Although Funing Temple has experienced the first incident, it has suffered a purge and even has a flawed reputation.

But in the end, it is a century-old temple, and there are gospel monks in the temple, and the reputation has not plummeted, although the incense is not as good as before, but it is still a medium-sized temple.

Huo Qi walked along the winding mountain road to the pavilion behind Funing Temple.

His steps were slightly dull, walking very slowly, with a slight sadness between his eyebrows, and a hint of melancholy.

His broad and heavy back looks particularly lonely in this empty mountain.

Today is the death day of the men of the Huo family.

He first went to the Huojia Cemetery in Qingliang Town, and now he came to Funing Temple to add some lamp oil for them and burn a few pillars of incense.

No matter how long it has passed, no matter whether the mastermind behind the battle has been punished or not, the tragic scene of that day has always stayed in his mind.

The incense mist swirled around, penetrating every inch of his skin, and those pictures were as clear as yesterday, suffocating his chest.

He said what he had said in the Huo family cemetery again, Eleven Niang had a child, a daughter, a name, appearance, etc., all of which were said in front of the spirit card.

This is just to comfort the eldest brother and sister-in-law and the nephews.

He knew that Eleven Niang was the only one who made everyone feel at ease.

He sat under the incense table dedicated to the spirit tablet, chattered for a long time, and then walked out of the main hall and walked on the road.

Funing Temple is very clean, there will be no pilgrims, Huo Qi, who wanted to leave after the incense, did not leave immediately.

Instead, he slowly paced towards the back mountain.

There are many steps in the back mountain, twisting and turning, you can't see it from a distance, and you feel that the road is a little dangerous and difficult to walk when you get closer.

Huo Qi slowly climbed the stairs until he reached the steep mountain.

The scenery in the distance was hazy, and Huo Qi leaned on the big rock with half of his body, looking into the distance.

Originally, after Xiao Wei ascended the throne, he wanted to take Mi'er around, but he didn't think that before he could make the trip, Eleven Niang was pregnant.

Xiao Wei even threw a lot of things that were originally managed by Eleven Niang to him and Xu Zhao.

Emperors have always been afraid of the dictatorship of their relatives, but when they came to Xiao Wei, they hated to throw everything to him and Xu Zhao.

There is no way, Eleven Niang is very important, and the idea of travel can only be postponed.

He looked at the scenery in the distance in a daze, thinking that if the people of the Huo family were still there, where would they be at this time?

The men are still stationed on the frontier, and the women are socializing in Beijing.

He sighed silently, and suddenly, a scream came from his ears, and when he looked sideways, it turned out to be a girl who fell to the ground, and was about to roll down the mountain.

Huo Qi didn't think about it, straightened up, and swept towards the place where the girl had an accident, fortunately, he grabbed the girl's hand in time and pulled her up.

"Thank you." The girl's hair that escaped death was messed up, and she calmed down for a while, and then said in a hoarse voice.

The two maids beside her helped the girl take care of her hair, and stroked her back, so that she could calm her emotions of escaping death.

The girl lowered her head, Huo Qi couldn't see her face, but her voice sounded somewhat familiar.

When the girl suddenly raised her head, Huo Qi realized that it was the second girl from the Xu Mansion in the past, and now the female official beside the queen's mother.

Xu Yuelian was also a little embarrassed, and even felt a little embarrassed.

She walked this staircase many times and never made a mistake.

I fell down today and almost rolled down the cliff, but it was because when she came over just now, she saw that half of her back and her heart was beating hard, which was the result.

Huo Qi didn't know Xu Yuelian's thoughts, "Are you hurt?" Can you move? ”

He saw that after Lady Xu was rescued, she was still sitting on the ground, looking a little annoyed.

Xu Yuelian, who was already weak-hearted, heard his question, and her face immediately turned red, and she muttered in her mouth, not knowing what to say.

Xu Yuelian wanted to change her image in front of Huo Qi, but she was suddenly full of pride and patted her chest, "It's okay, fortunately, the general saved me in time, and my life would have been gone." ”

Xu Yuelian was embarrassed for seven points, looked up at Huo Qi in surprise for three points, and smiled and showed two small tiger teeth, which looked cute.

"Be careful next time, especially in winter, and don't come here again."

The wind and snow in the mountains are already heavy, and he is doing this for her good.

However, Xu Yuelian didn't take it seriously, "I've been walking here for many years, whether it's winter or spring." Thank you, General Huo, for your point. ”

Huo Qi looked at Xu Yuelian in surprise and asked, "What are you doing here at this cliff?" ”

Xu Yuelian pursed her lips, stretched out her hand to the maid on the side, and stood up with the help of the maid.

Huo Qi stood aside and watched Xu Yuelian get up intently, afraid that if she was confused again, she would slip and fall down.

