Love in Suzhou

After Zifei returned to his hometown in Changzhou, he found that Zhan Zhao was not at home. He heard that he had gone out with his master Xie Qiang a few days ago and would not return until two days later.My mother was afraid that he would be bored at home alone, so she asked him to buy New Year's goods with the housekeeper Zhanzhong (this is a character in the original book, hehe!).

It has been fifteen years since Zhan Zhao came back. He heard that Zifei was very happy to celebrate the New Year at home this year, but he was a little angry when he thought of another matter.

That afternoon, he called his brother out, and the two went under the old locust tree.This old locust tree had a history, as long as they could remember, and it flourished every year.Four years ago, a few playmates from Changzhou, including the Zhan Zhao brothers, gathered more than a dozen people and went under the old locust tree. Taking the sky as a witness and the old tree as a guide, they became brothers with different surnames.Since then, these dozen or so people have often come here to play, and here, any brother has no secrets, speaks directly from his heart, and cannot hide it.

When Zifei saw that his elder brother invited him here, he didn't know why, so he leaned against the tree trunk.Zhan Zhao asked, "Did you enjoy going to Suzhou?"

"Okay." Zifei thought: So it was because of this sentence.But I wondered if it was a matter of sending letters?He said: "I have given the letter to Miss Sun to her brother."

"Bring it!" Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand and said to him.

"What?" Zi Fei was very surprised, he didn't know what the eldest brother wanted from him, so he was very surprised.

"My orchid sachet." This is what Zhan Zhao was angry with - since he came back from Fengxiang Mansion, he found that the orchid sachet given by his mother was missing.I remember it was still there when I was in Luping Town, but when I met Zifei on the way home, he disappeared. He didn’t take it away as a joke, who could it be?He couldn't believe it was lost!

"Why is your sachet here?" Zifei thought to himself: I lost something but came to me, or is it my brother?

"After we separated in early November, I found out that the sachet was missing. Who would it be if you took it?" Zhan Zhao said.

"Hey, you have to speak according to your conscience! You can't just wrong me in front of the old locust tree. Besides, which eye of yours saw me take your sachet?" Zi Fei has never been wronged before. Hearing this made me feel uncomfortable.

"Zifei." Seeing Zifei mentioning the old pagoda tree, Zhan Zhao knew that he would not lie to himself, so he changed his tone and said, "I just thought you were joking with me..."

"I didn't take your things again. Maybe you accidentally left it in a certain inn!" Zifei said when his brother's tone changed.

"Impossible, I have been very careful to keep this sachet my mother gave me." Zhan Zhao was absolutely sure that he hadn't left it in the inn.

"Then you can't say I took it!" Seeing him talking like this, Zifei thought to himself: This brother is really not a brother. He even suspected that I stole his sachet, so he said, "When will Zhan Zifei take it?" Have you ever stolen someone else's stuff? Tell me!"

Zhan Zhao didn't say anything, just sat on the ground under the locust tree and said nothing.

Where is this orchid sachet?Actually, it started two months ago---

Zhan Zhao went to Sanjie Mountain to study art but failed, and went to Yujing Lake to watch the sunrise, but the orchid sachet was lost in the stone wall.In fact, Yujing Lake is Baojing Lake, and Lin Fangyu happened to watch the sunrise there on the same day.The two didn't see each other's true colors. At first he thought he had met a fairy, and in a moment of excitement, he pulled off Yu'er's ribbon, but she ran away.Zhan Zhao thought the fairy had flown to the sky, so he deliberately left the emerald green feather belt behind. After a long time, he came to his senses, and found that the fairy had gone and the ribbon was in his hand, so he went down the mountain in disappointment.

Unexpectedly, three days later, Yu'er went to look for her ribbon, but instead of finding it, she picked up Zhan Zhao's orchid sachet.At night when she returned to the barracks, Yu'er dreamed that the person in her dream in Tsing Yi when she was eight years old was called "Fei".I won’t go into more detail on this matter, in short, a relationship was triggered because of these two items, see "Mirror Dream" for details.

