The fifth aunt took out a tightly wrapped bag: "This is sent back from the raw land." Xiao Chu's eyes widened, and he cheered helplessly.

The two sisters looked at the burden together. Outside was a blue patched old cloth, and the fifth aunt opened it apologetically and said, "He only asked someone to bring it back three months ago, I want to ask someone from the Chu family to bring it, and some words are not easy to explain." If you didn't come back, I would have liked to spend the winter and I'd go by myself. ”

There is another layer of baggage inside the baggage, and this layer is also half-new, and the fifth aunt opened it again, and the room suddenly had a lot of luster. The hairpins, rings, and broken silver, no wonder a big bag is so heavy.

Xiao Chu held his hand on his cheek and said, "The person he entrusted is a reliable one." "There was no way down the road. Pick it up with your hand and take a look, there is a hairpin flower with suspicious dark red blood stains in its heart.

It's all from the battlefield. Xiao Chu can be concluded. Otherwise, how could there be such a sum of money in the raw land?

"These jewelry should be sent for washing," Xiao Chu threw it down, saw Xiao Yi blushing, and said to her: "I said it, the raw land is still there." "Xiao Chu is only now relieved.

Amitabha, it's good to be here. Born in the heart of the child, like the fifth aunt, like a family. Thinking of this, he asked the fifth aunt: "What is his name now?" ”

"Gee, I forgot to ask that. Three months came to a soldier on horseback, saying he was looking for you, and when I said you were gone, he was looking for me again. It was a package that Captain Zhang brought home, and said that you would keep it for me if you were not there. The fifth aunt didn't know whether she was moved or worried, and there were more tears in the corners of her eyes: "I also brought a lot, our family is doing well now, all thanks to you for free rent, and gave me a few acres of land for nothing,"

Xiao Chu asked strangely: "How many acres of land have you given?" When the fifth aunt saw Xiao Chu's expression, she also asked strangely, "You don't know?" Xiao Chuxin suddenly understood and knew that it was Chu Huaixian's order.

After marrying Chu Huaixian, Xiao Chu intermittently mentioned the matter of the fifth aunt. Xiao Chu thought about Chu Huaixian silently in his heart, and his face was full of smiles.

After seeing the fifth aunt and knowing the whereabouts of the birthplace, Xiao Chu and Xiao Yi went to their old house to sit again. The inside and outside of the courtyard have not changed, and the cracks on the old wooden tables are the same as the original.

But there is one thing, which is clean and abnormal.

When they came back, the two sons greeted them at the door, one of them wore a ring made of red leaves on his head, and asked Xiao Chu in unison in a milky voice: "Where is the mother going to play, don't take us?" ”

Xiaoyi took out the dried dates given by the fifth aunt and gave them to eat, and Brother Yu took a bite and spit out: "Sour." "Throw half of it on the ground. Brother Ji didn't eat anything, only took one in his hand and watched his brother eat it badly, and said, "Sour." "Throw the whole thing in your hand on the ground.

"This is a sour jujube, of course it's sour," Xiaoyi hurriedly picked it up, and picked up half of what Brother Yu threw in his hand. The girls were courteous: "Little girl, the sour appetizer is a good thing." ”

Xiao Yi smiled: "Really?" This was given by the fifth aunt, and it took a lot of effort to knock it down from the tree one by one. Xiao Chu teased Xiao Yi: "You don't forget your roots." ”

Now it's a piece of jewelry to wear, and I don't want to be careless, and I haven't forgotten when I was poor.

"Kill, kill," Brother Yu took his younger brother and ran away happily. Xiao Chu looked at the figures of his sons, these are two little noble sons, who don't know the suffering of the people.

came to see Chu Huaixian, but Chu Huaixian did not go out to meet guests. Xiao Chu and Xiao Yi were separated, sitting alone under the window, thinking for a while that he didn't know where he was now, and thinking about the time when he first entered this house before, his heart was full of the past.

Seeing that the sun was sinking from time to time, Xiao Chu had already asked Chu Huaixian several times. In the end, he couldn't sit still, and hung around the courtyard gate, waiting for Chu Huaixian to come back and thank him well.

When the twilight was getting dark, I heard the sound of horses' hooves outside the door, and then Chu Huaixian's familiar voice: "Woo ......." Amid the laughter of the girls, Xiao Chu jumped up and ran out with her skirt in both hands, and the jewels on the jewelry on her head drew a light on the twilight.

