Do you know: I’m Xu Jiazi

The former noble boy of the clan of Bai Gao Kingdom,

In just a few months, our family and country have experienced tremendous changes.

On the way home, he even spent a day as a prisoner and encountered life and death disasters.

In fact, they didn't feel much during the few days they rushed to the Great Zhou Fortress.

However, as the specific situation of the domestic families in Bai Gao Kingdom was sent to them, they realized that the Liang family had already controlled the state affairs at that time.

Several of them had become rebels and traitors, and their family members and friends had been slaughtered by the Liang family, completely cutting off their escape route.

This encounter,

The two young men, who were not much older than Xu Zaijing, lost their youthfulness and became mature in an instant.

It seemed that someone had warned them when they came to Bianjing. In front of Xu Zaijing, the two young men were very respectful.

"Take a walk?"

Hearing Xu Zaijing's words, the Li brothers were stunned and nodded.

The three of them were walking on the Xujia racecourse.

"With your status, the court should give you a house as a mark of honor. Why are you here at the Marquis' Mansion?"

"Go back to the young master. The family feud has not been avenged. My two brothers cannot live in that house. We can still take care of several of my brothers' relatives in the Marquis Mansion."

After Li Taotie finished speaking, his brother added:

"The two of us are not members of the Bai Gao Kingdom's clan now, but are soldiers of the Marquis Mansion and Colonel Da Zhou who have joined the army."

Xu Zaijing looked back and said, "Don't you two and Mimu Tuoxia hate me?"

The two brothers looked at each other and shook their heads:

"After Liang was assassinated, the Li and Liang families were in a desperate situation."

"Actually, before we returned to Bai Gao Country, our family had already"

Xu Zaijing nodded and said:

"Condolences."

"We heard from Xu Hou's soldiers that you, Master, practice martial arts every day, and we also want to come here every day. I don't know."

Hearing this, Xu Zaijing's eyes lit up:

"No one has been with me these past few days, so practice has been boring."

Qingyun, who was accompanying him, had a look of joy on his face. From now on, the young master should not just be looking at him.

A few people chatted about what was going on in the north.

After walking around in a circle, Xu Zaijing waved to Alan, and after the two came closer, he said:

"In the future, these two will do morning exercises with me and prepare some things for them."

"Yes, sir."

"You can learn to wrestle with them if you have nothing to do. You two should stop pecking each other."

"yes."

Mao hour (after five o'clock in the morning)

On the streets of Bianjing,

"Rice! Neem leaves! Corn trees!"

"Rice! Neem leaves! Corn trees!"

Amidst the cries of vendors,

Xu Zaijing took Hua Xiang to the Shengjia Book School.

I came early today and there was no one in the lecture hall yet.

After putting the things in the book box away, Hua Xiang sat down gracefully on the wooden platform covered with cushions at the back.

soon,

Changbai took Han Niu into the lecture hall. After working at the desk for a while, Han Niu also walked to the back:

"Sister Yunxiang, morning."

"I've seen brother Khan Niu. I call Hua Xiang. It was my sister who came yesterday."

Khan Niu looked at Hua Xiang's face and said, "Sister Yun Xiang, you really... stop teasing me."

After hearing this, Chang Bai also looked back.

The boy Zai Zhang covered his mouth and laughed.

Khan Niu looked puzzled at the familiar boy from the Xu family smiling like this, and looked at Hua Xiang again in confusion:

"It's sister Yun Xiang."

"Khan Niu, they are twins."

Soon, the three Lans came to the lecture hall with their respective female envoys.

Because of what flowers want,

Naturally, there was disbelief and surprise again.

Xiao Tao and Magpie have been surrounding Hua Xiang since the beginning of class.

Xiao Tao always comes close to Hua Xiang,

Facing Hua Xiang's doubtful eyes, Xiao Tao whispered:

"Sister, you smell so good!"

After hearing this, the magpie also put its nose close to sniff, and its eyes lit up.

"real."

"Sister, what kind of fragrance do you get?"

After Magpie asked, Hua Xiang sniffed her clothes suspiciously, shook her head and said, "There's no incense."

Mo Lan's female servants Lu Zhong and Yun Zai looked at the three people with doubts.

When the scholar took a break to speak, the two of them came over curiously and looked at Hua Xiang in surprise.

Hua Xiang looked at the looks of the little envoys. She came to Xu Zaijing's side and said:

"Sir, does this slave really smell good?"

Xu Zaijing wrote without raising the words:

"How many of the flowers planted by Uncle Deng were picked by you and put in the house?"

"oh"

In the spacious courtyard of Yongyihou Mansion, the flowers and plants tended by Deng Bo, a farmer's boy, are extremely lush. The Huaxiang sisters have been taught since childhood, and they are at an age where they love beauty.

