Chen Huang walked out with Gao Shiqi and said with a smile: "Brother Tangren's temperament hasn't changed at all, he will spend all the money if he has it, and he will drill the camp again if he is gone-you want to be the prime minister, how can the world get it?" Gao Shiqi looked back and saw a woman named Hanako with a dirty face and a stinky smell coming out, and said with a sip: "Go!" Chen Huang touched more than a dozen coppers from his body and handed them over. When the two looked at each other, Chen Huang was slightly stunned, and the female beggar hurriedly lowered her head to cover her clothes. Chen Huangyin asked, "Is this woman from here?" ”

"Who knows her!" Gao Shiqi spat again, "It's a mute!" It stinks wickedly, and it doesn't have any hue at all - what do you ask her for? ”

Chen Huang pondered for a long time and said: "This person is very similar to a person I bought three years ago - when Shaanxi rebelled, I happened to be in Gannan to inspect the Jing River, *** army was short of salary, and women were plundered from Mongolian refugees, put them in sacks, two taels of silver. I lacked a concubine by my side, so I also picked one, but it was a very Peugeot ......" Peugeot! Hahaha......" Gao Shiqi laughed, "This kind of Hanako is called 'Peugeot', it's really abrupt, and the portrayal is saltless - what happened later?" Chen Huang was silent for a moment and said, "I fled the night I bought it, and I don't know why...... Maybe I look ugly? ”

"You're obsessed!" Gao Shiqi smiled dumbly, "What do you care about her accounts?" It's rare to meet an old acquaintance in a foreign country today, and it's time to have a happy drink tonight! As he spoke, he pulled Chen Huang back to Han's house, and asked for a table of noodles like a master, and ate until dusk. Han Liu also loves Chen Huang very much, is loyal and hearty, and keeps him repeatedly. Chen Huang insisted on going back to the Huangliang Dream Store to pack his luggage and resigned.

Chen Huang went back to the next place, the wine was heavy, and he couldn't sleep anymore, and the shadow of the female beggar he saw during the day always lingered in front of him. Hearing the change, he came out in his clothes and said to the boss, "Go out for a walk." At this time, the stars are high and far away, the people in Tianjie are quiet, the moon line is like a high hanging in the hollow, and the Fuyang River in the distance has been whistling for a long time. He strolled to the temple gate, and suddenly stopped hesitantly:

"What am I trying to do? On this dark day, go to meet a young woman named Hanako......"

was about to step back, but saw a person standing on the steps of the water opposite the stage opposite the flagpole in front of the temple. Chen Huang couldn't help but be surprised: It's so late and so cold, who is over there? He took two steps forward, and listened to the man's whisper:

The wicker is golden and tender, and the green pink wall hosts the Yun family.

Swallows don't come to spring and lonely, Xiaotan and Fengmeng pear blossoms. ……

Chen Huang stroked the willow branches swaying in front of the temple, and couldn't help but be stupid, but he heard the man's voice and groan:

The pine shadow invades the altar and the forest is quiet, and the peach blossoms are flowing and the stone pavilion is cold.

The east wind blows through the double butterflies, and people lean on the dangerous building.

The buckling of the dry moon is half peep, and the rhombic fragrance of fresh water ripples.

The night came to Zhaojun's dream, and he paid on the edge of the broken pavilion.

At this time, it was clear that it was a woman chanting poetry, and she estimated her figure, and it was vaguely the female beggar. Chen Huang listened to her poignant tone, and secretly thought: If his life experience is not extremely sad, if his knowledge is not profound, he will never be able to sigh like this. Chen Huang's heart rose with an indescribable feeling of pity and admiration. Thinking about it, he couldn't help but say loudly: "Okay! Aren't you dumb? I can chant such a clear and witty word! ”

When the woman heard the voice, she turned around and stomped on the west side of the water pavilion, and her slender figure looked even more erratic in the hazy moonlight. When Chen Huang saw her pretending to be a ghost, he couldn't help but laugh secretly and followed in stride. The woman heard his footsteps follow, and walked more and more quickly, flickering left and right, flickering and appearing, flashing among the bushes of the grave, and long gone.

