Xiao Qi was five years old that year.

Xiao Qi's family was poor, but his parents kept having children as if they didn't know about the family's financial difficulties.Xiao Qi is the fifth child and has four older brothers.Mother's body was completely broken under such circumstances. On the day when he heard the news, his father beat his mother very badly.

"I can't even give birth to a woman! What's the use of you?!" Father loves to drink, he picked up the clay pot containing wine and mercilessly smashed it on the mother's head, the elder brother covered Xiao Qi's eyes, but In the end, he couldn't stop the piercing cry from entering his ear canal.

That night, his mother was sobbing in the corner of the room, Xiao Qi felt very distressed, he knew that her mother had committed a lot of sins in order to give birth to him.Xiao Qi got up from the bed secretly, trying not to disturb Meijue of his brothers, he wrapped his mother's arm with some baby fat arms, "Mother, it hurts, don't cry..."

However, the comfort she imagined did not come, and Xiao Qi was pushed away by her, "You still have the face to come to me! If it weren't for you...if it wasn't for you! How could my body be like this, if it wasn't for you, how could I be like this?" Become like this!"

"No... no, don't blame me..." Xiao Qi's palms were scratched, he raised his arms to let his mother see his hands, "Mother, it hurts..."

"..." She just looked at Xiao Qi indifferently, and stopped crying.

Xiao Qi panicked in his heart, he just thought that he really did something wrong, so he trot slowly to his mother, "Mother, it's all Ah Wu's fault, so mother, don't be sad anymore, okay?" He raised his little hand and wiped away the tears on his mother's face.

His mother suddenly smiled at him. He didn't understand the meaning of that smile, but he always felt that it was different from before.But when his mother embraced him and gently kissed the top of his hair, Xiao Qi instantly forgot that weird smile just now. "Ah Wu, mother is good Ah Wu. If you are really sorry for mother, then you will make the last contribution, and it will be considered as your repayment to this family, okay?"

"Okay, Ah-Wu will obey mother's orders!" He slipped into his mother's arms, and with the slight shaking of the woman's arms, Xiao Qi fell into a deep sleep.

On the second day Xiao Qi got up very late, no one pulled him up to work for the first time, Xiao Qi only pretended that he was still in a dream, everything was so unreal.

"Ah Wu, you're awake." Although the mother's face still had injuries, it always gave off a radiant feeling, as if her mother's crying last night was just Xiao Qi's dream.

"Mother!" Xiao Qi called out crisply, and then threw herself into her mother's arms.

The mother actually took his little hand, led him out of the house, and then handed his hand to the strange man outside the house.

"My kid is very smart. You got a great deal by selling it to you." After she finished speaking, she stretched out her right hand and shook it, signaling the man to give him money.

The man pinched Xiao Qi's face and looked left and right, his strength was surprisingly great, Xiao Qi's cheeks were in hot pain, and his tears overflowed in an instant.The man clicked his tongue a little irritably, and then shook his face away.Xiao Qi looked at her mother with some grievances, "Mother, Ah Wu hurts so much..."

However, no one paid any attention to him. The man took out three pieces of broken silver from the purse, thought for a while and stuffed one back.Throwing two small silver coins into the woman's hand, it was very little money, but the mother's face still had a smile that Xiao Qi had never seen before.

After doing these things, no one asked his wishes, so the man forced Xiao Qi to walk away from the house.Xiao Qi struggled to break free, but he was not as tall as a man's legs, so his struggles were all in vain.He hissed and yelled, "Mother! Ah Wu won't leave...I want to go home! Let me go...I want to go home!!"

Xu Shi was a little annoyed by his crying, the man grabbed his hair, forced Xiao Qi to look up at him, and said viciously, "Child, your family doesn't want you anymore, why go back."

"You're talking nonsense!" Xiao Qi punched and kicked his legs angrily, the man became even more irritable in his heart, he picked up Xiao Qi and put it under his arm. "If you continue to quarrel, I will throw you out and become a little beggar!"

Xiao Qi stopped crying immediately, but the tears still fell uncontrollably.Suddenly, he saw several familiar figures, they were brothers!Brother is back!Excitedly, he began to struggle again, "Brother! Brother! Help me! Take me home!"

