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(thirteen)

"Hey, Yuanxiao, tell me, why are we so destined to meet each other over breakfast?"

Tang Yuan was carrying his own luggage, but still staggered on the street, making people afraid that he was about to bump into pedestrians on the road, and the things in his hand fell down with the pedestrians, and scattered all over the ground, it was unbearable witness.

But he seemed to be walking a tightrope, looking wobbly, but in fact he was very stable. When he encountered a pedestrian, he turned around and brushed past it, just like the wind passing through a flower bush, and it seemed that the flower was about to be blown down, but he gently walked away from it. Ye Jian brushed past, it's really not thanks to his lightness.

"Can you stop swaying so much when you walk? I'm afraid that some people in the capital won't know that you, Young Master Tang, are back?" Yuan Xiao followed behind him like a father who cleaned up the mess for him. It's all about the helplessness of "this child".But the eyes are extraordinarily gentle, as if the moonlight is shining on the water.The water is sparkling, and the moon is also sparkling.

Tang Yuan also seemed to know that he doted on him, and with a look of pride on his face, he stopped in front of the candy figurine stall and greeted him: "Yuan Xiao, do you want to eat this candy figurine?"

"I don't want to." Yuan Xiao resolutely rejected him.

"Then the boss will give me two. Yuanxiao will give me money."

"You eat sweets again, and later father will discipline you again." Although Yuan Xiao said so, he didn't stop at all in taking out money from his pocket.

Give money when you say it, without ambiguity.

"That's my father, don't put gold on your face. Mother will definitely not let him scold me." Tang Yuan happily instructed the sugar master to draw two strokes here and two strokes there, Back to him.

Yuan Xiao watched Tang Yuan pointing fingers at the sugar figurine stand, and also leaned over to him to watch the sugar figurine master making sugar figurines.The sugar figurine stall in Beijing is the best in the morning market, and this stall is the best in the morning market.This sugar figurine master has been doing it for nearly 30 years, and his craftsmanship is naturally very exquisite. He drew the style Tang Yuan wanted with three strokes and two strokes.

"Hey! Yuanxiao! Do you want to eat sugar man? I guess you must, let's go buy it." Tang Yuan's immature voice came up from the depths of his memory, and rushed into his ears through the noise of the market.

"But your teeth will go bad if you eat them, and your father will scold you."

At that time, Tang Yuan was still young, and he was also young, but he was already able to take the little glutinous rice balls out to play.Tang Yuan was only three or four years old, a small one, he couldn't see anything when he jumped around, he could only listen to the cries in the market, among them, the sugar seller had the loudest voice and the most children in front of the stall.He subconsciously pushed forward and squeezed to the front of the candy stall: "No. If he scolds me, you can be scolded with me, my father is your father, we are... good brothers, that's what you say Come on?—Boss, I want two sugar figures, one for me and one for him. One for me to eat and one for him to eat."

Yuan Xiao can't remember exactly what it was like at that time, but he only remembers that the stall was very crowded, but he was very happy to be crowded with Xiao Tangyuan: "Tangyuan, it's too crowded here. Can you go out and wait for me?" ?”

Yuan Xiao carried him out of the stall, carefully told him to wait, and waited for Xiao Tangyuan to nod to him again and again before returning to get the sugar man.

"Two sugar figurines, fifty cents each. Take it." The owner of the sugar figurine stall handed him the sugar figurines with a smile on his face. Maybe it was too crowded. He had to raise his arms to protect the sugar figurines from the crowd. The person came out intact, but Tang Yuan could not be found after he came out.

Nowhere, nowhere to be found.

It was that day that he felt his personal powerlessness for the first time. He walked among a group of adults and called Tang Yuan's name vigorously, and found that even the voice that hurt his throat could not be heard very far.

"Father—father—" At that time, he was still very dependent on his father, and when he realized that something was wrong, he ran back to find his father, "Father! Tang Yuan is gone."

"What?" Who knew that my father would immediately shoot up when he heard this, and then he kept pacing in the hall, muttering, "It's broken, it's broken, it's done so quickly. ——Go to the Tang Mansion to find your uncle. , Hey, forget it, you will probably get lost in their house, I'll go!"

After all, his father picked him up and walked to the Tang Mansion. At that time, Yuan's army was still stationed in the capital, and Yuan's father practiced soldiers all day long and had some martial arts skills. His footsteps were much faster, and he arrived at the Tang Mansion soon.

