A crow in the desert

Not angry, but rather like being taken away by kidnappers. "

Crow smiled and said: "Brother Chonghua, you are also concerned about chaos. Mr. Lan traveled all over the world when he was young, and went into the desert alone. He is a person who has seen the world. He is doing well in the caravan. Could it be that he was kidnapped in the Central Plains?" go?"

Chonghua was relieved after thinking of this level.The crow said again: "Let's have breakfast first, and then take his portrait to the street to inquire about it. It was so lively last night, and Mr. Lan is a person with outstanding appearance. Wherever we go, someone must be able to see it." Li Yue I am very grateful to Chonghua for his rescue, and I have a good impression of him, and I scrambled to say: "The two of us will go out to help you find out, and you can rest in the inn for a while."

Chonghua heard this, stood up and bowed to the two of them, tremblingly said: "Thank you for your help, I am really... really grateful."

The two hurriedly helped him up and sat at the table to eat.Chonghua only moved his chopsticks slightly, thinking that Lan Beibei might be starving and freezing in some corner, he couldn't help feeling sad for a while, pushed away his job bowl, and went upstairs to paint.

Wu Ya and Li Yue looked at each other, Li Yue said in a low voice, "Brother Chong Hua cares about Mr. Lan very much."

The crow chewed the steamed buns slowly, but did not speak.

Li Yue stared into his eyes and thought: "Looking at his sad eyes, he must be thinking of my elder brother again." He was also very unhappy.

Chonghua's literary talents and martial arts are outstanding, and he took out a few portraits of Lan Beibei in a short time, all of which are Lan Beibei's expressions when he is in a daze or smiling. Although there are only a few strokes, they are very vivid. The infatuation and affection of the people in the painting.

Li Yue and Wu Ya stared at the portrait, thinking in their hearts: I haven't looked at Lan Beibei carefully before, so it turns out that she is so beautiful, no wonder this prince of Wancheng is so obsessed.

The three of them took their portraits and went out to inquire, but it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. They had been busy all day and there was no news.When the three of them met on the street in the evening, they all looked depressed.Chonghua was even more panic-stricken, lacking in his usual free and easy demeanor.Crow and Li Yue both persuaded him a few words, and both felt that Lan Beibei might have left the city long ago.So the three of them went to the livestock market to buy horses, planning to go out of the city to look for them.

The livestock market was bustling with people, Li Yue and Wu Ya only cared about the horses, while Chong Hua was in a daze, not looking at anything.Suddenly a horse dealer wearing a purple mink coat passed by, Chonghua raised his head subconsciously, and grabbed him, but saw that this man had a sly face and a philistine face, but the clothes belonged to Lan Beibei.

Chonghua said loudly: "Where did this clothes come from? Where did you hide Beibei?"

The horse dealer saw that the man was tall and majestic, and he was frightened out of his wits. The dealers around him thought that this man was here to disrupt the situation, so they put down the things in their hands and rushed up in a row.Wu Ya and Li Yue saw that nothing was wrong, so they hurriedly persuaded the two parties to leave, and then pulled the horse dealer aside to question for a long time.Then he bought the clothes back with money, walked up to Chonghua with the clothes in his hands, and said, "Master Lan has already left. He traded this clothes for a horse, so he must have gone far away by now."

Chonghua took the clothes over, thinking of Lan Beibei's soft words and chuckles when he pestered him to buy a mink that day, his heart was sour again, and he thought: why is he so heartless?Just walk away, without considering other people's feelings.

Seeing that he looked lonely, Crow hurriedly persuaded him: "I think he must have left impulsively, otherwise, why would he not even take his money with him? He probably regretted it now, and there is still time for us to go after him."

Chonghua had already gotten used to Lan Beibei's temper. Although he was sad at this time, he was not depressed. He quickly cheered up and asked, "Where did he go?"

Crow turned to ask the horse dealer, the horse dealer smiled apologetically, "Before he left, that young master asked me the direction to Jinling."

Li Yue had never traveled far, so he asked curiously, "Where is Jinling, is it a good place?"

The horse dealer twirled his beard and smiled: "That was the capital of the former dynasty. Now there are many dignitaries and dignitaries, and it is the most prosperous. It is said that the emperor and queen mother also spend their days there."

Li Yue clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Then I really have to learn a lot."

Both Chonghua and Crow looked a little unhappy, and they had nothing to say for a while.Although Chonghua has inquired about Lan Beibei's history, he only knows that he once married a princess who lives in Jinling now.Chonghua thought to himself: It turns out that his old love is unforgettable.

The crow thought of a consonance.When he had just separated from Lingxi, he felt heartbroken. Every morning when he woke up, he was thinking of her, and when he was going to sleep, he was thinking of her.I thought I would be tortured by her for the rest of my life.But I don't know when it started, but I completely forgot about Lingxi.Thinking about it now, it feels like a lifetime away.

