Ma Erniang's Splendid Pastoral
Chapter 108
Chapter 108
Mr. Tian shed tears before he spoke, it was him, my general.
As if sensing that someone was looking at him, Xia Zetao looked out the window, his weather-beaten thin black and yellow face moved, and his eyes stared blankly at Mr. Tian.
"General..." Mr. Tian quickly stepped forward, and knelt down in front of him, "General—" He was choked up and couldn't speak anymore.
"Yangon—" Xia Zetao smiled as if seeing a relative.
"It's me, it's the little me." Mr. Tian wiped his tears and looked up at him, shouting repeatedly, his words were already incoherent with excitement.
"I've seen Zhen'er for so many years, thank you for being by his side."
"No...no...General, don't thank the little one, the little one didn't do well, very badly..."
……
Ma Min'er sighed, and left quietly, leaving this place for the guest of honor.
Ma Qifeng saw his daughter and looked behind him, "Min'er, how are you?"
"When they have seen it, things will come to a conclusion."
"Oh."
When it was getting late, Liu Zaili suddenly received a message from Feige in Beijing. After reading the message, he was shocked.
The aide asked, "Jun Wang, what's the matter?"
"Hurry up and pack up and go back to Beijing."
"Your Majesty, could it be..." the staff member pointed up.
"Ah."
After receiving an affirmative answer, the staff turned around and called, "Quick, come here."
"gentlemen--"
"Hurry back to Beijing, quietly, don't disturb anyone."
"Yes, sir."
In the Pingding camp, Zhuang Hao was the only person who was in charge of the little general. When his people found out that Liu Zai had left the barracks, he hurriedly chased him, "The king of the county is..."
"I'm bored, let's go for a stroll." Liu Zaili looked calm.
Zhuang Hao "Let the little one accompany you."
"Is it convenient for you to be the only one in this camp?" Liu Zaili twitched his lips.
Zhuang Hao smiled and cupped his hands, "For the king of the county, no matter how inconvenient it is, it must be convenient."
"Haha..." Liu Zaili sat on the tall horse, raised his head and laughed, "Mr. Zhuang, I think you should be busy with your work. This county doesn't need your company."
The guard behind Liu Zaili took a step forward and blocked Zhuang Hao. He could only watch Yancheng County King leave.
"Follow, see where he goes?"
"Yes, sir."
It was already night, the city gate was closed, and Liu Zaili used the county trump card to force his way out of the city.
"Your Majesty, Shangguandao, let's go directly to Nanshui to change carriages and return to Beijing."
Liu Zaili grinned, "The king of this county still has some private matters to attend to."
"Your Majesty, but now... this private matter..."
Liu Zaili looked at the entourage coldly, "Am I the county king, or are you the county king?"
"Yes, the king, the little one is getting more hairpin."
Liu Zaili glanced contemptuously, pulled up the horse rope and headed towards Xiaowang Village.
It was getting late, and Ma's dinner was already prepared. After waiting for a while, Ma Min'er said to Ma Qifeng, "Father, send their portion to the room, and we can eat by ourselves."
"That's not good."
"Father, they probably don't care about etiquette now, let them chat freely with the guest of honor."
"Okay, then listen to you."
Shi Chunyue and Xing'er brought Mr. Tian's guests' meals and medicines to the room they were in, and asked again, "Is there anything I need the women to do?"
"No, you go down."
"Yes, my lord!"
After all the servants of Ma's family left, Mr. Tian wiped the corners of his eyes again, "General, I've been talking for a long time, let me give you medicine and food."
Xia Zetao nodded.
Mr. Tian thoughtfully asked the host to eat and take medicine, as if he had returned to the old days. For a while, there was only the smell of medicine and food floating in the small room.
Ma Min'er had a good dinner with her father and sister, and was going to wash up and go to bed early. It was really too much to experience during this period, and the 13-year-old body couldn't bear it.
Just after coming out of the kitchen corridor, Father Fu was standing outside the corridor. Because of the darkness, if she hadn't had good eyesight, she wouldn't have seen it. "Father, are you looking for me?"
Father Fu didn't make a sound, but waved.
Ma Min'er hurried out of the corridor, "What's the matter?"
"Someone threw a ball of paper just now, saying that they can only let you know and show you the paper ball, and that if I dare to tell others, they will attack Saburo." Father Fu's legs are still trembling. A wealthy landlord was blackmailed, but he did not expect to meet him. He felt that it was time for him to retire, and he could no longer guard the gate. If a robber came, how could he resist it?
Ma Min'er was so frightened that she looked like a kidnapper. She opened the ball of paper with shaking hands, and it said, "Ma Erniang, you'd better come out to see me alone, don't tell anyone, or your relatives..." This picture of sword blood is really scary.
"Little boss, what's written on it?"
"No... nothing." Ma Min'er's brain turned rapidly, who could be threatening herself, subconsciously looked at the paper ball again, and suddenly found a small mark in the corner of the paper ball, she felt where she was Seeing it, my mind flashed, and I unconsciously said: "It turns out... so it's him..."
"Little Boss, who is it?" Ma Min'er glanced at the nervous Father Fu, and forced a smile, "Father, it's okay, someone we know, just kidding with me."
"Ah, it's not like..."
Father Fu's words were interrupted by Ma Min'er, "It's okay, you can continue guarding the gate, I'm going to sleep."
"That Saburo..."
"Father, it's okay, just kidding, let's ignore him."
"Oh." Father Fu saw that Xiaodong's family didn't take it seriously, it was just a joke, he was relieved, "Then I'll go and see the door."
"Well, go and rest early."
"Hey, I see."
Ma Min'er went upstairs and returned to her room, Shan Xiaodan followed, "Er Niang, is there anything I can do?" Usually at this time, the little boss didn't need her for anything, just asked her routinely. One sound, if there is any trivial matter to run errands!
