"Madam, it smells so good." Zhou Xu smiled, his Adam's apple moved, and continued.
Xiao Luolan heard a loud sound like thunder outside, booming and booming continuously in her ears. She couldn't hear what Sect Master Zhou said behind her, and she could only see him smiling at her.
Xiao Luolan's heart tightened when she saw Sect Master Zhou's eyes. She lowered her head and took a sip of tea. She was accidentally burned and put the teacup on the light armor again.
"Did you get burned?" Zhou Xu leaned over and asked with concern.
Xiao Luolan felt a little embarrassed and didn't want to speak.
"Open your mouth and let me take a look." Zhou Xu frowned: "There is still some wound medicine in the saddle bag."
"It's not serious, no need for medicine." Xiao Luolan shook his head. After all, the tea had been cooling for a while, so the burn would not be serious.
Zhou Xu held his wife's face and said stubbornly: "Let me take a look."
Xiao Luolan felt strange and pursed her lips.
"Let me see if you're injured?" Zhou Xu said patiently. He knelt in front of his wife, looked down at her, held her face in his hands, and focused his dark eyes.
Xiao Luolan raised her head, her eyelashes trembling, and she put her hands on the cloak. She could feel the embroidery lines on the cloak, which was a little cold.
She closed her eyes and slowly opened her mouth.
Zhou Xu finally saw it, a bit of bright red peeking out, a little red from the hot water.
The pink lips are slightly open, and the breath is like orchid, fragrant and fragrant.
Zhou Xu's heart was thundering and his throat was so dry that it hurt.
The cave is full of spring.
After the fire went out, only a little bit of skylight from outside came in.
Xiao Luolan felt like she was out of breath, and her ears were filled with the man's magical whispers.
"My lady Xinyue..."
"My heart is pleased...ma'am."
Even though she had already responded, I knew it, but Sect Leader Zhou still spoke in her ear, biting her ear, as if he wanted to carve it into her heart.
Zhou Xu touched his wife's face and saw that her cheeks were flushed and her eyelashes were filled with tears.
"...If Madam remarries, I will follow Madam." Zhou Xu knew this was impossible, but he just wanted to test Madam's attitude.
If Madam marries him, it is impossible for her to marry anyone else. It is impossible for him to live, and it is even more impossible for him to die. She is the mistress of Youzhou, and she represents Youzhou. Who dares to marry her? Even if Madam wanted to, Youzhou's cavalry wouldn't agree, his son wouldn't agree, and neither would his Bu Qu.
When Xiao Luolan heard this, she couldn't help but cursed in her heart: "What's wrong with Sect Master Zhou? He's not dead yet, but he's thinking about what happened after his death." He kept asking her, as if she would As if Hongxing was cheating on her, Xiao Luolan became angrier the more she thought about it, and her words came out intermittently: "You, you are already like that, why are you following me?"
Zhou Xu buried his head and smiled: "If you become a ghost, you must follow Madam."
Xiao Luolan wanted to say that there were no ghosts in this world, but when she thought about something so outrageous happening in time travel, she became uncertain for a moment.
Zhou Xu noticed that Madam shrank and kissed her: "Don't be afraid, I lied to Madam."
Xiao Luolan bit her lip, knowing that this sentence was a lie.
Chapter 84
September twenty-nine.
Late at night and early in the morning, Xiao Luolan drew a circle on the calendar with a brush.
In the military camp, her tent was empty, with only two oil lamps burning quietly. The dim candlelight was occasionally swayed by the wind at the door curtain. Xiao Luolan was sitting on the bed wearing a new fox cloak. Without sleepiness, Sect Master Zhou and the others had left long ago, quietly, taking away two thousand Xuanjia battalion cavalry, one thousand Tuoba cavalry and less than five hundred Tiele Qingqi, along with the prisoners. .
There were about a thousand people left in the military camp.
Most of them were black armor cavalry under General Li Xun, and General Li Xun, Zhou Xuan, Zhou Lingzhi, and the two brothers Tuoba all went to the battlefield, leaving General Shi behind.
As well as the retainers who protected her, Xiao Luolan saw all the retainers for the first time. There were more than thirty people distributed around her tent, and outside were the soldiers of the Xuanjia Battalion.
"Mistress, aren't you sleeping yet?" Zheng Yuxin poked her head in. Seeing that it was so late at night and the mistress hadn't rested yet, she came over and took a look worriedly. There were few women in the army, and Dr. Li was the army physician, so he also came up. On the front line, she and Dongxue were the only women left to take care of the mistress. The others were men. In the past, in order to avoid suspicion, those male retainers rarely approached the mistress. Now that the lord is gone, they appear one after another.
After all, their job is to protect the mistress.
"I can't sleep. I'll sleep later." Xiao Luolan collected the letters written by her daughter one by one and put them in the wooden box. This afternoon, Tuoba Amu's snow eagle sent them thousands of miles away. Langge's letter was handwritten by his daughter.
