Chapter 17 The flowers are similar every year, but the people are different every year

The autumn breeze swept across the river, bringing ripples.

The building boat, which had been running back and forth for many miles in Dayue, docked at the entrance of Dongting Lake again.

On a stone by the lake, Zhu Manzhi held a fishing rod in both hands, carefully watching the fish floating on the water.

Song Yufu held a small bamboo basket, sat sideways in front of her, looked at it with a blank eye, and said with some suspicion:

"Manzhi, can you catch crabs like this? I heard Sister Qiqi say that Xianggong will come back today, and I still want to steam crabs for Xianggong, and I was going to go to the market to buy ......"

Zhu Manzhi was full of confidence and patted his chest bigger than Yufu:

"The crabs in the market are all leftovers, how can they be delicious when they catch themselves."

Song Yufu was a little helpless, and pondered a little:

"Manzhi, you didn't come to fish for crabs because you couldn't cook and saw that I was preparing crabs for Xianggong, so you wanted to show your heart together, right?"

Zhu Manzhi naturally thought so, she got a little closer, and said seriously:

"Afu, Daning and Xiaoning have all rebelled, we are now sisters who report to the group to keep warm, this little thing, is it possible that you still mind? If you mind, forget it, I'll accompany you to the market to buy crabs now. ”

"I don't mind, of course, but ......"

Song Yufu looked at the empty bamboo basket and was a little worried:

"But if you want to show your mind together with the advance and retreat, you have to have crabs, right? We've been fishing for an hour...... Hey? It's moving......"

As he spoke, the fish in the water drifted twice, as if something was eating the bait.

Zhu Manzhi suddenly got up, swayed left and right with the fishing rod, walked skillfully for a long time, and then collected the rod in a dashing manner, and pulled up a fat and big ...... from the lake Turtle.

Zhu Manzhi's expression stiffened, and he looked at the big turtle, and he was reluctant to throw it away, and thought about it:

"Afu, can you steam Wang Ba?"

Song Yufu's expression was strange, and she hesitated: "Hmm...... Try it......"

On the deck of the ship, Lu Hongluan held a small umbrella and waited for Xu Buling to come back, and saw the two little girls surrounding Wang Ba worried, shook his head and chuckled, not knowing what to say.

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Compared with the liveliness of the little girl, the rear of the building boat is a little silent.

On the terrace behind the ship, two pots of golden chrysanthemums planted in spring bloom in the morning sun.

Cui Xiaowan leaned back on the recliner, but her eyes did not focus on the flowers, but raised her eyes to look at the clouds in the sky, stunned.

When leaving Peach Blossom Valley, the mountains were covered with heavy snow, and the sky and the earth were white.

She took an old man and a dog, and left three rows of feet on the snow, and it was two thousand miles away.

When she arrived at her destination, it was spring and she saw her favorite scenery in her life, and the people she was most interested in.

At that time, I thought that I would live in that big sea of flowers for the rest of my life, plant all the flowers, and have no other pursuits for the rest of my life.

But after living for a long time, I found that the flowers and plants that were once used as sustenance have become ordinary flowers and plants.

And then went again.

set off when the spring flowers were blooming, went to many places she had been to, and returned to Chang'an City, which she used as a birdcage when the rainstorm was pouring in the middle of summer.

However, this time I went to Chang'an, but I didn't have the depression when I entered Chang'an in a sedan chair for the first time, on the contrary, I was quite happy.

Thinking about it, it may be because the place where you go is the same, and the people who stay around you are different.

In the blink of an eye, autumn is again, spring, summer, autumn and winter alternate as in previous years, but this time it seems to have experienced more things than in the previous 20 years combined.

But I remembered it carefully, but I couldn't remember anything, as if there was only one man smiling......

Under the autumn sun, Cui Xiaowan is the same as in the Peach Blossom Valley, leaning on the recliner and looking at the clouds, but her heart is not as peaceful as in previous years, as if something is blocked in her heart, she can't see or touch it, but it makes people feel impatient and uncomfortable......

In the room behind the terrace, Xiao Xiang'er was fiddling with small objects at the table, and in her spare time, she looked at the terrace outside the window, and her eyes were faintly worried.

