Chapter 70: Goodbye Situ Rou
Wang Shi smirked and scratched his head. "That's what the Queen said."
Xiao Chengze trusted Wang Shi's loyalty and martial arts very much, but he was still worried that the two of them would encounter some emergencies and had no way to deal with them, so he immediately wrote a letter to Situ Rou and sent it to the frontier in the form of a flying pigeon.
Now there is no war at the border pass, and General Situ is guarding there, that is, Situ Rou is relatively idle now, and he can get rid of it.
said that Xiao Chengze hoped that Situ Rou would also be able to pick up Zhou Yunyi and accompany him to control the water together.
Zhou Yun said goodbye to Xiao Chengze. "Now the purpose of Xiao Chengtian's fake death has not been determined, and it is impossible to find out where he is."
"But Concubine Zhang is still alive, and Xiao Chengtian will definitely have some scruples." Zhou Yunyi said.
Xiao Chengze nodded, "You don't have to worry about me, I have my own measure now." ”
"But you're going outside soon, so be careful." Xiao Chengze carefully instructed Zhou Yunyi.
"I know, don't worry, I'll take care of myself."
Zhou Yunyi embarked on a journey to the Xiangjiang River, which is located in the ancient city of Xiangzhou, about 1,300 miles away from the capital, and it will take a long time to travel back and forth.
Zhou Yunyi followed Xiao Chengze's suggestion and changed into men's clothes for the convenience of access, and Wang Shi also changed into the costume of a coachman, and the two of them walked relatively smoothly a few days ago.
In the past few days, in order to meet with Situ Rou, I deliberately slowed down.
On the first day, they passed by an inn and ordered 2,000 to wait for Situ Rou here.
Situ Rou received Xiao Chengze's flying pigeon message in the frontier, and thought that something important had happened in the palace. Unexpectedly, when I opened it, I actually asked her to take care of Zhou Yunyi.
Situ Rou looked at the letter, embroidered it for a long time, and sighed in her heart that it was really an old tree blooming! At the same time, Situ Rou also remained skeptical about Zhou Yunyi's strength.
After all, the Zhou Yunyi he came into contact with was a little straw bag that did nothing, a good-looking vase, and a delicate embroidered pillow, if Zhou Yunyi really had any connotation? This is ah, Situ Rou made a difficulty.
I really didn't expect that Zhou Yunyi would take the initiative to invite Ying to go here to paint water.
After Situ Rou didn't bother to get the news, I immediately got ready to go, and now I will put the defense line set up by everyone at the junction of the two countries, and no one will disturb each other? So there is only big friction, and there are some at most on weekdays. Merchants want to sneak over to do business, most of these are also arrested, and they will be let go after a lesson, after all, raising such useless prisoners of war is also a waste of money.
Situ Rou changed into men's clothes and rode a fast horse to meet Zhou Yunyi.
Situ Rou also returned to the frontier for a while, and I led the soldiers to practice in the sun every day, so her skin became darker again, and she was wearing a man's clothes and riding on a horse, and everyone who saw her thought Situ Rou was a man.
The inn's shopkeeper is no exception.
"Is the guest officer sharpened or staying in the hotel?"
"Stay in the hotel." Situ Rou's voice was originally relatively low, so no one knew that his true identity was actually a woman.
"Okay, the guest officer is invited." The shopkeeper threw the white cloth on his body, and then made a gesture of please.
Situ Rou went up to the second floor like this, and when he passed by the second floor, he found that there were a total of six rooms on the second floor, and at this time, four rooms had been booked, and only two were left for him to choose from.
However, there is not much difference between these two rooms, both are not sunny locations, and the lighting is not very good.
"I'll just live in this one." Situ Rou pointed to one of the rooms. Then he threw a piece of broken silver in his hand into the hands of the shopkeeper.
"It's the rest of the room fee to give me two pots of good wine and a plate of beef with sauce."
"Let's do it, let's go." The shopkeeper immediately went to instruct the back kitchen to prepare snacks for Situ Rou.
Situ Rou knocked on the door next door, which was a good room facing the south with light and ventilation on all sides. That is, the room where Zhou Yun lives.
"Who's knocking?" Zhou Yunyi sat in the room and deliberately lowered his voice to make his voice deep and magnetic.
"It's me." Situ Rou's voice was already a little rough, not like an ordinary boudoir woman, and after she heard Zhou Yunyi's voice just now, she deliberately imitated Zhou Yunyi to make fun of Zhou Yunyi.
Listening to the deliberate teasing voice, Zhou Yunyi knew that it was Situ Rou who came.
"Wait for me, I'll open the door for you."
As soon as Zhou Yunyi entered the room just now, he took off the beard that he had stuck to his face, because the quality of the ancient glue was not so good, and sticking it to the skin would make the skin itch.
Zhou Yunyi doesn't like to touch these adhesive tapes tomorrow on weekdays, and today there is no other way, so he can only use this glue all the time to stick the fake beard on his face, so in order to reduce the feeling of pricking, Zhou Yunyi refused a safe space, and he will immediately take off the beard and restore it to its original state.
Zhou Yunyi glued his beard back to its original position before going out to open the door for Situ Rou, "Why are you so slow?" Situ Rou couldn't help complaining.
