After a while, the little black horse followed the whistle and ran to the little girl, who led her horse and silently walked in front of her. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Wei Youqing hugged Jingbao, cooperated with her footsteps, and followed her patiently.

Wei Youqing only had time to look at the little girl carefully at this time, she looked slender and weak, the hair that emerged from the blue homespun floral bun was slightly curly, and a shiny dark brown braid hung down casually on her back. She was also wearing an ordinary blue coarse cloth skirt, but the horse she was holding was really extraordinary, making it impossible to guess her identity.

"Little sister, your horse is so beautiful."

The little girl seemed to have no scheming, and was defenseless against the three people behind her, and when she heard Wei Youqing ask, she replied without thinking: "Well, yes, this is sweat and blood." After a pause, he added, "Its mother died, and it was raised by me." ”

"Does your family live nearby?"

The little girl was silent, as if she didn't want to answer. Wei Youqing didn't want to ask one question after another, so she had to smile and say, "Little sister, how far is it?" My sister seems to be too cold to stand it. ”

Indeed, Li Jingbao in her arms was still trembling just now, but now she kept babbling, and her body gradually warmed up.

The little girl glanced back at Li Jingbao with concern, then at Wei Youqing, and asked, "Is she your sister?" ”

"Yes, cousin."

The little girl's beautiful big curved and long eyes showed a look of "I see", turned around, and pointed not far away: "It's here." ”

It is a courtyard surrounded by a fence, and it looks like it has been uninhabited for a long time, and the fence has collapsed in many places. Then again, it doesn't seem to be able to stop anything.

The courtyard was clearly swept by, the vegetable garden was filled with newly planted flowers and plants, the road in the middle of the yard was paved with bricks and stones, there was a well on the left near the kitchen house, and a large water tank under the eaves of the porch, which was full.

There are three bungalows facing south, the kitchen house on the left hand side, and a room on the right hand side, the door is hidden, and the little girl's little black horse does not need to be driven away, and she is very familiar with the way into the house.

The little girl led Wei Youqing and the three of them straight into the hall of the three bungalows, in the middle of which was a big kang, on which were placed a kang table, on which were placed teapots, tea bowls and other things, and a handful of small mice made of wool and grass, inserted in a bamboo tube, which was very gratifying.

The kang was very clean, the little girl moved away from the kang table, motioned to Wei Youqing to put Li Jingbao on the kang, pointed to Wan Yu and said to Wei Youqing: "This sister is here to help change my sister's clothes, my brother is himself." There is firewood in the kitchen, which can be brought to make a fire. ”

Wan Yu's face flushed, she didn't calculate the origin of the family, but she was seen by others to be a woman, and today she is considered to be out of trouble. It's just that seeing that this girl's voice is crisp and gentle, and she does things neatly at a young age, she also has some good feelings in her heart, so she smiled and said, "Okay!" I don't know what my sister is called? ”

The little girl hesitated for a moment and said, "My name is Ah Tao." ”

Everyone saw that she refused to say her surname, although they really couldn't see what this little girl could hide, but they didn't want to ask much, they all obeyed her arrangement, Wei Rong went to the kitchen to bring firewood, left half of the hall, and the other half was taken to the right wing room to make a fire.

There was a small bed in the right wing, and the floor was covered with a homespun quilt. A rosewood lute leans against the pavement. Next to the bed was an old brick and stone box, the paint on which had fallen off in patches. On top of the box was a dressing box made of rosewood with delicate carvings.

Wei Youqing looked at the furnishings in this room, shook his head, and said to Wei Rong: "Go outside and light a fire under the eaves of the porch, don't smoke other people's houses." ”

Wei Rong nodded and withdrew, Wei Youqing changed his wet clothes and handed them to Wei Rong to bake. He paced back and forth in the yard and looked around, and when he saw that the fence was crooked, he straightened it and tied it up.

A swallow passed overhead and flew under the eaves of the porch, where it turned out to be a swallow's nest.

After a while, seeing the girl coming out with a basket, Wei Youqing greeted her and asked, "Sister Tao, how is my sister doing now?" Can I go in and have a look? ”

Ah Tao said: "She is a little frozen, there are herbs in the woods in front of her, I will go and pick some to fry water for her to drink." ”

Wei Youqing said with a smile: "Herbs, let my little brother go, let's not hide it, we are Langzhong." Then he couldn't help but say, took the basket in her hand and handed it to Wei Rong, who had already walked to her side.

Ah Tao suddenly realized: "Ah, are you going to the rivers and lakes to sell medicine and tell fortunes?" That Sister Wanyu can tell fortunes. ”

Wei Youqing nodded again and again and smiled: "Yes, yes, Sister Tao, do you live here?" How can it be said that there is no yard where no one lives? I thought it would be a broken yard, but I didn't expect it to be so clean. Where's your mom and dad? ”

Ah Tao didn't say a word, went straight to the kitchen, took a lot of hay out, and went to the place where the little black horse lived. Wei Youqing followed behind her, watching her spread the hay in the little black horse's manger, and stroked the horse's neck lovingly, and said with a smile: "Horses can't only eat grass, they have to feed some beans or something." ”

Tao said, "I know, didn't I tell you that I raised pearls when I was a child?" ”

"Pearls?" Wei Youqing was full of affection for this name, and when he saw that the horse's coat was black and shiny, he smiled, "This name is so good, this horse really looks like a black pearl." ”

Tao pursed her lips and laughed, revealing a mouthful of fine white teeth, shining like a shell. She smiled happily: "Brother is right, we are Black Pearl!" Many people don't understand, but they have to ask, why is the dark horse called pearl! What's my brother's name? ”

"My name is Le'an." Wei Youqing said. Anyway, Wan Yu and Wei Rong won't call him by name, since Ah Tao refuses to say his surname, it is not offensive that he doesn't say his real name.

By the time Ah Tao finished feeding the horse, Wei Rong had already dug up the medicine and came back. Wei Youqing and Wei Rong checked Li Jingbao's pulse together, and carefully boiled the medicine that Wei Rong picked and fed her to drink. Fortunately, although Li Jingbao is the county lord, she likes to dance and play sticks since she was a child, and her body is not as weak as the average daughter. After drinking the decoction, after a short time, the heat will subside a lot.

Jingbao opened her eyes, and was the first to see Wei Youqing sitting beside her, holding his hand excitedly and crying and laughing: "Brother Wei! I thought I was going to die! ”

"What's going on? You come out, does your brother know? ”

Wei Youqing asked and glanced at Li Jingbao, Li Jingbao had already seen the girl who saved her standing aside, understood what Wei Youqing meant, and replied: "My brother doesn't know that I came out, and I don't know what happened, it seems that I fell into the water all of a sudden!" ”