In spring, there are shallow emeralds emerging from the rice paddies, and the sun hangs in the high blue sky, dazzling and warm, as if harboring a warm youth.The bitterness and sweetness of vegetation linger in the breeze.

Swallows returning from the south are playing on the tips, and falcons that have shed their heavy wings are like sharp chirps, piercing through the clouds.

The city gate of Xuchang was wide open, and the main road paved with smooth stone slabs was completely empty as far as the eye could see. People from Xudu prostrated themselves along both sides of the street, burning incense and singing songs, creating a scene of peace.

This is Xuchang, which has been in troubled times for another ten years, becoming more and more prosperous.It seems that they are far away from the gunpowder, and everyone's face is full of hunger, emaciation and fear.

Cao Cao drove his horse and walked at the forefront of the team, accepting the support of the people.

Ruan Qing is in the master book.He is not qualified to follow in the front line behind Cao Cao.Can only enter the city with the army.The long line of troops separated him from Cao Cao.The line of sight was also blocked by overlapping banners.It made him unable to see how high-spirited and majestic Cao Cao was at the moment.

He looked at the surrounding scenery with a sense of loss.

No boomerang information.Things change relatively slowly in today's farming era.The scene at the city gate was both familiar and unfamiliar to him.

Pulling the rein in his hand, the steed sat down and turned around.

Slowly walking through the streets and alleys in his memory, he stopped outside a high gate of a deep house in horror.I saw the bright vermilion paint on the wooden door, standing quietly under the erosion of the years, without any wear and tear, as if it had been inhabited for a long time.

The mansion destroyed by the fire stood up again as if nothing had happened. What shocked Ruan Qing most was the plaque on the gate.

Ruan house.

This is the word Cao Cao mentioned.He knows it.

Walk up two or three steps and tap the knocker.The sound of metal pulling on the wooden board sounded.

Seeing that no one answered for a long time, he pushed hard, but he didn't expect that it was not tied inside.

The heavy wooden door was slowly pushed open, and the old-fashioned scenery came into view.

Ruan Qing stood outside the threshold, staring blankly.After standing there for a while, he remembered to go in and have a look.

Courtyards, front halls, carved beams and painted buildings, pavilions, rugged rocks, and several hectares of peach gardens that have just sprouted...

Is this another mansion rebuilt according to the original scale!

Ruan Qing was so shocked that she couldn't speak for a long time.He just walked step by step, and visited the home that Cao Cao bestowed on him, which was almost the same as in his memory.

On the long corridor outside the wing room, the cornices are like light swallow wings, adding a bit of agility.The tile engraved with auspicious beasts guards the quietness of this quiet mansion, which cannot be violated.

A clean studio, a tidy study...

In the end, he stopped outside the room he used to live in, with his fingers half an inch away from the door, but he still dared not push the door to enter.

"Who are you!" A loud question broke the silence.

I saw a girl dressed as a maid looking at him vigilantly.

Yes, all the way he traveled, the mansion was very clean, unlike the fact that no one lived there all year round, it should be cleaned frequently, but during this journey, there were no servants.

Ruan Qing looked at the unfamiliar face, not knowing how to answer, his thin lips moved, Fang said, "I'm here to find the master."

"The owner of this house is not here." The girl has already begun to chase away impatiently, "You hurry up. This is not a place you can enter randomly. Be careful if you are destined to enter or exit."

"Why?" Ruan Qing couldn't help laughing, "This is not a heavenly palace. I just went in and out by mistake, so why are you scaring people?"

"Go quickly." The girl was anxious.

"You say that, I'm not leaving yet."

Seeing that the girl was fifteen or sixteen years old, Ruan Qing raised her hand and pushed the door open, thinking of being funny.The girl couldn't stop her, and watched him walk in.

The house is also dressed in the old days, and there is no dust.When Ruan Qing saw the lazy shelf under the window, she was filled with emotion.

"Oh, hurry up." The girl stood at the door and said, "I won't lie to you, the prime ministers in the current imperial court often come here. I heard that the prime ministers are coming back today. If you come here in the middle of the road and see you barging in, I will never let you go. Before anyone else sees, I will lead you out through the back door. Maybe you can escape with your life."

When Ruan Qing heard this, she didn't leave, she went straight over, gathered her robes, and lay down on the lazy frame.

The girl jumped anxiously, "Why are you still lying down! That's the prime minister's place! Oh, are you crazy!"

