In the corridor behind the pavilion, the palace lamp swayed in the wind. The people guarding outside the house looked at the noble children of the Manchus. One has a light beard on his lips, about 20 years old, and the other has a short black beard, about 30, which is older.

The young one stood for a while, thinking about how the woman in the room was, and she couldn't make a fool of herself under the eyelids of the four guards with knives, so she felt that she was making a fuss, and couldn't help yawning, and said lazily: "Dalang, it seems that the past few days have stopped over there in Ganshan." ”

"The attack on Dzungaria has not been interrupted in the past few years, and what the emperor is going to do, I'm afraid he hasn't made up his mind yet. Zaldo, you haven't been to the northwest, not to mention the long and difficult road, the sun peels off three layers of skin in summer, and it is cold in winter. Da Lang was listening to the movement in the house, glanced at Zaldo, and snorted, "Even this time, Lord Chen, the ice collapse they encountered can kill people." ”

"I heard that the Niu Lu family sent He Tuhua's nurse to Dzungaria to redeem the bones, and the price offered by those damn barbarians is not low, one thousand taels-" Zarsi sighed, "He Tuhua, this kid, why did you bother looking for this errand in the first place-"

Dalang shook his head, "It's just the silver, their family can afford it." I think it's going to be lower, it's the fourth grade-last year, the Dong'e family ransomed a clansman from the seventh grade, and it didn't cost a thousand taels-" As he spoke, the lights in the house went out.

Da Lang frowned, "It's only been a watch, why did the lights go out?" ”

Zalsi glanced back at the pitch-black son, and said unconcernedly: "Since I was injured, I'm afraid I'll rest." Darang shook his head and took a deep breath, the scent of sandalwood coming through the crack in the door, heavy and stuffy.

Da Lang thought for a moment, knocked on the door, and said, "Mrs. Chen." ”

But no one answered.

Zarsi looked at Dalang with some confusion on his face, and looked at Dalang, who lifted a lantern and said in a loud voice: "The lower official has come in." He pushed open the door and walked in.

The room was pitch black. Only the three sandalwood sticks on the table shone with a little dark red ground. Darang saw a figure standing in front of the wardrobe in the corner of the house. Secretly relieved. Zarsi pointed the lantern in his hand to the table. Glanced at the oil lamp. "Mrs. Chen. But the lamp is running out? ”

It's going to be a while. The figure in the corner of the house answered." ”

The lone lamp on the oiled ground was lit. Lang's eyes glanced at the white silk in Qi Su Niang's hand. Secretly startled, "Mrs. Chen's ......"

Qi Su Niang slowly stretched out her hand. Copper scissors were removed from the suitcase.

She walked over to the table. Set the sandalwood aside and slowly unfold it on the table. said: "It's annoying that the adults will send two more lamps in." I'm going to cut filial clothes. ”

Darang's eyes swept over the table and spread out the Buddhist scriptures. There was also a red jade Buddha bead with Qi Su Niang and sat down. So that the scissors slowly twisted down a white Luo filial piety flower. It's all a respectful and respectful manner. Although it is not in line with Grandpa Li's wishes. It's none of their business. So he was relieved, and two large candles were sent in.

"I'm also bothering the adults to send some gifts to Buddha sandalwood."

For three or four nights in a row, the lights in Qi Su Niang's house were not extinguished, and the best Buddha incense was also sent up and offered in front of the Buddha. The scent of sandalwood accompanied Qi Su Niang's low chanting of Buddha wafted through the doors and windows on the corridor behind Ningchun Pavilion.

“…… This person has no self, human appearance, sentient beings, and longevity. So what? My phase is right and wrong, and human appearance, sentient beings, and longevity are right and wrong. Why? ...... away from all the names and Buddhas"

The acquaintance in the Ningchun Pavilion kept screaming, and the little palace maid Bao'er in front of Mama Yu hid behind the pillars, watched the little eunuch walk out of Qi Suniang's room with a food box, quietly retreated, and hurriedly walked to Mama Yu's room.

Mama Yu sat on the chair, her snow-white head crossed behind her head, not messy at all. She fanned the wind slowly, and the long > of the colored armor on her index finger was slightly bent, "Look at how she is, is she planning to observe the festival or is she going to-"

"Mama, the slave and maid went over to see it, Mrs. Chen has been chanting the scriptures for the past few days, and her food has also decreased, so she doesn't move every time." Bao'er's face was full of pity, "Although it is not in accordance with the rules, I still cut Bai Luo to make filial piety clothes, and it doesn't look like I want to find another man." ”

Mama Yu's face sank, and the fan in her hand stopped, "It is etiquette to keep festivals for your husband." Because I was afraid that she would not be able to survive the rest of her life, thinking that it would be good for her to find another man, I didn't tell the Queen Mother that they would move with us. Since she is a chaste and fierce character, she can't make them underestimate the people in front of the queen mother. Wei Yi groaned, beckoned Bao'er over, and ordered: "You go and watch again, if she is still like this in a few days, you will report to me again." ”

Outside the Ningchun Pavilion, the fourteenth elder brother was pacing back and forth by the peach blossom embankment, his face full of trouble.

