Thirty-seven. Arlo
Although he was also driving in the snow, because of Situ Yi's order, a small group of cars and horses brought by Mo Dan traveled slowly and leisurely. Qin Nanxi had Xiaofei's attentive waiting, so she didn't notice the bumps and fatigue at all, and rested in the car for a day and a night, and when she arrived at Yunze, she was full of energy except for her foot injury.
Yunze City is not big, with a radius of only about ten miles. Because it is in accordance with the layout of the ups and downs of the terrain, there is no horizontal and vertical chessboard pattern in the city, although there is less Chang'an Luoyang-like grandeur, but the flat and clean small dirt road is also intertwined, densely woven into a busy net. There are countless shops scattered on both sides of the road, all of which are small and two-in-the-second civil engineering courtyards, the front store and the back house, the front store in the tea, wine and silk, dazzling, the wife and children in the back house, the family is reunited. There are also many pedestrians on the road, and people with different skin colors and accents are mostly calm and happy, and they have a calm and peaceful demeanor.
"They've really only been here for the last ten years?" Qin Nanxi lifted the curtains and said curiously.
"It should be, Yunze has only been built for ** years, these people don't look like locals, they are probably merchants from all over the world in the past few years, I heard that Yunze's taxes are low and profitable, and merchants naturally flock to it." Xiao Fei replied nonchalantly. Glancing out the window at the flowing streetscape.
In the flowing crowd, the horse team walked more slowly, and the geese also changed their usual galloping temperament, and walked slowly on the side of the car leisurely. Situ Yi on the horse held the reins in his hand, his eyes looked ahead, and there was no trace of the smile hidden in the corner of his lips.
"General, what's the matter?" Xiao Fei leaned over to Qin Nanxi, who was by the window, and asked a little apprehensively.
Qin Nanxi raised his eyes and glanced at Situ Yi not far away, only to see him twisting his eyebrows slightly, and the coldness of his body seemed to be all pressed on his heart by the heavy snow of Yunze.
Qin Nanxi's fingers trembled slightly, turned around and let go of the car curtain, shrank back into the car, and replied lightly, "200,000 troops in the north, a Yunze city, two festival envoys, such a big thing, all of them are on him alone, he naturally can't be as relaxed as Xiao Feiye." ”
"That's right, even though this general looks majestic, there are many unspeakable difficulties." Xiao Fei looked at Situ Yi's lonely back from the gap in the car curtain, and spoke with sympathy.
"It's never cold from a high place! But a person like him, no matter what, will take this road after all, and he can't complain about anyone, but fortunately, he does have the ability to deal with this, and he can make the best use of it. ”
"Oh~ Hasn't Miss Su always had a good impression of him? Why did you come back from this trip and change your tone? Xiao Fei put down Situ Yi, stuck to Qin Nanxi's side, stared at her flashing eyes and asked with a smile.
Qin Nanxi was embarrassed by her, so she simply turned her face and stared at her and asked, "You deceived me all the way, and even sold me unconscious, I can forgive you, not to mention Situ Yi, who sacrificed his life twice to save me, is it too much for me to say a few good words from him?" ”
When Xiao Fei heard this, he couldn't help but retreat, and said with a red face: "Where, where is it excessive, not excessive, very good, you are naturally good to him, it would be better if you didn't bring up the old things again." ”
Seeing her retreat to the side, Qin Nanxi only pursed her lips and smiled, then stopped talking. His gaze fell from the wide and narrow gap of the car curtain to the handsome back.
After being silent for a long time, I felt that the carriage under me slowly stopped, the groom jumped off the wheel, the carriage shook slightly, and the curtain was lifted. Outside the curtain, it was Situ Yi, the coldness of his body had receded to no trace, and there was that well-proportioned smile on the corner of his lips, and the concern in his eyes looking at her was also not kissing, just right.
"Here we are." He reached out to meet her.
