Chapter 3 The Hills and Mountains
Chen Nian's expression was quite calm, he raised his head to look at him, and replied: "I'm going to look for the people and horses of Qingfeng Village, and I also want to see what happened to Ye Xiaoqi and Xiaoliu, if I don't take a look, I don't feel at ease." ”
"Go there to find it, Nan Taixing," Lu Xiao asked, "Haven't all the stockades been broken by the Jizhou army?"
Chen Nian said: "Although the Jizhou army broke the stockade, it did not necessarily stay there. Since Zhang Kuisu took people back to Nantaihang and thought that he would die with the officers and soldiers, he might not return there. ”
Lu Xiao pursed his lips and thought for a while, and said, "Since you want to go back, I will accompany you." ”
"Thank you." Chen Nian said lightly, and there was no look of gratitude on his face. Lu Xiao looked at her left and right for a moment, and then said, "Xie Chennian, your appearance has changed a lot. ”
Chen Nian smiled faintly when he heard this, and said: "The days go by, who remains the same, I see you becoming much more pleasing to the eye." Your Chinese dialect is getting better and better, and if you dress up a little more, no one will recognize you as a Xian person. ”
Lu Xiao frowned when he heard this, and said, "I'm fine, why do you want to pretend to be you Xia people,"
Chen Nian said: "You have to dress up, in order to make it easier, not only do you have to dress up as a Xia person, but I also have to dress up as a man." ”
On the day of Feilong, she abandoned Qingfeng Village and Feng Jun in public, how can she go back like this now, it is better to pretend to be someone else to explore the situation of Qingfeng Village, and find Ye Xiaoqi and them.
Because he wanted to change his clothes, Chen Nian deliberately went out of Taihang Mountain, found a prosperous town in Jizhou, bought two new men's clothes, dressed himself as a young man, and dressed Lu Xiao as a middle-aged strong man. That's it, Chen Nian still felt very dissatisfied, looked left and right at Lu Xiao's face, and sighed: "It's a pity that I don't know how to change your face." Alas, it would be nice if your Xian people's faces were flattened, and the eyebrows and eyes like this right now are good-looking, but they are really difficult to hide. ”
Lu Xiao silently grabbed the mirror and held it up in front of Chen Nian, and asked her, "Do you think that if you dress like this, others won't recognize you as a woman?"
Chen Nian's appearance at this moment is different from half a year ago, at that time, as long as she didn't speak, she could still pretend to be a teenager in men's clothes. But now, although she is taller than before, her figure is becoming more and more slim, so that people can distinguish the gender at a glance. Not to mention that her facial features have also changed slightly, lacking the roundness and cuteness of the previous young man, but adding a little bit of feminine delicacy and charm.
Chen Nian looked at himself in the mirror in a daze, but Lu Xiao seemed to have suddenly discovered something strange, softly "Huh", approached her eyes carefully, and said strangely: "Xie Chennian, I can see that your pupils are not pure black, as if there is a faint blue color." ”
Chen Nian only thought he was joking, stretched out his hand and slapped his face away, and said angrily: "Your pupils are blue, your pupils are blue, and your pupils are green." ”
Lu Xiao shook his head when he heard this, and said seriously: "The pupils of our Buliu Lonely Clan are hidden in gold, not blue nor green, but pale gold, you see, it is pale gold." ”
Chen Nian leaned over to take a closer look, and sure enough, she saw a faint golden faint golden in the depths of his pupils, she raised her eyebrows in surprise, and said strangely: "It's really light gold, you Buliu Gu clan are like this,"
Lu Xiao nodded, "Yes." ”
Chen Nian smiled with interest, looked at his eyes carefully, and then asked casually: "The surname of your Xian family is really weird, there is even a surname Bu Liugu, then what is your name, Bu Liugu Lu Xiao,"
"Buliu Gu Xiao," Lu Xiao corrected: "There is no Lu character, Lu is the Han surname that I chose from the Bu Liu Gu clan, and Xiao is my name."
"Oh, like this, Bu Liugu is Lu in turn, which is really interesting." Chen Nian nodded slowly, made a look of sudden realization, and suddenly asked again: "Which of your clan's Han surname is that Mu?"
Lu Xiao didn't realize the plan, and replied without thinking about it at the moment: "Qiu Muling." ”
"Qiu Mu Ling Zhan Yue," Chen Nian didn't give him time to think, and asked quickly: "Then Mu Zhan Yue's real name should be Qiu Mu Ling Zhan Yue, isn't it?"
"Qiu Mu Lingyue, his real name is Qiu Mu Lingyue." Lu Xiao said, as soon as the words came out, he realized that he had been tricked, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a while, only staring at Chen Nian and saying nothing. Chen Nian smiled coldly and said, "I can't see that my father-in-law is still from the Xian family, and I wonder how he can know you, a Xian person, it turns out that he is himself." However, he doesn't look much like you Xian people. ”
Seeing that she had seen through Mu Zhanyue's identity, Lu Xiao felt that there was no need to hide it anymore, thought about it, and said: "He is not a pure Xian person, I heard that he has half of your Xia people's blood, so he looks more like your Xia people." ”
"I see." Chen Nian raised his eyes and looked at Lu Xiao silently for a moment, and asked him, "Did my father-in-law go to Mobei?"
