Huaigui

On a sunny day, He Lan Mingyue was sitting in the courtyard, and seeing Xie Bi busy packing her luggage, she was still at first, but after a while she couldn't help asking: "I'm the one who's leaving, what are you up to?" ?”

Xie Bi was stretching her clothes: "I'm with you! Didn't I promise?"

He Lan Mingyue was taken aback for a moment: "When you said it casually."

Xie Bi stopped immediately when he heard this, and wanted to hit him when he lifted the dress. He Lan Mingyue raised a finger at him in warning, his movements froze in mid-air, and retracted cursingly: "You man, you talk like farting It's like! A few days ago, you coaxed me, saying that if you want to come, come together, but today you turn your face and deny it!"

He Lan Mingyue said: "I didn't coax you, it was you who stalked me."

The quieter he became, the more unreasonable Xie Bi seemed to be making trouble. As if he had realized this, Xie Bi forcibly suppressed the swearing, squeezed out a smile and leaned over: "Hey, brother He, good brother, you should do what I want, when you decide where to go, I can go if I want to."

"But what can you do here?" He Lan Mingyue soothed the goosebumps all over her body, "Also, don't call me brother."

Xie Bi snorted: "Stingy ghost, these few months I live in my house, and I don't even give you anything in return. What did General Xu say about you? Tell you to be a good benefactor!"

He Lan Mingyue said: "Oh."

His lukewarm attitude made Xie Bi completely confused, and threw the clothes on He Lan: "Master, let's be honest, Chun Wei released the ranking yesterday, and he didn't win!"

He Lan said, "Congratulations."

"Congratulations! I've passed the exam for the third time!" Xie Bi squatted decadently on the stone bench, "Even the stinky old man thinks that I'm not suitable for studying, and I can't get a Jinshi. What's the use of staying in Luoyang, why don't I go with you?" Change the place and change the road.”

He Lan exposed him: "You are afraid of ridicule and teasing in the village, so you want to escape."

"Whatever you say, I can't stay with this sadness." Xie Bi muttered, "Anyway, the stinky old man is free from illness and disaster, Brother Qin will be able to transfer back to the capital this fall, and he will be taken care of by then, and I will also take care of him." Disappointed. You are leaving, so what can you do with me, I at least..."

He Lan Mingyue raised her eyebrows: "At least?"

Xie Bi suddenly had an epiphany: "At least you can wash and cook! You are injured so badly, you need to rest and recuperate. It's better to have someone to take care of you than to fight alone, right?"

He Lan Mingyue was noncommittal: "Do you know where I'm going?"

Xie Bi, who was thinking about a bright future, paused for a moment, and seemed to have just remembered this key question. He moved closer to him and poked his arm: "Then tell me? How about this? I'll listen first before deciding whether to go or not. Go or go east? The scenery in the south of the Yangtze River is beautiful, but there is a sea in Qizhou..."

"I'm not going, I'm going outside the Great Wall." He Lan Mingyue interrupted him, seeing Xie Bi's stunned face, vaguely wishing for revenge, "Go to Yinzhou City."

Xie Bi almost fell off the stool: "Yinzhou? Are you crazy?"

Helan Mingyue said "ah", Xie Bi wanted to pounce on him and pinch his face, pouring out the water in his mind: "That place is not beyond the Great Wall, it's going to Rouran! I heard it's very chaotic, the Western Region After the commercial roads are blocked, it is desolate and remote, what is wrong with you, you want to go to that place!"

He saw that the higher Xie Bi jumped, the more leisurely he was: "How about it, are you still going?"

"Sai Bei!" Xie Bi yelled, "Whoever goes is a fool!" After saying that, he turned around and entered the room angrily, ignoring He Lan Mingyue any more.

Watching Xie Bi slam the door hard, He Lan Mingyue lay down again.Thinking of his expression just now, it was a little funny, but he was smiling, and the wound on his chest was aching, making He Lan frown.

He touched the place through his clothes, and there was still a hideous scar from the outside, and he no longer needed to wear a bandage all the time.Lao Qin said that he has good physical strength, is young, and recovered faster than expected, but this time it was a serious injury that was almost fatal, and he still needs to take medicine to warm him up regularly.

The traces of the body always have time to heal, so what about the ones in the heart?

Helan Mingyue lowered her eyes.

Two months, whether it was long or short, was enough time for him to digest the accident.Everything was as planned, he only acted as a pawn, but now he has no chance to see clearly.

Soon he will leave Luoyang completely, and maybe he will never come back for the rest of his life.Helan Mingyue doesn't like revenge. He doesn't know the truth about his father's death, and now he can't face himself, Gao Jing and those hideous faces. He just wants to leave quickly and stay safely in a small world Spend the rest of your life in peace.

