Five days later, at dusk, Yun Xuelan finally woke up. The maid helped him to sit up, and brought a soft pillow to lean behind him. He didn't get a drop of water for five days, and he was seriously injured, and he looked pale at the moment, and his lips were a little bruised. When everyone heard the news, they rushed to make the medicine room, which was not very spacious, a little crowded.

Yun Tianzhi sat on the edge of the bed, took a bowl of sweet porridge from the maid, put a spoonful with a spoon, and put it on Yun Xuelan's left. "Sister, how old am I, I still want you to feed me. So many people are watching. Yun Xuelan took the porridge bowl with some complaints.

"Young master, you have finally woken up, you don't know how worried everyone is about you. A middle-aged man with a big belly said. Seeing that this person's figure is about 300 pounds, his big belly is like a big drum, and two or three adults are so thick. At this time, it was early autumn, and it was dusk, and the rain in the first two days continued to suppress the arrogance of the autumn tiger, but this person still held a puff fan in one hand, kept flashing, and wiped the sweat beads on his forehead with a towel in the other hand. The horizontal meat on his face was still shaking between heavy gasps, like an autumn fat pig fattened to be slaughtered. This person's name is Qian Qian, this name was criticized by countless people after he became the chief steward of the villa and the steward of Teng Yunwei, saying that he was a person who took care of the affairs of the villa and managed the inside and outside of the villa, and the tens of thousands of people in Yunyin City and even the Yun family army opened their mouths to eat, and he actually called the poor such an obscure name, and he also matched the surname Qian. But Qian Qian always mentioned this matter, but he always said that his name couldn't be better, because poverty is not poverty, but the meaning of exhaustion, and his name can make the money of Yunyin Mountain Villa endless. Since he took charge, the daily expenses of the villa have been decreasing year by year, but the operation of the villa and everyone's life have not been affected. He took over the ledgers of the Mountain Villa, Yunyin City and the Yun family's garrison from the hands of the previous housekeeper, and spent more than a month studying it all night. In the end, he took office as a new official and took up three fires, first standardizing the process and rules of the villa's procurement, and finding two people who were known to be unpleasant to each other and had extremely bad personalities, and the two were responsible for the work of the other party. This avoids the situation that the person in charge of the comprador buys the silver of the villa at a high price, and then eats kickbacks, or even directly embraces ink. The second thing this person did was to make the finances of Cloud Hidden City completely independent of the villa. Dispatch a special person to be responsible for the land rent and taxation of Yunyin City and the operation of Yunjia industry. After deducting the fixed taxes that must be paid to the imperial court every year, 30% of Yunyin City's annual income should be handed over to the villa, 20% should be used as part of the source of the Yun's army's military salary, and the remaining 50% should be left to Yunyin City's own treasury for urban construction and in case of emergency. And in the end, he restructured the Yun family's private army. In non-war times, half of the cost of military pay came from the supply of Cloud Hidden City and Mountain Villa, while the other half had to be cultivated by the army itself to ensure that the sergeants would not be pampered. After these three fires were burned, whether it was the mountain villa, Yunyin City or the Yun family army, they all took on a new look after opening up sources and reducing expenditure.

Yun Xuelan put down the porridge bowl in her hand, smiled apologetically at Qian Qian and said, "Let your uncles worry." ”

"It's okay if it's okay, it's okay if it's okay, Lan'er, can you get anything out this time?" Zhu Xian, who looked like a Confucian student, asked by tapping his palm with a folding fan.

"I said, surnamed Zhu, Lan'er has just woken up, and Mr. Zhongli hasn't checked his pulse yet, don't ask like a Hades king. The long-haired Geng Youfang continued, "Have you asked someone to invite Mr. Zhongli over?"

"Rin Tan has already gone to invite Mr. Zhongli in person. A middle-aged beautiful woman dressed in vegetarian clothes answered.

Seeing this person, Geng Youfang frowned a little displeased, "I said, mother-in-law surnamed Gao, who the hell are you here to mourn? Lan'er is still alive and well, don't wear linen and filial piety." ”

Hearing this, Zhu Xian on the side hurriedly pressed a folding fan against Geng Youfang's mouth, and kept making his eyes color. The long-haired man turned his head and said angrily: "Am I wrong? This woman is a dead man, why do you still wear mourning clothes to add bad luck in front of Lan's forehead, is this hoping that Lan'er will die early?"

