The four of them came to Shangqiu City at night, which was built by the relatively powerful Song State in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and later the Song Kingdom perished, and the city also suffered from wind and frost for many years, but it became more and more prosperous with the moving in and construction of the neighboring people.

The area of the city is not large, the four walls are about six miles long, and there are all kinds of shops in the city, but now it is dark, only the inn is still open, and the rest are closed to prepare for tomorrow's business.

The lights of thousands of households are facing the starlight at night, a harmonious evening scene.

Han Ye and the four of them found an unknown hotel to live in, although Yun Meng left Mingjian Hall in a hurry without bringing silver taels, but Xue Yan had already smoothed some things in Mingjian Hall, and Yun Meng also took a lot from Han Yu's baggage, which was completely enough. After a day of playing, everyone was tired, and Night and Dream were even more exhausted, and they slept in their rooms......

The next morning, the sun poured into the windowsill, and the room gradually warmed up, Xue Yan lay on the bed like a kitten, but couldn't sleep, so she had to pull down the quilt, sit up and shrug her shoulders, and stretch her pretty lazy waist. She got out of bed, came to the dressing table, looked at the jewelry and hair accessories on the table and frowned, and said, "Jewelry or something, it's the most difficult to do." Thinking about it like this, he looked at himself with long hair fluttering in the mirror, tied his black hair into a ponytail and held it in his hand, raised his eyebrows and smiled: "This is much more convenient." ”

But after thinking about it for a while, she finally spread out her long hair, combed it carefully in the mirror, tied her hair with a ribbon, pinned the hairpin on her head, looked at herself in the mirror, and said in her heart: "Although the fool definitely prefers Yunmeng, if I dress up more beautifully, it would be good for him to look at me more...... All right. ”

Xue Yan tilted his head left and right to look at herself, quite satisfied, but she remembered something, looked outside the door and said, "Those guys, did they get up early?" No, go out and have a look. ”

So Xue Yan walked out of the room, came to the door of Situ Yunmeng's room next door, and knocked unceremoniously.

Han Yu's voice came from inside, "Who?" ”

"Ahem!" Xue Yan deliberately lowered his voice and said, "This mansion has arrived, so you will come and greet you as soon as possible." ”

Xue Yan covered her mouth and snickered, listened carefully to the door, and found that there was also a crisp laughter like a bell in the room, and then light footsteps sounded, the door was opened, and the delicate and lovely Han Yu stood in front of Xue Yan with a peach comb in her hand, and said with a smile: "Sister Yan'er also got up?" ”

Xue Yan's eyes moved, and he said, "What about that guy Yunmeng?" ”

A gentle female voice came from the room, "Here, Yan'er." ”

Xue Yan followed the voice and found the beauty who was still dressing up in front of the dressing table, so she put her hands in front of her and said with a smile: "I thought I was the last to get up, I didn't think that someone would get up later than me, hum." ”

At the same time, Han Yu had also returned to Yun Meng, combed her hair with a comb, and said, "Actually, Sister Meng got up earlier than me, but she has already combed my makeup. ”

"Ugh." Xue Yan sighed: "Why don't I have this treatment? ”

"Yan'er, I'm sorry, when she finishes combing for me, I'll help you!" Yunmeng said apologetically slightly.

"Farewell, farewell!" Xue Yan shook his hand and said, "Do you want me to mess up my hair again and toss you to comb it again?" ”

Situ Yunmeng felt that he was looking at Xue Yan more and more pleasing to the eye, his willow eyebrows were lightly relaxed, and he only said, "Okay, then I'll go directly to you next time I wake up." ”

"That's not going to work." Han Yu looked at Yunmeng, who was sinking in the mirror, and said with a smile while combing: "Sister Meng, Sister Yan'er sleeps lazily every time, and she gets up late, you have to comb Xiaoyu's hair before you can go to Sister Yan'er." ”

"Huh! You two are so tired! Is it like this since childhood? Xue Yan sighed with a sigh, and quickly changed the topic and asked, "By the way, is the stupid melon up now?" ”

"I spoke to him last night." Han Yu said: "He said that he would spend some time refining qi, so I went back to my room to sleep, and the door of his room was closed this morning." ”

Yunmeng said: "Yan'er, let's go to him together when I'm done, okay?" ”

"That's what this girl means." Xue Yan raised her eyebrows and said with a smile: "With you two as my left and right protectors, I won't be afraid that the devil surnamed Han will bully me!" ”

Xue Yan is witty and funny, and the two daughters are smiling like flowers.