"It's okay, Miss Shan, you can go to rest too."
"Okay, if something happens, call me."
"Ah."
After eating, Xia Zetao rested again, and then he had the strength to speak again, "Yangguang, you said that I now..."
Mr. Tian said: "General, the old general has come, shall I let him know about this?"
"I'm afraid my father won't be able to bear it." Xia Zetao looked sad.
"Then tell the little general..."
"I heard that the imperial envoy in Beijing is here, and I'm afraid Zhen'er won't be able to handle it."
"This..." Mr. Tian is in a dilemma. The old man is not in good health, so he can't say it, and the young one is in trouble, so he can't say it. What should we do? The old son can't deny it, and the young man can't be a father. call.
In the room, the lights are flickering, two middle-aged men are trapped, what should they do?
Mrs. Xia did not expect that her daughter-in-law, who never left the door, would come to Pingding, "Are you here for the anniversary of Tao'er's death?"
Zhao Suxin nodded indifferently, saluted her mother-in-law, stood in the main hall, and seemed alienated from everyone, as if no one here was her relatives or close relatives.
Mrs. Xia held back her anger, and said to her eldest grandson with a smile: "Zian, it's rare for your mother to come, so please entertain her."
"Well, Grandma, I see."
Mrs. Ling stood aside, and finally interrupted, "Old lady, I don't need a little general for entertaining, he just wants to get together with his sister and get close to each other. Let Ya'er come for basic necessities."
"Yes, old lady, let Ya'er come."
"That's all right, it's thanks to you." Mrs. Xia didn't have the energy to take care of her daughter-in-law anymore.
Seeing her sister, Ling's mother felt that the little general's wife was waving at her. Don't mention how energetic she was, her whole face turned into a flower with a smile, and she was very courteous: "The old lady is too polite, taking care of my sister is what my sister should do." of."
"Mother, Zhen'er, I'm tired, I'm going back to my room first."
I don't know why, these simple words aroused the anger that Mrs. Xia had finally suppressed. My son brought you back, so why can't we be close to him?Without saying a word, you have to go back to your room again. Could it be that Tao'er is dead and you don't want your son anymore. Could it be that you can't live without a man?
It's a pity that Mrs. Xia's words can only be stuffed in her heart, and she can only get angry secretly, secretly saying that Zi'an's daughter-in-law must marry someone who can make things happen, and don't marry another dodder flower.
Xia Zhen stood by the side, cold and indifferent, as if without this mother. For her arrival, his excitement had subsided in front of his father's graveyard, and he didn't feel anything at all. When he was a child, he couldn't get any warmth from her. Consolation, now I will not get more.
Sigh...women...if a person like General Ling's wife is placed among the people, or on a peasant woman who can't get enough to eat three meals a day, she will be sad, and it will last ten years if she is sad, and she will not be able to get out of it in ten years , Only the rich and the idle can be so hypocritical.
But is this just love?Maybe she is really a delicate dodder flower, soft and entangled, she can't live without a man.
Difficult to make a decision, Mr. Tian sighed and said, "General, the boy who came back with your clothes almost mutinied and almost destroyed our Zhenguo General's Mansion."
"That kid?" Xia Zetao asked puzzled.
"It's Shao Youliang, do you remember, General?"
Xia Zetao shook his head: "I remember everyone who played forward with me, but there is no such person."
"What, no?" Mr. Tian turned pale with shock.
Xia Zetao said: "That time the Turks launched a large-scale attack, and 20 cavalry came. Although I had 20 soldiers, 16% were infantry, and the real number of the army was far from [-]. In fact, it was only about [-]."
"I know this. The actual number of our army is only 15, and the equipment is not good enough. It is not an opponent of the Turks at all. In that battle, it was the general's determination to drive the Turks westward for three hundred miles."
"But the price I paid was too great." Speaking of the past, there was no excitement, no glory, only endless regret, Xia Zetao sighed: "If my command was effective, maybe the war would not be so fierce and I would not die. Most of the sergeants."
"General..."
"It's me...it's me who underestimated the [-] Turkic cavalry, and I led the [-]th army to charge forward blindly..."
"General, it's not your fault. There is no time when a general leads an army in battle without losing his hand."
"But I..." Xia Zetao shook his head: "If I hadn't disappeared unexpectedly back then, maybe the surname of General Zhen Guo's mansion would have been changed to Zhang or Li long ago."
"General..." Mr. Tian cried in grief.
"Yeah, damn it, why did I wake up on the grassy beach of the river?"
Hearing the general talk about his disappearance, Mr. Tian quickly asked, "You actually came to Hejian Road, which is the land of the Western Regions!"
Xia Zetao said: "That day, I received the news that the leader of the Turkic tribe was going to attack Sanqingshan. He led the vanguard battalion, and chased him all the way. I was so eager that I didn't know that I had been fooled until then. It was too late to turn around. I was surrounded by Turkic people and escaped under the cover of a few brave guards. In the end, I got separated from everyone and fainted from exhaustion and hunger. When I woke up, I found myself lying on the river beach, and I walked for a long time, but I didn't get out of the river."
"I heard that there is a famous Lost City over there?" Mr. Tian has heard of it.
Xia Zetao nodded: "Well, I didn't know until a few years later that I was in Hejian Road, in this lost city."
"Oh."
"I tried to go back to Great Wei many times, but I returned to the original point for various reasons. It wasn't until the most recent time that the rivers and streams were severely drought-stricken that people fled there. I followed the refugees all the way back to Pingding."
"There are no refugees in Pingding?" Mr. Tian was a little surprised.
"They stopped in Turkic, and I took the opportunity to escape."
Hearing this, Mr. Tian clapped his hands together, "Not good, the Turks have recruited these refugees, and there are people, and they are going to invade my Great Wei Dynasty again."
Xia Zetao nodded, "I guess after the autumn harvest, their main purpose is to grab food and people."
