He Mulan looked at Shan Zhuo, who suddenly cried because of his words, and touched his chin with annoyance.

This young man looks like a gentleman, why does he cry when he says it?

She thought about it, if she was raised by someone and suddenly met the person who sponsored her, she would be so excited......

So He Mulan didn't say much, just smiled and watched the young man put his love down.

Shan Zhuo wiped his tears, choked up and said, "I didn't come to you because I was short of money. In the past ten years, you have been sending things over, but this year suddenly did not send again, I am worried about whether something happened to you, I really can't let go of my heart, so I inquired all the way and found it from Wuchuan......"

"I thought you were in Huaishuo at first, but when I arrived at Helaijiabao in Huaishuo, the people over there said that your family had migrated to Liangjun many years ago, so I went all the way south and asked around Yucheng where you lived......"

"You have a heart, I'm doing well." He Mulan didn't expect that there would be a little boy who would be concerned about Mulan's body, and he traveled thousands of miles from Wuchuan in the north to Yucheng in Liang County." Now that you're here, can you tell me about your life for so many years? How are you doing with your mother?"

Before Shan Zhiqi died, he was afraid that their mother and son would live a life of exile from now on.

If there is no man in the family, it will not be too easy to live in the future.

Shan Zhuo nodded, got up and began to slowly talk about his experience since childhood.

Just like he always wanted to do.

"When I was more than four years old, you brought back the news of my grandfather's sacrifice, my aunt and grandmother were heartbroken, and the family erected a mound for my grandfather's clothes, and then the next year, ......"

His voice was a little low, and he began to tell Hermulan about the trajectory of his life. Because it was mixed with a lot of changes brought about by Mulan's care for them, Shan Zhuo's tone was grateful.

For He Mulan, with Shan Zhuo's narration, her thoughts gradually withdrew from Mulan's "fire chief" memory, and gradually extended, connecting with Shan Zhiqi's life, and let her understand what kind of person Mulan is from the other side.

In Mulan's memory, sending things to Shan Zhiqi's house was because she didn't know what to do to maintain the future life of the mother and son, so she could only supplement it with materials.

At the beginning, Mulan's food was not much, so the help she could provide was limited, she tried her best to reduce her clothes and food, except for the food for the family, almost everything else was given to Shan Zhiqi's family.

Later, Hua Mulan's military exploits became more and more, the food and salary became thicker and thicker, and she also had her own military slaves and personal soldiers, and there were more and more people who could provide them with their mother and son.

Although Ah Shan Zhiqi's wife wrote a letter, hoping that Mulan would not send anything more, she couldn't help but keep asking people to send things to his house when she thought that Huo Chang's wife and children might fall into a poor situation.

Because she has been impersonating the identity of a man, in order not to bring any gossip to this widowed woman, she rarely visits Adan's house, but occasionally goes to his hometown to see, asks about the current situation of his family among the neighbors, and offers a qiē can help.

Shan Zhuo said that he had never seen Mulan, and this is true. But Mulan has seen him many times in secret.

Even the veteran general in the army who taught Edan Zhuo's martial arts was willing to teach such a young man with an ordinary family because of Mulan's intercession and heavy courtesy.

If Shan Zhuo hadn't come, this life experience about Mulan would have been forever sealed in He Mulan's mind, and then gradually became a legend that no one knew.

He Mulan supported his chin and listened to Shan Zhuo's description with a gentle face, but his mind was gradually plumping up all of Mulan's memories of the Edan family because of Shan Zhuo's description.

The bustier she was, the more she admired the woman.

The legends and stories that He Mulan has heard about Mulan are just odes that have been constantly beautified and processed for so long.

They just kept reciting the heroine's hymns, and they didn't really know her for a moment.

There is also no chance to understand.

But she seems to really know and love her now. Now, as long as He Mulan closes his eyes, he can see the noble woman who lived 1,500 years ago......

- Mulan.

He Mulan watched Shan Zhuo recount his past with gratitude and longing, and a thought rose in his heart.

She's going to piece the memories together.

She wants to go to all the places that Mulan has been, the roads she has walked, and the scenery she has seen.

