"Girl, it's time for lunch. Today, I have braised pork to eat. In addition, when I went to deliver firewood to the Menghong House in Haizhou City this morning, the kitchen lady Aunt Yu secretly stuffed me with two pastries. Come on, come on, I'll give you something to eat, uncle, I don't like sweets. ”

"Eat, eat, good, good, there is meat to eat, and pastries to eat, pastries, Chun Tao likes to eat pastries the most."

With a "snap", the middle-aged man just sat down in front of the simple table of eight immortals in this room, picked up the chopsticks and prepared to eat lunch, and suddenly, the chopsticks fell from his hand on the table again.

"Spring peach? Girl, are you called Chun Tao? Do you remember anything? Where is your home? Tell Uncle Jiao quickly, Uncle Jiao will send you home. It's been seven or eight days, and your family is missing you, I'm afraid they're all about to break down. ”

The middle-aged man said as he picked up the chopsticks that had just been scattered from the table.

"Home? Family? Dream Red Mansion, Dream Red Mansion, my home is in Dream Red Mansion. Hey, hey, hey...... Dream Red House ...... Uncle Jiao, this braised pork is delicious, and this pastry is also delicious and sweet. Uncle Jiao, you eat too, give. ”

The middle-aged man looked at the little girl who was carrying it from the Huaguo Mountain on the day of the March 3rd Festival in front of him, smiled at him innocently, sighed, put down the chopsticks in his hand, took the pastry handed over by the little girl in front of him, and stuffed it into his mouth at once, and two lines of tears slipped silently. While munching, he said, "Well, it's delicious, it's really sweet. Chun Tao is obedient, eat and eat by yourself. Uncle Jiao is going to go up the mountain to fetch firewood, you stay in the house alone, remember not to run around. ”

"Chun Tao is the most well-behaved, Chun Tao won't run around. Chun Tao is the most well-behaved, Chun Tao won't ......"

Uncle Jiao stood up and looked at Chun Tao sitting there, bowing his head, taking a bite of the rice in the bowl in front of him, and then taking a bite of the pastry in his left hand, and the mouth was still muttering about his most well-behaved appearance, turned around and walked out of the room.

It is said to be a house, but in fact it is just three earthen houses, and the roof is only covered with some cattails and straw. Around the house is a fence surrounded by branches of various colors, long and short, tall and short, straight and curved, simply inserted into the ground to enclose the city, and it is called a fence.

Uncle Jiao took the firewood knife and rope used to collect firewood from his stove room, and when he got out of the firewood gate, he was about to walk in the direction of Huaguo Mountain, which was three miles away from home. But he suddenly turned around and walked to the back of his house.

I saw that there were two new graves close to each other behind the house, and Uncle Jiao's face was flushed, as if he was drunk, and he staggered over, and the woodcutter and rope he was holding in his hand also fell to the ground, but he seemed to be unconscious. When he walked to the grave, he knelt on the ground and cried in a muffled voice of "woo woo wow" in his mouth, and for a while tears rained down.

There were no other households or homes in the vicinity, only a few houses scattered in the fields a mile away, and it seemed that those were the nearest neighbors.

Uncle Jiao cried and cried, and cried for about half an hour. In the end, he opened his mouth wide and gasped for breath with "hahaha". When his breath gradually stabilized, Uncle Jiao looked at the two new graves without a tombstone in a daze, and muttered to himself: "Ah Chai, you have to take good care of your mother over there." Ah Chai's mother, you have to watch Ah Chai over there, let him not run around and play in the water if he is fine. Don't run, don't run, don't play in the water......"

Uncle Jiao muttered, and suddenly became angry again, and began to dig the grave in front of him with both hands. While shaving, he howled: "There are no bones, no bones." In this vast East China Sea, I—How can I find you two mothers and sons? Where are you? Come back, you're not dead, are you? Right? I have set up a mound for you two mothers and sons, I just miss you, I will plane it now, I will plane it now, I will plane it, I will plane it, I will ......plane it, I will plane it, I will plane it,

The loess flew between the two new graves, and Uncle Jiao seemed to be crazy.

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"Master, master, good news, good news."

"Get out, Yun Siniang, your grandmother's, get out of here immediately. that. ”

Liu Shixun looked at Yun Siniang, who had a happy face and broke into the study, his face was pale, and he raised his hand and smashed the good inkstone that he had never used before, but was just used to vassal elegance.

"Ahh Yun Siniang hurriedly jumped to the side and dodged, only to see the inkstone "clang" on the threshold, but it was not smashed, but "dripping" on the ground a few times, and then stopped.

"Sir, really, it's really good news." Yun Siniang stood in the door of the study, and said with some trepidation: "Just now, the Zhizhou Mansion sent someone over to say that it was, saying that the girl Sisi and the son of the Lord Zhizhou went to the Huai'an Mansion to play, not as originally rumored to ......."

"What? What did you say? I'll tell you again. Liu Shixun suddenly stood up from the circle chair in front of the desk, his face was flushed with excitement, and he pointed to Yun Siniang who was standing at the door of the study very excitedly.

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"Third brother."

"Hmm. What do you think? Are you still used to living here with the third brother during this time? ”

"Oh, my good third brother. What you said, is there a better place in this Haizhou City than your dream of the Red Mansion? ”

"Alright, alright. You live comfortably and comfortably, and I'm just happy to be a brother. Minghua, I received the message, that ......"