The eldest brother heard his yell, and blocked the man's way anxiously, and the other three brothers followed him and blocked the way. "Who are you? Why did you take Ah Wu away?"

"This bad job..." The man muttered irritably, looked at the four little guys in front of him, and said angrily, "I spent money, this little guy belongs to me, don't get in the way here."

The eldest brother looked embarrassed, obviously he also understood the meaning, the mother sold Xiao Qi for money.

"Brother, if Ah Wu leaves, will we be able to eat more... Don't you also have enough to eat every day..." The second brother said at the right time. He lowered his head and drew circles on the sand with his feet. "Ah Wuzhi may live a good life..."

With just a few words of persuasion, the eldest brother also lowered his head and stopped looking at Xiao Qi. The third and fourth brothers were not much older than Xiao Qi, so naturally they hadn't even figured out the situation at this time, and only knew to follow the two elder brothers action.Seeing that the four little dumplings had stopped moving, the man continued walking with Xiao Qi.

Xiao Qi was stunned, and stopped struggling. He looked in the direction of his brothers until they completely disappeared from his field of vision.He closed his eyes, howled in pain, his nose and tears covered his face, "...why, why!!"

The man patted his ass, "Shut up, I'm so annoying."

Xiao Qi was taken to a house in the town. This place was magnificent and magnificent that Xiao Qi had never seen before, like a fairy palace in the sky.The man put Xiao Qi at the door, Xiao Qi looked up at the exquisite plaque that said "Zhang Mansion", then looked down at her patched, dirty, worn-out coarse clothes, shrunk a little awkwardly. shrunk down.

The man knocked on the door and someone came out.Xiao Qi got even more embarrassed to get behind the man, trying to block her embarrassment. "It turns out that Lao Lin is here. Have you found someone for the young master?"

"It's really hard to find people of the same age. I've put in a lot of effort this time. This person... eh? Where's the person." The man snatched a handful from behind and pushed Xiao Qi in front of him, "Look quickly look."

The man grabbed Xiao Qi and looked around a few times, feeling a little disgusted, "If you are dressed in such shabby clothes, there is nothing wrong with it."

Xiao Qi felt even more ashamed when he heard these words, he wrung his fingers and said in a low voice, "Uncle, can you, can you take me home..."

Lao Lin pressed Xiao Qi's head, "Look at your words, can I still cheat Master Zhang?"

"I'm sorry you don't have the guts." The man pointed his nostrils at Xiao Qi again, "Where is there any other home? This will be your home from now on."

"I, my home is in Penglian Village..." Xiao Qi raised his head, then lowered it quickly.

"What is the lotus lotus, who knows. When you come here, you just remember it for me, Zhang Mansion! Who cares where you come from?" The man pulled Xiao Qi, looked at Lao Lin and said, "This child Let's collect it first, the money is still the old rule, you just go back and wait."

"Hey, okay, you can come to me if you have anything to do!" Lao Lin greeted a few words, then turned and left.Xiao Qi stretched out his hand behind him, trotted a few steps after him, and was grabbed by his back, "Want to run again?!" Xiao Qi was dragged into Zhang's mansion by him, and the door was heavily locked in front of him. The ground closed, crushing Xiao Qi's last hope.

Xiao Qi was sent to take a bath and changed his clothes. He had never taken such a comfortable hot bath, nor wore non-abrasive clothes, everything was so novel.If there is a chance, he must bring some materials to his mother and brothers, Xiao Qi thought to himself.But thinking of this, his nose couldn't stop sour.

He was sent to a courtyard, and the person on the way said to him, "I am from Palace Master Zhang's family. When you see me in the future, you have to salute and call me Butler Zhang. All you have to do is to serve me well." Our young master, if you do well, you will naturally be rewarded, but if you don’t do well, be careful!"

Xiao Qi timidly replied, "Yes."

He looked at this other courtyard, the words "Bamboo Elegant Residence" were engraved on the green brick door outside the courtyard.Xiao Qi didn't know these words, but thought this place was particularly beautiful, more beautiful than any other place in this house.Butler Zhang led him into the courtyard, turned a few corners and entered a house, Xiao Qi found that the place seemed deserted, there were not many people at all.

