red dust robbery

It was already four watch when Yang Jian returned to the government office.

He had patrolled the streets and alleys before, but he couldn't find Ah Jiu's shadow. Fang hurried back to Kaifeng Mansion and went straight to the backyard to look for it. He saw that the bed in her guest room was neatly made, and some changed clothes were gone. Not good, frowned and stepped out the door, and was about to find someone to ask, but suddenly heard a sarcasm from behind.

"Don't look for it, people have already left!"

Bai Yutang stood in the corner of the hanging flower arch with his sword in his arms in white clothes, his sword eyebrows raised lazily, his exquisite facial features were hidden in the dim skylight, his expression was dark and unclear.

"Let's go?" Yang Jian stopped and turned around, a little surprised: "What do you mean, do you know where she went?"

"Naturally, go back to Mohua Village." Bai Yutang played with the picture in his hand, and answered casually, "Now that the big case is over and her injuries have recovered, what are you doing here? Well——by the way, she asked me to remind her Come on, don't forget what I said before, find a time to go to Jasmine Village to cancel the engagement."

Yang Jian's eyelids twitched, and he vaguely remembered that he seemed to have said such words in Yizhou before, and now he felt a dull pain in his forehead, and when he glanced at Bai Yutang, his eyes were a little gloomy.

"She just recovered from her serious injury, and you let one person go on the road?"

Seeing his unkind eyes, Bai Yutang became angry and raised his voice: "You also know that he has just recovered from a serious injury, so why don't you feel at ease and leave her alone and catch up with other women?"

Yang Jian was silent for a while, and he was at a loss for words for a moment, and he generally understood the reason for his attitude: "That's just an old friend who happened to meet—you misunderstood."

"Misunderstanding? Fifth Master, I can see it clearly from the Drunken Immortal Tower, Mao'er, I'm afraid you and that woman have a good friendship." Bai Yutang sneered, and stepped forward, "I'm watching Ding girl." Growing up, she has always been grand, if she hadn't really noticed something, she definitely wouldn't have left without saying goodbye like this."

Yang Jian's heart sank slightly.

He thought about the rumors about him and Chang'e in the Three Realms over the years, I am afraid that Ah Jiu must have heard of them, and it is said that there was a gap between her and Chang'e when she was in the heaven, no wonder...

"Why, have you nothing to say?" Bai Yutang looked impatient when he saw that he was silent: "Zhan Zhao, although I don't know why girl Yuehua is trying so hard to ask you to divorce, but seeing how many times she has spoken before, she has affection for you." Now, it is up to you to decide whether to withdraw from this marriage, but the only thing is, if it is really because of you Zhan Zhao that I am sorry for her, I, Bai Yutang, will go to Ding Zhaolan first and ask him to withdraw from your marriage, and I will definitely not call you She is wronged to marry you!"

Yang Jian was a bit dumbfounded, the white mouse looked unrestrained and cynical, but in fact he was fierce and could not see the injustice in the world, now that the righteous master has not spoken, he has a bit of the momentum of his natal brother standing up for his sister.

He sighed: "Don't worry, Zhan can't compare to Brother Bai's love of the world, and a gentleman keeps his promise, so he won't let him down."

After all, he raised his sword and cupped his hands, and jumped into the dark night with a flip.

It's half a day in the fourth watch, the sky is about to break, and the gates of the city are wide open.

The whole Bianliang city seemed too quiet at this moment because of the bustle of the previous night, like a sleepy eye who was reluctant to open his sleepy eyes because he was playing and staying up late, and Yiqi Juechen had already passed through the city gate, leaving only Qing The clear sound of horseshoes echoed in the distance.

After a while, Yi Yi hurriedly jumped out of the city gate in a blue suit.

Wang Chao Mahan, who had just brought the yamen guards over on patrol, looked at each other in dismay: "That just now...is Mr. Zhan?"

"It seems so. Is there a business to leave the city in such a hurry in the early morning?"

"I haven't heard of it, it looks like chasing someone..." Ma Han muttered, and pushed the captain of the Forbidden Army guarding the city next to him, "Hey, did anyone pass by here just now?"

"Well, it seems to be a girl..." the latter straightened his heavy helmet and said with a blank expression.

It seems that last night... Mr. Zhan accompanied Miss Ding San to the Lantern Festival?

Everyone in the Kaifeng Mansion exchanged glances, suppressing the little gossip in their hearts.

At this moment, Yang Jian had already leaped onto the hills on the outskirts of the city, with mountains everywhere and smoke filled the air.

There is only one official road from Kaifeng to Songjiang Mansion, but there are many trails. He closed his eyes, a silver light shone from the cloud between his brows, opened his eyes, and ran southeast with a whip.

