Chapter 16 "Midnight Fireworks"

Zhuge Qinghong and the general's daughter actually had a marriage contract.

After the shock, a trace of sadness slowly rose from the bottom of Xiao Xinyi's heart, trace after trace, until this sadness permeated the entire heart.

Sure enough, I was shocked to see through the world, and I was shocked to see through human feelings. Has the brotherhood of twenty years disappeared in the past ten years?

At this moment, the past is pouring towards Xiao Xinyi like a tide, Xiao Chonglou and Zhuge Haochu have been drinking and talking happily in countless sunny or rainy days, the two of them are riding horses on the green grass, countless candles and night talks with each other, and Zhuge Haochu asked Jiang Wanyun for her Geng post, saying that he wanted Xiao Xinyi to change his surname to Zhuge and be the daughter of his Zhuge family. Now such a scene is like a needle in her heart for Xiao Xinyi, how warm it was at that time and how cold it is now.

The Xiao family was destroyed by the general's family, and the Zhuge family married the general's family. If Xiao Xinyi only hoped in his heart that the Zhuge family had nothing to do with the Xiao family's annihilation, then now Xiao Xinyi just wants to escape from here quickly. Go to Lingfeng to find the master and ask who is the one who harmed the Xiao family!

Xiao Xinyi still doesn't know which general was leading the troops to the Xiao family at that time, but I hope it wasn't the Li family, otherwise... Xiao Xinyi didn't dare to think about the consequences.

People's hearts are like flowing water, and the world is stacked on top of thousands of mountains. Xiao Xinyi's mind is very simple, she never expected anyone in the rivers and lakes to help the Xiao family do anything, she just asked those old people not to be involved with what happened ten years ago, so it is enough, so that it will live up to everything that the three generations of the Xiao family have done for martial arts.

Fang Yihe looked at the two women opposite with a very strange expression, the woman in purple had an angry face, looking like she was about to get angry at any time, but the arm on the table was pressed by the woman in white on her side with one hand, and she couldn't move.

On the other hand, the woman in white, although she had no expression on her face, the sadness that welled up in her eyes like autumn water could be felt even by him, an outsider, she sat there and looked at the door faintly, but her eyes were flickering, as if she was looking far away through the door, window and wall. The whole person is as hazy as the cold moonlight shrouded in fog in the dark night, which makes people unable to see it really.

Fang Yihe looked at the woman in purple for a while, and the woman in white for a while, his face was full of doubts, and then soon he seemed to suddenly realize, and a look of insight into everything appeared on his face.

When the emperor gave the marriage a few years ago, Zhuge Qinghong refused to accept the decree, and the official eunuch who came to announce the decree waited for a full morning.

However, what puzzles people in the martial arts is why the emperor would meddle in the affairs of the martial arts, and the court and the rivers and lakes have always been well water and not river water. Even thirty years ago, the daughter of the Jiang family insisted on marrying the son of the Xiao family, but she broke off the relationship with her grandfather and granddaughter who was still alive at that time. It is incomprehensible that the emperor actually agreed to General Li's daughter marrying the son of the leader of the Wulin Alliance, and personally decreed the marriage.

For a while, there were many discussions in the martial arts, this Li Ze guarded the frontier for decades, made countless great achievements, and has been deeply relied on by the emperor, before the marriage, he also made an exception to make an exception for the daughter of the Li family Li Yu as the county lord of Ningguo, which is the first time since the founding of the country, so it can be seen that the emperor attaches great importance to the Li family and this marriage.

But people in the martial arts have always liked to live freely and unrestrained, and disdain to associate with people in the court, if Zhuge Qinghong is a county horse, he must abide by many rules in the court, and he is not a person in the rivers and lakes, and there is also the incident ten years ago, although no one in the rivers and lakes mentions it again, but after all, there is a knot, Zhuge Qinghong is so resistant to this marriage, and it is reasonable.

If you insist on disobeying the order, according to the emperor's style, I am afraid that there will be another bloody storm in the martial arts. Everyone also knows that the Zhuge family's promise to marry the daughter of the Li family this time is also for the hard-won peace in the martial arts over the years.

But today, when Fang Yihe saw the two female disciples of the Double Holy Gate, he seemed to have other thoughts in his heart, Zhuge Qinghong was so persistent that day, not only for the righteousness of martial arts, but also because it might be related to one of the women.

Fang Yihe had the answer in his heart, and secretly praised his thoughts, the little old man has lived for decades, and he has no other skills, but he can be described as a master in guessing people's minds. Looking at the expressions of the two women, it should be the woman in white who has a friendship with Zhuge Qinghong, and the woman in purple must know what happened between the two, and at this moment she is angry to seek justice for the woman in white.

Although the woman in white is a teacher of the Double Holy Gate and will not be afraid of the snobbery of the Zhuge family, after all, she is a daughter with a thin skin, how can this kind of thing be made public. Alas, Zhuge Qinghong is a talent, Yushu is in the wind, and his literary and martial arts are all among the young generation of martial arts, but he didn't expect to be so embarrassed.

