Lian Bowen also admired him for being able to stay in that poor place in Lingnan. He couldn't help but look back at Gongsun Yan who was riding on horseback.
Time flies like a knife, and the handsome young man in the past has now turned into an uncle with a stubble on his face. He is looking at Jinling calmly. He is wearing a coarse cloth shirt like a commoner, and underneath are the Lingnan specialty bamboo trousers. She put on a pair of straw sandals and was fanning herself with a banana fan.
The image is extremely unpolished and inappropriate.
Lian Dalang thought for a while and said tactfully: "We are going to see Miss Xiao soon. Isn't it inappropriate for Brother Gongyang to dress like this in front of a noble lady?"
If it weren't for Gong Yangyan having some relationship with his Lian family, Lian Dalang wouldn't bother to care about it. Didn't he send the news from Lingnan? After careful calculation, it has been almost a year since Luo Jinhu's caravan went to Lingnan.
Time flies so fast, Lian Dalang felt it, and at the same time he felt that Mrs. Xiao would be happier when she saw the people and things in Lingnan. This was why he personally sent Gong Yangyan from Guangling to Jinling.
After the princess disappeared, Mrs. Xiao never showed her face.
"Haha, after living in Guangyi for a long time, I have followed the local customs. I can't change my appearance anymore. Wearing robes and boots makes me feel uncomfortable." Gong Yangyan said carelessly: "However, I heard that Luo Jinhu and Li Fan are doing all the farming work. I have said that both the princess and Madam Xiao are informal people, and my outfit is the ordinary attire from Lingnan, and it might be something new for Madam Xiao."
"Stop it, stop it, don't mention the princess too often in front of Madam Xiao, and be careful with your mouth." Lian Dalang warned.
"I know." Gong Yangyan kept fanning himself with a banana fan. The weather in the Central Plains was also very hot. Along the way, he found that the crops in the farmland were wilting.
"Hurry up, or the ice will melt." Lian Dalang sped up, and three carriages rolled behind them.
After handing over the greeting card, Gong Yangyan found many carriages parked in front of the door, including many able-bodied soldiers in the army, and there were even officials waiting outside the door.
It didn't take long for Dalang Lian to bring Gong Yangyan into the house. He asked Gong Yangyan to wait in the front hall and waited for him to come back to meet Mrs. Xiao. He ran to the carriage and ran away holding something. Luoqi Pavilion.
After Gong Yangyan left, he looked east and west in the front hall. After so many years, it was the first time for him to return to the Central Plains, and he felt that things seemed to be different from people.
"Who is Mr. Lang?" Gong Yangyan asked with a smile to a foreign man who appeared next to the carriage. Behind him was a beautiful maid. She was tall and powerful, wearing a distinguished and eye-catching scarlet robe. , with long blond hair, deep blue eyes, and a narrow knife at his waist. The expression of the young foreign man was extremely stable and cold, and he suppressed those escaping expressions.
"Tuobamu." Tuobamu looked at the lychees in the carriage: "There are also lychees in early spring?"
It was April now. He remembered that lychees were generally only available in the hot summer months of June, July, or August. The road to Lingnan was far away, and even traveling by water would take a lot of time, so these lychees could only be picked in March. Sent over.
"Of course." Gong Yangyan took a step forward and introduced: "This kind of lychee is called March Red. It is an early spring lychee unique to Guangyi. The yield is not high, and the fruit taste is different from other lychees. It is sour and sweet. , unique flavor, appetizing and refreshing.”
"Ah, what a coincidence. It just so happens that the little lady doesn't want to eat recently." Xia He's pretty face immediately got into the carriage. When he saw those very fresh lychees, he smiled and said: "I'll wash some for the little lady later. eat."
"There should be some at the general's side," Xia He said.
"Yes, Mr. Lian just sent it." Gongyang Yan said.
Tuoba Mu remembered that this person was from Lingnan, and said, "You will leave with us later. Madam Xiao wants to see you."
Gong Yangyan responded and walked behind the foreign youth, admiring the scenery. The beautiful little maid just picked a plate full of early spring lychees and left. Looking at her skipping steps and vivid words, Gong Yangyan was so excited that he Yang Yan guessed that this maid was either very clever and clever in pleasing her master, or else the master she served was very lenient towards her.
