Grind incense

Originally, an outsider like me was not needed to help little general Huangfu's coffin back to Beijing, but Marshal Huangfu Changying was not allowed to leave the camp without the emperor's order, and Huangfu Yanzhang set off to return to Beijing for Huangfu half a month ago. The old lady went to celebrate her birthday. As the weather was getting warmer, the mummy of the little general Huangfu was about to leave the ice cellar and it was about to rot, so I was pulled out by Huangfu Changying to fill my head.

"Zhuyi and I have been friends since we were young, and we were brought up by my uncle. Now I have a military order and I can't be free. I think in the eyes of my uncle, you and I are the same, so I have to trouble Zhuyi. Yi helped my coffin back to Beijing." Huangfu Changying said to me.

"But I'm a fake, you know that." I hastily opened my mouth to defend myself.

"What is true, what is false, people are real, souls are false, this is true and false, false and true, after these days, I am afraid it has long been confused, Zhu Yi, you are only with me Tell me, will you help me with this favor or not?" Huangfu Changying took a sip of tea slowly, then gently covered the tea bowl, squinted his eyes and led me into the army, I thought to myself, it is really worthwhile to lead troops all the time Yes, people who have been familiar with the art of war won me in with their true and false, and I can't get out of it anymore.

"When you arrive in Beijing, I know you must have a lot of people you want to see. The second son Mei and your parents are just a huge capital city, but they are all living under the noses of others. You are the one who said this to me. , I’m afraid you don’t remember, so I’ll tell you again. Your identity when you return to Beijing is no longer Gu Zhanqi. Your Gu Sheng’s household registration is very real, but your appearance needs to be changed too. Only then will others not be suspicious." Huangfu Changying said as he took out a small scarlet box.

A pitch-black lock was hung on the small scarlet box. After Huangfu Changying opened the box, he took out a human skin mask.

According to Huangfu Changying, when he was young, for a while he wanted to be a chivalrous, heroic and charismatic man who dealt with injustice in the world, but the Huangfu family couldn't tolerate such a young man, so he spent a lot of money on it. It took a lot of means to obtain this human skin mask. After he got the human skin mask, he wore it to do some things to help the weak. Unfortunately, the mask was not used for a long time in his hands, and it was completely useless. In the land of martial arts, the imperial court made him a marquis and threw him to the frontier.

After Huangfu Changying put the human skin mask on my face, I took a photo in front of the water tank, and it was indeed an ordinary face that could be easily lost in the crowd.

"You don't know. I learned of your death in the army at that time. How did I survive those few days? Later, I read the letter you sent me over and over again, and found someone to help In my opinion, I'm afraid I imagined it myself. Until you really stand in front of me..." Huangfu Changying said eagerly.

"I really wish I could be by your side to protect you all the time, but I'm not free, so I can only plan for you everywhere. Zhuyi, such days may come to an end soon, this farewell, Maybe I won't be able to see him anymore. All the men in Huangfu's family are destined to die in this ghostly place filled with yellow sand. I just came here to wait to die... Okay, okay, the more I talk about it, the more petty I become, Zhuyi, You just return to Beijing with my coffin. If I really died here, I’m afraid I won’t be so lucky to return to Beijing with Zhuyi. If I die, I will be buried here. From then on, all the men in Huangfu's family will be considered dead, and when the time comes, they will bury two jars to accompany me here, one is made of pickles with Zhuyi, and the other is made of Zhuyi's shadow..."

I turned my head and took a sip, I always felt that Huangfu Changying's parting words were very unlucky, it was a dead word.

Zhu Guiren naturally wanted to be with me, and Huangfu Changying also specially asked Zhu Guiren to take care of me along the way, as if he had completely forgotten the whip he lashed Zhu Guiren half a month ago.

Zhu Guiren looked at my disguised face, frowned and smiled, "Your face now, after seeing it once, I absolutely don't want to take another look at it."

