Chapter 20 What I Love at First Sight

Since Er Zhuyan parted ways with Er Zhu Ying'e and others outside Luoyang City, she rode a caravan all the way from Luoyang in the Northern Wei Dynasty to Jiankang, the capital of the Southern Liang Kingdom. From south to north, Er Zhuyan can clearly feel the difference between the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Liang in terms of regional customs and habits, the most obvious is the dress, the women of the Northern Dynasty wear leopard skin, more clothes at the mouth, and the hair bun is relatively simple, while most of the women in the Southern Dynasty wear wide sleeves, and the hair bun is mostly coiled with beads.

In the Northern Dynasty, even though it was the year of the weak crown, there was no need to tie the hair, and the people who respected the totem would tattoo the emblem belonging to their own race and tribe on their bodies, and the women would not wrap their bodies tightly like the women of the Southern Liang. Especially when the farm is busy, many women work like men with their wrists and arms, and even dress more boldly. But in the Southern Dynasties, although many women also had to work, they would also wrap themselves tightly without revealing their clothes.

Moreover, Er Zhuyan was also surprised to find that women in the Northern Dynasties traveled in great strides and rarely wore jade pendants around their waists, and many women in the Southern Dynasties would hang a step on their skirts to restrain their pace.

"If they go on like this, how long will it take to go" Er Zhuyan glanced at herself, then looked at the people around her, and found that at this moment, some of the people around her were focusing their eyes on herself.

"What are you looking at, is it possible, do I have flowers on my face?" She subconsciously touched her face, and looked at herself all over her body, since she left Luoyang, in order to be convenient on the road, she has been wearing men's clothes stolen from the guards, for several days, it is normal not to change clothes, and naturally there will be some taste that compares this person's nose.

Er Zhuyan sniffed herself, almost fainted from the smoke, she twisted her nose, and said with a shiver: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry everyone" said She walked quickly towards an inn.

"Yaxian Zhai" Er Zhuyan looked up, and then muttered to herself, "That's it", Er Zhuyan walked into the inn, and the shopkeeper ran to Er Zhuyan one after another, and then asked enthusiastically:

"Guest officer, hit the tip, or live in the hotel"

"Both" said Er Zhuyan took out a piece of broken silver from the belt of her lower abdomen, and then stretched out a finger, and the shopkeeper immediately walked to Er Zhuyan's side with interest

"Come to a pot of good peach blossom stuffing, come to a few of your store's signature dishes and send them to my room, the master is tired of coming here after a long journey, you will take a bucket of bath water later, the master wants to take a bath" said, Er Zhuyan took out a piece of broken silver from his pocket, and when the shopkeeper saw the silver, he thought it was a reward for him, and he was instantly happy. After he took the silver, Er Zhuyan said slowly, go to the best ready-to-wear store here, get a few sets of clothes for the master, and ask for the best" After that, Er Zhuyan took out the room card in the small second-hand store and went upstairs without paying attention. After Er Zhuyan left, the shopkeeper muttered to Er Zhuyan with some resentment.

"I thought there was a luxury landlord, but I didn't expect that the shelf was quite big" After that, the shopkeeper could only do what Er Zhuyan said one by one.

"After taking a bath, it's comfortable" said, Er Zhuyan changed into the clothes that the shopkeeper bought for her, just when she didn't know what to do, she saw the "Tactical Minutes" she cheated from Erzhu Bodhi in a pile of old clothes She slowly picked up the book called "Melee Minutes" from the ground and forgot about it, and snatched the melee minutes from Erzhu Bodhi's hand" Saying, Er Zhuyan leisurely opened the book. She took a general look, and in this book, in addition to Er Zhurong's recording of some of his strategies during battle, it also contained some martial arts fighting records.

"Father is really eccentric, such a good thing, how did he secretly give Erzhu Bodhi that straw bag, such things, I will smile for Erzhu Bodhi" said, Erzhu Yan was full of serious reading books.

In Er Zhurong's books, in addition to recording some of his experiences in past battles, there are more "Thirty-six Strategies" and "Sun Tzu's Art of War" that he used in actual combat. Er Zhuyan carefully looked at Er Zhurong's codex and found that the most mentioned word in the codex was bravery: "Those who fight, be brave." Be brave to be the first, be brave to be the first. Death and life are so great that everyone is sudden. Those who are not brave in battle will be encouraged to fight, and if they are defeated, their morale will be weak." It probably means: "If you want to fight, then you must have courage, if a soldier has the courage not to be afraid of battle, his morale is strong, if he is afraid, then the general must encourage him to raise his morale, if the morale is gathered, he will win, and if the morale is weak, he will lose."