She received her body, her gifts, but never gave her anything back, and she didn't even know the story of what the owner of this body was for.

Probably because the hero doesn't feel anything great when he experiences his life, and he doesn't think that what he is experiencing is what will happen in the epic or biography, so Mulan's memory of these touching memories is not as profound as the "protecting the family and defending the country" and "protecting the people" that are always in her heart.

But others can not care about her life, how can she not care about Hermulan?

She's using what she's left behind!

The story of Edan Zhuo is not long, and like most boys, even if they look forward to how glorious and fulfilling their past is, the years have determined that their future will be much longer than their past. [,！ The West is also quite limited.

So when Hermulan listened to his childhood and adolescence, he could finally rest assured.

It is impossible for Mulan to give him another father, but she has already done what she can under the conditions at that time.

"You're a very good boy. Edan Zhiqi should be able to dumb down." He Mullan crossed his hands together and looked at the child carefully.

The eyes are clear and the eyes are firm, this is the eyes that have already had the belief to insist.

With thick arms and a burly build, he did not endure the torments of hunger and poverty and grew into a reliable man.

He said that he was still working in the blacksmith shop, and he didn't think that he had been pampered because someone sponsored him.

For today's Shan Zhuo, he has two legs to walk out of his own way, two arms to hold the sword against the enemy, and he has a lot of time to struggle.

The most important things for a "warrior" are already available to him.

"Speaking of which......" Shan Zhuo showed a somewhat curious and somewhat frightened expression. My grandpa...... What kind of man is you, fire chief?"

He Mulan was slightly stunned, and Edan Zhiqi, who was sitting on the ground and said, "I'm an ordinary person", suddenly jumped into his mind.

She raised her head slightly, and said to him in a very affirmative tone:

"My fire chief, is a very amazing person......"

Shan Zhuo couldn't help but smile proudly.

She laughed too.

"He's a very powerful person, and he can use very simple words to say things that no one else knows. Your grandfather, he can be said to have indirectly changed the fate of 'Mulan'."

He Mulan saw that the young man tilted his head slightly, listened attentively, and continued thoughtfully.

"Back then, 'I', who had just entered the camp in Montenegro, was actually a person who was afraid of death......"

He Mulan began to talk unhurriedly about the past that belonged to Shan Zhiqi.

The low sunlight of the winter morning shone in through the window, so the golden dust floating around her made her calm appearance even more soft and warm.

This is really a picture of the old man who only belongs to the old man who has returned to the field looking back on the past, but Shan Zhuo feels the happiness he has been looking for in such a scene.

Yes, he is very happy at the moment.

Early the next morning.

Shan Zhuo, who stayed at Hua's house for one night and was invited to live for a while as the "son of the old man", is practicing swords in Mulan's yard.

"Hey, you're using ...... too" He Mulan raised his eyebrows in surprise.

In this era, there were too few samurai who chose to use epee. The heavy sword is extremely demanding on the body, and it is also a great test of the blacksmith's level. In military families, boys generally learn spears and spears from an early age, and some learn single knives, because these are easy to find weapons in the army, even if they are lost on the battlefield, they can find another one.

Moreover, in hand-to-hand combat, the heavy sword is obviously not as lethal as the knife.

Of course, if you have a lot of strength, that's a different story.

Shan Zhuo's face flushed. The number of times he blushed in the past two days was almost equal to the number of years he had added in the previous seventeen years.

"That...... I heard you use a heavy sword......"

He was a little worried, but more proudly stated the reason why he chose epee.

Shan Zhuo didn't say that in order to be able to use the heavy sword well, he even lifted a stone lock at home since he was a child, and went to the blacksmith to help people push bellows and pick up a sledgehammer, just so that he could pick up the same weapon as Mulan in the future.

He didn't know that the heavy sword was difficult to learn and not easy to use, but it was precisely because of this that he admired the "general" in front of him even more, and he could use this terrible weapon to the point that the enemy was terrified, and she was his idol and worth learning for a lifetime.

He Mullan was even more surprised at this moment.

What, I didn't think this kid was still a fan of Mulan.