Since leaving Xiliang and getting on the ship, Cui Xiaowan has lived with Xiao Xiang'er, and half a year has passed.

Getting along day and night, Xiao Xianger can feel Cui Xiaowan's changes.

At first, it was the same as in the palace, I didn't care about anything, I just liked to do my own thing; Later, I slowly began to be alone in a daze, and every time I came back, the number of times I was in a daze would increase.

Until the last time she came back from Chang'an City, Cui Xiaowan looked at the sky in a daze almost every day, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

Before Xu Buling left last time, he had privately told her to accompany Cui Xiaowan more, Cui Xiaowan likes to live alone and not communicate with others, and has nothing to do on the boat, staying alone in the house as if confined, and sooner or later she will be sick.

Xiao Xianger kept these words in her heart, and she also wanted to accompany this titular daughter-in-law more, and she didn't even play mahjong. But even if she stays by Xiaowan's side, what can she accompany?

In addition to raising flowers, Xiaowan just likes to listen to stories. No matter how many stories Xiao Xiang'er has in her stomach, there are times when she finishes telling them, and she can't make them up now. And Xiaowan doesn't seem to be even interested in raising flowers now, and she doesn't even care about watering every day, if she hadn't taken care of it on time every day, the two pots of flowers would have been raised to death.

Cui Xiaowan sat on the recliner, not moving, looking very peaceful. But this kind of tranquility without any vitality made Xiao Xiang'er feel even more worried, so she looked at it and said that there was nothing wrong with a dead person lying on the terrace.

Xiao Xiang'er looked at it for a while, and was really afraid that Cui Xiaowan would just lie on the chair and close her eyes, thought about it, picked up the small pot for watering, walked to the terrace, and looked at it.

Cui Xiaowan's eyes moved slightly, and she turned to look at Xiao Xiang'er next to her:

"The Queen Mother."

After a word of greeting, there was no follow-up.

Xiao Xiang'er saw that Cui Xiaowan was nothing unusual, so she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, with a smile on her cheeks, she watered the two flower pots, and said casually:

"Xiaowan, your chrysanthemums are so beautiful."

Speaking of this, Xiao Xiang'er remembered something, and secretly scolded Xu Buling, and her standing posture was a little unnatural.

Cui Xiaowan tapped her toes, and the recliner began to sway, she looked at the two pots of gorgeous flowers, and nodded lightly:

"Yes, the queen mother likes it so much, Xu Buling sees it, she should like it too."

That's it, he's just that......

Xiao Xiang'er pursed her lips and felt that the topic was a little crooked, so she skipped the topic, sat down on the recliner next to her, and said with a smile:

"Xiaowan, do you want to make a decision?"

Cui Xiaowan's expression did not change, and nodded seriously: "I must think about it, the queen mother will have memorized those stories backwards, and he will do more." ”

Xiao Xiang'er was a little dissatisfied, raised her hand and poked Cui Xiaowan's shoulder, and quipped:

"I will get less if I dislike it, and it's useless to tell the story, and I start thinking about others?"

"How so?"

Cui Xiaowan smiled, no longer thinking about those messy things, but leaned on the armrest, and said crisply:

"Queen Mother, let me tell you, he told me a lot."

Xiao Xiang'er saw that Xiaowan was a little more lively, so she nodded: "Okay, but I've basically heard all of his jokes about coaxing girls." ”

"Not necessarily, did he tell you about Chang Yu? Doing similar things to him......"

“……”

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Xu Buling galloped his horse, and at noon, he came to the shore where the ship docked.

Zhongli Jiujiu sat behind him, hugging Xu Buling's waist, and kept talking about the village along the way, obviously really anxious.

After all, it was his own daughter-in-law, Xu Buling was a little distressed, comforted him softly, turned over and dismounted, and walked quickly to the boat.

Looking up, Xiao Wan and Xiang'er were sitting on the deck chairs on the terrace talking. Inside the cabin, Aunt Lu's voice could be faintly heard:

"Wang Ba is not steamed like this, alas...... I'll do it anyway......"

Xu Buling was a little puzzled, but there was something to do, so it was not good to run to find out at this time, so he took Zhongli Jiujiu to the second floor of the ship.

