Volume 1: The Smoke Festival Chapter 11 It's been a long time

Xu has been thinking about how to investigate the military department from the transportation route map recently, coupled with the stimulation last night, Xie Wuyi's head was still hurting until dawn. Hua Feidu saw that her face was really bad, so he coaxed her and dragged her out to relax.

After all, he is a person who is about to get married, even if he has no relationship with King Yan, he can't put on such a face on the most important day of his life.

There is no contradiction between investigating the case and walking the road for the rest of her life, and the bride still has to be beautiful.

Before leaving, Xie Wuyi saw Ah Nian squatting under the porch again to look at the pots of orchids that hadn't even sprouted.

For a month in Dubibi Village, Ah Nian has been taking care of the orchid seeds that Hua Feidu bought back from Luzhou, but for some reason he just can't feed them. So Ah Nian also had a stubborn temper, and moved back to Xie Mansion with pots and seeds, and carefully served all day long, with a posture of not giving up if he did not bloom.

Xie Wuyi glanced at the scratches on the corner of the wall, and his complexion changed slightly.

"Ah Nian," she said, waving her hand, "don't go out lately." ”

Ah Nian bowed his head behind his back and answered, and when he saw that Xie Wuyi had no other instructions, he pounced back.

What an idiot.

Walking in the streets and alleys of Zeyang again after four years, Xie Wuyi and Hua Feidu held hands, and they couldn't help but feel that things were wrong. After the First World War in Qiongchuan, Da Yu replaced many officials, and even rearranged the streets in the city, and the mansion of Fan Keyu's family also moved into a new owner.

Walking two blocks to the east, and then turning south, Xie Wuyi let her subconscious guide and stepped onto the alley she was all too familiar with.

The mottled grey-tiled brick walls, the overgrown vine cobwebs, and the two wind-blown seals on the gate all indicate that this place has been dilapidated for a long time.

Xie Wuyi couldn't help but press her hand up, and the cold touch made her go back to her former state in an instant.

"Xiao Wei, hurry down, what are you doing climbing so high?"

"Xiao Wei, you are not allowed to eat until you finish memorizing the book!"

"Xiaowei, from today onwards, Dad will let you and your flower girl go out to see the world."

"Little Wei ......"

The longing had never been so strong, covering the top of her head and pushing her down the abyss.

"Little brother, don't go here if it's okay, it's unlucky!" An old man passed by at the entrance of the alley, and when he saw Xie Wuyi and the others standing in a daze, he kindly reminded him.

Xie Wuyi woke up suddenly, it was inevitable that she would be troubled by changing into men's clothes today, no wonder she would be misrecognized.

She hesitantly withdrew her hand and looked down at the empty space in her palm, a little dazed in her eyes. A gust of wind blew through his clothes, and it was the end of summer, and the weather was a little cold.

"Hua Niang," Xie Wuyi muttered, "the wind is blowing." ”

Without the mood to continue shopping, Xie Wuyi was ready to go home, after all, a boudoir woman like her who was discussing marriage was wandering out all day long, which did not conform to the "etiquette" in ordinary people.

It's just that Xie Wuyi doesn't care about this.

Passing by a restaurant, Xie Wuyi saw a young man sitting on the steps with a wine jug and splashing it. The man was wearing a gold-threaded red robe, and at first glance he was a noble son with a solid family, but his style did not match this outfit, and when he saw people, he said that his brother was going to marry a daughter-in-law and ignored him, living like a wronged little lady.

Xie Wuyi stopped unconsciously, but he didn't expect him to pull the corner of his clothes and cry. Xie Wuyi couldn't wait to kick his feet, how much wine did this young master drink......

She sat on the steps, listening to him cry and glancing at his waist card, sure enough, it was someone from Zhufu.

Zhu Bojun is a general of the two dynasties, who has fought with the emperor in the south and the north, and has made outstanding achievements, she has met Qiao Chun a few times when she was a child, and the age of the person in front of her should be Zhu Langxing, the beloved grandson of the old general. Xie Wuyi has nothing to do with him, only heard that although this little general Zhu is brave, he acts uninhibitedly and has a very unruly style.

It's a name well deserved.

Xie Wuyi shook his head helplessly and asked Hua Feidu to go to Zhufu to find someone.

"Little brother, you're so good, they don't listen to me......" Zhu Langxing was full of wine and cried, "Do you know, my brother is good at everything, but it's too serious, and he doesn't tell me in advance about such a big thing as marrying a daughter-in-law!" ”

"yes, yes, it's too much." Xie Wuyi was absent-mindedly perfunctory.

