"And then what? Did you succeed in bringing the miracle doctor to me in your dream this time? Xia Shuanghan, who had heard these past events from Lu Shaoyun's mouth several times, clenched the pair under the quilt, and since he woke up from the dream, he had been shaking his hands uncontrollably. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"No, I still haven't been able to bring him to you." Recalling the scene in his sleep, Lu Shaoyun muttered in a heavy tone: "In the dream, before I asked for an order to go to the border pass, I had to do one last errand for His Royal Highness the Prince, so I went south." As a result, by the time I return to Beijing, you will already ...... Already ......"

Looking at Lu Shaoyun, who was tortured by the picture in the dream in front of him and couldn't sleep all night, Xia Shuanghan didn't need him to say it again, and she completely remembered the scene that she had already heard him say once.

In his previous life, when Lu Shaoyun, who returned from the south to investigate the case, returned to Beijing, the caravan from Naming Village had already camped outside the south gate of the capital. Therefore, knowing that Xia Shuanghan would definitely come with the caravan, and she should be in the Xia family in Shuanghe Lane now, Lu Shaoyun, went to the Xia family's two courtyards to find her on the second day after entering the city to hand over official duties.

It's a pity that when Lu Shaoyun hit his horse and went to the east of the city, Xia Shuanghan, who was on Puye Mountain, had already known that Lu Shaoyun was about to ask for a decree to go to the northwest, so the bandits found by Pei Huanting, who was hysterical and completely crazy, surrounded him.

So, from Uncle Zhong and Aunt Fu, who had been staying in the Xia family, I learned that Lu Shaoyun, who had already gone up the mountain in Xia Shuanghan, when he arrived at the back of Puye Mountain, all he saw was Xia Shuanghan's bloody corpse, which still had a little body temperature.

In his previous life, Lu Shaoyun, who had held Xia Shuanghan's corpse from Liu Zirun's arms, didn't understand why, why when he found a miracle doctor who could heal her, so that he finally had the face to go to her, Xia Shuanghan suddenly changed from a living person to a corpse?

If, if he had chased after Xia Shuanghan shortly after Xia Shuanghan left the gate, desperately begging for her forgiveness and staying by her side, would she not have died now?

In his previous life, when Xia Shuanghan died, Lu Shaoyun felt a heart-rending pain, as well as a feeling as if everything in heaven and earth had lost its brilliance, and in this life, he only saw these things in a dream, and he could only appreciate three or five points.

After all, in addition to the troubles brought to him by dreams, Lu Shaoyun, who has been cramping in his heart, is more concerned about why he has these dreams over and over again.

As a soldier who has fought on the battlefield for many years, Lu Shaoyun basically does not believe in ghosts and gods like Xia Shuanghan. Because, when his comrade-in-arms was about to die, no matter how much he prayed and bowed, the gods did not come to the aid of his seriously wounded comrades; And when he cut off the heads of countless Mobei cavalry on the battlefield, in the middle of the night when the moon was dark and the wind was high, there was never a ghost who came to him to take revenge.

Therefore, as a person who does not believe in ghosts and gods, and Lu Shaoyun, who has received the Confucian teaching of "children are silent, strange forces are chaotic", has lived with the Rong people who do not believe in gods and Buddhas for so long these days, so no matter what, he will not take the initiative to connect his dreams with the stories in the book of "past and present lives".

"Frost and cold, I think about it, and I feel that this dream should be some kind of omen!" Lu Shaoyun, who thought in his heart that the reason why he had such a dream was more or less related to the story that Xia Shuanghan told him in the post station, stopped the trembling of his hands and pondered: "Our situation is actually quite similar to the story you said." ”

"yes, it's quite similar." Thinking that it was better for Lu Shaoyun to mistake these dreams for omen than Xia Shuanghan, who knew that they were actually facts, he snuggled into the crook of his arm and said, "So, do you have any way to deal with these omens?" ”

"I've thought about it, when I draw the map this winter, organize the encirclement and suppression next year, and completely eliminate the big hidden danger of the red and white pills, the Holy Lord and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will always reward me. So when the time comes, I want to ......" At this point, Lu Shaoyun couldn't help but stop, and tightened his delicate body in the crook of his arm with a little uneasiness.

"Say, I'll listen." Rubbing his face on Lu Shaoyun's shoulder with an attached attitude, Xia Shuanghan told him with her own intimate gestures that she would not be angry no matter what he said.

