"Master, please leave quickly. I'll cover your retreat."
There was no emotion in the boy's eyes, but his face showed some changes of emotion. "No, I won't leave!"
Xu Huai was very anxious. The young master was good in every way except for one thing: he was too willful.
The young master was brought up by the princess consort.
Although the princess consort is the young lady's half-sister, she has always doted on the young master over the years and has always obeyed him in everything.
Therefore, the young master would only control his temper when the princess was around.
But as long as the princess is not around, the young master becomes a completely different person. He doesn't listen to anyone and no one can change his mind.
Even though he has followed the young master for so many years, he cannot influence him in the slightest.
Xu Huai felt helpless.
At this moment, for the safety of the young master, he could not care less and ordered the two secret guards on his left and right, "You break a hole, I will take the young master through the side."
After saying that, he knocked out the still stubborn boy, carried him on his shoulders and ran away.
It was five days later that Jiang Yu woke up completely.
He felt very bad. He vaguely remembered that he almost vomited after being woken up by hanging on Xu Huai's shoulders. At that time, the two of them seemed to have entered a mountain forest.
Xu Huai ran with him for a whole day and night without stopping, and kept playing a game of cat and mouse with the people behind him.
Finally, with no way to escape, Xu Huai threw him into the water under the cliff and went forward to meet the enemy.
***
Qianniu Village.
After the official read the imperial edict, he was invited to leave by County Magistrate Zhang.
Leaving behind were the Shen family members with dull eyes and pale faces and the villagers looking at each other in bewilderment.
The youngest, Shen Jinlin, felt the oppressive atmosphere among his family and was so scared that he almost cried.
Chen Xinyu widened her eyes, somewhat unable to believe the facts before her.
"How come?"
"Uncle Gui and Uncle Yu, have they been implicated by their own family?"
When the young boy thought of this, his heart was filled with guilt and anxiety, and he lowered his head even more tightly.
Shen Fugui glanced at him and just rubbed his head.
Chen Xinli raised her head and looked around at the inquiring eyes. Most of those eyes were filled with sympathy and regret, while some were not so obvious, and of course there were also some malicious ridicules.
At this moment, the whole village surrounded them.
Chen Xinli didn't like this feeling.
Sometimes, being noticed is an honor, but also a burning sensation.
Chen Xinli doesn't like either of these.
Some time ago, in order to explain the method of digging the underground canal in front of everyone, she had no choice but to make the Shen family the focus.
But that is also to survive on this land.
As for the culvert, she did not dare to take all the credit for it. It was the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancestors. Since she took it from the ancestors, she must use it for the people.
After living her life over again, Chen Xinli gradually realized that deep down she actually preferred a quiet, ordinary life where she would not be noticed and would not have to deal with too many people.
After a short period of time together, she has let go of her parents and other family members in her previous life.
Now, she just wants to live every day as an ordinary person in this world with her family.
However, the life of an ordinary person cannot withstand accidents.
Just like now.
Looking at the family's blank eyes and faces that hadn't relaxed for a long time, she finally couldn't help but stepped forward and tugged at the corner of her father's clothes. She raised her head and forced a smile at him: "Dad, let's go home first!"
Shen Fugui looked at the calmness in his daughter's pupils and couldn't help but feel a little shaken in his heart. He felt a little ashamed!
He lost his parents when he was young and fled, broke his leg when he was thirty, and now he is almost forty and has to take his whole family into exile. He cannot fall. As long as the family is still together, everything... everything will be fine.
Just as his parents had said when they had brought him and his brother here to escape the war, "As long as the family is together, there is nothing to fear."
"Okay, let's go home!"
Shen Fugui concealed his inner throbbing and nodded sharply at his daughter.
Then, he stretched out his trembling hand to support Chen Xinyu's tender shoulders, and said loudly to his family: "Let's go home."
Then, leaning on his cane, he strode towards the west of the village. His heroic demeanor didn't seem like he was going home, but rather like he was about to accomplish a great feat.
Zhang Fangju signaled her husband to follow with the boys, and she picked up Shen Jinlin, took her sister-in-law's arm, and walked away with A Li.
Watching the Shen family members walk away.
Zhao Lizheng's face was dejected. After he sighed deeply, he turned around and walked towards his home with a hunched back.
In Qianniu Village, when the gossipy women are down on their luck, they will secretly curse, "It's all because of that plague god of the Shen family."
But after more than 20 years of getting along with the old people, the farmers have gradually developed a strange feeling towards the Shen family.
They were surprised for a long time that the person who had always been trampled under their feet suddenly became the lucky star of the whole village and even the people in the north because of Mr. Shen’s dream.
Now, this family has become sinners. This ups and downs are hard for them to accept.
As long as a person has even the slightest sense of superiority, he will not feel much hostility towards others, unless they are always enemies.
Therefore, at this moment, watching the Shen family leave, even Sun Yu and a few gossipy women had a trace of pity on their faces.
Without the Shen family, there would be less gossip in the village!
The Shen family returned to the courtyard.
The moment Wu Yuehua closed the door, she finally couldn't help but hold the door and burst into tears.
Tears had already welled up in the eyes of several people nearby, but they were just walking on the road and didn't let the sound of crying come out.
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