Chen Huang stood still, looking left and right, at this time, the clouds flew over, the moon shadow was bleak, the pines and cypresses of the Hessian forest made a low sound of waves, and the leaves of the poplar and green maple trees made a mountain sound, like a group of people clapping their hands and laughing in secret. Chen Huangzheng ignored it, and suddenly heard a terrible howl behind him. Looking back, there was a female ghost opposite, wiping her forehead with a raw silk, her hair fluttering, her hands raised, not only was her face not bloody, but she didn't even see her ears, eyes, mouth and nose, only a blur of white forest! Rao Chen Huang was as bold as a fight, and he also felt that his body was full of hair. Since the age of sixteen, he began to investigate the source of the river alone, and it is common to spend the night in abandoned temples and barren mountains and wild tombs, and he has also encountered thieves who pretend to be ghosts and rob tombs several times. After a moment of panic, he quickly calmed down, nodded and sighed, "Why do you have to do this? If I don't have the guts, I won't dare chase you - take off the white handkerchief from your face! ”

"Who are you?" The woman asked, "Why are you chasing me?" ”

"You should ask me first!" Chen Huang smiled, "Who are you?" Is it a native of the Western Regions, who was once betrayed by *** rebels? ”

Hearing this, the woman fell silent and slowly removed the white silk covering her face. It's true, it's the woman named Hanako who begged for food in Huangliang Dream Town during the day. At this time, it was close at hand, Chen Huang looked carefully, although she couldn't see it clearly under the starlight, but there was no dirt on her face, and on her slender neck was a clean and beautiful face, only so pale that people didn't dare to look at it, and a virgin breath like a rose but not a rose, like a citron and not a citron emanated. She straightened out the distribution, did not answer Chen Huang's question, only smiled mockingly, and said: "You are really a brave person, there have been several evil teenagers who have been scared to death by me before!" ”

"Naturally, you have to do this if you want to defend yourself." Chen Huang said coldly, "I just don't understand, I rescued you in the first place, why did you run away?" What is your background? ”

"You saved me so that I could be your concubine. A beggar like me dare not climb high—" said the woman miserably, "why have you come after me tonight, for the few taels of ransom you have?" ”

Chen Huang knew that she was lying, but it was inconvenient to ask any more, so he shook his head and said, "I saved you at the beginning, maybe because there was a maid by my side." Since you don't want to, I'll just do it, the twisted melon is not sweet...... I listened to you chanting poetry, and saw that you pretended to be dumb, and I knew that your life was extremely difficult. Since we have met by fate, I should ask you a ......"

"So you are...... Love me? ”

Chen Huang trembled, subconsciously glanced up at her, avoided her gaze, and whispered, "Don't ...... Don't say that......" "Your eyes are bright," she said in a pun, "I'm from the Western Regions, so it's good for you to call me Ah Xiu." Chen Huang looked around and said, "Let's talk while we walk - I have been studying the river all year round, and I have seen many women from the Western Regions in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and you are so ...... Incense, presumably Huobu Huimin? ”

Huobu Hui people are about to have a strange fragrance because of the relationship between water and soil, and Ah Xiu smeared cow dung on his body in order to cover this fragrance. Ah Xiu smiled secretly and said, "Am I fragrant?" My grandmother and mother are both from Huobu, and I am a Mongolian from Tushetubu. She and Chen Huang walked slowly side by side, brushing the grass on the side of the road, and said eloquently: "...... Like my grandmother and mother, I love cleanliness, and I don't feel like I can live without bathing every ten days, but I have to get myself dirty every morning - and it just so happens that tonight you have ......"

Because of the water situation in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, Chen Huang knew the situation in other regions. The three khans of Zasak, Chechnya, and Tushetu jointly led the Khalkha Mongols. Tushetu Khan lost his wife in middle age, and accepted another Fujin, who was born beautiful and famous, and it actually reached the ears of Zasak Khan, this Mongolian prince with a rosacea nose was originally a hungry ghost in the color. He brought hundreds of camels, hid the soldiers, and went to the Tushetu tribe to "congratulate him". In front of the banquet, he took the cup as an order, fought hard, drove away Tushetu Khan, and snatched Fujin. Chen Huang thought for a while and asked, "Ah Xiu, why did you fall into the Central Plains?" What about your father? ”

"Don't mention this to me!" Ah Xiu suddenly hid his face and cried, and said loudly, "Don't mention my poor father!" As he spoke, he rushed forward a few steps as if he couldn't help it.