Sima Zhengqing's vision for accepting apprentices is still so sharp, this female disciple is not only picturesque, has a forest atmosphere, but also is gentle and polite and generous, and Zhuge Qinghong is really made in heaven.

Such a pair of beautiful people were unexpectedly dismantled by the emperor's will, and they did evil! Thinking of this, Fang Yihe looked at Xiao Xinyi with a look of regret on his face, how will this matter end today! Fang Yihe only felt that he had glimpsed a secret of martial arts, but he didn't want to think about it, the Double Holy Gate had been closed for ten years, how could Zhuge Qinghong go up, and how could he have feelings for the woman in white if he couldn't go up.

Leng Moyan looked at the unpredictable look on Fang Yihe's face and the look at Xiao Xinyi, although she didn't know what he was thinking in her heart, it must not be a good thing, and she couldn't help glaring at him a few times. Fang Yihe only immersed himself in his own imagination, where would he notice Leng Moyan's face.

After a while, I saw a group of people rushing in at the door, one of the first two was Zhuge Haochu, and the other was wearing a crimson dark pattern gown, and the fabric style was all of the highest quality. He is only about forty years old, with three black hair, and he is full of elegance when he walks. He was followed by ten men holding wooden boxes. Zhuge Qinghong and Zhuge Qinglang's mother and son followed behind Zhuge Haochu. The others also entered the main hall.

When the person entered the hall, he was invited to the upper seat by Zhuge Haochu, and Liu Wu stood on Zhuge Haochu's side, and his two brothers stood behind Liu Wu. Xiao Xinyi heard Zhuge Hao call that person as Lord Li, thinking that it was Li Zeji's close person, Xiao Xinyi had no intention of listening to the polite words of the two of them, and a pair of bright eyes secretly looked at him after knowing that the surname of the person was Li, although ten years ago she only glanced at the general who led the troops to the Xiao family from a distance, but she had already engraved that gloomy face, if they met again, they would definitely be able to recognize it at a glance.

If this person is of the same lineage as Li Ze, his appearance will naturally be somewhat similar, but seeing that this Lord Li has a white face, his speech and demeanor are like a literati, and his appearance is not at all similar to that person. Xiao Xinyi didn't know whether to be disappointed or relieved. At that moment, it was suddenly empty, and there was no interest in the conversation between the two.

I just saw that Master Li looked at the little guy holding a wooden box on the side of the main hall from time to time while talking.

Xiao Xinyi couldn't help but look around at the small guy in the gray short coat and soft hat, and there was a woman inside. Although the soft hat covers the appearance of those low-headed little guys, she is a person who studies medicine, and naturally observes more human body shape than ordinary people, even if the woman's clothes are the same as everyone else's, even if the wide clothes hide the woman's slender body, but the dignified and elegant temperament is not covered up by clothing.

Zhuge Qinghong also secretly looked at Xiao Xinyi from a distance, and saw that everyone was listening to Zhuge Haochu's conversation with Master Li, and no one paid attention to him, so he dared to look at Xiao Xinyi a few more times. Seeing that Xiao Xinyi first looked at Master Li for a long time, and then looked at the little guy opposite her after watching Master Li, he didn't even look at himself, and couldn't help but be a little disappointed, thinking in his heart, is Xiao Xinyi angry with him, angry that he didn't save her ten years ago, angry that he didn't go to look for her. Or has she forgotten about herself? Forget the promises they made when they were young.

He clearly remembered who accompanied him to set off fireworks overnight during the first Lantern Festival after his mother's death.

Zhuge Qinghong liked fireworks the most when he was a child, and every year during the Lantern Festival, he would pester his mother to prepare a lot of fireworks for him, but his mother Mu Huasheng couldn't accompany him to set off the fireworks when he was eight years old.

He thought that no one would set off fireworks for him in the future, but he still saw fireworks in the sky during the Lantern Festival that year, and saw Xiao Xinyi walking with a firefly stick in his hand under the brilliant light. At that moment, Zhuge Qinghong felt that time had stopped. Every time I dream back at midnight and be eaten by the longing for my mother, that moment has become Zhuge Qinghong's only consolation.

The two children agreed that they would set off fireworks together every Lantern Festival in the future. But the sky is not merciful, the world is thousands, Zhuge Qinghong has not waited for the Lantern Festival when he was nine years old, and the girl who came with a firefly stick and stepped on the brilliant glory disappeared.

Some people say that she disappeared into the fire that night like Cang'an Villa. Some people say that she was abducted and sold elsewhere by officers and soldiers, and others say that she was taken to live in seclusion in the mountains by people from outside the world. There are many theories, but none of them have been confirmed.

Since then, in Zhuge Qinghong's midnight dream for ten years, there is another girl who accompanies him to set off fireworks.