He Suizhao said something about the class teacher under the Tang State Bus Generation, because the court was urging tightly, it was not easy to delay, so even if Du Ruhui's whip wound had not healed, he would rest for two days at most, and then he would have to go back to the palace to be busy. After explaining the instructions, He Suizhao didn't want to stay long, so he hurriedly resigned.

Before leaving, he remembered something again, "Before Yang Xuangan's army was defeated, I sent someone to meet Li Mi, but I didn't know that the soldiers were scattered when they were in turmoil, and when I went to look for him again, there was no trace at all, and there was no news so far." ”

Du Ruhui was silent for a long time, and finally said lightly, "If you look for it again, you must find it." If he has no dissenting mind, he will do as he is, and if he has saved his thoughts......"

He Suizhao nodded, "I can reflect on myself." "After speaking, I don't make those false courtesies, just give my hands and leave.

When he went out, Mu Qing turned out from behind the screen, and then looked at Du Ruhui's eyebrows, still warm and gentle, smiling modestly and gently, and stretched out a hand to her, teaching her to wonder if everything she heard just now was an auditory hallucination.

Two days later, Du Ruhui really wanted to go to the left-behind mansion. Mu Qing had inspected the injuries on his back in the morning, and saw that most of them had scabbed, and some of the scabs had fallen off, revealing new pink flesh. With the dark scab, like a long worm crawling crookedly on its back, it was shocking to look at. She reapplied the new medicine for him, and only put on her robe when it was half dry, and nagged a few more words earnestly, not teaching him to work his shoulders.

Before leaving, Du Ruhui asked her to pack up the things to be taken away from the house, that is, two days of panhuan, take care of some things, and then set off. He also said that he would return late tonight, let her rest first, and don't wait.

After he went out, Mu Qing walked around the front yard and the backyard twice, and saw that there was nothing to clean up, and the belongings he brought were all gone, after all, it was just some clothes and daily use, and there was an extra mouthful of people, which was a little girl who was bought when he first arrived in Honghua County. The age is similar to Ayun Ayue, and she asked her if she would like to return by herself, but she said that she didn't know where her parents and relatives were, she was sold since she was a child, and she had also suffered some hardships, but now she is more comfortable with her mother, and she doesn't want to leave. Mu Qing saw that she was really diligent, so according to the name of Ayun Ayue, he called her Ah Xing and took her by his side.

Just after noon, someone knocked on the door again, Ah Liu opened the door, and it was Mrs. Changshi who came. Mu Qing was tidying up in the main house, and saw her anxious look across the yard, thinking of what Du Ruhui and He Suizhao said that day through the screen, he couldn't help sighing, got up and laughed, and stepped forward.

"Sister, is this leaving? How not to come early to sù a voice. Mrs. Changshi consciously became familiar with Mu Qing, and she was not polite, and said with disgust. The maidservant girl behind her led her young son, who was like a jewel, and when the child saw her, she said in a childish voice: "Aunt is well." ”

Mu Qing's heart was sour, and he almost didn't sigh. Looking at Mrs. Changshi's current situation, Zhang Changshi should not have an accident yet. "I just got the news, and it's not more than a few hours faster than my sister. This is being packed up in a hurry. As he spoke, he hurriedly called Ah Xing to pour tea. I'm messing around here, and I can't make that sour plum cheese, so I have to grieve my sister to drink a few sips of coarse tea. ”

Mrs. Changshi didn't mind, and just babbled reluctantly. Although she is vulgar and vain, her heart is not bad, she is just an ordinary woman. remembered Du Ruhui's instructions before leaving this morning, that is, tonight, she will suffer a heart-wrenching pain, and this death is inseparable from her. Thinking of this, Mu Qing was shocked, if Tang Guogong was more ruthless, he was afraid that even the mother and son would not be spared.

"Sister don't be negligent, the rest of the child is the most important." When Mu Qing came back to her senses, she lowered her voice and said closely: "Although she is young now, how many years can she be young after all?" My sister is also suffering, listen to a word of advice, and it is serious to have a few more children as soon as possible. ”

She was still working on this heart, Mu Qing smiled bitterly in her heart, her mind turned sharply, and she said, "That's exactly the reason." It's just that I can't do it either. A few days ago, I heard that there was a goddess in the north of the city who would specialize in doing this, so I thought to myself that I would go to visit it once. I'm scared and scared, and there is no one here who can talk to me intimately, and after thinking about it, there is only a sister......"

Mrs. Changshi frowned and said, "I've never heard of it. Immediately, he was a little happy again, "I can't say that I want to accompany my sister this time." ”

"Then thank you sister." Mu Qing hurriedly pulled up a smile on his face, and whispered: "It's not good to teach people to see it during the day, because I have to leave soon, I am in a hurry to ask someone to make a decision for this evening, and when I get up, I will go to ask for it." And I heard that the goddess is very accurate, why don't you bring Xiaolang with you and look at your face? ”

Mrs. Changshi responded repeatedly, and the two whispered the time and place to meet tonight, and Mu Qing told her again and again, never to tell the second person again, and only then did she feel at ease when she agreed firmly. After talking for a while, Mrs. Changshi resigned and went home. Mu Qing felt sorry for her in his heart, and said to Ah Liu: "She finally poisoned those vain fame and fortune, which shows that the word fame and fortune are very profitable, comparable to a poison blade." ”

Where did Ah Liu understand this, he heard it in a fog, and he went out to nod, and he didn't know what to do.

