fluttering night wind

The author has something to say: Well, I always thought that women in danmei were not just supporting roles.

Meng Ziying could hardly remember how she returned to Linxi, and she had already stood at the entrance of the village unconsciously in the chaos.Seeing him in a daze while holding a horse, the villagers didn't even bother to say hello. When they passed by the ancestral hall, they didn't even see Sun Shuye and his wife standing at the door.Sun Shuye's family member Qin Shifang wanted to call him, but his husband stopped him.The Qin family wondered: "Don't you need to talk about marriage with Master Bai? The other party's family is still waiting for an answer."

Sun Shuye looked at the backs of the people and horses in the alley, and said meaningfully: "Let's talk later. Lord Bai's family may be in trouble these days."

Qin didn't understand for a while, and said enthusiastically: "Then I'll go and ask Brother Meng. It will be hard to inquire after Master Bai comes back in a day or two."

Sun Shuye said seriously: "Don't talk to him about this matter. Don't go past him and talk to Lord Bai first. It's best when both of you are present."

Seeing her husband talking tongue-twisters, Mrs. Qin wanted to laugh, but because she saw that he was very serious, although she didn't understand, she agreed.

Mencius Ying returned to the yamen, saw the two brothers Yanfeng and Yanxing, then went back to her room, tossed and turned all night without closing her eyes, and only fell asleep at dawn.This time I slept until the sun was shining, and vaguely heard Yanxing calling him desperately by the bed, opened his eyes and saw the scorching sun shining in from the window at noon, and Bai Yansheng stood in front of the door with his hands behind his back.

"Brother Ziying, it's been a long time since my brother came back, so get up quickly."

Meng Ziying only felt that her cheeks were flushed with shame, and sitting under the dizzy pergola in the courtyard, she still felt as uncomfortable as her body was on fire.Bai Yansheng was clothed in cloth belts, which couldn't hide the quality of pines and cypresses. The two younger brothers changed out of their tattered clothes and washed their faces. Mencius thought the scene was very pleasing to the eye at first, but suddenly remembered what he saw in Dongping yesterday, and couldn't help becoming angry again, and was about to stab him, when he suddenly restrained his smile and ordered: "Xiaofeng take my brother outside Play, brother has something to say to brother Ziying."

Yan Xing was still acting coquettishly, but Yan Feng was very winking, grabbed his little arm, and dragged him away.

Seeing the two children leaving the backyard, Bai Yansheng looked at Meng Ziying seriously and said, "I haven't seen you for more than a month. You have lost a lot of weight. You have worked hard on this journey."

Meng Ziying's nose was sour, but she deliberately rolled the whites of her eyes and said, "You have gained a lot of weight after your illness, and you have made great achievements. Has Fu Xi rewarded you with some beauties?"

In fact, Bai Yansheng is not fat, since he left, the epidemic has not subsided and there is a war, the first time he leads troops, he is forced to fight more with less, but after more than a month, he has become thinner than before he left.He didn't expect the other party to say this about him, it was very inexplicable and rude, and anger appeared in his eyes, Meng Ziying didn't show any weakness and stared back, Bai Yansheng was slightly taken aback, thanks to his cleverness, he could understand immediately, and then His face softened: "So you really came yesterday."

Meng Ziying let out a "hum" and admitted it.

There was a bit of amusement in Bai Yansheng's eyes, and he said, "No matter what you see, first of all it is definitely not what you think." Seeing that Mencius was about to interrupt him with a red face, he couldn't help rubbing his stomach and laughing loudly .It is very inexplicable to change Mencius Ying now, and she is very annoyed.

After Bai Yan laughed, he took out something like a brocade handkerchief from the inside of his clothes and handed it to him, but Meng Ziying didn't want to take it, so he spread it out little by little, and laid it flat on the stone table.

As the afternoon breeze blew, petals fell from the wisteria trellis and landed on the half-new kerchief.Mencius glanced at it, and there were rows of people's names written on the handkerchief in brown handwriting, all of whom were dignitaries in the court.Mencius Ying no longer had any intention of joking, and looked directly at the sound of Bai Yan, and he also sat solemnly, completely different from Fang Cai.

"The one you saw yesterday was Pei Xiu's nephew Pei Jing's wife, Mrs. Wang. The child's name is Pei Lie, and Mrs. Wang still has a posthumous child in her stomach."

Meng Ziying's embarrassment was fleeting, and he was exquisite, and he knew everything: "You transferred Sun Jiren just to pick them up? What is this list? It's like a blood book."

Bai Yansheng lowered his voice and said: "This is the list of officials from the imperial court to Shu. Pei Xiu spent a lot of effort to find it, but she died because of it. That day, Pei Jing brought the list to Zouben and left Jingzhou. When he heard about the mutiny, he left his wife and children behind. I went back to the city again. When I left, I copied a copy on the brocade handkerchief, and told my family members to come to Dongping to find me."

The pupils in Meng Ziying's eyes shrank sharply, and he pointed at the name of "Duan Hui" on the brocade handkerchief: "Jingzhou has changed flags for several months, and all the people on the list are unscathed, this melody must have been intercepted halfway. " He moved his finger under the name of "Fu Xi" again, and said with a sneer, "So, even though they are in-laws, they are on different teams. No wonder." All the troubles before finally had an explanation.Then he suddenly raised his head and said: "If I remember correctly, Pei Jing's head was also hung on the gate tower. Mrs. Pei is a woman who is heroic and courageous. She is pregnant with Liujia and has a young son, and she has chased soldiers all the way. Persevering up to this point is worthy of coming from the sect of loyalty and filial piety, which is really admirable. Do you have any other plans for arranging their mother and son in Dongping?"