There was a boy lying on the bed in the room, about the same age as Xiao Qi, but looked sick.Xiao Qi poked his probe a little curiously, but the light gauze obstructed him, so he couldn't see the person's face clearly.Butler Zhang bowed and shouted, "Young master, I have found another servant for you."

"...Ahem, let him in." A weak voice came from inside the veil.Butler Zhang pushed Xiao Qi, Xiao Qi lifted the veil and walked in.

The boy on the bed had black eyes, and looked extremely weak, but his eyes were full of energy.Xiao Qi lowered her head timidly, "Master..."

Young Master Zhang raised his hand tremblingly, "Come here." He looked at Xiao Qi, twitched the corners of his mouth with difficulty, and said to the outside, "This matter was done well." Then he coughed a few more times, his internal organs They all seemed to be coughing up, "What's your name?"

"I, I'm Xiao Qi, my mother calls me Ah Wu..." Xiao Qi twisted the corner of her clothes, and she naturally had a good impression of this young master in her heart.

"Xiao Qi, from now on, you must understand the rules when speaking. You go out." The young master pulled the corner of the quilt, and raised his hand weakly.Xiao Qi was a little disappointed, he actually hoped that the young master could call him Ah Wu.

Butler Zhang took him out of the house and arranged for him to live.

For the next few days, Xiao Qi was just doing chores here, eating well and dressing warmly. Although Xiao Qi was still homesick a lot, the sense of satisfaction was always watered down a lot.However, Xiao Qi overheard the conversation of several maidservants by chance.

"How long do you think this will last this time?"

"Who knows, the tragic situation of those individuals in the past... really..."

"very pitiful…"

Xiao Qi felt baffled, he lived so well here, apart from not being able to see his mother and the others, what is there to be pitiful about.

Not long after, Steward Zhang came to the door, bringing along a man Xiao Qi had never seen in the mansion.The man had a goatee, thin cheeks, and shrewd eyes, Xiao Qi didn't like it very much.

"Come here, take off your pants." Butler Zhang said softly.

Xiao Qi was puzzled, and he took a few steps back in resistance.But he didn't expect to annoy Steward Zhang, he raised his hand, and two servants stepped forward, one grabbed Xiao Qi's arm, and the other ripped off his pants.There was nothing left on Xiao Qi's lower body, he shrank back in fear.

Goatee stepped forward to take a closer look at Xiao Qi, and nodded with satisfaction, "I just said that the blood of a boy of the same age is the most nourishing! Young master, this is lack of yang, look at this , as long as you take some boy's blood, I guarantee that the young master will recover as before!"

"Our young master is all dependent on Immortal Yuanying!" Steward Zhang stuffed some silver into his hand, Xiao Qi looked a little dazed, he had never seen such a big silver in his life.

"It's easy to say, easy to say." The goatee stuffed the silver into the sleeve, and then looked at Xiao Qi, "The old man sees that this child is much better than the previous ones, the young master's illness may all be caused by this boy .”

Speaking of the goatee, he took out a small silk bag from his bosom, and then took out a delicate dagger from it, and gesticulated a few times on Xiao Qi's stomach.Xiao Qi was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, "Forgive me! Forgive me! I, I..." He was so frightened that he couldn't speak, but Butler Zhang just looked at all this with cold eyes, "I taught you everything. How long has it been since I still can’t recognize myself as a slave.”

The goatee also touched Xiao Qi's lower abdomen, and smiled, "Don't move, the original purpose was to take a little blood, but now if you move around, you will make a big gash, the old man will not be responsible."

Xiao Qi's whole body was stiff, the dagger lightly scratched the skin of his lower abdomen, barely touching his organs.Xiao Qi's whole body was numb, and the huge pain almost tore him apart.It was a very small opening, and the blood fell into the medicine bowl along his side waist.Xiao Qi bit his lower lip tightly, his waist was already numb, and his senses all over his body seemed out of balance, only the wound on his abdomen was magnified a hundred times.

Finally, the medicine collection is over.Xiao Qi's pupils dilated slightly, and Butler Zhang shouted from the side, "Immortal! He, he won't die right away?! You can't just take the young master's medicine just once!"