"Uncle Geng, stop!" Yun Xuelan forcibly stood up, his figure staggered a little, he pushed away Yun Tianzhi, who came over to support, and walked to the middle-aged beauty with some staggering, bowed deeply and said, "Aunt Shan, mourn." ”

The beautiful woman's eyes instantly turned red, she skimmed over, and said with a little choked up: "It's not your fault, this is his life, and it's his life." "The beautiful woman's name was Takasugi, and since she met that man, she changed her name to Takayama, and Takayama is the mountain that the mountain looks up to. Because that person is called Yangzhi, and the mountains are Yangzhi. She hoped that her name would be worthy of his knife, and even more worthy of the grace and dashing manner when he came out with it. He once broke her penance, which she had practiced for many years, but because of this, he also broke her guarded against men. She walked with him in the rivers and lakes, followed him back to the villa, and followed him into the dark cloud guard. They had never talked about marriage, and he had never really married her, and they hadn't even had a good time, because they felt that it was enough for him to see the whip she was wearing, just because she was with his sword. And five days ago, her man was killed from the back of the heart on his way back to the city as a secret guard. When he died, she naturally wanted to treat him as a wife.

Seeing that the young man had been refusing to get up, she sniffed and said, "Young owner, don't blame yourself, it's not your fault." I'll find those people to avenge him. It is his mission to protect you, and dying on the way to protect you is his life in this life. ”

"One by one, crying and crying, what kind of system. A slender young man in black followed a one-armed old man into the room. The old man glanced at Yun Xuelan, who was straightening up, and said, "The reply is good, it's okay, don't look at it." With that, he just brushed his sleeves and turned to leave.

"Mr. Zhongli, Lan'er, ......" Yun Tianzhi hurriedly asked.

"He's—isn't he good? ”

"Sir, I actually want to ask. Yun Tianzhi was about to chase out, but was directly stopped by Song Jichen and his younger brother at the same time. Yun Xuelan smiled at her sister and shook her head. Song Jichen also said to his fiancée: "Zhi'er, I'm afraid you're a little confused about Lan'er's awakening, how could Mr. Zhongli joke about Lan'er's safety? "Now it's time for the uncles who are present to hurry back, and it is time for Rin Tan to send Lan'er back to his room to rest quickly. Seeing Yun Tianzhi nodding, Song Jichen exchanged a few polite greetings with everyone present, and ordered some more things. Before leaving, everyone also came up to tell Yun Xuelan a few words about good life and cultivation, and then turned around and left.

Not long after everyone walked out of the medicine room, they suddenly heard the sound of porcelain breaking on the ground in the medicine room. Immediately afterward, a young man's tired but still angry voice came: "I don't need you to send me back, and I don't need you to protect me. I can't trust you. Then his voice softened, and he said with a little coquettish taste: "Sister, I want to eat the sweet soup you made, will I go to your place to eat tonight?" Brother-in-law, you won't mind, right?"

"Stinky boy, I haven't married your sister yet, you call it here, don't ruin your sister's reputation. We haven't seen each other for more than a month, and you're seriously injured and just recovering from it, so it's time to come to your sister's Basho Kozuki. I may not have tasted your sister's cooking skills for a long time, so this time I will borrow your light to let your sister cook a few light side dishes. ”

After everyone saw that Song Jichen and his party walked out of the room, Yun Xuelan got on a soft couch with the support of the maid Angelica, and walked towards the inner courtyard of the villa. And the guard Rin Tan followed the team far behind. Seeing this scene, some people shook their heads and sighed, and some people hid their faces and snickered with joy.

The plantain building is the courtyard where Yun Tianzhi lives, because she loves plantain and has planted plantain trees in the courtyard. At this moment, in the pavilion in the middle of the courtyard, the three of them were bathing in the moonlight and sitting at the square table in the pavilion. The maids Ling Qiao and Angelica took the dishes and chopsticks and placed them in front of the three of them. Angelica glanced back at the black-clothed figure standing outside the courtyard clouds, straight as a gun, and then at Yun Xuelan, who was picking up chopsticks, and saw that the latter did not react, so he looked at Yun Tianzhi again. Yun Tianzhi understood and ordered: "Ling Qiao, you guys should go down and eat quickly, you don't have to wait here." I'm going to Rintan too, and I'm going to come in and eat with you. When Lan'er is ready, let Angelica and Rin Tan send them back. ”