"Can I come in? Mistress." Zheng Yuxin asked politely: "I can't sleep either, so I want to stay with you."
Xiao Luolan smiled and said softly: "Come in."
When Zheng Yuxin walked into the tent, she smelled the fragrance of her mistress. It was all over the room. The soft fragrance was refreshing. She sat on the edge of the bed and looked at her mistress. She felt that her mistress was so beautiful.
"Did you get a letter from the young lady?" Zheng Yuxin saw the letter in the wooden box at a glance.
"Yes, I have told her that I want her to go to the academy next year, and she has no objection." Xiao Luolan said: "She also said that she took in a down-and-out old Taoist priest who was proficient in alchemy. He came to her village and became her guest."
Zheng Yuxin blinked her eyes. When she heard this, she twirled her hair with her fingers, and the silver bell on her wrist made a clear ringing sound: "Young lady has a kind heart."
"Is that old Taoist priest from the south?"
"I don't know about this, Qingxue didn't say anything." Seeing that Miss Zheng was hesitant to speak, Xiao Luolan said, "But what's the problem?"
Zheng Yu said in his heart: "Mother, you are often with Dr. Li. You must know about Wu Shi Powder. It is said that after taking it, the whole person's yang energy will rise, the complexion will be rosy, and the spirit and body will be several times better than before. There was a heavy snowfall in winter. At that time, after taking Wu Shi Powder, a famous person opened his arms and undressed, and chatted with a group of famous people in the wind and snow. Stones scattered.”
Xiao Luolan knew that there was such a thing, and the celebrities in Chang'an also came up with a set of standards for appreciating the quality of Five Stone Powder, which was very popular among the upper class nobles, but she had never seen such a thing in Youzhou.
"Although I don't know much about medicine, I think it's strange that those celebrities walked around wearing only thin clothes to cool off in the snowy weather after taking Five Stone Powder." Zheng Yuxin glanced at the mistress: "In addition to refining elixirs, some Taoist priests also I know how to refine five stones and scatter them."
"Are you worried that the old Taoist priest will refine the Five Stone Powder and lead Qingxue into trouble?" Xiao Luolan guessed what the little girl wanted to say.
Zheng Yuxin nodded sheepishly, that was indeed what she thought.
Xiao Luolan laughed, took the little girl's hand and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Qingxue won't eat randomly." Mother and daughter didn't even dare to eat ancient sashimi, and they had to drink water. It's hot. The five-stone powder is so weird that Qingxue would never dare to try it.
"That's good." Zheng Yuxin blushed when she saw her mistress' gentle smile.
There is another function of Wushi Powder that is sought after by the world, that is, if men eat it, it can strengthen the yang and protect women at night. Some people who are addicted to women even pursue this product as if it is a holy medicine. However, after saying this, it may taint the mistress. Zheng Yuxin won’t talk about it anymore. It is usually eaten by men, and women rarely eat it. It is said that after eating it, the skin will become whiter. The common feature is that it cannot be exposed to heat, and even the clothes must be light and loose, with large sleeves, and drinking alcohol After that, they became even more wild, and some celebrities even put on old, soft clothes to avoid hurting their skin.
Zheng Yuxin saw a lot of books beside his mistress's bed, so he took a few more glances.
Xiao Luolan took a book and handed it to her directly: "Let me read it with you." After that, he also took a copy. It was difficult for Xiao Luolan to read the ancient book at first. Fortunately, Sect Leader Zhou was also a Big boss, most of the books he chose were concise and easy to understand. The journey was boring. The Thirteen Classics and History were read through by Xiao Luolan. She did not delve deeply into them. She just wanted to have a rough understanding of them. The rest She just read some collections of travel notes, poems, and storybooks.
Xiao Luolan was worried that the little girl would find the scriptures boring, so he chose an interesting storybook for her.
"Mother, how do you pronounce this word?" Zheng Yuxin asked with a blushing face.
Xiao Luolan looked down and saw the character "Li".
"It's the word "Li", and the Lishui River flows into the river." Xiao Luolan thought when she saw that the little girl didn't look like a poor family. She was wearing decent clothes. Except for her strange accent, she was no different from other little girls. asked, worried that Miss Zheng was too worried.
Zheng Yuxin, on the other hand, covered her mouth and laughed. She bent her eyes and the silver ornaments on her head jingled. She talked about her hometown for the first time: "My family lives in Wuling Mountain. There are mountains everywhere, many hills and few flat areas. Mountains The situation is long and dangerous, and there are mountain miasma. Tens of thousands of Miao villages live together, and I belong to the Hong Miao tribe."
Xiao Luolan felt very novel and listened quietly.
"My father is the leader of the village, and my mother is the daughter of the village opposite. In addition, they gave birth to three brothers, so I was favored at home. When I was a child, I occasionally went down the mountain and fell in love with him. Yamashita, so I asked my father to invite a master to teach me the language of the Central Plains."