"Father!" Chen Huang shuddered, walked a few steps and chased after him, standing in front of this princess who suddenly became a "Gege", I don't know what to say. Ah Xiu recounted to him how her father had been killed.

"Zasak came to our grassland, and it happened that Gerdan Khan's daughter Zhong Xiaozhen was also there, and she saw the flaw......" Ah Xiu seemed to be overwhelmed with a cold stroke, trembling all over, "In the middle of the night, Xiaozhen broke into my tent with her servant **, her face was pale, she woke me up, and said, 'Sister, go, go!'" The evil wolves of the steppe came, and they brought swords and **. Your father and the wolves drink and sing together! ’”

She fell into deep memories: "I got up in a panic and went out of the tent. The surrounding empty grassland was dark, only the father's tent was brightly lit, and none of the warriors guarding the village were nowhere to be seen, all of them were replaced by strange Zasak tribesmen, with white towels tied on their arms......

"I ordered my slave girl to escort Jane to flee this land of right and wrong at once, and return to Zhun Geer in the starry night to ask Geldan to bring troops to help. I took two samurai guards with me, and with my long sword I broke into my father's tent, and dragged my father, who was eating and drinking, and fled. When the evil Zasak Khan saw that the matter was exposed, he flipped the banquet table with a 'bang', drew his sword in his hand and shouted, 'Don't do it yet!' ’”

"What a scene that was! Swords were connected, firelight and candlelight danced wildly, shouting, killing, and screaming into a ......" Ah Xiu recounted the terrible scene in a trembling voice, "While the warriors on both sides were fighting, my father and I quietly slipped out, killed two Zasak warriors, took the horse and escaped from Dazhai, and lit a wolf smoke beacon fire on the grassland, and asked the Chechen Khan to send troops to help, and summoned the herdsmen of the tribe to counterattack...... Where would I have thought that the Chechen Khan and Zasak Khan had agreed in advance, one to occupy my stepmother, and the other to occupy my steppe! ”

"During the great escape to Ganshan for three days and three nights, my father and I were separated. Soon the news came that he was dead...... I disguised myself as a refugee alone, and I wanted to enter the customs to ask Bogda Khan to send troops, but I didn't expect to fall into the hands of ***'s defeated soldiers......" Speaking of this, Ah Xiu wiped a handful of tears, raised his head to the sky and was silent. After a while, he let out a long sigh: "When I arrived in Beijing, I met Geerdan's envoy again...... I fled here again from Beijing and became a beggar! ”

Chen Huang and Ah Xiu talked while walking, and unconsciously returned to the edge of Huangliang Dream Town. Chen Huang didn't feel a little difficult: it was absolutely impossible to let Ah Xiu go back to beg for food, and they went to the mound together, and it was deeper in the middle of the night, and it was not good to be alone with men and women. Both men stood at the same time.

"Mr. Chen," Ah Xiu said lazily after squatting down, "please go back." I...... I'm going back to the temple. I'm so glad to be able to confide my heart out to people tonight...... I...... will remember your ......"

Chen Huang looked at Ah Xiu's back with some amazement, pondered for a moment, and suddenly shouted: "Ge-Ah Xiu, please stay!" ”

Ah Xiu turned around in the moonlight, her ragged clothes and jet-black hair swaying slightly in the wind, just like a holy jade beauty, and asked a little hesitantly, "Does Mr. have anything to say?" ”

"You are a noble character," Chen Huang said as he pondered the words, "it is by no means a long-term plan for you to beg incognito, you cannot restore your old business, and you are not worthy of your noble status." It is not a husband's act for me to treat you as a passer-by—can you deign to live with me tonight in the same hotel, and be commensurate with brother and sister. Tomorrow morning I will send you to Cong Mound, where my good friend Gao Shiqi is very proud, and can always let you settle down first. Ah Xiu read Gao Shiqi's daytime criticism of other people's poems, and couldn't help but smile, and said: "The Gao Tang person you are talking about? That's a thin man! "In reply to your words," Chen Huang replied respectfully, "there are debauchery and informality, and the word 'light' seems to be too harsh." ”

