Chapter 35: Behind Closed Doors
He Qianshan drove to the castle, only to hear the guards on the castle ask who came!
Fu Enqiu took a breath and said loudly: "Jeju Fu Enqiu meets the lord of Shao Laobao!"
A few heads stretched out from the wall, as if recognizing people, and retracted their heads, and after a period of silence, a guard shouted: "Fu Daxia wait a while, the little one goes in and reports!"
"There is labor!" Fu Enqiu faintly felt that something was wrong, it stands to reason that the friendship between the Fu and Shao families would not be allowed to enter the door after being reported first.
After waiting for a while, there was finally another voice from above: "The old castle lord has not returned from visiting friends, Fu Daxia, please come back!"
Fu Enqiu asked, "Do you know when the old castle master will be able to return?"
"I don't know!"
"Shao Leike, the master of the Shao Castle?"
"The young castle master is far away, and I don't know when I will return!"
Fu Mingyue couldn't help but reprimand: "What a coincidence? Then why didn't you say it at first? You went for a long time just now, but who did you report to?"
“...... Anyway, the two castle masters are not here, please come back!"
Fu Mingyue was about to say more, but was stopped by Fu Enqiu and said: "If people are in trouble, why should we force others to make it difficult......?"
He Qianshan didn't know what was going on, so he asked, "What's the matter?"
Fu Enqiu smiled bitterly: "People are afraid of it, but the love is gone!"
"Isn't there in love?"
"Still don't understand? Fu ...... today? Cough...... It's a prisoner of the imperial court, and most of the people are worried that they will be implicated if they have something to do with me! Ahem...... My Fu Enqiu has always been a one-man worker, and when he came, he planned to leave as soon as he was done, how could he ever think of asking his Shao family to take him in and shelter, and his Shao family couldn't help but look down on me too much......!
Fu Mingyue looked a little anxious, and said, "Brother, do you want to let me talk about it anymore?"
Fu Enqiu said angrily: "No, don't you know my brother's temper? Can I watch you whisper for me?"
Fu Mingyue's tears swirled in her eyes: "Brother......"
Fu Enqiu's tone turned gentle: "Mingyue, brother knows that you think that with the ability of the Shao family, you may be able to save my life, but brother himself knows, cough ...... Besides, even if the Shao family can save my life, if I want to be slaved for my life, I would rather die happily!"
Fu Mingyue was indescribably sad, but helpless, and cried: "Brother, then let's go back to Jeju!"
Fu Enqiu nodded and said to He Qianshan: "Brother, it seems that the time has come for us to separate, with my body, cough cough...... I'm afraid I won't have a chance to see you again in this life! Why don't you find a place, drink a few bowls, and then go your separate ways!"
He Qianshan listened to the conversation between the brother and sister, and his heart was already very sad, and now Fu Enqiu said that he was separated, and he was even more reluctant, and blurted out: "Brother Fu, you are tired to accompany me to Lushan, whether you find someone or not, I will accompany you back to Jeju, even if Brother Fu you really go to Huangquan Road one day, I also hope to see you off beside me!"
He Qianshan's words were sincere, without any hypocrisy, not only the Fu family brothers and sisters, but even Zhao Duxue was moved to tears.
Fu Enqiu looked at He Qianshan blankly, and only after a while did he laugh a few times in a row, and said: "It's worth it, it's worth it! I can't imagine that I, Fu Enqiu, can still get acquainted with such a loving and righteous person as Brother He! God really treats me well, Fu Enqiu has no regrets in this life, and he will earn one more day!"
"But...... cough ......" Fu Enqiu pressed his chest and said, "Brother Fu would rather walk with you, but I am afraid that I will not be able to help, and I will become a burden to you!"
He Qianshan said: "What did Brother Fu say? You and I hit it off at first sight, and we have the same temperament, so we can't bear to go this different way, how could I ever think that Brother Fu would come to help me? Not to mention that Brother Fu and Sister Mingyue's experience in the rivers and lakes is far better than that of Sister Duxue and me, with you as our company, we don't know how much trouble we have to save, how can it become a burden?"