Besides, when Zifei saw that his eldest brother was silent, he thought: Could it be that he was really lost?In short, since he doubts me about this matter, why don't I help him find it, and say: "Brother, since this matter is related to me, I have a duty to do so." After Zi Fei finished speaking, he circled around the old locust tree and said : "If I can't find the orchid sac, I won't be called Zhan Zifei, nor will my surname be Zhan""

"Zifei, that's a serious word." Zhan Zhao didn't expect the brothers to say this, so he said it right away.

"No, who made you doubt me? I will definitely help you find out and find it on the way back to Beijing."

"In the vast sea of ​​people, where can I find it?"

"Brother, Heaven pays off, trust me!" Zi Fei said firmly, he has always believed in himself.

However, the words "not surnamed Zhan" came true soon after.

After this year's Lantern Festival, Zifei left for Bianjing City, but in Qingfengguan, Zifei could no longer be named Zhan, but changed his name to Baiyutang.

Zifei's master, Liu Daochang, head of Qingfeng Temple, called him into the room and told him his identity—

His original surname was Bai, and his first name was Yutang. His ancestral home was from Baijiagang, Jinhua, Zhejiang (in the original book), his father was Bai Zhenwei, and his mother was Xu.

Thirteen years ago, the Bai family was a prestigious family in the capital.Bai Zhenwei was originally three brothers: the eldest brother Bai Zhenyu, and the twin brother Bai Zhenwu.But Bai Zhenwu is different from his two elder brothers. He doesn't want to be an official in the court, so he stays at his hometown in Jinhua.

Before the Chanyuan Alliance, there were frequent wars at the border between Song and Liao.Brothers Bai Zhenyu and Bai Zhenwei were stationed at the border and often confronted Liao.Bai Zhenwei has only one son, named Yujing, who grew up in the military camp since he was a child, heard and heard well, and went to war with his father when he was seven years old.Later, he captured a Liao soldier and became a little general in the barracks, deeply loved by his father.Later, as he grew older, he made extraordinary military exploits and became famous at the border.

After the Chanyuan alliance, the Bai brothers returned to the capital in response to the imperial edict, where they became the military attache of the capital, and they personally bestowed the Baihutang to be in charge of state military secrets.In the winter of the fifth year of Dazhong Xiangfu, one month before the birth of the youngest son Bai Yutang, the emperor misunderstood the slander and took the two brothers Bai Zhenyu into the prison of the Criminal Ministry, and they were secretly executed not long after.

It was too late when Zhan Rui arrived in the capital, Bai Zhenwei would give birth to a young son prematurely, named Yutang according to the ranking, and Zhan Rui would quietly take him away from the capital.To the outside world, it was declared a miscarriage, and the picture left a trace of blood for the Bai family.

Later, the emperor really copied the Bai family in the capital, and countless court officials were implicated. At that time, the government and the public were shocked! When Bai Zhenwu, the eldest son of the Bai family in Jinhua, heard about this, he disappeared with his whole family.

Except for the case of rehabilitating the brother a few years later, it never happened again.But at that time, he made an appointment with Bai Zhenwu to show up after Zhan Zifei was changed to Bai Yutang.And let Bai Yutang return to Jinhua to inherit Bai Zhenwei's legacy.

Now that the late emperor has gone, and Bai Zhenwu has avenged the great revenge, all he needs to do is to do Bai Yutang with peace of mind.

When Zifei heard about this, he couldn't believe it was true, so he just knelt in front of Daoist Liu and cried, "Master, please tell me that I am Zifei, not Bai Yutang, please." How could he accept this?

Liu Daochang said firmly: "You are Bai Yutang, not Zifei. If you don't believe me, you can go back to Changzhou and ask your adoptive mother."

When Zifei saw what his master said, he still didn't believe it was true, so he immediately denied his identity as Zifei.He stood up and rushed out the door, leaving Qingfeng Guan, running as fast as the wind, and disappeared.