"Falling and loving, this is really an eternal truth!" I sighed to myself while picking the chicken between my teeth with a toothpick.

"In my heart, you will always be the Gu Sheng from Tanmei Festival, and you will never change again!" But Zhu Guiren took my words seriously, and raised his hands and foreheads in front of me and swore an oath.

Zhu Guiren made this oath, and I felt a little nervous. He said that the person in his heart was the person on the Plum Sighing Festival. I was still being chased and killed by gangsters during the Plum Sighing Festival that year. I definitely missed the scene he said Romantic love and elegance.

Thinking of this, I suddenly felt flustered in my heart. When I was not only grinding incense, I also cared about him.

It's just that I don't hate the face in front of me, and his oath is sincere, but unfortunately, I am a counterfeit, if I accept his affection with peace of mind, I will be shamelessly deceiving myself.

They are all in Gu Zhanqi's glory, grinding incense, Huangfu Changying, they treat me like this because of Gu Zhanqi's affection, and Zhu Guiren is because of Gu Zhanqi's good-looking face and charm. Accompanying me, none of them came here for this ghost. When I was tossing and turning in the middle of the night, thinking of this place, I suddenly felt very lonely.

Then, if, if there is a person who looks at my ordinary face and treats me well, it can be regarded as the real sincerity.

When I had this idea, a meteor shower in the Leonids happened to fall in the sky, and a huge meteor fell in front of the inn I was building, and made a crater eight feet deep on the ground.

Early in the morning of the second day, the hexagram master who lives next door twirled his silver whiskers and made a hexagram, saying that the meteor fell ominously and was an evil star. There is going to be a fierce battle with Fanbang, and the even more frightening thing is falling meteorites, that is the destruction of the pillars of heaven, that is the breaking of the pillars of the court!

Maybe the hexagram master next door is really a character. The hexagram he performed revealed too many secrets, and he was punished by the heavens. When he went down the stairs after performing the hexagram, he encountered a bloody disaster.

After the hexagram master performed the hexagram, when he triumphantly went downstairs with the teapot in his hand, his foot slipped, he rolled down the stairs, and fell into the deep crater.

When Gua Shi was rescued from the meteor crater, he was already thrown into a stupid state, and he couldn't speak anymore.

Afterwards, the people present at that time were even more convinced that the hexagram that the hexagram master had raised earlier was a counterattack due to the secret of the sky.

About ten miles away from the inn, when we passed a not too high mountain, we were robbed by the queen on the mountain.

What is surprising is that the person that the empress wants to snatch is not the talented Zhu Guiren, nor is it the one that Princess Fanbang loves so much—Little General Huangfu.It's me, the ordinary-looking Gu Sheng who is somewhat annoying.

I thought about it, I almost broke my head, and I couldn't figure it out. The only reason that can convince me is that when I had that idea last night, a meteor in the sky just slid over my head, and I hit it by mistake. It was a successful wish.

☆, madam?

"How did you look like this?!" The aunt dressed as a female soldier who was holding a plate of crystal elbows looked at me and muttered in a low voice. He muttered again before the incense case.

Regarding what she muttered, I heard intermittently, Zhu Guiren had sharp ears, lowered his head and smiled at me, "You are disgusted by your current appearance again, the person who came just now is the stepmother of the queen, she didn't like you. "

"I saw that stepmother looked at you eagerly just now, she probably fell in love with you." I looked Zhu Guiren up and down and teased him.

No matter how you look at it, Zhu Guiren is a good-looking talent. His young, glamorous, famous singing girl in three provinces copied all his beauty to him without hesitation, and his wealthy father made him in the world since he was a child. Growing up in the midst of wealth and honor, he cultivated an extremely noble and extraordinary demeanor.

"It's okay if I'm selected, but I'm not at ease if I'm selected. If you see the appearance of that queen, you may not be able to hold on." Zhu Guiren said to me with a sigh.

