[Three Kingdoms] Jingyunshang

The next day, all five of them got up early in the morning. After simply having something to eat at the inn, Zhao Yun followed the directions in the picture and guided by passers-by. Zhao Yun found all the places in the picture one by one. It became clearer and clearer. Sure enough, after searching for a day and asking passers-by non-stop, I learned that Xia Houyuan's residence was next door to the prime minister's residence five miles away from the "Jiyue Inn" in the east of the city.

It was already dark, and the five people dressed up as men in black and ran directly to Xiahouyuan's mansion. After an hour, the five arrived under a pine tree not far from the gate of Xiahouyuan's mansion, and saw two guards outside the mansion gate. Zhao Yun said softly to the four people: "Yide, Yun and you will knock out the guard at the gate of the mansion first, then Jing'er, Lu Zhiru and the other two will put on the clothes of the guards and stand guard at the gate. After an hour, Yun will He Yide and his wife will come out soon."

"Okay!" Li Jing and Lu Zhi nodded at the same time.

Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei quickly flashed behind the two guards at the door. Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei stunned the two guards before they could react. An unconscious guard was carried into a remote corner of the wall.

Zhao Yun quickly opened the door of the mansion, and Zhang Fei and Xia Houjuan walked into the mansion quickly. The outermost part of the mansion was pitch black, and the three of them groped forward in the dark night. After walking about hundreds of meters, the lights in the mansion became more and more transparent , while the two guards in the inner mansion were dozing off at this time, Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei quietly touched the two guards, knocked them unconscious and dragged them to a remote corner.

The three of them walked for another tens of meters, and they came to a wing room. Zhao Yun poked through the window paper with his hand, and through the small hole, he saw a man about 50 years old, wearing a crimson curly train and deep clothes, who was doing needlework. He sewed a dilapidated dress line by line, and kept muttering in his mouth: "It's been so many years, I don't know if my Juan'er is dead or alive? I used to remember that every year on this day, Juan'er would always come The old man beat his back and rubbed his shoulders. Although he is not his own daughter, after all, Juan'er has been with him since he was about one year old. This dress was worn by Juan'er when he was a child. Every time he sees this dress, the old man will think of it. That poor Juan."

Xia Houjuan, who heard the sound outside the door, couldn't control his tears at this time, and couldn't stop crying. He took off his black cloth mask, scarf, and disheveled hair, pushed open the door, and quickly ran to kneel in front of the woman. Said: "Mother, I'm Juan'er, I'm still alive, Juan'er is not filial, today Juan'er came to see you!"

Facing the woman who was kneeling down and crying suddenly, the woman looked confused, put down her needlework and helped her up and said, "Girl! Did you recognize the wrong person? I don't know you!"

"Ma'am, take a closer look, I'm really Juaner!" Xia Houjuan said anxiously.

The woman carefully looked at Xia Houjuan up and down, and suddenly wept with joy and hugged Xia Houjuan tightly: "It's really old Juan'er! Juan'er, I haven't seen you for several years, you are getting more and more handsome! Are you dreaming?"

"Auntie, are you dreaming? If you don't believe me, pinch Juan'er's face."

The woman pinched the back of her hand heavily, and it really wasn't a dream, it was really Juan, the woman was extremely happy.

"Auntie, Juan'er has missed you and uncle all these years. By the way, where is uncle? Why don't you see him in the mansion? Where are Brother Ba and the other brothers? Why are you the only one in Nuo Da's mansion?"

"Uncle Ru went to the East China Sea to wipe out Chang Xi who had rebelled several times, and several elder brothers also went with him. Brother Ru Ba is out drinking with friends and has not returned home yet."

"How can I leave my aunt at home alone? What if there are bad people?" Xia Houjuan was very dissatisfied.

"Don't worry, Juan'er, Xu is very peaceful. Besides, as an old lady at such an age, who has the idea to spare time to beat me up? By the way, Juan'er, where have you been these past few years? Since you That year I went to the mountain to cut firewood, but I never came back. When Uncle Ru found out, he sent countless people to look for you. After years of searching, he couldn’t find you, so he just let it go!”

"Juan'er has been doing well these past few years, auntie, that year when Juan'er was cutting firewood on the mountain, he was taken away by Liu Bei's third younger brother, Zhang Fei. Later that Zhang Fei married me, and that Zhang Fei treated Juan'er well."

"What? There is such a thing? That Zhang Fei is too worthless, how can he marry and rob? But it's all right now, when you come back, don't leave, let the aunt find a good family for you, don't follow That Zhang Fei, after all, now that Liu Bei is Prime Minister Cao's mortal enemy, if one day the army meets, it will implicate you again!"

