The past ignites old dreams

Before entering Heze City, he was stationed in the oil wall in the outskirts.

She is gentle and gentle, with a green snail in a high bun, and only a white jade hairpin with a crescent moon, which is very refreshing. Her clothes are light and elegant, and the sleeves are light, revealing her jade arms vaguely. She has a long skirt with red silk and white lotus, just like her name. Generally, Vanilla Yunhui, Bignonia Lingxiao, and Yunshao.

Seeing the carriage, Yun Tiao greeted her, but before the carriage stopped, she hurriedly called out, "Young Master Qiao! Master Lu!"

When Qiao Ran heard that it was Yun Tiao's voice, she was both surprised and happy. How could she forget her as an old friend, but she also had scruples in her heart. It would be dangerous for her to leave Qinghe when the army was in a panic.

Lu Wenyu greeted Yun Tiao with a smile, "Yun Tiao, I've been waiting for a long time."

Seeing that the two were safe, Yun Tiao wept with joy, her eyes dimmed with tears, "You two officials are tired from the journey, follow me into the city to rest."

Qiao Ran was moved, and couldn't help going over to hug her, "Why are you crying, silly girl. I didn't expect you to be here—" Qiao Ran glanced back at Lu Wenyu, and said, "Okay, you two, when will you be here?" Colluded to hide me? Yun Tiao, you too, staying in Qinghe is so safe, staying in Yanshuifang is so happy, why bother to run around with us."

Yun Shao's eyes were red, and she was crying, "Young master, you two big men, there are always people waiting for you on the road. The road is long, and you can live without a woman."

Lu Wenyu pulled Qiao Ran away without a trace, "Okay, it's windy at the fork in the road, and be careful of the cold after standing for a long time. Let's go to Heze first and then make a long-term plan."

In April and May of previous years, Heze held the world-famous Peony Festival.Baiyaoxianren, Yuegonghua, Xiaohuangjiao, Mrs. Xue, Penglai Xianggong, Yuyihong, Zilong Cup... There are various varieties, competing to open up.

But at this time this year, the peony doesn't know where to go, and it blooms alone and pities alone.

Heze, the flower city that has always been prosperous, cannot escape the tragedy of being dragged down by the war.Those who could walk left, fleeing to the north.Only the poor, the sick, the widowed and the elderly, and officials of all sizes who were ordered by the emperor remained.Almost forgot, there are also businessmen who want money but not life, and make a lot of war money.

In short, when Qiao Ran entered Heze, what he saw and heard was not devastated, but it was desolate enough.Looking around the depression, the trees in the waste pond, the cold water from the green.

There was a barefoot old man on the side of the road selling tofu nao.Qiao Ran went up to buy three copies, but he felt that he had no money. He turned to Lu Wenyu, who had already prepared the money bag.

When the old man saw the silver ingot, he tried to open his cloudy eyes, "Master, this money...is all for me?!"

Lu Wenyu nodded, "It's all for you."

After they left, the old man was still whispering: "Too much...too much..."

Yun Tiao led them into a small courtyard, and she said, "This family was afraid that the Red Scarf Army would kill them, so they moved the whole family. In order to leave Heze as soon as possible, they were in a hurry to sell the house. I also want to find a place for you. took over the property."

Lu Wenyu looked around and felt pretty good. He said, "Although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs."

Qiao Ran had already picked out her own room, and came out and said, "But we're only staying for a few days, and we're going to leave after repairs, so why spend money on it?"

Yun Tiao smiled, "My lord, the money I paid for this courtyard is not enough to stay at the Penglai Inn in Qinghe for one night. For Young Master Lu, it is not enough. You are worrying too much."

Qiao Ran laughed, "Okay, okay, you are all local tyrants. Yun Shao, I will ask you to take care of us from now on."

When Lu Wenyu heard him say "we", she bent her eyes, raised the corners of her mouth, and looked at Qiao Ran tenderly.

