Tang riddles

In late spring and April, the climate in the south of the Yangtze River has become somewhat hot.The vicissitudes and devastation of the Cangran city wall of Jinling City remained silent, watching a group of chariots and horses rushing into the city.

An old house door was opened for a team of horses and horses, and several old servants welcomed back the master who had been home for more than ten years.

However, the master is no longer the master of the past.The owner of the year will never come back, and only two flesh and blood are left behind.Wounded and unconscious.

A woman in her twenties came down first from the carriage. Looking at her hair accessories, she was already married.It's just that the melancholy between her brows couldn't be dispelled no matter what, she didn't have the look that a newlywed at this age should have.But she is melancholy but tenacious, and her waist is straight, as if she will be crushed if she does not do this for a moment.

She called several old servants to help, and used a stretcher to lift the two unconscious people out of the carriage.They are still small, and their stature has not yet grown, but they can only crawl and crouch. They are wrapped in thick bandages, and only a thin cicada garment is worn outside the bandages for ventilation.

The old butler stepped forward and said in a trembling voice:

"Xiao Yan, you have brought back the little masters."

Yi frown looked at the aged face of the old housekeeper, but before she could speak, tears were already streaming down her face.

"What about the others? What about Erlang Shen Bi and his son Shen Zidong? Sanlang Shen Fang and his two sons Shen Zijiang and Shen Zihe, Si Niang, Fourth Young Master and their pair of children? Where is your husband Lu Yifeng?"

Tiao Niang wailed, but couldn't speak.She fell to her knees on the ground with a plop, unable to get up.

The old housekeeper looked at her with a pale face, his hands trembling uncontrollably.

"It's gone...it's gone..." she wailed.

……

In June, the rainy season covers Jinling.The girl with bandages all over her body was lying on the veranda floor, trying to reach out her left hand to catch the rainwater.But the itching on her body made her slowly withdraw her hand.

The drizzle was relentless, soaking half of her body.

There was an exclamation from behind, and Yiyan stomped on the floor and rushed over, dragging the girl back.

"Akashi! How did you get here? You can't get wet in the rain, it will get infected!"

The girl remained silent, her frail face covered by loose long hair.Her cheeks were also covered with bandages due to burns, and the only pair of eyes were exposed.A pair of eyes that were originally clear and lively, but now lifeless.

Yiyan wanted to cry, but she tried her best to hold back.She slowly picked her up, dragged her into the room, checked her bandages, and was relieved to confirm that they were not wet.She changed her wet robe and put on a clean one for her.

Throughout the whole process, the girl didn't say a word, and she was at her mercy like a puppet.

Since she fully woke up five days ago, she hasn't said a single word.In the beginning, it wasn't that she didn't want to say it, she still wanted to say it. The first thing she did after waking up was to hold on to Yingniang and desperately wanted to open her mouth to ask something, but her throat was seriously injured. I tried my best to heal her, but it was not completely cured. For a while, she couldn't make a sound.But Yiyan knew what she wanted to ask, she wanted to ask how Qin Nu was doing, if she was still alive, if she was by her side.After learning that Qin Nu was still alive, but in a state of half asleep and unconscious, she fell silent.

"Chishi, talk to me, even a simple one or two words, I want to know how your voice is recovering." Yizheng tried her best to calm down and said gently.

"..."

"Why did you think of climbing down to the porch, do you want to watch the rain?" Yiyan tried to get her to talk.

"..."

Yizheng's tears finally couldn't help falling down, she suppressed the sound of crying, knelt beside the girl, weeping silently.

A hand reached out and took hers.Yizheng looked at the girl in bandages with tears in her eyes, and pressed the little hand wrapped like a rice dumpling on the back of her own.There were tears falling on the bandage, which made her startled, and hurriedly wiped away the tears.

Immediately, she heard a hoarse voice struggling to tear out two words:

"Rain of Fire……"

Yi Yan was stunned, and after a while, her tears overflowed more and more violently, her jaw trembling, and she looked helplessly at the continuous drizzle outside.

Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are dogs.

