Shunyin turned her head from the crowd to look at the courtyard boredly, and just happened to see the servants bring in someone-

A thin and white young man, wearing a moon-white silk round-necked robe, with bright eyebrows and a long posture, turned his gaze to them, and calmly raised his hand to salute.

Not very old, at most thirteen or fourteen years old.

Everyone was speechless, probably because the gap between imagination and reality was a bit big.

Shunyin glanced away twice, thinking that he had guessed wrong, obviously a young and weak scholar......

Later, her father specially said: his name is Changzhou, although he is an adopted son, but he has been raised in the Mu family since he was a child, and Wuwei County is regarded as his own child, and even he is ranked the same as his parent, and he is the second in the clan.

With his father speaking, the Feng family naturally no longer talks about his identity as an adopted son, and everyone younger than him has to call him "Second Brother Mu".

Shunyin is young, and it doesn't hurt to always stay with his brothers, so he can always hear something about him. It's a pity that the people are getting acquainted with him day by day, but they can't get along with him.

She is noble, he doesn't talk much, obviously he has lived in the Feng family for more than four years, but they don't seem to have spoken in private, they all listen to others praise him for how he is a decent and young gentleman.

There are not many opportunities to meet on formal occasions, and a few times, she just followed others and politely called him: "Second Brother Mu." ”

Whether he answered or not, she didn't care.

Occasionally, the clan brothers would gossip in private, saying that he was weak and weak, and he should be treated more politely, but Shun Yin felt troublesome, so he unconsciously stayed away from him.

The deepest impression was four years later. When he went to take the exam that year, he was seventeen years old, and he was shocked by the high school jinshi in one fell swoop.

The Qujiang night banquet held by the imperial court for the new scholars was grand and lively, and Shunyin was also taken to watch.

That night, there were thousands of empty alleys in Chang'an City, and there were cars and horses everywhere, and people with fragrant clothes and sideburns were all people who came to Qujiang to watch the style of Jinshi.

Father smiled and told her: That's because many high-ranking officials and nobles will take this opportunity to choose a good son-in-law, after all, these new science and technology scholars are all nouveau riche in the court, and almost all of them are nobles from Erdu families sitting in those carriages.

Shunyin didn't say anything, but he was already young and heard the sound outside the strings.

The father followed and pointed ahead: "I saw that you were still young, so I never mentioned it." This son is very talented and has a bright future, and you have grown up in one place, why don't you choose him? ”

Almost everyone's eyes were there, including the ladies of the family who were sitting in the carriage.

Shun Yin was standing by the Qujiang Pond at that time, turned his head to look, and only glanced at the weak and white appearance in the center of the crowd from a distance, and then shook his head: "I am not a person from the same road as him. ”

The father smiled helplessly.

In the crowd in front of her, she saw that the other party suddenly turned his head and glanced at her.

When Shunyin looked over, he realized that he saw his father, raising his hand to salute, and they didn't even meet each other's eyes.

After that night, he entered the official career, and it is said that he was appointed not long after, and left Chang'an.

After that, there will be no intersection between the two sides, and it is expected that each will have a bright future.

Who would have thought that only a year later, her father would be impeached and convicted and removed from office.

She had already deliberately sealed what happened after that, and she didn't want to think about it......

It's like falling from the clouds into a quagmire, as if in the blink of an eye, there is no more scenery in the Feng family.

Before his father's death, the clan had begun to drift apart, and now, only his mother, younger brother and her are left in the once huge family.

Although the sin is not as good as the family, the impact is still there. They can still stay in Chang'an, but the Feng family has no career, and they have no freedom to enter and leave Chang'an at will, such as being trapped in a cage, and even have to prevent bullying.

Until this marriage happened.

Shun Yin twisted her eyebrows, she really couldn't figure it out.

How could it be Mu Changzhou?

That day, Feng Wujian said that she had rejected the marriage of the Wuwei County family, and she was only passing by in her heart, expecting that he would be the second capital of the crown, and so many families would gather by the Qujiang Pond to recruit him as a son-in-law, and he should have married a wife by the side.

He should be a civil official somewhere, and then he will be transferred back to Luoyang, the eastern capital or Chang'an, the western capital, and enter the center of Gyeonggi, and he will even be able to pay homage to the prime minister one day.

How did he become the Sima of the Liangzhou March, and it is related to his current self?

