his robbery

On Christmas Eve, I didn't sleep well, and I always seemed to be dreaming in a hazy way, but the dream was not clear, saying that the dream was not a dream.A rooster crowed faintly in the distance, causing him to open his eyes in a daze.He stretched out his hand while opening his eyes, and he felt an empty space beside him.He turned his head and looked down the kang, the room was empty, the window paper was cold and white, it was almost dawn.

Gu Chengxi did not return all night.

Without Gu Chengxi in the dilapidated house, he immediately showed a somewhat bleak look.Putting on the quilt, Ping An sat up and wrapped herself into a big swaddle.Squinting his eyes and curling his hair, he began to recall a new day.There is only a thin layer of paper between the past and him, so thin that it can be penetrated; but he is at a loss, and he just doesn't know how to start.Subconsciously, he took out the watch from under the pillow, and put it back on his left wrist with ease.He raised his left hand and looked again and again, but he was still thinking intermittently: "Inspiration, Mani...Mani..."

Lingji and Mani are both human names, Lingji is farther away and Mani is closer.Raising his hand to scratch the itchy scalp, the thin blood scabs were falling off, he looked down at the crevices of his nails, there was blood in the crevices of the nails, it was from scratching hard just now.

Just at this moment, there was a commotion outside the courtyard, with people screaming and horses neighing. Several rough throats yelled and shouted, shaking the neighbors' chickens and dogs jumping and crying for their parents and mothers.Ping An was taken aback, but because the room was too cold, she snuggled into her big swaddle and didn't move immediately.As if in an instant, the door of the Gu family's rickety courtyard was also kicked open, and several soldiers rushed directly to the door.Even the crumbling door was opened by a gun butt, and Ping An met the soldiers face to face in the cold wind.

The soldiers wore tattered yellow skins, and all of them were blue-headed and swollen from the cold.Stepping into the cold and dark room, they didn't seem to expect that there would be someone sitting silently on the kang.Before they could speak, an officer trotted up.As soon as the person stretched out his head at the door, the officer seemed to just want to slip in for a casual glance, but when he caught sight of the safety on the kang, the officer immediately opened his mouth and yelled loudly: "Oh! Commander!"

Then he turned back sharply, jumped into the yard like crazy and continued howling: "Who is here! I found it! The commander is safe and sound!"

The officer yelled like killing a pig, and the sound severely stimulated Ping An's nerves.Suddenly throwing off the quilt and jumping off the kang, he strode out of the room.Standing barefoot on the snow, the blood all over his body began to flow into his brain in waves.

"I am... I am..." He said to himself with red eyes: "I am..."

Before he could come up with a result from his own question and answer, the horse's hooves stomped messily outside the courtyard gate.A dusty shadow flew down from the tall horse, and flew straight into his arms as light as a finch.He lowered his head to face the person in his arms, at the same time raised his hand, and gently took off the gray top hat on the other person's head.

His lips were drawn into a straight line, and his eyes widened fiercely: "You... Mani?"

Bai Mani frowned tremblingly, the tip of his nose and earlobes were all frozen red.Wrapping his arms around Huo Xiangzhen's waist, he trembled hoarsely: "Brother... Okay, okay, you scared me to death..."

His eldest brother suddenly smiled, and his voice changed his tone strangely: "I am... I am... I am Huo Xiangzhen!"

After the words fell, Huo Xiangzhen punched himself on the head: "Yes, I am Huo Xiangzhen!"

Bai Mani still hugged him, but was frightened by his actions: "Brother, what's wrong with you?"

Huo Xiangzhen violently picked him up and turned around, then turned to face the door that was wide open.Looking in through the door, the first thing you see is Kang.There was a smelly warm quilt piled on the kang, and he was sleeping in the warm quilt... Logically speaking, there should be another Gu Chengxi.

Memories, regardless of distance, are suddenly clear.Huo Xiangzhen stared fiercely in front of her, and a thunderstorm exploded in her mind.His temple was throbbing and hurting, he turned livid and asked himself: "What the hell did I do?!"

At this time, Bai Mani made a high profile again.Bending down and pulling Huo Xiangzhen's trousers, he shouted in shock, "Brother, why don't you wear shoes? Are you going to freeze to death?"

Huo Xiangzhen lowered his head slowly, watching his bare feet sink in the dirt and snow.The Gu family's yard is too dirty. When the ice melts and the snow melts in spring, the small yard will turn into a swamp with mud.

Leaning over to pull up Bai Mani, he suddenly calmed down: "No shoes."

After finishing speaking, he put the woolen top hat in his hand back on Bai Mani's head.Bai Mani was wearing a gray hunting suit and a long gray cape. His face was also pale with gray in it; only a pair of eyes were clear and clear in black and white, which was a bit of watery light in his haggard face.

As if unable to understand what he said, Bai Mani frowned and asked him, "No shoes?"

Before Huo Xiangzhen could answer, another group of people broke into the courtyard.The eyebrows and eyelashes of the first person were all frosted, and it was Ma Congrong.Ma Congrong and Huo Xiangzhen looked at each other, and immediately exhaled a long cloud of white air: "Master..."

