Chapter 355: The Second Elder Enters Beijing
He Mulan and Di Yefei carried the Yuan family back to Beijing for a whole month, if it weren't for the fact that Wei State lacked everything, there would be no shortage of horses, and these carts with prisoners were all pulled by three horses, and I am afraid that it would take longer to return to Beijing.
The news that He Mulan had moved the "suzerain" spread in the Wei State, which was not a good thing. At this time, the Wei State was full of Wu Bi, especially in the south, these suzerains were wealthy families, rich and powerful, and some were even local officials, "Hua Mulan" was just an ordinary military household, there was no powerful background at all, and he actually dared to move the Wu Bi Lord, and the result can be imagined.
The first to suffer is the Hua family.
In order to reuse Mulan, Tuoba Tao has already sent the Egret official to change Mulan's household registration, and Mulan's identity can now be called seamless. In order to let the two elders of the Hua family live a good life with the flowers and trees, the two old people are ready to move to Liang County in the south to live, where it is a new place to return, there is a large area of fertile fields, and He Mulan has repeatedly rewarded cattle and sheep, and the Hua family can be called "Tian Sheweng".
It's a pity that because He Mulan moved the Yuan family with the crime of "rebellion", the second elder of the Hua family and the younger brother of the Hua family began to be attacked by unknown people one after another at home. There are few military households in Liang County, and they are new to move in, even if some neighbors see bad people doing bad things, they turn a blind eye.
Soon, the Hua family's house was burned down one night, but fortunately, the Yuan family didn't sleep deeply, and he and the little brother of the flower dragged the flower father out of the burning house, otherwise the flower father with bad legs and feet would be burned to death in the house.
The Hua family and the couple have been kind to people all their lives, and have never had such a big grudge, and the neighbors saw that the matter had developed to the point of "killing people and setting fires", and they were really afraid in their hearts.
The crime was committed by a few scoundrels in the township, who had no fixed residence, who were accustomed to stealing chickens and dogs, and who liked to steal the old and weak women and children the most. There are two old people in the Hua family, one is disabled and one is sick, and Hua Mutuo is only in his early tens, so he is simply a scum with a combat effectiveness of minus five.
These scoundrels were found soon after burning down the Hua family - the corpses. If they were indeed killed and killed, it means that they did not intend to get rich, but were instructed by others.
The Hua family is so weak about the identity of "Mulan" that they have been moving here for a while, and no one knows that the couple is the parents of Mulan, a famous general in the Wei Kingdom.
If it weren't for the attack on Mulan's parents that alarmed the local Xianbei adults, the villagers in Yingguo Township would probably think that they were a pair of useless military households who voluntarily migrated for the fertile land in the south.
Everyone knows that military families are willing to stay in the six towns in the north, and unless the men in the family are really unproductive, they will not come to the south for that one-third of an acre.
For military households, getting fame on the battlefield is the destination, and what farming to support the family is simply a joke.
The incognito and low-key Hua family couple almost suffered a plot, so that the people who investigated the matter could only think that Mulan had a grudge with someone outside.
Because the attack on the Hua family is really too big, the local egret officials and local officials can not stay in the Hua family every day, for safety, the egret officials can only escort the Hua family into Beijing, there are at least 60 Rouran servants guarding the house in the flower house in Beijing, and it is in the inner city, at least it is not so easy to be caught by thieves.
So, they didn't stay long in Liang County, and according to the Hua family couple who should have stayed in the township until Mulan was disarmed and returned to the field in their previous life, they just patted their butts and followed the Egret official into Beijing.
The house is burned down, and you don't even have to clean up your things.
He Mulan never thought that his actions outside would affect the Hua family.
Because she is not the real daughter of the Hua family, she always has a sense of apology every time she faces the second elder of the Hua family, although she always doesn't forget to send some back when she gets the loot, but it is very rare to go back to visit often.
I have never considered the question of how to live with a disabled person and a lung disease.
