Rong Xuan

Living this life, with bloody hands, righteous spirit, noble title of county king, commanding seal in his hands, resisting the Huns and attacking the northern barbarians, suppressing the rebellion and protecting Chang'an, King Sima Xiu of Qingxu is already a hero who can be remembered in history.

Now that the hero is getting older, his sons and daughters are all promising, and his family is also prosperous. He has spent half his life fighting in battle, and he has finally thought about the comfort written in the book of "closing the door and disregarding the pre-court month, and paying the plum blossoms to make up your own mind" Days, but they can't go as they want.

This time, the palace specially opened the afternoon court to discuss the case of his uncle Wei Jingting being robbed and imprisoned. It can be seen that the palace man has endured for a long time and finally does not intend to let the Eastern Palace regime pose a threat to the Datong Palace.

After being reinstated as an official, Sima Xiu thought about it for a long time at home, and finally found this opportunity today, and posted a post to call his "daughter-in-law" to the house to say hello.

When Cao Hui followed He Tong to the front hall of the palace, Sima Xiu and his wife were already sitting in the hall, along with Sima Kun who had just finished his prison sentence.

"The second sister-in-law is back!" Sima Kun stood up from the chair, and walked over to welcome Cao Hui. She bowed her hands to Cao Hui, her words and deeds had suppressed the wanton arrogance of a young man, as if overnight Time became stable and self-sustaining.

Cao Hui went straight to the hall. She first bowed respectfully to Sima Xiu and Mrs. Zhao, asked Kang An, and then turned sideways to say hello to Sima Kun.

"Second sister-in-law came via Zhuque Street, right?" Sima Kun tilted his head to talk to Cao Hui with a bright smile, "I heard that there is a flower boat parade on Zhuque Street today, did Second sister-in-law see it?"

"Second daughter-in-law, please sit down, this is home, don't be polite to outsiders." Zhao asked Cao Hui to sit down with a kind smile, and ordered her personal envoy to pour tea for Cao Hui herself.

Cao Hui bowed his knees to thank him, and sat down in the round chair next to her. She thanked Mrs. Zhao first, then Fang turned her head and said to Sima Kun, "I see, but there are too many people on the street. It’s nothing more than seeing a hazy figure in the distance.”

"A figure?" Sima Kun followed Cao Hui and turned around and sat in another chair on the tea table across from her, curiously asking, "What kind of figure is it?"

Cao Hui looked at Sima Xiu with a smile on her face, and she didn't speak to Sima Kun until she got permission from Sima Xiu's expression, "It's the same as those oirans used to worship in the past. They are also light gauze and wide sleeves. , a floor-length dress, standing on a flower boat parading the streets, looking like a fairy."

"No, isn't there anything special?" Sima Kun seemed a little disappointed, "For example, he looks particularly good-looking?"

"..." Cao Hui's eyes fell on Mrs. Zhao this time, Mrs. Zhao smiled without saying a word, and lowered her head to drink tea.

Cao Hui folded his sleeves, with a gentle smile on the corners of his eyes and brows: "The oiran is a unique person elected by each state and province in our country. In the end, the crown prince personally selected him as an oiran to serve the Buddha and pray for the country. One every year, besides being beautiful What's more, I don't see any big difference in other things, maybe you can ask your second brother, you always look at things from a different angle than me, a housewife."

"..." Sima Kun's fair face was faintly ashamed, she shook her sleeves, and slapped Cao Hui twice.

Si Maxiu, who was sitting in the hall, let out a laugh. He was already thin in middle age, and his face was serious all the time. Hui had an illusion for a moment.

——She was thinking, if Sima Xuan gets old in the future, will she be the same as her father, what she looks like now?Of course, she shouldn't have a beard.

"Ha! The widow's son Yuanzhi has finally grown up." Sima Xiu half-closed his eyes and twisted his beard with great interest: "My son has put aside his playful nature, and now he finally knows how to treat girls. Interested, tsk tsk, congratulations, congratulations!"

"..." Sima Kun really blushed from embarrassment, pinching her earlobe and grinning, she argued with her father lacking in confidence: "Father, you don't like to say that about your son, he is still young, and he has to study and get a good grade! "

"Hey, you're still young at seventeen! Your second elder brother has been married for more than half a year at the age of seventeen, you boy, you are still a baby at seventeen, tsk tsk tsk..." Sima Xiu yelled. Concerned about getting his youngest son Sima Kun to marry his wife, he happily made fun of his youngest son.

The Generalissimo who was born in the army seemed to dare to say anything, regardless of whether it was in front of his current second daughter-in-law.