"If the queen is really beautiful, you really won't be tempted?" I asked Zhu Guiren.

"Why do you have to ask such a question, since God let me see you at the Mid-Beijing Sighing Plum Festival, how can there be room for others in my heart." Zhu Guiren looked at me and sighed again.

"I also have a person in my heart. I have him in my heart, and he also has me in his heart. It's just a pity..." I also sighed as I said this, but I said in my heart, if I return to Beijing this time, if I see Nianxiang, I don't know what he would like follow me? !

"Gu Sheng, if in the rest of your life you never see that person who makes you miss you forever, and we are only together every day, will you like me a little bit in your heart?" Zhu Guiren rinsed the crude teacup with water. After rinsing, he poured water on the mud floor and asked me a word.

"If I never see him again for the rest of my life, after two or three years, I will probably be able to forget him!" When I said this, I suddenly thought of my life. Forget about it, let alone crushing incense, but if one day, it seems like a lifetime has passed between us, what good is it for me to think about him? !After all, I am a person who has survived from that life, and I know in my heart that some dead ends cannot be drilled. Since it is useless, why should I let people know that I miss him.

"What about me?" Zhu Guiren asked.

"I understand how much you treat me." I replied to him, but I was thinking about grinding incense, thinking of him holding my shoulder and calling me Zhuyi, but we both understood that I am not Zhuyi.

When it was almost time for dinner, a young woman with almond-shaped eyes came to the incense hall, a black braid was coiled several times around the top of her head, and although she was wearing ordinary clothes, her cuffs and trousers were neatly tied.

When the woman entered the door, she walked towards me without even looking at Zhu Guiren, and when she was about to walk in front of me, she gave me a great salute.

"This gift is for the general to make amends. The subordinates are all reckless people who offend the general."

"That year, it was the first time I went down the mountain to go to the city to play, but I met a bad person. At that time, thanks to the general's rescue, I was able to save my life. The grace of saving life was like heaven, and Mou Guihua made an oath at that time that she would not be a general in the future. If I don’t want to marry, I brought the general up to the mountain this time to fulfill my long-cherished wish for several years, and to repay the general for his life.” Mou Guihua blushed and her voice became smaller and smaller after speaking.

"It turns out that I blocked a peach blossom for Huangfu Changying!" I thought to myself, but the queen in front of me didn't come after me.

I took a sip of tea, thought for a while, and scratched my eyebrows with my fingers. I felt that the current situation was telling the truth, but it took a lot of work to tell the truth.

"I'm not the general the girl said." Mou Guihua and I said.

"I've secretly drawn this face dozens of times, and I won't remember it wrong again." Mou Guihua didn't believe my words.

"Girl has been in the rivers and lakes for so many years, haven't you heard of a human skin mask that can be disguised?" Zhu Guiren said.

"Are you wearing a human skin mask?" Mou Guihua looked at me with surprise in his eyes.

"That's right!" I nodded, thinking that the girl had finally gotten the hang of it.

"I don't believe it, unless you take off the mask in front of me."

I sighed, and felt that the girl Mou Guihua was a bit stubborn.

I dipped my fingers in the water in the tea bowl and took off the human skin mask on my face in front of Mou Guihua, then raised my eyes to look at her, thinking, she must believe me now.

"General, you look so good-looking!" The words that came out of Mu Guihua's mouth surprised me a little.

"Stepmother, stepmother, come quickly!" Mou Guihua suddenly yelled at the door twice.

Mou Guihua's stepmother thought she was guarding near the entrance of Xiangtang, but at this time she heard the call and rushed in like a whirlwind.

"Stepmother, take a look now, this little general looks like a daughter." Mou Guihua said.

"Oh my god, this handsome appearance is worthy of even a goddess in the sky!" The stepmother in military uniform gave me a few words of admiration. trouble.