Yun Meng combed her hair, inserted a hosta, put on white orchid earrings, and the three of them came to Han Yefang together, knocked on the door and found that there was no one, and went downstairs again, but saw that Han Yeguo was already sitting downstairs, looking at the street scene in the sun outside the door, raising a glass and drinking himself, and sighing arbitrarily: "How can you solve your worries?" Only Du Kang. ”

Han Yu saw that his brother was safe, and the stone in his heart could be regarded as falling, and said to Han Ye: "Brother~ Why did you go downstairs without making a sound, everyone is worried about you." ”

"Huh!" Xue Yan tilted her head to the side, pretending not to care: "I'm not worried about him, I wish he would be trampled to death by the enemy on the street, and then eaten by demons and monsters, hum." ”

Han Ye didn't quarrel with her, picked up the wine jug on the table, poured it into the cup again, raised his glass and drank it all, and said: "The drunken immortal drank too much, and suddenly wanted to drink a few sips of mortal wine, I heard that Shangqiu is the place where Du Kang became famous, and the Du Kang wine here is really fragrant and mellow." ”

Xue Yan looked at Yun Meng and Han Yu and asked, "Is Du Kang a human being or a wine?" ”

"It is both man and wine." Han Yu replied: "Legend has it that the first person to learn to make wine was Du Kang, one day he stored the leftovers in the mulberry cave, and after a few days of natural fermentation, he made a fragrant wine, which was the earliest wine." ”

"I also used a few nights of rice to make wine, it's disgusting to think about." Xue Yan made a gesture of fanning away the smell, and sarcastically said to Han Ye: "It's really sad that someone is still so happy. ”

"Hmph." Han Ye ignored Xue Yan's words of ruining the scenery, drank the wine again, and saw Yun Meng standing beside him quietly, he couldn't help but feel comfortable, took another cup, filled it with wine, raised it to the beauty, and said, "Yun Meng, do you want to taste it?" ”

"I ......" Yun Meng hesitated for a moment, bowed his head to Han Ye and responded, "Well, okay, I'll try it." ”

Xue Yan was quite anxious for Yun Meng, she hurriedly said: "Hey, don't fall for this guy, he wants to get you drunk, Yun Meng!" ”

Yun Meng didn't care at all, she took the wine handed over with both hands, picked up the wine glass with her right hand, covered her face with her left hand with a plain sleeve, and drank it. ”

Han Ye nodded and said, "The first time I drank it, my master lied to me that it was water, and now that I think about it, it's really ridiculous, haha." ”

Xue Yan said helplessly: "It's bad, it's bad, Yunmeng, you made the surnamed Han so proud, but it made me miserable." ”

Han Ye asked Xue Yan, "How did you make you miserable?" ”

Xue Yan crossed her hands on her hips, leaned forward, and pretended to be angry and said to Han Ye: "You are so proud, the weather will be for me the day after tomorrow, but you are not angry when I return the salute to you, didn't you make me miserable?" ”

Everyone laughed.

Then, seeing that the weather was fine, the four decided to go on a trip, and went up the streets of the old city together. There are a lot of merchants on the street, selling jewelry, snacks, puppets, etc., and there are a lot of tourists, but it is also very lively.

