Mountains and rivers do not return to people

Kneel down here.

At dusk, she took a few steps to the side, and Lasu Xiying went down the mountain from another mountain road.

In Wanzhou City.

Han Shi and Song Yan were guarding outside the priest's mansion. When they saw Shen Mu, they looked at each other and greeted him.

Su Xiying, who had assassinated Shen Mushi twice, was worried that they would be strangled when they met, so she quickly walked a few steps, stopped between the two parties, and said, "What's the matter, two girls? Now that the sacrificial ceremony has been abolished, let's write off the past."

Song Yan hesitated and said, "We are here to apologize to you."

Shen Mushi pulled Su Xiying behind her, and said, "No need, Shen Wanyu is still alive, you go and plan the next thing with him, you don't need to listen to me."

Shen Mushi bypassed them, took Su Xiying back to the mansion, closed the door, and left the two of them alone.

The heavy door closed, shutting out the hustle and bustle of the city and Song and Han.

"I'll take you to the shrine."

Su Xiying nodded in agreement, after thinking about it, she asked, "Are you really not going to forgive them? It's better to be friends than to push them to someone else's side."

Shen Mushi yawned, and said: "Shen Wanyu found them, and they fell to his side, like weeds on the wall."

Su Xiying heard the words and said with a smile: "Are you jealous of Shen Wanyu?"

"Why should I be jealous of them? Shouldn't you think that it is not good for us for them to defect easily?"

Shen Mushi raised his hand and knocked on Su Xiying's forehead, and couldn't help but smile, "I really want to see what's going on in your head every day."

The burial ground is far away, and the ancestral hall is at the entrance of the burial ground. After the ancestral hall, there is a stretch of pines and cypresses for ten miles.

The nameless temple-like building in front of me is the Shen Family Ancestral Hall.

Laughing is laughing, trouble is trouble, here we must be disrespectful, Su Xiying and Shen Mushi both put on a serious expression, looked at each other, pushed the door and walked in.

The two knelt down on the futon in front of the spirit tablet.

At dusk, she lit incense, distributed three sticks to Su Xiying, bowed three times, and said: "Father, mother, I brought Xiying to see you."

Su Xiying imitated his appearance, after paying respects, she felt that she should say something, but she was afraid of saying the wrong thing, so she hesitated and said: "Junior Su Xiying has seen the ancestors of the Shen family."

What she said was quite satisfactory, after Su Xiying finished speaking, she looked up at Shen Mushi who was at the side.

Shen Mu stood up and took the incense in his hand, and put it on the incense table.

The wind blows in the pine forest not far away, the blue color is like washing, spread out layer by layer, and when it blows into the ancestral hall, it also brings the quiet breath of the pine forest. A piece of red rice paper was placed on Su Xiying's head impartially.

Su Xiying was startled, her eyes were occupied by red, she didn't dare to take it off rashly, and said in a low voice, "Does this mean that you don't want to see me?"

"This is to see me lift your hijab again in front of them."

Shen Mushi walked up to him, picked up the red paper, spread it in the palm of his hand, and was swept outside by the wind after a while, without a trace.

Su Xiying felt that the gust of wind seemed to caress his head, like an elder caring for a junior, her nose was sore, and she said, "Let's worship the high hall again."

"it is good."

The two knelt down on the futon again and bowed to the spirit tablet three times.

After walking a long distance, the gust of wind seemed to still surround the two of them.

In the evening of that day, Shen Wanyu took Shen Wanfu's body away. Shen Mushi knew that Shen Wanyu was coming, and guarded around the corpse for a long time. When Shen Wanyu saw him, he hesitated for a moment, but walked forward. Take the mat and roll up the corpse.

After walking a few steps, seeing Shen Mushi not chasing him, he turned to look at him.

Su Xiying came out to deliver food to Shen Mushi, and the two sat on the threshold with the food, watching the setting sun in the distance.

Shen Wanyu hesitated for a while, before asking: "Priest Shen, since you want to abolish the sacrificial ceremony, why do you refuse to let us go."

"Without you, where would there be an opportunity to talk to King Si?"

Shen Wanyu held up Shen Wanfu's head, put it in a bag, carried the mat on his shoulders, and shouted: "Shen Mushi, where are we blocking your eyes, you want to treat us like this."

Shen Mushi looked at the setting sun, without giving him a glance from the beginning to the end, he said: "When you asked Shen Wanfu to poison Xiying, we didn't hinder your eyes."

"How do you know this?"

"Guess."

Su Xiying turned her head to look at him, the afterglow of the setting sun shone on Shen Mushi's face, Shen Mushi slowly closed her eyes, the lines of her face were much softer, adding a bit of gentleness to the man beside her.

Su Xiying didn't bother him, and watched Shen Wanyu leave with the body and disappeared at the corner of the street.

Someone passed by and was surprised to see Shen Mushi sitting here, Shen Mushi opened his eyes and looked over, the commoner hurriedly turned away his face and walked in a hurry.

Su Xiying stood up and stretched out her hand: "Let's go home."

"Okay, go home."

Going home, what a warm word, I thought that this life would eventually be lost, but I didn't expect that there will always be a life from a desperate situation, and a life from a desperate situation.