"This queen, no matter how handsome this little general is, he can't marry your daughter because he married me half a year ago." He untied the shawl and took it down to cover half of his face. His fingers stroked his lips lightly, and he winked at me. He looked at Mou Guihua and her daughter sharply, and said with a smile, "This way you can always see Come out, I am his wife."

☆, stand-in

Zhu Guiren's move really surprised me, I only knew that his sister Zhu Rengui often pretended to be him to bluff people when he was lovesick, but I really didn't expect him to pretend to be his sister to save Excited.

Afterwards, Zhu Guiren told me that when he was a child, his father bought two rare snow mastiffs from Tibet for him and his sister. When the little beasts sometimes messed up, he always had to teach them a lesson, but he beat them Afterwards, both Big Xuehua and Little Xuehua saw him and ran away from him. Then he came up with a clever plan. Afterwards, he wore Zhu Rengui's clothes and imitated her tone of voice to teach the two dogs a lesson. This is actually a secret, a secret that his sister Zhu Rengui will probably never know, a secret why Xiao Xuehua and Da Xuehua are not always close to her.

"Big Xuehua grows fast, and Little Xuehua is not very tall but very shrewd, so I have to improve my deception day by day. Guier only knows that she often cheats in my name, but she doesn't know that I also secretly She borrowed her appearance to do such a thing." Zhu Guiren took a sip of tea and said with a low smile.

"You can still laugh, but you should think about what to do tomorrow. If Mu Guihua wants to compete with you as a maid and cook, you will pretend to be your sister and learn her crafts?" I asked. Some anxiously said to Zhu Guiren.

Let’s start from the beginning. After the mother and daughter of Mu Guihua met my "wife" Zhu Guiren yesterday, the mother and daughter had a discussion, and another thing came up, they insisted on three things with my "wife" ,

"If she wins, I will send the two of you down the mountain without saying a word, but if I win, the general will stay and write a letter to your wife, and I will pack it up and send her off." Go down the mountain." Mou Osmanthus said in a rough voice.

"How about I teach you how to write and repair books, and you can live here safely as the husband of the village from now on." After hearing my words, Zhu Guiren said to me without any haste.

"It's okay, it's okay, there will always be a time when repairing books will be useful." I lost my temper and climbed up the pole that Zhu Guiren raised.

"Okay, okay, I won't make fun of you. You probably don't know that Guirenzhuang's financial connections spread to every province in the country. Naturally, there are people from Guirenzhuang near this small hill. In this world, it is no exaggeration to say that in the palace What that person can do with power, I can do with money as well, and faster than him. Because power still needs to put on a false face, money is real and there is no need for such vanity." Zhu Gui rubbed his hands The rough embryo teacup in the middle said with a low body.

"The two people who will come to help us tomorrow are named Leng Cui and Chang Geng. They are my two doubles in Beijing."

☆、Yellow Emerald Lengcui

When she saw Leng Cui for the first time, she was leaning over by the window embroidering two colorful mandarin ducks with their necks intertwined and bathing under the emerald green lotus leaves.The reason why I know that she is Leng Cui and not Zhu Guiren is not that there is a mistake in her appearance, but that her embroidery is too exquisite.

"You embroider really well! Are you Leng Cui?" I asked her.

She raised her head and glanced at me. If it wasn't for the embroidery needles in her hands that were still threading on the silk cloth, I would have definitely identified her as Zhu Guiren with her eyes and demeanor.

"You are really praised. I only used three points of my ability, so I really don't deserve your praise." She looked into my eyes and replied in a flat tone.

"You mean, you can embroider better?" I asked in disbelief. Although I don't know embroidery, I have seen some good embroidery in the Taifu's residence. The one in Leng Cui's hand now , already comparable to the top embroiderers in Beijing.

"Of course I can, but it doesn't have to be very hard. Three points is enough to win that girl Mou. No matter how good it is, it will inevitably make her suspicious. If you take my embroidery and ask around, it is inevitable that you will be able to find out something. It's just a clue, and it's not beautiful to be brave at that time." Leng Cui's voice was cold, but she lived up to her surname at all.