Bai Mani looked down on Ma Congrong the most, but in desperation, he temporarily lost his grievances.Pulling Huo Xiangzhen's sleeve with one hand, he turned his head and shouted in a crying voice: "Ma Congrong, he has no shoes!"

Ma Congrong saw Huo Xiangzhen thoroughly in an instant.Lifting his leg, he took off one of his riding boots, and ran up to Huo Xiangzhen with the soles of his socks bare: "Master, deal with mine first, and I'll go find you clothes right away!"

Huo Xiangzhen hesitated for a moment, Ma Congrong's riding boots actually didn't fit his feet.He could go back to the house and wait peacefully on the kang.

But after a brief hesitation, he raised his foot and knelt down on one knee to put on the riding boots for Ma Congrong.

The small courtyard of the Gu family was boiled. First, the courtyard was crowded with adjutants and guards armed with live ammunition, and then a division commander who led the troops also rushed over after hearing the news—the governor said that he had been bombarded, but no one was alive or dead. Corpse, life and death is still an unsolved case.Of course, the unsolved case is not just a matter of life and death. People living in Beijing, because they are too clear-headed, suffer more than Huo Xiangzhen, who has lost his memory.Huo Duli inherited his father's career from his son, and his foundation is very deep and shallow.He has the benefit of being alive, and he has the benefit of being dead.Let him live or let him die?People's hearts are separated from each other, and they start to have their own ideas.

The governor's mansion was in chaos for more than half a month, but in the end, only one division commander, An Rushan, was willing to send troops to find someone.An Rushan is capable of fighting, he is still on the road, and his daimyo has scared away tens of thousands of soldiers.An Rushan's soldiers, together with Huo Xiangzhen's entire adjutant's office left in Beijing, entered the county at midnight.Taking advantage of the dead of night, they scattered into the streets and alleys, kicking doors and searching from house to house.An Rushan took a stack of leaflets from the soldiers behind him, and specially presented them to Huo Xiangzhen: "Commander, you see, we have printed your photos in advance, and we plan to post them all over the city in case we can't find you." !"

Huo Xiangzhen reached out to take a list, and read it carefully under the light of the morning sun.The print was blurry, but it was exactly what he looked like.Nodding at the photo, he told himself in his heart: "Me."

After handing the flyer back to An Rushan, he asked, "Did you drive away Wan Guoqiang's soldiers?"

An Rushan smiled and said, "I didn't start a fight, I was scared away."

Huo Xiangzhen also laughed: "It seems that I'm really not good at talking on paper, and I was almost bombarded into ashes."

An Rushan quickly shook his head: "No, no. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the commander's tactics, it's just a mistake by Wan Guoqiang and his gang. If you fight against someone with real swords and guns, Wan is definitely not your opponent."

Standing in the cold wind, Huo Xiangzhen instantly remembered the events of her whole life.Winding blue veins lay across his forehead, twitching and bouncing loomingly.However, there was a little smile on the corner of his mouth. In front of everyone, he was unmoved and as stable as Mount Tai: "How is the family? Is it messed up?"

An Rushan lowered his hands, and answered carefully, "At home...it's okay."

A warm and hot hand lightly touched Huo Xiangzhen's palm, tentatively, like a living creature with intelligence.Gathering five fingers and grabbing the warm little creature, Huo Xiangzhen turned to look at Bai Mani: "Why are you here?"

Bai Mani was almost hurt by his grip, but he couldn't bear to run away: "I can't stay at home, so I might as well come with them."

Then he looked back at the small black room behind him: "Brother, do you live here these days?"

Huo Xiangzhen said nothing, just nodded.

Bai Mani withdrew his hand from Huo Xiangzhen's hand, put on his cloak and ran into the room to look around for a week.The two long eyebrows frowned more and more, and finally he couldn't bear it anymore and raised his hand to cover his nose, thinking that his eldest brother really lived in a doghouse.A serious kennel is also cleaner than this dilapidated house, and suddenly stopped in place, he thought nervously: "This place is so dirty, will there be lice and fleas?"

Thinking of this, he immediately took a few steps back and returned to broad daylight.Standing beside Huo Xiangzhen and looking at his profile, Bai Mani thought that he had never suffered such a crime, and that kennel really humiliated him.

Being waited on by Ma Congrong and changed into a pair of riding boots that fit her feet, Huo Xiangzhen turned around and took a last look into the room.Why hasn't Gu Chengxi come back yet?If he doesn't come back, he's leaving.

Raising his hand to reject the cloak that Ma Congrong draped over him, Huo Xiangzhen turned to the front with a blank expression, and walked out of the courtyard gate in stride.

An adjutant had already prepared a horse for him.As soon as he stepped on the stirrup, he paused for a second.

A second later, Huo Xiangzhen flew onto the horse, and then turned to An Rushan with a flick of the rein: "Old An, go and find someone for me! This man's surname is Gu, his name is Gu Chengxi, he is about the same size as me, and he is about the same age as me! He saved my life, I have to meet him before I go!"