However, Gong Yangyan felt that it was more likely to be the second one. How could he ask the young lady first and then the general? This young maid was a bit careless.
After waiting for a while to touch a stick of incense, Gong Yangyan finally arrived at Bo Meng Xiaozhu, where Zhou Jiedushi's beloved daughter lived.
It is close to the water source, and the cool breeze blows away the scorching heat of summer. The water wheel keeps turning and clattering outside the small building.
As the bead curtain rolled up, Tuoba Mu first called Qingxue.
Gong Yangyan was slightly surprised. It seemed that this foreign youth had a good relationship with the beloved daughter of the Jiedushi Master.
"Amu, please invite people in." A clear female voice came from the curtain, but Xu was not in good spirits and the voice was not loud.
Tuoba Mu brought people in and saw Mrs. Xiao sitting on the beautiful backrest of Xiaozhu, leaning on the railing, with her head resting on her arms.
"Mr. Gongyang, please take a seat." Xiao Qingxue sat down and pointed to the seat in front of her. Tuoba Mu stood next to Mrs. Xiao.
Gong Yangyan sat down and took a look at Mrs. Xiao. She was very bright and beautiful.
Xia He brought a plate of iced lychees and placed it on the bench where the beauty was sitting, not far from the little lady’s hand. She also decorated the lychees with flower petals. She smiled and said: “Little lady, this lychee is from Please try the early spring lychees shipped from Lingnan."
Xiao Qingxue glanced at the lychees and thought that Luo Jinhu had sent them here, and secretly felt sad.
Aniang didn't know where she was now. She was not in the mood to eat the lychees. She looked at Gong Yangyan and asked, "How is Luo Jinhu doing in Lingnan?"
Gongyang Yan replied: "As soon as Luo Langjun arrived at the border of Lingnan, he had already obtained the pass talisman and started business with the foreigners along the coast. During this period, he had two or three disputes with the local chieftains. However, in Lingnan With the mediation of Mr. Huang, the envoy, we have made peace with the local chieftain."
"We are all at peace now." Gong Yangyan had been with Huang Youzhen, the Lingnan economic envoy, for many years, and he naturally had a share of the credit for this turn of events.
But he did not say it clearly to the young lady, and said very humbly: "Luo Langjun is a straightforward and generous man. Dr. Li Fan, who was accompanying him, even gave him a cowpox vaccination prescription to prevent smallpox. Later he learned that the prescription was written by the princess. Huang Jinglue was very grateful to the princess, so he sent me as an envoy to Jianghuai to send lychees to the prince and princess to express his gratitude."
Lingnan is remote and information is blocked. Of course, the occlusion mentioned here refers to the occlusion of medical skills and culture. For example, the people in Lingnan do not know what is popular in the imperial capital, rather than paying no attention to the outside world at all. At least Huang Youzhen is very concerned about the changes in the Central Plains regime.
However, Huang Youzhen was very happy to get such a prescription. After all, people in Lingnan are also human beings, and smallpox is also very scary to them.
After learning of the great victory in Youzhou Lienzhan, Huang Youzhen sent him to deliver lychees to establish a good relationship in advance. Unfortunately, the princess disappeared...
Xiao Qingxue was stunned for a moment when she heard the word cowpox. Remembering that this was something her mother had done not long after she came here, she whispered: "Is there any more?"
"Doctor Li and the agriculturists are looking for the Champa rice that they haven't figured out yet, but they are still working hard to find it." Gong Yangyan said. After finishing speaking, Gong Yangyan saw that the noble goddess was in a low mood, and then He talked about some customs and customs of Lingnan. For example, the banana trees in Lingnan are much larger than those in Jianghuai area.
When it rains, picking one leaf can cover two or three people. He also said that the sugar cane in Lingnan is very sweet and delicious. He still has some sugar cane brown sugar in his carriage and wants to give it to her.
Luo Langjun also gave many spices, rhinoceros horns, gold and silver treasures.
Xiao Qingxue finished listening and said: "Thank you Mr. Gongyang for leading the team to send so many things. I like it very much. It was a tiring journey from Lingnan to Jinling. Mr. Gongyang will stay here first. Dad is busy now. In the evening, Gongyang will Mr. Sheep will be able to meet his father."