After that, a little Taoist priest chased him out, but after a while, another man came back with his head down.He saw Liu Daochang standing at the door and walked over, whispering: "Master, senior brother, he ran away, I...I can't catch up with him."

"Let him go!" Liu Daochang said helplessly: "It's good to calm down. Xiaodai, go and do your work!" After finishing speaking, he went back to the room.

In Changzhou, Mrs. Zhan also told Zhan Zhao about this, and asked Zhan Zhao to go to Bianjing and tell his brother.It turned out that all of this was pre-agreed by everyone, and they hoped that Bai Yutang would accept this fact.

So Zhan Zhao set off from Changzhou to go to Qingfeng Temple.But when he arrived at Qingfengguan, he heard Taoist Liu say that Bai Yutang had left the capital, so he went back disappointed! Let’s not talk about Zhan Zhao here, just talk about Bai Yutang!

After Zifei left Qingfengguan, he actually had nowhere to go, because he knew that his master would not lie to him, and this time he left Changzhou to see his mother, so he understood.After he went down the mountain, he happened to meet Zhao Qi, a playmate in the capital, who was the son of a prince, and he always called him Brother Zhao.The relationship between the two is good.Seeing him running so fast, Zhao Qi stopped him and said, "Zifei, did you take the wrong medicine?"

Zifei stopped crying, did not speak, he did not know where to start, just crying.

"Zifei, what's wrong with you?" Seeing him crying but not speaking, Zhao Qi asked, "Did you say something? Did your master beat you?"

He shook his head.

"Have you been kicked out of the teacher?" Bai Yutang still shook his head, and poor Zhao Qi couldn't figure it out.

After a while, Zifei said, "Brother Zhao, I... I'm dead!"

"You..." Seeing what he said, Zhao Qi said to his subordinates, "Go back first, I have something to say to Zifei." His subordinates left, and he called Zifei into a woods and asked, "What happened to you?" What's the matter? You're crying like a tearful person."

Zifei never hides from his brother, so he told him!

Zhao Qi was stunned when he heard his words - he was actually the son of the former General Bai. He was just mentioned by his father before that he was raped and beheaded by the former emperor. It was a major event that shocked the government and the public at that time. But it is also irreparable.

Zifei said: "Brother Zhao, I'm not Zhantang, and I'm not called Zifei. It's all a lie. It turns out that I'm just an orphan and I don't have any relatives."

"Zifei," Zhao Qi said, fearing that he would be sad again, "Calm down first. Whether you are Zhantang or not, Zifei or not, we are all your brothers, trust me!"

"I'm a descendant of a court criminal, and it was your Zhao family who killed my whole family, do you know that?" Zifei said.

"Zifei," Zhao Qi didn't know what to say, and said after a while, "If you want revenge, kill me! Anyway, our Zhao family owes you."

Zifei looked at him and didn't speak. He didn't want to take revenge at all, and the master said that the revenge had already been taken!

Zhao Qi cried and said, "Originally, it was our Zhao family who ruined your family, so let me pay for it alone. Anyway, I can't let you kill the emperor. He doesn't even know." Enemy, but Zifei's tone just now seemed to be an enemy of the Zhao family. An enemy appeared just after the emperor ascended the throne. He didn't want to be like this! One child.

"Did I say I was going to kill the whole family of the emperor?" Zhan Tang asked Zhao Qi.

"Then what did you mean by speaking so loudly just now? The late emperor killed your whole family, so you have to kill his whole family, anyway, I can't escape."

"Did I say I was going to kill the whole family of the emperor?" Zifei roared again.

"You clearly are!"

"I do not have."

"You have!"

"..."

My God, the two guys were arguing like this in the woods, and then they sat in the grass and fell asleep when they were tired.

But Zifei woke up first, saw that Zhao Qi was still sleeping, and left by himself.He had to go back to Changzhou to find out. If Ruo Niangqin also said that was the case, let’s talk about it! Later, he went to Changzhou alone, entered Wujin County, and saw Zhan Zhao who came back from the capital.

