The reason why Liu Nan'er, whose beauty is crowned in the south of the Yangtze River, is willing to come to this desolate northern land is because in Jiankang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it is difficult for a new widow of a scholar family to marry in this life.

The children of the wealthy families would not marry her, nor could they be concubines.

Marrying into an ordinary Shu family, the Liu clan, who is a gate lord clan, will not agree.

If it is really as grandpa said, if the Jiangnan government and the opposition knew that the seventh daughter of Mrs. Liu's new widow was abducted and taken to the Western Regions by the eldest son of the Yi family of the Longxi Manor of the new Jin clan.

It will inevitably cause public outrage, because the face of the entire upper class is at stake.

If those nobles of the scholar clan use this to seek revenge against Wuwei and the second brother of Chang'an, they will not say that they will gain a foothold in Jiangnan, and their lives will not be guaranteed.

"Old Su, the caravan is handed over to you! The old man wants to personally send the seventh girl back to Jiangnan and apologize to Mrs. Liu in person! Grandpa stood up and gave a brief command.

"Grandpa, the slave family and the son-in-law have a deep relationship between brother and sister, how can you say elopement? This time, he went north to the Western Regions and went to his in-laws' grandfather, which was also agreed by his father. Before leaving, my father sent a letter to my little daughter, asking me to pass it on to my grandfather. ”

Liu Nan'er argued with tears in her eyes, and asked the old man behind her to take out the letterhead and hand it to her grandfather.

Later, because of curiosity, I asked for the letterhead from Mrs. Liu to grandpa, and I learned the contents of it, which are roughly as follows:

Brother Linfeng: The new widow of the seventh daughter Nan'er is not tolerated by the world of the Southern Dynasty. Youth is young, wasted years, and the foolish brother can't bear it! The nephew of the eldest grandson of your family, Jincheng, is merciful and willing to take his daughter to the north, my brother can't help but be grateful, and my brother must not blame. The land of the Western Regions has no relatives, and the daughter of the family depends on my brother to be the master of everything......

After reading the letter, Grandpa's face slowly improved.

"Get up! My babies! Grandpa sighed and kindly helped Liu Nan'er up.

Qin Chong and Uncle Su also quickly helped me up and swept away the dust all over my body.

The blood marks left by the whip on the arms and forehead were like stabbing pains.

What's even more sad is that when I grow so big, it's the first time that my grandfather has been so cruel to me, and I can't save face in front of everyone!

"Seventh girl, since your father entrusted you to the old man, you are not the old man's granddaughter from now on! After returning to the Western Regions in Khotan, you will marry my family Jincheng one day and be my eldest grandson's daughter-in-law! Hahaha! ”

After that, Grandpa laughed loudly, but everyone present was confused, and I couldn't figure out why Grandpa's attitude had changed so much in an instant.

But I know that all of this is due to Mrs. Liu's letters.

"How can a new widow and an ominous person from a slave family be worthy of the son's daughter! Even if you are reluctant, you can't have such extravagant hopes! ”

Liu Nan'er took out the champa in distress and gently bandaged the whiplash on my arm.

"I don't want to be my daughter-in-law of Yimen, so why did you follow Jincheng to the Western Regions?"

Grandpa asked puzzledly, the land of the Western Regions is full of yellow sand, where can it compare to the Yanyu Yingge in the land south of the Yangtze River.

I looked at Bai Xuan's painter behind Liu Nan'er with a guilty face, and I already understood what was going on.

There was a bit of relief, but more reluctance and a strong sense of vinegar.

Miss Liu Nan'er, a beautiful woman in the south who has a charming appearance and a charming voice, I haven't even touched her jade hand so far, so I was so down-and-out that Bai Xuan's painter snatched her love.

"Grandpa, Brother Jincheng, Nan'er already has someone who can be entrusted for life!"

Liu Nan'er lovingly pulled Bai Xuan's painter on the side, and introduced shyly.

"Master Yi, Master Yi, Bai Xuan's wife died three years ago, and all thoughts were lost, so he came here to paint for a living. Miss Nan'er came to Shazhou a month ago, and when we first met, we found that she was too much like my deceased wife.

After talking, I learned that Miss Nan'er has been widowed for three years, and we are connected by the same disease! ”

After Bai Xuan bowed to his grandfather, he told the story of his acquaintance with Miss Nan'er, and took out an old silk painting from his arms and spread it on the sand.

"Is there such a strange thing in the world? Come and see, sir! It's so similar, it's just a person! ”

Uncle Su stepped forward and lowered his head to browse carefully, and couldn't help but shout.

Although I was embarrassed and inconvenient, I was still driven by curiosity, and followed Qin Chong and them to the front of the painting, and observed Liu Nan'er's face.

The location of the silk painting should be the Weishui Long Bridge outside the kitchen gate of Chang'an, and the maid in the painting is dressed in a colorful skirt and looks out from afar with spring in the distance, as if waiting for the return of the painter who has traveled far away.