His father put him in the outer hall, turned around and followed Uncle Tang into the study.Yuan Xiao was also young at that time, standing beside the big table in the outer hall with a blank face, and he was only about the height of the table.

Not long after, the red-eyed eldest princess also came in, walked up to him and knelt down to comfort him, but she cried before she could say anything: "Is Xiao'er afraid?"

"Scared." Yuan Xiao said honestly.He was really afraid. Although he didn't understand what happened, he had already felt unprecedented fear and anxiety in the anxious expressions of his father and Uncle Tang, and in the tears of the princess.

"Don't be afraid, Tang Yuaner will be fine."

"Princess Princess, is Tangyuan in danger?"

"Yes. And it's a very dangerous thing. But don't worry, he has been like this since he was a child, and he is best at turning danger into good luck."

Yes, he is best at turning dangers into blessings.

However, this time it was too fierce.

When Yuan Jiajun carried Tang Yuan back, Tang Yuan's head was covered with a dirty rag.The moment the eldest princess saw him, she screamed and rushed over, taking him from a soldier.

"Mother? Is that you?" Tang Yuan took off the rag on his head, revealing a face that was smoky like a little cat.

"You child, I am so anxious." The eldest princess held him in her arms and kept kissing his forehead.

"Mother, it's getting dark, why don't you light the lights at home?"

As soon as the voice of this sentence fell, the noisy people who were happy because the young master finally came back all quieted down. No one in the entire outer hall dared to speak loudly, and even the sound of breathing was suppressed to a minimum.

The eldest princess shook Tang Yuan's hand violently. She put her face close to Tang Yuan's, and pressed her forehead against her forehead, and asked cautiously, "Tangyuan, what did you say? My mother didn't hear clearly just now."

"Isn't the light on at home?" Tang Yuan also seemed to have noticed something, and his voice became cautious.

After a long time, the eldest princess let out a long sob and finally broke the calm and depressing atmosphere.She hugged Tang Yuan tightly in her arms, and lay down on his small body, crying out of breath.

Yuan Xiao was stunned in the outer hall, until the eldest princess's crying startled him, and he broke free from the clay figure-like state just now as if he had just reacted.

"Is it Yuanxiao? Are you crying?" Tang Yuan, who was buried in the arms of the eldest princess, heard a muffled sneeze, and poked his head out to find the source of the sound.

He was just blind and not quite used to it, so he could only hold the hand of the eldest princess and tentatively walk towards Yuan Xiao step by step, hugging Yuan Xiao's hairy head and purring: "Don't cry, mother said that a man should be strong .”

"I don't cry, I don't cry. It's just that my eyes hurt a little." Yuan Xiao wiped away his tears. In fact, his eyes don't hurt, it's definitely not as painful as Tang Yuan's eyes.But his heart ached, as if a big piece of ice had been stuffed in his chest, choking him uncomfortably.

"My eyes hurt too. But I don't cry." Tang Yuan may have had an instinct not to show weakness in front of others since he was a child. In fact, he cried terribly, but he finished crying a long time ago, "By the way, my candy Did you bring it back?"

"Yuanxiao, do you want to eat? Yuanxiao?! Yuan Xiao!" Tang Yuan's voice became louder and louder, waking up Yuan Xiao who was distracted.Yuan Xiao broke free from the memories, his eyes were still a little red.

"Well, what's the matter?"

"What's the matter? The wind is blinding your eyes? I asked you, do you eat sugar man? I just bought two, one for you and the other for me. I asked the stall owner to draw two more strokes for me and he was not happy. Look at me adding two mustaches to your face, it will be ridiculous to grow a beard when you grow old."

"Tang Yuan." Yuan Xiao stopped suddenly and looked at him very seriously.

"What's the matter? Suddenly it's a little weird, and I don't care if I eat candy. You're always nagging, and my ears are almost callused."

"You—I couldn't tell you when I went to see you last time. Why did you come back to Beijing this time?"

"Of course the emperor asked me to come back. My father and mother are still here, where can I go?" Tang Yuan bit off the sugar man's head and began to chew it.This bite was really ruthless, even though the sugar figurine didn't quite look like it, Yuan Xiao still felt a chill when he saw the sugar figurine with his head collapsed and Tang Yuan's white teeth.

