On the second day of the first month of September, Chen Bozhan led an army of 150,000 to capture the border city, and the defenders of the border city of Yue resisted desperately. After several attacks, he was finally taken back to the border city by Yao.

Chen Bozhan took the generals back to the border city. Although they have only been Yao people for ten years, the army has surrounded this city for many days, and the food and grass of the 100,000 army of the Yue country have long become a problem, and under hunger, there are officers and soldiers who take the lead in searching for grain from door to door, and when the army leaves, they have taken away most of the grain and grass in the city, and the residents in the city are even more precarious. Chen Bozhan watched the originally rich border town become like this, and he felt a little unbearable. He set up a porridge shed and distributed the food to the people.

In September, although the south of the Yangtze River is no longer scorching hot, but it began to rain continuously, so that the water in many places is quite deep, and some mountains even have landslides, everyone has long thought that Huizong was killed, Chen Bozhan came to Kangcheng, he wanted to use the Chen family's power in the border pass to find Huizong's whereabouts, but learned that Chen Qingxuan ordered not to give any help. The three generals who were supposed to come together, one said that he was sick at home, and the other rushed to Cannes but was mediocre all day long, just waiting for Chen Bozhan to come up with an idea.

The right lieutenant has courage and no strategy, the leader of the pro-soldiers is looking for it every day but has no clues, Chen Bozhan rubbed his eyebrows with a headache, and suddenly his entourage ran over and whispered a few words to him, he heard the words, and walked out of the porridge shed quickly.

Jiang Mansion, Mrs. Jiang walked into Jiang Kun's study, Jiang Kun poured wine into his mouth cup by cup, he was not good at drinking, so he drank so violently, and soon coughed up by the wine, Mrs. Jiang sighed, walked behind him, patted his back and helped him breathe. Jiang Kun hid. Madame Chiang's outstretched hand stiffened, and she took it back in a sneer.

"Kun'er, are you weirding a girl?"

Jiang Kun raised the flask, poured a few more sips, the wine spilled all over his chin all over his body, he staggered to his feet, looking quite miserable, "I have never blamed my mother." But mother, since I was a child, you have taught me to be loyal and patriotic, and you have taught me the art of war and strategy, but you tell me......" He took a few steps forward, and when he staggered, Madame Chiang tried to help him up. He shook his body again and raised his voice abruptly: "Am I a Yue person or a Yao person?" Which king should I be loyal to? Which country should be protected? ”

Mrs. Jiang looked at him dejectedly, "Kun'er, mother...... It also has its own difficulties. As early as Emperor Taizu ascended the throne and ordered the eldest daughter of the family to enter the Fengcao Pavilion, the Zhang family is the founding minister of the Yue Kingdom, if I don't go, the Zhang family must lose the glory of the door because of me, these years, although I am dissatisfied with marrying your father, but I have never been slow to treat him. ”

Jiang Kun shook his head and looked at Mrs. Jiang, Mrs. Jiang's face was full of tears, he had never seen his mother crying, he only thought she was the Iron Lady, but he didn't know that she also had a helpless side.

"Kun'er, you grew up under my knees since you were a child, how can you know how you feel frightened every day? When I entered the Fengcao Pavilion, I saw a woman in the pavilion with my own eyes, just because I fell in love with the husband who was arranged for her in the pavilion, and refused to steal news for the pavilion, the whole family was cut from official positions, and my parents and brothers were conspired to kill. Do you know that I am frightened every day, and I am afraid that if I take a wrong step one day, I will force the Zhang family into a situation from which I will never recover. ”

Jiang Kun listened to Mrs. Jiang's words, although it was only a few words, he could still vaguely guess how cruel Feng Cao Pavilion was. Mrs. Jiang paused, wiped the tears from her face, and looked at Jiang Kun, "Mother doesn't expect you to forgive me, just thinking that if one day, the Jiang family is really in trouble, you can go to Yueguo with your uncle......"