Bai Yansheng's eyes dimmed, and he shook his head and said: "She sent the list to me, and it was considered a success. I originally wanted to send her back to her hometown to wait for childbirth, or to seek refuge overseas, but she didn't want to. She just wanted to stay in Dongping. Raise the children. I have said many times that Dongping is not safe, Fu Xi may still be looking for their mother and child, but Mrs. Pei doesn't listen."

Mencius Ying thought to herself, women's minds are difficult to guess, and they should inquire when they have time.

Seeing that his eyes had moved away from the brocade handkerchief, Bai Yansheng knew that he had memorized the name by heart, so he took the flint from the table and set fire to the brocade handkerchief.The two of them were not pure hot-blooded young men. With Pei Xiu dead and the book lost, this thing had no other purpose except to teach them to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy.The original position is determined by strength.

The brocade handkerchief turned into ashes, Bai Yansheng's eyes gradually turned red, he only heard a cough in his throat, and said shyly: "I probably know about Yan Rong."

For a moment, the shadows of the flowers were disordered, and the fragrance wafted away, and the person in front of me suddenly became a young girl, like a jade mountain ascending, and the light shining on people.

Looking back and comparing them now, the brothers and sisters both have a kind of innate vigor in their appearance, which can make people mistaken for life at first sight.

"I said that twins always have some inexplicable feelings. About seven or eight days after you left, I suddenly dreamed of Yan Rong. I knew at that time that it was bad luck. The Shu army invaded Yangzhou again, and Fu Xi wanted to I lead troops..."

When he said this, Xiao Suo smiled, and Meng Ziying felt sad and disappointed.

That morning, Meng Ziying took the two brothers of the Bai family, carried the coffin in a carriage, passed through the uninhabited village of Liao, and climbed up to the high ground.

The tomb of the Bai clan is on a small hill with the best geomantic omen in the east of the village.Dongfang has just turned its white belly, and the dew has not yet dried out. There are rows of tombs that look like steamed buns, lined up in the open space, surrounded by pines and cypresses.Bai Yanfeng took the lead and walked over, and found his parents' graves in the back row.Next to a large tomb there are two smaller ones, which are very plainly built. Only after reading the epitaph did Meng Ziying know that it belonged to Bai Heng and his two wives.There is a pine tree next to Bai Heng's grave, but his wife's is a peach tree with small pink flowers, shivering in the cold wind.

He took the tools, spent some effort to dig the tomb, and buried Yan Rong's coffin.Yanfeng broke off a peach branch from his mother's grave, stuck it in his sister's grave, then pressed Yanxing's shoulder, pushed him down in front of the grave, forced him to kowtow a few times, children are not used to it, He almost cried out awkwardly.The peach tree planted on the grave of Baiheng's former wife, Hu's family, was already as thick as a bowl. It was the time when the fragrance was bursting out. The twin brothers and sisters would come to visit the grave every year, and trim the branches and leaves by the way. The grave-sweepers also died in the ground.One year spent similar, each year is different.Perhaps it is the mountains and rivers that remain the same, which brings out the coldness and ruthlessness of the world.

Looking at the backs of the two brothers, Ziying seemed to recall himself who buried his master and wife in Xiangyang a few years ago. He tried hard to recall the scriptures chanted by the monks, wanting to save the girl, but in the end he couldn't speak. Then changed to another words: "Yanfeng, Guanshan is thousands of miles away, full of dangers, and now Qingzhou and Zhongzhou have become battlefields. I want to send your brothers to Linxi safely, so I can't help the coffin. Maybe this is the place to go." Your sister's resting place."

Yanfeng's eyes were covered with a layer of mist, holding back tears, looking down at the old home that was hard to give up under the hill.

At that time, tomorrow was separated by mountains, and the world was boundless, and they did not know whether they would be able to return to Linxi safely.

"I think it's safer to keep her with your parents. It's just that the funeral is done in a hurry. I hope you won't be offended." Pass it to Bai Yansheng under the shelf.

Bai Yansheng picked up the unsent letter, even though his face was pale, he smiled calmly, and said reluctantly: "I don't need to read to know what is written. There is no boat in the ravine, and I don't know where it stops, right?"

Mencius Ying twitched her eyebrows and was speechless for a while.

Bai Yansheng's five fingers were formed into claws, luck was in the palm of his hand, the letter turned into pieces like butterflies, and flew away from his hand little by little: "Yan Rong was enlightened at the age of three, went to school with me at the age of four, and mother at the age of eight. After she died of illness, her father did not allow her to go to school again. Since she was a child, her father has been stricter with Yan Rong. I have never understood why. I thought it was because she was smarter. Now I finally understand. Some people think that women are born lowly and unworthy. responsible for saving the country."

What he said was a bit heavy, and if his father was included, Meng Ziying didn't know what to say.

"I thought that women must wake up to the world earlier than men, because they have always been oppressed more. My sister said that she doesn't have to dress up as a man like Mulan to join the army, as long as she has the ambition to clarify the world , the power of a woman, lifting weights like light."

Meng Ziying's head exploded with a "buzz", not to mention his chest was overwhelmed. Or, still, did you underestimate the impact of all this on him?He bowed his head with a wry smile, and said in a hoarse voice: "That's right, the boat in the ravine has no time, and the place where it stops is unknown. It comes from "Zhuangzi". The husband hides the boat in the ravine, and hides the mountain in the marsh, but those who are strong carry it away in the middle of the night. To you To me, Miss Yanrong is like the great mountain that was stolen by the arrogant."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a heavy muffled sound, and half of the stone table between the two of them collapsed.The sound disturbed a nest of swallows under the verandah, and the black shadows rushed to the blue sky.

There is no shadow left behind in the swallows, and there are more sounds of the geese coming.

"Why, my sister, what reason does she have to die?"