His kind of respect suddenly made Ah Xiu feel a little estranged, but he didn't know that he had said his identity as "Gege", and he had built a high wall between the two. Ah Xiu thought for a while, swept his hair and smiled: "Okay, it's up to you." ”

The shopkeeper saw that Chen Huang came back with a woman in the middle of the night, and looked at it for a long time with a lamp, but he didn't recognize that it was a woman named Hanako in the town, so he smiled maliciously, and was about to ask, but Chen Huang said: "This is my cousin, who has been abducted here." When I went to Beijing this time, my uncle also took special care of her, but I met her today, so I had to live here tonight. ”

"Ah, good, good!" Shopkeepers have seen this kind of thing a lot. It is common for guests to go out to hunt pheasants and call prostitutes, but Chen Huang still has to call him "cousin", which is suspicious, and he walks and laughs: "Since he comes, he is the villain's god of wealth." But...... It's hard to find a private room now – how do you pick up the guests in the middle of the night? Do you say yes, Master Chen? ”

"That'...... How do you say? Chen Huang was in trouble for a while.

The shopkeeper still didn't answer, but Ah Xiu said: "He is my brother, it's okay to live in the same room." The boss originally intended to extort Chen Huang a few more money, "push" others away, let Chen Huang rent another room, listen to Ah Xiu's words, and said: "Brother and sister don't avoid suspicion, only the two are 'cousin' brothers and sisters, afraid of provoking gossip - I don't say anything, the town patrol head came to check the store, and the small one is not easy to explain!" ”

Chen Huangyuan also wanted to spend more money and ask for a spare room, and when he heard the word "gossip", he suddenly remembered that Ah Xiu had been begging here for food, and the "dumb" suddenly said something, and things would get bigger. Hearing that the shopkeeper was angry and had the intention of blackmailing, he took out the only ten taels of silver ingots and threw them away, and said, "I have to just stay overnight tonight." Take this bit of silver, get me a decent dress for my sister, and I will reward you with the rest! ”

"Ouch, you're so expensive, thank you for the little reward!" The boss was full of sneers, with an old face and a silver hand, thanked Qian'er, opened the door and lit the lamp with his buttocks, and after a while, he took two sets of half-new and half-used clothes from the back room, brought wooden combs and mirrors and other utensils, put them on the table, and said with a smile: "Hehe...... It's really not a tribute. This is the villain's family to marry the clothes, only through a water, please Miss will use it......" said while covering the door and going out.

There were only two of them left in the house. Chen Huang saw her sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at the candle flame a little overwhelmed, so he turned his back and said generously: "Please-sister change clothes." After a burst of rustling sounds, I listened to the scraping sound of the wooden grate, and it took a long time to hear Ah Xiu laugh lightly and say: "Nerd, what are you doing standing stupidly?" Come and sit! ”

Chen Huang turned around and was stunned all of a sudden. Is this the Hanako in a bad dress, with broken shoes, and a face covered in black ash and mud? Ah Xiu was originally born beautiful, but at this moment, she changed into a water-red jacket and a lotus-colored pleated pomegranate skirt, reflecting the light, her hair is like dark clouds and emeralds, and her temples are like knives cutting new crows. Chen Huang saw that she was shy, and looked at her with a smile, and couldn't help but feel a rush in his heart, hurriedly lowered his head, rubbed his steps to the chair, took a book, didn't look at Ah Xiu, and whispered: "I...... Read a book here, please rest on your own......"

A Xiu smiled, she had been devoted to Sinology in Mongolia, and had been in the Central Plains for a few years, although she did not talk to people, she watched coldly, and knew the etiquette of the Central Plains. Seeing that Chen Huang's face was tense and uncomfortable, he couldn't help but move in his heart: "This person is a sincere gentleman!" She sighed silently, and lay down on the bed with her clothes.

Chen Huang didn't see it at a glance this night, and he really read the book for a night. The wax tears piled up on the tiled candlestick.