But this time, Xu Yuelian stood very steadily and walked very steadily, and then saw her walking in the opposite direction of the cliff.

After taking two steps, Xu Yuelian turned around and looked at Huo Qi, "My mother said that only those who have good fortune can be born well, General Huo, you must be a great good person who has practiced for many lifetimes, that scar just makes you look more manly, you don't have to feel inferior." ”

Her voice is crisp and lively, ding-dong-dong, like a big bead and a small bead falling on a jade plate.

Huo Qi didn't know why, and was stunned.

So, is this little girl turning a corner and thinking that he was born well?

It's just that...... He raised his head and touched the scar on his forehead, if it was really a blessing, then he was willing to share the blessing with the Huo family in the past, and now there is Xu Han.

Huo Qi looked at her shining eyes, and when she heard her say that she didn't know if it was praise or something, there was some peace in her heart.

It was like a quiet cold night, and suddenly a little spark lit up.

He watched her walk towards the other side of the cliff, and he knew that there was a bamboo building over there, where several lay people who practiced in Funing Temple lived.

He stood in the distance and didn't move, and when the figure was about to disappear in front of him, he saw Xu Yuelian suddenly turn around and wave at him.

Huo Qi smiled and waved his hand, when he went down the mountain, his back was still lonely, but it was more relaxed than when he came.

This encounter, Huo Qi thought it was just a flash in the pan, and there would be no more after that, but he didn't expect him to see Xu Yuelian again in the palace.

Only then did I know that Eleven Niang kept Xu Yuelian by her side as a female official.

In fact, this female official is nominally, but because Xu Yuelian was very good to Huo Shiniang in the past, and Shiyi Niang also liked Xu Yuelian.

I don't want Xu Yuelian to be about to be in her teens, and she followed Xu Xiuyan to a small county in the south of the Yangtze River to waste her years.

Only then did she stay in Fengyi Palace as a female official, improve Xu Yuelian's identity, and find a good family for her.

I saw her again because when I was in the next court, Xiao Wei stopped him and said that he would go and bake some sweet potatoes for Shi Niang to eat.

Because Eleven Niang is pregnant, the child in her belly looks like a safe one, but the only one always makes Eleven Niang want to eat something strange.

During this time, he has been stopped by Xiao Wei twice, the first time is because Eleven Niang wants to eat...... But the summer has passed, and he knows that it is long gone, and he can't do anything.

The second time, this time, the imperial dining room had already sent roasted sweet potatoes to Dao Fengyi Palace, but Eleven Niang took two bites and felt that it was not the taste she wanted.

For Xiao Wei, the 'rake ear', every nerve is affected by Eleven Niang.

Eleven Niang wants to get as much food as she can, I heard that last time the emperor asked people to dig up the trees in the palace, just to find the know......

Now, in order to let Eleven Niang eat the roasted sweet potato that suits the taste, he stopped him again.

Of course, he can roast sweet potatoes, and this is what he used to do when he was in the Huo family.

Maybe that's the taste that Eleven Niang wants.

He followed the eunuch beside Xiao Wei to the dining room, and as soon as he stepped into the courtyard gate, he saw the figure wearing a female official uniform.

Xu Yuelian was talking to the chef, and she could vaguely hear that it was also related to roasted sweet potatoes.

Huo Qi stood under the door for a while, and waited until Xu Yuelian finished speaking, then walked over slowly.

The little eunuch who led the way told him why he had come, and then asked the chef to take him to roast sweet potatoes for the queen's mother.

Hearing what the little eunuch said, Xu Yuelian's expression was a little messy, the dignified general, after the famous Huo family, would actually roast sweet potatoes?

Xu Yuelian is very grateful to Xu Han, of course she knows what Xu Han means by letting her enter the palace as a female official, not long after entering the palace, many noblewomen in Beijing inquired about her, and they all wanted to hire her home as a daughter-in-law.

She is very fortunate to have such a friend as Xu Han.

Therefore, she tried her best more and more.

The chef was already ready, sweet potatoes, matchsticks and the like, afraid that Huo Qi would bury sweet potatoes with soot, so he lit an empty stove again.

Xu Yuelian and Huo Qi sat side by side on the edge of the fire, Huo Qi threw two smaller sweet potatoes under the firewood ash under the stove, and forked two more and put them on the fire to roast.

Xu Yuelian looked at Huo Qi, he was still wearing court clothes, he looked very majestic, with a jade pendant hanging from his waist, sitting on a small stool, his posture was unusually tall, and the scar on his forehead made Xu Yuelian see some different handsomeness.

The words at the top of the mountain that day were indeed true, Huo Qi was indeed very good-looking.

It's just that she never thought that Huo Qi would roast sweet potatoes like this.