"Don't worry, this is the first time, I can't bear it, it's normal. I've seen you so many times, why are you still making such a fuss?" Goatee poked some ointment on Xiao Qi's wound, and the oozing blood stopped instantly Living. "Take him to rest."

Xiao Qi was thrown on the bed, and no one covered him with the quilt to tuck in the corners of the quilt, so throwing it away after use was nothing more than that.They carried fresh medicine and entered the young master's room again.

The goatee will come every seven days, and Xiao Qi will add new wounds to the wounds that have just scabbed.He has gradually become numb in the process.In this way, about April passed, and it was already winter here. Xiao Qi's abdomen had new wounds and old wounds. Sometimes he couldn't even sit normally. He always felt that he was going to die. His life was so unreal. .

He heard a lot of gossip. They said that he was the one who persisted the longest. Some of those people committed suicide, and some of them were abandoned because the young master's medicine didn't work.But for some reason, after using Xiao Qi's blood, Shao Yezhen's energy is much better than before.

It's time to get the medicine again, Goatee looked at his lower abdomen as always, and said in a deep thought, "Forget it, I'll tell you to take a rest."

"Immortal! This can't be stopped! The young master has finally improved, how can he just stop!" Zhang Steward stopped the goatee from letting him go.

"There is no place for him to get a knife here. Why did you ask the old man to come here?" Goatee touched his beard irritably, "The medicine is effective! Do you understand the efficacy of the medicine, let him rest, this medicine Efficiency can get twice the result with half the effort. Let’s stop now, and take more next time, which can be regarded as making up for the shortfall of these days.”

Butler Zhang looked at Xiao Qi's appearance, thought about it, and agreed.

It was precisely because of this time's tolerance that three days later, Young Master Zhang's illness suddenly became more serious.His coughing could be heard in Xiao Qi's room, Xiao Qi shrank at the foot of the bed in fear, and hid under the blanket to block out the sound. He covered his wound and cried helplessly, "Mother... woo woo ..."

On the second day, Young Master Zhang's illness suddenly improved, and at night, he approached Xiao Qi, "I heard that you are constantly giving me medicine?"

"Yes..." Xiao Qi said weakly.

"Then I have to thank you." The young master pulled out a pale smile, looking a little sick.

Xiao Qi looked up in disbelief, "Master, you are welcome, I...slave thank you for the food and clothing you gave me."

"That being the case..." He struggled to stand up and walked towards Xiao Qi, "Give it to me again, okay?" He stretched out his hand to grab Xiao Qi's shoulder, Xiao Qi stepped back a few steps in fear. But the young master was furious, "You just didn't pay back...cough cough, didn't you thank me young master!" His words were intermittent, as if he had used a lot of strength.

Young Master Zhang rushed forward two steps and grabbed Xiao Qi's shoulders tightly. Xiao Qi struggled, but he never thought that Young Master Zhang had such great strength.He tore off Xiao Qi's clothes, impatiently bit Xiao Qi's shoulder, he bit down hard, and Xiao Qi's shoulder was instantly bitten by him.

Young Master Zhang tasted the taste of Xiao Qi's blood in his mouth, he raised his head excitedly, there was already a deep tooth mark with blood on Xiao Qi's shoulder.He gritted his teeth in pain, and his shoulders felt numb, but he didn't care about these, because the young master's expression was freakishly scary, he murmured, "Master, don't do this, it's useless..."

"No! I can clearly feel my strength coming back! You are all lying!" He stubbornly wanted to bite Xiao Qi's blood again, but was hindered by Xiao Qi's fierce struggle.Young master Zhang stared at his round eyes, the black eyes in front of him made him look like Yan Luo who was demanding his life, Xiao Qi was so frightened that he froze in place.

"That's right. Xiao Qi, I have your blood in my body now. Now that I am you, what can you do if you give me some blood?" He pressed Xiao Qi's shoulder, and bit there again. wound.Young Master Zhang's teeth were grinding against Xiao Qi's shoulders, as if he was tasting an extremely delicious meal.

