In the evening, we finally arrived at the Zhenxi General's Mansion in western Yunnan. The General's Mansion www.biquge.info Pen & Fun & Pavilion is still the original General's Mansion, but it is older and more depressed than ten years ago. And this depression is not a superficial decline, but a loss of spirit.

As soon as she entered the house, Ru Yan went back to the backyard to rest directly after being taken in by Uncle Chen from the side door of the Chen Mansion in order to hide people's eyes.

"Miss, I'm really sorry, it's been ten years, and there have been no female dependents living in the General's Mansion, and this time it happened suddenly, and there is no preparation, you will take care of it first, and I will send someone out to buy the things that are lacking in a while."

"Don't worry, you just tell the people below to help Ha Yue buy more, I'm dressed as a man now, and I will eat and wear according to my brother's standards in the future, so that I can hide people's eyes and ears more." After a while, you ask someone to make arrangements, and I will move into my brother's room! ”

"Then Miss, Miss Misty Moon, you just have a short rest, and I'll go out and deal with some things first!"

"Okay, go get busy!" Ru Yan said.

"Uncle Chen, hard work!" Hazy Moon also said.

After Uncle Chen left, Ha Yue walked around the room and said, "Sister Ru Yan, your room is so beautiful, but it's a bit like a child's room!" ”

Only then did Ru Yan notice that Uncle Chen had arranged for her to live in the room she lived in when she was a child, and the furnishings in the room were almost the same as ten years ago. The room is neat and clean, it seems that although ten years have passed, Uncle Chen still sends someone to clean it every day. Thinking of this, Ru Yan couldn't help but be moved in her heart.

"Hey, Sister Ru Yan, do you still have this?"

Ru Yan saw that what she was holding in her hand was a wood-carved rabbit, the carving was immature, in fact, it was a rabbit, and she could only barely see that it was the shape of a rabbit. The rabbit's eyes are still drawn with a brush, and the ink is almost unrecognizable with time.

Ru Yan took the woodcarved rabbit, stroked it for a while and said, "I loved rabbits when I was a child, and this is a birthday gift from my brother to me on our sixth birthday!" ”

"I'm sorry, Sister Ru Yan!" Seeing Ru Yan's sad expression, Hazy Moon knew that it had touched her sadness again.

"It's okay, the one who is dead has passed away, and the one who comes can still be chased!" Ru Yan said and pushed open the back window, which was the back garden. Obviously, the back garden no longer has the prosperity and vitality of the past.

Besides, after Uncle Chen went out, he gathered all the errands in charge of the house together and gave a lecture, to the effect that Gongzi is now a patrol officer of the imperial court, and because he was injured in the line of duty, he is now recuperating in the backyard, and everyone is not allowed to enter the backyard to disturb Gongzi without permission. The necessities that are usually needed are only delivered to the backyard vestibule, and there will be special people to take them in.

After explaining this, he called Liu Yun, the procurement manager in the house, again, "Gongzi also brought back a righteous sister who he met outside this time, you go to purchase according to my list, and you must handle it properly within today." ”

After a long journey, at night, Ru Yan and Hazy Moon went to bed early.

Ru Yan had a lot of dreams this night, most of them were about childhood, and everyone in the dreams was still stuck in ten years ago. When I was a child, I heard the maids and wives in the house say when chatting that most of the dreams of a person's life are related to the place where your clothes were buried. It seems that this is true, almost all of Ru Yan's dreams in the past ten years have been related to the General's Mansion.

The strange thing is that behind the dream, Ru Yan, who was playing with Ru Yan, who was still a child, suddenly grew up. When he grew up, Ru Yan didn't speak, but spread out his palm, and there was a key lying quietly in the palm of his hand, which was still the one that Ru Yan dreamed of when he first saw Ru Yan's corpse in a coma. Ru Yan handed the key to her hand again, only smiled slightly and ran under the big banyan tree where they used to play as children, and disappeared.

When Ru Yan woke up, it was already bright, she got up in her clothes, pushed open the back window, and was greeted by a stream of fresh air, and there were bursts of crisp birdsong in the back garden, which couldn't help but make people feel refreshed.

Through the window, I could see the big banyan tree in the distance, like a big umbrella, stretched out in a corner of the garden.

In the morning, Uncle Chen personally brought breakfast. There was also a fourteen or fifteen-year-old maid beside her, who had been bowing her head obediently, and a very ordinary emerald blue dress was full of life and very good-looking when worn on her.

"Childe, this is a green pothos, a new girl in the house, a poor person! His father, who used to be a nurse in the house, died in the night attack of bandits ten years ago. Some time ago, her mother came to me from the countryside and said that the family was very difficult, so she put the pothos in the house to do things. People are still very clever, so you can keep it in the future! ”

Ru Yan nodded.

Uncle Chen said to Luluo again: "This is our son, he was injured in the line of duty some time ago, and now he is recuperating at home, you have to wait carefully, and you can't tell outsiders everything about your son." ”

"Yes, Lord Steward!!" Pothos obediently agreed.

"Pothos, come here!" Ru Yan smiled and beckoned the pothos to step forward.

Pothos promised to take a few steps forward and then didn't dare to step forward anymore, and stood there, still with her head down.

"Pothos, you raise your head and let me see!"

