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"Old drunkard, don't you just keep drinking?" Mo Ye smiled silently and softly commented on the text that Ye Nuonuo read out.

Then, her gaze fell on the paragraph below the text. This is a sentence of only five words, but the signature is much more detailed than the first paragraph, and the handwriting is more handsome than the first paragraph.

"I'm glad to travel with Qing." Mo Ye silently read these five words in his heart, but for the signature at the back, he couldn't help but read it out like Ye Nuonuo: "In April of the eleventh year of Tianyun, Yu Yu County." ”

As soon as Mo Ye's words fell, he heard Ye Nuonuo say: "Heavenly luck, isn't it the name of the last emperor of the previous dynasty?" Eleven years... It has only been thirteen years in total, and it seems that the time when this person left his words is not very far from now. ”

Xiao Yu added on the side: "Miss, in fact, if you look at this painting carefully, it should not be difficult to find that she is the youngest one." ”

The person in the painting is so young, and his friends leave a message for him, so naturally it will not be too long.

"Yes, oh." Ye Nuonuo reached out and scratched the back of his neck, which was a little itchy, followed everyone's gaze, and continued to look down.

When the eyes of the three of them saw the signature of the third line, they couldn't help but laugh.

Eldest sister, you can't eat alone anymore, go to Sang County next month, you can also take me!

- Your most well-behaved sister.

The style of this third paragraph is quite in line with the character of Ye Nuonuo now, especially the word 'most', which is obviously deliberately repeated many times to express the urgency of the person who wrote it, and future generations can still feel some of her naughtiness when they read it.

So the three of them laughed, and Mo Ye and Xiao Yu's eyes tacitly looked at Ye Nuonuo who was standing between the two.

Ye Nuonuo was stunned: "This... This is definitely not my fool's errand, I don't have a sister above, and my father doesn't even have a second wife. Not to mention the concubine room. ”

"The maid doesn't mean that, it's just that I used to hear some elders say that in some families, the character of the parents will not be passed on to the children, but will be passed on to the grandchildren from generation to generation, and now I suddenly believe it." Xiao Yu winked at Miss Ye and smiled.

At the same time, Mo Ye also said softly: "Even if it is not passed down from generation to generation as Xiao Yu said, the person in this painting is your elder relative, and of course it is the one who calls this aunt the eldest sister." Since they are of the same clan and clan, it is not surprising that they look alike. ”

"By the way, listen to you. I almost forgot that I brought you here to see how much you resemble the person in this painting. Ye Nuonuo stroked his forehead, "Just now this portrait was high on the top, and I didn't dare to take it, but now it fell off by itself." ”

As he spoke, Yeno flipped the scroll around. He stared at the person in the painting for a few moments, then looked away at Mo Ye.

After staring at Mo Ye's eyes for a while, she couldn't help but wonder: "Although after careful comparison, there are still differences between you and my aunt, who have never met before, but the key pair of eyes are very similar." That's a little weird. ”

After hesitating for a moment, she frowned slightly and said, "Could it be that you and I are really long-lost relatives?" ”

Mo Ye was stunned. Just when he didn't know what to say, he saw Xiao Yu also come over, and continued in Miss Ye's tone: "Based on the age of the predecessor on this painting, according to the estimation of the eleventh year of Tianyun, this senior's age is about the same as the master. ”

"But ......" listened to Xiaoyu's speculation. Ye Nono became suspicious again, sighed and said, "My father never told me. What other uncles and aunts do I have, will they... This painting was painted in his early years, and then the person in the painting took it out to remember in his later years? ”

Xiao Yu shook his head in disagreement and said: "Looking at the sentence with beautiful handwriting in the second line, it can be speculated that the seniors who left these words are Yujun who went together." Yu County is close to the Daqingchuan River in the west, the mountains are steep, and many roads are impassable, because of this reason, there is no shortage of bandit cottages, and it is impossible for this senior to go there at an old age. ”

Xiaoyu unconsciously mentioned the topography of Yu County, and also talked about it in vivid detail, which made Ye Nuonuo think of another question.

"I don't know that." Ye Nuonuo's eyes drooped slightly, and his eyebrows were raised instead, "Xiaoyu, how do you know so clearly?" ”

"In the early years of Tianyun, that is, when Emperor Ling had just ascended the throne, the area around Sichuan began to be chaotic, and there was always a battle to be fought." Xiao Yu's voice gradually deepened, "That's where the maid ran out and finally fled to Kyoto. ”

In the last years of the troubled times, Kyoto became the largest refugee camp in the country, and it was a memory that many Kyoto people could not erase.