"I would like to ask God to marry us." Lu Shaoyun, who was encouraged by Xia Shuanghan, continued: "Shuanghan, I may not be able to fulfill the request you made in the capital at the beginning. Therefore, when I ask the Holy Lord for marriage, how about adding the sentence 'The wedding and all matters after the marriage shall be subject to the customs and traditions of the Rong people'? ”

"I thought that if the decree of marriage could be attached to the one I have just mentioned, then we may do our marriage according to our own will in the murderous house of which you have spoken. When we become relatives and live alone outside, we don't need to worry about a third person intervening or someone coming to our own small home to point fingers. Moreover, in fact, this is not a big deal, so even if some people in my family can't accept it for a while, they will slowly figure it out in the future. ”

Hearing Lu Shaoyun's proposal, Xia Shuanghan guessed that when he was in the capital, the reason why he failed to propose such a countermeasure was because he was not qualified to ask for an order for himself to go to the palace at that time. And Lu Xiaoqing, the Duke of Dingguo, who is qualified to ask for a decree, has no way to agree to let his favorite grandson, who has just returned to Beijing for half a year, go out of the house alone.

So now, facing Lu Shaoyun, who is willing to rely on his own efforts to seek a happy future for the two of them, Xia Shuanghan deeply understands his intentions.

"Do you think my idea is feasible?" Facing Xia Shuanghan's silence, Lu Shaoyun, who was uneasy, nervous and apprehensive, added: "Of course, if you think there is anything wrong, you can also raise it. ”

Any questions? Xia Shuanghan thinks that for now, she can't think of any problems.

The wedding and all matters after the marriage are subject to the traditions and customs of the Rong people, which means that if they marry Lu Shaoyun again in this life, they can indeed live a life of being in charge of their own family.

When the time comes, she doesn't need to kneel down to serve tea to her elders, nor does she need to kneel on the ancestral tablet and wait for herself to be recorded in the Lu clan genealogy. Instead, she can go out and sell paintings on the street at will, teaching her children as she wishes, without worrying about other women ruining her marriage.

After all, it is well known that there is no third person between the husband and wife of the Rong clan, as long as the holy decree is given, it is impossible for the saint to give Lu Shaoyun any equal wife in the face. Even if in this life, the Xu family still got in the way, and once again took Pei Huanting to the Queen Mother. Lu Shaoyun, who has the support of the holy decree, can also confidently push back the queen mother's decree.

As for the life after marriage, the Xu family holds the identity of an elder, and it is impossible to cross most of the capital and condescend to a small courtyard like the "murderous house" to find her trouble. And when she went to the Dingguo Mansion with Lu Shaoyun during the New Year's holidays, if the Xu family dared to deliberately find her fault, then she just brushed her sleeves away.

As for the child, the child she gave birth to and with Rong blood will the Xu family like? It is estimated that even if she just sees it, she will dislike it for a long time. So, for the sake of Lu Shaoyun's face, following the Rong tradition, so the child who only needs to bow to the elders and does not kneel and bow, he only calls the Xu family "grandmother" once or twice a year, and Xia Shuanghan is not unbearable.

So, in response to Lu Shaoyun's proposal, he carefully passed the summer frost in his mind, and finally when he felt that he could accept it and had no dissatisfaction, he suddenly pounced on Lu Shaoyun and kissed him happily several times.

Looking at Xia Shuanghan, who pounced on him and was as happy as a child who got candy, Lu Shaoyun couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "I knew that a sentence of 'customs and traditions of the Rong people' could solve the problem between me and Shuanghan, then I would have thoroughly understood the culture of the Rong people earlier, and then come up with this idea earlier, I and Shuanghan, wouldn't we not need to take those detours before?" ”

However, unlike Lu Shaoyun's feelings, Xia Shuanghan, who is half of the Rong clan, actually considered this idea when he asked Lu Shaoyun to "join the family".

It's just that the reason why she didn't put forward this idea is because she is more inclined to completely break off the relationship with the Dingguo Mansion than to persuade and impress Lu Xiaoqing, who caused her psychological damage in her previous life.

The second is that Xia Shuanghan, who didn't know how the Xu family was doing after his death in his previous life, was carrying a knot in his heart at the time, and he didn't want to let his children call Xu grandmother.

But fortunately, now, she has learned what she didn't know in her previous life, and she has untied the knot in her heart, and is willing to make appropriate concessions for Lu Shaoyun. Therefore, being the nominal daughter-in-law of the Lu family again in this life is not completely unacceptable.

November 13 is a day when the wind and snow are gradually resting and the weather is freezing.

In the afternoon, after dealing with the snow rabbits and other prey that Lu Shaoyun and Taluk brought back from the traps and traps set up outside the village, Xia Shuanghan, who had eaten dinner, carried a bamboo basket and went to the bathhouse in the east of the village with Balia and Lydilu.

In winter, the hot spring bath is always overcrowded, and the body that is soaked in warmth always shivers when you step out of the bathhouse door.

