When Xue Zhong heard this, he thought of something else, and said, "What about you?" Since you also feel that your majesty values affection, why are you still so resolute? I didn't even say a word, I really don't know if I know your true thoughts, how will I have to deal with it. ”

Lin Shan said movingly: "Communication? ”

Xue Zhong was about to speak, but suddenly heard the crying of a baby from the carriage, and immediately changed his words: "Is this cry from that child?" Let me see if this child looks as beautiful as her mother. ”

Lin Shan smiled, took the reins of the horse in Xue Zhong's hand, led the horse behind Xue Zhong, and walked towards the carriage.

Xue Zhong approached the carriage, and Ma An and Aunt Li recognized him because of Lin Shan, so they hurriedly saluted and called out "Lord Xue". Xue Zhong returned the salute with a smile, then looked at the child in Aunt Li's arms, and said with curiosity: "This is the child of Miss Ye Family?" ”

"Exactly." Aunt Li replied respectfully. She saw the look in Xue Zhong's eyes, and carefully lifted the swaddling baby forward a little, Xue Zhong hugged the child, shaking it a little stiffly, and at the same time said in a soft voice: "This little guy, his face has not yet grown, and he asked me and other elders to be in a hurry when he grows up, and I don't know what will happen when I grow up!" ”

Lin Shan was leading the horse, afraid that the horse would neigh and startle the child, so he just stood not far away. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Brother Shang Xing is too worried, she is just a girl, how much storm can she stir up?" What's more, with me here, I will definitely not let her get involved in those things. ”

"Don't worry about it, this is the first time I've held such a small child, I'm excited for a while, and my words are out of proportion, which makes everyone laugh, hahaha." Xue Zhong was embarrassed, and then laughed loudly to himself.

Unexpectedly, this smile startled the child who had just been coaxed by Aunt Li to calm down, and he cried.

Seeing this, Xue Zhong couldn't help but be a little hurried. A military general who has had a lot of blood on his hands, in the face of a child who is not full-term, is so helpless and helpless, it can't help but be a little funny, but this qiē comes from Xue Zhong's sincere love for this child.

Xue Zhong hurriedly handed the child back into Aunt Li's arms, and said casually: "Alas, this little guy is still alive, don't make me helpless, when you grow up, you can call Uncle Xue a few more times to coax me!" ”

Aunt Li took the child, sang a gentle lullaby, and said in the interlude: "She didn't recognize her life, her Uncle Xue talked to her when she was not born, how could she be born?" She's hungry. ”

Xue Zhong rubbed his hands when he heard this, and said: "Even if this is the case, I won't delay you, hurry up and find a market town to rest." The child is still so young, and eating is really important. ”

He immediately left the carriage and walked towards Lin Shan.

Xue Zhong reached out to scoop the reins of the horse, but scooped them empty. I saw Lin Shan look at him seriously for a while, and then said, "Brother Shang Xing, thanks to your help this time, the junior brother really wants to drink a glass of spirits with you to express his gratitude." But here in the wilderness, there is no wine, no food, and nothing to do, so let the younger brother learn to learn literati ink, Pinghu Spring Shore, and lead the horse to send the deceased. ”

Xue Zhong was stunned for a moment, and then laughed heartily and said: "The literati are really sour enough, Brother An Yuan's words come out, and the foolish brother is like drinking a mouthful of old vinegar, so that people have to start from it!" ”

Xue Zhong and Lin Shan also laughed out loud, but they didn't laugh for a while, then they stopped and bowed down and coughed.

Xue Zhong hurriedly stopped laughing and said with concern on his face: "What's wrong with you?" ”

Lin Shan's folded sleeves covered his lips and took a breath, and then said: "After sitting in the carriage for a few days, I am a little dizzy, and it is not in the way." ”

Xue Zhong gently patted Lin Shan's shoulder, and said solemnly: "I have worked hard all the way, and when I find a fixed place, I must rest well, and I must not work hard for myself." The most helpless years of that little baby have to rely on you. ”

Hearing this, Lin Shan just nodded silently.

Xue Zhong scooped the reins and jumped onto the horse, but he did not immediately slap the horse and run, but there was a look of hesitation in his eyes. After a moment of silence, he spoke: "Actually, when I came to you this time, you probably guessed that it was the meaning of His Majesty." ”

Lin Shan lowered his hand and said with a solemn expression: "Okay, what kind of errand?" ”

Xue Zhong took out a thinly folded note from his sleeve and handed it to Lin Shan, and then said, "You first look at the contents of the note, and then choose whether you know or not." ”

Lin Shan stretched out his hand to take the note, but he didn't open it immediately, but looked at the look in Xue Zhong's eyes, and after a while, he threw the note into the air, and then said calmly: "What's the matter, it just doesn't matter." ”

"You!" Xue Zhong sighed helplessly, and then said, "Your Majesty asked me to bring you a pigeon, do you know what it means?" ”

A look of surprise flashed in Lin Shan's eyes, but he didn't shake his head, nod, or speak, just looked at Xue Zhong calmly, waiting for his explanation.