"That's it in the early years of Tianyun, so when it comes to the eleventh year of Tianyun, it is estimated that ordinary people will not dare to go there, I am ignorant." Ye Nuonuo sighed, raised his hand and gently pressed Xiao Yu's shoulder, and said warmly: "Xiao Yu, one day I will accompany you over there to see your family." ”

Xiao Yu hurriedly shook his head and said, "I have no home for a long time, and now Yefu is my home." In addition, it is best not to go over there because it is bounded by the Daqingchuan moat, and the continuous Qingling to the west is occupied by a tribe, which is stationed in the mountains, but usually does some killing and robbing evil things, and the Yujun side is not peaceful until now. ”

Ye Nuonuo couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this, and immediately asked again: "Doesn't the government care?" ”

"I haven't been back for a long time, and I don't know what's going on there." Xiao Yu sighed softly, "But the disaster of Chuanling has been left over from the previous dynasty, but those scattered tribes took advantage of the chaos in the last year of Tianyun to do the matter of disaster Chuanling, so it is more difficult to deal with it now than before, right?" Now that Kyoto has moved from Zhongzhou to the coast of the East China Sea, it is getting farther and farther away to send troops to Qingling. ”

Although Mo Ye heard the conversation between the two of them clearly, she didn't participate in a word, but at this time, she was puzzled in her heart, and secretly thought: Master once said that when the son was preparing to send troops to Qingchuan today, it was a long-planned thing, but this plan was not revealed from the court at all? What exactly does the emperor want to do?

Although Mo Ye's eyes were looking at the painting scroll held in her palm, the expression in her eyes slowly seemed to freeze, and she was a little distracted unconsciously.

As soon as Ye Nuonuo finished comforting Xiaoyu and turned his head to look at her, he saw her like this, which made her wonder: "Sister Mo, what are you thinking?" ”

"What?" Mo Ye came back to his senses in a daze, and said, "It's nothing." ”

"Looks like we'd better not stay here for long, I don't care, but maybe your soul is going to be swept away." Ye Nuonuo made a joke, and didn't ask Mo Ye anything more, so he instructed Xiaoyu: "It seems that it has been a long time, and the rope on which the painting is hung is damp." Xiaoyu, you go to my father's study to get a spare rope, and don't forget to bring the carp top for hanging paintings. ”

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The carp top is an object that mimics a fork made of straw, except that it grows the handheld rod and narrows and beautifies the fork head.

The kind of farm tool that turns the straw is to lean on the original shape of the branch to polish the appearance smooth, but the carp top is much more delicate, and it is a tool specially used by large families to hang important portraits. The whole body of the vessel is painted with shiny tree lacquer, and the top shape is a carp with its head facing up, which means 'leaping high'. Because the mouth of a carp is much flatter than a tree branch, when a person uses this tool to hang the top of the painting, he needs to gather more energy, and the action looks much more solemn.

Although this appliance is not very easy to use and it is easy to slip the painting, it also indirectly makes the person who uses it serious and religious.

When Xiaoyu took the carp top and the rope and returned to the small ancestral hall, she saw Ye Nuonuo arguing with Mo Ye about something.

"Miss, I've got all the spare small pieces." As Xiao Yu spoke, she slowly approached the two people in the room who were pointing at the right edge of the painting, and she couldn't help frowning slightly, and after a while, the eldest lady became so disrespectful to this portrait.

When Ye Nuonuo saw Xiao Yu coming back, the painting scroll held in his palm immediately moved closer to her, and at the same time she asked, "Xiao Yu, come and see, is this line considered a word?" ”

Xiao Yu stared at the place where Ye Nuonuo's fingers fell, a pair of eyebrows gradually got closer and closer, and after a moment she whispered: "Female, female, female... Female ......" She suddenly looked up at Ye Nuonuo, and said, "Four 'female' words? ”

Ye Nuonuo was obviously not satisfied with Xiaoyu's answer, and said in a loud voice: "You did read the word 'female' four times in a row. ”

Xiao Yu suddenly understood that Ye Nuonuo and Mo Ye were arguing just now about whether the four 'female' words that were widely spaced in this line were considered words, and his answer was probably on Mo Ye's side.

Xiao Yu coughed dryly, and didn't know what to say for a while.

Seeing that Xiaoyu was unfortunate to stand on her side, Mo Ye's face did not have much joy after the victory, she just pointed to the place that Ye Nuonuo had pointed to just now, and reiterated her point of view again: "It should not be as simple as four 'female' words, this is like a four-four small order, four words and one sentence, a group of four sentences, and the first word at the beginning of each sentence should be the same." Sister Nono, if you take a closer look at this edge, you can still see some strokes, but it seems that they have been cut in half because they are cut right here. ”

When Ye Nuonuo heard this, she really looked at the column of words carefully, and finally gradually felt that what Mo Ye said made some sense, but at the same time, she was a little confused, and asked casually: "Since the words have been written, why do you want to cut them again?" That's only half of the painting left. ”

"It's not about half of the painting!" Mo Ye sighed, "This column of residual characters is written in a different direction from the words on the reverse side of the painting, it is written vertically. ”

Ye Nuonuo rubbed her eyes when she heard this, looked at it a few more times after calming down, and then she asked again: "Then do you see what is written here?" ”