20 Night Encounters
The capital has always attached great importance to the solar term of Laba, and this Laba porridge is also the most exquisite.
When they got up early in the morning, the sisters Ye Xinyi and Ye Xianglan were busy. According to what the aunt of the He family taught, Laba porridge was prepared.
The peanuts were soaked last night.
Ginkgo seeds and lotus seeds should be boiled.
They also prepared glutinous rice, barley, walnuts, lilies, and red dates, which were enough for eight things.
Thick, boiled in a large pot.
A tangy fragrance.
Today, the shop closed early, and the family sat around the table, drinking the bowl of thick laba porridge, Ye Xinyi always felt that his heart and lungs were warm.
This porridge, although it is not as expensive as in previous years. But it is very glutinous, and in her opinion, it is better than what she drank every year before.
Perhaps because of the festival, Ye Shi'an's expression was even softer.
After eating, he also taught Ye Chuanbai and Ye Xianglan to recognize a few words with great interest.
Then, he smiled and said to Ye Chuanbai and Ye Xinyi, "Today's festival, don't work too hard, don't go to the shop to work hard at night, rest early." Nothing can be done overnight, but over time, and a little bit of accumulation is. ”
Ye Chuan Bai Deng's face was red, Ye Xinyi was thick-skinned, but he didn't think anything was wrong, he responded "yes", and thought to himself, it turned out that people had always known about their small actions, but they didn't say anything.
But...... Ye Xinyi's eyes flashed twice, it was better to rest earlier today, she could make good use of the time tonight.
It was night, there were no stars or moons, the lead clouds were heavy, the north wind was tight, and it looked as if it was going to snow.
In this kind of weather, not to mention people, even cats and dogs are hiding.
But the courtyard door of the Ye family opened a crack at this time, and a slender figure like a cat flashed out of the crack in the door silently, and in a blink of an eye, it disappeared into the deep night. Yulong Hutong, wrapped in a dark shadow, in such a dark night, there is no human voice, the further north, the more so, and two points of cold and terrifying.
To the north of Yulong Hutong, there are two families.
They are all the families who were co-seated because of the rebellion of King Yong a few days ago, and one of them is the former Mingwei General's Mansion.
It's just that today's General Mingwei Mansion is not as it used to be. The courtyard gate was deeply locked, and the two lanterns at the door had long since disappeared, and some were broken, swaying in the north wind.
The shadows of the trees within the courtyard walls swaggered, like ghosts.
A few days ago, how many people died in General Mingwei's mansion, and the blood was heavy, maybe the evil ghosts gathered, and on weekdays, they still walked around, let alone such a dark night where they couldn't see their fingers.
A slender figure tapped against the wall, and after a few ups and downs, it was already easily climbing the courtyard wall. Reaching out again, he slid down a nearby jujube tree like a monkey.
Within the courtyard walls, there are even more ghosts, but in a month's time, this mansion has been dilapidated.
The visitor stood under the courtyard wall for a moment, and was silent for two breaths before moving again.
Even if there is no moonlight, the people who come are very familiar with this house, and they are familiar with the road around the corridor, passing by the rockery, and following the narrow path in the middle of the rockery to a courtyard.
It was a two-story embroidery building, and she pushed open the door, and went upstairs, and then, until she reached the outer wall, and in the third row, which she counted from the ground, felt the bricks from the left, and when she counted the seventh, she took out the dagger that had been prepared long ago, and pried the brick loose, and took out the brick, but only half of it.
Throwing the brick away, he reached into the space of the vacant half brick, and in a blink of an eye, he found two bags.
She reached out and put the two bags in the placket, and almost at the same time, she sensed that something was wrong.
Suddenly, he turned around and ran out of the window.
The next moment, a figure entered through the main entrance, followed closely behind, burst out of the open window, and slid down the pillars of the small building, chasing closely behind the thin figure.
At first, he could catch up, but the thief was very familiar with this mansion, and deliberately took him around two circles, and then, when he chased him to a remote, grassy courtyard wall, the person was gone.
The man looked around without giving up, and finally made sure that the man had been lost, and then turned and walked away.
When the footsteps were far away, outside the courtyard wall, clinging to the wall, the gecko-like people breathed a sigh of relief and slid off the wall.
But he only stopped in the same place for a breath, that is, he did not stop under his feet, turned around and ran into the darkness.
It took me about half an hour to gallop all the way before I was sure it was safe.
Unlike Fang Cai's Yulong Hutong, there were already lights hidden on the side of the road at this time, and she raised her hand to remove the black towel covering her face. Wearing this black scarf was originally just in case, but I didn't expect it to come in handy. Just ran for a while, but the hot breath exhaled was blown into a Ling Zi by the cold wind, and it was really inconvenient to wear this thing. But it was also taken down when it was sure to be safe.
Under the flickering light, her face was reflected, not Ye Xinyi, who was it?
She naturally had a plan for this trip.
In the past, although she was not treated harshly in General Mingwei's mansion, she was not comfortable.
If there is no case of Yongwang's rebellion, it is impossible to say, it will not be long before she will be sold by the people in the palace for a good price and make a useful marriage for General Mingwei's mansion. As long as it is helpful for the promotion of her father and brother in the family, even if she is married to a eunuch, her father Gu Wenxuan will definitely not frown.
Yes, she had secretly saved up some valuable things a long time ago, and she didn't even tell Linlang, and secretly hid them in the wall of the room.
It's just that when I raided my house that day, I couldn't escape, so naturally I couldn't bring my things with me.
It's a good thing, but now it's even more useful.
Holding the two bags in his hand, Ye Xinyi finally couldn't help laughing.
With the contents of these two bags, the days to come will finally be better.
It's just that while rejoicing, I still can't control the worries in my heart.
For this reason, it is naturally the person he met in General Mingwei's mansion just now.
She is very good at hiding and is good at hiding, if it weren't for the tip of her nose and a gust of wind, she could smell the residual smell of incense and candles on his body, I am afraid that she will miss the opportunity and will not be able to escape at all.
However, at such a time, who will appear in General Mingwei's mansion?
Ye Xinyi really couldn't figure it out, but he only hoped that in the future, there would be no intersection.
Naturally, there will be no intersection again, General Mingwei's Mansion, she will only go this time, and in the future, everything in the Gu family will no longer be related to her.
She is just Ye Xinyi, a girl born in a small family in the market.
In the middle of the night, the snow that had been brewing all day finally fell. Swept by the north wind, raging in the alleys, overwhelming.
In the rain cage alley, there was a little ghost light falling in the dark night, and slowly drifted into the mansion of General Mingwei, which had been sealed.
Under the air and death wind light, a face is reflected, with a full beard, lined with a pair of copper bell-like bull's eyes, this situation, if you are bumped into by someone, I am afraid that I will think that I have bumped into the cow ghost and snake god, and I am afraid that I will scare away my soul on the spot.