Bu Shao and Qing Cao moved flowers into the house.

When the three girls are fine, they will soak water with flower petals, which is so pretty.

In the lecture hall,

Chang Feng and Gu Tingye looked at each other again,

Gu Tingye was okay, after all, he had met sisters Hua Xiangyun and Xiang Xiang before.

But Chang Feng thought the female servant in his house was pretty before, but after seeing Yun Xiang, she started to look down on her.

As a result, he only found out today that there is another female envoy like Yun Xiang, Xu Zaijing!

Qi Heng on the side took a sip from the tea cup Buwei handed him, and sighed with emotion. For the first time, he felt that his grandfather no longer loved him.

Zhuang Xuexue, who was sitting on the Luohan bed, was fanning his folding fan. After taking a sip of tea, he looked at Zai Zhang, Chang Bai and Xu Zaijing who were concentrating on writing, and nodded appreciatively.

Looking at Chang Feng and Gu Tingye who were looking at each other, and Qi Heng who was holding the tea cup with some emotion, Zhuang Xuexuan snorted.

Ming Lan, who was sitting at the back, glanced at the female envoys behind her and continued to practice calligraphy with concentration, thinking back to what she had said to her grandmother before.

In fact, when Minglan was in Yangzhou, she had already smartly taken an overview of the Sheng family's affairs, but she lacked an elder like the old lady to help her analyze the twists and turns of people and events.

After a conversation, Minglan grew up a little bit more.

After finishing practicing calligraphy, Minglan looked back again. Isn't this female envoy really a person?

the next day

July

Hungry Ghost Festival,

Early morning, Chai Mansion.

Yunmu got up from the couch and came to the door. After saying a few words to the maid at the door, Yunmu walked into Chai Zhengzheng's bedroom.

After taking a look at the armored puppet beside the bed, Yunmu lifted up the armor's neck protector, restoring the armor's majestic appearance.

Chai Zhengzheng on the bed opened his eyes.

"Girl, Madam said that everything is ready and we will set off soon."

Chai Zhengzheng stood up with a grunt.

A quarter of an hour later,

After being dressed up and dressed plainly, Chai Zhengzheng left the yard with the maid, and got on the Chai family's carriage with his mother and left the house.

The streets of Bianjing in the early morning,

Sitting in a carriage,

Chai Zhengzheng heard ‘焄米! Neem leaves! Gu Ke! ’ cry

You can see it through the gauze on the car window,

The flow of people on the road began to slowly become denser.

When we arrived outside Daxiangguo Temple, it was already bustling with people.

The Chai family's carriage was guided into the temple by the monks.

Mrs. Chai's personal maid carried boxes of paper money and paper clothes into a courtyard.

In the room in the courtyard, there are more than a dozen tablets enshrined, and a bhikshuni is chanting sutras.

Chai Zhengzheng and Mrs. Chai were the hosts, standing on the side of the house,

The female servant Yunmu and the ladies from the Chai family knelt on the futon and began to burn paper money and paper clothes.

Those tablets are those of the Chai family servants who died due to robbery.

The people who can stay with Chai Zhengzheng are all her wet nurses, the female servants who grew up with her, and the family members who will train her as stewards in the future.

They have been with each other for many years and have feelings for each other.

Paper products were burning and flying in the brazier. Chai Zhengzheng, accompanied by his mother, muttered words to the tablet.

‘‘Mommy, I was saved’’

‘Qingxue, don’t worry, I’m fine’

‘I’ve met a fellow countryman of yours’

‘Look, they are about the same age as you’

Amidst the chanting, Chai Zhengzheng's eyes gradually blurred, and bits and pieces of the past ten years appeared in front of her.

Mrs. Chai's personal nanny was also familiar with Chai Zhengzheng's mother in the courtyard. She was also very touched by this scene and talked about the arrangements of the Chai family for the families of these deceased people like gossip.

Finally, Yunmu and the nuns kowtowed, and Mrs. Chai and Chai Zhengzheng also bowed.

After giving them money for sesame oil, the Chai family came out of Xiangguo Temple.

Then the carriage drove towards the monastery in the city.

the same day,

Because my father and brother are not in Beijing,

Therefore, Xu Zaijing and his brother were different from last year. They did not go to the book school but stayed in Quyuan Street.

It's dark in the morning,

Both brothers were dressed in solemn clothes and sat on a flat carriage with offerings and paper money.

On the street, together with the soldiers and old family members around the Hou Mansion, they rushed towards the Taoist Temple.

Chu Zhan and Shu Bo were sitting in the carriage at the back. They were no longer as jumpy as before and were as solemn as little adults.

