Chapter 255: Hands and Feet and Clothes
The black steed rested quietly on the hill, the early spring sun gently caressing its body and making it swing its head comfortably, and then when a bare hand grabbed the reins, the shadow horse snorted even more excitedly. I want to be able to gallop all the way after a short rest, and I naturally like to rush to the front, and the horse can't help but kick up the four hooves.
"Zhou!" , Xiao Ze deliberately suppressed his angry shout in the ears of Man Yun, who was holding the shadow horse, and pointed to a small car in the team, "From now on, you must stay in the car honestly, otherwise you will ......"
How else is that? The hand that grabbed the reins naturally let go, Zhou Manyun lowered his head and honestly trotted all the way to the side of the car, lifted the curtain and drilled the compartment, and his movements were numb. Just as she was being drunk, she had already quickly estimated the distance, and at about sunset, the team heading north would be able to reach Xiaoxijian where Xiao Hong was camping. At this moment, it is the wisest choice not to go against Xiao Ze.
In the eyes of those ordinary soldiers who don't know about the transposition of their brothers, abandoning the horse and driving is because the sixth master is afraid that his wife will be picked on by the prince when he enters the camp. You must know that in the past three months, Shadow Horse has been snatched by the sixth grandmother Zhou as a mount.
Xuanhei armor, gluttonous helmet, and the ghostly iron blue mask, in addition to Han Shu and more than a dozen close guards, they also saw their true faces on weekdays, and during this time, Xiao Ze, who was similar to his younger brother, calmly hid himself tightly. It's just that the attitude towards the "wife" is extremely cold from the moment of full soberness, and he disdains and can't do it.
"Rare...... It's kind of knowledgeable! The team set off slowly, Xiao Ze's voice whispered under the mask, and his eyes staring at the car window were inexplicable.
Three months of getting along is not long or short, and it is enough for him to see Zhou Manyun's appearance. Not bad! It's beautiful...... Even in the dizziness and dizziness that day when he first woke up in the drowsiness, he still felt for a moment that the woman sitting on the edge of the couch and pinching his wrist was like a fairy. Then, gentle and generous care. A dedicated and serious doctor, a ruthless resentful woman, and a partner who walks in the same way......
Maybe it's because of this that it's so different from ordinary women that Xiaoliu can't extricate himself from it? Or perhaps, ordinary men are trying to collect all kinds of beauties, but they just want to find a "real person" who is fresh and lovely whenever and wherever they are?
"When you become a monk, you expect everyone in the world to be bald!" Xiao Ze, who remembered Manyun's complaints in the past, let out a sneer, and the eyes exposed on the mask repeated the coldness of reason.
The ruts creaked and twisted through the sparsely populated old roads in the suburbs of Beijing, through the barren fields where no grass grows, and when a purging barracks seemed to emerge from the sky, it gradually turned faster......
Man Yun sat quietly in the car, a slightly cold pretty face was slightly lowered, and his calm eyes were fixed on his lap. There was only a pair of slender jade hands, and from the moment he heard the answer to the order outside the car, he clenched his shirt tightly, and his fingertips were full of tangled knots.
"Six grandmothers! The prince wants to talk to the sixth prince alone. Please go back to the tent and rest! ”
"Wait for him!", Man Yun pounced on the curtain and screamed, "I'll wait for him here!" ”。 Two feet away from the park, a military tent surrounded by a wooden fence banner stood upright, and the door of the tent guarded by the guards was tightly closed, but the fact that she couldn't see anything still made her heart beat.
"I'll just wait here!" , leaned into the car, and Zhou Manyun, who was muttering and repeating the request, turned red.
Others estimate that they will regard themselves as little daughters-in-law who can't leave their husbands for a while. But who knows, the couple haven't seen each other for months. The heart hangs in the liver. What's more, the scream that he was waiting for him just now must have been heard by the bad guy who dared to abandon his wife ruthlessly.
The guards who returned to the account came out of the account again, saying that the prince had allowed Man Yun to wait, and his expression was so serious that Man Yun couldn't help but guess that others were smiling in his heart. A pair of plain hands were raised, covering their hot cheeks in annoyance.