Finally, the situation calmed down, and the smoke on the border was still spreading. On the second day after the ceremony was abolished, King Si sent someone over to deliver new instructions.

It was a secret letter, and King Si sent it directly to the priest's mansion, and handed it to Su Xiying when Shen Mushi read it. Su Xiying glanced at it a few times. Divination.

Su Xiying frowned after reading it. How could priests be required to accompany the army? This clearly means that the provincial governor was disbanded, and Shen Mushi had no real power in his hands, so he sent people away.

Su Xiying threw the secret letter aside, and said anxiously: "This is clearly a deliberate attempt to demote you for no reason. How could King Si do this?"

Shen Mushi didn't take it seriously, shrugged and said: "I think it's true, why don't we just fake death halfway and just go into seclusion."

"good idea."

The little eunuch who came to deliver the secret letter hadn't left yet. He coughed lightly and said: "My lords, business is the most important thing. It's not a gentleman's job to run away before the battle. Tonight, Wu advised the Chinese army Weilai to escort the two of you. I still look forward to seeing you two." An early victory will return to court."

Seeing Shen Mushi's appearance, she really wanted to silence the little eunuch, Su Xiying hurriedly stopped his raised hand.

"Hey, don't bother, just go."

When Shen Mushi withdrew his hand, the little eunuch took advantage of it and ran away.

"I promised to take you away."

Su Xiying shook her head and said with a smile: "It's okay, we can feel at ease when we return from victory and live in seclusion."

"No, I'll go to King Si and resign."

"Don't, don't, don't." Su Xiying didn't know whether to laugh or cry and held him back, and said, "Shen Wanyu was messing around for a few days before, if you go to him again, King Si will inevitably suspect us, so go as you please, stay wherever you are."

"That's fine."

That night, Wu Jian came to pick them up.

Su Xiying thought that he might know the inside story, so she sat on the horse and asked, "Master Wu, do you know why King Si suddenly let us join the army?"

Wu Jian turned his head and said respectfully: "Young Master Su, don't worry, Shen Wanyu led troops to rebel a few days ago. Priest Shen and Shen Wanyu are involved in a lot, King Si also has some doubts about the two."

Su Xiying understood.

It was unexpected that Shen Wanyu would rebel, but thinking of his face, it was something Shen Wanyu could do. Shen Mushi let him go again and again, and because of him, Shen Mushi only went to find him. King Si abolished the sacrificial ceremony, and this series of events made it easy for them to go to the army.

Shen Mushi rode beside Su Xiying on horseback. He didn't wear the red dress that never changed for thousands of years. He didn't need to be sacrificed, so he didn't need to kill people anymore. It didn't matter if he was bloody.

"Twilight?"

"Huh? What?"

Su Xiying turned her head to look at him, and said with a smile: "You are dressed in black, and I am dressed in white, it seems that black and white are impermanent hahahaha."

Now that Shen Mushi had nothing to do, he picked a plum blossom and knocked Su Xiying on the head, saying: "Sit upright, lest I fall off the horse, I will go down and pick you up?"

"Pick it up? Pick it up again."

Su Xiying said so, but sat up straight as she said, and took the plum blossom branch and hugged it in her arms.

"Well, of course you have to pick up things if you drop them."

Su Xiying said: I am not a thing.He almost blurted out, but when he realized it, he stopped in time and ignored him.

It was already far away from the city gate, and Su Xiying remembered that it was here that the two of them first saw a shooting star.

At that time, I didn't notice that there were actually many red plums planted by the roadside, and that branch was picked from the roadside just now at dusk.

"Sunset."

"Um?"

"When you come back next time, the plum blossoms here will be in full bloom. If I'm not here, they will welcome you home instead of me."

"……and you?"

"I'd rather come back with you."

"We will definitely come back together."

"Ah."

Five days later, a group of people lived in an inn on the edge of Nanlu and Zhonglu, and the leader was a man in his early 20s with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes.

He was followed by more than 20 generals, all of whom were wearing armor, looking for a good room, handing out keys to everyone, patted the shoulder of the soldier closest to him, turned around and shouted to the door: "Priest Shen, Mr. Su. "

Shen Mushi and Su Xiying were still arguing with each other over whether to eat glutinous rice balls or Yuanxiao. Logically speaking, today is neither the fifteenth day of the first lunar month nor a holiday, so there should be no such disagreement, but the two just want to eat.

Hearing Wu Jian calling them, Su Xiying waved her hand and said, "Here we come."

Su Xiying pulled Shen Mushi over, walked to the counter, took the key, and said, "Shopkeeper, give me another bowl of Lantern Festival."

Shen Mushi came from behind and said, "Tangyuan are delicious, I want glutinous rice balls."

"Lantern Festival."

"sweet dumpling."

"Yuanxiao."

"sweet dumpling."

The shopkeeper said with a look of embarrassment: "You two, glutinous rice balls and Yuanxiao are the same kind of food."

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◎Wall Herbs◎

The sky in Nanlu seems to be more open and far away. Although the cold wind in Hokuriku is not bitter, it can still make people feel cool. The sky here is more like autumn, and the wind is very refreshing.

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