The past ignites old dreams

In Lu Wenyu's words, there is a needle hidden in the cotton.It kept lingering in Qiao Ran's ears.

Qiao Ran was upset and irritable, wandering around the room, not knowing what to do, bored and uncomfortable, every minute and every second was terribly long.

Xiaohu brought him lunch.The servants basically understood Qiao Ran's temper. Although he was bluffing, he treated people very well. The only drawback was that he was sleepy and delicious.Xiaohu excitedly pulled Qiao Ran to sit down, pointed to one dish and said, "This is sliced ​​chicken soup with lotus root, this is sweet-scented osmanthus duck, this is sweet taro, this is silver carp dipped in oil, and there are shrimps with shrimps and stir-fried vegetables. Our Shandong's mountains and seas, fertile soil for thousands of miles', the delicious food is not inferior to the south of the Yangtze River."

Qiao Ran moved her chopsticks, her mind was not on the dining table at all.

Xiaohu sensed that something was wrong, he asked, "Master, what's wrong with you?" Qiao Ran put down his chopsticks, resting his cheeks, his heart was in a mess.

Xiaohu didn't know why Qiao Ran was upset, so he didn't dare to talk too much for a while.

The food is getting cold.

The crows and sparrows in the house are silent.

"Where is the little bamboo?"

Qiao Ran's sudden opening made Xiaohu tremble in fright.

"He, he went back to the capital first."

"Yang Jingliu was not rescued again, what is he going back to the capital for?" Qiao Ran then asked.

The little tiger's eyeballs rolled around, thinking of all possible ways, not knowing which one would be the best to fool Qiao Ran.

"Don't waste your brain making it up." Qiao Ran said seriously, "The little wolf told me this morning."

"Ah? How is it possible?!" Xiaohu obviously didn't believe it, and blurted out, "It's absolutely impossible for little wolf to tell you about Xiao Zhuzi's death!"

Qiao Ran said it on purpose, but who knew such a shocking result, he slapped the table and stood up in shock, "What did you say? Xiao Zhuzi died? How did he die? Who killed him!"

Xiaohu took a few steps back, leaning against the wall, dumbfounded.It's not that Xiaohu is stupid, it's that Qiao Ran is usually joking and laughing, and he doesn't seem like a scheming person at all. Who would have thought that he would be tricked today!

"Joe, Mr. Qiao, don't be in a hurry. Listen to me slowly~" Xiaohu explained, "That day Lu Baiyi and Qian Shanji lay in ambush halfway, and you knew that even the horses were scared away, let alone Is it a person?"

"You mean that Little Zhuzi got separated from you? Then he died inexplicably?"

"Uh, we ran ahead, Brother Anyu didn't notice there were people behind."

Qiao Ran took a deep breath and restrained her emotions.Cui Yan said before that An Yu was comparable to the Imperial Forest Army, so why can't even a little eunuch protect him!

"Later, when we went back to search, we only found Xiaozhu's... body."

"Did you bury him?" Qiao Ran asked.

"Yes!" Xiaohu nodded fiercely.

Qiao Ran stopped talking again.He sat back on the stool weakly, staring blankly at the ginger-colored carpet decorated with twining lotus patterns.

He thought about that during that time, little Zhuzi was often surrounded by princes and princes. To him, Xiao Zhuzi was like a child next door.How could I have thought that if I was a good person, I would be gone if I said nothing.

Sore eyes.Qiao Ran closed her eyes and mourned in silence.

"The little wolf said this morning that a lot of things have happened recently." Qiao Ran opened his eyes bloodshot, "If it wasn't for the casual words of others, I really wouldn't have thought of it."

"Another person?" Xiaohu secretly got angry, who is talking nonsense behind his back.

"In the morning, I met Lu Wenyu, the young master of Fan Yang's Lu family. He said he had heard of me before. Don't you find it strange? I have never met him before, so how could he know me?"

"This one……"

"Do you know what he said to me? Heh! He said that many people already knew that Qinghe Cui's second son brought back a double from the Blackwater Desert to take the body of Qi Wang Yang Jingliu. I asked why, and he said It's the news from the palace. Cui Yan wanted to use me to calm the disappearance of King Qi, but he didn't want the emperor to know what had happened and bite Cui Yan in an attempt to rebel. When I was in charge of the city, there was a dark feather named Cui Feng who wanted to take me back to the capital Return to life, but Cui Yan refused, it turned out that he knew a long time ago that the incident was exposed, the emperor wanted to punish him, and Cui Yan's elder brother wanted to use me as a scapegoat. Why am I guilty? I am not the one who bullied the king!" Qiao Ran said excitedly "Cui Qianxue told me that Cui Yan didn't leak the news at first because he was afraid that the Blackwater tribe would find out that Yang Jingliu's true identity was King Qi. Cui Yan had slaughtered a branch of their tribe before, and Cui Yan was worried that it would cause a war. Cui Yan My sister said so, so I believed it. Now it makes me confused, and I don’t know why when I die someday.”