She smiled: "Childe." Looking at Chu Huaixian again, his face was gloomy, with an anxious look in his eyes, as if something big had happened.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Chu still smiled like a flower: "I'm waiting for you." Chu Huaixian forced a smile and stroked Xiao Chu's head: "Go back to the room, I have something." "I hurried to see Mrs. Chu.

Mrs. Chu was having dinner, and when she saw Chu Huaixian coming in, she smiled: "Have you had dinner?" "Mrs. Chu, who returned to the other courtyard, seemed to be having a good life, he was wearing a homely navy blue eighty percent new and old clothes, no longer the official uniform he often wore. The smile on his face is like an old man who cares for the elderly.

"Not yet, I'll use it with my father." Chu Huaixian saw that his father hadn't eaten yet, so he swallowed the words when they came to his mouth. The family sent bowls and chopsticks to serve food to Chu Huaixian.

No matter how busy Mrs. Chu is usually, she doesn't ask anything when she eats, and eats peacefully. Today is no exception, he has long seen the anxiety and worry on his son's face, and it looks like something has happened.

Except for the things in the capital, other things will not make Chu Huaixian anxious like this. Mrs. Chu was also anxious, but when he saw his son running back with a sweaty and tired expression on his face, he slowed down the speed of eating, and Chu Huaixian followed his father's speed and calmly finished eating.

After eating, Chu Huaixian has calmed down a lot. Mrs. Chu was still able to calm down, watching her family pack up and take the tea in her hands, so she asked unhurriedly: "What's wrong?" ”

"That year, my son was hunted down and killed, and the reason has been found. I just came out of Zuo Guard's house, and I saw the back of a person on the corner of the street, very similar to Zhang Chengxiang's cousin He Dashan. I caught up with him and grabbed him and locked him up in the county office. Chu Huaixian said this, and his face was anxious again: "I only remembered when I saw him, I went to see Zuo Guard that year, and I also met him, but I didn't remember him when he passed by in the crowd at that time." ”

Mrs. Chu immediately made a decision and called out to his right-hand man who had been handling the case for many years: "Please come to the left guard." Then he said to Chu Huaixian: "The matter is urgent, you pick a few henchmen to carry swords and guard them behind the hall." If there's anything wrong, you're welcome! ”

At the time of the lantern, the left guard came. Dismounted in front of the door and still smiled and asked the person who invited him: "Taifu is so interested, please let me watch the moon at night?" "Zuo Shoubei is abandoning literature and martial arts, and it is the protégé of Taifu Chu who has passed the Chun Xuan in the hands of the protégé, so he turned into a martial arts. Therefore, judging from the idea of the left guard, it can be regarded as having a origin.

In the night breeze, the left guard was still in the mood to enjoy the Chu family's garden. When he saw the small pavilion under the red lantern, he also stopped to look at it a few times and praised: "Not bad." ”

When he came to see Taifu Chu in this way, the left guard was still immersed in the red leaf pavilion in the garden. Taifu Chu had a smile on his face, and watched the left guard come in and salute: "Taifu, it's a good month here." ”

"Yes, I want to come and go, only you can watch with me." Mrs. Chu said that although Zuo Shoubei felt strange when he saw him sitting still, he was still thinking about the moon in his heart: "Now is the time to enjoy the moon in autumn, and if you don't enjoy it for a few days, it will become an autumn wind and sweep away the leaves." ”

I thought it was funny, and I laughed out loud first.

Mrs. Chu quietly continued: "It's not fun to sweep the fallen leaves in the autumn wind here, when will you take a boat of soldiers to Beijing to sweep the fallen leaves." The fallen leaves in the palace are so good to sweep. ”

Seeing that he had spoken, Zuo Shoubei hadn't heard anything yet, so he first brought out the smile on his face, and when he finished listening, Zuo Shoubei was stunned. The smile on his face froze on his face, and he suddenly understood, a lot of cold sweat suddenly broke out on his back, he took a step forward and knelt down, and said in a trembling voice: "Xia Guan has been offended, but in this matter, Xia Guan must be wronged." ”

This kind of groundless words is the most difficult to resist, and the left guard was so frightened that his soul suddenly flew away, and he thought that he was implicated by someone. Mrs. Chu and Chu Huaixian at the back of the hall were relieved to see him like this.