The candle flickered in front of her, and she came back to her senses, reached out to hold the lamp, and turned her head to find that the carriage window was already bright.

Immediately after the anger of the night, the guards and soldiers from above came down and opened the gate with great ease, allowing them to enter the gate.

Since then, I have been in a hurry all the way, from morning to night every day, and yesterday I didn't even have time to rush to the post house, so I could only find a leeward place on the road and sleep for a night.

Although she was tired from traveling for days, she didn't pay much attention to it, and since she learned the sudden news that night, she hadn't been at peace these days. Last night, the weather was not good, and she couldn't sleep left and right, so she sat in the car and thought about it until now.

When she came back to her senses, she heard someone outside calling her, and she leaned closer to the pane and heard the maidservant: "Madame! Madam! Get up, it's time to get on your way. ”

Shunyin carried the spirit, blew out the candle, and replied, "It is up." ”

The two maidservants one after the other, sent freshened water and dry food weak tea. didn't stop to serve, just because she didn't use anyone to serve her along the way, she cleaned up by herself every day, and everyone was used to it.

There was also a circle of attendants surrounded by felt cloth around the carriage, and when Shunyin had all been cleaned up, the maid moved to withdraw and immediately went on the road.

When I got here, I didn't relax for a moment, and I was still urging all the way. Walking far away, he held a piece of cake in his mouth, and did not forget to instruct the entourage next to him: "Hurry up and explore the way ahead!" Lao Tzu really wants to go to Liangzhou immediately! ”

"Marching Sima ......" Shun Yin in the car suddenly spoke.

Fantou only heard a beginning, inexplicably glanced back at the carriage, thinking what, didn't they tell you who it was, can't you still care? Then he suddenly understood, grinned, and said loudly: "Madame, don't worry, isn't this about to be seen?" ”

Shunyin sat in the car, closed her lips lightly, and originally wanted to ask, "Does the marching Sima know that it is me who wants to marry", but always felt that this was too weird, and still didn't ask.

Thinking about it carefully, Mu Changzhou may not still remember her.

The body shook, and the curtain was blown lightly. Shun Yin turned his head to see that he had driven into a vast dusty wasteland, faintly yellowing in the distance, and he didn't know if it was a sand dune, undulating like waves.

They were the only ones on the road, and it was too quiet.

Suddenly, there was a whistle, abrupt and sharp, like a knife piercing the ear.

Shun Yin covered her left ear with one hand, tightened her eyebrows, and was about to look out, when the carriage suddenly stopped, and the head outside shouted: "There is a warning!" Fast! ”

Only then did she realize that it was from the retinue who had gone to explore the path earlier.

Outside, there was a crowd of people on their backs, and a maid opened the bamboo curtain in a panic and said, "Madame, get out of the car and hide, I'm afraid there will be sand bandits!" ”

are noisy, the voice is too noisy, Shun Yin did not hear clearly, guessing that she is talking about the bandits of the Shatuo tribe, in the early years, I had heard the Hu merchants who traveled to and from Chang'an talk about robbing business and civilians.

She didn't have time to think about it, she reached into the burden under the seat with one hand, touched it all the way to the bottom, pulled out a thin and straight dagger from under several thick folding books, stuffed it into her sleeve, tucked her cuffs, and leaned out of the car.

The bread in Fantou's mouth had already been thrown away, and he waved his hand at the maids a few times: "Take Mrs. to hide!" After yelling, he ordered the other followers, "Drive the car away!" ”

The entourage was busy but not chaotic, and moved quickly.

There are wastelands on both sides of the road, and Shunyin was taken by the maidservants to take refuge in a place where there are trees and rocks on one side, and when she turned around, she saw the dust and sand in the wasteland on the other side, and the sand bandits probably came.

It's just that this team is small and carries a few carts of dowry, but it doesn't look like it has an official background.

As soon as he thought of this, he immediately ripped off the short shirt on his body, exposed the chain mail on his chest, and scolded angrily: "I really don't know how thick the sky is!" It's on your military master's head! ”

The retinues on the left and right also ripped off their shirts, showed their blades, and stopped in front.

Shun Yin fell into the dust with one foot, held on to a dead tree, turned his head to look at them again, and when he looked back, he had already seen that this time he was a martial artist in the army, and the entourage he led was not an ordinary guard, but a soldier in the army.