When Xiao Luolan heard this, he couldn't help but glance at the beautiful Zheng Yuxin, a little surprised.
Zheng Yuxin said with a smile: "Later, when the old master saw that I could almost read the characters, he desperately wanted to go down the mountain, so I asked my father to give him some money to let him go down the mountain."
"But I'm so old now, I've forgotten some difficult words." Zheng Yuxin said distressedly: "Can anyone you don't recognize in the future ask your mistress?"
Xiao Luolan nodded and said: "Of course." She asked curiously: "Since you are favored by your parents and your family is rich, why did you come to Youzhou to be a retainer?"
"It's so boring in the village, it's not fun at all. It's better to go down the mountain. After I grew up, it took me a long time to get my father to let me go down the mountain. He sent many people to follow me, but I got rid of him." Zheng Yuxin kicked. Legs, recalling the past, seemed to be telling an interesting story: "After I came down from the mountain, I took a boat to Jiangnan. Jiangnan is beautiful and fun, and there are so many people. Even when they heard my accent, they despised me."
"Later, I got tired of playing in the south of the Yangtze River, so I went to Luoyang to see the legendary oiran. Chang'an is called Duzhi, but most people in the south of the Yangtze River are called oiran." Zheng Yuxin thought of his mistress who had been practicing in the mountains all year round without caring about the world. Then he said a few more words: "Luoyang Oiran is held every five years. The top Oiran is said to be worth a thousand gold a night. At that time, many talented people from the south of the Yangtze River will rush to Luoyang to participate in the Oiran's surprise banquet. All the literati and poets are very romantic. Very."
"After commenting on the leading figures, the rest is the business of the dignitaries and princes. After all, courtesans are not cheap."
"But I also learned from other people that I have never seen an oiran." Zheng Yuxin looked at the mistress with her chin in her hands, and said with a smile: "Counting the time, next year will be the surprise feast in Luoyang. No When I saw Jingshu's banquet, I wanted to go back to the village, but then I met He Jin and followed him to Langge, Youzhou."
"My father didn't have much money left for me. I saw that He Jin was living a good life every month as a disciple of Lord Jiedushi, so I volunteered myself and became a disciple of Lord Jiedushi. That's it. "Zheng Yuxin finished her words in a few words. She was telling the truth, but she just concealed some details.
Xiao Luolan looked at Miss Zheng and had no idea that she had traveled to so many places at such a young age.
"Are you pestering the mistress again?" Dongxue opened the curtain and came in, her eyebrows raised: "It's so late and you're disturbing my wife's rest."
Zheng Yuxin immediately stood up straight with an innocent look on her face.
"I want to hear what's going on outside and let Yu Xin come in and talk." Xiao Luolan took two fruits and gave them to the two little girls.
"Since Sister Dongxue is here, I'm going out." Zheng Yuxin smiled and waved to the mistress.
After she left, Dongxue reported back to her mistress: "All the injured in Doctor Li's hands have been transferred to Doctor Wang. I went to check and found that the Tuoba cavalryman was in much better spirits. He must be dead." It can be saved.”
Xiao Luolan curled her lips when she heard the good news.
Dongxue flicked the fire in the charcoal pot to make the tent warmer, and then lowered the bed curtain.
I want to keep vigil for my mistress, after all, the master is not here today.
The mistress suddenly stretched out her mutton-fat and jade-like hand from the bed curtain and gently held her hand.
Dongxue's heart suddenly jumped.
"As long as it's not cold." Xiao Luolan touched Dong Xue's hand and felt relieved when she saw it wasn't cold. Then she thought of a question: "Dong Xue, do you still have enough charcoal fire in your tent?"
"That's enough." Dong Xue replied. After all, she was still the mistress's personal maid, and she still got the proper treatment. However, she was a martial arts practitioner and her body was in better shape than ordinary men. She didn't need charcoal fire at night.
"Then you go and rest. It's safe here. There's no need to keep a vigil. You can get up later and come back tomorrow." Xiao Luolan said.
When Dongxue heard her mistress' caring words, she blushed even more when she saw her mistress' hand patting her hand gently, as if coaxing her.
"Slave, I know."
Dongxue left the tent, leaving a crack in the door curtain for ventilation. When she saw Zheng Yuxin coming from Miaojiang in front of her, she straightened her clothes and walked past her without squinting.
Zheng Yuxin and others walked away, snorted and kicked He Jin who was sitting not far away: "Monk, read a Buddhist scripture to me."
He Jin knocked on the wooden fish and read a scripture in a good-tempered manner.
In the sound of wooden fish, his eyes were closed tightly, like a compassionate monk.
Xiao Luolan slowly closed her eyes while listening to the vague sound of chanting sutras.
September twenty-nine.
The white tiger is a god and will suffer bloody disasters.
Far away in the dark night.