"Thank you, Madam Xiao." Gong Yangyan said. When he left, he met a Miao woman in strange clothes and entered Madam Xiao's Dream Villa.
Inside Bomeng Xiaozhu.
"Yu Xin!" Xiao Qingxue looked at Yu Xin in disbelief, who had not appeared for a long time, and quickly ran to her side, her pink skirt flying, her eyes widened, holding her hand tightly, and said anxiously: "Why are you back? Is there any news about my mother-in-law?"
"Jiedushi came out just now, and I ran to you." Zheng Yu was so tired that she didn't even take a sip of tea. The thief Meng Jun was still left in Jiedushi's study, so she ran to Miss Xiao. On the side, Zheng Yuxin rolled his eyes, smiled and showed off his small silver teeth. He looked strange and said in a relaxed tone as much as possible: "We have found the whereabouts of the princess."
Xiao Qingxue could hardly believe what she heard, and then came a huge surprise. Her previous depression was gone, and her face was full of energy. She cried and laughed, feeling like her heart was going to fly out, and she jumped for joy. Chi Gao: "Really?! Where is she? Where is she? I'll go find her."
She was so happy that she didn't know what to do, and kept spinning in circles: "Amu, come with me."
She held up her skirt and was about to rush out. Suddenly she thought of something and turned around, holding the plate of iced lychees: "It's not far. The weather has been very hot recently. This lychee was just brought here. I'll give it to my mother-in-law." Where is grandma?" she asked earnestly and expectantly.
Zheng Yuxin lowered her head, not daring to look into Mrs. Xiao's eyes, so she could only say: "The princess is in Luoyang now, in the hands of Duke Wei."
Xiao Qingxue's mind went blank for a few seconds. No matter how ignorant she was, she knew that Wei Guogong and her father were mortal enemies. Luoyang? So far away, is Aniang in the hands of the enemy?
Tuoba Mu helped Madam Xiao sit down in time and took the plate of lychees in his hand.
Xiao Qingxue was stunned on the spot: "Aniang is in Luoyang?"
Zheng Yu said it carefully. She had already said it once in front of the lord, and now she said it again, very carefully.
After Xiao Qingxue heard this, she felt her cheeks were cold.
What is the fish heart talking about? She lost her sight, was seriously injured and had incomplete memory, was bullied and had to flee to a ruined temple, was blind and sold flowers for a living, was caught and imprisoned by the enemy, what did these things have to do with her mother-in-law? ! These words Zheng Yuxin said, these words...
Xiao Qingxue's chest heaved violently, and hatred filled her tear-filled eyes. She suddenly dropped the tea cup on the table to the ground, her eyes turned red: "Shut up, what are you talking about?!"
Zheng Yuxin had actually finished speaking a long time ago, but Mrs. Xiao didn't want to believe it. She silently exited the room and heard the sound of broken porcelain in the room.
After Xiao Qingxue vented her anger, she looked at the carpet underneath and started sobbing silently. Tuoba Mu asked Xia He to go out first. He squatted in front of her and could only see Mrs. Xiao covering her face with her hands and sobbing softly.
Tuoba Mu's hands tightened: "Don't cry. It's a good thing to know the whereabouts of the princess. We will definitely rescue her." Listening to his dry words of comfort, Tuoba Mu once again regretted his clumsiness in speaking. : "The princess also likes to eat lychees. When she comes back, you can eat lychees with her."
Xiao Qingxue put down her hand, slapped the lychee plate away, and yelled out of control: "Do you know how much I hate this place?" She looked at the lychees rolling to the ground, and felt that they were the same person from the beginning. Wrong, they shouldn't be here.
This place only made her feel endless pain.
"I don't care about lychees at all, and neither does my mother-in-law. Do you understand?!" Xiao Qingxue pulled out the bead hairpin on her head and threw it on the ground. Her hair was disheveled and her eyes were full of tears: "And these , I don’t want it at all, I just want to go home with A’niang, Amu, do you know?”
Tuoba Mu looked at Mrs. Xiao's grief-stricken eyes, lowered his head little by little, leaned over to pick up the lychees that had fallen to the ground, and put them back on the plate.
"I know." Tuoba Mu wiped away Mrs. Xiao's tears. He always felt that Mrs. Xiao and Mrs. Xiao were incompatible with this world. Maybe they came from a very far away place. As for how far away, Tuoba Mu didn't know. Know.