Thinking of this, He Lan Mingyue laughed at herself and said: At the age of 22, she already plans to spend the rest of her life in peace.

All his energies seemed to have been quickly overdrawn in the past ten years. He didn't know what else to do and what path he wanted to take, so he could only feel his way forward.

Some time ago, he was able to get up, so he immediately went to Quanshui Lane.When Xu Xin met him, they didn't have much to say. After discussing, Xu Xin suggested that he go beyond the Great Wall.

At that time, he was as surprised as Xie Bi: "Go to Saibei?"

Xu Xindao: "The general became famous in the first battle back then when he attacked the Rouran king's tent palace five hundred miles north of Yinzhou city, catching Yu Jiulu by surprise. After all, Yinzhou is the capital of the Longxi king's fief...you were born there .”

He Lan Mingyue bowed her head in silence, and said after a long while: "I understand."

Xu Xin shook his head: "You don't understand. I don't want you to return to your hometown, but I have other arrangements."

"Is there a problem?"

"Since the general died, the Helan family seemed to have lost all news overnight. Even if I didn't want to believe it, I had to guess that maybe it was His Majesty's will to make them die. Since then, people in Yinzhou and Xiazhou The few cities were left unguarded, and everyone said that the Western Army no longer existed."

"..."

"However, I believe that the Western Army is still there!" Xu Xin looked at him and said firmly, "After the scuffle that was torn apart, I have never seen those lieutenants return to Beijing. Some died in battle and some were seriously injured. I Over the years, we have made many investigations, and even went to Yinzhou twice when we were in Bingzhou, and found out that there is still one alive."

Helan Mingyue's heart skipped a beat.

Xu Xin said: "That man's name is Li Ciyuan, he was named General Zhenwei in the past, but he doesn't know where he is now."

"But I don't know where, how can I be sure that I'm still alive?"

Xu Xin explained: "Yinzhou City seems to have been abandoned by Daning in the past few years, but it has not been taken over by other tribes in Rouran. I think there may be someone secretly protecting it. But this is just a guess... Among the generals of the Western Army, others can find out what happened afterwards, but this Li Ciyuan disappeared as if out of thin air."

He Lan Mingyue thought she was crazy: "You think he's in Yinzhou City?"

"It's just a hunch, I really can't be sure." Xu Xin had tears in his eyes, "Xijun is like a spirit. If he has nowhere to go, he will return to Yinzhou. And...if he is alive, he must be very happy." want to see you."

The time they talked that day was not too long, Xu Xin prepared horses and money for him, and a forged certificate, enough for him to travel all the way to Yinzhou without hindrance.

When parting, Xu Xin handed the things to him: "Don't take the initiative to see me in the future, if there is any news in the capital, I will try to pass it on to you."

He Lan said: "Are you afraid that King Yu will know?"

"No, I'm afraid you will be involved. Don't ask other questions, come on, you take this." Xu Xin said, taking out a copper token from his pocket and handing it to He Lan.

He took it for no apparent reason, the brass was burnt, and it looked like a tiger talisman.

There is only half of it in the hand, and the shape...is actually a wolf.

Until returning to Lao Qin's clinic, Helan Mingyue still heard Xu Xin's last words: "This is the tiger amulet of the Western Army. You don't have to worry about where I got it. It's useless anyway, so I'll leave you one." Remember it."

"The wolf is the symbol of the Western Army."

"Since you are the general's only son, you should accept it."

The memories came to an abrupt end, Helan Mingyue opened her eyes, thought for a while, and took out the tiger talisman.

Heavy weight, opaque, and without any mechanism.The wolf's head on the front is only half, with protruding fangs and fierce eyes.That sentence made him grip it tightly, feeling the cold temperature.

The wolf... is the symbol of the Western Army.

At this moment, he ignorantly understood the sense of responsibility brought by fate.

After half a month, Helan Mingyue moved freely, although she occasionally suffered from physical weakness, she was basically recovered compared to before.As soon as he got better, he immediately wanted to leave Luoyang.

Lao Qin didn't stop him, acquiescing to this man's behavior seemed to mean that he was fine.Not only that, Lao Qin prepared for him the medicine that can be used along the way, supplemented by a prescription, for future contingencies.Helan Mingyue had nothing to repay, so he had to pay Lao Qin twice as much, but the eccentric old man insisted on only accepting a piece of silver.

Helan Mingyue didn't have any long belongings, so Xu Xin prepared everything for him, and he only needed to use a bag to hold it.On the day of his farewell, Lao Qin went out early, Xie Bi hid in the house and did not come out.

Standing at the gate of the courtyard, two fine horses rubbed back and forth impatiently, He Lan Mingyue said loudly: "Xie Bi, I'm leaving!"