"Is the owner of this house surnamed Ruan?" Ruan Qing looked sideways at the girl.

He tucked himself into the recliner, flashing the bright spring light onto his white porcelain face, his deer eyes narrowed lazily, only revealing a bit of soft brown, like a delicate Persian cat leisurely wagging its fluffy tail.

All these years of carving and grinding seem to have never existed.He was also Xiaoruan's former master secretary, who secretly escaped from the prime minister's mansion, which was full of official duties, and came back to steal half a day's leisure.

The girl said, "I don't know. But I heard from some old people here that the surname is Ruan. I heard that the word 'Ruan' hanging on the gate is also written by the prime minister himself. I don't know it. It should be surnamed Ruan. "

Having said that, Ruan Qing felt more at ease.He turned his neck and closed his eyes.

"Don't sleep!" the girl threatened, "If you don't go, I'll call someone!"

"If you can't find someone else, go find some old people in the previous mansion." Ruan Qing closed her eyes and said, "I'll wait here."

The girl heard this, looked at Ruan Qing suspiciously, and then ran away.

After some time, the girl's crisp voice came from outside, "Inside."

Messy footsteps stepped on the floor of the house.

"You kid wants to die..."

The butler who rushed to the lazy shelf paused before he finished speaking, and his pupils narrowed slightly as he watched the person in front of him.

Ruan Qing raised and lowered his eyelids, and said lazily, "Do you still get your salary from the prime minister's residence?"

The housekeeper's face suddenly became happy, and he bowed to Ruan Qing and said, "Sir, it really is that Mr. is back."

"Yeah." He responded in a low voice, his eyelids slightly lifted, revealing a pair of indifferent pupils, quietly looking at a place in the air, and said, "Go and prepare some memorial things. I will use them later. "

"No." The butler hurriedly bowed and retreated, looked at the girl who had been stunned outside the room, pulled her away, and yelled at him in a low voice, "Don't leave yet, don't you see that Mr. is tired?"

Only then did the girl follow the butler away with a look of disbelief.

The room finally became quiet again, Ruan Qing sighed softly and looked out the window at the treetops that had only added a little color.Two billowing sparrows grab the branches with their small claws, and preen each other's feathers with their light yellow beaks.

Only a young man who never returns.

Things were ready soon, Ruan Qing got on the horse and went out of the city.

The old grave is still deep in the woods, quiet and quiet.

I thought that Qionggu's grave had long been buried by weeds.Unexpectedly, the cleaning was tidy, and a few pillars of incense ash that had just been burned fell into the copper furnace.

Ruan Qing arranged the things she brought one by one, and lit the incense again.Kneeling in front of the grave, looking at the handwriting on the tombstone, which was obviously painted not long ago, and the paint was still wet, he laughed silently.

"It's another year of spring." He seemed to sigh.Picking up the wine bottle, he said in a hoarse voice, "Zixiu, Qing is back."

After the words, pour the ground with wine.

Then slowly narrated the experience of these years, "I went to Jiangdong. I met a person who looked like you. But it didn't look like you."

There was a drop of ice on the back of his hand.With red eyes, he wiped the corners of his eyes with his fingertips, and said helplessly and apologetically, "Sorry, it's rare to see you once, I should be happier."

Taking a deep breath and exhaling slowly, he said again, "It would be great if you were still here. In this way, I don't have to escape from Xuchang back then. We will travel all over the world together. Wait for another two years, when you are older, After Jianya established the government and took up an official position, the lord transferred me to be your assistant. We are about the same age, I will advise you, I will be your child's husband, and together we..."

As he spoke, Ruan Qing's tears soaked his whole face, he choked up, lowered his head, covered his eyes with his hands, and sobbed, "Let's have a good time together."

There is only one year difference between him and Cao Ang.Being raised together under Cao Cao's knees, reading the same poems and books on the art of war, is closer than the communication between Jiangdong and Shuangbi, and more tiresome than the fish and water of the Shu Han.

At that time, Cao Cao also thought of leaving him as a minister to Cao Ang.

He will grow up with Cao Ang and rule the world together.Even after death, their biographies in the annals have to be lined up together.Let countless posterity lament the sentence "God bestows on the monarch and his ministers."

Once such a longing was so close to him.The slightest mistake caused the following years to run wild like a wild horse, deviate from the original track, and rush to a distant place that no one can predict.