After walking for a while, Xue Yan suddenly remembered something, her eyes moved, and she said to the other three: "By the way, I heard that there is a Mulan Temple near Shangqiu?" ”

"Hmm......" Han Yu thought for a while, and said, "Yes, yes, it is far east of the ancient city of the Song Kingdom, but if the sword flies, you can return today." ”

"I really want to go there!" Xue Yan clasped her hands in front of her chest, her beautiful eyes flashed with stars, and her demeanor exaggeratedly yearned: "Hua Mulan is the person this woman admires the most!" ”

Seeing that Xue Yan wanted to go so much, Han Ye had already agreed in his heart, but said with disgust on his face: "Okay, let's go together, don't make that idiot expression, such a big person." ”

"You're an idiot!" When Xue Yan heard this, she scolded angrily: "Big idiot~!" Big stupid melon~! Big fool~! After scolding, he turned his head to the side, raised his eyebrows, and snorted heavily.

"Sister Yan'er." Han Yu comforted: "Don't be angry, my brother is just playing with you." ”

"I don't care!" Xue Yan said angrily: "He wants to talk and play with me, I also play with him, he wants to show me the color, and I will annoy him!" Hum! ”

Situ Yunmeng and Han Yu both laughed.

"Alright, alright! Your tongue twister sucks! Han Ye couldn't help but be sarcastic, and said, "Wait for us to go out of the city and then fly with the sword, it's crowded here, it's inconvenient." ”

"Nonsense." Xue Yan raised her eyebrows and said, "With your rotten skills, you can't use the sword technique to kill a few people here!" ”

Han Ye smiled indifferently and didn't fight back, letting Xue Yan have the upper hand.

When the four of them were about to reach the east gate, Yunmeng stopped in front of a dilapidated courtyard.

Han Ye saw Yunmeng stop, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Yun Meng pointed to the courtyard, frowned, and said, "This courtyard...... It feels weird. ”

Han Ye took a closer look, and also saw the clues, because the east gate of the old city is a mansion compound, but this courtyard is dilapidated, and there are only two almost dead sycamore trees in front of the courtyard gate, which is very eye-catching in the entire housing area.

Seeing Ye and Meng standing in front of the courtyard, Han Yu and Xue Yan also stopped, Xue Yan bypassed Han Ye and asked Yun Meng, "Yun Meng, why are you stopping here?" ”

Yun Meng expressed his doubts, and Xue Yan shook his hand with a smile and said, "It's okay, maybe, the people in this courtyard have moved away, leaving this courtyard unattended, and over time it will become like this." ”

At this time, an old man on crutches happened to pass by, and Han Yu asked him respectfully, "Old man, is there anyone else in this courtyard?" ”

The old man's hair was gray, and when he saw the three girls, he brushed his beard and admired it before he said, "Someone...... You don't look like you're a local, are you? ”

"Hmm." Yun Meng gave a dignified salute to the old man and said softly, "Old man, we only came here yesterday. ”

"No wonder those questions are asked." The old man said, and suddenly sighed: "It's quite pitiful, there was originally a big family surnamed Chu living here, the head of the family was a rich businessman, and their young lady was beautiful and kind-hearted. It's a pity, once the head of the household took his wife out to contract the plague, both died, the young lady cried very sadly, and suddenly got a strange disease and became blind, and the servants took advantage of the fire to loot and swept away the property in the courtyard, leaving only Miss Chu alone in the courtyard. ”

"That young lady is so pathetic." Xue Yan said sympathetically: "She has a strange disease and has no money, how can she survive?" ”

"Of course someone is taking care of her." The old man said: "Two years ago, there was a young man in a white robe, very handsome, claiming to be a relative of Miss Chu's family, and he has been living in this courtyard since then. ”

Han Ye almost understood everything, and said: "That is to say, there is still a man and a woman in the hospital, but the man is busy treating the woman and neglecting to clean, so the front of the hospital has become like this?" ”

Han Yu saw that he knew everything he should know, so he said to the old man gently, "Okay, old man, thank you." ”

"No thanks, hehe." The old man was very happy, and was about to leave, when he suddenly turned around again, his expression became a little nervous, and he admonished: "I almost forgot to tell you that there are often girls missing in the city recently, and you girls are so beautiful, it is better to be careful, close the doors and windows at night, and do not open the doors to strangers casually." ”

"Don't worry, uncle." Xue Yan smiled: "We have a lot of ability, we will be fine." ”

Of course, Han Yu thought the same as Xue Yan, but she was more polite and thanked the old man, who sighed and left everyone's sight on crutches.