Shu Bo looked at Chu Zhan's appearance, patted his head, and gave him some of the quilt that was not touching his buttocks.

Entered the Taoist temple,

A huge three- to four-foot-high shelf has been erected in the yard.

The paper money strung into strings on the side is being placed on the shelf by Taoist priests and Taoists along the wooden ladder inside.

These are mountains of money prepared by the Temple Department under the Ministry of Rites.

On the walls surrounding the Taoist temple, there are many large fireproof water tanks.

After everyone in the Yongyi Hou Mansion came to the stand, they also took the bamboo poles from the flat carriage and began to put paper money and various paper shoes, clothes, belts, etc. on it.

Some armor, weapons, cattle and horses, etc. made of paper were also removed.

These things were grouped and placed on the side of the huge shelf, where there was a much smaller Xu-character flag.

The little paper figure holding the flag also has a few notes attached to it. On them are the surnames of the former leaders of the Yongyi Hou Mansion's soldiers, including the characters "Shu" and "Chu".

There's nothing on the cart anymore.

Chu Zhan held Shu Bo's quilt with a straight face and placed it next to the sacrifice, preparing to burn it to the ancestors.

When Shu Bo saw it, he grabbed it with one hand and gave Chu Zhan a headache.

Seeing this scene, Xu Zaijing shook his head. Chu Zhan, a prodigal son,

Shu Bo's quilt could not be bought without four or five coins.

When everyone in the Yongyi Hou Mansion was busy,

Xu Zaijing looked up and saw Gu Tingye not far away following Gu Tingyu, carrying sacrifices around Gu Ziqi with the assistance of Zhique, Youqing and others.

Further away are the British Duke Zhang family, Zhongjing Hou Zheng family and other nobles.

There are few civil servants.

From time to time, ordinary people would carry sacrifices and put them on the shelf.

There were also some elderly or disabled old people who came to the Xu family with their people.

Xu Zaizhang and Xu Zaijing only found out about them after being introduced by Shu Bo and other senior people in the government.

The people who came to visit were the descendants of the generals and soldiers who had served under the Yongyi Marquis.

The young ones are carrying things,

The old people like to talk about ancient times, talking about how their father and brother were in that battle.

Some also said that their descendants are currently serving as officials under the command of Marquis Yongyi.

Half an hour later,

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The drums sounded,

The surrounding nobles and common people began to evacuate from the huge, already full shelf.

Everyone in the Yongyi Hou Mansion, like other families, knelt down and kowtowed amidst the shouts.

When the drumming stops,

The huge shelf in the Taoist temple has been piled up with paper money and sacrifices, and there is no one around.

Everyone moved away to windward,

The Taoist priests held torches in several places to light the huge mountains of money.

around,

Whether they were the common people of Bianjing or the nobles, many people knelt down again and murmured something.

The huge Taoist temple began to become noisy.

Xu Zaijing knelt behind Zai Zhang, listening to his brother's muttered words,

Behind Xu Zaijing, some of the elderly people including Shu Bo were already crying.

One-third of the entire Qianshan Mountain was burned, and tongues of flame began to lick most of the shelves.

Xu Zaijing was looking up at the burning green smoke, praying that if there really was a heroic spirit, he hoped that he could keep his father and brother Pao Ze safe.

Suddenly,

Someone touched his arm. Xu Zaijing looked and found that it was Qingyun:

"Sir, am I dazzled? Why do I see a figure in that shelf?"

"You have good eyesight, take a look."

Hearing this, Chu Zhan trembled with fright with tears in his eyes, and then looked towards Qian Shan.

Xu Zaijing was stunned and asked: "Where?"

Qingyun pointed in the direction, Xu Zaijing looked at it intently, and then involuntarily pointed to that place and shouted, 'Wocao! ! ! ’

Because in the corner of the shelf under the huge mountain of money,

among the fireworks,

There was a young child dressed in silk and satin with a gold lock standing in front of a wooden stake as thick as his calf, crying.

The cries had long been muffled by the prayers of the people around him.

The wooden stakes like a tight fence were at the bottom of the shelf, and the space that was half a person's height was originally used to ventilate and support the combustion of Qianshan, which was filled with paper money for sacrifices.

But at this time, there was a young child who somehow got behind the wooden pile.

When Qingyun spoke and Xu Zaijing shouted out, they immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding crowd.

Zai Zhang quickly stood up and ran forward shouting:

"Someone!"

"Someone!"

"Help!"

As he spoke, he wanted to rush over.

But at this time, Qianshan was already being set on fire. Taking advantage of the strong wind and the flames, no one could easily run past.

