Putting on a brand new white-bottomed wide-sleeved cloud pattern robe that Hua Fengju specially prepared for himself, after briefly washing up, Yan Longyu stretched and walked out of the house.
Qin Ruoyang and Dugu Haodang were already standing outside the courtyard, and the servant Lao He also brought a brand-new carriage that had been prepared long ago and parked it under the old locust tree. The horses were three strong bay-red horses recently picked from the mountains.
Qin Ruoyang was dressed in a black shirt, with half-bundled white hair. He was still tall and tall even in his octogenarian years, carrying a square bamboo box on his back, showing off his scholarly style. He saw the handsome young man wearing a new snow-white dress Shi Shiran walking out. He was very interested and the corners of his mouth unconsciously raised an arc that was not easy to be noticed. People often say that the most beautiful thing is a young man, isn't that true?
Dugu Haodang was still wearing his luxurious black clothes with long sleeves, holding the gentleman's sword that fit his status, and stood behind Mr. Qin with a cold face.
Seeing Mr. Qin looking at him, Yan Longyu, who had been "riding the clouds and mist" all night, hurriedly ran out of the yard. After respectfully saluting Mr. Qin, he walked straight to Dugu Haodang, deliberately spread his hands, and picked up The eyebrows showed off this new outfit to Dugu Haodang. Dugu, who was naturally aloof and arrogant, looked at the ugly face shown off by the person in front of him, and slowly turned his head to the other side.
After packing everything, Hua Fengju carried a big package and walked out of the house. After locking the door, she filled a pot of rice wine she brewed in the wine jar in the yard, and finally slowly closed the fence in the yard. Door. The courtyard door and the door to the side room were not locked. Perhaps Hua Fengju hoped that if travelers or woodcutter came to the mountain in the future, they could come in and have a rest.
Qin Ruoyang turned around and looked at the two young men who were quietly flirting with each other, and said: "After leaving Fulong County, we passed Hanyuan County and Xing'an County before leaving Qinzhou. Your Grandpa He and I will say goodbye to you in Xing'an County. And you have to go south to Kuizhou and then pass through Jianzhou before you can enter Shuzhou and enter the flowery Jinguan City. Children, the road is long and difficult!"
Yan Longyu deliberately smiled in front of his husband and said: "Mr. Qin, just go to Jiangnan with peace of mind. I will definitely take good care of Dugu Haodang and won't let him cause trouble for you. Did you hear me? Dugu, don't let him cause trouble for you."
Dugu Haodang snorted coldly, as if to say, who is the most troublesome, Yan Longyu has no idea?
Looking at Yan Longyu who had knocked him down, Qin Ruoyang laughed for the first time and said, "It seems that I still need to bring the ruler with me on this journey, so that you, Yan Longyu, will not miss the taste of this ruler too much."
"Sir, that's not necessary!" Yan Longyu took a breath of cold air. Since he came to Qishan, Mr. Qin's ruler has changed seven or eight times. It’s hard to look back on the past! Yan Longyu quickly and diligently called Dugu Haodang, and helped Mr. Qin get into the carriage under the locust tree, for fear that he would actually go to get the ruler.
In the fifteenth year of Chunfeng, an autumn wind blew.
After Yan Longyu and Hua Fengju paid their last respects at the earthen grave at the foot of Qishan Mountain, a carriage drove slowly on the bumpy dirt road beside the Gunlong River, heading downstream along the river.
They just left the place where they had lived for nearly fifteen years. What sent them off was the folk song sung by the woodcutter who went up to the mountain to chop wood in the Qishan Mountains that was getting farther and farther behind them: "The rivers and lakes are far away, when will we meet again? After we say goodbye in the mountains, there will be no sound again..." …”
After leaving Qishan, go eastward for fifteen miles along the Gunlong River. There is a red lacquer wooden bridge across the river. From this bridge, you can go north to Jinyang, the capital of Ruzhou, and go south to Chang'an, the capital of Qinzhou. If cars and horses from both sides of the Taiwan Strait want to travel between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, this vermillion-lacquered bridge, which is particularly desolate in autumn, is the only place they must pass.
At this moment, a young couple and two teenagers with very different identities were standing by the river, looking at the other end of the bridge.
The autumn breeze was cool. The young woman wearing a rough-made silver hairpin rubbed her hands, lifted her collar for the man next to her, and smiled with satisfaction. The woman was plain-looking, but in the eyes of her husband, who was studying, she was as beautiful as a fairy.
The couple were flirting with each other, and the two teenagers on one side could only avoid looking at each other. They were extremely embarrassed and envious!