"I'm so scared." Tears gushed from between the fingers, like crystal clear pearls, falling into the soil soaked in wine.

"My lord still treats me as before. But I feel that he is no longer close to me. I thought that as long as I put my heart into it, it will be fine. But after a few months, I feel the alienation between them more clearly. Any progress. Then why have I struggled to come back all these years, is it just for glory and wealth?"

"Zixiu." Ruan Qing looked at the tombstone with tears streaming from between her fingers, "help me. He is your father, and you know him best. Tell me what to do. I have learned not to I care about other wives and concubines. Why is my lord still refusing to forgive me? Do I have to dig out my cavity and take out my heart before it's over?"

The silence in the woods is like a pool of stagnant water with no waves, except for the occasional bird song.

Ruan Qing, who thought she had lost her favor, was filled with helplessness and hesitation that could not be expressed.

He is like a heavy clay pot with a big belly and thin neck covered with bright paint, all emotions are hidden in his big, empty and dark belly, like fallen leaves in the forest, falling layer after layer, layer after layer corruption.Block all the overflowing emotions in your mouth, and face the world with only one exquisite pattern.

The dead cannot speak.He can only take out his shady thoughts to dry out when no one is around, so as not to accidentally burst the clay pot overwhelmed.

He knelt in front of the grave for a long time.Gradually calmed down from the suppressed sobs.

Tired of crying, he knelt down on the ground, staring blankly at the tombstone, his mind empty.

The leaves in the woods blown by the wind rustled, bringing up a few scorched leaves.This tombstone stands quietly, no matter who is crazy and crazy, I am like an outsider in the torrent of time, quietly watching the hustle and bustle of the world of mortals.

After an unknown amount of time, a person came from a distance in the forest and stopped beside him.

He turned his head and saw the plain-colored skirt, and further up, a simple and outdated dress.

His dry eyes stared blankly at the new woman.

The woman glanced at him lightly, and put the pastries in the basket on the table.

Ruan Qing hurriedly got up and saluted, "Ma'am."

"You chose to escape, why did you come back?" Mrs. Ding looked at the grave, but she was talking to him.

"Death is not the end of the matter. If you chose to escape back then, you will have to pay back what you owe." Ruan Qing also looked towards the grave.

Thinking of these years, Mrs. Ding couldn't help but snorted, mockingly, "I didn't expect that there are still people willing to come here."

Ruan Qing felt a pain in her heart, and looked in surprise at Madam Ding, who had wrinkles on her face, but still looked dignified and somewhat heroic.

"Hmph." Mrs. Ding sarcastically said, "Cao Ah told that old man, with many wives and concubines, and a house full of children, how could he remember that he died for more than ten years? Such a high-ranking and powerful person, he is not as good as his own son, who knows how to come to pay homage to him." My own brother. Poor Ang Er, who suffered from such an innocent disaster, has long been forgotten by others."

Ruan Qing felt uncomfortable, bit her lower lip with her teeth for a while, and then Mrs. Ding heard that Cao Cao had a son who had come to see Cao Ang, so she asked, "Is that son, Mr. Pi?"

"That's right." Mrs. Ding has nothing to hide, "I and Cao A are hiding together, and everyone is afraid to avoid our mother and son. Only Cao Pi often comes here to pay homage to clean up. I can't let Ang'er love him. Other sons, hehe , I’m afraid I’ve never heard of such a eldest son.”

The leaves rustled again, as if someone was whispering.The spring breeze was still chilly, and it was a few degrees colder in the woods. When it blew past Ruan Qing, it made his hairs stand on end for no reason, making his heart chill even more.

On the second day, he went to the prime minister's mansion to be on duty.Unexpectedly, when he entered the door, he was stopped by the guard.

Ruan Qing saw it strangely, guessing that it should be a newcomer these years, so she explained, "I am the new chief bookkeeper."

"Stop talking nonsense." The guard said unceremoniously, "The new master? Then there should be a token. Where's the token?"

He had been in the barracks with Cao Cao before, but yesterday he left early again. Cao Cao had just returned, so naturally he had many things to settle, and he never sent him the token.

Ruan Qing knew that he had to use the token to get in and out, but he had lost the token long ago, so he could only say, "I haven't received it yet. If you don't believe me, then please go in and inform the prime minister, and you will know the truth of what I said."

The guard put his arms around his chest and hummed, "The Prime Minister has everything going on every day, how can he have the time to care about such trivial matters?"