There are peonies planted at the foot of the wall, some are red and white, some are Mokui Yaohuang, some are green mountains covered with snow, with smoke and dew, the fragrance is overflowing, and the butterflies dance with light wings.

Qiao Ran stretched out her hand to pick it, but when she reached the stem, she froze there again.

The heart of the flower is sad, but the spring/color knows the heart.

"Ah!" Qiao Ran suddenly felt sad, "The birds are singing and the swallows are talking, the scenery is different, and the world has failed the good spring."

After one night, the rainy season continued.

Water dripped from the eaves, and the breeze beat against the windows.

Qiao Ran crossed her legs with the pillow in her arms, sitting blankly thinking about something.

Lu Wenyu came to him, and he put the dessert made by Yun Tiao on the table.Sure enough, Qiao Ran was attracted by the aroma, pointed to the shallow wooden dish with forsythia ring leaves and asked, "What is this?"

"Taste a little." Lu Wenyu brought the dish to his door again.

Qiao Ran sniffed, "Strawberry?!"

Lu Wenyu smiled and said nothing, until Qiao Ran finished eating, he said slowly, "This dessert is called Touhong Agaric Ci, fresh strawberries are mashed into sauce, added milk, then mixed with borneol powder, and finally wrapped Glutinous rice flour made from peony flower juice. Does it suit your taste?"

Qiao Ran gave a thumbs up and praised sincerely, "It's delicious!"

Lu Wenyu wiped the powder off Qiao Ran's mouth, "Don't blame me for bringing Yun Shao here now, do you?"

"Forget it. I know, you are all good people." Qiao Ran had an idea, "Why don't you marry her as your wife?"

Lu Wenyu poked him on the forehead pretending to be angry, "You're messing around!"

"No~ I'm serious. You see, your sister has a baby. As a brother, you don't work harder."

Lu Wenyu bowed her head and whispered, "I hope to have a person with one heart and one head. The person I like has not liked me yet. If he likes me, he wants a child. I will not object, and he must treat it as my own." .Joe, you...do you understand?"

"Oh? Oh hehe!" Qiao Ran pressed her chin against the pillow and buried half of her face, "The friendship between gentlemen is as light as water. In fact, I don't like gossip."

Lu Wenyu: "Yes."

Both of them were silent for a while, and it was Lu Wenyu who spoke first, "What are you thinking while sitting here?"

Qiao Ran hesitated and said, "I, mine, think about the past, oh no, think about the future!"

Lu Wenyu was puzzled.

Qiao Ran: "I'm trying to recall the history class I took when I was in school. How did Zhu Yuanzhang defeat Chen Youliang in the end? I was an art student before, and the culture class didn't need to be so good, so I didn't take it seriously. Alas! I regret it!"

Lu Wenyu: "Although I don't understand, but when you think about it, who beats whom, what's the use?"

"I think—" Qiao Ran swallowed the rest of the words, blinked a few times, and made up: "I just meditate casually, do you know about meditation? It's the same as practicing meditation or sitting meditation."

Lu Wenyu: "Really?"

Qiao Ran: "Yes."

Lu Wenyu: "Okay... Then, don't you have to sit all the time, go out and get some air?"

"Alright."

While Qiao Ran was getting out of bed to put on her shoes, she suddenly heard Yun Tiao rushing towards her. She slammed on the door, angrily saying, "Young Master Qiao, Young Master Lu, hurry up!"

Lu Wenyu opened the door to support Yun Tiao, "What's wrong? What happened to make you panic?"

Yun Shao: "Do you still remember the old man who sold the bean curd noodles yesterday? He just came to report that his grandson was grazing cattle outside the city and saw a group of teams with red scarves coming to Heze."

Qiao Ran was surprised, "Wearing a red scarf?! The Red Scarf Army?! Impossible! According to the progress, they should still be fighting guerrillas in Jiangxi!"

