Binh Duong Order

Inside the wide-open city gate, three drums sounded, and then two firecrackers hanging from the city gate were ignited. After a burst of noise, red paper scraps all over the sky fell down one after another. The oldest old man in Yuanming City, Gao Shout: "Get up!"

Two people wearing Baijiayi opened the way ahead, lighting firecrackers and throwing them on both sides of the road as they walked, in order to drive away the evil spirits who wanted to make trouble. While shouting: "There are gods in the mountains, spirits in the water, there are gods in the mountains, rivers and forests, the sky gives gold, and the earth gives silver. It is not as good as the grains prosper every year. The mountain gods are there, and the blessed land is blooming. It is a year of good harvest. Be content and be happy.”

The voice of thousands of people was deafening.

There was constant shouting in front, and behind the grass dragon was a child wearing a paper hat, and adults from various families followed behind carrying their own lanterns, and every household carried dustpans, hoes, and shovels. Farm tools, followed by hundreds of people carrying bamboo "sounding sticks". And loud, it is used to kill the villain Xie Chong who made trouble in the past.

The entire team, out of the city gate, is magnificent, winding for dozens of miles, and the river of lights is bright.

Yuan Man was afraid of getting ashes from walking behind the team of loud sticks, so he got mixed up with the team of villagers carrying lanterns. Fortunately, the team was not moving fast, and it was not too difficult for Yuan Man to keep up. , Tall firewood had been set up on the open space long ago, and people gathered around the firewood. The old man at the head carried a torch, and after finishing the sacrificial speech, he coiled the grass dragon on the firewood, and the old man lit the fire.

The blazing flames illuminated people's faces, and the night wind rose from Yuanming, and the whistling cold wind made the flames dance in the wind. Every family threw their own lanterns into the fire, and the children of each family were watched by adults. Then they threw the paper hats into the fire, and when the fire burned the contents, each household used the farm tools they brought to remove all the ashes, and buried them in the soil on the mountain in their own places.

Yuan Man understood that this sacrifice seemed huge, but it was actually for the last step. They used grass ash to fertilize the soil, which was regarded as taking what was used and returning it, which was considered intentional.

The cold wind at night made Yuan Man's face ache. Looking at these hard-working people, Yuan Man always had some inexplicable thoughts. Thinking back to the madness not long ago, he listened to their sacrificial words , Contentment?If only it were true.

The mountain god sacrifice started when the sun went down, and it was not until the middle of the night that we went back. By the time we returned to Yuanming City with the people, it was already ugly time. They were also extremely sleepy carrying the farm tools, lost energy, and walked back one by one yawning.

Yuan Man followed the crowd in the middle, before he could enter the city gate, he heard a commotion in front of him, looked up, and vaguely saw a person standing on the tower, before he could see clearly, he heard someone beside him scolding: " An Yixia, this An family, how is the animal still alive?"

Yuan Man raised his head and looked up the city tower, and saw An Yixia standing in the night wind. An Yixia was dressed in white, flamboyantly blown by the noisy north wind, and his beautiful hair fluttered in the wind, making it difficult to see clearly. Her expression, the city tower was not lit, and An Yixia's white clothes were particularly conspicuous, but she couldn't see it clearly.

The noise at the front of the line continued. When Yuan Man walked to the front, he saw He Zhongchao standing in front of the angry crowd.

He Zhongchao stopped the angry people with a sad face, and the yamen servants he brought also helped to stop him. He Zhongchao almost knelt down and begged bitterly: "Although the crime of the An family is unforgivable, but An Yixia and An Yixia are still together." I have been a husband and wife for many years, and I have a son for me. I can understand your anger. I am just a person next to my pillow. I really can’t bear to see her die. I won’t cover up her sins. I just ask you to give me some face. , Let me send her to prison with my own hands."

"Master He, we know that your pleading is just, but this is a sinner! This is our whole Yuanming's sinner!" Before the man finished speaking, someone beside him pointed and shouted: "She is holding a child in her arms! "

"What?" He Zhongchao, who heard this, moved faster than the common people, and immediately turned around and ran up the tower. The officials were still stopping the people, and then the people under the tower saw He Zhong running up the tower. On the other side was An Yixia who was full of indifference.

