The convoy paused briefly in Yangzhuang and continued northward. The holy decree only said that he would enter the capital and face the saint, but there was no time specified, so the speed of the convoy was not fast.

The bodyguards hired by Lin Renzhong are experienced, and they lined up Lin Wan'er's carriage in the middle of the line, and they were caught off guard when there was an accident. Whenever Lin Wan'er went to a scenic location, she would stop to rest and recuperate, replenishing fresh water and food.

One day, when the convoy arrived at a place, Lin Wan'er lifted the curtain and looked at the beautiful scenery here, with a small stream meandering through, lush trees around it, and a few small animals jumping around.

Lin Wan'er was playful for a while and ordered the convoy to stop.

But Gu Li, the leader of the group of bodyguards, said: "Lin family, the terrain here is complicated, it is very easy to ambush, and it is not suitable to park. "Gu Li was originally a dart master of the dart game, perennial standard, fist and foot kung fu, but experienced, very understanding of things on the rivers and lakes, and is a very principled dart master.

The reason why Lin Renzhong hired Gu Li is that he values the kind of principle in the other party, Lin Renzhong knows the willfulness of his eldest sister Lin Wan'er, and no one in the Lin family can "suppress" Lin Wan'er, so he needs a person who is not very obedient, Gu Li is such a person. Gu Li retired from the position of bodyguard and stayed in seclusion. Lin Renzhong couldn't invite this dart master, but Wang Qinian, the lord of Zhizhou, came to the door in person and asked Gu Li to come out of the mountain on the grounds that "Lin Wan'er is the pride of Lanzhou", and Gu Li took the errand. Gu Li is about forty years old, Chen Xiaoxiao and others all called Uncle Gu, but Lin Wan'er and Gu Li did not deal with each other, and they always called him by his name.

Lin Wan'er rolled her eyes, looked at Gu Li's somewhat rigid face, and said insistently, "I'll set up camp here today." ”

"Lin everyone, no." Gu Li said righteously.

Lin Wan'er snorted coldly, jumped out of the car, then hugged Baoyu and Yubao down, took the hands of the two children and said, "Baoyu, Yubao, let's go play in the creek." ”

Gu Li couldn't help but shake his head, he was helpless against Lin Wan'er's stubbornness, surrounded several brothers and whispered a few words. Several bodyguards nodded, surrounded the convoy in a circle, the first one was connected, and then scattered around the convoy very vigilantly, closely watching the surrounding movements.

Lin Wan'er found a clean and dry rock by the stream and sat down, took off her shoes and socks, put her snow-white little feet into the stream, and said with emotion: "It's so comfortable, you guys can also try it." ”

Chen Xiaoxiao pursed her lips and smiled lightly, although she envied Lin Wan'er's free and easy, but she did not follow Lin Wan'er's example, the Great Wei Kingdom is patriarchal, and there are many restrictions on women's behavior, and it is not impossible to have an informal woman like Sister Wan'er, but it is definitely rare.

Chen Xiaoxiao smiled and said: "Sister Wan'er, what Uncle Gu said is right, the terrain here is indeed complicated, and with a little adjustment, it is better to go as far as possible." ”

Lin Wan'er held her body with her arms, looked at the sky with her eyes half-up, and said with some dissatisfaction: "I don't know how the fifth child found such a person, this is not good, that is not good." I finally came out for a trip, but I still had to look forward and backward, and I didn't even have time to play. There was resentment in Lin Wan'er's tone, not only against Lin Renzhong and Gu Li, but also against the Ninety-Five Venerable in Shangjing.

Cordyceps sinensis takes apples and peaches from the wagon, washes them in the cool water, peels and cuts them, and distributes them to the people.

Lin Wan'er saw that there was fruit to eat, her eyes were crooked like a new crescent moon, an apple in her left hand and a peach in her right hand, eating a bite of apple first, and then a bite of peach.

