Chapter 7: Jiaoyun
After breakfast, the white coat returned to the back garden. The weather was warm and cold, and she stood on her pavilion, looking at a piece of spring water, rippling. Changkong changed his clothes and walked over, pulling the sleeve of the white coat to apologize.
"Good sister, my father and I are just reluctant to let you go. Not with the intention of making you uncomfortable. In the future, you don't want to mention the matter of not being a substitute for the deceased, so you have made up your mind to accept your fate, and my father and I will follow you, can't you? Why bother, have you forgotten how happy your brother was when he first saw you? My brother promised you that I would get you whatever you wanted, even if I wanted the moon and stars. Unfortunately, you don't seem to want anything. ”
Bai Yi listened quietly, and the existence of the rattan paper full of questions about Hou Cong in his sleeve could be felt all the time. Did she really want anything?
In the blue sky, there was only one cloud. Delicate, lightweight, and the darling of spring. "Baiyun", she remembered, the name of a cousin. And she died, and she lived. When she was fighting grass, she accompanied her to find flowers and flowers.
Is it in her hometown, in Pingdu, in the Bai family's house, in her real home, that she has also seen such spring clouds? There, the green of the south is extraordinarily rich and verdant, and it is impossible to forget.
Before the age of 8, she remembered that all she wanted was rain, and all she wanted was that her husband would not come. If Mr. comes, she wants not to make mistakes when she memorizes the article, and she wants the big words written yesterday not to be laughed at by Mr. In addition, my father should go home early on an errand, and I will have dinner with myself, my brother and brother, and my mother.
These memories, with that disaster, were finally unrecognizable.
Farewell to death row, my grandfather said that I wish I a safe life, get married and have children. She also seemed to have a vague feeling that this would be her fate. As a result, it doesn't matter if he survived, he took the life of the innocent and kind uncle of the Qin family, and Baiyi owed the sky two lives, what else could he expect?
Adoptive father Yu Wenxing and elder brother Changkong pampered herself, she practiced martial arts if she wanted to, and did whatever she wanted. Except for not allowing yourself to go out, everything is casual. Maybe Bai Yi will marry and have children someday in the future, and this life will be over.
Married and had children, this is the end of the life. Not good, not bad. She can take it. But, does she care? Not. What does she care? It was the adoptive father and brother who were safe. Because of this, she wants to go south and follow the will of the Emperor Liguo. What else does Bai Yi care about? Mo Chang, who was captured by himself, and Mo Chang, who changed his fate, should be saved by himself, which is fair and reasonable enough.
She's a reasonable person. She also wants the world to be reasonable. But, whoever says it doesn't count, does it? But, she cares, doesn't she?
Seeing that his sister didn't speak, Changkong began to arch the fire again, "Anyway, Bai Yi, you really don't want to find out, who harmed the Bai family?" Who's going to cut down the weeds and root out your house? Who killed the uncle of the Qin family? He stared at his sister's face tightly, if only Bai Yi wanted to know, she would be persistent, she would be unwilling to die for others.
Who knows that Bai Yi shook his head, "Who?" Of course, he is the first emperor of Chengguo, and he is the father of His Royal Highness Mo Chang. The cunning rabbit died, the lackeys cooked, no matter who didn't like the Bai family, the emperor couldn't kill 56 people if he didn't make a will. ”
Changkong is desperate, so far, what Bai Yi can cheer up is the competition with Hou Cong. Thinking of this, he told his sister not to stay in the pavilion for a long time and watch the cold, while he said goodbye and hurried to find his father.
Yu Wenxing was busy reading the documents, and the room was suddenly crowded with people: Changkong represented himself, Murong Xing represented Hou Cong, and Mo Chang also represented himself, and they all came to "discuss" together.
"You say it first?" "Do you avoid it?" "I'll wait here...... The three of them shirked each other for a long time, Yu Wenxing arched his hand, and personally selected Mo Chang to say first.
Mo Chang asked Yu Wenxing's permission to let him take the white clothes out to enjoy the flowers and spring after the competition of "binding and killing". Yu Wenxing doesn't like Mo Chang very much, but since his daughter stayed in the spring of Datong, it may be a season, and it is also a good thing to go out to see flowers with a gentle and elegant prince, but there is nothing to disagree with, "But, what's going on with binding and killing?" Who's going to tie it up? ”
Only then did Murong Xing explain his intentions, "The eldest prince wants to challenge each other one-on-one with the girl in white in the Hou Mansion from tomorrow, and the referee has decided to ......."
"Humph!" Changkong interrupted Murong Xing's words, "Didn't Hou Cong say that it had already been agreed by my father?" How to say it! Lying monkeys! ”
Yu Wenxing broke his son, "Don't be rude!" I know, the eldest prince's idea, naturally follow it. As for the matter of looking at the flowers, it is up to His Highness's wishes. ”
Mo Chang and Murong Xing were not interested in what Yuwen Changkong was going to say next, and they got a positive answer and left together.
