It turned out that this Xia Yan was Xia Yan's illegitimate child outside, and he only returned to Xia Yan's mansion a few years ago.

After Xia Yan saw this son Xia Xun, he loved it, and because Xia Yan was a little clever and good at pleasing his father Xia Yan, he became the treasure of Xia Mansion in a few months.

Although Xia Xun failed in the imperial examination, but because of Xia Yan's high position, the emperor also asked for an official for his son Xia Xun, and he made an imperial history in the Imperial Court at a young age, just a few months ago the former prefect of Suzhou resigned, and Xia Xun came to fill this position because of Xia Yan's relationship.

After all, the area around Suzhou and Hangzhou is the richest place in the Ming Dynasty, and the fat shortage of the Suzhou prefect in the summer has already been drooping.

Therefore, after Xia Xun arrived, with his father's power in the court, as soon as he entered the government, he began to order every three days and change every five days, and wantonly searched for the people's fat and ointment in Suzhou Mansion for various reasons, although the people saw it, but no one dared to speak.

Xia Xun saw that Du did not forget his face, so he had to temporarily put Wu Chengen and his scholar in the noisy room first, and invited Du Chengxin and Zhu Qi to go to his mansion in Suzhou City for a banquet at night.

Du Buyi agreed, and left the yamen temporarily with Zhu Qi.

On the way, Zhu Qi complained to Du Yiyi:

"Brother Du, your brother-in-law's behavior is too unbearable, right?"

Du did not forget to reply:

"Yes, it should be that my father-in-law has not disciplined it much, and at night, I will try to persuade it!"

Zhu Qi said again:

"Brother Du, you are so good to people, if you didn't stop me just now, I actually want to beat up your brother-in-law!"

Du Yi touched Zhu Qi's head with a smile:

"My good Qi'er, don't be angry with it, I'll take you to my former Du Mansion now!"

So not long after the two of them left, they came to the Tanhua Mansion in Suzhou, outside the gate of Du Mansion.

At this time, although the door number is still hung with the words 'Du Tanhua Mansion', it seems that a lot of weeds have grown around, and it is obvious that no one has lived in it for several years.

At this time, a woodcutter happened to pass by, and Du did not forget to call:

"Uncle, can I ask you something?"

The woodcutter put down a bundle of firewood on his back, walked over to Du Yiyi, looked carefully, and said in surprise:

"You...... You...... You, aren't you Du Tanhua, why are you back?"

As soon as Du did not forget to see that the woodcutter knew himself, he immediately replied:

"It's Du Tanhua, uncle, I don't remember you?"

Uncle smiled:

"Du Tanhua, I've actually only seen you a few times, but I always remember what you look like!"

Du Yi also smiled:

"Oh...... Uncle, where do you live?"

The woodcutter replied:

"Actually, I live next door to you, I heard that you came back a few years ago, when I just went out to join the army, and I only came back last year because I was injured!"

Du Yi looked at the woodcutter curiously:

"Uncle, have you ever been injured?

The woodcutter ripped off the clothes on his body, directly scaring Zhu Qi on the side.

It turned out that this woodcutter was actually covered with dense scars, no white stripes, and at first glance, he had suffered great disasters on the battlefield.

After Du didn't forget to see it, he couldn't help but feel a little numb on his scalp:

"Uncle, how many times have you fought on the battlefield?"

The woodcutter smiled:

"Actually, I fought a battle in the southeast coast for three years, and these injuries were all because of that battle. ”

Zhu Qi came over very curiously and asked:

"Uncle, are you fighting against the Japanese on the southeast coast?"

The woodcutter nodded:

"Yes, it's a long story, that year there was a group of thousands of Japanese pirates who invaded Taizhou where we were stationed from the sea, so our general led our team of only 500 people into battle to fight against these Japanese pirates, and as a result, almost all of our 500 people were killed in the first battle, and even I was seriously injured by the indiscriminate knife. ”

After a pause, he continued:

"I thought I was going to die, but when I woke up, I was rescued, and it was a Japanese who rescued me on a small island, so I later learned that this Japanese was called Yanagi Ieyan, and he claimed to be a swordsman from Fuso. ”

As soon as Du Buyi heard the name, he was naturally familiar with it, so he asked:

"This Yanagi family Yan likes to wear a samurai robe, is about forty years old, and likes to carry a long sword behind him?"

The woodcutter replied:

"Yes, he seems to be really the same as Du Tanhua, I can survive, thanks to its rescue, it is really a good person. ”

Du did not forget to reply:

"Actually, uncle, the Yanagi family you met is a friend of mine. ”

After hearing what Du did not forget, the woodcutter took out a box from his arms very excitedly and handed it to Du Buyi:

"Du Tanhua, this is what the Yanagi family forgot to take away after the Yanagi family left, I don't know if you know what is in it, I have always wanted to open it, but I have found a lot of skilled hands, and I have never opened this box. ”

After Du did not forget to take the box, he looked at it, and the box looked like a women's dressing box, but it was more exquisite, and said:

"Isn't it okay to open Brother Yanagi's things casually like this?"

Zhu Qi grabbed the box:

"It's been lost for so long, and I'm curious about what's inside, wouldn't it be nice to open it and take a look?"

Then he pulled out the Tai'a sword behind Du Buxing, split the lock of the box, opened the lid and saw that it was actually a woman's wrapping inside.