"According to my father's words, in fact, I could have escaped from those bandits last time, because I was afraid and didn't dare to confront them, so I panicked, but can the three-legged cat kung fu I learned from Brother Heba be able to defeat the bandits?" Er Zhuyan thought about it, and couldn't help but shudder, "I can't beat it."

Since the separation in Luoyang, Er Zhuyan has been in Nanliang for half a month, and in addition to practicing Er Zhurong's codex cheats and martial arts every day, she is more about wandering around Jiankang City. I have nothing to do, either I wander into a tavern or a teahouse, and listen to some of the past events above the martial arts court.

Compared with Er Zhu Yan's life so wanton in Liangdu Jiankang, Er Zhu Ying'e seems to be a little struggling. According to the arrangement of the Northern Wei Dynasty Ministry of Rites, she temporarily lived in the post house, waited for Qin Tianjian to detect the auspicious time, and then went to the great treasure with the emperor Yuanzi. To sum up, it is a sacrifice to the sky, a parade of floats through the streets, and at night on the Vermilion Bird City with the emperor to throw money to bless the people.

However, thinking that she had been in Luoyang for dozens of days, although the emperor sent the marriage history to take care of her life, he also asked the Ministry of Rites to send someone to teach her the etiquette when worshipping the heavens. It stands to reason that before the marriage, it is not appropriate for men and women to meet, but Zhu Ying'e couldn't help but think of the scene when she first met Yuan Ziyu on that night when the lights were red and the curtain was tented.

In the evening, a new decree came from the palace, this time it was the Ministry of Rites himself who came to the post house to deliver the royal decree, and next to him was the emperor's most favored father-in-law, Gao Ziyi. This father-in-law, Er Zhu Ying'e saw it at the banquet, and he was very trusted by Yuan Ziyou.

As early as half a quarter of an hour ago, everyone in the post house knew that the palace would send someone to announce the holy order, so they stayed in the post house early and waited. The mothers in charge ended Erzhu Ying'e's etiquette teaching ahead of schedule today, so Erzhu Ying'e has been burning incense and bathing since the afternoon and waiting for this moment to come. The thought of being able to see Yuan Ziyou as soon as possible and becoming his queen soon, everything was like a dream for Er Zhu Ying'e.

"Miss is very happy today," a maid named Bin'er looked at Erzhu Ying'e and said slowly. This maid named Bin'er is a personal palace maid specially selected by the Ministry of Rites for Er Zhu Ying'e. Bin'er, a girl, is not only clever in her mouth, but also smart, so she quickly became a popular maid by Er Zhu Ying'e's side.

"Dead girl, this mouth is like smeared with honey, just your mouth is poor" said, Erzhu Ying'e's cheeks couldn't help but get hot, and she picked up a comb and brushed her hair in a hurry. I combed it homeopathically, using it to hide the restlessness in my heart.

"Yes, yes, it's the slave who talks a lot," said the maid named Bin'er, who took the comb from Erzhu Ying'e's hand and slowly groomed Erzhu Ying'e's broken hair.

Outside the house, the mother of the master came over slowly, and saluted to Er Zhu Ying'e, "Miss, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites and the father-in-law are already waiting in the hall, and the old slave will take the young lady over."

"Okay" Er Zhu Ying'e looked at herself in the vanity mirror, then smiled, stretched out a hand, and Bin'er immediately reached out to help her.