"Wait a minute, third brother. I'll close the door first. ”

"Don't, don't, I'll close it with the third brother. Oops, this is the door I just pushed in and didn't close the door, it looks like I have a tail. Third brother, I have been in this peaceful and gentle village for a long time, and I have soaked in fine wine many times, and it seems that there is not much vigilance left. ”

"Heh, the third brother is too humble. Yun Xiaoliu, who was called the "Ghost Shadow Holy Hand" by the Jianghu people back then, how could he be a person who lacked vigilance? It's just because you are on your own turf, third brother, and you have enough confidence in yourself. ”

"Hahaha...... Those who know me, Minghua also. ”

"Come, third brother, sit down." Minghua, dressed as a young scholar, closed the door, walked back to a small square table in the room, and sat down.

"Hey! The third brother didn't need to sit, just stood and said, by the way, just walk around again, and relax your muscles. Since coming to this Haizhou City more than ten years ago, I later entered this Dream Red Mansion. Your third brother and I have always lived a peaceful life. Hey, it's been years, and I haven't touched anyone. A few days ago, I practiced tricks with your kid, and I lost to you. Tell me, you kid doesn't know how to let me be an old man. It's a shame that when I was still in the rudder, every time I came back from a trip, I would always bring you sugar gourds to eat. At that point, you were a little older. Three years old? Or four-year-old? Hey, after a long time, it seems that some people have long forgotten about it. ”

"Third brother, hehe, my good third brother. Don't run me. ”

"Okay, okay, the third brother is joking with you, see if you're in a hurry. Now let's get down to business. According to the information I received, the new Lord Zhizhou in the lunar month last year was about to rebuild the water curtain cave. ”

"Oh? Rebuild? This? I wonder if we're going to find out what we're hiding in that hole? ”

"Yes. This is also what I am most worried about the third brother. ”

"Then according to the meaning of the third brother?"

The third brother thinks so, those things must not be lost, those are all the efforts of the third brother in the past ten years. The helmsman has sent yours as his own son, and there is no room for failure to come to him. ”

"Yes. That's what my father meant when he sent me. Back then, the third brother came to the East China Sea alone, and he was ...... in the rudder over the years."

"Alright, Minghua. Everything is what the third brother should do, so don't talk about any credit and hard work. And the helmsman really didn't disappoint me. But the so-called chief helmsman, hmph, has long lost the invincible spirit and heroism he had at the beginning. I don't know what I'm thinking, is it really that once this person gets old, this heroic spirit will be shortened? ”

"Third brother, don't worry, before leaving, my father said that the chief helmsman didn't dare to do it, we Bailian dared to do it, and the great cause of restoring the Ming Dynasty against the Qing Dynasty was just blindly cowering, looking ahead and backward, always saying that he wanted to take care of the overall situation, how could it be done in the end?"

"Humph! Go to the big picture of his grandma. The overall situation of the whole world is Manchurian and Tatar, and we still have the overall situation to take care of. Minghua, third brother, my identity on my face is after all the shopkeeper of this Menghong Mansion, and I will definitely not be able to leave. As for the others, over the years, although the third brother and I have made friends are all a bunch of hot-blooded men, but for such an important matter, the third brother still doesn't worry about handing it over to any of them. So ......"

"Third brother, you can command. The sea of swords and fire, I, Chen Minghua, will definitely not frown. ”

"Okay, good, you have your father's heroism. Minghua, you bring some food and dry food, and from tonight onwards, you will go to the Huaguo Mountain Water Curtain Cave to guard. As for what to do next? At present, we can only wait and see what happens. ”

"Okay, third brother, why wait until the evening, I'll go now, I can see more scenery during the day."

"It's fine, but everything has to be done with care. For so many years, it has been calm, and the more you get to the last minute, the more cautious you have to be. Okay, without further ado, you can get ready. I'll go to the back kitchen and prepare some dry food for you. ”

As soon as Yun Xiaoliu finished speaking, he walked over and opened the door, and raised his feet to prepare to go out.

"Huh? That one, third brother. Do you want to discuss something? Chen Minghua smiled and raised his hand and scratched his head.

"Oh? What's up? You said. Yun Xiaoliu turned around again.

"The third brother poured me a few more gourds of good wine, this 'Drunken Dream Red Flower' of Menghong Mansion is indeed a very good wine. Just thinking about it makes me hungry for alcohol. Hey, hey, hey, hey......"

"You, you, you boy, heh, yours is yours. When I met your father one day, I would like to ask him, why did this drunkard give birth to a drunkard son? Hahahaha...... Okay, the third uncle knows. Haha......"

Yun Xiaoliu raised his head and laughed out of this room, and the door of the room closed automatically after he walked over. Although Chen Minghua, who was standing in the room, kept staring, he didn't see him touch the two doors with his hands or feet or any part of his body.

"It seems that when the third brother fed me a few days ago, he was indeed merciful and let me, but it is a pity that I have been complacent afterwards, thinking that my martial arts have surpassed the third brother."

Chen Minghua stood in the guest room of the Dream Red Mansion, shook his head to himself, and then began to pack his baggage.