Shewu Mountain on the bank of the Sheshan River, Chu Lin sat in the makeshift camp tent and read the official documents, and Zhao Ji'an came in with the cold air and lifted the curtain.

"Master, it's not too early, it's time to rest." This man is really an iron body.

Yesterday, the case of cheating in the imperial examination in Huizhou was closed, and I didn't want to entertain officials at all levels, so I hurried back to Beijing at night. After entering the palace to face the saint in the morning, the emperor was happy and let the temperance patrol the Beijing camp. Unexpectedly, just after noon, this resolute and resolute master pulled people out to practice in this wilderness.

"Have you practiced your Lingyun Sword?" Chu Lin went to something else.

Zhao Ji'an knows that he has touched the nail, no matter how good his sword training is, he is not the opponent of his master, he has this self-knowledge.

"Why don't you speak?" Chu Lin's eyelids lifted slightly, and he glanced at Zhao Ji'an, who was standing straight but obviously like an angry bag.

Zhao Ji'an is not stupid, he pursed his lips and said nothing.

"If you don't speak, don't stick the pestle here, block the light of this king!" Chu Lin dropped the official document, picked up a piece of jerky in the fine porcelain tray on the desk, and fed it to a mighty half-sized black dog lying at his feet.

"Master, you've been out to investigate the case for half a month, and now you've finally come back, and you haven't even entered the house. The Queen Mother wants to choose a family affair for you, but you hide here. Zhao Ji'an still couldn't stand the agitation and said.

"What about choosing a family? This king has not yet performed the crown salute, but is a side concubine. ”

"Besides, there should be a person in charge in the Yanwang Mansion, no matter how capable Ruyi is, there are times when he is helpless. How many days has the black tiger been lost, I'm afraid it won't be able to be found. Chu Lin picked up the official document and continued to look at it, his other hand running down the black panther's shiny dog hair.

"But after all, this has to live with the master......" Zhao Ji'an's words became quieter and quieter, after all, he was one year younger than Chu Lin, and in these matters, he was also a blank slate.

"This is just a means for the imperial brother to balance the relationship between the DPRK and China, I am a brother with him and a fellow mother, how can I not share his worries?" Chu Lin saw it very clearly.

"But this, it's too aggrieved!" Zhao Ji'an is unhappy for his master.

"The dignity and majesty of the royal family always have to be exchanged for something." Caught off guard, a pair of big bright eyes flashed in Chu Lin's mind, pure and clean.

Chu Lin shook his head, when he was very young, he watched his father have to take a concubine every year, and he had long lost hope for his marriage. If there is no hope, he will not be disappointed, but why did these big eyes occupy his mind without warning? Chu Lin was very annoyed by this uncontrollability.

It was late at night, and the mountain wind was whining, as if someone had been crying mournfully for a long time in the middle of the night.

The north wind blew all night, and the wind was blowing everywhere in the spirit shed, Du Dajin and Du Sanjin sat for a while, they both shouted cold, and went home to sleep with their front and back feet. Du Mei also persuaded Du Shu to go back.

There can be no one in the mourning hall, Du Mei keeps burning paper money, and the temperature is blown around by the wind. She wrapped the patched quilt tightly, and the puppy was in her arms like a small stove, and the two of them were the only ones to keep each other warm on this cold night.

As soon as the sky was a little bright, Xu Shi entered the spirit shed, although she went home last night, but she didn't sleep all night, and her eyes were dark.

"Meizi, how are you?" Last night's wind made Xu's heart tremble.

She knows that in such weather, the big room and the third room will never keep vigil for them, she has the heart to keep it herself, but she still has the flesh and blood of the two gold in her belly, whether it is a man or a woman, she does not dare to slack off, and she does not dare to be sorry for the two gold.

"I'm fine, mother." Du Meino moved, her legs numb to her knees.

"Mother pull you up." Xu stretched out his hand.

"Don't hold it off, I can do it myself." Du Mei sat on the ground, slowly straightened her legs, rubbed her knees, she looked up and saw the black green under Xu's eyes, and wanted to say something, but swallowed it back.

The puppy jumped out of Du Mei's arms and stared at the mother and daughter with dark eyes.

"Where did this come from?" Xu's eyes widened.

"I don't know, it was here last night, I think it probably came back with Daddy." Du Mei reached out and touched the pup, the puppy looked very useful, stretched out her pink tongue and licked Du Mei's hand.

Hearing this, Xu's eyes turned red again.

Erjin is a good person, but now that he is gone, he inexplicably brought back a dog. If it hadn't been for this dog warming Du Mei last night, I'm afraid she would have froze to death. Thinking of this, Xu's eyes were also gentle when he looked at the puppy, as if he was looking at his own child.

"Mother, let's keep it, I have a name for it, it's called Black Girl." Du Mei burned the yellow table paper in the clay basin again.

"Okay." Xu Shi also picked up the paper money and put it in the basin, and the fire burned at once.

When the sky was bright, Du Ying and her two younger sisters also came to the shed, and brought them breakfast by the way, two bowls of clear soup with no rice grains and two sweet potatoes that had been cold.

On this day, she still mourned, all of whom came were relatives from afar, most of whom Du Mei didn't know, she only blindly took her three younger sisters to kneel on the ground and return the salute.

Because Du Erjin was called by Du Huaibing to pick up the Huaishui River, and the two families were related to each other, Du Shicheng entrusted him with carte blanche to handle it, so he was particularly concerned about Erjin's funeral. On this day, Du Shicheng took Dajin Sanjin to receive visitors at home, while Du Huaibing ran back and forth, and took Mr. Yin and Yang to see the cemetery.

The Dujiagou people were originally a big family, and there were ancestral tombs on the mountain. But Du Erjin died in an accident outside, and he was in the prime of life. Dafang didn't even let him in, and some people in the clan did not agree to bury him in the ancestral grave, for fear that it would damage the feng shui and affect future generations.

In the evening, Mr. Yin Yang fell in love with one on the land of the Du family, and the cemetery was settled.

The five mothers and daughters kneeling in the mourning shed and crying did not know anything about all this.