auspicious time has come

Chapter 193 Fortunately, I met someone
The Duke of Shu's mansion, which has been covered with a thick layer of dust over the years, has rusty chains wrapped around the faded Zhumen, and the seals posted by the government have long since been blown away.

Under the darkness of night, this formerly majestic mansion now only has boundless silence.

No one has paid attention to this place for a long time. Because of the serious crimes committed by the former owner, the imperial court has no intention of changing it to other uses. Even pedestrians seldom stop by, lest they accidentally commit some taboos.

At this moment, two figures came to the back wall and looked at the high wall in front of them like a silent forbidden place.

Heng Yu, who was wearing the same black cloak as the person beside him, looked around, pushed aside a piece of grass at the base of the wall with his hand, bent over to check the room, and whispered: "There is a dog hole here... depending on the size, it should be the same I fit right in."

Seeing her eager to try, Xiao Mu grabbed her arm and lifted her up.

Heng Yu turned to look at him.

Xiao Mu glanced at her: "You don't think it's dirty."

Then Hengyu saw that he put down the food box in his hand, bent down calmly, and said to her, "Step on me to climb up, sit on it and wait."

Heng Yu was stunned: "Stepping on you?"

"Don't worry, I can't fall you." Xiao Mu urged: "Come up."

Heng Yu didn't hesitate anymore: "Then I... stepped on it?"

Xiao Mu let out a "hmm".

Heng Yu supported his shoulder from one side, first stepped on his back carefully, and saw that he was really stable and did not move, and then stepped on his shoulder with confidence.

Xiao Mu straightened up, and when he lifted her up, he supported her legs through the soft dress.

Heng Yu clasped his hands tightly to the top of the wall, and said in a low voice, "That's enough, that's enough!"

Xiao Mu then carefully lifted the man up.

"Give me the food box." Heng Yu sat firmly on the wall and stretched out a hand towards the bottom.

Under the light of the moon, the girl sat on the wall and looked at him, stretched out her hand to him, and the sky was full of stars above her head.

Xiao Mu was inexplicably stunned for a moment before handing the food box into that hand.

Then, he jumped with his feet, clasped his hands, lifted his body lightly, and jumped up the high wall with ease.

Seeing it in Heng Yu's eyes, he had only one feeling - obviously, this was not only agility, but also less accumulation of experience, and he should have done a lot of things to climb over the wall.

She couldn't help but think that when he was young, he was unruly and disobedient, and it was probably commonplace for him to climb over the wall.

Heng Yu was still in a trance, suddenly felt that her body was empty, her whole body lost her balance, her mind went blank for a while, and she subconsciously hugged everything she could.

Xiao Mu hugged her and landed inside the courtyard wall, looking down at the person who was holding her tightly and dared not let go.

Hengyu managed to regain consciousness, and let go of the person in shock, her heart was beating wildly and said: "...Why did you suddenly jump down like this without saying a word?"

The courtyard wall of Duke Shu's mansion is not so high.

"Suddenly?" Xiao Mu looked at her with some amusement, but seeing that she was indeed frightened, he still said with a correct attitude: "Next time I will remind you."

Said, took the food box in her hand: "Let's go."

Heng Yu walked forward with him, looking around by the moonlight, she felt that she was in a state of majesty and desolation.

The two walked quietly like this, Heng Yu looked at his overly quiet back, and felt that he needed to say something: "...I also came here once when I was young, when I was about four or five years old, I came here with Ah Weng , I just can't seem to see you."

Her voice was very soft, and Xiao Mu didn't respond.

Just when Heng Yu felt that he had no intention of speaking, he seemed to come back to his senses and said: "I am more than five years older than you. When you were four or five years old, I was already very naughty, and I was easily homeless."

As he spoke, his eyes scanned the familiar and unfamiliar bricks, tiles, plants and trees inch by inch.

Heng Yu followed his line of sight and looked forward, wondering: "Is that...a cherry tree?"

Xiao Mu nodded and led her over.

"This is a gift from a sage, and it was planted by my father." Xiao Mu recalled.

"This thing is very rare, and it has only been a dozen years since it was presented as a tribute to Beijing." Heng Yu looked at the bright red cherry fruits and said: "The cherry orchard in the palace is ripe at this time of year, so we need to recommend it to the sleeping temple first." , and then set up a cherry feast to give to Xinke Scholars—my brother got a few in the palace when he was in high school, but he was not willing to eat them, so he hid them in his sleeve and took them home."