When Ah Jiu was stopped by Yiqi Juechen who pierced through the slanting stab, he was almost taken aback, and immediately reined in the horse, neighing in panic.

Seeing the person in front of her clearly, she was overwhelmed with anger: "What are you doing!"

Yang Jian, on the other hand, patted his extremely efficient mount, which was running all the way, quite satisfied, took the time to straighten the reins, and glanced at her indifferently: "Why didn't you say goodbye?"

"Didn't you ask that old white man to leave you a letter?"

She took it for granted, and Yang Jian sighed weakly: "You are recovering from your injuries and still need to recuperate. What are you doing in such a hurry to go back?"

"The left and right things have been done, what am I still doing here?"

Ah Jiu's previous trip to Bianliang was nothing more than to confirm Zhan Zhao's identity and to solve this difficult marriage by the way. Now that everything is over, Yang Jian's spirit has awakened, and it's enough to recount the past, and there is no need to stay any longer What a meaning, not to mention... She thought of the appearance of the Fairy from the Moon Palace last night, rolling her eyes, "It's so boring!"

Yang Jian looked at her with the same expression as usual, his eyes moved slightly: "Oh, tell me, why is it boring?"

Ah Jiu was discouraged by the way, but unexpectedly he became serious. He was a little angry for a while, and he was not in the mood to explain. Stance.

"Yang Jian, what do you mean!" She raised her eyebrows, and her tone was not friendly.

Yang Jian glanced at her and sighed: "Where did you get so angry, you were fine last night, and you changed your face just because of this wrong eye?"

Ah Jiu was slightly taken aback, she didn't know where the moment of unhappiness came from last night.

Maybe I still met someone I didn't want to see?

Although she didn't like to see Chang'e very much, she didn't feel so disappointed when she saw her. Last night, she hurriedly wandered through the Linlang Night Market, but for some reason she felt confused.

Seeing her in a trance, Yang Jian calmed down and remained silent for a long time before slowly saying: "Chang'e descends to the realm, but I apologize for what happened before, don't misunderstand."

She was startled, and turned her head: "I have nothing to misunderstand."

"Then why did you turn around and leave?"

"I used to hate Chang'e back then, cousin doesn't know?" She snorted, "Besides, I have lived at the bottom of Kunlun Mountain for more than 300 years, but I have heard some gossip, even if it is a misunderstanding. , and nothing to mind."

"Oh?" Yang Jian paused, looked at her careless expression, but laughed lightly, "Then why are you running out so jealous?"

Ah Jiu didn't react for a while, but when he came back to his senses, he was furious.

Who are you calling jealous!

As soon as she whipped the whip, she threw it at the person in front of her.

Seeing the whip coming towards her, Yang Jian's eyes flashed, and he quickly pulled the tail of the whip in the air, with a little force in his hand, his body rose into the air and landed on the half of the saddle behind her. Ah Jiu was startled and screamed inwardly. Alright, turned around and made a strike, and went away like lightning, but he caught it steadily, after several moves in a row, he was actually firmly imprisoned in his arms, unable to move.

"Yang Jian, you—you sneaked up on me!"

She secretly hated for a moment that Yang Jian's martial arts skills were superior to hers in her previous life, but now that she was recovering from a serious injury and was attacked again, naturally she couldn't match his speed.

The man in blue smiled warmly: "Your elder brother Ding Zhaolan sent a letter earlier, and I replied to him that I will send you back in a few days, but since you are in a hurry to leave, it's better to start now. "

It actually meant to let go and go together all the way.

Ah Jiu struggled for a while, then looked back at him with the hatred of failure: "Yang Jian, you are despicable!"

Yang Jian glanced at the woman in his arms, did not speak, his expression was indifferent, and he calmly urged the first mount, which was a bit chic as he was on the battlefield of the Conferred Gods.

Ah Jiu gritted her teeth with hatred, she was used to seeing gentlemen's royal cats, why did she forget that it was Yang Jian, Yang Jian who was once the number one in the Zhou camp by all means, and by all means, Yang Jian, a beauty who captured Tu Xing Sun, Yang Jian, who caused Zhang Kui to kill his mother through blindfolding!ah!ah!

Ah Jiu was very angry, and was too lazy to talk to anyone along the way. Yang Jian knew that he had offended her badly this time, so he kept silent knowingly, secretly thinking about how to coax her back slowly.

The two of them drove down the road for a whole day, but they didn't say a few words. Instead, they focused on driving all the way, until it started to rain in the evening, and then they realized that they had missed the place to stay. Take refuge in the dilapidated mountain temple.