It was Princess Qingxu, Princess Zhao who finally couldn't help but interjected, she said with a smile: "At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, there is noon today, so I don't think she will come back to have lunch with us. Don't just chat, let's sit in the dining room, what do you think of the second daughter-in-law?"

Cao Hui lowered his eyebrows and looked docile and respectful: "But listen to mother-in-law."

Mrs. Zhao seemed very satisfied with this daughter-in-law, she nodded, and covered up the uneasiness in her heart with a kind smile—every time Sima Xiu and Yuan Zhi talked about getting married, she would faintly feel anxious in her heart , fidgeting.

A military general of the Sima family has always been indifferent to those sayings that he eats and sleeps without talking, so he may try to put on a show when he is outside, but when the family eats at home, those things such as "don't touch the dishes with chopsticks" Noise, don’t eat one dish again and again” the broken rules are all inexhaustible.

The huge Qingxu Palace covers an area of ​​nearly 150 acres. In addition to the 200 government soldiers under the regulation, there are nearly [-] domestic servants in the mansion, but even so, after all, there are only The three masters were up and down inside and out, and the meal was not even as lively as in Jinglinghou's mansion.

Fortunately, the youngest son Sima Kun is a warm, cheerful and talkative person. With her, the large and somewhat empty dining room will not look too cold.

Therefore, Cao Hui's lunch in Qingxu Palace was generally satisfactory.

After dinner, Mrs. Zhao went back to the inner courtyard to rest because of her health. Sima Xiu seemed to have something to say to Cao Hui, but he couldn't get rid of Yuanzhi, a brat.

In the small study of the palace:

Sima Xiu was so angry that he called He Tong to come in, and told Vice General He to take the unlucky boy Yuan Zhi out.

Sima Kun, the little prince in purple robe and golden crown, was unwilling to retreat, so he had no choice but to hold on to the multi-object shelf and not let go. While yelling that he was an adult, he tried to wink at Cao Hui and asked Cao Hui to help her stay.

Unexpectedly, before the understanding Cao Hui could speak, Sima Xiu, who was sitting behind the desk, sighed, and waved his hand faintly at He Tong: "Forget it, how can a father plan his whole life for him, if he wants to stay Just stay and listen."

He Tong retreated knowingly, and arranged for someone to guard the small study.

Here, while Sima Xiu was talking, he raised his eyes to look at his youngest son who was still holding the multi-object shelf, and when he spoke, there seemed to be a touch of warmth and pride in his always cold eyes: "When your second brother was 17 years old, , I have already competed with Lord Yama for nearly ten years on the battlefield, "

He shook his head, and his cold and hard tone also carried a little bit of reluctance: "You have grown up safely in the palace, if you don't experience some storms and encounter some vicious wolves, after being a father for a hundred years, you are really What can you do for a child with a heart!"

"Father, Daddy..." Sima Kun slid off the shelf and sat on the ground in a daze.

The young prince suddenly felt a trace of powerless fear and helplessness. This feeling was different from the fear and helplessness she felt when she was in prison, but an indescribable and irresistible helplessness——

She suddenly discovered that the father in front of her who was regarded as a god by her, the tall and stalwart father who gave her endless warmth, support and safety like a mountain, turned out to leave her one day, just like all life and death. Same, her father will leave her one day.

Sima Xiu couldn't bear to see the unacceptable shock and astonishment on his youngest son's face, so he turned his face away, and his voice quickly returned to his usual cold determination.

He said: "Second daughter-in-law, I probably already guessed what the two of you are doing now. I know everything I should know and what I shouldn't know. You, you take off the plain yarn on your face." stop."

Although he had already made up his mind, Cao Huiyin couldn't help but twitched his hand in his sleeve after Sima Xiu's words came out.

"Father," she opened her mouth softly, calling out an old title: "My son's appearance has been ruined, please take care of my father, please take care of my son."

As he spoke, Cao Hui slowly raised his hand, and slowly took off the plain gauze covering his face—with the plain gauze off, his beautiful face was not much different from the daughter-in-law in Sima Xiu's memory, but The scar on the right cheek is painful to look at.

"..." Sima Kun seemed to be frightened by the scar on Cao Hui's face. She stared blankly at Cao Hui for a long time. When she got up, she accidentally stepped on the hem of her clothes and fell to the ground again, and she smashed the wooden floor with a muffled sound.

Xiao Shizi didn't care if she was in pain from the fall, she raised her hand tremblingly, her wide sleeves slid down, revealing a small section of white and delicate wrist, she pointed at the dignified woman sitting in a square chair in front of her , The teeth in the trembling mouth collided with each other and rattled.

"Two, two two two... Second sister-in-law?!"

This "Second Sister-in-law" is not the other "Second Sister-in-law". Cao Hui still nodded slightly in response to Sima Kun: "My son, it is me."

