Xie Yun did not wait for Ming Chen to react, then jumped up and opened the door.

There was a handsome middle-aged man standing at the door. When he saw Xie Yun, he saluted respectfully and said, "Third Young Master."

"Mr. Bai, don't be polite," Xie Yunxu helped the middle-aged man and asked, "How is it?"

This Mr. Bai lowered his head and said, "...Third Young Master, please relax."

Xie Yun's heart sank slightly.

Mr. Bai didn't talk nonsense, and described the cause and effect to him in detail, saying: "Beidou greedy and Lu Cun were originally going to Huojiabao in Yueyang, and suddenly got some news halfway, they separated from the team and temporarily changed to Huarong. , went straight to the inn, and after entering, I couldn't help but say that I wanted to arrest people. There were many good players in the inn, but they were still outnumbered. It would be fine if they broke through at that time, but it is said that there were weak women and children accompanying them, in order to protect them. , These friends had to temporarily withdraw into the inn, and wanted to send someone out to seek rescue. Unexpectedly, Qiu Tianji was already prepared. When he saw them withdrawing into the inn, he immediately ordered his men to surround the place and set up hundreds of poisonous water poles. There was a dead end, and the fire was set again... There was a wine cellar behind the inn, and the fire was so fast that no one could do anything about it."

Xie Yun's complexion was hard to see for a moment, and the whole person seemed to shake.

Ming Chen exclaimed, "Third brother, you..."

"No," the next moment, Xie Yun suddenly raised his eyes and said quickly, "Are the Beidou people still 'patroling' in the city? Covetous people are not such idle people, they don't leave, it must not be for the sake of rubbing too much. After a few meals, someone must have escaped, right?"

☆、Chapter 33 Hero

There is a tree growing in the lonely courtyard. I can't tell what kind of tree it is. It must be some years old. Inaccessible, the moss is very gloomy, but he built a country on his own.

The courtyard is covered with colorful silk and floral fabrics, all of which are cut from old materials, about half a foot wide, everywhere on the trees and houses, if not all of them are already old and faded, they are quite a bit like Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty.” Colorful Silk Hanging Trees" is a great work.

A young boy who looked like a servant placed the food box heavily on the door, slapped the door with force, and shouted rudely, "The meal is delivered! The meal is delivered! Do you want to eat it?"

The lid of the food box slid open, and half a steamed bun rolled out. It was like a "relict of the former dynasty", as if it could be fossilized into jīng on the spot, and stubbornly rolled out from the ground, and the side dishes were even more lifeless. On the plate, there is no heat at all.

The food delivery man showed impatience, and slapped the courtyard door again, his mouth was sullen and said: "I told you to go get the food yourself, but I told the eldest young master behind my back, and I will send it to you and return it. If you don't accept it, you are a born bastard, do you really think that you are a serious lady?"

At this moment, a maid of five big and three rough ran out of the house, holding a broom in her hand, and was about to come out with murderous aura. When the servant saw it, it was a good man who did not suffer from the immediate loss, and called out "Mother Yaksha" and pulled his legs out. go.

The servant girl stood with her waist on her hips and her neck stuck, standing like a pagoda at the door, scolding the eight generations of her ancestors in one breath, until the boy who delivered the meal disappeared, and then she looked down at the old food box on the ground, and said, " Bah." With a sound, he picked it up helplessly and walked inside.

The maid was startled as soon as she turned around, and saw a thin woman standing behind her at some point, with eyes as black as beans.

The maid patted her chest, and the ferocity that was about to bite just faded away, and she muttered in a low voice, "Scared me to death, the madam must be a cat, come, go in, let's have dinner."

The woman didn't respond in a daze, but she was very well-behaved. She followed the maid to the house and walked through the long silk in the courtyard. She stretched out her thin hand and gently stroked the cloth strips. His eyes seemed to move for a while, but Mu Ran's face actually became a little more beautiful, and his feet seemed to be stepping on some kind of light dance steps, and he took two steps and turned around, humming a little tune that don't know where, and then suddenly When he stopped, he half-hidden his face and threw a wink in one direction.

This is a crazy woman.

The maid and the old mother rushed over like a jerk: "Oh, let's go, be careful to drop you again! Don't look at it, the small warehouse has long been emptied by those sons and daughters who killed thousands of knives, and there is nothing but a litter of mice in it. ."

The mad woman didn't know whether she understood or not, but she still stared blankly at the room where the clutter was kept, and was dragged into the room by the maid.

When the yard was quiet again, there was actually a movement in the small warehouse that "raised mice".

Zhou Fei got in through the window, holding a paper bag in her hand and handing it to Wu Chuchu who was standing at the door. Seeing that she was nervously looking out at the door, she asked, "What are you looking at?"

Wu Chuchu involuntarily lowered his voice and said, "I was frightened to death. I thought I was discovered by the master just now."

