A good spring day is not as good as a dream, and the dream has the fragrance of flowers.
No matter how much they imagined, the lady from the prime minister's house and Meng Jiang could still smell the faint fragrance of apricot blossoms in the hot summer.
When Li Xiuyuan cooked a pot of Tianshan spiritual tea mixed with apricot flower petals, he gave it to the lady of the prime minister's house and Meng Jiang.
The two women were holding this unique spiritual tea in the world and looking at the petals floating in the teacup.
Meng Jiang couldn't help but shed tears because the faint fragrance of flowers reminded her of her hometown.
The apricot blossoms were not in bloom when I left home, but now it is already the scorching summer.
Miss Xiangfu exclaimed softly: "Oh my god, shopkeeper, what method did you use to keep the spring flowers alive until now?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at the two of them and smiled lightly: "These are just some small tricks. I like Xinghua... Actually, I really want to know your story, Meng Jiang."
Meng Jiang quietly drank a cup of spiritual tea with a faint floral fragrance, took the hand towel handed over by Miss Xiangfu, and gently wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes.
He sighed and said, "If I hadn't met you two, Meng Jiang would probably never see her husband again..."
Li Xiuyuan's heart thumped and he was speechless for a while.
Miss Xiangfu was also shocked when she heard this. She couldn't help but stretched out her hand to hold Meng Jiang and sighed: "It turns out that we are the same. This trip is also to see my husband."
Li Xiuyuan sighed silently, thinking that the circumstances of you two are not the same.
One is a rabbit and the other is an eagle.
Maybe when you find out that the lady in the Prime Minister's Mansion is actually the biggest king on the Great Wall, you might want to stab him with a knife.
The two people have the same fate, but they have two different causes and effects.
And then the final results are surprisingly similar?
However, even so, there was still no more expression on his face. At this moment, Li Xiuyuan could only listen quietly.
Even if he spends some time later to do something for these two poor women in front of him.
"Don't be anxious, speak slowly." Thinking of this, Li Xiuyuan reached out and poured Meng Jiang a cup of spiritual tea: "It's a long night, I can't finish today, I'll continue tomorrow."
Miss Xiangfu nodded and comforted softly: "Sister, don't worry, we just want to know your story."
Meng Jiang looked at the two of them and sighed quietly, and said, "By the way, my story is quite long."
By the way, Meng Jiang's parents only had one daughter, and they always regarded her as the apple of their eye.
And I don’t know from which day, the Qin army began to arrest men everywhere to build the Great Wall at the border.
In order to avoid this incident, a scholar was so frightened that he ran out of his home.
Along the way, I was in a panic and didn't know which way to go. I didn't expect that people were being arrested everywhere. In desperation, he climbed over an earthen wall next to him, but he didn't expect that this happened to be the Meng family's garden.
At this moment, Meng Jiang was sitting under the tree with the maid, admiring the flowers. He saw a stranger in his garden. Just as he was about to call someone, the scholar hurried over.
He stepped forward and bowed and saluted: "Miss, please don't call anyone. I am passing by to escape. Please save me."
After some questioning, the two learned that the scholar's name was Fan Xiliang, who jumped into the garden of the Meng Mansion in order to avoid being taken to the Great Wall, so the maid went to the front yard to invite the master.
After Master Meng found out where Fan Xiliang lived, and saw that he was honest and knowledgeable, he agreed to hide him at home temporarily.
As the days passed, the old couple saw that Fan Xiliang showed his talents, so they planned to recruit him as their son-in-law.
After discussing with his daughter, Meng Jiang also liked Fan Xiliang. Fan Xiliang was naturally happy to come, so the marriage was settled.
In the midst of the war and chaos, the old couple did not dare to delay for a long time, so after some discussion, they chose an auspicious day.
Relatives and friends were invited and a few banquets were set up. After a lot of trouble, the lovers finally went to the church to get married, and Fan Xiliang became the son-in-law of the Meng family.
