In the silent night, the unknown insects were calling, a full moon hung high in the sky, and the bright moonlight sprinkled the entire general's mansion, which was unobstructed.

The soldiers Qinglong and Chihu stood on the watchtower in the general's mansion, looking anxiously into the distance, today is the fifteenth day, it is the agreed day, how can it be delayed today, after waiting for a long time, Qinglong saw a white dove flapping its wings from the direction of Baiqi Mountain, and then stabilized his mind.

When the carrier pigeon flew to the arm of the red tiger, Qinglong hurriedly took off the envelope pinned to the pigeon's paws, and the red tiger hurriedly got off the watchtower, and hurried towards the Zhiqiu Courtyard.

"General Qiyu, there's a letter from the young general." Qinglong and Chihu came to the Zhiqiu Courtyard, Chihu gently stepped forward, whispered to the house, saw the long light in the house on, and knocked lightly on the door three times, one short, two long, this is a code.

The door opened gently from the inside, and Qinglong and Chihu looked around cautiously, quickly entered the house, and gently turned around and closed the door.

General Mo Lin took the envelope handed over by Qinglong, took out the letter paper inside, and with the light of the ever-bright lamp, and waited for his eyes to sweep the news on the letterhead, he first asked for a look, and then angrily slapped the letter on the desk, "This unfilial son doesn't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, do you want hundreds of people up and down my general's mansion to accompany him to be buried!" ”

Qinglong and Chihu were standing beside him, seeing that the general Tie was blue-faced, and the green tendons on his forehead were violent because he was too excited, Qinglong stole a glance at Chihu, and saw that Chihu was raising his eyebrows and bowing his mouth to signal, and hurriedly stepped forward to hug his fist and said, "General, please calm your anger, the young general Xu is impatient to stay in the Lingyin Temple in Bai Qishan, and he is on a whim, so he sent a message to provoke the general to be angry, the general must not be anxious and angry, everything is easy to discuss." ”

"I'm afraid that this time, I can't help his temperament, and if I let him go, I'm afraid that he will go to the sky, poke a big hole, and turn the general's mansion upside down." General Mo Lin rubbed his swollen and aching temples, got up slowly, and stuffed the letter back into the envelope, blaming and scolding on his lips, but in his heart he remembered the sin suffered by the child who was far away in Bai Qishan, his expression was sad, and he stumbled a little when he got up.

"Qinglong, go get a set of civilian clothes, Red Tiger, go prepare the horse, remember, act cautiously, don't alarm anyone." General Mo Lin lifted the lanternshade and was about to burn the envelope when it was suddenly snatched away by the person behind him.

"Madam, why are you up, didn't you fall asleep just now?" General Mo Lin turned his head sharply, and saw that the third lady Ye Wanqiu was only wearing white close-fitting clothes, holding a letter paper with red eyes and walking to the chair next to the beauty screen, he knew her character very well, so he could only shake his head helplessly.

"Every time on the day of the full moon, Yao'er's letter, do you think I can sleep?" After reading the contents of the envelope, Ye Wanqiu saw that only ashes were left on the wick of the ever-bright lamp, so he raised his head and looked at the general lightly.

"You two go and run errands, it's getting late." General Mo Lin waved his hand at the two, Qinglong and Chihu led the order to retreat, and after a while, Qinglong and Chihu, who had changed their armor, had already dressed up as a small servant when they entered the house, and Qinglong put civilian clothes on the desk again, and the two crept out of the door.

"Madam, don't follow his temperament this time, you have relied on him for everything since you were a child, but this time this matter is a crime of bullying the king, if the emperor knows about it, the general's mansion will be beheaded all over the house!" General Mo Lin thought of the contents of the letter, and the worry in his heart came up one after another, he had been fighting on the battlefield with his father since he was eighteen years old, and he had seen tens of thousands of corpses, he was not afraid of death, but afraid of his wife and children......

Ye Wanqiu waited for the general to put on civilian clothes without saying a word, put on a gauze hat, covered himself with a black shirt over the dirty clothes, covered with a veil, walked to the Luohan bed, leaned down, pressed the switch at the bottom of the Luohan bed, and saw that the landscape painting in the center of the house was immediately divided into two, and slowly opened to both sides, Ye Wanqiu took the lead in carrying the horse lantern, General Mo Lin followed, the landscape painting slowly closed, without a trace, and everything returned to the same as before.

General Mo Lin and Ye Wanqiu borrowed the dim light of the horse lamp in their hands, passed through the tortuous and dark dark passage, entered the ear room from the secret door on the wall, went out of the ear room, and came to the small side door, Qinglong and Chihu had already set up the soldiers who should have kept vigil, and there was no one in front of the door, General Mo Lin pushed open the hidden door and stepped out of the threshold, Ye Wanqiu followed closely behind, turned around and closed the door.

Qinglong and Chihu, who were wearing gauze hats, had been standing in front of the horse and waiting for a while, General Mo Lin grabbed the reins, stepped on the horse, leaned down again, grabbed Ye Wanqiu's hand, pulled her on the horse, and hugged her into his arms, Qinglong and Red Tiger also got on the horse, whipped the horse, and ran straight into the thick night with General Mo Lin running in the direction of Bai Qishan.

Ye Wanqiu glanced back at the huge general's mansion, and felt that the general's mansion was crumbling, and she was in a trance for a while, and today's letter from Yao'er had actually made her anxious and restless, but she still had to pretend to be calm.

What happened to Yao'er in the past two years made her exhausted, if she didn't pretend that nothing had happened, she was afraid that the man behind her would have to worry endlessly for her, the cold wind was blowing in her face, and she didn't know how long she had been bumpy on the horse, Ye Wanqiu looked at Bai Qishan towering in front of her, thinking that she had been thinking about it for a month, and she could see her Yao'er again, and she suddenly didn't feel how tired she was on the way.

