After tying the red rope, Sikong Jun touched Xiao Heling's shoulders with both hands, but he was a little incoherent: "I...... I never thought that one day, I would be so lucky. ”

Xiao Heling's cheeks were crimson, he nodded with a smile, and he didn't say anything.

Sikong Jun smiled softly, hugged Xiao Heling and got on the horse again, the ink-like blackness gradually covered the last trace of light in the sunset, accompanied by the sound of "da-da" horses' hooves, gradually dyeing towards the two.

Xiao Heling snuggled tightly in Sikong Jun's arms, and the birch trees moved behind the two of them, and the bumps in the road were not enough to worry about.

When he arrived outside the inn, Sikong Jun dismounted first, ready to pick up Xiao Heling, and said, "On the wedding night, the bride's feet can't touch the ground, I'll carry you back to the inn." So he stretched out his hand and prepared to catch Xiao Heling.

Xiao Heling shook his head astringently: "Hu Lai, how is it good to be seen by your subordinates?" I'll walk back on my own. ”

Sikong Jun quipped: "If you touch the ground, it won't work, and such a marriage won't be blessed." ”

Xiao Heling said angrily: "How come? It is in people to make things happen, and it is naturally in people to make things happen. ”

The two depended on each other, walked to the grass and trees in the backyard and sat down, Xiao Heling breathed a sigh of relief, stretched his waist, and said: "There are other customs in my Tang Dynasty, it is said that the rules of Layue marriage are that on the day of the wedding, the newlyweds cannot live in the house, and must live outside the house with a tent built with a green cloth curtain, called 'Qinglu', and they must worship each other in the Qinglu, and then cut a strand of hair and put it in the bag, symbolizing the couple. ”

Sikong Jun looked at the full moon that was gradually whitening, and said in a low voice: "After all, I am ashamed of you, giving such a hasty marriage contract." ”

"Shhh, the mind is more valuable than anything else."

Sikong Jun smiled and got up to bring two jugs of wine. Xiao Heling drank a lamp, and also looked at the night sky, the bright light of the charcoal fire made her face gloomy: "I don't know how many times the moon will be rounded before I can wait for you to return." ”

Sikong Jun shook his head: "I said, it won't be more than half a year." ”

Xiao Heling raised her lips slightly, and said with a smile: "Anyway, you still have to fight in the future, men are ambitious in all directions, I have to get used to it early." ”

Sikong Jun hugged Xiao Heling tightly and said with shame: "I really feel ashamed of you, and let you hand yourself over to someone who can't stay with you...... At least not yet. ”

Xiao Heling stared at Sikong Jun's eyes, shook his head and said, "Isn't the Cowherd and Weaver Girl also able to get together once a year, we are much luckier than them." ”

Sikong Jun nodded and pressed his cheek to Xiao Heling's hair.

Looking at the direction of Chang'an City, Xiao Heling said softly: "I'm really useless, I've said so much, and now I'm a little homesick again." ”

Sikong Jun said suddenly: "Why don't I ask someone to inquire if my father and mother are okay, and then find another room for you in the city?" ”

Xiao Heling nodded after hearing this, and said with a sweet smile: "Look at you, you changed your name so quickly, my father and mother probably don't know that they have an extra son." ”

Sikong Jun also smiled on his cheeks, and the two of them finished drinking and rested, although they were faintly drunk, Xiao Heling couldn't sleep, as if she was half-asleep and half-awake, she was wearing a bright red, full of mandarin duck embroidery, which dazzled her.

Mandarin ducks, mandarin ducks...... Only envy the mandarin duck and not the immortal, the moon is full two or three times, and Sikong Jun can come back from the battle. I don't know if it's because the stamina of the wine is too great, thinking about the days to come, Xiao Heling only felt that his heart was full of mixed tastes, and he unconsciously fell asleep.

On the second day, Sikong Jun still led his soldiers around the city, but was attracted by a crowd near the city gate.

Walking over from afar, I saw everyone gathered in front of a notice, written clearly in black and white, a group of people gathered there, pointing fingers, more shaking their heads and sighing, as if complaining about the sky, and like a special person.

Sikong Jun took the token, pushed aside the crowd and approached the notice, the words on it were like ants eating away in his heart, and what was written on it was actually the Xiao family's rebellion and exile!

Sikong Jun's heart was shocked, and he hurriedly got on his horse and headed towards the inn.