Zhan Zhao saw him and said, "Zi Fei, you can make it easier for me to find you!"

When Zifei saw his brother, he said, "What are you looking for? I still have something to do with my mother!" Anyway, he was not in a good mood.

"Mother asked me to go to the capital to look for you, but when Liu Sanbo said that you left the capital, I came back."

"Brother, what did Mother want from me?" Zifei seemed to have expected that.

"Anyway, I don't believe it." Zhan Zhao didn't believe it either, he only believed it after asking.

"You say I'm Bai Yutang? I'm not a child of the Zhan family? Mother also said that?" Zifei asked him back.

Hearing what he said, Zhan Zhao asked strangely, "Do you believe it?"

"I believe it! Anyway, everyone said so!" Zifei was talking angrily again!

"Then why are you coming back? Why don't you go to Jinhua to recognize your ancestors?" Zhan Zhao asked his brother knowingly that he didn't believe him.

"I don't know Jinhua, why don't you take me there?" Zifei really doesn't know Jinhua, even though he sometimes goes out to run by himself. He didn't dare to let him run alone.

"I don't know him either." Zhan Zhao was speechless.The two of them arrived at home without knowing it.

After seeing Mrs. Zhan, Mrs. Zhan took Zifei's hand and said, "It's not that mother wants to hide it from you. I really dare not tell you these years."

Zifei cried and said, "Mother, I don't want to be Bai Yutang, just let me stay!"

"Zifei, mother asked you to keep the jade pendant with you all the time?"

"Yes." Zifei took off the jade pendant from his waist and put it in Mrs. Zhan's hand.

"This was given to us by your mother when you were born. It is the family heirloom of the Bai family. It was an emergency and we didn't have time to ask in detail. When your master comes to Changzhou in a few days, you follow him to Jinhua. Your third uncle will tell you later." After Madam Zhan finished speaking, she held Zifei in her arms and said, "You will always be mother's Zifei. But the Bai family cannot have no descendants, do you understand? Zifei."

Zifei didn't speak, just cried, and he also understood that he really couldn't be called Zhan Zifei anymore.

These days, Zifei doesn't speak at Zhan's house, but just stands silently at home, or sits in a daze in one place. This home has all the memories of him being Zhan Zifei, but he really won't be able to do Zhan Zifei in the near future. The child flew.

A few days later, Taoist Liu arrived at Yujie Village, and Zifei said goodbye to his mother and went to Jinhua with his master.

When they arrived at Baijiagang, their master and apprentice went to Bai's house, but they heard people there say that the third master had appeared half a month ago, and then disappeared again. Live in Bai's house, just go to town and live in an inn.

That night, Bai Yutang couldn't sleep at night, so he changed into night clothes while his master was resting, left the inn, and secretly went to Baijiagang. Arrived at Baijiagang.Unexpectedly, I saw a figure fly by outside the village, and went directly to somewhere in the west of the village.Curiosity prompted him to fly after him, passing through a forest, and found a large yard in the forest, and the figure went straight to the tallest house.

Seeing that person enter the house, Bai Yutang had no choice but to fly up to the roof, lift off the tiles, and saw a person waiting for him there.The man was about 40 years old, wearing a wolf fur coat, and said to the man who just came in: "Are you sure it's him?"

"Yes, he took the young master to Baijiagang today to ask about you, but he lived in the town."

"Who does Yutang look like?" He said excitedly.

"It seems to be the same as when Young Master Yujing was a child."

Bai Yutang thought to himself on the roof: Could this be my uncle Bai Zhenwu?Yutang, Yujing's, I heard from the master that he is my father's twin brother, and I think he looks very similar to my father. Is this my only relative?

"Then I'll go to town tomorrow..." The man stopped talking as soon as he said this, and he flew up to the roof.

Bai Yutang yelled inwardly: "It's not good, he was discovered! So he was about to run away, but he was a step too late, and he just happened to be stopped by that person."

