It was getting late, and the last rays of afterglow disappeared into the night, and countless points of light began to flicker on the huge black curtain.

The vast Jiang Mansion lit up one by one, and the huge rockery in the center of the Jiang Mansion was covered by the cold moonlight, and the stars were dotted.

Jiang Ge stood in front of the long shore of the study, his left hand was lightly placed on his back, his five fingers kept shaking gently, his right hand held the pen in the air, and a piece of rice paper as thin as a cicada's wings was laid on the tabletop under the pen, and a portrait of a woman was painted on the paper.

The person in the painting, green silk up to the waist, up close, is dressed in an ice blue emerald smoke shirt, a long skirt with scattered flowers and water mist, a white smoke veil, a phoenix white hosta with 3,000 green silk, and the skin is like a condensed fat and like a quiet orchid.

Maybe Jiang Ge was stupid, or he was thinking carefully about the details of the original painting hanging in Luoyang's study, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Jiang Shanyi, who accompanied the head of the three clans after the dinner, returned to the study to deal with some family chores, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Jiang Ge holding a pen in front of the desk in a daze, so he stepped on the broken steps and came to Jiang Ge's side softly, just glanced at the portrait of the woman on the table, Jiang Shan's vicissitudes of life instantly clouded, and an irrepressible complex emotion came out of the frame, and the old tears were rampant.

Hearing the choking sound around him, Jiang Ge woke up like a dream, quickly pulled himself back to reality from his memory, and relieved himself when he saw that his father was beside him. Seeing his father who kept clutching his cuffs to wipe his tears, and then looking at the portrait of his mother on the table that he copied from memory, his heart was also sour.

Jiang Ge cheered up when he saw such a sad father, grinned and said, "Does the father look at the portrait of his son?" ”

Jiang Shanyi rubbed his eyes a few times, wiped his nose, eased his emotions, and pulled Jiang Ge to sit at the tea table not far away.

Jiang Shanyi took the teapot and poured two cups of tea, one was handed to Jiang Ge, and the other was sipped. After all, he is the head of the family who is nearly half a hundred years old, and after calming down his emotions, he said: "Ge'er has really grown up for so many years, he can be literate and martial, and even Danqing skills are perfect, Ge'er's copy is exactly the same as the painting in Luoyang." ”

Jiang Shanyi sighed and continued: "It's a pity that it was left on the way to flee east, and the soldiers are in chaos, I'm afraid it's long gone." I thought I would never see each other again, but as soon as I saw it, I was ecstatic and couldn't control my emotions of seeing things and thinking about people. ”

Listening to Jiang Shanyi's words, Jiang Ge laughed happily, and hurriedly got up and dragged Jiang Shanyi to Chang'an and said eagerly: "Father, the child has been thinking about his mother's portrait since he went to Chang'an, and the child knows that the portrait is his father's most precious item, and the child often thinks that after returning to Linyuan, he has not seen any trace of the original painting, and it is not easy to ask his father." Today, when I have nothing to do, I try to copy this picture according to the memory in the child's mind, but the child feels that he has always forgotten many details, compared to the father's memory is the deepest, can you teach the son to present the mother's portrait completely? ”

After listening to Jiang Ge's words, Jiang Shanyi was moved in his heart, he saw things and thought about people, Jiang Ge, who had never seen his mother since he was a child, would only have more thoughts and regrets in his heart, so Jiang Shanyi looked at the portrait on the table carefully, and then kept thinking about the comparison, thinking of the shortcomings to facilitate Jiang Ge's communication.

The originally sad atmosphere in the study became warmer, and the sound of the old and the young communicating in this dark night, there was no lonely thought, only gentle longing.

Fauber still stood silently at the door where the moonlight could not shine, secretly wiping his tears, listening to the happy voices in the house, and thinking about many previous stories.

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Early in the morning of the second day, Jiang Ge took Xiao Bai Xiaohei, who was still sleeping in a daze, and rushed to the east gate of Linyuan City with Fu Bo, probably because it was too late to modify his mother's portrait with his father last night, Jiang Ge was still silent in the joy after the completion of the final copying, and everyone who saw them on the road would greet each other with joy, and those who had seen Jiang Ge returned to the city knew that this was the young master of the Jiang family, and they would all greet him politely.

On the contrary, for those who missed the grand occasion of Jiang Ge's return to the city or just came to Linyuan, the young man who walked with two cats in his arms early in the morning greeted everyone when he met people, is there something wrong with his brain? When did Linyuan's gentlemen start to get up early?

When Jiang Ge was about to arrive at the east gate, he saw the huge Kui Shi and Lian Shanyang and Lie Shanyuan from a distance. On the way, Jiang Ge asked Fu Bo what the Phoenix Mountain was, and Fu Bo just shook his head and said he didn't know. Although Jiang Ge was a little curious, he didn't care too much, and made up his mind to follow the three of them to be an ornament.

Seeing that Jiang Ge was still holding two cats with his servants, Lie Shanyuan said playfully: "The young general is in a leisurely manner, and he also brings pets and old servants, don't blame me for not reminding you, when you arrive at Phoenix Mountain, you have to protect the cute little cat in your arms." ”

Jiang Ge asked a little helplessly: "What Brother Yuan said is like going to the underworld, is there really an evil ghost in Phoenix Mountain?" ”

"I don't know if there are evil spirits, but I've seen something more powerful than evil spirits, what? The young general who broke the formation on a horse was scared? Lie Shanyuan said with a wicked smile.

