Chapter 209: Seeing Off
Compared with the bad heart of the person behind the hatred, Ah Yu is more fortunate in his heart.
Fortunately, she always remembered the things in Wen Ru's memory, so she could deal with it in advance, and invited Pei Yin to help as a lobbyist, and successfully cleaned up the bandits on Lishui.
In this way, even if Wen Huan and the others left on the original day, the death should have passed.
The maids in the house were all talking about the news that was spreading outside, saying that General Li was wise and resolute, and he could see the turmoil on the Lishui River at a glance, and before the water bandits had time to harm more people, they directly led the troops to clean up the bandits.
As for the words of the saint's wrath that circulated a few days ago, no one will mention it anymore.
"The girl doesn't look very happy?" Qingrui sent the small hand stove with silver charcoal to Ah Yu, and replaced the cold tea in front of her with ginger soup.
Ah Yu glanced at the rich ginger soup, not only did he not gag as usual, but he directly picked it up and drank it in two sips. Holding the small hand stove, she lazily lay on the desk, her unhappiness was obviously exposed, and she didn't even have the slightest idea to hide it.
She said to Qingrui: "Brother will go out in two days......
Wen Huan had been preparing for a study tour for a long time, but he only took some free time to tell his family about it last winter.
A winter has passed, and even the Lantern Festival has passed by now.
It stands to reason that their girls should have accepted this fact a long time ago.
Qingrui thought for a while and persuaded Ah Yu: "Is the girl worried about the young master's comfort?" The slave maid thought that the girl didn't have to worry too much, before Li Shen cleaned up Lishui and caught a lot of vicious bandits, I heard the people in the old lady's yard say that the old lady because of the Lishui matter, and later specially arranged more guards for the young master, which was twice as much as before! ”
"The young master is just going out to study, and he is not going to suppress bandits, there are so many people protecting the young master, I don't think there will be too much danger......
Ah Yu wasn't worried about Wen Huan's travel.
She only heard that General Li had cleaned up all the bandits on the Lishui River, and then went to look for her brother, but found that her brother's face suddenly became blurred, although she didn't see the specific death on it, but her brother's current appearance was very different from other people who avoided death.
Let's take General Pei at the beginning as an example!
Although Ah Yu had not seen General Pei's death before, when he saw General Pei in the pantry, he was no different from a normal person. This is tantamount to referring to the fact that Ah Yu can clearly see his facial features, rather than being replaced by other illusions.
In addition, she also saw General Pei's tributary for a moment, and fainted instantly, and only recovered after she experienced the death that General Pei should have experienced.
Even putting aside General Pei's example, the experiments she has done one after another over the years are all similar.
Those who successfully avoided the death catastrophe returned to the appearance of normal people in Ah Yu's eyes, although she did not immediately faint after seeing those people, but she had seen people during the day, and at night she must have experienced the death catastrophe that the other party should have experienced, and she felt the pain and the threat of death, all of which were real.
originally thought that Wen Huan's death should go down to Lishui, but now that Lishui's bandits are gone, his brother's death has been successfully avoided.
But now the brother who can't see clearly in her eyes, and the death experience that she still doesn't perceive, is like a sharp sword hanging above her head, and the danger is clearly within reach, but it is not clear when it will come. Let her be worried all the time, and where will she be happy.
Listening to Qingrui's persuasion, it's a pity that all of what she said is not within the scope of Ah Yu's concerns.
Ah Yu flattened his mouth, and said angrily: "Daddy and mother will probably only let me send a brother at the city gate." Qingrui, you said that if I insist on sending my brother to Lishui to board the boat, will my father and mother not allow it? ”
Here I have to talk about the location of Lishui.
There is a river that runs across the city in Kyoto, a small tributary of Lishui, and the river in the city is quite wide, but the section of the river that joins Lishui is very narrow, and small boats may be able to pass through, but large boats can't even get into the water.
And Wen Huan's group, in addition to the students they are going to go out to study, there are also guards along the road to protect safety, especially after the Lishui incident, the number of guards assigned to them by the parents of each family has increased a little. There are too many people, so you can only take the big boat, that is, you have to go to the pier to get on the boat.
The distance between the pier and Kyoto is about three times as long as the road from Kyoto to Hakuba Academy.
