Yucheng, Youfu.

You Ke brought a glass of water to the Twelve Langs of the Cui family, but he didn't say anything.

"Don't you mind, I don't have a good tea cake here, I can only serve a glass of water."

For these famous families, for the scholars and the high families, if there are no good tea cakes, it is better to just drink water. The Cui family's marriages are all the most prosperous scholars in the north, which is completely different from You Ke, who has been poor since childhood.

If You Ke hadn't accidentally won the favor of the Bodu Gong of the clan Uncle You, I am afraid that he would still be cultivating in the countryside, and he would never come to this Yucheng to be a county order.

You Ke looked at Cui Lin and took the water with a wry smile, but he didn't take a sip, slightly surprised.

"Is the situation in Beijing and China already bad to this point?"

actually made the Cui family's most carefree twelve lang so sad that he couldn't sleep and eat?

This Cui Lin is the grandson of today's Great Wei Situ Cui Hao, and like his grandfather, he is also the most amazing prodigy in the third generation of the Cui family.

Situ Cui Hao is a good writer, a long history of scriptures, Xuanxiang Yin and Yang, and the words of a hundred schools, all of which are involved. And he went through three generations, assisted by the three Tuoba clan leaders, can be said to be the leader of the Han courtiers, and was deeply loved by the Wei Emperor Tuoba Tao (mop dig).

"My grandfather was bent on restoring the system of the Wei and Jin dynasties, so that everyone could follow the Han family's system, and then set the clans in the world as superior. This act was enough to offend all the Xianbei clan nobles. In addition, he and Kou Tianshi worked together to persuade His Majesty to abolish the Buddha, and he actually ......"

Cui Lin sighed tiredly.

"He is old, and his ability to plan is no longer as meticulous as when he was young, and his majesty is not the same as before......

"Huai Jin, be cautious!" You Ke was taken aback.

Although his friend is a madman on weekdays, he never talks about the government.

You Ke has been in Yucheng for a long time, but he often corresponds with the cousin in Beijing, and naturally knows that Cui Hao, who believes in Taoism, and Kou Qian, the master of heaven, intended to persuade the Son of Heaven to worship the Tao and abolish the Buddha, but he did too much fire, and the Son of Heaven burned the temple in a rage, smashed the Buddha statue, and killed so many monks that "within a realm, there is no resumption of Shamen".

Many of the Xianbei nobles believe in Buddhism, and Cui Hao has already laid trouble for himself by doing so.

However, he is only a small county order, so Cui Lin said that he can only listen. If you hear too much, you can't help but appease and persuade a few words.

"Huai Jin, if the situation is so tense, you should persuade your grandfather to pay attention as soon as possible. Now that he is in his sixties, His Majesty is in the prime of life, and it is not a good thing to retreat bravely at this time."

"How easy is it to say, the northern high gate is the head of my grandfather's horse, how can my grandfather be the kind of person who retreats bravely from the rapids? It's good that he doesn't rise to the challenge." Cui Lin waved her hand, "Let's go, don't mention this funny thing. I'm here today for the sake of that female general in Yucheng, Mulan."

Mulan?

You Ke thought of the tall woman in a fresh robe with a cold expression.

"What, looking at your look, you've already seen the Hua Clan?" Cui Lin poked her head curiously, "I remember that you don't like to join in the fun, what's the matter, could it be that you still went to Yingguo Township?"

Yucheng is still about a day's way away from Yingguo Township, which is under its jurisdiction, and he has said so.

In his mind, Mulan, who returned to the field after unloading her armor, should now live the life of a man ploughing and a woman weaving, and she will not come to Yucheng. That's the only reason for You to see Mulan.

"You don't have to call General Hua 'Hua'." You Ke shuddered inexplicably, and felt unusually harsh when he heard this title.

In his impression, the strange woman who was seven feet tall and the charming "Hua Clan" did not match at all.

She shouldn't be a "clan" at all, she is herself, the named Mulan.

Cui Lin became interested, sat upright, and waited for You Ke behind the banquet to tell the reason.

You can see that your friends are interested, and they know that if they don't make it clear that there are no clean days to spend these days, they talk about what they saw and heard a while ago.

"One day, I was on the board of directors in the Yazhong, and suddenly a messenger came to report the news, saying that the Liu family had a life case, the case was complicated, and it involved the adults of the Xianbei family, so I ......"

You Ke recalls that day and tells his own story.

When he was young, his family was poor, and his widowed mother guarded the family's fields, pulling him up hard. When You Ke was young, there must have been a family business, when he was twelve years old, because his family was poor and had no future at all, the woman's family sent someone to quit the family.

After that, he no longer had a good impression of the so-called "lady show" in the world, and studied hard, and finally got blue eyes when the senior officials and elders of the clan tested the clan middle school, and was brought to Beijing to study, and met his friend Cui Lin.

You Ke thinks that his vision is very high, and after his widowed mother went, he had no intention of caring about women, but because he was a parent official in a place, he saw a lot of women of all kinds, such as Mulan, which was so peculiar that he had never seen before.

He looked at his friend and told him how to see a Xianbei man inspecting the body, how the Xianbei man saw him coming, how to analyze whether the case was a suicide rather than a homicide, and how to guide him to check the wound and look for evidence......

When he heard that the head man said that this man was actually Huwei General Mulan, he didn't lose his temper in public by biting the tip of his tongue and suffering pain.

Then how Hua Mulan faced the children of the Liu family, and how she was promoted to testify with the villagers, he also made it clear to his friends one by one.

When the legend of Mulan resounded in Pingcheng, Cui Lin was traveling outside, because he had never seen this "celebrity". [,！ Praise.