Mr. Tian stood up, irritated, "But now, that Shao's plot is wrong, and he is afraid that the Turkic people will take advantage of the discord between us and call him early."
"Shao..."
"Escape!"
"Can you escape there?"
"I'm afraid he will escape to Beijing."
"Don't you throw yourself into a trap?"
"General, you don't know that the Holy Majesty's health has been bad, and several princes have been fighting for the heir. If someone surnamed Shao joins a prince, it may be bad for us."
Xia Zetao frowned deeply, "It's really troublesome."
"yes……"
There was another long silence in the room. Just when Mr. Tian was about to think about the next step, Xia Zetao said, "Yangguang, can you not tell father and Zhen'er, can you turn me into an ordinary farmer?"
"General, you..."
"Once my identity is exposed, the Holy Majesty will definitely pursue the responsibility of the year, which is not good for the Xia family."
"General, it's been ten years, and back then, the old general invited reinforcements from all walks of life, drove away the Turkic people, and stopped the Turkic people from going south to invade our Great Wei Dynasty. The Holy Majesty has let this matter go."
Xia Zetao shook his head, "I heard that the generals in Xiangzhou Prefecture have all changed, and Yizhou has been run by my Xia family for five generations. I'm afraid it's already a thorn in the emperor's eye. I wish I could pull it out."
Mr. Tian didn't say a word. It was true. There were not many hereditary generals in the Great Wei Dynasty. There were only three or five people in the Great Wei Dynasty, and Yizhou was among them.
"Now that I am a dead man, let me go on being a dead man."
"But..." Mr. Tian said, "You have been targeted and killed, so can you ignore it?"
Xia Zetao narrowed his eyes, "According to the logic, no one should know me, except him."
Hearing the general's words, Mr. Tian asked in surprise, "Who?"
"That magic stick, Feng Jiangyi, met me when he was in the capital. You know, he has a photographic memory. Even if you become a scruffy beggar, he can recognize you at a glance."
Hearing this, Mr. Tian's eyes lit up, "I've heard that Shao Youliang also has the ability to remember his photographs. Could it be... General, have you ever stopped in Chuanling?"
The general nodded, "And the time is not short."
"Have you been hunted down before?"
"It was when I returned to Pingding that I was hunted down."
Mr. Tian pursed his lips, "You have been missing for ten years, and even the Turkic people are not aware of your existence in the rivers and streams of the Western Regions. Now there are still people chasing and killing you, and you have returned to Pingding. I am afraid that Shao Youliang has seen you .”
Xia Zetao squinted his eyes and thought hard, "This analysis makes sense. The man surnamed Shao often goes shopping in the street and has seen me several times."
"Oh, little one understands, he is afraid that you will block his path to Qingyun."
"There is such a cruel villain."
Mr. Tian said with emotion: "This person is not simple. He didn't go to the front with the general, but he dared to come back with your clothes to receive the reward. Really..."
Xia Zetao said: "A person with such a strong ambition must have made up his mind long ago."
"Well, I think so. Probably if it wasn't for the little general's bad temper and strict military law, Shao's surname might have...successful."
"It's hard for my son." Xia Zetao sighed.
"Yes, it's difficult for the little general."
The host and guest chatted until midnight. If Mr. Tian was not afraid that the general's health would not be able to bear it, he could still chat, and finally held back, "General, your news, I'm a little confused, I want to talk to you."
"You want to go back to the city?"
Mr. Tian shook his head, "No, it's right here."
"My wife?"
"Uh……"
Mr. Tian was stunned by the general's direct words: "General..."
"I saw it. Around her neck is the jade water drop of our Xia family."
For a while, Mr. Tian didn't know where to say these words to the general, "You rest, I will look for you tomorrow morning."
"Yeah." Xia Zetao nodded, expressing the depression in his heart. His mood improved a lot. As for his identity, let's talk about it when we get to the front of the mountain.
Ma Qifeng fell asleep, but Mr. Tian asked himself to call his daughter, "Sir, how about...tomorrow morning."
Mr. Tian shook his head, "I'm sorry, Master Ma, I don't know why I didn't say a few words to Er Niang, my heart is beating so hard."
What can I do, who will let the officials go, Ma Qifeng had no choice but to go to the floor where her daughter was, Shan Xiaodan heard the voice, and went out of the room, "Big Boss, what's the matter?"
"Go and call Erniang, and tell Mr. Tian to look for him."
"it is good."
Shan Xiaodan gently pushed Ma Min'er's room away, lit the oil lamp, and was about to call someone, but found that the mosquito net hadn't been put down, and when she was about to blame her, she saw that there was no one on the bed at all, so she went to the bathroom, why? It was as if no one was sleeping on the bed. She felt weird, and hurried to the bathroom and bathroom, but there was no one there.
Startled, he hurriedly turned out the door, "Big... big boss, little boss... you're gone..."
"What?" Ma Qifeng didn't care about the etiquette, and walked into the room, and saw that there was no one on the bed at a glance, "Min'er...Min'er..."
Mr. Tian heard the call at the corner, hurried over and entered the room regardless of etiquette, "Where is Er Niang?"
"I...before going to bed, I still talk to Er Niang?"
"Then... where is that person?" Ma Qifeng seemed to be going crazy, searching from room to room upstairs until he found the downstairs, everyone in Ma's family heard the movement, and they all looked for Ma Min'er .
I found the village from the yard, and from the village I found Guo Li's family in Yunshui Town, "Didn't you see Er Niang?"
Mrs. Guo Li shook her head: "Er Niang came to see us a few days ago, but not these days."
"Min'er...my Min'er..." Ma Qifeng's hair was messed up like a lunatic, he kept looking for his daughter, asking anyone he saw.
Most of the small Yunshui Town got up because of the commotion, Shen Hou'er hugged Ma Qifeng: "Master Ma, don't worry, we will help you find it."