That's right, it seems that Mulan has an aura that automatically attracts fans, as long as she gets closer, everyone can't help but become her followers and admirers.

Could it be that this is the "protagonist aura" of the legend?

"Since you also use a heavy sword, then we might as well learn from each other...... "He Mulan came out so early to exercise, and since he knew that this Shan Zhuo was a little admirer of Mulan, he was naturally willing to give him some advice.

She went back to the house and took out the "rock" and re-established herself opposite Edan Zhuo.

"You attack first, I'll defend ...... Huh?"

Why did this kid show a drooling look?

"What's wrong with you?"

"Is this the rock?"

Shan Zhuo stared at the "rock" feverishly as if he had seen a peerless beauty, and he didn't even know that his hand was involuntarily stretched out.

"Aunt Hua, can I hold it?"

He Mullan chuckled and handed the rock forward.

"It's just a heavier sword...... Be careful! "

Arman Zhuo grabbed the hilt of his sword. Even though he knew it was an extremely heavy two-handed sword, his hands still sank, and he almost smashed his own foot because he didn't catch it.

"It's heavy! Good sword! "

Shan Zhuo looked at the rock again and again, as if he wanted to remember every inch and every minute of it, even swallowing his mouth and blood groove. He stretched out his hand and stroked its sword face little by little, the back of the sword, the tip of the sword, and the expression of obsession in his eyes

[,！ "It's a good sword, and I can't move it, but it's okay to hit it again later......" he muttered. General Hua's sword is called Rock, what is my name? Boulders?"

He Mulan watched Shan Zhuo holding the sword and touching it with amusement, the scene was really indescribably obscene. Coupled with the fact that he whispered something intoxicated while touching it, a good black boy became even more weird.

He Mulan looked at Ardan Zhuo's well-developed biceps and nodded knowingly.

He seemed to have said yesterday that he often went to the armory shop to earn some wages, and I think that his arm strength was trained at that time.

She stepped forward a few steps, pinched the tip of the sword and pulled the rock back, holding the rock upside down with her backhand, and tapping Shan Zhuo's nose with one hand.

"You have to be careful, although the rock is not a sharp sword, it can still cut off your nose if it is so close."

"Aunt Hua!" Shan Zhuo's eyes were shining.

"Please fight me with a rock!"

"Ah......h

"Are you sure you weren't 'beaten' by me?"

Ah Danzhuo raised his sword eagerly, holding it in both hands.

"Hey, why do you only use one hand to ......?"

He leaps forward and slashes diagonally from the top right with great force.

"Because for me, that's the one-handed sword."

Hermulan picked up his sword to parry.

After Hermulan hit Ardan Zhuo's blade with his sword, he directly made a stabbing motion. However, Ardan Zhuo took a step back and picked up her sword. Immediately, He Mullan quickly stepped back, stood firm, and entered a confrontation again.

Arman Zhuo continued to attack, and He Mulan dodged sideways, and said with an admiring expression.

"Good swordsmanship!"

"Thank you, Aunt Hua, for the compliment!"

He grinned happily.

"Then change me......" He Mulan lifted his sword, and used the advantage of the heavy sword to press down from the top of Shan Zhuo's head, and Shan Zhuo immediately picked up the sword to block upward, but then regretted it.

Everyone knows that "Huaishuo Mulan" can carry the tripod, and he still wants to compete with her as an ordinary opponent, isn't this a broken brain?

But his sword had already been stretched out, and it was useless to regret it, so he could only grit his teeth and wait for the force that almost knocked the weapon out just now to attack.

Surprisingly, the force he had imagined did not come from the sword, the sword was just suddenly changed from a downward slash to a circular arc, and his opponent's sword was not for slashing at all, but while holding up the sword he had already picked upwards with a rock, he stepped out with his left foot and struck it with his left elbow.

He Mulan's elbow rested in front of Ardan Zhuo's nose.

Shan Zhuo blinked and exclaimed.

"What kind of play is this? It's amazing! "

"It's a move that has been summed up after countless battles with enemies on the battlefield, and it doesn't have a name."

All of Hermulan's physical memories come from Mulan, so she answers casually.

