The first month of the thirteenth year of Yuanjia.

Five years have passed since the treason and collaboration case of General Xie Lianggui, who once shocked the world. Five years later, everything behind the big case gradually calmed down. No one in the DPRK and China ever mentioned this again.

Even if everyone forgets it, as Fu Zhangzhu, who was once the daughter of the Xie family, she can't forget it.

The palm beads threw paper money into the brazier, and the paper money quickly burned as soon as it was stained with sparks. The blazing flames lit up Zhangzhu's face, and she stared at the surging flames in a daze, her eyes revealing unquestionable determination.

Zhangzhu squatted there to burn paper money, while Chu Yuanzhen took incense and worshipped. They worship the souls of the Xie family. Zhangzhu threw a set of cut paper clothes into the brazier, and watched the paper clothes burn out little by little, then she got up and hurried to pour the wine.

After the worship was over, Zhangzhu followed Yuanzhen to the next room, where someone came to clean it.

"You don't have to be too reluctant to go to Xiu's house for New Year's wine tomorrow, if you don't want to go, I'll help you find a reason to prevaricate." Yuan Zhen knew that Zhangzhu didn't like to socialize.

"It doesn't matter, don't you always say I'm bored at home, it's better to take the opportunity to go out and walk around. Rest assured, I will not lose your face. ”

"Well, look where you go, I'm not worried about you. You're a little cold, and you're not so social, so instead of sitting on a cold bench there, it's better to have a good rest at home for a day, and I'll just show my face and come back, and then we'll go to the suburbs to enjoy the plum blossoms together, how about it? ”

Zhangzhu stared at him: "Are you all planned?" ”

Yuan Zhen smiled at the corner of her mouth, and pinched her face with a handful of palm beads.

The two of them were warm, and Yan Sheng said through the curtain: "Second son, Miss Fu, Liao Ye is back." ”

Zhangzhu hurriedly let go of his hand, and Yuan Zhen and Yan Sheng said, "Please go to the middle hall to drink tea first, and I'll go over." ”

The leap student took the order and left, and the palm bead said to him, "I will go with you to meet him." ”

"It's fine." Yuan Zhen naturally pulled the hand of the palm bead, and the two of them came to the middle hall together.

That Liao Kai had just entered the house, and before he could sit down, he saw the two of them coming together and hurriedly saluting and greeting the two.

"I was only able to rush back at the end of the month, but I didn't expect it to be delayed for a few more days, so that the second master would have to wait." Between the words, Liao Kai was full of apologies.

Yuan Zhen said: "It's no big deal, this journey is quite smooth." ”

Liao Kai agreed: "It's going well." As he spoke, he took out a letter from his sleeve and held it to Yuan Zhen with both hands.

Yuan Zhen didn't open it immediately, he asked first, "How is the situation over there?" ”

Liao Kai said with a beaming face: "It's surprisingly smooth, and taking the capital is just around the corner." ”

Hearing this, Yuan Zhen and Zhangzhu glanced at each other, and said, "Then there is no need to worry." By the way, is my mother okay? How is my brother recovering? ”

Liao Kai replied: "It's all good." ”

Liao Kai traveled a long way, and the journey was hard, and Zhangzhu instructed the kitchen to make hot soup and rice with Liao Kai. Yuan Zhen went back to the house and opened the letter, the letter was written to him by Yuan Yan, the prince of the Jin Dynasty, the letter detailed the conquest in recent months, Yuan Zhen read it one by one, sometimes frowning, and sometimes couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.

This thick letter was written for more than 20 pages, and Yuan Zhen finally finished reading it, and the worries in his heart were also solved. Now we are waiting for the day when they officially enter Beijing.

Yuan Zhen couldn't help but share these news with Zhangzhu, and Zhangzhu said after hearing this: "Then everything will be hopeful." ”

"Of course, there is hope, and just this year, all the problems will definitely be solved."

"It's been five years, and it's time for a result." Palm bead road.

"I know you've had a hard journey and you've been through all kinds of hardships, but it's going to be smooth sailing from now on. All the bad will pass. ”

His voice was very warm, dripping like spring rain on her heart, moistening her.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, at the suggestion of Yuan Zhen, Zhangzhu did not appear at the New Year's banquet of the Xiu family on the grounds that he was unwell. She slept until dawn before she got up lazily, and never went out after filling her stomach.

Lan Hui and Lan Xiang sisters said that they wanted to dress up the palm beads, and the palm beads were picked up by them. One combed her hair, and the other found clothes and jewelry for her.

It was busy here, and Chu Yuanzhen came back from outside.

Before the makeup was finished, Zhangzhu was a little ashamed to see him, and hurriedly said to him: "Second son, please sit elsewhere." ”

"Girl, try this new box of lipstick, the color is very positive, and the smell is good." Lan Xiang opened a small box, glanced at it, but saw that the color was too bright, she refused: "Why do you paint it so red, don't want this." ”

Lan Xiang is naughty in the end, and she is hard to help the palm beads to smear it.

Lan Hui took the target mirror and took a photo of the palm beads: "In this way, the girl's complexion looks better." ”

Zhangzhu said helplessly: "You are also naughty." ”

Lan Xiang picked up a filigree plum hairpin from the box and put it on with her, and Lan Hui surrounded her with a red embroidered white plum blossom cloak, the brim of the cloak and the placket were inlaid with a layer of snow-white rabbit fur. On his feet is a pair of sheepskin boots, with a decent makeup, which is enough to make people shine.

When she appeared in front of Yuan Zhen, Yuan Zhen looked at it for a while, he walked over and took the palm bead's hand and said, "Let's go, let's go enjoy the flowers." ”

Runsheng had already prepared the car, and when the two sat side by side in the car, Yuanzhen never let go of her hand, and he talked to Zhangzhu about going to Xiu's house.

"Mrs. Xiu was a little disappointed to hear that you didn't go, but don't take it personally, it's just a trivial matter. I said that you are not good, and you are afraid of the cold, so it is inconvenient to go out, and Mrs. Xiu did not say anything about them. However, she also asked us when our wedding date was, and I said it hadn't been decided yet. Mrs. Xiu was very enthusiastic, and said that she wanted to be a matchmaker, and she would like to drink wine in the future. ”

Zhangzhu listened to him quietly, with a faint joy in his heart, and it felt good to lean on his side.

Later, Yuan Zhen talked to Zhangzhu about what he had seen and heard in the Xiu family, and talked about the officialdom of Yanzhou.

"The prefect didn't like me before, but today he took the initiative to greet me for the New Year, and said that he wanted me to play two games of chess, but I didn't pay attention to him."

She knew a little about this prefect's palm bead, and she said: "I must have heard that the King of Jin is about to get the world, and he wags his tail to curry favor with you, what these old oilmen are best at is to see the wind and steer the rudder." ”

"You're right, I still remember when I went around and asked them to comfort a few villages that had been attacked, and they always ignored them, and sometimes they sneered."

The two talked and laughed all the way, but it was also easy. Yuan Zhen looked at the woman beside him, as if he had returned to a few years ago, when the woman was chic and bright, and his heart was touched when they met for the first time. Now that they meet again, the palm beads are also changing little by little, looking at the smile on her face, Yuan Zhen feels that this is the most precious thing in the world, and he is willing to spend his life guarding it.