The sun was high in the sky, it was noon, and the weather was getting warmer in spring. The spring breeze was bringing warmth, and the sun was dazzling even at noon.
To the south of the capital, there is a winding mountain, halfway up the mountain.
The wind rustled through the bamboo forest, and birds were chirping.
There is a white-haired man who wears plain clothes all year round, bending down to dig bamboo shoots. What is rare is that he is not as sloppy as before, and his face is extremely dirty. There were five or six more men and women in different clothes running down the mountain like flying boats. After a few ups and downs, they ducked into the bamboo forest where steel knives were inserted.
Because the beloved woman liked this high inner quality, such a tough and upright moral integrity, she used Ye Hongtu to sort out a large open space, and directly transplanted these various bamboos from other places. After years of careful care, bamboo shoots have sprouted up one after another in early spring in recent years.
Originally, they were just allowed to grow wildly, but later on, the eldest daughter, who was called the "old girl" by the family, got a snack from the snack restaurant. A few years ago, when she came to pay homage to the grave during the Qingming Festival, she was bored and dug out a few and pickled them. The delicious food makes people salivate, and from then on, digging bamboo shoots every spring has become Ye Hongtu's routine.
Hearing that someone was coming, the fourth master of the Ye family straightened up and took a look. It was not surprising to see that it was a few brothers and sisters from the Twelve Horsemen. After all, they could come and go freely in this place that was regarded as a forbidden area on the mountain. Just a few people.
Then he joked: "Why are so many people here at once? Do you know that today I am digging bamboo shoots to eat with my old daughter? It's just a stupid thing?"
"Fourth brother!" The white-haired man's joke was interrupted by a tall man with a cinnabar mark on his face, "The second lady and the third young master are back."
This person was Ye Yuan, who often came to drink and chat with Ye Hongtu, and was in the noon position in front of the horse. He was also the only person named Ye among the twelve people.
The white-haired man who was about to bend down and continue working was obviously stagnant in his hand movements. He straightened up again, but he did not look at those people. He seemed to be digesting the meaning of this sentence and said in a deep voice: "Are you coming back now?"
After just a few breaths, he was very puzzled and said: "Don't you already know about their return? Why are you making such a fuss?"
Then he continued to bend down to dig bamboo shoots. It was obvious that he didn't take this matter to heart.
These people were quite puzzled by Ye Hongtu's reaction. They all looked at each other in confusion. One of them stood out from the others, but she was a woman in her forties wearing Tsing Yi, with a tall figure. She is tall and slender, with sword-shaped eyebrows and starry eyes, and she is very handsome. Although she is obviously a woman, she looks like a man, which is also cool.
This person is Ling Long, who is in the Chen position among the pawns. His brows are slightly furrowed and his face is indescribably anxious, and he says: "Fourth brother, what do you mean? If the prince is not here, you can give me an accurate answer. If you don't If you are willing to go down the mountain, we can find it on our own."
"Damn it, are you not going to take care of your own children? What will happen to the two children if the superiors turn over old scores?"
A lean man on the side yelled angrily and agreed, this is Hou Shengyun who is applying for the throne. Don't look at his skinny appearance, he might be blown down if the wind is strong. He has a very bad temper and can ignite like gunpowder. Just like that, even in front of Ye Julin, who was regarded as a foster father by their brothers and sisters, he dared to say a few words, "If you don't care, I will go down the mountain to pick them up. As long as I find Now, I’ll see which of you can find it!”
After saying that, the thin man was about to leave, but as soon as he lifted his feet, he was grabbed by the man on crutches beside him. It was Lord Rabbit who went to Wudang to treat him after midnight, and kept winking at Hou Shengyun.
The Twelve Horse Soldiers were adopted by Nightfall since they were children. They are brothers and sisters, and can understand each other's thoughts with just a look. However, Hou Shengyun, who has a bad temper at the moment, is too impatient to pay attention to what Lord Rabbit is thinking.
Hou Shengyun wanted to throw his hands away, but he heard Ye Yuan who spoke first: "Why don't you make an exception and go to the prince for confirmation? These two children are too troublesome."