It's not easy to have a good reputation like this.

"As you said, when this Mulan returned to the township, she was still wearing men's clothes and running around?" This is completely different from what Cui Lin imagined.

"You haven't seen Mulan, that's why you're so surprised...... You Ke paused slightly, and then changed his words. It should be said that if you stand next to her, you will not even consider whether she is a man or a woman."

"Oh?" Cui Lin knelt down a little bored, relaxed on the side of the seat, and said unexpectedly: "Could it be that this Mulan General is actually a person who looks indistinguishable?"

"No, no, no. That general is a person who cannot be defined by gender."

You Ke looked at his friend's lazy appearance and smiled a little. There are people in this world, just standing there, you know that she is completely different. At this point, you don't care if she's a man or a woman, what her status is, where she is, or what her background is, but you just want to get to know this 'person'."

"The Mulan I saw was such a person."

"So, Nozomi's brother has already married her?" Cui Lin laughed.

"That's where I feel sorry."

You Ke sighed.

"In order to show my impartiality, and not to be biased in favor of the Xianbei people, I did not have much contact with her, and did not even say a word other than her analysis of the cause of the deceased's death. It's really embarrassing."

"Then again, what are you looking for Mulan? No matter how you look at it, she doesn't look like someone who has anything to do with the Cui family." You can be a little worried about Mulan.

Once you get involved with these powerful families, it is extremely difficult to be as comfortable as you are now.

"I'm here to persuade Mulan to go to the prince's side, so as to persuade the increasingly irritable Majesty."

"What?" You Ke stood up all of a sudden.

"His Majesty had intended to let Mulan be the 'nanny' of His Royal Highness the Prince, but Mulan refused. Later, His Majesty rejected the Worm's invitation to marry on the grounds that Hua Mulan 'can't maintain the good of the two clans without water', which shows that His Majesty's feelings for Hua Mulan are different from the ordinary." Cui Lin looked at You Ke's stunned expression,

"Why, you don't know?"

The worm is Rouran, and the Xianbei people dislike the Rouran people, thinking that they have low intelligence and are a group of insects that can't think, so they replace "Rouran" with the form of worms, and call them with the homonym "worm".

And the "nanny" is by no means a nanny and servant, but comes from the Tuoba family's system of "the death of the son and the mother".

In Xianbei, the status of women is respected, and after the marriage between the strong clans, the mother clan can often intervene in the affairs of the clan, and there are often widowed women who return to their mother's family with all the wealth of their husbands.

Later, after the founding of the Tuoba clan, the system of "the death of the son and the mother" was established. Once the prince is made a prince, his biological mother must die.

When the biological mother died, there must be other women to take care of the crown prince, sometimes it is the queen who did not give birth to the prince, and sometimes it is the person who the emperor personally chooses to trust.

The so-called "nanny" is "the surrogate mother who protects the prince".

When today's Wei Emperor Tuoba Tao succeeded to the throne, he tried his best to override public opinion and named his "nanny" Dou as the "Empress Dowager Bao", known as the Empress Dowager Dou. The queen mother, who entered the palace as a criminal slave, was treated with glory and favor all her life, and continued to raise the current crown prince Tuoba Huang after the death of the prince's biological mother. It's just a pity that she passed away two years ago.

When she died, Tuoba Tao buried her beautifully, and was nicknamed "Empress Dowager Hui", built a monument and built a temple, and sacrificed every year.

The second year of her death was the year when the Son of Heaven personally conquered the north of Yinshan Mountain, defeated Rouran, rewarded her meritorious deeds in the army, and canonized Hua Mulan Shangshulang.

As soon as the Empress Dowager Dou went, the crown prince Tuoba Huang had no biological mother, and the candidate for this nanny should be Queen Helian, who has never had children. But Empress Helian is the royal princess of the Xia Kingdom who was destroyed, and it is her current husband Tuoba Tao who destroyed the Xia Kingdom.

On this basis, the Manchu civil and military opposed Empress Helian becoming the nanny of the crown prince.

In fact, if Mulan was willing to accept the position of the prince's "nanny" at that time, it might not be a bad decision.

At least Tuobatao's appreciation for her can be seen by anyone with eyes.

The young crown prince has always been in charge of the country when Emperor Wei was personally conquering, and he has not had any decent martial arts, which is extremely disadvantageous among the Xianbei people who value military merits.

There is a nanny who is known as "Tiger Might" in the army, which can be said to complement each other.

But at this time there is not so much maybe. Hua Mulan resigned all her good intentions, pretended to be a reward that was enough to eat and drink for the rest of her life, and went home happily.

"Since Mulan refused, she won't compromise anymore. What's more, it's not something she can do if she wants to be a nanny." You don't believe that such a woman would be happy to take care of children in the palace for the rest of her life.

"Let me ask you, how is Mulan doing in the township?" Cui Lin sat up and asked him with her chin propped up.

You Ke was silent.

He had not heard all the strange rumors that had spread throughout the countryside. Even like him, before he saw Mulan, the first thing he sketched in his mind was a woman with a "tiger's back and a bear's waist, black skin and ugly appearance".

Whether this is too good or not, he doesn't know.

He is not in Mulan's position, nor has he had any experience with Mulan, and even because he is a man, he doesn't know what he thinks of Mulan at this moment.

Maybe she's completely unimpressed by this.

So he. [,！ ] Can't answer.

"In fact, His Majesty's 'egret' has been ordered to keep an eye on Mulan."

Cui Lin threw out an even more surprising news.

"If I'm not mistaken, the stupid Shiro of the Dugu family and the simple-minded guys in the guards should be instigated by the people sent by His Majesty......"

"Ran to support Mulan."