After all, Xiao Qi couldn't take it anymore, he raised his foot and kicked Young Master Zhang's stomach, the two finally separated.The young master licked Xiao Qi's blood dripping from the corner of his mouth, but he couldn't be satisfied at all. His eyes were scarlet, and the two eyeballs seemed to fall out of his thin face, "You dare to run! Cough cough cough... I will definitely catch you!" Back to you... drank your blood dry... cough cough cough..."

Xiao Qi ran out frantically, he didn't care about the bleeding wound on his shoulder, and he couldn't care about the pain in his body, he just wanted to quickly leave the life-threatening cough far behind him.

He knew that if someone from the Zhang family caught him, he would definitely have no way out.Xiao Qi went out along the dog hole in the corner, the outside of the Zhang residence was silent, Xiao Qi didn't dare to stay longer, he fled the Zhang residence.

On the second day, people from the Zhang family looked for him in the whole town. Xiao Qi was very scared. He hid in various corners of the town, his face was covered with dust, his clothes were already dirty and messy, and the wounds on his body were painful. It was terrible, and some yellow water flowed out from time to time.Xiao Qi took some snow and wiped the wound, he wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand, he really became a beggar now...

It's not safe to stay in the town. People from the Zhang family have been looking for Xiao Qi. After hearing that Xiao Qi left, Young Master Zhang's illness became worse.Xiao Qi was very scared, he got into the cart pulling the swill, because it was covered with thatch to prevent the smell from overflowing, Xiao Qi got into the gap between the barrels, and got out of the town safely.

After walking for an unknown distance, Xiao Qi fell into a drowsiness, as if he had returned to sleeping peacefully in his mother's arms that night.

"Who are you!" Xiao Qi was suddenly pulled up, he jumped a few times in the air, and was thrown to the ground, "Little beggar! Don't tell me to see you again! Get out!"

In the wilderness, Xiao Qi didn't know where he was. He shivered, wrapped himself in clothes, and exhaled a few breaths of cold air. It was so cold... He walked on the snow, step by step, his fingers and toes were so cold. Ma, the whole person seems to be frozen, and now it has been more than three days since he left the Zhang residence.

These days, the only thing Xiao Qi ate was the half dry biscuit that was stepped on several times.Now that he was starving, and he was in a world of ice and snow, Xiao Qi's meridians could no longer circulate blood, he could no longer lift his feet, and plunged headlong into the snow.Xiao Qi curled up in the snow, tears fell down his cheeks on the snow, making small pits one after another, he slowly closed his eyes, and at the last moment when he lost consciousness, he heard the sentence that he will never forget in his life talk--

"Your Highness! There is a child here!"

When Xiao Qi opened his eyes again, he was already in a carriage.The interior decoration of the carriage is not as good as that of the Zhang Mansion. Xiao Qi's eyelashes moved, and he quickly closed his eyes. In his nostrils, there was a mixture of his own smell and the fragrance of plum blossoms in the carriage, which seemed strange and somewhat nausea.

"Are you awake? How do you feel now?" A gentle voice rang in Xiao Qi's ears, and he thought of his elder brother for no reason, and the elder brother also spoke to him gently like this.The tense nerves in Xiao Qi's brain broke instantly, and he burst into tears again.

Zhao Chen was a little at a loss, he could only say repeatedly, "Don't cry, it's my fault."

Xiao Qi cried for a long time before he stopped crying. Zhao Chen wiped Xiao Qi's face with a handkerchief, and the original white handkerchief was stained with completely inconsistent stains.Both Xiao Qi and Zhao Chen were taken aback for a moment, and then Xiao Qi's face turned red instantly, and he buried his head deeply in his chest.

Zhao Chen obviously also realized that he didn't think Xiao Qi's weed-like hair was dirty. He patted the top of Xiao Qi's hair and said softly, "It's okay, the handkerchief is for wiping. If you don't want to I'll come, you can come by yourself, okay?"

He handed over the handkerchief, Xiao Qi took it trembling, and slowly wiped it on his face.Xiao Qi secretly raised his eyes to look at the boy beside him, he saw that he was a pampered son, his temperament was completely different from that of young master Zhang, he must be a hundred times more powerful than the Zhang family.He was also much prettier than Young Master Zhang, Xiao Qi looked at Zhao Chen in a daze again, but suddenly saw his red lips curled up, Xiao Qi immediately blushed and lowered her head.