Today is a very common cloudy day in winter, the clouds are very low, the withered leaves in the sky are swirling with the cold wind, as if they have been cast by witchcraft, rolling up and falling for a while, about the time of Shen, the two soldiers rode back on horseback, but their faces were pale, if they had something on their minds.

Xiao Heling saw that Sikong Jun came back so early, and he was puzzled, and hurriedly asked, "Why did you come back so early today?" ”

Sikong Jun's gaze was like a deep well, "I saw a notice at the city gate today, which said, you ...... Your family is ...... ...... all."

Hearing this, Xiao Heling's heart suddenly warmed up, like pouring hot iron, but it froze in an instant, and immediately asked, "My family?" They, what's wrong with them?! ”

After asking, Xiao Heling trembled in his heart, wondering if he was trembling.

Sikong Jun's face was embarrassed, and he paused word by word: "The Xiao family was raided, and my father and mother were exiled to Xichuan." ”

Xiao Heling was stunned, she didn't dare to listen to half a word, her right hand pressed deeply against Sikong Jun's armor, and her teeth clenched: "My father is just a businessman, why was he exiled?" ”

As soon as the words came out, Xiao Heling's hot tears had flowed down, as if all the residual heat in his heart had been dissipated from his body.

Sikong Jun hurriedly helped Xiao Heling sit down and persuaded: "Heling, Heling, you...... You have to calm down. ”

Xiao Heling's tears flowed quietly down her cheeks, like countless ants crawling.

Suddenly, Xiao Heling's eyes widened angrily, and he said, "It must be the woman who pretended to be me who implicated my family!" I've been worried, I've been worried! I'm worried that she will cause me to be raided, and I'm worried that she will cause me to be robbed of the Nine Clans! Who is she, who is trying to harm us?! ”

At this time, one of Sikong Jun's subordinates heard other news and was returning to the inn from outside.

His voice was almost hoarse, Sikong Jun Tofoan handed Xiao Heling water and asked his subordinates who had just returned: "This matter is indeed abnormal, do you know why Miss Xiao's family was exiled?" ”

The soldier replied: "Miss Xiao's father compiled an evil book slandering His Majesty, saying that 'the faint king is in charge, and the world is restless', and it is said that he also painted honey on the wall in the south of the city and asked ants to form words. As a result, His Majesty knew about these things, but fortunately, the queen mother interceded, and the crime that was originally to be beheaded became exile to Xichuan. ”

It was going to rain, and the cold wind outside the house was getting colder and colder, as if it was about to sweep away the last trace of warmth in Xiao Heling's heart.

Sikong Jun said to Xiao Heling again: "This matter is very strange, if the person who pretended to be you into the palace wants to harm your family, wouldn't he drag himself into it?" You think, if she pretends to be you to enter the palace, she will become you, and your family is her family, how can she harm your family and then affect herself? ”

Fu'an thought about it, nodded his head, and said, "Miss, what the adults said is not unreasonable, if you want to harm our family, you won't deliberately pretend to be someone from our family and bite your own family back." ”

Xiao Heling's heart gradually calmed down, and said, "Queen, who is the queen's mother, why do you want to help me intercede?" Who is the woman who is pretending to be me? And the robbers who robbed me two months ago, it's ......"

One or two drops of drizzle fell on the stone road outside the inn, with a faint smell of earth, a winter rain seemed to be about to pour down the sky, Sikong Jun hurriedly helped Xiao Heling back to the room to rest, and together with all the soldiers, drove the horses to the stable, and stacked all the hay before entering the room and accompanying Xiao Heling to sit quietly.

Xiao Heling's eyes were slightly swollen, Fu'an took warm water and gave her a light compress, and said distressedly: "Miss, let's ...... now." Miss, don't think so much, everything will be fine. ”

Sikong Jun stood at the door, looking at Xiao Heling with a haggard face, the tip of his nose was slightly sour, and approached: "Heling, your parents are my parents." ”

Fu An'an looked at Xiao Heling painfully and nodded: "Yes, the adults will also accompany Miss, Miss, the slave is also there." ”

Xiao Heling's eyebrows jumped, and he gasped: "Marriage...... Married? No, no, general, listen to me, now my Xiao family doesn't know who I have offended, I am already the daughter of a criminal minister, you can't be with the daughter of a criminal minister, if you ...... with me"

Sikong Jun gently covered his hand in front of Xiao Heling's lips and shook his head: "Don't forget, you are not the daughter of a criminal minister, someone has already taken your place and suffered this sin." ”

Fu'an nodded and said: "Since that person pretended to be you and entered the palace, and now the old lady has been exiled again, the slave and maid guess that the woman who pretended to be you should also be connected, so she has already suffered this crime in your place." ”

"Miss," Fu'an knelt down and said, "Miss! Now we have no other choice, either you go back to Chang'an, be recognized, and exile to Xichuan together; Either you will stay incognito for a lifetime and never return to Chang'an; Either ......"

