(7)
The wheels of the chariot crushed the scattered flowers into dust, and the boiling cheers and fanatical support also came to an end as night fell.
During the day, the streets of Jinyang are mostly dusty and crowded. The butcher shops, salt shops, handicraft workshops, teahouses, and restaurants along the street are crowded with people; in front of the temple for royal sacrifices, incense is burning under various precision tenon buildings. All this continued like a river of spring tide, and did not stop until the countryside.
Once night falls, this prosperity disappears due to strict curfews. Dusk drums, green lanterns, and owl singing are the main theme at this time.
Bai Feng spent the most peaceful night since leaving Beizhen.
A few minutes after sunrise, Gao Gao came to pick up Bai Feng in person to meet the nobleman as agreed. However, Bai Feng seemed to have other ideas and firmly stated that he would take several of his friends with him. Gao Gao felt it was okay. Then he sent a special person to see off Fu Wentao, Ayu and Yu Ke.
After a while, they sat in an exquisite carriage through the streets, and finally stopped in front of a mansion. The hussar general Gao Gao personally introduced them to the door threshold.
"You three, please go somewhere else to rest first. Young Master Bai and I have other important matters to ask of you." Gao Gao found a few boys and sent Fu Wentao, A Yu, and Yu Ke to other places first, and then sent Bai Feng Just take it somewhere else.
This mansion is very luxurious, with more than a hundred servants alone. The entire mansion is built around a royal garden. Many maids are pruning flowers and plants in the garden. When they see Fu Wentao and others approaching, they immediately stop The unrestrained conversation was replaced by intermittent rubbing of ears and temples, which made people feel disgusted.
"What are they looking at!" Ayu hid behind Fu Wentao, as if he could only feel comfortable in this way.
Yu Ke said: "They seem to be making fun of us...I understand this feeling."
"Just bear with it." Fu Wentao has also experienced it, and things like this are not uncommon: "There is no benefit in making trouble in other people's places."
The three of them walked around the garden, looking at the ingenious rockeries, lotus ponds, carved railings and stone steps, and gradually fell into trance.
Bai Feng followed Gao Gao deeper into the mansion and asked, "Who are we going to see?"
"Actually, it's not that you want to see him, but that he really wants to see you." After a moment of speaking, Gao Gao came to a Buddhist hall. Not far away, there was a woman sitting on a wheelbarrow reciting Buddhist scriptures.
"Sister, Bai Shaoxia is here." He raised his hands and saluted the woman.
The maid serving at the side steered the cart towards Bai Feng. A woman in her late forties with disabled legs sat there. She was thin and pale, but she had a pair of beautiful big eyes and beautiful black long hair. hair.
"Are you Bai Feng?" She asked the maid to push the wheelbarrow and slowly approached Bai Feng. Suddenly she stretched out her hand to hold the other person's palm. These hands were as soft and gentle as silk, as if she had grasped the young man in an instant. Weakness: "When Xiaozhu came back, he was also at such a high-spirited age."
Bai Feng was so flattered that she quickly stepped back half a step, raised her hands and said in respect, "Bai Feng, how offensive you are!"
"Come closer and let me see you clearly." The woman looked at Bai Feng expectantly, but Bai Feng could not return the same eager response. He had never felt so embarrassed.
"General Gao, this is..." Bai Feng helplessly asked for help: "Can I do it?"
He nodded high and said, "Go ahead and let my sister take a good look at you."
Bai Feng walked over and bent down. The woman stretched out her hand to touch his cheek and murmured: "Feng'er, have you seen the sword placed on the Buddhist hall? That was your master Gao Zuo's sword. He led our Gao family and thousands of "Gao family troops" to fight their way out of the war. He is my brother, the biological brother of my "Gao Xijun"! I look forward to his return every day and night... "
"Master, he has passed away." Bai Feng said.
Gao Xijun sighed: "Did he leave any heirs?"
"As far as I know, there are no heirs left." Bai Feng replied: "Since the day I met the master, he has been full of silver hair. He clearly looks like he is still in his prime, but he has already aged prematurely. So I didn’t recognize you, madam, down below.”
A trace of compassion flashed in Gao Xijun's eyes, but she did not show it. Instead, she spoke to Bai Feng with a calmness that could only be maintained after years of experience: "Young Master Bai, go get your sword back! Your heroic deeds Xijun has heard about it a little bit, I wonder if you can come to our place more often in the future? It will be convenient for you to go in and out of the palace frequently by working with Xiao Ang."
"Excuse me for being stupid." Bai Feng asked in confusion: "Why do I often go in and out of the palace?"
"Your wife is under house arrest in the palace on Taiping Road. Don't you want to see her?" Gao Xijun said: "Bai Shaoxia, it is human nature for you not to believe us now, but Xiao Ang and I have been admonishing the king—— Taiping Road is really getting more and more ridiculous! The officials in the government and the opposition are only interested in the power struggle and have no idea about the suffering of the people."
Gao Gao immediately echoed: "Bai Shaoxia, I told you before that your wife, the Xianbei witch, will become a figure that affects the foundation of our Qi Dynasty. This statement is by no means alarmist. And your choice is also important. It’s important.”
After hearing this, Bai Feng immediately looked solemn and asked: "What benefits will you do to yourself by doing this? Aren't you afraid that you will be liquidated by the remnants of Taiping Dao and the Eunuch Party afterwards?"
"You will understand in the future." Gao Xijun took Bai Feng's hand again and pleaded: "This is also the long-cherished wish of your master Gao Zuo that has never been fulfilled. We can only tell you so much now."
When Bai Feng heard that it was Master's long-cherished wish, she did her best and agreed: "I know that my ability will never catch up with Master, but if I have the chance, I will definitely try. Before that, I have something important to ask of you."
"What's the matter?" Gao Xijun was overjoyed when he saw Bai Feng agreeing so readily: "Young Master Bai has something to ask for, and our Gao family has no reason to refuse."
Bai Fengjing said: "Can you summon a girl named Yu Ke? She came with me."
After hearing this, Gao Gao immediately ordered the boy to look for him. After a while, Yu Ke came with his mother's letter and tokens. She presented them to Gao Xijun and said.
"Madam, these are the only things my mother left to me. Please help me think of a solution, madam!"
After reading it, Gao Xijun said: "The handwriting on the letter is extraordinary. I know a famous calligrapher. He can recognize the handwriting of all calligraphy masters in Jinyang. My little sister can try to ask him."
"Thank you, madam!" Yu Ke was so moved that she shed tears of pain, and then knelt down and thanked Bai Feng: "Brother, Yu Ke really doesn't know what to do..."
"A'ke, let's find my mother first. Now we have a new clue!" Before Bai Feng finished speaking, Gao Xijun said again: "Bai Shaoxia, is this your sister?"
Bai Feng said: "She's a foster sister, maybe. I saw her helpless on the road and happened to go to Jinyang together, so we decided to go together. As for my brothers and sisters, they and I were separated during the war."
"Your sentimental temperament is similar to that of my wife." After Gao Xijun finished speaking, he left to rest.
Gao Gao was indescribably excited when he saw his sister so happy today. After sending Bai Feng and others back to the inn, he gave them gifts and left letters of recommendation for future correspondence.
Bai Feng, who was almost lost in the Hongmen Banquet when he first arrived in the capital, managed to find a path between Taiping Road and Eunuch that he could continue to walk on in a dignified manner.