According to the practice of this era, there is a child in the family, unless there are many sons in the family, such as the Hua family, who has only one minor son, it should be the whole family who has followed the born Mulan. However, the Hua family is empty-hearted, and naturally they haven't thought about what they have been together, and after a long time, some people will wonder why Mulan didn't return home.
It's like a few people's speculation, or some people guess that the relationship between the father and son of the Hua family is not good, etc., I'm afraid it's only a matter of time.
He Mulan escorted the prisoner into Beijing and delayed for some time, but the Hua family was sent into the city by the Egret official all the way from the post road, so when He Mulan arrived in Pingcheng and returned to the "Huwei General's Mansion", she was suddenly startled by the Hua family's parents who were supported by several people to greet her at the door.
"Grandpa, Grandma? How did you guys get here! "
He Mulan turned over and dismounted, followed by Di Yefei, who came back with him.
Di Yefei saw the Hua family's parents for the first time, and immediately sweated nervously, and hurriedly stepped forward to meet Shi Bo and Aunt Shi.
Hua Mu is a casual woman, when she saw that her daughter was a little rougher than the last time she saw her, and her hair looked like it hadn't been washed for a month, and then she thought that the house was burned clean, and she suddenly burst into tears:
"Mulan, our house was burned...... Woowoo...... A few scoundrels came and burned down our house, but fortunately I slept late that night, otherwise the whole family would have been burned inside......"
Father Hua also had tears in his eyes when he talked about this: "Don't say it at the door first, go in first and then talk about it......"
They came earlier, but fortunately, a number of people in the Hua family are now frequent visitors, and as soon as the Rouran servants of the Hua family met this, they invited a number of people to preside over the overall situation. Su and Jun are not. [,! Dare to be sloppy, and was assigned by Tuoba Tao to come many times, so that the second elder was placed.
He Mulan wants to go back to the palace to report on his work, and when he comes home, he wants to bathe and change his clothes, and Di Yefei is the same, so the flower father naturally can't follow his daughter all the time, so the flower mother follows He Mulan from beginning to end, while helping He Mulan bathe, while talking to her about what happened for a while.
At this time, He Mulan had already entered the bathhouse, and when he saw that Yuan was about to follow, he was immediately shocked and said, "Auntie, what are you doing when you come in!" It's stuffy inside, you better wait for me to come out! "
Yuan Shi happily pushed the door and rushed in first, and said with a smile: "What's stuffy, it's only comfortable to be warm!" Your hair is dirty like this, and your mother will help you rub it! Your bath room is so big...... Oops, they're all bigger than our house...... This pot is good! The lacquer is thick! Hurry up, you go in, don't let the water get cold! "
He Mulan was stunned for a while, so he had to take off his clothes very quickly, and first washed himself a little in the large basin next to him, and then got into the bathtub.
As soon as Yuan saw He Mulan's scars and strong bones, he couldn't suppress the urge to cry, all in order not to make his daughter uncomfortable, so he bit his lip and kept silent.
After He Mulan got into the bathtub, Yuan sat behind her, took a basin and followed He Mulan's hanging hair, and while carefully washing her hair with honey locust powder, he sighed and said:
"I said that you want to be verbose again, but even if we move to Liangjun, someone is plotting, how many guns and arrows do you have here, and your grandfather and I are shocked when we think about it. We don't want to be rich or rich, but we want your brother and sister to be safe. Now that you have become such a big official, when will you become the first one?"
Hermulan's hand rubbing his arm suddenly paused, and he replied to her almost inaudibly: "I'm afraid it will be until I die."
Such a small voice, but Yuan Shi still heard it, and his hand suddenly became heavier, and He Mulan grinned with his teeth.
"Mother, mother, tap!"
When did she have such a passive and weak time, she gave her whole head to others!
"Tap? It's a good thing that I don't twist your hair! I knew that you had this heart, and it was better for you to be a bhikshuni than to join the army! "
Seeing that his daughter was dead and wanted to continue to mingle with a group of men in the officialdom, Yuan's whole heart hung up: "You are twenty-one this year, and you will be twenty-two in June. Ordinary daughters' families, twenty-two sons have hugged a few, but you ......"