This man is not a rebel.

If Zuo Shoubei also had different intentions, Mrs. Chu felt that it was really difficult for him to do it.

Seeing him so scared now, Mrs. Chu's smile remained unchanged, and she said kindly: "You get up, I have something to say to you." Zuo Garrison trembled, and Mrs. Chu asked him with a pleasant face: "Get along, how many messages have you passed in a year?" ”

"I don't get along, it's all a lot of letters from my uncle. He said, "Zuo Shoubei thought back to this, and suddenly a cold war came to his senses, and his face looked like a ghost, and he took a step forward and hissed at Mrs. Chu: "It's not good, they want to rebel!" ”

Mrs. Chu changed his face at this time, and said sternly: "You are too stupid! Only then do you understand? Zuo Shoubei gasped, staggered back two steps and touched the chair with his heels, he fell on the chair, and muttered in a low voice: "I don't know, I didn't expect that He Dashan often said that he borrowed soldiers, and sometimes lent him to pretend to be majestic, and it took half a month to come back after borrowing." I asked the soldiers, but there was nothing else to do when they went out, so I borrowed them a few times, and I was relieved to lend them to him. Thinking he's just pretending to be pretending to be ......."

"Confused! There is a ship from the capital here soon, once there is something, he doesn't need your soldiers to fight, he just needs to borrow and move, your soldiers and horses are equal to waste! Chu Taifu reprimanded the left guard.

Zuo Garrison jumped up suddenly: "He Dashan is still in the city, I can chase him back, but he borrowed 10,000 soldiers and horses a while ago, I don't know where he went, Taifu, you have to help me, this is a matter of exterminating the Nine Clans." ”

With the flickering lights and candles in the hall, Mrs. Chu could see the fear and timidity on the face of the left guard clearly. He didn't know whether to scold him again or pity him, so he kept his face calm and motionless to think of countermeasures.

"Uncle Jingli Erguo is in the Soldiers and Horses Command Division, and the closure of the nine gates is in his hands. Although His Royal Highness King Liang is famous, he has been cautious in everything since the first emperor went to the west, and he may not really be in charge. Zuo Garrison, you are a man who marches and fights, what should you do if you have to give me an idea about this matter? ”

Mrs. Chu's face. It's as black as the bottom of a pot.

"Yes, yes," Zuo Shoubei wiped away the cold sweat, and listened to Taifu Chu say in a deep voice: "This is to make up for the merits, and it can keep you fine." Zuo Garrison listened to the relaxation in his heart, and his idea was very smooth: "If there is chaos in Beijing, Taifu can write to King Zhongshan, King Zhongnan and King Pingjiang, and the three princes will each send troops and horses to stop at 500 miles from Kyoto. ”

Mrs. Chu stroked his beard and nodded: "It's not appropriate for me to transfer troops and horses, but I can send a letter to the three princes and tell them about the current situation, and they should understand." ”

"If the prime minister really has this thought, it will be too late for Taifu to return to Beijing at this time. However, Di Bao only arrived today, and he did not hear any news of the disturbance in Beijing. Taifu can send a person with a cronie and prestige back to Beijing to act on camera. The more Zuo Shoubei spoke, the more serious he became, the spirit of the military general gradually came out, and the fright just now gradually receded. He clasped his hands into fists and saluted, and said angrily: "Please write to the Taifu, if you can trust me, I will send someone to the three princes, and then take He Dashan and bring my soldiers and horses back." Taifu, my garrison is extremely sulky, and the time has come for me to be promoted! ”

Mrs. Chu's heart relaxed a lot, and he laughed, and said in a heartfelt tone: "It's up to you, but you have to send this letter to me quickly!" It will take at least three months for the three princes to figure out this matter and return from the transfer of troops. This is less than three months before the Chinese New Year, and I am very worried. ”

The left guard straightened up: "Xia Guan understands!" Then he laughed: "Taifu, if you can't believe me, I will live with you every day in the future, I am a hostage, if there is any abnormality, you will cut me first." But now, let me go out and order my people to arrest that kid from He Dashan, and my soldiers are still in his hands. ”

"You don't have to go, Huaixian will help you get it, you let people go to the county government to take him out." Be careful on the road and don't let him run away. Mrs. Chu said, and the left guard was full of smiles: "Okay, my soldiers, they have fallen!" ”