The door was pushed open suddenly, and Xie Bi jumped out with a huge burden on his back: "Wait for me a while!"

He Lan Mingyue was stunned: "Don't you not like going to Saibei?"

"After thinking about it, young master, I really don't feel relieved that you will go to that kind of bitter cold place with snow in August... Hey, don't be moved, it will be my turn to eat yours and live yours when you go. Don't think I have too many things to do." Xie Bi snorted.

A warm feeling flowed through her heart, and He Lan Mingyue couldn't help smiling: "Thank you."

Xie Bi grabbed two more packages and threw them to He Lan. He took them and heard Xie Bi say, "In this way, I can be regarded as half a friend with you, right? From now on, between friends, don't thank each other all the time. It's so annoying to hear."

friend?Did he gain his first friend like this?

He Lan Mingyue paused for a moment, then said straightly: "Okay."

"Come on, I told the stinky old man that I wanted to go with you, and I was scolded by him for a while! This time, the young master is bound to make a name for himself in Saibei. Hmph, if he comes back later, he will be proud of his horseshoe. It's a flower." Xie Bi triumphantly led one of the horses, and bumped He Lan with his elbow, "Let's go... oh no!"

"what happened?"

"I suddenly remembered that I picked it up on your bed the other day... where did it go?" Xie Bi fumbled on her body for a while, and finally grabbed a small object from a corner, and showed He Lan, "Your Bar?"

Lying quietly in his slightly calloused palm was the earring made of smoked purple jade.

Helan Mingyue made a "boom" in her head, and wanted to take it, but her arms suddenly felt heavy like lead.

Xie Bi was still muttering: "You went out to see General Xu that day, and I packed your bedding, and it fell out of nowhere. I was thinking, 'Oh, this thing can cover your medical expenses', but Didn’t Lao Qin not want your money either... It’s quite exquisite, what kind of jade is this? I’ve never seen it before..."

"Smoke Purple Jade." He said hoarsely, still without raising his hand, "It should be quite valuable, but I... don't want it anymore."

"Hey? Isn't it very valuable, why don't you just don't want it?" Xie Bi looked at him, with you stupid thing written all over his face, rolled his eyes, and came up with an idea, "Or let's pawn it?"

He Lan Mingyue was not sure whether he could take out the jewelry made from the tribute, but he had no choice but to nod.

The two took their luggage and horses and chose a time-honored pawn shop nearby.He Lan Mingyue wouldn't do this, and didn't want to look at the earring again, so he let Xie Bi go to negotiate the price alone - he thought he had taken nothing away, but it suddenly appeared, reminding He Lan of that part past.

The lingering love after sex is as beautiful as honey mixed with oil. Gao Jing put on a coat and lay on his body, his eyes were bright, rubbing his earlobe and saying, "I want to be here...to leave a mark on you .”

He Lan Mingyue remembered that her voice was tender and tender: "Okay, Your Highness, you are on the left and right."

At this time, I just feel embarrassed when I recall it.He touched the hole in the earlobe, wearing earrings for many years, the hole has been there for a long time, and it is not easy to heal.

Not long after, Xie Bi came out of the pawn shop in three steps, and almost threw himself on He Lan Mingyue: "Brother He, you will be my brother from now on!—Do you know how much you pawned?"

He Lan Mingyue had no idea about money, so he asked casually, "Ten taels?"

Xie Bi stared at a pair of slender eyes: "Ten taels! Gold! All you give are gold beads one by one!"

After finishing speaking, he held back the corner of the purse and showed it to Helan Mingyue, fearing that the pawnshop shopkeeper would repent and chase him out, dragging people away, chattering endlessly:

"I've never seen such a big battle... As soon as I took it out, the waiter's eyes were straightened, and he hurriedly invited the shopkeeper. Tell him to look at it! Fortunately, I pretended to be decent... You think we are not cheated, right? Such a small thing is worth so much money..."

Helan Mingyue was a little amused when he looked like he had never seen money before, but when he thought about the origin of that earring, he couldn't laugh again: "Anyway, it's been pawned."

"Yeah, what did the shopkeeper say? Except in the palace, it's rare to see such a good color outside..." Xie Bi suddenly reacted and almost jumped on the spot, "Are you from the palace—"

He Lan Mingyue quickly covered his mouth.

"I'll tell you later."

Pushing and pulling, he threw Xie Bi onto the horse.Because of this change, leaving the city was extremely hasty.

The busy street at her side turned into a rutted official road, and Helan Mingyue turned her head in a daze, and saw that the gate of Luoyang City was getting farther and farther away from her.

In the season of Yangliu Yiyi, he finally escaped from the city.

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