This feeling is probably like seeing her brother smile, which is too unusual.

All in all, the two of them guarded the sweet potatoes and waited for them to cook.

While waiting, Huo Qi asked someone to pour water over again and handed it to Xu Yuelian, "Girl's house, the fire is too irritable, drink some water." ”

The hand holding the tea cup has slender fingers and distinct bone joints, and it doesn't look like the hands of a military commander at all.

She was only half a chair away from him, and as he leaned over, he could hear the sound of his expected rubbing, and even the familiar scent of his clothes.

The reason why it is familiar is because the last time he was in the back of Funing Temple, when he pulled her up, she briefly stayed in his arms for a while.

The scent has been lingering on the tip of her nose ever since.

Now that she smelled it again, she even felt the urge to get close to him, to get close to him and smell his breath, and if she could, she also wanted to feel the sound of his powerful heartbeat.

Xu Yuelian's hand shrunk in her sleeve was tightly clenched into a fist, and after a while, it stretched out again, and her palms were wet with sweat.

When the Xu family had not yet fallen, Xu Qichang wanted to marry her to the person in front of him, but he was disgusted by himself at that time.

But now, she blushed and her heart beat in front of him.

She'd never done that in front of anyone else.

How much I disliked him in the past, how much I dislike myself now.

The more she got to know him, the more she thought he was amazing.

crawled out of the quagmire, rehabilitated the Huo family, and brought down the cancer of the country, although the tumor used to be her father.

She couldn't even imagine how he did it.

He looked at the fire seriously, exuding endless charm all over his body, so that she couldn't help but want to get closer, and couldn't help but look up at him.

However, Xu Yuelian's mood became a little gloomy in an instant, even if she and Xu Qichang were not father and daughter, but in the end, she was raised by the Xu family, and the Xu family was Huo Qi's enemy.

Xu Yuelian took a deep breath, lowered her eyes, and looked at the fire with Huo Qi.

After waiting for a long time, Huo Qi pulled down the sweet potato under the firewood ash with firewood, picked up one and handed it to Xu Yuelian.

"You eat, eat."

Xu Yuelian hesitated, originally he baked this for the queen to eat, but she ate it first before the mother didn't eat it.

"Why don't you send it to your mother first, I heard that if a pregnant woman wants to eat something but doesn't eat it, she will become very hungry after the child is born in the future, and she will always leave a saliva ......"

Huo Qi smiled, it was the first time he had heard of such a thing.

"You just eat, I don't make a small report with my mother." Huo Qi said with a smile in his eyes, and his eyes flashed with cunning.

Xu Yuelian, "......"

The sweet potato that has just come out of the ashes is very hot, Xu Yuelian kept swapping the sweet potato in her hand when she spoke, even if she can eat it, but it is so hot, she doesn't burn her tongue.

Seeing her embarrassed appearance, Huo Qi took the sweet potato back with a smile, blew it, patted the ash on his head, and split it into two, and instantly the fragrance of the sweet potato came out, and the steaming pulp looked soft and delicious.

When she just took it, her fingers burned, and she pulled her ears with both hands to lower the temperature of her fingers.

When his hands were no longer hot, he took half of the sweet potato in Huo Qi's hand, blew it, and took a small bite.

This is the first time Xu Yuelian has eaten roasted sweet potato......

Rich and noble families are not tired of eating, and few people eat roasted sweet potatoes, they think that this is only eaten by ordinary people who can't eat.

She took a small bite of the half of the sweet potato, and she thought that the queen would definitely like to eat this, because she had eaten half of it, and wanted to continue to eat it......

It's just that she runs an errand next to the queen's mother, in case she eats too many sweet potatoes, and when the time comes, her stomach will be distended, make a noise, or even fart, it will be a little unsightly.

Huo Qi didn't go to Fengyi Palace well, so she went to Fengyi Palace with a food box, and when she saw her come in, carrying a food box, the queen said with a smile,

"Are sweet potatoes delicious?"

Xu Yuelian subconsciously wiped the corners of her mouth, obviously she hadn't said it yet, but Niangniang actually asked this question.

Sure enough, people can't do bad things......

The queen's mother, Xu Han, smiled and took the sweet potato that Xu Yuelian took out of the food box, gently broke it and took a bite, becoming more and more happy.

"It's the taste, it's like I've eaten this in a dream, it's so delicious."

At the beginning, Huo Han followed the men in the family to jump around, and naturally he had eaten Huo Qi's roasted sweet potatoes.

Xu Han avoided saying the wrong thing, and only said that he had eaten it in a dream.

Xu Yuelian, Sister Han, who is pregnant, seems to have changed again, still lively, but with some maternal tenderness.

That's what women go through.

Her eyes darkened, although she knew that Sister Han asked her to enter the palace as a female official to mention her identity, but she was not ready to marry in this life.