The man asked, "Who are you? Why are you here late at night?"

Knowing that this person's martial arts is strong, Bai Yutang said: "It doesn't matter who it is, let's talk about it after winning my Huaying." He just wanted to escape, he had no intention of fighting him at all, he just looked for a chance.

"Hua Ying? Could it be that the honored master is Liu..." Before he could finish speaking, he saw a white shadow stabbing at him.He turned around and dodged, but Bai Yutang took this opportunity to escape.

When he got to the woods, he found that he lost his way. There were no stars in the sky, not even the North Star. How could he find his way?He had to wait, because it was dark at night and it was difficult to tell the direction.After a while, he saw a torch flickering in front of him, and thought to himself: Could it be that third uncle sent someone to look for it?It's over, it's better not to admit that it's Bai Yutang, and hide first.Unexpectedly, the torch was getting closer and closer, so he had to hide behind a big tree behind him.

Suddenly a big hand covered his mouth, he wanted to struggle but he heard the other party say: "It's me."

When Bai Yutang heard it was Master's voice, he said, "Master, I..." Seeing Master make a "Shh!" movement, he stopped talking.

After a while, I heard a voice saying: "Liu Daochang of Qingfeng Temple, I'm Bai Zhenwu, please show up."

Liu Daochang pulled Bai Yutang out and said, "Brother Bai, I haven't seen you for many years, but he is actually the master of White Wolf. I really didn't expect it."

Bai Zhenwu looked at the young man behind him and thought to himself: Could it be that he is the orphan of my second brother.But when he saw the sword in his hand, he knew it was him, so he said, "This little brother is..."

Daoist Liu knew that Bai Zhenwu had already guessed it, so he said to Bai Yutang, "Yutang, why don't you kneel down when you see your uncle?"

Bai Yutang had no choice but to go forward and salute and said, "My nephew Bai Yutang has seen uncle."

"Hahaha! Second brother can rest in peace with a son like you. Good nephew, hurry up and let uncle take a good look." Bai Zhenwu thought that he was not afraid of danger on the roof, and instead created opportunities for himself to escape. Jue sighed in relief, helped him up himself, and looked at him carefully.Then he said to Daochang Liu: "Brother Liu, let's go to the humble house and talk about it. I will take Yutang to the Bai family to recognize the ancestors and return to the clan tomorrow. You have a good rest today." After he finished speaking, he took his nephew to lead Daochang Liu to the residence!

On the second day, they went to Baijiagang together, held an ancestor recognition ceremony for Bai Yutang in front of the ancestral hall of the Bai family, and took the word "Zeyan" for him (this is from the original book, hehe.)

Bai Yutang temporarily lived in his uncle's Tianlang village, and his master left first, saying that he wanted to get closer to his relatives and go to the capital to play when he had time, and then left.

Bai Zhenwu has only one son, named Bai Yuqi, who is three months older than Bai Yutang. Because he went to his uncle's house with his mother, he didn't see him. After they came back, they had a good time together, but Yuqi matured much earlier than Bai Yutang. Less, probably because the father is the head of the cottage, and the mother is also the gang leader of the underworld.

Bai Yutang's aunt, Yang Qiansu, is the leader of the Xueyang gang of the underworld in the south of the Yangtze River. This Xueyang gang was established by her own ability when she was not married. family.Yuqi often runs around with her mother, so she develops a precocious personality, and she loves her younger brother even more. Although they are the same age, he protects him everywhere, because there are only two brothers in the Bai family. personal.So Bai Yutang soon got acquainted with Tianlangzhai, just like at home, and later Yuqi went out with her mother, feeling bored, so she bid farewell to her uncle and prepared to go out to play.

Bai Zhenwu couldn't keep him no matter how hard he tried, so he had to send a follower named Bai Fu (from the original book) to take care of him.This Bai Fu is one year younger than Bai Yutang, and the two of them can be regarded as companions, traveling together.Bai Yutang had no choice but to accept his uncle's kindness!

End of this chapter