"Then you go to Xun Yu, Xun You, Cheng Yu, Jia Xu, Mao Jie, one of them should be in the mansion, and then you will know the truth of what I said."

The guard didn't answer, with a perfunctory attitude, raising his eyebrows and picking his nails.

Ruan Qing frowned, her eyes flickered coldly, "What are you doing?"

The guard ignored him and plucked his ears.

Ruan Qing understood, he rummaged through his sleeves, managed to find a few scattered silver coins, and stuffed them into the man's hand.

Unexpectedly, the guard weighed it a few times, but still looked away.

Is this too little?

He didn't bring much money with him when he went out, and he couldn't get it out again.

Before in Xudu, he would come and go from Cao Cao's mansion casually, and any of the servants in the mansion didn't flatter him, but now he was so neglected and neglected, Ruan Qingqi's eyes were a little red.

"Is the general atmosphere in the prime minister's residence like this?" He stared at this man closely, with a cold light in his pupils.

Working in the Prime Minister's Mansion, I have never seen such a high-ranking official.The guards are not afraid of this.

The two could only stand in a stalemate.

The sound of hoofbeats and the grunt of wheels echoed through the street.Finally stopped in front of the mansion.

A sudden pat on the shoulder was taken.

Years of vigilance by soldiers and horses made Ruan Qing subconsciously grab the opponent's wrist, and while falling forward, turned around to trip the opponent's ankle.

"Ruan Muer!"

A familiar voice made Ruan Qing lose his strength at the last second when he was about to knock him down.

I saw an old man with a beard and hair mixed with silver frost staring at him.

The old man has a majestic figure. Although his face is full of wrinkles, he still has the meaning of dignity and intimidation when he looks at him this way, and he has the temperament of a proper age teacher.

Ruan Qing was stunned for a moment, then smiled and opened her arms to hug, "Oh, old man, it's you. Long time no see, long time no see, how you have been lately."

Cheng Yu couldn't shirk it, but Ruan Qing suddenly gave him a bear hug, and his fingers trembled angrily, "I'm not in shape, I'm not in shape, I still can't stand properly. What does it look like?"

"Tsk." Ruan Qing had no choice but to stand still, and said, "Zhongde is getting stronger and stronger, and he is getting more and more energetic."

Cheng Yu rolled his eyes, "What are you doing standing at the door?"

The guard recognized Cheng Yu and knew that Cao Cao had always valued this old gentleman. Seeing that Ruan Qing knew him so well, he felt guilty for a while, and hurriedly stepped forward to interrupt the conversation between the two, "Mr. What does standing look like?"

Cheng Yu knew that the atmosphere in Xudu was not good recently.Seeing someone say that, and thinking about Ruan Qing just after she came back, she instantly understood what was going on, and took a deep look at the other party.

The guard suddenly felt a lot of pressure, and a cold sweat broke out on his back.

God, it would be fine if the defendant came to the prime minister.

The guards are tense here.Ruan Qing didn't seem to understand the other party's worries, as if nothing had happened, she took Cheng Yu's arm and walked in, and said with a smile, "No, this student just came back, and the gate of the prime minister's mansion has been renovated again. Stop now and take a look. It’s beautiful, very beautiful.”

He said this in a loud voice, obviously to be heard.

Sure enough, the guard was visibly relieved.

"Say, hand!"

After entering the gate, Cheng Yu managed to break Ruan Qing free. He looked back at the guards, and then at the smiling Ruan Qing. He couldn't help pointing his fingers fiercely, "You, old man, I should say that you are capable. , or that you are getting worse and worse than before."

Ruan Qing knew that Cheng Yu was saying that he was good at scrutiny and reassuring the guards. It was his skill. This behavior of escaping was more extreme than when he was young, because he was not as good as before.

He just squinted his eyes and smiled, and waited for Cheng Yu to put down his finger before saying, "I have to find my lord. There are many pavilions and palaces here, and I don't know the old way for a long time. Please help me find someone to lead the way."

Cheng Yu snorted, "If you are willing, after the old man returns to his room to get his things, we will go find the prime minister together."

Ruan Qing shook her head in a bun, "Come on, I don't know how far your house is, so I won't go."

Cheng Yu raised his hand and wanted to hit Ruan Qing's head again, but when he thought that the child was growing up, he pushed down his hand angrily, and called a boy who passed by to take him there.

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