After nightfall, Du Ruhui really did not return, Mu Qing sent Ah Liu to go to the front of the fang to look, the remaining mansion was still brightly lit, it was indeed a good night. Soon the time has come, and the person who guards the watch has already reported a watch. Mu Qing summoned Ada and asked him to follow quietly to the north of the city where she and Mrs. Changshi agreed.

By the third watch, the door was opened a little crack, and Ada quietly flashed in through the crack in the door. Mu Qing didn't feel sleepy, and was sitting on the Hu bed in the courtyard, stunned for a while, thinking for a while, and vaguely feeling that he heard some unusual movement outside. Seeing Ada coming in, he quickly got up and stepped forward. "How?"

She waited with the little man for more than an hour, and left with resentment. I followed her all the way to the Changshi Mansion......" Ada paused, turned his eyes and looked at her face by the moonlight, "When she returns to the mansion, the Changshi Mansion is already in a mess, and there are several government soldiers lying on the ground, and things are scattered ......all over the place."

"Needless to say." Mu Qing waved her hand, closed her eyes and exhaled heavily, she didn't want to know the situation of Changshi's mansion, nor did she want to hear the panic and grief of Mrs. Changshi when she was shocked by the bad news, as long as she knew that she didn't lose her life in this catastrophe.

After sending Ada away, she sat alone in the courtyard for a while, the moon had gradually turned west, and Du Ruhui had not returned. She sighed again, and was surprised that she didn't know how many times she had sighed today, so she smiled bitterly and shook her head, and slowly went back to the house to sleep.

I don't know how long I lay straight on the bed, and I didn't start to get a little confused until I reported the fourth watch outside. Suddenly, I heard someone enter the house, and I didn't turn on the lamp, but I felt the darkness for a while, and then sat silently on the edge of the bed for a moment, and then lay down beside her with a tired snort.

The familiar breath suddenly enveloped the entire bed, Mu Qing lay motionless with his eyes closed, and took a deep breath, only to feel that in this familiar breath, there seemed to be a slight trace of blood, faint and lingering. Somehow, a strange panic ran through her heart, and she hurriedly rolled over and snuggled into his arms, hugging his arms tightly.

On the third day, the sky was clear, and Tang Guogong purged 20,000 soldiers and went out of the city gate. There are still two teams of cavalry, two teams of flag officers open the way, Tang Guogong followed Li Shimin, Du Ruhui and others, and then there are the elite soldiers of the Xiao cavalry battalion, but these elite soldiers have been quietly replaced by another batch two days earlier, and those who are really brave and good at fighting have been left in the garrison camp of Honghua County.

Mu Qing sat in the carriage at the end of the whole team, Ada drove, and Aliu Axing accompanied her in the car. There was another carriage ahead, but it was a prisoner's carriage. That long history should have been tortured, covered in blood, half of the three souls and seven spirits had already been lost, and four or five percent of his life had gone, and he sat weakly in the prison car, huddled into a ball.

As he was about to leave the city, a woman with her hair in a disheveled bun, holding a child in her arms, cried and cried after her, crying out something. Mu Qing ordered Ah Xing to put down the veil on the pane, turned around and leaned against the wall of the car, not wanting to see or listen.

Yesterday, the government of the left-behind mansion sent people to send six small gold cakes of five taels, and said that it was Erlang who returned the money for making summer clothes in the army, and Mu Qing only converted one of them into fifty taels of money, and put a box on the way to make it. The remaining five pieces made Ada send an irrelevant person on the street, and gave it to Mrs. Changshi, and sent a message to her, hoping that she could have a support, live a good life, and don't teach her young son to fight for fame and reputation, and it is serious to leave the court officialdom far away.

Within two days of traveling to the territory of Northland County, the prisoner car disappeared. When He Suizhao came to talk to her, he mentioned that Zhang Changshi was afraid of committing suicide, and because the weather was hot, he couldn't stop for a long time, so he sent a flying horse to report to the eastern capital, and he was allowed to bury it on the spot. Mu Qing was not interested, and he didn't want to say more, he just mentioned it, and no one talked about Zhang Changshi's case anymore.

After a few days of hurried on the road, this season should have been when the wheat waves turned yellow and the ears of grain were low, but this road was actually a field without good fields, and the tombs were like patches, scattered on the edge of the fields. Or a few plots that have been cultivated with all their might are but sparse and listless, and almost all of the people who work in the fields are peasant women.

After a day or two, the situation outside gradually improved, and the official road was much wider and smoother.

Sure enough, it was only half a day, and the towering and towering city tower could be seen in the distance, and the royal flag was planted. The soldiers on duty on the city tower received the letter in advance, cleared the streets early, and did not allow civilians to shuttle at will, and had to go in and out of the city gate through the side gates, vacating the main road to welcome the army.

Still far away, Mu Qing vaguely looked at the city gate tower a little strange, because she entered the east city gate, she went back and forth repeatedly, and also went up to the city tower in private to see off, but she didn't remember that there were any hanging objects downstairs under the city gate. Suspicious, Du Ruhui turned back from the front, jumped off the horse, handed the horse to an lieutenant on one side, and got into the carriage on the other side of the carriage.

"Why didn't you go with the army?" Mu Qing raised the curtain and asked.

"Li Gong went straight to the court to deliver the military talisman, I have no official position, so I don't have to go to the palace to report on my work, let's go back first." As he spoke, he glanced forward and hurriedly lowered the curtain, "You go into the car......"

It was too late to say this, and when he turned around to put the curtain down, Mu Qing was shocked by the scene in front of the city gate tower in front of him, twisted his brows, constricted his pupils, and knelt in the car in a daze. Needless to say, even Ada was so stunned that she stopped the car.