Lu Wenyu said calmly, "The old man knows how to repay his kindness, so there must be no falsehood. Anyway, we will continue to go south sooner or later, so let's go now, Yun Tiao, it's hard work for you to pack your things, Brother Qiao and I will come out immediately. "

While speaking, the city has already echoed the desolate sound of horns, and the marches are endless!

Chi Yan's reputation is well-deserved, and he seems to fly from the start.After a while, he left the city and arrived at the fork in the road where Yuntiao met them yesterday.

It's so hard to die, but it happened here that I ran into the Red Scarf Army who was leading the battle.If it is an army, it is flattering. In Qiao Ran's view, it is nothing more than a group of rural non-mainstream people carrying hoes and sickles to rampage.

Rural Non-Mainstream A: "Heroes! We've caught the rich again!"

Rural non-mainstream B: "Brothers! Let's stop the carriage!"

Rural non-mainstream C: "I opened this road, I planted this tree, and I have to pass here—"

"All right, all right!" Qiao Ran snapped open the window, "It's terrible to be uneducated, and that's all it takes! Where's your boss? Tell him to come out!"

Yun Tiao was sitting in it and was very nervous. She grabbed Qiao Ran's clothes and said in a low voice, "My lord, what are you doing? They are real swords and guns!"

Lu Wenyu also reminded, "Forget it, they are greedy for money, just give it to them."

Qiao Ran didn't give up, he leaned out with half of his body, he beat the car wall excitedly and shouted, "That old fellow Guo Zixing is my brother-in-law! I am the younger brother of Mrs. Xiaozhang of Haozhou! The wife of the tenth husband Zhu Chongba It's my niece! What can you do to me?!"

These relatives climbed down, and it was like a blow to the head, which shocked everyone speechless.

Lu Wenyu chuckled, and pulled Qiao Ran in, "Is this what you thought of during your morning meditation?"

Qiao Ran rubbed her nose, and snorted, "I didn't learn history well, thanks to Cui Xuan's crouching and not having any common sense to sit and wait for death. This is the importance of learning."

Although she was at a loss, Yun Tiao had an intuition that there was nothing serious about it. She was just about to ask what to do next, when——

"I heard that my uncle came back from the dead, I wonder if I can see him?"

Qiao Ran pricked up his ears, this, this, this... This is not such a coincidence, he jumped out of the carriage a few times, "Zhu Chongba! But you?"

A shoehorn face appeared in front of him.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said, "Engong, it's me. After taking refuge in my father-in-law, I have now changed my name to Zhu Yuanzhang. Isn't Engong in Qinghe? How come here?"

First, the lie was exposed, and then Zhu Yuanzhang's meaningful "benevolence", Qiao Ran blushed, and her ears were hot, "Hehehe, I wanted to travel to the south of the Yangtze River, but I didn't want to reunite with you here, really... ...Fate is destined. What's inside—" Qiao Ran looked up at the sky, "Aren't you in the Jianghuai area? Why did you go north to Heze? Marching to fight and conquering the capital, are you so sure?"

"It's up to heaven to make things happen, but it's up to people to plan things. I, Zhu Yuanzhang, don't talk big words, but only do practical things."

"That's good." Qiao Ran pointed to Heze with one hand, and pointed to the direction he was going with the other, "We have different ways and do not seek each other, so we will part ways."

A bunch of people behind Zhu Yuanzhang obviously didn't buy it, "Brother, let them go like this? Don't you leave any money?"

Zhu Yuanzhang reprimanded loudly, "You are hard to change your habit of robbers! He is Xiuying's natal family, do you still want to rob him? Get out of the way!"

"But—" one of the thin men with a clearer mind said bluntly, "Didn't Mrs. Zhang's younger brother Zhang Tianyou and the marshal's second son Guo Tianxu die when they led the army to attack Jiqing Mansion?"

Zhu Yuanzhang hit the man on the head hard, "Shut up!"

