They hate me." Shao Chongyou put away his injured leg, but then he remembered that he also had bruises on the corners of his eyes and mouth. How could he hide it, so he didn't hide it at all, and instead comforted her, "I'm fine, I won't dead."

"I was also imprisoned—I was imprisoned in your house. They didn't let me out, but they didn't beat me." The little girl thought for a while, then took out a few candies from her arms, "Eat the candy, eat it and eat it." It doesn't hurt anymore."

Shao Chongyou took the candy she threw, hesitated for a moment, and opened one and put it in his mouth. He looked up at the little girl, feeling strange, fresh, and a little bit happy.

No one in the Shao family likes him, no one treats him well, from Mrs. Shao to the servants, everyone can call and shout at him, and anyone who is upset can beat and kick him a few times.

This little girl is clean and pretty and looks as sweet as her candy.

Like the morning light coming in from that small window, the wind blowing in.

"What's your name?" Shao Chongyou asked.

The little girl blinked her eyes, with eyelashes like a small fan, and said with a smile, "Mo Li, when I'm away from home, my name is Li Li."

She was the first person to treat him like this. She didn't look down on him. She approached him not to bully him, but to talk to him in a friendly way.

The little girl secretly went to the kitchen to fetch water and snacks for him, leaned against the small window, and asked many questions, and he answered them patiently.

Two children who have lost their freedom are inside and outside the windows of the dilapidated woodshed, but they are like the two most free birds.

The good times were short-lived, and in the evening, the little girl was found by the servant.

"I'll come to see you tomorrow." Xiao Moli was extremely clever, and when he heard the footsteps of the visitor, he quietly told Shao Chongyou.

"You..." Shao Chongyou suddenly had a bad feeling.

"Don't worry, this is for you, my mother said it will be safe." The little girl tossed a jade pendant to him in a hurry.

But Shao Chongyou never saw Xiao Moli again.

The next day, as Shao Chongyou expected, the servant released Shao Chongyou who had been beaten and locked up for a day and a night as usual.

The injury on his leg was very painful, and he limped a little, but his back was straight, and he searched around Shao's mansion silently, but he didn't see the little girl at all.

"Tsk tsk, what a coincidence, my wife just adopted that little girl here, but who knows that her family background is not simple, but she became a hot potato instead." A poor woman sighed.

"Now we can only deal with it quickly, otherwise her family will not be able to seek revenge if they are found out in the future?" The servant next to her laughed.

It turned out that Mrs. Shao found that the little girl's family was not simple, and was worried that she would deceive others and be punished after the Dongchuang incident happened, so she just kept on doing nothing and sold the little girl. Disassociate with the Shao Mansion.

Shao Chongyou felt a chill in his heart, he stared at the two people without moving, the boy turned his head to see the young master, and sneered with his mouth crooked: "Yo, young master, are you engrossed in listening?"

"Where is the little girl you are talking about?" Shao Chong still clenched his fists.

The rough envoy gave a piss, and said in a strange way: "Nud Bodhisattva crossed the river and still missed other people. That little girl has been taken away long ago. It's hard to say where she will be sold."

The boy and the old woman laughed for a while, Shao Chongyou's face turned pale, and he dragged his injured leg and chased him all the way. The old beggar at the back door of Shao's mansion saw him and asked him what he was doing in a muffled voice.

Shao Chongyou asked: "There is a new girl in the house, about this tall." He compared his shoulders with his ears, "Have you seen her?"

Shao Chongyou was beaten and starved, and his status was inferior to that of a servant, so he could only walk through the back door. He often gave half a steamed bun to the old beggar. gone."

"Sell... where to sell?" Shao Chong still felt cold all over, which was more terrifying than every time he was about to be beaten.

"I can't find it." The old beggar shook his head, "Human teeth are very good at doing things, and there is no way out."

He has heard that Ren Yazi resells people thousands of miles away like animals, men become slaves, women enter brothels, or become concubines and maids, and those who disobey will break their legs and cut off their tongues. Life is miserable, no one will help them, and they will never be able to go home.

Shao Chongyou couldn't imagine what Xiao Moli would do if he was beaten, scolded and bullied.

He strode to the entrance of the alley, but outside the entrance of the alley, he was at a loss as he looked at the people and horses and horses passing by on the street.

This world is too big, he is not as tall as the beast head knocker on the gate of Shao Mansion, where can he find it?

Before he could inquire, the nanny in the mansion had chased him out viciously, pulling him by the arm and dragging him back: "Young master's wings are stiff, you shouldn't inquire about family affairs, and even go outside to inquire, I don't know what will happen." Did it bring trouble to Madam?"

Shao Chongyou's wounds from the beating were still not healed, and he was dragged in front of Mrs. Shao while struggling, kicking and beating him.