After a while. Man Yun saw a team of guards holding hot water, hand towels and other things quickly entering the camp and coming out quickly, so he put down his hands in confusion and clenched his heart in confusion, "What are those two brothers doing hiding in the tent?" ”
In the tent where there was no one else, the couches leaned against each other. The brothers, who had long since taken off their armor and masks, lay down and sat down.
A moist cloth towel was tightly covered on Xiao Hong's face who was lying on his back, and a big hand was pressed on the white cloth cloth, Xiao Ze who was sitting on the stool had a hard hand, the corners of his mouth were tight, and his eyes were full of smiles.
"Brother! I'm suffocated! Xiao Hong exclaimed, and when he heard his voice, he turned around, and the handsome eyebrows and eyes under the towel couldn't help but smile like the moon.
Xiao Ze wiped the cloth towel off his younger brother's face, picked up a sharp knife shining with cold light from the tray next to the couch and put it against Xiao Hong's chin, and said with a smile: "In the past, I only thought that you were born with slender and neat sideburns, and you were a rare beautiful man in the world. But now it seems that Xiao Xiaoliu may not be recorded in history in the future as a beautiful bearded man. Actually cheeks and sideburns? With a beard, he is more masculine and heroic, similar to his great-grandfather......"
The knife sticks to the skin, and the skin is cold and refreshing. When the blade was a little away, Xiao Hong, who had lost half of his beard, replied embarrassedly: "Brother! The march was hurried and inconvenient, so Mr. Wei suggested that I cover it with a beard. Externally, it is regarded as Coach Xiao Ze's young and deliberately bearded in advance. ”
According to the tradition of the Chen Dynasty, men generally had to wait for thirty years to stand up. Young people with dense fibrous roots will also tidy up and clean themselves, so as not to pretend to be old. Xiao Ze is only twenty-seven years old now, and he is extremely well-groomed, so he was very shocked when he saw his younger brother with a beard just after entering the tent.
"I was wrong! You shouldn't have done it so quickly! Xiao Ze, who should have started again, steadied the knife in his hand, looked at his younger brother's eyes with remorse, and said softly: "The day after tomorrow, when you enter the city on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, you should be walking with me." That way, it will be a little less difficult to justify your name. ”
"What's the name?" , Xiao Hong, who was leaning his neck, looked at his brother, and his smiling eyes were full of doubts.
"It was not Xiao Ze, the son of the Xiao family, who broke into Luojing, but the sixth son Xiao Hong!" , The silver razor simply threw it back to the tray, Xiao Ze turned to the edge of the couch, and held Xiao Hong's shoulders hard, Zhengse said.
"Brother!" , Xiao Hong called, daxiao spoke, half of the beard was rough and a little funny, "In the past three months, you have led the Yunzhou army to Luojing, isn't it your decision-making command." I'm just doing a little thing for you. ”
"Xiao Hong!". Xiao Ze first roared away the contempt on his younger brother's face, which was still listening to a joke, before gritting his teeth and saying in a deep voice: "You are not a fool, you understand what I mean!" I don't want to deceive the world to take advantage of my own brother! ”
"Big brother! You...... Are you serious? Xiao Hong's expression also became solemn, and he sat up and looked at his eldest brother.
When Xiao Zegang nodded and wanted to talk about the follow-up arrangements. Xiao Hong's hands grabbed his arm and said in a low voice, "Brother! Actually, I've thought about it all. The person who led the army to Luo Jing in these three months can only be you, not me. Daddy had just sent an article denouncing the small court in Jiangnan for not standing properly and deceiving the world, and now how can we expose the exchange of brothers and leave people with a handle......"
"That's not the same at all! We can say that it was for military secrecy, or even more simply to reveal the fact that I had been wounded in Baigushan. ”
"Brother! No! Looking at the resolute look of the eldest brother's decision, Xiao Hong's eyes were even more panicked, and he was busy pulling Xiao Ze. begged: "Brother, forget it!" Regardless of business, you should follow your brother's selfishness, okay? ”
"Selfishness? If you can be more selfish, I think it's better! ”
"Brother! Think about it...... If...... If it is I who led the army to Luojing in March, and you are the one who was injured in Bai Gushan, then ...... The Man Yun who stayed with you...... How does Man Yun explain to people? ”
"Xiao Hong!" , Xiao Ze stood up suddenly. The face is flushed.