Seeing that she agreed with herself, Zhu Langxing's eyes suddenly lit up, "Then let me ask you, my brother's marriage is very close, and it is said that he is going to marry a beauty who looks like a fairy, but I am a big man who dances knives and guns, you say, what should I prepare as a big brother?" ”

"If you want me to say, just get your heart." Xie Wuyi patted the leg of his pants and comforted casually, "Do you think, will the person your brother has a crush on mind what gift you give?" What if this fairy-like beauty also likes knives, guns and sticks? ”

"Woo woo you're so nice!" Zhu Langxing said that he was about to hook his shoulders and back, but he was dodged by Xie Wuyi's side.

She reached out and grabbed Zhu Langxing's arm, and said to his misty eyes: "This big brother, you drank too much." ”

"No more, no less......" Zhu Langxing smiled exaggeratedly, revealing a neat mouthful of big white teeth, "Little brother, I like you very much, really." My surname is Zhu, just come to my house to inform me if you have something in the future, and my grandfather can settle everything for you! ”

When Xie Wuyi thought of Zhu Bojun's face that was not angry and arrogant, he couldn't help but smile secretly in his heart, he was really a spoiled child. Unlike her, the Xie family is separated by one layer in the end, and now her relatives are only left with flowers flying.

After a short time, the family who followed the sound stuffed Zhu Langxing into the carriage and thanked Xie Wuyi with a thousand thanks. Jia Ding said that their little general is easy to chatter when he drinks too much, and he is afraid that he will be beaten again when he goes home this time. Xie Wuyi smiled, and without saying anything, he asked people to take Zhu Langxing away.

After confirming that the place where Zhu Langxing had sat was not dirty, Xie Wuyi habitually looked at the streets on both sides. It didn't matter if she turned around, in the private room on the second floor of the restaurant opposite, a familiar figure broke into her sight without warning.

Xie Wuyi's eyes widened suddenly.

The boy in purple...... Is it Xiao Wei?

She rubbed her eyes, and when she looked again, there was no one in the window.

Is it a delusion?

If it's a delusion, why do you suddenly think of him?

An inexplicable awkwardness and lack of heart surged up, Xie Wuyi quickly turned his face away, pulled the flower and flew across the desert and fled.

On the second floor of Wanchun Building, Xiao Wei leaned against the window, and the corners of his mouth were about to grin.

"It's really my good brother." Seeing that Zhu Langxing was full of foreign appearance in front of Xie Wuyi, Xiao Wei thought that he could give him a joke for half a lifetime in the future.

Xie Wuyi.

Xiao Wei couldn't help but stick to the window lattice to look at her back, even he didn't believe that such a villain behavior as voyeurism would happen to him.

He's a decent man.

However, as the saying goes, "if you don't see you for a day, it's like every other autumn", he hasn't seen Xie Wuyi for more than a month, and after a hundred years, it's forgivable to think about her.

"Xiao Yi," Xiao Wei drank to himself, and raised his wine glass in the direction where Xie Wuyi left, "It's been a long time." ”

For the sake of our fateful friendship, I may, indeed, miss you a little.

There was a hesitant knock on the door, Xiao Wei retracted his gaze and leaned lazily in his chair.

In was a woman in a lilac-colored tulle skirt, whose left brow was blocked by a nowadays unfashionable bun. Xiao Wei hooked his fingers and motioned for her to come forward.

"What's your name?"

"Slave family...... Purple...... Ziqiao, come to ...... Serve the child. ”

She seemed to be so nervous that she even spoke with a trill, and she was about to add wine to Xiao Wei after replying. Xiao Wei frowned slightly, sat up straight and pulled her wrist. His hand strength was very strong, and Ziqiao instinctively struggled twice, and then immediately stopped. She bit her lip and held back tears, her face flushed.

Xiao Wei saw that Ziqiao was at a loss, and he couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into, and there were still a few scars on his snow-white arms, so he asked with a straight face as if he had lost his interest: "Is this how you serve people?" ”

Ziqiao panicked, and knelt down to plead guilty, and the whole person trembled like chaff.

"Shall I ransom you out?" Xiao Wei let go of his hand and smiled ambiguously.

"No, don't!"

The green tendons on Ziqiao's forehead burst out, and his face was a little whiter than the window paper, "Childe, you ...... You can accompany you as much as you want, but I, I don't deserve to let you redeem ......"

Xiao Wei restrained his expression, he leaned down and asked in a very low and soft voice: "Then Chu Han came to redeem you, won't you go with him?" ”

Chu Han is the son of Chu Yufeng, the secretary of the Ministry of War, as soon as he heard this name, Ziqiao was a spirit, and he collapsed directly to the ground, and he couldn't even ask for help.