Jiang Kun wanted to say something, but when he heard this, he waved his sleeves and walked directly to the door, but he heard Mrs. Jiang's sigh from a distance and stopped again. "If you want to do something, you are not from my Yao Kingdom, and I have nothing to blame."

Mrs. Jiang watched Jiang Kun go out, but after all, she couldn't help it and shed tears.

Not long after Yue Ning got up, she was still eating porridge and side dishes, and the sister-in-law of the Li family walked in with a group of village women. Seeing this, he hurriedly stood up, walked outside, took out the jewelry box, and handed it to her. The sister-in-law of the Li family smiled, nodded her head darkly, drank the porridge in the bowl, and walked out of the door.

There were only a few women left in the house, and when those women saw that Yue Ning had finished eating, they easily put away the dishes on the table, and Yue Ning looked at them suspiciously. The sister-in-law of the Li family pulled Yuening to sit down in front of the bronze mirror, opened her combed hanging bun, and combed her hair little by little with a delicate ivory comb. She opened the jewelry box, and Yue Ning was stunned for a moment.

"It's ......"

"Although this set of white jade peonies is an old thing, it is better than exquisite workmanship." After the sister-in-law of the Li family finished speaking, she skillfully pulled Yuening's green silk into a bun. "It's the next month and the next month, tell us that today is the day of your time. Zhengbin is looking for Grandma Guo, although she is nearly seventy years old, she can be regarded as the most respected person in our village. Ten years ago, her husband died, her two sons also died on the battlefield, her grandson and daughter-in-law were separated on the way to the south, and the family left her alone. ”

When Yuening heard this, she wanted to answer, but the sister-in-law of the Li family patted her on the shoulder, "I know what you want to say." It's just the past, and it's a little hurtful to remember. If you have decided to stay in this village, you should not care, do not think, do not ask. The next month has treated you very well, and if your parents had known it, they would have been very happy. ”

Yue Ning looked at herself in the bronze mirror quite complicatedly, this was the first time she pulled her hair into a bun, her hair was already thick, and the Li family's sister-in-law was dexterous, which made her a little more charming than before. The sister-in-law of the Li family put a flower between her eyebrows, and after taking care of it, she asked the two sisters-in-law behind her to bring the clothes over. "In our countryside, there are no fashionable materials, so we took an old clothes, you can try it."

Yue Ning changed her clothes under the service of everyone. The style of the clothes is very solemn, and the cloth is also embroidered with intricate patterns, although the color is a little old, it can be seen that the owner has taken care of the clothes, and even the embroidery thread on the clothes has only faded some color, and it has not been worn at all.

The sister-in-law of the Li family flattened Yuening's clothes, turned around, nodded with satisfaction, and took Yuening's hand and walked towards the village.

At this time, the village also set up a platform, Yue Ning looked at the Li family's sister-in-law in a complicated manner, the Li family's sister-in-law smiled, and took Yue Ning's hand: "We can only do this." ”

Yue Ning walked to the stage, and an old woman with a childish face greeted her, grabbed her hand, and Yue Ning called in a low voice: "Mother-in-law." The old woman nodded, hugged Yue Ning, and trembled the corners of her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she only said two "good" words.

The men and women in the village did not go to work in the fields, they all gathered around the platform, and the dark one stood at the front of the crowd, looking at Yuening on the stage.

As a guest, the old woman walked up slowly, Yue Ning knelt behind her, watching the old woman tremble and walk forward slowly, although she was old, her voice was still loud, and what she said was obviously a person who read and knew etiquette. "With the right of the year, with the order of the month, the salty gar is served. Brothers are there, in order to become a virtue. The astragalus is boundless, and it is celebrated by the sky. ”

Secretly saw that this and the ceremony was more detailed than the nobles of the capital in the past, everyone on the stage was polite and thoughtful, and faintly felt more like some official eunuchs, unlike the countryside education, and then looked at the men around him, all of them looked solemn, even the young children also knew the rules, they all stood straight, and they were not noisy. Suddenly, I realized that there must be a secret in this village.