"My daughter, my daughter..."
A handsome middle-aged man cried like a woman because of his child. In the crowd, the eldest daughter-in-law and the young lady did not follow suit, and even men shed tears.
"What's going on!"
"Yes, the second mother of the Ma family is a very capable little lady!
"Did the robbers kidnap her when they saw that their family had money?"
"It's still...it's really possible..."
……
Ma Qifeng was dragged home by Shen Houer and others. At this moment, Mr. Tian was no longer in Ma's house. Shan Xiaoniang asked Uncle Niu to persuade everyone to go back, and whispered to the owner: "Big boss, don't worry, Mr. Tian I have already returned to the county, and I am looking for the little general, I believe that the little general will definitely find the little boss."
"Ah..." Ma Qifeng, who had been in a mess for a long time, heard this, and his heart suddenly brightened, "Yeah, why did I forget, there is also the little general, and the little general..."
"So, boss, don't worry, just wait quietly at home."
On the streets and in the village, it gradually became quiet with the Ma Qifeng returning home.
Ma Zhai also heard the movement outside. The housekeeper Lao Ding asked his servants to inquire, and quickly told Ma Qimeng, "Go back to the master, the second mother of the Ma family is gone."
"What... she disappeared?"
"Yes, there was quite a commotion."
"Have you found it?"
Lao Ding shook his head, "No!"
"How could it disappear? That girl is so smart, who can deceive her?" Ma Qimeng said in surprise.
Yes, who can deceive white-collar elites with more than 30 core cores?There should be no one, but Ma Min'er was too confident and didn't anticipate the current situation.
"Liu Zaili, what do you want, let me go!" Ma Min'er was held in his arms, motionless.
In the dark of night, Liu Zaili just hurried on his way, turning a deaf ear to the cries of the little lady who was shaking in his arms.
The guard came back and reported, "Mr. Zhuang, we were dumped by the Yancheng County King's men in Yunshui Town."
"Yunshui Town? Didn't he go to Ma Er's family?"
The guard shook his head, "No, but he did work in a small inn in Yunshui Town and had dinner, but our people didn't wait for them to come out and realized something was wrong before we realized that they had slipped through the back door."
Zhuang Hao looked at the guard sternly, and he quickly knelt down to plead guilty, "It's my negligence, sir, please punish me."
Zhuang Hao didn't have time to punish them, so he frowned tightly, "Going to Yunshui, but not to Ma Er's mother's house, this...is too unreasonable, so why did he go to Yunshui Town?"
Suddenly, with startled eyes, Zhuang Hao realized that the situation was not good, "Prepare my horse quickly, I am going to the Little General's Mansion."
"Yes, sir."
When I arrived at the gate of the Little General's Mansion, I didn't expect to meet Mr., "Mr., aren't you in Xiaowang Village? Did King Yancheng find something?"
Mr. Tian shook his head: "I don't know what King Yancheng found, but Ma Erniang is gone."
"What?" Zhuang Hao turned pale with shock, "Sir, after the gate of King Yancheng County was closed, he left Pingding. My people followed Yunshui and were dumped by him."
"Could it be that Er Niang was taken away by him?"
"It seems so, not only that, he also quietly returned to Beijing."
"This..." Mr. Tian and the others felt the complexity of the matter, "Should we find the old general first, or the young general first?"
Zhuang Hao said, "Let's look for the old general first, the king of Yancheng County can't leave for no reason, it must be the capital... let the old general make preparations early."
"it is good."
In the night, his forehead lightly touched Ma Min'er's slender shoulders. Liu Zaili never imagined that the feeling was so wonderful, like the breeze, like the bright moon, and the ripples in his heart were soft and soft, as if they were about to melt.
"Liu Zaili, what the hell do you want to do?"
"It's not good to swear." Liu Zaili frowned slightly, knowing that the little lady was tough, but he didn't expect to be so rough as to swear, it didn't feel good.
"Then where do you want to take me?"
"What do you mean, as smart as you are, you won't miss Ma Erniang, right?" Liu Zaili asked back with a smile.
"I can't leave Yizhou, don't you know, the emperor will behead me."
"Haha..." Liu Zaili looked up to the sky and laughed loudly, his mood was soaring, "Ma Miner, if you said that, you should have beheaded a long time ago."
"You..." Ma Min'er was successfully blocked by others, twisted her body unhappily, and moved in front of the horse again, away from this guy's touch.
Liu Zaili was not annoyed, he didn't fish it back or post it up, so he had to be patient with the little lady, and turned his head and said, "Don't stop before dawn."
"Yes, son."
In the little general's mansion, the old general was also shocked by the news brought by the two of Tian Zhuang, "Could it be that the Holy One..."
"Old general, even if... I'm afraid... Otherwise, King Yancheng would not have left without saying hello."
The old general nodded and looked towards Mr. Tian, "What did you want to say just now?"
Mr. Tian didn't dare to meet the old general's gaze, and avoided it, "Old...Old general, I want to say something to the young general."
Seeing that Mr. Tian refused to speak, the old general waved his hand, "Then you go talk about it."
"Yes," Mr. Tian went out, and Xia Zhen waited for him to speak. He didn't know whether to talk about the general or Ma Erniang first, and finally struggled, and said, "Zian, I'm afraid Liu Zaili is talking about it." ……Bundle……"
Xia Zhen frowned, waiting for him to finish speaking.
"I'm afraid I took Erniang away."
Xia Zhen raised her head suddenly, her eyes quickly turned into rabbit eyes, she turned around and ran out the door without saying a word.
"Prepare the horse, quickly prepare the horse..." Xiaowen's cry echoed in the little general's mansion.
The long night finally passed, the sky was still gray-blue, the dawn gradually dawned, the earth was hazy, like a silver-gray veil, in the silence, suddenly there was a bird's call, piercing the sky. the silence of dawn.