At that time, the sky was already dark, and the rain outside was not heavy, pattering, and the air was full of dampness. Yang Jian found a pile of discarded firewood in the corner of the ruined temple, lit a fire, and finally let the The surroundings look brighter.

Ah Jiu was sitting by the campfire, her clothes were slightly wet just after baking, Yang Jian took out the water bag from the package and handed it over, but seeing her just glanced sideways, snorted coldly, and turned her head away.

Yang Jian smiled wryly, and had no choice but to withdraw his hand: "Why, you're still angry with my cousin..."

Ah Jiu didn't say a word, just stared at the warm campfire in a daze, and after a while he heard him say slowly: "When the third sister went back that day, I asked her to bring a message to Chang'e, so she came here just to say something. Understood, so as not to misunderstand in the future."

He paused, fiddled with the bonfire in front of him, the flame jumped and flickered in the depths of the woman's pupils.

"There was indeed a lot of relationship between me and Chang'e back then, but even if I had some delusional thoughts at the beginning, I had already broken it, but later...you know, it is not easy for me to win the trust of the Queen Mother, and I always have some tricks in her hands. So that she can rest assured..." He said slowly, "Now let's talk about it, and have a plan in mind so as not to bother each other, you... don't care..."

Ah Jiu slowly raised her eyelids, looked at him for a while, then turned her eyes away again, and lazily said: "That's my cousin's business, what has it to do with me..."

Yang Jian looked at her tense face, pursed his lips, and handed over the water bag in his hand.

She glanced at it, fell silent for a moment, and finally accepted it.

Then he heard him calling softly: "Ah Jiu?"

"Ok?"

"Did you ever have someone you liked in this mortal world?"

She took a sip of water in her mouth, her thoughts paused for a moment, she looked at the familiar facial features in front of her, and suddenly thought of the person in the depths of Jasmine who had eyes that were upright and elegant, her heart skipped a moment, and she quickly shook her head.

Nan Xia Zhan Zhao and so on are just the throbbing of her youth and ignorance when she was still Ding Yuehua.

"Then..." For some reason, Yang Jian felt a little relieved when she saw her denying it simply, "In this life, since I have a marriage contract first, how about staying with my cousin? In this way, I can also protect you for the rest of my life... "

Ah Jiu was stunned for a moment, half of his saliva choked in his throat, stopped for a moment, and then spit out all the water.

After coughing violently for a while, she put the water bag on the lid and threw it into his arms without expression, and said coldly: "Not good!"

After finishing speaking, she stood up and turned around to leave, but it was still raining outside, so she had to sit down on the steps of the door, staring at the water column dripping down from the eaves in a daze, but her ears felt slightly warm.

Seeing her turn her face, Yang Jian didn't continue to ask "Why is it not good", but silently looked at her back sitting alone under the eaves, with deep eyes, and said after a while: "Ah Jiu, do you still remember this life? How was it when you and I first met?"

She was startled for a moment, and just remembered that two years ago in Mohua Village, it was raining like today, and at that time she was only Ding Yuehua, and he was still the world-famous Nan Xia Zhan Zhao.

That year, Zhan Zhao was ordered to go to Jiangnan on business, and as soon as the business was over, he was dragged by Bai Yutang to Songjiang Mansion. It was the rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River, and the air was full of continuous rain, but there were golden arms clashing with knives and halberds in the reeds. Fighting, Bai Yutang was wondering who dared to act wildly on the territory of Ding's family and Xingkong Island. Before Huaying had time to unsheath, a woman in white clothes like snow soared into the sky in the misty rain and fog. Lu walked like lightning, and in an instant, the first few fell heavily on the bow of the boat, and were captured by the Ding family's guards.

That's when Zhan Zhao sighed in his heart, he never expected that there would be such a heroic woman like a falcon in Mobei in the south of the Yangtze River.

It wasn't until Bai Yutang stepped forward to greet him that he realized that this was the sister of the Ding Heroes, the third lady of the Ding family in Mohua Village. When he met the Shuangxias several times and was a guest in Mohua Village, she was traveling abroad, so she never met her. seen.

Bai Yutang and her have known each other since they were young, and when they met, they quarreled fiercely. On that day, Zhan Zhao just sat in the stern of the boat, watching the two of them coming and going, fighting fiercely, and suddenly the boat swung the oars. The big white mouse fell into the water, seeing that the usually gorgeous Chinchilla became a water mouse, even though it was as calm as Zhan Zhao, he turned his head away unkindly and let out a chuckle.

The Shaoai woman at the bow immediately turned her head, her pupils like autumn water couldn't hide the agility, seeing him startled, Fang finally came back to her senses, straightened her expression, cleared her voice and said: "Cough, Brother Bai doesn't know how to swim, girl... it's better to pull him up early..."