"However, I don't really understand why you, a girl, want to be Zhu Guiren's substitute. Could it be that you have some special hobbies or are you forced by your poor family?" I disliked Leng Cui's cold temper and deliberately rushed at her After asking some embarrassing questions, I thought it would be a bit unspeakable for a big girl to pretend to be a man's stand-in.

"What does this have to do with you?!" Leng Cui didn't even lift her head when she answered this question.

I resentfully fanned the cold air with a fan, and smirked a few times to myself, thinking that this Leng Cui was really boring, so I didn't want to say anything more to her.

"You are that Mr. Gu, right? I know you." After a long silence, it was Leng Cui who opened her mouth first. The mandarin duck in her hand was embroidered, and she got up and put the embroidery on the table. said to me.

"Then you must not have a good impression of me, that's why you always ignore me." I curled my lips at Leng Cui, thinking that Zhu Guiren might have said a lot of bad things about me to Leng Cui, which caused this girl to treat me badly. A good-looking talent like Gu Zhanqi was indifferent.

"I hate you a little bit in my heart!" Leng Cui's voice fell faintly, piercing my ears like dense embroidery needles.

"My son and I were childhood sweethearts. I saw him in Guirenzhuang when I was seven years old, and I thought that if I want to marry in the future, I will marry a man like him. We grew up gradually, and I told my mother about my thoughts. My mother asked my father to write a letter to the son, and invited him to come to my house as a guest in the name of coming to the plum garden in the capital to appreciate plums. She thought that she would propose marriage to him as soon as the plum festival was over. My father and I It is said that a noble man is rich enough to rival a country, but he does not marry a daughter to cling to wealth, let alone other things, first use the ten best silk shops in Suzhou and Hangzhou as dowry..."

Leng Cui's voice became joyful and fast, but then slowly sank. I also know the story behind it. It was at the Plum Sighing Festival that Zhu Guiren met Gu Zhanqi...

"Young master is sick and hasn't recovered, but I know that even if he recovers, I will never get better again. I know his temperament. He will never love others after he decides on someone. He It is impossible to love me again." Leng Cui's voice became sharp like a needle again.

"Later, I found out that he was looking for a substitute in Beijing, so I used Leng Cui's name to apply for the job, just to hang out with him for a few more days. You don't know that when you love someone hard, you always want to know more He may not be able to get something from him, and it is a way to own him occasionally." Leng Cui said quietly, but she didn't seem to be telling anyone, I think she was aggrieved for too long , and she didn't know who to tell these words to.

"I opened many embroidery workshops and silk and satin shops, but I only embroidered mandarin ducks for one person, and it was to save his loved one..." Leng Cui held the embroidery bag in her hand, her face was pale when she laughed, her hands Shaking uncontrollably.

Later, I inquired about Leng Cui's identity from several well-known silk and satin shops in the capital, but I was told that I didn't know anyone whose surname was Leng Cui.

Many years later, I learned from Zhu Guiren's two daughters, Sisi and Niannian, that they had an aunt named Huang Fei who always gave them beautiful embroidered satin clothes to wear, so I knew Leng Cui's identity.

Leng Cui's real name is Huang Fei, and not only her family owns the largest silk and satin factory in Beijing, but also the richest job in the Jiangning Weaving Bureau is also owned by her family.

Many years later, Leng Cui still hadn't married, but there was a scandal between her and Mr. Zhu from the nobleman Zhuang in Beijing. The rumor said that every year on the Plum Sighing Festival, Mr. Zhu from the nobleman's village would use the name of coming to Beijing to appreciate the plum blossoms. I stayed at Huang's house first, in order to meet the young lady of Huang's family...

But I know that Zhu Guiren will come to my residence to see me during the Plum Sighing Festival in those years...

