Chapter 12 Be Good

Li Xiaoyao shivered. He can't be late tomorrow. He has to go out of the gate early and wait for the eldest brother and others to go. The eldest brother and the four escaped together, but they can't hide it for many times. Maybe they will have to be found as soon as they leave the barracks and have to leave quickly. Li Xiaoyao took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down and calculate carefully.

Go to Changfeng Building? No way! This matter is related to deserters. If you say it directly, the shopkeeper Zheng will not dare to help. If you hide it, if you will implicate the shopkeeper Zheng, it will be too much. Go to the Lin family to find Lin Xiao? Li Xiaoyao smiled bitterly. If she found her, Lin Xiao would definitely pack her up and send her to Mr. Lin. She couldn't go. Li Xiaoyao subconsciously pinched the jade gourd hanging around her neck, which was also a useless thing. If she took this jade gourd to beg the prime minister not to let her four brothers as soldiers, it would be a joke. I'm afraid she would go. , it's just rushing to listen to the words of the country's difficulties and the responsibility of the people.

Tomorrow, I still have to sneak out of the city by myself. Blessed by the Bodhisattva, I will leave the city safely tomorrow, escape safely, and find another place with my brothers to live a stable life.

I don't know when Li Xiaoyao was woken up hazyly. It was already dawn outside. Chaoxia passed through the window and shone on **. Mrs. Shen was bending down and found her own long jacket and a very durable coat from the big camphor wooden box at the head of the bed. She pulled Li Xiaotao up and put her clothes. Put it diagonally on her shoulder, carefully tied the belt below, pinched an old purse, stuffed it into the innermost bag of the coat, tied the mouth of the bag tightly, took 20 or 30 yuan, put it in the big pockets above the coat, tied the belt, and then picked up the jacket and put it on her body. While covering it, he whispered: "Let's go. I just went out to flush the toilet and looked at it. There is no one around. There are more than three taels of silver in this purse. You can take it. Grandma still has it. Don't be polite to grandma. It's cold outside. Wear more clothes. It's getting colder and colder day by day. Be careful. Go quickly."

Li Xiaoyao didn't have time to say more. He nodded repeatedly, jumped out of bed, put on his shoes, followed Mrs. Shen out of the courtyard door, resigned Mrs. Shen, looked around warily, and walked east along the corner of the wall.

Li Xiaoyao turned around an alley and merged into countless busy people who got up early. He breathed a secret sigh of relief, looked around, picked up a few farmers carrying burdens, and went to the city early to sell vegetables. He followed them carefully and walked to Dongcheng. The largest vegetable market in Taipingfu is in Dongcheng, the farmers entering the city. Most people go there to sell vegetables.

After walking two or three streets in a row, Li Xiaoyao wrapped in a long jacket outside and looked up at the Changfeng Building not far away. There were countless sadness in his heart. Alas, I don't know when I will come here next time, and I don't know if I can return to this Taiping Mansion. I have lived here for more than half a year. This prosperous and luxurious city is like That magic capital is as reluctant as her hometown in her heart.

Li Xiaoyao's melancholy was dispersed by a burnt smell of sesame. Yao Ji's cake shop was busy on the roadside. More than a dozen attractive cakes with a fragrance had been placed on the long case facing the street. Li Xiaoyao swallowed her saliva. She was nervous and worried all night. She smelled the fragrance of the cake, and her stomach smoked and made a hungry coo. The eldest brother and the others must have stayed up all night. If they fled all the way, they must be more hungry. They must not dare to stop to buy things, but they are afraid that there is no place to buy. Li Xiaoyao hesitated and slowed down, carefully turned around to look around and flashed out from the farmers who were picking vegetables and leaned against the corner next to Yao Ji's cake shop. He touched a handful of money and looked up to greet the clerk: "Give me 20 cakes."

The clerk counted the cakes on the case and greeted loudly with a smile, "This little brother, wait a moment. It's not enough here. There are still four left. It's good in a moment, just a moment!"

Li Xiaoyao moved uneasily, nodded, and looked around carefully.

Sure enough, I didn't wait long. A furnace of cakes were ready. The clerk folded the cakes one by one, tied them neatly with a hemp rope, and handed them to Li Xiaoyao. Li Xiaoyao took the cake in his arms and breathed a secret sigh of relief. As soon as he turned around, he raised his eyes and saw Huang Yuanshan. Huang Yuanshan met Li Xiaoyao's eyes and jumped his feet and shouted excitedly. Come: "Here! Hurry up! Catch her!"

Li Xiaoyao held the cake and ran along the streets and alleys. He didn't care about the east, west, north and south. He only ran wherever there were many people. He could hear nothing else in his ear except the shouts and the roaring wind behind him, and he dared not look back. He only stared at the gap between the crowd in front of him. In the crowd, he was like a wicker fish. He flew so fast, but he couldn't get rid of the shouts behind him.

Li Xiaoyao rushed out of an alley, rushed across the royal street, and rushed into the opposite alley. His eyes swept through the official sedan chair that had just dispersed in the morning on the royal street. His brain suddenly turned around and rushed into the middle of the royal street. He rushed into the middle of the official's sedan with four or five fast and slow strokes, aiming at a few sedan chairs that followed him, through the sedan In the gap, he stared nervously at Huang Yuanshan and the two thurs looking around on the side of the Royal Street, biting his lips, carefully close to the sedan chair, and couldn't wait to melt into the middle of the entourage.