"This Mr. He is really kind and righteous." I don't know who said it among the people, and others echoed it. Who said it wasn't?It's such a time, even though he is still protecting his first wife, but he also understands that the law is unforgiving, and he just wants to ask for a whole body, who can find the wrong place?

Yuan Man listened to the compliments from the people around him, looked at the high place against the cold wind, exhaled, it was all white mist scattered in the wind, is it true?

On the tall building, He Zhongchao pleaded with pain on his face, and said: "Madam, thank you very much this time."

An Yixia was fed cartilage powder, and he had no strength to stand upright on a wooden stick. There were two people hiding under his feet. Each of these two people stood up while supporting the wooden stick to prevent people from falling. It's not a child, it's just a ball of white cloth, and it's fixed in his arms with the white cloth, and his hands are fixed in this way on purpose.

An Yixia was given dumb medicine and couldn't speak. She looked at He Zhongchao with a look of resentment. No wonder, no wonder this man didn't kill her. It turned out that it was just to gain a good reputation for herself at this time. It was really deliberate. , An Yixia found that not only her father and brother, but also herself underestimated him. She took a last look at her son who was sleeping soundly in the arms of the wet nurse at her feet, and she already guessed her own ending.

He Zhongchao forced himself to cry two lines, and then told the two people who were holding on to the wooden stick: "Do it."

Then He Zhongchao rushed forward, snatched the white cloth bag from An Yixia's arms, pretended to slip and hid behind the wall, and the two people holding the wooden sticks loosened An Yixia's hands, and fell with him. At the same time, the nurse pinched the child in her arms, and the child burst into tears. He Zhongchao took the child from the nurse, rushed to the wall, and shouted An Yixia's name.

All of this happened in the blink of an eye. The people who were originally in a commotion were silent for a moment in the face of the sudden scene. They just watched An Yixia jump down from the tower in front of his eyes. He Zhongchao shouted He and the child's cries fell heavily, and the blood stained the white clothes.

Yuan Man frowned when he heard An Yixia's falling voice, he wanted to move forward but was stopped, and watched He Zhongchao rush down from the tower with the crying child in his arms, and kneel on An Yixia's bed with his back to the people. Weeping in front of the dead body.

The person who was clamoring for revenge just now became honest in an instant. Looking at the helpless father and son, each of them felt guilty for no reason, as if to cover up their own guilt, each of them began to sympathize with He Zhong The Chao father and son all sang praises to He Zhongchao.

In the end, it was He Zhongchao who cheered up again, saying that today is the mountain god sacrifice, so that the people should not be affected, and let people pack up An Yixia's body before releasing the people back to the city. Even though He Zhongchao was hurt, his face was full of despair He also tried his best to make sure that the people had returned home safely before heading back home.

Yuan Man witnessed the whole process and did not make any comments. She only knew that Yuan Ming was about to produce a good official who was praised by everyone and had both affection and love.

Yuan Man went back when the sky was shining, and happened to meet Gu Cheng who got up early to practice martial arts. When Gu Cheng saw her coming back, he immediately asked, "Are you okay?"

"What can I do?" Yuan Man replied, "I just stayed up all night and I'm really sleepy. I'm going to rest first."

"Yuan Man." Young Master Gu Cheng called her to stop, Yuan Man looked back at him, Young Master Gu couldn't hide things, some things were uncomfortable without asking, almost without hesitation, Young Master Gu said: "Are we companions? "

Yuan Man immediately reacted to the temptation in Young Master Gu's words. It seems that Young Master Mu had already said it, but Yuan Man didn't answer. She turned around and found a place to sit down. She was really tired, so she asked Gu Xiaohou Master: "Do you think we are?"

Young Master Gu said, "I think you are."

"But." Yuan Man smiled and said, "Young Master Gu, you don't know me, do you? How can you say that you are a companion?" Yuan Man was surprised by Young Master Gu's sudden stubbornness. Because of the princess and what Lord Mu Xiaohou said to him, he shouldn't still be close to him.

"What is understanding?" Young Master Gu didn't understand: "Is it important to know everything? I like you, I am willing to be friends with you, and we are working hard for the same goal. Can this not be regarded as a companion?" Gu Cheng doesn't believe it, he doesn't believe that Yuan Man is really a cool person like Mu Xiaohou said, Young Master Gu has eyes and ears, he can see and he can listen, if Yuan Man is really cool, she He won't meddle in Xie Zhien's business, nor will he meddle in his own business.

