Chang’an’s First Beauty

However, after the Yunyang Hou Mansion was seized by the officials, Shen Zhen and others moved to Zhaoxingfang, which is the southernmost part of Chang'an City, where they lived mostly in Baiding, which is already the cheapest place to rent.

When Shen Zhen came home, Shen Hong was drinking medicine while holding a bowl.

Grandma An said while caressing his back: "Oh my little ancestor, we are not in a hurry, slow down, slow down."

Shen Hong wiped her mouth, and as soon as she raised her eyes, her eyes immediately shone, "Three sisters are back!"

She stepped forward and touched Shen Hong's hair with pity.

Shen Hong was clever since he was young, but he was born frail and sick. Every winter, he would become a small medicine jar. He would eat the medicine juice as a meal.

Shen Zhen raised her hand and squeezed his thin face, and said, "Drink the medicine and cover it with more sleep." The deer yard they were in was narrow, and there were only two rooms in total. In autumn, she could hear intermittent, weak coughing almost every night.

Even with her eyes closed, she could imagine Shen Hong bowing and covering her mouth with two small hands.

Thinking about this, Shen Zhen covered him with bedding and said softly, "Sleep."

Shen Hong has always regarded the words of his three elder sisters as a guilty, and immediately closed his eyes, but the child is a child after all, the act of pretending to sleep is really shallow, his eyelids tremble, and his long eyelashes tremble like butterfly wings.

Shen Zhen saw it at a glance and reached over his shoulder. The tone was like one day many years ago. The elder sister treated her like, "I'll wait for you to fall asleep before you go, don't worry."

Wen Yan, Shen Hong's eyebrows loosened, turned over and grabbed one of Shen Zhen's fingers,

After Shen Hong fell asleep, a weak breath came out, and Grandma An pinched Shen Zhen's palm, "The girl came with the slave."

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Entering the next room, Grandma An took out a square box, and slowly said: "This is the noon today, the eldest girl asked someone to send it over, let's take a look."

Shen Zhen took it and opened it slowly. Immediately, the blood around him seemed to coagulate.

She seemed to hear the string that had stretched on her heart this month, and it broke with a "ding".

She is familiar with the gold, silver and jade articles in the box, this is the elder sister's dowry...

Looking at it, Shen Zhen's tears fell down.

Grandma An looked at Shen Zhen's sobbing secretly, and her heart was sour and hard to hide. Looking at the jewelry selected by Mrs. Hou herself, she couldn't help thinking of the year three years ago when Mrs. Hou died.

In that year, Yunyang Houfu became as evil.

At the beginning of the year, the eldest girl Shen Ni fell into the river and was accidentally rescued by Li Di, the son of Hanmen, and forced to marry the Li family.At the end of the year, when the second girl Shen Yao was discussing marriage again, the Uighur's prince saw at a glance that the emperor's destiny could not be violated, and he could only marry another country's relatives.

Immediately after that, Mrs. Hou contracted the epidemic and died suddenly...

Grandma An has been waiting by the old lady since she was fifteen. Over the past thirty years, she has witnessed how the Shen family became a step by step, and became the home of Dajin's hairpin and Zhong Ding.

But who can think that a little carelessness is the scourge of overthrow.

She squatted down, hugged Shen Zhen in her arms, her lips pressed against her ear, and whispered: "The eldest girl asked the old slave to tell you that instead of pawning everything, you can't afford the money, so why not? also."

Shen Zhen raised her eyes and shuddered. "Sister, what did you say?"

Grandma An nodded her head, gave her a "hush" gesture, and continued: "Tomorrow evening, the eldest girl will send your sister and brother out of Chang'an. There is a household registration hidden in the bottom of this box. When you arrive at the gate of the city, remember to find an officer surnamed Xu. Lord Hou is kind to him. He is reliable. He has a scar in the corner of his eyes, which is easy to recognize."

Shen Zhen stared at her in amazement.

Although she has reached the end of her desperate end, she never thought of escaping. After all, how many people are staring at her. As there are wolves in the front and tigers in the back, how can she escape?

Grandma An saw her thoughts and continued to whisper, "I will set a fire on the front yard at that time to prevent people from entering the yard, while Qingxi will stay like a girl and call for help. You and Honger will take advantage of it When you are in a panic, walk away from the dug hole. Once you are out of the city, you will never look back. Never return to Chang'an in this life and this world."

The more I heard, the worse I was, and Shen Zhen hurriedly said, "What about Grandma? What about Qingxi?"

"Old slaves and Xiya were originally slaves, even when the government came, they wouldn’t treat us like that. The only thing was to send them to the female wife and sell them again. But the girl is different from Honger, the mortgage document It’s so strange that we can’t see Hou Ye and we can’t know the inside story at all. If we sign the contract of sale at this time, it’s tantamount to being a tiger.”

She reached out and grabbed An Ma's arm and was about to speak, and An Ma shook her head at her.

She can guess every word Shen Zhen wants to say.

Grandma An stretched out her hand, stroking Shen Zhenru's eyebrows with Yuan Dai and smiling red eyes.

This child, she was brought up from a young age, from a baby crying to a slim figure.

Sixteen years have passed so fast.

She was really reluctant.

Grandma An looked at her for a long time, as if she would never see him again. "The old slave knew that the three girls had always been squeamish. In the future, when she couldn't keep going, she thought about Hong Ge."