It's so similar, even the beauty mole on Miss Nan'er's lips and the person in the painting grow in the same place.

If it weren't for Qin Chong's on-site testimony and seeing this silk painting in Bai Xuan's cave dwelling, I really think that this is a temporary portrait copied by Bai Xuan in order to win the hearts of Nan'er's beauties.

"Providence too! Providence too! Grandpa looked at the portrait and couldn't help but sigh again and again.

"Maybe it was Bai Xuan who served the Buddha here for three years, and moved the Buddhas, and the heavens were pitiful, so he sent such a beautiful favor to Bai Xuan, and I hope that the master and the young master will be fulfilled!"

Bai Xuan's painter humbly bowed to me and my grandfather, while Liu Nan'er snuggled up to him amid the sound of everyone's admiration, and Lang Qing and concubine envy others.

"Hehe, since it is the will of heaven, how dare the old man and grandson disobey it, they can only be adults!"

After the grandfather laughed heartily, he helped Bai Xuan up, pulled Liu Nan'er and said with concern: "Bai Xuan, you are pure and kind, and my granddaughter of the family is also very relieved to entrust your old husband, if there are difficulties in life in the future, just tell the old man, grandpa will call the shots for you!" ”

"Grandpa Qiqi, Bai Xuan has an ancestral house in Chang'an City, there are 100 acres of thin fields on the hill outside the city, and he also has a little silver savings for painting on weekdays, after returning to Chang'an, he can ensure that Nan'er and I have no worries about food and clothing!" Bai Xuan replied truthfully.

"The old man is on the bank of the Fengshui River in the southwest of Shanglin Yuan, there is a courtyard, called Yizhai, and there is an old man who takes care of it there all the year round. If you two babies have any difficulties in Chang'an City, you can go over and ask for help. Go back and ask Uncle Su to repair the letter for you, hehe. ”

Grandpa seems to have regarded Liu Nan'er as his own granddaughter, and the swordsman style of the old man in Longxi who was entrusted with loyalty was inadvertently revealed.

"When are you leaving?" I couldn't stand the pity and complaining glances that Miss Liu Nan'er occasionally threw at me, and asked coldly.

"Prepare to leave today!" Bai Xuan put his arm around Nan'er and said with a smile.

"Miss Nan'er, take care! Brother Bai Xuan, there will be a period later! ”

After clenching my fists slightly, I ignored Miss Nan'er's hard work and brushed my sleeves away, turned on my horse, and took revenge on the back of my mount with the whip that my grandfather had struck me for no reason.

The mounted mounted horse that stepped off like a wild horse on the loose, galloping away in the direction of Yumen Pass to the west.

It wasn't until the sun was about to set that Qin Chong, Liu Zhen'er, and Sha Mihan caught up with me quickly, and the people and the mounts were so tired that they completely lay down.

"Young master, what kind of anger are you! It should be an old man, I'm not happy! You promised to marry that Liu Nan'er to me, but now you let that pedantic painter do it first! Aggrieved! Shamihan comforted me with frustration.

"If it weren't for the master's face, the ten Bai Xuan would not be my opponents combined!"

"From now on, don't put these three words in front of me!"

I shook my whip hard, and finally realized that I was just a springboard borrowed by Miss Liu Nan'er.

Liu Nan'er, who has already been married once, may no longer believe in the so-called love at first sight, what she needs is a man who can be entrusted for life, not a young and romantic prodigal son.

At this point, Bai Xuan's painter is more suitable than me.

The four of us returned to the camp on the sandbank very late, and Grandpa, accompanied by Uncle Su, had not rested, and was standing in the night breeze with his sword scabbard waiting for our return.

"Grandpa, we're back!" Looking at my grandfather's old figure, my heart was hot, and I hurriedly got off the horse and stepped forward to help me.

"Jincheng, Nan'er, Bai Xuan, they are back in Chang'an! Hehe! "Grandpa didn't apologize to me, but there was an infinite apology in his words.

"Oh." I snorted slightly.

"Hey! Fate is destined! Don't mind too much! Isn't there still Shangguan Yanxi? And the Kuzhina girl! My grandson, you can't be picky! Hehe! ”

Grandpa's joke to his eldest grandson drew laughter from everyone around him.

I am finally relieved, and I have inadvertently achieved a happy marriage, which should be regarded as doing good deeds and accumulating virtue!

We left the sandbar in the middle of June, the hottest time of the year in the Northlands.

Therefore, the caravan chose to rush in the morning and evening, and when the scorching sun was in the sky at noon, it was looking for a place with wells, poplars, and ancient willows in deserted villages on the way to rest in the summer.

Wobbly on the back of the camels, the mosquito and fly bites that are ubiquitous day and night, the scorching heat of the yellow sand, and the people who torture are exhausted.

The fat and flesh that finally recovered in Jiangnan walked down the Gobi Desert for more than ten days, and there was not much left.