Qingrui shook her head: "Young master, they boarded the boat from Kyoto to Lishui, I'm afraid it's not something that can be done in one day, maybe they will have to spend the night on the road halfway." Madame, they would not have consented to the girl coming along. ”
She paused, and then said to Ah Yu: "Is the girl reluctant to the young master?" But the young master's study tour was a matter that had already been decided, and there was no way to go out with the girl, even if the girl was reluctant, the young master still had to go far away. What is the difference between the girl saying goodbye at the city gate and saying goodbye on the bank of the Lishui River? ”
After all, they all have to part, even if the time of parting is postponed, but parting will come in the end.
Ah Yu sighed.
She was not afraid of parting, but she was worried that after parting, there would be no chance to see each other, just like Wen Ru remembered.
The strangeness on Wen Huan's face didn't return to normal for a day, and she couldn't settle down for a day.
On the day Wen Huan and the others left, Ah Yu followed Mrs. Wen and the others to see off Wen Huan.
Ah Yu was supposed to sit in the carriage with her female dependents, but before going out, she pestered Mrs. Wen to ride a horse by herself, and Mrs. Wen couldn't bear her coquettishness, so she could only agree. Fortunately, A's horse is a docile pony, and there is someone pulling the reins on the side, so there is no need to worry too much about A's's safety.
Qingrui, who was taken by Ah Yu's side, was very uneasy in her heart.
She looked at Qingquan who was leading the horse for Ah Shen, and then thought about what Ah Shen said to her a few days ago, she could only carefully recite the Buddha, full of hope that she was thinking too much, how could the girl do such a nonsense thing!
Ah Yu rode a pony and followed Wen Huan's horse, she gently shook the long whip in her hand, and snatched the reins from Qingquan's hand, Mrs. Wen San who was sitting in the carriage did not notice her movements, Wen Huan saw it, but he didn't take it seriously, after all, in his eyes, Ah Yu's riding skills are still good, and it is normal to want to pull the reins by himself.
At this time, Ah Yu was lucky in his heart, and was ready to wait at the door for Mrs. Wen and Wen Huan to finish saying goodbye, and then rush out first.
She had already inquired in advance, there was such an official road outside the city, and Wen Huan and the others were going to Lishui, and they were also going to take this official road.
After she walked a few steps in advance, Wen Huan and the others caught up, she said her thoughts first, and then she stalked and stalked, the kind that didn't have a cheeky face, and her brother wouldn't refuse her request!
Ah Yu has already arranged the next move in his heart, and is waiting for the arrival of the 'east wind'.
However, when she arrived at the city gate, Mrs. Wen San came out of the carriage and saw Ah Yu who was still riding on a bantam horse.
She frowned, and said to Ah Yu not very approvingly: "Don't come down quickly......"
In fact, the people who came to see them off were not only the Wen family, but also the parents of other students, such as Master Xie and Mrs. Xie.
Because of the greetings, Wen Huan had already dismounted, and now he was still riding on the horse, that is, Ah Yu alone.
There seems to be some surprise.
Ah Yu reluctantly dismounted, and when she walked to Mrs. Wen's side, she looked back at her horse from time to time.
Mrs. Wen San shook her head, and said to Mrs. Xie beside her: "These children always have one idea a day, and I don't see how much she likes to ride horses in the past, and I don't know why she has been thinking about it now......"
Mrs. Xie smiled: "If you don't say anything, it's still a child!" ”
Ah Yu saw that Mrs. Wen was talking to Mrs. Xie, and when she looked up again, she saw Xie Huai'an behind Mrs. Xie.
He smiled at Ah Yu, pointed to Wen Huan and Xie Huaining in the center of the crowd, and whispered: "I asked my brother just now, and he said that there is a classmate who lives far away, and it will probably take a while to come over, and he will not leave until he arrives." ”
"I thought that if I sent my brother to the city gate, you would leave!"
Seeing that Mrs. Wen's eyes were no longer on her, Ah Yu rubbed to Xie Huai'an's side and exchanged news with him.
"Last time you said that you were going to go to the border pass to practice, I heard others say that the border pass seems to be very calm over the years, but the barbarians outside the border are not stupid people, they may be planning something, if you go to the battlefield in the future, you have to be careful."