The answer to the story is a bit sad, that young master Zhu who borrowed at Huang Fei's house, all these years, was just played by Leng Cui to coax her...

☆, fried lumps

In the contest between Leng Cui and Mou Guihua, we had already expected her to win. Even without looking at the embroidery work, the two mandarin ducks embroidered by Leng Cui beat Mou Guihua by a lot in terms of composition and artistic conception alone.

What Leng Cui embroiders is a pair of mandarin ducks bathing with their necks intertwined under the green lotus leaves. One is swimming in the water and the other is flying on the water with its wings flapping.

Mou Guihua’s mandarin ducks are quite rare in terms of composition, and they are just a pair of mandarin ducks swimming side by side. Fortunately, the stitches are thin, and the color transition of the trocar is very smooth. It can be said that it is like the mandarin ducks in the painting. But Leng Cui's mandarin ducks are a level higher than paintings, like living mandarin ducks under the lotus leaves by the river.

Mou Guihua was very convinced when she lost in this round, she just glanced at the mandarin duck held by Leng Cui and her face became uneasy.

"After all, I'm an ignorant village girl. It's ridiculous and ignorant. I insist on comparing needlework with you. You probably started learning to embroider by touching needles when you were young. I just danced with guns and sticks for a dozen At the age of [-] years old, I saw other people embroidering, so I knew that girls should learn embroidery. I just rely on my own cleverness, and I want to beat you after two years of learning. It’s crazy." Mou Guihua sighed to herself. After a call, I heard that although she said that she had to admit defeat, she was quite unconvinced in her heart. She felt that Leng Cui won because of the credit of the boy's skill, but no matter what the credit is, Leng Cui won this round. up.

According to Zhu Guiren's arrangement, the person who replaced Leng Cui to compete with Mou Guihua in cooking was Chang Geng.

Chang Geng knew that he was a man as soon as he heard the name, so the woman he dressed up looked a little weird and stiff, and he didn't have the gracefulness of a woman when he walked.

"You are Gu Zhanqi? Are you still alive?" I never thought that this Chang Geng was actually my acquaintance in Beijing.

I think Gu Zhanqi’s name has been in the Taifu’s residence for more than half a year. In fact, there are only a few people who are close to me, but I can’t stop Gu Zhanqi from the past. There are many people in Beijing. Well, I didn't recognize them at first, but they recognized Gu Zhanqi's face.

"Hehe, I'm afraid you misidentified the person. I don't know who you mentioned at all." Can I keep them from harming me? !

"Uh, then you really look alike." Chang Geng said.

"Actually, you are more like that fake Mr. Gu." Chang Geng added.

"Madam, my king sent someone to set up a case of kitchen knives in the yard, let me invite Madam to compete." The female soldier standing outside the door shouted at Chang Geng with the curtain.

"Your Majesty has decided what dishes to compare?" Chang Geng asked.

"Stir-fried lumps, I wonder if you have heard of this dish. My king said that it will be cheaper than trying it on you. This time, she has to get the price back." The female soldier grinned and showed her big white teeth.

Hearing the name Chao Gedao, I felt that Chang Geng's chance of winning was not high. According to Zhu Guiren's selection criteria, Leng Cui could be the top embroiderer in Beijing, so Chang Geng should be the top cook in Beijing. But fried lumps is just a small mountain snack, and you can't even find its name in the big restaurants in Beijing.

"Okay!" Chang Geng skillfully rolled up his sleeves, and he answered very neatly, I followed him out, wanting to see how the chef in Beijing prepared this unheard of food.

"Since Madam has rolled up her sleeves, Osmanthus flower has to be ignorant of etiquette. Naturally, let Madam show her skills first." Mou Guihua smiled narrowly, and pointed to the stove that had just started burning in front of her. Said.

