At the same time as the voice sounded, a young man walked into Xianying Pavilion with a fan, followed by two domestic servants.

After Gongsun Yan saw the man, his face was cloudy, "Who does the old man think it is, it turns out to be Young Master Huo, what's the matter?" Young Master Huo came to see our Gongsun family's jokes? ”

The Huo family?

Ning Xiaochuan quickly came up with the five words of the Mo family's organ technique, and there was only one Huo family in Jinning, and that was the Huo family of the Mo family's organ technique.

The man bowed his hand slightly, and continued to smile, "What are the words of the seniors of the grandson, the juniors will come in and take a look when they pass by here, tsk, so embarrassed, the seniors of the grandson are in trouble, do you want the juniors to help?" ”

Hearing the man's words, Gongsun Yan frowned, "Huo Xiao, this is my Gongsun family's business, if you are okay, leave quickly, if it affects you, the old man will not be able to explain to Huo Zhangmen." ”

Ning Xiaochuan looked back at the man, Huo Xiao?

Huo Xiao took back the fan, came to Ning Xiaochuan, looked at it carefully, and then smiled slightly, "This son should also be the first time to come to Jinning." ”

"It's ......" Ning Xiaochuan looked at Huo Xiao cautiously, Nie Hongyi behind him stood behind Ning Xiaochuan with a sword, staring at Huo Xiao with her eyes, as long as she found that Huo Xiao was a little wrong, she would do it immediately.

Huo Xiao slowly approached Ning Xiaochuan, and whispered in Ning Xiaochuan's ear, "If you do it again at this time, you won't be able to leave Jinning alive, you have to think about it." ”

When Ning Xiaochuan heard this, his fists clenched, and Gongsun Yan next to him looked at Huo Xiao and Ning Xiaochuan gloomily, and at the same time, he was also thinking in his heart, if such a big thing happened in Xianying Pavilion, the family should arrive immediately.

Ning Xiaochuan looked at Huo Xiao, and Huo Xiao nodded.

"Miss Nie, let's go." Ning Xiaochuan's gaze turned to Gongsun Yan, retracted his true qi, turned around and left.

Huo Xiao nodded with relief and looked at Gongsun Yan, "Senior, excuse me, then I'll leave too." ”

Although Nie Hongyi didn't understand why Ning Xiaochuan left suddenly, he still left with him.

Outside the Xianying Pavilion, Huo Xiao subconsciously wrapped the cotton robe on his body, and Ning Xiaochuan asked puzzledly, "Why do you want to help me?" ”

Huo Xiao looked at Ning Xiaochuan and sighed, "Why? Because I'm your cousin. ”

"Huh?"

This sentence made Ning Xiaochuan a little confused, and looked at Huo Xiao in front of him with a puzzled expression, the same is true of Nie Hongyi, when did Gongzi have such a cousin.

"Your name is Ning Xiaochuan, your father is Ning Zhi, the Duke of Liguo, and he has four brothers, the eldest brother Ning He, and the second brother Ning Feng......" Huo Xiao said word by word, Ning Xiaochuan was even more surprised, "You are ......"

Huo Xiao sighed with emotion, "Obviously they are cousins, but it is the first time they meet, isn't it a little emotional and ironic, if you still don't believe it, come with me, and you will understand everything by then." ”

Cousin?

This inexplicable extra relative made Ning Xiaochuan a little dazed, because he had never heard from his family that they had a relative who was far away in Jinning?

Ning Xiaochuan's heart moved, and he suddenly remembered that his mother was also surnamed Huo, but why hadn't he heard his family mention these things before......

With many questions, Ning Xiaochuan and Nie Hongyi followed Huo Xiao to the Huo Mansion located in the west of Jinning City.

The disciples of the Mo family are all on Moji Mountain outside the city, and there is only Huo Mansion in the city, and Huo Mansion is no different from ordinary mansions, but if you look closely, you will find that the structure of Huo Mansion has a lot of shadows of tricks.

The stone lion at the door is not carved from stone, but spliced with stone, and if you look closely, you can see the gears inside, and there are also many hidden grid mechanisms on the door, if anyone dares to be unfavorable to the Mo family, these mechanisms will be enough for them to deal with it for a while.

Huo Xiao took Ning Xiaochuan into Huo Mansion, the decoration of Huo Mansion is also based on mechanical techniques, but there are also garden rockeries, stream pavilions, the two complement each other, to have some different charm in it, walking and walking, a man walked in front of him, the man was the same age as Ning Xiaochuan, and shouted directly after seeing Huo Xiao, "Big brother ......"

Huo Xiao walked over with Ning Xiaochuan, the man looked at Ning Xiaochuan beside Huo Xiao, and asked curiously, "Big brother, is this ......?"

"Auntie's son, the fifth young master of the Ning family, Ning Xiaochuan." Huo Xiao introduced very seriously.

"You are Ning Xiaochuan." The second young master of the Huo family looked him up and down with emotion, "Huo Sheng, it's a pleasure to meet you." ”

"Whether I'm so famous, I don't even know." Ning Xiaochuan laughed self-deprecatingly.

Huo Xiao smiled, "Because among the five of you, you are the only one who doesn't know that there is such a relative as ours." ”

"Oh?" Ning Xiaochuan was even more confused when he heard it, "My eldest brother, they all know?" Can...... But why don't I know? ”

"It's a long story, it has to start with my aunt back then...... Huo Xiao began to recall the story of Ning Xiaochuan's mother Huo Qian.

……

The seventeenth year of Daebong Tae-hee.

Ning Zhi and Cheng Yuan were both young generals with strong blood at that time, and the two had outstanding military achievements, and they were deeply liked by the emperor and the prince at that time.

