Du Yu took Zhenshu back to the small courtyard behind the east city of the capital, poured soup for her, warmed the bed and coaxed her to sleep, and then quietly went out of the house to the West House. This time, he took out the letter written by Yu Yichen again and smoothed it out to take a closer look. The letter reads:

Zhenshu, my little shopkeeper:

When you were not by my side, I read through the entire "Tang Dynasty Western Regions", from the Tang Dynasty holy monk Yue Heli, through the quicksand, stepping on the scorching quicksand, and strolling in the gentle land with abundant water and grass. His footsteps flow on the paper, through the ups and downs of all things, through the long wind and snow.

The bright moon of the Tang Dynasty shining on the Gongyue City, and the dusty back of Buddhism, are the heavy obsessions he shoulders on the way west. The quicksand in the Taklamakan Desert and the mirage with abundant water and grass in the distance, he can finally resist with a string of Buddhist beads in his hand, and he is still that obsession.

The Tianshan Mountains are horizontal, the Pamirs are towering, and I, a person with the deepest bones, think that with the same obsession as the holy monk, I can overcome Du Yu's sincerity and the obstacles given by heaven and earth to be with you.

Your pity and compassion for me is also an obsession.

On that day I asked you why the holy monk went west.

You say that he is looking for a truth in order to find an answer in life.

I don't seek the truth, I don't ask for answers as human beings, and hell is the best place for a crippled person like me.

But I can't make you share this sin with me, and let you, who are innocent and innocent, fall into the infernal hell because of me.

I gave up my obsession precisely because of your obsession.

Don't cry for me, I will leave here, follow the path of the holy monks to the west, with an obsession to wash away my sins, to see the homeland of my fathers, to walk the path that the holy monks once walked, to see the Buddhist monuments in the area of Tianzhu's body poison, and to find a ridiculous expectation.

I want to be able to meet you again in the next life, and I don't have the expectation of this crippled body.

I have given you all my most important things, but I hope you will never discover it, my sincerity and my treasure, should be your ordinary things, or occasionally inadvertently abandoned, I am a person, even if I am delivered in this life.

Yu Yichen

Du Yu read it through, read it carefully, sat in the dark light shadow with his hands on his forehead and was speechless for a long time, sat down until midnight before he looked up, unfolded the letter flat, opened the lampshade and lit it, the corners of his mouth under his thick eyebrows and high nose were pursed into a hard straight line, silently looking at the charming and unlosing momentum, and the mellow words in the thin and thin were turned into ashes one by one and swallowed by the firelight.

There are often the corpses of people who fall into the water or call people to assassinate floating in the canal, Du Wu and people along the canal over and over again can not find his body, why the government is stable, he pretended to be a person for Yuyi dust hastily buried. Du Yu was naturally full of joy, and after returning home, he talked to Zhenshu, but Zhenshu didn't even raise his head: "I know." ”

"But ......" Just as Du Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief, Zhenshu raised his head and stared at him: "I'm only with you now for the sake of the child in my belly, and I will never be married to you." If Miss Dou Mingluan is willing, you can marry her. ”

Du Yu knocked on the table angrily: "If that Yu Yichen is alive, I promise you to go with him, because you love him, and I will fulfill you." But now that he's dead, and he can't die anymore, do you still have to keep chastity for that eunuch? Don't you think that's ridiculous? ”

Zhenshu spat out a rolling word from between his teeth, but couldn't help but ask: "He's dead, is the court quiet?" Have you been at peace since then? Has everyone had a good life from now on? Don't you want to fight back and forth? Eunuchs, eunuchs aren't people? Why did you insult him like this again? ”

Du Yu sat down dejectedly, and for the first time he called Zhenshu to refute, he was out of breath.

Zhenshu also fell into tears for the first time since Yu Yichen's death, and the tears rolled down and couldn't be stopped: "Although he is a eunuch, the premise is that he is also a person, a man, a man who stands up to the sky." I live as much as he lives, I am his eyes, his divine sense, as long as I live for one day, two people live together. ”

Du Yu choked on the spot, stayed for a long time, raised his neck and sighed, closed his eyes and replied: "Okay!" You keep yours, and I will marry mine. ”

When he returned to Beijing, he had already re-mentioned his marriage with Dou Mingluan, if he hadn't found Zhenshu later, he was afraid that he would have had a child with Dou Mingluan now. Although he deceived her first in Wuling Mountain, since he returned to Beijing and knew that she was still alive, Du Yu thought that he had paid a lot for Zhenshu, and he resisted the jokes of the people in the city for her, and almost killed his father Du Wu for her.

He can not care about her past with the eunuch, and he can also endure the shameful laughter of the people in the capital.

But Zhenshu's words that he would never be a husband and wife completely angered Du Yu, he was a serious man, standing upright between heaven and earth, and planted a child in her belly, all of which was not as good as a eunuch. If it weren't for the forbearance accumulated by the hardships suffered over the years, Du Yu would have almost smashed the entire room in anger at this time.

When he returned home, he married Dou Mingluan, and the cave house was rounded that night.