He Qianshan said so, Fu Enqiu readily agreed, and Zhao Duxue and Fu Mingyue did not object.
After leaving Liuyun Castle, the four of them drove to a remote place outside Qinzhou City, and only Zhao Duxue and Fu Mingyue walked into the city to buy some water, wine, dry food and other supplies.
Zhao Duxue planned to go to the ready-to-wear store to buy some new clothes for a few people to change, but Fu Mingyue said that the new clothes were eye-catching, so she took Zhao Duxue to the grocery store to find a few well-fitting old clothes and hats, and bought some rouge gouache and fish gelatin, pig skin, stew pot and other strange things, I don't know what to buy for.
When he returned to the outside of the city and joined He Qianshan and Fu Enqiu, Fu Mingyue began to light a fire and boil water.
He Qianshan and Zhao Duxue thought that she was going to cook, but they saw that after she boiled the water in the big cup of the child's mother, she put fish gelatin in the small cup and melted it, and the pig skin was as thin as a cicada's wings!
He Qianshan was called to sit down in front of him, dipped these thin pieces of skin in fish glue, pasted them on his face for a while, and twisted some of his broken hair to stick to his cheeks and lips, and then applied some powder to modify it, and finally picked out a set of clothes for him to change into and put on a hat!
Zhao Duxue was dumbfounded, just after such a while, even she couldn't recognize the person in front of her as He Qianshan!
Xiao Wu, who is extremely handsome, has become a coachman with a scruffy beard and wrinkles, and he has many vicissitudes compared to Fu Enqiu!
And this disguise is very natural, I can't see the slightest flaw, it's just amazing!
Seeing that Zhao Duxue was so surprised that she couldn't speak, Fu Enqiu smiled and said: "The sister of the Zhao family is not distressed, just because it has been a few days since we escaped from the prison, presumably the portraits of me and Brother He have been transmitted to nearby states and counties...... Cough...... This made Mingyue look easy for Brother He. Come on, Mingyue, get it for me too!"
He Qianshan couldn't help but praise: "I didn't expect that Sister Mingyue would have such a skill, it's really amazing!"
Fu Enqiu said: "These doorways, but she made them up by herself, not that I praised my sister, with her cleverness and cleverness, she followed me to drift on the rivers and lakes, she was really blind!"
"Okay, brother, don't talk!" Fu Mingyue reprimanded, "I'm not good at sticking up!"
Fu Enqiu was immediately silenced.
Fu Mingyue was extremely careful, after taking care of her brother's face, she used some powder to beat Fu En's enemies white, and said to He Qianshan while fighting: "Brother Xiaowu, go and get your hands dirty, your hands are too good-looking!"
He Qianshan stretched out his hands, turned them over, and said, "Is it good-looking?"
Zhao Duxue scolded: "Don't stinky and beautiful!
After Fu Mingyue finished, Fu Enqiu's originally rough facial features became exquisite, and his skin became white, completely judging the two of them, Zhao Duxue half-jokingly complained: "In the end, it is my own brother, who paints so beautifully, but paints our Xiao Wu so coldly!"
Fu Enqiu smiled and said: "Sister of the Zhao family, can't you see this? My brother He himself can't be more good-looking, no matter how he paints, he will be ugly, and I am already ugly to the extreme, no matter how I paint, I am good-looking!"
Zhao Duxue and He Qianshan couldn't help laughing out loud when they heard this, and even Fu Mingyue pursed their lips and chuckled.
It's just that the three of them saw Fu Enqiu even at this moment, they were still talking and laughing freely, knowing that they were going to die, but they didn't have the slightest greed and fear.
This open-mindedness made the three of them feel more compassion in their hearts, and they laughed bitterly!
The four of them finished dressing up, beat their horses to the west, and in less than two or three days, they were already close to the city of Dongzhou.