She was taken aback

"There are rumors in the world that cats and mice are at odds. Brother Bai probably has troubled you a lot. Zhan Nanxia is still willing to speak for him. He really has a big heart... But—" she said this, but she changed the subject again. , the brows were raised high, and the corners of the mouth were raised in an arc, "Actually, you were smiling quite happily just now..."

The gentle and elegant Nan Xia was punctured, and she blushed slightly in embarrassment, but she was in a good mood, whistled for someone to pick up the white mouse that was flopping in the water, and then went straight to the shore with a small boat and go.

Someone had already reported him to the Zhuangzi, and Brother Ding Zhaolan rushed out to greet him. First, he asked someone to clean up for Bai Yutang, and then set up a banquet in the hall to reconnect with the old relationship.

Zhan Zhao remembered that he drank Bai Yutang's favorite daughter Hong that day. There was freshly caught mandarin fish to accompany the wine, and the four big men exchanged glasses.

Ding Zhaohui drank a few more glasses, then put his arm on Zhan Zhao's shoulder and chattered nonsense, "Brother Zhan, how did you see my sister today?"

At that time, Ding Zhaolan was still a little awake, and frowned slightly, but it was too late to stop him, but he paused in his heart, and the neat stretched hand and the lively eyes flashed in front of his eyes, but he didn't dare to speak nonsense, just Cautiously said: "Uh...women don't give way to men, Zhan Zhao really admires..."

"You have vision..." Ding Erxian had drunk too much, "How about you being my brother-in-law?"

Zhan Zhao was taken aback, before he could react, Bai Yutang had already spit out a mouthful of dirty wine: "Don't listen to Ding Er cheating on you, cat, I know the details of Ding Xiaosan best, when he followed me up the tree to dig out eggs and into the water You have never done fishing before, you are just a tomboy, you will be punished if you marry her!"

"Bai Laowu, what do you mean!" Ding Er immediately threw the wine jar, "Tear down our brother's platform!"

"Why, come to fight if you don't accept it, Fifth Master will accompany you to the end!"

"Come on, I'm afraid you won't succeed!"

"Second brother, the fifth brother has something to say..."

The wine drinking became more and more lively until the end, and finally they were too drunk and fell into a deep sleep.

Only Zhan Zhao still had the last sliver of clarity. He stood up and walked out the door. He saw a beautiful back, sitting on the steps. The scene was somewhat similar to the scene in front of him. The beads trickled down, spreading out several circles of ripples on the water-logged ground.

Seeing him coming, she handed over the apricot blossom wine in her hand, which was mild and elegant, full of fragrance.

Then she said: "My second brother is drunk and talking nonsense, don't worry about it."

He was surprised by her frankness. You must know that few women can talk about their marriage in front of strange men like talking about the good weather.

At that time, her whole body was immersed in the humid night, her expression was frank and frank, her face was delicate, yet clear and transparent.

Zhan Zhao later learned that Ding Yuehua was already 20 years old at that time, and women from ordinary families would have already married and mothered at this age, but she was tired of female workers' red sleeves when she was young, and only loved swords, guns, swords, halberds, gold and iron horses, and she left at the age of 15. The family has been wandering, and it has been many years since he left. Although he also assisted his elder brother in taking care of the family business, he would go out to travel from time to time. His vision was broadened and his heart was high. Ordinary men would not be noticed. Therefore, marriage The matter was delayed year after year.

Although his two elder brothers didn't say anything, they were still in a hurry. They secretly counted all the young talents in the world. However, Bei Xia was too old, Chinchilla was too romantic, and Hei Yaohu was too cunning. He was also gentle and generous... so much so that Ding Zhaohui slipped his tongue when he drank too much that day, but he didn't mention it again after that.

It’s just that Zhan Zhao thought more than once later that it would be a pity if such a heroic woman married into a deep house and replaced the Zhanlu in her hand with an embroidery needle, and faced trivial matters and even intrigues in the house all day long. some

After that day, Zhan Zhao bid farewell and returned to Kaifeng. Three months later, the canal flooded and the inland water bandits were rampant. Zhan Zhao was ordered to go to the south of the Yangtze River to supervise the disaster relief case. Asking for help, Jiang Ping, the Fanjiang Mouse, and Bai Yutang, the Chinchilla Mouse, came to Trapped Sky Island, but the Ding Heroes were entangled in the family business, and Ding Yuehua, the third head of Mohua Village, was sent here.

With the help of these two aspects, the disaster relief work went smoothly. About three months later, he returned to Beijing to return to his command. The story of the sword to determine the marriage.

☆、Chapter 33