Fu Yourong whispered: "Fourteenth Master, Miss Qi seems to be iron-hearted, it's not a matter for her to screw with the Eighth Master like this." The Fourteenth Master has to come up with an idea for Miss Qi. ”

The fourteenth elder brother paused, sighed, and turned to the east, "Master go and ask the concubine for peace." ”

As the days passed, Zarsi and Darang became accustomed to the sound of chanting from the house. In the afternoon, the corridor was so hot that people were dizzy, and the bottom of the high flower pot stepped on the green bricks, and the crisp sound of clicking and clicking, Daliu suddenly woke up.

In the distance, a little palace maid helped the queen mother in front of her and walked slowly along the corridor. Dalang gave Zalsi a look, "You guard, I'll inform Gonggong Li." ”

The sound of chanting echoed in the footsteps, and as the footsteps got closer, the chanting became more and more urgent, "...... Subodhi! To endure the humiliation of Parami, such as to say that it is not to endure the humiliation of Paramita. Why? Subodhi! For example, when I cut off my body for King Gori, I had no self, no one, no beings, and no longevity. Why ......?"

The footsteps stopped in front of Qi Su Niang's room, and Bao'er said coldly: "Open the door." ”

Zarsi hesitated slightly, wanting to speak boldly, but was swept away by Mama Yu's eyes, but she was scared first, so she had to retreat.

The door was pushed open with a squeak, and Qi Su Niang, who was kneeling in front of the Buddha, slowly turned her head, and the heat wave of dog days poured in from the wide open door behind Mama Yu, washing away the cold in the house.

Qi Su Niang had tears in her eyes. She finally waited.

Qi Su Niang followed Mama Yu out of the room, followed the corridor, and walked to the Yingjing Cool House where the Queen Mother stood up in the afternoon. I could hear the voices of Concubine De and the Queen Mother from a distance, "Queen Mother, the concubine has heard the Niu Lu clan in front of the fourth elder brother in the past few days, and her cousin and aunt cried that the child didn't even receive a corpse, and sent the child's nurse to ransom people." ”

The Empress Dowager sighed, "Poor to see, it was for the affairs of the imperial court......"

Qi Su Niang thought about the situation of Chen Yan and He Tuhua, she couldn't care about it anymore, grabbed two steps, ran into the Yingjing Liangshe, knelt down in front of the Queen Mother with a bang, and cried and begged: "The Queen Mother|."

The bones have not returned, and the slave begs the queen mother for permission-"

In Jing'an Garden, the eighth elder brother stroked the face of the concubine Mao, and she came out of the room. He slightly straightened the whole month of white kudzu gauze shirt, and was about to go to Fujin's room, Li Quan'er hurriedly walked into the courtyard.

The eighth lady went to the Queen Mother and begged the Queen Mother to let her go to the source of the Yellow River to find Lord Chen's body. The Queen Mother is ready! ”

With a sound of "horn", the Xiangfei gold folding fan in the hand of the eighth elder brother broke, and the broken fan of the "slave ...... who doesn't know how to lift" was thrown to the ground and walked away with heavy steps.

The embroidery bones on the fan handle on the ground tumbled, and were blown by the wind from the yard to the grass outside the yard, and finally stopped. The sun rose a little, and the sunlight shone into the grass, faintly revealing the "Fangfeng" inscription on the fan shank.

In the early morning, the sun slowly climbed the bones and drove out of Changchun Garden. Qi Su Niang in the car looked at the fourteenth grandfather at the gate of the garden, stopped the car curtain, and wanted to get out of the car to say goodbye to the fourteenth elder brother.

"That's it." The fourteenth elder brother rode on the black wind horse and sighed and looked at Qi Su Niang, "I can hide for a while." You've got to come back eventually. It's just a matter of dragging on for a while. ”

Qi Su Niang stared at the fourteenth elder brother and said with tears in her eyes: "Fourteenth master...... The slave thanked the fourteenth master......"

The fourteenth elder brother glanced at her and raised his horsewhip, "It's my minion, so I should have the final say." You have an injury on your foot, I will send you back to Chafu first, and then go after you have recovered from your injury. If you live there, you won't be able to do anything for a while. ”

The carriage slowly drove through Xizhi Street, and was about to turn into Hutou Hutong, when he saw Qin Shun'er, the eunuch in front of the thirteenth master, rushing all the way, "Fourteenth master, the person sent by the Niu Lu family came back with a letter, saying that the redeemed body was not Lord He's, and he was already rushing to Longyang Gorge." ”

Thousands of miles away, the two walls of Longyang Gorge are steep, and there is no sky, only the ice on the top of the cliff is shining in the sun. The sound of the Yellow River roaring.