……

In August, the burnt skin on the back of the girl who had been awake for a long time grew a new pink flesh, growing around the gap of the scar, looking like countless twisted flesh worms, extremely ugly.She changed her dressing three times a day, and she was able to stand up and walk slowly.It's just that when you sleep, you have to sleep on your stomach.

Sleeping on the stomach is uncomfortable, and the 11-year-old girl is in the stage of physical development, so Yiyan is very worried.She tried her best to make her sleep more comfortable. At least, the girl could sleep on her side, and her left side was fine.

The girl became more and more silent, unable to speak a word for several days.She always sat on the porch and looked at the sky, whether it was clear or cloudy.Occasionally, Epino would see her whistling and talking to the birds on the eaves.Yiyan was very relieved, at least she could still speak.

The girl goes to see her sister every day. Poor child, she is only nine years old and has already lost consciousness in her lower body.She was so badly hurt that it had been seven months and she was still not very conscious.Sometimes, she would faint in pain, and sometimes she would wake up again, silently lying on the couch in a daze.She couldn't speak, her throat hurt much worse than her sister, she was really speechless.Even if she could say it, maybe she didn't want to, she thought.These two sisters have a normal temper.

Sister and younger sister, one is sitting, the other is lying down, she will hold her hand and stroke her hair, as if it can brush away her pain.The older sister was strong, and after an initial slump she struggled out of the silence.Perhaps, it was precisely because of her younger sister that she knew she could not fall down.Although she is silent, she has been very cooperative with the treatment, and has been working hard to exercise her body, hoping to return to the previous state.

It's a pity that she can't exercise too much now, every time she sees the sweaty clothes she changed, her heart feels sour.

A few days later, a girl came to the house. The girl was bought by Yiyan on the street.Her father put in a bid to sell his head and his children, and Yiyan bought her back.The girl's original surname was Lu, but she lost her surname when she entered Shen's house. Yiyan named her Blue Robin, because the first time she saw this girl, she was wearing a dirty lake blue dress, curled up at the edge of the market. On the tattered straw mat, it looked like a wounded blue bird.I heard that the blue dress was the best piece of clothing her mother left her.

Bluebird is one year younger than Shen Jin. Yiyan bathes and changes her clothes and feeds her, so she tells her that she is going to take care of the second lady here. She is the only one for Bluebird to take care of the second lady. task.The little girl is very sensible. After seeing Qin Nu on the couch, she cried sadly.It turns out that children from rich and noble families are not necessarily happier than children from poor families. This is the first time that the little bluebird understands this truth.

The little bluebird began to stay by Qin Nu's side every day, as long as there was any movement from her, she would respond immediately.She can ask questions about her health, change clothes and medicine, but there are still many things she can't do. She is too thin and weak, and she wishes she could grow up quickly so that she can take better care of the second lady's daily life.

She would follow Ellen's back and ask questions. Ellen was never impatient and always taught her patiently, from how to apply ointment, how to wrap a bandage, to how to identify herbs and boil soup.

She will also meet the eldest daughter of the family, a silent girl.At first she often came to see her sister, but she didn't say a word.After the bluebirds came, the frequency gradually decreased.She was busy in the yard almost every time the bluebird saw her.Either it's exercising, or it's building equipment for exercising.

The eldest lady seems to have a lot of whimsical ideas in her mind, and her hands are also very skillful, and she can always create some weird things.Bluebird has seen it before. She drilled a hole in the center of two heavy and flat iron blocks, passed a thick wooden stick of moderate hardness, and fixed the iron blocks at both ends.Ask her what it is for, she just made a pushing action.Later, the bluebird saw her making this weird thing, and she lifted it up with great difficulty, and then put it down again, until she was sweating profusely.

What a strange man, the bluerobin thought.

However, she is also an interesting person, sometimes she will make some gadgets for her younger sister to play with, and the bluebird also has a share.The first thing she said to the bluebird was when she was given a toy, she said: "Thank you." Her voice was hoarse and ugly, and the terrible burn on her right cheek could not conceal the beauty radiating from her whole body.For the bluebird, the eldest lady is an extremely beautiful and kind person, and she is also the first person to say "thank you" to the bluebird.