Qiao Ran didn't expect Zhu Yuanzhang to save face so much. He asked the groom to drive the car to wait at the intersection first, and he stayed behind and said to Zhu Yuanzhang, "Speaking of robbing, I suddenly remembered that Sun Deya next to Guo Zixing, his subordinates are full of robbers, and he will become more and more powerful every day in the future." Bossy, even Guo Zixing can't hold them, and you are Guo Zixing's right-hand man. The danger is obvious. I want you to panic for me today and let us leave safely. The future enemy will be a man named Chen Youliang."

"How do you know everything?" Zhu Yuanzhang's face changed drastically, "Who the hell are you?"

"Don't worry about who I am, anyway, I'm helping you, believe it or not."

"In your opinion, I am now weak and unable to dominate. If I don't rely on my father-in-law, who should I rely on?"

"The enemy of your enemy is your friend. Rebellion is a death penalty. What if you are only on the side of Qing Dynasty?"

"What do you mean?"

Qiao Ran waved, and Zhu Yuanzhang came over with his ear.

Qiao Ranzai analyzed carefully, "Looking around, Chen Youliang is still young, but if you don't do anything about it, you will be finished when he becomes a climate. Guo Zixing is dying, you can't rely on your father-in-law to enjoy the cool, you have to do it early Plan, after he dies of illness, the Red Scarf Army will be without a leader, just a mess, you don’t want to be a light commander, right? General Han Dong of Dayang, he heard that he is fierce and arrogant, this kind of reckless man who can’t tolerate sand in his eyes is only suitable for taking Coming to be a spearman is not suitable for political alliances. Otherwise, how could the eldest son Cui of the Qinghe Cui family not marry his precious daughter? Think about it, you have a team that can be counted as an army in your hand. Which side is the most powerful now? What about the lack of people who can charge forward?"

"Qinghe Cui family."

"Very good, you have identified the direction." Qiao Ran patted Zhu Yuanzhang's chest with the back of his hand, "Qinghe Cui family has the emperor's support above the court, in the rivers and lakes, there are a group of heroes, and outside the border, there are powerful The foreign aid Suri tribe, among the alliance, there is Fan Yang Lu, the richest man in the world, look at the mob behind you, with their heads on their belts, what is the ultimate purpose of rebellion? Only one person can sit on the throne, and gold, silver and treasure Inexhaustible, quelling turmoil, and peace in the world, you people will become meritorious ministers, and still worry about not having enough food and warm clothes? When the time comes, the rich and powerful, don’t forget to thank me.”

Zhu Yuanzhang was dizzy from Qiao Ran's words, his face was flushed, and his eyes were shining, as if he had foreseen the happy days when he would eat delicious food, drink hot food, and sit back and relax.

While he was in a daze, Qiao Ran hurriedly rubbed the soles of his feet with oil. If he didn't leave, he wouldn't be able to write any more.

As they got farther and farther away from the intersection behind them, Lu Wenyu asked Qiao Ran, "What did Brother Qiao say to Zhu Chongba just now? It took a long time."

Yun Tiao was also curious, waiting anxiously for Qiao Ran to tell the truth.

Qiao Ran looked preoccupied, his left and right hands crossed their fingers, and his brows were furrowed tightly, as if he didn't hear anyone's words. After a long time, he suddenly said——

"Hopefully, I agree with his thoughts."

Cui Yan, you understand me, right?You understand all the letters in that book, right?Cui Yan, Cui Yan... I read your name countless times in my heart, and every time I understand that staying together is impossible.

The author has something to say: Oil wall: Oil wall car, a kind of car that the ancients rode.Because the car wall is painted with oil, it is named.

The heart of the flower is sad, but the spring scenery does not know the heart: the first sentence of Wang Wei's "Red Peony".

I wish to have one heart and one mind, and the white head will not be separated: from Zhuo Wenjun's "White Head Song".

Zheng 鼙: 鼙, a small drum in the ancient army.The sound of marching drums is also a metaphor for the tense battle.