In a car not far from Li Xiaoyao, the curtain raised a gap and looked at Li Xiaoyao. After a trace of surprise, an unexpected joy flashed. Those eyes followed Li Xiaoyao's eyes and turned to the other side. They raised the curtain and stared at the three people staring at Huangyuan Mountain in the middle of the royal street. A trace of contempt flashed in their eyes and put down the window. The curtain reached out and lifted the curtain of the car, poked out his head, and reached out to greet Li Xiaoyao.

Li Xiaoyao turned his head and looked at the middle-aged man who leaned out half of his head from the car. Isn't this the middle-aged man who went to Changfeng Building for dinner with Su Zicheng, the prince of Beiping that day?! Li Xiaoyao didn't have time to think about it. He hurriedly ran straight into the gap that flashed with the guards and ran to the car. First, he threw the cake in his arms into the middle-aged man's arms. He climbed the frame with both hands, kicked his toes, and was eager to climb in. His arms were soft, but he hung awkwardly on the slowly moving car. The middle-aged man endured it. He couldn't help laughing. A guard behind took half a step, reached out and held Li Xiaoyao's arm and threw her into the carriage.

Li Xiaoyao exhaled and didn't have time to talk to the middle-aged man. He climbed to the window on the other side, lifted the curtains of the car, and stared at Huangyuan Mountain on the street nervously. I don't know if he saw him getting into the car. Huang Yuanshan and the two thurs were still stretching their necks and looking into the middle of the royal street. Not seeing that he had climbed into one of the cars, Li Xiaoyao stared at it for a while and watched Huang Yuanshan and two throngs rush into the alley across the Royal Street. Then he took a long breath, put down the curtain, turned around, looked back at the middle-aged man who was looking at him with a smile on his face, and leaned over from the middle-aged man. Zi took the cake in his hand, held it in his arms again, and solemnly thanked him, "Thank you for your kindness and slowing down. Thank you for your kindness. Let's repay you later!"

The middle-aged man couldn't help laughing again and said, "I don't want your cake. Don't be afraid."

The middle-aged man seemed to be amused by his words, shrugged his shoulders and smiled for a while, and then asked, "What's wrong?" Why are those people chasing you? Didn't you pay for the cake?

"No, the city gate is on fire. I'm the pond fish." Li Xiaoyao looked at the stubble and sesame seeds hooked by the hard edges of the beard cake on the precious brocade on the middle-aged man's body, and said with a smile. Why is his yarn? Why do you say?! If you Peiping make trouble, Wu will not declare war. If Wu does not declare war, he will not conscript. If he does not conscript, the eldest brother will not be taken away. If the eldest brother is here, how can he be so embarrassed?! In those years, with a shout, Brother Guizi punched and kicked, showed his power, and bit the lion candy by himself. How happy it was!

Now they don't know if they can escape. In case the four people only escaped two or three... Li Xiaoyao's heart surged with strong sadness and pain. His smile condensed on his face, subconsciously hugged the cake in his arms, lowered his shoulders, and looked blankly at the shaking curtain. The middle-aged man's heart moved slightly and said in a low and gentle voice, "My surname is Liang, and I am the staff of the second prince's mansion of Beiping. Just call me Mr. Liang. Where are you going? Why did you come out alone when I sent you there? Where's your brother?"

Li Xiaoyao was distracted, lowered his head and replied, "If it's convenient for Mr. Liang, send me to the charcoal bridge."

"Hmm." Mr. Liang leaned over and raised the curtain to order it. He turned around and asked with Li Xiaoyao's expression, "Where's your brother?"

Li Xiaoyao looked up at Mr. Liang and asked slowly, "How do you know I have a brother?"

"Oh!" Mr. Liang raised his hand and touched his nose. He was unexpectedly embarrassed by Li Xiaoyao's question: "I heard it by chance when I heard the shopkeeper of Changfeng Building."

Li Xiaoyao glanced at Mr. Liang and still answered his words: "My brother was drafted to be a soldier. I heard that the son-in-law and the princess were beaten by others on the way home. The son-in-law could not beat him. Beiping and Wu wanted to fight back for the son-in-law, so they arrested my brother to fight for the son-in-law."

"Oh!" Mr. Liang was breathed by Li Xiaoyao's words and looked at Li Xiaoyao doubtfully and asked, "So you alone now? Where are you going?"

"I went back to my hometown."

"Is there anyone else in the family?" Li Xiaoyao lowered his eyes and did not answer. Mr. Liang raised his eyebrows, his eyes were full of smiles, and his voice suggested more gently: "Now you are alone, not to mention the danger on this road, even if you go back to the countryside, even if there is no such thing just now, this is very difficult to make a living. You don't know what your brother is a soldier. At that time, it's time to come back. Alas, this soldier is a matter of death. Black hair left home and turned white head. I think, don't go back to the countryside. Follow me to Peiping. In half a month, we will leave back. I will send you to the second prince's house as a messenger and follow the second prince. It's very easy to ask for a birth in the future. All are strong."