Chapter Twenty-Nine: The South of the Clouds
Mr. Zhou waited at home for more than two months, and finally waited for the news of Bingliang, saying that it was news, but in fact, he entrusted a medicine dealer in Yunnan to send a token. Mr. Zhou held the token in his hand, and his heart was mixed. Happily, the three of them finally arrived in Yunnan, and when they entered Yunnan, they were mostly safe. The worry is that his daughter Zhou Xue has never asked anything about Gongsun Shengyan since she was closed last time, but Gongsun Shengqiu came to the house once a few days ago, politely greeted him, and then went directly to Zhou Xue. After Zhou Xue saw Gongsun Shengqiu, she looked absent-minded for two days in a row, and she didn't have the expectation of getting married as she said in her mouth. But Mr. Zhou asked Zhou Xue twice, but he didn't ask anything. It's a real headache.
Gongsun Shengyan and the three of them have been separated from Lao Dao since Lao Dao finished casting a spell on him and sealed the soul power behind his left shoulder. Lao Dao didn't mean to continue to follow the three of them, but before parting, he told Gongsun Shengyan that if there was anything in the future, he could go to the Pillow Cloud Temple in White Emperor City to find him. Gongsun Shengyan remembered it in his heart, and once again thanked Lao Dao for his enthusiastic help. After that, the three of them were more careful along the way, stepping up their journey during the day, and if they wanted to cross the mountains and mountains and cross the deserted sections of the road at night, they would directly find the inn to rest in advance, so before arriving in Yunnan, it was calm and calm, and there was no strange thing that happened in Nanyue before.
Mr. Zhou's surname in Yunnan is Bai, and the specific name is Mr. Zhou did not say clearly, but he just asked Bingliang to call Mr. Bai after meeting. At that time, Mr. Zhou handed over two tokens to Bingliang, one of which he asked someone to bring back to Jiangnan to himself after arriving safely in Yunnan, so that he could rest assured, and the other showed him after seeing Mr. Bai, and Mr. Bai naturally understood the meaning.
Mr. Bai is also a wealthy family in the local area, although the scale is smaller than the Gongsun family and the Zhou family, but after all, Yunnan is located on the border, the mountains are high and the roads are far away, and the Jiangnan is not directly comparable with the sea and land. After leaving Nanyue, Gongsun Shengyan and the three of them walked all the way to change horses, and their footsteps were much faster than ordinary pedestrians. When Mr. Bai was about to go out when he arrived at Bai's house in Yunnan, he saw the three of them holding tokens in their hands, and knew that this was a distinguished guest sent by Mr. Zhou in Jiangnan. Gongsun Shengyan is tired of running around, but the attitude when eating is very different, Gongsun Shengyan is holding the rice bowl and chewing slowly, Bingliang's movements are also elegant, that is, every time after serving the food, he has to wait for Gongsun Shengyan to get off the chopsticks and then clip it himself. The coachman naturally waited for the two to clamp before moving the chopsticks, but once the chopsticks were moved, it was like a whirlwind, and when he buried his head in eating, his mouth still chirped and chirped, and finally counted carefully, the coachman actually ate five bowls of rice alone, and the oil soup on the vegetable plate was all poured into the stomach, and finally he was stretched to lie in the chair and touch the belly, and called out in a hurry.
Mr. Bai is actually around 50 years old, and he looks about the same as Mr. Zhou, so it can be seen that he is well maintained. But although Mr. Bai's surname is Bai, he has a copper-colored face, a short and thick figure, and speaks like a drum. When he saw that the three of them had finished eating, he beckoned his subordinates to come over and arrange all kinds of local fruits and make hot tea, and then he began to ask questions.
"I have known Mr. Zhou for nearly 30 years, and I have always been called brothers, and it can be said that although I am not out of the womb of a mother, I am closer than my own brother. So the three of you, please rest assured, I, Bai, will definitely entertain guests. It's just that I don't know what the three of them need to come to Bai and how long they will stay, so I will send someone to prepare carefully. Mr. Bai's words were very polite, and his eyes kept staring at Gongsun Shengyan. He knew that this young man with a fair appearance, handsome eyebrows and eyes, and a tall figure must be not small, although he was dressed plainly, Mr. Zhou had only sent this guest to his Bai family for nearly thirty years.
"Mr. Bai," Bingliang took over and saluted Mr. Bai, "My name is Bingliang, and I am Mr. Zhou's butler, this is Su Nian, and I am Mr. Zhou's guest, and the one next to me is our groom." Young Master Su Nian had a strange illness a few days ago, his whole body was weak and his memory was confused, and Mr. Zhou sent people to do his best to diagnose and treat him, but he only recovered less than fifty percent. Later, the doctor said that Young Master Su's disease had something to do with the climate in the south of the Yangtze River, and that he could only eradicate the disease by going to a warmer and more comfortable place to recuperate, otherwise he could not be cured. Mr. Zhou then thought of Mr. Bai and asked me to take Young Master Su to bother Mr. Bai for a few days. Please also bear with Mr. Bai. ”
"Oh, so that's the case, then it's okay, although I, Bai, am shabby and poor compared to Mr. Zhou, but I can still afford to place a young man to recuperate. Although Su Gongzi stays, he can live as long as he wants, but the taste of food in Yunnan is not small compared with Jiangnan, and I will ask my subordinates to find a Jiangnan chef to come, and try not to let Su Gongzi be wronged here. Mr. Bai was very polite.