She sniffed. Not to mention this, marriage is not something that can be forced. But what's the deal with a sissy around you? You won't be a man for a long time, and you're really starting to like women, right? I don't care if you don't marry, you can't give me ......"
"Mother, where did you go!" Hermulan was so angry." Di Yefei just looks like a woman, and he is also a man with excellent martial arts, otherwise how can he be a general! You like to use women so much, you can't wait to pull out a row of women when you fight?! "
"I really think so......" Yuan muttered in a low voice: "Didn't you say that a female official was used as an envoy some time ago?" I think the Great Khan is a fool......"
Maybe it's because it's the emperor who slanders him, and Yuan's voice is pitiful.
"Oh, don't talk about that!" Yuan quickly brushed his daughter's hair, "Who is that young man who is busy running around your house?" I think he knows this place so well, he should be your friend? A good man, why do you do these housekeeping things for you? And he also told us directly, he knew that you were a woman, and told us not to be too nervous......"
Yuan Shi showed a pleased smile: "You even sued him for being a woman, is it because you think he is ......?"
"That's my Tonghuo, the youngest son of several Xianbei noble families, and now a subordinate official in the ancient servants. He was curious to find out about my background before, and I couldn't avoid it, so I simply told him about me." It was very hard for He Mulan to come back after a tiring carriage, and he finally wanted to take advantage of the bath to rest, but he was caught by Yuan and asked a lot, and he was about to go crazy.
"Not what you think."
"That's a shame. The young man is good-looking, and he has a good personality, and he is comfortable when he smiles when he sees people......" Yuan was a little afraid of her majesty in front of He Mulan, and he didn't dare to force her to guarantee anything, "If you don't want to be a general in the future, you can consider him!" "
"Haha, many of my sons in the same fire can run all over the ground." He Mulan laughed and stepped out of the bathtub, really not wanting to suffer this "torture" anymore, so he grabbed a dry cloth and wiped himself.
"Even if some people don't have a marriage match now, that is, in the past two years, my mother thinks too much."
Yuan was almost pouted when he saw He Mulan's heroic laughter, and then he saw that He Mulan wiped his body and head no different from a man, and he even grabbed his chest and suddenly felt depressed, snatched the cloth towel from He Mulan's hand, and asked his daughter to lower down and dry her hair.
"It's all a piece of meat that fell from me, why did you grow like this......"
Yuan Shi carefully checked his daughter's hair, and saw that there were no lice, so he finally breathed a sigh of relief, "You have become like this now, no matter how much you mention it, it is still boring, Hua Mutuo is still afraid of mice, and he is timid like a girl, and your grandfather's hair is gray. If you insist on letting him change, he can faint from crying......"
"…… Isn't that the case?" He Mullan's impression of his brother is a very well-behaved child." I went back and asked, by the way, where is he now?"
"He's a little uncomfortable, and he's been sleeping for the past few days." He Mulan had already begun to wear official uniforms, and Yuan carefully wiped her daughter's hair dry, and used a thick cloth to pad her back to prevent her hair from wetting her clothes, and then went to help her tie her belt. ]
After a qiē is dressed, He Mulan can be described as an ape arm and bee waist, long legs and hips, an indescribable good figure, the body of a man can be described as vigorous and powerful, and being a woman makes Yuan want to tears again.
Woowoowoo......
"Why aren't you my son...... It must have been the wrong child......"
He Mulan sighed and patted Yuan's shoulder, unable to say anything to comfort her. Fortunately, there are many servants in the family now, and He Mulan can afford to raise them, otherwise the Yuan family will definitely cry again when he sees He Mulan lifting his sleeves and carrying the bath bucket out to pour water.
He Mulan already has a headache whether he should let the main courtyard go to the two elders to sleep, sleep in a side courtyard or something, or simply live in the barracks, otherwise Yuan will cry when he sees her raise her hands and kick her feet, and she can't stand it after a long time!