(End of this chapter)
Mr. Tian shed tears before he spoke, it was him, my general.
As if sensing that someone was looking at him, Xia Zetao looked out the window, his weather-beaten thin black and yellow face moved, and his eyes stared blankly at Mr. Tian.
"General..." Mr. Tian quickly stepped forward, and knelt down in front of him, "General—" He was choked up and couldn't speak anymore.
"Yangon—" Xia Zetao smiled as if seeing a relative.
"It's me, it's the little me." Mr. Tian wiped his tears and looked up at him, shouting repeatedly, his words were already incoherent with excitement.
"I've seen Zhen'er for so many years, thank you for being by his side."
"No...no...General, don't thank the little one, the little one didn't do well, very badly..."
……
Ma Min'er sighed, and left quietly, leaving this place for the guest of honor.
Ma Qifeng saw his daughter and looked behind him, "Min'er, how are you?"
"When they have seen it, things will come to a conclusion."
"Oh."
When it was getting late, Liu Zaili suddenly received a message from Feige in Beijing. After reading the message, he was shocked.
The aide asked, "Jun Wang, what's the matter?"
"Hurry up and pack up and go back to Beijing."
"Your Majesty, could it be..." the staff member pointed up.
"Ah."
After receiving an affirmative answer, the staff turned around and called, "Quick, come here."
"gentlemen--"
"Hurry back to Beijing, quietly, don't disturb anyone."
"Yes, sir."
In the Pingding camp, Zhuang Hao was the only person who was in charge of the little general. When his people found out that Liu Zai had left the barracks, he hurriedly chased him, "The king of the county is..."
"I'm bored, let's go for a stroll." Liu Zaili looked calm.
Zhuang Hao "Let the little one accompany you."
"Is it convenient for you to be the only one in this camp?" Liu Zaili twitched his lips.
Zhuang Hao smiled and cupped his hands, "For the king of the county, no matter how inconvenient it is, it must be convenient."
"Haha..." Liu Zaili sat on the tall horse, raised his head and laughed, "Mr. Zhuang, I think you should be busy with your work. This county doesn't need your company."
The guard behind Liu Zaili took a step forward and blocked Zhuang Hao. He could only watch Yancheng County King leave.
"Follow, see where he goes?"
"Yes, sir."
It was already night, the city gate was closed, and Liu Zaili used the county trump card to force his way out of the city.
"Your Majesty, Shangguandao, let's go directly to Nanshui to change carriages and return to Beijing."
Liu Zaili grinned, "The king of this county still has some private matters to attend to."
"Your Majesty, but now... this private matter..."
Liu Zaili looked at the entourage coldly, "Am I the county king, or are you the county king?"
"Yes, the king, the little one is getting more hairpin."
Liu Zaili glanced contemptuously, pulled up the horse rope and headed towards Xiaowang Village.
It was getting late, and Ma's dinner was already prepared. After waiting for a while, Ma Min'er said to Ma Qifeng, "Father, send their portion to the room, and we can eat by ourselves."
"That's not good."
"Father, they probably don't care about etiquette now, let them chat freely with the guest of honor."
"Okay, then listen to you."
Shi Chunyue and Xing'er brought Mr. Tian's guests' meals and medicines to the room they were in, and asked again, "Is there anything I need the women to do?"
"No, you go down."
"Yes, my lord!"
After all the servants of Ma's family left, Mr. Tian wiped the corners of his eyes again, "General, I've been talking for a long time, let me give you medicine and food."
Xia Zetao nodded.
Mr. Tian thoughtfully asked the host to eat and take medicine, as if he had returned to the old days. For a while, there was only the smell of medicine and food floating in the small room.
Ma Min'er had a good dinner with her father and sister, and was going to wash up and go to bed early. It was really too much to experience during this period, and the 13-year-old body couldn't bear it.
Just after coming out of the kitchen corridor, Father Fu was standing outside the corridor. Because of the darkness, if she hadn't had good eyesight, she wouldn't have seen it. "Father, are you looking for me?"
Father Fu didn't make a sound, but waved.
Ma Min'er hurried out of the corridor, "What's the matter?"
"Someone threw a ball of paper just now, saying that they can only let you know and show you the paper ball, and that if I dare to tell others, they will attack Saburo." Father Fu's legs are still trembling. A wealthy landlord was blackmailed, but he did not expect to meet him. He felt that it was time for him to retire, and he could no longer guard the gate. If a robber came, how could he resist it?
Ma Min'er was so frightened that she looked like a kidnapper. She opened the ball of paper with shaking hands, and it said, "Ma Erniang, you'd better come out to see me alone, don't tell anyone, or your relatives..." This picture of sword blood is really scary.
"Little boss, what's written on it?"
"No... nothing." Ma Min'er's brain turned rapidly, who could be threatening herself, subconsciously looked at the paper ball again, and suddenly found a small mark in the corner of the paper ball, she felt where she was Seeing it, my mind flashed, and I unconsciously said: "It turns out... so it's him..."
"Little Boss, who is it?" Ma Min'er glanced at the nervous Father Fu, and forced a smile, "Father, it's okay, someone we know, just kidding with me."
"Ah, it's not like..."
Father Fu's words were interrupted by Ma Min'er, "It's okay, you can continue guarding the gate, I'm going to sleep."
"That Saburo..."
"Father, it's okay, just kidding, let's ignore him."
"Oh." Father Fu saw that Xiaodong's family didn't take it seriously, it was just a joke, he was relieved, "Then I'll go and see the door."
"Well, go and rest early."
"Hey, I see."
Ma Min'er went upstairs and returned to her room, Shan Xiaodan followed, "Er Niang, is there anything I can do?" Usually at this time, the little boss didn't need her for anything, just asked her routinely. One sound, if there is any trivial matter to run errands!
"It's okay, Miss Shan, you can go to rest too."
