auspicious time has come

Chapter 124
"When my aunt was pregnant, my grandfather was leading the army in the north. At that time, my grandfather was besieged by Xi people and his whereabouts were unknown. When the news came back to Beijing, my father went out of the house at night and left alone. Beijing, go to the Northland to inquire about grandfather's news. This matter was somehow noticed by my mother, my father walked ahead, and she followed behind with her eight-month pregnancy—"

Talking about the old story of his parents being publicly teased and executed repeatedly by his family members, Xiao Mu had a bit of a smile in his eyes: "When the two arrived in the Northland, my grandfather had already turned the corner into victory and solved the predicament——A Niang In this way, I was born in Beidi. Due to insufficient conditions, I found a young wet nurse in a nearby town. The wet nurse had just been separated from her husband in the war at that time, and the child who was several months old also died unfortunately. He is a poor man who has encountered misfortune, but he is optimistic and open-minded in his bones, so he is very close to my aunt."

He spoke slowly, and Heng Yu listened quietly.

"Later, when I returned to Beijing, my wet nurse was with me. Until I was three years old, news came from the Northland that I found my wet nurse's husband who had been lost before. When I learned that this person had been incorporated into the Northland garrison, my wet nurse rushed back. Beidi reunited with him. It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and the three-year life and separation just ended, and it was a farewell."

"After this person passed away due to injury, the nursing mother lived alone in the north, and she and my aunt have never stopped writing letters." Xiao Mu paused for a while before continuing: "Until something happened in my family, The wet nurse went back and forth to find my father's old department in the Northland to inquire about the situation—after I showed up and met her, the wet nurse became my real mother."

"Compared to me as a mother and son, I was able to have a new identity to cover up the past. These are all mentioned by my mother. In order to prevent others from being suspicious and to make this matter leak-free, my mother has made many changes and sacrifices. Step by step until today , the journey of the past eight years has been extremely difficult for her."

Heng Yu was quite touched when he heard it.

Ever since she began to doubt Xiao Mu's identity, she has thought about Aunt Xiao's true identity, and wondered who could be so meticulous and real——now it seems that this mother-child relationship was not a performance from the beginning to the end. here.

"Then what about Lord Hou's appearance, and how did you hide it?" She tried to ask a relatively insignificant question again.

"At first it was a cover-up, but then it changed completely." Xiao Mu lowered his eyes halfway: "Back when Yan Ming first learned this technique of changing appearance, I forced him to use it on me."

Hengyu couldn't imagine how the so-called appearance-changing technique would be used, but the method that could make a person lose his original appearance would inevitably make people experience a lot of pain.

She didn't ask, and didn't dare to ask, after a while, she said: "So Doctor Yan is an insider, so Master Yan must be too?"

Xiao Mu said: "Junshi Yan was originally a secret guard under my father's command. When he first fled the capital, he took Yan Ming to lure away the pursuers for me, and almost died because of it."

Hengyu couldn't help but understand: "It's no wonder that Yan Junyi regards Lord Hou's life so seriously, and speaks so hard..."

Thinking of Yan Ming's toughness, Xiao Mu twitched the corners of his mouth, a little ashamed: "I owe them too much, but I don't know what I am capable of."

"Master Hou thinks like this, it's like never looking in the mirror—" Heng Yu said firmly, "The reason they are willing to do this must be because Master Hou is worth it."

When the mountain of Shi's family has collapsed, the young man who let these people still willingly guard with his life - how can he say that he is so virtuous and capable?

Heng Yu looked at the person in front of him, as if he saw the young man in the old ruined temple: "The father and son of the Yan family are great, Aunt Xiao is great, and Lord Hou is also great."

There is no need to mention how he treats the people around him, even strangers. His kindness is engraved in his bones.

And he had more than goodness—

The glory of being the "little general of the time" in the past may be said to be the shadow accumulated by his grandparents.

However, becoming the current envoy of the Yingzhou Jiedu who firmly holds the military power in the north, and the general Xiao whose achievements are famous in history, is due to his own strength.

He was great, there was no doubt about it—but only he seemed not to know it.

She understood why he "didn't know" her goodness. She was only nine years old when Ah Weng's accident happened, and she couldn't help but blame herself for many years, let alone him.

Only talk about other people's contributions, only talk about what you owe to others——

But how did he get through these eight years?
He didn't say a word about it.

Heng Yu didn't even try to ask, after adding some dead branches to the fire, she stretched out her hand to the weak man: "Master Hou, warm yourself up."

Knowing that his movement was difficult, she leaned over, carefully raised his hands, held them in her hands, and placed them on top of the fire.

His fingers were slender and strong, and there were rough and thin calluses in the palm and on the tiger's mouth, which was bitingly cold.

"Bake it and it will be warm." Heng Yu looked at him with a smile.

The girl's frostbitten cheeks were reddened by the flames, and there seemed to be flames flickering in her clear eyes.

Xiao Mu noticed that his cold and numb fingers were being gently held by the girl, and he was gradually regaining consciousness, like a long river that had been frozen for a long winter, awakened and revived.

With some strength in his arms, he took his hands away and held hers in his hands instead.

Hengyu couldn't help being taken aback.

Xiao Mu looked down at her: "Don't you feel hot when you've been supporting it like this?"

hot?
Heng Yu suddenly felt that her cheeks were hot, and quickly withdrew her hands and put them on her knees: "Yes...it's very hot."

Xiao Mu flipped his palms over to warm the fire seemingly carelessly, moved the corners of his mouth slightly, and a faint smile overflowed from the end of his eyes.

There was a moment of silence, only the sound of burning branches.

"Master Hou, in fact, I didn't tell the truth just now." After a while, Heng Yu suddenly said.

Xiao Mu turned to look at her.

"Master Hou asked me why I went back, not only because I wanted to save Master Hou, but also because I suspected that those who wanted to harm Master Hou might have something to do with what I was investigating—"

Xiao Mu asked: "Then why didn't you say it all together?"

"Wouldn't it be presumptuous to talk about it after meeting Lord Hou. If Lord Hou doesn't want to recognize me, it's not easy to bring up those old things with Lord Hou." Heng Yu said frankly.

Xiao Mu said "Oh": "So, the reason why you want to recognize each other is because you have news to communicate with Benhou, and Benhou can be used."

Sure enough, this is a fox with a mind full of twists and turns.

Heng Yu coughed lightly: "It's not all. After all, we have just experienced a life and death together. People will always be more emotional in the rest of their lives."

Xiao Mu said "Oh" again.

The emotional one seems to be him.

But he still resigned himself to his fate and said, "Then let's talk about the old things you are investigating."

"It's about my Aunt eight years ago. The person who robbed and killed us in the mountains that night was not an ordinary bandit—" Heng Yu put away his casual look.

But at this moment, outside the cave where the sky had already brightened, a faint human voice suddenly came.

"You guys, go ahead and have a look..."

"quick……"

Heng Yu's expression tightened slightly when he heard the sound: "Master Hou, someone is here."

It is hard to say whether the person who comes is an enemy or a friend.

Xiao Mu had already retracted his warming hand, grasped the blood-stained long sword at his side, stood up with support, faced the direction of the cave entrance, and blocked Heng Yu behind him.

Heng Yu also picked up the sleeve arrow and quickly stood up.

(End of this chapter)