"But you can't go back." Tuoba Mu felt Mrs. Xiao's tears soaking his sleeves, and he looked at her to expose her extravagant hopes.
Tuoba Mu held Madam Xiao's somewhat cold hand and said word by word: "I will bring the princess back, and you will have a family again."
Xiao Qingxue burst into tears and sobbed, lying on Amu's shoulder, sobbing uncontrollably: "Yes... I'm sorry, I shouldn't be angry. I just thought that Aniang couldn't control herself for a moment."
"It doesn't matter." Tuoba Mu knelt on one knee and patted Madam Xiao's trembling back with her backhand.
When Mrs. Xiao became quiet again, Tuoba Mu stopped comforting her.
Xiao Qingxue held Amu's hand. Her head was numb after crying for a long time, but she knew what she was going to do: "Aniang is in Luoyang."
"Yes." Tuoba Mu responded.
"I want to rescue A'niang." Xiao Qingxue looked at A'mu with her eyes red and swollen from crying, and looked at A'mu steadily: "I must rescue A'niang, and no one can stop me."
Tuoba Mu paused in his nodding motion. Last year, the war was not going well at the beginning. A branch of the Zhou family suggested that Master Jiedu temporarily withdraw from Langge. The big-mouthed Lian Dalang accidentally revealed to Miss Xiao that he was not looking for the princess. .
"I will kill anyone who stops me." Xiao Qingxue held Amu's hand tightly, her teeth chattering.
Tuoba Mu looked at her and straightened her messy hair, his voice was gentle for a moment.
"I'll help you."
"Don't be afraid."
Chapter 307
Lian Dalang was carrying a plate of washed lychees. As soon as he arrived at Luoqi Pavilion, he saw Shi Funan who had just come out of the study.
Shi Funan, as the leader of the first people in Zhejiang and Zhejiang provinces to surrender, had recently visited Jinling many times to meet with Zhou Youzhou. Lian Dalang did not know what they discussed, but it must have been nothing more than to protect himself. When Zhou Youzhou faced the surrender of Shi Funan, he The emperor was also happy to accept it. At least at that time, Fu Nan's duties as Huainan Jiedu Envoy and Recruitment Envoy were still in his head and he had not been dismissed from office.
And beside him, there were many leading figures who came and went with him, including the youngest son of Jingnan Jiedushi. This young man had an extraordinary appearance and a slightly melancholy expression. When he saw him, he looked at He smiled in greeting.
"Lord Lian is in a hurry, but are you looking for Zhou Youzhou?" Shi Funan also asked with a smile. Now the Lian family is considered a popular person in front of Zhou Youzhou. They don't go out of their way to please you, but it is always right to treat them with courtesy when they meet by chance. .
Lian Dalang pointed to the lychees in his hand and said with a smile: "No, Lingnan sent some lychees. I wanted the prince to have a taste, so I sent them."
Many people present felt that Master Lian was a sycophant, just like his younger brother Lian Shiqing, but they still smiled and were friendly.
"My lords, you have finished discussing important matters." Lian Dalang asked a little strangely, otherwise why would they all come out at once?
"Zhou Youzhou's retainers arrived suddenly. It seems urgent. We won't disturb Zhou Youzhou for now and will meet again in the evening." Shi Funan said.
After that, several people left Luo Qi Pavilion.
Lian Dalang was holding the iced lychees, but he was secretly anxious. Could it be that there was news about the princess?
He waited outside for a long time, but did not dare to approach the study at will, so he found a shade and stood under the tree. After an unknown amount of time, he heard the door open. Lian Dalang looked up and saw that it was the seedling under Zhou Youzhou's door. Xinjiang woman, she quickly left Luo Qi Pavilion.
The door is ajar.
Lian Dalang could only see a thin and short man inside, who was kneeling on the ground with his head lowered and talking about something. This time Lian Dalang squatted under the shade of the tree for a longer time. After a while, the doorman As soon as he came out, Lian Dalang hurriedly carried the plate over. The ice in the plate melted and ticked on the sleeves of his official robe. Lian Dalang grabbed the retainer and pulled him to a remote place: "But there is Any news about the princess?”
The thief Meng Jun looked at this man's official robe and felt that he was a high official.