"Master Gu, you seem to have made a mistake." Yuan Man stood up and patted the dust off his clothes: "Our purposes are not the same, what Young Master Mu said is correct."

Yuan Man wanted to leave, but Gu Cheng was in a hurry: "But you helped us, didn't you?"

Yuan Man didn't look back, and he didn't even stop a step: "How do you know that helping you is not part of my plan? At least from your attitude, it's quite useful."

Gu Cheng stepped forward to grab Yuan Man, with a stubborn grievance on his face, but he didn't say a word, Yuan Man was a little helpless, she looked at Young Master Gu as if she was looking at a child: "You are so persistent to prove that I am a Good man, what are you trying to do?"

Young Master Gu couldn't answer Yuan Man's question. At this moment, he suddenly remembered what Gu Jun had said to him. People are Yuan Man, but what Gu Jun told him made him understand that his family is not what he imagined, and he spent countless hours to convince himself time and time again, that he considered their family from the standpoint of his family. Difficulties, and finally forced myself to admit this fact, and now the young master Mu told him that the Yuanman he trusted was not what he imagined, young master Gu couldn't accept it.

Even if Yuan Man tricked them into killing the princess, he still believed that Yuan Man had his own considerations, but Mu Fanchen told him that those unfeeling words were said by Yuan Man, and Young Master Gu would never admit it.

Gu Cheng didn't speak, Yuan Man seemed to understand, Gu Cheng wanted to prove that she was right, to prove that he was right, it was really a child's temper, Yuan Man felt a little ridiculous: "Young Master Gu, actually you don't have to act like this , It’s my fault that I’m not good, you believed me because at that time, you thought I was trustworthy, now things have changed, everything is different, just like now, are you still the same as I first met?”

Gu Cheng couldn't answer, although he was silent, but Gu Cheng also clearly felt the changes in himself, he was more stable, he had concerns, he knew that things should not be done with passion alone, and he understood that some things need to be calculated about gains and losses, and consider the cause and effect , he should consider what he can do, he knows how to take responsibility instead of being reckless, and he also understands that right and wrong, good and evil are not clear-cut. Although he doesn't say it, it's not that he doesn't understand.

Feeling the strength in his hands loosen, Yuan Man smiled and said: "Young Master Gu, you are very smart, but in this life, you can meet too many people, sometimes you don't have to be so stubborn." Yuan Man gently After dialing down Gu Cheng, he calmly walked towards the room.

Young Master Gu looked at the hand that was pulled away by Yuan Man, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. This kind of discomfort is not overwhelming, like mountains and rivers, but the slightest strands are like fine water entering the sand, silently, little by little. Gu Cheng felt lonely for some reason.

This feeling is so strange, but it is so clear in this cold wind.

Young Master Gu, who has always been upright, suddenly found that he seemed to have no one to talk to, as if he didn't want to either.

Yuan Man walked into the room, turned a corner, and saw Mu Fanchen standing at the door of his room. Mu Fanchen was standing against the wall, and Yuan Man frowned. Why are there so many people blocking people in the morning?Yuan Man didn't want to talk to him at first and wanted to leave, but Mu Fanchen spoke first: "You are so cruel."

Mu Fanchen saw it. Looking down from the window here, he happened to be able to see Young Master Gu standing in the courtyard with his head bowed and his face full of loneliness. Yuan Man didn't give Mu Fanchen a chance to stop him this time, and walked straight past He just opened his mouth and said: "Otherwise? Keep coaxing? I'm not a child. I've been coaxing you for a long time. Is there any dissatisfaction? I'm not from the same way. Let's talk about it now. Let's talk about it in the future. Whether it's an enemy or a friend, if you have less scruples about each other, you can feel better."

"Clap."

There was a soft sound of closing the door, and Yuan Man's voice disappeared into the door together with hers. Mu Fanchen looked down at the hand stove that had been cold in his arms, rubbed his numb legs, and laughed self-deprecatingly, Walking to the window, he yelled at Gu Cheng who was standing below: "Hey! Gu Cheng! Let's go eat noodles!"

Gu Cheng heard Mu Fanchen's voice, raised his head, was confused for a while, heard what Mu Fanchen said clearly, put on a smiling face, and replied: "Okay!"