This young couple is none other than Mr. Taofu Xu Zhiqing and his "picked up" wife Liu Xianglan, and the two young men beside them are none other than Yan Gui and Na Na, who are carrying a tattered baggage and a delicate dagger at their waists. Could it be that he was one of the adopted sons of Gu Beixuan, an old man from Xishu who lived in the restaurant in the "Floating and Drunk" restaurant on that day?
These four people, who had nothing to do with each other before, have come together to be the same group of people.
It was still early and there were almost no pedestrians on this spacious bridge. The four of them didn't wait long before they saw the carriage they were waiting for. Xu Zhiqing recognized the scar-faced old coachman driving the car at a glance.
After the carriage crossed the bridge, it slowly stopped beside the four people. Yan Longyu and Dugu Haodang helped Mr. Qin get out of the carriage. Hua Fengju also jumped from the roof of the carriage and jumped down.
Everyone greeted each other.
Mo Fei, who looked like a white-faced scholar and had a light abacus hanging on his waist, explained to them: "When we said goodbye to Fulong County that day, my adoptive father was worried about Sir Feng Jue and Brother Yan, so he asked me to come back and accompany you to Shu. Zhou, I have been living in Fulong County these days. Yesterday I received a message from Mr. Feng Jue, saying that you are going to Shu today, so I brought Mr. Yan here to wait for you. Oh, Mr. Yan said that this Mr. Xu is also here to wait for you, so we came together."
Yan Gui bared his teeth and smiled shyly when he was called Young Master for the first time. Yan Longyu observed that Yan Gui specially wore new clothes and new cloth shoes today, and even washed her hair, but in fact, she looked shabby whether she had changed it or not, and the tip of her nose felt sore for no reason.
Xu Zhiqing quickly added: "I couldn't sleep last night when I received a farewell letter from my husband to me. Today, I brought Zhuo Jingte to see my husband and you all away. I didn't expect to see Brother Yan and Mr. Mo outside the county. So. So we came together."
Hearing her husband introduce herself and seeing everyone's eyes coming towards her, Liu Xianglan, who had been holding Xu Zhiqing's hand, blushed and moved shyly to hide behind her husband, causing everyone to laugh together.
Yan Longyu joked: "I didn't expect that the wife of Mr. Taofu's family is really innocent. Mr. Xu is very lucky."
Dugu Haodang still had a cold face, as if he wanted to make a joke, but there was a hint of embarrassment, "Mr. Xu's wife is really the envy of others."
After being praised by the two handsome young men, Liu Xianglan, who was behind Xu Zhiqing, turned red and was too embarrassed to see anyone else.
Qin Ruoyang also smiled rarely when he looked at the beautiful marriage that he had personally brokered in front of him.
The attentive Yan Longyu stepped forward and hugged the shoulders of Yan Gui, who was speechless in front of everyone. He knew that Yan Gui did not dare to speak in front of the elders, so he said for him: "I knew you would definitely come, Yan Gui." , He is indeed my good brother, Yan Longyu."
Yan Gui, who is particularly sensitive to subtleties, felt warm in his heart. He knew that Yan Longyu was introducing him, and then smiled awkwardly, "Wherever the young master goes, Yan Gui, I will follow him."
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After standing by the bridge for half an hour, Yan Longyu repeatedly checked with Xu Zhiqing about the current situation of the woman named Tao, and finally it was time to say goodbye.
Mo Fei invited Hua Fengju and Yan Longyu to get into the carriage he brought, and Dugu Haodang also helped Qin Ruoyang get into the previous carriage. Yan Gui and his servant Lao He drove separately, one behind the other, heading south.
When leaving, Xu Zhiqing gave the six carrier pigeons raised by his wife to Yan Longyu and Qin Ruoyang respectively. If anything happened, he could also write to him.
The autumn wind was bleak, and the turbid river flowed eastward. A group of wild geese flew over Xu Zhiqing's head. He looked up and sighed: "It's autumn, and the northern geese are returning south! I don't know if this wild goose (Yan) is returning south, or is it difficult to do so?" Come home!"
Liu Xianglan still blushed and took her husband's hand again. The poor scholar and pretty lady just walked hand in hand in the direction of Fulong County, talking and laughing:
"It's time to buy you some cloth to make new clothes. I just saw a small hole in your clothes behind your back."
"You can still wear it, and save the money to sell rouge jewelry to my wife."
"How can there be a husband as good as you in this world?"
"How can there be such a virtuous woman like you in this world!"
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I, Xu Zhiqing, want the shabby fame of becoming a marquis or prime minister, but it is enough if I can hold her hand for the rest of my life.