"Okay, if something happens, call me."
"Ah."
After eating, Xia Zetao rested again, and then he had the strength to speak again, "Yangguang, you said that I now..."
Mr. Tian said: "General, the old general has come, shall I let him know about this?"
"I'm afraid my father won't be able to bear it." Xia Zetao looked sad.
"Then tell the little general..."
"I heard that the imperial envoy in Beijing is here, and I'm afraid Zhen'er won't be able to handle it."
"This..." Mr. Tian is in a dilemma. The old man is not in good health, so he can't say it, and the young one is in trouble, so he can't say it. What should we do? The old son can't deny it, and the young man can't be a father. call.
In the room, the lights are flickering, two middle-aged men are trapped, what should they do?
Mrs. Xia did not expect that her daughter-in-law, who never left the door, would come to Pingding, "Are you here for the anniversary of Tao'er's death?"
Zhao Suxin nodded indifferently, saluted her mother-in-law, stood in the main hall, and seemed alienated from everyone, as if no one here was her relatives or close relatives.
Mrs. Xia held back her anger, and said to her eldest grandson with a smile: "Zian, it's rare for your mother to come, so please entertain her."
"Well, Grandma, I see."
Mrs. Ling stood aside, and finally interrupted, "Old lady, I don't need a little general for entertaining, he just wants to get together with his sister and get close to each other. Let Ya'er come for basic necessities."
"Yes, old lady, let Ya'er come."
"That's all right, it's thanks to you." Mrs. Xia didn't have the energy to take care of her daughter-in-law anymore.
Seeing her sister, Ling's mother felt that the little general's wife was waving at her. Don't mention how energetic she was, her whole face turned into a flower with a smile, and she was very courteous: "The old lady is too polite, taking care of my sister is what my sister should do." of."
"Mother, Zhen'er, I'm tired, I'm going back to my room first."
I don't know why, these simple words aroused the anger that Mrs. Xia had finally suppressed. My son brought you back, so why can't we be close to him?Without saying a word, you have to go back to your room again. Could it be that Tao'er is dead and you don't want your son anymore. Could it be that you can't live without a man?
It's a pity that Mrs. Xia's words can only be stuffed in her heart, and she can only get angry secretly, secretly saying that Zi'an's daughter-in-law must marry someone who can make things happen, and don't marry another dodder flower.
Xia Zhen stood by the side, cold and indifferent, as if without this mother. For her arrival, his excitement had subsided in front of his father's graveyard, and he didn't feel anything at all. When he was a child, he couldn't get any warmth from her. Consolation, now I will not get more.
Sigh...women...if a person like General Ling's wife is placed among the people, or on a peasant woman who can't get enough to eat three meals a day, she will be sad, and it will last ten years if she is sad, and she will not be able to get out of it in ten years , Only the rich and the idle can be so hypocritical.
But is this just love?Maybe she is really a delicate dodder flower, soft and entangled, she can't live without a man.
Difficult to make a decision, Mr. Tian sighed and said, "General, the boy who came back with your clothes almost mutinied and almost destroyed our Zhenguo General's Mansion."
"That kid?" Xia Zetao asked puzzled.
"It's Shao Youliang, do you remember, General?"
Xia Zetao shook his head: "I remember everyone who played forward with me, but there is no such person."
"What, no?" Mr. Tian turned pale with shock.
Xia Zetao said: "That time the Turks launched a large-scale attack, and 20 cavalry came. Although I had 20 soldiers, 16% were infantry, and the real number of the army was far from [-]. In fact, it was only about [-]."
"I know this. The actual number of our army is only 15, and the equipment is not good enough. It is not an opponent of the Turks at all. In that battle, it was the general's determination to drive the Turks westward for three hundred miles."
"But the price I paid was too great." Speaking of the past, there was no excitement, no glory, only endless regret, Xia Zetao sighed: "If my command was effective, maybe the war would not be so fierce and I would not die. Most of the sergeants."
"General..."
"It's me...it's me who underestimated the [-] Turkic cavalry, and I led the [-]th army to charge forward blindly..."
"General, it's not your fault. There is no time when a general leads an army in battle without losing his hand."
"But I..." Xia Zetao shook his head: "If I hadn't disappeared unexpectedly back then, maybe the surname of General Zhen Guo's mansion would have been changed to Zhang or Li long ago."
"General..." Mr. Tian cried in grief.
"Yeah, damn it, why did I wake up on the grassy beach of the river?"
Hearing the general talk about his disappearance, Mr. Tian quickly asked, "You actually came to Hejian Road, which is the land of the Western Regions!"
Xia Zetao said: "That day, I received the news that the leader of the Turkic tribe was going to attack Sanqingshan. He led the vanguard battalion, and chased him all the way. I was so eager that I didn't know that I had been fooled until then. It was too late to turn around. I was surrounded by Turkic people and escaped under the cover of a few brave guards. In the end, I got separated from everyone and fainted from exhaustion and hunger. When I woke up, I found myself lying on the river beach, and I walked for a long time, but I didn't get out of the river."
"I heard that there is a famous Lost City over there?" Mr. Tian has heard of it.
Xia Zetao nodded: "Well, I didn't know until a few years later that I was in Hejian Road, in this lost city."
"Oh."
"I tried to go back to Great Wei many times, but I returned to the original point for various reasons. It wasn't until the most recent time that the rivers and streams were severely drought-stricken that people fled there. I followed the refugees all the way back to Pingding."
"There are no refugees in Pingding?" Mr. Tian was a little surprised.
"They stopped in Turkic, and I took the opportunity to escape."
Hearing this, Mr. Tian clapped his hands together, "Not good, the Turks have recruited these refugees, and there are people, and they are going to invade my Great Wei Dynasty again."
Xia Zetao nodded, "I guess after the autumn harvest, their main purpose is to grab food and people."