I thought in my heart, this Mou Guihua is indeed very tricky and weird. She expected Mrs. Gu to have heard of the name of stir-frying pimples, so she deliberately put out a stove, and found a name to let Gu Madam did it first, so that she wouldn't even have the chance to copy her.

"Okay!" Chang Geng seemed to be able to say only one good word, I looked at him a little anxiously.

Chang Geng's next series of actions left me dumbfounded. I never thought that he, a chef in central Beijing, would cook the fried pimples so crisply and neatly, as if he had been making fried pimples for more than ten or twenty years, even if he closed his eyes. It can be fried in color, fragrance and taste.

Mu Guihua was a little shocked when she saw it. Naturally, like me, she could not have imagined that Mrs. Gu could make stir-fried pimples.And it's done so skillfully.

Chang Geng deftly tiptoed the fire and dropped the shovel, poured half a pot of fried pimples into three small bowls, and the female soldiers brought them out for a few blindfolded people to taste.

Although Mu Guihua was surprised, she didn't mess up the sub-village. She cleaned a frying pan neatly and started to stir-fry lumps. She was very skilled in the craft, which she was very good at.

Mou Guihua's fried pimples were also put into three small bowls and brought out for evaluation.

The three reviewers finished two servings of stir-fried pimples, and then commented. The result was that the three tasters all felt that Mou Guihua’s fried pimples had a strong, hard smell, and the taste was extremely powerful, while Chang Geng’s pimples were smaller in size. Some, although the taste is not as good as Mou Guihua's Jinba, but it is quite worth aftertaste.

This game was a draw, and no one can say whether the fried lump is better if it is bigger or smaller, whether the taste is straight or has a long aftertaste.

☆, widow

Before the third match could be compared, the sad news of Huangfu Changying's death came from the frontier.

I had no choice but to have a third showdown with Mou Guihua, a complete showdown.

"The person who saved you that year, the one with the mask, was not me, but Huangfu Changying. He lent me my mask. This time I helped Huangfu Changying back to Beijing. I must now , Immediately, immediately, I can't let the old lady just lose her grandson, and she can't see her son's body..." In desperation, my words were illogical.

"I probably understand it. You start your journey now, and I will escort you to the capital!"

This was beyond my expectation. No matter how hard I imagined it, Mou Guihua would have a moment of profound understanding.

Mou Guihua changed into soldier's clothes, took a few capable minions, and escorted us to Beijing along the way.

Our journey was very smooth, because Mou Guihua asked one of her minions to hold up a flag in their village, and all the kings and kings on the hills along the way gave up attacking us, probably thinking that we were lost The fat in Mu Guihua's mouth is not easy to come forward to snatch it, or because Mu Guihua has always been famous, they know they can't afford it.

After crossing the moat smoothly and entering Dongzhi Gate, I cupped my hands and said to Mou Guihua, "Now we are inside the gate of the capital, there will be no more robbing people. We have arrived safely, and King Mou no longer needs to escort us."

"Don't worry, the so-called good people will follow through to the end and send the Buddha to the West. It's not a short distance away." Mou Guihua waved her hand and rejected my offer with a smile.

After arriving at the Marquis of Wu'an's mansion, I saw that the whole mansion was completely white, and the woman's wailing was endless.

The old matriarch came out of the mansion with all his wives and the soldiers who reported the news. He lifted the black cloth covering the crystal coffin with his crutches, and stood still in a daze.

All the wives were sobbing softly behind the old matriarch, Huangfu Changying's mother was crying especially hard.

I was just about to take some time to sneak out to find Nianxiang to reminisce about the old days, but what happened in front of me almost knocked out my eyes.

I saw Mou Guihua take off the soldier's hat, revealing her filial hat, she knelt down in front of the old lady and all the husbands, mourning for the widow who claimed to be Huangfu Changying...

I originally thought that she escorted us back to Beijing out of good intentions, but I never imagined that this was what she had in mind.