At the foot of the mountain to the west, in the treacherous valley, the edge of the ice collapse area in the circle was crowded with people, and He Tuhua's nurse Minnard was nearly sixty years old, and his beard was a little gray. He rode on a horse, his face was full of anxiety, he borrowed 200 officers and soldiers under the banner of the governor of Ganshan and Shaanxi, and at the risk of being attacked by the Dzungars, he came to Longyang Gorge to turn over the Sanli ice area. Because he was unfamiliar with the path, he also invited the red-clothed old lama in the lama temple of Taer Temple in Qinghai to help, but he still didn't know if he could find the body of the little master.

The broken ice had already been turned over by the Dzungars, and only the boulders and thick ice that were pressed underneath were powerless to shake. As the weather warms up, the ice is already beginning to melt.

"Dzungara, those barbarians! I clearly didn't find the body of my young master! It must still be here," Minnard saw that he had found nothing, and hurriedly called out to the conductor of the troops, "it must still be here." Search! Don't let go of the side, it must still be there.

The reward for finding the body is two hundred taels of silver! ”

When the officers and men, who were already a little slack, heard that they were rewarded, they immediately became energetic again, and tried their best to push away the boulder and thick ice.

"My lord, don't worry, these ice look big, they have already dissolved a lot, turn them over, and you can understand this piece!" The old lama in red would speak some Manchu and point to the terrain, "Longyang Gorge is full of dangerous terrain on all sides, and the Dzungar people are not familiar with the terrain. Lao Na remembered that there was a soil ditch at the foot of the mountain here, and the ditch was as deep as a zhang, as long as the ice was pushed away, there would be gain. ”

Pieces of broken ice were pushed away, revealing gaps under the pressure of ice and stone, and it looked like there were indeed earth ditches.

The canyon is surrounded by steep rock walls and ice patches on the peaks. Because there was nothing to borrow, under the heavy reward, the thick trees outside the valley were cut down, dragged in, and inserted into the gaps under the ice and stones.

The shouts sounded at the same time, and the giant ice was suddenly turned over with the joint efforts of everyone, with the fingers and shouts of the red-clothed lama, and sure enough, two long, deep, staggered and winding earth ditches were revealed, extending to the boundary of the ice collapse area.

The crowd cried out in amazement, "Go down and have a look." ”

"Two hundred taels! If you find the body of my young master, you will be rewarded with two hundred taels

The soldiers scrambled to jump down the ditch for the reward, and after a while, there was still no appearance.

Minnard felt sorry for the little master who had grown up since he was a child, and he was anxious to go back to the capital to explain to the master, and it was the unbearable time, the old lama in red beside him shouted: "Scatter to find, if someone falls, before leaving, always find a way to live, scatter to find." ”

There were more and more people going down the ditch, and the top of the red tasseled hat on the surface of the ditch flickered along the undulating ditch, until it reached the edge of the ice area three miles away.

When Minnard was despairing, someone jumped up from the ditch and beckoned to him, "My lord, I have touched it, someone!" ”

"Pull it up!" Excited and anxious, Minnard jumped off his horse, galloped over, crouched on the edge of the ditch and shouted.

Several hands worked together to lift a man's body out of the ditch. Minnard looked intently, and the man was not wearing an official robe, but was wrapped in a sheepskin felt, his face was covered with blood, and his head was wrapped in a cloth belt, which was still oozing blood, and his body seemed to be stiff.

Mindner only felt that the figure was familiar, shook his hand and wiped the blood on his face with his sleeve, and was extremely happy, "It's the young master of our family!" ”

The old lama who came with him lay on He Tuhua's chest and listened for a while, "-yet-still alive!" Come on, boil water—"

Minnard was surprised and delighted, "It's still ...... Still alive? "Jump up and shout," Doctor-" secretly glad that because he was afraid of another Dzungar surprise attack on the road, he specially brought the accompanying doctor to prevent injury and no one to take care of him.

The military doctor hurriedly stepped forward, and while looking at He Tuhua's injury, he said: "I was hit by ice cubes on my head, and my injuries are quite serious. Fortunately, the frostbite is not serious, so I quickly sent it back to Xining for treatment-"

The sergeants in the ditch climbed up one after another, bringing all kinds of miscellaneous items, including fire folds, burned-out clothing scraps, broken rattan and wooden boxes, and knives, "There is a dead donkey-" The red-clothed old lama next to him stepped forward to look at the half-eaten donkey skeleton, and was extremely surprised, "This is the donkey carrying the luggage, it must have fallen with this adult, no wonder it has been a month since the ice collapse, and there is still survival-"

Minnard was instructing someone to carry He Tuhua to the carriage waiting on the side, as soon as he heard this, he remembered the explanation that the thirteenth elder brother asked him to find the bones of the head of Beihehe when he left Beijing, and was about to order the people below to look for it again, when the shouts of the soldiers came from the ditch, "There is another one!" And one more! ”

Minnard turned his head and shouted, "Pull it up and see if it's the head of Beihehe." ”

In the distance, the water of the Yellow River roared and thundered, rushing endlessly. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in*, more chapters, support work, support genuine reading!) )