Zhou Fei immediately glanced out after hearing the words, put her palm on the knife at her waist, and asked vigilantly, "Who is the owner of this yard?"

When the two of them mixed in the night before, the palace was just empty, but Zhou Fei felt that it was impossible for the palace to remain empty. Zhou Fei found the place where the local officials' wives and concubines lived under the guidance of the serious official Miss Wu Chuchu.

After all, the scholar-officials are not rude, and it is unlikely that greedy and Lu Cun will wantonly come to the backyard of adults.

Unexpectedly, a small county magistrate in Huarong County has a rich and noble family. The inner and outer houses are like a lot of servants. Zhou Fei was almost blinded by a pair of poor dog eyes. I can't move" and so on, she always listened to the right ear from the left ear, and was quite disapproving, but now she knows it, and she has never seen what "wealth" is after a long time.

There are many people in this backyard, and the two did not dare to frighten the snake. After a day of careful exploration, they found the most remote courtyard and took shelter in an empty house.

"It should be that I am a soldier." Wu Chuchu said, she opened the oiled paper bag and saw that there were a few pieces of ròu biscuits still steaming inside, which were many times better than the leftovers of the real owner here. He sighed and said, "I think the owner of this house should be an unloved concubine. She's already crazy. She must have given birth to children, so she has been kept in the house to keep her alive."

Zhou Fei dragged out two dusty buns out of nowhere, and pushed one to Wu Chuchu. The two sat down together and finished eating a paper-wrapped ròu stuffed biscuits. The biscuits were eaten too fast, and the slag was about to fall. accidentally recruited a family of mice from the small warehouse. The mice here do not know where to steal food all day long. They are smooth and smooth, and they are not afraid of people. , making Wu Chuchu tremble with fright.

Zhou Fei stretched out her toes, gently lifted the mouse's stomach, and kicked the big mouse out in the air, slapping it on the wall and fainting. When the other little mice saw this, they all scrambled to withdraw. his own lair.

Zhou Fei said, "Aren't you afraid of dead people, but of mice?"

Wu Chuchu bowed her head and smiled a little embarrassedly, then remembered her own situation, her nose was sore for no reason, and her eyes were red, and then she felt that it was awkward to be seen crying, so she tried her best to endure it, in order to prevent herself from thinking wildly. , she had to try to talk to Zhou Fei.

Zhou Fei is actually not very active. When she encounters lively people, she will be relatively lively, and when she encounters taciturn people, she will also be silent. At this time, she will be very preoccupied, and a shallow shadow can almost be seen between her eyebrows. Chu Chu doubted that if she didn't take the initiative to talk to her, she would be able to frown like this for a whole day.

"That... A Fei."

Zhou Fei came back to her senses and turned to Wu Chuchu. Seeing the girl's nervous expression, as if she was afraid that she would scream abruptly and that she shouldn't, she said "um".

After thinking about it for a long time, Wu Chuchu couldn't think of what to talk about with Zhou Fei, so she asked matter-of-factly, "What should we do next?"

"Hide for a few days first," Zhou Fei said. "Beidou will destroy this full house today and the other full house tomorrow. You should be very busy, and it is unlikely that you will always stay here. We will dodge for a while. We will run when they leave. South, don't worry, the farther south the safer it is."

Wu Chuchu nodded and asked again, "What is the forty-eight villages like?"

Zhou Fei didn't hear that she wanted to lead her to say a few more words, she only said that she lost her mother and younger brother, and an orphan girl had no idea, and said: "Forty-eight villages are actually forty-eight sects, if you are afraid of life, you can live first. I can still be with my sister when I'm not here."

Wu Chuchu managed to catch the talk, and hurriedly asked, "You still have a younger sister? She must be very beautiful and powerful!"

Li Yan's image flashed in Zhou Fei's heart, and she said casually, "I look average, not too bad, it's two hundred and five."

Wu Chuchu: "..."

I really can't keep talking!

Wu Chuchu was embarrassed for a while, but when she saw Zhou Fei's innocent expression, she was embarrassed and a little funny.

When she smiled, Zhou Fei realized that her words made people unable to answer, so she wanted to go back to make up for it, but she didn't know what to talk about, so she had no choice but to look for something to say: "What is hanging around your neck is Longevity lock?"

Generally only children wear this kind of longevity lock. It is said that they can be worn until adulthood, but when teenagers grow up to 11 or 2 years old, most of them think of themselves as individuals, and they start to think this thing is naive. rarely see girls of Wu Chuchu's age. Still wearing this.

Wu Chuchu lowered her head and touched the collar on her neck, her expression darkened: "My father put it on me, when I was a child, he asked someone to give me a fortune, and the fortune teller said that my life was short, and I had to have something to press me. Once pressed, this can only be removed when you leave the cabinet."

Zhou Fei: "Our boss said your father was a hero."

Wu Chuchu smiled: "don't you know my father?"