At this time, Yuan followed He Mulan to the front, she hadn't seen her daughter for a long time, and she couldn't wait to follow her like this all the time. It just so happened that Di Yefei also bathed and changed his clothes and hair, Chen Jie, Na Luo Hun and Gai Wu and others heard that the parents of the Hua family had come to see each other.
In this era, the visit is to kneel, the flower father and the flower mother sit in the main hall, and some fidgeting watching these "official masters" bow to them and bow to their juniors, wishing that it is better to be at home now.
"The younger generation Di Yefei, a high-chariot person, has to be heavy, and now he is the right Sima of the high-robe tiger army, and the general is a friend of the same fire, a friend of life and death. My uncle and aunt treat me as a nephew in the family, and they are the parents of the fire, so they are no different from my parents."
Di Yefei's appearance after grooming and dressing up can be called "compelling", Yuan looked left and right, if he didn't see the faint Adam's apple, he really couldn't associate such a good-looking child with a "man".
Father Hua has been in the army for a long time, and he has traveled south and north, and he knows that there are many men in the south who are as beautiful as women, and there are many people in the other Hu tribe who have exquisite facial features, so he accepted his gift with joy.
The two of them brought some gold and silver with them, all of which were sent home by He Mulan in the past few years of war, and the house was burned, but the gold and silver did not suffer.
"The younger Na Luo Hun and General Hua used to be in the same fire, eating and living in the same tent, good to wear a pair of pants......" Na Luo Hun grinned, but he was shocked in Hemulan's heart, and a pair of eyes stabbed like a knife.
"Huh, what's wrong? General, what am I saying wrong?"
When Yuan heard "eat and live in a tent, wear a pair of pants", his eyes were round, and after glancing up and down at this young man, he suddenly had an evaluation in his heart.
"Hanging eyes and sharp chin, probably not a generous person, no, my daughter has solid eyes, can't find someone who has a lot of things on her mind."
Na Luo Hun was stunned and then met with the second elder, and Yuan had also prepared under the advice of several people, and gave him a set of pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, which made Na Luo Hun ashamed of himself.
He knew that Hua Mu was Han and could write, and Hua Mulan's characters were learned from him.
"…… The younger generation is illiterate." Na Luo Hun lowered his head a little embarrassedly, "This set of things is a good thing, but it's a waste for me."
Yuan Shi saw that he looked like he was full of scheming, but his temperament was unexpectedly simple, and he couldn't help but feel a little curious about him, and replied to him with a smile: "What's there if you can't read, we two old guys are also bored here, if you are willing, we will teach you!"
Na Luo Hun became the left guard, that is, the captain of He Mulan's personal guard, and he was going to live in the general's mansion, when he heard that he could read, he immediately called out in surprise, and respectfully kowtowed to the second elder a few times, which was a gift of apprenticeship.
Di Yefei and Na Luo Hun Bai met, and then Chen Jie and Mangu. They had been to the Hua family before, so they were not as cautious as Di Yefei and Na Luo Hun when they visited Shibo.
At this time, Chen Jie suddenly remembered that he was held by the flower mother in the flower family and asked if he had a marriage match, and then thought about whether he would accept the matter of entering the family, and then thought that he actually stalked his neck and replied, "The Chen family's family style is rigorous, and there is no reason to enter the family", and suddenly his intestines were blue, and he couldn't wait to jump out and slap his chest again, and answer that no matter what posture he was in, it would be okay!
But Mangu thought that his parents were dead, and the widow of the Tonghuo family was still waiting for him to marry, should he also take a leave with the general and go back to do his life's great things, so that he could not be considered an unfilial person after staying.
When Gai Wu, who was full of pigtails, came out and performed a grandchild etiquette to Father and Mother Hua in a proper manner, the two old men were so shocked that their eyes were about to fall.
Father Flower: "Mulan...... When did you have such a big son! "
Flower Mother: "Oh my God, he actually kowtowed to my grandmother's head on me!"
A room full of people: ......
As soon as Gai Wu's head was finished, he almost jumped up in shock when he saw Father and Mother Hua, and hurriedly explained: "I am Gai Wu, a native of Qinzhou, a native of Lu Shuihu, a newly accepted disciple of the master, who studied art with the master."
