On the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, after a sound of greedy joy, Cao Yujing left the beauty in the bed, put on his clothes, put on a cyan placket, put the long sword resting on the desk in his hand, and looked sideways at the bed by the dim light outside the window.

The beauty is still sleeping soundly facing in, holding the futon, the fragrant shoulders and jade back are half exposed, and the moon rises in the sea of clouds.

Cao Yujing returned home all the way, and the old lady was already sitting in the courtyard, peeling a few bamboo shoots.

"Mother, I said don't do this, even if you want to do it, let the child come. The skin of these old bamboo shoots is hard and tight, don't peel your hands off!"

"There are few, I will make bamboo shoots for you at noon, you love to eat this the most, and today is a small Chinese New Year's Eve...... I drank too much with Xiaohua last night, I left you flat food, it's still hot, hurry up and eat. ”

My mother came from the south, and she still has the habit of making flat food during the New Year's holidays.

He was not happy in his heart, but he didn't know what to say, even though it was just a trivial matter, but if he had become a relative a few years earlier, or in addition to the little money given by the government, he could put down his body and take on some private work on the rivers and lakes, earn more, and invite a clever subordinate.

Behind the little things is often an unchangeable character and a helpless fate.

Flat food in the pot, a total of 12, this flat food looks like a big ravioli, the size is bigger, the skin is thick, the filling is diced radish, diced meat, diced beans, add some garlic, not the kind of stuffing mixed together, bite the skin, the filling inside will fall out.

People who don't understand it think that this is a big ravioli, but there is still a difference. First, the wontons are all skin and flesh together, but there is another way to eat flat food, slightly boiled rotten, the skin is broken, and the filling is scattered in the soup, just like eating noodles, a mouthful of vegetables and a mouthful of dough, and the taste of the soup is oilier and thicker than ordinary wonton soup. Therefore, I took a spoon and put the dough, diced radish, diced meat, diced beans and soup into my mouth and chewed, not to mention the taste, and the satisfaction was unforgettable.

Cao Yujing drank the last bit of soup very carefully, licked his lips, and walked out and said to the old lady: "Mother, I'll do something." ”

"Will you come back for lunch at noon?"

"Today, I have postponed all other entertainments, so I will do this well, and I will always be able to come back at noon. ”

After the death of the uncle, the two families moved around less, and later the family moved away from Kaifeng. On Chinese New Year's Eve, there was only one old lady in the family, and he pushed all the invitations of friends in the rivers and lakes and the banquets of famous gentlemen.

Originally, he planned to stay at home, but he couldn't push it on this date in the morning.

............

Outside Kaifeng City, the rice field next to Cai Shui is hard and frozen, and there are pavilions, small bridges, warehouses on the edge of the fields, and they are two miles away from the official road.

Two carriages and a few good horses were parked on the official road against the shade of the trees, and the group walked on the path in the field towards the pavilion not far away.

There were three women and six guards in the group.

All three women were sixteen or seventeen years old, beautifully dressed, good-looking, and dignified.

"Xiao Jue, I don't know what kind of faintness I have, I really came to the city with you!" The woman who spoke looked around, and looked down at her feet from time to time, and if the slightest mud touched the upper of her shoes, she would stop and wipe it off with a handkerchief.

"Chen Ting, you have to come with me, and I didn't invite you!"

"Don't be like this, we are all good sisters, how can we quarrel over these little things and hurt face. Another woman said to the two women. She has the most extraordinary bearing among the three, her voice is as smooth as spring rain, and her snort is heavy between her words, which is very glutinous.

"Yesterday, my master was a guest at Qian Er's house, and I overheard that they were about to compete here, and I only told you an interesting thing, Chen Ting, you insisted on dragging me and Yuanyuan to watch the Jianghu people fight, and now they are here, but they are full of complaints, and blame me, it is really unreasonable!"

"You don't know where it is, you know it's such a place, I might as well embroider and cut flowers at home!"

"Do you have a brain? The people of the rivers and lakes compete in martial arts, and they also choose a picturesque, clean and comfortable place? Of course, where is it convenient to choose a secluded place!"

Both of them are unyielding temperaments, the woman with extraordinary bearing and being called "Yuanyuan", when she saw that the two were about to quarrel again, she immediately pulled down her face and said: "I was not interested in watching any Jianghu people fight, you are still so noisy, calling my head like a needle prick, just go back first." ”

As soon as she said this, both Xiao Jue and Chen Ting persuaded her kindly, and they didn't say a word more.

I was almost walking to the gazebo, and I didn't see anyone else nearby.

Chen Ting stopped and hesitated: "It shouldn't be that I misheard people's words, there is no such thing at all, right?"

Xiao Jue shook his head and said: "My master is a person with great skills in the rivers and lakes, my father has been courteous for many years, although he has been a nurse at home, but in fact, we all regard him as a family." ”

Yuan Yuan looked at the surrounding scenery and said with a smile: "Although it is just an extremely ordinary suburban scenery, it is much more empty than the city, there are not so many people, it is quiet, and the air is good!"

Xiao Jue pulled her away, and said in a coquettish voice: "Don't be like this, you haven't seen people fighting in the rivers and lakes, especially those who are famous, the scene of the fight is unimaginable to ordinary people, anyway, it's the first time I saw it, it's really an eye-opener! I was shocked, and I was thinking about the scene at night at night!"

Yuanyuan frowned and said softly: "It's only you and Xiaoting, others ask me to come and see this, I will never agree." ”

Chen Ting also took her other hand, and walked towards the pavilion with a smile with Xiao Jue.

Wait into the pavilion, only to find that there is a steep slope in front of the pavilion, the stream below flows, the water level rises in the summer and becomes a river, at this moment the tidal flats on both sides of the stream are desolate, the reeds grow savagely, and the stone surface is covered with moss.

On both sides of the stream, which was less than half a zhang, there was a man in a green robe standing towards them, with a long sword at his waist, a tall figure and a compelling demeanor, facing the two people opposite.

Xiao Jue introduced to his companion softly: "The swordsman is a person from our Kaifeng Mansion, who is on a temporary job in the yamen to catch fast, his name is Cao Yujing, and the people in the rivers and lakes are called Pingjiang swordsmen. ”

Chen Ting glanced at the look on her face, excitement mixed with caution and caution, and couldn't help but say softly: "Is this person's martial arts good?"

Xiao Jue gave a thumbs up and said, "The world's first-class." ”

Yuanyuan's pair of water-cut eyes looked at the two men on the other side of the stream. A person standing behind him clasped his hands, holding a spear in the crook of his arm, a white spear with a silver head, and a blue and white placket robe.

But even so, Yuanyuan's eyes were attracted by the man in front of him, and with just one glance, he couldn't take his eyes off it.

The person in front of him was tall and burly, with a big beard, a young face, a dignified appearance, wearing a Fan Yang felt hat, wearing a black Spring and Autumn chivalrous uniform, fast boots on a white background and black face on his feet, and a black and shiny spear leaning on his broad shoulders. The silver spear of the man behind him suddenly looked like a child's toy.

This man is like a character who came out of a script......

Whether it is the demeanor of the swordsman in front or the elegance of the son in the back, he is inferior. But there is a heroic spirit in him, just like this remnant stream below, when the water comes, it is a river again, and all the reeds, bluestones, and gravel will eventually be submerged, but at this moment, it is still vast and fearless.

- No matter how the world changes, I have my wonderful!

Looking at him, it's like looking at a strange world.

Is this world the rivers and lakes they say they say?

I didn't see any movement from this person, but simply stood there, and her heart beat faster, and there was only one thought in her mind - there was such a majestic man in the world!