Yun Meng watched the old man leave, looked at the broken courtyard gate, and said to Xue Yan: "Yan'er, let's go to the Mulan Temple later, okay?" ”

"How?" Xue Yan asked, "Do you want to go in and see them?" After getting Yun Meng's affirmative reply, Xue Yan smiled very dryly: "Okay, let's go in and have a look." ”

So, everyone came to the door, Han Ye knocked on the courtyard door, after a long time, the courtyard door was opened with a squeak, and the door was opened by a handsome man in a pure white robe, who looked twenty-five or sixteen years old, with long and soft hair, and the most peculiar thing was that his eyes were dark green, and there was a slight anger between his eyebrows, which made people feel uneasy.

The man in white couldn't help frowning when he saw everyone, and when he saw Han Yu, he became even more frightened and disgusted, and said, "What are you here for?" I'm treating Sister Shuang, don't bother if you're fine, please come back! He was about to close the door completely, when he heard a weak female voice faintly from the depths of the courtyard, saying, "Brother Bai, those people are here to visit us...... Let them in, okay? ”

"......Sister Frost" The man in white listened to the words of the woman in the courtyard, hesitated for a moment, sighed, opened the door, and said to everyone: "If you want to visit me and Sister Shuang sincerely, then please come in." ”

So, when the four of them entered the courtyard, Xue Yan muttered in a low voice while the man in white was closing the door: "Who is it?" We kindly came to see them, and the man had such an attitude! ”

Han Yu was afraid that Xue Yan would be too loud for the man in white to hear, so he whispered to Xue Yan: "Maybe he likes a quiet life, but our sudden visit makes him uncomfortable." ”

Xue Yan was full of suspicions, and began to pay attention to the situation in the courtyard, the courtyard and the courtyard are still very different, although the courtyard is deserted but there is little dust, the hall is dilapidated but not moss, and the furniture is scarce but particularly neat, it looks like a quiet scene.

The man in white led the way for everyone and advised, "My sister Shuang has a good heart, but she doesn't like to be too noisy, so you should be quiet when you go in." ”

"We are here to visit her, and of course we will respect her feelings, please rest assured." Han Ye said solemnly, glanced at Xue Yan, but sneered: "But some people may not be able to do it." ”

"Who's to say it can't be done?" Xue Yan's eyebrows moved, and she said, "This girl can bend and stretch, so what's so difficult to speak quietly?" ”

The courtyard was not too big, and it didn't take long for the man in white to bring everyone to his room and said softly to the room, "Sister Shuang, I brought them in." ”

At this time, a weak female voice came from the room, saying, "I'm sorry for you, Brother Bai." ”

The man named Big Brother Bai pushed open the door and led everyone in, everyone entered the room, the indoor furnishings were very simple, I saw a tent bed on the right hand side of the door, a woman was sitting at the head of the bed covered with a quilt, she had long black hair, her eyebrows were slightly light but as slender as wicker, her face was white and delicate, as the neighbors said, she was born dignified and beautiful, but it was a pity that her eyes were gray and godless, and she lacked a lot of spiritual beauty.

The woman looked a little haggard, looked ahead with empty eyes, and said softly, "Are you familiar with my father?" Or did you come to visit me when you saw me in distress? ”

"We just happened to pass by and heard about your background, so we came in to visit you." Yun Meng frowned slightly, and she also said softly, "Sister Shuang doesn't mind, right?" ”

"How so?" The woman smiled lightly and said, "If I mind, I won't let you in, besides, this house has not been visited for half a year, I am blind, and my family is surrounded by walls, it is impossible for bad people to come in here, right?" ”

"It's not~!" Xue Yan said with a smile: "Yunmeng's heart is the best in the world, Xiaoyu is not bad, I'm so-so, but ......" Xue Yan said, glanced at Han Ye with a serious expression on the side, and said sarcastically: "Someone, his heart is so bad, even weak women are bullied, it's really chilling." ”