Mr. Tian stood up, irritated, "But now, that Shao's plot is wrong, and he is afraid that the Turkic people will take advantage of the discord between us and call him early."
"Shao..."
"Escape!"
"Can you escape there?"
"I'm afraid he will escape to Beijing."
"Don't you throw yourself into a trap?"
"General, you don't know that the Holy Majesty's health has been bad, and several princes have been fighting for the heir. If someone surnamed Shao joins a prince, it may be bad for us."
Xia Zetao frowned deeply, "It's really troublesome."
"yes……"
There was another long silence in the room. Just when Mr. Tian was about to think about the next step, Xia Zetao said, "Yangguang, can you not tell father and Zhen'er, can you turn me into an ordinary farmer?"
"General, you..."
"Once my identity is exposed, the Holy Majesty will definitely pursue the responsibility of the year, which is not good for the Xia family."
"General, it's been ten years, and back then, the old general invited reinforcements from all walks of life, drove away the Turkic people, and stopped the Turkic people from going south to invade our Great Wei Dynasty. The Holy Majesty has let this matter go."
Xia Zetao shook his head, "I heard that the generals in Xiangzhou Prefecture have all changed, and Yizhou has been run by my Xia family for five generations. I'm afraid it's already a thorn in the emperor's eye. I wish I could pull it out."
Mr. Tian didn't say a word. It was true. There were not many hereditary generals in the Great Wei Dynasty. There were only three or five people in the Great Wei Dynasty, and Yizhou was among them.
"Now that I am a dead man, let me go on being a dead man."
"But..." Mr. Tian said, "You have been targeted and killed, so can you ignore it?"
Xia Zetao narrowed his eyes, "According to the logic, no one should know me, except him."
Hearing the general's words, Mr. Tian asked in surprise, "Who?"
"That magic stick, Feng Jiangyi, met me when he was in the capital. You know, he has a photographic memory. Even if you become a scruffy beggar, he can recognize you at a glance."
Hearing this, Mr. Tian's eyes lit up, "I've heard that Shao Youliang also has the ability to remember his photographs. Could it be... General, have you ever stopped in Chuanling?"
The general nodded, "And the time is not short."
"Have you been hunted down before?"
"It was when I returned to Pingding that I was hunted down."
Mr. Tian pursed his lips, "You have been missing for ten years, and even the Turkic people are not aware of your existence in the rivers and streams of the Western Regions. Now there are still people chasing and killing you, and you have returned to Pingding. I am afraid that Shao Youliang has seen you .”
Xia Zetao squinted his eyes and thought hard, "This analysis makes sense. The man surnamed Shao often goes shopping in the street and has seen me several times."
"Oh, little one understands, he is afraid that you will block his path to Qingyun."
"There is such a cruel villain."
Mr. Tian said with emotion: "This person is not simple. He didn't go to the front with the general, but he dared to come back with your clothes to receive the reward. Really..."
Xia Zetao said: "A person with such a strong ambition must have made up his mind long ago."
"Well, I think so. Probably if it wasn't for the little general's bad temper and strict military law, Shao's surname might have...successful."
"It's hard for my son." Xia Zetao sighed.
"Yes, it's difficult for the little general."
The host and guest chatted until midnight. If Mr. Tian was not afraid that the general's health would not be able to bear it, he could still chat, and finally held back, "General, your news, I'm a little confused, I want to talk to you."
"You want to go back to the city?"
Mr. Tian shook his head, "No, it's right here."
"My wife?"
"Uh……"
Mr. Tian was stunned by the general's direct words: "General..."
"I saw it. Around her neck is the jade water drop of our Xia family."
For a while, Mr. Tian didn't know where to say these words to the general, "You rest, I will look for you tomorrow morning."
"Yeah." Xia Zetao nodded, expressing the depression in his heart. His mood improved a lot. As for his identity, let's talk about it when we get to the front of the mountain.
Ma Qifeng fell asleep, but Mr. Tian asked himself to call his daughter, "Sir, how about...tomorrow morning."
Mr. Tian shook his head, "I'm sorry, Master Ma, I don't know why I didn't say a few words to Er Niang, my heart is beating so hard."
What can I do, who will let the officials go, Ma Qifeng had no choice but to go to the floor where her daughter was, Shan Xiaodan heard the voice, and went out of the room, "Big Boss, what's the matter?"
"Go and call Erniang, and tell Mr. Tian to look for him."
"it is good."
Shan Xiaodan gently pushed Ma Min'er's room away, lit the oil lamp, and was about to call someone, but found that the mosquito net hadn't been put down, and when she was about to blame her, she saw that there was no one on the bed at all, so she went to the bathroom, why? It was as if no one was sleeping on the bed. She felt weird, and hurried to the bathroom and bathroom, but there was no one there.
Startled, he hurriedly turned out the door, "Big... big boss, little boss... you're gone..."
"What?" Ma Qifeng didn't care about the etiquette, and walked into the room, and saw that there was no one on the bed at a glance, "Min'er...Min'er..."
Mr. Tian heard the call at the corner, hurried over and entered the room regardless of etiquette, "Where is Er Niang?"
"I...before going to bed, I still talk to Er Niang?"
"Then... where is that person?" Ma Qifeng seemed to be going crazy, searching from room to room upstairs until he found the downstairs, everyone in Ma's family heard the movement, and they all looked for Ma Min'er .
I found the village from the yard, and from the village I found Guo Li's family in Yunshui Town, "Didn't you see Er Niang?"
Mrs. Guo Li shook her head: "Er Niang came to see us a few days ago, but not these days."
"Min'er...my Min'er..." Ma Qifeng's hair was messed up like a lunatic, he kept looking for his daughter, asking anyone he saw.
Most of the small Yunshui Town got up because of the commotion, Shen Hou'er hugged Ma Qifeng: "Master Ma, don't worry, we will help you find it."