"Your Majesty, why are your hands so dirty!" The boy next to the young master also woke up, looked at his hands in shock, quickly took out the handkerchief and carefully wiped his hands clean.Then he looked up and saw the handkerchief in Xiao Qi's hand, "Oh! So it's you, so dirty!"

"Taiping! Don't be rude." The little boy knocked on the head of the child named Taiping. He covered his head and smacked his lips aggrievedly.Xiao Qi looked at the interaction between the two of them, Taiping should be just this young master's servant, this young master treats his servant really well... Xiao Qi bowed his head a little enviously.

"Do you know where your home is?" Zhao Chen said.

Xiao Qi was taken aback, his home, where can he find a home now... Xiao Qi shook his head lightly, then saw the young master in front of him ponder for a moment, then smiled sweetly, "Then you follow me, okay?" ?”

He had never seen such a radiant person, almost instantly, Xiao Qi nodded.Taiping retorted, "Your Highness! Why did you take someone back casually! You don't even know who he is, what if..."

"Taiping, don't think of people so badly." He rubbed Taiping's head, "Take him back first, you can't watch him freeze to death outside."

Just at this time, Xiao Qi's stomach groaned twice inappropriately, the sound echoed throughout the carriage, Xiao Qi was so embarrassed that he couldn't bear it.However, Zhao Chen just smiled, took the kettle and handed it to him, and asked Taiping to bring out some pastries.His things are so delicate, even the dry food he brings out is shaped like a plum blossom.

Xiao Qi raised her dirty hands, lightly squeezed a piece of pastry, and chewed it carefully in small bites. "These are all for you." But Xiao Qi shook his head, he refused to take more after eating one piece.

After an unknown amount of time, the carriage stopped, Xiao Qi got out of the carriage with the two of them, and one foot landed on the bluestone floor tiles, his knees were so frightened by what he saw.The gorgeous palace is right in front of you, and Xiao Qi has only seen these in the only storybook at home before.Zhao Chen looked at him, took Xiao Qi's hand, and led him into the hall.

Xiao Qi was taken to change, and Jiang Taiping also pushed Zhao Chen to change. Zhao Chen couldn't resist him, so he still took a bath.Zhao Chen went to the side hall, nestled in front of the table and read a book with the stove in his arms. After waiting for a long time, the child finally came.After taking a bath, his hair was draped softly on the back of his head. He was dressed in black, and his small white face was extremely beautiful.

Zhao Chen invited him to sit down, "Don't you see that you are more energetic now?" Xiao Qi smiled embarrassedly, and Zhao Chen said again, "Why don't you talk, can't you?"

Xiao Qi lowered his head, but still refused to speak, his hair covered most of his face.Zhao Chen thought for a while, pulled out a silk ribbon from the table, stood behind Xiao Qi, brushed his long hair, grabbed the back of his head casually, and combed it into a tall hair with the ribbon. ponytail.

"You use this belt like this first, and you really can't find anything suitable for you." Zhao Chen patted Xiao Qi's head with a smile, "My name is Zhao Chen, and you just call me Your Highness just like Taiping .Do you know your name?"

Xiao Qi looked up at Zhao Chen's gentle eyes, and finally said softly, "Slave...my name is Xiao Qi."

This self-proclaimed Zhao Chen was stunned, how could this half-grown child call himself like this, "You don't have to be like this, just be more casual in private from now on."

"Slave..."

"Stop calling yourself a slave, I don't like to hear it." Zhao Chen said.However, Xiao Qi struggled for a long time, but still couldn't say the word "I" as usual.

Zhao Chen had no choice but to say, "Then you will call yourself a humble minister in the future, okay?" Xiao Qi thought for a while, then nodded, the little child saluted Zhao Chen respectfully, "My humble minister understands."

It's been called like this for more than ten years.

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The author has something to say:

I didn't expect that this episode could write so many hhh, I will continue to update the text in the next chapter.

The reason why Xiao Qi's parents want to have a daughter is that the daughter can be sold to others for a higher price.I wanted to say it in the article, but I didn’t expect that I would never have a chance to say it after I finished writing it. I just write it here, lest everyone will feel strange haha.

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