The two went south with an army of 100,000 and came to Suzhou, preparing to enter Shanzhou from Suzhou, as soon as they arrived in Suzhou, Ning Zhi went to the Mo family to contact Huo Fuguang, the head of the Mo family, hoping to buy some ordnance to resist the enemy, because there were documents from the Ministry of War and the prince's token, Ning Zhi and Huo Fuguang, the head of the Mo family, only discussed a little to determine the number and price of the ordnance, I have to say that the price given by Huo Fuguang is still very reasonable.

"General Ning, you are new to the house, why don't you have a light meal at the house, and you should be an old man and do some landlord friendship." Huo Fuguang got up and said politely.

Ning Zhi looked up and saw that it was indeed not early, and smiled awkwardly, "Then Mr. Rao." ”

"Jian Er......" Huo Fuguang said to the man next to him, and the man next to him was the eldest young master of the Huo family, Huo Jian.

"Daddy......" Huo Jian said very politely.

"You take General Ning around the mansion casually, and let General Ning see our Mo family's tricks." Huo Fuguang commanded.

Huo Jian nodded and arched his hand, "Yes." ”

"Thank you, sir."

Huo Jian took Ning Zhi to walk in the house, not to mention that this Mo family mechanism is really magical, this is the first time Ning Zhi has been in contact with the Mo family mechanism technique so closely, I have to say that it is still a small gain, just when the two of them were walking, a crisp female voice came into the ears of the two, "Accumulate soil and become a mountain, and accumulate water into a sea." ”

"Huh?" Isn't this an article in the Confucian classic "Confucianism"? After Ning Zhi heard this, he said to Huo Jian puzzled, "Brother Huo, are there still Confucian students in the door?" ”

Huo Jian couldn't help but shake his head and sigh when he heard this, "It's the little sister in the family, although the little sister was born in the Mo family, she has always been interested in Confucian poetry and classics, on the contrary, she doesn't like the tricks in my door very much, and my father can't do anything about her, so he let it go." ”

After Ning Zhi heard this, he couldn't help but smile, "It's really interesting, I was born in the Mo family but I like Confucian classics." ”

Just as the two were talking, Huo Qian, who had been reading in the pavilion next to him, heard the voice, "Who said that the Mo family can't read Confucianism?" ”

"Qian'er, don't be rude to General Ning." Huo Jian said coldly.

After Ning Zhi saw the woman in front of him, he couldn't help but be stunned, the woman in front of him had skin like clotted fat, her fingers were like green onions, and she was wearing a light blue lotus leaf long skirt, which was even more moving against the already good-looking figure, Ning Zhi smiled slightly, "In Xia Ningzhi, Miss Huo, don't get me wrong, I didn't mean that." ”

Huo Qian also looked at Ning Zhi, with the golden armor on his body, although his appearance was not handsome, but the unique battlefield atmosphere also made Ning Zhi have a sense of manliness, after Ning Zhi finished speaking, Huo Qian smiled leisurely, "General Ning, fortunately." ”

This smile entered Ning Zhi's heart, this smile is like an April day in the south of the Yangtze River, with a clear sky; Suzhou lotus in June, full of pond flowers.

After leaving from the Huo family, Ning Zhi returned to the barracks with a large number of ordnance, and the army entered Shanzhou, all the way like a bamboo, and it took only half a year to drive the Nanban out of Xiaonanguan, and this battle also made Cheng Yuan and Ning Zhi famous, and on the way back to the court, Ning Zhi passed through Suzhou and came to the Huo family again.

Huo Fuguang was still very surprised by Ning Zhi's visit again, this time Ning Zhi came to the door no longer for ordnance, but to come to the door to propose.

Ning Zhi wanted to marry Huo Qian, when she heard the news, Huo Qian was still very surprised, she had a good impression of Ning Zhi, but they had only met once, and Ning Zhi was going to marry her, which inevitably made Huo Qian feel that Ning Zhi was a frivolous and sloppy person, and under this ambivalence, Huo Qian was also very entangled, and this entanglement was a year.

And Huo Fuguang also rejected Ning Zhi, what he was thinking about was the future of the entire Mo family, the Mo family school is famous for its mechanical arts, and the reason why their Mo family has always been valued by the royal family and even occupied a place in Suzhou, in addition to their own mechanical skills, is that they never have dealings with the government and the military, that is, they are a simple arms provider, and do not contact with all forces.

This kind of wise approach has allowed the Mo family to continue to this day, but if he agreed to Ning Zhi's request, wouldn't it mean that their Mo family had contact with the military, which caused His Majesty's suspicion at that time, not only their Mo family would be finished, but even Ning Zhi would be implicated, the Mo family had been inherited for hundreds of years, and he would never allow this to happen.

So under this kind of psychology, Huo Fuguang could never agree to Ning Zhi's request to marry Huo Qian.

After being rejected by Huo Fuguang, Ning Zhi did not give up, and after returning to Yindu, he had to write letters to Huo Qian almost every ten days, and this writing was a year.

Throughout the year, Ning Zhi continued to express his heart to Huo Qian, and Huo Qian also felt Ning Zhi's sincerity from Ning Zhi's letter, so he also began to reply to Ning Zhi, and the two exchanged letters for a year, until a year later, Huo Fuguang accidentally discovered the correspondence between the two and was furious.

Huo Qian is also a person who admits death, in the summer of the eighteenth year of Taixi, Huo Qian left Huo Mansion directly after a letter of last letter, and went north to Yindu to find Ning Zhi, this trip is more than 20 years, until today Huo Qian has not returned to Jinning.