After a while, Shen Zhen finally pounced on Grandma An, sobbing and crying.

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On the ninth day of October, the hour.

Shen Zhen went to Baihua Pavilion to take care of business as usual, everything was as usual.

When it was almost noon, a little man in a blue gown walked in, bowed, and said, "My family's grandpa asked me to fetch powder."

After hearing this, Shen Zhen quickly got up, "But Master Lu ordered?"

Xiao Zou nodded, "Yes."

Shen Zhen took the first two steps and handed him a box of powders prepared in advance. "Here, this is the box." After that, she took a picture out of the cabinet next to it and put it in the box. In the gap.

This is a painting by Mr. Jun Zhi, which was originally intended to be taken as a pawn.

But today she is leaving Chang'an. Since the things in this shop cannot be taken away, it is better to leave it to the adult who helped her once.

After this episode passed, there was an uninvited guest at Baixiangge.

Shen Lan was dressed in a red long coat, wrapped in an ivory white fox collar scarf, and properly dressed a lady in Beijing.

She stepped into the door and then raised the veil covering her face with her right hand.

"How did your aunt come?" Shen Zhen stood up.

Shen Lan walked over and sat down on the square stool with mahogany carved blue marble inlaid opposite Shen Zhen, frowning and said, "Zhen'er! Tomorrow is the tenth day, don't you really want to sign that sale contract to make debts impossible? Did you know that where you signed the sale contract, where did you want to be sent! Would you rather sell yourself than trust your aunt?"

Shen Zhenxi bowed her head, she knew that the more this time, the more she wanted to appease her aunt.

She clenched her fists, so she acted as: "Zhen Er knew that her aunt must have scolded me in her heart for not knowing what to do, but aunt, Teng Wang and his father had never dealt with it. I was really afraid of him..." Covered his mouth.

A month ago, Shen Zhen could not believe that he still had talent for acting.

Shen Lan heard what she said, and quickly said: "silly boy, there is an aunt, are you afraid of doing this? If you are really bullied, will your aunt still be unable to watch?"

"Zhen'er, if you followed King Teng, not just me, but the entire Suningbo Mansion, you are going to advance and retreat with you, don't you have to think about it, you know?"

After Xu Yu, Shen Zhen lowered her head like a mosquito, "If an aunt can keep Honger, Zhener will listen to her aunt."

Upon hearing this, Shen Lan finally gave a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Hong'er is also my nephew. After tomorrow, my aunt will take him to Suningbo Mansion and will take good care of him. If you want to see him, just tell your aunt.”

Shen Zhen looked at Shen Lan's sincere expression, and her whole heart was cold.

The words were so grand, but in the final analysis, they just wanted to detain Shen Hong in Suningbo Mansion to threaten her.

Shen Zhen knew that if she couldn't go tonight, then she and Hong'er would really become the fish meat on the cutting board, and only the people who slaughtered it.

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In the evening, the twilight gradually thickened.

Qingxi asked Shen Zhen and Shen Hong to change their clothes while softly instructing: "After the girl leaves, you must remember that you should not take the official road, nor the waterway, and no one will say where you will end up."

When the words fell, there was a continuous boring sound outside.

The hammering of the drums means that the curfew is about to begin.

The Changan City mid-night curfew system is strict. When the day market is closed, Shuntianmen will use the sound of twilight to urge pedestrians to return home quickly.When the sound of the six hundred mallets and drums stops, not only will people be banned from the streets, but also the Chengmenfang Gate will be closed together.

It is now.

Grandma An wrapped in a coat, with her hair scattered, lit two tumblers, and slowly left the house.

The sky was dim, and the surroundings were dark, and Grandma Anzai acted hurriedly toss the fire-folder on a pile of fine firewood and hay in front of the front yard. courtyard……

On the other side, Shen Zhen took Shen Hong's little hand, bowed, and drilled out of the hole.

Shen Zhen didn't dare to turn her head and ran desperately towards the city gate. Even if she turned her back to the courtyard, she seemed to be able to see the thick fire...

Running halfway, Shen Hong coughed desperately, Shen Zhen stopped, stroking Shen Hong's back, "Shall we stop to rest?"

"Three sisters, I can bear it."

Shen Zhen gathered his clothes and whispered: "Don't use your mouth to breathe when running, try to use your nose as much as possible, it's really uncomfortable, just squeeze the hand of the third sister, you know?"

Shen Hong nodded.

Zhaoxingfang was closest to Anhua Gate. The two of them hid and hid all the way. They finally reached the gate of the city, but they couldn't see the officer with scars in their eyes.

Shen Zhen became more and more anxious and could not help looking around, the feeling of anxiety became heavier and heavier.

At this moment, when she heard a sound of footsteps appearing behind her, Shen Zhen looked back and saw a few men dressed as men standing behind her.

Everything seems to be static.

Xu Yu, the cold wind roared, fell on her like a knife, axe and saw.

The sky was dark, and the dense snow fell rapidly from the ink-colored air, and fell coldly and heavily on her face, melting into water, like tears.

I saw the man, turned over and dismounted, passed the crowd, and came to her in a hurry.

His eyes are as dark and deep as ever.

He looked at Shen Zhen vigorously, without mercy, and opened his lips lightly, "Three girls, where are you going?"