"Thank you, Mr. Bai, I don't have any picks in terms of eating and drinking, and if I can come to Yunnan once in my lifetime, see the place where the colorful clouds were born, and feel the foreign customs, I should eat more local food, and it is not in vain to come to this trip. So what Jiangnan cook, you must not bother to invite. Gongsun Shengyan hurriedly answered to express his gratitude.
"It's okay or not, then it's up to the three of you. Puren. Mr. Bai shouted outside the door, and a young man who looked black and strong came over, "Puren is my housekeeper, and he is like me in everything in the Bai family." ”
The young man, known as Puren, smiled innocently at the three of them, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.
After a short break and chatting, Mr. Bai asked Puren to lead the three of them to the three rooms that had been cleaned up to rest. Although the coachman is a rough man, he was sent by Mr. Zhou after all, so he should be treated equally.
Gongsun Shengyan was lying on the bed, and after waking up from Nanyue, it was the first time he said to a stranger for such a long time, this Mr. Bai looked loyal and chivalrous, and it was secretly arranged by Mr. Zhou, so he should be trustworthy. Bingliang once again concealed his true identity, he did not complain about this, but was even more grateful to Bingliang, for his own safety, even Mr. Zhou's eight friends were deceived, it was really difficult for him. Zhou Xue didn't know what he was doing now, he ran out of thousands of miles without leaving a word, and Zhou Xuetian was on his own side, when would he go back to marry her? Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a faint pain in his heart, so he had to stop thinking and sleep with his head covered.
In a daze, Gongsun Shengyan found that he had walked into the bamboo forest he had been to last time, and it was still the same scene as at that time, a middle-aged man was besieged by a group of Taoists. He wondered how he had come here again, but a greater curiosity drove him on. I saw that the middle-aged man stared at Gongsun Shengyan, a mysterious smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then roared. Gongsun Shengyan was not afraid this time, but stared at all this intently, accompanied by the roar of the middle-aged man, two golden points of light shot out from his spiritual platform, shooting straight out at a speed that Gongsun Shengyan had never experienced. The middle-aged man's head tilted, as if he only had his last breath left, and a delicately carved box rolled out of his chest, and Gongsun Shengyan could see it clearly, and the bottom of the box was finely carved with the word "Miao". Gongsun Shengyan raised his head again and found that one of the golden points of light was shooting quickly towards him, and the veteran Dao who was besieging the middle-aged man shook his hand hard at the middle-aged man, with an unbelievable anxious look on his face. At the same moment that the lightning struck the man, Gongsun Shengyan felt a numb left chest, and a golden bright spot drilled into his left chest. Gongsun Shengyan was in an uncontrollable panic for a while, and almost fell down the slippery dirt slope again. He tried to stabilize his balance, and saw that the middle-aged man was dead, and the sad woman beside him was holding the body in her arms and saying something, and then the woman put down the breathless man, took out a handful of medicinal materials and a dagger from his shirt, scattered all the medicinal materials next to the middle-aged man's corpse, and said a few words while arranging his hair, and then raised the dagger and pierced it into his heart.
"Don't!" Gongsun Shengyan didn't hear a word, but when he saw that the woman was about to kill herself, he couldn't help but rush forward violently, trying to snatch the dagger from the woman's hand. With a shout, Gongsun Shengyan woke up from his dream, and he found that he had sat upright on the bed, his back wet and full of cold sweat. Gongsun Shengyan held his head in his hands and sobered himself up, and then slowly realized that he was now at Mr. Bai's house in Yunnan.
The dream just now made Gongsun Shengyan feel like a knot was tied in his heart, and he couldn't untie it. The same dream appeared a second time, and it seems that there is a concrete progress in the content of the dream. What does this mean, does it have anything to do with the pattern behind him? Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel excited, and the sweat behind his back soaked himself a little cold. He got up and walked to the outhouse, on the stool was a change of clothes that Puren had prepared for the next person, and he picked it up and compared it and thought it fitted quite well. He simply went to take a shower, he thought to himself, and after washing, he went to Bingliang and asked him to borrow two mirrors.
Gongsun Shengyan pushed the door out, and found that there were people waiting outside the door, and when he saw him go out, he respectfully greeted Young Master Su. Gongsun Shengyan thought that this Mr. Bai had done a very good job, and he was worried that he was not familiar with his party when he first came, so he actually set up a subordinate to send him. Gongsun Shengyan asked his subordinates to prepare hot water for himself to bathe, and the subordinates replied that the bath water at home was boiling all day, and if he wanted to wash it, he would take him there. The Bai family is also a deep house compound, and he just lived there, and he couldn't tell the difference between east and west, north and south for a while, so Gongsun Shengyan asked his subordinates to lead him over.
After twisting through a few corridors, Gongsun Shengyan found that the layout design of the Bai family was very interesting, very similar to the style of Jiangnan, and even the rockery and flowing water in the courtyard were no different from the feeling of his own home. The more he looked at it, the more cordial he felt, so he slowed down his pace and looked around as he walked. Gongsun Shengyan saw that the subordinate was like this, and simply asked why the overall layout of the home in Yunnan was like Jiangnan, and the subordinate did not understand the mystery of this, and he didn't say a reason for two sentences, so he could only look at Gongsun Shengyan with an apologetic face.