The first reaction of the words was Xiao Ze, who felt that his younger brother questioned his character, but he reacted quickly after only a moment of anger. There was a sudden sadness in his heart, and he couldn't express it, so he only stared at the little brother in a daze.
"Big brother! You and Manyun are my dearest, and I think Manyun has treated you like a brother with sincerity in the past three months. But what does the world think? …… Just like the Xiakou Palace that day, Man Yun was just to save Xu Yu who was like a brother, just because there was no blood relationship between them...... No. Even if there is a blood relationship, you will still feel that her behavior is frivolous and Meng Lang is not the work of a good family. ”
Xiao Hong endured the tears in his eyes, took a deep breath, and continued: "In Baigu Mountain. I personally brought Man Yun to my eldest brother's tent, didn't I just let her be one of those medical women who was despised by the world? Touching the patient's skin, bowing down to care, and treating each other gently? I am willing to accept everything she does, and I will be proud of her, but ...... But I also understand that this world does not allow it, and this world is inherently unfair to women......"
"You can take her, ...... her", a sentence stalked in his throat, Xiao Shizi, who has always been wise and resolute, blushed, and couldn't spit out half a word anymore. The reason why his brother refused to make it public made his chest tight, and his sudden crazy thoughts made his heart palpitate even more.
"She's my wife! Zhou Manyun is my wife! I have to maintain everything about her! Xiao Hong stood up, looked at his eldest brother as tall as himself, and said with a straight face: "So, I want to wipe away all the doubts that may be imposed on her now." In the past three months, I have also learned a lot from Mr. Wei. There are many things in the world, as long as we say they are facts, and people believe and accept them, they are facts. This point, brother, you should know better than me, right? ”
Just like the Xiao family's army, after decades of hard work, secretly planned, and seized the opportunity to enter Luojing, why did they come, people with a heart naturally know it. But now more people in the world will agree more with those banners of "defending the imperial capital and protecting orthodoxy" and accept the facts they are willing to accept.
The atmosphere of the tent gradually eased again, and the razor that was picked up again made a soft rustling sound......
"Xiao Hong! In exchange for this, you have nothing left! Are you sure you don't regret it? Xiao Ze looked at the brocade white Guogong Shizi's regular clothes in the mirror, stretched out his hand to stabilize the golden crown on his head, stared at his younger brother who was wearing a Xuanjia in a corner of the mirror, and asked coldly.
"I'm just changing clothes with my brother! What is there to regret? Xiao Hong leaned over, stretched out his arms, and hugged his eldest brother firmly.
Brothers are like siblings, and women are like garments. But the wife who can't be changed is the one who dominates here.
Clenched his fist and raised his right hand resting on his left chest and knocked the thick breastplate fiercely, Xiao Hong, who had been pretending to have a serious face for three months, couldn't help but smile toothy, as bright as a spring sun. Then he reached out and took the black mask from the table and put it on his face, turned and walked towards the outside of the tent without hesitation.
The carriage that had been untied was resting quietly on the ground, and the woman in black leaning against the door of the carriage was quite handsome and beautiful, but her eyes looked at the sky like a blind person.
Xiao Hong, who was about to cough twice to remind him of his attention, smiled narrowly under the mask, put his straight steps softer and softer, and walked to Zhou Manyun's side without saying a word.
"Zhou! You go back first! Our brother has something to do! The voice that lowered his voice deliberately learned the seriousness and ruthlessness of the eldest brother. After several months of deliberate imitation, according to the evaluation of Wei Yuanrang and others, it can be fake and true.
"Xiao Xiaoliu, are you really trying to let me leave by myself?" , Zhou Manyun, who turned his head when he heard the sound, snorted lightly, no surprise or joy, and the clouds were light and clear.
It seems that it can't be done! Xiao Hong, who had only been exposed in the middle of his face, simply stepped forward and rushed forward, stretched out his arms and grabbed his hands, and firmly held the woman who pretended to leave.
"Missed you!" , Whispers whispered to each other almost at the same time, and the man's palm, which was only exposed, was firmly wrapped in the palm of Man Yun's hand, "Stupid! Wrap it into zongzi, and I can recognize you! (To be continued......)