"I said Yuan Xiao, this is definitely not what you want to say, right? I know what you want to say. I don't blame you." Tang Yuan walked in front of him all the time, ate the sugar man seriously, and turned around to be serious Looking at him intently, "I never blamed you."

Yuan Xiao has always felt ashamed in his heart, he felt that he lost Tang Yuan and made him suffer so much.I heard from the soldiers that Tang Yuan's eyes were blinded by smoke. When he was found, he was trapped in a wooden house. The fire was already lit and oil was poured on it. If he hadn't been crying too loudly inside, It may be difficult to find even the bones.

"What do you know? I killed you, if it wasn't for me..."

"If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't even have a chance to be rescued. If it wasn't for you, I would have died in the battle of Gubei City. If it wasn't for you, I would have been smashed into meat paste by falling rocks in Wumen Gorge. Yuan Xiao, I have always owed you my life. You have never owed me anything in this regard."

Tang Yuan knew far more than he did. He knew that all of this had its roots, and this root was far beyond the reach of Yuan Xiao back then.

Back then, besides being smoked and blinded, he was also poisoned, otherwise he would not have been sent to his master to learn martial arts while seeking medical treatment.

That poison, if you say it, may shock the world again, that poison is called drinking poison to quench thirst.

To put it bluntly, the poison is both a drug and an antidote, and the pain is unbearable during the attack. However, to relieve the pain, one must take another dose of no less than the previous poisoning, so it is called "drinking poison to quench thirst".

"Emperor Brother! Emperor Brother! You save him, he is still a child!"

"Your Majesty! I beg you to be my sister! Forgive him, if you spare him, I will be your cow and horse!"

His mother, the mother of the eldest princess, took his hand and knelt down in front of her younger brother, crying so much that her hair was disheveled, she only begged her younger brother to spare her son's life.

But that person was unmoved at all, and even smiled with interest, and shook her away with a wave of his sleeve: "Miss Huang, what you said is light. If my brother spares him, who will spare me?" After that, he walked up to Tang Yuan and lifted him up like a chicken, "This kid... really shouldn't have been born. Sister Huang, how can I let you have a baby? How can I let your so-called orthodoxy give birth to offspring? He should just die like the boss of the Yuan family."

"But Miss Huang, you loved me the most when I was a child, even if I... In short, you have never helped Lao Qi, so I will thank you. So I can give your son a grace, let him run, he can run out I won't let him die."

Tang Yuan had already forgotten the other things, he only remembered that the poison was really painful when it happened, and he often rolled on the bed in pain.The medicine is also bitter, and the sugar man is no longer effective, and the more the medicine is taken, the more frequent the poisoning is.

Just when his parents were looking for doctors everywhere, anxious like two ants on a hot pot, his master finally appeared.

No one can tell where this old man came from. At first, his mother regarded him as a flirt. Later, the master suppressed his poisonous hair once, and no one believed this sloppy old man.

"Master, please, take my son away. Don't... don't let him suffer like this." In just one year of Tang Yuan's poisoning, his mother shed tears all day long, and she was about to die like him. Going blind.

"Don't worry, ma'am, I won't steal the child. I just need this child to take over my mantle. As for the poison and eyes, I will take care of it all. Just rest assured."

"Will you come with me?"

The old man's voice was very young and full of life, and it didn't match his face that had dried into orange peel.But it was this strange old man, when he suppressed his poisonous hair, his palm was warm, as if a stream of hot spring water flowed into Tang Yuan's body from his hand.

Tang Yuan looked at the dark eyes in confusion, not knowing who was talking to him.The mother pushed him, put his hand into the master's, and cried, "Tangyuan, let's go, follow him, and come back to see mother when you can see it."

Then the master led him into the Peach Blossom Valley, where he practiced under the peach tree all day long, drinking bitter medicine.Time passed slowly. At the beginning, Tang Yuan kept time by smelling it. Peach blossoms bloomed for one season, and another season. Later, you can see the falling peach petals. Later, you can climb up the peach trees and watch the doctors in the Peach Blossom Valley cultivate medicinal materials in the distance. up.

"I ran out." Tang Yuan turned around and said to Yuan Xiao.

"what?"

"I said, I ran out, and I'm never going back, and I'm not going to put anyone else in."