So for the next two days, Zhong Nan wandered around the city of Jinan, but the places he went to were not places of interest, but ordinary streets and alleys, which made Xu Wanzhou, the captain of the pro-soldiers, feel very strange. Xu Wanzhou is the soldier who told Zhong Nan to go to Li Rusongzhong's military camp after the Battle of Pyongyang, and he followed Zhong Nan until Zhong Nan was promoted to guerrilla and needed to form his own personal army, so Xu Wanzhou received this errand.

Xu Wanzhou paid special attention to it and found that his master was not playing, but seemed to be looking for something, and he didn't dare to ask what he was looking for. In two days, Zhong Nan walked through every street in Jinan City, subconsciously, hoping to find some traces or relevant information left by Qiu Xiang, but the greater the hope, the more disappointed.

On the third day, Zhong Nan shifted the search outside the city, starting from the west. As soon as you get out of the city gate, the difference between outside the city and inside the city becomes obvious, and you don't have to walk long along the official road to see too many people. In ancient times, the radiation radius of a city is not large, it can be said that there is a world of difference between inside and outside the city, except for the farmland outside the city, the houses are very sparse, the more you go outside the city, the more you don't feel much breath of life. Except for the occasional tea shops and restaurants on both sides of the official road, where there are merchants who walk south and north in twos and threes, there is not much popularity, and it is almost the same as in the wilderness.

On the afternoon of the fourth day, Zhong Nan led people out of the city from the south gate and walked out until the sun was almost down, but he still found nothing. Seeing that as soon as tomorrow passed, the mission was about to go to Beijing, Zhong Nan felt more and more that the hope in his heart was very slim, he sighed, looked up and saw a tea shop on the side of the road, so he beckoned the pro-soldiers to stop and rest and drink saliva.

There are not many people in the pro-soldier team, and there are only twelve captains, Xu Wanzhou quickly arranged for the pro-soldiers to sit around, and only after confirming that they were okay did he let Zhong Nan dismount, and then shouted to the back hall: "Shop, come here with a few pots of hot tea and some snacks!" ”

No one responded, Xu Wanzhou raised his voice and shouted several times: "Is anyone there, a guest is here!" ”

Then I heard a female voice from the back room: "Coming, coming!" ”

Hearing this voice, Zhong Nan was stunned and felt very familiar, but he didn't dare to believe it. He looked around, and there was a simple word "tea" written on the banner at the entrance of the tea shop, and there were four or five wooden square tables under the makeshift shed, with simple wooden benches, wooden tables and wooden benches were very old, and several earthen bowls were neatly placed on each wooden table. Zhong Nan thought to himself: This should be a place for passers-by to rest and drink tea, and it is the lowest grade, it is estimated that most of the people who usually greet are the kind of guests who have no money, and the business should be very cold, otherwise there will be no guests who shouted outside several times before coming to say hello.

Zhong Nan was still thinking about it, but he saw that the curtain in the back room was opened, and a woman came out, and the woman was carrying a child of two or three years old. She lowered her head, carried a large pot of tea, and whispered to the soldiers, and then quickly placed the tea bowls on the table closest to her one by one in front of each of the soldiers, and then filled them one by one. After a table was emptied, she moved to a nearby table to continue pouring tea.

The pro-soldier team sat at a total of three tables, and the last one was behind Zhong Nan, and the woman did not move before she met, and she did not speak, still with her head down, intending to go around. Unexpectedly, the man in front of him reached out and grabbed her, and in an instant, a similar picture flashed in the woman's mind, in that picture, there was a young master who was taking advantage of himself, and then his own father-in-law had a big fight, and then the picture was covered with scarlet blood......

The woman trembled, and she threw away the teapot in her hand at once, then put her head in her hands and screamed loudly. The cry woke the sleeping child, and the little one was frightened by the woman before he knew what was happening. Two people, one big and one small, one screaming and the other crying, which made the pro-soldiers sitting around stand aside, dazed and at a loss.

What surprised everyone even more was that Zhong Nan was clasping the woman's upper arm with both hands at the moment, tears flooding down his cheeks, and muttering words they didn't understand.

Although the voice was small, the woman could hear it clearly, and the other party said "Akika, I finally found you", she stopped screaming, and her mood slowly stabilized. When she slowly raised her head, she found that in front of her was indeed the face that she had been thinking about day and night, and the woman trembled and stretched out her rough hands and caressed them affectionately—what a handsome face this is, the face that used to be a little bookish is now a little more domineering, but it makes her like it even more.