Mrs. Shao straightened her hair, which was studded with gold and jade hairpins, and cast a disgusted glance at him, saying displeasedly: "What are you crazy about, who do you think you are? Ask around, and I'll sew your mouth shut sooner or later."

Shao Chongyou was forced to kneel on the ground, and looked up at his mother coldly: "Why did you sell her? Why didn't you let her go home?"

Mrs. Shao did not expect that the little boy who had always been silent and patient would speak back, and his brows stood up suddenly, and his originally good-looking face suddenly became thinner: "What's wrong with selling it! You really think of yourself as a young master, don't look at your lowly face." look!"

Shao Chongyou never understood that Mrs. Shao's all kinds of insults to him meant that she was also humiliating herself as a mother, but she didn't regard Shao Chongyou as her own flesh and blood at all.

The Shao family can send the little girl back, and pretend that they helped find it by asking around.But Mrs. Shao is vicious and determined, and believes that people in the world are of the same character as her. She is afraid that the other party will find out that the girl she is hiding from others, and even more afraid that the other party's family will come to retaliate. "Drop it to avoid future troubles.

Shao Chongyou was beaten again, covered in blood, and almost died in the woodshed.

He looked at the stars at night outside the small window, and felt anxious and painful in his heart. He didn't know what happened to Xiao Moli at this moment, he didn't dare to think about it, and he couldn't imagine it at all.

This time, after Shao Chongyou was released from the firewood room, he took a handful of broken silver from Mrs. Shao's box, grabbed a thin and shabby outer shirt, and fled Shao's mansion resolutely.

Living in the open air, he sleeps in a ruined temple outside the city at night, mixes with beggars during the day, hides everywhere to find his Shao family servant, and inquires in the city for a long time.

I never thought of leaving the Shao Mansion before, because he was too young, and from the time he could remember, he lived a life that was worse than the livestock in the shed in the backyard. .

Maybe it was his weed-like vitality, the injuries all over his body didn't kill him, the life of a little beggar was hard after all.

He tried to report to the officials, but the Shao family was quite powerful in the local area, how could the government make a big fuss for such a child.

He wanted to contact the little girl's family, but the family seemed to have disappeared. No one knew their background, and they disappeared after failing to find the little girl.

He finally found a clue, but after a long time, when he searched for it, there was no trace of Ren Yazi.

Shao Chongyou had nothing, clutching the piece of Lishan jade that the little girl gave him, he felt that he was the only one still looking for her in this world.

"This jade is safe, and I give it to you."

"I'll come to see you tomorrow."

Such clean eyes.The little doll carved out of ice might be suffering somewhere at this moment.

Lin Yi felt very uncomfortable when he heard it, and asked: "And then, did you find her?"

Xiao Huan listened quietly, thoughtful.Nie Yanli was already slightly drunk, and the tender and delicious food seemed bitter in his mouth: "The people from the Shao family... really deserve to die."

"Later, I left aimlessly, learning martial arts from a teacher on the way, and kept trying to find out her whereabouts." Shao Chongyou said.

He has extraordinary talent, and after years of hard work, he finally became a legend in the rivers and lakes holding the Wanren sword in his hand, but he still can't find the whereabouts of Xiao Moli, a drop of water flowing into the sea, or a small figure falling into the world of mortals. .

When he grew up and became sensible, he naturally understood what it meant to be bought by someone else.

After learning martial arts, Shao Chongyou would go to Shao's house every year and ask them about Xiao Moli one by one, just asking.

He was already a well-known swordsman with high martial arts skills, and the Shao family could no longer control him like they did back then. It was enough to surprise them that Shao Chongyou didn't take revenge with his sword.

During the years when Shao Chong was not around, the Shao family gradually declined, and most of the servants were dismissed.

Coincidentally, the remaining people in the mansion happened to be the people who were related to this back then, and had the same character as Mrs. Shao, and the whole Shao's house was filled with the same viciousness as before.

He didn't expect these people to be able to recall any useful clues, and these people couldn't provide any useful information at all, but every time before leaving, he would ask a question and leave a sentence.

The question is: "Do you know what's wrong?"

The sentence left behind is: "I will give you ten years."

The Shao family and Mrs. Shao saw that he was not angry, but rather polite, so they just perfunctorily said that what they did was wrong back then, but they had no regrets in their hearts, and they did not take the ten years he said to heart.

Ten years later, Shao Chong arrived as promised and slaughtered the entire family of the unrepentant Shao family.

Since then, he has been condemned by the world and regarded as an unpardonable person.

On the hilt of Shao Chongyou's Wanren sword, there is a piece of Lishan Jade, which is clear and lustrous, obviously left to him by Xiao Moli.

Lin Yi and Xiao Huan looked at each other. Xiao Huan seemed to have something to say, but he didn't speak.

After a long silence, Nie Yanli's drunken eyes were hazy, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, but there was some mist in his eyes, and he looked at Shao Chongyou: "Is it because of her?"