Hearing this, Xiao Mu raised his hand and picked a few intact fruits and handed them to her: "No one takes care of them, but they grow quite well, but it's just cheaper for the birds."

Holding it in his hand, Heng Yu looked around: "This is Uncle Shi's outer study, right?"

"Yes, my father used to handle official business here." Xiao Mu's expression changed slightly just as his voice fell.

He held Hengyu's hand, led her to hide behind the rockery, and said in a low voice: "Someone is coming—"

Hengyu had already guessed this possibility when he was pulling herself to avoid it, and at this moment, hearing the words, she took her breath a little lighter, and watched the movement outside the rockery nervously.

It's not scary for someone to come over, but if someone finds out his identity——

Sure enough, after a while, there were light and quick footsteps approaching.

Hengyu looked over silently through the gap between the two rockeries, and saw a person wearing a blue robe, walking very fast, obviously with some kung fu, walking all the way to the top of the stone steps, then squatting down, posing After something, a fire ignited.

It is burning paper money.

Too far away, Heng Yu couldn't see the man's face clearly, but judging from his figure, he was obviously very young.

The other party stood by and didn't say a word until the paper money was burned before leaving.

After a while, Xiao Mu and Heng Yu came out from behind the rockery.

"Does Hou Ye recognize that person?" Heng Yu asked in a low voice.

Xiao Mu shook his head and looked in the direction the other party was leaving: "Looking at his behavior, he should be a guard, probably doing things for the master."

"Who could it be?" Heng Yu pondered, "It can't be Her Royal Highness, the Princess's mansion will place some worship objects in private every year today, and they won't come here..."

It is precisely because the eldest princess's mansion never fails to pay homage every year that she knows that today is Shu Guogong's birthday.

"Could it be, is it Yan Ming?" She guessed.

Xiao Mu had already come to the stone steps, squatted down to inspect the objects of worship, and fixed his gaze on the uncorked wine jar: "It's the wine my father likes... Maybe it's his old friend. "

In this capital, my father also had many friends during his lifetime, but when something happened to the Shi family, in order not to be implicated, it is inevitable that we should try our best to avoid it on the public face. Everyone has a family member who needs to protect each other, which is understandable.

After so many years, it is very rare to still remember my father's birthday, and to take the risk to come here to worship.

He was also very curious as to who had instructed that person just now, but he couldn't chase him.

It was certainly not a problem to stop the other party, but he couldn't explain why he, as Xiao Mu, appeared here.

The man in blue left Shu Guogong's mansion with ease, took a small road and left Anrenfang, and returned to the busy city all the way, finding a carriage parked by the side of the street, and whispered through the window: "Lord, It's all done."

"Then let's go." The man in the car said.

The man in blue answered "Yes" and jumped onto the seat, and the coachman drove the carriage.

In the car, the steward who came out to work together said: "Master, there is one more thing... Today, I heard from the steward woman in the girl's courtyard that the girl intends to go back to the village outside the city to live for a while. Reminiscing about things from my childhood, I want to go back and have a look.”

The person sitting opposite pondered for a moment, then said: "Since she wants to go, let's arrange it."

"Yes."

……

After Heng Yu and Xiao Mu arranged the objects of worship they brought, they walked into the almost emptied study room.

Calligraphy, painting, porcelain and other objects had already been emptied out when the house was raided, and now there are only a few yellowed old books on the desk, covered with dust and cobwebs.

Xiao Mu approached and took one of the volumes. Sure enough, it was the military book that his father used to read.

"Father spent most of his life on the battlefield, or on the way to the battlefield. When I was young, he told me that if he could choose, he hoped that his destination in this life would be on horseback in the battlefield. , or in the military camp, in short, don’t be as unhappy as those old people lying on the lingering sick bed—the mother sneered after hearing this, and only said that he would do what he wanted, even if he was too old to leave at that time Don’t move anymore, before he dies, lift him onto the horse’s back.”

"Father was relieved when he heard that, and said, what more can a husband ask for than a wife like this. My mother was so angry that she dragged me away, and told me that in the future, I must never be like my father."

Mentioning this, Xiao Mu had a complicated smile on his lips, lowered his eyes and put down the book of war: "It's just that my mother failed to keep this promise, and neither did my father."

Father's destination is not on the battlefield, not on the sickbed——

Hearing the pain in his heart, Heng Yu didn't say much, only stood quietly with him for a long time, and then suggested: "Let's go for a walk."