"You can come in first!" Zhou Yunyi's face was really itchy, and she couldn't wait to tear off this fake beard immediately, but she was afraid that others would see that her beard was fake, so as to expose her identity as a woman.
Situ Rou carefully looked at Zhou Yunyi, who was dressed as a man, "Is this still Xiao Chengze's soft and docile little beauty?" ”
"Although it is relatively safe to dress up as a man when you say it, you really don't have to dress up as such an ugly man, you can completely dress up as a sloppy pretty scholar." Situ Rou said.
Zhou Yunyi's face was bronzed with oil at this time, and her rough magic was really very different from the one she had in her previous impression!
Zhou Yunyi also knew that he was exaggerating, but maybe it would be safer this way, this shape was designed by Xiao Chenzi for Zhou Yunyi.
I can't blame Situ Rou for thinking that this shape is rough and ugly, even. Zhou Yunyi herself felt that this look was too desperate at first.
Xiao Chenzi swore to comfort her, "The more this is the case, the more we can ensure the safety of the queen." ”
The most important thing is that Xiao Chengze nodded frequently on the side, and finally said, "Just set this set, this shape is very real and close to the lives of the people." ”
"Don't you open a pot and mention a pot? I've had this fake beard on for days. People in the position are beginning to be allergic and red. Zhou Yunyi pointed to the person who had put his fake nose on it, and it was indeed beginning to have a slight redness and swelling.
Zhou Yunyi asked: "Xiao Chengze told me before I left the palace that he would write you a letter and ask you to accompany me to deal with the Xiangjiang flood, I thought he was joking, you were a good general in the frontier, and now you are arrested to manage the water conservancy, is it very innocent?" I don't want to come yet! ”
"Of course I want to come, who told Xiao Chengze that you were not worried about you alone, and sent me to walk with you." Situ Rou put her arm on Zhou Yunyi's shoulder.
Because Zhou Yunyi and Situ Rou are both dressed as men, when the two of them stand next to them in this posture, they look like a social guy patting his other buddy.
However, this scene happened to be seen by Wang Shi, who originally bought some food from the market below, probably some chestnut cakes and other snacks, thinking that the queen mother should like to eat it, so he specially brought it to Zhou Yunyi.
"Wang Shi, this is the world-famous General Situ." Zhou Yunyi deliberately added a small character when introducing Situ Rou to distinguish the names of their father and daughter.
"General Situ Rou. That was a famous general of the Great Xia Dynasty. When Wang Shi heard Situ Rou's name, his eyes instantly exuded Erha, seeing a food-like gaze.
In the past, it was just in other people's mouths, and I heard that even if there were some opportunities before. Wang Shi also followed, but because he was of low status to each other, he was not worthy of talking to the high-ranking palace nobles, so he could only hide in the corner silently and watch Situ Rou, a young hero who had established great achievements.
"In Xia Wangshi, I will ask the general for more advice in the future." Wang Shi put his hands in front of him and saluted.
Situ Rou looked at Wang Shi and felt that his face was a little familiar. "I remember you, you are the guard of His Royal Highness King Duan."
"General Situ knows me." Wang Shi was both a little surprised and a little surprised, feeling how could a person with such a low status get into the eyes of General Situ.
"A year ago, I met His Royal Highness King Duan by chance, and you must have been the guard who followed him at that time."
How could Wang Shi never remember that he had seen Situ Rou, if this thing was true, wouldn't it mean that someone had seen it a long time ago, but he himself had forgotten it, so he thought that he had never seen the rumored hero Situ Rou.
Wang Shi began to think back to all the things he had experienced a year ago, no matter how he recalled? Repeated guesses failed to guess where he and Situ Rou had met.
Situ Rou said a few more prompts. "On a rainy day, under the broken bridge, His Royal Highness King Duan acted bravely."
Wang Shi followed these prompts and instantly recalled what happened a year ago.
It was a rainy day, there was a light rain in the sky, Xiao Chengyu was only the prince of Duanwang, and he was worried and headache every day for the debts at home.
On the morning of that day, at the gate of Duanwang's Mansion, there were several creditors who collected debts, most of these creditors were fierce, and even the old woman who took some rotten vegetable buns followed.
They kept shouting outside the door and scolding the old prince to come out and pay back the money.
Xiao Chengyu felt that this environment was too depressing, so he sneaked out with Wang Shi and a broken oil-paper umbrella.
"It's such a cold day, are you sure you want to blow cold wind next to this broken bridge? What should I do if I get sick? Wang Shi kindly reminded Xiao Chengyu, worried that he would be rejected due to physical reasons.
"It's called the Broken Bridge, and the rain scene of the Broken Bridge is a rare and beautiful scenery."
The bridge is a bridge that was split in two sections from the middle, and it is said that a man and a woman lived on both sides of the previous drink, and the two of them fell in love, but they were strongly opposed by the family, and in order to prevent them from meeting, the only bridge that could cross the river at that time was also broken, and it has not been repaired to this day.
It's like an unfinished building, poked there forever, although this broken bridge has no actual function, it is still poked there.
No one thinks of it as a bridge, no one thinks of it as a landscape, everyone knows that it is an abandoned person or thing.