Okay, dare to stretch your hand to his territory and place chess pieces in Wanchun Building, the Chu family has done a good job.

Did you really treat him like a straw bale?

Xiao Wei sneered, casually took out a little broken silver from his arms, and pointed to Ziqiao's arm, "Go buy some medicine to heal the injury, it's not good to leave a scar." ”

Ziqiao looked at Xiao Wei in astonishment, with thousands of emotions flowing in her eyes. She was about to refuse, but Xiao Wei leaned over again, and her fingers ran over the black hair that blocked her eyebrows, without a trace of warmth.

"I'm not difficult for you, you came to drink with me today, I didn't ask you anything." Xiao Wei pinched Ziqiao's chin and forced her to reveal her full face, her voice suddenly cold, "Understand? ”

Two lines of clear tears slipped from Ziqiao's eyes, and she whimpered and agreed.

"That's right." Xiao Wei nodded with satisfaction and returned to his old smile. He thoughtfully helped Ziqiao, who was sitting on the ground, and flicked his sleeves and left.

As soon as he went out, Xiao Wei raised his hand to cover the dazzling sunlight, and couldn't wait to look in the direction where Xie Wuyi left.

After a while, he realized that she had already walked away.

Xiao Wei knocked his head helplessly and screamed casually.

"Dada, let's go."

On the way back to Xie Mansion, Hua Feidu struggled for a long time, and couldn't help but ask Xie Wuyi why he was willing to care about Zhu Langxing's affairs.

"Zeyang is an unfathomable place, and there are too few people like him who are happy and angry," Xie Wuyi said with a smile, "It's just a couple of comforts, and it's harmless." ”

Hua Feidu looked at Xie Wuyi steadily, "Isn't it because of the old general?" ”

can't hide anything from her, Xie Wuyi grabbed Hua Feidu, and then said his intentions, "I wish the old general a lot of old things in the court, and he also spoke when his father entered the household department, so he should return him a favor, so as not to let anyone talk about the corruption of the Zhu family." ”

Of course, there is another reason.

When the accident occurred two years ago, Zhu Bojun was also on the battlefield in Qiongchuan, responsible for the logistics and supply of the Yu army. Take the line of Zhu Langxing today, what if you can learn some hidden secrets from it?

"You, you're still that chivalrous and righteous character, not like an official lady at all." Hua Feidu reached out and nodded Xie Wuyi's forehead.

When Xie Wuyi heard this, he sighed repeatedly, "What's the use of being chivalrous, in the end, it's not to get married and have children, imprisoned in a gorse cage, and you can't even do it yourself?" She spread her hands, tilted her head and said, "Hua Niang, do you guess I will die of illness or be trapped first?" ”

"Phew!" Hua Feidu slapped her with his backhand, "It's full of death, it's really not a taboo?" ”

The two laughed and went home, and as soon as they entered the door, they found that the courtyard of the Xie family was stuffed with big red boxes.

It turned out that during the half day when they went out to hang out, King Yan personally came over to give the dowry and set the wedding date. In addition to the regular gold, silver and wine fruits, King Yan actually gave several Zhuangzi under his name to Xie Wuyi, saying that he was afraid that her dowry would be prepared too hastily.

Hua Yi died early, and it was impossible for Mrs. Xie to buy a dowry for Xie Wuyi in advance. King Yan's meaning is obvious, that is, not to let the Xie family despise her. Seeing that he was so affectionate as a prince, Xie Zongyi and his wife were already overjoyed, and they couldn't even close their mouths, where did they compare Xie Wuyi to wander around the street in men's clothes?

After Xie Xuan read the gift list to Xie Wuyi, he handed over a dragon and phoenix post to her, "His Royal Highness King Yan specially instructed you to open this letter with your own hands." ”

It's not a small play, dare to make a fuss on the dragon and phoenix post, it really deserves to be Xiao Wei's brother. Xie Wuyi muttered in his heart, and took the dragon and phoenix post very respectfully. But as soon as she saw the upright and powerful words on it, she felt very familiar.

Isn't this the handwriting of the instructions attached to the antidote left by Xiao Wei?

So, the blind King Yan - is Xiao Wei?

Trying his best to control his twitching cheeks, Xie Wuyi opened the book, and his eyes were dark again.

Other people's dragon and phoenix posts are written on auspicious words such as "a thousand gold and a promise, light and pengbi", even if they are unwilling to follow these clichΓ©s, the meaning is almost the same. But there was only one sentence on the letter Xie Wuyi received:

Xiaoyi, long time no see.