Xue Zhong said solemnly: "Actually, I don't know what His Majesty's move means, but I know that His Majesty only knows about your whereabouts." During your time away from Kyoto, if you really want to hide, your majesty may not be able to find you. But if you take this four-season pigeon used by the military, I am afraid that in the future, it will be difficult for you to really distinguish yourself from His Majesty. ”

Lin Shan lowered his eyebrows when he heard this, then raised his eyes to look at Xue Zhong's eyes, and said slowly: "If I choose not to listen, what will you do?" ”

Xue Zhong waved his hand and said, "It's a big deal, the pigeon is missing halfway, or I didn't find you." ”

Lin Shan smiled when he heard this: "This reason is too far-fetched, besides, since Your Majesty has made this decree, the emphasis is not on the process but on the result, you have not completed the task, in any case, it is a rebellion." Do you think that I have to find a place to stay overnight every day to supplement my diet, and I can't stay up all night without stopping, so I can go to the ends of the earth and find a place of extreme suffering? I don't think Your Majesty will not be unaware of this, if Your Majesty sends someone else to find me in the future, how can Brother Shang Xing hold himself in front of His Majesty, if I escape at this time, it will hurt you. ”

Xue Zhong was stunned for a while before silently digesting Lin Shansuo's words, but he didn't seem to care much about this, but thought about another thing, and finally just said with a puzzled face: "However, listening to the meaning of your words just now, it is obvious that you want to be a hidden person." ”

Lin Shan didn't answer Xue Zhong's question directly, just looked into the distance, and then said slowly: "Actually, I'm not too confident, whether Your Majesty really let me go." Or maybe it's whether I can really forget the past. Whether it is from the previous feelings of righteousness, or the bond of this child around me, in case His Majesty really has a request for me, but I turn a blind eye, and when this child grows up and knows the past, how can I hold myself? ”

Xue Zhong spread his hands and said, "In this way, what you said just now was just for those two?" ”

"Not exactly." Lin Shan turned his head and said to Xue Zhong with a smile in his eyes: "Your Majesty knows where I am, it may not mean that he knows the child's whereabouts, but if he insists on the child's location, I will definitely stop him, unless he can really give the child a name." But if this can be done, it is not a bad thing for the child to return to his biological father. Until Her Majesty has full power and counts her mother's share, it is not easy to protect a child? ”

Xue Zhong secretly thought about his words, and finally came to his senses, patted his knees and smiled: "You, you, this thought is too detailed, fortunately, the foolish brother is not your enemy, otherwise you would have been secretly frightened." He took out another thing from his sleeve and threw it at Lin Shan.

Lin Shan took a look, but saw that it was a trick. Stretched out his fingers and pinched it, there was a fine padding in the bag, not a letterhead. As a wisp of extremely faint smell wafted out, I heard Xue Zhong explain: "This is a special spice, with it, the four seasons pigeon will naturally find you." ”

Lin Shan checked the bag in his hand, and after thinking about it, he smiled and said: "It seems that Your Majesty has long been worried that you will cheat, and I am afraid that you will kill the pigeon and then use it as an excuse, so I kept a hand in advance." ”

Xue Zhong showed a look of sudden realization on his face, then smiled innocently, and said: "Come on, when the world is too peaceful, I'll go to be a janitor. He did not linger any longer, waved his whip in his hand, and rode away.

Lin Shan looked at his back and walked away, and he didn't know if he could hear it, so he couldn't help but shout loudly: "There is a Shangxing brother latch in Kyoto, and a hundred families really don't close their doors at night!" ”――

At dusk, smoke rises from the cooking smoke of every house in the gray-tiled cottages, but the kitchen chimney of the convict by the big pond at the entrance of the village is cold. However, the villagers of Xingjia Village do not feel strange about this, but if they see the chimney of Xing's kitchen and press the cigarette, it is called strange!

Xing Laohan has been hunting for a living since he was thirteen years old. Because his parents died of flooding at a young age, his personality is a little stubborn, but in the eyes of the village elders, he seems to have a good heart but is not easy to get along with, and the Xing family's family background has not been up or down. Later, Xing Laohan, who had been single for more than 30 years, finally married a daughter-in-law and took off Xing Guang's hat, but because of the safari, he did not have time to come back to take care of his wife at the threshold of childbirth, and Xing's wife died in childbirth, leaving a son.

Xing Guangshan met this family disaster, and since then, he has taken care of the children, begged for a living, and blamed himself for mourning his wife, he has been tired and tired in the past few years, and everyone is aging faster than ordinary people, and even the wrinkles on his face are bitter. Huafa was born early, thirty-six years old, fifty years old, and the title of Xing Laohan was born by the way.

It seems that Xing Laohan came back late today, and Xing Laohan's only son was left at home. However, Xing Laohan is stocked in the kitchen, and he doesn't know if it's this morning or yesterday's baked vegetable cakes, and he can't starve his children without cooking dinner.

In the open space in front of the main entrance of Xing's house, a boy about five or six years old sat with a wooden stake as a stool. He propped half of his face with the palm of his hand, tilted his head to look at the pile of wood on the ground in front of him, and then his eyes fell on a large axe lying on the ground next to the pile of wood, and his face showed a childish depression. In the middle of the night, he got up and went to the kitchen, and when he came out, he had already scooped a kitchen knife in his hand.

The boy approached the pyre, dragged the axe aside, then lifted a cylindrical piece of firewood, set it upright, and then stood next to the erected piece of firewood and stood on his feet, holding his breath and raising his kitchen knife in both hands.