01 Wind and snow
This year, the winter in Beizhili is exceptionally cold.
Since September, the snow has been intermittent and has been falling for more than two months.
In the middle of winter, it snows again.
They had only been out of the capital for less than sixty miles, but they had been stopped here by heavy snow for five or six days.
"Phew! What the hell is the weather! "The post station next to the official road, before the unitary, was already lit, and outside, it was like a thick night.
A short and thin figure wrapped in a thick cotton jacket shuddered and opened the thick cotton curtain and rushed into the door, spitting out a mouth full of snow foam, and sipping by the way, but the voice was very high-pitched.
The lobby of the inn is not very spacious, with only five tables. In this kind of weather, if you don't go out, you will definitely not go out to find guilt, not to mention that the people who come and go at this post station are all official families.
As a result, there was only one person sitting at a table in the lobby. It looks like he is in his forties, his face is white and beardless, and he looks a little rich, and at this moment he is tilting his eyes, glancing at the person who has just entered the door, snorting, and also saying in a thin voice, "This day is the big day, what's the use of you being anxious?" It's better to come over and drink a cup of hot tea to warm up, don't run around like a monkey, it hurts our eyes. ”
The man who came in from the outside earlier jumped twice by the door, shook off the snow on his body, and warmed his hands and feet, so he rushed to the table and sat down in three or two steps, "Godfather, you said that we paid a lot of tribute last time, what's the matter, such a thankless errand fell on our grandfather?" The son looked at it, and he must have fallen into the Tao of the surname Kang. And the one lying inside, the one who can't swallow is faster, so dragging it like this, obscure? As he spoke, he took another sip.
When he raised his eyes, he saw the person opposite glaring at him, "You don't have a door?" Dare to jump out of anything, so that people can hear that you will not be unlucky if you are skinned and made into an adult leather bag and hung? ”
Probably remembering something, the man's face turned pale earlier, he shuddered, raised his palm and mouthed, and then hurriedly grinned and said, "Son, didn't you look at only your godfather, so you couldn't hold back for a while?" This ghost weather is really tormenting, and my son is also distressed about his godfather, thinking that he can pay the errand as soon as possible, and his godfather can be relaxed and relaxed. ”
The one called "godfather" snorted and lit up the empty tea bowl in his hand, and his "son" immediately understood, hurriedly picked up the teapot, refilled the tea for him, and went around behind him, pinching his shoulders and beating his back.
His godfather's face finally looked better, and while he closed his eyes comfortably and enjoyed it, he whispered to widen his godson's heart, "Don't be impatient, now on the cusp of the storm, it should be Amitabha Buddha who can make a safe deal." As soon as the snow stops, we'll set off. ”
"That'...... There's that ...... lying in there."
The older man opened his eyes and said impatiently, "What are you afraid of?" A daughter of the Sipin General's Mansion will die if she dies, and she is afraid that she will not be able to pay it? If she still doesn't wake up when the snow stops, that's her life, and we can't blame it. At most, give up two taels of silver, let the post here be tired, and pull it to the mass grave to be buried. ”
When the godson heard this, he finally became sad and happy, and flattered, "It's still the godfather who is wise, it seems that the son has to learn more from the godfather." ”
"It's good to know." The older man glanced at his godson, and couldn't hide the pride he couldn't hide, and the hand on the table was lightly beaten, and he hummed a little song in his mouth, but he didn't mind that the wind and snow were in full swing.
Only the next moment, in the sound of the wind and snow outside, there was suddenly more horses' hooves, urging from a certain direction, galloping.
Immediately afterwards, a high-pitched horse roar and the sound of horses' hooves had stopped outside the post station.
The father and son glanced at each other, and saw surprise in each other's eyes.
I didn't have to think about it, and in the next moment, the cotton curtain had been lifted, and a tall figure strode in.
Under the cover of the cloak, the eyes of the flying fish embroidered with gold thread on the placket stared at people vividly, and the faces of the father and son turned pale, and before they could see the faces of the visitors, they had lowered their eyes.
It's just that even if they raise their eyes, they can't see the faces of the people who come clearly, I don't know if it's because the wind and snow are too big, the people who come are wearing hats on their heads, and the brim of their hats is pressed very low, and they can only see the well-defined jaws and a thin line of cold lips.
The knuckles of the hand clasped a copper token, handed to the two of them, the token on the three words "Jinyiwei", as if pressed the machine spring, so that the father and son waist bent by half.
The godfather salivated and said busily, "I don't know what the adults command?" ”
"You are Liu Dabao, the Divine Palace Supervisor?" The man's voice was very low, deliberately hoarse.
I didn't expect that it was for them, and he was so clear about where he came from?
Liu Dabao's body was an inch shorter, "Back to adults, the small one is Liu Dabao." ”
"You are in charge of sending the prisoner's family to the Nanjing Sect Division?"
Liu Dabao's eyes rolled slightly, and when he replied, he paused slightly, "Yes." ”
"Among them, is there the daughter of General Mingwei Gu Wenxuan?"
Liu Dabao and his godson looked at each other in shock, and this time the pause in reply was longer, "Yes, yes, but ......"
"Bold!" Liu Dabao's "but" hadn't been said yet, and he heard a loud shout, "You didn't notice, you didn't check your identity, you dared to fill in the numbers of others at will, you can see clearly, this is the daughter of General Mingwei Gu Wenxuan, Gu Huan!" ”
A girl whose hands had been cut off behind her back was pulled in from outside the cotton curtain, and with a push, she pushed it in front of the two.
The girl didn't say a word, but raised her head slightly silently and proudly, and really looked like the daughter of the two generals.
Only...... Liu Dabao and his godson looked at each other silently, exchanging glances that only understood each other.
The man in the flying fish suit was already impatient to wait, and his voice lowered two points, "Where is the girl you caught by mistake?" ”
Liu Dabao hung his head, his eyes rolled wildly, and when he heard the man's warning snort, he had already made a decision, and said with a smile, "It turned out that our family didn't notice it, and we almost made a big mistake, thanks to the adults, this can be made up." The girl is now lying in the inner room, and please come with us. ”
General Mingwei, although he is also a military attache of the fourth grade, but in this matter, there is really not enough to see, not enough to see, so he will not be eye-catching.
But I didn't expect that the daughter of such an eyeless family could still get a separate guest room, but when I saw the girl on the bed, her head wrapped in bandages, faint blood, and obviously in a coma, and her face was white and blue, it disappeared in an instant.
I see. One turned around, and under the hat, two sharp lights glanced straight at Liu Dabao.
Liu Dabao hurriedly waved his hand and said, "It's none of our family's business." It's because this girl is too stubborn, probably because she doesn't want to join the teaching department, but she took advantage of our family's unpreparedness and hit the wall. Our family also invited a doctor to come and see her......"
The man ignored him, untied his cloak, wrapped the girl on the bed, picked it up, and strode out of the guest room.