When Er Zhu Ying'e walked to the hall, Gonggong Gao and the waiter of the Ministry of Rites had been waiting in the hall for a long time. When everyone saw Er Zhu Ying'e and others coming, Gonggong Gao opened the holy decree and read in his shrill voice: "My fair lady, good gentleman." Erzhu has a woman, virtuous and docile, I heard about it, and I specially asked for it. Privilege the world, to take the next position, and I have it", Gao Gonggong closed the holy decree, and his slight steps walked to Erzhu Ying'e's side

"Let's take the decree from the queen mother," she said, Erzhu Ying'e slowly raised her hands, and Gonggong Gao slowly put the holy decree on Erzhu Ying'e's hands. Then he immediately stretched out his hand to help Er Zhu Ying'e, "Niangniang, the wedding date has been set, and in three days, His Majesty will send someone here to welcome Niangniang"

"This matter is annoying to the father-in-law and the adult" said, Er Zhu Ying'e tried to look at Bin'er, Bin'er immediately understood what it meant, she took out two packs of silver and handed it to the Ministry of Rites Shangshu and Gao Gonggong, "A little reward, I hope you will smile"

Gonggong Gao and the waiter of the Ministry of Rites looked at each other, and immediately said to Er Zhu Ying'e, "My thank you, Niangniang"

Er Zhu Ying'e smiled and said to Bin'er: "Bin'er, you send two adults for the palace" After that, Bin'er walked straight in front of Gonggong Gao and the Ministry of Rites, slowly stretched out his hand, and said to the two of them very respectfully: "The two adults are here, please" Saying, Bin'er took them out of the room slowly

"You really want to marry into the palace," Xu Rong walked out from behind the curtain

"The last time I came to Luoyang, it was just a small and four-grade full, today I am ranked first in the world, life has encountered such twists and turns, do you think I still have a choice to this day?" Er Zhu Ying'e looked at Xu Rong, she knew that Xu Rong was Ge Rong's dead soldier, since entering Luoyang, Xu Rong was nowhere to be found, just at this time, Er Zhurong was severely defeated by Ge Rong, thinking that she was going to find Ge Rong.

"Let's go with my aunt to the real king" Xu Rong walked up to Erzhu Ying'e's side, grabbed Erzhu Ying'e's arm and wanted to take her away.

"Aunt wants me to restrain my father" After saying that, Er Zhu Ying'e grabbed Xu Rong's arm and took the opportunity to prick Xu Rong's arm with a silver needle.

"You already knew," Xu Rong asked her

"I've always known and know why I didn't say it? I thank you for raising me since I was a child, but why did you poison my mother, I was almost stillborn back then, and it was my mother who used her life to exchange for me a new life, I want to ask you, she is your own sister, why are you so poisoned" After Er Zhu Ying'e finished speaking, Xu Rong wanted to grab Er Zhu Ying'e and run away together when he saw that the plan was exposed, so that he had a bargaining chip, and secondly, he could attract Er Zhurong and the Son of Heaven to turn against each other.

"Now that you know, today, I will leave you unallowed" said that, Xu Rong planned to hook Er Zhu Ying'e's neck and plan to hold her hostage on the spot, but before she could do anything, she felt that the whole person fell to the ground weakly. "You actually poisoned it"

Er Zhu Ying'e slowly turned to look at her, and said unhappily, "Each other, I am also deeply taught by my aunt"

"When did you doubt me" Xu Rong knew that she had no way out, so she was naturally more fearless.

Er Zhu Ying'e said: "Do you remember what your reaction was when Er Zhuyan asked me about my background in the carriage? It's hatred, I always thought that you hated my aunt and shouldn't fall in love with my father, so I regretted her. It wasn't until later that I found out that it wasn't my aunt that you hated, but my father, and I never understood this."

"What don't you understand," Xu Rong asked her

"I don't understand, why did you never mention A-Niang to me, but made me always hate my father, until one day, my father told me something, which is fundamentally different from what you told me" Erzhu Ying'e looked at her angrily, only to see that at this time, Bin'er had already sent someone back and made a bench for her, Erzhu Ying'e quickly walked to the bench and sat down.

"Oh, I'd like to hear what he said about me" Xu Rong knew that he had reached the end of the mountain, so he naturally wouldn't argue with Er Zhu Ying'e anymore, not to mention who Er Zhu Ying'e was, she came out single-handedly, and her ruthlessness was exactly the same as herself.

"You said that my father was seriously injured and was chased and stopped, and fainted by the river to be rescued by my mother, but why didn't you think that my mother's weak body could carry my father who was like a strong tiger to avoid pursuit, and the person who saved my father that day was not my mother, are you right?"

Erzhu Ying'e glanced at Xu Rong, Xu Rong did not refute, Erzhu Ying'e knew that she was right about all this. Everything is not as Xu Rong said, I think there are more that Xu Rong deceived her.