Pothos slowly raised her head shyly.

"What a pretty and lovely face, this girl is so cute!" Ru Yan couldn't help but take a few steps forward and use her hand to support the pothos's chin.

Unexpectedly, the pothos suddenly took a few steps back and knelt on the ground: "Childe! ”

Ru Yan suddenly realized that her behavior was inappropriate, she was now dressed in men's clothes, pretending to be her brother, and her behavior just now was tantamount to a swinger flirting with a good woman, it seems that she has not fully adapted to this role.

Uncle Chen coughed lightly, and in order to alleviate this embarrassing atmosphere, he asked Luluo to call Ha Yue over for breakfast.

Ru Yan sat down and asked Uncle Chen, "What do you want to give me when my brother is alive?" ”

"No, since you were sent to Youming Valley by the master, Childe always asked me about your whereabouts, and Childe also said that he must find you back in the future, saying that the children of the Zhenxi General's Mansion cannot be left outside. In the past, I saw that my son was still young, so I didn't tell him the truth, but just told him that you are still alive and well, and now you are fostered in the home of an old friend. Later, gradually I didn't ask, when he was sixteen years old, I was going to tell him the truth about your whereabouts, but he said that he didn't want to know, he said that since you have been fostered by others for so many years, it is equivalent to the daughter of another family, so I will not bother you, as long as you are safe. ”

"What's wrong with that brother?"

"Strange and abnormal behavior ......", Chen Bo fell into deep thought, "It doesn't seem to be, it's always been normal, except for hiding from me as an official this time!" ”

"Ru Yan ......", Hazy Moon suddenly found that the pothos was still standing next to her, and immediately changed her words: "Brother Ru Yan, there are still things hidden in your woodcarved rabbit." ”

"Something hidden?" Ru Yan and Uncle Chen both approached curiously.

Yes, when I was playing with it this morning, I found out that its tail was actually a mechanism, and when I broke it to the top, the belly under it opened, and it turned out that the inside of the stomach was hollow. Well, this one came out of the rabbit's belly. ”

Ru Yan took the thing handed over by Haze Yue, and immediately enlisted there, this thing is a key, yes, it is exactly the same as the key in the dream.

"What's wrong?" Uncle Chen asked Ru Yan, who was frozen there.

"This key is my brother in my dream......", Ru Yan suddenly saw that the green pothos was still waiting at the door to be dispatched, and the girl became more timid after the beginning, and her head was lowered.

Uncle Chen realized it, so he said to the green pothos: "You go down first, I'll call you if there's anything!" ”

"Yes!" Pothos whispered yes and went out.

"This key is exactly the same as the one my brother gave me in my dream, Uncle Chen, take a look at where this key is opened!"

Uncle Chen took the key and looked at it carefully for a while before saying: "There are too many keys to open large and small doors, windows, cabinets, and boxes in this house, and these keys look almost the same, so I really can't tell which place to open them." Otherwise, I'll give you this key first, and I'll go to various places in the house to try it first! ”

"Looks like there's only one way to do it! Take it! Ru Yan said.

Later, the three of them chatted a few more words, and Uncle Chen took his leave.

The lunch at noon was brought in by the pothos, and after the meal was put down, she waited respectfully at the door.

Surprisingly, at lunch, Hazy Moon had no appetite and ate very little.

"What's wrong? Sick? Ru Yan asked her.

"No, I just want Sister Xuanshuang, Sister Zifeng, and Sister Xuexue!"

"You, I know that according to your temperament, you can't stay still, and you're suffocated here, right? Let's go outside later! ”

"It's not fun, it's not companyed!" The hazy moon has its mouth in its mouth.

Suddenly, she saw the pothos at the door, and her eyes lit up, "Pothos pothos, come here!" ”

The pothos came timidly.

"Pothos, let's go to the back garden to fly kites, it's fun!" Hazy Moon said happily.

"Pothos don't dare!" Pothos took a few steps back.

"Oh, what's not to dare to fly a kite, go ahead!"

Pothos lowered her head and rubbed her fingers against her clothes silently.

"Pothos, go!" Ru Yan said with a smile.

"Pothos don't dare!"

"It's okay, you don't have to be so restrained, you go and play with Hazy Moon, you and Hazy Moon will definitely be able to play together. My lord, I'll help you say that you don't have to worry! ”

"Oh yes, what are you still doing, let's go, let's go!" Hazy Moon dragged the pothos away.

The next morning, Uncle Chen came over.

He handed the key to Ru Yan: "Miss, I'm sorry, I've almost opened all the holes similar to keys in Chen's Mansion, but I still haven't found a place that can be opened." ”

Ru Yan took the key and fell into deep thought, "Why did my brother leave me this key?" ”

"Miss, maybe Childe just picked up a key when he was a child playing in another place, and then inadvertently left it in this woodcarved rabbit?"

"It's not!" , Ru Yan said: "I didn't look at this wooden rabbit carefully last night, and when I took it over today, I looked at it carefully, I remembered that when I was young, this rabbit didn't have a tail, and at that time, my brother was also joked by my father and mother that my brother ate the rabbit's tail." It can be seen that this rabbit tail was later set up by the elder brother to put this key in. ”

"So what now?"

"I don't know, I'll keep this key for now, and I'll talk about it later!"