In the past few days, Fu Enqiu's condition has deteriorated a lot, the high fever is difficult to go away, and the cough is getting worse and worse, if it weren't for the extremely strong physical foundation, coupled with Zhao Duxue's careful care, using rare medicinal materials that renew the yuan and replenish qi, I am afraid that he would have died long ago!
Fu Enqiu is not afraid of death, the only thing that he can't rest assured is his sister Mingyue, who has asked He Qianshan many times along the way, hoping that He Qianshan can take care of him, and his words are not without the meaning of entrusting his life!
Zhao Duxue heard it well, for fear that He Qianshan would impulsively agree to something happen, and every time before He Qianshan spoke, she promised to treat Mingyue like a sister and find a good family for her in the future!
The two sides of the city are surrounded by mountains, there are only two city gates in the north and south, and the mountain is in the north of the city, if you want to bypass the city of the city to go to the mountain, you have to walk hundreds of miles, so the four people are a total, or take a little risk, through the city.
Approaching the south gate of Tongzhou City, Fu Mingyue went to investigate the situation first.
The portraits of He Qianshan and Fu Enqiu have indeed been sent to Dongzhou, and the guards at the city gate have been particularly careful about the pedestrians of two men and two women, or a man and a woman.
After Fu Enqiu heard this, he proposed that he should drive into the city alone first, and when he passed the customs safely, He Qianshan, Zhao Duxue and Mingyue would enter the city again and meet outside the north gate.
At first, He Qianshan and the three of them thought it was inappropriate, and they really didn't worry that Fu Enqiu would take the risk alone with his sick and disabled body, but in the end, he couldn't insist again and again.
Fu Mingyue had no choice but to change the coachman's makeup for her brother, dressed He Qianshan as a subordinate, and herself as a maid, while Zhao Duxue played the eldest lady in her true colors.
After some careful arrangement, the two groups of people passed through the city gate without any danger or danger.
Fu Enqiu's car was fast, and he didn't stop all the way, and went out of the north gate.
And He Qianshan and the three of them are walking, which is inevitably eye-catching, they can't go too fast, take a look, shop and buy, they really look like a young lady from a big family, with maids and servants to go shopping and play!
Fu Enqiu went out of the city and continued to fight his horse forward, intending to drive the car to a distance beyond the attention of the city gate guards, and then stop and wait for He Qianshan and them.
As he was hurrying to the car, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves in front of him, and when he looked up, there was dust in front of him, and a team of men and horses was galloping.
Closer, I saw about seven or eight horsemen, the leader of whom had a dark face, a strong figure, and a military attache uniform, while the rest of the people were also dressed as officials.
Fu Enqiu pressed the hat down, and hurried forward as if nothing had happened.
When the two sides met each other, the military attache headed by only glanced at Fu Enqiu and his carriage by the way, and then passed by.
When the team passed, Fu Enqiu breathed a sigh of relief and coughed twice......
He didn't notice that these two coughs had caused one of the knights in the team to look back!
After the knight glanced at it, he hurriedly shouted forward, "Lord Duan!"
This team of people was led by Duan Shanyue, he led people to chase all the way north, and he didn't see He Qianshan's figure until Xizhou, so he was sure that he was chasing in the wrong direction, and at this time he turned back to Dongzhou.
Duan Shanyue heard the shout, stopped Mahler, and asked, "What's the matter?"
The knight said: "The coachman just now seems to be Fu Enqiu!"
Duan Shanyue scolded: "You don't know it early!"
The knight said: "It doesn't look like it!"
Duan Shanyue said angrily, "What the hell do you mean, is it?"
The knight said: "The adult listens to the little one, the little one is on an errand in the Longyou County Yada Prison, after Fu Enqiu was imprisoned, he coughed day and night, and the noise made me and a group of brothers very irritable, so I still remember the sound of his cough, and the coachman just now, I saw it, and the figure is also similar, this appearance may have done tricks and feet!"
When Duan Shanyue heard this, he turned his horse's head, patted the horse and shouted, "Chase me!"