I don't know how Mou Guihua's self-directed and self-acted play ended, but many years later, I heard from people in Beijing that there was a very powerful widow general in Taijun's mansion, who had been in command several times to fight against Fanbang. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with Mou Guihua.

Taking advantage of the confusion, I slipped out of Marquis Wu'an's mansion, went to Mei Xiaochen's mansion, knocked on the door I hadn't knocked for a long time with trembling hands, and then heard the very familiar shouting from the porter.

"General Huangfu brought a letter to Mr. Mei." I said to the porter.

"Bring it here!" The concierge glanced at me and said rather bluntly.

"Uh, I want to see Mr. Mei." I said to him.

"My son is very busy. You can see him whenever you want. Leave it to me. I will pass it on. Of course, if you are interested, I can pass it on to you immediately." The porter twitched his fingers, Looked at me and said.

"It's a message. The matter is very important. I have to see Mr. Mei immediately."

"I don't pass on messages. I have a pen and paper here. You can write a note and I'll pass it on." I stood there and rubbed my hands anxiously, thinking that this would kill me. I have letter, and I hope that I can envelop the letter myself, but I do not give this hope to myself.

"What message did you bring me?" Nianxiang came out at some point, knocked on the porter's head twice with the fan handle, and asked me with a frown.

"He said that that year he climbed a mulberry tree and picked a lot of mulberries..."

"Come with me!" Nian Xiang grabbed my hand, led me in, and told the concierge to take good care of her and not allow outsiders to disturb her.

"You are Zhuyi, you are him, don't you think you are?!" Nian Xiang caressed the back of my hand, and said in a mournful voice.

As soon as I took off the mask on my face, Nianxiang pulled me into his arms, "These hands are much rougher than before..." He murmured in my ear.

☆、The General's Photo at Night

According to my description, Nianxiang drew a picture of a general at night. The picture shows Huangfu Changying waving a snow-bladed simple knife under the moon. I drew Ling Gong's appearance when he was using the sword, the silver armor, and the fiery red ribbon floating on the snow blade plain sword...

"Going to the mountains and rivers with a lonely lamp, I draw my sword and look around at a loss..." I muttered these two lines of poems from my memory, and rolled up the scroll.

"Hold this scroll, I'm not familiar with him, and it's not appropriate for me to hang a portrait of a dead person here."

I hurriedly left Nianxiang's mansion with the scroll in my arms, thinking about what Nianxiang said about birth, maybe he didn't think anything, but I listened and thought in my heart, how can I count in this world now? What, a prisoner, a dead ghost, a person who doesn't even have a home...

When I was feeling sad, I met Zhu Guiren who was looking for me everywhere. I think I now understand the meaning of what Miss Mengmeng said to me in Tuomeng.

"When you are in trouble, meet a nobleman", the name of the nobleman I met was actually nobleman. I kind of feel that Miss Mengmeng's words are a little bit concerned about my cultural level.

"The portrait of General Huangfu should be hung in my nobleman's estate. There are hundreds of houses in my nobleman's estate. It would be very easy to set up a room to hang a portrait." Guiren Zhu said while holding a chopstick of spinach and tofu for me.

"Portraits of dead people, don't you shy away?" I picked the tofu apart and said with a bite of spinach.

"It's a good thing for the anti-fan heroes to hang their portraits in my nobleman's village. I'm afraid that General Huangfu will know about it underground, and I feel that hanging the portrait in my village would be a bit of a disgrace to his reputation." Zhu Guiren laughed.

I reassuredly gave the painting scroll to Zhu Guiren. Later, Zhu Guiren really set up a room in the nobleman's manor to use it as a hall of heroes to house the portrait of Huangfu Changying. It's a time for flowers and fruits, and many years later, it has become the rule of Guirenzhuang to go to the Hall of Valor to pay homage to the picture of the general Zhaoye inside.

Many years later, when Sisi and Niannian, the two daughters of Zhu Guiren, were in their teens, General Zhaoye of Yinglie Temple