However, the Qin army, which was campaigning everywhere, did not let the Meng Mansion go.
The young couple got married less than three years ago
One day, a yamen servant suddenly came in. He didn't allow the old man and Miss Meng to argue, and forcefully took away Fan Xiliang, who had just come to the door.
You must know that the two were only married for three days. Meng Jiang was in tears all day long. He had been looking forward to it for a year, but no one, not even a letter from home, came.
Meng Jiang thought over and over again and decided to go to the Great Wall in person to find his father-in-law.
The parents also knew that their daughter had a strong temper, so they had no choice but to agree to her request.
Meng Jiang said goodbye to his parents and headed north. I don’t know how far I walked through the mountains and ridges.
One day, she asked a white-haired old man passing by: "Old man, how far is it from here to the Great Wall?"
The old man replied: "All the way from here is Youzhou, and to the north of Youzhou is the Great Wall."
Meng Jiang thought: "Even if the Great Wall is on the horizon, I still want to find my husband!"
Along the way, he slept in ruined temples and would spend the night in nooks and crannies. When I woke up in the middle of the night, I heard the wind blowing through the doors and windows of the temple.
The strong Meng Jiang sighed, ate a few mouthfuls of dry food, picked up the package and hit the road again.
One day, she felt cold all over, and just wanted to take a rest on the roadside, Gudong suddenly passed out.
When she woke up, she found herself lying in the house of an old lady. The old man cooked ginger soup for her and cured her.
Meng Jiang was grateful and wanted to struggle to get up and continue on his way.
The aunt pulled her and said it hurt: "You are not in good health, you can't walk long distances! Look at your feet, they are all bloody pimples, how can you get on the road?"
Until she ran out of money and was hungry on the road for three days. When she was about to die, she finally met Li Xiuyuan and the lady from the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Even in Miss Xiangfu's opinion, if Li Xiuyuan hadn't taken action, Meng Jiang would have fallen under the frightened horse.
Having said this, Meng Jiang sighed quietly, looked at Li Xiuyuan and said, "Brother, I will go to the Great Wall to see if my husband is still alive..."
The lady from the prime minister's house burst into tears when she heard this.
Although the young master Su was not forcibly captured to build the Great Wall, and although she did not have to suffer day and night like the migrant workers, she still felt uncomfortable.
Because a whole year has passed and she has no news about Young Master Su.
And until now, he still dared not tell Meng Jiang that his husband was the young master Su who was supervising the army at the Great Wall. She was afraid that Meng Jiang would hate her.
After being silent for a long time, Li Xiuyuan silently poured some spiritual tea for the two women.
After thinking about it, he looked at Meng Jiang and asked, "What if you can't find Fan Xiliang on this trip?"
Meng Jiang was stunned. He held a cup of spiritual tea in a daze and burst into tears. He murmured to himself: "My husband is my heaven. If the heaven is gone, why should I still be alive?"
Miss Xiangfu was startled when she heard this. No matter how smart she was, she never expected Meng Jiang to be so strong.
I didn't know what to do for a moment, and I was dumbfounded and speechless.
Li Xiuyuan sighed and said softly: "It's too early to say this now. We'd better make plans when we get to the Great Wall."
In front of me, Meng Jiang seemed to be a miserable woman. If we were to really care about her, how could the lady from the prime minister's house not be like that?
It is not an exaggeration to say that the two of them share the same problem.
Miss Xiangfu nodded, took Meng Jiang's hand and said, "Sister, let's go and rest first. We will wait until we reach the Great Wall to make plans."
Meng Jiang looked at Li Xiuyuan and thought for a moment and asked, "Brother, why did you go to the Great Wall?"
Li Xiuyuan was stunned, thinking about the two Mongolian generals and Young Master Su who went to the Great Wall, and what would happen in a few years, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.
He murmured to himself: "I'm just bored in the Imperial City and want to go to the Great Wall to find someone and have a few drinks."