It was just that the fourth master of the Ye family, who had the courage to reject the hereditary replacement, simply squatted down. This time, he even stopped moving his hands, but still did not say a word, as if the fat bamboo shoots in front of him were about to come. More attractive than my own sons and daughters.
At this time, a bald woman in a purple short jacket walked out of the wooden house next to her. She was carrying clean clothes and was busy drying them while saying: "Uncle Xiao Ma, they must have their own plans for not going back to the mountains directly. Let's Just stop worrying blindly.”
Another burly man, with big arms and a round waist, a tiger's back, eyes like bells and beard and hair, and a loud voice that shook the sky. Those who were close to him all leaned forward and heard this man say like a roar: "Third Young Master Not all..."
However, as soon as this man with a loud voice opened his mouth angrily, he was staggered by a petite woman on the side. Then he closed his mouth wisely, shook his head and sulked.
These two people are the only couple among the pawns, the ugly Niu Ben and the unranked Luoyang.
Although Niu Ben is tall and thick, Luoyang, who is as tall as a child, is very different from him, but Niu Ben is famous for being henpecked. Luoyang, who has the same name as Dongdu, can make Niu Ben tremble with just one glance. He was often laughed at by several brothers. What's more, he was being pulled by his own mother-in-law, and he didn't dare to say anything even if he scratched his head and worried.
Ye Yuan looked at Ye Hongtu who was indifferent, and then looked at Ye Linling, who was a monk with the Buddhist name Zi Ru, who was holding a wooden basin. He wanted to speak but failed after several attempts. He turned around and left with a "Oh!", leaving only a few people. You looked at me and I looked at you, looking at each other in confusion, not knowing what to do for a moment.
Finally, the white-haired man stopped digging the bamboo shoots, clapped the dirt on his hands and stood up. He did not look at the people, but muttered as if talking to himself: "Look at you guys, Ye Yuan or Ling Long, Brother Hao'er hasn't come over, right? He is also included. Everyone prides himself on being so smart on weekdays, why are you so pretentious now? You are not as good as an old girl. When you were hiding, you kept asking for it one by one, but you didn't hide. Come on, everyone is worried about blaming the boss. Come back and prevent me from beating that little bastard. If you don’t come back, let them suffer outside. Are you tired? "
Seeing that several people were hesitant to speak, Ye Hongtu waved his hands slightly impatiently and said: "Let's go, let's go, don't delay me digging bamboo shoots here."
Those few people looked at me and looked at you without knowing what they were doing. Finally, they turned around and left with Ye Yuan, but they left in a lonely manner. They were not as eager as when they first came. They were obviously still worried, and they could not be like the white-haired man. Be open-minded.
Looking at the dejected backs of several people, Ye Hongtu laughed out loud, threw away the small hoe in his hand, and stretched out.
"Why are they my son and daughter, how can I make them suffer?"
As he spoke, he looked at the tomb not far away with tenderness in his eyes.
"Yes or no?"
It didn't matter who he was asking, but as soon as his words fell to the ground, a strong wind blew up in the bamboo forest, causing steel knives to rustle.
This man, who seemed to have been doing nothing all his life, turned towards the towering city with only an outline to the north, his eyes shining brightly.
"I haven't moved for only seven years, why have you forgotten about my Ye Hongtu?"
The winding mountains in this spring day are actually so dense and bone-chilling.
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There are young people wearing bamboo hats climbing mountains.
As the only royal palace on the ground in Gyeonggi Province, it is an entire hilltop gifted by the late emperor. It is naturally heavily guarded. Unlike the surrounding hills, hunters from the surrounding villages will set foot on the mountain. This winding mountain is equivalent to the existence of an imperial city. , but no one who is short-sighted would be so bold as to stray into it.
Therefore, as soon as this person appeared near Panshan Mountain, there were secret guards who spread the news up to the deep house covering an area of 100 acres on the top of the mountain, waiting to deal with this person.
But today it was surprisingly quiet, and no instructions were sent back as quickly as before.