Cordyceps gave the fruit to a few bodyguards, and Lin Wan'er specially "reminded": "You don't need to send it to Naguli, just let him wait." ”

Xia Cao smiled and shook her head, but she didn't take Lin Wan'er's words to heart, and the fruit was also given to Gu Li.

After a while, Gu Li walked to the stream and said, "Everyone Lin, let's hurry up." ”

Lin Wan'er didn't speak, as if she hadn't heard Gu Li's words.

Between the words, there was a rustling sound in the surrounding woods, and a dozen people ran out of the woods, and more than a dozen people held knives and sticks in their hands, and shouted for the first person: "I planted this mountain, I opened this tree, I want to pass by here, and leave to buy road money." ”

Gu Li was shocked, the knife in his hand had been drawn, and he shouted at the bodyguard in the distance: "There are bandits." The bodyguards had a tacit understanding of the horns, surrounding the carriage behind them, forming a defensive posture.

Lin Wan'er held her waist and laughed, on the one hand, the person who led the group said "I planted this tree, I opened this mountain" to "I planted this mountain, I opened this tree", on the other hand, because the person who spoke was an acquaintance - Yang Erxi of Yangzhuang.

Yang Erxi also saw Lin Wan'er, and shouted across the stream: "Why are you here?" ”

Lin Wan'er didn't answer, but asked rhetorically: "Yang Erxi, didn't you go to the capital?" Why did you stay here and be a bandit? ”

Yang Erxi looked like he was talking a long story, but before he could say anything, he was retreated by a pretty lady behind him, who was handsome and handsome, born with a flattery, and an extremely light black mole on the corner of her mouth, which became more and more inherently amorous.

When the pretty lady heard that Yang Erxi was familiar with a few girls on the other side, a faint anger swelled up in her heart, the girls on the other side were extremely beautiful, and they were young, even the little girls dressed up by the two maids looked like flowers. The pretty lady couldn't get used to Yang Erxi chatting with the other party, so she thought of tricky words to make it difficult for the other party.

Yang Erxi gently tugged at the corner of the pretty lady's clothes and said, "Qingzhu, the one on the other side is Lin Wan'er from Lanzhou, the Lin family you have always regarded as a god." I used to say that I knew Lin Wan'er well, but you didn't believe it. ”

Qingzhu Niang was suspicious, raised her eyes, and asked, "Is it the people on the other side of the river?" ”

Lin Wan'er didn't know Qingzhu Niang, and she didn't know the relationship between Yang Erxi and the other party, but looking at Yang Erxi's cautious appearance in front of the other party, she also guessed a rough idea and said, "I am." ”

Qingzhu Niang looked excited, couldn't help waving her arms, and said: "Master Lin, I can see you, I heard Yang Erxi say that I am familiar with you before, and I have the right to brag about him, but I didn't expect this to happen." ”

Lin Wan'er also waved her arms, which could be regarded as a return greeting.

Gu Li saw the scene in front of him, but he had a question in his heart, he had only heard that Lin Wan'er had learned well, and the article was very well written, how could he still know the bandit, but he was not as nervous as he was just now, and inserted the knife back into the scabbard.

Lin Wan'er remembered that when she came out of Yangzhuang, Yang Xifeng dragged herself to carry a letter, and said to Yang Erxi: "Yang Erxi, Yang Xifeng and Old Man Yang asked me to bring you a letter." ”

Yang Erxi couldn't help but feel a burst of joy on his face, he was an orphan and had never received a letter, and he was inevitably a little happy when he received a letter for the first time, but then he was replaced by a wave of disdain, and said in a casual tone: "What kind of letter to write, mother-in-law, mother-in-law, like a girl." ”

Since they knew each other, coupled with Qingzhu Niang's admiration for Lin Wan'er, Lin Wan'er decided to go to Qingzhu Niang's village to sit down, but of course Gu Li didn't agree, for fear that she would miss the trip.

Lin Wan'er took Baoyu and Yubao's hands and said, "Since the itinerary is so important, it's good for you to go to the capital alone." After speaking, he followed Qingzhu Niang in the direction of the village.