"Afraid? What is there to be afraid of, Brother Yuan, lead the way, I came to see what kind of place it is, mysterious and mysterious. Jiang Ge didn't bother to quarrel with Lie Shanyuan, who was talking to the yin and yang, and simply let him lead the way, how many times he escaped death, and what danger would he have in his own chassis.

A group of people each rode on the jujube red horse that had been prepared at the gate, and galloped towards the east under the leadership of Lie Shanyuan.

On the way, Lian Shanyang kindly reminded Jiang Ge and said: "Look at the old age of the servant next to you, wait in the village at the bottom of the mountain when the time comes, there are people there all the year round, and you don't have to worry about eating and drinking." Otherwise, if you go up the mountain, you will be in danger as a young hero. ”

Jiang Ge asked curiously, "Is there a rogue on the mountain?" Or are there big insects and behemoths? ”

Even Shanyang said hesitantly: "Actually, it's nothing, ordinary people won't meet anything when they go to the mountain." You'll know when you go, and you won't understand a sentence or two. ”

Kui Kuishi, who was originally silent, suddenly interjected: "There are good things on the mountain, and if you are lucky, you can get it if you win the fight." If you lose...... Little Stone doesn't know either, Little Stone hasn't lost. ”

Whenever he heard the fortress-like Kui Shi say that he was a small stone, Jiang Ge would have goosebumps all over his body, but Jiang Ge had the best impression of Kui Kui Shi, not only because the head of the Kui family firmly supported his father's decision in the council hall yesterday, but also because of Kui Shi's honest and simple character.

The three of them, Jiang Ge roughly figured out their respective temperaments, Kui Kuishi has a big spirit, treats people sincerely, and has a thick temperament. Lian Shanyang inherited the aggressive genes of Lian Shan, who is heroic and generous, and has clear grievances. Only Lian Shanyuan of the Lian Shan clan always feels weird, and the feelings for himself in the past two days may be due to jealousy of his father's exaggerated praise yesterday. It will take time to prove what kind of person he is.

A group of people galloped on the road for more than an hour, came to a deep canyon, there is a turquoise stream gurgling and flowing under the canyon, there is a wide and neatly repaired bluestone slab road next to the stream, everyone rode a horse to slow down, along the narrow canyon and the bluestone slab road and walked for about half an hour, there is a circular open space in the depths of the canyon, after walking out of the canyon, it becomes suddenly open, there is an independent tall natural stone pillar at the mouth of the canyon, the stone pillar has the three words of "Qianlong Valley" carved in Yin red seal body.

Jiang Ge looked curiously at the huge stone pillar engraved with the three characters of Qianlong Valley, and then looked at a huge palace in the middle of the clearing, with golden glazed tiles and huge white jade stone steps, and in front of the steps there were two dragons carved from a whole piece of white jade, which were lifelike.

Jiang Ge asked curiously, "Isn't it Phoenix Mountain?" How did it become the Valley of the Hidden Dragons? ”

The humble Kui Shi walked to Jiang Ge's side, stretched out his thick arm, pointed to an extremely steep stone step that could be faintly seen behind the huge palace, and said, "Oh~ Climb up from that road to Phoenix Mountain." ”

Jiang Ge looked carefully in the direction of Kui Kuishi's finger, a straight climbing stone step went straight into the sky, surrounded by a thick white mist above the canyon, and he couldn't see what the mountain behind him was like at all.

Jiang Ge turned his head to look at Fu Bo behind him, only to see that Fu Bo had already dismounted, prostrate on the ground with great piety.

And Xiao Bai and Xiao Hei in Jiang Ge's arms had already squatted on Jiang Ge's left and right shoulders, and opened their eyes, and the pure white eyeballs and pure black eyeballs stared at the mist above the stone steps of the Heavenly Ladder.

Suddenly, the horses under everyone looked restless, constantly trampling on the ground, and their nostrils kept making a sound of "snorting ~ sneering".

Lie Shanyuan, who was standing at the forefront, looked at Jiang Ge and said strangely: "The young general, can you follow me to find out?" ”

Jiang Ge was about to answer when Fu Bo behind him said in a trembling voice: "Young master, you can go, the old slave is waiting here for the young master and the young masters." ”

After Fu Bo finished speaking, Jiang Ge nodded at Fu Bo, turned to the direction of the palace, kicked the ground with both feet, and rushed to the stone steps of the heavenly ladder behind the palace.

Lian Shanyang, who had been standing aside without speaking, took out a rectangular leather bag from his horse, carried it behind him, and quickly chased after Jiang Ge.

Lie Shanyuan, who was always yin and yang, heard Jiang Ge's servant's words and was guessing countless possibilities in his heart, seeing Jiang Ge's head and rushing to the ladder with absolute trust, he didn't know what kind of calculations were behind that sly face, Lie Shanyuan smiled coldly, took off a half-human-high backpack from his horse and quickly followed.

The bulky Kuishi was the slowest to move, and it was indeed at the end that he set out to catch up. And when Kui Kui Shi took a step, he glanced sideways at the white-haired old servant with his hands on his sleeves, and Fu Bo, who saw Kui Shi looking at him, just smiled and nodded, and gently picked up the two cute cats from the ground and walked towards the huge palace in front of him alone.