The two left the study room, Xiao Mu took Heng Yu around, and finally came to a courtyard.

"This is my former residence."

"It's going to be as big as three of my yards." Heng Yuhuan looked around and pointed to an open space beside the promenade. Seeing that there were still a few wooden stakes and archery targets standing there, he couldn't help asking: "Is there a martial arts field?" ?”

Xiao Mu nodded: "Yes, the family's ancestral training, all children who have reached the age of six must practice every morning."

"As expected of a family of military generals." Heng Yu looked at the long corridor again: "I have seen this place in a painting, when I was in Yingzhou, in Yan Ming's other courtyard——"

It turned out that the background of the painting was Shi Jingzhi's residence.

"He was weak when he was young and couldn't learn martial arts. I practice sword here in the morning, so it is convenient for him to read in the morning in the corridor."

While talking, the two walked through the long corridor, over the rockery, and then through a moon gate, and came to a courtyard.

Moss grew in the gaps between the blue bricks, and a pine scene in the center of the courtyard was still there. The two sat down at the stone table next to the pine scene.

"On the day when the accident happened at home, I promised my mother to have dinner at home, but I never did even a trivial matter."

The two sat next to each other, Heng Yu heard this and looked at him: "So you have lost your sense of taste since then, right?"

She heard Yan Junshi talk about his loss of taste, and Grandpa Bai said it was caused by a knot in his heart.

Obviously, he regarded that missed appointment as an extremely difficult mistake.

Because of this, from then on, he especially and almost stubbornly attached importance to the word "keeping the promise" - keeping the world well is also keeping the promise to his late father.

"Yes." Xiao Mu said frankly, "Fortunately, he has slowly recovered."

"Recovered?" Heng Yu showed a smile, and reached out to him: "Then let's eat a cherry."

The moonlight fell into the courtyard and fell on the palm of the girl's hand, a few cherries glowed with lustrous and delicious light.

There was a slight smile between Xiao Mu's brows: "I don't like sweets, so you should eat them."

Hengyu wiped it with a handkerchief, put one in his mouth, and immediately said: "It's not sweet..."

Wiped another one and handed it to him: "Try it, it's not sweet."

Xiao Mu had no choice but to take it, but as soon as he bit it in his mouth, it was so sweet that he doubted his life, and looked up at her: "Is this still sweet?"

"It seems that the sense of taste has really recovered." Heng Yu smiled.

Meeting those smiling eyes, Xiao Mu couldn't help laughing: "You don't have to coax me like this."

Seeing him smile, Hengyu's tone became serious instead: "I know that things are different and people are different, and it is always hurtful. It is futile for outsiders to comfort you. But at this time, Lord Hou only needs to know two things. Can--"

Xiao Mu looked at her quietly.

"This first thing, of course, is to find out the truth, so that we can have an explanation for the past, the old man, and myself." After speaking, Heng Yu put the last cherry in his hand, and said softly: "The second thing The thing is to focus on the future, and the days to come are still long, there are many worthwhile things waiting for Lord Hou."

Compared with her many flattery and some gorgeous rhetoric in the past, these words are extremely simple.

But it is like a clear spring spring, wherever it flows, it can take away the cold despair that has been silent for a whole winter, and inject new vitality into the valley that has not echoed for a long time.

Xiao Mu knew that the clear echo in his heart at this moment was because of her words, but it was not only because of these words - the first Wang Chunquan flowed, and underneath it was the long-accumulated vitality.

Long before today, she had quietly accumulated a lot of strength for him, pulled him out of the swamp, and brought him back under the blazing sun.

He looked at the bright moon above the courtyard and said: "In these years, I have never thought about what will happen in the future. I am like an unconscious walking dead. I don't know what to eat, where to go in the future, let alone where to return. Gradually, I can’t empathize with the joys and sorrows of the world, life or death doesn’t seem to matter very much. Sometimes when I climb the heights and look far away alone, I feel that everything in this world seems to have nothing to do with me.”

"I thought that this life was about the same." He still looked at the moon and said, "But now, I am no longer like this——as you just said, there are still many worthwhile things in the world. Fate is still worth cherishing and cherishing."

Hearing this, Heng Yu was very happy and relaxed for him, and asked with a smile: "Then how and when did Lord Hou figure it out?"

"When exactly, I don't know. But I know, it's because I was lucky enough to meet someone." He replied to the moon.

　Good evening everyone, ask for a monthly ticket ヽ(*з｀*)

　　
　
(End of this chapter)