"My daughter, my daughter..."
A handsome middle-aged man cried like a woman because of his child. In the crowd, the eldest daughter-in-law and the young lady did not follow suit, and even men shed tears.
"What's going on!"
"Yes, the second mother of the Ma family is a very capable little lady!
"Did the robbers kidnap her when they saw that their family had money?"
"It's still...it's really possible..."
……
Ma Qifeng was dragged home by Shen Houer and others. At this moment, Mr. Tian was no longer in Ma's house. Shan Xiaoniang asked Uncle Niu to persuade everyone to go back, and whispered to the owner: "Big boss, don't worry, Mr. Tian I have already returned to the county, and I am looking for the little general, I believe that the little general will definitely find the little boss."
"Ah..." Ma Qifeng, who had been in a mess for a long time, heard this, and his heart suddenly brightened, "Yeah, why did I forget, there is also the little general, and the little general..."
"So, boss, don't worry, just wait quietly at home."
On the streets and in the village, it gradually became quiet with the Ma Qifeng returning home.
Ma Zhai also heard the movement outside. The housekeeper Lao Ding asked his servants to inquire, and quickly told Ma Qimeng, "Go back to the master, the second mother of the Ma family is gone."
"What... she disappeared?"
"Yes, there was quite a commotion."
"Have you found it?"
Lao Ding shook his head, "No!"
"How could it disappear? That girl is so smart, who can deceive her?" Ma Qimeng said in surprise.
Yes, who can deceive white-collar elites with more than 30 core cores?There should be no one, but Ma Min'er was too confident and didn't anticipate the current situation.
"Liu Zaili, what do you want, let me go!" Ma Min'er was held in his arms, motionless.
In the dark of night, Liu Zaili just hurried on his way, turning a deaf ear to the cries of the little lady who was shaking in his arms.
The guard came back and reported, "Mr. Zhuang, we were dumped by the Yancheng County King's men in Yunshui Town."
"Yunshui Town? Didn't he go to Ma Er's family?"
The guard shook his head, "No, but he did work in a small inn in Yunshui Town and had dinner, but our people didn't wait for them to come out and realized something was wrong before we realized that they had slipped through the back door."
Zhuang Hao looked at the guard sternly, and he quickly knelt down to plead guilty, "It's my negligence, sir, please punish me."
Zhuang Hao didn't have time to punish them, so he frowned tightly, "Going to Yunshui, but not to Ma Er's mother's house, this...is too unreasonable, so why did he go to Yunshui Town?"
Suddenly, with startled eyes, Zhuang Hao realized that the situation was not good, "Prepare my horse quickly, I am going to the Little General's Mansion."
"Yes, sir."
When I arrived at the gate of the Little General's Mansion, I didn't expect to meet Mr., "Mr., aren't you in Xiaowang Village? Did King Yancheng find something?"
Mr. Tian shook his head: "I don't know what King Yancheng found, but Ma Erniang is gone."
"What?" Zhuang Hao turned pale with shock, "Sir, after the gate of King Yancheng County was closed, he left Pingding. My people followed Yunshui and were dumped by him."
"Could it be that Er Niang was taken away by him?"
"It seems so, not only that, he also quietly returned to Beijing."
"This..." Mr. Tian and the others felt the complexity of the matter, "Should we find the old general first, or the young general first?"
Zhuang Hao said, "Let's look for the old general first, the king of Yancheng County can't leave for no reason, it must be the capital... let the old general make preparations early."
"it is good."
In the night, his forehead lightly touched Ma Min'er's slender shoulders. Liu Zaili never imagined that the feeling was so wonderful, like the breeze, like the bright moon, and the ripples in his heart were soft and soft, as if they were about to melt.
"Liu Zaili, what the hell do you want to do?"
"It's not good to swear." Liu Zaili frowned slightly, knowing that the little lady was tough, but he didn't expect to be so rough as to swear, it didn't feel good.
"Then where do you want to take me?"
"What do you mean, as smart as you are, you won't miss Ma Erniang, right?" Liu Zaili asked back with a smile.
"I can't leave Yizhou, don't you know, the emperor will behead me."
"Haha..." Liu Zaili looked up to the sky and laughed loudly, his mood was soaring, "Ma Miner, if you said that, you should have beheaded a long time ago."
"You..." Ma Min'er was successfully blocked by others, twisted her body unhappily, and moved in front of the horse again, away from this guy's touch.
Liu Zaili was not annoyed, he didn't fish it back or post it up, so he had to be patient with the little lady, and turned his head and said, "Don't stop before dawn."
"Yes, son."
In the little general's mansion, the old general was also shocked by the news brought by the two of Tian Zhuang, "Could it be that the Holy One..."
"Old general, even if... I'm afraid... Otherwise, King Yancheng would not have left without saying hello."
The old general nodded and looked towards Mr. Tian, "What did you want to say just now?"
Mr. Tian didn't dare to meet the old general's gaze, and avoided it, "Old...Old general, I want to say something to the young general."
Seeing that Mr. Tian refused to speak, the old general waved his hand, "Then you go talk about it."
"Yes," Mr. Tian went out, and Xia Zhen waited for him to speak. He didn't know whether to talk about the general or Ma Erniang first, and finally struggled, and said, "Zian, I'm afraid Liu Zaili is talking about it." ……Bundle……"
Xia Zhen frowned, waiting for him to finish speaking.
"I'm afraid I took Erniang away."
Xia Zhen raised her head suddenly, her eyes quickly turned into rabbit eyes, she turned around and ran out the door without saying a word.
"Prepare the horse, quickly prepare the horse..." Xiaowen's cry echoed in the little general's mansion.
The long night finally passed, the sky was still gray-blue, the dawn gradually dawned, the earth was hazy, like a silver-gray veil, in the silence, suddenly there was a bird's call, piercing the sky. the silence of dawn.
(End of this chapter)
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