Zhang Fei outside the door was furious when he heard the woman's words, and was about to go up to the woman to argue with her, but was caught by Zhao Yun firmly.After hearing the woman's words, Xia Houjuan said slowly: "Ma'am, I'm afraid that Juan'er won't be able to perform filial piety at your knees in the future."

"Really why? Are there so many rich and noble families in Xudu, are you afraid that you won't find one better than Zhang Fei?" The woman was extremely surprised.

"Juan'er and that Zhang Fei already have a child, and the child is already five years old, Juan'er is really reluctant to part with the child, and I hope the aunt will forgive Juan'er." After speaking, Xia Houjuan broke down in tears.

"Juan'er, can you really not stay?" The woman sobbed secretly, and Xia Houjuan couldn't bear it.

"Auntie, you have Brother Ba and a few older brothers to take care of you. Shaojuan'er is fine, but Juan'er can't live without my child. Auntie, you are also Brother Ba's mother, you don't want Brother Ba to have a mother either!"

The woman pondered for a while after hearing this, and stroked Xia Houjuan's blue hair: "Forget it! Since Juan'er is reluctant to part with the child, the aunt is not reluctant, but the aunt doesn't know when she will be able to see you again in the future?"

"Auntie, Juaner thinks there will be a chance in the future. Please take care, it's getting late, and Juaner should go too. Juaner took away the old clothes that Auntie just mended, and also left a hairpin for Auntie I have a thought." Xia Houjuan stood up in pain and took the old clothes from his wife's hand, then pulled out the hairpin he carried with him and handed it to the woman's hand, and said slowly.

"Juan'er, are you leaving now? Madam, do you want to see you one more time?" The woman was full of tears.

Xia Houjuan gently helped the woman wipe away her tears and said: "Auntie, it is God's blessing that Juan'er can come today. It is enough to see my mother once in this life. I hope you will take care of me!" Xia Houjuan knelt down and said heavily After kowtowing three times, she stood up and ran out of the wing room, crying hard.

The woman looked at the disappearing Xia Houjuan with a dazed look on her face, and felt that it was a dream, but the dream was so real.And Xia Houjuan returned to Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei's location, and Zhang Fei's hanging heart finally settled down.Zhao Yun saw that it was getting late, so he said to Zhang Fei: "Yide, this matter has been completed, I will leave the mansion as soon as possible, and I don't know what is going on with Jing'er?"

"Okay! Let's go!"

Li Jing, who was pretending to be a guard outside, seemed a little uneasy at this time, and she was really worried about something. A group of patrolling soldiers, about seven or eight people, walked towards Xiahouyuan's mansion.

Li Jing felt nervous for a while, and Lu Zhi said softly: "Sister Jing, don't be nervous, do what you have to do!" Li Jing took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down, and the captain who led the lantern walked towards Li Jing and Lu Zhi said: " This is the mansion of Master Xia Houyuan, you two need to be alert, and you must not doze off while standing guard, if Madam Ding has an accident, our school captain will ask you and the other two! Do you hear me?"

"No!" Li Jing deliberately pulled her throat, trying to make her voice rough.

"Okay! Brothers, go to the Prime Minister's Mansion next door to have a look!"

Looking at the patrol team going away, Li Jing felt relieved.So she quietly said to Lu Zhiyan: "Sister Zhi'er, why haven't Zilong and the others come out after being gone for so long? Could it be that they are in some trouble?"

After hearing this, Lu Zhi calmly said: "Sister Jing, don't worry, Big Brother Zhao is very careful in his work, and he has never made any mistakes. You are just worrying about it. Why don't you take more rest if you have this effort?"

Just when Li Jing was about to speak again, Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei, and Xia Houjuan had already returned to the gate of the mansion.The three returned safely, and Li Jing let out a long breath.

"It's not too late, I'll go back to the inn right now, have a good night's rest, and leave for Xinye tomorrow."

"En!" Everyone nodded.

After Zhao Yun and others returned to the inn, everyone washed up, undressed and went to bed.At this time, in Xiahouyuan's mansion, there was a young man about nineteen or twenty years old, seven feet long, majestic and powerful, with a rough voice, dressed in a purple plain robe, and a young man with a strange face, holding a wine pot and stumbled towards the gate of the mansion. , but found that the gate was empty, the three-point drunk young man sobered up instantly, hurriedly pushed open the mansion door, and ran towards the mansion, thinking: Could it be that someone broke into the mansion, that mother...

The young man didn't dare to think too much, and ran to the woman's room quickly, and saw the woman sitting there with a dazed face, motionless, so frightened that the young man quickly shook the woman: "Mother, what's wrong with you? Don't scare the child!"