...Although he had known Meng Jiang's story for a long time, he was still shocked when Meng Jiang sat in front of him alive and told the story again.
It was true that the King of Qin wanted to fight against the Xiongnu in the north, but the Qin army arrested young and middle-aged people among the people and went to the Great Wall, which made people angry.
Heaven and earth are unkind
Things are like ruts, but the king is unkind and treats the people like gulls!
Everything seems to make sense, but if you look into it seriously, nothing makes sense.
Just like when he faced Gongyang Chunqiu on the battlefield in Southern Xinjiang in Wuyu Tianshan, in Gongyang Chunqiu's view, the world is big, and whoever has the biggest fist is the reason.
In his opinion, if he hadn't happened to be in the Five Realms.
If his fist hadn't been a little bigger than Gong Yang Chunqiu, I'm afraid Watson, Nalan Yu, Hua Luoyu, Hua Tianxia and others would have become the ghosts of that guy's sword.
It was still the same when we came to Da Qin. Whoever had a bigger fist would rule the world.
It seems that even though the world has been changed, the laws of the jungle have not changed at all.
He was even thinking that if he traveled all the way to the Great Wall only to find that his lover was dead, would Meng Jiang go to the young master Su to die?
At the moment, Li Xiuyuan wanted to end Da Qin's suffering as soon as possible and head to the legendary Misty Rain Tower.
There was neither wind nor rain in the morning.
Li Xiuyuan, who got up early, even practiced swordplay in the courtyard of the inn for half an hour. It wasn't until the four women washed up and called him to eat that they put away the bamboo sword in their hands.
In order to reduce the burden on the horse, Li Xiuyuan rented an extra carriage.
On the three carriages sat two maids, the lady from the prime minister's house and Meng Jiang, and finally Li Xiuyuan who was postponed.
In this way, the horse no longer has to work hard to walk, and the carriage moves much faster.
Seeing that he met the noble man, Meng Jiang spoke out his thoughts again and felt a little more cheerful. Even though he was sitting far away in the carriage, Li Xiuyuan could hear the laughter of the two women in front of him from time to time.
At least in his heart, Meng Jiang could enjoy some happy days before going to the Great Wall.
After much deliberation, this is the only way to go.
"Hey... Shopkeeper, there's trouble ahead. Do you want to go take a look?" While he was thinking about it, the nervous voice of the coachman came.
"Stop the car, let me go and take a look." Li Xiuyuan was startled, and he immediately got out of the carriage and ran forward.
The two carriages in front also stopped, waiting for Li Xiuyuan to deal with the situation in front of him.
"You stay in the car and don't come out." Smelling the smell of blood in the wind, Li Xiuyuan warned the two women on the carriage.
Before he could take out his long sword, he felt his eyes shrink severely. He saw corpses no more than thirty feet in front of him. On both sides of the road, blood stained the green grass of Lili.
There were more than a dozen people lying on the ground... old men, women, and children, all without exception, not to mention seven or eight middle-aged men who were still hanging on to death.
Along the way from the Imperial City, Li Xiuyuan's heart was still and he rarely got angry. Witnessing the previous scene, the anger in my heart burned with a roar, and even the long sword in my hand was trembling slightly.
Silently checking each deceased person who fell on the ground, Li Xiuyuan found that there was no life left at all. Li Xiuyuan's heart suddenly felt cold and his eyes became colder and colder.
The old man, the woman and the middle-aged man lying on the ground had all their money and belongings robbed. Without a second glance, Li Xiuyuan knew that this was the behavior of bandits.
Only bandits kill people and steal money, and in the end they don't even dispose of the bodies.
Ever since he accompanied Xu Fu on his trip to the East China Sea and killed countless bandits, the traces of bandits along the way had almost disappeared. Even he almost thought that he would never encounter bandits again before reaching the Great Wall.
But he never expected that such a dehumanizing scene would appear before his eyes in this wilderness.
Taking a deep breath, Li Xiuyuan began to search for the traces left by the bandits.