In the distance, bandits appeared like a mound of mounds, maybe they didn't notice that they were officers and soldiers, maybe they were relying on the large number of people, but they still rushed to the road shouting.

The maidservants on the side were so frightened that they fell down several times, and they were silent.

Shunyin's hand in his sleeve held the dagger, and his fingers were slightly cold.

Before she came, she thought that she was no better than she was at the beginning, no one could rely on her, and if she encountered danger one day, she could only rely on herself, but she didn't expect this moment to come so quickly.

Suddenly she caught a glimpse of a ravine in front of her, easier to hide, and she took a deep breath and immediately ran there.

Vaguely, I seemed to hear a voice coming from the wind—

"Stop, low!"

She couldn't hear clearly, suspecting that it was an auditory hallucination, and even if it was true, she didn't know who she was talking to, let alone in which direction, she only focused on the approaching bandits, and accelerated her pace more and more.

Suddenly, a feathered arrow flew and stuck diagonally into the earth and nailed to his feet.

She was stunned, the hem of her skirt had been tripped by the arrow, and she fell to the ground, her eyebrows tightened in pain.

There seemed to be another voice scolding angrily: "Are you deaf! Run, run, don't move! ”

"Madame, don't move!" The maidservants shouted behind her to remind her.

Shun Yin understood, the voice before was not an auditory hallucination, it was said to her, biting her lip with a cold face, she didn't move in pain, and she was still holding the dagger in one hand.

Almost at the same time, a vague sound swept overhead, seemingly from behind.

She raised her head slightly, lifted the corner of the veil, and saw with her own eyes a rain of arrows falling in front of the bandit shadow who had rushed to the side of the road, and in an instant two or three people fell off their horses, and the rest of them hurriedly turned around and fled, and the speed was very fast. Immediately, the panicked people who fell off the horse got up and fled with their injuries, and they didn't dare to turn their heads back when they fell step by step.

Fantou also led people to the ground at this time, immediately got up and picked up the knife, and rode a horse to lead people to chase over.

Shun Yin took a breath, turned his head to look back, didn't see anyone, was helped up by the two maids who rushed over, and took another look, only to find that there was a stone slope one or two zhang high three or four hundred feet away from the wasteland behind him, but the slope seemed to be separated from here by a deep valley, and it was impossible to get close.

There is a group of people and horses on the stone slope, all of them straddle horses and hold bows, and they can't see clearly.

Then the group turned their horses around and left the slope.

Fantou happened to lead people back, but he didn't chase too far, scolded all the way, and when he turned his head to look, he laughed unceremoniously: "Okay, it's just a trivial matter!" Madame must not be frightened and repent, she has already said that this place is not as good as the imperial capital! ”

Shunyin's wheezing hasn't calmed down, and she looks at him coldly through the veil, is this called a trivial matter?

I didn't see her show timidity, but she was a little surprised, and suddenly pointed to her behind, and laughed twice: "The people have arrived, you can go to the front to rendezvous!" ”

Shunyin guessed that those were the answers, breathed a sigh of relief, quietly put away the dagger, and walked back to the team in pain.

After a long delay, the car set off again, but the team had already changed gears, and each entourage showed off their chain mail.

Shunyin sat in the car, wiping her hands and face with a wet handkerchief, and listened to Fantou nagging outside: "I knew that I would have directly shown my identity and went on the road, but I wanted to be low-key, but it ended up attracting so many miscellaneous ......"

Her arms and calves were still faintly painful because of the fall, she wrung her eyebrows and endured it, thinking of her previous determination, and thinking of Mu Changzhou, as well as those disturbing past, the more she listened, the more upset she became, so she simply covered her right ear and closed her eyes to rest for a while.

It's finally quiet.

I walked for a long time on the road.

After a long time, Shunyin suddenly woke up, only to realize that he had been sleeping for a while unconsciously, and quickly turned his head to look at the window, the sky was dark, and there was moonlight outside.

Just when the carriage stopped.

Fantou shouted outside: "Rendezvous right here!" ”

Shunyin was completely sober.

Not long after, there seemed to be a line of horses' hooves, from far and near to the outside of the car, gradually clear, and then stopped one after another.

It should be the same group of people who answered before.

Before Shunyin looked out, he heard a high and neat salute outside: "Military Division!" ”