"Stinky Hanako" is actually "fragrant beauty". On the second day, as soon as Gao Shiqi heard about this, he couldn't help but regret it: "This kind of romantic affair should have happened to me Gao Shiqi, how did I lose my eyes, but let Chen Huang, a black and non-slippery water mouse, get cheap!" Remorse and remorse, he still postponed the day of the trip, went to the silversmith in the town to wait for the edict, made a golden hairpin lying in the wind, a pair of silver bracelets, and bought two sets of tribute materials, and a very valuable diamond glass mirror at that time - a total of four colors of greeting. As soon as he returned to Han's Mansion, Han Chun and Xing rushed out, because they saw Gao Shiqi pacing over, they hurriedly stopped, and said with a smile: "Engong, look, the person has taken it over, and he is making a family routine with the old lady!" My mother has recognized her as a righteous daughter. Gao Shiqi nodded with a smile, quickened his steps and walked up the stairs.

"Girl...... It's hard for you! Han Liu was sitting in the middle of the front hall, hugging Ah Xiu, who was full of tears, and comforting, "It's also thanks to Mr. Chen's discernment!" You've been here for almost two years, and my wife only looks pitiful, and can't think about the hardships of your life...... Gee! These terrible things have only been said by Mr. Gushu before, and sung in the play, if it weren't for your water spirit in front of me, I wouldn't be able to believe it......" Chen Huang sat on the side, seeing that Liu was so emotional, and there were tears in his eyes.

Ah Xiu lost his mother since he was a child, and he has never been so loving, when he first came to the Han family, he was said by the old lady's thoughtful words, and his heart was sour, hot and comfortable, and he snuggled up on Liu's body, choked up and said: "My mother is a good person who accumulates virtue and does good, she gives me clothes when she is cold, and food for me when she is hungry...... I don't dare to say it, but I remember all these things in my heart! Now that I'm at your house, I'm not going anywhere! ”

"Good baby," Mrs. Han rubbed Ah Xiu, wiped her tears and smiled, "The fallen leaves always have to return to the roots, although my mother is reluctant to you, Dali still understands." Wu Sangui, who was stabbed, has already called Long Live Lord to pick up, the court can't let you suffer for a lifetime, is that also the ground under the control of the court! In the future, you have to help back, or marry someone else, don't forget that there is a mother here, and the mother will be content! Ah Xiu closed his eyes, let the tears flow, and said coquettishly: "If the Lord of Long Live restores my fiefdom, I will take you and hold me all day long!" Han Liu smiled: "Don't kill my Yangshou, how can you have such a great blessing?" Besides, your son-in-law can't let my wife occupy you! ”

"My son-in-law!" Ah Xiu raised his head, with a pair of big sparkling eyes with a smile, deliberately pointed at Chen Huang, and said, "Mother, ask him if he will let ......."

Mrs. Han was stunned when she saw Ah Xiu so generous, although she was shrewd, capable, and well-informed, she had never seen such a woman, and she didn't know what to say for a while. Chen Huang's face turned red to the root of his ears, he stood up at a loss, and said in a panic: "This ...... This is not to be done. He immediately corrected, "I'm not saying bad, I mean...... I already have a family! "What's that," Ah Xiu sat up straight and said solemnly, "You just bring her in......" At this point, she stopped, and the words below were not spoken.

"Gege's love, people are not plants and trees, how can Chen Huang not know the reason?" Chen Huang settled down for a moment and said eloquently, "I didn't know your identity, but now that I know, how dare I do something indecent?" …… The wife is gentle and frugal, and is very virtuous. My career is to govern the river, wandering the world all year round, fluctuating, I am sorry for her, how can I bear to mistake my youth again? What's more important is that Gege has to take revenge on his family and restore his old business, and I can't do anything about it! Ah Xiu listened, broke out of Han Liu's arms, stood up suddenly, thought about it for a long time, and always felt that there was no way to do both, tears flowed out silently, wiped it, and said resolutely: "I...... It's your person, even if you wait until your gray hair, even if you go to the ends of the earth, I have to wait for you......"

The two of them were talking inextricably when a loud laugh suddenly came from outside the door.