The competition between Edan Zhuo and He Mulan continued, because He Mulan knew that his strength was too great, so he tried his best to avoid direct confrontation with him in the battle, and instead demonstrated to him various special techniques inherited from Mulan.

When she used her heavy sword to perform a slashing motion that only a long knife could do, Shan Zhuo was startled. I'm afraid that only a hard rock can make such an action without fear of the damage of the sword!

He retracted his sword and shook it slightly, and Mullan spun his whole way, turning horizontally back to make a horizontal slashing motion. Edan Zhuo, who was turning to the right, was intercepted by this move.

He Mulan patted the side of his sword on Edan Zhuo's stiffened right shoulder, then smiled at the frightened Ardan Zhuo and explained to him:

"You've been tricked again. Turning to the right when fighting with the person holding the sword in his right hand is the natural reaction of the sword practitioner. But this reaction is also dangerous if it is maintained."

"Hehe, no matter how much I didn't think that the horizontal slash that turned around after turning around would come in front of me."

"Okay!"

Bang Bang Bang!

Suddenly, there was a hoarse voice and a clapping sound in front of the door.

He Mulan and Ah Shan Zhuo looked out with the sound of clapping, and saw that in front of the high wall of Mulan's house, a few horses appeared at some point, and next to these horses, You Ke and a thin boy were standing.

You Ke just showed an expression of admiration, and was not applauding, the applause came from the young man beside him.

This is obviously the son of an aristocratic family, because both Hermulan and Edan Zhuo can clearly see his gorgeous clothes. He wore the long gown that the Han people often weared, but he wore a left hat, and for a while even He Mullan didn't know what kind of clan he was.

The fair-skinned boy stood in the doorway and poked his head inside, almost as if he was about to stick out and watch.

He Mullan snorted.

The young man's expression looked like he had seen two wild boars fighting in the wilderness.

Is it the first time he has seen this kind of heavy sword against heavy sword competition, so he slapped his palms like a juggling gentleman?

"You County Order, you are really a distinguished guest." He Mullan had a good impression of the young magistrate, so he threw the rock to Ardan Zhuo and went out to greet him personally.

"Shame on the next now. [,！ It's not a prefectural order." You Ke smiled a little embarrassedly, glanced at Shan Zhuo, and nodded suddenly in understanding.

"This little brother is the kid who came to our Yucheng County Ya to inquire about you a few days ago. I can't imagine that martial arts are so exquisite."

"Thank you for that. This is the son of my former comrade, who has come all the way from Wuchuan to visit me." He Mullan smiled gratefully. You said you weren't a county magistrate...... Ouch, you see I'm used to being casual......"

She patted her forehead.

"Come in first, this is not the place to talk."

He Mulan invited them into the house, and Ah Danzhuo and the young man were both juniors, and they looked at each other curiously.

Edan Zhuo looked at the boy's strange clothes and gorgeous clothes, and the boy looked at the two great swords that Edan Zhuo was holding in his arms and the muscles that were about to burst out of his shirt.

He Mulan didn't care about the two children, you look at me, I look at your atmosphere, first invited You Ke to the table, and then turned out the cups in the room in a hurry, and then became worried.

She is not used to drinking the strange tea leaves here, and the Hua family is not fond of tea, and has always drunk water.

But since Fang's pregnancy, her house here is cleaned by Brother Hua, and now Brother Hua should go to walk the horse at this time, she doesn't even know where the tea cakes for guests at home are.

"Wait, I'll go to my grandfather's house and pour a jug of water." He Mulan glanced at the amphora clay pot in the room with some embarrassment, she was really used to being served by Brother Hua and Fang's family, and there was no hot water on the stove in her room.

"I'll go." Edan Zhuo put the two swords back on the sword grid in the corner of the hall, walked over to Mullan, picked up the clay pot, and walked out of the house.

He Mulan was not polite when he was Shan Zhuo's own person, and when he saw him out, he looked at You Ke and then at the young man beside him.

"You just said that you are not a prefectural magistrate now......"

"Ahh It's a long story." You Ke showed a disapproving look.

"That's a long story short." He Mulan was really curious.

Could it be that if something happened to Cui Lin, his official son would be gone?