Outside the barracks, Mo Chang stopped Murong Xing and asked him, who is the "substitute for the dead"? He's so thankful. Murong Xing had a wooden face, shook his head when he asked, and he didn't let Mo Chang go, he took a step ahead and left quickly, as if he had a lot of things to be busy. Mo Chang was rude to this kind of "rudeness", but he didn't mind the little guy Cuizhu. He just told the scolding Cuizhu, "We don't have to rush back home first." It seems that the identity of this substitute for the deceased is not a person who is easy to guess. Let's find a place to wander around, shall we? ”
"Your Highness, you want to check the identity of this person?!" Cuizhu has been serving Mo Chang for a year, and he has never seen this prince display his talents, and now he can't help but get excited.
Yu Wenxing saw that his son was staying, and with a sad face, he told him to sit down and speak slowly. Changkong took another step forward in the theory of "whether Bai Yi can live or not, it depends on whether Hou Cong can let her live" and told his father, "Whether Bai Yi can live or not, the key is whether she wants to live." I am reluctant to die, but I am not afraid of death. ”
"At present, it seems that a child who has experienced it like that is very cold in her heart, and may not be afraid." Yu Wenxing came to such a conclusion.
On the Hou Mansion, it is not without fog lingering. Hou Cong personally reported to his grandparents that he was going to hold a "binding and killing" challenge at home, and Hou Chong and his wife nodded and agreed, but then looked at each other and felt that things were a little strange. - The binding and killing competition itself is ordinary, but the problem is that Hou Cong is a proud person and has never participated in it. In addition, Bai Yi is a girl like a flower, and she has been inseparable from Hou Cong for three days and three nights, which always sounds a little ambiguous and absurd.
Hou Cong himself is not the kind of hairy boy who doesn't understand the affairs of men and women - the son-in-law of the nobles of the country, under normal circumstances, he gets an errand at the age of 14, and he is still nominally involved in practice, so he said otherwise; At the age of 15, you have to invite a female teacher to guide you to get started, and at the age of 16, you can accept people in the house, and then you can marry a wife. Once the concubine is pregnant, the matter of the wife is better said: it means that the son of the family is in good health.
Hou Cong was defeated by Bai Yi at the age of 14, and when he was 15 years old, he had a serious heart disease, in addition to swearing to the puppet, he was bored to practice martial arts and study, so he was delayed for a year - at the age of 16, he invited a female teacher to practice. It is said that everything is going well. Although they did not accept concubines or marry wives, it was all because the emperor said that he wanted to give marriage, and the Hou family did not dare to act rashly.
So, he proposed to "bind and kill" the challenge with Bai Yi, is there any element in it that cares about Bai Yi? Or is he unwell and insensitive to the affairs of men and women?
Old Madam Hou called Murong Xing to the back kitchen on the pretext of helping to pick snacks. In this place, the old lady usually does not come, and seeing this situation, the cooks and men all found an excuse to retreat and give way to a place.
Old Madam Hou picked out a few peony-patterned oil steamed rolls, and asked Murong Xing tentatively: "Your eldest son, what's wrong?" Okay, what kind of killing? ”
Murong Xing was wooden, and according to the old lady's appearance, he also picked the same dim sum and put it on the white porcelain plate. "The identity of the girl in white is important, and the eldest prince is in charge of the overall situation, so she must be completely subdued. But she has defeated the eldest son, especially her brother, who seems to be a little unconvinced. ”
"That," the old lady picked out a few more steamed dumplings filled with shrimp and meat, "but she's a girl, isn't she?" What does your eldest son mean to the girls? ”
This is the meaning of testing the private life of Murong Xinghou Cong's boudoir, and Murong Xing's face with a little light amber color turned red. "When, of course the eldest prince is, he likes girls."
He didn't wait for the old lady to ask any more, he grabbed an empty plate casually, picked it up and withdrew.
On the second day, several referees led by Mo Chang took their positions one after another, burned incense and swore an oath, saying that they must adjudicate fairly, and Changkong once again emphasized that they must swear that they must not do anything with each other.
Hou Cong stared at the direction where the people came, and didn't quite understand why Changkong arrived first. Changkong is like being able to read minds, and he said to everyone, but he said to Hou Cong, "Girls, it's always slower to go out." You didn't set when my sister would come! Patience! Patience! And, my lord, I advise you to be prepared, for in three days you will fail again. Do you have all the herbs to treat heart disease? ”
Yuan was the first to protect the master, "Yuwen Changkong, you also follow the eldest prince to do things, what's going on with this attitude?" Well, I'll challenge you to be bound and killed, and you won't refuse. After I win you, you will be convinced, lower your eyebrows and be obedient, or you will be beaten! ”
Changkong snorted, left everyone, and ran to the gate to greet Bai Yi.
A quarter of an hour later, Changkong picked up his sister from the gate.
The white clothes were dressed in a new dark green dress, which was picked out of the sky. Before leaving, she moved the white rattan paper full of questions to the sleeve of her new clothes. This dress accidentally matched the color and pattern on Hou Cong's body, and it fell on purpose. There are four baggage for the supplies I carried with me, and the nurse and son sent them together. All the four burdens were cleaned up by Changkong, and it took an hour to tidy up.
Mo Chang shouldered the heavy responsibility, personally distributed the two bundles of strings to Hou Cong and Bai Yi, and then announced that the ropes were also hidden elsewhere, and Hou Cong did not know that it was fair to the two of them. As for the situation in the Hou Mansion, given that this is the place of play, and Bai Yi is not clear, the referees will accompany them and spend a quarter of an hour to familiarize themselves.
The Binding Challenge will begin after that.