Qiao Ran said a lot in one breath, which made Xiaohu dumbfounded.

"Young master, you, you speak slowly, I am really... in a dilemma." Xiaohu felt like a dwarf sitting on a high stool, in a dilemma. He really didn't know how to explain it. Some things can be said, and some things must not be said. explain.

"Go and get Cui Yan." Qiao Ran pointed at the door of the room.

"Second Young Master is really inconvenient to come here now."

"Why? Did he fight again?"

Little Tiger: "..."

"Didn't it mean that in the first few days people like Cui Yan didn't need to take action?"

"Young master, why don't you eat something first? Don't you usually feel hungry if you don't eat a meal? After eating, walk a few laps to digest the food, and then take a nap."

Qiao Ran couldn't bear it anymore, "You all think I'm a three-year-old child! Forget it, I don't count on you. I'll find him myself. I don't believe it. I searched the whole Fan Yang's house and I can't find him? You pervert, Just wait for me."

Looking at Qiao Ran's back as he rushed out, Xiaohu couldn't help sighing, it's not that friends don't get together.Can Miss Fan Yang and the Lu family tolerate these "enemies" of the second son?

Xiaohu silently packed the food, with a serious heart.It's not that he has no reason to keep hiding Qiao Ran's secrets, but he can't bear to prevaricate Qiao Ran anymore.

Green shaded corridors, winding paths lead to secluded places.

Qiao Ran walked through various courtyards, some were magnificent, some were exquisite and elegant, but they all looked deserted and uninhabited.As long as Cui Yan is in the house, it must be the place where most servant girls and others come in and out.Qiao Ran walked in a hurry, and she didn't forget to praise herself for being smart and witty.

Thinking over and over again will eventually lead to success.Just as Qiao Ran was running around like a headless chicken, Xiaoyue appeared.

The little chubby girl came out from nowhere and happened to arrive at Qiao Ran's door.Qiao Ran hid behind the camphor tree, and heard Xiaoyue say to another little girl, "The jade bud tea has been brought in."

The other girl must have never seen Cui Yan, so she couldn't help asking Xiaoyue if she saw Cui Yan.

Xiaoyue was also very excited when she mentioned Cui Yan, "Mr. Cui's reputation is well-deserved, he is astonishing as a heavenly man."

Qiao Ran made a series of ellipsis in his heart.

The two nympho maids walked away chattering.

Qiao Ran turned in along the way Xiaoyue turned out.

A cloud-step stone ladder stretches downward.Surrounded by green strange vines and kudzus, the more you go down, the colder you feel, and suddenly you smell Yixiang, and you enter a flower path with red fragrance and green jade, and when you walk to the end, there is a plaque hanging between the blue brick carved wing walls.

Cang Jiaowu.

Is the golden house hiding the charm?Qiao Ran felt angry.No wonder this place is so hidden.

Qiao Ran tiptoed in from the bluestone path outside the camellia bushes, but was still spotted by the guard at the door.

It just so happened that the two guards were not Fan Yang's Lu family's soldiers, but An Yu of Qinghe Cui's family who knew Qiao Ran.

One of them had eaten Qiao Ran's instant noodles, and every time he saw Qiao Ran, it was as if he had seen instant noodles, and he had endless aftertaste, "Young Master Qiao, why did you find this place?"

"Hey, I'll walk around casually. Leave me alone and continue to stand guard, good boy." Qiao Ran was about to rush inside with a smile on her face.

Another An Yu made a gesture to stop him, showing a troubled expression, "Young Master Qiao, it's not suitable for you to go in."

"Is it appropriate to enter a room? This is not a women's toilet!" Qiao Ran was impatient, shifted her target, and asked for help from An Yu, who was the first to speak, "Brother An Yu, I have something urgent to find Cui Yan, really, it is very urgent .”

"It's not that we made things difficult on purpose." That person was also very helpless, "It's just that Miss Fan Yang Lu's family is also inside."

Lu Wenyu said that he has a younger sister named Mingzhu, so it turns out that her younger sister lives here.

"Then I'm going to go in even more." Qiao Ran made up his mind to rush in.

An Yu, who is obsessed with the delicious instant noodles, winks at another An Yu, forget it, he can't be stopped.

All right.Another Dark Feather lowered his arm.

Qiao Ran walked in along the Chaoshou corridor and looked around.

The plantains dripped with water, and the wind chimes on the corridor eaves swayed.

Qiao Ran followed the sound of the wind chime, and saw something coming through the semicircular window.