Wrapped in a towel for her long hair, which began to freeze from the ends of her hair as soon as she left the bathhouse, Xia Shuanghan, who had just broken up with Lydilou at the fork in the road with Bariya, lost the bath towel placed on top of the bamboo basket due to a sudden gust of wind.

"Baliya, you go first, I'll pick up the bath towel and go back." Glancing at the bath towel that was blown away by the wind and fluttering on the snow, Xia Shuanghan put down the bamboo basket in his hand and chased after him.

And Baliya, who was shivering in the cold wind, looked up at the sky that had completely darkened after lifting the bamboo basket left by Xia Shuanghan, and shouted at the back of Xia Shuanghan who ran away: "Sister Shuanghan, if you can't get the bath towel back in the end, forget it, it's the right thing to go home quickly, do you know?" ”

"I see." Three steps and two steps forward, just as he was about to pick up the bath towel from the snow, Xia Shuanghan let it slip away from his fingertips because of a gust of cold wind.

sighed in his heart, and didn't want all the strength he had spent to chase him all the way to Xia Shuanghan, who persevered in chasing after him. It wasn't until finally, when the bath towel was hung on an old tree with dead branches, that she was finally able to stop.

The old tree, with its summer towels hanging from the frost, is located near the fence and the warehouse that is used to seal the mountain and block horses in spring, summer and autumn.

Looking up at the white bath towel hanging from a high place, even if he jumped, Xia Shuanghan, who looked around, finally made up his mind, walked to the door of the warehouse, pulled out the latch on the door, and walked in.

In the dimly lit and empty warehouse, wooden barrels containing nails for mending the fence were placed along the walls, and wooden shelves were held for reinforcing the ropes used to reinforce the horses. Walking over to the wooden barrels stacked along the wall, Xia Shuanghan, who flattened one of the barrels, soon pushed it to the old tree where his bath towel was hung.

Straighten the barrel, climb up and down, and in the blink of an eye, the bath towel hanging on the branch is back in Xia Shuanghan's hand. However, when she was pushing the barrel back to the warehouse and putting it back in place, Xia Shuanghan, who had just returned to the door to plug in the warehouse, heard the footsteps and conversations coming from the path she had just walked.

The warehouses where the fences and horses are stored cannot be opened and closed several times a year, and no one will come at all except for repairing and reinforcing the contents of the warehouses in spring, summer and autumn. Therefore, the location of the warehouse is located at the end of a small road with no residents in the northeast corner of the village, in the most remote part of the village.

However, now, on such a cold and moonlit night, there are two men who obviously can't have come to the warehouse to get reinforcement tools, and they have quietly touched here in the night, and it is difficult to ensure that there is nothing greasy here.

Xia Shuanghan, who had made such a judgment in his heart, took twelve points of caution and vigilance, tore off the white towel on his head and wrapped his cloak tightly, and then took the bath towel, and dodged into the shadows behind several huge rocks adjacent to the side wall of the warehouse.

The clouds floating in the sky obscured the bright moonlight, and in the small black open space in front of the warehouse, in the sound of "creaking" footsteps, the two men who came vaguely made Xia Shuanghan unable to see their faces clearly.

After stepping into the clearing, the man walking in front first walked to the door of the warehouse and checked the latches of the warehouse to make sure that there was no one in the warehouse now. Then, when the dark clouds had cleared and Xia Shuanghan was completely lying behind the rocks, he looked around in the moonlight to make sure that there was no one else in the clearing, and then he opened his mouth to the other man.

"You should know why I'm calling you here at this time, right?"

The young man's voice accompanied the cold wind, drifting into Xia Shuanghan's ears, who were hiding in the dark for fear of being discovered by them because the moonlight was too bright, so he couldn't see the figures of the two talking to each other at all.

"No, brother, I don't know what you're talking about."

The one who answered was also a young man, and like the first person to speak, the voices of both of them made Xia Shuanghan feel familiar. It's just that, in addition to the Ye Hong family, who Xia Shuanghan is familiar with, many young men of the Rong tribe in the village who have talked with her cordially and friendly are not enough for her to be familiar with them enough to completely remember their voices. Therefore, it was really impossible for Xia Shuanghan to deduce from the sound who the two young men who appeared in the open space were who they were.

"You say you don't know?" The conversation in the clearing continued, "Well, since you said you don't know, then let me ask you, why did you quietly stuff things in the rock crevices when we went out of the village together to set up hunting traps in the surrounding mountains two days ago?" ”

"What did I stuff? I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, okay! ”

"You don't have garlic with me, that little roll of paper wrapped in an oiled paper shell, you have stuffed it there more than once! Say, what does the scroll of paper that you stuffed there at the beginning of the moon last month have 'Three outsiders have no problem' written in it? ”

"Brother! You actually read it?! ”

The words of the second person in the clearing who panicked and couldn't believe it made Xia Shuanghan guess the truth of the matter at once.