After all, Wen Rugu is a female stream trapped in the house, and news from the outside world can rarely reach the backyard of the Duan Mansion, if it weren't for Wen Ning still studying in the Wen clan and bringing back two pieces of news from outside from time to time, then Wen Rugu can really be said to be isolated from the world.
But Wen Ning is too young, and most of the Wen clansmen don't like Wen Ning who left with Wen Ru, so they basically try not to talk to him without communicating with him.
Therefore, the news that Wen Ru can learn is usually true and false, and it takes a high degree of discernment to get the real news from it.
But from the seventeenth year of Yong'an to the eighteenth year of Yong'an, the Duan family's restrictions on Wen Rugu were not very many.
At that time, she had heard that the West Gate Pass guarded by the Fan family was almost opened by the barbarians, and the barbarians did not know when they bought off the people in the army, and poisoned the army.
But Wen Ru only heard one or two words from people, and before meeting Xie Huai'an, Ah Yu didn't even think about it.
She saw Xie Huai'an responding to her words, but her face was still as misty as she couldn't see clearly.
After thinking about it for a while, she whispered to Xie Huai'an again: "You have also heard that General Li Shen found something very remarkable in the water bandits' den!" ”
"Even the big officials in Beijing, the people who are always under the emperor's nose, have bad intentions, not to mention people who are far away at the border, some of them sacrifice their lives for the country, but no one is sure that there are no people who have lost their conscience. When you get to the border, you have to keep your eyes open and don't be deceived......"
Ah Yu actually wanted to say it more clearly, but Wen Ru was also hearsay at the beginning, even if she wanted to explain in more detail, she didn't know where to start, so she could only look at Xie Huai'an's own comprehension ability.
The two children didn't know when they got together, and they were still whispering.
Mrs. Wen San and Mrs. Xie glanced at each other, and both of them had a very friendly smile on their faces, obviously reaching some kind of agreement in private.
Xie Huai'an frowned.
He didn't want to admit Ayu's statement in his private heart, but if you think about it carefully, the people who joined the army at the border pass may not all have a patriotic heart, more because of the recruitment of troops by the imperial court, and some because of military households, even if they don't want to join the army, they can't do it.
Therefore, it is not impossible that there will be a few people who have been bribed inside.
Xie Huai'an thought that Ah Yu should not do such a purposeless thing, so he wrote down Ah Yu's words for the time being, and then discussed them carefully with his grandfather when he returned to the border pass, at least he had to be prepared.
Ah Yu was talking to Xie Huai'an, and suddenly heard a voice from the city gate behind her, she looked behind her, and saw a white-faced scholar riding a horse, who was carrying an indigo baggage, obviously the companion Wen Huan and they were waiting for.
She watched the scholar ride to Wen Huan's side and talk to Wen Huan and Xie Huaining in a friendly manner.
They seem to be laughing!
But Ah Yu couldn't see clearly.
At the moment when Wen Huan and his party finally gathered, Ah Yu only felt that he had seen purgatory on earth.
Blood stained her eyes red, leaving the world in front of her only red.
She had been worried about her brother and the others before, but now she didn't have to worry anymore, because she finally saw the mist on Wen Huan and the others' faces dissipate, revealing their true faces.
It was only for a moment, and after that, Ah Yu fell into a bloody nightmare.
The pain of the sword piercing into the flesh was one after another, she felt her brother's despair at the beginning, trying to escape from the boatload of bandits, but found that the familiar people around her were dying one by one, and when she turned back, she had already fallen into the river, the bright red blood stained a water, the flowing water diluted the blood, except for the corpses that went with the flow, no one knew how many people had been desperately trying to survive in that place.
Xie Huai'an quickly hugged Ah Yu, who had fainted suddenly, in his arms, and in the face of Mrs. Xie's particularly disapproving gaze, he didn't even bother to say anything to justify, but only anxiously asked if there was a doctor.
"Ah...... Ah, she suddenly fainted! ”
He held the person in his arms, and with the extraordinary hearing of the warrior, he clearly felt that Ah Yu's breathing stopped for two or three breaths, and the body of the person in his arms was hovering between getting cold and warm, making him always worried about Ah Yu's life.