Qin Nanxi smiled, stretched out his hand generously, and let him help him get out of the car.
In addition to the higher terrain and the lower door than the surrounding houses, the general's mansion in front of him is still a common civil engineering courtyard in Yunze, but a red lacquered drum at the door is particularly eye-catching.
When Qin Nanxi saw the drum, he couldn't help but think of the book he had heard on the way, and said with a low smile: "The law enforcement of the small country is like a mountain!" , this drum is now really famous all over the world! ”
"What?" Situ Yi was puzzled.
"You don't know? At the beginning of your tenure, you set up a drum, and in just a few months, there was no more unjust litigation in northern Xinjiang, and I heard the reputation of 'a small country enforcing the law like a mountain and loving the people like a son', but I have heard it all the way. Qin Nanxi looked at him with a smile, and the praise in the joke was obvious.
"Little Guogong? Law enforcement is like a mountain, and love the people like a child? Situ Yi's eyes flashed, a trace of vigilance permeated his eyes, and he paused before he continued, "This drum was not set up by me, it was had by my predecessor when he was in office." ”
Qin Nanxi didn't notice the slight change in his expression, and smiled, "It's just that it's all praise for you, the storyteller is thousands of miles away, how can he know when this drum was erected?" It's just to be wonderful, and occasionally there are some untense falsehoods when talking about paragraphs. ”
Situ Yi nodded, and slowly walked into the general's mansion with Qin Nanxi in his arms, and asked seemingly casually, "Storyteller?" Where did you hear this book? ”
Xiao Fei behind the two of them heard this question, and Yan flew in front of Situ Yi, and summarized the book that the storyteller in the inn said at that time. Everything else in the book was erased and not mentioned, and she only recounted the storyteller's Quatto Yi carefully and verbatimly.
Situ Yi was noncommittal after hearing this, only stared at Xiao Fei, and smiled helplessly, "Fei Ye, are you finished?" Can you let us in? ”
Xiao Fei's face froze with a smile on her face, and the base of her neck burned crimson, she hurriedly retreated to the side as if she had been pricked by a needle, bowed her head and laughed at herself, "Yes, yes, of course you can, the general's territory, naturally the general, you want to go where and go there." ”
Situ Yi smiled and shook his head, then stopped taking care of her, and helped Qin Nanxi, who had been watching the excitement from the sidelines, into the general's mansion.
The three of them had just passed the main hall and were about to go to the inner garden when they heard a voice in their ears: "General, you are back!" ”
The voice was as graceful as a warbler's swallow, coming from the second gate of the inner garden, followed by a delicate and delicate figure that caught the eye.
The person who came was dressed in a pear-white dress, the outer cover was rolled with a narrow cotton coat of the same color, a simple bun was combed on the head, only a smoky silk flower was hairpin on the sideburns, and there was no pearl and jade pendant on the whole body, elegant and white like a pear blossom on the branch, and the fair and handsome little face was more like a pear like a pear soaked in sweet fragrance, fresh and moving.
Qin Nanxi saw her, as if she had seen herself at the banquet of the prince of Changping County that day, and for no reason, a burst of anger spread from the bottom of her heart, and the slow pace under her feet immediately stopped.
"Ah Luo" Situ Yi stopped, called someone cordially and casually, and ignored Qin Nanxi beside him, and only said to Ah Luo, "This is Miss Su, her leg injury is not light, I am afraid I will have to bother you to take care of her more during this time." ”
"Arlo obeys!" After hearing this, the girl bent down and saluted Situ Yi and Qin Nanxi, got up and floated to Qin Nanxi's side, took her hand from Situ Yi's hand, snuggled up to her very affectionately, and helped her into the inner garden.
"Aaron?" Xiao Fei, looking at the uncertain situation on Qin Nanxi's face, and looking at Situ Yi's frank look that had nothing to do with himself, he shook his head and jumped into the inner garden behind the three of them.