Zhu Qi returned the box to Du Yiyi at this time:

"These Fusang people are really shameless, they actually carry our woman's wrapping with them, and treat him as a baby!"

Du Yi took out the shroud and looked at it:

"It's nothing, isn't it just a woman's wrap?"

Then it was thrown to Zhu Qi:

"I think Qi'er, you're dressed quite appropriately!"

After Zhu Qi took the wrapping, his eyes were staring at his feet:

"Brother Du, look below...... It seems like there is an epistle!"

Du did not forget to take a look, under his feet, sure enough, a letter fell out of the woman's wrapping, so Du did not forget to pick up the letter and look at it, it was all Fusang characters, but Du did not forget to go to Fusang several times, but he also knew it.

Du did not forget and read it out:

"Yanagi-kun personally enlightened!"

Zhu Qi saw that Du Buyi was hesitant to hold the letter, so he snatched the letter in Du Buzhi's hand and opened it directly, only to see that it was actually written in the Central Plains.

Zhu Qi read:

"Yanagi Jiayan, I, Prince Baishi, remind you again, if you don't take off the head of that Central Plains man who has never forgotten it and bring it to me, you yourself should understand what will happen to your wife and children. ”

Zhu Qi said immediately after reading it:

"Brother Du, if you don't open this letter, you really can't find it, it turns out that this Bai Shi actually threatened it with your friend's wife and children and asked it to kill you!"

Du did not forget to hurriedly ask the woodcutter:

"When were you rescued by the Yanagi family?"

The woodcutter touched his head:

"It's been two years!"

Du did not forget to ask again:

"Then when Yanagi Jiayan left, did he tell you where it went?"

The woodcutter replied:

"By the way, this benefactor seems to have really told me that he has always wanted to go to our Central Plains Nanjing City to find an old man, and I heard that it seems to be very important to him. ”

Du did not forget to reply:

"Okay, thank you uncle!"

Then he stuffed the woodcutter with a minot:

"Uncle, when I bought your box of coils, it may not be much, I hope you don't mind. ”

The woodcutter wanted to return the silver, but was stopped by Zhu Qi:

"Uncle, you can take it, maybe you don't lack money yourself, but you have to think about your wife and children at home!"

The woodcutter thanked Du and Zhu Qi, and then left with firewood on his back.

Du did not forget to take Zhu Qi's hand, walked to the door, pulled out his sword, and forcibly split the door lock, and then walked into the courtyard, which was already full of weeds at this time.

Zhu Qi asked Du Yiyi:

"Brother Du, didn't you say before that you have your old friend living in this mansion, why does it look like it has been abandoned for a long time?"

Du did not forget to reply:

"My old friend was recommended by me to be a general in the northwest, and he had always wanted to give it back to me, but I never had time to come back. ”

Zhu Qi was very excited at this time and ran up in the courtyard:

"Brother Du, listen to what you just said, won't this be our family in the future?"

Don't forget to smile:

"This has always been our home, why don't we clean up this place today!"

Zhu Qi replied:

"Okay!"

So Du did not forget to come to his former room first.

At this time, the furnishings of the room are obviously the same as when I lived before, and it seems that when Hu Hu and the others left, they were also deliberately arranged.

When I opened the cabinet, the clothes of Xi Siqi, Keiko, Haruko, and Mingxi were still neatly placed inside, and no one touched them at all.

Du Bu did not forget to touch the clothes worn by the four girls one by one, and tears couldn't help but flow out of the corners of his eyes.

Although the four girls have all left, and they have reached a place where they can no longer be seen, they have always been hidden deep in the depths of Du Forget's heart, which is a lingering pain.

Zhu Qi walked in at this time, and seemed to find Du Bu Bu who was crying, so he wiped the corners of Du Bu Bu with his handkerchief:

"Brother Du, I know you miss the four sisters, you don't have to be so sad, I think they must be happier over there than we are now!"

After closing the cabinet door, Du did not forget to go back to the bed, sat down and sighed:

"Alas, it's all my fault for being useless, not protecting and taking care of them!"

At this time, suddenly a mouse crawled in the room, which frightened Zhu Qi and hid directly in Du Yifu's arms.

Du did not forget to pat Zhu Qi on the shoulder:

"It's okay, Qi'er, it's just a mouse, with Brother Du here, what are you afraid of?"

Zhu Qi raised his head at this time, looked at Du Buyi affectionately, and couldn't help but take the initiative to kiss Du Buyi's mouth.

Du didn't forget that it was difficult to refuse, so he had to cooperate.

After Zhu Qi took the initiative to kiss for a while, he asked Du Yiyi:

"Brother Du, don't you like Qi'er?"

Du Chu shook his head:

"How come, Qi'er, you are the most important woman who has always been by my side!"

Zhu Qi walked around Du Zhiyi with a smile:

"But Brother Du, I don't think you're responding now?"

Du didn't forget to look at Zhu Qi's expression and deliberately asked:

"Where do you think I'm reacting?"

Zhu Qi pointed:

"Brother Du, don't you know yourself?"

Du Buyi hugged Zhu Qi and kissed her, and his hand wandered over her unconsciously:

"Do you think I'm impulsive now?"

Zhu Qi blushed and replied:

"Brother Du, you villain. ”