In the study on the second floor of the building, there was a mountain of case files, and Xiao Qi sat between the sea of books, waiting for a long time.

Seeing Xu Buling and Zhong Li Jiujiu walking in, Xiao Qi didn't ask for warmth too much, got up and said:

"Xianggong, things in South Vietnam are a bit strange."

Xu Buling closed the door, and before he spoke, Zhongli Jiujiu, who had been worried about his hometown, said nervously:

"Sister Qiqi, what's wrong? How's the stockade? ”

Xiao Qi stood up and sat down next to the soft collapse: "Yesterday I sent someone to inquire overnight, and I found that as long as the people who escaped from Liuzhou, they basically knew about the Feishuiling cottage. It is said that the court caught the strong man and suffered a disaster, but the other villages are all out to fight according to the rules, only the village where Jiu Jiu and Chu Chu are located was cleared, and the cleanup only took away people, especially a few famous old people in the village, and no one knows where they went.

Chu Chu is a contemporary Bakui, with a great reputation in the rivers and lakes, and has had contact with Xianggong in Hongshan Lake and Youzhou before, as long as you have the heart to inquire, you will definitely know that Chu Chu is here in Xianggong.

Xianggong, do you think someone deliberately put news in the shadows to lead you or Jiujiu and Chu Chu to South Vietnam? ”

When Zhongli Jiujiu heard this, he first felt that it made sense, but after thinking about it, he shook his head:

"It's unlikely, there are only a few hundred people in the stockade, and it's still from South Vietnam. No matter how good Xianggong is to me and Chu Chu, it is impossible for such a small matter to go out in person, just send two masters over. ”

Xu Buling also felt a bit far-fetched. Liuzhou is thousands of miles away, and it was a temporary idea to go to dinner yesterday, and it was even more coincidental to meet Dong Qing, and it was impossible for anyone to arrange it in advance.

And what did a small village in South Vietnam do to lead him, an invincible evil star in the world, to the past? Set the fox to keep the geese?

However, conspiracy and calculation can only work wonders if normal people can't think of it, or if they don't pay attention to it.

If something happened to the village in South Vietnam, Jiu Jiu was obviously in a hurry, and he would definitely run back to take a look. If someone thinks that he has a heart or an unintentional intention and holds Jiu Jiu or Chu Chu hostage, then he can threaten him.

Xu Buling thought for a while, and his face was slightly gloomy: "It's not impossible, who is so bold and has the idea to hit me on the head?" ”

Xiao Qi shook his head: "I'm just guessing, it's not necessarily true, but there must be a demon when something goes wrong, and you can't ignore it." When Xiang Gong went to South Vietnam, he still paid more attention. ”

Zhong Li Jiujiu was stunned when he heard this: "Since you think there may be an ambush, why do you want Xianggong to go over in person?" Just send a few masters back to take a look, and you can't jump into the trap. ”

Xiao Qi's face was serious: "The four kings of Jiangping have to start spring at the earliest, and the Xiliang army will go south from Yueyang to Liuzhou for a maximum of twenty days, and it is not bad to take this opportunity to sober up South Vietnam." Xiang Gong took Jiu Jiu into South Vietnam to have a look, and then 'disappeared'. I let the Xiliang army follow behind, and when the time comes, go directly to find someone, and if South Vietnam dares to stop it, you can start a war directly......"

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Xu Buling blinked, he wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, he forgot it. After all, South Vietnam will have to fight sooner or later, and it is not a particularly important place, since the army is idle, there is no problem in accompanying the daughter-in-law back to her parents' house and destroying it.

Zhongli Jiujiu was a little confused, and whispered: "Sister Qiqi, something happened in the village, why did you suddenly start fighting Nanyue?" There's no need to make such a big fuss about me, right? ”

Xiao Qi smiled: "It's just a stopover." Since something happened to the fathers and villagers in the village, you and Xianggong will set off to take a look first, and I will let Yang Zunyi take 20,000 Xiliang troops to set off later, and the speed of the brigade will definitely not be as fast as yours, so don't take it too lightly. ”

Xu Buling thought about it for a while, and felt that there was no problem, so he didn't say more......

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