Lu Xiao didn't answer, but said, "I can't tell you this." ”
Chen Nian smiled when he heard this, and said: "If you don't tell me, don't tell me, anyway, I didn't think about looking for him, I just want to go back to Qingfeng Village now." As she spoke, she got up and went back to her room to rest, but before going out, she didn't forget to tell him: "Hey, by the way, don't shave these days, I think if you have a beard, you may be able to block your face." ”
Although she still had a smile on her face, Lu Xiao saw that she was in a very bad mood and didn't want to provoke her, so he only nodded and said, "Okay." ”
The hair of the Xian people is already more lush than that of the Xia people, and a handsome young man like Lu Xiao has grown a beard in just a few days. Chen Nian took out the scissors and trimmed it for him, and was stunned to cover most of his angular face, which looked like a square-faced man at a glance.
Chen Nian was very satisfied with his craft, and said quite smugly: "I really have some talent for disguise, I should find a master to learn from it." ”
Lu Xiao didn't care about what he looked like, he just casually glanced at himself in the glasses, and then threw the mirror back to Chen Nian. Chen Nian smiled and put the mirror in his bag.
At this time, the two of them had already passed through the Flying Dragon and entered Nantaihang, and although they did not find anyone from Qingfeng Village along the way, they also heard some news. The officers and soldiers did not continue to pursue Zhang Kuisu and others, and the army returned to Qingzhou directly after withdrawing from North Taihang. Chen Nian guessed that there might be a situation in Jingyang in the northwest, so Xue Shengying was in a hurry to withdraw the army. She settled down a little in her heart, and became more and more convinced that Zhang Kuisu and the others had returned to Qingfeng Village.
After two more days, the two arrived at the foot of Qingfeng Village, and when they inquired about Zhang Kuisu and others, they really went back to the mountain. Chen Nian grew up here since he was a child, and he was extremely familiar with all the paths, so he easily took Lu Xiao to bypass several secret posts in Qingfeng Village and sneaked up from the back mountain path.
This Qingfeng Village is divided into the front village and the back village, the front village is the real sense of the Qingfeng Village, and the back village is the place where the family members in the village live. However, in just a few months, this place has changed greatly, and everywhere you see is ruins and broken walls, barren grass, and there is no trace of the excitement and vitality of the past. Chen Nian walked all the way to a completely unfamiliar place, and it took a long time to find his own small courtyard, but looking at the collapsed house and dilapidated courtyard, he was a little afraid to enter for a while.
Lu Xiao looked left and right, and said strangely: "This is Qingfeng Village, why can't I see a figure,"
The smile on Chen Nian's lips was a little bitter, and he replied: "This is the place where the family in the village lives, everyone is dead, and the family is naturally gone, who will come here,"
As she spoke, she jumped into the yard and rummaged through the ruins for a long time, only to find a wooden hairpin that had been used before, and hurriedly wiped it clean with a handkerchief, and carefully put it into her arms. Lu Xiao had been silently following behind her, seeing that she valued an inconspicuous wooden hairpin so much, he couldn't help but ask, "Have you used it?"
Chen Nian nodded, this hairpin was still given to her by Ye Xiaoqi. At the beginning, Ye Xiaoqi admired Xiaoliu, and secretly saved up for many days to buy a silver hairpin for Xiaoliu, but he was afraid that her "good brother" would pick up the gift, so he also bought her a wooden hairpin by the way, and fooled her with a sentence he learned from his master. For this matter, she chased Ye Xiao and trotted half of the cottage, but in the end, she ran errands for him and handed over the silver hairpin to Xiaoliu.
At the moment, the hairpin is still here, but I don't know if Ye Xiaoqi and Xiaoliu are still here. Chen Nian stood silently for a moment, turned his head and said to Lu Xiao: "The two of us will find a place to rest here first, and then go to the main village in front when it gets dark, and it will be more convenient to act." ”
Lu Xiao had no objections, Chen Nian took him to find a slightly better house, and the two did not light a fire after they went in, only took out dry food and ate it, and then sat silently and waited for it to get dark. I don't know how long it took, seeing that the light in the house was dimmed, Chen Nian got up from the low stool and said, "Let's go, let's go to the front village." ”
The two took off their outer robes to reveal their night clothes, and covered their faces with black scarves before they came out of the house. A bright moon above his head has jumped into the air at some point, the two of them have been walking in the mountains for a while, and they have completely forgotten the days, Chen Nian looked up at the bright silver plate, and couldn't help pausing at his feet, and asked Lu Xiao next to him in a low voice: "What day is it today?"
Lu Xiao thought about it for a while, and then replied hesitantly: "It seems like August 15,"
"August 15," Chen Nian was a little stunned, and subconsciously asked, "It's actually the Mid-Autumn Festival,"
Lu Xiao nodded and said, "Well, it should be the Mid-Autumn Festival of your summer people." ”
Chen Nian unconsciously remembered this time last year, when the village was lively, Zhang Kuisu held a banquet in front, and everyone gathered in front of them, but Mu Zhanyue had always disliked these things, not only did she not go, but she was also restrained from going. She was so aggrieved that she wanted to cry, Ye Xiaoqi secretly called her on the wall: "Chen Nian, Chen Nian, come out and drink." ”