"Sister, if I don't go back, the people there are unreliable. I'm afraid of death, I'm a wreck now. ”

"Nonsense, with Rintan and Angelica protecting you, how can there be anything? ”

"Sister, you don't know, my father and I came back this time and encountered the people of Saojing, and they said it themselves, it was someone in the villa who betrayed me and betrayed our whereabouts to them, so that they could ambush me and my father. And the other party said that the person who betrayed me was the person next to me. Sister, the people around me, now I can't trust anyone except you and my brother-in-law. ”

Hearing this, Angelica, the maid who was turning to leave, staggered a little, and was held by Ling Qiao, who was quick-eyed, so as not to fall. The young man who had just finished speaking caught a glimpse of this scene, and a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes.

On the same day, Lian Tan came back and said that you were attacked and killed by two groups of people, and the first group was from Saojing, and I still can't believe it. It turned out to be true. But back then, I had already led someone to burn their rat hole, so how could there be any fish that slipped through the net?"

"Brother-in-law, what's so strange about this, when you invaded that day, it was inevitable that the remnants of the sins that were doing things outside were not cleared by you, not to mention that there might be an inner ghost who passed the news over long before you acted. No matter how terrible the wolf outside is, it is not as terrible as your own dog to bite you from behind. ”

It seemed that his younger brother didn't want to talk more about the details of this trip, Yun Tianzhi brought the topic to the interesting stories of several people's childhood, which made the atmosphere in the banquet much more relaxed. After the meal, Song Jichen left very interestingly on the grounds of dealing with the affairs in the village, leaving the two sisters and brothers in the courtyard.

Yun Xuelan lay on the bench in the courtyard, resting her head on her sister's lap and looking up at the sky. When he was a child, he often woke up with nightmares, and everyone couldn't be coaxed, except for Yun Tianzhi, who was not much older than him, who would sit on the edge of his brother's bed, pill the boy's head on his lap, and hum a few small songs. In the summer, the girl would hold the fan and shake it gently until her brother fell asleep.

"Sister, this song is so good, who did you learn it from?"

"It's our mother's teaching. ”

"Is our mother good-looking?"

"It's pretty. ”

"Is it as good as the portrait?"

"No, it's even better than the portrait. ”

In this way, in a childhood of two children who had no mother at a very young age and a child who had never seen their mother, they snuggled up to each other and reminisced about their mother's warmth. And my sister worked hard to learn what her mother looked like in her memory, and became her brother's mother.

It seems that it is really as the boy said, only with his sister can he really relax, lie down for a while and gradually fall asleep. My sister also remained motionless, looking at this handsome but somewhat pale face, which coincided with the immature face in her memory. It is said that young people don't know the taste of sorrow, but born in such a family, he has known the taste of sorrow since he was a child. She doesn't want him to grow up, she just wants to protect him all the time like a mother. He wanted to grow up quickly and become a man to protect her. Yun Tianzhi sighed softly, the young man's eyelashes blinked, and he opened his eyes.

"Don't sleep for a while?"

The boy didn't answer, but still stared straight at the sky. After a long time, he suddenly said, "Sister, I want to go out for a walk." ”

"How many people are there?" asked the girl.

"None of them. ”

"No, at least bring Rintan. ”

"I can't believe it. ”

"You can't believe Rintan, what about Angelica?"

"I'm not traveling, it's really inconvenient to take a girl around, not to mention, she's a person who hasn't left Yunyin City since she was a child, and she can't bear the hardships of sleeping in the open. ”

Yun Tianzhi wanted to say, can you just eat, but the words were changed to "Are you trying to lure the snake out of the hole?" Have you thought about it, now your father is not in the villa, you really leave here, without a single person, do you know what it means?"

"I know, but haven't I been gambling since I was born? Betting on whether I can cultivate like a normal person, betting on whether I can go down or not, betting on whether I can find a way to solve my stubborn disease. If I hadn't gambled with my life, I would have died a long time ago. Every time I gamble with my life, I win. I don't believe in the dangers of wealth and wealth, because I seem to be in danger all the time. All I know is that I can't stop, and once I stop, I'm really going to die. I want to gamble again, bet that they will attack me, bet that I will survive, and even more bet that I can find a way to cultivate again. ”

Yun Tianzhi's cold hand held the young man's hand tightly, and she asked, "What realm have you fallen to now?"

The young man sat up with a carp, "Sister, it hurts my feelings to ask such a heart-wrenching question." ”