Sima Kun almost rolled and crawled towards Cao Hui. She grabbed Cao Hui's hand and moved closer, looking at Cao Hui repeatedly and seriously.

Suddenly, she let go of Cao Hui, waved her hands and stepped back, muttering in denial: "No, no, no, I vaguely remember that my second sister-in-law Cao has a scarlet tear mole at the corner of her right eye. The one in the corner of the princess’s eye is similar. Have you ever seen Princess Jinghui’s? She walked into my second brother’s eyes with that tear mole.

And there is more. Although I was young at the time, I still remember that my second sister-in-law’s eyes were always shining, like stars embedded in the sky, bright and beautiful. You don’t have them, although your eyes are also very beautiful Even, it seems to be somewhat similar to my second sister-in-law, but your eyes are dark and dark, no light, no, no, how can you be my second sister-in-law, no, no, you are my second sister-in-law, but how can you be me Where is Cao Er's sister-in-law?You are not!Aren't you the daughter of Chief Assistant Xun Gong?you--"

"Yuanzhi," on the other side, Sima Xiu finally interrupted his younger son Sima Kun's constant denials and doubts in a calm voice. He stood up and walked over from behind the desk step by step: "Jinglinghoufu, your second brother's You have seen the portrait hanging on the east wall in the bedroom of Chongguang Courtyard."

"Son, of course my son has seen it before." Sima Kun looked up suddenly, his eyes flushed a little, "That's why my son dares to deny it. Second sister-in-law Xun is not sister-in-law Cao, they are different!"

"When your son was seven years old, do you remember what your second sister-in-law Cao gave you as a birthday present?" Cao Hui asked calmly, "Do you still remember what your second sister-in-law Cao said to you at that time?"

Of course Sima Kun remembered, she was not very popular with her second elder brother since she was a child, she thought that her second sister-in-law Cao would also ignore her with her second brother, but after knowing her wish, second sister-in-law Cao was half a year ahead of time, and the journey was far away She went to the Military Weapons Supervision in person, asked the master craftsman who specially made weapons for her second brother, specially forged a small bow and a set of exclusive arrows for her, and gave them to her on her seventh birthday.

Her name—Kun—was cast on the small bow, and the totem beast of their northern army—the god of war—Gochen was fused into those arrows.

The person who hooks Chen is also the position of Huanglong.The elephant of Gou Chen, the head of a deer and the body of a dragon, Quan Si Wu Ri, shows the fierceness of killing and cutting, and is the god of warfare.

At that time, Cao Er's sister-in-law told her that although her second elder brother lived far away in the north all year round, he always cared about her "younger brother" in his heart. This bow was given to her in the hope that Sima Kun would one day Able to grow into a general stronger than her second brother...

Her mother didn't like her being in contact with her second elder brother's family, so no one else knew about the bow and those words. At this moment, those words deep in Sima Kun's mind were actually repeated by the second sister-in-law Xun.

"I didn't die in the fire at Wan'an Temple," Cao Hui said without leaving much time for Sima Kun, "Your second elder brother rescued me and brought me back to Chang'an. The real girl Xun survived."

……

An hour later, Sima Xiu and Cao Hui, who had finished their conversation, sat in their chairs and ate tea, while Liu Sima Kun sat on the sidelines, holding his heart in both hands, dumbstruck alone.

In Sima Kun's 17 years of life, it almost belonged to the kind of world where there is great love everywhere in the world. Although she has seen many rich men, wine, meat, and roads with frozen bones, her living environment made her always believe in herself. The strength and justice seen are real and popular.

However, ever since she experienced that innocent prison disaster, she seemed to feel that she had lifted a corner of a huge curtain, and peeked into the things behind the curtain with trembling, but now, she has not yet waited for her. Ready to accept the existence of those things, her father and her second sister-in-law joined hands and kicked half of her body behind the huge curtain.

She was so frightened that she was covered in cold sweat and her hands and feet were weak.

"Dangdangdang." He Tong's voice came from under the door: "My lord, the second son is back."

In the room, before Sima Xiu could yell to enter, the door of the small study was kicked open.

In the afternoon of early autumn, the thin man appeared in front of everyone surrounded by the bright sunshine.

"Why are you here?!" Cao Hui couldn't come over for a while, shouldn't Sima Xuan be in the palace at the moment?Could it be that what happened today was turned into a trivial matter by the heavenly family?

However, the man just looked at Cao Hui, Wen Wen said, his voice was hoarse and slightly nasal: "I'll take you home."

Sima Xiu: "..." Gou Ri's little bastard, with a daughter-in-law, he forgets his father!

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【small theater】

Sima Xuan: I think I'm late.

Sima Kun: I think I'm an idiot.