Zhou Fei shook her head and said, "This is my first time going down the mountain."

"Well," Wu Chuchu nodded understandingly, and said, "If you had come down the mountain three or five years earlier, you wouldn't think my father was a hero. At that time, they all called him 'the two ministers who rebelled against the party'. Back then, the emperor of the Northern Dynasty usurped the throne. After seizing power, the twelve ministers sent the old royal family to the south, and there were many who did not leave the court who were unwilling to serve the second master. Forced to defect, my father was a 'renegade' back then. Because he was later the highest-ranking military general among renegades, the emperor of the Northern Dynasty named him a 'Zhongwu General', and the word 'Zhongwu' once became a A joke, anyone who mentions it, has to spit it."

Zhou Fei was stunned when she heard Li Jinrong mention "General Zhongwu", but she didn't expect that it was the emperor of the Northern Dynasty, the old enemy of the big family.

"I'm not afraid of your jokes, in fact, until the year before last, I thought he was such a person." Wu Chuchu said, "Who knows that one day, he suddenly came back in a hurry and sent the three of us away, the place where Zhongnan lived in seclusion— —It was a remote and remote area, and I didn’t know what happened outside. I only remember my mother wiping tears all day long. It was a long time later that I heard people say that when they sent the young emperor to the south, they discussed together that they wanted to keep one person in the court. Being an internal responder bears this eternal infamy. They worked side by side inside and outside for those years, trying their best to leave room for the Southern Dynasty to maneuver, and then they established the Southern Dynasty. The reason for his illness is to set up a plan to strangle the forces of various rivers and lakes, and also to test him."

"He knows that even if he reluctantly passes the test this time, the emperor is already suspicious, and the loyal one is still sad and suspicious, not to mention that he has two hearts. My father wrote a letter to my mother, only saying 'I spit on my face. Twenty years, here is the end', and then he turned his back on the battle, cooperated with Mr. Gan Tang, went down to three cities, and killed Lian Zhenxing. He was also... a martyr for the country."

Zhou Fei was speechless for a while. Strangely, she did not have any emotion of "he is a hero". Instead, she heard a great grievance from General Wu Fei's letter to his wife. Young people often I can endure the pain, I can endure the pain, but I can't bear it. She thought for a while following Wu Chuchu's words, and only felt that she was very resentful after a little bit of substitution.

"Twenty years." Zhou Fei said.

Wu Chuchu said "um" - to two girls who didn't know what it was like to be twenty years old, "twenty years" sounded almost as long as "a lifetime".

Wu Chuchu said: "My father said that when Cheng Ying and Gongsun Chujiu gave up their children and their lives, everyone in the world regarded Cheng Ying as a betrayer to seek glory, and even though he was accused by thousands of husbands, he never harmed his wife and children. Compared with the situation of the ancestors, I don’t know how much, so I am satisfied and don’t dare to be angry.”

Zhou Fei shook her head and said, "I don't understand this very well."

Who knew that she didn't understand at the time, but after two days, she had to understand.

It is indeed impossible for Shen Tianshu and Qiu Tianji to stay in Huarong for too long, but in the past few days, Huarong County has been searched upside down, but they can't even catch a mouse.

Zhou Fei knew that as long as she dragged the two Big Dippers away with their dogs, even if she won, Shen Tianshu certainly understood.

On the third day, Mr. Bai, who was hiding in the dwelling, came back to report the news, saying that the man in black who was secretly looking for someone in the city had withdrawn. Xie Yun

After carefully listening to the various information reported by Mr. Bai, it was speculated that Beidou might be looking for something that was not afraid of fire.

Mr. Bai said: "In the beginning, a few people in black died, and their positions were in disarray. It is said that greed and Lu Cun were at odds because of this."

"Shen Tianshu wouldn't be so careless about the people in the Forty-Eight Villages," Xie Yun said slowly, "so that thing belongs to the Wu family... Miss Wu or her little brother, one of those two children must be alive, and Beidou just At first, I didn't expect that the Wu family would have masters to protect them."

When he said this, an unspeakable expectation suddenly arose in his heart - Xie Yun knew that, with Zhang Chenfei and others as people, if there was a way at that time, there would be a chance to send one of them and the Wu family's children. If they leave, the person they push out must be the little junior sister.

So... is Zhou Fei still alive?

Mr. Bai added: "Today, Shen Tianshu praised a person with great fanfare at the gate of the government office. Does the third son know who he is?"

☆、Chapter 34

Ming Chen took Mr. Bai, a maid Qingmei, and a few guards, and he must have stayed in the Huarong area for a long time. .

Xie Yun had a very deliberate ignorance of his "brother". Don't explain that Chen just took a group of people to stay in the land under the rule of the Northern Dynasty for no reason, even if he put on a sheepskin to eat rough, Xie Yun probably planned to turn a blind eye, Pretend there is nothing odd about this.