Is Cui Lin's grandfather such a small-bellied person? Doesn't it mean that Cui Lin and You are friends who are irreversible.

"To make a long story short, it was because I ordered the Lu Shuihu people in the temple to leave, so it involved some relations between Beijing and China. In addition, Huai Jin was in danger in my territory, and Lu Shuihu almost slaughtered the village, and some adults in Beijing couldn't help but have some opinions about me." You Ke still spoke in such a gentle voice, which made He Mulan's slightly nervous feelings relaxed.

"Fortunately, my cousin has mediated in it, so I was only temporarily dismissed from the post of county commander, and I want to return to Beijing with the envoy sent by Jingzhong to meet Shangguan and explain the situation this time. His Majesty is Mingjun, if he knows the ins and outs of this matter, he will let me come back if he wants to come." He smiled. General Hua doesn't have to worry about me."

"Oh...... For such a big matter, it is right that Jingzhong cares. Fortunately, Na Gai Wu has sworn that he will not hurt the innocent in the future, and it will not be too much of a problem for you to leave Yucheng. Now that you have been removed from your official position, who is serving as the magistrate of Yucheng County?"

He Mullan asked with concern.

I heard that You Ke has been a county magistrate in Yucheng for four or five years, and even his home is here. Although he was born high, his family background is not good, his promotion is very slow, and I heard that he is a Qing official whose income is not high, if he is not a county order, what should he do for a living?

"At present, the DPRK and the Central Government have not yet accepted the new Yucheng County Order, and the county will temporarily replace it."

"Ah, that's good news, maybe you'll be able to come back as my parent after you've cleared your suspicions."

"Don't dare, don't dare, General Hua is serious with a 'parent official'." You Ke waved his hand with a warm expression. Speaking of which, I took the liberty to come here, and I had a reluctant request......"

He Mullan was slightly stunned and turned his gaze to the young man beside him.

This tour can bring a teenager to come, and say that there is a reluctant invitation......

It can't be that you're here to support orphans, right?

This boy looks like he is only thirteen or fourteen years old, is he You Ke's illegitimate child?

No, how can a twenty-six or seventeen-year-old man have such a son......

But not necessarily, the ancients were precocious, maybe they enlarged the belly of other girls at the age of thirteen, and now they are twenty-six or seven, and they happen to have a son who is thirteen or fourteen years old......

This county magistrate doesn't look like a person with such a messy private life.

But knowing the face of the person does not know the heart......

While thinking nonsense, He Mulan looked at You Ke with strange eyes, staring at You Ke's back hair, and forcibly not asking her why she looked at him so strangely, and tried his best to say in a gentle tone:

"That's right, not long ago, my cousin of my mother's clan ran away from home and came to my house for help because of some trivial things and his family's anger. Although I have sent a letter to inform my aunt and cousin that he is here, his house is still in Wuchuan in the north, so it will be a while before the family comes to pick him up. And now I'm going to Beijing again to report on my work......"

He stood up and threw himself to the ground against Hermulan.

"Brother Huai Jin now has an injury on the bridge of his nose, and he has been taken back to Beijing by the family of Cui Mansion in Beijing for treatment. Both my parents have died, and I can't find a more reliable cousin in this place who can trust me. In addition, he is used to being at home, and I also have the heart to let him endure hardships by your side and grind the frivolity on his body, so ......"

He looked up and looked at Mullan with a pleading look.

"I hope you can take care of my cousin for a while until his family comes here to pick him up."

He Mullan looked at the clear-looking man. [,！ The young man of the show looked at You Ke again, trying to find some imaginary shadows between their eyebrows. But apart from the fact that they are very handsome, they don't see anything too similar.

"It's nothing to take care of him for a while, it's just more than more pairs of chopsticks and more bowls, but you know that I'm not good at housework, let alone take care of children...... And I'm used to coarse tea and light food, this little boy is at home with fine clothes and fine food, I'm afraid of ......"

"General Hua, you can accept that little brother, can't you accept another one from me......" The little boy blinked, and opened his mouth very innocently. I'm not delicate at all, and I don't eat much."

"You can eat a little less in the future......"