"What's the alternative?" Xiao Heling almost vomited blood.

Fu'an raised his head and looked at Xiao Heling, "Or, you find out the truth and avenge the master, the lady and the young master!" ”

Xiao Heling's voice was hoarse: "I'm so useless." ”

The sound of broken rain hit, Xiao Heling seemed to have a little spark jumping in his eyes, just like that, for a moment, and then his gaze gradually calmed, he stopped talking, and slowly leaned on Sikong Jun's gradually raised arm, just like this, snuggling up to each other. The inn was very quiet, and you could hear the rain outside hitting the heart getting louder and louder. Outside, there were already small puddles full of water, and the raindrops hit the water, dripping, like a noise of endless sorrow.

This winter rain is falling like this, as if in the past half a month, Xiao Heling and the people around her have been immersed in this gloomy and sad bosom.

Night after night, the moon gradually disappeared, turning into a sickle-like crescent moon, hanging in the night sky, and I don't know when the rain stopped, but the rain stopped, and Sikong Jun was about to say goodbye to Xiao Heling for a while.

The two planned to rush back from Xiangzhou to Chang'an first, and when they arrived at the southern suburbs of Chang'an City, they would separate, Sikong Jun would return to Chang'an, and Xiao Heling would go to the Meritorious Temple to pray for blessings and live temporarily.

It takes about five days to rush back from Xiangzhou. Counting the time, in the early morning of the day when Sikong Jun returned to the palace to congratulate, everyone happened to rush to the dense forest in the southern suburbs of Chang'an City.

Xiao Heling, who had been depressed for more than ten days, gradually recovered, and before dawn, he lit a charcoal fire with everyone, cooked steamed buns and corn paste, and ate some dried fruits that were picked and dried a few days ago, accompanied by corn paste.

After everyone had eaten breakfast, it was still dawn, and the charcoal fire in the forest was still burning.

Xiao Heling was in a trance...... It seemed that on that night, when she and he came back from the jungle, he looked at her face and said, "On the wedding night, the bride's feet must not touch the ground, I will carry you back to the inn." ”

As soon as she was distracted, the corners of Xiao Heling's eyes moistened a little more, she tidied up for Sikong Jun, and filled everyone's bags with some dry food. All the soldiers mounted their horses and prepared to gallop towards Chang'an City.

Before Sikong Jun got on the horse, Xiao Heling stretched out his hand to tidy up his clothes, and stretched out his right hand and shook it: "Remember, wearing the coral string I gave you is as if I am accompanying you." ”

Sikong Jun also stretched out his left hand: "Heling, you wait for me, I will go to Xichuan to fight, I will come back soon." ”

Xiao Heling nodded: "Whether it's sunny or not, I'm here waiting for you to come back." ”

Sikong Jun looked at Xiao Heling happily, like a childish child, hugged her tightly, and then stepped on the war horse in a dashing manner, leading more than ten soldiers, stepping on the sound of horses' hooves, galloping towards the direction of Chang'an City......

Looking at Sikong Jun in the distance, Xiao Heling suddenly took three steps forward, used all his strength, and shouted: "Sikong Jun - I'm waiting for you here!" ”

Under the hazy moonlight, a team of centaurs gradually disappeared into the distance, Xiao Heling's tears once again burst out of her eyes, different from the last time, this time with happiness and expectation, with the promise that Sikong Jun gave her.

Fu'an was also moved to tears, and brought a velvet cloak for Xiao Heling: "Miss, beware of catching a cold, the adults will return safely, and the slave is still waiting to drink your wedding wine." ”

Xiao Heling finally hugged Fu'an with a smile and cried, and when the sky was bright, the two women packed up the charcoal fire and leftover dry food, and prepared to rush towards the Gongde Temple.