Qiao Ran went in and looked out the window, behind the window was a potted plant garden.A woman with gilt and pearl-chiseled scissors was concentrating on pruning potted pine trees.Qiao Ran tried hard to look left and right, his eyes almost squinted, and finally saw a pair of feet.The owner of these feet should be sitting, Qiao Ran recognized the pair of water-patterned leather shoes.

Cui Yan.You are here.

Qiao Ran looked along the end of the corridor, and there was no end to the winding corridor. How to get around it?

The mountain breeze is light and the bell is crisp.Qiao Ran took a few steps back helplessly and left the window.

You can't climb up to the roof of the corridor along the pillars...

Why?Wouldn't it be more convenient to climb a tree than to turn over the roof of the corridor?Qiao Ran jumped out of the corridor in a few steps, and patted the big tree in front of him that seemed to be 30 meters long.

I don't know what kind of tree it is, maybe it is a rare species, anyway, I have never seen it in modern times.

Never mind him, climb up first and then talk.This tree is thick and tall, and its branches and leaves are dense, so it is best to hide.

Qiao Ran looked up, her neck was sore.He moved all his muscles and bones.

"Okay, Qiao Ran, let's go! Just treat it as Wia, what are you afraid of!"

Qiao Ran muttered and used both hands and feet. Although the posture was weird, the result was still very satisfactory to him. He sat down on a tree fork, "Oh my god, it seems that I really should lose weight."

Qiao Ran rested for a minute, then crawled horizontally along the branched tree trunk.

The trunk became narrower and narrower, and it would be a branch if you climbed over it. Qiao Ran stopped, adjusted her sitting posture, and looked down, just above Cui Yan and Lu Mingzhu.

Lu Mingzhu was still pruning pine trees and potted plants leisurely.With his back facing Qiao Ran's direction, Cui Yan sat on the rosewood rose chair.

Qiao Ran couldn't see Cui Yan's face, so he guessed whether his expression was as indifferent as usual, or he was looking at his fiancée tenderly.

Thinking of this, Qiao Ran suddenly found himself feeling as if his chest was blocked, and he couldn't get up or down, which was extremely uncomfortable.He grabbed the tree trunk with one hand, and touched his chest with the other hand. There was no pain at all, so what was the discomfort?

The two people below were still and moving, as if time was frozen, and it seemed to be an infinite loop.

The longer Qiao Ran waited, the more unhappy he became, and the more he sat, the more bored he became.A turquoise bug with big yellow eyes patterned on its head wriggled its fat body, crawled over, and was blocked by Qiao Ran's thigh.Qiao Ran casually sent the bug bullets flying.

As a result, the poor worm fell on Lu Mingzhu's potted plant without dying.Lu Mingzhu, who was holding the scissors, paused for a few seconds.

Qiao Ran heard Cui Yan's voice.He was asking what happened to Lu Mingzhu.Sure enough, he was watching her all the time, otherwise, how could he have noticed the blank seconds.With chest tightness and irritability, Qiao Ran loosened his clothes, hoping that the cool wind that blows from time to time could calm him down.Lu Wenyu's voice seemed to be heard in my ears, Qiao Ran, you and Cui Yan met by chance, a gentleman's friendship, that's all... Pooh, anyone who is a gentleman's friend is a villain.

Lu Mingzhu looked up at the trees extending from the corridor wall, and said in a soft voice, "The more luxuriant the branches and leaves, the more insects and birds live there."

Lu Mingzhu looked up at the big tree.

Qiao Ran could see her face clearly.Although she has a graceful figure, her appearance is slightly inferior. Compared with Cui Qianxue, she is heaven and earth. Even if she is compared with her brother Lu Wenyu, she is still far behind.Although Lu Wenyu is not very good-looking, fortunately, the corners of her eyes and brows have a natural charm, which can be regarded as a dignified appearance. This sister Lu Mingzhu...is just a face!Cui Yan actually has a marriage contract with such an ordinary woman, no wonder the boss is not young enough to marry back home.

After thinking about it, Qiao Ran realized that she was a little balanced and a little unbalanced.

Alas, what the hell is wrong with me.Qiao Ran continued to peep at them depressedly.

At this moment, Cui Yan had already stood up, stood side by side with Lu Mingzhu, and looked up at the towering old tree together.

Qiao Ran turned his head away in horror, he didn't want to see this scene.

It's already October, the wind on the mountain is only a short time in the afternoon, and the sunshine is a little warm.

The leaves are rustling, rustling.

"It's the same with people." Lu Mingzhu put down the scissors, held up the hem of the primrose-colored skirt, walked to the stone table, and washed her hands in the bronze basin.

Cui Yan handed over a bright yellow handkerchief embroidered with mandarin ducks.

Qiao Ran saw that Lu Mingzhu took it and wiped his hands so naturally.