Zhong Nan hugged the woman, and then the woman also hugged Zhong Nan's back with her backhand, and Xu Wanzhou on the side walked out of the tea shop with a group of soldiers in a timely manner to stand guard, and there were only men and women hugging in the shed, oh, and a child who had just stopped crying.

The woman is Qiu Xiang, Zhong Nan hugged her for a long time and was reluctant to let go, or Qiu Xiang felt embarrassed after being emotionally stable, so the two let go of their hands, and then sat on the bench, holding hands and telling each other about their respective situations.

Qiu Xiang's various experiences before leaving Henan are similar to what Zhong Nan learned, and then the situation is that Qiu Xiang finally came to Jinan Mansion, but because of the sequelae of miscarriage and long-term malnutrition, she was knocked down by the disease again, and under all kinds of embarrassment, she could only pawn the only valuables - the hairpin that Zhong Nan gave her, so that she had money to treat the disease, and it was in this diagnosis and treatment process that she knew that she could no longer have children. Later, after being cured, the stubborn Qiu Xiang used the money left over from the treatment to open a simple tea shop outside Jinan, expecting Zhong Nan to find her one day.

After listening to Qiu Xiang's narration, Zhong Nan's heart was as distressed as a knife, he hugged his wife tightly, and said solemnly: "Qiu Xiang, everything is over, and I will bear everything in the future!" ”

Qiu Xiang caressed the wound on Zhong Nan's forehead, and asked distressedly, "Brother Zhong, how have you been all these years?" How did this wound come about? ”

Then Zhong Nan briefly talked about his battlefield experience, and then talked about the experience of going to Suzhou and Henan to find people, he didn't want Qiu Xiang to be sad, so he finished it in just a few sentences. Listening to these autumn fragrances, I cried, thinking that there were no eyes on the battlefield, and my father-in-law died nine times for life, so he had a good situation today, and he should be happy. So she cried and cried and laughed again, her father-in-law has never forgotten herself, and she is still thinking about herself, this is enough, she can't drag him down anymore.

After a short silence, Zhong Nan pulled Qiu Xiang and asked her to go back to the city with her, Qiu Xiang looked at the man in front of her, and then thought about herself who was no longer young and beautiful, she made a decision in an instant, "Brother Zhong, I can't go, I ...... I've remarried. ”

"I don't believe it!"

"It's his child on his back," Qiu Xiang whispered, "You and I are over, so let's leave it at that!" ”

Zhong Nan looked at the child on Qiu Xiang's back, it was a girl, two or three years old, although it was very cute, but there was no trace of Qiu Xiang between her eyebrows. Zhong Nan is not a stupid person, he thought about it, and soon understood Qiu Xiang's thoughts, so he said indifferently: "It's okay, let him divorce you, and I will marry you again!" ”

"You are now an official of the imperial court, how can a divorced woman marry you again!" Qiu Xiang exclaimed.

"Whoever I want to marry can do it!" Zhong Nan stood up and responded loudly and domineeringly, "Since you said that you remarried, call that man over, I told him, anyway, I will take you away!" ”

Zhong Nan knew that Qiu Xiang was lying, and it was estimated that she was reluctant to go with him because she was afraid of dragging herself down, and he knew about his wife's stubbornness and strength. Seeing that Qiu Xiang no longer spoke, Zhong Nan stepped forward and hugged her waist and said emotionally: "I know you won't marry again, except for me, you can't look down on other men!" ”

The woman in her arms only felt angry and funny, "How can you boast of yourself like this!" ”

"I know you've been waiting for me, and I've always remembered our promise," Zhong Nanmo stroked Qiu Xiang's long hair, "Do you remember what I said to you when I left Suzhou?" ”

Qiu Xiang instantly burst into tears, and the scene of separation came to her heart in an instant, she sobbed and nodded again and again, "I remember, you want me to wait for you!" ”

"Since you haven't forgotten, I'm going to fulfill that promise today!" After saying that, Zhong Nan forcibly kissed it, although the woman's lips were no longer full and plump, but he felt that this was the sweetest kiss in the world, which made him intoxicated and didn't want to let go.

Qiu Xiang's brain was blank, and the usual shyness of ancient women made her want to push Zhong Nan away, but deep down she enjoyed this kiss very much, and she saw that Xianggong was still infatuated with herself, so she no longer insisted on the decision just now.

After a long kiss, Qiu Xiang snuggled in Zhong Nan's arms and said in a low voice: "Brother Zhong, I'm twenty-three, and I'm not as good-looking as I used to be, and I can't have children in the future, don't you think I'm not worthy of you?" ”

"I'm almost twenty-eight, and in my heart, you'll always be the most beautiful woman!" Zhong Nan refuted them one by one, "As for the child's question, aren't you carrying one on your back?" ”