In May of this year, Zhenshu gave birth to a round and fat boy. She was still in fine shape before giving birth, and her belly was not extraordinarily big, but the child she gave birth to was very solid.

Since Du Wu worked hard to kill the authoritarian eunuch Yu Yichen, and King Ping refused to come forward in Liangzhou, he began to be the regent in the name of obedience.

When Du Yu held a 100-year-old banquet for his son Xiaoyu, Du Yu intended to show that his son was more obedient and beautiful than his father's son, and in the weather in early August, he hugged a small fish with a bare butt and only a belly pocket to Du Wu. The little fish has thick and strong legs, and cries louder than other children.

Du Wu saw that his son was now gradually reining in his original unruly wildness, and he was like an adult when he put on an official uniform, although he was not deep enough when he was young, he was also a handsome and handsome man. I couldn't bear to brush his kindness, so I took it and pretended to hold it in my arms, but when this little fish saw an old man with a beard, he kicked his legs and grabbed his grandfather's beard and refused to let go. Du Wu's action was naturally followed by a large number of people, and a large group of civil officials and martial artists all frightened this fearless newborn calf's face changed greatly. Du Wu hugged Xiaoyu and laughed: "It's really my Du's grandson, who has courage." ”

Since he said this, everyone naturally echoed and praised him, saying that this kid's heavenly court was full and the future was limitless.

Du Wu hugged the child and said with a faint smile: "He has a grandfather like me, how bad can he be?" ”

It is often said that the son is the eldest grandson. That is to say, for a person, he has many children and grandchildren in his life, and the most favored are the youngest son and the eldest grandson. Du Wu and Du Yu have not dealt with each other in their lives, but they fell in love with this chubby grandson at a glance.

Because Zhenshu now lives alone in Chuanzi Lane, Du Yu finally coaxed Zhenshu to take Zhenshu to Liangzhou as a bargaining chip in the future, so he coaxed Zhenshu to nod and agree to live in the Guogong Mansion.

After entering the Guogong Mansion, because of Dou Mingluan as his wife, she was a concubine who did not want to be a concubine, so she could only live alone in a small courtyard with Xiaoyu without a name or a point.

Du Wu loves small fish, and when he goes home to discuss important matters with the courtiers, he also has to take it with him, and he is used to climbing high and stepping on the ground to pull people's beards.

He disciplined his son too harshly, but when he got to his grandson, he became infinitely doting.

Zhenshu stayed in the Guogong Mansion for more than a year, depressed and often lamented, and Du Yu was not. The two met occasionally, and they were relatively sad to see their son becoming more and more lawless, and at this time the Tartars were approaching the Liangzhou area, and Du Yu couldn't stand the urging of Zhenshu to bring up the matter of returning to Liangzhou again.

Du Wu should not be at the beginning, he couldn't stand his son being bored all day long, and in order to make Du Wu share some favors, he was pregnant with a child in his thirties. also helped Du Yu say a lot of good things, Du Wu had to sigh and let go, and asked his son to go back to Liangzhou.

Now is not the time for him to choose a loyal monarch and a loyal father, after all, he is a son born in his blood, and he is not afraid that he will be beaten in the future.

Although Dou Mingluan and Du Yu have also raised their eyebrows for more than a year, they have not yet come out of their knees, because Du Yu has a wife and a concubine when he leaves, but a big fat boy is envious of the scenery of others.

On the day of the salute, Du Xiaoyu, who was more than a year old, turned out a wooden hairpin from there and held it in his arms and gnawed it. Zhenshu saw that his saliva was dripping, and snatched it from his hand and said, "What's it, you're not dirty?" ”

The nurse still defended herself: "Look at the cleanliness, the eldest son is making a lot of trouble, and the old body doesn't dare to take it hard." ”

Zhenshu persuaded the nurse: "This thing is a headdress, don't say it's dirty, if he falls and hurts himself while running, it's called danger, and you must not give it to him in the future." ”

The nurse replied and walked out of the house with Du Xiaoyu in her arms.

Zhenshu sat on the ground and held the hairpin, and looked at the hairpin tail with a crack, at first I thought it was a child biting, and I played with it, but it turned out that the hairpin tail was a spiral twist, and it was opened by twisting it. Because of its exquisite and meticulous craftsmanship, she has never touched this thing since she left Yu Yichen more than two years ago, and she has never found it.

She unscrewed the hairpin and pulled out a tight, thin roll of skin from within, and spread it out, with a topographical map drawn on it. Although the text is a different body, she can't recognize it, but she can vaguely guess what it is. There was a piece of paper in the skin, and Zhenshu covered his lips and spread it out, and saw that it was written:

Zhenshu, my little shopkeeper

I don't want you to find out this secret, but I'm afraid you'll find out, so I'm going to leave you a message.

This is what I exchanged for the scorched earth of Huixian County, the last remnant of my ancestors' veins.

If you find that you want to give it to whomever you want to give, it is all your own free will.

I still hope that you will inadvertently drop this hairpin, just like my heart that loves you deeply, but never needs to respond, and deserves to be disappointed.