When the four of them tied their horses at the bottom of the mountain and climbed up the Lingyin Temple halfway up Baiqi Mountain, it was already time, and the night was darker, and the four of them took advantage of the night to come to a squatter house that was still some distance away from the Lingyin Temple, Qinglong and Chihu were guarding the door of the squatter, and General Mo Lin and Ye Wanqiu pushed the door open and walked in.

The dim lantern shone on a man in a smoky gray satin robe, looking so lonely and desolate, Ye Wanqiu's heart seemed to have been pricked by a needle, densely painful, and before he could step forward, he was shocked by General Mo Lin's reprimand.

"You're becoming more and more lawless now, do you want to go with you to death from top to bottom of the general's mansion? Well, even if you think that the servants and maids in the general's mansion are cheap, you should consider your mother! I strongly disagree with this matter! ”

General Mo Lin looked at Yao'er's back, in the past two years, he has stayed in this place alone for two years, and he has picked up a life full of holes, he is not distressed, but many things can't help him mess around.

"For as long as I can remember, the court has been jealous of our other generals, the meticulous work sent by the Hu people, and the remnants of the enemies of the nine clans ordered by my father, how many wolf dogs have not been staring at us all the year round, since the accident that beat me, which one does not want me to die quickly, which force does not want to take advantage of this chaos to completely beat our general's mansion forever, this time I will fulfill their wishes." Mo Xingyao's hoarse voice came faintly, knocking Mo Lin's tense nerves word by word.

"Yao'er, why do you want your father to hold a funeral for you, why do you want to fake your death, you are obviously living well in front of your mother, Yao'er, we have followed you in the past, this time you listen to your father's words, only this matter must not be! If this is known by the current emperor, it will be a big crime to deceive the king! Ye Wanqiu stepped forward, squatted down and grabbed Xingyao's hand, and couldn't help choking.

"Mother, am I alive and well? If you hadn't stopped me two years ago, my bones would have rotted away, look at me, am I still like a person?"

Mo Xingyao lifted the sleeves of her shirt, Ye Wanqiu looked at the dense narrow and hideous scars on Yao'er's arms, like a centipede that zigzags forward, after Yao'er had an accident and picked up a life, she fainted when she saw him for the first time after a few months, and when she thought of this, Ye Wanqiu's heart was twisted and painful as if it had been crushed.

"Father, how long do you want to keep me here, two years, ten years, or a lifetime? Your reputation is so broken because the child is so broken now, do you want the world to seize this handle and be laughed at by the world?" Mo Xingyao closed his sleeves, stood up, helped Ye Wanqiu to sit on the stool, and then turned around slowly.

Mo Lin stared at Mo Xingyao in front of him, the only heir of General Mo's Mansion, he couldn't see his face clearly in the faint light, or rather, he had no face at all, his face was covered by a bronze mask, only his eyes and mouth were exposed, which was particularly scary in the dark, and when he looked closely, he was even more trembling, Mo Lin was choked by Xingyao's words for a while, and he couldn't say a word.

"Yao'er, don't be discouraged, your father just met with the ambassador of the Western Regions a few days ago, and I heard that there is a miracle medicine in the Western Regions, which will definitely cure your injuries." Ye Wanqiu held back her tears, pretending to be light and said lightly, this, Ye Wanqiu was also comforting herself, Turkic, Mongolian, Khitan, the general sent people everywhere to ask for medicine, but to nothing.

"How many Hua Tuo in Chang'an City are alive, and the miracle doctor who rejuvenates me still can't cure my dilapidated body, father, I don't want to continue to hide, I don't want everyone on the streets of Chang'an City to speculate about my life and death, and I don't want to let those wolf dogs grab the handle because of my appearance, and simply declare me dead, and everything is clean."

"Yao'er, once the obituary is issued, there will be no more young generals in General Mo's Mansion from now on, have you thought clearly!" Mo Lin stared at Mo Xingyao's eyes, since he was a child, the eyes of this child were scorching, as bright as stars, since he was injured, these eyes have been dim and dull, falling into a dead darkness.

"Father, you know what I think, why ask again, it's not too early, you can take your mother back early, it won't be dawn in a long time." Mo Xingyao picked up Ye Wanqiu, the lips exposed under the mask were slightly pulled out of an arc, Ye Wanqiu looked at the bronze mask, and really wanted to take it off, but she couldn't.

"Let's go." Mo Lin grabbed Ye Wanqiu's hand, went out without raising his head, and if he didn't leave, Ye Wanqiu was afraid that he would be reluctant to leave like the previous times.

The four of them hurried down Bai Qishan, rode back to the General's Mansion, and when they returned to the inner room from the dark passage, Mo Lin stopped and was about to leave Qinglong and Chihu, "Tomorrow will send an obituary to the outside world, Mo Xingyao, the young general, will die of illness and die." ”

"General!" Qinglong and Chihu opened their eyes wide, they had just seen the back of the young general, and they were still fine, why did they suddenly ......

"Do as I say, and go down." Mo Lin raised his hand, Qinglong and Chihu led the order to retreat, Ye Wanqiu opened the bamboo window, the moon tonight is really round, and the moon on the night when Yao'er was born eighteen years ago, is as round.

The sky gradually brightened, and Mo Xingyao, who had sat all night with the moonlight, opened the drawer and pulled out the portrait inside, on which a delicate girl with a beautiful nose and cherry lips was displayed in front of him, he originally planned to stay in the Lingyin Temple for the rest of his life, and survived until he died of old age, but when he learned that she was still alive, there was starlight in his eyes again.

Mo Xingyao died, but an iron-masked soldier under General Mo Lin lived.