Crow remembered that Li Su said to him that night: "Go and find her." Only now did he realize that Li Su thought he was still thinking about Lingxi.The crow felt sad again: he didn't know how sad he was when he said that.

protect short

Lan Beibei left the inn angrily, wandered the street for a long time, and suddenly remembered that next month would be the anniversary of her mother's death.He has a weak relationship with the Lan family, and he is only closest to his mother.Thinking back to the scene when the mother and son struggled to live in the Lan family when they were children, on the spur of the moment, they traded their clothes for a horse and left the city directly.

He also knew in his heart that Chonghua would worry about him, but he didn't want others to meddle in his family affairs.He always looks domineering outside, if Li Yue and Wu Ya know that he was born and raised by a concubine, it would be really shameful.

Lan Beibei rode a fast horse along the official road for more than ten days. When she arrived in Hankou, she abandoned her horse and boarded a boat. After walking for more than ten days by water, she landed in Jinling.

Seeing the twilight, the restaurants and inns on the shore, vaguely look like the old days.The couple selling osmanthus cake and stinky tofu at the intersection had many wrinkles on their faces.Lan Beibei bought some sweet-scented osmanthus cakes, and the old woman put the freshly steamed cakes into a paper bag, handed them to Lan Beibei, and said, "Long time no see, brother."

Lan Beibei didn't expect such a good memory for doing business, so she smiled and left with a steaming sweet-scented osmanthus cake.

It was already dark when he reached the Lan Mansion.At this time, my house has been expanded by two streets, and the words Zhen Guogong Mansion are written on the gate of Lan Mansion.It turns out that my family has been sealed as a public minister.Presumably this is due to Lan Ying.Lan Beibei thought to herself, the emperor is also clear about grievances and grievances, and he will not anger the Lan family because he slept with his woman.

Several young servants at the gate of the mansion were gathering together to chat and laugh.Lan Beibei didn't recognize them, and it was difficult to enter through the main entrance.He was fairly familiar with the layout of the houses in the Lan Mansion, so he found a side door that he usually used to pick up excrement and water. Seeing that the door hadn't had time to be locked, he ducked in and went all the way to the ancestral hall in the inner courtyard with ease.

Two candles were lit in the ancestral hall, and a silver-haired old woman bent over to wipe the table.Lan Beibei pushed the door open, stood in front of the hall, and carefully looked at the tablet.The old woman's eyes were dazzled, she only saw the blue beige brocade clothes and jade belt, and thought it was a young master in a certain room, so she bent down and called young master, and went to work elsewhere.

Lan Beibei walked around the altar, but couldn't see her mother's tablet, and suddenly thought that her mother was a concubine, maybe the tablet was placed in the side hall, so she went to the next room to look for it.At this moment, there was only chaotic footsteps outside, mixed with the voices of several men and women talking.The old woman looked outside with her eyes wide open, knelt down and said: "Master, madam, eldest grandma, second grandma..." He called a series of names in a long-winded manner.

Lan Beibei thought to herself, when Gu Tingshu rebelled, the Lan family was almost killed by Emperor Ling, why so many old ladies and gentlemen appeared again.He didn't think too much for a while, and he actually stood upright in the hall and met the group of Lan family members face to face.

Everyone was stunned, the young wives and girls were all ashamed and shocked when they saw this strange and beautiful man, they couldn't avoid it, and the young masters were also dumbfounded with their eyes open.Only the middle-aged man with a square face and long beard at the front collected himself and said, "Third Brother, you are back."

Lan Beibei recognized this person as his second brother, because he had never been on good terms with him, so he just snorted casually and asked, "Where is my mother's tablet?"

Lan Er looked strange, he winked at several servants continuously, and told his concubines and children to retreat, and then said: "At that time, the army was in turmoil, and my aunt's body was not found."

Lan Beibei was annoyed, she slapped the altar on the altar, and said sharply: "If you don't find it, forget it?"

Lan Er leaned against the door panel, and suddenly asked in a trembling voice: "Third Brother, you killed Eldest Brother, didn't you?"

Seeing that he was so afraid of her, Lan Beibei also felt it was funny, so she nodded with pretending deepness: "I killed it."

After hearing this, Lan Er didn't answer, and suddenly opened the door, and ran out scrambling, shouting loudly: "Come quickly, the traitor is here!"

Lan Beibei thought to herself, how could I become a traitor.He stepped out of the ancestral hall, and just stepped out of the threshold, before he landed, he heard a row of long arrows shooting straight on the steps in front of the door.If I react slowly, I'm afraid a few transparent holes will be poked out on the soles of my feet.

Lan Beibei stopped and looked outside.I saw brightly lit lights and long arrows shining in the huge courtyard.Thousands of imperial guards drew their bows and arrows, all aiming at themselves, and the tips of the arrows were extraordinarily dazzling under the light.

Chonghua and his party stayed overnight at Xiaoxing, and hurried to Jinling, but they were still a step too late. The three of them found out the address of Lanfu, and saw that the two streets in front of the mansion were full of soldiers.Those soldiers held sharp knives, had shiny armor, and wore cloaks on their shoulders. They were obviously the Habayashi Army under the emperor's command.

I only heard the passers-by watching say that last night a man came to the Lan Mansion.