On the stage, he has begun to put on a hairpin for Yuening, and the white jade hairpin is more lined with Yuening's beautiful appearance, after the ceremony, everyone sent congratulatory gifts, and secretly thanked Yuening one by one, and thanked the old woman again, and returned home.

Yue Ning opened those congratulatory gifts, and secretly took a closer look at them, and there was no shortage of antiquities from the previous dynasty in the congratulatory gifts, even if they were embroidered, they were extremely exquisite, not inferior to those made by the court embroiderers. Secretly suspicious, Yue Ning was as usual, and happily put away these thank-you gifts. After thinking about it carefully, I wanted to tell Yue Ning about the strangeness here. saw Yue Ning bowing to him.

"Brother Yi, I never thought that my ceremony would be so solemn, Ning'er thank you!" Yue Ning looked at him with red eyes, plus her clothes had not been changed yet, and her face was also coated with rouge and gouache by the sister-in-law of the Li family, which made her even more pitiful, and she couldn't bear to say any more, so she had to help her up.

"These villagers treat you and me like this, and we will definitely thank them well when we settle here in the future. Just now, Granny Guo often called me to his house as a companion! ”

Secretly smiled and touched her head, but found that her previously soft hair was combed into a high bun, "I went to thank the sister-in-law of the Li family and came back." With that, he walked out the door. Yue Ning looked at the dark one from afar, and picked off the white jade peony hairpin and put it in her heart, and the tears in her eyes finally flowed.

The sister-in-law of the Li family also changed back to coarse cloth clothes at this time, and still fed the chickens in the yard as before, and sorted out the dried rice. Darkness walked over, took the rake, and carefully sifted the rice in the same way as the sister-in-law of the Li family. When the sister-in-law of the Li family saw him coming over to help, she was about to do something else, but she heard the dark one say: "Today's ceremony is not inferior to the nobles of the capital, and the sister-in-law is so dedicated, the younger brother has thanked him." ”

The sister-in-law of the Li family was clear-minded, and she didn't need to think about it to know that she would definitely be suspicious of their identity this time, and said bluntly: "You and I are no different from the people in this village, but if you are fated to gather here, they are just poor people, and those pasts, just stay outside the village." ”

Dark Yi looked at the sister-in-law of the Li family who still had an ironing smile on her face, so she had to say, "It's too much to say." ”

The sister-in-law of the Li family looked at the dark one, "It's okay, everyone who comes here has his story, they don't want to tell it, we won't ask, after a long time, we have forgotten it before, and what is left is just a rural villager, and there is nothing to care about." ”

Dark One didn't know how to answer, looked at her in a daze, and recalled that in this village, the eldest brother of the Zhang family was quite proficient in martial arts, and when the two went up the mountain to hunt, his archery skills were not inferior to him; The grandfather of the Wu family set up a private school in the village, but in the private school in the countryside, whenever he passed by, he heard the grandfather of the Wu family talk quite insightfully; He went to work in the fields with the eldest brother of the Li family, and when everyone was resting, the eldest brother of the Li family was able to tell a lot of strange stories......

It seems that everyone in the village has a good background, and when he secretly thinks about it, he and Yue Ning are not tired of the earthly Jiji camp and hide here? The dark one is extremely smart, thinking that Fang Cai's ceremony is quite courtly, and he thinks that this group of people may be the relics of the previous dynasty. They were so good to themselves and Yue Ning that they also let down their guard and stopped asking. Then the sister-in-law of the Li family is right, after a long time, what is the past worth?

Yue Ning walked out of the door, saw that Dian Yi was helping the Li family's sister-in-law clean up the rice, and walked over, "I'll go to Granny Guo's house to send a thank you gift, and I'll be back soon!" ”