You must know that the owner of this mountain is from the martial arts world. Unlike other frontier officials in the court, the guards are all warriors in the army who are good at fighting. The top and bottom of the winding mountain are hundreds of miles away, but they are all martial arts masters. , it doesn’t matter how powerful you are, but to be able to get into the eyes of this prince with a different surname and become the guard of this forbidden land in the winding mountain, the worst he can do is to be a person who can touch the four realms from the three realms up.
Therefore, a piece of news has just entered the Panshan area. After arriving at the top of the mountain, a foot-strength expert from the secret guard is responsible for passing it on. It is less than a hundred miles up and down the mountain. The news is no more than a piece of tea after it has been passed through, but it has not been passed down until now. The secret guard who secretly followed this young man had already reached the foot of the mountain and did not see any movement. This is indeed difficult to understand.
After all, the patrolling guard at the foot of the mountain was an old man who lived on Panshan Mountain. He told the secret guard who he was. Although his face was covered by a bamboo hat, people like them who had been on Panshan Mountain for many years could only look at him. He knows who he is even with his body.
He is also a master of the Vajra Sutra of martial arts, and the secret guard who has been following the younger generation must have only served in this royal palace in the past few years. After the senior gave instructions softly, he was stunned to find out who this person was.
Naturally, the visitor came in the middle of the night.
Early in the morning, he and Wage Wangyou went to the capital to send Prince Fuying, who was carrying the world's secrets, into the palace, and then they came to Panshan in a roundabout way.
The so-called timidity of being close to hometown is just a close call. Now that I have entered the winding mountain, I am not as upset as I was a few days ago. I am so calm that even I feel that it is abnormal.
Apart from anything else, there was a muffled thunder just coming from the capital city in the north. I don't know if it was a salute fired by someone's wedding party, but it frightened me in the middle of the night.
After gathering his thoughts, he originally thought about finding the secret guard hidden along the way and going up the mountain to tell him something, but then he thought about how he was going back to his own home and had to let others know. That would be a joke.
Thoughts were running wildly, but I didn't hesitate at all. Not long after, I reached the mountainside. I no longer had to hide my head and tail. I took off my bamboo hat at midnight and looked at the endless white marble steps that were still winding up. Thirty years ago, the old man of his family completed the bet with the late emperor and was promoted to the patron queen. The late emperor personally appointed the Ministry of Works to plan and supervise the construction. It was carved from white marble from Youyan.
In the middle of the night, I turned into the small road that I had to walk out later, and six people walked out and stood there dumbfounded.
The leader, Ye Yuan, was speechless. The cinnabar mark on the man's face seemed to come alive and was about to move.
Obviously, the few people behind them also had different expressions, but they were speechless with their mouths open.
Admittedly, no one could have imagined that they had just heard that these two people appeared in Qingniyi outside the capital yesterday, and then disappeared again. At any rate, the news was sent by Gou Rixin, the watchdog of Beijing Frontier City who was close to him at the end of the night. Before the family sent anyone to inquire for further information, he appeared on the mountain quietly. This is indeed puzzling.
How anxious a woman is, not to mention Ling Long, who is called by Ye Minglin with a thousand knots in her heart. This woman with a manly look on her face has never been married for whatever reason. Looking at the situation in front of her, it is not her fault. The young man's eyes turned red and he called softly: "Third watch..."
Just calling out a name was choked by sobs. Linglong endured the worry of not seeing each other for three years, holding Luoyang tightly and sobbing softly.
Ye Sangen couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Auntie, what are you doing here?"
Ye Yuan was the first to come to his senses. Seeing that Ye was alone in the middle of the night, he asked, "Where is the second lady?"
"Something's wrong, I won't come back."
The answer was very concise and clear. He passed several people in the middle of the night and said, "I'm going to see my mother."
On this day, the third son of the Ye family returned home after three years of absence, and there was great joy up and down the mountain.
The group of people who were just waiting to go up the mountain at midnight were just waiting for a message from the third son of the family who was leaving again.
On this day, in the middle of the night, he kowtowed to his mother nine times, chased Ye Linling away, and had a long conversation with his father Ye Hongtu, the content of which no one knew.
On this day, Ye Sangen completely understood Ye Xiayou's good intentions.
The Ye family will be prosperous for five hundred years.