"It's come to this, everything you say is right, I can't refute it" Xu Rongyi raised his head and said fearlessly

"I have not wronged you, you know it. After you saved your father, you brought him home, and it just so happened that your own sister was good at medicine, and you believed that you would be able to save him. However, you can't betray Ge Rong, so you gather those who tried to kill your father in one place, and you kill them. I thought that if you made these things well, you would not only become your father's savior at that time, but also get rid of Ge Rong by relying on his power at that time, but as a result, he fell in love with your sister, this scene is something you can't imagine, so you killed my mother while my father was going home to find the clansman."

"Joke, Xu Yuan'er is my own sister, I have the same father and mother, and have the same appearance, why should I kill her" Xu Rong interrupted Erzhu Ying'e's speech with some impatience

"That's the reason, because you are also in love with my father, you are resentful, you and my mother obviously have the same face as the elders, but he is in love with my mother, all of this, so that you are not convinced by the competitive since childhood, so you killed her, because you hate her, you feel that she took away everything from you, and it was she who caused you to have nothing" Saying that, Erzhu Ying'e walked up to Xu Rong with resentment, and tightly pulled her sleeve and asked her

"Why did you do this, why did you kill her"

"Because she deserves to die, she shouldn't live in this world, others think how happy twins are, but in fact, you face a person who looks exactly like you every day, as if you are looking in a mirror, as if you are obsessed. Xu Yuan'er has been pampered by her parents since she was a child, just because she is so good, so everyone likes her, and no one will ever pay attention to me, so I want to become stronger and let everyone notice me, I don't want to be her puppet"

"So you killed her, just because of your damn jealousy" said, Er Zhu Ying'e couldn't help but slap Xu Rong.

"Originally, I also wanted to treat her sincerely, but who knows, she even robbed my favorite person, from childhood to adulthood, I will give her what she likes, who makes me a sister, but only love can't." As she spoke, Xu Rong began to reminisce, recalling the period she least wanted to remember

"That day, there was news from the clan, let your father go back, saying that the emperor gave your father and the princess of Dawei Yuan, originally I thought, if your father really married the Yuan, when the time comes, why not marry my sisters, who knows that your father actually dared to openly disobey the emperor and the clansmen for Xu Yuan'er, that slut, he will not accept me, I know that all this is over, simply, I will take advantage of your father's return to the clan, kill your mother, who would have thought, your mother is actually pregnant. As soon as I thought of this, I had a plan to let her give birth to this baby, but she would never live, so I did something in her tocolytic pills, and sure enough, she died of blood collapse after giving birth to you."

"In that case, why didn't you kill me, why did you raise me, but you still have to teach me martial arts, teach me to be your executioner" Er Zhu Ying'e looked at her puzzled

"I originally thought that your mother is dead, and I am twins, so even if I take her identity, your father will not doubt it, but who knows, he recognized me at a glance, he knew that Xu Yuan'er was dead, so he wanted to take you home, I naturally didn't let you, so I told you to steal it, so that one day, you can return to him all the original things that Er Zhurong failed me to me. Let him also know what it's like to be betrayed by the person he trusts the most," Xu Rong said, looking at Er Zhu Ying'e with a dead face

"Now, you know what you're going to do with me"

"I won't kill you, but it doesn't mean that I won't kill you, you have been hit by my latest research on Wushisan, although it won't kill you, but it can make you addicted, but it can cause hallucinations. There is no one to treat in the whole world, and when you become addicted to drugs, you will be asked to live and die," said Erzhu Ying'e to Bin'er, "Decorate her with valuable jewelry, throw her into a mass grave, if she still has her life alive, she will lose her martial arts, if she is unfortunately humiliated by a beggar and can't think about it, it is reasonable"

After that, Erzhu Ying'e ignored it and approached the room, Xu Rong shouted loudly: "Erzhu Ying'e, you are so ruthless, I will definitely curse you, curse you like me, you will never be able to get love, and finally sisters kill each other, my road today is your future road" Before Xu Rong finished speaking, Bin'er next to Erzhu Ying'e said to the guards

"This thief woman speaks so badly, drag her out and beat her, and then throw her into a mass grave, let her go with the lonely ghost."

"Yes," after the guard finished saluting, he beat Xu Rong and threw him into the mass grave.