Men, that's actually what it is.

When Sister Han doesn't need her here, she will become a Taoist aunt, thinking that Sister Han should let her set up a Taoist temple, right?

When the time comes, the red world will have nothing to do with her.

Thinking like this, Xu Yuelian's heart was sour for no reason, and Huo Qi's face swept over her mind.

She shook her head, not letting him linger in her mind.

For several days in a row, Xiao Wei would ask people to take Huo Qi to the dining room to roast sweet potatoes, but Huo Qi only saw Xu Yuelian on the first day, and later they were all sent to Fengyi Palace by the people from the dining room.

The waiting time was extraordinarily long for Huo Qi.

Fortunately, you can't eat too much sweet potatoes, and the tastes of pregnant people are always changing, Xu Han finally didn't want to eat sweet potatoes and wanted to eat something else.

However, before she changed her taste, she asked Xu Yuelian to go to the Huo family once, that is, the Hussar General's Mansion in the past, and gave Huo Qi something as a reward.

said that it was a reward for Huo Qi's roasted sweet potato, but it was actually a dowry for Mi'er in disguise.

In the past, Xu Yuelian often went in and out of the Huo family, and she was very familiar with the layout of the Huo family, so she put things behind the front hall, and asked the little eunuch who came with her to wait for her in the front hall, and politely refused the guidance of the Huo family, and walked alone towards the courtyard of Huo Qi in her memory.

She knew that she was not very bright in doing this, and she could even say that she was a little shameless, and a girl from a good family would never be like this.

But she thought that it would be the last time, after this time, she would go to talk to Sister Han about being a Taoist aunt.

Recently, several noble ladies said that the matchmaker said that Sister Han was there, not only Sister Han, but she was a little overwhelmed.

So, it's better to get things done quickly.

The Huo family has only two masters, one big and one small, and the house is quiet, and sure enough, Huo Qi lives in the courtyard in the past.

There was no one in the courtyard, she stopped and called, "General Huo", but no one answered.

She took a few more steps inside, and intellectually she should have stopped there, but the devil sent her up the stairs to the front of the main house.

The door was half-hidden, and as soon as she lifted her hand, the door was opened, and Huo Qi's face appeared behind the door, but the clothes on his body were draped haphazardly.

His hair was still wet, his chest was half open, and drops of water were running down his neck, drowning in the placket of his clothes.

The roots of her ears were a little red, her eyes had nowhere to put them, she took a step back, but her feet stepped on her feet, and the whole person leaned back.

A strong, hot hand grabbed her arm and saved her from wrestling.

"What are you doing here?"

Huo Qi saw that she was standing firm, let go of him, and looked at her with his eyebrows.

Xu Yuelian blushed and said, "I...... The mother said that you have a merit in roasting sweet potatoes, let me give you a reward. ”

She wanted to say, I'm coming to see you, but she didn't dare to say.

Since I decided to become a monk and become a Taoist aunt, then everything was put down.

Huo Qi smiled, and just about to say something, he lowered his head and looked at it, and suddenly turned around, "You wait a minute, I'll go change my clothes." ”

Just now he was bathing, and he heard a noise outside, so he got up in a hurry, wiped it indiscriminately, and left the clean room without putting on his clothes.

Xu Yuelian looked at some places on his back that were wet with water droplets falling from the ends of his hair, and suddenly he was at a loss again, and saluted indiscriminately.

"Then I'll wait for you in the front hall......"

As he spoke, he turned around and was about to leave.

Who knew that before he could take a step, he was stopped by someone, and only listened to Huo Qidao, "You wait for me here, change your clothes, soon." ”

Huo Qi's movements were indeed very fast, and he came out after a while, his clothes were very neat, but his hair was still a little wet.

Xu Yuelian frowned, "It's cold now, and if you go out like this, your head will be blown by the wind, which will easily cause headaches." ”

Huo Qi didn't care, "No, I used to be like this when I was in the army, sometimes I stayed in the rain for two or three days." ”

When Xu Yuelian heard this, her heart was sour and unspeakable, she lowered her eyes, bit her lip and kept silent.

Huo Qi saw that she didn't speak, and he didn't know what was wrong with her, he had very little experience with the girl's family, he had a fiancée before, but he didn't get along much, and then he was inexplicably divorced.

As for the rest, he really didn't know much about it.

The girl on the side was the one she had seen since she was a child, and she only thought she was still young before, after all, she was so much smaller than him.

It's just that at first glance today, I have grown up, and it is likely that I will get married after a while.

Only then did he realize that she was not too young, she was already past the age of marriage, and she could marry and have children.

It's just that when she thought that she would live with other men in the future, Huo Qi's heart felt a little uncomfortable......