Under the young man's constant shaking, the woman finally came to her senses, and when she saw the worried young man, she patted the young man's head: "Is it bully? Is your mother dreaming?"

"Mother, it's Ba'er, you're not dreaming, what's wrong with you?" The boy's tone was very urgent.

"Sister Ru Juan came over just now, but she left after an hour."

"Mother, are you confused? Miss Juan has long since disappeared? How did you see her?"

"At that time, mother remembered that mother squeezed her hand, and she still felt pain. Mother was sure that she had seen her, but she was more beautiful than before."

"Mother, what evidence do you have for what you said?" The young man still didn't believe it.

"Come on, Ba'er, look at these shabby clothes, is there one thing missing, and this hairpin." After speaking, the woman pointed to the pile of shabby clothes and the hairpin in her hand.

Xiahouba counted the number of clothes, and it seemed that one piece was missing, but maybe it was because his mother had lost one. Then he repeatedly picked up the hairpin and looked at it carefully, but Xiahouba was shocked. It turned out that although the hairpin was silver-white, there was indeed a spot of red at the end of the hairpin. The red color was given to my younger sister Xia Houjuan by sticking red ink on it.

Could it be that sister Juan really came here? In doubt, Xia Houba asked the woman all the ins and outs.The woman then told Xiahouba the whole story of how Xiahoujuan told Zhang Fei. After Xiahouba had heard it, he clenched his fists tightly and said angrily, "Sister Juaner, brother Ba must take you away from me!" That reckless Zhang Fei rescued him."

Xiahouba thought for a while that he might not be able to defeat Zhang Fei with his own strength, so he rushed to Xiahoushang's mansion one mile away overnight.When Xiahouba entered Xiahoushang's mansion, he saw two teenagers drinking wine and poetry in the hall.

One of them, a young man with a height of seven feet, dressed in crimson red clothes, sang loudly: "The autumn wind is bleak and the weather is cold, and the grass and trees are shaking and the dew is frost. Longing to return to my hometown, why do you leave it to another place? The humble concubine stays alone in the vacant room, worrying about thinking about you, I dare not forget, and I don’t feel tears staining my clothes. Aid the qin and sing the strings to send Qingshang, and short songs can’t last long. The bright moon shines brightly on me The bed, Xinghan Xiliu night is young. The Altair and the Weaver Girl look at each other from a distance, how can you alone limit the river beam."

"Zihuan, what a poem! What a poem! It's been a long time since you have such a good poem. Come on, do it!" A seven-foot-long, elegant boy dressed in purple clothes raised his wine glass and praised repeatedly.

"Brother Zihuan, brother Boren, you are still in the mood to drink and write poems here!"

"Zhongquan, what's the matter, why are you so flustered?" Xia Houshang spoke first.

"Yes, Zhong Quan, let's have a glass of wine first, and talk slowly if you have something to say!" Cao Pi also echoed Xia Houshang.

"Do you know my younger sister Juan? She is the younger sister who my father sacrificed during the famine and rescued Ba's youngest brother!"

"What's the matter, sister Juan, didn't she disappear a few years ago?" Cao Pi raised his glass and drank it down.

"Yes, but she appeared in the Ba's mansion today!" Afterwards, Xia Houba told the two of Madam Ding's situation one by one. Juanmei is definitely still in the city of Xudu, Zihuan, you now control half of Xudu's soldiers and horses, why don't you search the whole city to find Juanmei! How can my Xiahou family be taken away casually?"

Cao Pi shook his head and said: "If this is the case, it will startle the snake. They came prepared and must hide in a hidden place. If they send out the whole city, they will get nothing."

"Then what should we do? You can't let Juanmei and that reckless Zhang Fei go away!" Xia Houba looked dissatisfied.

"Zhongquan! Don't be so excited. Pi didn't say he wouldn't rescue Juanmei. Pi thought that if he used the main troops to strictly investigate the four main gates in the southeast, north, and west, he would definitely get twice the result with half the effort!"

"Brother Zihuan is brilliant! Come, I will offer you a glass!" Xiahou Shanggao raised his glass and drank it down in one gulp.

"This is a small plan, don't need to praise it too much! Come here, pass on this son's general order, and make sure that the city guards strictly investigate all people who come and go. Once they find anyone acting suspiciously, they will be arrested immediately!"

"No!" A general led the order and left.

"Zhongquan, come! Come! Come! Drink! Don't worry too much, with the efficiency of Pi's subordinates, they will definitely find clues about Juanmei." Cao Pi smiled and pulled Xia Houba over, filled a glass of wine, Seeing this, Xia Houba relaxed his heart and drank with the two of them.