"The better a person is, the more people will like him, and there will be many people who hate him." Lu Mingzhu wiped off her green fingers.

Lu Mingzhu meant something, but Cui Yan didn't say anything.

It was still Lu Mingzhu who was talking, "You have been with me since the morning, and I actually understand everything."

Qiao Ran pricked up her ears, for fear of missing something.

He couldn't see Cui Yan's expression, he only heard Cui Yan say calmly, "It's just been a long time and it's rare to get together, so I would like to spend more time with you."

Lu Mingzhu still said softly, "You really want to spend more time with me, so don't delay our marriage any longer."

The two fell silent.

It was Lu Mingzhu who spoke again, "My parents told me since I was a child, Zhuer, when you reach the year of the golden hairpin, you will marry the second son of Qinghe Cui's family. But when you were 12 years old, you didn't come. The cardamom years have passed , In a blink of an eye, I didn’t see you coming to marry me. My parents told me again, Zhuer, your husband has a heavy burden on your shoulders, you have to learn to wait. But my brother told me, silly sister, don’t wait. , he is the same person as me. Biyu Taoli's age has passed away, and now I have passed Huaxin's good years. I have long understood what my brother said to me. My brother likes it...you like it too ...But it doesn't matter, really, people in the world regard me as a laughing stock, saying that I am an old girl who can't get married and nobody wants, I don't care. I like my brother, and I like you, no matter who you like, no matter who likes you, you I don't care about An Yu next to you, your senior brother, or the man you brought in last night."

"Mingzhu, actually you..."

"Listen to me." Lu Mingzhu gently put her palm on Cui Yan's face, "I don't have any love for you. I have always regarded you as my younger brother. So, who are you entangled with?" Qing, I never cared about it. But, Cui Yan, I am the lady of the Lu family of Fanyang, and you are the son of the Cui family of Qinghe. We are not just ourselves, we represent two major families. Do you still remember that the Wang and Xie families are How did it die? If you remember, we should learn from the past, we must tie the knot, we must raise eyebrows."

Finally, Lu Mingzhu asked him, "Cui Yan, can you do it?"

Cui Yan held Lu Mingzhu's warm tenderness on his side face, "We will get married, and we will raise our eyebrows."

Lu Mingzhu smiled, and slipped out her hand, "I'm here for you in this martial arts conference. Thank you, you didn't let me down in the end."

Lu Mingzhu left.

Cui Yan didn't leave.He sits in the potted garden, on the rose chair.

Qiao Ran swayed her legs unscrupulously, not afraid that Cui Yan would see her.

Cui Yan had caught him eavesdropping twice before.I'm afraid that Cui Yan would have discovered it when he was peeking at the semicircular flower window.

Qiao Ran lifted the leaves to make her sight clearer.The scenery in the distance is infinite, the cliffs are shining, and the clouds and peaks are majestic.The ancients praised Mount Tai for its "strength reaching up to the sky, and the posture of holding the sun with your hands." Qiao Ran has a deep understanding of sitting on a high place.The depressed mood just now disappeared a lot.Suddenly, I remembered the last two sentences of "Wangyue" that I couldn't think of before: the chest is full of clouds, and the canthus is like a bird.It will be the top of the mountain, and you can see all the small mountains.

Reading through thousands of mountains and rivers is not worth the company of Iraqis.

He waited for Cui Yan, waited for Cui Yan to say "come here", waited for Cui Yan to say "Qiao Ran, don't make me say it a second time."

But this time, Cui Yan didn't say anything, as if Qiao Ran really didn't exist.

Mount Tai is rocky, and the breeze is howling.Where does the wind of thousands of miles come from, and where will it go.

Although Qiao Ran was not good at mathematics, physics and chemistry, he had heard of the three laws of thermodynamics.The first of these laws is the law of conservation of energy, which states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only be transformed from one form to another, or transferred from one object to another.So, the me who lived in the 21st century a few years later is essentially the same as the me who traveled to the Dayang Dynasty now. Traveling is like a process of transformation. I am still me, neither disappearing out of thin air, nor created out of thin air .

However, Cui Yan, the me at this moment and you at this moment are close in front of my eyes, but they are separated by thousands of years.

Physics won't save me.

Qiao Ran sighed and saw the same caterpillar as before. He picked up the caterpillar and moved it to another branch.

"Now you have time-traveled too." Qiao Ran said to the bug, "Enjoy the process of energy conversion."

The author has something to say: the rose chair was once seen in famous paintings of the Song Dynasty, and it was more common in the Ming Dynasty. It is a chair with a unique shape.Why it is called the rose chair is an unsolved mystery in the history of Chinese furniture, because there are no references in the classics, and there is no conclusion yet.Rose chair is just the name of this kind of chair by craftsmen in the north, but it is often called "wen chair" in the south of the Yangtze River.