Han Ye snorted coldly and replied, "Are you a weak woman?" Cunning and perverse, he deceived me several times. ”

"Hey, hey, hey!" Xue Yan pressed her waist with her hands angrily and said, "Don't exaggerate the truth to this girl, I lied to you twice, thank you!" ”

Han Ye was worried that arguing with Xue Yan again would displease the woman on the bed, so he said, "Okay, Miss Chu still needs to rest, I don't care about you in general." ”

"This girl is!" Xue Yan said coquettishly: "Good women don't fight with evil men, hum." ”

Ye and Yan both thought that Miss Chu would be angry, but this woman felt that bickering was a kind of precious, like she had never enjoyed it when she was sick in bed, so she listened to their conversation, and there was a sweet smile on her haggard and white face.

Seeing that Sister Shuang was in a good mood, the man in white no longer had any worries, put his mind at ease, and said to the woman on the bed: "Sister Shuang, the medicine is about to be decocted, I'll go and bring it first, and you can talk." ”

"Okay, Big Brother Bai." Frost Sister replied softly to the man in white, her face full of happiness.

Han Yu looked at the woman who was sick in bed, suddenly remembered his mother, and looked at his brother, who was also dignified, so he said carefully to the woman on the bed: "This sister, although we have inquired about your life experience outside, we don't know your name. ”

Miss Chu smiled indifferently and said, "My name is Chu Ningshuang, and the person who takes care of me now is a distant cousin of mine, named Bai Lang, and I usually call him Big Brother Bai." ”

"Actually......" Han Yu glanced at Han Ye sadly, and said to Ning Shuang: "Actually, our brother and sister's mother also has the word frost in her name, she is also seriously ill and lies in bed all day long......"

"Really?" Chu Ningshuang frowned, and hurriedly asked, "Is Lingtang okay now?" ”

"It's a pity...... He was killed by thieves. Han Yu lowered her head as she spoke, with tears in her eyes, Han Ye saw that she was sad, and gently put her big hand on her shoulder, and her movements were very gentle and kind.

"I'm sorry to blame me for not letting you mention these sad things." Chu Ningshuang said, looking straight at the bed with a pair of beautiful eyes, and sighed: "Your mother must be a very good person, right?" It's a shame......"

The brothers and sisters of the Han family stood beside the bed and looked at Ning Shuang with emotion, this girl is slightly older than Han Ye, but her life experience is more miserable than Han Ye, coupled with her kindness and kindness, so that the brothers and sisters have an inexplicable sense of affection for her.

The atmosphere was so harmonious that everyone stopped talking, but at this time, Xue Yan broke the silence, she raised her eyebrows and said to Ning Shuang: "Yes, I almost forgot!" I'm going to know how to heal! Why don't you let me show you this, Frost! ”

Ning Shuang's eyebrows narrowed slightly, and said, "You call me Ning Shuang?" ”

"That's right, didn't you say your name is Chu Ningshuang?" Xue Yanshu asked, "What?" Don't you like what I call it? ”

Chu Ningshuang stretched her brows and smiled happily: "No, it's been a long time since anyone called me that, I'm very happy." ”

"It's good to be happy." Xue Yan sat on the edge of the bed and said with a smile: "Then, take your hand over and let me take the pulse." ”

Chu Ningshuang shook her head and sighed: "No need, I'm weak and cheap, and I don't want to trouble more people." ”

"How can you say that about yourself!" Xue Yan said angrily because of concern: "Everyone's life is precious, everyone is no exception, come, give me your hand!" ”

Chu Ningshuang saw that she couldn't resist Xue Yan, so she had to hand over her pale and weak slender hand to Xue Yan, Xue Yan held the vein, frowned, and a pair of spiritual eyes moved from time to time, as if she was trying to find out the cause.

At this time, Bai Lang happened to bring a bowl of steaming medicinal soup from outside, and when he saw Xue Yan holding Ning Shuang's hand, he said angrily: "What are you doing!" ”