Father and Mother Hua breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at this disciple who was not much younger than Hua Mulan with a smile.
Gai Wu saw that Hua's father and mother did not show dissatisfaction, so he took out a piece of wood carving from his arms: "I don't know Azu, Aweng will come, there is only this wood carving on his body, this is carved by the apprentice grandson himself, give it to the second elder as a gift."
"Ah, haha, there is a heart, there is a heart." Father Hua smiled and took the wood carving, and was suddenly stunned. Yuan Shi looked sideways, and had to smile and praise: "This rabbit carving is really good...... I'm Xiao Rabbit's, and this rabbit is just right for me......"
But I'm carving a tiger! Master is General Huwei, what rabbit do I carve'
Gai Wu opened his mouth to defend himself, and when he saw Yuan again, it seemed. [,! I liked it very much, and I immediately pursed my lips and swallowed the words of explanation.
"Forget it, if she likes it, let's just think of it as a rabbit.'"
Chen Jie on the side knew that the tiger carving of Gai Wu had been carved for a long time, and when he heard that Yuan's blurt out that it was a rabbit, he suddenly held back a smile and couldn't wait to hold his stomach and laugh, but now that the atmosphere is so serious, where does he dare to laugh, he has to work hard.
"Chen Jie, do you have a stomachache? If your stomach hurts, go to the toilet, don't hold back ......"
Father Hua liked this young man very much, and when he saw him squeezing his eyebrows and making eyes, and always rubbing his belly, he kindly comforted him.
"No, it's not ......"
"You don't care about us, we see that you are no different from your own nephews, and you don't treat yourself as an outsider, if you want to go to the toilet, hurry up and ......"
"I'm not ......"
"Go, go!"
Now, it's Gai Wu snickering there.
He Mulan entered the city early in the morning, and by this time it was time for the palace to disperse. Several people were talking in the hall, and the ceremonial officials sent by the palace to summon He Mulan and Di Yefei had already come to summon them, and as soon as the flower father and mother heard that there were people in the palace, they dared to pester their daughter, and hurriedly urged her to enter the palace first to report on her work.
Di Yefei is deputy, and after the two were summoned, they went together, looking like a pair of beautiful people, so that Yuan couldn't help but rub his eyes and push his father.
"Look at ......"
Father Hua heard Mother Hua biting his ear and leaned his ear over.
"What?"
"What do I think...... Ahem. Do you think that Diye Fei is weird?"
"No, I look pretty good."
"Don't you think my daughter looks more heroic when she stands with him...... Do you look like a man?"
Father Hua suddenly realized.
"I said that Mulan didn't make any mistakes in the barracks, and it turned out to be like this. This kid helped our family Mulan prevent the disaster, and we have to thank him when we look back! "
"Oops, that's not the point!"
"What?"
The two of them were whispering here, and a few juniors and Na Luohun were waiting for them to finish chatting, and began to talk about their experience in Chen County.
Not a quarter of an hour after He Mulan and Di Ye flew away, a few Rouran guards in the general's mansion who were guarding the front yard and the gate suddenly ran to the front yard to spread the word.
"Uncle! Uncle! Outside, there is a lonely family Lang Jun who came to visit with a prayer post! "
"Uncle, uncle! Outside, a girl from the Wei Chi family sent a servant to send a salute! "
"Uncle, the Horai family has sent someone!"
"Someone outside sent a salute!"
"Uncle, someone outside asked when it was appropriate to come and meet the two of you!"
As soon as the flower father and the flower mother heard the "Dugu family" and the "Wei Chi family", they were already surprised, and when they heard the name of the main family "He Lai", they were even more flattered and stood up.
When the two of them packed up and were about to go out to greet the guests, when the doorman ran more and more in the front yard and the main hall, the Hua family and his wife were already numb with shock.
"Old man......" Yuan swallowed. Our Mulan, it seems to be ......"
"Seems remarkable?"