There were also people around who were as anxious as Zai Zhang. Some people even ran further than Zai Zhang, but they were still forced back by the baking temperature.

Xu Zaijing stood up before Zai Zhang rushed out. Feeling the hot wind coming from the pavement, he did not run forward, but looked around.

"Shu Bo, where is your quilt?"

Shu Bo: "Huh?"

"Cotton quilt!"

"Oh! On the bus, on the bus!"

When Xu Zaijing heard this, he immediately squeezed out and looked at the flat carriage that the Xu family servants were looking at.

Without saying a word, he grabbed Shu Bo's quilt and threw it into the large water tank next to the wall.

At this time, a miserable howl came from the crowd:

"That's my brother! My brother!"

"Come and save people!"

"My brother!"

When Xu Zaijing heard the sound, he turned around and saw that there were many people, but he didn't see the howling person.

But he saw Chu Zhan following him.

Xu Zaijing looked at the quilt in the water tank, stretched out his hand directly towards Chu Zhan and said: "Grab it!"

Chu Zhan: "Huh?"

Although he had doubts, Chu Zhan still grabbed Xu Zaijing's hand.

Then he was put into the water tank by Xu Zaijing,

After flipping Chu Zhan in the water tank for a few times, Shu Bo's quilt was soaked.

Chu Zhan: "Master, Master!"

Before he finished speaking, Xu Zaijing carried him out of the water tank wetly.

Then Xu Zaijing also jumped in. After soaking his whole body, he jumped out holding the quilt.

"Step aside!"

After Xu Zaijing came out of the crowd, he put the soaked quilt in his arms around his body, and then rushed towards the huge mountain of money.

The wailing people in the crowd really saw someone rushing over, and the sound of crying and wailing stopped.

Then he howled again.

Approaching the burning paper money mountain,

The soaked quilt on Xu Zaijing's body and back began to emit white air, which was the moisture on the clothes that had been evaporated by the high temperature.

The tongues of fire blown by the wind were puffing around Xu Zaijing, as if they didn't want him to come near.

Xu Zaijing frowned as he felt the baking heat.

Come to the front,

Just for a moment, the toddler who was crying just now fainted, whether from the heat or the smoke.

Xu Zaijing, wrapped in a quilt, aimed at the wooden post and kicked it several times.

The people of Bianjing who were watching behind them all exclaimed because these kicks made the shelf above shake.

The shelf several feet high and the things burning on it were crumbling.

Behind them, Zai Zhang and Qing Yun were shouting loudly.

"Master! Hurry! Come back! It's going to collapse!"

"Xiao Wu! Come back!"

"It's going to hit you!"

"Master!!"

Kicked down two wooden stakes,

Xu Zaijing covered the quilt with one hand, and with quick eyes and hands, he took out the young child and held him in his arms.

I just turned around and was about to run towards the crowd,

The people of Bianjing who were watching couldn't help but exclaimed again.

Before Xu Zaijing could figure out what was going on, he felt the quilt on his back and head sink, and then a wave of blazing heat hit his face.

Xu Zaijing didn't care about this and continued to run forward, but the surrounding area turned into a fiery red.

I felt pain in several places on my body.

The burning feeling around me became more intense,

But Xu Zaijing knew that he couldn't stop. After holding the child in his arms, he used his legs to run fast for a few times, then suddenly jumped forward.

"call!"

There was a coolness all around,

Before Xu Zaijing could react, what was going on?

Wow!

Water poured towards him,

After several more blows, Xu Zaijing felt that it was still water.

Feeling the steaming heat around him and the dissipating heat, Xu Zaijing threw away the quilt in his hand that had been burned through in several places.

Looking around, he saw a mess behind him, with fallen sacrificial paper money and other items burning blazingly a few feet behind him.

Being stimulated by the cold water,

The toddler in Xu Zaijing's arms coughed, woke up, and then started howling.

In the crowd, the young man who just cried out that he was his younger brother came over and was about to take the child from Xu Zaijing’s hand.

But a nun flew up and jumped on the man, scratching him with her hands and biting his cheek with her teeth.

Before anyone could react to what was going on, the young man covered his face and started wailing.

But the grandma got off this man,

After spitting out the pieces of meat in her mouth in disgust, the nanny scolded in a sharp voice:

"How can you be so harmful to others!!!"

Then the nanny didn't look at the young man who was really wailing.

He wiped the blood around his mouth with his sleeve, straightened his clothes and hair a little, and then knelt upright in front of Xu Zaijing.

"Boom!"

Grandma’s forehead hit the ground heavily.

"Thank you!"

When he raised his head, blood started to appear on his forehead.

"Boom!"

"Thank you!"