Walking on the road, a group of people with very clear hierarchies, Lin Wan'er and Qingzhu Niang walked in the front, Lin Wan'er followed Chen Xiaoxiao, Dabao, Baoyu, Yubao and Cordyceps, and then followed by Gu Li and his party. Behind Qingzhu Niang is Yang Erxi, and behind Yang Erxi is a group of villagers, although Yang Erxi is from another village, but a pair of fists are not vegetarian.

Qingzhu Niang is **, often bullied by people in the village, Yang Erxi wanted to go to the capital to mix the appearance, but when he arrived in the village and saw Qingzhu Niang, he began to miss alone. Yang Erxi traveled dozens of miles to the north, but he couldn't forget Qingzhu Niang, and turned back to the small village and lived with a dead face. Anyone who comes to Qingzhu Niang's hut to make trouble and find trouble, Yang Erxi first uses his fists to reason with you, and then uses his fists to reason, in short, to reason with his fists. So there was a strange scene in the small village, the scoundrel ** in the village saw Yang Erxi like a mouse seeing a cat, and Yang Erxi saw Qingzhu Niang like a mouse seeing a cat.

When they arrived at the small village, the Gul people did not enter the village, but stopped outside the village.

Lin Wan'er and Qingzhu Niang entered the village, and when they arrived at the small courtyard, Qingzhu Niang's face was a little dilapidated, for fear that Lin Wan'er would not be able to see it, but Lin Wan'er didn't care at all, and said: "In Lanzhou, I have a small courtyard, which is even more dilapidated than it." ”

The small courtyard is very clean and has a few chickens and ducks. Qingzhu Niang led Lin Wan'er into the room, and then entered the back room, but Yang Erxi did not follow up.

Qingzhu Niang poured tea and handed it to everyone, and then whispered a few words to Yang Erxi, and Yang Erxi left.

Lin Wan'er and Qingzhu Niang chatted some common words, from the words, Lin Wan'er knew that Qingzhu Niang was also a hard life, handsome since childhood, and within a few days of marrying into this small village, her husband died. The mother-in-law's family didn't recognize this daughter-in-law, separated the family, and kept saying that old age and death would not get along. Later, the mother-in-law's family moved out of the small village, leaving only Qingzhu Niang, although the life was difficult, Qingzhu Niang never thought of remarrying, because the deceased husband was very good to himself during his lifetime.

Lin Wan'er was a person who couldn't hold back her words, and asked, "What about Erxi?" ”

Qingzhu Niang was slightly stunned, and after thinking about Yang Erxi's appearance, she couldn't remember what Yang Erxi looked like. Qingzhu Niang thought about the wording and said, "Erxi? Erxi is very good. He was going to live in a dead face, and I didn't agree, so he built a thatched hut outside the small courtyard. ”

Qingzhu Niang remembered the appearance of the thatched house, and couldn't help but burst out laughing, and said, "It's not so much a thatched house as a kennel." Later, I relented and let him in, but he could not enter the inner room, and he never stepped on the dividing line between the outhouse and the inner room. I also know that he tries not to curse and say dirty words in front of me, but sometimes he can't restrain himself, and after saying dirty words, he regrets it and secretly looks at my face. ”

Lin Wan'er knew that this was what Qingzhu Niang saw, and in the place where she couldn't see, Yang Erxi must have done a lot, without asking for anything in return, just silently dedicating, watching quietly from afar. Lin Wan'er thought of Zhao Gan, remembered the jade pendant, and silently thought in her heart: "Are you like this too?" ”

At this time, Yang Erxi returned to the small courtyard, holding melons, fruits, vegetables and roast chicken and sake in his hand, rushed into the house, braked sharply at the boundary between the inner room and the outer house, stopped, and showed off the things in his hand to the green bamboo girl in the inner room.

Qingzhu Niang saw Yang Erxi in front of her, and only then did she remember that you looked like this.