At the beginning of October, it happened to be the day when Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran heard the criminals talking about the results of the "sentinels'" investigation of the three of them in the grotto. So, think about the second person in the open space now, that is, the one Lu Shaoyun talked about, the new "sentinel" who was recently sent to replace the "retired" "veteran"!

It's just a pity that the new sentry is obviously not skilled enough to convey information to the accomplices in the mountains, so he was caught by others. As for why he has a "brother" who has just been sent to the village, doesn't Baliya also call Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xiran brothers? Therefore, it is indeed not surprising that the "sentinel" among the more than ten grooms mixed in mid-September called the bride's brother "brother".

"Say, who are you passing those little scrolls of paper to? If you don't say it, do you want me to go there and set up an ambush and meet him when the collector comes to collect the papers? ”

"Don't, brother, don't do this. Those rolls of paper can't hurt anyone, so can you just pretend you didn't see them? ”

"I didn't see it, how can I pretend I didn't see it? How long has it been since the Mobei people who were rampant on the grassland were wiped out, and you began to pass on such a small paper scroll with strange content, if you let someone with a heart take advantage of it, and inadvertently embarked on the path of collaborating with the enemy and treason, you will have to eat in prison for the rest of your life in the future! How can you reassure me? ”

"How is this possible?! There is a deep blood feud between the Mobei people and our Rong people that can never be eliminated, even if they don't have a dead clan now, I would rather die than do things for them! ”

"Then who are you doing things for?"

"No, brother, I can't say this. Don't ask any more, okay? ”

"You—" The first person to speak suddenly paused, and then lowered his voice, so that Xia Shuanghan, who was cowering behind the rocks, heard the cry of "Is there anyone over there?" from the other side of the path.

Then, with the addition of a third voice, the conversation in the open space turned into a prosaic daily greeting.

"Yo, it's the two of you, why are you here when you don't come home so late? I heard someone talking here on the other side of the road just now, and I wondered if it was my auditory hallucination! ”

"Hey! Isn't it because the wind blew my hat in! Well, you see, I've been looking for this for a long time, and when I found it, the snow was icy through. ”

With the unnamed "brother" smiling explanation and the sound of "crackling" slapping the snow on the hat, a group of three people in the open space slowly walked away from the side of the path with a "creak" on the snow on the road. At this time, Xia Shuanghan, who had been blowing a cold wind for a long time in the shadow on the back of the stone, also waited for a moment to confirm that it was safe, and walked quickly in the direction of Ye Hong's house.

"Frost and cold, where did you go, why did you chase a bath towel for so long?" On a certain trail that was still some distance away from the main gate of Ye Hong's house, Lu Shaoyun, who had gone out to look for Xia Shuanghan, ran over impatiently after seeing her. "Balia said you went to pick up the bath towel and will be back in a while, but I waited for a long time and didn't see your figure. I wonder if you fell on the road, or twisted your foot, and came out looking for you. You, are you alright? ”

"No, I'm fine." Looking at Lu Shaoyun, who was unsteady in front of him, it was obvious that he had run back and forth between Ye Hong's house and the place where she broke up with Baliya just now, Xia Shuanghan grabbed his arm and said "thank you" to him gratefully, and then returned to the warm room with him.

At night, the summer frost and cold, curled up in the quilt and kept snotting and sneezing, because he ran just out of the bathhouse, and then squatted on the tuyere and blew the cold wind for a long time without waiting for the thin sweat to dissipate, so it was expected that he suffered from wind chill.

"Is it worth it for you to make yourself sick just to listen to that conversation?" Lu Shaoyun, who was sitting on the carpet next to the quilt and helping Xia Shuanghan cover his cold hands, said with pity after listening to the people around him repeat the conversation he heard one by one: "If you toss yourself sick next time, how can it be good?" ”

"Yes, yes, I'll pay attention next time, and I'll pay attention next time, right?" Glancing at Lu Shaoyun, who had changed into a night suit beside him, under the light of the swaying oil lamp, Xia Shuanghan said in a thick nasal voice: "It's almost time, it's time to come up and buckle the window, right?" ”

"I'll leave when he comes to detain him."

"Did the map go well? How long will it take to finish? ”

"By the end of this year, it will be done. Wait for the first month to repair the sketch and transcribe it a few times, and then draw up the entire encirclement and suppression plan, and then go to Tongchengguan in early February to transfer troops. ”

"yes, that's good, watch out at night, you know?"

"yes, I know." The soft tapping sound outside the carved wooden window heralded the beginning of another night of exploration.

And in the bedroom, which was completely silent after the lights were turned off, Xia Shuanghan quickly fell asleep in a daze. (To be continued.) )