The bluebird cried again, why is the sky so unfair, to torture this pair of kind-hearted sisters like this.

……

On a rainy autumn day in October, someone knocked on the door of Shen's house.After opening the door, Yizheng saw a hideous old face.

This is an old woman, in her seventies and eighties, on crutches.With a bitter tone, he couldn't help but push Yi Yan away and entered the house.

"Where are the two little boys in your family, take me to have a look." The old woman said bluntly.

Yipin was furious, she didn't know where the old woman heard about Chishi and Qinnu, but she came to her door.Just as she was about to drive her away, the old lady hit her stomach with a cane, and her face turned blue from the pain.

"Little lady, I advise you to listen to me, if you don't want those two brats to be disfigured."

The crone claimed that she could change the burnt faces of the two children, giving them unmatched beauty and being able to go outside again.Her words really moved Yizheng very much, but she was 1 worried.The origin of this old woman is unknown, why is she willing to help the two children change their appearance?

But even though she was worried, she still let the old woman do it.Because when people are in despair, even if they can see a glimmer of hope, they will reach out and grab it.Regardless of the real light behind that hope, or the abyss of eternal doom.

Tiaoniang took a gamble, and she won.

Akashi still has some memories of that day.During the face-changing process, no one was allowed to enter that room, or even approach the courtyard.The old woman made them lie on the couch, fed them Mabosan, and sealed the acupuncture points with needles. The old woman's hands were very rough, with countless wrinkles on the gnarled old skin on her face, and her withered hands like bird's claws were covered with bruises. Dark yellow age spots.Only a pair of eyes are not hazy old eyes, but they are still very energetic, sparkling and shining.

After that, she fainted to death, and only vaguely remembered a few heart-piercing pains that made her wake up briefly, and then passed out from the pain again.She couldn't open her eyes, her eyelids seemed to be glued together.The face was covered with the feeling of being bitten by densely packed insects, and the heart-rending itching was followed by a heart-stopping pain.

For the next three months, the faces of Akashi and Qin Nu could only be wrapped in bandages.Not only their faces were wrapped in bandages, but also the fresh wounds on their backs.The crones took the intact skin off their backs to repair the damaged skin on their faces.This is the only method that Yizheng knows how the old woman changed their faces, because the enlarged wound area on the back cannot be concealed.

After changing their faces, the old woman mysteriously disappeared.She only left a letter, and wrote a not-so-long doctor's order in a handwriting that was obviously deliberately concealed, telling Yi Suo how to recuperate their bodies afterwards and promote the healing of their wounds.At the same time, there is also a box of myogenic cream.The letter emphasizes that muscle-creating ointment is very expensive, and there is only one box, so it should be used sparingly, especially on the face, not the back.The burns on the backs of the two sisters are too severe, and there is no way to recover.

Later, Yizheng imitated the muscle-creating ointment, although it was effective, but no matter what, the efficacy was not half as good as that left by the old woman.The prescription of the old woman's ointment, Yizhuo has not been able to understand so far.

After changing sides, they had difficulty opening their mouths at first, so they had to use reed pipes to suck up the porridge made from mashed vegetables, rice, and meat.Things started to get better until three months later, they were finally able to remove the bandages on their bottoms.

That day, Chishi sat in front of the mirror and took off the bandages that had been attached to her face for several months with her own hands.When she saw the strange, handsome, gender-ambiguous face in the mirror, she made a decision.

"Xiao Niang, I will live as a man from now on." She said to Yi Yan.

The author has something to say: Erlang Shenbi and his son Shen Zidong; Sanlang Shenfang and his two sons Shen Zijiang and Shen Zihe; Siniang, Fourth Young Master and their pair of children—these people are offshoots of the Luanhuang Yin family, but ordinary people , did not inherit the blood.The lineage of Yin Yu and Yin Ziji is the direct descendant of Luanhuang's bloodline.Before the massacre broke out, these people also went to Princess Taiping's Mansion in Chang'an for some reason, and were killed together.Let me tell you in advance, so that no one has any doubts.These will be explained later.